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6 Foreign Parenting Practices Americans Would Call Neglect
As the country that invented Toddlers & Tiaras and crack babies, the U.S. doesn't always have the best track record when it comes to raising our kids. But if you want to freak out a set of American parents, just let them see some of the habits that are considered routine in other countries. Because somehow the world's kids do just fine despite the fact that ...
#6. Europeans Park Their Kids on the Sidewalk
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Americans -- even ones from New York -- tend to freak out at the sight of unattended children, as a Danish tourist found out in 1997. While visiting the city, Annette Sorensen and her husband decided to eat at an East Village restaurant, but instead of hiring a babysitter or ordering takeout or, we don't know, maybe taking their child into the restaurant with them, they left their daughter parked in her stroller on the sidewalk.
Not one, but two different worried New Yorkers took the time to walk into the restaurant in hopes of finding the abandoned toddler's parents, begging whoever owned this child to just get her off the street. "The stroller alone is worth at least $30 in Times Square," they probably argued, New Yorkerly. The couple refused, leaving their baby outside for a whole hour while they enjoyed dinner. The locals called the cops, which was why the couple was arrested for child endangerment and lost custody of their kid for a day.
Via Joannagoddard.blogspot.com
"If anyone tries to sell you crack, just make sure they don't rip you off with bunk shit."
Here was their defense: It turns out that in the mom's hometown of Copenhagen, leaving your kid outside while you grab some dinner or a latte is as normal as not leaving your kid outside while you grab some dinner or a latte in New York.
The restaurants are small and smoky and crowded, and the sidewalk is as safe and unattended as the Muppet Baby nursery, apparently. Parents all over Europe have no problem littering the streets with the fruit of their loins.
Via Joannagoddard.blogspot.com
But just to be on the safe side, they usually strap a bomb in there as a deterrent.
This also explains why the New York situation wasn't an isolated incident -- a Swedish mom was gobsmacked (or whatever the Swedish version of that word is) when she was busted for leaving her kid outside a Tex-Mex restaurant in Massachusetts. Not only do European criminals not kidnap babies or their high-end strollers willy-nilly, European police are totally used to seeing kids out on the street unattended. "The child wasn't in danger and the mother claims she had an eye on things," one Stockholm cop told the press. You'd think the people who were the inspiration for the syndrome of sympathizing with your kidnappers would be a little more self-aware about how bad this looks. But you'd be wrong!
Via Joannagoddard.blogspot.com
"Eh, it's just a baby. It's not like we can't make another one for free."
Speaking of Northern Europeans hating their children ...
#5. Nordic Kids Nap in Subzero Weather ... Outside
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Ask a conscientious American mom about her baby's nap routine and she's probably going to mention the standard safety measures: laying junior on his back, keeping stray stuffed animals and blankets out of the crib so he doesn't suffocate, kissing the crucifix that hangs over the bed exactly 12 times so Jesus will keep the baby safe during his nap, and then keeping the baby monitor on and by your side while he sleeps. Ask Nordic women the same question and they'll say something along the lines of "Stick 'em outside" and then go back to being insanely beautiful.
Asa Eriksson via BBC
No, that's not a stock photo with a white background. That's snow. The thermometer reads -10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit).
For generations, Northern European moms have seen the bitter air of Old Man Winter as a healthy supplement to their babies' routines, as if babies are like cheese and will get moldy if left at room temperature. Talk to any Nordic mom and she'll tell you that exposing babies to the elements makes kids stronger, more resilient, and able to handle the elements later, which may not be true from a science perspective but is sure as hell metal.
Imagine standing outside a Swedish day care in January and seeing a whole row of baby strollers full of napping kids. In Finland, they recommend putting babies in the cold at two weeks old. Do you even know what a 2-week-old baby looks like? It's an overgrown marshmallow.
Via Babycenter.com
We're sure that Nordic ones would prefer to be roasted.
Obviously, the tots are wearing multiple layers of clothes and covered with blankets and probably have tiny little roaring fireplaces in their strollers. Parents even put cream on their little cheeks so the babies don't get chapped in the biting wind. Northern European parents aren't monsters, after all.
Are these kids perpetually afflicted with colds or pneumonia? Are the parents just too stupid to figure out that noses aren't supposed to run 24/7 and chronic, hacking coughs are a bad thing? Of course not. But researchers are on the fence as to whether outside naps are good or bad for babies. Some studies indicate that kids who manage more hours outside end up taking fewer sick days from school during the year. Other studies found the opposite. So we're going to conclude that unless Europe starts unleashing mutant Mr. Freeze kids on the world, no one is nearly as worried about babies napping in subzero temperatures as we are.
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But if any of you do grow up with those powers, please remember who made you a freak. Our hands are clean.
#4. Letting Kids Drink Beer Is Way More Common Than You Think
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When Americans got worried about the rise in childhood obesity, our FLOTUS made awareness of the problem a major priority. Mrs. Obama enlisted everyone from Beyonce to Jimmy Fallon to help get American kids back on the right track. When Belgium noticed the same problem back in 2001, they tried a different approach: Specifically, serving children beer.
True, we're talking about a light beer, and only 11 ounces of it to boot, but still. For Americans, the idea of giving kids any alcohol is just about equal to child abuse. So how did Belgian kids get so lucky? When health authorities got worried about their kids' preference for soda over water, a beer lovers' club suggested offering beer as a soda substitute. And to answer your next question, we don't know what a beer lovers' club is, either. The group you join before you're ready for AA? Maybe a fetish group?
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They thought they told you: They're beer lovers, not beer fighters.
Whatever a beer lovers' club is, this particular one was so influential that they got the beer on the cafeteria table in 2001, and 80 percent of the students who participated in their pilot program actually said they preferred beer to soda. Which is weird, because when you're a kid, Coke tastes like liquid candy and beer tastes like your dad's bath water. The next day after his bath.
Shockingly, Belgium didn't pick up the "Officially Giving Beer to Kids Now" program on a national level, maybe because alcoholism is the third leading cause of death in Europe and they didn't want to stoke the tragic death fire. The bad news is that is no one told Croatia that Europe has an alcohol problem, because parents are giving over 7 percent of their first graders alcohol more than six times a month. That's over once a week for the calendar-challenged. Even more horrifying, 30 percent of eighth grade boys and 12 percent of eighth grade girls report boozing it up six times a week.
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"OK, vodka break is over. Back on the field."
Remember that the next time you start worrying about American kids twerking.


text: [cc'ing swish list as my reply may be of interest to others] Mehmet Erkek wrote on 07/14/2009 12:44 AM: > Now I see that there is a project going on for Swish 3. I understand > this incremental updates , as well, which is what we need. I have two > questions: > > > > 1) Is there a timeline to release swish 3? When do you think it can > be released? There is no specific timeline, as there is no specific feature roadmap. The code is stable and usable today. I've been focusing on getting the most essential Swish-e 2.x features working first, based on a purely personal evaluation of the features I need the most. I've got the Xapian backend working well in the swish_xapian example program, and there's working Perl bindings available. The MetaNames and PropertyNames features work. That said, I've recently started a $work project using swish_xapian and so that particular tool has been getting some attention. You can always see recent svn activity at: http://dev.swish-e.org/timeline There will be an official release when I know there are people actively testing the svn trunk and exercising the completed features. Thus far, I haven't heard from anyone on that score. > > 2) Is there anything that we can do to help with release? I see > that you guys need testers , this is one area I see we can get involved. > We need people to use svn trunk and point out the features they need that aren't currently available. That will do two things: (1) help define what features will be in the 1.0 release and (2) ensure that those features are well tested. There's a getting started section here: http://dev.swish-e.org/wiki/swish3 I'd love it if you checked out svn trunk and gave the swish_xapian tool a whirl. You'll need to install xapian-core first (my recent Ubuntu install has it installed by default). I'd love it too if you made a list of the features you are currently using in Swish-e 2.x (your config, how you search, etc.) so that we can prioritize the feature list. As with most open source projects, Swish3 progresses on an unpaid volunteer timeline. If you want to see the pace of development quicken or focus on particular features, consider sponsoring features that you need. hth, pek -- Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . peter(at)not-real.peknet.com gpg key: 37D2 DAA6 3A13 D415 4295 3A69 448F E556 374A 34D9 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.swish-e.org/listinfo/usersReceived on Thu Jul 16 09:52:11 2009

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By Francis Anthony GoviaThe first sight of the RS850 Signature speakers produced by Perpetual Technologies was eye opening. I had driven the Nissan Altima to the warehouse in Pennsylvania where the speakers were shipped Yellow Freight. Previously, I had made arrangements over the phone from New York with a representative of the Yellow Freight company to pick up the speakers when in Pennsylvania. "Are you sure you want to pick them up?" he asked.
