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There's going to be some tough competition for that...
How's the computer, Des?
Grrr I hate them with a Passion, and I hope they lose more customers because of it.
I think a 30min wait no matter time of day on the helpline is also disgusting, oh or 4 hours for a response on the website...bloody gross.
I think the competition in that Key to Sucess sign-up is going to be massive, there will be lots of forms and only 10 spots (Hopefully more) Corinthiano - where did you place your team?
Key to Success
There you go
I put mine in Newquay, went for the Cornwall not having any decent teams, but saw that someone went for Truro in that region as well. So unless a rivalry is created there one ofus won't get it...
I am still going to follow the sign-up even if don't ge a place, the idea looks amazing and I think Wgason will do an excellent job.
Someone point m12315432643764755475437648585 in its general direction so he can learn how to do an opening post...
It looks great though
Yeah I agree I will follow it no matter if I am in or out, thought the North looked like a pretty good spot, and basing my team in the shadow of the 2nd largest Inhabited castle in England also good.
Yeah I think you went for something quite different there, good luck with it
And good luck to you too
Looks like it can be a quality AI experiment...kudos to Wegason.
I like it, but I'm just too tired atm to do my writeup...played some football with some mates. Totally battered right now. (it's pre-season for me. I follow MLS schedule )
And some of you may know (think only Des knows ), but I have been doing a little experiment with a no player db. I've been thinking of what variables I can use for this experiment, and how many leagues should I load if I do go ahead with this experiment. It will be a holiday-only experiment.
Any ideas possibly about this? I've always been interested in no player db and saves and would love to do an experiment with it.
I think the idiom would be, 'to sort the wheat from the chaff.'
Edit: My previous body of work
New Dawn in a New Land Challenge
AI Experiment - Birth of a New Nation - Award Winning!
Last edited by Wegason; 27-03-2009 at 22:02.
Generally most NP DB's are about rebalancing the world, but most have failed as the league reps don't change and as such the best players still gravitate towards those major leagues, possible ways to fix this would be to go through and try and fix the league reps of each country to similar, so top level in each country is 20 and 2nd tier is 15 and so on, but really I think using a NP database would just be a great way to test the regens generated world wide, so depending on how many leagues you can run would decide how you do it.
So my ideas:
Just NP database no other changes.
Focus on the Regen Quality as your experiment (Extensions on this idea)
Leagues: I would suggest a range of leagues, not sure what your computer can handle, but I personally say avoid england, everyone does england :P
Thanks for the input Des.
My current 'test' is already reshaping the footballing landscape. Only in 2010, but I've already seen...
- countries like Albania, Qatar, and Bosnia making the World Cup
- an Australia-Argentina WC Final, with Australia winning it all
- an all Belgian Champions League final (although I did not load the Belgian league)
- Manchester United losing 4-0 to AEK at home (also didn't load Greek league)
- and the rest seem normal, although right now Man City are in relegation zone, but I think that should be normal.
I've also done a test in FM08 last year with a no player db, and it seems that the teams that I didn't load are doing well in the international scene.
Just NP database no other changes. - a good idea. Personally I don't want to take too much of my time on this. I have coursework to do, but this no player db seems like a lot of fun, and it won't take me long for updates.
Focus on the Regen Quality as your experiment (Extensions on this idea) - I probably won't consider this idea. The threads I've seen about Regen Quality experiments seem to take a long, and I'm short on time.
Leagues: I would suggest a range of leagues, not sure what your computer can handle, but I personally say avoid england, everyone does england :P - I would personally keep England, just to see Man City suffer . I'm not sure how many leagues should I choose. I have 10 leagues loaded in my test, and maybe I should also load some lesser known European leagues. I've been debating for a while how many leagues I should choose for a while now...just stick to Europe? Or load leagues from other nations too.
Anymore suggestions? I'll reply after I eat Canadian dinner lol.
Last edited by rancer890; 27-03-2009 at 22:21.
I would load a couple of lesser known leagues - might show the effect of having the leagues loaded, so you can compare it with a similar country that you don't have loaded...
Oh, and going off topic, I'm planning on Greyhounding around the US and a bit of Canada in the summer, so what's worth seeing in Toronto??
G'day all.
I was supposed to start my Premiership Predictions League on Thursday, but have had huge computer problems all this week. Hopefully I'll be able to get on next Thursday and start it then because I'm really looking forward to getting it going. Sorry everyone, but looking forward to seeing as many people as possible participating!
Can I take part in it
Anybody may take part!!! More details will be realeased when I actually begin it hopefully on Thursday!!
OK mate thanks
Is there any leagues where no teams get relegated
Why? Are you interested in making another sign-up?
No teams are relegated from the Australian League and I don't think there is relegation from the 2nd tier of the South Korean league aswell. The MLS has no relegation, but I'm not sure that you'd want that.
Just doing some research......
Thanks for suggestions btw
There's no relegation from the bottom division in Scotland either.
Big Leagues
- England - to BSN/BSS
- France - to CFA
- Germany - to Third Division
- Italy - to Serie C2
- Spain - to Second Division B
Small Leagues
- Sweden - to Second Division
- Romania - to Second Division
- N. Ireland - to Second Division
- Belgium - to Third Division
- Iceland - to First Division
I'm also thinking of an International experiment along with this no player DB and alter the reputations of 5 nations, with either...
one from each continent
Africa - Somalia (50) - Highest Rep is Ivory Coast (6000)
Asia - Guam (50) - Highest Rep is South Korea (6050)
Europe - San Marino (2050) - Highest Rep is Italy (9250)
N. America - Montserrat (100) - Highest Rep is Mexico (7150)
Oceania - American Samoa (50) - Highest Rep is New Zealand (3150)
Not including South America as Venezuela have the lowest rep in the continent - at 4200.
