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5 Psych Experiments That Sounded Fun (Until They Started)
So you see an ad in the paper from a lab looking for test subjects. They say they want to study the effects of getting high, or eating too much, or having sex. Oh, and they'll pay you to do all of those things.
Preposterous, right? Got to be a setup for some kind of elaborate prank. But, these experiments were very real, and all of them proved with science that it's horrifyingly possible to have too much of a good thing.
#5. The Have Sex For Money Experiment
Wanted: a healthy, sexually functional male to have sex with a woman. You will be paid. We get to watch.
Yes, that happened, and yes, it was legal. Back in the 1950s and 60s, sex researcher William Masters was determined to find out everything there was to know about boning. Up to that point, research had been carried out via surveys, which were contaminated by the fact that people lied their asses off (which might explain why at the time the average penis length was thought to be around 13 inches long).
No, he needed to study the humping first hand. He hired Virginia Johnson, an attractive female assistant 10 years his junior, and started paying people to have sex with strangers.
For the subjects, it offered all of the benefits of prostitution without the constant threat of genital sores and being locked in a rape dungeon that normally goes along with it. There could not possibly be a downside to this, right?
The Harsh Reality
First, you found out that these people would be watching you the whole time:
That's Masters and Johnson. Of course, watching wasn't enough. This is science! So you also had sensors hooked to you and your partner that would measure sexual response, monitoring your mojo the same way a polygraph test detects when you're lying. Only instead of measuring your lies, it's measuring how bad of a job you're doing at arousing a total stranger.
Putting the "strange" in "sex with a total stranger," partners were matched randomly (if you still think that sounds awesome, the next time you're in line at Burger King, imagine getting randomly matched up for sex with any one of the people around you). Oh, by the way, the subjects ranged in age from 18 to 89.
We'll let that sink in for a moment.
We're not knocking the work Masters and Johnson did--it was absolutely revolutionary and totally changed the way the modern world thinks about sex. We're just saying it wasn't the erotic carnival of flesh the subjects probably had in mind upon entering a sex laboratory. And in case it's not obvious enough that this was a worse deal for the women involved, they had the added bonus of having their orgasms studied via a prosthetic penis with a video camera in it.
#4. The NASA Bed Rest Study
If you could design your perfect job, what would it be? If you said, "Staying in bed all day, surfing the web and playing video games on a laptop," well, you're most people in our target demographic. You're also a couple of years too late.
In 2008, NASA was recruiting regular people using radio and TV ads for a 90-day study that involved earning $17,000 for doing little more than being confined to a bed (yes, you could play WoW if you wanted to). Shit, that's more than your mom makes, and she ain't just lying there, if you know what we mean (we mean she's a whore).
The only hitch was that you had to stay in their testing facility and you were pulled from bed occasionally for simple tests. Easiest 17 grand ever, right?
We get pulled away from our sleeping areas all the time.
The Harsh Reality
Unless you're planning to buy shit on the Internet, it could be awhile before you can actually go out and spend any of that $17,000. See, the purpose of the study was to determine the effects of prolonged exposure to zero gravity environments on the body. More specifically, they wanted to know how much of a Johnny Noodle Legs an astronaut would be after completing a six month flight to Mars. Scientists know that from what we've seen of guys who spend a lot of time in space, the results aren't pretty.
They have trouble adjusting.
After a very short time in low/no gravity (replicated in the study by the beds being slightly lower at your head than at your feet) your muscles begin to atrophy.
Even worse, your bone mass plummets and can take years to return to normal, even in regular gravity, thereby rendering you approximately half as durable as a lactose intolerant octogenarian. Your blood pressure also gets completely fouled up to the point that it's higher in your feet than your head.
This won't help.
The study included a 14-day period after the test where you would have to do rehab to become strong enough just to do everyday tasks again.
Also, the description of the study seems to steadfastly avoid mentioning whether or not you have to poop in the bed.
#3. The Eat As Much As You Can Experiment
We hope nobody takes this the wrong way but, let's face it: Americans are fat as hell. We're in a cycle now where society is giving us more and more crap about this daily, and somehow this just makes us fatter.
But what if you could get fat for science? And even better, what if the scientists promised to get you out of prison early to boot? This would be a good time to mention that, for the purposes of this scenario, you're in prison. Probably for a sex crime of some nature. But we digress.
Wait, what?
Back in the 1970s, researchers combined two cornerstones of American society, obesity and overcrowded prisons, into one fat-tastic study. A select group of prison inmates, hopefully the non-rapey kind, were offered early release on the grounds that they agreed to gain 25 percent of their body weight.
It doesn't get much better than that! Pack on a few extra pounds and before you know it you'll be home just in time to catch your best friend raising your kids and nailing your girlfriend!
The Harsh Reality
Have you ever tried to eat 10,000 calories in one day? Of course not. Those are Michael Phelps numbers, and he only does it because he works out all day and smokes weed all night. But that's what these prisoners were doing every single day, and the side effects almost make prison sound like the more pleasant option.
"Let's just get this over with..."
For one thing, they had to gain the weight eating prison food, which is kind of like that shitty school cafeteria food we all grew up on except back then we didn't have to worry about getting the slice of meatloaf with the shank baked into it (unless you went to public school, obviously).
Aside from that unpleasantness, there was also the vomiting, depression, bowel movement difficulties and a multitude of other health problems that come with eating that many calories per day. There is also a high that comes with that much food intake which can lead to addiction and eventually, withdrawal symptoms. Shit, that's probably what landed you in prison in the first place. Oh, and you'd also be a total lard ass.
Even worse is what happened to 33 percent of the participants. What the scientists were really studying was if there were genes that keep some people from getting fat. Turns out, there are. For three out of nine prisoners, they literally could not eat enough food to gain enough weight for early release. As if being in prison doesn't make you feel like enough of a failure, now you find out you can't even get fat when your very freedom is counting on it. No wonder your girlfriend is cheating on you.


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There are some gems sitting in the middle of a mountain range, beset on all sides by what must be sheer cliffs. Are they forever out of reach or is there some tactic to sneak workers in?
You're out of luck. There's no way to get past the mountain range with workers.
Actually, if legions upgraded to paratroopers, and if you use e.g. the balance mod, which connects resources if there's a fort, you could connect the resource. Alas, legions are not on the right upgrade path, so you're still screwed.
If another civilization has a border close to the mountain range it might be possible to teleport in by declaring war with your worker positioned close next to the mountain in soon to be enemy territory. When the worker is evicted I believe it will move to the closest valid tile.
Not very practical though.
I know that this post is outdated. However, there is another method that has not been described. If every tile in your territory, save for the inaccessible tile in question, is occupied by a non-combative unit which includes great persons, settlers and workers, and if you were to create a worker at the city closest to the tile, the worker would spawn at the tile! Because Civ 5 does not permit the stacking of units of the same type, your worker would spawn at the desired tile. Thus, you would need to ensure that every hexagon nearest the tile and around your closest city is occupied by non-combative units when you create the worker and that there is no way to manually move your newly created worker via road, rail or sea to an unoccupied tile. Note further that you would need to ensure that the distance to this tile must be less than the distance to another non-occupied tile or your worker will spawn at the closer, unoccupied tile.
I have actually tested this method for the sake of curiosity. The same holds true for other unit types and permits effects such as spawning giant death robots in far away lands.
I tested goofballs solution, as I found it a little bit obscure. I noticed it doesn't work at all - might have worked in a previous version.
The current behaviour is the following: The only thing that matters is, if there is a hex that a newly produced worker could be moved from the city. It there is, then the new worker will always spawn in the city hex. If there already is a non-combat unit in the city hex, then the player is prompted to move the unit, and the game does not progress until the player does so.
However, if there is no hex the worker could be moved into (your territories borders are irrelevant - it could be a hex outside your territory), only then is the worker spawned in the nearest hex possible - i.e. not in enemy territory or occupied by an enemy unit (or barbarian camp, etc.). (again: if the hex(es) are inside your territory or not, is irrelevant). Sadly, even then there are limits - at most 2 hexes away, and even then it won't spawn it behind a mountain range - instead a message "no room for unit" is displayed and the unit is disbanded!
So do not waste time trying to improve a resource behind mountains as in Goofballs solution, does not work anymore ;-)
This isn't a general solution, but if you have the Gods and Kings expansion, you can do this as Carthage. After the first great general, Carthaginian units (including workers) can cross mountain tiles.

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I understand the concept of (auto-)bracketing, in general. And I understand that exposure bracketing is used for HDR and focus bracketing is used for focus stacking. But I am unable to imagine what DOF bracketing is or what its use could be. Any pointers?
DoF bracketing is essentially the same as focus bracketing, but rather than change the focus point/plane for each shot, you change the aperture to vary the depth of field.
Imagine you are taking a shot of, say, a cluster of cherry blossoms. You want the background blurred so you open the aperture right up. But this means only part of the cluster is in focus. So you stop down the aperture a little, which gives you deeper DoF, so more of the flowers are in focus, and so on.
Once you've got the shots you need to get the entire cluster in focus, you can put them all together in post - sharp flower cluster and blurred background. Bracketing in small increments means you can get a nice transition between the fore and backgrounds. If you just took one at f/2.8 and another at f/16 it would be tricky to get a natural looking result.
Depth Of Field bracketing is performed by taking several shots of same scene with different aperture (compensating change in exposure by adjusting ISO, shutter speed or lighting power).
Bracketed images are then used to have a wider selection of images to select the one with most appropriate depth of field in post. Or you could use masking and combine background from wide aperture shot with subject from tight aperture shot.
In general "bracketing" means taking a series of shots near the settings you or your camera has chosen.
There are two kinds. Exposure bracketing attempts to achieve the perfect exposure (sort of a shotgun approach) while the goal of Depth of Field (DoF) bracketing is to achieve the perfect composition.
Canon cameras once had a function also called DoF bracketing that allowed the photographer to focus to select the nearest and furthest points they wanted in focus. This locked in that focus range by setting the aperture even while modifying the other two settings. I haven't owned a Canon or worked at a camera shop since Moses' time so I'm not sure if Canon still uses that terminology.
I do depth of field bracketing a lot. I shoot at different apertures to see what background I like best.
