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Stolen Train Slams Into a Building
STOCKHOLM—A young woman charged with cleaning a commuter train instead appears to have stolen the empty train from a depot and driven it until it derailed and crashed into a house in a Stockholm suburb, local officials said.
An injured person was found by the train and sent to a hospital in an ambulance helicopter, local police said, adding the injured person was also detained for endangering the public. Police said it was unlikely that anybody except the driver was on the train at the time of the accident, and no other injuries were reported.
Local police received an alarm call around 2.30 a.m. that a derailed train had collided with a building in the suburb of Saltsjobaden.
Bertil Grandinson, 71 years old, who lives on the top floor of the three-story building, woke up in the middle of the night from the loud crash, Swedish daily Aftonbladet reported. "It sounded like an air-plane crash. I rushed to the window and then I saw the train," Aftonbladet quoted him as saying.
Tomas Hedenius, spokesman for train operator Arriva, said it remains unclear what the woman's intentions had been when the vehicle crashed at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour. He said the woman had been hired to clean the train and its depot.
"If you manage to get hold of the key, it isn't particularly difficult to get a train rolling," he said. It isn't any more difficult to stop a train than to start it, he added.
The Associated Press quoted Mr. Hedenius as saying that there had been three families inside the house, which held several apartments, when the train crashed into it, but that no one was injured.
"The police technicians have probably finalized the technical investigation," police spokesman Lars Bystrom told The Wall Street Journal. "Now that needs to be completed with witness hearings and other things so that we can sort out what happened and why."
By Tuesday afternoon, it still hadn't been possible to hear the injured person, Mr. Bystrom said.
Incidents involving trains getting seized and crashed into buildings are practically unheard of.
According to her colleagues at cleaning firm Caretia, the young woman, born in 1990, has been a well-liked coworker, Mr. Hedenius said. "You didn't see this coming," he said.
Photographs from the scene showed the crumpled front car of the train buried deep into the structure.
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Bertil Grandinson lives on the top floor of the three-story building the train crashed into. A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to him as Bengt Grandinson.
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5 Bizarre Ways Your Siblings Made You Who You Are
#2. Your Older Siblings Live Longer
OK, it's not all bad news for the younger kids. Our big brothers and sisters may be smarter and taller than us, but studies show they're not as healthy.
It has been found that the risks of hay fever and eczema decrease when you've had three or more older siblings. Having multiple filthy children share a household tends to convert the place into a giant Petri dish, but because infections lend strength to a developing immune system, the various exotic diseases that kids bring into the home wind up benefiting everyone involved.
The picture of health.
The kick in the pants is that, even after granting you an ironclad immune system, your sickly older siblings will still outlive you.
Scientists at the University of Chicago have concluded that if you want to live to a hundred, you damn well better be a firstborn. Apparently, the secret of the firstborn's success lies in the mother's birthing age. If the mother is below 25 when she propels her first spawn out into the world, that child is much more likely to eventually become a centenarian.
The study showed that, for women, the firstborn child is three times more likely to make it to 100 than the seventh sister and beyond. Firstborn males are twice as likely to reach 100 as male siblings born fourth through sixth.
They'll be enjoying the sweet fruits of incontinence and senility while you're rotting in the ground.
A possible explanation to this phenomenon is that younger mothers tend to have healthier eggs, and are generally healthier than their older counterparts, having had exposure to fewer diseases and infections over the course of their lifetimes. After the eldest kids arrive and start acting as dragnets for every biological hazard within the same time zone, the mother is exposed to more disease, and since her best eggs have already been spent, her future children wind up being short-lived little mutant goblins.
On the plus side, you get a better shot at a circus career.
Holy crap, is there any advantage to being the younger brother in a family?
#1. Younger Siblings Have Lots More Sex
To any runts of the litter who got this far through the article without falling into a deep, alcoholic depression, here's your reward: All of your suffering has been worth it, because for all of your glaring flaws, the opposite sex cannot get enough of you.
Or, keeping #5 in mind, the same sex.
A study in which subjects were placed into a speed-dating-like environment has shown that having older siblings of the opposite sex is incredibly socially beneficial. Men with older sisters were significantly more conversationally adept, and women with older brothers were likely to strike up a conversation with a man, and smiled more at the man than he did at her.
Apparently, your older siblings increase your empathy skills to counter their sociopathic bent. In addition, any type of sibling in general makes your social skills throughout life skyrocket. You'll get along better with other children in kindergarten, have closer friendships and generally have more fun than your overworked elders who struggle under the burden of perfection.
Younger siblings are funnier too. A study showed that over half of younger siblings said that it's easy to be humorous, compared with only one third of oldest siblings. Only-children were worst off, with only 11 percent claiming to be funny. We take this one with a grain of salt, because often the people who claim to be funny are really the most groan-inducing douchebags in the room.
Both of these men are "hilarious."
It's theorized, though, that younger siblings have to compete more for attention, so their people-skills muscles get so much more of a workout. And why not? When you struggle through life as a possibly closeted, academically average midget who doesn't have long to live, it really helps to have a sense of humor.
Or religion.
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Let $f$ be an entire function of order $ρ<\infty$. Assume that $f$ does not vanish identically on $\mathbb{C}$. Then, we know that $f$ has a Hadamard's product formula
$$ f(s) =e^{g(s)}s^{r}\prod _ {k=1}^{\infty}\frac{s _ {k}-s}{s _ {k}} e^{s/s _ k} $$
the integer $r$ is the order of vanishing of $f$ at $s=0$, the $s_{k}$ are the other zeros of $f$ listed with multiplicity, $g$ is a polynomial of degree at most $ρ$, and the product converges uniformly in bounded subsets of $ℂ$. My question is how I can deduce directely a Hadamard's product formula for the derivative $f^′$ from the one of the function $f$.


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I'm working at a software consultancy that a has a lot of volunteers available for about a month and a half at a time (when we're between projects and learning things) and we'd like to start contributing to open source projects that have a positive social impact. Any idea which projects we can look at?
The constraints are:
Built on a fairly modern language and stack that's suitable for beginners but has wide adoption - Java+Spring+Hibernate / RoR / Groovy+Grails - basically a stack we'd expect to work on in other projects too.
Has / aims to have a positive on peoples lives - like Ushahidi, OpenMRS, RapidFTR, FrontlineSMS, etc.
Has well defined stories and requirements, or has owners who are willing to work with our analysts to come up with them.
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Japanese Markets Awaken With Wild Swings
TOKYO—Japan's financial markets, long some of the sleepiest in the world, erupted in activity late last week, logging wild price swings on skyrocketing volumes, and gluing traders to their screens for hours.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond, whose biggest daily move in all of last year was around a 30th of a percentage point, swung 10 times farther on Friday, plummeting to 0.315%—which some Tokyo strategists said was the lowest ever for any equivalent government bond—then rocketing up to 0.620%, before settling at 0.460%.
Stock trading on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange hit a record of 6.45 billion shares, while the yen hit a 3½-year low of ¥97.20 against the dollar, after having traded as high as ¥92.73 on Thursday.
- BOJ statement
- Heard on the Street: For BOJ, Moving Markets Is the Easy Part
- JGBs Gyrate as Markets Digest Easing
- BOJ Unveils Bold Bid to End Deflation
- Japanese Government Bonds Soar
- Japan Real Time: BOJ Beat: First Look at 'Regime Change'
- Japan Real Time: BOJ Beat: 'Regime Change' Take 2
- Bank of Japan Gets Better at Playing With Markets
- Heard on the Street: Moves Give Substance to Abenomics
- Big Central Banks Go Their Separate Ways
Nomura Securities Co., Japan's biggest brokerage firm, said its retail business on Friday traded more shares, by value, than it had ever done before, even during Japan's 1980s stock-market heyday.
"The volatility we saw today across all asset classes—rates, FX and equities—was unprecedented,'' said Brendan O'Dea, head of equity markets in Japan at Citigroup Inc. C -0.61 % "It's going to take some time for people to price in'' the new investment environment.
On Thursday, Japan's central bank unveiled a plan to buy trillions of yen more in government bonds and other assets, as part of a new easing campaign to depress long-term yields and eventually revive the long-stagnant economy. The aggressiveness of the plans surprised investors, sending stocks whipsawing, the yen tumbling and government-bond yields to record lows.
