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When I see a new accelerator in real life or on a picture, I always find it interesting to see how many thing I can recognize. In that way, I can also get a small first idea of how the accelerator is working. Here is a picture, I have taken of LEIR at CERN
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STEUBENVILLE - The Belleview Pool will not open in 2013, the victim of budget cuts by the city as officials work to eliminate an $822,968 general fund deficit by Dec. 31.
City Manager Cathy Davison said Wednesday night the parks and recreation board agreed earlier in the evening "to not open the pool next year."
The decision was made during a one-hour-and-45-minute executive session that included Davison, three members of the recreation board and the three City Council recreation committee members.
During a 15-minute public session, Davison reviewed the city's budget forecast for the remainder of the year and noted the recreation department has long been an integral part of the general fund and the city.
"But it is very difficult for the city to earn income. The only way for us is through the city income tax, the operating levy and some fees. We are now receiving very little revenue from the state through the Local Government Funds and right now it appears we will only receive $167,000. We used to receive more than $1 million," Davison told the recreation board members.
"Statutorily we have to have a balanced budget by the end of the year. And we will not be carrying any cash over into next year. As of Oct. 31 we are forecasting a carry-over deficit of $62,044 into 2013," Davison added.
"We have had conversations with the YMCA about a managing partnership for the pool but have not heard a proposal back from the YMCA. (Recreation Director) Troy (Kirkendall) has done an excellent job operating on a shoestring. We saw a loss of $61,305.15 at the pool in 2012. The city's general fund has been picking up the loss each year but we can't continue that," said Davison.
She also cited a projected $236,109.40 operating loss at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center this year.
"The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local union also says that all part-time employees must be laid off before a full-time employee is laid off. We fought that issue last year and a grievance was taken to arbitration. But we have part-time employees at the MLK Center who may be affected," Davison said.
At that point the recreation board moved into an executive session to discuss personnel and heard an objection from city resident Lori Mason.
"I protest the executive session because you are violating Ohio's Sunshine Law. You are discussing a position and not a person," Mason told the board.
"I talked to the law director and he said we could move into an executive session to discuss personnel. This is legal," replied Davison.
Davison was scheduled to meet this morning with the city board of health to discuss the health department's budget.
"We are looking at different ways we can collaborate with the county. We are looking at our health department. We have not yet held formal discussions with the Jefferson County Health Department. A decision must be made by the city's board of health," Davison said earlier this week.
She was set to meet today with the AFSCME Local 2015 representatives.
And Davison is set to meet in a closed-door executive session at 5 p.m. today with City Council to continue reviewing the forecasted general fund deficit and the 2013 budget.
"We are looking at the reduction of five to seven jobs. First we will look at reducing the jobs through attrition. We have a number of city employees with 20 years or more service. Because of the changes in the state pension plans, some employees are considering their retirement options now as opposed to continue working. If we don't see enough employees retire we will have to look at layoffs," Davison has said.
"I am also asking for authorization to go with Ohio Rural Community Assistance Program for a study of our water rates and the possibility of restructuring those rates. There is a possibility the Ohio Water Development Authority could come in and change our rates if they determine we cannot make our debt service payments and not carry a deficit," Davison cited.
"And we are looking at changes in the water fund. We are looking at changing our collection process. We currently use Capital Recovery Systems but are considering a law firm collection agency that has the ability to take delinquent accounts to court in order to collect those accounts," said Davison.
"We are facing hard times. Difficult decisions have to be made. Jefferson County is starting to prosper but the city isn't seeing the financial impact. Jefferson County has the third highest unemployment rate in the state. And looking at the unemployment rate on a county-by-county basis, Jefferson County had a higher unemployment rate in September than each of our surrounding counties," Davison said Tuesday.


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Chronic inflammation is the root cause of many serious illnesses – including heart disease, many cancers, and Alzheimer's disease. Several causes of inflammation are due to a poor diet and sedentary lifestyle. Keeping your diet low in sugar reduces inflammation by keeping blood-sugar levels in check. To avoid inflammation, cut out all processed and refined foods such as white flour found in pastries, cookies, white pasta and breads. Cut out excessive sugar from sodas, candy and all artificial sweeteners. Eliminate fast foods, saturated fats and trans fats.
To keep away from inflammation, choose a variety of fresh and wholesome foods. Eat foods from all parts of the color spectrum, especially berries, orange and yellow fruits and vegetables, and dark leafy greens such as kale, spinach, and collard greens. Whole fruits, berries and vegetables are all rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants and photochemicals. Make sure you consume at least 5 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily. Also include whole grains and healthy carbohydrates such brown rice, quinoa, oats, sweet potatoes and winter squashes. Healthy fats such as omega-3 fatty acids are very important in reducing inflammation. Some sources of omega-3 fatty acids include avocados, nuts, extra virgin olive oil, salmon, sardines, omega-3 fortified eggs, hemp seeds and flax seeds. Also, flavor your food with hot spices such as curry, ginger, garlic, and chili pepper.
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Tree in MULTI selection mode does not catches SelectionChangedEvent in some case.
1. Create a tree with MULTI selection mode.
2. Select 2-3 items with ctrl or shift keys.
3. Select one of selected items by clicking on it (without ctrl/shift keys) (so other selected items are deselected now)
SelectionHandler catches SelectionEvent, but
SelectionChangedHandler DOES NOT catches SelectionChangedEvent, though selection has obviously changed.
The same actions with ListView work fine.
Neither ListView's nor Tree's BeforeSelectionHandler does not catch BeforeSelectionEvent if the component is not in the SINGLE selection mode. Is that as designed or a bug?
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Thanks for reporting this - we've made a fix to resolve this in SVN, which will be available in the next release.
As you noted, it worked correctly in the ListView, because the ComboBox was looking to see if the active item was non-null. Instead, the ComboBox checks if the *list* of selected items is empty to decide if nothing has been selected so that null objects can be selected.
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The bug still exists in GXT 3.0.6. I found a workaround and I posted it here: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?268363.


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The 5 Most Insane Celebrity Comic Book Cameos
Every so often, famous folks appear in comic books to lend some real-world veracity to the spandex-clad antics. Sometimes the cameo works and everyone has clean, kitschy fun. Other times the cameo fucks up the plot beyond all comprehension.
These are some of those "other times."
#5. Jay Leno meets Spider-Man (2002)
Superheroes and late night TV hosts have a curious history of teaming up to fight evil. The Avengers guest-starred on Letterman, and the cast of Saturday Night Live joined Spider-Man in defeating the Silver Samurai.
These unlikely team-ups combined two great tastes that don't seem to go together, but, like Nutella and Jagermeister, somehow make perfect sense when you're absolutely shitfaced.
In July 2002, Marvel Comics debuted Jay Leno & Spider-Man: One Night Only. Marvel presumably created this three-part crossover to capitalize on the release of the Spider-Man feature film, but why they chose Leno to be the star is anyone's guess. You wouldn't think Leno's audience of senior citizens would overlap much with audience for Spider-Man on the Venn diagram.
Where it goes wrong ...
We have to start with One Night Only's criminally ridiculous plot, wherein Spider-Man and Leno team up to film a General Motors commercial, then get attacked by ninjas. What the hell help is Jay Leno going to be in a ninja fight? Couldn't they, say, have them attacked by a race of aliens whose only vulnerability is really stale monologues and awkward, polite laughter?
No, instead we get a 52-year-old Jay Leno practicing kung fu on a ninja-defeating level:
Don't bother trying to find this comic in stores. Marvel divided it into three parts and tucked it non-sequentially at end of random serieses during summer 2002. This is bad for the 2.5 of you who actually wanted to read this turd, but good for the rest of us who avoided accidentally running across it.
