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I have been reading about differential and linear cryptanalysis. They were mainly introduced by Adi Shamir and Biham to show weakness of DES. However, many of articles state that they have been considered as a technique to evaluate all other block ciphers. My question is, are they beneficial for public key cryptography? or are they limited to private key schemes ?
They are generally relevant only to symmetric-key cryptography (e.g., block ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes). There's no deep reason why -- it's just that differential and linear cryptanalysis tend to be effective against the sort of structure that are commonly used in block ciphers, but not very effective against the sort of designs that are commonly used for public-key crypto.
Probably there are much better methods in every case to break or heavily decrease the bit strength of asymmetric procedures than differential or linear cryptanalysis. Those are useful when there is no alternative, but in asymmetric procedures there is alway some better method. Think also that symmetric encryption is smaller in structure (so differential and linear cryptanalysis is more feasible) and so faster than asymmetric encryption, as in symmetric encryption speed matters much more than in asymmetric, where the function performed is the important thing.


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If I have some fresh, raw corn on the cob, how do I roast the corn kernels so that they can be used as croutons or eaten as a salty-snack? I don't want to make popcorn, but something that looks like these
You fry them in a saucepan with some oil (I use either olive or sunflower).
In order they don't explode an become pop-corn, you should have kept them in water for several (6~48) hours before frying them.
If you want them softer (and bigger), put them in water at 70°C for about 20~30 minutes.
How do you know they are done? When they are golden in the saucepan where you are frying them with oil. Take them out of the pan and add some salt.

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Gradualy improving now, and great Immobile return.
Gradualy improving now, and great Immobile return.
4 pages! Insane!
Excellent effort to win back-to-back promotions and by the looks of things if you consolidate well enough this season you'll be pushing for promotion again in the next campaign.
Your having a solid first season in Serie B by the look of things
Great month of November. Looking safer now.
Atletico Arezzo, December 2015 Review
Atletico Arezzo 1 - 1 Cesena (Serie B)
Ciro Immobile netted the lone goal in this match.
Atletico Arezzo 1 - 0 Andria Bat (Serie B)
Carlo Di Micco fired home from the edge of the area to give us the win.
Atletico Arezzo 2 - 0 Modena (Serie B)
Andrés De Pintos Francés scored on his return to the side after being dropped for poor performace. Carlos Garcia headed home on 73 mins to seal our win.
Atletico Arezzo 0 - 1 Padova (Serie B)
This game was a total anti-climax. We lost two players to injury during the game and Ciro Immobile had an off-day. We conceded a long-range strike into the top corner on 80 minutes to put the tin hat on the defeat
The only real thought I have on transfers is possibly a loan ST to try and get our strikers firing again. We finished 2015 in 9th place and I'll be looking to sew this place up as soon as possible.
Good luck with the USA.
Are you using the same tactics with international teams as well?
Oh, FFS!!!
I usually get that about once a month in-game, mostly at the beginning or during matches, though a weekly autosave (often saving at other points) means I don't really lose anything.
I saw, that's far more problematic.
To be honest, the thought of starting again really excites me. There are things that I would do differently this time and, not that I've perfected the Catenaccio formation but, I really feel that getting the players to work with the 5-3-2 will be really hard. The rapid rise with Arezzo was enjoyable, but it felt quite artificial in some way, like I'd lucked out.
So it's back to square one, starting with Santarcangelo. I really hope you guys keep reading and commenting, simply as it means that there is room for more than just saves starting in South Africa
Bit of a shi*t*r! I'll keep reading. Will you be opening a new thread, or keeping it all in this one?
Your experiment was quite the blast to follow! Hopefully a new start will bring with it success as well
Thanks guys! Yes, I'll keep it in this thread, no point in clogging it all up!
Good start
I am just posting so it reminds me to keep reading this
Real shame to see you run into problems with you're original save, good luck with the new start, i'll be reading with interest
Good luck with the new save.
If a crash dump happens this time, make sure you go back to a "clean" save the dump hasn't happened on - that approach seems to have served me well. A bit more work in terms of keeping plenty of backups, but definitely worth not losing the whole save imo.
Thanks for the support, guys. It means a lot!
2011-12 Coppa Italia Lega Pro, Group H
San Marino
Same teams as last time.
Superga Air Disaster, 1949
An artists impression of the crash from the front page of La Domenica del Corriere.
