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I want to try my hand at making sourdough starter but live in high altitude and cold weather. I'm not sure if the altitude is an issue but I don't think my house is warm enough on its own to allow a starter to properly rise and ferment. Aside from I'm wondering if there are any other ways to create a warm, moist environment in which a starter could be successful.
You might want to try a desem starter. Have a look at the desem primer, which is also linked on the Wikipedia page. Starter instructions are given toward the end. Common lore says that desem starter should never get above 65F, which sounds perfect for your situation. (It's actually fine if it gets warmer than that, though.) Traditional conditions for creating a starter are 50-65F, and I imagine you must have an area at least in that temperature range. I don't think the high altitude should be an issue in getting a starter going, and it might actually help in the case of desem starter by allowing the internal sponge to grow slightly easier.
Basically, it's a dry dough sourdough starter -- different from the typical goupy or soupy sourdough starter most people work with. You begin a starter by essentially taking a little water and kneading in about as much whole grain flour as is reasonable to make a very dry little dough ball. (Whole wheat is traditional, but you can use other grains -- rye would probably be effective, but it's not traditional "desem.") Then bury it in flour. Standard practice is to throw half away every 24 hours and then add water and flour to repeat. You can also start with a very small amount and gradually enlarge the ball.
Eventually, you'll pull the ball out one day and it will be very soft and spongy inside. This will probably happen in about a week at low temperatures, but it could take more or less. At this point, I would usually do a few feedings 12 hours apart before using it to bake bread. If you want to ensure the strongest starter, I'd also do regular feedings for a few more days to really get the culture established.
You can easily convert a desem starter to a wetter version once it is established. Just add water to get the texture you want, and feed according to whatever starter recipe you want to follow.
And, of course, you can use to bake other kinds of bread. You can also convert it to another type of flour once established.
Why does this work better at lower temperatures? I've never actually tried it at very low temperatures (I've had success with a temp of 65F or so), but lots of people have. I think you might be able to get a more standard wet sourdough culture going with at least 50F temperatures -- I only recommend the desem method because anecdotally it's what a lot of people use at lower temperatures.
If it does work better, I assume it might have something to do with the way yeast and bacteria growth rates change at lower temperatures. Both are integral to a sourdough culture, but too much of one and not enough of the other, and the starter can fail. Early on in the creation of a starter, bacteria are much more active than yeast, and they produce a lot of byproducts, including acids which provide souring. In the first few days, you often end up with an excess of acetic acid (partly from bacteria that are undesirable and ultimately die off in the starter process), whereas a mature starter should produce more lactic acid. Excess acetic acid is known to be a significant inhibitor of yeast growth. So, at lower temperatures, the yeast may grow too slow and not have a chance to get established at all if there's too much acetic acid around. The high flour proportion in the desem starter could dilute the effect of all that acetic acid early on more effectively than in a wet starter. At least, that's what I'd theorize.
Regardless of the science, lots of people have success with the desem starter technique at lower temperatures. If you don't like maintaining that type of starter (which I personally have grown to like, because it seems to stay fresh longer with fewer feedings in the fridge once established), you can add more water once the starter is established.
As for allowing your dough to rise once you start baking, there are lots of ways to make a temporary humid warm space. If you have some small enclosed space that doesn't allow a lot of air circulation outside (microwave, small oven, etc.), put the dough in there along with a cup of hot water. Refresh the hot water as necessary to keep the desired temperature. If you don't have such a space, you can even take a large wider-than-tall cardboard box, cut off the top flaps, seal the bottom with packing tape, and invert it over your dough along with the cup of hot water. I used such makeshift proofing boxes for years until I actually was given a proofing box as a gift.
Frankly, you can let sourdough bread rise at lower temperatures, too, which will increase certain flavor elements. It will just take longer, and sometimes you might need to use a different amount of starter in the recipe so as not to end up with a loaf that's too sour in the end. But that will depend on the recipe and the specific characteristics of your mature starter.
Do you have a hot water heater? The room or the closet that houses it should be warm enough. That's where I grow my starter. (That's also where I bulk ferment and proof my loaves).
The altitude is not an issue. There are yeasts and bacteria on top of Mt. Everest.
Here's a schedule for you:
Adding to some of the advice above:
There are only two critical times when you need a warm (as in above 65F) atmosphere for your starter: when you're first starting it, and during the 2nd rising of bread. At other times, sourdough is very tolerant of cold, it just slows down. I keep mine in the fridge so that I get 3 weeks between batches. It's 5 years old now and still going strong.
It seems that you could fairly easily use any number of techniques to keep the sourdough warm during startup and during 2nd rising for bread. One easy one is a damp or waterproof covering and a cliplight with a 100W incandesent light bulb (old-style, so it makes heat).
I know this question is rather old, but given the large amount of inaccurate or downright wrong information, I'll provide another answer anyway. I've been working with sourdough for years now and went through a lot of testing and analyzing the results to get where I am now. First off, some general facts about sourdough:
Ok so here is how you make a starter from scratch:
The starter
You'll get the best results if you can keep temperatures somewhere around 25°C-30°C, but I've also succeeded in making a starter at about 15°C (I don't have experience with temperatures below this).