And to make things worse ...
The writers tantalized us with a promising homoerotic subtext, yet for some reason chose not to pursue it.


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TEMPLE (October 11, 2012)—The city of Temple, in cooperation with Waste Management-Temple Landfill, Keep Temple Beautiful, Inc., and the Central Texas Council of Governments, will be hosting a Household Hazardous Waste Collection event on Saturday.
The collection will be held from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Temple Service Center, located at 3210 East Avenue H.
Residents living in Bell, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Milam, Mills, and San Saba counties are invited to participate.
Those wishing to participate may bring a variety of materials including, but not limited to, pool chemicals, automotive batteries, transmission fluid, electronics, paints, ammonia, and brake fluid.
The waste collection event is an opportunity for residents to dispose of household hazards properly.
The event offers a better alternative to throwing the materials in your household garbage to be disposed of in the landfill or igniting in the garbage truck causing a fire.
Prohibited items for this event include infectious and medical wastes, ammunition, fire extinguishers, and explosives among other items.
For a complete list of accepted and prohibited items, contact the City of Temple Solid Waste Services at (254) 298-5725 or (254) 931-2487.


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Company officials say the fertilizer automation package will couple KBR's ammonia process technology expertise with Yokogawa's know-how of process control systems to streamline the work process, develop standard configurations and simplify interfaces between various suppliers.
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I'm very excited that we're getting a new union, but there's one thing that bugs me. We have one of the best architecture schools in the country and we need to hire an outside firm to design this? Why not have some of the architecture professors design it and save some money?Hide replies
because they don't know how to practice architecture
GO Ms. Schumacher GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like how the students are being lauded for voting for an increase in their dues to pay for this when this is how the mind of somebody in their late teens-early 20s works.
Seniors are thinking, "Yeah, go ahead and raise my dues next year."
Juniors are probably the 1 in the 3-1 who voted against it because while they pay more for dues next year, only those going to school to be doctors will be around to benefit from it.
Sophomores and Freshmen are thinking: Raise my dues? Sure. Student loans will cover that.
Great article.
I want to throw my two cents in - why can't someone figure out a way to move Harford Ave School and put a union there? That is the true heart of campus, and it's not even part of the school right now!
Excellent synopsis, Ms. Schumacher...my only concern in comparing the UWM Union to Union South at the UW is that Union South is a very small part of a very large campus, while the UWM Union will be the focal point of the entire campus. They really need to get this building "right" and not make it some sort of "point in time" albatross.
It appears that UWM is following its usual path of trying to emulate UW Madison, i.e., if Madison has a new union, UWM must have one too. Let's get real, the bulk of the dollars for a new UWM union will come from state funds, not student fees. The state simply does not have the funds for UWM's wish list, nor should taxpayers foot the bill when there are so many higher priorities, like balancing the state budget. I agree it's an ugly building, but if it's in decent shape and usable, there's no reason to tear it down and replace it--unless UWM finds a generous benfactor who will donate funds to build it.
In your first paragraph you state that students voted overwhelmingly FTP raise their fees. No, a very small percentage of students voted to raise future students fees.
Then you claim not to know a soul who would defend the current structure. I do. The current structure is still quite functional. We do not need to spend millions to replace what still works. UW-Milwaukee is a commuter school with most students living off campus. The union building is primarily a conduit to get from one building to another.
For a fraction of the replacement cost, we can upgrade the current building.Hide replies
I believe the writer gave very good reasons why the current building doesn't work.
The writer gave reasons why a new building would be nicer. Not why the current building doesn't work. There is a difference.
I don't disagree that a new building would look nice and may even function better. But the estimated cost of $160 million is too much for UW-Milwaukee students to handle. And let's face it, the real cost will end up much higher.
System upgrades to the current structure will cost less than half of the cost of a new building and will extend the life another 25 years. With additional effort, the upgrade costs can be reduced even lower.
Remember that the study supporting a new building was done by the contractor who would build the new union. This is a direct conflict of interest.
If there could be a way to fund the new building without raising the segregated fees on students, I would be for it. In fact, there is. UW Milwaukee could simply redirect fees from the student organizations and mandatory bus passes to the cost of a new union. This way, we can have the new building without the additional cost.
UWM isn't a commuter school anymore. It's becoming more of a research university and they are requiring incoming freshman to live in the dorms for 1 year. Plus, they're are other plans on trying to build and have a new Basketball arena on campus, as well as development of Northwest Quad. There are many more plans than just the union, which is inefficient for our students today. These several plans are good changes to the campus since it hasn't had any major changes in quite some time, and they're adapting to the changes UWM is overtaking as a Research University, rather than a Commuter University. Because of this, you need to create more to do on campus, and part of that is having a good union where it can be used efficiently.
@UWMarch23. So, a new basketball arena transforms UWM from a commuter school to a research university? Sure it does...LOL
@milwaukeewoman1: I never said, that the arena will transform the school from a commuter to more of a traditional university. I was simply stating that this transition is already happening, and changes to the campus reflect this change. For example, the requirement for freshman, and looking to bring basketball back on campus, and redevelopment of the union. They're trying to keep more activities on campus, to reflect this change. It's already happening, its whether or not the university will adapt with it.
UW Milwaukee has about 4,000 students living on campus with another 10,000 living in nearby neighborhoods. This means that there are still 50% of the current students who are not living on campus. I agree the campus is evolving but that doesn't mean it is becoming UW Madison.
One of the strengths of UW Milwaukee is that it provides a terrific education at a reasonable cost. But as we keep piling on fees on students, we destroy that value.
If we believe that we need this new union, then I argue the funds should come from existing segregated fees. Don't increase them and then wonder why college costs keep skyrocketing.
Why do we keep comparing UWM to Madison? UWM will never be Madison in the fact that of the allocated space, and the kinds of students they attract. They're completely different other than the fact that they're both state affiliated universities. One of the reasons UWM became a commuter school and there's only about 4250 allocated dorm/student housing is the fact that UWM has to fit within the neighborhood.
UWM is expanding its urban boundaries, and has always fought with the existing neighborhood in how much it could build and what it could build. Only recently has UWM found ways to fulfill it's needs outside of its "Campus" with the addition of the 2 new dorms. I agree, there still is a great amount of students who don't live in the surrounding area or on campus, but at the same time have you ever seen the union from 11 to 3? There aren't many seating areas or places to eat, study, exc. The places that are used, are over crowded, and scattered over a large building to begin with. It has been renovated 3 times since it was built in the 50's. As an architecture student I would love to see them try to renovate the building in a way that is more efficient for the space. I'm sure they have looked into this, since last year they had a vote on that very subject and it was turned down.
Additionally, I would too not like to see added fees on to my tuition, since I feel we pay enough, with architecture students even paying more in segregated fees. However, I think the benefits of this new union outweighs the costs. The fees were explained thoroughly when people voted. If the student body felt the need that this was a problem, then more people should have voted, and feel the need to vote against it. It's not like the university held a secret meeting to vote on it. It was posted everywhere, emails were sent to everyone and this is the process that came out of it. I think it will be good for UWM, and apparently more people than not think we need a new union, despite paying extra fees.
UW-Milwaukee will never have one thing that Madison's union does -- Madison's union is on the lake. Although that makes their outdoor seating area into a mosquito farm, Madison also doesn't have the daily element of homeless and mentally ill seeking refuge in their union as in UW-Milwaukee's urban campus. It's a different type of campus, with students at UW-Milwaukee using their union mostly for its computer lab these days. It would be nice for students to have a better union, but what students need at UW is low-cost parking and food outlets. Right now the food outlets cost a bit, as does parking. I'm concerned that prices at the new union will be even more, and that once the food outlets are nicer, that they'll be a neighborhood draw, making parking and prices even worse. Not that students don't deserve a nicer union -- but how will it meet their needs better than the current union? A little more eye candy, but with higher prices? How is that helping them with their education?Hide replies
No homeless/mentally ill at UW-Madison's Union? With two kids over eight years, I've seen plenty, even camping out and trashing Picnic Point.