5 European Nations
- San Marino (2050)
- Luxembourg (2500)
- Andorra (2550)
- Armenia (2900)
- Malta (3000)
Either way, what reputations should I set these poor nations to be competitive, but not dominate...
Cheers in advance with the output.
As for Toronto, there's quite a lot of attractions. If you come in August, there's the Canadian National Expedition (CNE), filled with attractions and rides alike, or another themepark is Paramount Canada's Wonderland. The Harbourfront Centre usually has a lot of events in the summer also.
There's quite a lot in the city, and also consider...
Museums and Markets
- Saint Lawrence Market
- Hockey Hall of Fame
- Ontario Science Centre
- Roy Thomson Hall
- Art Gallery of Ontario
- Royal Ontario Museum
- Canadian Warplane Museum
- Toronto Aerospace Museum
- Cullen Gardens
- Toronto Zoo
- Ontario Place
- Wonderland
- Old Fort York
- Casa Loma
And you can also treat yourself to some Canadian soccer.
m1234566778 I am interested in your signup game idea.
Chairmen name: Antonios Kinnas
Main chairman attribute:
Way nice one. I presume u think there should be a chairman attribute as well. Please fill it in mate. Right, I have two ideas:
1. I fill the teams from the island of Sodor with teams that have been successful over time e.g Huddersfields squad in the 20's and Man U's squad of 99.
2 I fill the teams using an order system(draft)
I like the first idea. Any thoughts?
Last edited by m1234566778; 28-03-2009 at 08:26.
You know what thoughts you are going to get here and if you read the Sticky dafuge put up yesterday, you'd know that if you did a new sign-up it would be closed or you'd have to abandon the other one you're running.
EDIT: Actually my mistake, it doesn't say anything about closing anything there, but it probably would be closed if you started a new one.
Last edited by corinthiano; 28-03-2009 at 08:23.
Not gonna do sign up yet. Just looking for feedback.
I posted this idea a couple of days ago ...
I had an idea for a sign-up that i wanted to run past you before just going ahead with it, whilst reading up on Nations that don't have FIFA recognition but still play there own tournaments like the one's run by the Nouvelle Federation-Board i came accross the Romani peoples Nation and thought how cool it would be to have an International football team that didn't even have it's own country (and not just like Palestine) but an entire nation of refugees (travellers, Gypsy's, Bohemians whatever you call them where your from). I've spent alot of spare time in the last week or so playing around with the editor testing a few of the ideas i'd need (i still want to run an holiday tonight has a final test) but the basic idea is to run the Nation with people submitting there own players and to also run possibly 4 clubs in 4 different league's to represent the geographic diversity of the people i'd personaly manage the Nation i think and update how everyone's players are doing.The problem i've been trying to solve for the last 2 days is to do with people gaining citizenship (it isn't important for the sign up but i'm a perfectionist) non UK citizens gain but UK national's stay on 0 for days completed, anyone with any ideas has to what i could be doing wrong? Could it be to do with Longtitude and Latitude of city's i have set up?The way i've set it up so far is to use CIS set has based in central europe and adding 4 new City's to create the regens with the rough longtitude and lattitude of neighbourhoods or areas frequented by Romani. I've also found a list of famous Romani descendants who have become footballers who i'm going to give Romani Nation has a second Nationality
Heh, I don't like using two acronyms next to each other
Yeah, it does look weird. Loving the location btw. Special1TV ftw!
Too right Only did it because theres a couple of geordies in GPTG OTF
I have put this in football forum as well but want to know who you think were the most successful team of all time? It's part of my research btw
Real Madrid...
You misunderstood. I mean like the Arsenal untouchables or Huddersfield in the 20's.
Ok then, Preston in the late 19th Century, Huddersfield in the 20s, Arsenal in the 30s, Everton 1927/28, Busbys Utd, nearly any Liverpool team from the 80s, Man Utd 98/99, Arsenal untouchables, Man Utd this season if they carry on the way they're going
Carrying on the way they are going by losing 4-0 to Liverpool and then 2-0 to Fulham... Hardly one of the best teams ever over the whole season anyway.
If they manage to win the quintuple though, I'm not saying they are just that if they manage to win the quintuple they'll go down as one of the best.
Thanks for those mate
Has this got anything to do with this forum? If not, can you please keep it to your thread in the football forum.
I posted because I thought it was to do with a prospective sign up, sorry if it's not dafuge
Yes it has dafuge. Part of my research
Research for what?
And is for my new sign up idea
Incidentally I have an idea for a holiday game. It'll probably mainly appeal to my fellow JoseRR competitors but here it is nonetheless.
Once/if I complete the challenge I plan on running a separate holiday continuing from where I leave off. The idea is to follow my (soon to be great) Savona side and look at how the AI deals with a new era following domestic and European glory. I'll be looking at the chairman's decision making with the new boss, his signings, sales, and generally the direction Savona go. The bottom line ultimately asks whether the AI can keep a successful 'small' club at the top and for how long. I plan on running it on holiday for many many seasons.
Should be pretty interesting that, I predict that the AI will undo all the good work you have done and take the club back down due to poor transfer deals.
Oh, and looking at the attributes of greyed players, it looks abnormal. It seems like a bug. The grey players look far stronger than the regens... (although I don't think the SI db's main purpose was deleting every player in the game. )
I'm pretty sure Grey players are maxed out to fill up all of their PA.
Nearly forgot about that...