"Sure," I answered. "I'll be there on Friday."
When Friday arrived the boss of the house and I drove the car to the warehouse. I gave Mike, the friendly service person at the desk, my confirmation number, and he asked what I had to transport them. I told him I came in a car. "They won't fit," he said. "These things are as big as a house, and they are on a crate."
"Are you sure?" I responded rather naively. "It's one of the new Altimas. The space on the back seat is quite big."
"You want to take a look at them," he said.
"Sure," I said, following him to the back of the warehouse.
It was the kind of treatment I was getting used to in the mountains of Pennsylvania. In New York, the guy at the front desk would worry about insurance liability for me getting injured in the warehouse, or just expect me to get to hell out of the place and stop wasting his time until I made proper arrangement for the pick up, but there I was following the guy to the back.
The RS850 Signature speakers were massive. They were shipped on a wooden pallet in two carton boxes. In bad times a homeless person could bind the boxes together with masking tape, use one of the fronts as a door, and make a shelter. I had seen people sleeping in cardboard boxes before, and now there I was, an immigrant who first came to America with only $50 in his pocket accepting the delivery of a $1900 pair of speakers.
I told Mike I was going to come back. Me and the boss climbed back into the Altima, and drove to our neighborhood in Tobyhanna where I rented a U-Haul truck. When I returned to Mike's job with the U-Haul truck, he surprised me by saying, "You should not have done that. I would have gotten them delivered if I had known you didn't own a truck," he said. I told him that I didn't know when I would get back to Pennsylvania so it was fine. I planned to take them now.
Mike got one of those thingies guys use at Home Depot to move heavy stuff and drove it to the back of the warehouse, stuck the two folks into the pallet and drove the speakers onto the U-Haul truck. I offered him a tip, which he good-naturedly declined saying, "It's my job, man." And soon the boss lady and I were on our way home.
The drive to the house took about 20 minutes. I got a serrated knife and cut the plastic bonds that held the boxes together, and carefully loaded each box unto a dolly anticipating the opening of each box. If you have a bad back, and bought these speakers, you should consider hiring a porter. Each of the boxes weighs 100 pounds. The return of the U-Haul truck could wait.
The packaging of the RS850 Signatures speakers was impressive. Each speaker is housed in two thick cardboard boxes, and I do mean thick! The outside cardboard box is the first protective shield. The second cardboard box is slightly smaller than the first and forms the second protective shield around the speaker. Within the second box, each speaker nests with three rings of foam around the body, and capped with the same material at the top and bottom. The speakers themselves are body-wrapped in bright white cotton, and with a touch of class, are topped with two white gloves for handling the ladies. The only complaint I could raise thus far was that the gloves were so small that they seemed more suited for the boss of the house than for me. I guess the guys who assemble them in China forgot that they were destined for the United States where men grow over-sized and have large hands. Nevertheless, I forced the gloves over my average sized hands and began the process of removing the cotton suit from the beauties.
Words cannot adequately describe how beautiful these speakers are built. Each stand statuesquely 47.5 inches tall on brass spiked feet, and the depth goes back 16 inches. The top and bottom of each speaker are polished piano-lacquered-black. If you stood looking over the speaker, the top would be a mirror that reflects the contours of your face.
The speakers themselves are sturdily built in the MDF Board and wrapped with matching grains of redwood veneer harvested from sustainable forests in South America.
Each RS850 Speaker has a Vifa tweeter and five aluminum woofers – none any larger in circumference than 5.25 inches. I learned from reading the description on the website at av123.com that one 5.25 inch woofer has an effective surface area of a 11 inch woofer. I wondered how could that be, and curiosity got the better of me; so I got a small flashlight and looked carefully at the cone.
Each woofer looks like a grapefruit that someone had scraped out the innards leaving behind a smooth cup-like surface. Only that the woofers of the RS850s are polished metal that can move you to somewhere where you feel special and the grapefruit just leaves you with the after taste of rind in your mouth.
It took some time before these wonderful speakers, designed by Mark L. Schifter and the folks in Colorado, got me to that special place. In the early months of me having them, they stood in the woods in Pennsylvania, and I worked over two hours away in Manhattan, with little opportunity to enjoy them. I had mated the speakers to gear manufactured by Emotiva. The amp is the XPA-2, described as a brute with finesse that outputs 300 watts per channel. My pre amp is the very neutral sounding RSP-2. For a media player, I used the now vintage Adcom GCD 700, and all these were tied together with Hero interconnects by Kimber Kable and Audioquest Type 4 speaker cables. The sacrifices I had made to purchase this system were intended to get me to Nirvana.
It is not that the RS850s should be blamed for any short-fall that I had in the early months of their ownership. They sounded exquisite from the first moment I heard them. I cannot emulate the fine descriptions you would read in an illustrious magazine such as Stereophile. I am not an audiophile and I am not an engineer. Here is what I think. Even in a room with a ceiling with a high point of over 20 feet, and wooden floors under which were the hollow of a crawl space, the speakers still sounded nice and clean, and not fuzzy and out of control. There was a clear separation of the various percussive instruments, rhythm, melody, and vocals for me to understand that these speakers understood distinction.
As a person who is trained in the subject of law "distinction" is something I have come to appreciate. Distinction is something than can be missed because it may not be the bold and up in your face part of anything, but when it is noticed, and positive, it can move you to a realm of satisfaction, happiness, or awe. I felt that these were the speakers I had always longed to own because they not only looked beautiful but they sounded beautifully. They engendered satisfaction, happiness, and awe.
In the early years of my life in the United States, my dream was to own a boom box made by Fisher. I saw it in New York in the now long defunct "Nobody Beats the Wiz" electronic store. In those days, my dream of going to college was still further away from being realized that my dream of owning the boom box, and certainly, many more years away were the RS850s. I worked as a home health aide to an old man who was slowly dying of complications and Parkinson's disease.
It took me a long time to save the couple of hundred dollars to buy the Fisher boom box. When I eventually had enough, I caught the train as fast as I could to 14th Street and Union Square and got the sales person to sell me one of the boom boxes. It was not long after that I soon became dissatisfied, and realized how hopelessly inadequate the boom box was for my blossoming taste.
A few years after my experience with the ownership of the boom box, and as a home health aide, I began night school in Norwalk. There friends and teachers rescued me, and Boston University and gave me a scholarship to study at its College of Arts and Sciences. Following, I began the study of law at University of Wisconsin-Madison and the passionate cheering of Badger football at Camp Randall stadium on Saturdays.
During my time as a student, my fascination with fine electronics and similar technology grew. I became a purchaser of speakers and a wave radio manufactured by the Bose Corporation. I moved on to separates made by Parasound, and speakers manufactured by Wharfedale and a subwoofer by Velodyne. My appetite for audio that not only sound good but look good increased, and I often wondered what it was like to own speakers like the WATT Puppies made by Wilson Audio, or even the more modestly priced PSB Stratus Gold i. I dreamt of marrying a fine pair of speakers to Bryston, Krell, Boulder, or those massive McIntoch monoblocks I saw in a specialty store in Madison.
All those dreams were engendered in part by articles I was reading in Stereophile magazine. The truth is it does not matter how far a person has traveled from being an ordinary laborer like I was to the educated man that I became, there is still reason which tempers his yearning for the finer qualities of life by what is within his wallet. The balancing of these things is what led me to choose Emotiva separates and the RS850 Signature speakers. To me, it meant buying sensibly yet obtaining unsurpassed quality within a certain price point.
These days I listen to the RS850s in New York. The apartment is smaller than the house in Pennsylvania. I took out my measuring tape this morning and discovered that the listening room is 12 feet by 28 feet. The ceiling is 9 feet in height.
My equipment is still essentially the same, except now I have replaced the Media player for the time being with an Ipod, and the Audioquest speaker cables with 12 AWG Matrix 2 series Ultralink cables. My taste in music is eclectic but I lean mostly towards jazz. Some of my favorite recordings however were made by Santana, Lee Ritenour, Sting, Herb Alpert, the late George Howard, Teddy Pendergrass, Carol King, Hootie and the Blowfish, Acoustic Alchemy, the Pat Metheny Group and Gypsy Kings. While I have a preference for those artists, I regularly play mixes which include anything from reggae produced by Buju Banton, Matisyahu and Beres Hammond, to classical by Andrea Bocelli and John Williams, calypso by Baron and Edwin Yearwood, Bollywood dance grooves by Alka Yagnik, Blues by Joan Armatrading, classic rock by Led Zepplin, or contemporary music by U2, Daughtry, Train and Coldplay. I also love Country. One of my favorite albums is Major Moves by Hank Williams Jr. with its rough and rowdy Monday night football theme "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" and "The Blues Medley." In New York, my rig gets to shine while playing all these genres of music and more. The more dynamic the sound the more it excels.