UW Milwaukee has been becoming less of a commuter school and more of predominate university over the past two decades. It's enrollment, housing needs, various large donations (corporate and civic) among many other things speak to this. It is not the 1970's, 80's or 90's little sister to Madison we were once accustom. My regret is that I wish it were this way when I attended. Hopefully we'll see UWM continue to make its own mark. It has been overshadowed for far to long. If its sports program continues to take shape, I wouldn't doubt this to rival or surpass Marquette. Madison never, Marquette maybe. It's already triple the enrollment.
A UWM alum and a student in the early to mid-1980s, I visit the campus on occasion. Personally, I don't think the student union is that awful. In the late 1980s, they built an atrium that greatly improved the north end of the union. Sure, the facade could use a $10-15 million facelift. But to spent $160 million I think is an outrageous sum of money. If my calculations are correct, that would exceed the amount required to build the Bradley Center in 1988 by 20 percent, after adjustments for inflation.
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11 Sep 2012 10:02 AM #1
Modeling OpenLayers code to GeoExt Action
I am new to ExtJS and I have the following openlayers code and I am trying to model it into GeoExt Action. The purpose of the code is to create a user drawn Vector Layer polygon, which will fetch the feature attributes of all the WMS feature layer, contained in the user defined polygon.
Here is the code,
pySelCtrl = new OpenLayers.Control.DrawFeature(selectedLayer, OpenLayers.Handler.Polygon, { geodesic: true, handlerOptions: { citeCompliant: false } }); // selected layer is an empty vector layer that use for drawing selected feature on and for drawing control pySelCtrl.events.register("featureadded", this, function (e) { clearData(); // housekeeping (clean up previous queries, delete all vectors from selectedLayer) var pfilter = new OpenLayers.Filter.Spatial({ type: OpenLayers.Filter.Spatial.INTERSECTS, value: e.feature.geometry }); // This next piece of code is using application logic to find out which fields to fetch back from the server. If you dont specify properynames, it will return all of them var propNames = []; var layerNode = getLayerNode(combo.value); // this returns application metadata about the layer to query var spatialQueryNode =layerNode.spatialQuery[0]; // get the list of fields to return from application metadata for (var i = 0; i < spatialQueryNode.fields.length; i++) { propNames.push(spatialQueryNode.fields[i].id); } // if (spatialQueryNode.highlightOnMap) propNames.push("SHAPE"); // fetch back geometryif I am going to draw the on the map // This read queries the server. wfsProtocol[combo.value].read({ filter: pfilter, propertyNames:propNames, callback: processSpatialQuery, scope: strategy }); });
action = new GeoExt.Action({ text: "draw poly", control: new OpenLayers.Control.DrawFeature( features, OpenLayers.Handler.Polygon ), map: map, // button options toggleGroup: "draw", allowDepress: false, tooltip: "draw polygon", // check item options group: "draw" }); actions["draw_poly"] = action; toolbarItems.push(action);
11 Sep 2012 11:49 AM #2
Are you offering this code, or do you need info?
11 Sep 2012 11:57 AM #3
I have the code but I am confused as to how I should place it in the GeoExt.Action so that I can call it when the tool draws the desired polygon. I am using the ExtJS for the first time, so needed some assistance.
11 Sep 2012 2:15 PM #4
I am not sure you provided enough information .. let me take a stab
You created an instance : var action = new GeoExt.Action({ .. }); // with properties set
Does this evaluate in console?
Do you have the library included in your uses? Are you receiving errors?
11 Sep 2012 7:30 PM #5
hey Scott sorry about the incomplete code. Here is the complete code (The action object is on line 79). You can also see the live demo on this link, http://22.214.171.124/geo/test/prac.html
The console.log(action) returns a object. It is really big one. Even u can see it now in the the link I sent. The short version of the object looks like this,
Object { control={...}, activateOnEnable=false, deactivateOnDisable=false, more...}


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For several years people have tried to characterize finite groups of maximal order in $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{Q})$ (or $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{Z})$) and their orders. It appear in many articles a reference to an "preprint" article from Walter Feit in 1995 that gave full characterization. And I read a quote that Feit's paper also relies on a unpublished paper from Weisfeiler.
Does anyone know of a (pucblished) paper on this?


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A spectrum is a sequence $X_0,X_1,...$ of spaces together with structure morphisms $\Sigma X_n\to X_{n+1}$. To get the usual model for the stable homotopy category based on the category of spectra, one "inverts" the suspension functor (or the shift functors) which is not an isomorphism in the category of spectra. It seems to me that this is a kind of allowing the objects to be indexed over the integers. So why does one not define a spectrum to be indexed over the integers or at least bounded below?
There are certainly lots of people who think of spectra as being indexed over the integers. For example, if you ask a topologist to define the Bott spectrum representing (complex, say) topological K-theory, I think most would say that it has a space for each integer, and in even dimensions that space is $\mathbb{Z}\times BU$, while in odd dimensions it's $U$. On the other hand, I'm not sure where you can look to see a careful construction of a category of spectra indexed over the integers, and as Peter explained in his answer, there's no real need for this.
There are actually many essentially equivalent ways to index spectra. One popular one is "coordinate-free" spectra, which are indexed over the finite-dimensional linear subspaces of a countably infinite dimensional inner product space over the reals ($\mathbb{R}^\infty$, say). This is the perspective taken by May and his collaborators in many papers and books (lots of them available on May's homepage). In this setting, the "bonding maps" are defined by viewing the one-point compactification of a subspace $V$ as a sphere $S_V$, and smashing it with the associated space to form the (iterated) suspension. That is, if $V\subset W$ are finite dimensional subspaces to which we've associated topological spaces $X_V$ and $X_W$, then the bonding map associated to this inclusion is a map $S_{W\setminus V} \wedge X_V \to X_W$, where $W\setminus V$ is the orthogonal complement of $V$ in $W$ (surely there's better notation for this?). Note that if you consider an increasing sequence of subspaces in which the dimensions increase by 1, you'll see your notion of a spectrum pop out.
There are various other indexing schemes, including the (maximal?) choice in which a spectrum consists of a space associated to every pointed space homeomorphic to a finite CW complex! See the paper of Mandell, May, Schwede, and Shipley for a discussion of various indexing categories for spectra. It's #96 on May's webpage: http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~may/PAPERSMaster.html
The extra indices would be of no use - natural numbers already make the shift functor invertible and if you add more data to a spectrum you have to identify more again in the passage to the homotopy category. The shift down functor, which, applied to suspension spectra, is the suspension functor, has an opposite which is the shift up functor which puts a one point space at the zero level (where you have to "invent" a new space). In the homotopy category the two become inverse: If you shift first up, then down, you have the identity anyway. If you shift first down then up you have deleted the zeroth space. In the homotopy category this makes no difference because you pass to the limit along the whole sequence of spaces, so there it is also the identity. This passing to the limit only needs one direction ("positive infinity"), so negative indices would have no effect...
Maybe it is also helpful to think of the passage to spectra as of allowing homotopy groups in negative degrees also: If you go along the sequence of spaces in an $\Omega$-spectrum (and every spectrum is equivalent to such an $\Omega$-spectrum) you find the same homotopy groups at every stage, but shifted down by one at each step. So potentially you get non-trivial homotopy groups in every degree, also negative degrees.