On the K-5, it's not that hard to use exposure bracketing as depth of field bracketing when using RAW. It's close to an ISOless sensor due to it's dark read noise— it's digital gain performance performance is near equivalent to it's analog amplifier gain. On other sensors, you will get somewhat higher noise at the smaller apertures than manually doing it. Here are the steps:


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Hi guys
These EIGHT panoramas were taken during a big soccer football game in Rio de Janeiro
I did all panos in a 50 minutes game
You can zoom in the panos, AND comment on top of the photos. Just click wherever you want to open a sheet wherer you can write something and post a comment on top of pano
The link below is from the most important Magazine from Brazil named VEJA, a kind of Life or TIMES magazines in the USA. There's a interview with me and then you can click on the last shot to go to the panoramas page wherer you can choose among eight different positions in the stadium
You can go zoom very close to people's faces
I hope you like and comment on it :-)


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虽然 and 尽管 can both be translated as "despite" and "although". I've been familiar with 虽然 for a longer time already but I recently came across 尽管 for the first time. Is 尽管 a more formal or poetic term? In what contexts would you use 尽管 rather than 虽然?
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Let me translate an answer I saw on a Chinese website.
尽管 and 虽然 are somewhat different. "尽管" implies personal opinion (similar to "although"?), indicating that the speaker understands that the situation usually leads to result A, but insists on result B nevertheless. "虽然", however, does not carry this connotation because it goes with 但是 and can be treated as "but". "虽然" merely states a fact.
For example,
When used as conjunctions, 尽管 and 虽然 are synonyms.
However, 尽管 can be used as an adverb to mean feel free (to do). 虽然 does not share this meaning. For example,
尽管 Can be used as adv. and conjunction in Chinese.
When it is an adv..it's different from 虽然. It means without constrains, can do something freely.
Eg. 你有什么困难尽管对我说。(just tell me, if you have any problem.) 你尽管来吧。(just come)
When it is an conjunction, it functions like 虽然。and most time it is ok to substitute one with the other.But,in my opinion they have little different in pragmatic.
虽然 leads a turning clause.
他虽然身体不好,可是仍然坚持工作。in this sentence, "身体不好"should be the old information,and "坚持工作"should be the new information. ----he got sick these day,right? So pity.. ----yes, 他虽然身体不好,可是仍然坚持工作。
尽管 leads a concessive clause.
他尽管身体不好,可是仍然坚持工作 in this sentence, "坚持工作" should be the old information,and "身体不好 "should be the new information. ----I heard that he is workaholic. ----yes, 他尽管身体不好,可是仍然坚持工作。 Coz here we may say 他还是会坚持工作的,尽管他身体不好。
I'm going to keep it simple...
IMO, it's extremely helpful to understand the meaning of each character in a phrase, rather than just the phrase itself. This will help you break down the meanings of characters, and will help your understanding of subtle differences, as you're asking here.
So... Taking an excerpt from gonnastop's post:
"Thus, when you are expressing strong personal opinion, 尽管 is a better choice."
If you look at what 尽 means... it means "strong, utmost, to the end, exhaust". And, 管 means to "take care of, to care about"
So you can conclude that a phrase with the word 尽 would most likely be a stronger version of that phrase. This can help you think about the individual meanings of characters, and explain these nuances.
I give another similar example in my post here: Difference between 最高领导人 and 主要领导人之一?
Concessive clauses belong to a category of contrast clauses. They usually denote some obstacle which does not prevent the fulfilment of an action expressed in the main clause. The first word that introduces the contrast clause is called a subordinator.
Both 尽管 and 虽然 (in the context of the question asked) are concessive subordinators or subordinating conjunctions possessing the English meaning of "even though" and "although" respectively. To answer the question, 尽管 (or even though) is emphatic while 虽然 (although) is not.
The following examples show clearly the distinction between the two words:
(Here, 尽管 is used to highlight to readers the extraordinary risk that the firemen faced.)
(Here, 虽然 is used because the obstacle is certainly not something out of the ordinary and does not need emphasizing.)


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Quentin Tarantino's sprawling homage to action films of both the East and the West reaches its conclusion in this continuation of 2003's ultra-violent Kill Bill Vol. 1. Having dispatched several of her arch-enemies in the first film, The Bride (Uma Thurman) continues in Kill Bill Vol. 2 on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who, in a furious assault, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As The Bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding, and we learn of how she was recruited to join the DiVAS, her training under unforgiving martial arts master Pai Mei (Liu Chia-hui), and her relationship with Squad leader Bill (David Carradine), which changed from love to violent hatred.
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Love this movie. I think I will pick this up for sure.
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Mary Giovagnoli, the Director of the IPC, was quoted in a Talking Points Memo article discussing the effect that the Boston marathon bombing would have on the current immigration debate:
"Mary Giovagnoli, director of the Immigration Policy Center and a former immigration adviser to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), told TPM that she saw nothing in the law that would affect the screening side of the process. She noted that procedures had been tightened significantly over the last decade already, especially in regards to "high risk" countries.
"The changes are not changes that implicate national security or have any connection to Boston," she said."
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This photograph was taken from a helicopter over Table Bay by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Craig Strachan.
"A few days ago, Table Mountain was officially inaugurated as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature. We are privileged to live under the shadow of such an exquisite mountain. This shot was taken from a helicopter over Table Bay. They had to remove my door and strap me into my seat to get the clear shot of the mountain," says Craig.
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!
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8 Jun 2011 9:31 PM #1
Extjs 4 Dynamic Model
Hi all
I am building an application where the user can generate tables on the fly. The description of these tables are stored at the back-end.
I needed to generate models from these descriptions and be able to use data grid objects to manipulate the data (crud operations).
I have looked in this forum for a solution to this as I had realized that the current ExtJS 4 does not support adding fields dynamically to a model or a store, .. but I had no luck finding something that works for what I needed (in Extjs4).
Anyways, I came up with a solution using 'eval' that does exactly what I wanted , .. and I wanted to share it with you.
Here it is,..
Ext.Loader.setConfig({ enabled: true }); Ext.Loader.setPath('Ext.ux', 'http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0.1/examples/ux'); Ext.require([ 'Ext.form.*', 'Ext.data.*', 'Ext.grid.*', 'Ext.ux.grid.FiltersFeature', 'Ext.layout.container.Column' ]); // This data can be pulled off a back-end database // Used to generate a model and a data grid var records = [{ data:{ "dataIndex":"first", "name":"First Name", "type":"string" } },{ data:{ "dataIndex":"last", "name":"Last Name", "type":"String" } },{ data:{ "dataIndex":"email", "name":"Email", "type":"string" } }]; // Lookup table (type => xtype) var type_lookup = new Object; type_lookup['int'] = 'numberfield'; type_lookup['float'] = 'numberfield'; type_lookup['string'] = 'textfield'; type_lookup['date'] = 'datefield'; type_lookup['boolean'] = 'checkbox'; // Skeleton store var store_template = { autoLoad: true, autoSync: true, remoteFilter: false, // DATA is inserted here for the example to work on local drive (use proxy below) data:[{id:1,first:"Fred",last:"Flintstone",email:"firstname.lastname@example.com"}, {id:2,first:"Wilma",last:"Flintstone",email:"email@example.com"}, {id:3,first:"Pebbles",last:"Flintstone",email:"firstname.lastname@example.com"}, {id:4,first:"Barney",last:"Rubble",email:"email@example.com"}, {id:5,first:"Betty",last:"Rubble",email:"email@example.com"}, {id:6,first:"BamBam",last:"Rubble",email:"email@example.com"}], proxy: { type: 'rest', url: 'http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0.1/examples/restful/app.php/users', reader: { type: 'json', root: 'data' }, writer: { type: 'json' } } }; // Skeleton grid (_PLUGINS_ & _STORE_, are placeholders) var grid_template = { columnWidth: 1, plugins: '_PLUGINS_', height: 300, store: '_STORE_' } // Skeleton window (_ITEMS_ is a placeholder) var window_template = { title: 'Dynamic Model / Window', height: 400, width: 750, layout: 'fit', items: '_ITEMS_' } // Generate a model dynamically, provide fields function modelFactory(name,fields){ model = { extend: 'Ext.data.Model', fields: fields }; eval("Ext.define('"+name+"',"+Ext.encode(model)+");"); } // Generate a dynamic store function storeFactory(name,template,model){ template.model = model; eval(name+" = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store',"+Ext.encode(template)+");"); } // Generate a dynamic grid, .. store name is appended as a string because otherwise, Ext.encode // will cause 'too much recursion' error (same for plugins) function gridFactory(name,template,store,plugins){ script = name+" = Ext.create('Ext.grid.Panel', "+Ext.encode(template)+");"; script = script.replace("\"_STORE_\"", store); script = script.replace("\"_PLUGINS_\"", plugins); eval(script); } // Generate a dynamic window, .. items are appended as a string to avoid Ext.encode error function windowFactory(winName,winTemp,items){ script += winName+" = Ext.create('Ext.window.Window',"+Ext.encode(winTemp)+").show();"; script = script.replace("\"_ITEMS_\"", items); eval(script); } // Generate a model, a store a grid and a window dynamically from a record list! function generateDynamicModel(records){ fields = [{ name: 'id', type: 'int', useNull:true }]; columns = [{ text: 'ID', sortable: true, dataIndex: 'id' }]; for (var i = 0; i < records.length; i++) { fields[i+1] = { name: records[i].data.dataIndex, type: records[i].data.type }; columns[i+1] = { text: records[i].data.name, sortable: true, dataIndex: records[i].data.dataIndex, field: { xtype: type_lookup[records[i].data.type] } }; } grid_template.columns = columns; modelFactory('myModel',fields); storeFactory('myStore',store_template,'myModel'); gridFactory('myGrid',grid_template,'myStore','[rowEditing]'); windowFactory('myWindow',window_template,'[myGrid]'); // Direct access to the store created above myStore.load(); } Ext.onReady(function(){ rowEditing = Ext.create('Ext.grid.plugin.RowEditing'); generateDynamicModel(records); });
You can also download the working example (attached).