Note: Use 50% more water if you have temperatures around 15°C. I found this works best with type 1050 rye flour initially (refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour#Flour_type_numbers for a rough conversion of my german type numbers), but you can start using pretty much any type of flour after that (I've tested rice, buckwheat, wheat, rye, spelt, barley, millet, oat and corn). Wholemeal can work fine, too. Just don't use the all-purpose flour (the completely white one), as this doesn't really contain all that much microbes anymore.
The process is rather simple: After you add 100g flour and water initially, you simply stir every 12 hours and add another 100g flour and water every 24 hours (every other time you stir the dough, you add flour and water). Do this for 4-5 days.
During these 5 days, the following can happen and is perfectly normal:
If one of the following happens, the sourdough went bad and you have to start over (maybe try a different flour):
Now you should have a good bunch of sourdough, which you can use to bake.
A final note: I wouldn't let sourdough bread raise twice. You should only do it if you have strong yeast in your sourdough and even then it often doesn't work as well as you may hope, since apart from the yeast, the lactic acid bacteria is also "eating" the starch in the dough, quickly diminishing the food supply for the yeasts. I had my best results with only letting the dough raise once.
As long as your home is above 50F the bacteria and yeast in your starter will still be reasonably active- it will just take longer for them to work. When fermenting bread longer almost always means tastier.
That said- starting a starter from scratch already takes a long time so I understand your desire to speed it along a bit.
First of all- creating a moist environment is not going to be as important as the starter will be regularly recharged with flour and water- it won't get a chance to dry out.
As for temperature, my suggestions would be similar as for making yogurt-


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With the FA Cup final coming up, had a bit of random musing...
If you know the history of it, in the early years, between 1872 and 1883 it was won by clubs who (to my knowledge) don't exist anymore. Wanderers FC (with 5 of the first 7) are probably most famous, then there's the likes of Royal Engineers, Blackburn Olympic, and so on. Blackburn Rovers won it in 1884, and it's been won by established clubs since then.
So, would there be any interest in 'resurrecting' these teams within the game, and embarking on some community project to bring the cup back to them? Would probably lend itself to a challenge best, I think, with the clubs starting out at the bottom of the pyramid.
It looks like the teams would have to be edited in (me and the editor don't mix though), and I'm unsure if there's any way to link them to the names which appear on the list of past winners of the FA Cup, to ensure you get the satisfying message that you've won it for the first time in 150-odd years when you eventually get there.
So a few questions:
1) Any real point? Is it distinct enough from dafuge's challenge, other than the names of the clubs involved?
2) Any suggestions for how best to go about it?
3) Anyone interested enough?
2) I think that the challenge would be with Wanderers FC to win the FA Cup 5 times in 7 years. Not 7 years from the start but in a 7 year period.
3) I would be interested in participating.
I agree, I don't even think in my most successful saves with Arsenal that I've managed to win the FA Cup more than twice in a row.
I am going to do some testing tonight / tomorrow for a sign-up idea I have, I'll create a league and cup competitions for around 18 managers to take part in, and there'll be an auction or draft for the teams, players and managers. After the draft is complete I will ask each manager to submit 2 formations which if I can get the database to recognise them as standard tactics will then be added as the preferred formation for your team.
If this is possible I think it could get quite interesting as you might not bother bidding high for strikers if your tactics were going to be 4-5-1, etc.
If there's enough interest and if I can get the idea to work practically would you all be interested in something along these lines ?
The range of tactics that can be preset as favourite for your manager is large enough I think - you might as well just give people the choice of them. The DB is set into "Preferred", "Attacking" and "Defensive" - I choose 4-4-2 as the tactic for everyone because that's how I arranged the players - If I had let everyone choose their own tactics and someone chose a 3-5-2 tactic, you'd need to make sure they had plenty of midfielders, and was something I wanted to avoid - i.e. too much messing about with assigning who has what player. 4-4-2 gives a good balance and you can pretty much give someone a 23 man squad with 2 players in each position (3 GKs, of course!).
Hi Hawkini, it was your sign-up that gave me this idea ! (Shameless copying!)
I had a look at those preset formations and i thought they were a bit limiting, but I get what you're saying about having 5 midfielders. There would need to be a fairly large squad or reserves to make it fit.
OR, maybe one of the tactics has to be some variation of 4-4-2 but still "your" created tactic, and the other formation could be anything you like ? (even the dreaded 4-2-4)
Do you mean 18 chairman rather than managers as you have said they will be able to draft in managers?
I haven't had a look at the leagues yet, or tried to set it up. I'll out tonight but I'll try some things out when I get back to see if I can make this work the way I would like
Just had an idea so would appreciate some feedback on whether its rubbish/been done before...
Quite a simple challenge, you manage Atletico Bilbao in La Liga. The catch of course is in real life they only sign Basque players, which is the case in FM too, it won't let you bid for anyone who's not from the Basque region.
The challenege would be under these restrictions, harness the fantastic youth facilities and careful Basque purchases to ultimately win La Liga and the Champions League to complete the challenge.
All thoughts welcome.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to make a changed preferred formation work in the game yet. Even when taking a team who start with a 4-4-2 and just changing them to the games default 4-3-3 didn't have any effect It might be hard coded. Will keep testing tonight and see if I can make it work.
virtex - I think that it's one of those challenges that gets posted every year, and is unfortunately neglected. I think that if you were to run it well with a fairly detailed opening post, and attempted the challenge yourself to get some interest involved then it could get more people interested in the challenge and they might attempt it.