In the apartment, the solid structure of the concrete walls, hardwood floors, and the softness of furnishing add to an environment that is less likely to be colored by artifacts that affected the space in the mountains. The speakers sound clearer and sweeter in New York, and if anything maybe a tad too refined. It speaks of the fine work done by Danny Richie who designed the crossover, but if you are one of those people who like your ears to be bitten, and blood to flow from wounds on nights you chooses to get wild, maybe these ladies are not for you. Nothing seems to come from them that perplexes the mind. They are your ladies with class that you take home to meet your mother, and the Emotivas do not to distort the openness of their soundstage. Together, they appear to be a couple that could stay married for 50 years – that marriage friends propose a toast to with Champagne.
I compare the feeling I get when listening to the RS850 Signature speakers produced by Perpetual Technologies to the feeling a person gets when trading in a 14 year old car for something with the trueness and quality of an Acura. Even the most subtle touch of the controls engenders a response that is exhilarating. There is no more clunky sound to vex your spirit. The actions you take have been done 50 or more times before, right down to the very music that you play, but now the feeling is so marvelously different. This has got to be your year!


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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Program hangs in mpi_bcast
From: Ralph Castain (rhc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-30 13:50:33
FWIW: we already have a reproducer from prior work I did chasing this down a couple of years ago. See orte/test/mpi/bcast_loop.c
On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> That's quite weird/surprising that you would need to set it down to *5* -- that's really low.
> Can you share a simple reproducer code, perchance?
> On Nov 15, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Tom Rosmond wrote:
>> Ralph,
>> Thanks for the advice. I have to set 'coll_sync_barrier_before=5' to do
>> the job. This is a big change from the default value (1000), so our
>> application seems to be a pretty extreme case.
>> T. Rosmond
>> On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 16:17 -0700, Ralph Castain wrote:
>>> Yes, this is well documented - may be on the FAQ, but certainly has been in the user list multiple times.
>>> The problem is that one process falls behind, which causes it to begin accumulating "unexpected messages" in its queue. This causes the matching logic to run a little slower, thus making the process fall further and further behind. Eventually, things hang because everyone is sitting in bcast waiting for the slow proc to catch up, but it's queue is saturated and it can't.
>>> The solution is to do exactly what you describe - add some barriers to force the slow process to catch up. This happened enough that we even added support for it in OMPI itself so you don't have to modify your code. Look at the following from "ompi_info --param coll sync"
>>> MCA coll: parameter "coll_base_verbose" (current value: <0>, data source: default value)
>>> Verbosity level for the coll framework (0 = no verbosity)
>>> MCA coll: parameter "coll_sync_priority" (current value: <50>, data source: default value)
>>> Priority of the sync coll component; only relevant if barrier_before or barrier_after is > 0
>>> MCA coll: parameter "coll_sync_barrier_before" (current value: <1000>, data source: default value)
>>> Do a synchronization before each Nth collective
>>> MCA coll: parameter "coll_sync_barrier_after" (current value: <0>, data source: default value)
>>> Do a synchronization after each Nth collective
>>> Take your pick - inserting a barrier before or after doesn't seem to make a lot of difference, but most people use "before". Try different values until you get something that works for you.
>>> On Nov 14, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Tom Rosmond wrote:
>>>> Hello:
>>>> A colleague and I have been running a large F90 application that does an
>>>> enormous number of mpi_bcast calls during execution. I deny any
>>>> responsibility for the design of the code and why it needs these calls,
>>>> but it is what we have inherited and have to work with.
>>>> Recently we ported the code to an 8 node, 6 processor/node NUMA system
>>>> (lstopo output attached) running Debian linux 6.0.3 with Open_MPI 1.5.3,
>>>> and began having trouble with mysterious 'hangs' in the program inside
>>>> the mpi_bcast calls. The hangs were always in the same calls, but not
>>>> necessarily at the same time during integration. We originally didn't
>>>> have NUMA support, so reinstalled with libnuma support added, but the
>>>> problem persisted. Finally, just as a wild guess, we inserted
>>>> 'mpi_barrier' calls just before the 'mpi_bcast' calls, and the program
>>>> now runs without problems.
>>>> I believe conventional wisdom is that properly formulated MPI programs
>>>> should run correctly without barriers, so do you have any thoughts on
>>>> why we found it necessary to add them? The code has run correctly on
>>>> other architectures, i.g. Crayxe6, so I don't think there is a bug
>>>> anywhere. My only explanation is that some internal resource gets
>>>> exhausted because of the large number of 'mpi_bcast' calls in rapid
>>>> succession, and the barrier calls force synchronization which allows the
>>>> resource to be restored. Does this make sense? I'd appreciate any
>>>> comments and advice you can provide.
>>>> I have attached compressed copies of config.log and ompi_info for the
>>>> system. The program is built with ifort 12.0 and typically runs with
>>>> mpirun -np 36 -bycore -bind-to-core program.exe
>>>> We have run both interactively and with PBS, but that doesn't seem to
>>>> make any difference in program behavior.
>>>> T. Rosmond
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Official 12.2.1 update thread?
On my FM it says that the current version is 12.2.0
Am I missing something?
Guess I did
I've been playing FM whole day so STEAM didn't updated it yet
Minor changes, so no big deal
You'll have to quit football manager and only start steam (and have an active internet connection) for it to auto update.
As stated before the database version is still 12.2.0 so if it shows 12.2.0 when starting a new game that is correct.Again as with previous updates, you may already have already noticed Steam updating your game automatically (depending on your Steam settings) and once complete you will be running the latest version of the game.
Bear in mind this update includes the latest database, so will be slightly larger than previous updates. Please be patient while the update downloads and automatically installs itself it may also be worth waiting a few minutes after the download completes before attempting to launch the game.
EDIT: just saw your second message ;p have fun playing!
What about the fact the game is crashing when you go to player search when you are not using a default skin? This happened after 12.2.0 and after 12.2.1 and is still happening ? Do we still have to use default skin even after new update?
Just checked the 12.2.1 changelist and it says nothing about FGN players in Turkey, so having them in Turkey is correct then?
great, I switched my Steam to not update the game, restarted steam last night and played it until bed time. I get up this morning and steam updates my FM12. Really annpyed. Time to put steam in offline mode.
Got to wait for a new fmrte version now.
Just going to keep Steam in offline mode for now. Having it set to not update FM 2012 never works, never has.
Last edited by Wiitastic; 14-03-2012 at 19:13.
I would be surprised if the FMRTE version for 12.2. didnt work with the latest update.
I posted this in my bug thread too, but I just wanted to say that I'm still experiencing the same C++ Runtime Error with the same save file after 12.2.1 installed.
I don't have steam........ where can I find the data update???
since i earlier made my complaint about the greek league issue, i want to be fair and now say that it seems to me that the game is now much faster, not only after continue but also during match, so well done for the hotfix (the german national team issue, can it be corrected for saved games?)
Hamburg have a manager and a caretaker manager on the update
I've got mixed feelings about the Russian foreign player rules reverting to previous. It's good because some of my players can now gain Russian nationality in the future, but bad because with the new rules teams like Anzhi were struggling to put a team out.
I'm kind of happy it's changed though overall.
Thanks for the hotfix! can start a new game now
Since the latest update, I'm getting this message when loading up my latest save.
Here is the save game file
Uploaded to FTP under the name of 'nffc nottmlad69'
Last edited by nottmlad69; 14-03-2012 at 23:48.
It has to be said that they started the game with a lot of them though, although the AI has made no effort to readdress the balance needed to satisfy the fixture rules.
Not sure if this is linked to the update or not, but assume so. I'm playing on Mac, worked fine a couple of days ago. I now try to open FM and I'm getting a message "you can't open the application fm because it may be damaged or incomplete" and Steam says "The game is currently unavailable. Please try at another time".
Any ideas?
I Had a very specific problem with the FM2012 and I hope to find a solution .
While I was playing Football Manager yesterday , I realise that the RULES in my LEAGUE( Greek Superleague) have been changed.
In this time,I was on 27/7/2019 , the time that transfers were made.
Therefore I find out that while I go to buy a Spanish player , it presents him as a foreign (FOREIGN, FGN) player.
Moreover I click the mouse to SUPERLEAGUE RULES and I see something unreal.
While all this time there was no such problem SUDDENLY almost all the countries treated AS FOREIGN . The result was my whole team ALMOST, seem as FOREIGN players !
In this video you can see the rules in the Greek Superleague.
p.s. My football manager 2012 is not a copy. It's original cd.
Thank you , you are right.... I will wait until December 2019 to register my players again.