In this text on page 21, section 6.5, Bjørn Dundas explains it very nicely with an analogy to chain complexes: If you had only non-negative chain-complexes, you could model arbitrary ones by sequences of non-negative ones which you shift down at each step.
The reason may be slightly historical, the first examples of spectra were most easily seen to be indexed over the natural numbers: $MU$, $HR$, and $\mathbb{S}$. Now though, we know we ought to be using finite dimensional inner product subspaces of $\mathbb{R}^\infty$! Also, we want there to be an underlying "point set" category of spectra that we do something to do in order to get the stable homotopy category. What we really care about is some spectrum, not the image of that spectrum in the stable homotopy category. I guess I am trying to say that even though we will end up inverting something later in order to work on it does not mean we should throw out the original and only remember the localization.


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My existing project has data of about 140million records in Contentq table. And I have planned to rotate the table just incase not to face any load on the table. So I have planned to rotate data older than 2 months to another table contentq_old and rename current latest 2 months data to contentq1 and create a structure only table contentq. As I have only updates/deletes for the latest inserted records I can take that risk. Let the application to point to empty table contentq for its operation. As there were almost 80million records deleted I should be going for rebuild indexes on contentq1 that has latest 2 months records. Once rebuilt done lock table contentq and do -
"insert into contentq1 select * from contentq';" .
Then do drop contentq and rename contentq1 to contentq.
My problem is no down time for application hits, but I can park for somewhile. I should be knowing how long would the rebuild go on a latest 2months record that holds 50 million records max. Below is the structure of the table contentq. But how can I estimate how long an index rebuild would take?
Mysql 5.0.77 on 16GB RAM
contentq | CREATE TABLE `contentq` (
`idcontent` bigint(120) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`keyvendor` varchar(32) default '0',
`msisdn` varchar(16) default NULL,
`cli` varchar(16) default NULL,
`message` text,
`udh` text,
`priority` int(10) unsigned default '1',
`recorddate` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
`callback_url` text,
`transactionid` varchar(256) default NULL,
`status` tinyint(4) default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`idcontent`),
KEY `PriorityIndex` (`status`,`priority`,`keyvendor`),
KEY `NewIndex1` (`keyvendor`,`status`),
KEY `idx_contentq_msisdn` (`msisdn`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=136583422 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
Please advise. Thanks!!


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Inspired by the challenges of an economic downturn,
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It is a testament to his reputation as America's preeminent bankruptcy attorney that Harvey Miller '59 has earned some notable monikers over the years. The New York Times recently referred to him as "The King of Bankruptcy." And The Wall Street Journal dubbed Miller "Dr. Doom," which put him ill at ease.
"My mother was having some health problems, so I was concerned how she would interpret it," Miller says at his office overlooking Central Park. "But when she read it, she was thrilled because she thought her son had finally become a doctor, which is the ambition of every Jewish mother!"
While the financial markets pinball around and economic prognostications continue to darken, Miller is entitled to a bit of levity: Business for him and his firm, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, is booming. After being involved in almost every major bankruptcy case of modern times, Miller is putting the finishing touches on his biggest feat: the liquidation of $613 billion in assets for the nation's fourth largest investment bank, Lehman Brothers.
It is, at least for now, the largest Chapter 11 case in U.S. history.
It would seem that Miller's career has been leading inexorably toward this particular moment in history. He recently returned to Weil, Gotshal & Manges after decamping to investment bank Greenhill & Co. in 2002. Prior to that, Miller had spent 33 years building Weil's bankruptcy department into one of the most prominent debtor-side practices in the country.
According to Leonard Rosen, a retired founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, what makes the 75-year-old Miller so successful is his willingness to both negotiate and, if necessary, go to the mat for his client.
"He combines the skills of a good litigator with the skills necessary to make a deal," says Rosen. "And he has a phenomenal memory for every case he has ever worked on."
Indeed, the list of bankruptcies Miller personally oversaw and can now reference is unmatched—everything from Texaco and Macy's to Eastern Airlines and Drexel Burnham.
As a result of the recent economic downturn, Miller is being solicited more and more for his advice and expertise. At a recent Law School forum, he debated with Michael Patterson '67, a retired vice chairman of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., over whether the current financial crisis could have been averted by increased regulations.
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End of season 2014/15
Left AC Milan during March to save Bayern Munich's season, who were anguishing mid-table, with Dortmund running away with the title. Managed to finish second 6 points behind the strong Dortmund team, which consisted of the likes of: Ozil, Mountinho and Sahin so no wonder they won the league.
The champions league adventure was a roller-coaster ride which ended on a sour note. Before I joined, Bayern and Arsenal had played out a 0-0 draw at the Emirates. The second leg was my first game in charge, which we won 2-1 after two late screamers from Lahm and Schweinsteiger meaning we'd face Man City in the QF's.
The first leg at home was once again a 2-1 comeback, and the second leg finished 2-0 which led to us becoming empathic 4-1 winners on Agg. The semi final drew us against Real Madrid. The first leg of this finished 2-1, with a red card for Breno and Raul Albiol which mean't both teams finished with 10 men, but Real Madrid took home a vital away goal. This didn't matter. We never showed up at the bernabeu, we were routed 7-1. Shamefully my worst ever FM defeat.
7-1? Yikes.
And, the day is Monday, October 19, 2015. So begins my quest to make Wales a relevant team in international play.
Oh my, what a way to equalize in the cup - with a crapshoot of a team.
Striker backheels to the other striker, who fires it into the top left corner. \o/
Heh. Just had my first ever 'one shot on target, one goal, lost 0-1' game.
Started a career game with all the major european leagues as well as Argentina, USA, Australia and South Africa.
The plan is to win the league in each european country including the champions league before heading off to Argentina and then semi-retirement into the MLS or Australia.
Starting off with automatic reputation the only team to offer me a job were Bromley. Making a few key signings, notably Ndumbu-Nsungu, Izzy Iriekpen and former Celtic winger Mo Sylla, we stormed the league with 98 points losing just 2 games. Not long after the last game was played recently releagated Yeovil came calling. The squad was really poor and only 3 or 4 players were good enough and willing to stay so a complete rebuild was reqired. However, i didnt expect it to click into gear so quickly, we romped the league losing just 2 games and gaining a record 116 points in the process.
Up to this point i still had not spent a penny on transfer fees in my career, this all changed with the 55k signing of Shelton Martis, other key signing included Yan Kermongnant and Scott Loach and with that we were ready for our assault on League 1. However, a shock was just around the corner when Ian Holloway was sacked from Derby County and they offered me the job. As soon as i saw the budget on offer i left Yeovil as quick as a flash. 2m transfer budget and 225k per week wage budget was a luxury not usually seen at League 1 level, especially when the wages for the whole Yeovil squad only came to 30k p/w.
As the transfer window had already closed i had to be clever in the transfer market, the enagmatic Adel Taraabt was my first signing, a loan with a view to a permanent deal for 22k, bargain! He was quickly followed by Dave Kitson on a similar arragement. Wes Morgan was signed for 190k to add stability to a shaky backline and Caleb Folan will join for 40k in January.
With these signings and a few more hopefully i can progress Derby onto the championship and beyond in double quick time.
You've managed to get some right bargains there Jordan! 22k for Taraabt is crazy. Good luck in the Championship
You should be shot . Wes Morgan. To Derby .
He should also be shot for signing Yann Kermorgant at his previous club!
Gah. Some bugs with FM10 are really frustrating.
My DC just stopped short and stood there, opposition striker takes the ball and scores. Somehow my DR is to blame for the goal and his rating drops to 5.4. Way too often the wrong guy gets blamed for goals. And why on earth would he just stop and try to impersonate a statue? We weren't even playing in the Fulham area...