Only one problem, rather annoyingly in FM09 no matter how good your youth facilities are the absolutely best most insane quality regens every season won't appear at your club... You'll get mostly rubbish regens with usually one or two who can turn out to be average players in your league... I don't think I've ever seen anyone on these forums saying they've had a super-regen spawned at their own club
Cheers for the replies fellas, I'll give it a whirl and see if anyone's interested.
Thinking about reviving the Eurovision Striking Contest, which failed because my computer died, but i now have a new hard drive so it should be good now
This is just a quick jot down of an idea
I'll create players (CA 100 etc) and then distribute them around various clubs.
Player One will go to Manchester UTD, however will have his loyalty set to 20, ambition to 1 but his favourite team as Manchester City.
Player 2 will go to a low BSS team; loyalty will be set to 1, ambition to 1 and he will have that team as his favourite club.
Player 3 will go to a BSN club; loyalty 20, ambition 20 and no favourite team
Player 4 will go to Hull; loyalty 20 ambition 20 and favourite team as Hull
And finally, Player 5 will go to Blackpool, loyalty 1, ambition 20, and Blackpool as his favourite team.
(by player)
To see if Player one's low ambition will see him leave United or if his loyalty will stop him AND see if his love affair with Man City will hamper his progress.
To see if Player Two's love for his club and low ambition will stop him leaving.
To see if Player Three will leave the BSN team (low ambition) or whether his loyalty will stop him.
To see if Player Four's love for Hull and high loyalty stop his ambition?
To see if Player 5 will leave Blackpool despite them being his favourite team.
Obviously this is just a quick note but any suggestions (more attributes which could contradict?), constructive criticism (even criticisms if needs be) would be fantastic.
Looks good, but player 2 and three look confused,
shouldn't player 2 have loyalty 20? Or are you just seeing if the love for the team is enough?
Player 3 should have an ambition of 1
But as I said, it looks interesting
I got the preferred tactics option working in the tests for my signup, so in a week or two I may well start it up once I've run a couple more full season tests
That's it; whether the favourite club will stop him leaving despite his low ambition + loyalty.
I've always enjoyed playing around with the editor specifically adding new countrys etc. I've been testing how many of the unused nations in the game can be turned into new countrys and how many on each continent ... Now onto my idea (it's quite obviously inspired by PaulHartman71's The Inevitable Domination of Mediocre European Football clubs so hopefully he wouldn't mind this slight copying of a great idea) It's to make you (the sign upee:o) the Head of the FA of a new FIFA member and and edit 2 new clubs added into a to be decided league (a league nearest the country would be my thinking) they would get money to spend to change aspects of the club to start and we would then add 2 more signupee's to be chairman of the clubs. The heads of nations would get points for how far their nations football team gets in competitions and they would get prize money to give to their clubs chairman to improve their Training Centres, Youth Academys, Reputations and also maybe to Improve the CA/PA of youth prospects.
So what do people think? Would anyone be interested? Any more ideas to add to those i've already mentioned? I would also like to point out that if your in my current sign up don't worry i've no plans to end it.
Sounds promising, Brettney.
I would definitely be interested in participating in that sign-up
Wow Brettney that sound really interesting. i wouldn't mind being a part of that
I have a very basic idea for a sign-up I've been thinking about for a while, if anyone wants to give me advice I would gladly PM the basic idea and they could help me broaden out the idea hopefully.
What's the idea taylor?
That was his own opinion, not mine, before anyone accuses me of sabotaging everyone's ideas !
What was the idea, maybe I could see a way to simplify it
Ok, I have been running my Anything you can do sign up for a while now and I have begun to think about what I would like to do next. I have a few days off next week and so am going to edit the database in preparation so that when the time does come I can crack straight on and get people to sign up.
The reason I am posting now is so that before I edit the database I can get some feedback and see if anything needs changing.
As we know DodgeeD is running STI v NTI, my idea is based along the same lines but has a completely different story. (I've spoken to DodgeeD about this and he has ok'd the idea )
It will be called Never Trust an Elf and will be based on the Lord of the Rings.
Basically somehow a group of Dwarves and a group of Elves have found there way from Middle Earth to our world. (I have already started writing the back story which will help explain this very random occurrence.) They end up forming two separate international football teams (again don't worry, all will be explained).
Now, obviously you can see the similarity between this and STI v NTI, but both I and DodgeeD believe the fantasy element will help distinguish it. Also, unlike STI v NTI they will not be rivals, they will be 'uneasy allies' (thanks DodgeeD ) due to another third 'race' (no prizes for guessing, but will be slightly different to the Elf and Dwarf teams). I will ask certain signees to not be a dwarf or an elf and instead be a secret evil character (this needs fleshing out).
I will be attempting to focus a lot on the story element as that's what interests me, you will have to use Kosher Dwarf and Elf names (assistance provided ) and I will be giving a background to why things are happening in a story sense as well as a footballing sense.
As I said this won't be going for a while, but want to do the database next week whilst I have the spare time.
All comments welcome
I really like that idea and can't wait to see it in more detail
Team signups have always been good for forum banter between the two teams and this one looks like it has a new edge to it
Can't wait to hear more detail
Thanks for the positive feedback, I have already written some of the background story, if anybody wishes to read the two intro's I have written I will PM them on request. (If they are too large I can always e-mail them.)
I wouldn't mind a read.