9 Jun 2011 2:04 AM #2
Your example is not really what I mean, let me clarify
FYI. I use python with sqlalchemy on my back-end, no framework all scratch build . I Used mod_python in the past and are now using mod_wsgi with a self written mod_python emulator, so I can run mod_python code on top of mod_wsgi. It is a huge project I am working on in my spare time for eight years now and I "only" need to build the front-end with Extjs en Sencha Touch.
In short it is an CRM/CMS/Webshop/Social media/web-desktop with almost everything you can think of integrated, from twitter to calendaring, syncing with phones, tablets. redefined email. It is even possible to write "apps" from within the web-desktop, so it is HUGE technically and hopefully somewhat "huge" financially in the near future. Everything is based on open-source, the server runs on mac, linux and windows (if you really want that), cloud or local.
In SQLAlchemy (object relational mapper/database toolkit for python) (http://www.sqlalchemy.org)
it is possible to make polymorphic tables:
consider a table:
which has an ID (autonumber, primary key)
and a discriminator field
which has an ID (foreign key to Addresses.ID, primary key)
Some Other_Addresses
which has an ID (foreign key to Addresses.ID, primary key)
Now in sqlalchemy you can set up the Objects (wrapping the database tables) with Polymorphic.
If I create an Email_Address a record in Addresses is created with discriminator set to "Email_Addresses" and the same for "Other_Addresses"
ID Discriminator
1 Email_Addresses
2 Other_Addresses
3 Email_addresses
4 etc.
ID Value
1 "email@example.com"
3 "firstname.lastname@example.com" ( )
ID Value
2 "somevalue"
Now I can query addresses (to get all):
I will get the following result:
ID discriminator Value
1 Email_Addresses "firstname.lastname@example.com"
2 Other_addresses "somevalue"
3 Email_Addresses "email@example.com"
SQLAlchemy will return in fact 3 objects [Email_addresses, Other_Addresses, Email_addresses]
But I can query Email_addresses (to get all) and I wil get:
ID discriminator Value
1 Email_Addresses "email@example.com"
3 Email_Addresses "email@example.com"
SQLAlchemy will return in fact 2 objects [Email_addresses, Email_addresses]
and Other_Addresses (to get all)
ID discriminator Value
2 Other_addresses "somevalue"
SQLAlchemy will return in fact 1 object [Other_Addresses]
For my case this is very use full and it is way more complex (I simplified)
I made all the objects in such a way that they can output Ext.Data.model defines
Works fine for Email_addresses and Other Addresses. but NOT for Addresses since the results on querying that returns [Mixed Models]
I can however make an Addresses model and I will get the "Object Type" from the discriminator
But then I have to do something like this:
store_addresses - >model addresses
in store_addresses_load event:
if (address.discriminator == "Email_addresses")
create and load Email_addresses where ID = addres.id
add record to store
and then for all the other address types the same
stores could be set up with HasMany and BelongsTo.
also I could let address "become" an array [Mixed addresses]
but that will break store.sync on addresses.....
I really struggled to get this all working within an application setup, models, stores and direct but I have got it working now. except for reflecting the polymorphic stuff.
The Idea is that I can just add another address type in my back-end and that models and views are generated by the backend software. so for a contact forms are loaded for all addresses related to that contact no matter how many email addresses. Grids are not really an option in my case. but that is a different story.
15 Jun 2011 9:49 PM #3
Great code!
This is exactly what I'm writing.
Thanks for sharing.
16 Jun 2011 7:34 AM #4
[{ "dataIndex":"field_name1_model1", "name":"field_title1", "type":"string" },{ "dataIndex":"field_name2_model2", "name":"field_title2", "type":"int" }, etc ]
Hope that helps.
5 Jul 2011 12:11 AM #5
Great Work
Hey...was also trying for the same...but found difficult to crack....Thanks
11 Jul 2011 9:32 PM #6
@SenchaGuru that's way overcomplicated - you can easily define new classes at runtime based on any configuration... you can replace this:
model = { extend: 'Ext.data.Model', fields: fields }; eval("Ext.define('"+name+"',"+Ext.encode(model)+");");
var model = { extend: 'Ext.data.Model', fields: fields }; Ext.define(name, model);
// Generate a model dynamically, provide fields function modelFactory(name, fields) { return Ext.define(name, { extend: 'Ext.data.Model', fields: fields }); }Ext JS Senior Software Architect
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12 Jul 2011 8:48 PM #7
Hi Edspencer,
Thanks for your comment, .. I am new to ExtJS so your feedback is much appreciated
My problem however was not creating the model dynamically, .. it was mainly to solve the problem I described in my post, which is simply:
How can one generate a gird panel to view/edit a dynamic database table? ,.. that's, a table with columns added and removed dynamical at runtime? .. Can this be done without the use of eval, as posted here?
13 Jul 2011 12:45 AM #8
Check out the reconfigure function at http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/#/api/Ext.grid.Panel - this enables you to update your grid's fields and columns at run timeExt JS Senior Software Architect
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13 Jul 2011 3:50 AM #9
hi ed,
any plans to change reconfigure back to the way it was in ext 3?
i liked it a lot more to enter the store and the colModel (both ext objects) instead of the column array. this has the big problem, that you can not set the default config for the columns.
best regards
tobiBest regards
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13 Jul 2011 10:51 AM #10
@tobiu I'm not sure what you mean by not being able to set configs - can you elaborate?Ext JS Senior Software Architect
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South Haven lost eight seniors from its team that cruised through the regular season unbeaten a year ago. A lot of talent is missing, but the Cardinals still plan on being competitive in the South Central Border League.
There are two returning starters on offense and defense. Still, there were a lot of players that have at least some experience.
Returning of tailback J.T. Yunker, who should give the offense some firepower as the season starts. Richie Goble returns at center. Defensively Yunker returns at defensive back and Anthony Hawkins is a returner at defensive end.
Riley Blaylock, a senior, will be the starting quarterback. He played some last year and has done well in the preseason. He is a good runner and is working on his passing. Coach David Hughes said as the season starts the passing game is a bit of a question mark, but he expects that to improve during the season.
Fullback Parker Ray, a junior, will start in the backfield after playing some last year.
Joining Goble on the offensive line will be guards Tanner Creed and Clay White.
Defensively the Cardinals will have Hawkins at Creed at defensive end. Goebels will be at linebacker along with Parker Ray.
Yunker will also start in the defensive backfield.
Jordin Black will be a starter at noseguard.
Others likely to play are Wyatt Connor, who can play several positions on the offensive and defensive lines.
Nick Ingram will also see time at fullback, as well as the offensive and defensive lines.
South Haven may have a lot of new faces, but what the Cardinals do is not likely to change much.
They will still be a run-oriended team and run out of the power-I formation. They may spread the field some, but Hughes prefers the ground game.
Hughes expects the team to be competitive.
"We have some good athletes, some size and quickness. We just need to be disciplined, that will be a big thing," he said.
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On Monday, March 28, Brentwood City Manager Kirk Bednar submitted the proposed FY 2017-2022 Capital Improvements Program (CIP) to the City Commission. The Commission will review the draft document and discuss the proposed capital projects at a Work Session on April 5 at 4:00 p.m. The Work Session will be held in the Annex Room on the 2nd floor of City Hall. The meeting is open to the public and all who are interested are encouraged to attend.
The CIP is approved annually by the City Commission. The draft document covers the six-year period between FY 2017 and FY 2022. The CIP is essentially a financial planning tool, as opposed to a formal budget document where funds are officially appropriated. It sets forth the capital spending priorities (high-dollar expenditures like building and road maintenance, vehicles, park improvements, water/sewer improvements, etc.) that the City can expect over the next few years. The CIP is elastic, meaning priorities can change from year to year as new challenges and opportunities arise, but also provides a measure of predictability for purpose of financial planning.
The projects identified in FY 2017 of the CIP will be presented as part of the draft FY 2017 Annual Budget, which is where the Commission authorizes the expenditure of funds. Since Brentwood operates on a July to June fiscal year, that process takes place in May and June each year. Both the CIP and the Annual Budget are scheduled for adoption on June 27, 2016.


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This is going to be very hard to help with unless you can share some code that demonstrates what you have done so far. Otherwise a solution might not fit with the work you've already done. Specifically, how are you stylying the gray bar that is already there? What causes the ul > li > a > span structure that you are getting in that cell?
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Anybody know where there are some Microsoft Office Icons that are at least 500 x 500 pixels wide and a good resolution to download? I might even be willing to pay for them, I just don't want to have to make them all, gag.
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Jesus christ, that's some achievement Don't think even the great Andrew Smylie managed that, fantastic kroubles
Any chance of a 200 goal season?
Jesus christ, that's some achievement Don't think even the great Andrew Smylie managed that, fantastic kroubles
Any chance of a 200 goal season?
Yeah, that would have been simpler.
For those wondering about the extra manager that you can see in the screenshot, I decided to take over Loughgall (much like Nep with Dungiven) in order to give myself a bit of a challenge.
Edit: 200 is certainly possible, he's got one already but this has a great chance at being the biggest season of his career. We generally play around 15 games in April, so if he can get around 30 there, as he usually does, then it's a very good chance
If he does manage to get 200 this season, he could potentially get very close to 3000.
Throw in a couple more 175ish seasons, and he'll be around 2650ish at 33, with possibly 5 more years in him to get 350 goals. I've never thought that it would be do-able with Spence, but if he has 2 more storming seasons after this, it's possible. Just.
Keep it up mate, brilliant career he's had so far
If he keeps this up then he may scrape past 3000 for East Belfast, yeah. Not entirely likely though. He did just sign a new 5 year contract so I have him until the season he turns 36 at least I think he's on roughly 2300 in total now including Northern Ireland goals.
I never thought he'd do this well, thanks.
I've found a pretty good gem but I can't really get him to score that much (I'm in Championship).
Any tips for a tactic?
What I've done is basically designed my tactic around getting Spence as many chances as possible. So the centre midfielders are on long shots- rarely, and through balls- often. His strike partner is on the same, and the wingers have their cross aim set to far post and near post to aim it at him. Seems to be working.
Sorta. 4-4-2 with AML and AMR instead of ML and MR. This is FM08 too.
