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Dodgers' Kershaw nearly perfect in no-hitter vs. Rockies
LOS ANGELES -- Clayton Kershaw delivered the line of the night, but Josh Beckett had a classic one, too.
"Beckett was kidding around when he threw his (no-hitter) and said, 'Someday I'll teach you how to do that,'" Kershaw said.
Kershaw tossed his first career no-hitter, and the Los Angeles Dodgers pounded the Colorado Rockies 8-0 Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium.
Kershaw (7-2) struck out a career-high 15 and issued no walks in his 107-pitch masterpiece. He faced one batter over the minimum, due to a seventh-inning error.
"You don't really ever think about getting to do something like that," said Kershaw, who completed the 12th no-hitter in Los Angeles Dodgers history and the franchise's 22nd overall. "You always think about winning a World Series or being a part of that. As far as individual stuff goes, though, this ranks up there. Pretty cool."
The left-hander fanned left fielder Corey Dickerson for the final out and was mobbed by his teammates. It was the second no-no by a Dodgers pitcher this season. Beckett threw one to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-0 on May 25.
Two Dodgers pitchers recorded no-hitters in the same season for the second time in club history. Carl Erksine (vs. the New York Giants) and Sal Maglie (vs. the Philadelphia Phillies) accomplished the feat in 1956.
Kershaw had a perfect game until the first batter of the seventh inning. Dickerson reached on a two-base error by shortstop Hanley Ramirez, whose errant throw to Adrian Gonzalez was beyond the first baseman's reach. Ramirez, who left Tuesday's win over the Rockies with a bruised ring finger on his throwing hand, didn't return for the eighth inning, with Carlos Triunfel replacing him.
"In that situation, you don't want anything (to happen) because you want to save the pitcher," Ramirez said. "He's got a perfect game going, so you try to do your best."
Kershaw, though, got a boost later in the inning when third baseman Miguel Rojas fielded a grounder by Troy Tulowitzki behind the third base bag and made a strong throw to retire the Rockies shortstop.
"That was huge for me," said Kershaw, who allowed just two balls to leave the infield.
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was overjoyed because of the type of person and player Kershaw is.
"He's a guy who really deserves," Mattingly said. "I think our players would back that up, too, because they have so much respect for his work. I think you like seeing good things happen to good people, and this guy works his butt off. He deserves everything he gets."
Rockies manager Walt Weiss said he was surprised the 2011 and 2013 National League Cy Young Award winner never threw a no-hitter before.
"Probably a lot of times he takes the mound, he looks like he's got no-hit stuff. That certainly was the case tonight," Weiss said. "To do it for nine innings is difficult to do, but he was dominant. You never want to be on this end of it, but the respect for Kershaw ... he's a first-class guy (and) handles himself so well."
Colorado starter Jorge De La Rosa (6-6) lasted just 3 1/3 innings, getting tagged for eight runs (seven earned) on six hits with five walks and a strikeout. The Rockies (34-38) are 3-12 in games De La Rosa starts against the Dodgers.
Rojas had three RBIs, and Los Angeles center fielder Matt Kemp and Gonzalez drove in two runs apiece.
In the first inning, Dodgers second baseman Dee Gordon reached on a walk, stole second and advanced to third when De La Rosa mailed a pickoff attempt into center field. Los Angeles took a 1-0 lead when right fielder Yasiel Puig's sacrifice fly knocked in Gordon.
Kemp's RBI single drove home Ramirez for a 2-0 advantage with two outs in the first.
Los Angeles (40-34) blew the contest open in the third with five runs. Gonzalez smacked an RBI double to left that scored Puig. Kemp, who entered the game hitting .419 against De La Rosa, doubled home Gonzalez for a 4-0 cushion.
After back-to-back walks to center fielder Scott Van Slyke and catcher A.J. Ellis, Rojas delivered a bases-clearing double for a 7-0 lead.
Gonzalez's RBI single in the fourth increased the margin to 8-0.
NOTES: The last team to pitch two no-hitters in a season was the Seattle Mariners, who did it two years ago. RHP Kevin Millwood and five relievers beat the Dodgers on June 8, 2012, and RHP Felix Hernandez threw a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Aug. 15, 2012. ... A crowd of 46,069 witnessed LHP Clayton Kershaw's no-hitter. ... Dodgers 3B Juan Uribe will make a rehab start as a designated hitter Thursday for Class A Rancho Cucamonga. Uribe has missed 28 games with a right hamstring strain. ... Colorado 1B Justin Morneau and OF Charlie Blackmon did not play. Manager Walt Weiss rested both players. ... The Dodgers are off Thursday before beginning a three-game series in San Diego against the Padres on Friday. ... The Rockies also have an off day Thursday before kicking off a three-game set at home against the Milwaukee Brewers.


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Lately, I've been running into a lot of distasteful language and behaviour. I'd like to take part of /General chat and submit it with my ticket. Is there a way to do so?
No, there is not. However SWTOR's Customer Service team absolutely has access to chat logs and all you need to do is report:
The names of the players involved may also be helpful. I have logged reports in this way that have been acted upon — BioWare does not disclose any actions they take against players, but one player I reported happened to be in my guild (unfortunately) so I knew he got banned since he was MIA for a week and complained about it afterward.
This is basically summarized in their support system:
However, as noted in the comments there is a profanity filter for you to use if you don't want to see profanity. Reporting "swear words" won't result in any action being taken.
There is an option in your preferences to filter and convert most swears into stars. This option is available under Preferences --> Game Tab --> Chat section --> Filter Profanity.
There are creative ways around that, as you had mentioned, but there isn't much that can be done about that. Unfortunately, there will always be undesirable elements when you are online; there is no way around it. The best you can do is mitigate it.
Another option would be to leave General chat entirely; that option is in the same area, called General chat. That will limit your exposure to profanity from the general population.
Profanity in general isn't really actionable; it's distasteful, yes, but it's everyone's right to express themselves within the rules set out by the creator, and the Rules of Conduct only mention that profanity is not acceptable within their forums.
As for harassment :
From SWTOR's Rules of Conduct:
I have bolded the relevant section; reporting harassment is not actionable unless it is directed at you or your party. Just because you find something offensive does not automatically mean it is actionable. Like the policy states, an attempt to resolve the situation must be made prior to submitting a ticket; oftentimes a statement might offend you, when the person making the statement had no intention of it doing so. This is a very common occurrence online, where all we have to judge intent is the words themselves.
In the event that you are submitting a ticket, it's a good idea to mention the following details:
This will allow Customer Support to spend the least amount of time combing through their logs for the information. I doubt being able to copy from chat would be useful; customer service would still have to go through their chat logs to ensure accuracy and the proper context for the statements is known. That will allow the best chance for a fair and impartial decision to be made.

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I would like to understand how signals transformed from the time domain to the frequency domain for algebraic manipulation, can be transformed back to give solutions in the time domain. Knowing how to do it is not enough. I would like to know why it works.
Is it that when multiplying a function by exp(-st) that the area captured beneath the curve during integration in the time domain, gives a transform of the function to a unique function in another linear vector space, the frequency domain, and that combinations in that other space uniquely transform back to functions in the time domain?


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There's much to be said for form following function, but tell me, "Where's the form?" Where are the UI and graphic people? MSN Search is just a visually ugly product. I can hardly stand to look at it.
I think if the interface was much cleaner - doesn't have to be as sparse as Google, just cleaner - people might actually use it.
The ad looks better the product: http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/images/msn-search-email.gif
This is just ick. Color gradients and bright colors and fat buttons and . . . it's just not serious: http://www.komotv.com/news/images/msn_search_020105.jpg
I also think MS should spin off the entire product, not unlike Expedia. I would love to be able to type a few character and press CTRL + ENTER instead of the "search.msn.com", which is 8 characters more than "google".
fooey wrote:I got a weird vibe from this. When I think Google, I think of a huge company with 4000+ employees working on search realted products and services. Then I see this video, and I think "MSN Search - 2 guys in an office." Not the best advertising, is it?
Nata1 wrote:Scoble - that would be a great idea - so far the only thing that's come out of MSoft on the search side that's impressed me has been Selberg's work, and the Virtual Earth team has impressed me as well.
I'm sure there's got to be some other impressive people over there... ???
If you haven't noticed, EVERY video features 1 or 2 guys (I've never seen more than 4 or 5). But these projects have dozens of developers working on them, it's just that only the Project Managers from each project are on the video.fooey wrote:I got a weird vibe from this. When I think Google, I think of a huge company with 4000+ employees working on search realted products and services. Then I see this video, and I think "MSN Search - 2 guys in an office." Not the best advertising, is it?
Good work. As Bill said Compete (with Google) dont delete (G) .
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We're in the business of automated trading and our team consists of two bigger groups, I call them data producers and data consumers.
The producers' primary task is to maintain a chain of smaller tools that push some real-time data through an indicator system and out comes an order. All the data that was needed or produced is logged into files, one file per tool per run.
The data consumers on the other hand, used to backtests and captured in their backoffice world, want to fragments of the data produced in the different runs, polished to their needs, more specifically one big post-processed chunk of data per day.