Places seem to be running out fast for Chief Executives roles within the FA's, but there is plenty of Club Chairman roles left.
Anybody know if there is a list floating about anywhere with a the number of teams and/or major rules for each of the leagues in the game?
Thanks in advance
At a guess, the Football Manager Wiki - but it's down at the moment so I wouldn't be able to check for you.
An idea for a sign up (Probably not for me to run due to my track record but for someone),
My Football Club- A number of people sign up and are assigned a job to do with creating a football club e.g Stadium design manager(Create stadium name, capacity etc). Someone creates the database for us to upload and using the details that everyone has submitted they have to achieve glory with the club. It would make for great banter and also would be good to take part in. Feedback please
I think as you've shown with your 'example' the 'jobs available' would all be extremely small and something not everyone would agree with etc. It's pretty much under the same sort of idea as 'Real CSE' so I guess you could bring that back, well not bring it back and start it again, but bump the thread to try and get some excitement maybe.
There are quite a few jobs you could have, like someone who would choose where the team is based etc.
but these 'jobs' are pointless and would take about 10 seconds for someone to do
Off the top of my head:
Scottish Divisions 1-3 (10 teams).
Slovenian First and Second Division (10 teams).
South Africa's lower divisions only have 8 in I think (judging by the league tables from Hawkini's sign-up).
India's top league only has 12 and Hong Kong's has 10 I think.
Swiss top division - 10 teams
Cheers for the info lads I'll have a look at them and see which best fits my needs.
Im looking for an Idea for my first sign up thread if anyone has ideas, im not the best for orginality.
The Evil Twin sign-up!
As in so many of these sign-ups, you create a person to play in the game. But into the game is *also* added his evil twin. The evil twin has:
(a) The same nationalities as his brother
(b) A relationship with his brother either of mutual love or mutual hatred - open to suggestions on this
(c) The same position(s) as his brother
(d) The same chosen attributes as his brother, but inverted. If the first player has an attribute of x, the twin has an attribute of 21-x
(e) The same CA and PA as his brother
Ideas for how to flesh this out will be welcomed.
Alright, so with uni about to finish i thought i'd make a signup game to kill some of the time in between getting well...drunk constantly.
So the idea is this. With the popularity and strength of the various champions league around the world, in particular europe, and the continual club vs. country debate, is international football becoming obsolete? Ashley Cole once said that Arsenal would beat England, and Paul Scholes claimed he scored more for Man U than England because Man U had better players. So FIFA want to increase the attraction of International Football by creating a "League Of Nations" with involves international sides playing in a league structure.
What it is:
A League Structure with one club representing each nations national team.
Each forum user will select a 23 man (or thereabouts) squad from their selected nation. I will tie each player to their nation-club for 4 years by giving them a future transfer at the end of the 4th season. So it'll be a four season tournament. At the end of each season i will allow time to make changes to their squads.
I was planning on replacing the dutch leagues because there is no relegation from the bottom league and 8 sides in the second division enter the promotion playoffs.
What i'm worried about is what effect will having a future transfer have on the players motivation + performance?
And if anyone has any ideas or suggestions than feel free to let me know, particuarly on the league to be replaced choice
That's a cracker of an idea. How many nations did you have in mind?
Ok so from my last couple of posts in this thread you might have guessed I had an idea for a sign-up in the works and that is indeed the case. With my "It Could Be You....." sign-up on hold for now and possibly permanently I decided I needed something to fill the void. Incidentally one of the ideas I had was incredibly similar to the one just posted by mendi, which I like the sound of by the way.
After mulling over many ideas I decided I didn't want to start anything too long term what with the expected release of FM2010 (going on previous years) only 4-6 months away.
Anyway to the point, what do you guys think about an OOTP style sign-up for World Cup 2010? A few of you will probably remember wisla_krakow doing a version for Euro 2008 fairly recently (Link) which was going really well until it ended, I was pretty gutted to miss out on that one and so now I'm thinking about trying my own and basically just wanted some feedback from you guys.
A couple of things I've thought about that I'm not sure on are:
Which leagues to load?
Which, if any, countries to "load all players from"?
Potential problems could be finding the initial 32 people, obviously I'd rather they're users who are going to stick with it rather than never posting again after the first week, but what can I realistically do to prevent that? Once we're up and running as long as I have everyone's tactics/starting 11's etc we should be fine, if people are unable to make deadlines then I can just go with the information I have and if they wanted to change it, tough.
Feel free to make an comments/suggestions and hopefully I can establish whether or not I should go ahead with it. (With wisla's permission of course )
Ah the mighty OOTP again. I will never forget the old day's of 'chrisbamb' running it before he went missing
Cheers for the positive feedback guys.
Australia and the US are out for obvious reasons, so that leaves Holland, which would give total of 38 nations, or Scotland with a total of 42. I was leaning towards Holland, cos it only has two divisions as opposed to Scotland's four
I would be interested in participating in that Whoopy, OOTP sounds like fun and I missed out on the last one.
Challenge idea- The bouncebackability challenge
It's pretty simple really, you holiday through the first seasonand then take control of a relegated team. You then have gain promotion at the first time of asking and bounce straight back up. You then do this with different teams until you have done it 5 times running. Feedback
Yes that would be good. Would do that for sure, then there is more of an objective. Would you do the challenge?