Now I have to start a new save even though I was really enjoying my current one. Now that I know the prices /ratings of players thanks to my scouts, teh game feels cheap and ruined.
Them the breaks, Fred's will get selected once they start populating the game & become first team regulars for their club sides.
If you want to blame anyone send a letter to the DFB, it's their legal team that causes this problem.
Please can someone help me here... Steam updated itself but when I click to start a new game it is still saying 12.2.0 version and not the 12.2.1. And yes I have it to update automatically with internet!
You are seeing the database options & they remain 12.0.0 (default) & 12.2.0
It still says Version 12.2.0 as well as Database 12.2.0?
i downloaded extra english leagues because i wanted to play as my home town, but now due to the new patch i cant start new games because it says there should be 22 teams in the ryman d1s and it says there is only 21 so it wont let me pick england
anybody help me out please ??
Has there been another update in the past 2 days or so?
One thing I noticed, and read (almost thoroughly) all posts and at first glance no one else pointed this out, when viewing the general information about a country, the box where should be listed the country's top players is empty. :/
There's a bug that I haven't seen corrected.
In some leagues, (i.e. Mexican Promotional League) the players in trial can play official matches.
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I'm not quite sure which patch notes you are referring to here. If there were some notes released for the changes in 12.2.1, then that new update only really existed to fix the super-urgent foreign players issue that was kicking around.
Regarding the allocation funds, I looked at the saves, but still don't understand why you're not receiving any allocation funds. Of course, inconveniently, our MLS coder is currently away on vacation so I cannot ask him to look at them for a few days. Would you be willing to do a quick test for me in the meantime? If so, all I would like to know is, when you start a new game, whether you still have this same problem.
If you could do that, can you please post your response in the USA-specific issues thread'? That way it'll just be easier for me to follow.
Thanks again.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but for me on 12.2.1 the tactical sliders seem to be slightly broken. When I try to, say, drag a slider from the extreme left to the extreme right, it will stop on the way over a few times and will not go across in one go/smoothly.
I have tried this on both windowed and 1024 x 768 - 59hz which is the resolution of my laptop screen. I have restarted Steam, my PC, checked for new drivers for both my graphics card and touchpad (there were none). Any ideas?
USA-specific issues thread. Thanks!
Havent continued my game after the hotfix, but i had no big problems before it (Started it after 12.2.0 came)
Two small issues though:
- Sometimes when i enter the club info screen the list over the highest reputable players is blank, when i go to a different window and then back again it updates though
- A player which had a clause for when he got his first league game, i got a mail that it had been activated/payed even though he has yet to appear in a league game
Where can i download the patch if i got my game from the shops?
you can only use steam to play FM, so it will update for you, there is no other way to update the game.
hello, I am using Steam. When it downloaded the .2 patch it caused my game to crash every time I went to the Player/Staff Search/Shortlist section of the game. This has continued with 2.1.
Can anyone help, please
Technical Issues & Crashes forum please, and upload your save game to our FTP. We'll take a look.
First attempt at loading gets about 1/8 of the way through loading and says 'the game save could not be loaded'.
second attempt: same message as above.
My other saves load, just the one i actually play and is the most enjoyable save i've ever had on FM. Quite frankly, I won't start another FM save again if this is a problem that cant be fixed, atleast not on FM12.
Annoying. Complete waste of many hours..
Got half way through putting it across and it came up with this message:
Now it won't let me upload it. I can see my file in there, but it's only half the size, because of the error.
EDIT: Think i've sorted this now and successfully uploaded it.
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Why is the Plymouth managers job now available at the start?
That was quick
I have a player who somehow lost his position and now does not show up in my squad or tactics list.
But he shows up in his spot (for example P6 on the bench) when it is in game.
He is a key player, how can I get him back? I've been training him to be a DL but no luck after 3-4 months.
See screen shots - he has no position.
just reached january in the premier league, got no season expectations message or transfer funds
Your board might not think you can do any better or they maybe they don't trust you with the money.
Are you at or above your pre-season expectations? If not you do not get the chance to push those expectations higher.
well i said challanging for title, which i am doing, i have never had this before ever. but i havn't received transfer money or wage allowance changed
checked it out, i had 20 million for the SEASON, which i spent more then.. why doesnt it say that.
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There's not much more you can offer after saying you'll challenge for the title, makes sense that unless you've had a cash windfall the board will assume that the money provided in August to win the title should be enough.
You don't get season expectation messages at January do you?
you do, as it gives the funds for the window, this is the first save i havn't had it
The change of expectations is not there to provide funds for the mid-season window, it is used when the board think some extra funds could help achieve a better result than the one anticipated at the start of the season.
The money you're given at the start of the season must be viewed as your entire season budget.
You only get a change of expectations message if you are massively exceeding what you said at the start of the season. It's not possible to massively exceed title challenge, hence no message. No bug, move along, nothing to see here.
You only get a change of expectations message if you are massively exceeding what you said at the start of the season. It's not possible to massively exceed title challenge, hence no message. No bug, move along, nothing to see here.
so why have i had it on every other saves when pushing for the title? even though it isn't needed
- Fixed issue where winning the Turkish Premier League is not credited
This is not fixed at all. I have posted screenies in the League Specific Issues thread.
Did you start a new save for that fix to take place? I believe that is one of the fixes that requires a new save post update.
Hey sigames when my problem will be fixed?
Hey sigames when my problem will be fixed?
Link: http://community.sigames.com/forumdi...7-Other-Issues
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i started a save on 12.2, do i need to start another new save since 12.2.1 or not: :-|
How long does it usually take for a file to be looked at/ fixed after uploading to the FTP?
Ideally i'd like to be playing this over the weekend when I get reasonable amount of time to play..
Hi, i have tried to update to 12.2.1 about 8 times. i validate files in steam & after it says downloading, i let it finish the load the game which says 12.2.0. what now?


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At my graduate school, all of the clusters still use version-6, and I only have version-7 and version-8 installed on my computer. I would like to use those machines remotely. Are either of the versions I have compatible with the version-6 kernel?
The best thing to do is to test whether you can make the connection manually:
Start Mathematica on your local machine. On the toolbar, navigate to Evaluation ► Kernel Configuration Options. Add a new kernel and configure it. In the dialog, click on Add ... and a Kernel Configuration dialog appears. Enter an appropriate name for your remote kernel. Under Basic Options, verify that Launch On is set to Local machine. Additionally, clear the field, Kernel program. Click on the Advanced Options switch. In the text field called Arguments to MLOpen, enter:
Click OK and open up a new Mathematica notebook. On the toolbar, navigate to Evaluation ► Notebook's Kernel and click on the name of the kernel that you just created. Evaluate the command:
inside the notebook. Instead of printing Mathematica's version number, a message box appears:
After this message is a string of characters. This string of characters is a
While, the local machine is still running that notebook, connect to the remote machine and launch the Mathematica kernel. Inside the kernel, run the command:
Where "linkname" is the
You would run:
The notebook that is open on the local machine prints out the version of Mathematica you remotely connected to. This indicates that the local machine is successfully using the remote kernel.
Yes, older kernels are compatible with newer front ends. I think this is why the
Regarding managing to create a connection, the Remote Kernel Strategies package is the most robust and most hassle-free approach I know.
Unfortunately when I use a remote kernel, my front end tends to freeze occasionally, but others didn't manage to reproduce this, so you may be safe. Just try the dynamic example from that link to test this.


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Let's say that I have two tables in PostGIS, tracks and cities, each table has two columns, in both cases the columns are called name and way, name is a string, way is a geometry.
I want to retrieve a list of tracks by name, something like:
SELECT name, way FROM tracks WHERE name = 'Mountain Trail';
But I also want to retrieve the name of the closest city to that track. Something like:
SELECT name, way, closest_city_name FROM tracks WHERE tracks.name = 'Mountain Trail';
But there is no closest_city_name column, I want to calculate the closest city as part of the query.
I'm familiar with ST_Distance and using joins and subqueries but I'm not sure how best to put it all together for this query.
Is there a way to JOIN cities to tracks using "closest"? Or should I query against the tracks table and a subquery on the cities table or vice versa?
Sorry this is quite a vague question, I'm just really looking for someone to point me in the right direction, perhaps an example query that you have used to do something similar?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks!


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Ronald Mendes-Agencia RBS, Associated Press
SANTA MARIA, Brazil — A fast-moving fire roared through a crowded, windowless nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, filling the air in seconds with flames and a thick, toxic smoke that killed more than 230 panicked partygoers, many of whom were caught in a stampede to escape.
Inspectors believe the blaze began when a band's small pyrotechnics show ignited foam sound insulating material on the ceiling, releasing a putrid haze that caused scores of university students to choke to death. Most victims died from smoke inhalation rather than burns in what appeared to be the world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade.