Anyways, any suggestions?Hmm ok. I have 10 leagues loaded in my test, so I'm thinking 5 'big' leagues and 5 'small' leagues (all based in Europe) for the actual experiment...
Big Leagues
- England - to BSN/BSS
- France - to CFA
- Germany - to Third Division
- Italy - to Serie C2
- Spain - to Second Division B
Small Leagues
- Sweden - to Second Division
- Romania - to Second Division
- N. Ireland - to Second Division
- Belgium - to Third Division
- Iceland - to First Division
I'm also thinking of an International experiment along with this no player DB and alter the reputations of 5 nations, with either...
one from each continent
Africa - Somalia (50) - Highest Rep is Ivory Coast (6000)
Asia - Guam (50) - Highest Rep is South Korea (6050)
Europe - San Marino (2050) - Highest Rep is Italy (9250)
N. America - Montserrat (100) - Highest Rep is Mexico (7150)
Oceania - American Samoa (50) - Highest Rep is New Zealand (3150)
Not including South America as Venezuela have the lowest rep in the continent - at 4200.
5 European Nations
- San Marino (2050)
- Luxembourg (2500)
- Andorra (2550)
- Armenia (2900)
- Malta (3000)
Either way, what reputations should I set these poor nations to be competitive, but not dominate...
Cheers in advance with the output.
For those who are interested, the sign-up that I will be co-running with hasdgfas is up.
I've had an idea for a sign up and was wondering what people think.
It basically involves the user creating a player but everything about him (other than personal data) would be random. There would be a scoring system and every 6 months (Xmas and End of Season) a winner would be decided who then got the chance to increase/decrease his attibrutes by from two sets of cards (or something like that depending on what I can code) along with a +/- card.
User A's guy wins the Xmas award and gets his prizes. This means he gets to choose from one of his three attributes sections (technical, mental, physical) and would see a screenshot of that section only. He would then pick an attribute that he would like to attempt to increase and would draw his cards. See below for examples.
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l - l l + l
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1. This would be coded and would hopefully look better.
2. User would not be able to see +/-
3. Location of symbol would be determined by a random number generator.
After choosing his first card he would then pick from a set of 5 cards to determine the amount his chosen attribute would increase or decrease. Each card would have a value ranging from 1 to 5 which would again be attached using a random number generator.
So to sum it up User A chooses to have a screenshot of his technical attributes. He then decides to attempt to increase his finishing. Luck is on his side and he draws the + card along with the number 3. This means using FMRTE I would increase his finishing skill by 3 as his reward. The same would go if he had chosen the - card.
Please let me know what you think about the basic idea as I have a few refinements (such as if winner doesn't want to take the risk on his player he can attempt to lower another guys attributes, the downside of this risk being it could end up increasing hos rivals attributes, this of course would be without seeing a screenshot of the other player.)
Ooh, sounds interesting.
I like it, especially the fact that there would be constant interaction between everyone
Brilliant idea Blowcrapup Very original
Blowcrapup - I also like the idea of risking to attempt and lower your opponents stats as well. Asking for one section of anyone in the game, that could make it all even more exciting.
Right then going to run it just working out scoring system and working some stuff out.
If anyone wants to use this experiment, feel free to do so. I like the idea but don't feel like doing it myself. What I can do is edit a database and let someone take it from there.
This is the battle of feet. There are 4 rival teams. They are: Either Foot FC, Left Foot FC, Right Foot FC, and No Foot FC. All the players on each team are identical (in each postion, so all wingers would have generic good dribbling, crossing, etc. with all defenders having good tackling, etc.) except for 1 thing: Feet. Either Foot FC is a team with all players with either foot, Right with right, Left with left, No Foot with no feet at 20 (if that's possible).
It would be interesting to see which team does the best, and to see if Either footed players made a difference. And also to see if the non-either footed teams struggled having RBs with left feet, etc. We all know having 1 foot increases attributes, and having 2 feet decreases attributes. So we're checking to see if 1 footed players benefit from attributes boost and if either footed players can make up for the decrease by utilizing both feet.
To make sure outside factors don't affect too much the teams, it should be made sure the teams, staff, and players all have identical stats for their respective positions.
One thing I'm not sure about is the Either Footed players. Should there be 10 players with Right 20 and Left 15 and vice versa or all players 20-20? Most likely I'd make the Right/Left players 20-5 since the majority of real life players have a rating like this.
EDIT: And also, what do people think would be the best way to test this? Average players in 2nd/3rd division or world class players in Premier League?
Last edited by CowSimao; 28-03-2009 at 19:31. Reason: forgot last thing
Ok after trying to get into games in challenges using FM08 and just not being able to get into it at all I have decided to run an experiment instead. Basically I want to investigate whether the world of football would change if every nation had the same starting reputation and the world was Regen only.
So far I have taken a FM08 no players database and then reset the nations all to 1000 rep. Personally I think that is all the changes I should make to the nations, because if I change anything else then it will interrupt the integrity of it all. Now I have a few other ideas to throw out there, but not sure which is best.
1. I add 22 players of average Serie B Quality with PA of 200 to the database based in the Serie C1 or C2 (Currently Italy is the only guaranteed league) - I am thinking about giving these players nationalities based in some of the former small nations that now have the same rep as everywhere else, so 22 different nations, which i would take suggestions as to which ones. These would be nations without playable leagues so that they would run as a seperate group to the leagues mentioned in section 2.
2. What leagues to run, no idea what I should run, but I believe the ones I run should end up stronger than the others, but who really knows. So that would also be part of the experiment. So then I have 5-10 countries with a league running and these would then be set as the group of nations which have leagues to see whether that can make them improve faster.