There's also a ridiculous amount of long-shots that rocket into the net - from both us and the other teams. You'd think half the midfielders in Blue Square South (and below for that matter) were Scholes clones.
The match engine also is pretty confused about red cards and professional fouls. My goalkeeper was just down by the corner flag, for some reason didn't bother to take the ball he came there for, and then trips over a striker with his back to the goal (facing said corner flag). Red carded. WTF? Then there have been cases with a striker storming through on goal who get scissored from behind and the defender doesn't get a yellow. Plenty weird.
Sure hope all these things have been fixed for FM11.
Oh yes, and apparently it's impossible to score on 1-on-1s. AT least if you're straight on goal. If the striker is coming a little from the side the chances seem somewhat better. I'm barely worried when opposition strikers get through like this, cause I know they are very unlikely to score. And same with my strikers ofc.
Those are my complaints for the day.
Heh! Me, as a Spanish Second Division B1 team, had the lead over Barcelona for three mins... *joy*
After spending six seasons with Leicester City in the English divisions, Ive decided that it was time for me to hand my resignation in. With only one league promotion to my name, I was a little disappointed to have not added any silverware to the cabinet, however, Ive left them in good shape, and with Alan Shearer taking over the reins, Im confident silverware is only around the corner.
After a little job hunting, both Porto and Marseille sacked their managers. I applied to both and was offered the Marseille job the next day. Without any hesitation I accepted the job and started packing my bags. I'm goin' to the south of France baby!
So after not being able to settle on a game for months, my younger brother recommends I give Rangers a try, saying I'll enjoy the challenge of taking them as far as I can in Europe, but will have the domestic trophies to give me something a little easier. And, at least for the first season, he was right. After a stuttering start to 2010/2011 we soon kicked into high gear and went on an incredible run that encompassed a 17 game unbeaten run in the league, and qualification for the Knockout stages of the Champions League. Highlights of this included a phenomenal 9-0 decimation of Inverness, and holding Chelsea to a 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge. Sadly we suffered a mid-winter wobble, and it couldn't have happened at a worse time, as it dumped us out of both the Scottish League Cup (Semi Final, to Aberdeen) and the Scottish F.A Cup (to Motherwell, in what for us was the 1st round!) We recovered in time to give Man Utd a decent go of things in the Champions League 1st Knockout Round, losing 4-2 at Ibrox and then 2-0 at Old Trafford, not playing badly at all in either match. From then on, the focus was entirely on the league, and with the side back in form we wrapped the title up with three games to spare with a 2-0 win over Aberdeen. Other notable things from this season would be a 2 wins, 2 defeats record against Celtic, and Kenny Miller scoring a ridiculous 31 goals in 27 games in all competitions!
Over pre season, I brought in some new faces. With the club in a weak financial state I sold Madjid Bougherra to Lyon for £3 million, and had signed Jody Craddock (!) as a temporary replacement. I brought in an Italian defender called Daniele Cappelli that McCoist recommended to me, as well as some big name out of contract players such as Hermann Hreidarsson, Juan Carlos Valeron, and Robbie Fowler to add some depth to the squad. I also spent a fair chunk of money bringing in Kasper Schmeichel as a long term replacement for Allan McGregor. To say things have not been good would be an understatement. Our current record in the League is Played 7, won 2, drawn 2, and lost 3. The wins came against St Mirren and Hamilton, the draws Hearts and Inverness, and the defeats... a 3-0 away loss to Aberdeen, a 3-1 at home to Dundee United, and 5-0 AGAINST HIBERNIAN. To add to our misery, we got knocked out of the Champions League in the qualification stages to some obscure team from Cyprus, and while we made a promising start to our Europa League campaign with a 4-1 home win over Club Brugge, we've since gone to Lokomotiv Moscow and lost 6-1. Times are tough.
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playing with Dover (England's 6th division) and the first season is over. I finished at the top of the table with
101-32 goals
33 points clear from the second team!
Well taking Derby to the league 1 title was extremely easy given the hefty transfer and wage budget afforded to me. The signings of Taarabt (22k) and Kitson (Loan) were backed up by Ross Wallace (45k), Daryl Murphy (45k), Joe Allen (40k) and Charlie Austin (150k). The signings of Wallace and Murphy in particular helped push us over the line with the latter bagging 12 goals in 17 games. There was also the Paint trophy which was a formality completed with a routine win over Crewe Alexandra. That completed a brilliant season altogether, Derby County are back in the championship.
As soon as the season finished i decided to spend the rest of my budget (275k) on my goalkeeper form my Yeovil days, Scott Loach. I was already planning on how i would strengthen the squad for an assault on the Championship when the budget popped up for next season, £0 transfer budget and a hefty reduction in the wage budget. I thought about resigning but there were no decent jobs available, so the task of slashing the wage budget started immediately. Adel Taarabt was the first to move on, £45k to Southampton was probably too much, hes declined horrificly and never performed in league 1, his wages of nearly 20k per week were also obscene. Next out the door was winger Robail who was outstanding last season but with an offer of £1.3m on the table he had to go.
These sales allowed me to bring in a bit of Premiership class in Kieran Richardson, a quality free transfer and his versatility will be invalauble. Mark Hudson also came through the door to provide cover in defence. This season is all about staying up, anything else is a bonus.
Just before the end of last season i was approached by Ivory Coast to become there manager, i jumped at the chance as it will be useful to learn French and could boost my reputation. The main aim is to qualify for the world cup, the group consiists of ourselves, Ghana, Sudan and Gabon. As only 1 team qualifies it will be a straight fight between ourselves and Ghana for top spot. Our opening game was against Ghana, a 1-0 win giving us a huge advantadge and putting us in the driving seat for World Cup qualification.
I'm sure there is a thread around here about 'resigning' anyway but I resigned midway into my 3rd season with Dag & Red. Last two seasons finished higher than predicted (especially first season, predicted 24th, finished 12th) but wanted a new challenge. None of my applications are accepted for other posts though! Not even Newry Town or some 2nd division Northern Irish team?! Any ideas?
From what I've experienced, you have to work really hard to improve your reputation before you can start quitting clubs and expecting to get another job. Once you have made it at the very top you can pretty much quit when you want and still walk into a top job.
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It's looking like Haverfordwest (8th in Welsh might offer me a job when their manager goes) but it does mean I've been unemployed for about 9 months now...
Quick edit: Still unemployed after a year...
Another quick edit: Make that two years... Not even BSP teams want me?
Last edited by CarlosEsDios; 14-04-2011 at 15:52.
2011/2012, midway through the season, and I've killed Rangers. We're sat in 9th in the table, my signings, aside from occasional glimmers of talent from Capelli and Valeron have flopped massively, the team can't string any form together, we lack any sort of leader with Weir and McCulloch having dreadful seasons, and, in a bid to get out of the club without resigning I've became the most miserable manager alive, declaring interest in as many clubs as possible and giving the most downbeat press conferences possible, making sure to take swipes at the fans. In short, I'm an unprofessional idiot who has taken the most dominant club in Scottish footballing history and, after one league title, has dragged them into a relegation battle. This has apparently made me a prime candidate for the vacant Chelsea job.
4th in 2010/2011 and no trophies was enough to get Ancelotti sacked (eerily similar to real life) and the Blues went for a blast from the past in appointing Claudio Ranieri, who promptly took them to 11th. He was out by Christmas, I applied for the job out of hope more than anything (Ian Holloway had already beaten me to the relegation battling Championship side Sheffield United) and, to my shock, got offered the post. I gleefully accepted, with the only catch being I could only join at the end of the season. After a 5-1 defeat to Celtic, I decided to resign and holiday from Rangers, now knowing I had a job neatly lined up for me.
