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Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, said the 33 grams of trans fat found in the Big Catch meal, all came from industrially produced partially hydrogenated frying oil.
The American Heart Association recommends people limit themselves to about 2 grams of trans fat per day and most major fast food chains stopped using partially hydrogenated oil altogether, Jacobson said.
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Jacobson said the group's analysis also found Long John Silver's website overstated the amount of actual fish in the Big Catch meal.
Although the restaurant chain bills the meal as: "The largest fish we have ever offered, weighing in at 7 ounces to 8 ounces of 100-percent premium haddock caught in the icy waters of the North Atlantic," the CSPI found after they removed the batter from the fish, they found an average of about 4.5 oz. of fish and almost 3 ounces of oil-soaked batter.
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Most tourists staying in central London hotels will be familiar with the iconic facade of Battersea Power Station, one of the capital's most famous buildings. For the next couple of weeks, however, those paying a visit to the site will find it utterly transformed by a host of experimental gardening projects courtesy of the 2013 Chelsea Fringe.
Inaugurated last year as an alternative to the pomp and exclusivity of the Chelsea Flower Show, the Fringe is a three-week event that fosters the weirdest, most wonderful expressions of the art of horticulture. "As long as it's legal, inspired by gardening, gardens, plants or landscape and - above all else - interesting to look at or interact with, then we want it," say organisers.
Accordingly, the pop-up park at the front of Battersea Power Station will incorporate some truly innovative exhibits. These include the interactive sculpture Anchorage, which promises to engage all the senses - inviting members of the public to climb into a hammock and be caressed with the scent of flowers and the sounds of nature.
Garden Optics, meanwhile, should be of interest to budding scientists. Artist Sam Haynes has installed two huge convex lenses in a bed of foliage, allowing visitors to scrutinise familiar plantlife at incredible levels of magnification.
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It's March and that means National Craft Month! We've given you lots of DIY options for rejuvenating socks that aren't good for being socks any more, but what about nylon socks and stockings?
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Lotsa tips after the jump!
Though we do have a rather wide selection, sometimes we just don't have exactly that stripe or pattern that you need. But a steady hand and a little patience can take you a long way. I've got two quickie guides on adding your own drawn details to socks and there's a bonus DIY at the end too!
Drawing on nylon
Drawing on nylon is the easiest, so let's start there. Say your costume needs some sort of specific pattern on the legs. A good example would be Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas. Her stitched-together legs are a huge part of costume accuracy (which maybe I'm a big nerd about). Here's what you'll need:
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• A permanent marker—they make Sharpies in about every colour now, which is awesome! •
• white or off white tights, like the Opaque Tights •
Always test in an inconspicuous place, to make sure that what you're using and what you're using it on don't hate each other. The Opaque Tights and Sharpies get along pretty well!
It is way easier to do this with the tights on, so suit up. Keep in mind there will be a little bleed through from the marker.
Now, keeping an eye on your reference image, start drawing! Try to go as smoothly as you can. Sometimes I found that the felt marker tip wanted to catch on the nylon.
Ooh, the detail really makes it. I wasn't trying to get too-too accurate with the stitches, just going for the overall feel.
And, done! So easy! If you wanted to earn extra points, just add a blue-grey shade to 'em with the skills you learned in DIY: Dyeing Nylon.
That's tights, but what about socks? Join us after the jump for more tips and tricks! Read more »
I've shown you the basics of dyeing socks and how easy it is. All you need is a box of dye and some hot water. But what about styles that aren't cotton blends? What about non RIT dye options? Well just you wait. Nothing dyes quite as wonderfully as nylon.
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What's wonderful about dyeing socks and tights is that when you can't find the exact colour you want for something, you can make it!
Now, there is a fiber-specific way you can dye nylon, and there's even an option at your grocery store! Join me after the jump for more nylon transformation!
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I wasn't allowed to forget the Socks on Film post, partially because I really need to get working on a post about socks on TV, but also because I think a bunch of folks started becoming way more aware of film characters' leg wear.
Well, those are the posts that others dug. Want to know my favourites? Join me after the jump!