Now the problem that has split our team into two well-distinguishable sides is that the data producers consider it their responsibility to provide comprehensive data without any loss of information and want the consumers to cherry-pick whatever they need in a pre-processing step.
The consumers on the other hand want to see live trading as a black-box, to them it shouldn't be different to the backtest which means the data producers in their eyes lack a crucial post-processing step without which they can't start their task.
Now clearly there has to be some glue between the two teams, my question is whose task is it? Or is there to be a third group in the middle that provides the glue? What does the theory say about this (can we apply the producer/consumer pattern to `real life')?
And just to make the problem a real one: The data producers consider it ugly to boil down the data into consumable chunks, mainly because the consumers' side keeps changing their requirements. The consumers on the other hand are not skilled enough to do the proposed cherry-picking.


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College Football's Most Pummeled Man
WEST POINT, N.Y.—Larry Dixon is college football's best decoy. He might also be the closest thing to a human tackling dummy.
In a game against Boston College this year, the Army running back was tackled 34 times. That's fairly routine for the position. What's unusual is that on 22 of those tackles, Dixon wasn't even carrying the ball.
As West Point's fullback, the sophomore from Bremerton, Wash., gets the privilege of being slammed to the turf several times a game by humongous defenders for no reason at all.
The punishment is a product of the old-school, pass-averse offenses run by Army and Navy, which play the 113th game of their storied rivalry Saturday. The service academies are among the last colleges that rely on a scheme called the triple option. Its name comes from the quarterback's three choices on any given play:
1) He can give the ball to the fullback if he sees an opening up the middle.
2) He can fake the handoff to the fullback and run with it himself.
3) He can fake the handoff to the fullback and pitch the ball to the running back heading to the sideline.
Unlike spread offenses like Oregon's that rely on fake handoffs from a shotgun formation several yards behind the center, Army pulls off its fake just in front of the line of scrimmage, in front of unblocked defenders. Making matters worse for Dixon's body is that Army quarterback Trent Steelman has mastered the art of pretending to give the ball to Dixon, only to pull it away at the last possible moment and set up his fullback for a pummeling.
A review of every Army offensive play in 2012 shows that Dixon has gotten a fake handoff 190 times this season. The cadet has been tackled without the ball 95 times, compared with the 129 times he has been wrestled to the ground with the pigskin.
In five of the 10 games he's played this season, he has been tackled more often without the ball than with it. "Those are long days," Dixon said.
Some defenses that face Army or Navy assign players to tackle the fullback every play, just in case he has the ball. It's legal; defenders can hit any runner who simulates possession of the ball, said Rogers Redding of the NCAA Football Rules Committee.
The triple option used to be the staple of college-football offenses everywhere, powering the attacks of national champions in the 1970s and 1980s. The play produced consistent if modest gains, but fell out of favor after college and pro teams went pass-crazy in the following two decades.
Prolific passing attacks showed the flaw of the triple-option offense: It is not designed to score points in a hurry, hampering the prospects of fourth-quarter comebacks.
Today, the offense's biggest advocates are Army, which is 2-9 entering Saturday's contest, and Navy, which is 7-4. Air Force and Georgia Tech also regularly use the scheme.
Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo said the service academies love the offense because the trickery lets them compete with bigger, more athletic opponents. Air Force, Army and Navy lack elite football players; the requirement to serve in the armed forces after graduating deters NFL prospects, and the military sets standards for weight, meaning the teams have few, if any, 300-pound linemen.
"It definitely gives us a competitive edge against bigger and faster schools," Niumatalolo said. "And we don't have to block everybody."
The makeup of cadets and midshipmen also helps. "You have to be precise and you have to be disciplined," said Randy Cross, a CBS Sports Network analyst who works on Navy broadcasts. "Those are the two things that cadets and people at the academies do."
Military selflessness is especially important at fullback. Yes, they get more glory than their offensive linemen who never carry the ball, but they also get thrown to the ground superfluously.
"It's a physical job description, and we usually have a tough time finding someone to fill it, because usually they're smarter than that," said Army head coach Rich Ellerson.
The requirements for the job is size—230 pounds is ideal—and the ability to take repeated beatings for no glory. That's why Navy fullback Noah Copeland once earned the nickname Armadillo from a teammate.
The sophomore from San Antonio has been tackled 59 times without the ball this season, compared with 139 with the ball. He enjoys telling defenders they've been duped.
"I've had a dude, I think it was against Notre Dame or Troy, and he kept driving me to the ground," Copeland said. 'I said, 'I don't have the ball.' He said, 'Oh,' and he got up and just left," presumably to go find the actual ball carrier.
Though the tackles on non-carries may seem excessive, they do help the offenses by taking a defender or two out of the play. Dixon's favorite moment of the season came in the third quarter against Northern Illinois. He got the ball for a seven-yard carry, but on the following play, quarterback Steelman faked the handoff to Dixon, who was immediately hammered by a defensive lineman and a linebacker. Steelman scampered past the crumpled trio for a 25-yard touchdown.
"They hit you, they start celebrating and then they see Trent take off," said Dixon, who added his football-team experience has him leaning toward going into the infantry after graduation. "It's good times."
Dixon enjoys being a triple-option fullback because not knowing whether he's getting the ball or a fake keeps his adrenaline high. Still, there's one person who's unhappy about the contact that comes with the football position.
"It's kind of scary," said Laura Ashley, ALY 0.00 % Dixon's mother. "I would tell him to become a receiver."
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And the bookies have me at 80/1 again, the board wants me to avoid relegation and the media predicts us to be relegated.
Nice to have no pressure but are they ever going to make changes to the current reputation model?
2015/16 Season Preview - Swindon Supermarine - Blue Square South
Media Prediction: 20th
Title Odds: 80/1
Can we go one step further and take the title? I fear it's the only way we're going to get out of this league as play-offs and my management have never really gotten along. Of course we're still billed as relegation candidates by the bookies, media and my own board ("Just try and keep us in this league LOL") so the only pressure is what I'm putting on myself. A couple of good prospects to help out too, in Vanberg (was on trial at Colwyn Bay) and Johnson (released by Wigan youth).
This is the fastest goal I've scored in any version of the game.
Svanberg's finishing should give you a boatload of goals in this league!
Hopefully he will be the catalyst that sends you through on automatic promotion!
I think 8 or 9 seconds is the fastest I've seen.
You've picked up a couple of good youngsters
I bet you hate playoffs now.
No, Gareth, the promise was to offer you improved terms on your current contract. Which I did to the tune of 1000%. Which you rejected. So sod off.
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You tell him!
Funniest thing is we're still third, only two points off top, and seven points ahead of 6th. What an absolutely sh*tful league it is.
Some hard Xmas partying there. Must have been fun.
11!! 1 f*****g winin 11 games! WoW! (no offence ) its a miracle your still third must mean lucks on your side...... NOW PUSH UP THAT TABLE
Nice! Congrats!
2015/16 - Swindon Supermarine FC - Blue Square South
League Table - Finances - Graph - Transfers
Season Review
After three play-off defeats in three Conference South seasons, there is only one acceptable outcome from this season. And, like always, we make our customary strong start to the season. One good thing about this team is we never have to play catch up later in the season. From league fixtures 19 through 28 we were in top spot and looking pretty comfortable
Then, once more, the form issues hit out of nowhere, and an 11 game winless streak in the league followed. We had another reasonable run in the FA Trophy at this point too, which meant players were consistently jaded. However, due to the appalling standard in the league this season, we never dropped lower than sixth (in fairness there were more draws than losses in that run).
March begins and so do we, breaking the previous streak with an equally perplexing seven game winning run. Satisfying as it wrested back the ascendancy, infuriating as this was missing for the previous two months. We drew our last three matches but it was still enough, although our winning points total of 77 was the lowest of the five seasons this save has been in existence.
The title was quite clearly won in the back half, as we only conceded 26 goals in 42 matches, and meant we were still getting points even when we weren't scoring. Special mention to 'keeper Max Oberschmidt, formerly of Fulham, whose signing co-incided with our final run to the title, and who kept seven clean sheets from 11 appearances.
Goal of the Season
The only goal of a tight game, as a quite breath-taking ball from Risvig makes it impossible for Johnson to miss.
Key Men
Nicolai Risvig - Another wonderful season from the Dane, as he generally played out on the wings rather than up front and contributed 18 goals and 12 assists. He is out of contract in the summer, but if I can get that sorted then he will be promoted to club captain next season.
Omar Koroma - Now an icon of the club, he clearly isn't the player he was pre-leg break, and he struggled at times. However, he was the one who scored the goals in the last month and a half and will get every chance to prove himself at the next level.
Mike Johnson - Forced himself into the starting XI with some strong cameos off the bench early on, and ended up our top scorer in the league. Shows promise.
Curtis Wynter - Second in tackles and fifth in average rating for the league, our right back continues to perform at a consistently high level. Another who is coming out of contract.