Traders in Tokyo had braced for the news, which was released after the first policy-board meeting under the BOJ's new activist governor. Traders prepared multiple scenarios for the new easing plan, even coordinating bathroom breaks so trading desks wouldn't be caught understaffed when the headlines started to roll.
At Crédit Agricole CRARY 2.58 % in Tokyo, director of foreign exchange Yuji Saito said he had some spicy Thai food and a strong Starbucks SBUX -0.27 % coffee to make sure he was alert for the announcement.
Takumi Nomura, senior manager of foreign-exchange trading at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, recalls being "nailed to my desk from before noon. I was nervous about running out, even to go to the bathroom, and people in our team took turns.''
Mr. Nomura said he had instructed the 10 members of his team to prepare a list of possible easing measures and gauge how aggressively the bank was pursuing each one, shouting out "strong'' or "weak'' after each step was announced. For a while after the news broke, Mr. Nomura said, he heard only shouts of "strong'' and "big.'' Then a deluge of client calls started rolling in, and "we didn't have time to check the news and just got swallowed by the market,'' he said.
The confusion was heightened by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake that hit nearby Chiba Prefecture at 1:42 p.m. Japan time, just as the BOJ news started to roll.
"The people in the Tokyo area were momentarily thrown off," said Tetsuya Kudo, deputy manager in the proprietary-trading department of midsize brokerage Yamawa Securities Co., who says he was so startled his hands stopped moving just as he was scrambling to place buy orders for Japanese stocks.
Market watchers say that, although the turmoil in Japan's markets will probably lessen, activity is likely to stay high—particularly in the market most affected by the BOJ's easing measures: the nearly quadrillion-yen market for Japanese government bonds. Those bonds, particularly longer duration JGBs, will be the principle target of the BOJ's purchases; the bank said it plans to increase its holdings of JGBs by about 50 trillion yen ($513 billion) a year, gobbling up around 70% of new issues. That bond-buying program is more than 60% larger than the U.S. Federal Reserve's monthly purchases of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities as a percentage of the economy.
Many Japanese investors say they were surprised by the boldness of the plan. Ahead of the announcement, a number of bond strategists published reports advising clients to take positions betting that the BOJ would disappoint the markets—pushing bond prices down and yields up—by forgoing aggressive action. When the opposite happened, those investors scrambled to change their positions, bond strategists said, adding to the market's unusual volatility. Several dealers said they had heard the market movements even prompted a large Japanese bank to sell a huge amount of JGBs on Friday, contributing to the temporary drop in prices and spike in yields.
More long-term JGB investors say they are struggling to figure out how to adjust to what is likely to be years of lower yields as the BOJ starts its increased purchases. Many of those investors, such as pension funds and life insurers, say their returns are already too low for their investment needs, but they don't have good alternative places to park their cash.
When asked about the mood on his team during the past two days, one person in the treasury department of a Japanese insurance company replied: "dark.''
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When using Nautilus and I navigate to the
/usr/share/applications directory I get a listing of the meta data that is extracted from all of the .desktop files that live in that directory.
So the file in my example called
"Oracle Java 7 Runtime" in Nautilus translates to the file
JB-java.desktop which I took a wild guess at. In Nautilus the properties dialog does not reveal the name of that file, so its a hit and miss approach to get the file name.
Is there a better way? Short of looking for the string "Oracle Java 7 Runtime" in all of the files in the directory which is a bit clumsy.


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Some crazy fluctuations in form this year! Looks to be just about evening out into a promotion challenge, keep it up
SRL88's Career - March 2016 - Darlington FC
League Two
What a frustrating bloody month!!!! Really, really annoying defeats against Aldershot and Dagenham who sit so close to the relegation zone, but annoyed me most were the back-to-back draws. We conceded a late goal against Wycombe and very, very late goals against MK Dons and Mansfield to leave me thinking where the heck is our next win going to come from!!! Luckily enough, and I mean luckily...we got our just rewards from previous games by scoring a pretty late, and probably undeserved winner of our own against high flying Burton which installed some much needed confidence in the side to leave us with every chance of automatic promotion.
Also, poor Pompey .
Last edited by SRL88; 16-01-2012 at 12:44.
Just catching up here so i'm a bit late but congrats on getting into the football league!
Good luck in getting back to back promotions, looks like a nervy end to the season coming up.
Wow,that's going to be a close finish,best of luck in the end of season run
As for the City result,that's what I would define as a typical City moment
Hard month but at least you have the playoffs to fall back on if you don't make top 3!
They are my remaining league fixtures. Ive just beat Pompey 2-1 to leave me 1pt off the automatic promotion spots, 6pts ahead of any team outside the play-offs. You can use the league table from my last update to get a slight judgement as to where clubs are in the league.....and its going to be verrrrrrrry tense!!!
You can do it
Love the update SRL88.
As I said in the GPTG OTF thread, you've really inspired me to start a similar save once my Chelsea save runs out of steam.
God luck with your promotion chase in the last five games.
SRL88's Career - April/May 2016 - Darlington FC
League Two
WOW, just WOW!!!!! . I cant actually believe it. Back-to-back promotions has me beaming. We entered the final stretch of games with every chance of promotion and got off to the best possible start with a hard fought victory away to already relegated Portsmouth. We followed this up with a tough draw away to Yeovil. What followed was magic. Our next game against promotion chasing Plymoth showed that we were more than up for the test as we absolutely destroyed them with Filipe Carvalhinho scoring four. A trip to Merseyside followed with us sitting one point behind Cheltenham with 3 games to go. We battered Accrington in the first half but went in at the break at 1-1. In the second half though, we got the decsive goal to grab a 2-1 win and effectively seal our play-off spot and Carvalhinho once again breaking more records.
We followed this up with a drab draw against Oxford. We went into the final game of the season sitting in the final promotion spot, but level on points with Cheltenham and one point ahead of Plymouth......who coincidentley were playing eachother on the final day of the season at Home Park. We went to Newport with me banking on them drawing as I wasnt the most confident going into the game, but we done our job. We went there and took control for most of the game and walked away with that vital win which sealed our promotion, much to the delight of our fans and board.
Absolutely brilliant first season for you in the Football League.
Good luck when you get the League 1 season underway, (if indeed you are still in charge of Darlo by then), because I think you may need it.
Nice to see you were one of the teams who came out on top in the end of the season run,congrats on promotion
So I have been offered to take up the post at St.James Park. Its on higher wages with a lot higher wage budget. They have just finished 19th in League 1 to. I have delayed an extension to my Darlington contract which is on the same wages (£900 p/w) but dont quite know the wage/transfer budget as of yet.
Do you guys think I should take the post at Exeter, or give Darlington one more year?
I'd go for Exeter personally, then again they have grown on me recently. Do they still have their decent key players?
I'd probably go.
I'm surprised your side hasn't gone into administration yet Sterling work though, and good luck for the conclusion to the season.
This is the current squad. Im not exactly up to date with their players .
Last edited by SRL88; 16-01-2012 at 21:58.
I'd probably stay, Exeter isn't really a big club and you should be able to get bigger.
I would stay at Darlo for the time being to be honest But what ever you feel would be a better career move.
SRL88's Career - Season Review - 2015/16 - Darlington FC
League Two - Results 1 - Results 2 - Results 3 (3rd - Promoted)
An excellent season for us. We have achieved back-to-back promotions which is an unbelievable achievement for the club and we will now be plying our trade in League 1. We carried our form and confidence from last season and although our positions were up and down, in the New Year we were in good form. We lost just 4 times since the turn of the year and ended up finishing on a 10 match unbeaten run to finish 2pts ahead of Cheltenham and gain automatic promotion.
FA Cup (Lost in 3rd Round)
We reached the 3rd Round for the first time under my management which made me happy. I hoped for a more glamourous tie against the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool etc but we enjoyed our second day out in Nottingham in the FA Cup and put in a pasionate performance. It helped our finances a little by bringing in £70k.
League Cup (Lost in 1st Round)
An early exit against higher level opposition. It didnt bother me to much, but we played well against Rochdale.
Johnstones Paint Trophy (Lost in 2nd Round)
Just like the League Cup, we exited the competition to League 1 opposition. The game was not a 3-0 defeat really. It was an even game, but their finishing was more clinical than ours.
Transfers - Finances
Just as with the season before, a lot of ins and outs but they were needed. I think next season I will try to look at getting rid of players for money to help the finances out.
Finances are getting there......................I think!!!