Last week we showed you the basics for dyeing socks. Once you start experimenting more with dyeing socks and fabric, you can also start looking into the wide world of dyes that are chemically formulated for specific fibers. One of the best places around for dyes and dyeing info is Dharma Trading Company. They're a favourite with Dreamers who love to dye!
Even if you're not ready for learning the scientific ins and outs of fancy dyes, you can expand your techniques and start playing around with ways to add colour. I've got two simple approaches to show you. The easiest (and my favourite) creates something between marbling and tie-dye. Called "low water immersion" or "scrunch" dyeing, it's always a beautiful surprise to see how it turns out which, for me, is part of the fun.
All you'll need for this technique are:
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• A container to mix your dye in •
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• Very hot water (like for brewing tea) •
• Optional: vinyl or rubber gloves to keep dye off your hands •
Not that many things, is it? Join me after the jump for the simple run-down and one more easy way to play with dye! Read more »
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Why was manatank voted down for telling the truth?..
The point of the drakes is visible reward for people who do hardmodes/achievements. Going back into Ulduar to get the iron-bound drake in T9 will be a lot easier.. just like getting the rusted drake is now in 25-man gear - I know I got one its stupid easy. Its like going back to the middle-ages with a machine gun and saying you're the best knight out there. I know that until my guild finishes the rest of 25-man glory don't deserve the reward though we will try to get it.
I think a good compromise would be to allow the RUSTED drake to stay in for casual, hard-mode players (lol sounds funny though I guess that's how you would say it =\) and remove the ability to get the iron-bound one after the patch so it still has some e-peen significance in the future.
With that compromise all the casual-oriented players can grab the "easier" drake, and raiders can still show off their iron-bound drake. That way if your job was crazy during 3.1 you could still go back and have a drake to farm up.
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MIT is now offering a free online course in the field of electronics and circuitry. I have said it before and I'll say it again, in the not-too-distant future, employers won't care where you obtained your college degree; all they will want to know is whether you can demonstrate mastery in your given field of study.
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AbstractThe main objective of this paper is to provide greater understanding of the systems of innovation approach as a flexible and useful conceptual framework for spatial innovation analysis. It presents an effort to develop some missing links and to decrease the conceptual noise often present in the discussions on national innovation systems. The paper specifies elements and relations that seem to be essential to the conceptual core of the framework and argues that there is no a priori reason to emphasize the national over the subnational (regional) scale as an appropriate mode for analysis, irrespective of time and place. Localised input-output relations between the actors of the system, knowledge spillovers and their untraded interdependencies lie at the centre of the argument. The paper is organized as follows. It introduces the reader, first, to some basic elements and concepts that are central to understanding the approach. The characteristics of the innovation process are examined: its nature, sources and some of the factors shaping its development. Particular emphasis is laid on the role of knowledge creation and dissemination based on the fundamental distinction between codified and tacit forms. These concepts recur throughout the paper and particularly in discussions on the nature and specifications of the systems approach. The paper concludes by summarizing some of the major findings of the discussion and pointing to some directions for future research activities.
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When disease attacks a plant, it starts a complex cascade of defense and counterattack processes as the disease tries to invade and the plant strives to repel the onslaught.
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The Pedras' lab is one of very few in the world working to intimately understand both the signaling and defense mechanisms involved in fighting off disease. In particular, she is interested in the enzymes that fungi use to "trick" plants into lowering their guard and allowing invasion.
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The group has already coined a term for one type of these designer chemicals – paldoxins, for "phytoalexin detoxification inhibitors". Phytoalexins are the substances plants use to fight off fungal infection, but some fungi – the ones that cause disease – have learned how to neutralize or detoxify these defenses.
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I posted one of my works in the poem thread.
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Five women are accusing a local county official of everything from sexual harassment to cheating on a test to giving tax breaks to family members.
Bill Boner, not the former Nashville mayor with the same name, is the Rutherford County property assessor.
Recently, some of Boner's former employees filed a federal harassment complaint against him. But those employees, and several others, say it goes far beyond that.