I'm quite happy to upload my 4-4-1-1 tactic from FM09 Mikael if you want it, FM09 tactics files work with FM10 iirc
Here's the download link Mikael
Also, Brennan has just scored his 900th FCUM goal. He's scored a few more since that screeenshot, and is now just 31 goals away from the magical 4 figures overall, and it's only the middle of December!
I said that the 100 goal season days were over, but they might not be just yet!!
The Legend.
The Goal.
The Game.
1,000 goals complete. (.pkm linked there)
So he's finally done it. 12 years, 1 month and 2 days after joining FC United of Manchester, Brennan scores his 1000th career goal. What a fitting way to score it too, a header from inside the penalty area from a David Vrba corner, a player who has provided around 300 assists for those 1000 goals. Incredible stuff.
Here is a video of the goal itself, a fitting way to end his quest for 1000 career goals. Just 65 more club goals to go until he gets 1000 FC United goals. That's the next target.
PS. Sorry if the video isn't of a good quality, i'll redo it if anyone wants me to
Well done hamilton. Good to see you joining the 1000 goal club. And in the Premiership too, even more impressive than any of my completions.
Congrats Hamilton, A truly Fantastic Career,
Hopefully Higgins can join the club aswell eventually.
Do you think he has much left in the tank?
Well done on 1,000 goals dude. Get that end of season report up ASAP.
Also, nice layout, looks amazingly familiar
And yeah, sorry about that Just thought that it was a fitting way to present it.
Congrats a 1000 goals in that league is some achievement
it really is impressive even with the use of FMRTE on several players I doubt I could do it
Chris Higgins
Well i dont really know what to say, except WOW,
This kid is getting better and better and has won every award possible by the age of 21, Not only does he score goals but he creates as well.
I have never on any version of this game had a player score over 100 goals in a season, in fact until this kid i had never had anyone get over 65 goals.
I decided at the start of the season to tweak my tactic to really try and get Higgins onto the end of most chances, through balls from everyone and no long shots, It turned him into a monster.
The 1000 goals looks like a gimme from here, Injuries permitting "very firmly touches wood"
The biggest question for me now is how many he is actually going to score, he is half way there almost and you could say his career has still only just begun.
Just out of interest, what is the highest ever goals scored in the Premiership? I know Smylie was a Legend in Northern Ireland and i dont think i will get anywhere near that but would be interested to see what the Premiership record was
Also If anyone is Interested this is Higgins current Biography
Code:2010 - Higgins @ 16yrs old, Tottenham Games Goals Assists MOM GPG Av. Rating Age 2010/11 25(8) 23 10 8 0.69 7.55 16 2011/12 48(4) 49 15 15 0.94 7.87 17 2012/13 46(1) 60 26 19 1.28 8.28 18 2013/14 56(3) 86 19 27 1.46 8.26 19 2014/15 53 64 24 24 1.21 8.26 20 2015/16 56 120 36 37 2.14 8.97 21 Total 284(16) 402 130 130 1.34 England Games Goals Assists MOM GPG Av. Rating Age 2011/12 1 0 0 0 0 5.70 17 2012/13 8 8 6 2 1.00 8.27 18 2013/14 6(2) 7 5 1 1.00 8.17 19 2014/15 9(1) 12 5 6 1.20 8.53 20 2015/16 11 20 10 9 1.82 9.07 21 Total 35(3) 47 26 18 1.24 Career Total Games Goals Assists MOM GPG 319(19) 449 156 148 1.33
Last edited by PVentress; 28-03-2010 at 15:33.
Whoah !
Over 2 a game, whoa. That's incredible in the Premiership.
Spence has 194 goals this season, with 3 games left to play. Can he make it to 200?
2 games to go, 195 goals. And Stewart just got his 100th and 101st goals of the season too
Last edited by kroblues; 28-03-2010 at 16:01.
Jesus christ, what a strike rate!
He is well and truly one of the greatest players that we've ever seen in this thread.
As for the Premier League record, santy001 will hold that with Kerrison on FM09. Can't remember what it was exactly, but i know he was into the 90's for quite a few seasons and probably broke the 100 barrier in at least one season
C'mon kroblues, 5 goals in 2 games is definately attainable!
5 in 2 games is a walk in the park for Spence
You can do it kroblues
The main worry I have is that Spence is utterly exhausted due to being played in more or less every match in April. Which, as Nep will confirm, is a lot when you're doing well in NI.
We'll just have to hope for 5 penalties then!
Not quite. Another match played, and only one goal again. He'll need to score 4 in the Cup final against Glentoran to reach 200, which isn't entirely likely, but possible if he has a good game.
Only one for him, so he finishes the season on 197 goals, which is still his second best for East Belfast. Season report will be up once I've played the internationals in June.
Last edited by kroblues; 28-03-2010 at 16:49.
Josef Svec
Svec as he was on retirement
Svec Season 20: 1233 goals
Svec Summary:
Appearances: 1113
Goals: 1233
Int'l Caps: 3
Int'l Goals: 0
Svec as he was when he reached 1000 goals:
As you saw above, very close to 200 goals for Paul Spence, with 197 goals from 62 games, an amazing total considering he is certainly on the downward section of his career. A 5 year contract signed, which will see him through until the age of 37, has certainly decreased my nerves about keeping him, and interest is slowly starting to wane as he moves through his 30s. Attributes are starting to drop also, but physical stats don't matter too much in this league, so the longer his finishing stays around 17/18 the longer he should hopefully hang around 100 goals per season. He nearly made it to 100 league goals again this season, finishing on 98, and if he had played in the one game he missed that would almost have been a certain milestone. For the first time in a while he didn't finish as Champions League top scorer, but that probably had something to do with losing 3-2 on aggregate in the quarter finals.
A major milestone was reached in his career this year too: 1000 appearances for East Belfast
For Northern Ireland he is steadily closing in on 2 milestones. Namely the most caps record, which stands at 120, and he has 107. The other milestone is 100 goals, and at 99, it may only be one game away.
Spence Season 1: 7 goals
Spence Season 2:18 goals
Spence Season 3: 94 goals
Spence Season 4: 177 goals
Spence Season 5: 285 goals
Spence Season 6: 428 goals
Spence Season 7: 604 goals
Spence Season 8 : 774 goals
Spence Season 9 : 955 goals
Spence Season 10 : 1163 goals
Spence Season 11 : 1361 goals
Spence Season 12 : 1546 goals
Spence Season 13 : 1724 goals
Spence Season 14 : 1903 goals
Spence Season 15 : 2065 goals
Spence Season 16 : 2262 goals
Paul Spence summary so far (Age 32)
Appearances: 1035
Goals: 2262
Int'l Caps: 107
Int'l Goals: 99
Total Goals: 2361
After 2000 goals
Closing in on 2500 goals in total now. Maybe only one season away. If he keeps this rate up 3000 may be a possibility?
Mark Stewart:
Age: 21
East Belfast Appearances: 270
East Belfast Goals: 344
Northern Ireland Caps: 23
Northern Ireland Goals: 17
Total Appearances: 293
Total Goals: 361
He's getting quite good, this kid. If I keep hold of him long enough to hit 1000 I'll post a full history.
Nice one mate
I'll update this thread when I get in from work tonight. Great reading. You've probably got 500 more goals in him before he gets to 36. After that, every season is a blessing. 3,000 is DEFINITELY possible. Keep the faith.
I'd hope so. Spence is probably my best chance at 3,000. Also, I found out that I can comfortably make a squad with backups from my youth players rated as leading stars
He's got at least 500 goals before he's 36 imo. He's 32, still going very strong indeed, and i would be quite supprised if he didn't get 3000 now.
Add in a couple of 175 goal seasons, and he's at 2700 at 34. A couple more seasons at 100 a game (probably an underestimate) and he's at 2900 at 36, with a 2/3 more years to hit 100 goals. Definately possible.
Great work mate, keep it up and hopefully Spence can make it to 3000
Thanks for the support. He seems a lot closer when you guys put it like that
Although he may drop off a little if I go for this experiment where I only use players that have come through my youth academy.
Screw the experiment, get the man to 3000 goals!!!
Yessir! *salute*
Although, I think around half of my team are graduates from the youth setup anway.
Good man kroblues Keep the faith in him through thick & thin in the next few years and he will repay you with the 3000
Around 5/6 of my first team regulars are from my youth academy too, great feeling to know that the goals are being supplied by homegrown players. I'm guessing that Northern Ireland are doing fairly well with your youth players in the side and you as a manager?
Just checked. Out of my first team for this next season, 5 of the first choice are youth graduates. Spence deserves his own thread. I will make it if he gets to 2500 before he turns 34
Just a quick question for you Nep, what were Gareth Black's final international stats?
Ehhh.. I don't remember exactly. It's in this thread somewhere... 1 sec, I'll find it
Gareth Black - International Stats
England : Games, 130 | Goals 307
Epic, I know. 307 goals for England. He was only 28 when I stopped that save game - He would have slaughtered the 200 cap mark.
Jesus christ. Was thinking that Marc would be able to get somewhere near that, but probably not!
I asked my ass man to set up a load of friendlies this year, and they've been against teams such as Zambia! We've won 12-0 three times this year already! Marc's currently on 143 England goals from 87 caps at 26. I thought that it was something around 260, which is attainable for Marc i reckon, but 307 is just too much!
Stop being so good already!
100 goals for Northern Ireland for Paul Spence now, getting goals 100, 101 and 102 in a 4-4 draw with England.
Edit: and 103 comes in the next match, against Andorra
And now Spence has flown past 2400 goals in his career, in total, with his 32nd, 33rd and 34th of the season against Loughall (appropriate, no?) to take him to 2401 career goals.
Keep 'em coming, krob
I've stopped playing for the night so I could play a bit of Mass Effect and then pack to go home tomorrow. Gonna be on the slooooooow laptop for the next couple of weeks so probably less frequent updates
It'll make that last goal all the sweeter - Remember what happened with me? I didn't have my laptop for weeks as Smylie neared 3,000
That seems to be a common occurence It's almost as if the game knows you're near something big, and sends small gnomes out to destroy key bits of the computer. And that shows that I should probably get to bed if my mind is conjuring up images like that.
And i said that he was past it!