I have been pretty pleased with my squad for the season. We have some very good players. Our top scorer was another loanee in Filipe Carvalhinho and what a player he was. At the start of the season I mentioned that I was a little worried that he was 17yo and I wasnt sure if he would handle the pressure, but he had a fantastic season which included scoring 4 goals against Plymouth. We need to strengthen our squad vastly if we are to compete against better opposition.
My Top 3 Players
Jordan Mustoe - Another excellent season from the winger. Like last season, he supplied a huge number of assists and contributed with goals as well. His season was capped off nicely wiht the Player of the Year Award.
Jeff Henderson - Ive said it in 3 season reviews now. Without this lad at the heart of our defence we arent the same team. He has such an influence on the back 4 that he is vital to our success.
Filipe Carvalhinho - A brilliant season from the youngster. I think I will definitely be looking to bring him back next season.
Next Season?Code:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Season | Team | League | Country | League Position | Notes | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 2011/12 | Kirklareli Spor | Second Division Group A | Turkey | 5th | Play-Off Quater Finalists | | 2012/13 | Kirklareli Spor | Second Division Group A | Turkey | 3rd | Play-Off Semi Finalists | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 2013/14 | Darlington | Blue Square Premier | England | 4th | Play-Off Semi Finalists, FA Trophy Runners-Up, | Appointed in October | | 2014/15 | Darlington | Blue Square Premier | England | 2nd | Promoted via Play-Offs, FA Trophy Runners-Up | | 2015/16 | Darlington | League Two | England | 3rd | Promoted |
As you have seen in above posts, Ive signed a new 1 year contract with the club. I rejected an offer from Exeter who were prepared to offer me £1,300 p/w compared to my new contract at Darlington which is £1,000 p/w. They were going to give me £42k p/w for wages alone, which is a lot more than what I have availabe at present. So why? Well I am enjoying my time at Darlington and dont really fancy the change at present.
If I want to take FM a bit to seriously I will say this...County Durham is my home, its where Im from and where I grew up. I am enjoying being able to spend time with my family when I get the chance, so moving away would disrupt all that. I never realised how much I missed then until I moved back home from Turkey. My family was a little unsettled in Turkey and when I left we moved back home. The opportunity to manage Darlington came up and it was perfect for me at the present time.
A bit to serious??? Maybe so .
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How are my Former Clubs Doing?
Kirklareli Spor
The club seemed to go a bit backwards after my exit, but they were back in the play-offs this season before losing in the Semi-Final.Code:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Season | League | League Position | Notes | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 2013/14 | Second Division Group A | 11th | - | | 2014/15 | Second Division Group A | 9th | - | | 2015/16 | Second Division Group A | 5th | Lost in Play-Off Semi Final |
Last edited by SRL88; 16-01-2012 at 23:42.
A Look Around The World
Here I will post the winners of the major competitions in and around the World. Any others, just ask and I can update for you!!!
Club - Domestic
English Premier League
2011/12 - 1st Man Utd 2nd Chelsea 3rd Man City
2012/13 - 1st Man Utd 2nd Arsenal 3rd Liverpool
2013/14 - 1st Liverpool 2nd Chelsea 3rd Man Utd
2014/15 - 1st Man Utd 2nd Liverpool 3rd Arsenal
2015/16 - 1st Man Utd 2nd Chelsea 3rd Man City
FA Cup
2011/12 - Winners Tottenham Runners-Up Everton
2012/13 - Winners West Ham Runners-Up Liverpool
2013/14 - Winners Man Utd Runners-Up Norwich
2014/15 - Winners Wolves Runners-Up Birmingham
2015/16 - Winners Arsenal Runners-Up Barnsley
League Cup
2011/12 - Winners Fulham Runners-Up Reading
2012/13 - Winners Tottenham Runners-Up West Brom
2013/14 - Winners Wolves Runners-Up Chelsea
2014/15 - Winners Arsenal Runners-Up Aston Villa
2015/16 - Winners Arsenal Runners-Up Liverpool
La Liga
2011/12 - 1st Barcelona 2nd Real Madrid 3rd Athletic Club
2012/13 - 1st Real Madrid 2nd Barcelona 3rd Villarreal
2013/14 - 1st Real Madrid 2nd Athletic Club 3rd Barcelona
2014/15 - 1st Real Madrid 2nd Barcelona 3rd Valencia
2015/16 - 1st Barcelona 2nd Real Madrid 3rd At. Madrid
2011/12 - 1st Bayern Munich 2nd Werder Bremen 3rd Schalke
2012/13 - 1st Dortmund 2nd Bayern Munich 3rd Schalke
2013/14 - 1st Leverkusen 2nd Dortmund 3rd Bayern Munich
2014/15 - 1st Leverkusen 2nd Bayern Munich 3rd Schalke
2015/16 - 1st Bayern Munich 2nd Schalke 3rd Leverkusen
Serie A
2011/12 - 1st AC Milan 2nd Napoli 3rd Lazio
2012/13 - 1st Inter 2nd Juventus 3rd Napoli
2013/14 - 1st AC Milan 2nd Inter 3rd Juventus
2014/15 - 1st AC Milan 2nd Inter 3rd Sampdoria
2015/16 - 1st AC Milan 2nd Parma 3rd Palermo
French Ligue 1
2011/12 - 1st Valenciennes 2nd Bordeaux 3rd Marseille
2012/13 - 1st Lyon 2nd Marseille 3rd Sochaux
2013/14 - 1st Lyon 2nd PSG 3rd RC Lens
2014/15 - 1st Lyon 2nd PSG 3rd Marseille
2015/16 - 1st PSG 2nd Lyon 3rd Marseille
Club - Europe
Champions League
2011/12 - Winners Bayern Munich Runners-Up Man Utd
2012/13 - Winners AC Milan Runners-Up Barcelona
2013/14 - Winners Arsenal Runners-Up Liverpool
2014/15 - Winners PSG Runners-Up Barcelona
2015/16 - Winners AC Milan Runners-Up At. Madrid
Europa League
2011/12 - Winners Arsenal Runners-Up Rubin Kazan
2012/13 - Winners Bayern Munich Runners-Up Porto
2013/14 - Winners Chelsea Runners-Up Napoli
2014/15 - Winners Benfica Runners-Up Bayern Munich
2015/16 - Winners Man City Runners-Up Aston Villa
World Cup
2014 - Winners France Runners-Up Ghana 3rd Place England Hosts Brazil
European Championships
2012 - Winners Germany Runners-Up France Hosts Ukraine/Poland
2016 - Winners Spain Runners-Up Belgium Hosts France
Last edited by SRL88; 17-01-2012 at 22:17.
Excellent job on successive promotions! I think you made the right decision in staying as well.
Added a couple of other bits in which I shall continue after each season.
Well done on the promotion mate, glad to see you sticking with Darlington. Good luck with the coming season.
SRL88's Career - Season Preview - 2016/17 - Darlington FC
Board Expectations:
League One:- Attempt to Avoid Relegation
FA Cup:- Reach the 3rd Round
Johnstones Paint Trophy:- Reach the 2nd Round
League Cup:- Enjoy the Experience
My Expectations:
League One:- Avoid Relegation. If I can do this then I will feel like we have won the league.
FA Cup:- I want a trip to Old Trafford, The Emirates, Anfield etc. Can I pleasssssssssssssssse have one of them!!!
Johnstones Paint Trophy:- If we get lucky I would love another trip to Wembley.
League Cup:- Meh. Not bothered really.
Transfer:- £0 (Im used to this by now)
Wage:- £29,756 (Currently spending £24,509)
Balance:- -£604,151 (-£298,101 since last season)
We have a very small squad at present and I have a lot of work to do to make this squad competitive in this league. A few new signings have arrived in the shape of Elliot Benyon, Bjorn Recktenwald & Bobby Reid to strengthen. I need to add players in at right back, central midfield, upfront and a back-up left winger.
Key Player(s):
Elliot Benyon - A new arrival on a free transfer from Plymouth.
Jordan Mustoe - Has been key to my success in the last 2 seasons. More of the same please.
Bjorn Recktenwald - Another new signing. Joins from Hoffenheim and if he settles quick could be a huge hit.
Great job getting another promotion, I think you made the right decision to stay for at least another year aswell. I don't think Exeter was appealing enough to leave.