The five women who have come forward to talk about Boner combined for a grand total of 70 years experience in that office.
Their former boss has been there for three years.
"He thought I was too big. He said he didn't want anyone up there over a size 12," Pam Smith said.
Smith spent 23 years at the office and was the face of customer service.
"I was moved back as far as he could get me," she said. "He didn't want me to be seen by the public because of my size. It hurt my feelings. I had been there for so long and knew everybody there."
And so Pam Smith decided to call it quits.
"I retired. It was either that or a nervous breakdown," she said. "It was time to get out of there."
Bill Boner has been told by the county attorney not to answer the Channel 4 I-Team's questions. But instead, he decided to talk quite a bit, denying that he ever said anything about plus-size women.
"Never have I done that. I haven't even heard that part of it yet," Boner said. "I sent two or three things over to HR ever since it began."
And, as Boner suggests, this is just the beginning of the allegations in his office.
Robbie, who wanted her face and last name concealed to avoid any possible embarrassment for her new employer, says when Boner wanted to obtain his certified public administrator certificate - a testing achievement that brings up to a $1,500 bonus - Boner made her take the major online tests for him.
"He would call me into his office. He would tell me to log on as him on the website. I didn't have a choice," Robbie said. "He did it for months. We went into his office, and I took his tests for him. And he bragged about his certification he received faster than any assessor in history."
In fact, Bill Boner showed the Channel 4 I-Team his public administrator certificate and admitted Robbie did come into his office and answered some of the online questions. He even showed a test with all the answers redacted out, but he says it was all just a practice test.
"No, sir. That's strictly a lie. All she did was have a practice test, took it off the internet. There is no way to take that test except from the state down in Nashville," Boner said.
But a call to the office that certifies public administrators reveals there is no practice test and that the online test is a real test. The tests must be passed online before a final test is taken in person. And, in fact, five of the six tests for certification can be taken online.
"He got a very good raise for that something he didn't earn," Robbie said. "It was something I did."
So why did she do it if she knew it was wrong?
"I'm a single mother," Robbie said. "I needed my job very much to take care of my son."
But Robbie says it wasn't enough. Less than a week after Boner obtained that certification, she says she was fired and accused of causing a disruption.
"You know, when you fire someone they have to come up with something. It's not true," Boner said.
Keep in mind, none of the fired women - many of whom with decades on the job - was ever disciplined or officially written up until Bill Boner took office.
The investigation by Tennessee's Employment Security Division found that Robbie had no reprimands, written or verbal, before being fired after 23 years of service. The investigation also revealed that Boner made unsubstantiated allegations and did not provide evidence of misconduct.
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"That's a big lie," Boner said.
But land in Smyrna was appraised at $99,000 before Bill Boner personally intervened and adjusted the new assessment by cutting almost in half.
The property belongs to Boner's cousin.
"Oh, he ain't no special friend. I've seen him once or twice in the past 25 years. It just needed a little adjustment," Boner said.
Bill Boner adds that he actually raised taxes on his own brother and has taken 627 properties off Greenbelt status. "Greenbelt" properties are those designated to be dedicated to farm, forestry or open space uses.
But while taking all of those properties off Greenbelt status, Boner placed his own daughter on Greenbelt status after giving her enough of his own personal property so she would qualify.
"I just wanted my grandkids near," Boner said.
And then there are the charges of sexual harassment, which is the basis of the active Equal Employment Opportunity complaint against him.
"You know, when you fire someone, they've got to come up with something," Boner said. "All they had to do is do what I told them to do. If they refuse to do it, what can you do?"
Those sexual harassment allegations are so involved they are a whole other story. The Channel 4 I-Team report continues Tuesday on Channel 4 News at 6 p.m.
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Had lots of fun. Our Tour guide, 'Corky' Garcia was attentive and mindful of the crowds going into the clubs we toured. We were well served and appreciated the guidance for the evening.
It was fun!
Aaaamazing!! Although we didn't really need to book in advance as there were so many people around the clubbing strip offering deals for the exact same thing. We did have a great time with our group. The drinks kept coming... which in my opinion was awesome. We were looked after. I do highly recommend this to all! :) Thanks
B and B
Unfortunately we missed this event due to scheduling conflicts, hope to enjoy it next time.