I spend some money in the transfer market in the summer and acquire Romelu Lukaku to lead the line for years to come, as well as a bevy of back up players. Playing an attractive 4-1-2-1-2 results are initially great- we ruin West Ham 6-0, dominate Wigan into 4-0, and come away with a crucial 2-0 win over Man City. However, a frustrating 2-2 draw with Stoke is the catalyst for a long and painful Autumn- we slide down to 7th from 1st after a 0-0 draw with Wolves, 3-2 loss to Man Utd, a 1-0 shocker at home to Blackburn (one chance, one goal for the Ewood Park side,) a 4-2 defeat to Aston Villa and an absolutely pathetic effort in a 3-0 home mauling at the hands of Everton. By now, I'm feeling deja-vu. In a desperate attempt to shake things up, I transfer list some of my under-performing stars and sell them at rock bottom prices, blow my massive budget on the purchases of Leighton Baines, Jack Rodwell, Shaun Wright-Phillips (no, he wasn't my first choice) and Andy Carroll, and change my formation to a rigid 4-5-1. This has brought us 6 consecutive league wins, including 1-0 wins away to Arsenal and at home to Man City, and for once my signings seem to be working quite well; Andy Carroll got a debut goal in the F.A Cup and Wright-Phillips is causing havoc down the right wing.
So, in short, I'm hoping for a bright future and a push for Champions League qualification, but hopefully we can keep some consistency. I'm dreading what will happen if we go on a run like with did earlier in the season, except this time with no transfer budget to shake things up...
Great through ball to my striker, opposition goalkeeper comes out and crashes with him just outside the box; striker goes off with injury and 'keeper is sent off... for handling the ball outside penalty area.
I think I've never seen GK sent off for fouling striker when one-on-one in this game.
So, it's derby time in Rome and we go into the match with an 18 year old midfielder whom I've given a start as it's his birthday and a few other teens. 2 minutes in my rightback gets sent off for a violent foul. You know what going to happen right?
Possibly my best match ever.
That's pretty mental
How exactly does that work?
Is it 3 DCs, 2DMs, 3AMs and 1ST?
Was this you converting from 4-2-3-1 after having a man sent off?
OK, so I've broken the disciplinary record for Liga Sagres. With 10 games still to go...
started a new career with bromly missed out on the playoffs in the first season by 1 point, second season anyone of 5 teams could still win the title it was us in 2nd against 1st and we ran out 3-0 winners to win automatic promotion to the blue squre premier and so far we are struggling just above the relegation zone with 15 games gone on one of the smallest budgets
Trying to play DSYoungEsq-style anti-football, but it's not working. We look doomed for the drop.
Can anyone give any tips for lower league teams, so far i've been playing 4-4-2 with a deep defensive line, telling my wingers to cross to target man. I've played a few games and noticed that not many shots on target and my possession is low, help?
In the lower leagues I wouldn't recommend a target man as such. This is because every time your team has possession, they'll be looking to offload it onto your target man, and therefore all of the play will go through him. As you're in the lower leagues, I believe that having a target man is too much to ask for from one player. You should try to get your team working as a team, whilst also keeping things simple. That's probably the reason your possession is low too, as they're always looking to give it to the target man, rather than keeping the passing simple.
4-4-2 is a good solid base to build upon, so I'd recommend sticking with that formation. Just try un-ticking the box for the primary target man and playmaker roles, and having them set on 'none'. Also, whilst in a match, you could look to use the 'retain possession', 'pass to feet' and 'work ball into box' touchline shouts to help your team keep possession.
It may also be worth reducing creative freedom and roaming from position.
I find the players in the lower leagues don't have the intelligence to be creative or move into the correct position so this normally results in the loss of possession. My thoughts have always been keep it simple formation wise, don't give the players a chance to show off skills they don't have. Getting players with good determination and physical stats will help big time at this level too.
Grinding out some draws now, but the teams we have to catch keep winning.
9 points adrift with 5 to play. We're going down.
Argh. We're picking up wins now, but so are the teams in front of us.
And that's official. We're relegated with 2 matches left.
EDIT: We have 32 points, which the previous season would have been good for 4 points clear of relegation.
Last edited by Jason the Yank; 27-04-2011 at 11:04.
after 2 promotions in 4 years with bromly, bradford came calling and i couldn't turn down a league 1 team with a £54,000 wage budget compared to bromly's £7,000 still left them in a solid mid-table position
Three defenders in the Liga ZON Sagres Defender of the Year shortlist. Not even Porto can match that...
I'm also having real trouble motivating myself to update my career thread. I'm enjoying my game so much that I don't want to take an hour out to update... :$
Ha! Stuart Pearce has just won England the World Cup in 2018, over Brazil! The team was led by my two regen fullbacks, who are fantastic physical specimens with great defensive stats. Lightning fast. They rarely miss tackles, but when they do, they'll catch up in just a few steps. Seriously, though. The RB is probably the faster of the two, and he's got 19 pace and 20 acceleration. In reality, they're pretty much the exact same player, just switched sides. The pair of them easily made the Dream Team, and they scored England's last two penalties, one of them the winner! And they're only 22. Big futures ahead of them.
Then, Pearce quit. Leaving on a high and all that. I'm going to try and take over. England has some good looking regens, especially on the defensive end of things. I currently have three of those four, so they'll get plenty of playing time.
Oh, another thing I just noticed that I'm fairly proud of: in the CL Final I just won against Barca, my entire starting eleven counted as home grown players!
Earlier in the week, after finding my dafuge challenge game with Carshalton was going stale, I started a journeyman game with the English, Swedish, Scottish, German, Italian, French, Spanish and Dutch leagues loaded all the way down. There's a good mix of leagues I often play in (England, Germany, Sweden) and those that I don't (i.e. all the others!).
Starting unemployed with automatic rep (I forgot to do sunday league but hey), I was offered the job at Swedish 2nd Division West Gotaland side Annelunds IF. After steering them well clear of relegation into mid-table in the 2010 season (I'd joined in June 2010), I won the division in 2011 with 3 games to go.
Currently steering my way through the mammoth 6 month off season in the Swedish leagues for my first season in the Swedish 1st Division South. I currently have about 6 players so am trying to build up a squad with frees and loan signings.
If anyone wants a game where they can fly through the seasons I strongly recommend the Swedish league system - in the 2nd division there are only 22 games plus however many you have in the Swedish Cup (just the one for me in 2011!). In the First Division there are 26, and I think this goes up to 30 in the top two leagues.
I'm hoping to boost my rep and then take over one of the bigger clubs in Sweden, as I can't see Annelunds IF being able to compete any higher than the Superettan (Swedish First Division Elite as its known in-game). Oddly I've been linked to a couple of English League Two sides already, but have a contract until the end of 2012 and will see how my first season in the third tier develops.
It is possible for even the worst sides to reach the top of the Swedish tier, hrbfcrule stared 4th tier and is now at the top only using youths
I did get Linkoping into the Premier Division in Fm 2010 whilst winning the Carribean Championship with Netherlands Antilles (now that was a fun game!) although I reckon its harder this time around (especially for Netherlands Antilles as it now longer exists and Curacao is the replacement!).
Last edited by Crispypaul; 11-05-2011 at 12:59.
Second leg of the Europa League Third Qualifying Round, U.D Leiria vs Rubin Kazan.
