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We need a 'welcome back' thread
I missed you guys.
Hello, this is my first time posting on this forum, and I think this falls under "experiments" but I apologize if it does not.
Anyway, rather than the usual "give a sugar daddy to a small team and build them up", I am interested in playing a big team on the verge of financial disaster. This started as me mulling a Man City save but being turned off by the ability to just buy a super-team right away. At first, I considered just limiting my transfer spending, but since player wage demands are relative to a team's wealth, you are still somewhat forced to "play rich" as it were.
So then I thought maybe it would be better to mod the game to represent a situation where Sheikh Mansour gets bored of playing real life Football Manager and pulls out of the club.
My question, then, is what are some good ideas how to reflect this and to make it a playable save where you're not hit by FA administration and sacked within a few weeks of starting the club.
So far, this is what I've come up with:
Get rid of sugar daddy, reduce transfer budget significantly.
Release the most expensive players (Tevez, Silva, etc.) as free transfers who hate the club and add maybe 75% of their remaining wages-to-be-paid to the team debt.
Reduce wages but add a proportion of the lost player compensation to the team debt as if they had been given the option of leaving the club or being given a partial contract buyout in exchange for long-term lower wages.
Reduce team morale to poor or very poor.
Any other ideas?
Last edited by Ego Scriptor; 22-07-2011 at 11:26.
Sounds awesome GCB..
Sign-up form is up ... Need's PM'ing to me ASAP!
form the youngest or oldest squad and win the world cup!!!
Late on a saturday. Bear with me
I have two suggestions, I don't know if it has been mentioned before:
1. Getting even with Milan
Milan is the only city with two European cup/Champions league winning teams. The task is to get as many cities as possible with one team to manage the same.
You start with teams in the cities with one EC/CL winner.
City Teams available. (Highest division first)
Madrid: Atletco Madrid, Getafe, Rayo Vallecano
Lisbon: Sporting Lisbon, Belenenses
Glasgow: Rangers, Parthick Thistle, Queens Park
Manchester: Manchester City, FC United
Rotterdam: Sparta Rotterdam
(Amsterdam: Don't think there are any)
Munich: 1860 Munchen, Unterhaching
Liverpool Everton, Tranmere
Nottingham: Notts County
Birmingham: Birmingham, WBA
Hamburg: St Pauli
Turin: Torino
Bucharest: Dinamo, Rapid, Sportul
Porto: Boavista
Eindhoven: FC Eindhoven
Belgrade: Partizan
Barcelona: Espanyol
(Marseille: Don't know of any)
Dortmund: Eintracht Dortmund
So the task is to start in any of one of these clubs, and from there guide as many clubs to the CL trophy as possible. I think the task would be easiest if you start in Manchester, but you can choose yourself. The goal is to win as many you can with one manager in one career. If some of these clubs should win it without you manage them, they're out of the ruling.
2. Dominant London
No team from London has won the champions league. The aim is to win the trophy with as many London based clubs as possible.
Here is a list of professional clubs in London, ranked after league placing in 2010/2011
Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Fulham, West Ham, QPR, Millwall, Watford, Crystal Palace, Leyton Orient, Brentford, Charlton, Dagenham & Redbridge, Barnet, AFC Wimbledon
There are probably many more, but this is a selection.
Target is to make London the giant city of football. Win the CL with as many clubs you can.
I recommend starting with Chelsea, Arsenal or Tottenham. The clue is if there are clubs winning it from London which you are not in charge of, then you can't count them in.
Or you can do the challenge harder by stating that when a London club you don't manage wins it, your quest is over.
An example is: Take over Chelsea, win CL, get the Arsenal job, win CL, etc, if other clubs look in danger of winning it, keep winning CL with your club to prevent them, until you are ready to switch jobs. If some of your former clubs wins it, and you have won it before, it's ok.
Hope that these suggestions could sound fun. And maybe some of you will develop them or try it out.
Last edited by Taunton; 06-08-2011 at 23:48.
I've been thinking of trying an experiment regarding sons. Do you think you'd be more likely to get a son if you developed youth more than if you just brought top quality players. I don't know whether it'd be a good experiment or not. But I would like to try.
I think I'll be testing the impact of political factors on the game in the near future by only editing a country's political factor and seeing if it makes a noticeable difference. I would expect it to but I don't know how much of a difference it'll make.
Yeah, i think there both really interesting... If i was to choose one i'd go for the Milan one as there is a wider variety of clubs and the London one would be alot easier if you go for clubs like Arsenal, Chelsea, QPR. because they already have money and it would just take a few new players for Arsenal and Chelsea to win the Champions League
Interesting idea there Taunton, one suggestion i would give would be to list clubs in catagories of difficulty, as Aidano said Chelsea and Arsenal easy club they are already in the Champs League also clubs like Man City can be done in 2 seasons(only one if you do it with FM12) due to the amounts of cash, more difficult teams would be the likes of FC United
What I was thinking was to try to win it with as many different clubs in London during your career. Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham would be easy, but then it will be more difficult because you have to start doing it with clubs further down the system. So to win it with, say, ten London clubs in one single career could take some time
Thanks again for the input guys.
Last edited by Taunton; 11-08-2011 at 17:54.
Hey I am not sure where the best place to post this is but:
Has anyone done a game with Dinamo St Petersburg in the Russian 2nd Division? They start off with just a youth team squad, 50k to spend and a 12k wage budget and even the team that is predicted 19th is odds on favourites to beat you! I think this could be the most difficult challenge in the game, I have bought in 25 players and only a couple are on par with players from the other squads.
I was wondering if anyone else has done this and had success! If not I propose someone makes a challege! To avoid relegation. I think it could be impossible, but maybe I am just rubbish
If this has been attempted before I would love someone to point me in the right direction.
Pretty sure neither of those are as hard as the "give youth a chance" challenge, but they do both sound pretty difficult.
Ah maybe, I have never in my life seen as big a gulf in class between all the other teams in the league! I am amazed how they have even got into this league in the first place! Plus 5 teams get relegated from the Russian 2nd division. I will have to try Kildare next after my season of absolute failure!
I tried Dinamo and did insanely bad, might have another go!
New game (FM12): new challenge ideas.
The new feature where leagues can be added or removed opens up so much.
I remember back in the days when there was a monthly challenge - it worked well at first but then fell by the wayside. Some of the problems with this is that not many in the main forum head in here - can you not cross promote using just the one thread with a heading of all the challenges going into it? When a new one had 100 posts then it could be added into the cross promotion thread?
Anyway, the reason i came in here and found this thread was to post about a 6-Nations challenge.
Load up Italy, England, France, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (Rep)
Aim would be to win the league in each with no more than three of the leagues open at any one time.
Start unemployed with only Wales and Ireland loaded and then able to add one more league at the end of the season that you first win a league.
Overall, it would be great for this forum if each challenge had a points tally added and a league table created (stickied) of all the points gained by any challenge. Points for ALL challenges would be based on difficulty and EDITED into the OP of each challenge by a Moderator
Last edited by kccircle; 16-10-2011 at 19:47.
Good idea .
What about a challenge where you have to cross a continent country by country, moving only between countries that share a border, winning the championship in each one? The challenge could be to cross the continent from the furthest apart countries on that continent (continent defined by FIFA). So in Europe, to get from Iceland to Kazhakstan, or in Africa to get from South Africa to Morocco, winning every league in your path.
You could even expand this to do a 'round the world in 80ish championships' starting out in London like Phileas Fogg and trying to circumnavigate the globe in less than 80 seasons. Or a 'westward ho' spread-of-western-civ game that would take you from Greece through Rome to the USA and beyond...
The new ability to add and delete countries' playable leagues as you go along would make this much less processor-intensive than it would have been in the past. I'm pretty tempted to play my career game on FM 12 this way, starting in Kazakhstan with Aktobe. Anyone with me? The Challenge leaderboard could be for the people who've accumulated the highest Hall of Fame ranking along the way, or who've gone through the most countries in the shortest time...
Question--will I still be able to revamps old '11 threads if I want to try a Challenge with 2011?
I've seen a few FM10 threads get necro'd over the past year for people still playing those games, so I can't see any reason why it would be a problem. All the threads clearly state they're FM11 on the title.
Yes, by all means.