Glad you stayed another year, Exeter would have been a step sideways. I'm sure a better offer is around the corner
Well done on another promotion. Probably best to stay with Darlo as Exeter wouldn't be that much of a step up the ladder.
Could do with some money though
Lets see if it pays off in League 1.
Great promotion SRL88, I will direct any Darlington fans to this thread.
Sorry if I have missed this somewhere in the thread, but what did you set your experience to when you started your save?
Congrats on the promotion again
None of this suprised me, but when I checked my finances I saw this which led me to have a little smile .
First time in god knows how many years that this club has been in the black.
SRL88's Career - Pre-Season - 2016/17 - Darlington FC
A good pre-season is now under our belts with just the one blip against Southport. We had some very good confidence building results and head ino the season opener with every faith that we might just survive this season.
Another season with a lot of transfer activity. U feel much better now with our squad. Following the players who arrived on pre-contracts, we strengthed further by adding the experience of 33yo Neil Mellor who will prove to be a very good player at this level.
Ive called up a few youngsters from the reserves, and although I would prefer to sign a few players, our budget is tight I will be given opportunities to the kids.
A nice pre-season there, ashame the loss came in the final game as it puts confidence down a little.
Struggling so far to get the best out of Elliot Benyon and Bjorn Recktenwald. Any ideas as to what roles I could use them as? Screenshots in post #341 if you need them .
I'd go TM(to feet) for Recktenwald, and poacher alongside him for Benyon. What do you have them set to at the moment? & Maybe they need a bti of time to settle in?
Benyon has been playing as a poacher and has 2 goals in 4 games (all competitions) but I have been switching Recktenwald a bit because I have Mellor as well who is a TM Support w/ supply to head. So it all depends on who I play .
Suppose it doesnt matter for 4 weeks because Recktenwald has just been injured.
Cheers for the suggestion.
You're complaining about 2 goals in 4 games? My strikers had like 20 goals between them in a season, that's 4 strikers!(First season)
Welllllll......when they put in a 5.3 performance I get a little angry ha.
SRL88's Career - August 2016 - Darlington FC
League One
Another season underway and I really couldnt have asked for a better start to life in League 1. I was anticipating a tough start with our first 3 fixures which probably would have affected our confidence badly but that wasnt the case. We battled for a hard earned draw on the opening day and things have gone from there. We put in an excellent performance at home to Hull to battle our way to a 1-0 win before travelling to The Valley and coming away with an astonishing victory against Charlton. We took the long coach journey back up north with smiles all over our faces and an extra sweet touch was added by Charlton Manager Les Parry.
Our next two games were at home and I was very confident going into them following our impressive start. Although we were all over Orient, we had to wait for a late winner from Jeff Henderson. Against Brentford it was a tale of two halves. We were all over them during the first period. I warned the lads about complacency in the second but they didnt listen. We sat deep and let Brentford come onto us, and to be fair, they probably deserved to leave with a draw, but we dug deep and clung on to make it four wins from five in August.
I wont be getting over excited about this as its still early days. I still also need to take into consideration the fact that we were in a similar position last season but had a shocking September. Our next game, Southampton away!!!
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League Cup
A couragous effort against Hull, just days before we got revenge in the league fixture. We battled hard at the KC Stadium and were in it until the end when a late 3rd goal killed us off.
Johnstones Paint Trophy
A pretty poor performance led us to leave the Johnstones Paint Trophy in the First Round. We were shocking, absolutely shocking in the first half so I let rip (not by farting) at the interval and let the lads know exactly what I thought. We put in a better second half performance, but our hopes died because after we made our three substitutions, they decided it was a good idea to injure 2 of our players, and then out of frustration we got a man sent off to end the game with 8 men.
A nice month there, other than the cup games. Atleast you can concentrate on the league now.
Have Elliot Benyon and Bjorn Recktenwald started playing any better yet?
A quite sensational start to the campaign seeing as you have recently been promoted. Keep up the great work buddy!
Take out the cup games and it's a very impressive start
SRL88's Career - September 2016 - Darlington FC
League One
Looking at it, you would say pretty **** really wouldnt you!!! Part of me is annoyed whilst part of me expected it. We done similar last season by having a shocking September. I never expected anything from the Southampton game and to be fair, they battered us. I said after the game, and I stand by it now...but if we got into half time still 1-0 up it would have been a different game. When they got their first I was a little annoyed because it was a shot which was deflected in so it couldnt really be helped, but as soon as that second went in I knew what was coming. I wasnt to hard on the lads because Southampton are way to good for this league. Just look at their start!!!!
The next games were frustrating in different ways. We bossed Hereford and really should have won and if it wasnt for their goalkeeper we would have. Away to Bristol Rovers and at home to Palace we were bossed. We began to show signs of a couple of things. One was a drop in confidence and two that maybe we were promoted a bit to early and the difference in class was showing. We clung on to draw with Rovers and were 2-0 down against Palace until the last 10mins. I changed my tactics a little, went attacking and we got two goals. Lucky really. Id rather not talk about the Swindon game .
To be fair to us, if you said to me that after 10 games, following back-to-back promotions and probably to soon as well that we would be sitting where we are in the league with just 2 defeats I would have snapped your hand off. It only looks so bad because we made an excellent start so Im not worried. We're well outside the drop zone and although there is plenty of time left Im confident. All we need is a couple of good results and we're off again.
Only ten games in but that is quite a tight league so far. Play-off's more than possible though. Good luck dude.
I think you are going well, it has been a big step up in a short period of time for you.
SRL88's Career - October 2016 - Darlington FC
League One
We put in an excellent month during October to keep ourselves in the Play-Off spots. After a poor September we got off to a good start against Preston with a fully deserved 3-1 win at The Darlington Arena. We continued the month ubeaten which could have been better (late goal conceded against Walsall), and rounded off the month with fantastic results at home to Burton and away to Rochdale left us lying in 4th place.
Lancaster looks ridiculously good for that level! I'm surprised I haven't seen his name pop up on the scorers more often, which position and role are you using him in?
Im using him upfront as a poacher. The way he moves on the pitch kind of reminds me of Luis Suarez to be honest. His turning is exactly the same and he is often quite frustrating infront of goal.
Looks like Bjorn hit some form coming back from injury, thats good! And a very nice month of results, well done!
Well, lets hope he can strike up a partnership with benyon or Lancaster, not sure who your playing with him, if anyone!
A nice October, well done
Those loan players look class too.
Great start, looking good yet again.
Looking promising.
SRL88's Career - November 2016 - Darlington FC
League One
Just two games in November due to FA Cup commitments. Im not suprised by the defeat to Peterborough because they are a much bigger club and have a lot of good players. We played alright but a 2-0 defeat was about right. Games against the likes of Bury are the ones which we need to win in this league. They are the games which will dictate whether we are good enough to compete in this league. I know we're 18 games in, but these are the games which give us confidence going forward and the games which have got us to where we are in the league. We fell a goal down to them, but didnt let it affect us and quickly equilised to go in at half time level. The second half was all us and goals from captain Matthew Saunders and loanee Andy Lancaster gave us all 3 points.
Two good wins in the FA Cup to help us march into Third Round to face Championship side Crawley. I expected us to beat Blue Square Premier side Chester, but the game against Swindon was especially pleasing. It shows how quick things change as we were comprehensively beaten by Swindon earlier in the season.
Doing well in the league mate, but if im honest, I don't like the idea of you going up again so soon, might be to soon! But nonetheless it would be a rgeat achievement.
That regen looks like a monster for league 1!
I dont know if I will be with Darlington after this season, but I think the club needs to be in this league for another 2-3 year before it could handle the Championship.
Not splashing out though.
Still double of what I had with Preston in the Championship!!
Awesome! Don't go and break the bank now you've been given it SRL!
SRL88's Career - December 2016 - Darlington FC
League One
A pretty average month really. It all started off with a frustrating defeat against Doncaster which annoyed me a little more when I checked my inbox to see that they were awarded two controversial penalties. My frustration went up a notch against Tranmere when we conceded late to only come away with a draw. They also inflicted my biggest pet hate on FM by setting out to kick lumps out of my players with 3 of them injured so we finished the game with 9 men and thats when they scored.
Two pretty poor performances and results followed before a much needed victory over Exeter to get our confidence back and also to leave us sat just inside the Play-Off spots.
A so-so month there mate, atleast you got a few points out of it! I would go as far as saying you're already safe from relegation, which is a plus.