Leiria had a 1-0 lead and an away goal from the first leg and we made a perfect start as Kim Kallstrom hit a 30 yard screamer to put us up 2-0 on aggregate after 10 minutes. However, Sunny blundered into the back of a Rubin player and from the resulting penalty, Rubin pulled one back. Two minutes later, an Alexander Farnerud 20 yard strike was fumbled into the net and we were 3-1 up on aggregate.
Things got even better on the stroke of HT when a Rubin player was dismissed for an elbow, straight red. HT came and went, we were 3-1 up and cruising. We controlled the second half until we were torn open by a through ball and the Ruben player who got on the end of it, lobbed Fioranelli and made it 2-2 on the night. I had a tiring squad and not the resources to replace them. I tried to shut the game down and it looked good.
90 mins came and went, there was two minutes on the fourth official's board and then we would be safe and the unlikely winners! 93 mins... 94 mins... Not one stoppage in ET, yet the time was still ticking. On 95 mins, the Rubin players broke and a low cross into the box was stabbed in. 3-2 to Kazan and they won on away goals.
Completely and utterly gutted... We didn't have a prayer, but to win in Russia and then lose on away goals, three minutes OVER the given ET... Well, it's a little hard to take...
I've just won the league (with 95 points) and jpt (after 3 seasons of getting to the final)with bradford city after hitting top spot after week 20 i never gave it up even when the team decided to start losing to teams inside of the relegation zone.
I also rejected an offer from southampton mid season they offered £100,000 more on the wage budget then i got at bradford and also had a 5 million transfer kitty luckily i diddn't accept and in the end they didn't even make the playoffs.
On a side note both bolton and portsmouth have been into administration twice, both are now in league 1 and portsmouth even had a season in league 2.
Oh FFS. Taca de Portugal beaten finalists last season, out in the Fourth Round this season.
Two games gone exactly the same way. Batter the opposition, concede a crappy goal, batter them some more, concede a second in the 89th minute. Arse.
Oh, and I've had 6 red cards in 10 games...
My god...time for easy tacklin methinks.
Surely....surely, lightning can't strike twice?....
The whole team were a little apprehensive in the dressing room. And why not? We'd been in this situation before and we'd suffered heartbreak. Last year's one goal advantage in the Europe League Fourth Qualifying Round second leg was cruelly wiped out in extra extra time by Rubin Kazan and now we again faced stern opposition in the form of Athletic Bilbao
The first leg at home was a unexpected joy. Jordan Stephenson putting us 1-0 up after 7 mins. Athletic equalised 4 mins later, but a goal from Anis Ben-Haitra after 21 mins and then a beautiful 20 yard curling strike from Kim Kallstrom after 52 putting us firmly in the driving seat. However, Athletic's scrambled second goal on 86 mins made it interesting and put it all on the away leg in Bilbao...
The team walked out into the bright lights and heated atmosphere of Bilbao and kicked off. The first half was mainly a battle in the midfield with a couple of chances by Athletic being stopped easily. However, just after half time, a long throw into the box caused havoc and the resulting scuffed clearance fell to the Athletic player, whose shot was cruelly deflected over Basillo and into the roof of the net. Bilbao were 1-0 up and ahead on away goals. We refused to panic however and on 60 mins, got our reward. A beautiful through ball by Nuno Coelho saw Anis Ben-Haitra running onto it and slotting home under the keeper. Better was to come though as barely 10 mins later, a great run down the right by Alexander Muller, a 30th min sub for the injured Jordan Stephenson, saw his cutback reach Kallstrom. However, the ball was poked away by the desperate Athletic defence. Rescuing it before it went out was Alex Farnerud, who sent the ball across the goalmouth to where Anis Ben-Haitra was waiting at the far post to half-volley it home and send the travelling fans wild! That goal put us 2-1 up and wiped out Athletic's away goal advantage.
However, with 5 mins to go, a hoofed clearance from a corner was turned back in by the Athletic defender and their striker weaved inbetween our players to slot home. 2-2. It was crunch time. Another Athletic goal would have meant ET and possibly penalties. I'd used all my three subs earlier so if we did go to ET, I'd have some very tired players. My fears nearly came true on 90 mins as a 35 yard free kick was palmed onto the post by Basillo and left with with a stopped heart. However, in the ensuing break, Ben-Haitra got down the right and side and crossed in low. Michael Scott's first touch took out both defenders in front of him and his shot was swept into the far corner. 3-2 and we held on to win the tie 6-4 on aggregate and make the Europa League!!!
Last edited by Deisler26; 16-05-2011 at 05:07.
Looking very grim now. Have lost 6 in a row, our last one to the bottom-placed side (and one earlier to a team just in front of us), and have fallen into the relegation playout. Morale is rock bottom, our "best" players have been injured for a few weeks now, and I don't see where we're going to get any results from.
Woo hoo! \o/
Got an away draw against the second-placed team, then stunned the leaders 1-0 at our place.
Still in the relegation playoff, but we're 6 points clear of automatic relegation with 5 matches to go, 1 point adrift of safety.
Right, a little update from me.
Surprisingly we somehow managed to win the Swedish First Division at the first time of asking, although it was touch and go at the end as our last 4 games finished 2-2 (they equalised in the 95th minute), 0-0, 0-0, and 0-1 at home. Not great.
I've had to completely gut the squad for the Superettan but in the process I'm not sure we've got enough Swedish players (oops) so I'm going to have to loan a bunch to make sure we have the 9 squad players required that are trained in Sweden.
Currently making my way through the mammoth pre-season, and have picked up some rather good players for this level, including a Moroccan central midfielder I found on an agents' offer and cost just £1.5k, and some frees whom have 5 star ability in the team report. I hope it's accurate!
I am though heavily linked with some League One sides - in particular Hartlepool whose manager's contract runs out at the end of the season and I'm currently the favourite for the job. If I get offered it I expect I'll take it.
The Netherlands Antilles manager position came open too (surprisingly, as there are no Netherlands Antilles!) - unfortunately I couldn't apply as there's not enough players despite me having the Dutch league enabled
Turning things around at the end here. 3 matches left (next one against the 11th placed side) and we're 7 points clear of automatic relegation, and 3 points clear of the relegation playoff.
After having a decent start in the championship with my bradford team when all of a sudden both middlesbrough and norwich sack their managers i'm the favourite for both but decline to comment on both jobs in the end they both offer me a job and with me being a norwich city fan it was a no brainer even though they had a huge amount of debt but i leave bradford on good terms with there still being quite a bit of room for more players to come in for the new manager and no player on stupidly high wages, whih leads me nicely on to my hometown norwich and what a state they were left in 5 players on more than £40,000 but nothing that i can do as we in november anyways fast forward to january and i suddenly get my transfer budget down to £0 and my wage budget slashed by £100,000 so im looking to get rid of all the players on £40,000 but unfortunately teams only want those players on loan and if we keep spending like we are currently then we could become the portsmouth but ive already said to myself that im not leaving norwich until i make them a force in europe no matter how long it takes.
My old clubs aren't doing to badly either Bromly got promoted straight back from league 2 and are just above the relegation zone still with most of the team that i built up from blue squre south days when they were only team of youngsters with no-one older than 21 yo.
Bradford are also doing quite well still around mid table where i left them.
apologies if some bits don't make any sense i have failed my english gcse twice and just done my third attempt
So I have a new job
After 6 games into the season ex Premier side BK Hacken sacked their manager and I immediately applied for the job and was offered it. With a substantially better squad, facilities, and finances, it was a bit of a no-brainer really. The squad is very good and I reckon, despite Hacken currently being 9th, that we can push for promotion, possibly through the play offs.
First proper trophy in 51 years.
Decided to resign at BK Olympic after a loss dropped us into the relegation zone.
5 goals in 10 matches, lost 5 of our last 6, and the players play nervously against pretty much all opponents because they're "overawed by teams with higher reputations." Which is pretty much all of our opponents.