Great night and the guides definitely were on top of their game getting us drinks. Only wish we got to visit at least one more location and spend a little more time at the rest of the stops before settling at the final location. Also would have been nice to set up a shuttle service.
My wife and I are in our early sixties and our mind is still thirty on vacation . After a day at the beach we were to tired to go but I gave the tickets to two young ladies and they reported to us that they had a wonderful time.
We had a great time, but were a bit disappointed with Coco Bongo. The tour we purchased said the final stop was The City.
No instructions provided about who to meet at the bar.
The guide didnt really do much with us and was absent for most of the evening. We asked to move to the third club and that did not seem to go down well with the guide and his girlfriend.
Later the guide spent most of the night with his girlfriend.
It was good to be able to visit more than one club in one evening given the policy in cancun of pay a high entry fee and open bar.
Didn't really fit what we wanted. We wanted to go to cocco bongo's and the palazzo which we didn't visit either. We only stayed for and hour and a half and decided to go out on our own. Would've good for single travelers to meet people's not suited for what we wanted which was VIP , front of the line, great clubs etc.
The schedule of the three nightclubs is not provided until you get to the meeting point. My husband and I are 40-50 and we like to party, however we don't want to listen to non-stop technotronic music which is what we heard in the first two clubs. We left and didn't go to the last club. The tour doesn't go to the hottest nightlubs in town or at least on our night it didn't. You could see the long lines waiting to get into the hotter night clubs. Also the drinks were very very very weak, cheap liquor. if you are 20-30 probably would enjoy.


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Now Might Be the Time to Book Profits in Office Furniture
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Office furniture stocks have had a great run over the past year and are trading near their 52-week highs. The market is becoming more concerned now that Herman Miller (NASDAQ: MLHR) has guided estimates lower for next quarter. The reason Herman Miller is guiding lower is that the company is seeing the effects of sequestration. The federal government is cutting back and that's not good for the office-furniture sector. If profits are forecast to be lower, it's time for investors to reassess their positions and possibly look to take profits.
Every executive's favorite chair
Herman Miller is best known for its armchairs and its modern office furniture. It is also credited with the invention of the office cubicle. Many of its furniture designs are considered icons, particularly its Aeron chair.
In the company's earnings release this week, net sales for the fourth quarter of the 2013 fiscal year rose 9.3% to $460 million. Earnings per share doubled from the prior year to $0.40 per share. For the full year, overall net sales increased 2.9% compared to the 2012 fiscal year. The company's gross margin for the quarter was 35.4%.
Going forward, the worry for investors is that the company reduced its guidance for the next quarter. The company is forecasting earnings per share of $0.36 to $0.41 per share. The consensus estimates were for earnings per share of $0.46 per share. As a result, the stock sold off over 4% in after-hours trading in response to that development. CEO Brian Walker cited the delay in customer purchases as the reason for the weakness going forward. He said:
The place we saw most of them was in the government. But I would say there were others as well. And with the government, you've got to believe some of this is probably the hangover from sequestration and all that stuff, right, with them prioritizing things.
Considering that the stock is up over 66% in the past year and has risen over 26% year-to-date, investors might want to consider locking in profits until a clearer picture emerges going forward in the next quarter.
For Herman Miller to continue growing earnings, the company needs to see growth from its recent $156 million acquisition of Maharan Fabric. The plan is to combine Maharan's textile and wall-covering business with Herman Miller's office furniture for interior design.
There's steel in this case
Steelcase (NYSE: SCS) is a manufacturer of office furniture and was originally known for its filing cabinets and safes. Now the company manufactures everything for the modern-day office.
Steelcase disappointed the market with its first-quarter earnings report. Revenue actually fell 1% on weakness in Europe. This broke the company's string of 12 consecutive quarters of growth. The bright spot for the company was the Americas segment, where revenue grew 7%. This segment accounts for 72% of the company's revenue, so it's important that this segment continues to grow.