What points were the previous teams that got relegated on? I only say as Tranmere have got 19 from 23 games, if they carry that form on they would be on around around 40 points? Give or take a couple ofcourse.
A brilliant start to the league i think! I would also leave next year if I was you mate!


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WHEELING - The king has been dethroned.
Steubenville ended Parkersburg South's three-year reign as Ron Mauck OVAC Wrestling Tournament champions on Saturday night in the closest finish in four years
Big Red topped the team standings with 267.5 points in winning the tournament for the first time 1995. South totaled 257.
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HEAD-TO-HEAD — Steubenville Big Red's Charlie Keenan defeated Brooke's Nathan Dawson, 3-2, to win the OVAC?individual title at 195 pounds Saturday at WesBanco Arena. Big Red won the team championship.
Wheeling Park was third with 197, while Brooke (139) and Beaver Local (132.5) rounded out the top five.
Harrison Central edged Bellaire by 16.5 in 2009, the year before South entered the conference.
''John Craig started this huge tradition back in the day and we've steadily been trying to get the program back to where it was,'' an elated Steubenville coach Mike Blackburn said at WesBanco Arena. ''This is just a stepping stone and these kids deserve it.
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TEAM SCORES: Steubenville, 267.5; Parkersburg South, 257; Wheeling Park, 197; Brooke, 139; Beaver Local, 132.5; University, 129.5; Shadyside, 122.5; John Marshall, 117; St. Clairsville, 103; Caldwell, 99.5; Cambridge, 93; Morgantown, 87; Oak Glen, 74; Cameron, 70; Edison, 69; East Liverpool, 66; Martins Ferry, 65.5; River, 65.5; Buckeye Local, 60.5; Harrison Central, 55.5; Indian Creek, 50; Meadowbrook, 50; Steubenville Central, 47; Barnesville, 46; Beallsville, 34; Monroe Central, 34; Toronto, 34; Bellaire, 33; Magnolia, 32; Union Local, 32; Wellsville, 29; Linsly, 28; Tyler Consolidated, 24; Madonna, 18; Bishop Donahue, 15.5; Bridgeport, 14; Weir, 9; Shenandoah, 5; Clay-Battelle, 4.
Championship Finals
106 - Wilson (Steub) maj. dec. Ball (PS), 17-9.
113 - Hill (PS) tech falled Henderson (Beav), 19-4.
120 - Patterson (Mead) maj. dec. Beaman (Brk), 11-2.
126 - Craig (Steub) dec. Outward (MF), 9-3.
132 - Lopez (U) dec. Quiocho (PS), 6-3.
138 - Taylor (WP) dec. Lopez (U), 9-3.
145 - Baker (Shady) dec. Davis (WP), 9-5.
152 - Quinn (Shady) dec. Leppla (Camb), 5-1.
160 - Kinemond (Shady) dec. Notle (STC), 2-1 OT.
170 - Lattanzio (Beav) dec. Rayner (Cald), 10-6.
182 - Amos (WP) pinned Leasure (Cald), 5:18.
195 - Keenan (Steub) dec. Dawson (Brk), 3-2.
220 - Moray (Steub) dec. Ebbert (JM), 6-1.
285 - Ernest (STC) dec. Ortiz (Morg), 3-2.
Consolation Finals
106 - Potts (EL) dec. Wood (Cam), 10-6.
113 - Baciak (WP) pinned Ronevich (BL), 2:25.
120 - Howiler (Barnes) dec. Knotts (PS), 7-3.
126 - Moffit (IC) dec. Mack (OG), 3-0.
132 - Parada (Steub) dec. Kirk (BL), 5-1.
138 - McKitrick (Steub) dec. Hall (JM), 5-0.
145 - Schwertfeger (Brk) wins by default.
152 - Shaw (Brk) dec. Sturek (PS), 4-1.
160 - Shively (PS) pinned Colby (WP), 1:41.
170 - Cole (Steub) dec. Mills (PS), 10-3.
182 - Wells (Ed) dec. Jones (Steub), 5-3.
195 - Paige (WP) pinned Miscuk (EL), 1:40.
220 - Bloor (Wells) dec. Coole (MF), 3-2.
285 - Mills (PS) pinned Wood (Steub), 4:52.
106 - Dawson (Beav) dec. Lira (WP), 3-0.
113 - Daley (Ed) dec. Goff (Steub), 7-4.
120 - Cornell (OG) dec. Wiley (Cald), 8-7.
126 - Knotts (PS) pinned Hood (U), 3:26.
132 - Mowder (JM) dec. Foster (Beav), 4-3.
138 - Rayner (Cald) dec. Callarik (STC), 10-4.
145 - Blatt (JM) dec. Wise (MF), 5-3.
152 - Bittinger (OG) wins by default.
160 - Herrmann (SCC) dec. VanMeter (Cald), 6-4
170 - Constante (U) dec. Green (Bell), 6-1.
182 - Scurry (Brk) dec. Wright (Mag), 3-2.
195 - Cline (Ed) dec. Rosen (Riv), 5-2.
220 - Dotson (Riv) dec. Furbee (STC), 7-2.
285 - Wise (Brk) won by injury default.
106 - Heavilin (HC) dec. Zoumpoulidis (MF), 5-3.
113 - Singleton (Barnes) dec. Lewis (Camb), 1-0.
120 - Forrester (HC) dec. Oiler (EL), 8-6.
126 - Pizzino (HC) dec. Pattison (Brk), 9-5.
132 - Carothers (MC) pinned Roset (WP), 2:10.
138 - Hasson (Beav) dec. Coleman (MF), 8-5.
145 - Scrudders (Camb) dec. Blake (Cam), 4-3.
152 - Z. Odell (Steub) dec. Hall (Cam), 5-4.
160 - A. Odell (Steub) maj. dec.Fisher (U), 13-2.
170 - Tomolonis (Bpt) wins by default.
182 - Dixon (PS) dec. Miller (Cam), 5-2.
195 - Fisher (JM) pinned Bier (Bealls), 2:25.
220 - Oparanozie (Lin) pinned Green (Beav), 3:58.
285 - Meadows (Shady) pinned Robinson (MC), :09.
''We have a lot seniors that have been with me for a long time.''
Four Big Reds earned championships, the most of any school. But Steubenville's championship dreams were bolstered by a solid performance in Saturday's afternoon session.
''It definitely showed where we placed,'' he said. ''We had more than half the team either finish first, second, third or fourth and those are big points right there.''
Freshman Tariq Wilson started the night off right by winning the 106-pound championship against South's Logan Ball. Anthony Craig followed later at 126. And when Charlie Kennan and Greg Moray won back-to-back titles at 195 and 220, Big Red knew the overall crown was theirs.
''All of our young kids came in and wrestled great,'' Blackburn said. ''And that's the kind of stuff you need to win tournaments like this.
''South set the bar pretty high the past few years and everyone has been trying to get to where they were at.''
Steubenville also won the Class 4A crown. South took home the 5A title, with River and Shadyside winning championships in Class 3A and 2A/1A, respectively.
Wheeling Park boasted two champions - Dylan Taylor at 138 and Cody Amos at 182. It was the third straight crown for Amos, a senior, who received the David Bierkorette Award as the event's top wrestler as voted on by coaches.
''Dylan and Cody deserve everything they got,'' Park coach Jack Doyle said. ''They came out and did what they needed to do.''
Amos also won both the Hercules Award given to the wrestler with the best time in pinning opponents. During the three-day event, Amos won five matches by pin in 6:40.
''His goal just isn't to win championships,'' Doyle said of Amos. ''His goal goal is to pin his way to a title.''
It was a big night for the Tigers as the senior trio of Ian Baker (145), Alex Quinn (152) and Chase Kinemond (160) won back-to-back-to-back crowns.
Quinn won his second straight title, while Baker and Kinemond stepped to the top spot on the awards' stand for the first time.
''This is something special,'' Shadyside coach Scott Kinemond was lifted into the air for the third time. ''This is the best wrestling moment for me.
''To see these three seniors accomplish this is great. Coaching them from kindergarten, first grade and just being with them throughout their lives and watching them grow up.
''I'm speechless.''
St. Clairsville's Corey Earnest won his first OVAC crown by upending 2012 runner-up Taylor Ortiz of Morgantown at 220.