Last year I ran this challenge for a little while, what does everyone think about a similar type of thread for FM12? I was thinking I could compile a few challenges, and then anyone else could give me suggestions, or could send me save games with possible challenges in them? I would think no longer than a single season, though half seasons would be slightly more preferable. Thoughts?
Just a few simple ideas, anything else that may come up as well.
- Save from Relegation
- Surprise Promotion fight
- Get through group stage of Champs League/Europa
- Win a Cup
- World Cup
- European Championships
I like this idea because as well as keeping people fresh in their long term games, it gives people the chance to experience some leagues that they might not normally.
For those who think the game is easy, why not do the ultimate challenge? Pick up a club of the worst nation in Europe coefficients (Andorra or San Marino) and make the nation nº 1 on the coefficients ranking AND best league in Europe?
Yeah, I started it . Then LLR expanded it and made it better .
Here's a crazy challenge idea I came up with. Pick a year, say 2000, and attempt to win as much as possible using a squad entirely made up of players born that year. You keep going for as long as possible, so your squad average age rises by 1 every year. You are free to buy and sell players during the challenge if you wish, but your squad must always be made up of players born in the same year.
It would present varied challenges as time went on. During the early years, you would have the challenge of finding teenagers ready for first team action, and possibly coping with large numbers of your squad disappearing for U19 international duty. You'd also need a board who were willing to be patient with a lack of immediate results from a team full of 15/16 year olds (depending on how early you start). Once your average age is over 24, you will have to contend with a limited squad size, growing wage bill, and players who don't want to be backups. Finally, can you keep winning things as your squad average age reaches 35 and above?
Not sure if it has been done before, but I'd be interested to read about the progress of anyone who wants to give it a go.
Now onto something as simple as it gets. Didn't there used to be some sort of challenge about managing clubs only with national-based players? I've looked through all the challenges in the last 2 pages and can't find it.
If not, then I can see it becoming a popular challenge. Dafuge/Gundo style, take a previously unplayable club from the lower tier to the Champions League trophy - but only buying players from the nationality of your club. Sort of a midway difficulty level between Dafuge/Gundo and the super-hardcore Give Youth A Chance.
And I'd make so that you can start with any nation from Europe, so you'd be able to do this and the Dafuge/Gundo/Euro Big Club at the same time. Evidently then it may a little tougher to do it in Finland than in Spain... but flexibility is good.
I'd also do the honours, except I don't think I'd be taking part in it (yet) so it wouldn't be all that effective.
If it's not been opened by the time I get bored of, fail or complete the gundo's attempt I'm doing now, I may give it a go.
Lot of challenges and sign ups in here but dont see much of the experiment side of things. Thought of one that could be quite interesting:
What if you changed the top 10 European leagues so the top flight are moved to lowest division, 2nd division moved to 2nd lowest, etc. For clarity if you took the English set up, Premier league and Championship would be split into BSS and BSN. League 1 clubs would be moved to BSP and league 2 stays as it is. Repeat this for top 10 co-effecient leagues as shown at start of the game and see how the European game progresses. Will the once minnows show enough ambition to sign better players and attempt European glory? Will the bigger teams all go into administration and never get back to top flight? How long before normality is resumed and the "top 4" are ruling Premier league again.
Can think of loads of things that could be monitered in that kind of experiment (how transfers are affected, will clubs adhere to their reputation or their current league and financial standings, how the national game progresses, etc) and would probably take all kind of turns depending on how far it progresses. The reason I was thinking top 10 countries (England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Russian, Ukraine, Turkey and Portugal) is they are traditionally the leagues where the money is. If everyone is relegated it wouldn't be a case of one league buying up all the best players and dominating.
Any ideas, what do you think?
I was thinking of doing the following sign-up:
Send in the clones or My Dream Team Can Beat Up Your Dream Team
Basically create a custom league with 20-24 teams and set them up with a championship cup.
Players (that means you guys) take your pick of any players anywhere in the world to fill out your own dream team of a starting 11 with 8 reserves and any two coaches to take over as manager and ass. man.
I'll take the 2012 DB and duplicate the players and staff and stuff them into your own dream team and then we run the season and see who comes out on top.
- Should the players/managers be edited to have a common language to speak?
- Should I fill out the remaining coach positions with generic 4/4.5 star coaches and a 20 physio or let people choose a full coaching staff also?
- Limited budget per team or sky is the limit? It would be fun to have no restrictions but having a limited budget will increase the team diversity.
- Maximum price cap per player?
I have an idea for a sign-up and it starts in the Blue Square North or Blue Square South, or both. The idea is you'd build a squad of 22 players with £10m to spend. Now this is alot for a BSN/BSS side and you have a few ways of going about it. You can either spend all of the £10m(this is for wages and transfers) on bringing in some top quality players and hoping that you get promoted quickly to claim that money back. You could save as much of the money as possible and try and build a squad of free agents and try and get promoted and do well that way. The players value will be used from the game that I start up from the beginning. If different users want the same player then there will be an auction through PM. You will also get to choose your manager and the backroom staff through a bidding process(by PMs). You will also be able to choose your team name and what sort of facilities you want to start off with. This again will cost money(not sure yet) and then we are good to go. Each squad will hopefully have 25 members by the end of the start up and the rest of the players will be created by me as youngsters who are quite good. These will cost nothing except it'll be done on daft basis through numbers. So if I get 20 people to sign up there will be 60 youth players created. The numbers would be 1-60 and it would drafted through alphabetical team name order and then once we get to the end of the first pick we start from the bottom and work our way back up until the draft is complete. If you don't want to, you don't have to draft players, you can just keep your squad of 22 and the players who don't get drafted will be free agents. This seems the fairest way to do it unless someone else has a fairer way? The positions of the created youth players will not be given either so it'll be pot luck on who you get. There will be table kept for points which will be given for winning trophies, saving money and anything else anyone can think of. There will also be deductions if you go into admin or anything that can be considered bad.
Once everything is inputted in to the database, you'll have to hope your decisions can help you get promoted. I'll update on the progress of the teams and whether any dramatic will happen.
What are your thoughts on this? I know things of a similar nature have been attempted before but from what I've seen none have been attempted for a few years.
I think this might be better as a challenge NF. Change it so that you pick a team and you have to build your own squad, make them start off with just a chairman and thats it, it seems like a decent idea as a sign up though. Seems a bit like GCB's T2B for BSN/BSS
I've been away from CSE for a while and it seems a lot quieter than it used to be. But I'm back having completed my World League database and I'm thinking of releasing a series of challenges based on it. Some will be quick, one season challenges, while others will be long-term and potentially very frustrating! Some will be godlike in difficulty, with maybe a few fun and easy ones thrown in for good measure.
Would anybody be interested in this sort of thing? Check out my thread in the Editor's Hideaway for more info on the World League.
Hey guys, long time lurker, first time poster here.
I've a new idea for a challenge. It seemed like a pretty obvious idea to me, but I've not seen anyone post it up either here or in the forum proper yet.
Basically, the idea is to take advantage of the new(ish) dynamic league reputation with the goal of increasing increase a certain league's reputation up to five stars in a country where football is not generally seen as being the number one sport. I wanted to be a bit more lax with the rules; basically, a manager is free to pick their own database size, number of leagues and manage multiple clubs.
Countries available for selection would include Australia, the USA and Ireland (perhaps Northern Ireland, Wales and South Africa could be available for selection as well?)
Does it seem like a good idea?
That's exactly what I am trying to do in my game (in NI), but by managing just one club. The biggest hurdle is that the other clubs in the league seem reluctant to really try and challenge you which means you get no help at all in the UEFA rankings as none of the other teams manage to win more than the odd game a season. Perhaps it would be possible by playing a huge number of seasons but I think managing multiple clubs would be a much easier way of doing it.
I ran a sign up a few years back charting the progress of a fictional team in my custom database for Lincolnshire and Humberside. I feel I have created the best database version of this nation yet this year so I thought it might be an idea to revisit the signup idea as I really enjoyed it, it was only ruined by a PC failure and lost files with one game to go in season 1.
My database offers an interesting and unique challenge as the small nation almost guarantees national callups for any decent player.
I will be playing it like the original sign up, with players being around above average in skill for the league they are in, the middle league of the nation called the "Young's Championship".