Abdi Abdulkadir - The former West Ham youth had an excellent campaign, mainly as a left-back. Along with Wynter, he ensured we were never torn apart by wingers.
Chris Salt - Once again, held the back four together. What a great signing he has been for the club.
Next Season...
Obviously survive, but I feel we have the squad quality to challenge for a mid-table position. Our usual early season form would be fantastic here.
2011/12 - Evo-Stik Southern Premier - 1st (promoted as champions)
2012/12 - Blue Square South - 2nd (lost in play-off semis)
2013/14 - Blue Square South - 2nd (lost in play-off semis)
2014/15 - Blue Square South - 4th (play-off and FA Trophy finalists)
2015/16 - Blue Square South - 1st (promoted as champions)
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Congrats on making it after three playoff defeats. Must feel good. Good luck in the Premier, reckon you have enough quality to do well there as it's usually not a big step up.
FINALLY!! jokes aside well done this season and with this squad you should push up to about mid table
(get curtis wynter's contract sorted out)
Well done for avoiding the playoffs.
And for winning the league.
Congrats, well done on not needing the luck of play-offs this time.
Congrats on the title win!!
Hopefully the BSP won't be as frustrating.
Thanks all. It was a terrible standard of league this season so it would've been extremely disappointing not to capitalise.
Charity Shield: Chelsea (Tottenham)
Premiership: Man City (Middlesbrough, Reading, Derby)
Championship: Huddersfield; Leeds, Sunderland (Peterborough, Blackpool, Colchester)
League One: Preston; Carlisle, Millwall (Tranmere, Torquay, Brentford, Dag & Red)
League Two: Newport County; Morecambe, Bristol Rovers, Hartlepool (Fleetwood, Walsall)
Conference Premier: Plymouth; Macclesfield (Cambridge Utd, Welling, Blyth Spartans, Gateshead)
Conference North: FC United; Boston Utd (Chorley, Gainsborough, Guiseley)
Conference South: Swindon Supermarine; Bromley (Braintree, Hampton & Richmond, Harrow)
Ryman Isthmian Premier: Bishop's Stortford; Staines (Whitehawk, Hastings Utd, Aveley, Bury Town)
Evo-Stik Northern Premier: Curzon Ashton; Woodley Sports (Sheffield, Matlock, Skelmersdale, Carlton Town)
Evo-Stik Southern Premier: Gloucester; Bognor Regis (Cirencester, Evesham, Bideford, Brackley)
Ryman Isthmian Division One North: Waltham Abbey; VCD Athletic (Potters Bar, Thamesmead)
Ryman Isthmian Division One South: Tonbridge; Walton & Hersham (Godalming, Met Police)
Evo-Stik Division One North: Harrogate Railway; Mossley (Salford, Clitheroe)
Evo-Stik Division One South: Chasetown; Buxton (Loughborough, Lincoln Utd)
Evo-Stik Division One Central: Banbury; Leverstock Green (Aylesbury, Leighton)
Evo-Stik Division One South/West: Flackwell Heath; Cinderford (Cammell Laird, AFC Hayes)
FA Cup: Tottenham (Man City)
League Cup: Newcastle (West Brom)
Johnstone's Paint: Newport County (Morecambe)
FA Trophy: St Albans (Eastbourne Boro)
Champions League: Lyon (FC Porto)
Europa League: Roma (Braga)
Super Cup: Paris St-Germain (Man City)
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A-League: Wellington Phoenix
Finals Series: Sydney FC (Melbourne Victory)
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2016 European Championships: Italy (England)
Italy retains its crown with a Pazzini brace. Jay Rodriguez grabbed his 12th goal in 18 caps to be the new hope of English football.
Meanwhile, Connor Wickham is capless and available on a free.
My favourite league in real life, unsurprisingly given I support the league's longest tenants in Forest Green, but I love how competitive it is and always has been. Similar to the Championship in that any side can beat any other side on a given day and no one will bat and eyelid. This competitiveness always prepares the promoted teams well for league football, as evidenced by the fact that the teams that go up usually stay there, and teams relegated from League Two very rarely bounce straight back up.
It's my favourite league to manage in as well, and to me the toughest. A mixture of full-time and part-time clubs, and four relegation spots compared to only two promotion spots. It's very easy to get bogged down in mid-table, and very hard to catch up if you have a poor start. Not to mention we now switch to a 46-game season.
2016/17 Season Preview - Swindon Supermarine - Blue Square Premier
Media Prediction: 24th
Title Odds: 40/1
Captain: Nicolai Risvig
Vice-Captain: Jack Pelter
Icons: Omar Koroma, Nicolai Risvig
Favoured Personnel: Nick Mockford
Predictably we're tipped to finish last (albeit at better title odds than the last three seasons in the Conference South) but I think we can make some noise, especially after a successful summer recruitment campaign. Alfie Le Fondre comes in on a free to provide us with some extra fire power up front. At 29 he is on a one-year deal, but looks like he could play at least a division above still. Risvig is promoted to captain after the departure of Anthony Ashman at the expiry of his contract, and will be deputised by new signing Pelter, a Kiwi/English centre half.
The big transfer coup however was undoubtedly David Wilson, who is signed for compensation from Worthing. At £5K he represents my first expenditure as a manager, and in all honesty he looks an absolute tremendous prospect who will demand first team football straight away. I will be playing him up front, not out wide, due to his off the ball and composure attributes, and will try to get his finishing up.
There would be no chance something like that (Adam Le Fondre) would happen in real life.
He's not even that old and signing a £500 a week contract is unbelievable but still a quality signing
As we approach Christmas, it has been a pretty up and down season so far. In terms of points, we're exactly halfway between the play-off and relegation spots (nine from each), and finishing there would be a perfectly acceptable result. One thing we do lack is that really good central midfielder, who can run the game. Right now we're getting by on our forwards.
david wilson looks creepy...
Playing hardball.
Transfer request next?
I don't know why the board would be playing hard ball. I'm favoured personnel, my job status is listed as 'very secure' and my contract runs out in the summer. I can only think it's because I was offered the chance to change season expectations at the start of Jan and I went with mid-table finish to get some extra wage room, but we are mid-table.
A bit of interesting news to come with the end of season update, so stay tuned...
2016/17 - Swindon Supermarine FC - Blue Square Premier
Season Review
It was really an up and down season. We went on winning streaks and losing streaks, and we only had something like seven draws for the season, but we were never in danger of relegation and always bobbing around the top half of the table. Le Fondre was outstanding, taking out the league golden boot with 28 strikes (31 including cups), while Risvig delivered his best season yet in his first as skipper, with a league best 20 assists to go along with a dozen goals from a wing.
However, sitting a comfortable 11th and going into the final few months of my deal, the board flat out rejected a request for an extension, saying I hadn't done enough to warrant a discussion. I knew it wouldn't matter and I'd end up getting a new offer at the end of the campaign anyway, but it still rankled me. I'd led the club to a double promotion, consolidated us, given us a platform to push for league football and was even on the club's favoured personnel. Also, the board were jerks.
Of course, the request new contract option remained greyed out for the rest of the campaign. I was waiting for the new deal to be slipped under my door, when, after 45 league games had been completed, a job that interested me suddenly became available...
2011/12 - Evo-Stik Southern Premier - 1st (promoted as champions)
2012/12 - Blue Square South - 2nd (lost in play-off semis)
2013/14 - Blue Square South - 2nd (lost in play-off semis)
2014/15 - Blue Square South - 4th (play-off and FA Trophy finalists)
2015/16 - Blue Square South - 1st (promoted as champions)
2016/17 - Blue Square Premier - 9th
Last edited by CityAndColour; 19-02-2012 at 05:27.
Leave us hanging much..?! What happened? Where you off to?
BTW love this story, am doing a similar thing with Slough so I'm reading this and I'm laughing as this exact sort of stuff happened to me. Keep it Up!
Charity Shield: Man City (Tottenham)
Premiership: Man Utd (Leeds, Huddersfield, Bolton)
Championship: Swansea; Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Norwich (Watford, Preston, Carlisle)
League One: AFC Wimbledon; Blackpool, Brighton (Newport County, Morecambe, Coventry, Scunthorpe)
League Two: Plymouth; Shrewsbury, Northampton, York (Aldershot, Yeovil)
Conference Premier: FC United; Dover (Bury, Stevenage, Forest Green, Cheltenham)
Conference North: Darlington; Gateshead (Droylsden, Curzon Ashton, Worksop)
Conference South: Woking; Bognor Regis (Grays, Gloucester, Kingstonian)
Ryman Isthmian Premier: Lewes; Braintree (Maidstone, Dulwich Hamlet, Ilford, VCD Athletic)
Evo-Stik Northern Premier: Weymouth; Truro (Bishop's Cleeve, Totton, Halesowen, Cinderford)
Evo-Stik Southern Premier: Gainsborough; Eastwood (Leek, Hyde, Buxton, Warrington)
Ryman Isthmian Division One North: Harlow; Lowestoft (AFC Sudbury, Great Wakering)
Ryman Isthmian Division One South: Whyteleafe; Horsham (Croydon Athletic, Crawley Down)
Evo-Stik Division One North: Lancaster City; AFC Fylde (Ossett Albion, Goole)
Evo-Stik Division One South: Newcastle Town; Mickleover (Rainworth MW, Atherstone)
Evo-Stik Division One Central: Brackley; Hemel Hempstead (St Neots, Northwood)
Evo-Stik Division One South/West: Tiverton; Bideford (Poole Town, Hungerford)
FA Cup: Everton (Chelsea)
League Cup: Stoke (Arsenal)
Johnstone's Paint: Peterborough (Bristol Rovers)
FA Trophy: FC United (Darlington)
Champions League: Internazionale (Roma)
Europa League: Bayern Munich (Juventus)
Super Cup: Lyon (Roma)
Last edited by CityAndColour; 12-03-2012 at 06:02.