I'd give it a go, the only game I really have going at the moment is for a sign-up, so I have time for another game.
Might get the OOTP idea underway in the next couple of days then, I need to get my laptop fixed/hacked into first but hopefully I'll get round to that and then I can get started.
I am however struggling for a name for the sign-up so any ideas would be helpful
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For my challenge idea, how would it work after you have got the team promoted. Should you wait for a club without a manager or add a new user each time, help!!!
Back on the OOTP idea, it's proving very dificult to get 32 teams we can actually manage. I've holidayed through 4 times now and have managed to get it down to 3 nations being unavailable. One of those is easily solved, if I had loaded all players from that nation I would've been fine. The other two though are Germany and Japan, I know there is a way of getting around the German national side issue (although I don't know how) and I assume there is a similar issue with the Japanese side? If so is there also a way around this?
I think you can sort out the Japan problem, try looking on FM Wiki, here
Whoopy I'd be very keen to join your OOTP World Cup if you get it going. I just had a read through wisla's Euro 2008 one and it looked like great fun. I'll keep an eye out for it!
Hi Whoopy D,
I would be interested, but how much time would I need for it, as far as I understand I look at the save game on my pc then let you know what team I want? I don't actually play the game?
As for time wise it's really up to you, if you want to just provide me with your squad, preferred starting 11 and tactics for the first match and use those same tactics no matter what then that's fine. But it's also fine if you want to send me different tactics for different matches/situations, tell me what subs to make and when etc. So it really depends how involved you want to get, I personally think the people who are more involved are likely to do better although I can't be certain.
JSalter - thanks for that link mate
OOTP is always fb.
Right so I've got any issues I might have had with my OOTP game sorted, I've got a game holidayed up to where it needs to be and now all I need is the managers.
I know we're not supposed to advertise threads etc but just letting people know I'll be opening the sign-up thread tomorow (Monday) night at around 10pm GMT. There are 32 spots to fill but if you're worried about not getting a place feel free to PM me in advance
What time is that in Australian/New Zealand WhoopyD?
Okay, I'll make sure I get on here before I go out in the morning!
I had a thought about making a totally random signup game. Stats, age, club etc would be totally random.
I just can't figure out if this has been done before..
Hmmm, I fancy having a crack at my own sign-up but all of the threads here are stuck in my brain so I constantly think of ones already done, any ideas?
Check the opening couple of pages where some cracking idea's exist
Just a question: Can a scout turn into a manager? Because I'm wondering whether i should do an experiment/sign-up to see if scouts/physios can turn into managers?
Lets say in the editor I put their job preference as a manager but they originally started off as a scout I will monitor say every game year there managerial progress and award points for persay the level of club they reach and award a points for say acheiving trophies.
Get the drift?
I have seen Ruud Guilt move from a Manager to a scout, So I see no reason why not!
I was thinking of running an experiment using a no-players database the essence of this would be to test how teams cope with having completely regens with little ability, however some will have very high potential. At the same time as this i will be giving some teams in small nations great training facilities, youth facilities and youth academies to see how much of an affect it can have on the lesser nations establishing themselves in the footballing world.
I plan on running a fair few leagues or at least loading the players from some obscure nations.
What do you think of this idea? Has it been done already? And would you be interested in seeing how the footballing world dealt with a full world of regens?
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My no player db experiment
It was something to pass the time, but eventually lost interest in it...I did plan on making quite a few updates after my exams though.
Very interesting results as well.
Okay sorry about that didn't realise it had already been done, should have done a search. Didn't think of it at the time. Do you think you'll carry on with it or not, also how far did you get as due to finishing uni and having about 3 months without much to do I have a fair bit of time on my hands.
Exam revision always comes first, I'll probably do the experiment for my own benefit anyway but won't post updates on here. Shame though I really should have done a search before hand, didn't think of it at the time and thought with no one posting for quite a while that it hadn't already been done, good luck with the experiment. I shall keep an eye on it.
Thanks. If I don't feel motivated to finish it by any chance, I'll know who to go to.
I've just switched to a new laptop. And have transferred everything over but as my signup requires a custom database it will not load correctly and uses all of the original premiership team names, stadiums etc. Anyway to sort that out?
don't you need the file things you put in the database, that's what we had to use when Bermy sent out the 'custom Northern Monkey' stuff last year.


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Yes, refs do use ComponentQuery to lookup and starts at the top and works it's way down and finds all instances matching your selector and then uses the first. This can be bad performance depending how many components you have instantiated.
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I need to check if cycle given by $(x_1, y_1, z_1), (x_2, y_2, z_2), (x_3, y_3, z_3)$ is clockwise or counterclockwise. I have found this answer: Detecting whether directed cycle is clockwise or counterclockwise but I don't have a clue how to make it work for 3 dimensional space.
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If your three points are not collinear, they determine a plane. If you look at them from one side, you see the cycle being clockwise, and if you look from the other side, it is counterclockwise. You need extra information to help you choose one side of the plane. It is customary to have an orientation of the plane, given by a normal to that plane. Of course, any direction helps you choosing a side, but you have to make sure that it is not parallel to the plane or included in it.
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Thanks for the input! It might be possible in the future, but from our current research it looks unfeasible to add graphical visualization of sound files at this point. If you need just sound in general, there are several other threads on utilizing third-party sound libraries.