I will be able to update 2-3 times a week on weekday nights and weekends depending on what I have going on. I have thought about using a twitter account and a Youtube account to support the signup so I can be a little more flexible. I guess pretty much everyone has a mobile phone capable of internet these days
Anyway I just wanted to find out if those have or have not worked before and if anyone is still interested.
The database can be found here http://community.sigames.com/showthr...umberside-2012 its not working at the moment because the last patch causes databases like it to crash on the 6th of March. As soon as that has been fixed I will post up a signup if there is interest.
Right, this isnt an idea but I am looking for a thread
It was a challenge, you had to try and win the World Cup with a nation that starts very low in the World Rankings (I cant remember how low) - I think it was on FM10 or FM09.
I would quite like to find it.
. . . .I think it had its own dedicated website actually !
Might do it based solely on England and see how it turns out though, possibly once with just England loaded and once with the rest of Europe loaded as well to see what difference it makes.
Just out of interest, how many people would be interested if I started an "I can keep more clean sheets than you" sign up?
I don't really have the time to run all the leagues and cups on full detail to see if it throws up better results. I still have the edited database and if anyone wishes to give it a go they are more than welcome to use it. Here's the link for the Inverted Database
I think i'm going to give this inverted database thing a go. Just for the fun of it. If I see anything interesting then I'll make a thread about it.
don't remember that thread having 5 pages, thought it was only the one when initially searched for it
Looking towards my future sign-up now and trying to come up with some ideas... My current sign-up is Striker based, so I want to mix things up a little.
I was thinking something along the lines of...
20+ 15 Year Old players from a very low ranked nation have a chance to bring excitement to the nation. It will be a mix of positions, hopefully covering every position possible and the goal will be to develop and hopefully steer their country to World Cup success. I would also track their club successes aswell.
Anyway, I have only just thought of that off the top of my head and it's just one idea and whether it's a good one or not is something i'm looking to get feedback on?
If you can think of anything you would like me to do as a sign-up, fire away with your suggestions
All players are Sammarinese and have to start at a Sammarinese club (download the league pack) with their favourite team set as San Marino (Italian leagues) We are looking for a way to get San Marino to be the greatest footballing nation ever!
I suppose I could add this as an option to vote on in the sign-up thread?
A) Allow player movement to any club in the world.
B) Have non-movement and a rivalry between 2 clubs.
Have been thinking about a sign up which involves generating a world class player who is placed at a lower league club. The aim is to see how far one brilliant player can take a club. I was thinking Scotland would be the best league to run it in as there is no relegation and a really good player could probably get a 3rd division club quite far. Also a few cup competitions to make it interesting. The problem though is that using Scotland would only enable 10 people to sign up. Can't decide what kind of PA/CA to make the players or what kind of position the players should be. Most of the sign ups tend to involve strikers so thought a different position would be better. Not sure a different position would be as influencial to enable a clubs progress though. Any thoughts?
Not every team plays with an AM though. One possibility is to let the person signing up choose the players position (with the exception of strikers) as may get a variety then. Was thinking a CA of 150 and PA of 195. I think the abilities need to be set very high to try and drag a club up from the lowest division to the top. Still thinking of using Scotland at the moment, unless anyone knows another division without relegation where they think the sign up could work.
Can anyone remember my failed CSE United sign-up? :o
I'm going to restart it soon if people are interested. However, this time I won't manage the team and it'll be in less detail so it actually moves faster. Monthly updates.
I've just upgraded my PC, and while it's not top of the line it is a significant improvement over what I had before. I'm thinking I want to run a holiday game of some description to test it's performance and I wonder if anybody would be interested in reading the results?
I've not yet seen much done in terms of testing the DLR beyond people trying to raise the rep of the country they are playing in, so I'm thinking I might try running a game with all the European leagues loaded (possibly just highest level) and tracking the game world in quite a lot of detail over a large number of seasons.
There are a number of obvious things to track - league rankings, national rankings, coefficients, etc. - but any feedback on other things to track would also be extremely helpful
EDIT: Having gotten through a season in a reasonable enough amount of time in a test run I think I will run this anyway. Feedback will still be appreciated, though.
Last edited by Biscotti; 23-02-2012 at 14:10.
Would anybody be interested in another Chairman Game Thread?
18rabbit, I think we are on the same page, as that is exactly what I was thinking, but as far as what you can actually do as the chairman is pretty limited. I could possibly create a super league chairman game or something along those lines.
Lower league chairmen sounds quite cool 18 rabbit, if for example you took the BSP and wiped all club debts loans etc and gave a starting balance of a couple of million to each club for the new chairmen to spend on upgrades etc.
It would be difficult to make it work, but at least nobody would argue over hiring SAF as their manager in a lower league, would be interesting to see what approaches would yield the best results over time.
I think that would be fun. Overall chairmen games kind of confuse me since I live in the US and don't really know any league or players very well other than Italian Serie A and some of the players and teams that they've played against in the UEFA Champions League.
What I might enjoy, but would require more involvement (and might turn out to be a huge PITA), would be a chairman game without real players. You could keep the game file on a Google subversion repository (or something similar) with only read access to the file so the chairmen could load the game file up and look at players periodically.
I have been thinking of a super league containing teams like celtic, rangers, rubin, swansea and teams around that reputation, using s small country like san marino or some other european country to host the league. It would be considered to be a fair league I think.
On a different subject, I was thinking about starting a "let's play" game of FM2012.
The basic gist would be that we select one team (probably starting off in a lower league) and one player manages the selected team for either half a season or a full season and then saves all of their changes and commits the save game to a shared location (or emails it to the next person who will be managing) and then each person writes up their achievements, transfers and a turn over for the next manager. So we'd try and collectively see how we can do changing ownership and tactics every year/6 months.
Succession game fwiw, not a 'let's play'
I have a sign up thread at the moment where you give me your name and nationality and I turn you into a 16 year old wonderkid. The challenge is to score more goals than your opponents .
Thoughts on this sign up/ Database:
2 Nations, Qatar and UAE go up against each other. Bought out by Arab billionaire the leagues a are converted, One league allows as many foreign players and over 21s as they like, the other restricts you to just 3 foreign player and at least 3 U21 players in first team squad (Current rules in Asia). These leagues will compete to see who can get continental dominance first, see which nation improves the most and see if Asia ends up being the best continental trophy (Champions League).
Evening folks. Had a wee bit of interest in a 'Roy Hodgson challenge' on Twitter earlier on, based on this: https://twitter.com/#!/orthodox_stu/...78961842503680
Just a (currently) relevant twist on a journeyman career really, but thought I'd post it here to see if anyone wants to pick it up and run with it...
Thought I would suggest another one, named some like "Level Up"
Each season is regarded as a level, there are no checkpoints in this level the only one is the start of the season.
You have to manage a team in the top league of a nation.
-In your first season if you win the league you proceed to level two, if not try again.
-Level two, New rule, minimum of 4 Home Grown players in your first team
-Level X, Whole Sub bench and starting line up Home grown.
- Level X+1, No more transfers.
Level X+2, Sell your player with the highest value in the first transfer window.
Level X+3 Sell your player with the highest value in the first transfer window AND January.
If the team won the league the season before you joined, start on level 2 rules.
And so on. The winner is the player on the highest level. Thoughts?
Would anybody be interested in a Premier League sign up where you pick the team for each game?
Is there currently a challenge going with the English pyramid system up to level 14? or level 11?
I tried to play it from this database: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...in-progress%29
but found my computer is too slow for a 14 level game so I started playing up to 11 levels.
Looking to bring this back for the Euros!
GCB isn't active so I will assume he won't mind! Will set up now so we have the teams. Any interest?
Would anybody be interested in a Top to Bottom challenge? Where you try to take a top team down into the un-playable leagues?
Anybody any good with editing the database? Specifically, making a new league and putting existing teams into them.
I can help you GCB
Now I don't
I want to run a Challenge or Experiment that I can grind out seasons on but that doesn't take a lot of time to write up. I've been taking my new shiny laptop to work and it's idle a lot so I could run a lot of seasons on vacation but I don't have a lot of time for write ups (the "Save as text" feature looks like it could help a lot so I won't have to take/edit/upload screenshots). Now I just need a suggestion on what sort of challenge or experiment to run. Any ideas?