Survivors and the police inspector Marcelo Arigony said security guards briefly tried to block people from exiting the club. Brazilian bars routinely make patrons pay their entire tab at the end of the night before they are allowed to leave.
But Arigony said the guards didn't appear to block fleeing patrons for long. "It was chaotic and it doesn't seem to have been done in bad faith because several security guards also died," he told The Associated Press.
Later, firefighters responding to the blaze initially had trouble getting inside the Kiss nightclub because "there was a barrier of bodies blocking the entrance," Guido Pedroso Melo, commander of the city's fire department, told the O Globo newspaper.
Authorities said band members who were on the stage when the fire broke out later talked with police and confirmed they used pyrotechnics during their show.
Police inspector Sandro Meinerz, who coordinated the investigation at the nightclub, said one band member died after escaping because he returned inside the burning building to save his accordion. The other band members escaped alive because they were the first to notice the fire.
"It was terrible inside — it was like one of those films of the Holocaust, bodies piled atop one another," said Meinerz. "We had to use trucks to remove them. It took about six hours to take the bodies away."
Television images from Santa Maria, a university city of about 260,000 people, showed black smoke billowing out of the Kiss nightclub as shirtless young men who attended the university party joined firefighters using axes and sledgehammers to pound at the hot-pink exterior walls, trying to reach those trapped inside.
Bodies of the dead and injured were strewn in the street and panicked screams filled the air as medics tried to help. There was little to be done; officials said most of those who died were suffocated by smoke within minutes.
Within hours a community gym was a horror scene, with body after body lined up on the floor, partially covered with black plastic as family members identified kin.
Outside the gym police held up personal objects — a black purse, a blue high-heeled shoe — as people seeking information on loved ones crowded around, hoping not to recognize anything being shown them.
Teenagers sprinted from the scene after the fire began, desperately seeking help. Others carried injured and burned friends away in their arms. Many of the victims were under 20 years old, including some minors. About half of those killed were men, about half women.
The party was organized by students from several academic departments from the Federal University of Santa Maria. Such organized university parties are common throughout Brazil.
"There was so much smoke and fire, it was complete panic, and it took a long time for people to get out, there were so many dead," survivor Luana Santos Silva told the Globo TV network.
The fire spread so fast inside the packed club that firefighters and ambulances could do little to stop it, Silva said.
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The 5 Most Terrifying Jobs in the History of War
We here at Cracked are as guilty as anyone of celebrating badassery in war -- a dude who captures a whole Nazi platoon by himself deserves all the compliments he can get. But you always want to stop short of glamorizing war, so in that spirit, let's count down some of the mind-bogglingly shitty jobs people have gotten stuck with during wartime.
#5. Crewman on Board a 19th-Century Submarine
The noble dream of sinking an enemy's ship with an underwater boat has been around since Leonardo da Vinci's day. But it wasn't until the Civil War that anyone really pulled off a boat that could submerge long enough to inflict any damage, so the Confederates really thought they had gained an edge over the better-equipped Union when they put the H.L. Hunley into water. If only they had given it the ability to get back out.
Imagine you're a member of the Confederate navy, being asked to try to climb inside this thing for the first time and give it a test run. It's a cramped iron tube, with a crank that drives the propeller. You're going to crouch down inside this dark, leaking coffin with seven other guys, then they're going to plunge the bastard deep into the freezing water.
To be fair, the Hunley was pretty innovative for its time. The ship was equipped to hold eight crew; seven sailors turned a hand-crank propeller while one did the steering. Ballast tanks could be filled with water or pumped with hand pumps for submerging and rising out of water.
So the presumably terrified crew members climbed on board for its first test run. It plunged below the surface of the water ... then the skipper accidentally stepped on the hatch lever. Water came gushing in. Three members of the frantic crew were able to escape, including the skipper. The other five drowned.
Well, accidents happen. They brought the sub back to the surface, dragged the dead bodies out, and decided to try it again. Once more, imagine you're a volunteer. You could probably rationalize it; after all, they'll surely make sure nothing goes wrong this time, and the sub's inventor, Hunley himself, will be taking part!
It sank again. No one survived, including Hunley.
Even his sideburns drowned.
What else was there to do but drag it up to the surface a second time and declare the ship ready for battle? Any volunteers?
On February 17, 1864, a crew, presumably having said their goodbyes to their loved ones and having made out last wills, crawled into the Hunley for a third trip, and this was no test run. The craft was mounted with a torpedo (it would tow the explosive behind it, then drag it into an overhead ship)and sent five miles out to sea in the hopes of sinking the USS Housatonic.
You could probably handle that with a really big lighter.
Surprisingly, it did. The 1,240 ton boat sank, along with the five crew members who didn't secure spots on the lifeboats. Success! You can only imagine the relief the Hunley's crew must have felt at finally surviving a mission in a submarine in a world clearly not ready for submarines.
Well, they would have been relieved, had they survived. Unfortunately, for reasons that we'll probably never know, the Hunley sank as well, for a third time, along with all eight of its crew. And this time it took a whole 136 years for anyone to bring it back to the surface. Come on, let's give it another shot, gang!
The South shall rise again!
#4. Powder Monkey
It's easy to romanticize the life of an 18th-century seaman, what with all the kid-friendly Johnny Depp movies that downplay the rampant scurvy, tedium and sodomy. But even on board the boats that saw actual ship-versus-ship battles, life wasn't all that awesome.
As illustrated here.
During battles, sailors needed to maneuver the boat and fire their weapons and do other battley things; they didn't have the time for the lengthy and laborious task that was cannon-loading. So some genius came up with the brilliant idea of putting small boys in charge of loading the explosive gunpowder into the ginormous guns. At sea. During battle.
If the fact that these kids were given the most ridiculously dangerous job of all time wasn't enough, their fellow sailors actually had the audacity to give them the most condescending nickname of all time: powder monkeys.
Boys as young as nine worked in the line of fire as they ran up and down the ship carrying bags and casks of flammable gunpowder on their backs.
This was in the days before OSHA.
A lot of these so-called "powder monkeys" were actually kidnapped boys who were then forced into service without pay or any hope of ever seeing their homes again. And they weren't just charged with loading cannons, either. Their main job was transporting the gunpowder from the hold of the ship as muskets and cannons fired overhead, and also taking over for their fellow powder monkeys killed on the job.
Plus, they had to assist gunners in measuring the correct amount of gunpowder to fire the weapons, all while the ship was thrashing about due to getting nailed with waves and cannon balls. So, while today's boys only have to worry about shitting their pants when their teacher doesn't give them a bathroom pass in time, these life lottery winners were basically doing the same job as the crews on The Deadliest Catch, only if the crab could spontaneously explode at any minute.
Of course, that's not the last time children would be given shitty jobs during wartime...
There are way deadlier catches.
#3. Drummer Boy
Among the many, many problems of serving in combat in a pre-walkie-talkie era was communication. In the chaos of battle, soldiers couldn't hear commanding officers or one another. It was all pretty much screaming and flapping your arms.
Not at all dissimilar from your band in high school.
So, it wasn't long before someone figured out that a drummer could serve several purposes: One, he could boost morale, because who doesn't love a good back beat? And two, he could give commands. Each drum roll represented different orders, plus the steady beat kept marchers in line and coordinated (this was back when armies lined up all gentleman-like to face each other). So, all in all, drummers were extremely useful and awesome in every way, bravely thumping away while musket balls whizzed past their heads.
Though it's less awesome when you realize they probably should have been attending elementary school instead.
Pictured: a combat veteran.
Kids as young as 8 years old accompanied soldiers into battle during the Civil War. The picture above is of one of the most famous drummer boys of the Civil War, Johnny Clem. Little Johnny ran away from home at the age of 11 and blustered his way into the Union army after they rejected him twice for his small size. Eventually they relented, realizing that A) they couldn't get rid of him, and B) he just looked so darn cute in his tiny uniform.
Kids like Johnny served as semi-mascots for their units, but all the affection in the world didn't stop grown- ass men from sending this boy and others like him into battle unarmed. Johnny was lucky; he eventually got a teeny-tiny musket custom-trimmed just for him, but most drummer boys had nothing but a funky-ass drumbeat to protect them from enemy fire. Johnny himself was taken as a prisoner of war at the age of 12.
Even though there were drummer boys before and after the Civil War, it was the War Between the States that really made the best use of prepubescent boys as communication systems. Numbers are sketchy on both sides, but it is agreed that so many kids were involved in the Civil War that the conflict earned the nickname of The Boys' War.


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Twist away to perfection.