Seriously, is there any stopping this goal machine?! Where will the terrorising of defenders end?! 32, still smashing in the goals as if he is 25. Such a legend.
Season updates for Brennan & Marc to follow shortly
Bernard Brennan - The Story so far:
2014/15 | Games, 25 | Goals, 29 | Assists, 05 | MoM, 09 | GPG 1.16
2015/16 | Games, 46 | Goals, 41 | Assists, 12 | MoM, 14 | GPG 0.89
2016/17 | Games, 56 | Goals, 54 | Assists, 10 | MoM, 14 | GPG 0.96
2017/18 | Games, 66 | Goals, 75 | Assists, 24 | MoM, 22 | GPG 1.14
2018/19 | Games, 63 | Goals, 53 | Assists, 16 | MoM, 15 | GPG 0.84
2019/20 | Games, 65 | Goals, 81 | Assists, 22 | MoM, 16 | GPG 1.25
2020/21 | Games, 66 | Goals, 122 | Assists, 16 | MoM, 35 | GPG 1.85
2021/22 | Games, 68 | Goals, 105 | Assists, 20 | MoM, 34 | GPG 1.54
2022/23 | Games, 68 | Goals, 101 | Assists, 12 | MoM, 27 | GPG 1.49
2023/24 | Games, 68 | Goals, 100 | Assists, 14 | MoM, 32 | GPG 1.47
2024/25 | Games, 65 | Goals, 100 | Assists, 20 | MoM, 27 | GPG 1.52
2025/26 | Games, 67 | Goals, 102 | Assists, 25 | MoM, 28 | GPG 1.52
Club Totals :
[Brennan is now 32 Years Old]
Games, 724 | Goals, 963 | Assists, 196 | MoM, 273 | GPG 1.33
Games, 87 | Goals, 65
Career Totals
Games: 811
Goals: 1028
Assists: 201
MoM: 274
Wow. Just when i thought he was past it, he comes out and proves me wrong in spectacular fashion. He started really badly, with 0 goals from his first 6 games, before bursting into life in September and never looking back. He's reached the 1000 overall target, and he's got just 37 more club goals to go until the 1000 FCUM goals.
Marc Beckford, the story so far:
2016/17 | Games, 30 | Goals, 08 | Assists, 04 | MoM, 00 | GPG 0.27
2017/18 | Games, 49 | Goals, 29 | Assists, 08 | MoM, 05 | GPG 0.59
2018/19 | Games, 46 | Goals, 29 | Assists, 14 | MoM, 05 | GPG 0.63
2019/20 | Games, 52 | Goals, 30 | Assists, 18 | MoM, 06 | GPG 0.58
2020/21 | Games, 58 | Goals, 31 | Assists, 17 | MoM, 05 | GPG 0.53
2021/22 | Games, 55 | Goals, 36 | Assists, 12 | MoM, 06 | GPG 0.65
2022/23 | Games, 49 | Goals, 29 | Assists, 08 | MoM, 05 | GPG 0.59
2023/24 | Games, 54 | Goals, 24 | Assists, 13 | MoM, 03 | GPG 0.44
2024/25 | Games, 58 | Goals, 54 | Assists, 14 | MoM, 09 | GPG 0.93
2025/25 | Games, 50 | Goals, 31 | Assists, 14 | MoM, 08 | GPG 0.62
Club Totals:
[Beckford is now 26 years old]
Games, 501 | Goals, 301 | Assists, 122 |MoM, 52 | GPG 0.60
Games, 87 | Goals, 143 | Assists, 45 | MoM, 28 | GPG 1.64
Career Totals:
Games: 588
Goals: 444
Assists: 167
MoM: 80
A step backwards from last season in terms of club performance, but a ludicrous 29 international goals this season! Albeit against the likes of Zimbabwe and Nambia! Currently a little off the pace needed, but by the start of next season at the very latest, he'll have switched roles with Brennan, and then it should be goals galore for Marc!
Spence is now up to 2500 goals in his career, 2395 for East Belfast. He's getting there
Chris Higgins
Well having had such a good run and my comment about the 1000 goals being a gimmee, Higgins proceeded to be hit by a flurry of injuries, it started in the 2nd game of the season where a torn muscle resulted in 8 weeks out and i have to say he was not really fully fit till about February, he came back and didnt really perform, picking up a number of smaller niggly injuries throughout,
However, a sensational return to form in the later stages saw him almost get himself up to another 100 goal season, but just falling short at the death,
Still, a good goal output and we are still on course, only another 428 to go at 22 years of age.
I would like to think i will be aiming for 1500 or 2000 as long as no more injury problems, he is still young and has plenty of years left in the tank. Would also love to challenge Keirrisons Premier League Record as i really think Higgins has the ability to do it
Code:2010 - Higgins @ 16yrs old, Tottenham Games Goals Assists MOM GPG Av. Rating Age 2010/11 25(8) 23 10 8 0.69 7.55 16 2011/12 48(4) 49 15 15 0.94 7.87 17 2012/13 46(1) 60 26 19 1.28 8.28 18 2013/14 56(3) 86 19 27 1.46 8.26 19 2014/15 53 64 24 24 1.21 8.26 20 2015/16 56 120 36 37 2.14 8.97 21 2016/17 55 98 38 37 1.80 8.89 22 Total 339(16) 500 168 167 1.41 England Games Goals Assists MOM GPG Av. Rating Age 2011/12 1 0 0 0 0 5.70 17 2012/13 8 8 6 2 1.00 8.27 18 2013/14 6(2) 7 5 1 1.00 8.17 19 2014/15 9(1) 12 5 6 1.20 8.53 20 2015/16 11 20 10 9 1.82 9.07 21 2016/17 10 25 9 7 2.50 9.10 22 Total 45(3) 72 35 25 1.50 Career Total Games Goals Assists MOM GPG 384(19) 572 203 192 1.42
Last edited by PVentress; 01-04-2010 at 18:40.
This is just too easy for Higgins!
His international record is brilliant as well
He is certainly making a mess of most Premier League Defences,
I would be very interested to see what his actual underlying CA/PA are, but i have always flatly refused to download any aids or editors,
However for this player i may have a peek once his Career is on its last legs i.e. Hopefully when he is 38 and just scored his 3000th career goal
Well maybe just a bit
Got a couple of potential candidates for this on the go. One of them is a real-life player too.
Currently managing Venezia and have just finished the 2011/2012 season securing a second successive promotion meaning I'll be in Serie B next year. It's pretty much all thanks to the strike partnership I've managed to forge at the club.
The first player is Federico Carraro. He found himself out in the cold at Fiorentina having never played a single game for them and following my promotion into Serie C1A, and a partnership agreement with Fiorentina, I managed to bring him in on loan.
The second player is a regen, also from Fiorentina, Emiliano Gai. He came into the footballing world in 2010/11 and played just once for Fiorentina (having an abysmal game with a 5.80 rating). His attributes are unbelievable, especially for this level, and in the summer of 2011 I managed to bag him on a free transfer.
They've forged an unbelievable partnership together in their first season at the club, and already list each other as 'preferred personnel'. Both are also capped at Italy U21 level.
The stats are:
Carraro - Played 42, Scored 50, Assisted 26
Gai - Played 41, Scored 49, Assisted 21
The next move is to sign Carraro on a full-time deal and keep the duo together in Serie B, as they'll still tear the league apart. My only worry is that compared to other record holders they may be late starters at 19 and 18 respectively. Lost out on a couple of vital years there.
Well Chris Higgins has just scored his 655th Career goal (aged 23), and in doing so has managed to pass Oswaldo Even in the all time list from the 1st page,
He is also rapidly coming up on 100 International Goals as well, His output here should be helped by the fact i have now taken the England Job so can unashamadly make him the centre of everything for England as well as Tottenham
Next Stop 1000 Goals and beyond
Last edited by PVentress; 02-04-2010 at 16:20.
Still plodding steadily () along, is Paul Spence. With 169 goals in the 60 games he played, he dropped under 3 a game, but it's still a phenomenal return for someone in his 30s. His physical stats are beginning to drop, but even a pace of 13 should keep him in decent positions in this league. Still as sharp a finisher as ever though, so the chances he does get are being put away regularly. An injury in mid-April hampered his season, and probably took his last chance at a 180 season away, but if he can keep above 150 for the next 2 seasons then 3000 has to be a real possibility. No contract worries either; he's staying until he's 38 at least, under contract that is. No idea when he plans to retire. He is also closing in on 2500 goals in total for East Belfast, although with International goals he is well past that milestone and powering towards 2600.
At international level, he moved past 100 goals quickly and is now on 105 goals from 111 caps. Very close to the all-time caps record for this guy now.
Spence Season 1: 7 goals
Spence Season 2:18 goals
Spence Season 3: 94 goals
Spence Season 4: 177 goals
Spence Season 5: 285 goals
Spence Season 6: 428 goals
Spence Season 7: 604 goals
Spence Season 8 : 774 goals
Spence Season 9 : 955 goals
Spence Season 10 : 1163 goals
Spence Season 11 : 1361 goals
Spence Season 12 : 1546 goals
Spence Season 13 : 1724 goals
Spence Season 14 : 1903 goals
Spence Season 15 : 2065 goals
Spence Season 16 : 2262 goals
Spence Season 17 : 2431 goals
Paul Spence summary so far (Age 33)
Appearances: 1095
Goals: 2431
Int'l Caps: 111
Int'l Goals: 105
Total Goals: 2536
After 2000 goals
464 goals to go
Mark Stewart:
Age: 22
East Belfast Appearances: 305
East Belfast Goals: 392
Northern Ireland Caps: 27
Northern Ireland Goals: 20
Total Appearances: 332
Total Goals: 412
Nearly halfway there, and a season very disrupted by injuries didn't help him along at all.
Another good season there kroblues Just need to keep him above 150 for the next 2 seasons and you should be virtually there
'Mon the goals!
Great Season kroblues, the count down is most definately on
He looks to be about 600 behind Smylie, with maybe 5 years left (assuming he plays to 38ish) Could be attainable
I'm not even considering beating Smylie
Maybe a good ploy,
I am not sure Nep would ever forgive you
Yeah, I should probably be grateful he's not a mod if I ever beat Smylie. I'd be banned within seconds
Chris Higgins
Another season down, and what a season!!!!!