Players I am interested in: Wayne Rooney, more intelligent than you would think.
David Beckham, impossible to get him into a staff role without editing.
Iker Casillas, a goalkeeper manager?
Lionel Messi, pure skill or tactical genius?
Andy Selva. Could he take San Marino to glory?
Just a thought!
Lionel Messi, pure skill or tactical genius? he was my asman for Carshalton Ath
wasnt the best but i thought itwould make my fans happy


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20 Apr 2013 12:16 PM #1
Converting Animator Files into .Mov?
I have heard on at least one video tutorial covering Animator that a project could be converted into a video format. How does one do that? Specifically, I'd like to generate a .mov file to add audio over top?
Haven't been able to find out how...
29 Apr 2013 7:54 AM #2
There is no direct way to export to video from Animator. You could use a screen recorder to record a video of the animation playing in the browser?
29 Apr 2013 8:02 AM #3
Thanks, that's what I ended up doing in the end.

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WHEELING - After knocking out top-seeded Weir in the quarterfinals, Morgantown left Wheeling Island Stadium on Saturday with a little more history in the OVAC Cup Tournament.
The Mohigans defeated Steubenville Catholic Central, 4-1, in the semfinals, earning the first finals appearance in school history while also becoming the first No. 8 seed - boys or girls - to make it to the title game.
Morgantown takes on Wheeling Park, the four-time defending champion, at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Wheeling Island Stadium.
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Josh Strope
GETTING THEIR KICKS — Steubenville Catholic Central's John-Paul McNamara battled with Morgantown's Grant Jones during Saturday's OVAC?Cup semifinal, won by the Mohigans, 4-1.
"The team played very well," Morgantown coach Joe Melia said. "We came out a little flat and couldn't put the balls away. In the second half we turned it around.
"Seeds mean nothing. This is the first time we've been in the tournament. But there is no way we are an 8 seed and we wanted to show them. We expected to get to the finals."
Leo Herrmann scored on a breakaway in the 48th minute for Steubenville Catholic Central to knot the game at 1-1, and it looked like the Crusaders could be off and running.
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OVAC Cup Tournament
(at Wheeling Island Stadium)
Wheeling Park 3, University 0
W - Goals: Bonar, Klatt, Davis; Assists: Bonar, Czahoroski; Goalkeeper: Seidewitz (3 saves).
U - Goalkeeper: Thompson (4 saves).
Morgantown 4, Steubenville Catholic 1
M - Goals: Minehart 2, Lawer-Yohar, Atallah; Assists: Bolles; Goalkeeper: Berrebi (6 saves).
S - Goal: Herrman; Goalkeeper: Bolster (6 saves)
Morgantown 1, Linsly 0
M - Goal: Jordan; Goalkeeper: Yohn (1 save).
L - Goalkeepre: Brunner (13 saves).
Brooke 5, St. Clairsville 2
B - Goals: Sayre 3, Hinerman 2; Assists: Minger, Hudson, Hinerman; Goalkeeper: Cline (7 saves).
S - Goals: Ferreell, Barr; Goalkeeper: Sowers (8 saves).
Coach Steve Kopcha's group did a good job on the Mohigans, only allowing a Morgantown goal in the 35th minute on a penalty kick by David Minehart.
Instead, the momentum went the other way.
The Mohigans buckled down and limited the Crusaders to two shots the rest of the way. And those came after Morgantown had already put two more on the board.
Moses Lawer-Yohart took a through ball and lifted it over a hard-charging Crusaders goalie John Bolster in the 62nd minute.
Less than four minutes later, Chris Atallah put the Mohigans up two with a turnaround shot that beat a surprised Bolster.
"Both teams played a tremendous game and I thought we had a chance with them," Kopcha said. "Seeing them for the first time, they are a very nice team. They controlled the ball, have a little bit more speed than we did and a little bit more height. "Their possession they were able to maintain really caused problems for us. They applied a lot of pressure on us after we scored the goal."
Minehart completed the scoring with a goal in the 75th minute, following up his own shot.


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How do you cook quinoa? I mean what equipment do you use (electric cooker, pressure cooker, stove top)? Do you add spices or vegetables to it while cooking it?
Quinoa naturally contains a bitter compound on the outside of the seed. Usually you have to rinse the quinoa to remove the bitterness but most commercial quinoa seems to have already been rinsed. So, I no longer rinse my quinoa. If you have time, it's nice to heat a pan and add the quinoa and toast it a little (for a nutty flavor and fluffier texture), then add water and salt. I typically bring the water to a boil (2 cups water to 1 cup quinoa plus 1/4 tsp salt), cover and reduce the heat to a simmer for 10-20 minutes (or until the little tails release). Lately I've found that using a rice cooker is a no-fuss way to prepare quinoa. I usually just do quinoa, water and sea salt but you can add spices while cooking it if you want to enhance the flavor. I would add vegetables afterwards. Quinoa is so quick-cooking I wouldn't see the need for a pressure cooker.
I use it in 3 different ways:
I generally
and then use it in the same way I'd serve rice. I find it tastier than rice and like the texture. I don't usually add anything, but I'm sure you could.
Good question, Surya. It's interesting to know what kinds of questions others have about quinoa.
Our family cooks quinoa in a plain stainless steel pot. No fancy equipment needed.
We usually throw in some spices while it's cooking. The best for us are garlic, onion, basil, and oregano.
Then when it's done cooking we'll usually sprinkle some olive oil (extra-virgin, cold-pressed) and salt on it.
Finally we serve it with broccoli and peas and sometimes lentil beans.
We give some more details about cooking quinoa on our page if you're interested -- How to Cook Quinoa.
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Continuing from the my previous 2-state system problem, I am told that the observable corresponding to the linear operator $\hat{L}$ is measured and we get the +1 state. Then it asks for the probability that +1 is measured again if the system is measured again at $t$. I would have thought that this probability is 1 since measurement projects the system into the first measured outcome such that successive measurements are consistent. But clearly I am mistaken, since it also asks to show that the probability = 0 for t = $\pi\hbar\over \Delta E$.
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Actress Ashley Judd will not seek the Democratic nomination for Senate in Kentucky next year and challenge Republican Mitch McConnell, she announced Wednesday.
Using her Twitter account to end months of speculation, Judd wrote: "Regretfully, I am currently unable to consider a campaign for the Senate."
Judd's potential candidacy as a liberal Democrat against the conservative Senate minority leader had been taken seriously enough that she was the target of a superPAC ad poking fun at her connections to states other than Kentucky, although she traces her roots in the state back generations.
Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Kentucky secretary of state, is expected to be among the Democrats seeking the Senate seat. McConnell will be seeking election to a sixth term next year.
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Cannot believe Hurley's numbers finally came up. http://bit.ly/gpShex
Hey @DamonLindelof and @CarltonCuse - you saw the lottery numbers, get back to work.
9,078 people played Hurley's numbers in the MegaMillions tonight, each winning $150. #THATSSORAVEN
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I just had one of those "moments" with a homeless woman. Her humble gratefulness made me feel unworthyof what I have. i cried..still am
I just counted, and I have exactly 67 pairs of white Levis jeans, and 32 white Fruit of the Loom t-shirts. This is my life.
I love taking pics with fans. But why do people stop you to take pics but have no fuckin idea how to work their own camera? Drives me crazy.
I'd like to clarify something.People think since Ice is 50 they think I'm his age..We'll your way off.I'm 31..
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Friday, 4 January 2013
December on instagram.
December started with two new Christmas decorations and the purchase of an artificial tree which meant we were able to get into the spirit of the festive season far earlier than when we buy a real tree. My first spring and summer look book arrived courtesy of Wallis and had me dreaming of sunshine, kaftans and sparkly flip flops. I made a Curly Kale soup from my veg box contents so that my body took in some green veg goodness before the onslaught of my 2.55 birthday cake and the cutest Chanelesque cupcakes you ever did see. Birthday bubbles and beautiful flowers helped to ease the pain of getting yet another year older.
Cocktails at the Corinthia London for my birthday lunch. Christmas lights in Regent Street and window shopping at Cartier.The following week saw me coughing and sneezing and a Vitamin C injection helped to stop the germs get much worse as the festive season was fast approaching. I may have missed the smell of pine needles but lighting my White Company scented candle every night more than made up for it. The Pugs dressed up on Christmas Eve whilst I made bread sauce and tried Disaronno with crushed ice and cranberry juice for the first time. Our traditional 25th December breakfast always consists of Bucks Fizz and Bagels - yummy!