The company expects earnings per share for the next quarter to be in the range of $0.22 to $0.26 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.23 per share in the prior year's quarter. A pick-up in demand from Europe would help the company, but with summer approaching, it's a seasonally slow period in Europe. The demand in the Americas needs to be strong for the company to beat last year's earnings per share.
Steelcase is hoping two new products will drive revenue for the company as 2013 progresses. The company unveiled a new chair that is ergonomically designed for users working on mobile devices and desktops. The chair has fans in the tech community for its design. The other product is a new wall system that lets companies carve out private, soundproof spaces. This product looks to capitalize on the office trend away from cubicles and into more collaborative work spaces.
This company makes more than just office furniture
HNI (NYSE: HNI) is the world's second-largest manufacturer of office furniture and the top manufacturer of gas- and wood-burning fireplaces. HNI sells office furniture at many different price points.
For the first quarter of this year, net sales decreased 0.7% to $442 million. Sales for the office furniture segment decreased 0.7% to 4442 million. The fireplace segment was the bright spot where sales increased 14.8% to $77 million. Gross margin for the quarter was 33.4%.
In looking forward, HNI is more optimistic than Herman Miller or Steelcase. According to CFO Kurt Tjaden on the company's most recent earning call:
For the second quarter of 2013, we anticipate overall sales to be up 5% to 8%. Office furniture sales are expected to be up 5% to 8% organically or up 4% to 7% including the impact of acquisitions and divestitures. Organic sales in both the supply-driven and contract channels are expected to be up 5% to 8%. Hearth sales are expected to be up 7% to 11%.
What I like about HNI is that the company just doesn't make office furniture. Its hearth products can benefit from the housing recovery as more fireplaces are purchased for new homes. There's potential for growth in that segment to continue.
Foolish assessment
All three companies have posted weakness or talked about weakness in their latest earnings reports. Considering that the stocks are near 52-week highs, the summer months can be seasonally slow and the effects of sequestration, it might be time to take some money off the table and move to the sidelines. Long term the companies have great businesses and any weakness in the next quarter can be seen as a buying opportunity.
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Austin City Limits (ACL) ushers in the new year and the second half of Season 38 with an unforgettable hour of rock and roll from Jack White. A rocker who knows how to push all the boundaries, White and his two, yes two, bands (the all-male Buzzards and the all-female Peacocks) blast through an hour of music without a setlist, ranging from high energy blues rock to melodic country. The episode airs Saturday, January 5, 2013 on PBS Stations. Get a sneak peek below!
Jack White performs songs from his acclaimed solo debut, Blunderbuss, recently nominated for three 2013 Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song. Highlighting Blunderbuss, and also drawing from his previous work with his bands the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and Dead Weather, the performance is a masterful presentation of White's continuing evolution as contemporary rock's most charismatic provocateur. It's a visually and sonically spectacular episode of ACL, with White, bathed in blue light, flanked by his all-male band the Buzzards for the first half of the hour and then seamlessly switching bands in mid-set to his all-female band the Peacocks for the second half.
White and the Buzzards kick things off with the Grammy-nominated track "Freedom at 21". Picking up an acoustic guitar for the unreleased Hank Williams tune "You Know That I Know", White dedicates the song "to a girl up in Detroit who called the police on me one time." At the halfway point, the Buzzards leave the stage to be replaced by the Peacocks, launching into "Love Interruption", the single that heralded Blunderbuss' arrival. White roars through tracks from the various stages of his remarkable career, closing out the set with a Nashville spin on a few White Stripes classics. The episode marks Jack White's second appearance on ACL (the Raconteurs appeared in Season 32) and his first as a solo artist.
"Jack is at the top of his game," says ACL executive producer Terry Lickona. "The beauty of this show is its raw spontaneity. Nobody - from the director to the drummer - has a clue what Jack is going to do next. Hell, even Jack doesn't know. Sometimes he shifts gears in the middle of a song. It's one of the most unique episodes we've ever done, and that's saying a lot!"