A-League: Brisbane Roar
Finals Series: Brisbane Roar (Adelaide Utd)
Last edited by CityAndColour; 29-04-2012 at 06:45.
:confused: dissapointed you left swindon supermarine
Will be interesting to see where you end up!!!
Interesting development.
Awesome season. Stoke win the League Cup and Newcastle Town win the Northern Premier League First Division South.
Oh, and you didn't do too bad either.
Any idea of where you would like to end up..?
From a career point of view, it's not really a logical move. I leave a club in a great position to push for league football for a club just relegated from the Conference National and with financial difficulties. However the beauty of the game is you can justify these kinds of decisions, and the challenge of leading my real life club out of a current crisis and up the leagues is one I couldn't resist.
Currently, the club is £270K in debt, with a bloated wage bill the biggest factor. 19 players have contracts set to expire in the off-season, and it is unlikely that any will be retained, meaning a complete squad overhaul and a likely focus on youth. However, the four players on large wages (between 1.2K and 1.7K a week) are the ones who are under contract for next season.
I've signed a two-year deal and will no doubt be expected to win promotion within that period. After taking four frustrating seasons to get out of the Conference South, I'm now back there by choice.
Such an important move you posted it twice
Interesting move though, and I can understand wanting to move if the board are jerks. Certainly hard to turn down you home club. Wish you good luck there and can't wait to see how you fare with them
I had a similar problem when I took over at Darlington. Im sure you can turn the clubs fortunes around .
Tough place to go.
2017/18 Season Preview - Forest Green Rovers - Blue Square South
Media Prediction: 9th
Title Odds: 3/1
Captain: Al Bangura
Vice-Captain: Kim Jensen
The bookies like us for the title but the media aren't so sure. We let 18 players leave at the end of June, which created an enormous wage budget, aided further by me selecting "promotion" as a board expectation. We turned some of this wage into transfer funds and splashed a club record £85K (half up front, half over 24 months) on teenage striker Martyn Rooney from relegated Curzon Ashton. In came a couple of Scandos in Kim Jensen and Bo Nøhr to add some class.
I also inherited two excellent players in skipper Al Bangura and hitman Eurico Sebastiao.
Unfortunately I have enough wage budget left over that I could have just selected "Top Half Finish" and still been under, and the team is taking a little bit of time to gel, but the season is but young.
Last edited by CityAndColour; 09-02-2012 at 14:09.
"Big Al, Big Al Banguuuura run-ning the show for me
Do-do do-do-do, do-do do-do-do, do-do do-do-do, do-do do-do-do"
Any fans of 'Heartbeat' around?
I'm baffled by the Supermarine board but hopefully you can overtake them with Forest Green.
Ooh and a Stoke win in the league cup.
Annoying. But that's okay, I'll just re-jig, go with one up top and slot Jensen in the hole in a 4-2-3-1.
Well that's not at all predictable. I think I preferred all the broken ribs.
Al Bangoura and Rooney are HUUUGGE players at this level - you should be able to walk the league with the greatest of ease!
Anyway myself and the lady jet off for Fiji in around 10 hours, so there won't be any updates for a week. All the lovers enjoy St Valentine's Day and all the singles enjoy it even more, as you'll be playing FM. Adios!
Good luck at Forest Green and enjoy Fiji.
2017/18 - Forest Green Rovers - Blue Square South
League Table - Finances - Graph - Transfers*
Season Review
While the media had us in a mid-table spot and the board seemed equally unambitious, I felt that anything less than promotion would have been underachieving, given we had at least five players in the squad who were of league football standard.
Given I had basically recruited a new squad, we had an inconsistent start to the season, but importantly hung around the top half, and slowly started to climb until we were well and truly in a title race by Christmas, aided by our early exits in both the FA Cup and FA Trophy. January and early February saw us retain our spot around the top, however we were very ordinary in late Feb and most of March, putting in a number of insipid displays, mostly around the absence of our star striker Sebastiao.
After a lucky 3-1 win over relegation-threatened St Albans to end March, we kicked off April with a visit to Eastleigh in a crucial game. They were only two points behind us in 3rd, however played us off the park for the first half and we were very fortunate to go in 1-1. The players got a bit of a bake from me, and came out and knocked in SIX in the second 45 to crush their title hopes with a 7-1 demolition.
A springboard was launched, and we ended April with six wins from six, scoring 25 goals and taking the title in the process. I was inexplicably installed as favourite for the vacant jobs at Swansea and Middlesbrough, both relegated from the Prem.
Supermarine finished a safe 13th and were never threatened by relegation.
Goal of the Season
Injuries limited Jensen to only 14 appearances, but he was capable of moments like this when he was fit.
Key Men
Al Bangura - Our skipper is far too good for this level and he controlled the middle of the park. Often it is hard for central mids to get consistently high ratings but he was something of a creative force, combining six goals and 13 assists with nearly five tackles per game. Thankfully his real life injury problems weren't replicated.
Eurico Sebastiao - Another who is far too good for non-league football, and his 22 goals in only 31 starts was enough to net him the league's player of the season award. Unfortunately his contract expires and he is off to L1 side Chesterfield, however I promised him in the pre-season that I'd let him leave at the end of the season.
Martyn Rooney - The club's record signing did not disappoint, notching 19 goals and 15 assists in a supporting striker role. At only 19 he shapes as a key player in the club's future, and is a possible captain down the line.
Dave Lester - Initially on loan from Coventry (now in L2), we organised to bring him on a free in the summer permanently. Before his arrival our back four was very shaky, however we ended up with the best defensive record in the league. A big coup.
Stephen Hill - Electric down the left, and deservedly won player of the month in our glorious April.
Next Season...
We have a central midfielder, a winger, a 'keeper, a right back and two remaining strikers who could all play league football, so if I can increase the squad depth there's no reason we can't be chasing a play-off spot.
Swindon Supermarine
2011/12 - Evo-Stik Southern Premier - 1st (promoted as champions)
2012/12 - Blue Square South - 2nd (lost in play-off semis)
2013/14 - Blue Square South - 2nd (lost in play-off semis)
2014/15 - Blue Square South - 4th (play-off and FA Trophy finalists)
2015/16 - Blue Square South - 1st (promoted as champions)
2016/17 - Blue Square Premier - 9th (resigned)
Forest Green Rovers
2017/18 - Blue Square South - 1st (promoted as champions)
* You may notice a few differences in the transfers I posted in pre-season at now, however my game crashed at the end of pre-season the first time around so had to repeat it, ensuring I signed and released/sold the same players
Charity Shield: Everton (Man Utd)
Premiership: West Ham (Middlesbrough, Swansea, Wolves)
Championship: Huddersfield; Derby, Doncaster (Barnsley, AFC Wimbledon, Burnley)
League One: Colchester; Watford, Charlton (Preston, York, Northampton, MK Dons)
League Two: Wrexham; Morecambe, Port Vale, Barnet (Oldham, Brentford)
Conference Premier:Fleetwood; Aldershot (Grimsby, Havant & Waterlooville, Hayes & Yeading, Bognor Regis)
Conference North: Kettering; Cambridge (Alfreton, Worcester, Braintree)
Conference South: Forest Green; Cheltenham (Truro, Sutton Utd, Wealdstone)
Ryman Isthmian Premier: Hampton & Richmond; Waltham Abbey (Thurrock, Tonbridge, Walton & Hersham, Harlow)
Evo-Stik Northern Premier: Colwyn Bay; Bradford PA (Lancaster City, Harrogate Railway, Marine, Curzon Ashton)
Evo-Stik Southern Premier: Dunstable; Aylesbury Utd (Dorchester, Bedford, Mangotsfield, Brackley)
Ryman Isthmian Division One North: Enfield Town; Aveley (Redbridge, AFC Hayes)
Ryman Isthmian Division One South: Merstham; Dulwich Hamlet (Hythe, Leatherhead)
Evo-Stik Division One North: Spennymoor; Frickley (Clitheroe, Durham)
Evo-Stik Division One South: Sheffield; Gresley (Lincoln United, Loughborough Dynamo)
Evo-Stik Division One Central: Halesowen; Evesham (Stourbridge, Sutton Coldfield)
Evo-Stik Division One South/West: North Greenford; New Mills (Thatcham, Whitstable)
FA Cup: Liverpool (Chelsea)
League Cup: Chelsea (Man City)
Johnstone's Paint:Exeter (Coventry)
FA Trophy: Woking (Histon)
Champions League: Man Utd (Valencia)
Europa League: Liverpool (AC Milan)
Super Cup: Bayern Munich (Internazionale)
Last edited by CityAndColour; 12-03-2012 at 06:04.