The excitement of opening presents with Courtenay and Claudia (looking rather serious wearing her JLS Christmas hat, New Topshop leather jacket and furry gilet over her pyjamas - what the heck? Chloe and her boyfriend look on as Charlie opens his biggest gift. Getting giggly at lunchtime over silly cracker jokes. Whilst the Turkey cooked, I painted my nails with my new nail polish - a Christmas gift. More bubbles to toast the day and as December 2012 came to end, my life got much more exciting as my Christmas Eve sales purchases began to arrive.
I hope you all had an amazing December and don't forget you can follow my instagram feed here.
*Apolgises if the layout of the paragraphs doesn't look right - it's a blogger thing, they look fine in my draft!
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sunshine, kaftans and sparkly flip flops, sunshine, kaftans and sparkly flip flops, sunshine, kaftans and sparkly flip flops - repeat as necessary to get me through the dark, early, early mornings.ReplyDelete
I am so going to try Disaronno with cranberry juice. I love it with coke - it tastes like Christmas cake in liquid form!
Loving your sales purchases, I've abstained this year (but it hasn't been easy and January is far from over yet!)
What a lovely December you had Sharron. And I love all your sales buys. Ooh and don't Poppy and Albert look so cute.ReplyDelete
Love this post. I am a big fan of kale so will look out for a recipe.ReplyDelete
Hi there!! Lovely pics of December and you've definitely been one of the best sales bloggers with your fabulous purchases, well done indeed xxxReplyDelete
Happy January! What flavour candle do you have? Love a scented candle. xReplyDelete
Lovely pictures. So glad you had a good Christmas ... very jealous of your sales purchases. Happy New Year, xReplyDelete
Sounds and looks like an amazing December (apart from the cold! I love the Chanel birthday goodies!ReplyDelete
Fab pix! love the joke about the frogs and sandals *boomtish*ReplyDelete
here's to a marvellous 2013!
I just love that chanel cake! yummy! My husband got me a mulberry cake a few years ago, hope I get another bag cake this year! xReplyDelete
OOh it looks like you had a fab December, gorgeous pictures. Here's to a fab New Year.ReplyDelete
Wow! you were busy Sharron. A great picture diary of December! Apart from the ocld which did cross the Atlantic by the way! xReplyDelete
Love all your photos ... hope you are having a great weekend:)ReplyDelete
~Anne xx
Looks like you had great fun. Your Chanel cakes look divine. Wishing you more of the same in 2013 xxReplyDelete
Hi there, it's notSupermum here, just wanted to drop by and tell you the name of my new blog. You can find me at www.dandelionclockblog.com - hope to see you there soon. Happy new year!ReplyDelete
Two Anya handbags - seriously jealous now! You had a helluva month - I can barely remember mine - it kind of came and went and the decs went down today and it's like Christmas - what Christmas?? But glad to be in to the new year - looking forward to more lovely entertaining posts from you Sharron.ReplyDelete
Looks fab xxReplyDelete
Happy new year xxx j'adore the pug decorationsReplyDelete
Looks like you had a lovely December! Another year older and just as fabulous. I rely on you on Instagram for my daily dosage of glitz and pugs ;) xReplyDelete
Happy New Year and Happy(belated )Birthday too. Just catching up after a week away. Glad to hear you too had plenty of bubbles over the festive period and those cupcakes are wonderful! Looks like you have been having a fun time!ReplyDelete


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I always wonder whether 'today' and 'tomorrow' should be capitalised. Can anybody help me?
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Today and Tomorrow are not capitalized because they are not really names, nor are they proper nouns.
They are capitalized only if they appear at the beginning of a sentence, or if you are making a title for some sort of event such as "The Today News". Otherwise, it is a plain old regular word.
I have written this today and may or may not get an upvote for it tomorrow
The words today and tomorrow are only ever capitalized in titles:
But in everyday speech, these words are left lower-cased:
Edit per Christian's comment:
English does not capitalize nouns unless they are so-called proper nouns, by which I do not mean proper in the British sense of being "in order" or "the way a thing should be done," but instead nouns that are used as actual names for people or places or ideas that are represented in titular form. The other variety of nouns are called common nouns, and they refer to everyday things that are not singled out for such special naming. Unlike German, in which every noun is capitalized, common nouns in English are not singled out for special treatment (unless, of course, they come at the beginning of a sentence, or are used as class identifiers in a poetic sense: occasionally you will see truth or beauty written as Truth or Beauty, signifying that these represent special philosophically representative uses of the terms).
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I've got a few full old backups of things like binary database dumps. Obviously, they don't differ much so doing full backups is not the smartest idea here. For now, I'm looking for a compression program capable of taking an advantage from the fact, that most of the files have a similar content.
If you first tar the files (using
So just tar the files, and then put them in a zip, 7-zip, bzip2, etc. From the tar file, you can try the different compression algorithm and see which one performs best.
I've had very good luck with 7-Zip. If you have the horsepower, it is capable of operating with a very large window. Make sure your original files are as uncompressed as possible so it can find similarities. (For Excel files in a heterogeneous environment, for example, this means unzipping their contents first, since xlsx files are lightly compressed when they're stored. I was once able to compress 600 MiB+ of almost-redundant Excel version files down to a few hundred KiB.)


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How can I control the computer's fan speed?
On Windows there is a wonderful program called SpeedFan.
Note before starting:
This functionality depends on both your hardware and software. If your hardware doesn't support fan speed controls, or doesn't show them to the OS, it is very likely that you could not use this solution. If it does, but the software (aka kernel) doesn't know how to control it, you are without luck.
In my case for CPU I used:
If you own a ThinkPad, there's a piece of software called
Here's an easy step-by-step guide:
(which is basically a translated version of this German guide: http://thinkwiki.de/Thinkfan)
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Step 1. Install the thinkfan software and the sensors:
Step 2. Make sure that the daemon controls the fan by editting the thinkpad.conf file:
by adding the following line:
Step 3. Make the daemon load automatically at start-up by editting the file:
making sure that the START key is set to yes, i.e. there should be a line that says:
Step 4. Detect your laptop's sensors:
and just choose the default answers whenever you're prompted by hitting Enter.
Step 5. Load the new modules. From ubuntu 13.10 this done by:
while for previous versions like 13.04 you instead will need to do:
Step 6. Figure out which sensors are in use:
(the ones that indicate 0 degrees are not in use, I don't know why those are "detected" too). Remember which ones are in use.
Step 7. Find out the full paths of these sensors:
The output should be a list of paths like /sys/devices/...
Step 8. Copy-paste the paths to the sensors into the configuration file /etc/thinkpad.conf. To do this, first open up the file:
There should already be a line like
(the #-symbol means that that line is commented out). Add a line starting with sensor (without the #-symbol) and copy-paste you first sensor. Repeat this if you have more than one sensor. For example, on my machine, the output in step 7 yields
The ones that are in use in my machine are the ones in the first and the last two lines, so I added the three lines:
Step 9. Finally we can set the fan speed levels in the configuration file. Open the /etc/thinkpad.conf file if it wasn't open already.
The fan levels I use on my ThinkPad x201 are:
The last line ensures full fan speed (127 = "disengaged" i.e. unregulated). You can fiddle with these levels to fit your needs/wishes, but PLEASE BE CAREFUL!
Step 10. Reboot. Everything should work now. In order to check whether thinkpad is runnning correctly, use
which starts thinkfan in verbose mode. You might want to stop the thinkfan daemon first:
If you want to start the thinkfan daemon again, type:
Just to be complete, my /etc/thinkfan.conf configuration file is:
Install and configure the lm-sensors and fancontrol packages:
Documentation for configuring them is available on their man pages.
This is a function that is supposed to be provided by a ACPI-compliant BIOS, but it seems that most motherboard vendors don't bother to follow the standard.
For several Dell computers you can install i8kutils package:
If you have a non-tested Dell (like my Dell XPS 14z), you might have to force loading of kernel module:
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Remember how much fun making friendship bracelets was as a kid? Your child and her friends will love it too!