Basically I think I want 3 core groups.
a) Nations with a few top class players each.
b) Nations with leagues playable
c) Nations with no leagues and no class players
Basically then I would be able to compare the nations in each section at different points and may be able to make decisions on where it is at and what really affects the reputation. I would most likely be using FMM or something similar to keep track of the CA/PA of the worlds players and other things. If anyone knows of a program that I can use to better search the database of FM08 could they give me a link to it. Thanks for any advice etc in advance.
Edit: Using current World Rankings and the idea of being able to compare reasonable comparative teams i thought having 3 from the top 9 & 3 from 51st-59th in each group would work well, so i would be following the success and failure of the following 18 countries on that system, I could also follow a couple of others if anyone would like.
League Running
2nd Germany
4th Italy
7th Croatia
53rd Slovakia
57th Finland
59th Slovenia
1st Spain
5th Brazil
8th Russia
51st Panama
54th Tunisia
58th Bosnia
No Changes
3rd Netherlands
6th Argentina
9th England
52nd Lithuania
55th Saudi Arabia
56th Bolivia
Last edited by Lower Leagues Rule; 28-03-2009 at 21:57.
Haha Des, I certainly gave you inspiration for that no player db idea.
Anyways, after much deliberation with Des, I have come up with the following...
CSE type: Experiment
Database: No Player Database (9.2 iirc)
- England - to BSN/BSS
- France - to CFA
- Germany - to 3rd Division
- Italy - to Serie C2
- Spain - to Second Division B
- Sweden - to Second Division
- Romania - to Second Division
- N. Ireland - to Second Division
- Belgium - to Third Division
- Iceland - to First Division
- Load players from: China, New Zealand, Somalia, San Marino, Luxembourg, Montserrat (more on this in a moment)
Quite a few
- Determine the general imbalance of the footballing world without real players
- Modify the nations from the Load players from list to 7000 (equivalent to the 10th best team in Europe as of 9.2, Turkey), from the worst countries in terms of rep except: Luxembourg (wanted another Euro team), China (I have roots from there), and New Zealand (Des wanted NZ )
- I will also modify the worst teams in each country loaded and playable the first season. They will all get a sugar daddy chairman and max training and youth facilities
- We all know the general imbalance of the grey teams with a no player db. It would be interesting which countries dominate in this particular save.
I'm now going to start the writeup for the initial post.
EDIT: And TFC tied Columbus today 1-1. Columbus scored an own goal. Now unbeaten in 2 games and sit atop the Eastern Conference.
Last edited by rancer890; 29-03-2009 at 01:00.
Excellent looking start there Rancer, i agree with it all the way. My roots are NZ As for the rest looks perfect to me. And yes you will definitely get big ups in my one, I was so without ideas then I realised that there are so many ways to take no player databases that it could make for some interesting comparisons all around.
Congrats to TFC, might actually do something this season :P
Blowcrapup's idea has great potential, me likey.
Umm Iacovone have a look in the threads he has posted it already
Look Des its late, I'm tired, I've been working aaaaaaaaaand I'M SORRY
Gutted I didn't make it into the test
After playing a few signups, I've decided to do one of my own. In a Big Brother type thing (although it won't be annoying like the TV show). 20 people will sign up, starting off at the age of 17, at the end of each season it will be up to the forumites to vote off one player. He will still remain in the game but will be out of the comptetition and receive no more updates.
Obviously this will take 19 seasons to come to a conclusion, so at the age of 36 we will have our winner of favourite striker.
The rules will be, each player will be a striker, each will be English nationality and declared for England.
The PA for each player will assigned a number from 180 to 200, the numbers would be unique and random. So PLayer A could be 180, Player B 185, Player C 194 etc... no two players will have the same PA.
The CA will be the same in increments of 5, from 50 -150, both the CA & PA would be hidden.
The people who sign up will be allowed to choose 2 attributes from mental, technical and physical as well as 2 preferred moves.
They can also choose which team to start with, on of the 20 Premiership teams, again these are individual and only one player can start at one team, on a first come first served basis.
The game will then start with no interference, an update at the end of the season for each player (and hopefully) Feb 1st each season, then the voting at the end of the season to see who carrys on.
How does this sound, any ideas or clarification would be greatly received.
sounds original I suppose, might break a personal rule and sign up to a sign up run by a user I haven't seen much of.
I really like it too, would definately sign-up for it
People that sign-up and never post would be voted out early, which would be good. I can also see a lot of tactical voting going on, so the best player probably wouldn't win it.
Perhaps instead of getting people to choose their Mental, Physical and Tactical, have them just choose their Mental attributes to say what sort of a character they want their Big Brother contestant to be in the house.
Of course, these are only suggestions, and if it's only going to be like Big Brother in name and evictions, feel free to discredit them.
Our good friend m1019823734e68 is trying to change one of his ideas into a story and is trying to get the FMS members involved
I think the Big Brother idea is brilliant, i always think sign-ups where people are voted off work well as it encourages banter and makes sure people are involved
Thanks for the good feed back for my Big Brother idea, will probably start the sign up thread tonight or tomorrow.
The only thing based on big brother is the evictions, I personally can't stand the program, so if anyone can think of a better name for the sign up, it would be gratefully received!!
great idea with the big brother thing, just give it a name like FM09: Forumite Brothers
Talking of tv shows, have you got any plans for bringing back the Mole Paul? That was great while it was on
I can't rule it out, but there almost certainly wont be an FM09 version of it, so if anybody wants to run one then that's fine with me.