A-League: Melbourne Victory
Finals Series: Perth Glory (Melbourne Victory)
Last edited by CityAndColour; 29-04-2012 at 06:46.
Bangoura, Sebastiao, and Rooney in the BSS, in one team?!
I nave no doubt you will destroy all in your path in the BSP next season, too
2018 World Cup: Argentina (Germany)
The Argies complete a dominant tournament in which they won all seven games they played. Messi adds a brace in the final alongside the Golden Ball and being top scorer.
2018/19 Season Preview - Forest Green Rovers - Blue Square Premier
Media Prediction: 21st
Title Odds: 10/1
Captain: Al Bangura
Vice-Captain: Kim Jensen
It's not been the greatest off-season, primarily as we are over a grand over wage budget so signing anyone has been difficult. Loaning players has been tough as well, and I am still after a striker and a central midfielder on a temporary basis. We have also lost one half of our first choice central midfield pairing in Anthony Simmonds for the season with damaged cruciate ligaments, so more cover will need to be found. There is plenty of quality available on frees, but no funds to sign anyone worthwhile.
Young Welsh starlet Ramon Phillips is given the unenviable task of replacing club icon Sebastiao.
Poor Supermarine.
My new centre-half prospect Kenny Coton, signed from Bishop's Stortford on a free after coming through their youth team. At only 17 he has averaged 7.67 in the Conference South this season, and had 10 MotM awards in 17 games.
I reckon he has Championship potential at the very least, and with full time training can probably get his heading/tackling/marking up to at least the 14/15 mark. Not to mention he is already a good passer. High determination and bravery and looks a future captain too. Will want to improve decisions first and foremost, and obviously strength.
Thoughts? I think if you got him in your youth team at a Prem club you'd be pretty happy. It's the strongest position in my squad but I think I'm just going to throw him in the deep end and see how he does, and hopefully I can get up the leagues while he is still young to give him higher level football.
So, just to summarise there. We're 1-0 an hour into a crucial match, our other right winger is already injured for a month, you are on a yellow card, you burst into the penalty area, and.... YOU FRIGGING DIVE, AND YOU WANT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT GETTING FINED A WEEK'S WAGES?
Irish git.
2018/19 - Forest Green Rovers - Blue Square Premier
League Table - Finances - Graph - Transfers
Season Review
A fairly special season in the end, and one that saw my decision to leave Supermarine fully vindicated. We started in typically hot/cold fashion, notching five wins and five losses before our first draw, but stayed in the top half of the table, important as it remained bunched around the top with no one pulling away. So even when we were 8th or 9th we were still only a handful of points off the top.
Firmly established in the play-off spots through January, we made our move in the second half of February, and once we hit the top we stayed there. In fact, over the last 16 games of the season, we went 13-2-1 and ended up winning the title with five games to spare, taking Rovers into the league for the first time in club history.
Supermarine were relegated.
Goal of the Season
Phillips finishes off a lovely passing move around the edge of the box.
Key Men
Martyn Rooney - A superb season from our young star, adding 17 assists to his 25 goals. Gets a deserved chance at league football.
Ramon Phillips - Entrusted with the task of replacing Sebastiao, the young Welshman was superb with 28 goals. He started slowly but caught fire in the second half of the season, and earned a senior call-up at the end of May.
Sean Nash - On loan all season from Everton, the Irish youth international formed a formidable partnership with Bangura in the middle of the park, and just shades him thanks to a dozen assists.
Kenny Coton - A hugely exciting prospect. Signed on a free from Bishop's Stortford after dominating the BSS, he made the step up fairly comfortably and will get the chance to develop further in the Football League.
Next Season...
I've always found that the jump from BSP to L2 is the least daunting, so will be targeting at least a mid-table finish. Whether I get the budget to do so remains to be seen, as the club is bleeding money.
Swindon Supermarine
2011/12 - Evo-Stik Southern Premier - 1st (promoted as champions)
2012/12 - Blue Square South - 2nd (lost in play-off semis)
2013/14 - Blue Square South - 2nd (lost in play-off semis)
2014/15 - Blue Square South - 4th (play-off and FA Trophy finalists)
2015/16 - Blue Square South - 1st (promoted as champions)
2016/17 - Blue Square Premier - 9th (resigned)
Forest Green Rovers
2017/18 - Blue Square South - 1st (promoted as champions)
2018/19 - Blue Square Premier - 1st (promoted as champions)
Last edited by CityAndColour; 04-03-2012 at 09:11.
Charity Shield: Liverpool (West Ham)
Premiership: Man Utd (Derby, Doncaster, Huddersfield)
Championship: Bristol City; Swansea, Bolton (Blackpool, Sheff Wed, Colchester)
League One: Barnsley; Burnley, Leyton Orient (Exeter, Nottm Forest, Shrewsbury, Peterborough)
League Two: Torquay; Crawley, Preston, Oxford (Tranmere, Dag & Red)
Conference Premier:Forest Green; Crewe (Accrington, Swindon Supermarine, Yeovil, Oldham)
Conference North: Stalybridge; Barrow (Aylesbury Utd, Eastwood, Woodley Sports)
Conference South: Salisbury; Bishop's Stortford (Waltham Abbey, Bognor Regis, Bath)
Ryman Isthmian Premier: Cambridge City; Hendon (Heybridge, Dulwich Hamlet, Merstham, Enfield Town)
Evo-Stik Northern Premier: Droylsden; Guiseley (Workington, Mossley, Newcastle Town, New Mills)
Evo-Stik Southern Premier: Truro; Oxford City (Frome, Wealdstone, North Greenford, Gloucester)
Ryman Isthmian Division One North: Bury Town; VCD Athletic (Cheshunt, AFC Sudbury)
Ryman Isthmian Division One South: Hastings Utd; Walton Casuals (Worthing, Met Police)
Evo-Stik Division One North: Bishop Auckland; Marine (Salford, Goole)
Evo-Stik Division One South: Rushall; Leek (Cammell Laird, Rainworth MW)
Evo-Stik Division One Central: Bedford; Bishop's Cleeve (Stourport, Rugby Town)
Evo-Stik Division One South/West: Yate; Faversham (Clevedon, Wimborne)
FA Cup: Arsenal (Newcastle)
League Cup: Everton (Newcastle)
Johnstone's Paint: Exeter (Coventry)
FA Trophy: Cambridge Utd (Hampton & Richmond)
Champions League: Barcelona (Atletico Madrid)
Europa League: Man City (Internazionale)
Super Cup: Man Utd (Liverpool)
Last edited by CityAndColour; 12-03-2012 at 06:04.
A-League: Brisbane Roar
Finals Series: Sydney FC (Brisbane Roar)
Last edited by CityAndColour; 29-04-2012 at 06:46.
Drew, what an arse.
Newcastle losing in both domestic cup finals - sounds about right - the hunt for a trphy goes on!
Well done going up, shame Supermarine went the other way.
Newcastle Town going down.
It is a shame, but to be expected when the AI alienates its best players...
There's no way they should have gone down with the squad they had though. Your clubs haven't really done too much on this save, although Stoke finished 6th a few years ago and haven't gone out of the top flight. Billericay have stayed in the division below the Conference North/South, never threatening promotion or relegation. I think Stoke won an FA Cup too.
Even if the board had left the decision up to me I still would have accepted. The money is far too good for the club to turn down in its current financial state, and it gives Rooney a chance to prove himself in the Championship and put himself in the window for top flight clubs.
Have to say I'm confused, I haven't played much in the English lower leagues having preferred to travel around S and N America on my long term saves in FM12.
However these forums are full of people who claim it is impossible to get any clubs higher up the English leagues to make an offer for your good players.
That sounds like a great offer?
You get them every now and then, but it's nowhere near indicative of real life where league clubs will often look to non-league to unearth a gem.
2019/20 Season Preview - Forest Green Rovers - League Two
Media Prediction: 24th
Title Odds: 16/1
Captain: Al Bangura
Vice-Captain: Andy Harris
Entering our first season in the Football League, I thought I'd do a full squad overview. I'm only including players who will conceivably play a role.
Bo Nøhr - First choice between the sticks. Attracting interest from several higher clubs, but I still feel this position could be improved.
Nicholas Whitton - Pretty much just there to sit on the bench in case of injury, but he is happy to do so.
Full backs
Laith Emerton - Joins permanently on a free after a successful loan spell last season.
Adama Kader - Another free transfer who will provide competition at left back.
Andy Harris - The newly-appointed club vice-captain, in line to make his 100th appearance this season.
Central defenders
Kenny Coton - The most exciting prospect in the side, and will only improve with the higher standard of league.
Dave Lester - Has been Mr Consistent since originally joining on loan in the BSS.