Make wheel building and truing as precise as possible with the Park Tool's TS-2/TS-2.2 Dial Indicator Gauge Set. This gauge set comes with all the hardware needed to mount both a lateral and radial runout dial indicator to the Park Tool TS-2.2 and TS-2 Truing stand. Once you install it, you set the dials for the tolerance desired and twist away to perfect rim alignment.
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Does this also includes a wheel stand or...
Does this also includes a wheel stand or do I have to buy it separately? The description says its the gauge set and a stand, and if it does include the stand, can we see a picture of how the stand looks like?
no stand included. that is backcountry part # PAR0197. most definitely worth the money if you are having to work on wheels on a regular basis.


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I'm looking for some ideas on an assignment.
I have 7 ciphertext files, all of which are encrypted using the same symmetric key, which is 3 characters long and is alphabetic. No encryption algorithm is provided but the specs state that it is a home-made algorithm and is naive (whatever that means). My objective is to decrypt these files. I'm merely looking for ideas on the attacks which I can carry out on these files.
So far, I have done a frequency analysis, brute force attack to detect Ceasar Cipher, Krasinsky's method to detect Vigenere Cipher, Ciphertext XOR to detect a simple version of the stream cipher. I suspect that the files were encrypted using some mix of ciphers.
By the way, the decrypted plaintext is supposed to contain just a plain message, but the ciphertext reveals the use of over 97 different ASCII symbols!
Any general help, ideas or directions are greatly appreciated! Honestly, I'm not expected to decrypt these files, but then I might as well prove my professor wrong with your help. Thanks!
I'm looking for attacks on block or stream ciphers. At least thats what I suspect...


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September 04, 2012
Mother City at dusk – Flickr pic f the day
Leon Jamarie
With a passion for travel, tourism and social media, Cape Town is the quintessential backdrop for Media Developer Leon Jamarie and his cape adventures.
With the City as his canvass Leon paints the town red covering a range of events and activities in the peninsular while staying true to the traditional culture the mother city offers it's children,
Originally from Durban, Leon is still an accidental tourist in the city he now calls home and as such is on the line between resident and local tourist able to provide inside knowledge and flavour to the average mundane travel blog.
He is always on the look out for that hidden gem or typical CT party. If it's fun, relevant, he will cover it.
This photograph was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Axel Bührmann.
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I'm new to Ubuntu, I just downloaded "wine" from the command-line. So when and open up "wine", I have no idea what I'm suppose to do next. What do I do after the download had been completed..open it, then what? Let's say I want to download MS Office 2010 (using a disc, will it automatically download it)?
Thanks, -Vince


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Definition of tonal in English:
1Relating to the tone of music, color, or writing: his ear for tonal color the poem's tonal lapses
More example sentences
- The gorgeous tonal colors of this music have rarely glistened so brightly!
- She manages beautifully subtle shifts in tempo without crossing over into the soupy, and she applies a large palette of tonal color tastefully.
- The Schubert was likewise a weaving of wonderful tonal colors and pianistic power.
1.1Relating to music written using conventional keys and harmony.
Example sentences
- This makes it difficult for contemporary composers to write interesting new tonal music without evoking a film score of some sort.
- This process could not go on indefinitely, and in 1908 Schoenberg made the break into atonality, abandoning the attempt to fit atonal harmonies into tonal forms.
- Add to that the fact that I love Massenet because his music is tonal and well harmonised, and you have some idea of my style.
1.2 Phonetics (Of a language) expressing semantic differences by varying the intonation given to words or syllables of a similar sound.
Example sentences
- Chinese is a tonal language: words are differentiated not just by sounds but by whether the intonation is rising or falling.
- The point of a talking drum is to make noises which sound like words spoken in a tonal language - like Yoruba.
- Also, Chinese is a tonal language, which means that words change meaning depending on whether they're said with a rising tone, falling tone, falling then rising, or flat.
- Example sentences
- This is an aspect that sometimes I miss in Mahler performances and it matters greatly, because Mahler's music is sometimes tonally anchored and sometimes tonally disorientated.
- The Reeve, the Shipman, and the Merchant's Tales are in a similar vein, although tonally they are all quite different.
- I've always been frustrated by the ending we saw in the cinema, which strikes me as tonally appropriate, but utterly unconvincing.
Late 18th century (designating church music in plainsong mode): from medieval Latin tonalis, from Latin tonus (see tone).
Words that rhyme with tonalatonal, Donal, hormonal, Monel, patronal, polytonal, zonal
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(CNN) -- As Mitt Romney gets ready to depart London for Israel this weekend, the presumptive GOP nominee reaffirmed his position Thursday that military force would be an option, though only as a last resort, in trying to prevent Iran from building its suspected nuclear weapons program.
"We will employ every means short of military power," Romney said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. "We recognize that if all means are exhausted and fail, a military option will have to be considered."
Despite recent sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union, Iran has refused to strike a deal in diplomatic talks this summer that would ease international concerns about its nuclear fuel program. Meanwhile, some analysts have speculated a military strike by Israel could be on the horizon.
Describing a nuclear Iran as "the greatest threat to the world," Romney said U.S. military intervention "is by far the least attractive option, but it should not be ruled out."
Romney also told Haaretz the issue is one area where both he and his presidential rival agree: "President Obama has said that a nuclear Iran is unacceptable. I feel a nuclear Iran is unacceptable. The term 'unacceptable' continues to have a meaning: It suggests that all options will be employed to prevent that outcome."
In fact, the president has maintained all year that military options would be on the table. In March, Obama told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobby group, that "all elements of American power" remain an option to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power, including "a military effort to be prepared for any contingency."
At the same time, however, the president made clear that he preferred diplomacy over war both as a principle and in the case of Iran, and he warned that "too much loose talk of war" with Iran only benefits the Iranian government by driving up the price of oil.
While Romney repeatedly declined to comment any further on the president in Thursday's interview, he didn't hold back last month in launching criticism of Obama's handling of Iran.
"This president has communicated in some respects that he might even be more worried about Israel taking direct military action than he is about Iran becoming nuclear," Romney said on CBS News. "That's the opinion of some who watch this."
At the time, Obama's team hit back, saying in a statement that Romney was trying to "score cheap political points by distorting President Obama's record of support for Israel."


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How can I create a register of persons who are mentioned in my PDFLaTeX document? I want to write
The screwdriver was turned by \person[Mr.]{Miller}.
The screwdriver was turned by M. Miller. Register of Persons =================== Prof. Dr. M. Miller, University of M (p. 4, 12) Dr. A. Foobar, University of M (p. 5) B. Foo, University of Z (p. 1)
It would be nice, if the persons could be sorted by
- affiliation
- last name
- first name


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What are the mechanics of time dilation and length contraction? Going beyond the mathematical equations involving light and the "speed limit of the universe", what is observed is merely a phenomenon and not a true explanation of why time dilates or length contracts. It has been proven to work out, but do we know why? Is it something that happens at a subatomic level?
It's not a mechanism so much as a misconception of the nature of space (and its relationship to time): at low velocities, everything looks linear and Euclidean so we assume it is, but in reality it is not (as can be determined by appropriate experiments). It's kind of like asking by what mechanism you can reach something to your west by traveling east: if you conceptualize the earth as flat, the ability to end up to the west by traveling east isn't going to make much sense. Once you realize the earth is a sphere, you realize that there isn't exactly a west-is-east mechanism per se; it's really that the wrong concepts were being used (though they were a good approximation locally).
The right way to think about this is geometry--- but the geometry mixes up space and time. I wrote some answers about this here: Einstein's postulates <==> Minkowski space. (In layman's terms) and here: Help Me Gain an Intuitive Understanding of Lorentz Contraction and if you read these first, you can easily understand the effect.
The Lorentz contraction is no more mysterious than the following everyday phenomenon: when you place a meterstick parallel to the edge of the table, it marks off a part of the edge which is one meter long. If you rotate the meterstick so that it isn't parallel to the edge anymore, and look how far along the table the stick extends, it extends less distance. You can then ask "what is the mechanism that causes the x-distance of the ruler to shrink when it is rotated into y?" And the answer, if given in terms of the mechanism of cohesion of the atoms, would be ridiculous. It is obviously a property of rotations, of space, not of the forces in the ruler.
But you can ignore this, and ask--- if I have a line of particles held by elastic forces, why does their x-separation shrink when they are tilted? The answer would then be "because the equilibrium position is given by the solution to the equation:
$$ \Delta x^2 + \Delta y^2 = a^2$$
When you restrict $\Delta y$ to be zero, you get one separation, but when you make $\Delta y$ proportional to $\Delta x$ with a different constant of proportionality, you get a different separation. If you don't believe in rotational invariance, you can consider this to be a nontrivial physical effect--- "x contraction" in response to "y-tilt"--- caused by the mysterious $x^2 + y^2$ dependence of forces inside a ruler.