South's Lance Hill (113), Meadowbrook's Jerad Patterson (120), University's Scott Lopez (132) and Beaver Local's Daniel Lattanzio (170) were the other individual champions.


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If the genetically-engineered pig was gestated in a normal pig, then no it would not be kosher.
Rambam, Laws of Prohibited Foods, 1:5--6 (or 4--5 depending on your edition):
I'd assume we don't distinguish between the piglet that was born with a random mutation to chew its cud, and one genetically engineered to do so.
To quote Rabbi J. David Bleich ("The Problem of Identity in Rashi, Rambam, and the Tosafists", Tradition 41:2):
As a related question, I asked Rabbi Welcher in Queens about goats that were given genes from a spider so their milk contained gossamer, is the goat still kosher? He said that products of cross-breeding (even if doing so is prohibited) remain kosher, and as the non-kosher genes need the kosher genes to produce an organism here ("zeh v'zeh gorem"), it's allowed.
The Midrash is quoted as saying "Why is its name called chazir? Because the Holy Name Blessed Be He will return it to Israel."
A lot of commentaries learn this non literally (see here and here and here for examples). Others learn it literally. The Or Hachayim (Vayikrah 11:7), for example, says that when Moshiach comes the nature of the pig will change, and it will start chewing its cud. It will then have Kosher Simanim and be kosher.
This doesn't exactly answer your question, but perhaps when Moshiach comes the pig will be genetically modified (at least according to the commentaries that take it literaly), and be kosher.
Here's an essay based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, discussing why specifically the pig will become kosher again, more than any other non-kosher animal.
No, in addition to the fact that it doesn't meet the criteria for an animal that is kosher, the torah specifically mentions pig as not allowed: "And the pig, because it has a split hoof, but does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You shall neither eat of their flesh nor touch their carcass." Deuteronomy 14:8
Look in Likkutei Sichos Chelek Aleph (Parshas Shmini) P. 222 where this issue is addressed.
No. It would no more make the pig kosher than smashing your engine light fixes the engine.
Our Creator gave us kosher laws as a blessing, so we would know what is fit to eat and what is not fit to eat. They are not merely arbitrary rules imposed on us to make life difficult.
Therefore He gave us a way to recognize which animals are fit to eat and which are not. The two signs (for mammals) allow us to know which animals are fit to eat and which are not fit to eat.
To suggest that the cloven hoof and chewing the cud are themselves what make the animal fit to eat is the same as saying that kosher laws are arbitrary, not given for our benefit but merely a set of rules for the sake of imposing rules. This suggests a very negative view of God, which is not consistent with the Bible.
Any pig that has been genetically modified to chew its cud is no longer a pig but a completely new animal. The test for any new animal is "Does it have cloven hooves and does it chew its cud?"


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** FILE **Actor Johnny Depp arrives at the premiere of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" in Los Angeles in this Dec. 5, 2007 file photo. Depp, star of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films and "Sweeney Todd," has nabbed the No. 1 spot in an annual survey by Quigley Publishing Co. for the second year in a row. (AP Photo/ Matt Sayles,File)
(CBS News) Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are parting ways after 14 years together.
Depp's publicist confirmed the news to "Entertainment Tonight": "Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis have amicably separated. Please respect their privacy and, more importantly, the privacy of their children."
The announcement comes after months of tabloid reports, noting how the longtime couple have been living separate lives.
They have two children together: Lily-Rose, 13, and Jack, 9.
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I've been told that squats would be a good way of building up muscles in my knees as they aren't great at the moment. I have been doing squats and either use no weights at all or I do them while holding a 5Kg medicine ball. Is this safe to do or is it not recommended?
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If you are holding the medicine ball in front of you, what you are doing is a form of goblet squat. A goblet squat is very good for your body, and provides a good core component to the squat as well.
The important components of any squat are:
The purpose of going below parallel is to strengthen the posterior chain. It gets your hamstrings and calf muscles involved, preventing strength imbalances between the front and back of your legs. This of course, is what strengthens the knee.
Don't be afraid of increasing the weight you do beyond 5kg. You can use kettlebells or dumbbells to get heavier weights on the goblet squat. Eventually, you can graduate to back squats or front squats for even stronger knees and core. Just make sure your increases are around 5-10lbs (2.5-5kg).
If you are doing goblet squats with a medicine ball (you can also use a dumbbell or kettlebell) then I would highly recommend using goblet squats to help you perfect your squat technique.
Here is a great resource on goblet squats: http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/goblet_squats_101
In a nutshell, it's much harder to have bad form doing a goblet squat than a "regular" squat because the positioning of the medicine ball/kettlebell/dumbbell forces you to brace your core, keep upright, hinge from the hips, etc.
The reason why this is important is that it's not uncommon to see people in the gym attempting "regular" barbell squats but with outrageously bad form. Some of the most common ways that people butcher squats include the following:
A lot of these common errors mentioned above can be remedied by practicing proper squat form with goblet medicine ball squats.
Also, make sure you keep you weight on your heels during the entire squat movement, and you initiate both the up & down movements with your hips first, not your knees.
A fun variant is to extend your arms forward at the bottom of the squat, holding the medball or weight away from you at shoulder height with straight arms. Then you can bring it back in to your chest when you stand or keep it away from you as you stand. This is a great way to add more challenge without needing a lot of extra weight for lifting.


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Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi, in a speech delivered yesterday at the opening of the 12th annual Crans Montana Forum in southern Switzerland, stressed that the Kingdom has assumed a major role in stabilizing the global oil market and promoting cooperation between the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC states, and between oil producers and oil consumers. He went on to explain that as a result of the collapse of oil prices in 1998, oil-producing countries had realized the importance of cooperating, shouldered their responsibilities equally, and were able to restore stability to the market and attain reasonable prices.[Full text of speech]
Minister Al-Naimi indicated that the oil-producing countries believe the appropriate price currently to be in the range of U.S. $22 to $28 per barrel of OPEC basket. This price, he said, brings suitable revenues to producing countries, and contributes to increased oil exploration that results in meeting world demand for oil, and to a growth that achieves market equilibrium and supply security. He stressed that neither fluctuation of prices nor excessive rise or fall is in the interest of any party, and noted that the drop in oil prices below $10 in 1998 led to a loss of nearly 4 million barrels of producing capacity and a decline of around 30 percent in global oil investments, commenting on the "unnatural' fact that consuming countries impose high taxes on oil products, sometimes as high as 80 percent of the value.
Cooperation between oil-exporting and oil-consuming countries, he said, dates back to the war to liberate Kuwait, when OPEC and the International Energy Agency called for a meeting between the two groups in 1991. The turning point for this cooperation effort was the Seventh International Energy Forum in Riyadh last fall, during which Deputy Prime Minister and Commander of the National Guard Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz called for the establishing in Riyadh of a general secretariat for the Forum: this was approved and praised by various countries participating in the conference. Such a secretariat, he explained, would create an atmosphere of mutual confidence between oil producers and consumers through research, appropriate contact channels, conferences and symposiums, that would lead to oil market stability.
Minister Al-Naimi remarked that only Saudi Arabia has the ability to compensate for up to 70 percent of any shortage in the global market, for a period not exceeding three months. Over the years, the Kingdom has contributed to oil market stability by collaborating with other countries, both OPEC and non-OPEC, in order to provide the supplies needed by the market, ensure a reserve production capacity, and restore equilibrium when there is surplus.


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Most WoW players know about Vial of the Sands primarily because of the ridiculous amount of time and mats that it takes to acquire.
My question to this forum is why can't I ever find this item for sale at the auction house on my server? I saw it for sale a couple of times about two weeks ago, but since then I haven't seen it since. I even created a guy on the Alliance (I usually play Horde) just to check and see if they have any, and what-do-you-know, they had one listed for 60k.
However, here's the part that I don't get -- I see Hordies in Org that have it, so I know that there are some alchemists with it. I'm not seeing that I see it a ton, but I can usually fly around Org and see at least 2 people with it at any time.
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EDIT: Against all odds, my wife just got this recipe last night. Surprisingly, she got the canopic jar on her 2nd solve in Uldum and then got the recipe in the canopic jar.


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WASHINGTON (November 5, 2012)--On the third anniversary of the Fort Hood shooting rampage Monday, 148 survivors and family members of victims sued the U.S. government and seeking compensation over the attack in which an Army psychiatrist who is awaiting trial is charged.