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The common understanding is that, setting air resistance aside, all objects dropped to Earth fall at the same rate. This is often demonstrated through the thought experiment of cutting a large object in half, the halves of which clearly can't then fall more slowly just by being sliced in two.
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Our society in many ways, sabotages parents' "alone" time together. Girl Scouts, baseball games, dancing lessons, school events and the non-ending household chores often have parents going in separate directions. Add to this list chemotherapy treatments, low count weeks, hospitalizations, and resentful siblings, and you'll meet parents who barely remember each other's names! During hospitalizations, often our parents are lucky to have 30 minutes together a day during the "changing of the guards". In this time, they must relay essential information such as "Don't forget to..." plus contend with bedpans and interruptions from staff. A candlelight dinner alone together becomes a dream from the past. By the time treatment is over, you may not even know if you want to spend time together. This person who was once your lover, confidant, and dancing partner, may now feel more like a business partner. It is time to ask yourselves a few questions: Did you even like each other BEFORE this all began? If the answer is yes, is there still a relationship left to nurture? Then, are you both willing to commit to the time needed to get to know each other again?
So, This is "Happily Ever After"?
When your child was diagnosed, you thought you would probably go crazy. Well, you didn't -- or at least not crazy enough for most people to notice. You all survived the seemingly unending months or years of treatment. The good times have arrived! Then why are the kids still fighting? Why is your spouse still complaining? Why is there still not enough money to go around? Worst of all, why does this child, who you were so terrified of losing, act so obnoxious at times that you don't even like being around him?
Once, when we were going through a crisis time, my husband said to me "Won't it be nice when we can start worrying about cleaning out our closets again?" The problem is, the day does come when you do start worrying about clean closets again, and other mundane things. When the nightmare of cancer begins, most parents pray "Dear God, just get us through this and I'll never complain again about..." Although such a significant life crisis does change us in positive ways, at some point our humanness creeps back in, in spite of ourselves. Don't worry. God is used to people making bargains they can't keep. You and your children will be partly enriched and partly damaged by this experience. You can nurture the enriched part and minimize the damaged part by accepting yourself, your spouse and your children, with all of the normal faults and feelings that accompany any family that deals with childhood cancer.
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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz yesterday expressed the hope that interfaith dialogue would foster peace, understanding and unity.
The King made the remarks in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica published today. The King is currently in Madrid to open the World Conference on Dialogue.
"We can remove mistrust and suspicions from our minds through the principle of dialogue, one that underscores human commonalities that find their expression in all religions, beliefs and cultures," the King said. "We will then realize that values and principles that unite us are more than those dividing us."
Such dialogue is part of Saudi Arabia's Islamic beliefs, the King said, noting: "We are a nation of a sublime mission and deeply rooted cultural heritage. Our religion urges us to embrace the principle of dialogue and call upon us to cooperate and coexist in peace with others, and promote understanding, peace, accord and good values among all humankind."
In the wide-ranging interview, King Abdullah also discussed Saudi efforts to stabilize the global oil market, its commitment to combating terrorism, its view that the crisis surrounding Iran's nuclear program should be resolved diplomatically and Saudi support for peace efforts in the Middle East.
In addition, he urged the international community to make the global food crisis its top priority and outlined steps the Kingdom has taken to address the crisis, including a $500 million donation to the World Food Program and an initiative to provide energy to impoverished nations.
Asked if the United States had lost its traditional influence in the Middle East region, King Abdullah replied that Saudi Arabia would support any international effort to resolve regional crises as long as the effort is sincere with the goal of achieving security.
"Whether this effort is American, Russian, European, Islamic or Arab, we will not hesitate to support it as long as it is sincere and serious in dealing with these crises, and as long as it aims at achieving regional security and stability and prosperity, including the legitimate rights of the people of the region," the King said.
"Our international friendships are based on the defense of those rights and interests of the region and its peoples and nothing else."


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I'm supervising an undergraduate project on Galois theory and covering spaces. I want to have him read about the fact that from a branched cover of a Riemann surface you get an extension of its field of meromorphic functions, and the Galois groups are the same, but I'm having trouble finding a good book. Fulton's "Algebraic Topology" is OK but rushes through this point. Forster's "Lectures on Riemann Surfaces" looks good but I'd rather not make him learn sheaves. Any recommndations?
There is a chapter on Riemann surfaces in Tamās Szamuely's book "Galois Groups and Fundamental Groups", which contains the facts that you are looking for.
Here are two sources accesible to an undergraduate
It's written with an undergraduate in mind that is not familiar with the fundamental group and/or covering spaces. He does not cover branched covers though.
I think V.I.Arnold's lectures "Abel's Theorem in Problems and Solutions" may be a great supplementary reading. The book is basic but beautiful.
I like a lot:
Algebraic Curves and Riemann Surfaces by Rick Miranda,
published by the AMS. I think it's very suitable for undergraduates.
Hi Nick,
Groups as Galois groups by Helmut Völken is a very nice book that I think is suitable for a good undergrad and might have the level you are looking for. I think chapters 4 and 5 are the places where your student should check first, and I think they don't require previous chapters to follow what is there.
Also, Inverse Galois theory by Malle and Matzat is great to see some applications of what he is learning is his project--mainly chapter 1. This one needs more background than the above, so I'm just recommending this one after he has learned the material in the other one.
Try Askold Khovanskii: Galois Theory, Coverings and Riemann Surfaces.