If you have a ruler tilted at a slope of m, then $\Delta y= m \Delta x$, and
$$ \Delta x = {a\over \sqrt{1+m^2}}$$
This is obvious in a picture--- the tilted ruler is reduced in horizontal length by this amount.
To understand relativistic length contraction, a second geometric analogy is useful. Consider a prison-stripe fabric placed on the table, so that the stripes are along the y axis with separation a between the edges. If you rotate the fabric so that the stripes make a tilt of slope m with respect to the y axis, and you make a line parallel to the x-axis what is the distance between the intersections with the stripes?
In this case, the x-axis line will intersect the rotated stripes at a longer distance, so that the stripes will change color every
$$ \Delta x = a\sqrt{1+m^2}$$
When the rotation angle approaches 90 degrees, the slope blows up, and you get an infinite distance, reflecting the fact that the stripes are now parallel to the x-axis.
Relativistic analogs
In relativity, the atoms make lines in space-time, and their equilibrium position is determined by the "minimum" relativistic distance between the lines (I put minimum in quotes, because it is a maximum, but it is analogous to the Euclidean distance between two lines, and it is only a maximum because of the minus sign in the relativistic pythagorean theorem), so that if the atoms at rest have a x-separation of a, and the force between them is relativistically invariant, when they are moving, the distance between them has to obey
$$ \Delta x^2 - \Delta t^2 = a^2 $$
where $\Delta t$ is now nonzero. The invariant distance between the lines is given by the "shortest" (actually longest) line linking them. This shortest line is the moving observer's x axis, which is tilted upward in a spacetime diagram by a slope v, just like the moving observer's t-axis is tilted by a slope of v to the right. The tilt of the axis gives that for the two space-time points at separation a, $\Delta t = v \Delta x$, and the result is
$$ \Delta x = {a\over\sqrt{1-v^2}} $$
This gives the x-distance between two endpoints on the moving ruler which are simultaneous in the ruler's frame. This distance is longer by a factor of $1\over \sqrt{1-v^2}$, just like in geometry it is shorter by $1\over \sqrt{1+m^2}$. The argument is exactly the same, except for the minus sign in the pythagorean theorem.
This thing is not usually explained in relativity books. It is the un-named phenomenon of "length dilation", and it is the direct analog of the shrinking of the x-length of a tilted ruler. This is not length contraction, which is like the prison stripe fabric.
When you have a moving ruler, you are usually not interested in the x-distance of two points which are simultaneous for somebody riding along with the ruler, but in the x-distance of two points which are simutaneous to you. To understand this case, consider a bunch of rulers end to end. These make a collection of lines parallel to the time axis which represent the endpoints in space time.
Now if all these end-to-end rules are moving, their space-time diagram is tilted to make a slope v with the time axis. You then ask how often the x axis crosses these tilted lines. The relativity formula is exactly the same as the geometry formula, except for the minus sign in the pythagorean theorem:
$$ \Delta x = a \sqrt{1-v^2}$$
so that the prison stripes (ruler ends) are closer together by $\sqrt{1-v^2}$, just as in geometry the prison stripes are further apart by $\sqrt{1+m^2}$.
In these formulas the units of length and time are chosen to make the speed of light c equal to 1. Any other choice would be as ridiculous for relativity as measuring the x coordinate in feet and the y coordinate in meters, and trying to describe a rotation.
Don't worry, you don't need any quantum mechanics or any knowledge about what happens at the subatomic level to understand this phenomenon. Length contraction and time dilation are purely a property of the 4 dimensional space-time continuum that we live in. It has to do with the actual measurements of length and time that can be performed by different observers that are traveling relative to each other.
The fundamental fact about our universe, that is the basis of special relativity, is the fact that all observers in inertial (non-accelerating) frames of reference always measure exactly the same value for the speed of light. This is not at all compatible with our naive intuitive understand of the way the universe works based on our experiences in our everyday lives. For example, if two cars are traveling on the freeway, one at 50MPH and one at 80MPH as measured from the ground, you would expect that as measured by the car traveling at 50MPH, the 80MPH car is only going 30MPH faster than the 50MPH car.
But if the first car is traveling at half the speed of light and the second car is replaced with a short pulse of light, both the observer on the ground and the observer traveling at half the speed of light will measure exactly the same relative speed for the pulse of light.
That is "why" the length contraction and time dilation is real for two observers moving relative to each other - so that both will measure the same value for the speed of light. Note that you, the observer on the ground, will think that the observer moving at half the speed of light has a slow clock and a shortened ruler and that the observer moving at half the speed of light will also think that your clock on the ground is slow and that your ruler is shorter. That is the "relativity" of special relativity.
This all works out such that the speed of light is exactly the same constant for all inertial observers. It is a property of the space-time continuum that we live in and has nothing to do with microscopic or subatomic physics or quantum mechanics.
There are NO underlying "mechanisms" to lorentz contraction or time dilation. They are quantifiable observations stemming purely from the operational definition of "measurement." Arnold Arons presents this very nicely in chapter 36 of his long out of print textbook Development of Concepts of Physics (Addison-Wesley, 1965).
I agree very much with the previous responses, but it is important to remember that, in the rest frame, no contraction or dilation occurs.
High energy particles generated in the upper atmosphere travel at a substantial fraction of the speed of light relative to the Earth's surface. They appear to observers on the ground to decay more slowly (on average) than identical but "at rest" particles observed in the lab. There is obviously a time-dilation effect going on.
However, in the particle's reference frame, the decay happens (on average) exactly as it would for the particles "at rest" in the lab and it is you that is behaving slowly. It doesn't make any more sense to ask what is making the atmospheric particle's time dilate than to ask what is making your time dilate. Your perspective seems to be similar to that in this question. What you don't recognize is that you are being length contracted right now to all sorts of degrees depending on which reference frame you choose.
Although the time dilation and length contraction are really occurring between the two reference frames of the muon and earth, they are not occurring to the muon or earth for other reference frames.
For example, the distance from the muon's start to the earth is not contracted at all for anything moving at right-angles to the muon's direction.
The length contraction is not something mechanical happening to the earth's frame itself but is an aspect of the spatial relationship between the muon and the earth.
The length and time passing of everything we see and measure is a property not just of the thing itself but of our speed (distance x time) relative to it. To a photon, everything is as flat as a photograph and fozen in time. But we don't experience things that way! :)
All the undergraduate answers saying "there are no mechanisms" are incorrect because:
For any equation of physics to comply with special relativity has to force both Lorentz contraction and Time dilation upon any of its moving solutions.
Let us for instance look at the mechanism by which the wave equation of the electromagnetic field below leads to Lorentz contraction:
\begin{equation} \frac{\partial^2 A}{\partial t^2}\ -\ c^2 \frac{\partial^2 A}{\partial x^2}\ -\ c^2 \frac{\partial^2 A}{\partial y^2}\ -\ c^2 \frac{\partial^2 A}{\partial z^2}\ =\ 0 \end{equation}
Now any arbitrary stable solution $A$ moving with $v$ automaticaly forfills the following equations, \begin{equation} \frac{\partial A}{\partial t}\ =\ -v \frac{\partial A}{\partial x} \qquad \qquad \frac{\partial^2 A}{\partial t^2}\ =\ v^2 \frac{\partial^2 A}{\partial x^2} \end{equation}
simply because of the relation $x=vt$. An example is the static field of a point charge moving with a constant velocity $v$.
If we now combine the second order equation which must hold for any stable solution moving at $x=vt$ with the wave equation of the electromagnetic field then we we can eliminate the time dependency by substitution. We get:
\begin{equation} \left(1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}\right)c^2 \frac{\partial^2 \Phi}{\partial x^2}\ +\ c^2 \frac{\partial^2 \Phi}{\partial y^2}\ +\ c^2 \frac{\partial^2 \Phi}{\partial z^2}\ =\ 0 \end{equation}
This shows that the solutions are Lorentz contracted in the direction of v by a factor $\gamma$, The first order derivatives are higher by a factor $\gamma$ and the second order by a factor $\gamma^2$. Velocities higher then c are not possible.
We see that the static field field of a point charge moving with velocity $v$ is Lorentz contracted by a factor $\gamma$ as a result of the wave equation.
From my book:
Lorentz contraction from the classical wave equation.
Time dilation from the classical wave equation.
Non-simultaneity from the classical wave equation.
Yes, even the relativity of simultaneity is the direct result of mechanisms provided by physical laws which adhere to special relativity as is demonstrated in the third chapter.
Time dilation is not just in theory. It is there because certain phenomena are explained only if time dilation happens.Presence of Mu-meson on the surface of earth is such an example. We are so conditioned in such a way that our daily life experiences are all explained by classical Newtonian mechanics, so that we dont digest a concept like time dilation.