You can make little kits with string, beads, fishing wire, clasps, or anything else you find at the craft store. Put it all in a decorative little box with instructions for the kids to make at home, or use it as a party activity and let kids take their creations home.
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Shoppers shouldn't be alarmed if they see fire trucks outside of Leavenworth stores this holiday weekend.
Members of the Leavenworth Fire Department will be collecting donations for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
The firefighters began collecting money for the MDA's annual Fill the Boot campaign Friday afternoon and will continue through Monday.
They will be accepting donations at Wal-Mart, 5000 10th Ave., Dillons, 720 Eisenhower Road, and Country Mart, 1920 Spruce St.
"We don't really have any set hours, but we're going to try to be out there as much as we can," said Jeff Porter, a member of the Leavenworth Fire Department who coordinates the local collection effort.
He said Leavenworth firefighters collected a little more than $4,000 last year.
This year, firefighters have a goal of raising at least $6,000.
"We have an ambitious goal," Porter said.
Porter said the amount of $6,000 was chosen because the national Fill the Boot campaign is now 60 years old.
"This year, we support the 60th anniversary of firefighter support of MDA," Porter said.
He estimated between 14 and 17 members of the Leavenworth Fire Department will be participating in the campaign this year.
Firefighters will stand near the entrances to the stores. They will be collecting donations in firefighter boots.
They also will be handing out stickers.
"The kids really like the stickers," Porter said.
Porter said the firefighters participating in the campaign will be on duty, which means they may have to respond to calls at times. But, they will return to the stores.
Last year, firefighters responded to a house fire during the Labor Day weekend. Porter said this kept firefighters away from local stores for much of one day.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Boosts C-Section Risk
Dec. 23, 2008 -- Vitamin D deficiency is common in pregnant women, and it may lead to an increased risk for cesarean delivery, early research suggests.
Vitamin D researcher Michael Holick, MD, PhD, and colleagues from the Boston Medical Center report that women in their study who were severely vitamin D deficient during childbirth were about four times more likely to deliver by cesarean section as women with higher vitamin D levels.
In a separate analysis, the research team found that a little more than one in three women (36%) were vitamin D deficient and slightly less than one in four (23%) were severely deficient when they gave birth.
"We are just beginning to recognize that a large percentage of pregnant women are vitamin D deficient and that being on a prenatal vitamin is totally inadequate to bring levels up to where they need to be," Holick tells WebMD.
Holick believes that along with a prenatal vitamin, which typically contains about 400 international units (IU) of vitamin D, pregnant women should take an additional 1,000 IU of the vitamin.
Not So Fast, Expert Says
But maternal-fetal medicine specialist Carl P. Weiner, MD, says more research is needed before such a recommendation would be justified. Weiner is chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"This is an interesting study, but very preliminary, and it should not be seen as the basis for a change in clinical practice," Weiner tells WebMD. "We really can't say if there is a downside or an upside to additional vitamin D."
Just 43 (17%) of the 253 women in the study had cesarean deliveries.
Holick, study co-author Anne Merewood, MPH, and colleagues accessed maternal and infant vitamin D levels, as measured by serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
Although there is no consensus on optimal levels of serum vitamin D, Holick says a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level of 15 nanograms (ng) per milliliter or below indicates severe vitamin D insufficiency.
A total of 28% of the women in the study had serum vitamin D levels of 15 ng per milliliter or below.
After controlling for maternal risk factors for cesarean delivery, including age, race, and insurance status, the researchers found that women with severe vitamin D deficiencies were four times more likely to have cesarean deliveries as women with higher serum vitamin D levels.
The research appears in the latest online issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.


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I'm going to GM Trail of Cthulhu and would like to know if there is any site that aggregates this kind of information. I've already found this site http://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/; any other suggestions?
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The 1930s section of the (rather old looking :)) The People History site (found via google) appears to have somewhat brief yet interesting, relevant info on the era.
Note (and check) the links to the individual years in the middle of the right column too.
There are quite a number of other (imo poorly designed, yet quite) informative-looking, minor sites to be found as well - again via google. :) An example. And another, a closely related one.
And, of course, Wikipedia also has a general 1930s section and a list of the individual years.
My go-to solution for this is to dig up scans or reproductions of old catalogs. I like the Sears catalogs quite a bit, as you get a nice cross-section of what people would have been buying at the time. There's several sites online, but here's one with the 1937 Christmas catalog. It's toy-focused, but there's some early electronics and kitchen appliances and such.
Personally I go read books from the era; Rex Stout's mysteries are set in the 1930s and quite amusing to read. Also Raymond Chandler was writing at about that time. They tend to cover things from that era in the same manner as they would be using it (i.e. a violent one). Noir movies are also good for this.
Examples of things I've learned from these books:
-Elevators were around, but not the push button type. They had a lever and if you kept it down the elevator would crash into the floor. Thus why they had elevator operators. (Flure-de-Lace by Res Stout)
-Drugs often came as powders that you mixed into water. (The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, 1944))
-Pornography existed, but was illegal enough to go to jail for possessing it. (The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler)


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5 Reasons You Should Be Scared of Google
#2. Google Will Protect Your Data (Until They Feel Threatened)
The Misconception:
Of course, we've yet to give you any real reason to not use their product. The reason people got fed up with Microsoft is that it sucked. Well, nobody's fed up with Google yet because Google has refused to suck. As long as they continue putting out a superior product, we'll keep using them. And as long as we keep trusting them, they have no reason to do anything shady with all that dirt they've got on us. Everyone wins.
The Reality:
That's all correct, so far. But it's easy to be the good guy when you're making so much money that the U.S. government feels the need to step in and essentially say, "No fair!" However, last spring with the launch of Buzz, Google showed us how they might react in the face of a little healthy competition, and it was a panicky pants shitting mess.
Like the rest of us, the folks at Google had been reading that sites like Facebook are starting to usurp Google's place as the "hub" for most people's online lives. Buzz was their attempt to drink Facebook's milkshake. Competition is the life-blood of capitalism, and capitalism is what gives us access to cocaine, the mighty KFC Double Down and advanced heart-valve replacement techniques. If Google had wanted to release their own standalone service or social networking website and try to do Facebook one better, that would have been fine.
Instead, Buzz automatically published the contact information for everyone you communicate with on your profile page. "Harriet Jacobs," a blogger with an abusive ex-husband and a history of death threats from Internet crazies, found her entire private life made public to a legion of potential stalkers. The decision to link a service designed for public broadcasting of information to people's private email accounts isn't just a minor brain fart. It's a sign of a major issue with their corporate philosophy. Google was so eager to enter the social media game that no one at Google ever wondered if maybe, just maybe, there were some things people didn't want to share with everyone they'd ever emailed.
Best case scenario, they panicked in the face of competition. Worst case scenario, they knew exactly what they were doing, and just didn't care because they didn't have to care. What are you going to do about it?
"We could do that, but who would photoshop your face onto to every gay porn screen cap on Image Search?"
#1. Google Stood Up to Chinese Censorship (Because They Are Terrifyingly Powerful and They Know It)
The Misconception:
When Google stood up to China, it was because they'd had enough of that oppressive regime and their censorship policies. Google was a comparatively small company standing up to a nation of billlions. It was a clear cut David and Goliath battle of Good versus Evil.
The Reality:
Google had cooperated with China's censorship policies for years. The thing that motivated the change in Google's policy had nothing to do with Chinese censorship. It was a ballsy move, but one they made to protect their greatest resource: The oceans of information they've been collecting for a decade, and the software they use to get it and make sense of it.
Google is not staffed by wizards.
This makes a lot more sense when you realize what Google realizes: That they are currently as powerful as most nations on the planet. According to Google Watcher Scott Cleland, "In monitoring Google as closely as I do, it has become increasingly clear that Google does not believe it has to obey the rules, standards, regulations and laws, that others routinely obey and respect. Google increasingly operates like a self-declared, virtual sovereign nation, largely unaccountable to the rules and mores of the rest of the world."
While Google doesn't use all that information for evil, it's a nice insurance policy to know that they could if they wanted to. Essentially, Google is in the "get the world by the balls" phase of their business plan, and they're just waiting to see if anyone's going to make them squeeze.