I might have a go at it once I've done my exams
Now I've nearly finished writing my story, I fancy trying my hand at another sign up. I do fancy being fairly topical, and the latest series of the Apprentice is just getting going again. I dimly recall back when I joined that we had one for FM08, and that it was rather good, but I can't for the life of me remember who ran it. If they are still around, are they planning a repeat, or would they mind if I ran the sequel???
it was canvey!!, and yes I'm afraid he is planning to run a repeat.
canvey!! ran The Apprentice last season.
That was fb in all fairness, is he running it after he finishes the Whitehouse sign up?
Anyway, I posted a few months ago about the new version of the CSE European Championships but most of the reliable users said they were too busy, would anyone be interested in taking part in the tournament in around late May/Early June, I know most of us have exams in May so it'll be after that at least.
Bugger... Will have to come up with something more original then..it was canvey!!, and yes I'm afraid he is planning to run a repeat.
You could have my Survivor if you're interested, I won't have the time to run it for a while
I can't remember him saing that. Maybe try PM'ing him
I'll do that first rancer then do The Mole after that if I have the time
Alright fair enough. Will need to find a new site to upload everything though... (it's all on filefront)
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Hey hey! Ok so if I miss something that you wanted to know more info about PLEASE leave your question in the comments and I will answer it! You can see the original reveal post for Hailee's Living Room here.
First lets get the paint colors out of the way. The white is Ultra Pure White. All paint companies have an ultra white base. That's what you want to use. The grayish taupe is a color called Hopsack by Ralph Lauren. If you go to Home Depot they can still mix that color for you even though they no longer sell RL. The teal that was used in the hallway and on a few elements is called Tempo Teal from Sherwin Williams. Can I just pause this this thought and tell you that I love the employees at SW? They are SO knowledgeable. Plus they have the BEST Purdy stuff that you cant get anywhere else in St. George. I sort of want to do a post on just the Purdy section of their store.
Lets start with this shot:
The ceiling fan was purchased at Home Depot for around $250
The amazingly cute high gloss white end table was from Tj Maxx/Homegoods. Which lets face it is one of the greatest stores ever. If I am not thrifting that is my first stop because they have the eclectic randomness that a thrift store has…but new!
The picture frames were purchased at Roberts Crafts (you can also get them at Michaels) for $20.00 each. The maps inside are pages from an old atlas that I bought when I did Jessica's Room Makeover.
The PVC Pipe Dresser was bought at a garage sale for $50.00. You can see the tutorial for that here. It was painted with Gloss White by Krylon.
The yellow lamps I had been hoarding in my garage for a few months. They were at the DI (Utah's version of the Goodwill) for $8.00 each. They were originally gold and were painted Sun Yellow by Krylon. The drum shades are from Target.
The sisal rug is from Ikea. You can see another way I have changed up a boring sisal rug with my Compass Rose Stenciled Rug Tutorial. The houndstooth stencil was custom made by Royal Design Studio and will hopefully be available for purchase later this week!!! (I will keep you posted!)
The fabric for the white fur pillow was purchased from Joann's. The multi colored medallion fabric is in the line Restoration by Studio E.
The chairs are from Pier 1. They were $169.99 each.
Every single one of these books, statues and tchosky are from the thrift store except the tall vase on the table (Pier 1 clearance $11.00) and the A OK hand (Tj Maxx $9.99).
The fabric used for the taupe pillow in this picture is from Hometown by Moda.
The little white end table was an awesome find at a local consignment shop.
The supplies for the curtains (Drop Cloth, Rope, Eyehooks) were purchased from Lowes and Home Depot. The rope cleats used to tie off the curtain rod can be purchased at a boat supply store.
The light in the corner was purchased at Restore for $49.00. The yarn that was used to cover the shade is from Roberts Crafts. It is made by Red Heart and the colors are Real Teal, Aruba Sea, and White.
The fabric on the pillows is from Joann's.
The mirror was one that Hailee had on hand and it was painted Sun Yellow by Krylon.
This light fixture was found at the DI for $5.00. The school house globe is around $4.00 from Home Depot.
You can see the full tutorial on how to paint the hallway here. The lights were purchased at the DI and Restore and the basket/cages were found at Wal-Mart for $5.00 each. You can see a full tutorial on how to assemble them here (hanging basket chandelier)
If there is something that I missed let me know!
I don't have the exact total back from Hailee yet but I am estimating we spend between $1500- $1800. Pretty amazing, right?!

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WACO (January 4, 2013)--A reception will be held Sunday at the Salvation Army Community Center to honor the winners of the 2012 Food For Families "Chairman's Cup."
Categories include: adult civic, business, financial, college, healthcare, industrial/manufacturing, insurance, legal, religious, and schools.
The largest contributor(s) in each category will be recognized.
The winner of the Chairman's Cup goes to American Income Life Insurance who raised 38,205.98 pounds of food.
Food For Families is a coalition of food pantries across Central Texas who have banded together to collect non-perishable food in a one-day coordinated drive on the Friday before Thanksgiving.
All food donated stays in the county in which it was collected to serve the people in need in that county.
In November, the 2012 Food For Families food drive set an all time record collecting 1,453,065 pounds of food.
It was the 23rd year for the event.
The reception will begin at 3 p.m. at 1225 S. IH 35.


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Detectives with the Ionia County Sheriff's Office arrested an Ionia man after allegedly finding multiple meth labs and other related items in his residence Tuesday.
ICSO detectives received information about possible drug use occurring at an address in the 300 block of West Washington Street in the city of Ionia, said ICSO Undersheriff Charlie Noll.