The rampage on Nov., 5, 2009 at the post's Soldier Readiness Center left 13 people dead and more than two-dozen others wounded.
The lawsuit alleges negligence by the government and claims the Department of Defense is avoiding legal and financial responsibility for the killings by classifying the shootings as "workplace violence" rather than as a terrorist attack.
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Thanks for that blast from the past. So many things I remember about the Detroit from my childhood--Jerry Cavanaugh, DIA, zoo, Fisher Building (where my uncle worked and took us hicks to the tippy top to look at the golden fountain below), Masonic Temple, Belle Isle. My kid's English teacher took all her classes to the DIA this year to impress on the kids what would be lost if the assets sold off. And I don't know anyplace but Detroit where those Rivera murals even make sense.
Those interested in the up-close news about the budget might be interested in following coverage in The Michigan Chronicle, a weekly published by and for the African-American community since the 1930s. If nothing else, you get a sense of how beleaguered the Detroit population feels at this time. Of special interest is a scathing analysis of George Will's comment that unmarried mothers created the bankruptcy problem.
Mickey Lolich, Al Kaline and, in autumn, Dick "Night Train" Lane -- all much smoother than the jerky film.
Lotta white people in those old video clips. Racism has been really hard on Detroit.
Jim, that's true, and it gets worse in bad times.
Michigan is a highly segregated state. Most of us learn at an early age and can name the five or six "black cities." A former Detroit student, who stopped by my dinky town (part of Michi-tucky, where they blast C&W music out of the gas stations and fly Confederate flags off the back of pick-ups), said, "This is the kind of place I have nightmares about my car breaking down in."
And then there was Dearborn mayor, Orville Hubbard, whose segregationist ideas were pretty much on par with Lester Maddox's.
We love our idealized Detroit--Motown, Joe Louis, the Tigers, the auto industry, the hell-no UAW labor movement (which really started in Flint), the Wings, and (sometimes) the Lions. We see our real Detroit as a big messy problem that seems to elude any solutions, and outstaters can be pretty cold about it, largely because it's one of the "black cities."
Meantime Mike Ilitch is getting a bunch of money for a new Wings hockey stadium, an irony that a lot of liberal commentators like Bill Moyers have decried:
Snyder is not a "tea partier" as Moyers calls him; he's usually at odds with the TP faction in the legislature, but he has caved in to them at times (e.g., on the "right to work" legislation, which Snyder personally opposed). But I don't think Moyers' sense of outrage is misplaced.
Jean - I think I commented recently that when I lived in Royal Oak and Clawson in the 1968-'69 period, most of our neighbors were white families who had recently moved (fled) to the 'burbs. Clawson was being constructed at that time; I'm sure suburban home builders and realtors made a killing by selling to white families getting out of Detroit.
That was a long time ago, but the basic configuration of mostly-white (and some black) and relatively thriving suburbs ringing a mostly-poor and now bankrupt urban core still holds, as far as I can tell.
I don't know what the solution is to this configuration. I moved to a suburb myself after living in Chicago during my younger adult years, because it's more safe and friendly for our children and is populated by people who are more or less like us. Chicago is an occasional playground for us, and I have history and friends there, but I don't work in the city, and I cross the city limits relatively rarely. There are plenty of people who live in my community who haven't ever lived in Chicago and have no reason to ever go into the city except insofar as the Interstate takes them through the city on the way to somewhere else. I could make a case that they benefit from having a still-living-although-ailing city nearby, but I'd think there are a lot of folks around here to whom that's not intuitive and who would question that they have any responsibility for whatever goes on in Chicago (much less agree to paying additional taxes to sustain Chicago).
As a public minister of the church, I can do my best to make that case of mutual responsibility and solidarity, and to support church initiatives that do cross the borders. But from the point of view of public policy, it's a tough row to hoe.
Jim, my Aunt Florence lived off Vernor Avenue in the house she was born in until she had a stroke at age 95. She said the one thing that screwed up the city most was the loss of cheap, plentiful, and pleasant mass transit. She didn't drive, but she and her sisters could take busses wherever they wanted to go as late as the mid 1960s, and could hop the frequent trains that ran from Detroit to Ann Arbor and back--trains that brought a lot of folks in for shopping and cultural events. The city ran shuttle busses when big events were happening.
A big impediment to transportation in Detroit is the fact that there are large wastelands of blight and empty buildings between populated areas. The city is going broke partly because it has to plough and maintain infrastructure through the wastelands to reach populated areas. That means less money for actual transportation. Somebody (Dave Bing?) suggested that the geographical area of the city be reduced and residents in outlying areas be relocated to "right size" the city and reduce costs of services.
Just looking at the ripple effects of the loss of good transportation shows you what a domino effect one problem has on a city's well-being. Throw in the multiple problems Detroit faces and, yes, it does seem overwhelming.


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Top Trends Of 2014Written by Brandan Gillogly on February 19, 2014 Contributors: Hot Rod Staff Hot Rodding Trends That'll Shape Your Next Project
Each November, the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas serves to showcase new products from the top automotive brands in the industry. The show has long garnered the attention of both original equipment manufacturers and the media, as it often sets trends for the market for the year to come. While last year's hot-rodding themes were immediately apparent, we had to brainstorm a bit to see what this year's show might foretell for 2014.
C7 Stingrays
This one we saw coming. Chevrolet's new Corvette Stingray has been a hit with every media outlet that's climbed into the entirely redesigned sports car. The performance is there, the look is stunning, and it ushered in a new generation of direct-injection small-block, so it was only natural for the Stingray to be used as the test bed for Gen V V8 performance. Edelbrock featured a Stingray in its booth, and Chevrolet brought two, one from the upcoming Transformers 4 and another celebrating the video-game franchise Gran Turismo. The show floor also had its share of C7s, including a wild, baby-blue widebody from Forgiato.
Surf Wagons
The '50s- and '60s-style surf machines were back at SEMA, with several woodies filling the Central hall. Our favorite was the Suburban built by Roadster Shop for Mr. Gasket. It's powered by a fuel-injected 502 big-block, features a hardwood interior to match the two longboards on the roof, and wears custom-mixed waterborne metallic green that was sprayed by paint guru Charley Hutton.
Delivery Vans
Top Gear USA host Rutledge Wood brought his Chevrolet Kurbmaster van with its new, custom dash to SEMA. Rutledge couldn't believe that not only was there another Kurbmaster at this years' show, but also it was parked less than 50 feet away from his, stealing his thunder with polished body panels. There were several more delivery vans both inside and out, including an art deco Divco (above) and a chopped FedEx box van from Mobsteel.
iPads and Touchscreens
This one also seemed inevitable. Aftermarket EFI systems have moved to touchpads, and late-model tuners have been putting them in show cars for years, so naturally they'll find their way into older cars. Android and iOS apps can provide a lot of helpful solutions; the problem is building a car interior around a tablet that will be completely obsolete by the time you do your first burnout. Keeping the technology in a modular, easily replaceable panel that still fits into the car's interior will be the challenge. We like the Hypersilver '88 Mustang hatchback that Muscle Mustang & Fast Fords assembled for its 25th anniversary just in time for SEMA. Its understated interior and silver exterior don't muddy the simplicity that is a Fox-body Mustang, with the tablet adding all of the flexibility to control the audio system, navigate, and do anything you could ask a smartphone to do, while using a larger, easier-to-read format.
Decorative Boost
Freiburger coined this term while at SEMA 2013, as it seemed a lot of cars had more engine than they'd ever possibly need, and rather than going with cubic inches, the trend seemed to be adding massive blowers or a whole lot of turbocharger plumbing to make your engine look cool. It's sort of a bit of Pro Street coming back to the show-car scene; we don't mind some excess every now and then, as long as it's usable.
Bold Graphics on Pro Touring Cars
We saw several cars with graphics that took up a big chunk of the sheetmetal and didn't mimic anything the factory ever produced. Sometimes it was a distraction that took away from the lines of the car, other times it made us look at the car in a different way.
5 Engine Trends for 2014
NASCAR engines were big at the 2012 SEMA Show, and it continued this year. Holley's Terminator EFI boasts of its NASCAR heritage, and we spotted several Chevrolet R07 race engines on the show floor. When Chevrolet gets its next NASCAR V8 approved, maybe we'll see this engine in more road-going cars.