The first sections of the following two papers contain background material on covering spaces and Galois theory.
Joe Harris Galois groups of enumerative problems Duke Math. J. Volume 46, Number 4 (1979), 685-724.
William Fulton Hurwitz Schemes and Irreducibility of Moduli of Algebraic Curves. The Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Nov., 1969), pp. 542-575
Klaus Lamotke: Riemmansche Flächen, Springer, 2009. http://books.google.pt/books?id=lfrtVbRPtn4C Very strong on algebraic aspects. (Don't know of anything alike in english, yet.)
Approaching the problem from a slightly different position, you could point your student towards a Masters' thesis:
M. A. D. Robalo, 2009, Galois Theory towards Dessins d'Enfants , Master's thesis, Instituto Superior Technico, Lisboa.
There are some more or small errors, and the aim is slightly different, so the task might then be to rewrite that (slightly too SGA1 based perhaps), to check for errors, adapting it towards the aims that you have in mind and bringing in more Riemann surface stuff.
I am not sure but the, "introduction to Compact Riemann Surfaces and Dessins d'Enfants" of Ernesto Girondo & Gabino González-Diez. Could be useful


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A Lansing man was killed over the weekend in a motorcycle accident in northern Leavenworth County, according to a report from the Sheriff's Office.
The accident was reported at 12:31 p.m. Saturday on Mt. Olivet Road east of 175th Street. EMS personnel attempted to resuscitate Rodney L. Fausett, 56, Lansing, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the report.
Fausett was the driver of the motorcycle that crashed. The motorcycle came to rest on top of him in a ditch.
Undersheriff Jim Sherley said a helmet was found with the motorcycle but there's no indication Fausett had been wearing it at the time of the accident.
There were no preliminary indications that alcohol was a factor in the crash.
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I am a single practitioner with 3 work stations and a server. What is the best cost effective way to secure my data and I suppose encrypt it. The gov't wants us to prevent any unsecure access to patient records. They do not tell us the lengths we have to go to do this and basically leave it up to us. I figure my biggest weakness is someone just stealing my computer and hacking into it. I have the programs double passworded but that is not stopping a hacker. The next level I suspect is encryption but how easy is it to hack. We single practitioners can not afford an IT person like a hospital. I appreciate any feedback. Thanks
I'll also mention TrueCrypt, since it's a fairly simple (and free!) solution. Or, if you use Macs, use the built-in 'FileVault.'
Beyond file encryption, you should also look into other areas that could benefit from encryption, or pose a risk to the data: * Email encryption -- Here's a relevant lifehacker article. Your should also look up your email client and provider's policies/features in this regard. * VPNs for any remote workers; something like logmein's hamachi or similar. * Backups, Dropbox, etc.: Review the policies and encryption-features of any backup or file sync programs you use, too.
Finally, be restrictive with file-access/sharing permissions. Deny 'Everybody' from any windows fileshares and, if possible -- I know my users balk at this -- make sure anyone who does have access to that information has a strong password.
That said, a technical solution alone is not enough; make sure your coworkers understand what needs to be protected and /why/. (Something other than 'because the government us tells us to.') This way, they can help identify data that should be secured but has somehow missed your initial review. You might also want to get them to sign some policies, too, just in case: Internet/Email use and the like: After all, encryption is pointless if the attacker knows the key, like a disgruntled or clueless employee who sends confidential/protected data by insecure means.
Have similar discussions with any service-suppliers that might handle the sensitive data. For instance, in order to ensure compliance with a local privacy regulation, we emailed our off-site backup provider asking, "Hey, we need to be XXX-compliant; do you guys do that?"
There are other things that come to mind, but I'm more a sys-admin than a sec-admin right now (thought not for lack of trying!) -- but I don't want to overload you. (Plus, I have to get back to work.)
Hospitals (like the one I work at) have used hard drive encryption to prevent against data loss of ePHI for several years now. If a laptop/computer/server/drive/etc is lost but encrypted HIPAA and HITECH consider the data to be secured and therefore not subject to the Interim Breach Rule. To be honest, as an individual provider I will assume you are used a hosted EMR/EHR system (letting me know which one would be helpful). As you correctly pointed out HIPAA and HITECH don't stipulate how you are to encrypt but they do say WHAT you need to encrypt. The short answer is all ePHI and NPI (non-public information) must be encrypted (the long answer is you should be conducting a risk assessment and determining what to encrypt based on the risk associated with the potential loss of that data).
In short, you don't really have to encrypt everything if you find that too much/scary, etc. In my experience with hosted ePHI solutions all of your ePHI and NPI data is already encrypted and not stored locally. That would leave you with only the patient data that you are specifically saving locally on your PC's and server(s). If that data is your employee schedules, don't bother with encrypting. If it is NPI/ePHI then by all means encrypt. For Windows systems BitLocker (included in Windows 7) will allow you to encrypt the files and folders you specify. That in addition to the "double" password protection you mention is more than enough to satisfy a HIPAA auditor, should one come knocking. The key is to ensure that you have proof that your data has been encrypted should you incur a loss of equipment or data. To do so I would recommend a simple series of screenshots showing that you have encrypted your data.
In case it matters as the Information Security Architect for a hospital this is the advice I would give to our independent clinical practicitioners. I could offer some more specifics if I had some more details from you.
Hope this was helpful.