After executing a search of the residence, officers found methamphetamine, methamphetamine lab components and multiple "one pot" meth labs, as well as other narcotics and narcotics sales equipment, Noll said.
The occupant of the residence was taken into custody by sheriff's office detectives, and is being held on methamphetamine-related charges at the Ionia County Jail. The suspect's name is not being released at this time.
Assisting at the scene was the Ionia County Sheriff's Office K-9 Unit, Ionia Department of Public Safety and the Central Michigan Enforcement Team (CMET).
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MOUNDSVILLE - It's ironic the Class 5A portion of the second-annual Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Dual Meet Championships was moved to the John Marshall High School's Fieldhouse.
After all, Moundsville is where Bill Hinegardner made a name for himself as one of the top coaches in West Virginia prep wrestling annals.
So much so that the bi-state conference opted to rename the event the Bill Hinegardner OVAC Dual Meet Championships.
'"It's very nice and I'm looking forward to it,'' Hinegardner said Monday.
This week's action in all classes was supposed to have taken place Wednesday night at WesBanco Arena. But with Steubenville and Shadyside competing in regional finals of the inaugural OHSAA Team Tournament, action in Classes 5A and 3A was shifted to JM.
There, starting at 6 p.m., Wheeling Park battles Morgantown and the Monarchs face Brooke in what looks to be an exciting pair of Class 5A semifinals.
Also at 6 p.m., in Class 3A, Barnesville tangles with Monroe Central and River squares off against Tyler Consolidated.
Championship and consolation matches will take place immediately following the semifinals.
"I'm really pleased wrestling has taken its place among the power sports," Hinegardner said in reference to the new wrestling events that have sprouted recently.
"It's right up there with football and basketball as far as I'm concerned, and it's getting stronger all the time.''
Steubenville High School plays host to the Class 4A and Class 2A/1A semifinals, finals and consolations Thursday. Those matches will also begin at 6 p.m.
Class 4A semifinals features Steubenville against Martins Ferry and Harrison Central vs. Oak Glen. In Class 2A/1A, Shadyside will battle Toronto, while Caldwell faces Steubenville Catholic.
Hinegardner found out the unexpected honor on the final night of the Ron Mauck OVAC Championships.
"They asked me to come out on the mat and I wondered what they wanted me for?'' he recalled laughing. "Then when I stepped out, they explained everything and I understood.''
Hinegardner's family was on hand, including son, Tim, who came in from Hershey, Pa.
"I thought he just came in to see the tournament,'' Hinegardner said.
Hinegardner was a builder of champions and a maker of men as head coach of the Monarchs from the school's inception in 1968 until 1982. Along the way, JM won four West Virginia Class AAA championships (1972-74, 79) and was second four times.
The Monarchs also won or finished second at the OVACs nine times. His program produced 20 individual state champions and an overall dual meet mark of 133-29-1.
Hinegardner received numerous coaching awards for his efforts at the local and state level. He is also enshrined in the OVAC Hall of Fame, as well as the state hall of fame.
"We were very fortunate,'' Hinegardner said. "We had good athletes. We also had good people and a good staff.''
While he retired as head coach more than 30 years ago, Hinegardner can still be seen from time to time in the coach's chair at JM meets. He and former coaches Ed West and Ed Dugas are still heavily involved with the program.
"It's one of those things we enjoy,'' Hinegardner said. "It's fun for us, and I think that's what keeps us coming back.''


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Under terms of the contract, Jacobs is providing detailed design engineering services for modifications to Shell's existing terminal facility to enable the processing of transformer oil. Shell's 47-acre Tsing Yi installation supplies Hong Kong and Macau with a range of oil, gas and chemical products.
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Say I have $X_{ij}$, $j \le i$ with the property that $X_{ij}$ are centered and identically distributed and $E(X_{ij} X_{ij'}) = o(\exp(-i)))$. Then does $\sum_j X_{ij}$ have Gaussian domain of attraction?
As a related question, if $X_1, X_2, X_3$ are identically distributed and centered and $E(X_i X_j) = c$, what bound can I get for $E(X_1 X_2 X_3)$ in terms of $c$?


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I've added the code for google translate to my site. How can I make it stay selected to the right language between pages?
The question doesn't really make sense, functionally.
If you always want to translate to the same language, maybe you should look at providing translation links instead. Assuming you're using a CMS of some kind, just go to the main Google Translate page, give it some URL/language combination and submit. You'll end up at something like this:
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I get a lot of invitations via Facebook, but I keep track of my schedule with Google calendar. Is there any way to automatically import or sync my Facebook events to my Google calendar?
You can get an iCal link for your Upcoming Events (or Birthdays) that you can import into Google Calendar which will automatically stay up to date.
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The URL should be similar to:
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You should now have a calendar "{Your Name}'s Facebook Events" listed under "Other Calendars" and can change the color, details, etc. as needed.
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Can a person make seltzer on shobbos or yom tov with something like sodastream?
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According to the rulings of R' Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, yes.
From SodaStream's website:
I contacted the company, and they pointed me to Shulchan Shlomo O"C II 313 (page 137). Shulchan Shlomo is a work put together by a student of R' Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, based on his rulings. (I am assuming the scanned page they sent me is legitimate.)
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So it appears R' Shlomo Zalman Auerbach allowed it. I haven't heard any other opinions on the matter. Though if you wanted to be thorough, you could ask a British Jew, as according to wikipedia, "In the UK (where it was first sold) the SodaStream machine is strongly associated with 1970s/1980s childhood nostalgia."
The Beis Yitzchak (at the very end of Yoreh Deah part 2) writes that making soda water is forbidden on Shabbos due to molid. This view is cited in Minchas Shlomo
who notes (as above) that people tend to be lenient.