Finally won the Champions League for the first time. With Spurs. In the first season
I just lost the final of the Taca de Portugal again. With a 35 yard rocket in the 97th minute. After only 4 mins on ET were called. When it was a blatant handball.
Last edited by Deisler26; 21-05-2011 at 08:41.
Just won league 1 with preston, our swashbuckling style meant the highest number of goals I have ever managed on FM in years. TABLE
Sheffield Utd pushed us pretty hard, it came down to the last couple of games.
Our top goalscorer GOMES.Not bad for a free transfer
Our right winger ANTONIO also had a great golscoring season.
just turned down a job offer from Cardiff.
Gary Neville just scored his first England goal winning his 100th cap. It was also the goal that qualified us for the WC.
"Preston chairman looking to step aside"
Oh dear
So I thought I might just pop back in and say Hi.
Picked up the game and thought I'd make a determined effort to get my $90 out of it. Started unemployed like always, have found Derby at the end of the first season. Four games to go and we look pretty safe, and I have just guaranteed that by beating Ipswich 3-2 after being 2-0 down. Bueno is a beast. Playing 4-2-3-1 at the moment, may or may not change next season. And the financial trouble is looking ominous, 1.6m in the red :/
Hey everyone, currently got a save where I started unemployed with a past rep of professional footballer hoping to start out in League 1 or 2 with the aim of working my up managerial ladder. I was very lucky because I was offered a very good job around November time and that was to be the manager of Peterborough United. I took over with them in 10th place in League 1 but not to far adrift of the playoff spots and we hit the ground running straight away going on a 12 match unbeaten run and ended up winning League 1 title on the last day of the season meaning we had secured promotion to the Championship.
My aim for was to stay at Peterborough for one more season and make sure that they were safe in the championship before taking up another job but I began having second thoughts because with around 3 months left in the season we were 3rd in the championship and looking like we could get back to back promotions and be in the Premier League. However, we went through a horrible patch where we did not win in something like 8 or 9 games in a row and it looked like we were about to through away our playoff but we recovered, got back in the playoff spots only to go and draw on the last day of the season which meant we finished 7th even though we came into the game against 5th.
After that I decided it was time to resign and search for a new job. It wasn't long until I was offered that job and this time it was Q.P.R who came calling after sacking Neil Warnock who wasn't able lead the club to a top 10 finish in any of the seasons in my save. I'm currently top of the table after 18 games after the clearing out most of the squad and bringing in my own players.
My aim now is to get Q.P.R to the Premier League, hopefully stay there for a fews seasons before moving on
got to the end of the seson with norwich after having my budget slashed and having to sell all my top earners i then had to get young players to join me during the summer transfer window but even with my best players being sold off to save us from administration the board think that i should be able to get to at least the play-offs so if i keep the job until next year i'll be very surprised.
Anyway on the finance side of things we currently have 4 bank loans, yes that's right 4! what the hell did the guy before me do just put average players on high wages for fun, as norwich is my hometown though i'm going to stay with them until i make them a force in europe with no debt (one of the loans runs out in 2033 and i'm in 2019) so it's going to be a very long term project.
Mid Career Update: Managing Eastleigh (5th year in charge)
Started the game unemployed and sunday footballer reputation
I took control at Eastleigh in the BSS about a third of the way through the opening season and guided them to a playoff spot, victory against Dover on penalties and victory over Maidenhead in the final on penalties yet again sent me into the BSP
The financial situation has been dire, my wage budget has been cut every single season so far, the current budget (2015/16) is just short of £2,500 a week but I have delivered a better position each year despite it!
2011/12 Final Position 20th (44 points): Scrappy year I was predicted to go down and two thirds in it was looking certain, but a stunning February and March saw me take 7 wins from 10, and despite losing my final 4 games of the season I stayed up by a single point.
2012/13 Final Position 19th (52 points): Another scrappy year. I never really got going and form dipped and dived, only managing back to back wins once in the whole season. Finished on a win to secure safety for another year.
2013/14 Final Position 10th (66 points): A much better year, despite another lower budget I found a few decent kids and kept some experienced heads. Never strung anything exceptional together but financially we are slightly better off, about 190k in the red now and we actually made a profit for the year.
2014/15 Final Position 7th (73 points): A frustrating season in the end, a fantastic start to this season saw me sitting top as we turned into the new year, but a smaller squad due to the again reduced budget saw condition crash in the second half and I plummeted to 7th, still my best season yet and things were looking up. (Reputation still unproven! )
*2015/16 Current Position 4th (43 points after 24 games): The season is going well. Fitness is still a major problem and a protracted FA Cup run hasnt helped, we beat League 2 opposition Dagenham & Redbridge to reach the second round against Swansea (Championship) and went ahead twice in a ding dong of a match that ended up 5-3 to them. The reduced wage budget (again!) and prize money from the run see us out of the red with a monthly profit of 104k. I would like to think we have a shot at the play-offs this season but I fear condition will take its toll again. I have finally reached Regional reputation..yay!
More info as and when I get there
2010/2011 Blue Square South 5th Promoted via Play-offs
2011/2012 Blue Square Premier 20th
2012/2013 Blue Square Premier 19th
2013/2014 Blue Square Premier 10th
2014/2015 Blue Square Premier 7th
Last edited by Steviedaniels; 01-06-2011 at 22:50.
Gonna be staying up till the early hours playing my Leeds City Career Game anyone joining me?
I'm off work for the rest of this week, so I may just do a late one tonight.
Nice of you to join me
Who are you currently managing?
As much as id love to join you my little girl wont let me lay in lol
I may play for another hour - but I certainly won't join in with Barker and TFs flirting.
Who are you managing?
there is an all night thread in the careers forum, just letting you know cause I copped a hiding for posting in one once in GD
Started unemployed with sunday league rep using RTC's FM 11 to Level 11, applied for Leeds City as im from Leeds and got the job. Probably only because they are in the 11th tier of english football. Just finished my last pre-season friendly where we got stuffed 7-0 by Inverness, apart from that a 4-2 and 1-0 win against 2 unknown teams.
Im currently searching through free agents, seeing whos up to the standards of an 11th tier club
I may join. I'm tired but I'm off work for four days now. I've decided to download an 11 tier update. I'm Dunkirk who are side local to where I live. Should be fun.
Oh, it's going back a while lol.
I think it was around this time last year when the all nighter thread was on here, it could even be longer than that.
Around February/ March ish of last year iirc.
The last one got closed. That was a couple of months back. Not sure why though. Probably because it wasn't in the right forum.
I reckon if we keep things general and put things in spoilers that need putting in spoilers we maybe alright. Player naming is in that.
Guess if we got the thread name changed to 'All Nighter (Includes Player Naming)' then player naming would be ok?
Just a case of a mod changing it.
I've not been on this forum much in recent times either.
Into January on my save and currently sitting 17th in the Championship, 3 points clear of the relegation zone.
Just got knocked out of the FA Cup away at Chesterfield.
Playing away against Norton and Stockton Ancients in the FA Vase First Qualifying Round. We are favourites to win so hopefully it will happen
Heya all.
I'm busy procrastinating, got an essay due in a week so of course I'm doing the best thing for that - playing Football Manager 2011. Managing Newcastle, 2015-2016 season. Ashley was bought out by a sugar-daddy a few seasons ago, won the Premier League last season and attempting to hold onto my title this year, though after a strong first half of the season I am now struggling for second, with Arsenal surging ahead. Top scorer is Hulk, with about 36 goals over all competitions.
So a little disheartened, can't see myself winning this season but ah well, shall try to keep going as long as I can during the night.


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