Lee Johnston - Perhaps hasn't played to his ability on paper, but is still a solid option.
Central midfielders
Al Bangura - The skipper and first name on the team sheet in a play-making role.
Billy Brosnan - A new signing, the Irish youth international is very strong in the tackle.
Adam Snell - Very much a squad player, but always presents a danger with his set pieces.
Anthony Simmonds - Missed all of last season with knee problems, but his versatility is an asset.
Shane Dunk - Released from Stoke's academy, he looks like he could develop into a very good winger.
Stephen Hill - Plays both sides equally well and has a knack of scoring in big games.
Alan Porter - A back-up who earned another year with some key displays at the end of last season.
Ramon Phillips - Our star man, and will have an even higher workload with Rooney's departure. Scored on his senior debut for Wales too, and needs a haircut.
Nicolai Risvig - He starred for me at Supermarine and hopefully he gives us a similar return here too.
We certainly have the quality to stay up, but whether we have the squad depth is another matter altogether. Another striker is a must, especially given we play two up front, and we may have to enter the loan market again.
Looks like you have a nice, balanced squad Lots of players who will work hard for the team.
Very thin however. A few injuries or suspensions and you could be in serious trouble.
I have a lot of versatility so it means the squad is slightly deeper than it looks, but it could still do with a few more faces for sure.
Boom boom.
Great league win, again.
Boom boom indeed. League life has started fairly well too, despite a glut of injuries. We've soldiered on and grabbed points in a few games where we've only had a handful of chances...
A couple of shrewd signings as well, in Marcus Hewlett for £4K from Exeter (currently second top scorer in the league) and Sean Dunphy, who joins in January for £9K from Shelbourne and has hit double figures in Ireland thus far.
Hewlett looks pretty good.
Leicester City Football Club, also known as The Foxes, is an English professional football club based at the King Power Stadium (previously called the Walkers Stadium) in Leicester. They currently play in the Football League Championship, having been promoted as champions from Football League One in the 200809 season.
The club was founded in 1884 as Leicester Fosse, playing on a field near Fosse Road. They moved to Filbert Street in 1891 and played there for 111 years, before relocating to the nearby Walkers Stadium in 2002.
Leicester were elected to the Football League in 1894. The club's highest ever finish was second place in the top flight, in Division One in 192829. The club holds six Second Division titles (prior to it becoming known as the Football League Championship) and one League One title. They have won the League Cup three times (the highest total of a club who has never won the League or the FA Cup), and have been FA Cup runners-up four times, which is a tournament record for the most defeats in the final without having won the competition. They are currently without a manager after surprisingly being turned down by Forest Green boss Nick Mockford.
Great move.
Shame we couldn't draw them away, as they are flying high in the Prem in 6th and our finances are still dire. Still, you never know, maybe we can get a replay.
deltablue clearly not reading everything in the quotation marks
I own up to that (I'm sure I've had worse failures, plus it happens a bit on here) though was about to change it earlier when I realized that 'move' and 'decision' are similar enough terms.
Heh, in fairness it's not a move many real life managers would turn down. I'm really enjoying this Rovers team though and we're in a great position for a third straight promotion.
Last edited by CityAndColour; 03-03-2012 at 03:40.
An even bigger offer...
In the end it was a fairly easy offer to turn down. I wouldn't feel comfortable making the jump from League Two to the Prem, and at the time of the offer they were 13 points off safety with a lot of bloated salaries.
And so ends a magical year 2019 for the club, appropriately concluded with a clinical display at Aldershot...
Along with the Conference title leading the club into the Football League for the first time, we enter 2020 with a nine point lead at the top of the table, and 12 points ahead of non-automatic promotion spots. Next up is Newcastle in the FA Cup third round, a game that will not only sell out the New Lawn, but also brings us £10K in TV money.
Looks like the Black Cats are struggling too so I presume another offer turned down? Doing well with Forest Green anyway. I'd stay with Forest Green...but only because they have Forest in their name
Turned down a lot quicker than the Leicester one which I did consider. We lost 3-0 at home to Newcastle in the cup too but that at least brought in £110K. We're closer to the black than we've ever been now.
In transfer news, we've organised a deal for central midfielder Craig Campbell to join in the summer...
He is a Darlington youth product and looks like he could become Championship standard.


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In the book by Hardy Orders of Infinity you will find the Theorem (p. 18)
Any L-function is ultimately continuous, of constant sign, and monotonic, and, as $x\to\infty$, tends to $\infty$, or to zero or to some other definite limit. Further, if $f$ and $\phi$ are L-functions, one or other of the relations $f\succ\phi$, $f\asymp\phi$, $f\prec\phi$ holds between them.
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Fulham enjoyed a 3-1 win against West Ham and moved back up the table into 12th place , manager Martin Jol commeneted after the game the importance of the win .."West Ham were two points above us, so we needed this win. We had some good games lately, but could not get the results. They were very important, vital points to us and it was vital to them as well. I'm happy because we got the points, and we're on 28 points now".
Man Utd regained a 7 pt lead at the top thanks to a 2-1 win over Southampton , they had to come from behind again but that seems to be a normal thing for them this season . Sir Alex Ferguson thought his team were rather lucky though, "Winning is the name of the game at this stage of the season. "For the first 30 minutes I thought we were fantastic, we played really well. But in the second half Southampton have been the best team to play here this season. "We were fortunate to win the game. They pushed on top of us and didn't give us any time on the ball."


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$A$ is a square matrix, and there is a matrix $D$ such that $AD=I$.
I need help to prove either (a) or (b) below:
(a) Show that for each $\vec b$, $A\vec x=\vec b$ has a unique solution.
(b) Show that $A$ is invertible.
For (a), $AD\vec b=I\vec b = \vec b$, so obviously the given equation has at least one solution $\vec x =D\vec b$. But how to show that the solution is unique?
For (b), I'm guessing we should show either that $DA=I$ or that $DA=AD$ (and thus $D=A^{-1}$), but I'm not sure how to do this without assuming that A is invertible, which is what we are needing to show.


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Is $M=\left \{(x,y)\in (0,\infty )\times\mathbb{R} : y=\sin(\frac{1}{x}) \right \}$ a closed set in space $((0,\infty )\times\mathbb{R} ,\rho_{e})$, $\rho_{e}$ - Euclidean metric ? I think that open set could be built "around" function $y=\sin(\frac{1}{x})$ on domain $(a,\infty)$ where $a>0$ with sum of open balls, but I don't know if it's true, and I really don't have an idea what to do in the main case of - that is for $a=0$, mayby by induction ?
This is much less important : And what happens (in short) in the case of other metrics or when we change $(0,\infty )\times\mathbb{R}$ into $[0,\infty )\times\mathbb{R}$ in definition of $M$ and metric space ($M$ have to be expanded to $x=0$ case, and it seems that $\forall\ {a\in (0,1)}\Bigl(\ \exists\ {b_{n}\subset M}\text{ such that }\lim\limits_{n\to \infty }b_{n}=(0,a)\Bigr)$, so $M$ is going to be not closed because there exist seuences with limit points outside set $M$ for every value $y$ of $M$ for $x=0$ which we choosed).
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74: Conventions
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What happens when people with one common interest gather in monstrous, fluorescent -lit halls for the weekend? Sometimes they drive each other crazy, sometimes they fall in love.
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- Andrea worked at a bakery under a convention hotel in Chicago. The conventioneers used to drive her crazy because people act so different when they're in a crowd of their own kind. (3 minutes)
- John Connors has very mixed emotions about attending a convention for viewers of the TV program Dark Shadows. (18 minutes)
- Dishwasher Pete, author of the book Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, went to the National Restaurant Association convention on assignment from This American Life. (15 minutes)
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Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?
My very 1st DVD purchase, many years ago (and still gets viewed regularly).
And yes, El Guapo, I would say you have a plethora.
Jefe: Oh yes, you have a plethora.
El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
Jefe: Why, El Guapo?
El Guapo: Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has NO IDEA what it means to have a plethora.
Jefe: Forgive me, El Guapo. I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education. But could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?
I wonder if this is the same DVD transfer I bought back in 2003. It was such a crappy transfer that the image actually shook sometimes. Fortunately I was able to take it back to Borders.


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- PIO Number: 01-9-11 Case Number: OP01-38666
- Date: September 10, 2001
- Time: 1339
- Place of Occurrence: OP Guns & Pawn, 5066 North Dixie Highway, Oakland Park
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Broward Sheriff's Office robbery detectives are trying to identify and locate some suspects who stole more than a dozen firearms from an Oakland Park pawnshop after tying up the owner.
BSO deputies were alerted to the armed robbery at the OP Guns & Pawn, located at 5066 North Dixie Highway, around 1:30 Monday afternoon after the owner, Sandy Diamond, call 911.
Diamond told BSO robbery detectives two black males entered his pawn shop and asked him a few questions about his merchandise before one of them pointed a handgun to his head and told him to lie down on the floor. The second suspect was busy stealing about 12 assorted handguns and two high-powered rifles (one similar to an AK-47 and the other used for hunting). The suspects also took a box of ammunition and cleaned out a large safe filled with jewelry.