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On September 11, 2013, Independent Bank Corporation issued a press release announcing the redemption of all outstanding 8.25% trust preferred securities (NASDAQ: IBCPO) issued by IBC Capital Finance II. A copy of this press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated by reference herein.
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Spiro are an instrumental musical group based in Bristol, England. They emerged from the Bristol session scene in 1993, soon settling on a line-up which remains unchanged to this day. They released one album (Lost in Fishponds, 1994) under the name The Famous Five. Their first album under the name Spiro, Pole Star (1997), saw a development of their interest in fusing minimalist classical influences with the traditional music of the North of England. In 2009 they signed to Real World Records, since when they have released two albums, Lightbox (2009) and Kaleidophonica (2012).
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BBC Reviews
Kaleidophonica 2012Reviewed by Colin Irwin
The Bristol-based band reveals hidden contours of genre-free music with fantastic results.
Lightbox 2009Reviewed by Chris Jones
Beneath the surface lurks something far more intricate than is immediately obvious.


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A cardgame for 2 players.
The players have one regular 52 playing-cards deck each, it's allowed to add 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 jokers. It doesn't matter if some cards are missing. Technically this game is a bit like memory and "Starve the fox".
The cards are ranked as usual (A,K,Q,J and 10 to 2). The colors doesn't matter, but the jokers are a bit special, more on them later.
Both players put 11 cards on the playing field, with the frontpage down, just like the image below. It's allowed to see the cards for yourself. The remaining cards are put in the library.
the playfield:
Mv=Goalkeeper, B=Defenders M=Midfielders och F=Forwards.
The gameplay is like this: You take the top card in the library and chooses one of the opponents cards in the closest row, at the start it's probably the forwards row. Highest card wins, if they are the same: it's the attacker who wins. The attacker then puts his card in the discard pile.
If the defender card looses, it is removed from the field, and the attacker continues the turn. The attacker may now choose a card in the midfielder-row aswell but it's also allowed to choose a card in the same row again, and if the attacker wins again, it's then allowed to attack a card in the defender-row.
When at least one card is removed from every row (the 3 rows on your opponents side), it's allowed to try to make a goal. Shots on the goal are the same thing, if the attacker-card is higher or equal to the goalkeeper it's a goal, otherwise it's not of course and the turn is over.
If the defendercard wins, then the defendercard stays in the field, it remains with the frontpage down and the turn goes over to the opponent.
At the start on any turn, the player may choose on what to do. It's allowed to lay down new defendercards on the places where they were taken or attack immediately. But if you attack and loose your turn you are not allowed to lay new defendercards until it's your turn again.
You are allowed to make substitutes, but only when all missing cards have been replaced and before you start to attack. Before you make the substitute your opponent should be notified and you show the card you discard. It's not allowed to substitute the same card again during the same turn and only 3 substitutes are allowed during a complete game.
The game goes on until both players library-piles are empty. If your library-pile is empty when it's your turn, the turn goes over to the opponent who continues until his library-pile is empty, then the first half is over. During the halftimebreak the players take all the remaining cards from the field and discard-pile and shuffles all the cards again. Then new cards are laid down on the field and the second half can start.
The jokers have some special rules. They are ranked higher than the Ace but a defending joker has to be removed after the first "challenge". If a goalkeeper or defender is a joker and the attacker is a diamond, then the attacker is rewarded with a penalty. If a midfielder or forward is a joker and the attacker is a diamond, then the defending player gets a warning. If a player gets 2 warnings in a game, then a card is "sent out" and the attacker has one row less to pass on his way towards the goal.
Penalties are simple, the attacker takes 2 new cards from the library and adds the value (J=11, Q=12, K=13, A=1, Jokers=0 and the others their number) which is the compared to the goalkeeper (same values except Ace and Joker who are worth 15). If the penaltyshooter is higher than the goalkeeper or equal to it, it's a goal. If not, it's not a goal of course.
For a little extra flavor, you can make charts with playernames, for scoring purposes: (if queen would score then the name is Tomas Brolin)
Sweden All Time Stars!
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|Kennet Andersson
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|Per Zetterberg
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