The Superga air disaster took place on Wednesday, 4 May 1949, when a plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football squad, popularly known as Il Grande Torino, crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club officials, journalists accompanying the team, and the plane's crew. The team was returning from a farewell match for Xico Ferreira against Benfica in Lisbon.
The Avio Linee Italiane (Italian Airlines) Fiat G212CP carrying the team flew into a thunderstorm on the approach to Turin and encountered conditions of low cloud and poor visibility. They were forced to descend to be able to fly visually. While descending for Turin, the aircraft crashed against the base of the rear wall of the Basilica complex at the top of the hill of Superga. Italian authorities cited low cloud, poor radio aids and an error in navigation as factors contributing to the accident.
The emotional impact the crash made on Italian sports fans was profound, as it claimed the lives of the players of a legendary team which had won the last Serie A title before the league play was interrupted in 1944 by World War II and had then returned after the conflict to win four consecutive titles (19461949).
At the time of the crash, Torino A.C. was leading Serie A with four games left to play in the season. The club carried on by fielding its youth team (Primavera) and in a sign of respect their opponents in each of these matches (Genoa, Palermo, Sampdoria, and Fiorentina) also fielded their youth sides. Primavera won each of the matches and the scudetto. The disaster seriously weakened the country's national side which had included up to 10 Torino players. Torino itself would not claim another title until 1976.
Of the entire squad only three players remained: Sauro Tomà missed the trip to Portugal due to injury. As well, the Hungarian star László Kubala, who was to give a guest performance in Lisbon, had just been re-united with his wife and son; the boy was ill and Kubala stayed back to help care for him, missing the fatal trip. Another youth team player, Luigi Giuliano, who played several games and scored 4 goals earlier in the season for the main squad, did not obtain the passport in time and also survived.
The son of captain Valentino Mazzola, Sandro, became a player of international fame in his own right in the 1960s playing with Inter Milan. Both father and son wore the number 10.
On 26 May 1949 there was a charity game for the victim's families between the "Torino Simbolo" (symbolic Torino) made up of the remaining best of the Serie A against South American giants River Plate. "La Maquina" had such immortal players like Norberto Yacono, Alfredo di Stefano and Angel Labruna. The game ended in a 2-2 draw.
Good luck! Sorry to see the old save go. Will follow with interest.
Santarcangelo Calcio, August 2011 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 1 Sambonifacese (Coppa Italia Lega Pro, Group H)
A mistake from 16 year old rookie keeper Federico Andreani led to their winner as he strayed too far off his line before being caught out by a looping shot from 25 yards.
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 2 San Marino (Coppa Italia Lega Pro, Group H)
We went 0-1 down early on, however Kadir Caldi's header from a deep corner pulled us level. However, again, we lost to a shot from 25 yards, this time in the 85th minute.
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 1 Rimini (Coppa Italia Lega Pro, Group H)
Striker Ivan Graziani stabbed home after good work on the right by Daniele Ficci. However, a Franco Cozzi OG denied us three points and left us almost certainly out at the first round.
DM Kuami Agboh came in on a free from Stade Auxerre. He'll be invaluable in that DM role. Also coming in on a free was MC Andrea Bricca. He looked to be a great bargain and I'll be leaning heavily on him this season. Finally coming in on a free was DC Fabio Cozza. He'll be the lynchpin of that SW role, whilst the others get used to it. I also took a great number of loans on. ST Nicola Campus and DL Iacopo Galli came from Empoli and SW/DC Carlo Alberto Togazzi and GK Alessio Cragno on loan from Brescia.
Leaving were our entire youth team and record appearance holder GK Michele Nadi was shipped off to Uniao Madeira for £14k.
We weren't outclassed as such, but we weren't great either. Expected.
Santarcangelo Calcio, September 2011 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 0 Rimini (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
A good battling draw.
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 1 Renate (Coppa Italia Lega Pro, Group H)
We went out of the Coppa with nary a whimper, conceding a flick header from a deep cross late on in the first half.
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 1 Giacomense (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Sheer persistance gave Antonio Velazquez his first goal after joining the club, putting in his own rebound. But a shanked, looping shot from 20 yards went over the keeper's head and came down off the underside of the crossbar into the net to give them an undeserved point.
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 1 Pro Patria (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Undone again by a deep cross and a flapping keeper.
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 2 Casale (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
This just sums up our season so far...
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 3 Savona (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Welp. I was playing 'Send In The Clowns' by the second. Numerous defensive errors contributed to all three goals..