Diamond said the second suspect took him to the back of the shop and tied him to a water heater. While Diamond was in the back with the second suspect, he heard voices of two male suspects in the front of the store. The second suspect is described as a black male about six feet two inches tall, approximately 180 pounds, and is believed to be in his early 20's. He was wearing a flannel shirt and baggie clothes. The description of the possible third suspect is unknown.
BSO robbery detectives released a composite sketch of the first suspect who was armed with a handgun. He is also a black male about six feet two inches tall, approximately 200 pounds, between 21 and 24 years old, wearing a light colored skull cap, a long sleeve blue shirt with a white t-shirt underneath, and a pair of khaki pants.
Anyone with information on this case is urged to call BSO Robbery Det. Bob Kerr at (954) 321-4270 or call Broward Crime Stoppers at (954) 493-TIPS.
- INVESTIGATORS: Det. B. Kerr, Robbery and Sgt. W. Wesolowski
- THIS REPORT BY: Veda Coleman-Wright/PIO
Posted At: 09/10/2001 05:48 PM
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Kentucky's second-largest newspaper has endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term.
The Lexington Herald-Leader published the endorsement in its Sunday editions, saying Obama has provided steady leadership.
The newspaper also said without the estimated $7 billion in aid and tax cuts to Kentucky through Obama's stimulus package, unemployment and what it termed "human suffering" would be worse.
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Diaghilev Ballet Russe Centenary Celebration 2009Diaghilev Lecture by Princess Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky
Posted 18 July 2009 - 04:03 PM
There are costumes, only one of which is an actual Diaghilev original from the 1908 production of Boris Godunov. The rest are mostly from the Joffrey Companys recreations: Tricorne (1969), Pétrouchka (1970), Parade (1973), Spectre de la Rose (1979), Sacre du printemps (1987) and Chout (never staged: curious that Joffrey was interested in recreating this). Also one costume from Les Biches : Dance Theater of Harlem (1983).
Several monitors display clips from some of the Diaghilev ballets: Joffreys Pétrouchka and Parade, New Yorks Fils prodigue, and several from the Royal Ballet in black and white (some with scripted commentary by Karsavina): Pétrouchka, Oiseau de feu, Sylphides, Spectre de la Rose, Les Noces. I was especially fascinated by an excerpt from Massines Femmes de bonne humeur, although the original footage was silent and the added piano accompaniment suffered from synchronization problems. For the many casual visitors (this exhibition, after all, is presented in a public library) the costumes and film clips really make the Ballets Russes come alive. Last, a clip from Pavlovas film The Dumb Girl from Portici. Of this latter no comment.
The center of interest of every Ballets Russes exhibition seems to lie in the direction of costume/scenic designs. There are about twenty on view at the NYPL, several from a private collection (and previously unknown to me).
Bakst: costume designs from Cléopâtre (1909) and Narcisse (1911), a set design for Femmes de bonne humeur, and a costume for the Sleeping Princess (1921).
Benois: a set design for Pavillon dArmide (1909).
Gontcharova: two costumes for the projected Liturgie (1915), a set design and three costumes from Les Noces (fascinating the comparison between her preliminary version and the finished item), and a set and a costume design for the restaging of Oiseau de feu (1926).
Larionov: set design for Renard (1929).
Robert Edmond Jones: costume design from Nijinskys ill-fated Till Eulenspiegel (1916).
Juan Gris: costume design from Les Tentations de la Bergère.
Pavel Tchelechev: a set and a costume design from Ode (1928).
Giorgio de Chirico: a costume design from Le Bal (1929).
There are Ballets Russes programs on display as well as from other ballet companies of the era: Pavlova, Gertrude Hoffmann, Truhanova, Chauvre-souris, Ballets suedois, and La Argentina.
Correspondance of Diaghilev, Astruc, Anton Dolin, Lifar, Balanchine and Cole Porter.
Production photos, portraits, rare book editions, Diaghilevs autograph notebooks (1909-11) and (ca 1916-20), Nijinskys autography Diary (YES, that famous diary!!), and two of Grigorievs autograph notebooks.
Last, four autograph documents from Diaghilevs greatest musical star, Igor Stravinsky, on loan from the Julliard collection: sketches for Oiseau de feu and Pétrouchka and corrected scores for Les Noces and Apollon Musagète.
Before I leave New York City I must mention the large exhibition of theatrical designs currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art. Most of these relate to US ballet productions (many are gifts of Lincoln Kirstein), among which a few from the Ballets Russes. There is a scene design by Gontcharova for Coq dor and another by Bakst.
Also costumes (reproductions) for the French Manager (small differences from the NYPL example) and the Horse from Parade are included.
While you have until Sept 13 to view the NPYL exhibition, this is the last week of the Wadsworth Athenaeum (closing the 21st). If there is interest Ill post a resumé of that exhibition. Harvards show closes August 28.
Did I mention NYPL and Harvard are free admission?
Posted 19 July 2009 - 05:04 AM
I have seen the three Ballets Russes exhibitions currently on view in the U.S. several times. The collections of the NYPL are not blessed with abundance of visual materials to be found at the Harvard Theatre Collection or the Wadsworth Athenaeum. Since many of the items in the New York exhibition are on loan from private collections curato Lynn Garafola is to be congratulated for putting on an excellent show of Diaghilev material. PHENBY
Brilliant. I had hoped for some more reports as I understand they do not have exhibition catalogues that one could purchase. A sign of the times. Bravo for staging the exhibitions and thank you PHENBY for your post.
Posted 03 August 2009 - 01:17 PM
Apr 11 2006,
Thanks, Amy and CM, for the Links
RE the exhibit at the Kunsthistorische Museum: I'm puzzled about the 7th illustration (out of 7). Can anyone identify a ballet called "The Mask of the Red Death"? Was this in the Ballet Russe season in 1916-17? Who or what is the "small idol" so beautifully illustrated here?
In the Tcherepnin Le Pavillion D'Armide thread on Apr 11 2006, Phenby wrote the following.
"In his twenty years of ballet and opera productions Diaghilev only rejected a commissioned score a handful of times. Tcherepnin heads the list as having produced two such scores.
In the early seasons Diaghilev had a secretary/advisor by the name of M. D. Calvocoressi, a young French music critic. Calvocoressi met a young, unknown composer (I forget the name) who had written a ballet score on his own entitled La masque de la mort rouge (The Mask of Red Death after Edgar Allen Poe). Calvocoressi passed the score along to Diaghilev who wasn't interested in the music but found the story an interesting idea for a ballet. Diaghilev approached Stravinsky on the subject but was rejected. So he turned to ... Nikolai Tcherepnin.
In 1913, when Tcherepnin composed his ballet, Fokine had been dismissed and Nijinsky was now choreographer of the Ballets Russes. But Nijinsky was very slow and couldn't be counted upon to produce four new ballets every season. So for the 1913 season Adolph Bolm and Boris Romanov, two dancers in the company, were given their first opportunities to choreograph (both went on to long careers as choreographers). Tcherepnin's La masque de la mort rouge was schedualed for the 1914 season, but since Nijinsky was already overextended with preparations for two other ballets, Diaghilev assigned Tcherepnin's ballet to a guest choreographer: Alexander Gorsky. Then the rupture between Nijinsky and Diaghilev occured. As a result, Fokine came back to the Ballets Russes for the 1914 season and took charge of all new choreography. La masque de la mort rouge and Gorsky were scrapped."
Sarah Banes in her book Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism however states, Goleizovsky began work in 1919 on The Masque of the Red Death and Eric W. Carlson In his A Companion to Poe Studies says that the ballet was given in 1919 at the Moscow Kamerny Theatre.
I don't know how reliable Grigoriev is compared to other sources, however he wrote in ' the Diaghilev Ballet' that Gorsky was engaged in 1913 as guest choreographer for the Red Mask. However, Tcherepnine had not finished the score by the time Diaghilev's committee made the decisions on the 1914 spring ballet program - so the piece couldn't be included. I think I remember reading that Gorsky never got round to choreographing the 'Red Mask because other events, such as the first world war, took over.
Also Diaghilev exhibition is still on in Monaco
Article below includes slide show with podcast (in french)
Posted 03 August 2009 - 02:36 PM
I don't know how reliable Grigoriev is compared to other sources, however he wrote in ' the Diaghilev Ballet' that Gorsky was engaged in 1913 as guest choreographer for the Red Mask. However, Tcherepnine had not finished the score by the time Diaghilev's committee made the decisions on the 1914 spring ballet program - so the piece couldn't be included. I think I remember reading that Gorsky never got round to choreographing the 'Red Mask because other events, such as the first world war, took over.
Also Diaghilev exhibition is still on in Monaco
Ballet, concerts, theatre and the circus continued in Moscow and St.Petersburg with some interruptions throughout the war period and Goleizovsky was producing ballets at the Kamerny Theatre Moscow during 1919. It was the content of the story that prevented his staging of, "The Masque of the Red Death."