Shmirat shabbat kehilchatah says it's okay as well.
It is permissible to make seltzer on Shabbat, provided that no electricity is involved (and seltzer machines generally do not involve electricity), and that the seltzer is needed on Shabbat.
(from DailyHalacha.Com)
Rabbi Dovid Ribiat ("The 39 Melochos" mleches makeh bpatish p. תתלב fn. 104) cites differing opinions as to whether making seltzer qualifies as the forbidden melocho of makeh b'patish (according to the Yerushalmi that includes food items in the prohibition). He cites the Shemiras Shabbas K'hilchasa (11:35) who is lenient. He doesn't explicitly mention why molid (ala e.g. infusing clothing with perfume) isn't an issue. Also, at least in the case of the SodaStream sodamaker, the instructions make explicit use of the sound created by the device to determine when the seltzer is ready (3 loud presses) which would seem to raise an additional issue of the Rabbinic prohibition of hashmaas kol.
ילקוט יוסף קצוש"ע אורח חיים סימן שכב - דין נולד בשבת
ה. מותר לעשות מי - סודה בשבת על - ידי הכלי המיוחד לכך שנקרא "סיפולקוס" או "סודה סטרים", ואין בזה שום חשש לא של עובדין דחול, ולא משום נולד, ולא משום מכה בפטיש. ובלבד שיעשה זאת לצורך השבת. ואם הותיר לאחר השבת אין בכך כלום. [ילקוט יוסף שבת כרך ג' עמוד תי].
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To help satisfy the demand for housing, a proposed change in city land codes could open opportunities for as many as 500 new residential units in Durango�s older neighborhoods near downtown and along north Main Avenue.
The catch: These new residential properties would be located behind existing homes. They are what city planners call accessory-dwelling units but are more commonly known as the mother-in-law apartments, backyard cottages, pool houses or garage apartments.
The defining characteristic is that they are supposed to be smaller or subordinate to the main house or principal structure, said Todd Messenger, a consultant from Aurora who is helping the city to update its land-use development codes.
As for relevance to the city�s land code, the accessory dwelling �is the leaf on the tree upon which nothing else depends,� said Messenger at the start of a two-hour study session with the City Council on Tuesday.
Because of the pressure on the housing market, the accessory-dwelling unit has become a big issue, especially with councilors, such as Christina Rinderle, who emphasize �urban infill,� or taking advantage of underused space.
But officials have struggled over the last six months about how to regulate them. Under the proposal, Durango would restrict them to the two older neighborhoods because they have alleyways to accommodate somebody living at the back of a property. It�s also because consensus could not be reached on how they should be regulated elsewhere, Messenger said.
Because the older neighborhoods already have so many accessory-dwelling units, the city must also come up with an amnesty plan to bring them in compliance, officials said. They fall into a legal gray area because city codes currently allow for detached duplexes only on lots 7,500 square feet or larger.
The proposed change would drop the lot size restrictions for the neighborhood east of downtown and decrease it to 7,000 square feet for the residential areas along north Main Avenue.
Property owners could then build accessory dwellings as long as they met design standards, such as setback and floor-area requirements and a maximum square-feet requirement of 550.
The attitude is �If you can fit in, go ahead and fit it,� Messenger said.
He realized it would be difficult to squeeze in the dwelling units in many cases.
�I�m not going to lie to you, it�s hard to be done, but it can be done,� he said.
Messenger also would limit the appeals process for accessory dwellings to a neighborhood design review board and not allow appeals to go up to City Council. He said many of the city�s current appeals processes are �hopelessly confused.�
Because of the interest in accessory dwellings, councilors want to hold extra study sessions.
Rinderle questioned regulations that would limit one accessory dwelling unit per property, which is intended to prevent �slum-lording,� and require parking.
�I am OK with on-street parking,� Rinderle said. �It�s OK. We live in a city. We�re smart. We can figure it out.�
As part of the land-use code, the city is also revising parking codes to reduce parking requirements in areas of the city accessible to walking, bicycles or public transit.
The city also wants to create more flexibility in its parking policies to allow for more residential development downtown. In particular, Messenger said, the city needs to come up with policies to allow for overnight parking.
This prompted discussion on the city�s long-term goal of building a parking garage downtown. The idea is so old that senior planner Greg Hoch said� �we were talking about it 20 years ago.�


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Pentaho started the year off strong announcing 2010 as the most successful year in company history. We closed 2010 with 120% bookings growth year over year, over 400 new customers, and five major product releases.
January also brought a big addition to our executive team with Rod Squires joining Pentaho as the Worldwide Executive Vice President of Sales. Rod is a seasoned sales veteran with expertise for building and scaling highly successful software companies.
Another exciting addition to the team was Ian Fyfe as the Chief Technology Evangelist focused on driving higher adoption of Pentaho's BI technologies, ensuring that Pentaho's customer base and community needs are met and exceeded. Given Ian's background and leadership, he will also play an influential role in Pentaho's product strategy and roadmap development. You can read more about why he joined Pentaho in the blog, "Former Jaspersoft exec joins Pentaho."
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I'm working through the problems in Rudin's Principles of Mathematical analysis, chapter 4. Problem 3 is as follows:
Let $f$ be a continuous real function on a metric space $X$. Let $Z(f)$ (the zero set of $f$) be the set of all $p\in X$ at which $f(p)=0$. Prove that $Z(f)$ is closed.
Here's what I have.