Mu-Meson 'story' is somewhat like this-(I am not giving exact figures -you can Google). Mu_mesons are produced in upper layer of atmosphere, far away from earth. and their lifespan is so short. even if they move at the speed of light, there is no possibility of them to be reaching earth withing their life time. Bu they are found on earth! Reason is that time is slower for them (time dilation as they travel closer to light speed) that they live enough time to reach earth.
An analogy is like people in place:X lives only for 10 days and he can travel at 100km per day. so, Max distance they can reach out is 10x100=1000km in their life span. but how will you explain if one such guy is found alive at a place 2000km away from place:X? unexplainable! but as he travels at 100km/day if time goe slower for im, then it is probable that he can reach farther than 1000 kms. at normal sppeds it does not happen considerably. But it really happens at speeds closerto that of light.
It depends on what you mean by mechanics. The mechanics of how electromagnetic systems undergo contraction and time dilation was worked out by Lorentz and Larmour. A good review of this was done by J. S. Bell in "How to Teach Special Relativity" (which unfortunately is not on the internet - you can either buy Bell's "Speakable and Unspeakable" book or get a copy through interlibrary loan). This approach is called "constructive relativity" and there is a lot of disagreement among physicists as to whether it is valid.
The quantum mechanics of how systems undergo contraction and time dilation is unaddressed. It is one of my research goals to publish something on this, but it is difficult to get rid of the circularities.
Many physicists have concluded that the underlying "cause" is Minkowski spacetime geometry, and some answers here have pointed that out. Swann in the 1940s-60s wrote several papers pointing out that only quantum systems automatically adjust their clocks and lengths to conform to relativistic predictions, and that macroscopic systems of clocks and so forth do not. This suggests that there is no fundamental reality to Minkowski space, that instead it emerges from quantum mechanics. Harvey R. Brown has written a book titled "Physical Relativity" which takes this point of view.
If we only have two reference frame systems, then the relativistic changes are mutual and it is impossible to decide whether one is more fundamental than another, but . . .
If we consider a large number of reference frame systems, and ONE of them accelerates, then all but that one will agree that only that one changed. The one which accelerates will see ALL others change. So really, it is pretty easy to determine that some physical change occurred in the one which accelerated. However, it is impossible (so far) to determine the nature of that change, because no one can identify a preferred frame of motion.
Light can be captured in fiber optics and dragged around at will, and the light will only move relative to the fiber. Similarly, light can be captured by a gravitational field in a photon orbit or deep hyperbola, and if the object is dragged around (a little difficult since it must be massive, but it will be dragged around by other massive objects) the light will go with it. Therefore from outside the gravitational field of the object, it is easy to detect a preferred frame of motion for the captured light.
However, when asking about the motion of light in "free space" or "the background" as it is called in General Relativity, it is impossible to step outside the background (that would be outside the universe) and make a similar determination of the preferred frame of motion. Some people suggest the CMB frame, but this is only a guess and cannot be verified.
Most people do not realize that de Broglie waves (matter waves) arise because of the distortion of simultaneity due to relativistic motion. In the rest frame, the de Broglie wave is everywhere in phase and has infinite wavelength. It automatically synchronizes its wave phase clocks, so to speak, into an Einstein reference frame. This is direct evidence of a quantum system automatically adjusting itself to its rest frame, but does not entirely explain why. For more information about this puzzle see the paper "Leading Clocks Lag" (intended for students) on my website http://mc1soft.com/papers/
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$$To \enspace begin,\qquad L^2=L'^2+b^2\qquad \qquad and\qquad \qquad c^2=a^2+v^2 \qquad $$ $$Thus\qquad L'^2/L^2+b^2/L'^2=1\qquad and\qquad a^2/c^2+v^2/c^2=1$$ $$ \enspace \qquad \qquad And\enspace \qquad \qquad x^o=y^o, \qquad \qquad Thus\enspace \quad L'^2/L^2+v^2/c^2=1 \qquad \qquad $$ $$\rightarrow \quad L'^2/L^2=1-v^2/c^2\quad \rightarrow \quad L'^2=L^2(1-v^2/c^2)$$ $$\rightarrow \quad L'=L\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}$$ $$To \enspace begin,\qquad a^2/c^2=1-v^2/c^2\qquad and\qquad t'^2/t^2=a^2/c^2 \qquad $$ $$Thus\qquad t'^2/t^2=1-v^2/c^2\quad \rightarrow \quad t'^2=t^2(1-v^2/c^2)$$ $$\rightarrow \quad t'=t\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}$$
As mentioned by physicist Brian Greene in his book The Elegant Universe, all objects are constantly on the move within Space-Time, and they do so at the speed of light. Thus if at rest in space, such as in Twin Space Ship A as shown above, yes the Space Ship will extend across space, but it will be moving across the dimension of time at the speed of light .
By stacking both constant motion vectors, object lengths, and depths across Space-Time, it is extremely easy to use simple geometry to create all of the SR equations in mere minutes.
All of the equations are valid between Twin Space Ship A, which is at rest in space, and Twin Space Ship B which is in motion across space at v = 260,000 kps.
However, if Twin Space Ship A started to move across space, the clocks would slow down, the rulers contract, and the clocks located at the (R)ear and (F)ront are no longer in sync, thus the measurement instruments are not in the same condition that they were when at rest in space. Its measurement instruments have changed accordingly. Thus even under these changing conditions, the equations are still valid between Twin Space Ship A, and Twin Space Ship B.
Thus the equations are valid between a body at rest and a body in motion, and they are also valid between body at motion and another body in motion. Thus there is no way possible to tell if either of the 2 bodies are truly at rest in space, or not. Thus relativity is born.
However, if Twin Space Ship A used its measurement instruments and measured the spatial length of Twin Space Ship B, they would see that Twin Space Ship B is at half of its rest length and that the clocks onboard are ticking at half speed. But what's even more interesting, is that if Twin Space Ship B used its measurement instruments and measured the spatial length of Twin Space Ship A, they would see that Twin Space Ship A seems to be at half of its rest length and that the clocks onboard are ticking at half speed, even though this is not the actual case. All of this has occurred due to the change of Twin Space Ship B's measurement instruments.
Thus in one case, Twin Space Ship B, the appearance of length contraction is due to actual rotation within Space-Time, thus in turn causing partial extension across the dimension of time and contraction across space. And, the appearance of Time dilation is due to the Twin Space Ship B no longer being in motion across time only, via now being in motion across space as well.
In the other case, Twin Space Ship A, the appearance of its length contraction and Time dilation as seen from Twin Space Ship B, is entirely due to the change of Twin Space Ship B's measurement instruments.
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I was referring Electron microscopes and read that the electrons have wavelength way less than that of visible light. But, the question I can't find an answer was that, If gamma radiation has the smallest of wavelengths of all, why can't it be used to reach to even finer details in microscopy?
As X-Rays & $\gamma$-rays have very low wavelength, one could think of building an X-Ray or gamma-ray microscope. But, the problem only arrives at focusing both. They can't be focused as visible light is focused using refractive convex lenses (in microscope) thus providing a magnification of about 2000. Another problem with gamma rays is that they've very high ionizing power and interact with matter to the maximum extent thereby destroying it (causing atomic decay).
But on the other hand, we've Electron microscopes which work on the principle of wave nature of moving electrons. Electrons accelerated through a potential difference of 50 kV have a wavelength of about 0.0055 nm. (which is according to de-Broglie relation of wave-particle duality - $\lambda=\frac{h}{\sqrt{2meV}}=\frac{1.227}{\sqrt{V}}$nm) This is $10^5$ times less than the wavelength of visible light there by multiplying the magnification by $10^5$.
If you've read enough about electron microscopes, you should've known the fact that Electrons could be easily focused using electric & magnetic fields than going into a more complex one... :)
Even if these great physicists try something of focusing the gamma rays, it's production and maintenance would be far too difficult and expensive either. Because, we know that $\gamma$-rays could be produced only by means of radioactive decays which is biologically hazardous...
I think the main principal problem would be with high transmission of gamma radiation. It is almost unaffected by matter so you cannot imprint information about your sample on it very efficiently. Then, there are also many other practical difficulties -- it would probably be rather complicated to create directed gamma beams and you would need to use plenty of radioactive material and screen it well from radiating anywhere.
There are phase plates and other techniques that are being developed to be able to focus X-rays and thus create usable microscopes which promise resolution better than what is possible by refractive optics with visible light. However, these are not yet commercially available. Further, with the high penetrating power of gamma radiation no equivalents are being explored with gamma radiation. The reason could be the availability of electron microscopes with what is now simpler technology, that can provide resolution down to tens of picometres.


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