Posted 23 August 2009 - 12:05 PM
Roy Strong describes and discusses the impact of the exhibition (London transfer) in his 2001 obituary of Richard Buckle, the exhibition's organiser.
Posted 23 August 2009 - 12:39 PM
Complementing the link to the current Monaco exhibition, the link below includes footage of the Edinburgh Diaghilev exhibition (1953/1954?) that marked the 25th anniversary of Diaghilev's death. Exhibition footage begins at 4 minutes, 20 seconds. Firebird is at 10 minutes, 15 seconds. Thanks to Leonid for links to British Pathe.
Roy Strong describes and discusses the impact of the exhibition (London transfer) in his 2001 obituary of Richard Buckle, the exhibition's organiser.
Thank you CM for finding the Margot clip. I saw the film of her dancing the role in 1960's but I do not remember her characterisation being so intense. I have discovered a lot on Pathe but not that.
Again thank you for magicking it up for us.
Posted 26 August 2009 - 05:30 AM
Subject: "Art of Gesture", a photo exhibit by Yuri Barykin
August 25, 2009
"Art of Gesture", from20Sergei Diaghilev to Angel Orensanz, a photo exhibit by Yuri Barykin (Moscow, Russia)
Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts, New York and Dr. Mikhail Michael Shvydkoy, Head of the Special Committee for International Cultural Cooperation of the President of the Russian Federation are proud to present an exhibition of acclaimed Russian contemporary photo-artist Yuri Barykin.
âArt of Gesture: Sergei Diaghilevâs Avant-garde Ballet Russe and Reflections of Angel Orensanz" is a collection of 41 large format (19,5X29,5) photographs by Yuri Barykin that capture the vibrancy and depth of energy of the ballets of Sergei Diaghilev at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Kirov Theater of St. Petersburg and at the Nancy Theater Festival in France in the movement of Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Diana Vishneva and Nina Ananiashvili as well as the performances of sculptor Angel Orensanz himself with the depth and strength of his sculpture. These images of the Spanish American sculptor reflect the energy Angel Orensanz infuses his exhibitions and show him in action during his art installations in recent shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Space Museum of in Moscow.
This exhibition will travel, after its presentation at the Angel Orensanz Art Gallery this week in New York to the art galleries of the Russian Embassies of Washington and Paris.
The show is free and open to the public from 11 AM to 8 PM every day from August 28 through September 2. A video documentary will be shown later in September in New York by Time Warner Television, in the program âArts from the Orensanzâ that airs on Tuesdays at 7 PM on channel 67.
The exhibition was sponsored by Ballet Art Fund, in the name of Galina Shein and âSodrugestvo , Moscow.
Posted 26 August 2009 - 10:49 AM
this from a recent email:
Subject: "Art of Gesture", a photo exhibit by Yuri Barykin.
You can see three examples of his work at: http://www.rccusa.or...m...&Itemid=198
Posted 06 September 2009 - 08:40 AM
By JULIE BLOOM
Published: August 21, 2009
It is as follows.
"This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: August 23, 2009
An article on Page 14 this weekend about the arts impresario Serge Diaghilev misspells, in some copies, part of the name of the company he founded in 1909. It is the Ballets Russes, not the Ballet Russes. The error also appears in an accompanying picture caption and in a capsule summary referring to additional images on nytimes.com of the New York Public Library for the Performing Artss exhibition Diaghilevs Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: August 25, 2009
An article on Sunday about the arts impresario Serge Diaghilev misspelled, in some copies, part of the name of the company he founded in 1909. It is the Ballets Russes, not the Ballet Russes. The error also appeared in an accompanying picture caption and in a capsule summary referring to additional images on nytimes.com of Diaghilevs Theater of Marvels: the Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath.
And a correction in this space on Saturday and on Page A3 on Sunday misstated the name of the institution that is displaying the exhibition. As the article correctly noted, it is the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; there is no New York City Library.
What a pity they still got it wrong.
The 1909 season of Russian Ballet at the Chatelet Theatre was was not called Ballets Russes it was called Saisons Russe. It was not until 1911 that the company was called Ballets Russes.
Posted 29 September 2009 - 12:24 PM
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See: http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/
I have deferred to this sites spelling of Diaghilev
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Posted 17 December 2009 - 05:54 PM
Has anyone seen these performances? I don't think there are any posts yet.
P.S. The little, red Alfa MiTo in the brief commercial before the clip wasn't bad either.
Posted 17 December 2009 - 09:41 PM
Here is a link to a French television report on the POB's Ballets Russes bill.
Thanks so much for that vivid snippet. Makes me want to up and fly to Paris.... but then, I am still waiting for my time machine (maybe this Christmas!) to take me to the actual Ballets Russes performances.
Posted 18 December 2009 - 12:22 AM
So would I!
I'd love to have the chance to see Le Riche's faun in its entirety.
The program will be broadcast on French television on New Year's Day, so perhaps a video release will follow. Not quite the same as being there, but some consolation.
Makes me want to up and fly to Paris....
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I've recently signed up for Google Apps because of the email support. I only use the web based gmail client for all my mail. I'd like to have a professional email signature for each email that I send that includes a small image which is the Logo of my company. How can include such an signature with Gmail?
Google recently announced support for rich text in signatures. That means you can now configure the font family, size and color, as well as insert images into the signature. Just go to your gmail settings and you'll find it right there, no need to enable as a lab feature or anything! It's possible it hasn't been expanded to Google Apps for your domain yet, in which case it should be coming pretty soon.
Just to add to that if you have multiple accounts (and hence want multiple signatures) Gmail can now handle this too (I used to have to use 'labs' canned responses to do this). So if you also set up Gmail to automatically respond to the e-mail account the message was originally sent to it means you automatically get the correct signature on your reply. Very nice.


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The Cheboygan Chiefs eighth grade boys basketball team picked up its first loss of the season after falling to Petosky Monday night 31-27.
Logan Guenther was the lead scorer with 12 points for the Chiefs who now are 6-1.
Other scorers were Jeff Ostman who had four points; Trent Demuse finished with three points; and Dalton Voss, Joe Josaitis, Ethan Campeau and Shey Cheek each had two points.
The boys will be back in action Monday when they travel to Gaylord.
In seventh grade boys action, the Chiefs (4-3) also lost to Petosky, 28-22.
Kegan Comps led scoring with eight points. Asher Bury and Boston Landon had six points each and Max Klinger and Connor Dykehouse each had one point.
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I scoured the CtL book for examples but couldn't find any. If there are any I'd love a page number. Otherwise, if you have a link to a wiki with them I'd appreciate that as well.
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The pledge you are looking for is called Commendation and is found on page 189 of the core Changeling book.
Page 181 of the Changeling core book has the Vassalage boon and a side panel that explains that freeholds come in many shapes and sizes but the ones that are enforced by the Wyrd are usually pledges of loyalty sworn to an anointed ruler.
If you are interested in an example of one that is in play after many revisions and years of play, feel free to look at the one for a game that I'm a part of.
Freehold: http://camarilla.org.au/wiki/index.php?title=Sydney_Lost_Freehold
Pledges: http://camarilla.org.au/wiki/index.php?title=Sydney_Lost_Law


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Video, Audio
February 7, 2014
This panel discussion offers perspectives on border policy management from leading officials in the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. governments, and showcases the MPI book, "Managing Borders in an Increasingly Borderless World."
February 5, 2014
Thinking Regionally to Compete Globally- A presentation in Guatemala on the Regional Migration Study Group
During this public briefing in Guatemala City (conducted in both English and Spanish), the Co-Directors of the Migration Policy Institute-convened Regional Migration Study Group, MPI President Demetrios G.
Video, Audio
October 16, 2014
MPI researchers, along with analysts from the Government Accountability Office and American Immigration Council, discuss the findings from an MPI report that examines the 3.7 million deportations that have occurred in the United States since establishment of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003, as well as lessons that can be learned for future policy and possible administrative action.
Video, Audio
September 22, 2014
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske, who assumed his duties in 2014, lays out his vision and discusses his priorities for the agency as part of MPI's Leadership Visions series.
September 4, 2014
Extending New Relief to Unauthorized Immigrants: Estimating the Impacts of Possible Executive Actions
Estimates of unauthorized immigrant populations that could receive relief from deportation under potential executive action scenarios to expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, extend deferred action to other populations, or refine immigration enforcement priorities are discussed during this webinar.
June 25, 2014
The flow of unaccompanied children from Central America and Mexico to the United States has surged 90 percent since last year, with government officials predicting that it might reach 90,000 by the end of the fiscal year in September—and perhaps 130,000 next year. This telebriefing discusses factors behind the flows as well as short- and longer-term policy options for improving how the U.S. immigration system interacts with this population with distinct needs.
June 18, 2014
This MPI Europe telebriefing, releasing the brief "Strengthening Refugee Protection and Meeting Challenges: The European Union's Next Steps on Asylum," examines Europe's current reality with respect to migration and asylum and assesses the possibilities for future development of EU immigration policy.