Santarcangelo Calcio, October 2011 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 2 - 1 Lecco (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
FINALLY. Antonio Velazquez netted on his return to the side and then Daniele Ferri took advantage of a generous non-call on a foul he commited and, on gaining possession, sprinted into the area and walloped the ball into the top corner. His first goal for us and, in the end, our first win too despite the late consolation goal.
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 2 Borgo a Buggiano (Coppa Italia Lega Pro, Group H)
Annnd normal service resumed .
Santarcangelo Calcio 6 - 1 Cuneo (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
This was the game where we shook off the malaise that had been following the team. Daniele Ferri hit a superb hat-trick, Ivan Graziani, Luca Locatelli and Nicola Di Pivo with the others.
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 1 Bellaria (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
A cracking, if lucky goal by Kuami Agboh put us ahead, but we were pegged back by a defensive collapse in a melee.
Santarcangelo Calcio 2 - 2 Renate (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Martín Astudillo made his debut in this match, a new late free agent signing. He promptly put us in the lead, however Renate tied it up. Young loan striker Nicola Campus made the points safe.
Santarcangelo Calcio 2 - 1 Sambonifacese (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
We started well, new goalie, new pads, Howver Cadl put the goal past him so he didn't look that good. Few fought back and we looked doomed. However, we rolled up our sleave and we equalised throigh Daniele Ferri and then went ahead through this monstrosity
We've been struggling with injuries this month. All my best performing players have been subject to injury, to the extent that I have 5 strikers and only one fit until Dec! I also had to do something drastc about my league form and brought in two big free transfers. DM/MC Martín Astudillo and GK Matteo Gritti. Both of these are on big contracts (for us) to get us to stay away from the relegation zone. However, this means I'm over my wage budget of £10k (increased from £7k with the original transfer funds of £30k) by £200 and my bank balance is sat at -£500k. Already.
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Another injury, this time to defensive lynchpin Kuami Agboh means that I have 4 players out currently and all aren't due back for at least a month
I literally do not have ANY strikers left...
Thats harsh. Agboh is a wuss though. Bit of strapping a la Lineker in Mexico 86 and he should play with fractured wrist
It was ashame to see you lose your save but nice to see you determined to carry on even if it meant starting again.Good luck at Santarcangelo Calcio
that is gutting you lost your save. Was loving reading it.
Hope you can repeat the success of the old save.
Good luck with your new team, hope you can replicate your previous success
I've had to sign this fellow to a one-year deal just to get me through the month.
Injury Watch
More injuries... ALL long-term ones.
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Santarcangelo Calcio, November 2011 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 0 Mantova (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Ivan Graziani's shot was bundled home a minute after HT to give us a priceless 3 points.
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 1 Alessandria (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Once we lost both ST's Nicola Campus and Ivan Graziani to injury during the match, we were toothless and couldn't muster up the firepower.
Santarcangelo Calcio 2 - 1 Treviso (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Daylight-f******-Robbery. We had one recognised striker so I had to get Lucas Cantoro in and he repaid us with the equalizing goal. Then, on 93 mins, sub Martín Astudillo hooked home a shot after a goalmouth meleé to give us the win. We had 2 shots on target the whole game and only 3 overall. They had 6/11. I didn't even have the good grace to wear a mask...
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 2 Valenzara (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Lucas Cantoro netted his second goal in two games with a great freekick, however we conceded a fierce 20 yard snapshot and then gave away a penalty, along with losing Nicola Zavelloni to injury
I didn't put it up before, but enjoy Kuami Agboh's free-kick in the 1-1 draw against Bellaria
Tough break on the crash, but I agree that beginning anew can often be a breath of fresh air. Looking forward to see how you move up this go around!
Santarcangelo Calcio, December 2011 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 0 Virtus Entella (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Nicola Campus finally got his act together after numerous sub-par performances and scored an absolute pearler. Daniele Ferri limped off midway through the first half.
Santarcangelo Calcio 2 - 1 San Marino (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Nicola Campus scored for the second time in two games after replacing the injured Daniele Ferri. Again. Francis Obeng headed the second that put us home and dry.
Santarcangelo Calcio 2 - 0 Poggibonsi (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Lucas Cantoro continued with his habit of scoring great goals with the opener and Daniele Ferri made it two late on..
This meant that we finished 2011 in 5th place in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A.
As a reward for following, have TWO goals of the month.
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Injury Watch
Santarcangelo Calcio, January 2012 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 0 Rimini (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Dull game, livened up by the final whistle.