Rumor had it that Chevrolet's direct-injection Gen V V8s would be impossible to crack, yet SEMA was full of parts for the new '14 GM trucks and the C7 Stingray. Chevrolet teased an LT1 crate engine, Comp Cams had several cams, Edelbrock was showing off its new E-Force superchargers, and Lingenfelter had a Magnuson blown, 720hp, 414-cube LT1 on display that uses an extra set of traditional port injectors to kick in when the direct-injection system reaches its limit.
Engines in Disguise
This one's a triple, although perhaps we were fooled more than that. First is the 427 SOHC look-alike in the Kindig-It '65 Ford Galaxie (above). The cam covers hint at SOHC Ford, but the Edelbrock supercharger gives it away as a Coyote 5.0L. Well, so do the cam covers, as they actually say "5.0L" on them under the Ford oval.
Next up is a Chevrolet that claims it's a 409 (top right). The iconic valve covers of the Chevrolet W engines would lead you to believe the stickers aren't lying, but check out the exhaust ports. The center exhaust ports on a W engine would be siamesed, as they are on a Gen 1 small-block. Finally, we've got a late-model 6.4L Hemi (bottom right) that's pretending it's an early 392. This engine is in Jesse Greening's Valiant that sports an unrestored exterior.
Big Boost
Last year, we noted that 1,000 hp is the new 500 hp, as several show cars were claiming four-digit power levels. This year, at least two cars claimed 2,000 hp, and others claimed more than 1,500 hp. Most of the time, they got there with lots of cubes backed up with lots of boost. Nelson Racing Engines had a Gen 1 Chevy small-block (top) and a second-gen Hemi (above) with twin turbos, while we also saw twin-turbo SRT Vipers (above right) and a Mike Moran twin-turbo 540 big-block Chevy (right) in Gil Lossi's bubble-top Impala.
Cross-Ram Intake Manifolds
Perched right on top of the engine, the induction system is usually the first thing you see when you peek under a hood, and at SEMA, where grabbing attention is paramount, cross-ram intakes were big. We spotted small-block Chevy, LS, Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln (MEL), and small-block Ford engines all sporting cross-ram intakes. While the most common sight was individual throttle bodies, the MEL engine in Dennis Varni's Studebaker woody (lower right) uses dual throttle bodies. Astute HOT ROD readers might recognize the engine from the cover of our June '59 issue.
Matte and Semigloss Metallic Paint
ICON, the Los Angeles–based company known for its turnkey restomods of both classic 4x4s and cars, displayed its new TR series, based on a Chevrolet Thriftmaster. Naturally, it was painted with a matte metallic, continuing its trend, but other manufacturers kept it going, including Chevrolet, which debuted an SS sedan customized with input from NASCAR's Jeff Gordon.
Carbon-Fiber Bodywork
Like many technologies that trickle down from the aerospace industry, carbon-fiber seems to be gaining traction. Anvil Auto and Ringbrothers displayed ponycar replacement panels, with Ringbrothers going all the way to create a full widebody '65–'66 Mustang fastback.
Wide Fenders and Bodies
From Brian Hobaugh's Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational– winning '65 Corvette to Ringbrothers carbon-fiber Mustang fastback, to a slew of late-models like the Challenger below, wide fenders were big at SEMA. The late-model cars took it to an extreme, but we were especially fond of Tim Allen's subtle, Yunick-inspired '68 Camaro that featured slightly widened fenders to tuck in more rubber.
Trends We Want to See Next Year
- Performance tires in 15- and 16-inch muscle-car sizes. Is it impossible to have tall sidewalls and at least some inkling of performance
- Recasting vintage aluminum and magnesium speed parts. Edelbrock has been leading the charge by producing new parts for engines that haven't been on dealer lots for decades. Why not keep it going and bring back some '60s wheel designs or some of Mickey Thompson's intakes? Some Pontiac pieces, perhaps?
- More Ford Coyote swaps. It's likely we missed a few, but we only spotted a handful of new 5.0Ls this year. Swap parts are out there, and so are early Mustang suspensions that allow for the wide engines, so hopefully we'll see more next year.
- Rally-inspired '60s cars. We really liked seeing the African Safari Mercury Comet at our Homecoming show, and we obviously have a soft spot for the Hot Rod Special Ranchero. The bold graphics turn heads, and the tall stance allows for a lot of fun driving without bashing oil pans.
- AMCs. We're calling it now. AMCs will be the hot cars of SEMA 2014. Pro-Touring Hornets, GT Javelins, and period-correct, muscle-era Ramblers are the wave of the future. Maybe we're crazy, or maybe we're just tired of seeing so many Scions and Subarus.
Land Speed
Alan Johnson's gorgeous Studebaker would be right at home at SEMA even if it weren't a Bonneville veteran, and it wasn't alone; we found several salt missiles in attendance. Mickey Thompson Tires brought out the quad-Pontiac-powered Challenger I, Flowmaster put Turbonator (a turbine-powered streamliner that doesn't even have a muffler) in its booth, and it had a salty neighbor with the flathead-powered Kent Fuller streamliner just a few yards away. Speaking of Alan Johnson's Stude, there were at least three bullet-nosed Studebakers inside SEMA, which isn't enough to really call it a trend.
Paint Trends of SEMA 2013
It wasn't until we looked at all of our photos after we'd returned home that we began to pick up the paint trends. Digital camo and tessellations were big in vinyl wraps, so was brushed-metal-looking vinyl, while traditional pinstriping stayed strong. The major color trend was green, which Chevrolet used on several of its cars, and was featured prominently in PPG's Carnival of Color booth, as well as on vintage muscle cars and imports.


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Learn about what HEAP can do for you by visiting the HEAP Program Website of the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA.
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text: Professor Michael J. Graetz and two other leading tax scholars met this past fall for a panel discussion hosted by the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy. The participants discussed various ideas for altering the U.S. tax code to advance the nation's best interests. "The status quo is not possible," said Graetz. "Haircuts on taxes won't do enough. We have to do something big." Visiting faculty member Mihir Desai and Andrew Stern, a senior fellow at the Richman Center, joined Graetz on the panel. Suggestions for increasing revenue and combating the national debt ranged from a tax on carbon dioxide emissions to enacting a national value-added tax.


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Easier Microsoft Active Directory Connectivity in OpenSSO Express 8
By superpat on Sep 15, 2009
It's nice to see your RFE's implemented, and that's exactly what happened with OpenSSO issue # 4053: Active Directory configuration should use AD domain name rather than LDAP host/port. I saw Kohsuke's blog entry on More Active Directory integration in Java a little while ago and realized that we could take exactly the same approach in OpenSSO - prompt the admin for the Active Directory domain name rather than a host name and port number.
As Kohsuke mentions, this has a number of advantages - every AD admin knows the domain name, while many would likely have to go look up an individual host name, not to mention the LDAP port number. Since we use the domain name to look up an individual AD controller via DNS, it also means that the admin doesn't need to update OpenSSO's configuration as AD controllers come and go - OpenSSO will always get a valid host name from DNS.
So, when configuring OpenSSO Express 8, you can now just specify the AD domain name. As improvements go, this one is pretty small, but, as I think everyone agrees, the cumulative effect of all these little improvements in OpenSSO over the past two or three years has been HUGE...


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President of Hilltop group calls for unity
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STEUBENVILLE — The new president of the Hilltop Community Development Corp....
I grew up on LaBelle back in the 70's. What a great place to raise a family back then. I no longer live in the area but still have family living on LaBelle and visit them regularly. So sad to see what it has become. I wish the group good luck in trying to unify and improve the situation on both hills.
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As long as you have 'out of towners' coming in and causing trouble, then you cant do a thing about it. You cant 'harrass' them, by arresting them until they commit a crime, and, by then its just too late. You know they are there for drugs, and trouble. And its a shame you cant be 'pro-active' on this matter, but, every citizen has rights until they break the law, and, when they do, its too late to rectify what ever damage they wrought upon our citizenry. I wish you well...
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I'm a real beginner/dummy when it comes to QGIS and online databases. I have tried a variety of things trying to connect to Spatialite, PostGIS and MySQL but all attempts have failed due to my lack of knowledge on the subject.
So I was wandering:
- What is the easiest way to connect QGIS to an online database?
- Is there such a thing as a step by step manual to do this that is easy to understand by non programmers and dummies like myself?
Many thanks for your help
specs: MAC OS X Mountain Lion (but I also have Ubuntu)
QGIS 1.8 Lisboa