Let $p$ be a limit point of $Z(f)$. Then for every neighbourhood $N_{\epsilon}(p)$ of p, there is a point $p'\in Z(f)\cap N_{\epsilon}(p)$ so that $f(p')=0$. Then for any $\epsilon>0$ there is some $\delta$ such that $|f(p)-f(p')|=|f(p)|<\delta$. Since we can take $\epsilon$ arbitrarily small, $f(p)=0$ and so $p\in Z(f)$.
I thought that looked good, but I realized I'm not sure that $\epsilon$ getting arbitrarily small implies $\delta$ getting arbitrarily small, which is what I would actually need. It seems to make sense that $\delta$ should get arbitrarily small but I'm not sure now—could you have a function which is continuous where, with $\epsilon,\delta$ as in the definition of continuity, taking $\epsilon'<\epsilon$ would require us to choose $\delta'\geq\delta$?
Maybe this is a dumb question. If my proof is incorrect, could someone give me a hint to fix it?


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In this lecture, noted art historian Kaja Silverman will discuss Jeff Wall's work After "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, the Preface (2001) and the aesthetic, philosophical, and political implications of the shift observed in his artwork after 1990.
"Visibility" and "invisibility" have been the dominant concerns of Jeff Wall's artwork, as seen in his earlier pieces such as Destroyed Room (1979) and recent works such as Overpass (2001) and Dawn (2001). In his earliest Cibachromes, "invisibility" signified "ideological mystification," and Wall sought to undo this in his work by making the invisible, visible. Wall's relationship to visibility and invisibility began to change after 1990 as the people, places, and things in his photographs became more likely to turn away from the viewer than toward them.
Kaja Silverman is the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Chair of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of eight books: James Coleman, World Spectators, Speaking About Godard, The Threshold of the Visual World, Male Subjectivity at the Margins, The Acoustic Mirror, The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema, The Subject of Semiotics, and Flesh of My Flesh. Silverman's writing and teaching are focused primarily on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, photography, time-based visual art, and literature, but she continues to write about and teach courses on cinema. Additionally she has a developing interest in painting and an ongoing commitment to feminist theory. She is currently writing a new book about photography, The Miracle of Analogy.
A reception in the Wexner Center cafß immediately follows Silverman's presentation.
The Ludden Lecture was established in 1986 to honor Franklin M. Ludden (1916–2002), professor and former chair of the Department of History of Art, who inspired students with his breadth of knowledge and enthusiasm for art historical topics from medieval art and architecture to postmodernism.
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Let $\mu_t, t \geq 0,$ be a family of probability measures on the real line. One can assume whatever one wishes about them, although typically they will be continuous in some topology (usually at least the topology of weak convergence of measures), and they will be absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure. The basic question is as follows:
Is there a Markov process $X_t$ such that its marginal distribution at each time is $\mu_t$?
An obvious example is when $$d \mu_t = \frac{e^{-x^2/2t}}{\sqrt{2 \pi t}} dx$$ and $\mu_0 = \delta_0$, in which case we know that Brownian motion is such a Markov process. I am curious to know if there is any general theory along these lines.
As per Byron's comment below, I would like the Markov process to be continuous. Ideally I would like to have an SDE description of the process.
The SDE description actually suggests one possible answer: simply compute and play with the time and space derivatives of the density function to see if they satisfy some sort of parabolic equation (like the heat equation), use this to get the adjoint of the generator, and then compute the generator itself. This is a very plausible option, but I was hoping that there might be something more systematic.


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Sinkhole coverage? Check your policy
Last week's catastrophic sinkhole in Seffner should serve as a wake-up call for central Floridians.
The Seffner sinkhole claimed a life, a rarity in sinkholes. The only other sinkhole-related death in this area that we recall — relying on an admittedly imperfect memory — occurred many years ago when a motorist driving on an unlighted road drove into one.
The primary cause for concern from sinkholes is not loss of life, but loss of a home. And that is a loss that many central Florida residents — notably including persons living in Bartow and Lake Wales — have experienced.
In the wake of the Seffner sinkhole, which swallowed up a bedroom and killed a person sleeping in that room, we researched Florida law and talked to an insurance agent.
Briefly, Florida law requires insurance companies to cover "catastrophic ground cover collapse," but that is not synonymous with sinkholes.
To meet the definition of "catastrophic," a house must be "condemned as uninhabitable."
But as those of us who live in sinkhole-prone areas are well aware, sinkholes can cause damage — let alone sleepless nights — without the "catastrophic collapse" for which coverage is mandated.
One majestic two-story Bartow home ("mansion" would not be an overstatement) was actually moved a few feet many years ago to avoid the danger of extensive damage from a sinkhole in the yard.
Small depressions or subsurface voids have been filled beneath other homes to prevent development of greater problems.
Typical warning signs are unexplained cracks in walls or foundations. Modern subsurface testing devices are now available to determine if the cause is a potential sinkhole.
Insurance companies are required by Florida law to offer sinkhole coverage for an additional premium for these non-catastrophic perils, and we suggest that for homeowners in our readership area, it's worth exploring.
While we generally prefer to let private enterprise regulate itself, this is an area that the Legislature might need to revisit.
Sinkhole coverage, regardless of the extent of damage, used to be mandated by law for all policy holders, but a change in Florida Statute 627 established a differentiation between "catastrophic" damage and the worrisome damage that results from smaller sinkholes.
If your house is damaged (but not destroyed) by fire or windstorm, insurance pays to fix it. We fail to see the difference when damage caused by a sinkhole can be repaired.
For the insurance industry, exposure to sinkholes represents a far smaller risk than fires and hurricanes.
But to the homeowner, the perils can be equally devastating.
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