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 2 Giacomense (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Two goals conceded from corners, with only Martín Astudillo's precise finish to show for it.
Santarcangelo Calcio 2 - 2 Pro Patria (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
We went 2-0 up early with a header by Francis Obeng and a nice finish from Antonio Velazquez. However, a bad decision on a corner and a terrible pass to the opposition gifted Pro Patria two back to tie the game
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 2 Casale (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
A miserable January started looking up when Claudio Cola headed home from a corner after only 3 minutes to put us on our way, but a horrific slo-mo own goal by Fabio Cozza tied it up and a terrible deflection allowed Casale to take the lead and the win.
A quiet January, simply for the fact that we got our 7 players back from injury and are now over-staffed! However, I picked up D/WBR Andrea Iozzia on a free and sold GK Riccardo Casali for £10k to Vigor Lamezia. Another worrying thing is that we're over £800k in the red. Ummm....
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Oh F***
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I put this up because I love the fact that we entered into a CVA! Great touch, SI!
Santarcangelo Calcio, February 2012 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 2 Savona (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Mistakes = Goals against.
Santarcangelo Calcio 2 - 0 Lecco (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
The 1-2 punch from our strikers sealed this game. Ivan Graziani and Lucas Cantoro scoring either side of HT to give us the win
Santarcangelo Calcio 3 - 0 Borgo a Buggiano (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Lucas Cantoro hit a double and Andrea Bricca netted a close range strike to give us a second win in a row and put us back into the playoff picture.
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 1 Cuneo (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Conceded from a corner yet again. This needs work.
Glad administration wasn't too painful! No points deduction I take it?
Having a tought time of it so far. Loads of injuries and then administration. There's got to be some good news on the horizon
Playoffs would be good.
Santarcangelo Calcio, March 2012 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 0 Bellaria (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Dull. Boring. Not helping.
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 0 Renate (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Our second 0-0 in a row, Martín Astudillo ended up being stretchered off and out for the rest of the season. With his contract up, I'm not sure he's worth keeping...
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 1 Sambonifacese (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Frustrating. We took the lead through Antonio Velazquez and a Samboni player was dismissed right on HT to make us comfortable. However, we again conceded from a corner on 53 minutes and then lost Angelo Gregorio to a straight red for a two-footed tackle on 63 minutes, thus ending the match as a contest.
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 2 Mantova (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Two down, a player up and woefully outplayed by HT, things needed changing. Sub Ivan Graziani scored right after HT, but we never looked like drawing.
This stuttering run sent us out of the playoffs, but only by 2 points with 7 games to go!
2 points can easily be made up with 7 games to go - motivate that tam to do better!
Santarcangelo Calcio, April 2012 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 4 Alessandria (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
This.... was actually worse than it looked. Kadir Caldi ended up with a 4.2 and an injury to save me shooting him on the pitch.
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 3 Treviso (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
It doesn't get any better here. We scored our one SOG, courtesy of Daniele Ferri, but we were already 0-3 down by that point.
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 1 Valenzana (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Angelo Gregorio shown a straight red for a two-footed tackle on 88 minutes, they score the winner on 92 minutes. Epic fail. This league is so tight that this bad run has seen me be only 6 points away from the relegation playout!!!
Santarcangelo Calcio 2 - 0 Virtus Entella (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Ivan Graziani and Daniele Ferri provided the 1-2 punch to snap our winless streak and put some pride back in the team
Santarcangelo Calcio 4 - 0 San Marino (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Where was this a few games ago? A great win over a promotion-chasing side! Ivan Graziani and Daniele Ferri both hitting doubles to remind me bitterly of what could have been.
Well, atleast you turned things around! How far off are you now?
Santarcangelo Calcio, May 2012 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 2 Poggibonsi (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
I just wanted this season to end. Martín Astudillo returned from injury to score after 2 mins, however two late goals meant we fizzled out with a whimper.
What a crap end to the season! We finished 12th in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A, 6 points out of both playoffs, and it really wasn't any better than we deserved after that horrible run. I'm looking forward to the offseason so I can try to rebuild. Main thing is to try to see if Martín Astudillo and Fabio Cozza will accept reduced contracts for the next season as they are out of contract soon. Also out of contract are a number of my coaches and my Ass Man. Again, I need to shop around to see if I can get better. HOWEVER, the financial state of the team may mean our budget is severely slashed. If so, I need to struggle on with what I have and can get for nothing, wages-wise. This means that I may need to look for a new Parent Club, other than Serie B's Modena.