Keeping Himself Relatively injury free and tweaking the tactic even more to make it centre around him he literally tore up the Premiership, He is now probably scoring about 70% of the teams goals
He now has only 258 goals to go to reach the magical 1000 and judging by his form this season i would expect to hit that mark in the next season and a half, when he will be 25
Only one way to describe this kid and that is Legend, and i honestly think if he can sustain this and keep injury free he could be looking at a massive career total, maybe into the high 2000's
He is also going to see an increase in his international goals as i am now the manager and can use the same tactic for him on the International stage as well. Although he did reach the 100 goal mark for his country this season, which is pretty scary stuff for a 23 year old
Code:2010 - Higgins @ 16yrs old, Tottenham Games Goals Assists MOM GPG Av. Rating Age 2010/11 25(8) 23 10 8 0.69 7.55 16 2011/12 48(4) 49 15 15 0.94 7.87 17 2012/13 46(1) 60 26 19 1.28 8.28 18 2013/14 56(3) 86 19 27 1.46 8.26 19 2014/15 53 64 24 24 1.21 8.26 20 2015/16 56 120 36 37 2.14 8.97 21 2016/17 55 98 38 37 1.80 8.89 22 2017/18 59 138 30 42 2.33 9.03 23 Total 398(16) 638 198 209 1.54 England Games Goals Assists MOM GPG Av. Rating Age 2011/12 1 0 0 0 0 5.70 17 2012/13 8 8 6 2 1.00 8.27 18 2013/14 6(2) 7 5 1 1.00 8.17 19 2014/15 9(1) 12 5 6 1.20 8.53 20 2015/16 11 20 10 9 1.82 9.07 21 2016/17 10 25 9 7 2.50 9.10 22 2017/18 11 32 3 7 2.91 9.08 23 Total 56(3) 104 38 32 1.76 Career Total Games Goals Assists MOM GPG 454(19) 742 236 241 1.57
Last edited by PVentress; 03-04-2010 at 09:06.
****ing hell PV!
At this rate, Gareth Black's international records are going to be smashed!
He is Pretty Special
What is Gareth Black's record?
I am hoping that he is going to challenge Keirrisons Career record by Santy001, but i think Spence and Smylie are a step to far,
But he is without doubt the best player i have ever seen on any version of this game,
For a forward he has 20's in almost all key attributes, and all his Goals have come at the very highest level, Premiership, Champions League, Internationals etc
Last edited by PVentress; 03-04-2010 at 09:36.
Well just finished Playing through the 2018 World Cup Finals!!!
In which Higgins hit 17 Goals as England Claimed the Trophy
Not a Bad Start to the Race, and quickly moves him up to 114 Goals in 64 Caps
Fookin hell, Higgins is flying through the goals. 2000 has to be a real possibility now, although in the Premiership I imagine the goals may start falling off once his physical attributes begin to drop.
I tend to agree kroblues, I think he is peaking early and will then decline early, much like Michael Owen i would suggest as he relys very much on speed and trickery for his edge.
Hope i am wrong but i think that by the time he is 32ish he will be struggling to maintain his goal output,
Still, even if his goals fall by 50% he may be getting more than 50 a season, and if he does that for say, the last 5 years of his career, that's around 250 goals. Plus it's maybe only 2 seasons until he gets to 1000 in total, so I'd say 2000 has to be a minimum target.
Your Probably right kroblues,
If he can continue at around 150 a season till he is 31/32 that should put him at about 2100,
So i would be thinking that 2500 would be a realistic target
2608 goals for Paul Spence in total, and with 109 international goals, that means he is only 1 goal away from 2500 for East Belfast
At least, that is if my maths is right.
Even at age 34, he's still going along at 150+ per season. Certainly helped by the terrible standard of the N.I league meaning that his physical attributes going through the floor didn't affect him too much. He's not looking like destroying teams too often now, but he's usually acummulating 2 or 3 per game and then cutting loose against the weaker teams. His 166 goals in 65 appearances this season has certainly helped him in his quest for the mystical 3000 goals, and he passed 2500 goals for East Belfast this season, a remarkable achievement.
On the international stage he is still plowing along, moving on to 119 caps and 114 goals, another ridiculous achievement considering the relative weakness of Northern Ireland. He is probably aided by the fact that he has played with 7 of the first team at some point, and 4 of them still remain at East Belfast, including his strike partner now for both club and country, Mark Stewart. He is now level on caps with Pat Jennings, and one more appearance will be enough to ensure he captures yet another record in this astonishing career.
Spence Season 1: 7 goals
Spence Season 2:18 goals
Spence Season 3: 94 goals
Spence Season 4: 177 goals
Spence Season 5: 285 goals
Spence Season 6: 428 goals
Spence Season 7: 604 goals
Spence Season 8 : 774 goals
Spence Season 9 : 955 goals
Spence Season 10 : 1163 goals
Spence Season 11 : 1361 goals
Spence Season 12 : 1546 goals
Spence Season 13 : 1724 goals
Spence Season 14 : 1903 goals
Spence Season 15 : 2065 goals
Spence Season 16 : 2262 goals
Spence Season 17 : 2431 goals
Spence Season 18 : 2597 goals
Paul Spence summary so far (Age 34)
Appearances: 1160
Goals: 2597
Int'l Caps: 119
Int'l Goals: 114
Total Goals: 2711
After 2000 goals
289 goals to go
Maybe only 2 good seasons away from the milestone, which would be unbelievable. If he plays until age 38 he needs to average just over 70 goals per season, which seems very attainable. To do the unthinkable and beat Smylie, he would need to average nearly 110 goals per season, which while unlikely, is becoming more and more plausible by the season. Please don't kill me, Nep
Mark Stewart:
Age: 23
East Belfast Appearances: 363
East Belfast Goals: 466
Northern Ireland Caps: 34
Northern Ireland Goals: 23
Total Appearances: 397
Total Goals: 489
Almost there kroubles, just one last push now!!
Great Stuff from Spence there kroblues, the record could be his!!!!!
Chris Higgins
Another Solid Season, but was really hindered by injuries, he missed about 2 months in total and at busy times so around 15-20 games, he really needs to be injury free if he is going to get to the 2000's as i hope, Still only 122 goals to go till the 1000 so barring any further injury problems that should happen next season at 25 and then we will have to see how he can kick on
Code:2010 - Higgins @ 16yrs old, Tottenham Games Goals Assists MOM GPG Av. Rating Age 2010/11 25(8) 23 10 8 0.69 7.55 16 2011/12 48(4) 49 15 15 0.94 7.87 17 2012/13 46(1) 60 26 19 1.28 8.28 18 2013/14 56(3) 86 19 27 1.46 8.26 19 2014/15 53 64 24 24 1.21 8.26 20 2015/16 56 120 36 37 2.14 8.97 21 2016/17 55 98 38 37 1.80 8.89 22 2017/18 59 138 30 42 2.33 9.03 23 2018/19 49(1) 106 29 27 2.12 8.96 24 Total 447(17) 744 227 236 1.60 England Games Goals Assists MOM GPG Av. Rating Age 2011/12 1 0 0 0 0 5.70 17 2012/13 8 8 6 2 1.00 8.27 18 2013/14 6(2) 7 5 1 1.00 8.17 19 2014/15 9(1) 12 5 6 1.20 8.53 20 2015/16 11 20 10 9 1.82 9.07 21 2016/17 10 25 9 7 2.50 9.10 22 2017/18 11 32 3 7 2.91 9.08 23 2018/19 13 30 9 9 2.31 9.01 24 Total 69(3) 134 47 41 1.86 Career Total Games Goals Assists MOM GPG 516(20) 878 274 277 1.64
Any 100 goal season is a good one really, especially as to get 2000 he needs to average that over 20 years, and as he's coming up to what should be his best years, he has a real chance at it.
Mental strike rate really, especially for England! His and Marc's international records are pretty similar and at similar ages, should be a good race to Danny Robert's international totals
The Countdown is most definately on for Chris Higgins,
Following his last game, 99 goals to go to the Magic 1000
Seems Higgins could almost definitely pass Keirrison. The problem I had with Keirrison, is my chairman accepted a bid from real madrid, so I lost him for 2 years in which time he only scored 60/70 goals I think maybe a bit more. It took me 2 years to get him back and he came back on fire. I've got a new PC coming soon and then I'll get Keirrison to see out the twilight years of his career. Having stepped down as Brazil manager to pick up Leigh Stones international career has been a bit damaging. I also really need to sort his career out too, he's not even 20 yet and breezed past 200 goals already if memory serves.
If hes ever to fulfill his potential, he needs Keirrison to retire, but he's still averaging almost 2 goals a game at 35/36. I am spending huge amounts to keep the team at the very peak around Keirrison to keep him banging them in. I will see out Keirrisons career soon as I get my new PC.
Good man santy, been wondering recently whether Keirrison was ever going to return
I'm actually quite near the end of my current season, and will be looking for a top prospect when the season is up, for who I can get a nice amount of goals with.
I'm off work on Tuesday, and will update the thread with all the new goals tally's etc then.
I'm afraid i'm sitting on the fence here, i'm not hoping that Spence beats it, i'm not hoping that he doesn't get it.
What i'm hoping for is for the 2 great men to finish on exactly the same number of goals. Now that would be the stuff of legend, wouldn't it?!
If he ever gets to 3,145 I'll stop playing him. If he ever gets there.
The one thing that will always have crippled Smylies career is Nep never being NI manager. Despite Keirrison getting a rather substantial amount of caps for Brazil, he wasn't a regular in the side up until he was 26/27 so he suffered too a bit in that regard. I suspect his twilight years will be the same as Smylies, still capable of performing but because of his age and dwindling CA he won't get selected. I'm hoping to keep Keirrison going until he's 40 or so, with very careful management I've prolonged some players careers to their early 40's in other saves on 09.
You shouldn't stop him if he gets there Kroblues, if someone is in the position to beat Nep then they should take it out of respect for the achievement lol.
Yeah, if you get there, and don't beat it on purpose, I will hunt you down and punch you square in the nuts.