See, Google isn't just keeping data on you and your friends. Over 60 percent of U.S. state governments have "Gone Google" and now use one or more Google enterprise apps. Thousands of gigabytes of government data, all held in Google's servers. As security expert Sherri Davidoff puts it, "Google now controls our government's access to its own data."
Google versus China is just the undercard. The really interesting battle will happen if the Justice Department decides to follow through on its plans to make Google this decade's Microsoft. That's when we get the main event: Google vs. U.S. Government. It should be a pretty good fight as long as the Government can get used to being the underdog for once.
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The advantages of a Tallit Katan is that you get to wear it all the time. The advantage of a tallit gadol is that it is for sure the correct size to be obligated in the mitzva. So, since for many it is impractical to wear a big enough tallit to be for sure obligated all the time, they are at least encouraged to wear a smaller one which might be obligated at all times as this is preferable to not wearing any tzitzit all day. But at least once a day during davening they put on a bigger tallit to for sure fulfill the mitzva once every day. (Based on Mishna Berurah 16:1 quoting Shut Rama 110)


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KILLEEN (December 13, 2012)--A Killeen man was named Wednesday in an indictment charging aggravated sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl.
Timothy Colt Castleberry, 29, was held Thursday in the Bell County Jail in lieu of a $200,000 bond on the indicted charge.
Killeen police arrested Castleberry at his home on Stagecoach Drive on Nov. 12.
Court documents show Castleberry was arrested on a warrant charging sexual assault of a child after a second victim came forward and named him as an assailant.
He also faces an additional charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child involving a 12-year-old girl.
Killeen police initially arrested Castleberry on Oct. 2 on a warrant after a witness saw inappropriate pictures of a young girl on a cell phone.
The photographs were found on Sept. 13.
An arrest affidavit signed by Bell County Justice of the Peace Bill Cooke says police were able to identify the young girl and in an interview she said she was sexually assaulted several times beginning in the spring of 2012.
The original affidavit says at least one of the assaults was by force.
The second arrest affidavit says a 10-year-old girl told police told officers beginning when she was only 5-years-old a man forced her to have sex with him.
Justice of the Peace Bill Cooke set Castleberry's bond.


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WEST LIBERTY - Entrepreneur and West Liberty University graduate Gary West donated the Roadworthy Tavern - which he purchased at auction in April - to his alma mater, making the $1.65 million listed value of the property the largest donation the university has ever received.
West Liberty University President Robin Capehart, speaking at a press conference Wednesday at the Roadworthy to announce the donation, said West donated the building Dec. 21 and it has since been renamed the Gary E. West Events Center.
"On behalf of our faculty, staff, students, alumni, benefactors and friends, it is with a great sense of excitement and appreciation that we accept Gary's act of kindness and dedication to his alma mater," Capehart said.
The building offers a solution to scheduling conflicts, parking availability and issues with food service frequently encountered last year when the university hosted more than 100 receptions, dinners and similar events, Capehart said.
"Therefore, we have decided that the best and highest use of the property shall be to make the facility available for campus activities and, in light of the outstanding kitchen facilities that are present, the building shall be particularly conducive to those activities requiring the serving of food," he added.
University maintenance workers were inside the building Wednesday to assess its condition, which they said was outstanding. University administrators are planning a dedication ceremony, but they have not yet set a date for that event.
Capehart extinguished any speculation about the university returning the building to a restaurant full-time, saying school administrators "quickly realized that as an institution of higher education, we are not equipped to undertake such a venture."
The university will, however, make the building available for public use "at a modest cost, subject ... to its availability," Capehart added.
West, owner of West Rentals Inc. headquartered in Wheeling, will retain ownership of the property surrounding the Roadworthy, including the six rental cabins. West did not attend the press conference and could not be reached for comment Wednesday, but Capehart described the Wheeling native and 1958 West Liberty graduate as "a man already known for his loyalty and his generosity to this community."
The building's construction was financed with a portion of the $9 million that former owner Bernie Metz embezzled from the now defunct Center Valley Federal Credit Union in Wheeling while employed as the bank's chief financial officer and manager. She is currently serving a nine-year prison term for embezzlement and money laundering.
The U.S. Marshals Service seized the property from Metz following her arrest in 2009, and West purchased it at auction in April for $1.2 million.


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Let $H$ be the upper half-plane in $\mathbb{R}^2$. How does the following expression $$ds^2= \frac{dx^2+dy^2}{y^2}$$ specify a Riemannian metric on $H$?
I don't understand what the expression means. If the $y^2$ wasn't there, then $g=dx^2+dy^2=dx\otimes dx+dy\otimes dy$ is the standard metric. This does make sense to me: at every point it associates the standard inner product. But the above expression is not even symmetric in $x,y$ so it isn't meant to be read the same way, but I don't know how to make sense of it.


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by Jennifer A. Cline, writer/editor-One College Avanue. Photos by Jennifer A. Cline.
"I'm concentrating so hard, trying to figure this out," a student from Williamsport's Andrew G. Curtin Middle School explains to a curious photographer who has come to visit an after-school program initiated by the local school district.
In a Pennsylvania College of Technology classroom, she and 10 other Curtin students are testing a hypothesis. After looking at a Lego creation for several minutes, they work in teams of various sizes – from a "group" of one to a crew of five – to determine whether the task of rebuilding the model without looking at it again is done best alone or with others.
The leader for the session is Mark A. Ciavarella, assistant professor of business administration and management.
"In business, decisions have to be made every day," Ciavarella explained. "Something business leaders have to decide is whether to make decisions themselves or use a group of people to make decisions."
Down the hall, another group of Curtin students is working with Denise S. Leete, associate professor of computer science, using Legos to test their skill at the most basic principle of programming – writing effective instructions. In other rooms this day, other Curtin students are learning about codes and how they keep our electronic information secure, and about developing video games.
The students think hard about the task at hand: They laugh, they get a bit frustrated, and they express pride in the progress they make. And each one asked offers praise for the program.
On four Thursdays each quarter, the Curtin students travel by bus to the Penn College campus as part of the program, launched by the Williamsport Area School District through a 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant. The district's Lycoming Valley Middle School students visit the campus on Wednesdays. The program is voluntary.
During the remaining days of the week, the children spend the after-school hours at their middle school, where they are offered mini-courses, time and help for homework completion, and structured physical activities. The program also provides an after-school snack and supper.
Among the goals of the Middle School After-School program – and the purpose of partnering with Penn College in the endeavor – is to expose middle school students to postsecondary and career opportunities, especially those lesser-known but highly viable fields in science, technology, engineering and math.
"This exposure should help to shape these students' future educational plans," said Stephanie Pardoe, grant coordinator for the school district.
While the students visit the campus four times each quarter – thanks to the coordination efforts of the college's Outreach for K-12 Office – they also visit area industry sites to help demonstrate the connection between their sessions and real possibilities in the world of work. Those tours are also coordinated by the college's Outreach for K-12 staff.
"We want to provide the opportunity for our students to obtain the necessary skills to be competitive beyond high school."
"Careers now and in the future will include many different STEM and career and technical education components," Pardoe said. "It is beneficial for students to see what these look like to help better inform them on future career choices."
The new program is expected to continue two more years, thanks to the three-year grant, which is provided by the U.S. Department of Education through the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
The relationship between the college and the Williamsport Area School District is a long one – the college's roots were formed in the district's vocational-education program. The association between the institutions continues to evolve with the changing education and cultural landscape.
Other Penn College initiatives in which the district participates include annual Career Days for high school and middle school students, Plastics Experience, and Penn College NOW dual-enrollment offerings. Through Penn College NOW, 23 Penn College courses are offered at the high school during the school day, taught by Williamsport Area High School teachers.
Courses in accounting, computer-aided drafting, information technology, early childhood education, electronics, machining, plastics, welding and, most recently, mathematics comprise the offerings.
The new mathematics courses are part of another initiative by the school district to help ensure its students are prepared for life after high school. While the state requires only three years of math education to graduate, the district has decided to require four and has called on Penn College to help develop plans to assess – and meet – students' math needs before they head off to college.
"We want to provide the opportunity for our students to obtain the necessary skills to be competitive beyond high school," said Williamsport Area High School Head Principal Mike Reed. "Whether students are pursuing a postsecondary degree or going straight to work, the additional math responsibilities will assist with personal and professional development. Because it was not previously required, too many students were simply opting out of this challenge."