Youth Intake
The youth intake was bad, as you would expect. However, it did turn up a 5-star prospect and a 2-star prospect which I promptly signed!
DC Filippo Rastelli (2-Star prospect)
ST Luca Onorato (5-star prospect)
A 5-star prospect? That sounds juicy
That low finish must have been a blow after the playoff challenge.
Wow. A decent increase!
On the downside,what a horrible end to the season....on the upside,a nice improvement in terms of sponsorship.
Doesn't look quite so bad now.
Santarcangelo Calcio, 2012-13 Pre-Season Review
We were given a brief to avoid relegation and offered the budgets of £8.5k wages and £0 for transfers. This represented a £2k DROP in wage budget on last season and meant once that all my issues with players and staff and all the loans had left, I had very little to work with. But, hey-ho! I cancelled my association with Modena and put feelers out for another parent club. I also asked for a new feeder club, but was rejected. Requests for upgrades were also denied.
Incoming in July, I brought in a new GK coach, Ass Man and Fitness Coach to replace the guys that left. The new arrivals aren't necessarily upgrades, but they wanted less money. All 5 players that were co-owned have come into the club permanently; These players being Paolo Beatrizzotti, Alex Lodovisi, Nicola Zavelloni, Nicola Del Pino and Kadir Caidi. Out of these, Lodivisi's contract was terminated and Zavelloni was listed for loan. Ex-Napoli youth GK Luigi Miceli was also drafted in on a free after he was released. Then came in the loans. ST Pedro Rosario from Lazio, DL's Mattia Rolli and Guglielmo Amendola from AS Roma, ST Andrea La Selva from Parma, DRC Matteo Gritti from Pergocrema, SW/DC Stéphane Sarni from Lugano and DM/MC Alessandro Corvesi from Prato.
Leaving the club were DM/MC Martín Astudillo, DL Luca Locatelli and ST Lucas Cantoro. I would have liked to keep them, but their wages demands priced them out of resigning. I also let go my Ass Man, Fitness Coach and GK Coach for the same reason. Having sunk to £2k below the wage budget excess with all the loan departures and such, I looked at my expiring contracts for this season. Star GK Matteo Gritti was on £1k and was worth £75k. I wouldn't be able to renew without a large increase so I shipped him off to AS Bari for £100k. Other players leaving for the same reason were D/WBR's Filippo Baldinini and Alessandro Fabbri, £24k to Cosenza and £18k to Teramo respectively. Teramo also bought DRC Claudio Cola for £20k. Finally, ST Antonio Velazquez was sold to AlzanoCene for £10k.
2012-13 Coppa Italia Lega Pro, Group E
San Marino
Expecting better than last year, but only by a place.
Good luck with the new season!
Good luck with season 2. I never really enjoy 1st seasons at clubs as they always seem to be a rebuilding exercise - season 2 is where it is at especially when things go wrong and they are all your players
Looking forward to reading the outcome
Thanks guys!
Santarcangelo Calcio, August 2012 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 2 Carraese (Coppa Italia Lega Pro, Group E)
We looked like a team of strangers. Disappointing. Mistakes contributed to both Carraese goals
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 1 San Marino (Coppa Italia Lega Pro, Group E)
Another mistake let in the San Marino opener. I'm starting to worry about Rocchi's positioning as he keeps letting in goals at the near post. Kuami Agboh's swirling free-kick brought us level late on.
Mexican/Italian GK José Rocchi joined on a free, as did DM/MLC Pietro Panico.
God knows what this means...
Same pattern as last time...
Well, that's one worry off my mind...
New chairman, new ideas it seems...
Takeovers can be a blessing in disguise at times, although not always
Glad you didn't have to sell all your best players when you entered administration.
Whenever I see the consortium plans take-over message, I always google their name to see who they are/someone with the same name, and your guy currently owns Valenzana Calcio. Have you ever played against them I wonder?
Santarcangelo Calcio, September 2012 Review
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 3 Prato (Coppa Italia Lega Pro, Group E)
Not a bad performance, but beaten by a superior team who took their chances.
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 5 Carpi (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
My worst defeat as Santarcangelo manager. We lost it in the second half after pulling it back to 2-1 on 45 minutes with Alessandro Corvesi's first goal for the club
Santarcangelo Calcio 2 - 4 Viareggio (Coppa Italia Lega Pro, Group E)
We took the lead twice though Pedro Rosario's double before being pegged back each time. Then two goals in the last 5 mins killed us off.