Maybe I'll get him to 3,144 and just stop playing for a while, torture you all some more.
Or, I could, y'know, play him in a few more games (and knowing my luck he'd hit the mother of all goal droughts )
Just as a point of reference, Smylie only scored 200 (ish) goals after the age of 34. So he was already into the 2,900 mark at that stage. Doesn't bode well for Spence, but you never know. As long as you can keep him from retiring, you have a good chance
Well, he's got almost 100 this season And I'm only in February, so maybe another 150 goal season is a possibility. His stats except for the physical attributes are all staying more or less constant, so he's still scoring quite a few.
Edit: 115 goals now and up to the middle of March. So he's up with the average to beat Smylie for this season at least.
Last edited by kroblues; 11-04-2010 at 17:43.
He's 35, and barely slowing down at all. Even if he did drop below 150 goals for the first time in a while this season, but he was very close to reaching that milestone again. 143 goals in his 66 appearances this year meant he was well above the goals per season target I set him in order to beat Smylie, assuming he had 4 seasons left in him. He also cut the distance to 3000 goals in half this year, something that makes his becoming the 2nd member of the 3000 goals club much more likely, provided he doesn't shock me with an early retirement, which, as he's playing in more or less every game, shouldn't be too likely, touch wood.
For Northern Ireland, he passed the record caps mark, making him truly the greatest player to don the green shirt. With another 3 goals, he is steadily accumulating on the world stage too.
Spence Season 1: 7 goals
Spence Season 2:18 goals
Spence Season 3: 94 goals
Spence Season 4: 177 goals
Spence Season 5: 285 goals
Spence Season 6: 428 goals
Spence Season 7: 604 goals
Spence Season 8 : 774 goals
Spence Season 9 : 955 goals
Spence Season 10 : 1163 goals
Spence Season 11 : 1361 goals
Spence Season 12 : 1546 goals
Spence Season 13 : 1724 goals
Spence Season 14 : 1903 goals
Spence Season 15 : 2065 goals
Spence Season 16 : 2262 goals
Spence Season 17 : 2431 goals
Spence Season 18 : 2597 goals
Spence Season 19 : 2740 goals
Paul Spence summary so far (Age 35)
Appearances: 1226
Goals: 2740
Int'l Caps: 123
Int'l Goals: 117
Total Goals: 2857
After 2000 goals
143 goals to go, 289 to beat Smylie
Maybe only one good season away from 3000 goals, and if he plays until age 38, he will need to average just over 90 goals per season to beat Smylie, which is doable, depending on how he declines.
Mark Stewart:
Age: 24
East Belfast Appearances: 430
East Belfast Goals: 558
Northern Ireland Caps: 38
Northern Ireland Goals: 28
Total Appearances: 468
Total Goals: 586
He's over the 500 mark, and well before his peak, so 1000 should be an easy target, in theory.
Still smashing in the goals and could reach the 3,000 in the next season!
Fantastic work kroblues


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I don't seem to be able to visualize tensors. I am reading The Morgan Kauffman Game Physics Engine Development and he uses tensors to represent aerodynamics but he doesn't explain them so I am not really able to visualize them. Please explain in very simple ways. I just want to understand the basics.
You can look at tensor as a data file. The most important thing is not to visualize it but to understand what each element of this file means, and how to transform this file from one system (system of coordinates) to another.
Visualization here can be done in two steps:
In this day and age, people tend to be less able to visualize things; so look back to older books on the subject which are full of good and easy-to-grasp analogies. The older the book, the better.
First check out, Landau Lifshitz Volume 2 "Theory of Fields". At the end of the book, in the chapter about "General relativity and tensors", it will have the information I am referring to.
I'm not quite certain, but you can also check out a very good general book about physics which is called "Motion mountain". It should have chapter on tensors. It's free and you can download it from the web.
Thank you for thinking about this message.
From your context, I will restrict attention to tensors in 3 dimensions and in rectangular coordinates, where there is no distinction between up and down indices, no distinction between covectors and vectors.
The tensor visualization methods pretty much crap out at above 4 indices. At this point, I don't know how to visualize. I assume you are interested in low rank tensors.
First, review this answer: What is a tensor?. A 2-tensor is a vector of vectors, that is a vector each of whose components are vectors. A 3-tensor is a vector of 2-tensors, etc.
The way to visualize a 2-tensor is in terms of its invariant parts, there's the antisymmetric part:
$$ {1\over 2} (T_{ab} - T_{ba})$$
and the symmetric part:
$$ {1\over 2} (T_{ab} + T_{ba})$$
The antisymmetric part is a vector, actually an axial vector, and you can rearrange it into a vector, and visualize it this way:
$$ V_i = \epsilon_{ijk} T_{jk}$$
So I will assume your 2-tensors are symmetric. The symmetric part is further decomposable into a trace part, and a traceless part:
$$ T = T_{aa} $$ $$ T_{ab} - {1\over 3} T $$
One way to visualize these tensors is in terms of three orthogonal vectors A,B,C which have the property that:
$$ A_i A_j + B_i B_j + C_i C_j = T_{ij}$$
The directions A,B,C are called the principal axes, and the tensor is entirely defined by their direction, and the magnitude of A,B,C. The trace part is the sum of the magnitude of A,B,C. The transformation to the principal axes is diagonalizing a 3 by 3 matrix by a rotation
Examples of two tensors are the stress tensor, the moment of inertia, and the coefficients of a quadratic potential. The stress tensor is not so great to visualize with principal axes, the other two are.
The way to visualize the stress tensor is just to look at it as three vectors side by side in a matrix, each of which is a separate current. These are the currents of the x,y,z momentum as it flows around.
For rank 3 tensors, there are decompositions, but they aren't as useful for visualization. If two of the indices are antisymmetric, you can turn them into a single index, but this wrecks parity. For these, you can use one example, which will guide you--- the connection.
A three tensor $T_{abc}$ has the property that when acting on a vector, it is a two tensor, or a map from vectors to vectors. So this associates a linear map with each direction. You can visualize a three tensor as giving you an infinitesimal linear transformation for each direction, in a way that depends linearly on the direction. This visualization is probably good for any 3-tensor you will encounter.
For rank 4 tensors, there are two examples to guide your intuition:
A rank 4 tensor takes rank 2 tensors to rank 2 tensors. The stress is a rank two tensor, and so is the strain ( the partial derivative of the new position of a solid $X_i$ with respect to the old position $x_j$). The way to view rank 4 tensors is as these type of linear relations between two-tensors, usually symmetric.
The best interpretation is always to find the right linear map to visualize. This is why mathematicians define tensors by the linear map properties, even though every tensor has a lot of different linear maps. You should take it on a case by case basis.
Tensors are abstract algebraic or differential geometric objects (in the latter case we're actually talking about tensor-valued fields) which are made from 'products' of vectors and covectors.
There's no tangible explanation for what a tensor is because the concept is so general that tensors can fill very different roles:
Any linear map is an element of a tensor space as well as volume and surface elements, the cross product of vectors generalizes to the wedge product of anti-symmetric tensors (or, depending on use-case, a Lie bracket, but that's unrelated), the laws of general relativity are expressed in terms of tensor calculus (energy-momentum-tensor, metric tensor, Ricci tensor, ...), compound system in quantum mechanics are modeled as tensor spaces (the bosonic and fermionic Fock spaces of second quantization are a special case of that), the electric and magnetic fields are components of the electromagnetic field tensor, ...
There's not much you can do except familiarize yourself with the abstract definitions and rules and look into the geometric interpretation of particular tensors.
You could probably do a lot worse than taking a look at the video "What's a Tensor?" by Daniel Fleische on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5liqUk0ZTw
He gives a nicely visual, but maths-lite answer to that question by using children's blocks, small arrows, a couple of pieces of cardboard and a pointed stick.


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6 Movie Good Guys You Didn't Notice Were Total Hypocrites
Heroic movie characters stand up for what they feel is right, and they stick to those beliefs in situations that would leave most of us forsaking every oath we've ever sworn and tossing our loved ones to the ground as obstacles while we flee to safety. However, in some cases the hero spends the entire film spouting ideological rhetoric only to cash it in like a two-dollar scratch ticket the moment it gets in the way of accomplishing his or her goals.
#6. Morpheus in The Matrix Fights Against Slavery, Has an Army of Child Soldiers
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What He's All About:
The Matrix teaches us the powerful lesson that being enslaved by robots would suck the eternal ball sack of gangrenous horror. So right now, as a unified people, let's agree to not let that happen.
Anyway, in the films, Morpheus leads a small resistance force comprised of men and women who have been freed from the machines' enslavement program to rise up and fight for their right to lead lives of freedom, choice, and non-liquefaction into robot-feeding jelly. Everyone deserves to be in control of their own fate, and no living thing should be subjected to the whims of a powerful overlord.
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"Although it is important that we all match."
Except ...
The entire resistance in The Matrix is made up of brainwashed child soldiers.
Think about it -- when Neo is recovering from getting his brain unplugged from the robots' Dream Machine, Morpheus explains to him that he and his fellow rebels "never free a mind once it's reached a certain age. It's dangerous. The mind has trouble letting go." Zion evidently doesn't subscribe to the teachings of En Vogue.
Basically, Morpheus is saying that adults tend to have trouble letting go of the Matrix (this becomes a major plot point when a member of their team betrays them for the opportunity to get plugged back in). So they recruit kids, because kids are more impressionable, more willing to take up an idealistic cause, and more pliable -- they can be handed weapons and told to kill something without asking too many questions. They are then tossed into a world of violence and strife and told that their lives can have only one path (death to all robots). Which is slavery. Which is the thing Morpheus is supposed to be fighting against.
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"Your name is Router. What's your name?"
"... Phil."
If what Morpheus tells Neo is true, he had to have built his entire army out of juveniles, which is an implication that the movie never directly addresses. The closest we get is Mouse, who looks like he's about 14 and is horribly shot to death about 80 minutes into the movie.
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Definitely not the first time he's leaked bodily fluids on that chair.