I think TrueCrypt is the best choice for you. It is an application that is able to encrypt whole drives or file containers. If your critical documents (i.e. patient data) comprises of a directory of files and are "not that large", I suggest a file container. If your data is stored on its own at another hard drive, I suggest encrypting that entire disk.
What you do is simply select the drive that you want encrypted, or create a new file container. A file container will look like any other file, but be as large as you want it to be (it must have room for all your data).
When you have got your container or drive ready, it will ask you for a password. This is where YOU define YOUR degree of security, so choose wisely. Writing down the password could be done if that password is STORED SECURELY, i.e. your customers should not be able to locate them. Anyhow, you will be entering the password for each session you want to access the data. This means that you could either start your computer in the morning, unlock access to the files and leave it open, or you could indeed disable access ("unmount" in the application). Since this doesn't seem like military-grade security requirements, I suggest the first, to make the system as usable as it is today.
Please ask more if I'm being unclear or too technical about anything.
The backup must then of course be deleted - for this, you could look into "secure deletion" programs, such as the Secure Shredder bundled with Spybot Search & Destroy (Advanced mode)
Note that TrueCrypt is free and open source, which is really great. If you can afford it, you should donate some of the money you saved from not going with a paid service. (I am not with TrueCrypt ;))
You could encrypt your hard drive to prevent attacks involving your machine being compromised, but I don't think this is enough to meet basic HIPPA (in the USA) requirements. You also need to provide a way of auditing all access to PHI, and you don't talk about whether or not you do this yet.
Looking into a small EMR might make your life easier in the long run. This solution will not only be more secure (and more likely to meet government healthcare regulation), but also more future-proof. What if you need to send that PHI to another healthcare provider? This would involve a lot of work for you because you'd have to decrypt the data locally, re-encrypt it in a way the participating organization can decrypt it, and send it along. And EMR can simplify that workflow for you.
For those interested in questions like these, the Healthcare Industry SE would be a good resource in the future.
I have experience with Medisoft and Soapware which I have implemented in the same office scenario as yours, except they have 2 servers. What are you using for EHR/EMR ? If you are going to invest money in anything it should be the protection of your patient information and the ability to share that with pharmacies/hospitals/doctors etc. Companies like Soapware offer cloud solutions that can offer you security with your patient data. Since you are just using the client software on your office workstations and the database is sitting on the companies's cloud servers. The other benefit to this is that they cover anything that goes wrong so you would not need inhouse IT support to fix issues for this area.
The easiest method would be to just use AES 128 bit full drive encryption + good passwords + pc lock timeouts. This has the added benefit of encrypting all the temp files and recycle bin too so you don't really need a secure file shredder.
One thing you have to remember is to make sure doctors don't take files home with them to work on, this has happened over here in the UK before with NHS and military files and then they had their laptops stolen from their cars.
It really depends on your legal requirements, but I would suggest following steps as minimum:


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I've recently gotten into learning about functional programming. I've been coding in Scala most of this past year and am just now starting to fully grasp the power of a functional language.
I want to build a data-driven website from scratch using functional techniques. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around how to start thinking about this. I've done this many times over using standard Java OO techniques. I usually think about the end product, build my object model off of that, then build my DB CRUD layer, then my services layer (business logic), then my web/ui layer.
My question is: how can I reason about/design a large, data-driven web application in a functional manner?
EDIT: Good points made so far. How about this:
In a data-driven web application (database, MVC, HTML forms, etc.) where does it make sense to use FP?
I'm still working on getting a good understanding of exactly what FP is, so please bear with me in my questions.


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My app used to get a list photos from Profile Pictures of friends with this FQL:
SELECT owner, src_big FROM photo
WHERE aid IN (
SELECT aid FROM album
WHERE name="Profile Pictures"
AND owner IN (XXXXXX,YYYYYYY,ZZZZZZZZ))
But now the response is only few photos from ZZZZZ (the last one). Even not all of them are returned. If I try to delete YYYY,ZZZZ in the list, it works fine, even I'm using IN operator, it returns me all profile pictures of that friend.
Am I missing something ? Another dev friend of mine tried it too, without success.
Could you guys please try it too in explorer? :) Thanks!


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My front porch, which is concrete, is leaning to one side. How can I fix it? I had a contractor look at it and he wanted to pour another porch on top of it, but I read somewhere that the preferred approach would be to jack it up somehow? Wondering what the best approach is and ballparks on expected cost would be great. I have a picture but I guess I need more reputation to post it :(
The techniques used are all similar but seems to have regional names.It is called slab lifting,mudpumping,etc.The method is to pump a slurry under the pad and lift it.I would check for a foundation repair company that has good local references.I have no idea of cost.I'm sure it varies based on the size of the slab,amount of lift.
I wouldn't just add concrete on top to level out. If you do so you don't take away the real issue and sooner or later you'll face the same problem.
New concrete on top would only help if it was never level. I bet it was level in the past, no? So that means it has been sinking to one side because of lack of foundations.
I don't know the exact terminology in English but you could dig underneath it alternating in blocks of 60cm. So it stays up on columns of 60cm. Then add more concrete (with iron). Then wait at least 30 days so the concrete can dry out. At that point dig out the other 60cm blocks and do the exact same thing.
That way you have the foundations improved and now you could add concrete on top to level out. But only after you fixed the real issue.