And it often shows when students across the state who take algebra in their ninth- or 10th-grade year and then choose to complete their requirements in nonalgebra-based courses, such as statistics or business math, arrive at their chosen colleges with rusty skills. Many are placed in developmental courses to boost their proficiency before they are permitted to take the higher-level math courses required for their major.
To start, Williamsport Area High School administered sample Penn College math placement tests to a large group of junior students in 2011-12 to establish their skill levels.
"We are trying to identify each student's current working knowledge and provide the opportunity for them to move beyond that point," said Edwin G. Owens, Penn College's assistant dean of integrated studies-liberal arts and sciences.
Based on the sample test results, a smaller group of students was selected to take the full mathematics placement test administered to new Penn College students. Those who met prerequisites were offered the opportunity to take the Penn College math course Technical Algebra and Trigonometry I during the fall semester of their senior year as part of Penn College NOW. Those who passed Technical Algebra and Trigonometry I in the fall semester were offered the college's Technical Algebra and Trigonometry II course in the spring.
"Students and parents have expressed gratitude for the opportunity, and our students are doing quite well in the course," Reed said.
Owens and Paul R. Watson II, Penn College's assistant dean of integrated studies-programs, visited the high school to meet individually with those students who did not meet the prerequisites to take the course, recommending ways for the students to remediate their skills and prepare for the next offering of the course at the high school in Spring 2013. Williamsport Area High School teachers, in consultation with Penn College's math department, are planning steps to get them on track.
"They have clearly identified areas that need specific focus," Watson said. "The students during that senior year will now have an opportunity to better prepare themselves for the transition to postsecondary education."
Through this program, students may receive up to six college math credits or receive the remediation they need to avoid taking developmental courses when they arrive at college, saving on the cost of education for both students and colleges.
It also can provide a confidence boost to those who might not be considering a college degree.
"It eliminates the fear – now they have a college course under their belt," Owens said.
Owens and Watson were impressed with the cooperation and the active role being played by math teachers both at the college and the high school.
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As a layman in martial arts, I've been curious about this question: In a real life situation, is it easy/difficult/impossible for a seasoned professional fighting expert (in whatever discipline of martial arts you name) to beat a much stronger man, without fighting training but superor both in size and strength to him? For the latter think of those husky men pulling trucks or hurling ironballs in world-strong-man competitions.
"Real Life Situations"
There are too many variables encoded in this term for it to have any meaning. Is the big man stealing your car? Running you over with a car? Picking a fight at the bar because his wife left him and he's sad and drunk? Throwing one ill-conceived haymaker? The problem with such questions is that the premise of "highly trained and conditioned fighter versus individual of enormous physical capabilities" is inherently chaotic even before one adds situational concerns such as who decides it's a fight first.
It sounds like what you're trying to ask is, "without odd sport-specific restrictions, how much better at fighting bigger, stronger opponents does learning how to fight make a person?" We can find suggestive parts of the answer in a few areas.
Areas of Evidence
In these combative arenas, smaller and weaker fighters frequently best stronger, bigger opponents. They frequently lose, too. Technique matters, but if technique is equal then physical attributes (size, strength, agility, power, reach, speed and so on) matter a lot. The standard advice for beating a physically superior opponent is to have superior tactics, technique, conditioning, and speed. In comparing combat sports to unscheduled street fights, some of those areas may be tougher to bring to bear.
It really comes down to whoever is better able to apply their strategy in the fight. If a champion can tire out their opponent, getting kneed in the face by the champ will not help their ability to fight back.
However no matter how skilled you are, in a fight you will get hit. Over a series of fights these add up. So at some point a champ might get knocked out relatively easily.
The fact fighters cut weight to get into lower weight classes implies it's worth having the size advantage.
In a self-defense scenario, between intelligence and physical skills, the latter gives you advantages over a untrained person, whereas the former gives you more chances of 'surviving' a less-smart person than you. If an untrained person is smarter than you, no matter how much you have trained, you will end up with a bottle on your head before you realize it, and thus all your physical training will be wasted.
I love MA, and I train it for many different reasons, but if I had to choose between being really fit and well trained, vs being really smart, if we are talking about self-defense, I would choose the latter. MA training will give you the confidence, and the speed, performance, etc. But in many cases it will not directly address matters such as your emotional state (before, during and after the fight) or train you to 'cheat', or to use other techniques in order to be 'smarter' than your aggressor.
In some types of aggression, you can often spot the Point of No Return, that is, you know that this guy is going for you and there is nothing you can do to convince him not to crush your skull. His body language will tell you that: his upper lip will be curled up, his chest will be forward, his breathing pattern will be more accelerated, fists clenched up. At this point, you need to acknowledge that you will 'die', unless you do something about it. So you hit first, you use a weapon, you distract him and run, you offer money to someone to help, whatever, as long as you get him by surprise. The goal on the streets is not to compare skill vs strength, but to survive by whatever means you have: usually intelligence will get you further.
To sum up, you don't need to necessarily train MA in order to really gain advantages against an aggressor on the streets: you just need to be smarter than him (and that also means, realizing that someone is starring at you and that you should leave the scene before things escalate further). If contemporary MA schools started to adopt this 'Urban Survival Combat' kind of thing and started getting people to realize the importance of outwitting an aggressor, then I would change my answer to say that: 'Yes, MA really train you for the streets'. Unfortunately most of MA disciplines have moved from a discipline that was to teach the individual to fight as part of an army to a system that train people for sports. Neither are suitable for a street self-defense where it is not very likely that you will be accompanied by a small army with you or that the aggressor will say: 'I will crush your skull using Karate rules only'.
If, however, you are a good MA student, smart and capable of not letting your testosterone mess up with your brain, you learn how to avoid this situations and should you ever get into them, you will know how to defend yourself before you attacker has even the chance to blink. So my answer is: 'Yes, MA will help you a lot, but what is covered in a MA school is only a tip of the iceberg on your self-defense study, and you will need to learn a lot about the psychology of different types of attacks/fights and tame your emotions'.
Some Reading on the subject:
Geoff Thomson's website - Book: 'Dead or Alive: The Choice is Yours'
Rory Miller's website - Book: 'The Gift of Fear'


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I have a Nikon D40. It has only 6.1 MP. I am planning to buy additional lens for it. Can changing the lens of the camera increase or decrease the megapixels of the camera?
The number of megapixels of a camera is determined by the resolution of the camera's sensor, which is part of the camera body. It cannot be altered by a lens.
As @ahockley said, the resolution (number of megapixels) is determined primarily by the sensor, so changing the lens doesn't change it.
Being fair, the resolution of the sensor is basically the theoretical maximum of which the system as a whole is capable. Although a better lens can't increase it, a really poor quality lens could reduce the effective resolution below that. In your case, however, that's fairly unlikely short of using a really poor quality lens. The reason for this is fairly simple: most lens designs can easily produce an image of higher resolution than the sensor you're using.
The times you could run into resolution limitations from the lens would be with a really low-end, off-brand lens -- if somebody's offering a 500mm lens for $50, chances are pretty good that it will be the limit on resolution. Likewise, if you hook the camera up to a low-end telescope or microscope, something in some other mount (e.g., C-mount) that was never designed for that size of sensor. That generally won't happen by accident though -- you'll generally have to find and such adapters to mount them on the camera at all.
A reasonably recent, undamaged lens from Nikon or any of the reasonably reputable 3rd party vendors like Sigma, Tamron, or Tokina shouldn't have much difficulty producing pictures at the full resolution of the sensor.
No, it does not. The resolution is a characteristic of the camera body and does not change with the lens.
However, there is one exception (which does not apply to you, since the Nikon D40 is a DX-format camera): if you mount an APS-C or DX format lens onto a full-frame or FX-format camera, the pixels outside the APS-C or DX area may not be usable due to vignetting, resulting to a loss of resolution due to cropping. On Nikon, it is possible to force FX format image capture with a DX-format lens, but this often results in severe vignetting that will force you to crop to a smaller image. On Sony, unless you are using a third-party lens, this is not an option and the 24-megapixel sensor on the A900 and A850 will be limited to the 11-megapixel APS-C crop area.