And allow us to recap how the recruitment process begins -- some people in black trench coats show up unannounced in the middle of the night and offer a young person a mystery pill. You know who else gives kids drugs and enlists them to fight ideological wars? Some of the worst people in the entire goddamn world. There's a reason the International Labor Organization considers underage soldiering a form of slavery, and it's because kids are too young to properly understand the choice they're making (or being told to make). Besides, we have to believe that if they knew how the second and third movies would turn out, most of them would have told Morpheus to shove that red pill as far up his urethra as science will allow and plugged themselves right back into the giant robot Slurpee machine to await blessedly ignorant oblivion.
On a similar note ...
#5. V in V for Vendetta Fights Brainwashing With Brainwashing
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What He's All About:
V is a former government test subject who gained super strength and a bizarrely self-indulgent cadence as the result of a top-secret experiment gone horribly wrong. After suffering years of brutal mental and physical torture meant to conform him to the fascist Norsefire Party (led by a stylishly dystopian John Hurt), V returns to destroy the evil that created him and free England from their oppressive regime.
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There's something about fascism that draws in the best designers.
Except ...
In order to enlist Evey (Natalie Portman) to his cause, V traps her in a room and subjects her to the exact same torture he went through so that she might understand how terrible the Norsefire Party is for herself. That's right -- the renegade freedom fighter determined to topple a vile totalitarian government that uses fear and brutality to brainwash its followers is using fear and brutality to brainwash his followers. So ... what's his justification there? That harsh brutality is excusable when done in the service of a greater good?
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"It's integral to the cause that no one have better hair than me."
Because, you know, that's the exact reasoning Norsefire uses as justification for subjugating all of England. Both V and Norsefire use the same methods to create acolytes for their cause -- the only difference is that V is slightly better at it.
We understand that Norsefire is the worst thing to happen to England since Robbie Williams, and that it must be brought down in order for people to be free of the chains of oppression that dictate their thoughts and actions. However, it takes time to change people's minds and win support for your cause -- Gandhi didn't get the British out of India in a year, but that's the ultimatum V has given the citizenry of England: join him before he blows up Parliament. If the only way you can successfully re-educate people is through force, applied via kidnapping and torture, perhaps it is time to re-evaluate your priorities. Oh, and you're probably also the bad guy.
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Just in case nothing about his appearance suggested as much.
#4. The Hero in How to Train Your Dragon Says Not to Kill Dragons, Kills the Dragon King
What He's All About:
How to Train Your Dragon tells the story of the Viking village of Berk, whose inhabitants are constantly at war with the dragons who swoop in and destroy their shit and eat their livestock. But the hero of the movie, Hiccup, is a nerdy kid who manages to trap a dragon and tame it. The dragon even lets him ride it around, and the rest of the movie is about Hiccup and his pet dragon trying to convince the rest of the village that humans and dragons don't need to be at war. Dragons are people too!
"Who are they to judge me? They name their kids after bodily functions ... no offense."
Except ...
So how does Hiccup and his pet dragon eventually get this point across? By heroically murdering another dragon.
At the end of the film, a hulking superdragon called the Red Death emerges to lay waste to everything in its path. And Hiccup, after spending the entire movie lecturing his Viking brethren about nonviolence and the benefits of working with dragons instead of cleaving them out of the sky, perforates the Red Death's wings and sends it rocketing to the Earth in a five-megaton dragonflesh explosion:
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Granted, maybe taming that one wouldn't be quite as easy as scratching it behind the ears (which is how Hiccup got the last one to submit), but Hiccup makes absolutely no attempt to communicate with the Red Death in any way. In fact, he leads an army of dragons into battle to destroy it. Rather than implement any part of the stubbornly nonviolent mantra he spent the previous 90 minutes advocating, Hiccup wads all of his followers into a ball of howling righteous murder and flings it into the dragon's face.
Remember, training dragons is the whole point of the movie. It's right there in the title. Everything Hiccup does is in service to the idea that any fight can be resolved with patience and understanding, except for the one time he is forced to deal with one of the creatures maligned by the prejudices of his people. And what does he do? He immediately decides to rip it free from this plane of existence while accompanied by a triumphant orchestral score.
The moral? Nonviolence and understanding are great, as long as it's not difficult or dangerous at all.


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Red Alert! The dreaded casino virus has hit the shores of Somerset carried by the current of the Taunton River from Fall River. The infection has hit at the highest levels as a possible pathway to the promised land of milk and honey.
Venturing forth as a first step to investigate the possibility, viability, sustainability and profitability of a casino in Somerset (Wilbur Avenue land) as an answer to our financial dilemma, it was proposed the town have an expert in that field provide guidance for going in that direction as a first step. Keep in mind that Foxwoods has closed a portion of its casino for lack of customers, Newport Grand is running on a shoestring, Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods are laying off workers, Showboat and Revel in Atlantic City are shutting down completely and our state is coming into the game for a piece of that shrinking pie (disposable income). And don't forget the local mom and pop businesses that would take a hit. I would think that as a first step before asking anyone outside of our town should be to ask the people who live here what they think of the idea.
South Somerset is already choked with traffic from commercial establishments, two bridges, a power plant that has been emitting black soot and God knows what for the past 30 years, two ugly Chernobyl-styled cement stacks, a foul-smelling wastewater treatment plant, a highway barn, a waste transfer station, an abandoned and closed Wilbur School and not one newly paved street to be seen south of Wilbur Avenue.
Please come up with a better plan; the casino idea is absolutely ridiculous. We thought that destroying the people's open space and a local farmer's crop of sweet corn in favor of solar panels to make money was bad enough, but is there anywhere in the quest for more income where the quality of life for the people who live here fit into the equation? Sadly, it appears at this point there is not.
Leo E. Parent
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Along the North Carolina BBQ Trail I stoped at Smiley's Pit Cooked Barbecue.
Smiley's has been making pit cooked BBQ for over 50 years. They use hickory wood. They have changed ownership a couple of times but the food has always been NC BBQ. I found something different at this particular BBQ joint you could ask for half brown pork. Half brown to them means with bark. Options you can ask for are chopped or sliced. The tables and benches haven't changed in years. Its got a really nice comfortable vibe to it. Sepping back in time its like going to visit an old friend. They also have curbside service outside. Apparently all you have to do is honk the horn and people come to you. This is new to me as I am only used to drive thru windows and the drive up menus at Sonic. Overall condiments on the table are kept very simple. Texas Pete, lemon juice and their vinegar based sauce (dip) . I never did ask what the lemon juice was for but I am guessing the sweet tea.
This pit is only used a couple times yearly for events. Their other pit is inside.
Fine chopped, Coarse chopped and slices.
I enjoyed their pork chopped (both fine and coarse) with bark. I also thoroughly enjoyed their super moist pork slices. Great flavor and a distinctive texture. I really liked the fact that smoke was a definite ingredient. It also wasn't mushy at all. The texture was more firm but very silky. The slaw was really pleasing to eat. Tangy and refreshing. I loved their "dip" – it was a great balance of tangy vinegar, sweet, peppery and a bit tomato from the ketchup. There is something else in that dip I just can't put my finger on it and they are not offering up their secrets It really complimented the pork and was super finely chopped. I didn't have to add anything to the pork. When it came I ate and I didn't think it needed anything else. The pork made me smile it was so good. Just a couple of bites in and I had to stop myself. I had other joints to visit as well. Hard to put the fork down.
I got to meet the proud owner Steve Yountz. Great guy. Super friendly. Glad I got to talk with him about his passion for BBQ. They take a lot of pride in their shoulders everyday.
The hush puppies had a nice sweet corn flavor – they were not greasy at all. There was nothing bad about them but I found them to be very dense and heavy. Unique shape (saw these many times in NC ever anywhere else this shape) versus the typical round hush puppies in most other BBQ locations.
I am really glad I stopped here and Ill be back again for sure to eat. Loved the balance of vinegar and peppery goodness. The staff were all amazingly sweet and friendly. A great place to chow down on some NC BBQ. One of my NC favorites for sure.
Smiley's Lexington BBQ
917 Winston Rd.
Lexington, NC 27295
HOURS: Tuesday – Sunday 6:00 am till 9:00 PM


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Theft: Bike in the 400 block of Union Avenue, Friday.
Needle found: Hypodermic needle found in front of house in the 800 block of Oakmont Avenue, Friday.
Vandalism: Fire hydrant knocked over by vehicle at North Eight and Franklin streets, Friday.
Vandalism: Front door to residence kicked open in the 300 block of Woodlawn Road, Friday.
Cited Amanda M. Rogers, 25, 1380 county Road 42, Toronto, one way street violation; and Zachary M. France, 20, 2035 Commercial St., Mingo Junction, failure to control.
Arrested: Breianne I. Capteina, 25, 999 McKinley Ave., bench warrant and domestic violence warrants out of municipal court, Friday.
Arrested: Zakary D. Yeager, 22, 905 Adams St., failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, Friday.
Arrested: Howard M. Starkey, 41, 329 N. Sixth St., violation of protection order, Friday.
Arrested: Alysia Stabile-Stanley, 36, 1509 Foster Place, failure to appear warrant out of municipal court and possession of drugs, Friday.
Arrested: Tiphany Stabile, 30, 731 Oakmont Ave., possession of heroin and possession of drug abuse instrument, Friday.
Arrested: William McGee, 33, 626 Oregon Ave., domestic violence, Friday.
Arrested: Daniel Kenefick, 32, 115 Welday Ave., domestic violence, Saturday.
Arrested: Robert Kelly, 32, 12211 state Route 43, Amsterdam, failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, Saturday.
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Arrested: Donald Carpenter, 39, 203 Clifton Ave., Mingo Junction, operating a vehicle under the influence, driving with suspended license, speeding, fictitious registration, obstructing official business and violation of protection order, Saturday.
Jefferson County sheriff
Cited: Myron M. Jones, 23, 1412 Euclid Ave., Steubenville, possession of marijuana.


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As the title says, is there a way to increase the limit of 20 multicast groups that you can join on a given socket? Is there some system setting that I am missing or is there some hard limit which cannot be exceeded?
Well, incase someone is searching for this, the following parameter exists:
Currently my install says 20, in the sources, I also see:
I think bumping up the system parameter may be enough, else will have to patch the header as well!
EDIT: looks like bumping up the system parameter does the trick.