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 3 Cuneo (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Same old story with this team. Fought well for 70 mins, lost to three late goals.
Santarcangelo Calcio 0 - 0 Valenzana (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
BOOM! No win, no goals, but it still felt like a victory.
Santarcangelo Calcio 1 - 1 Cosenza (Lega Pro Seconda Divisione A)
Luca Onorato hit his first goal of the season to put us 1-0 up. However, José Rocchi let in yet ANOTHER goal at the near post, this time a weak 20 yard effort,


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Horror games like Silent Hill and Amnesia: The Dark Descent certainly try to get inside your head, but few games do so as literally as the experimental thriller Nevermind. This title uses a biofeedback system to examine a player's heart rate (and thus, their mental state) and adjust its difficulty accordingly.
But unlike most horror games, Nevermind isn't just trying to scare its players. By tailoring itself to match a player's level of panic, the game aims to teach its audience to better cope with stress and the difficulties we face in everyday life.
Nevermind began its life as a student project at the University of Southern California, and its team hoped to explore what it really means to face and deal with virtual horror. We recently spoke with Nevermind's team lead, Erin Reynolds to learn more about how this project plays with the boundaries of an established genre.
You'll find our full interview with Reynolds below.
First off, what is Nevermind, and how did this project get started?
Nevermind is a biofeedback-enhanced psychological-horror adventure game (try to say that three times fast). It started when I had to determine what path I wanted to take for my MFA thesis at the University of Southern California. Thesis projects are an incredible once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take the huge risk of creating your "dream project" with the resources of a university at your disposal and few of the pressures that come with more commercially oriented game development. My own dream project was to find a way to combine two distinct areas that I have been equally curious and passionate about for several years now: creating games that leave the player with a lasting positive impact outside of the game space...and surreal horror.
Furthermore, I had previously dabbled in the use of biofeedback technology in games earlier in my graduate school career and was eager to invest in exploring that potential further. So, spawned by these seemingly disparate goals,and with the inspiration and generous support of advisors, friends and colleagues alike, the seeds of Nevermind were planted.
Other than Nevermind, what kind of experience does the team have with game development?
One of our team's greatest strengths was the fact that everyone came to the project with a very different background. Some team members were undergraduate CS students who had previously developed other games in classes, independently, and/or at internships. Some members were graduate students who primarily had backgrounds in film production, music composition, or electrical engineering, for whom Nevermind was their very first game. I worked in the industry as an artist and game designer for several years prior to returning to school, so I already had a few shipped titles under my belt. We really had a little bit of everything. As a result, we all were able to learn from each other, either by sharing insight from having been "in the trenches" or providing new perspectives on how to approach design and development challenges.
One of the game's most distinctive featured is its use of biofeedback. Can you take a moment to discuss how this works?
The sensor we use is a simple Garmin cardio chest strap -- similar to one that you might see people wear while jogging or at the gym. The sensor sends heart rate information to the game via an ANT+ Bluetooth USB stick. From there, the game takes that data and determines the player's heart rate variability (HRV) to inform in-game events. Heart rate is simply the speed at which someone's heart beats, but HRV is the change in speed over a certain period of time. Contrary to what one might expect, an inconsistent heart rate is actually more ideal than a consistent one. This is because your body is constantly switching back and forth between its amped up state, the sympathetic system, and its mellowed out state, the parasympathetic system.
When your body is alternating between both systems, you're in a naturally alert but calm state. This is a good thing. In general, when the sympathetic state is active, your heart rate is faster. When the parasympathetic state is active, your heart rate is slower. However, when you start to become stressed or scared, the body will solely engage your sympathetic system -- commonly known as the fight or flight system -- causing your heart rate to stay consistently elevated for as long as you are stressed or scared. This is how, by looking at the variations (or lack thereof) in one's heartbeat, Nevermind can determine how scared or stressed the player is.
Granted, if the player were to engage only his parasympathetic system, his heart rate would become more consistent as well --which would register as a "false positive" for fear or stress in the game. However, the player would have to be in a near-meditative state for this to occur -- which is not something we anticipate happening often during Nevermind. If we found that it did, then we would probablyneed to reexamine our entire game design.
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Source: Windows Blog
quote: but those still on Windows 7 and below will need to pay for the unpleasantness of using the new Start Screen.
quote: You cannot just discount a feature/improvement (whatever you want to call it) because it doesn't apply directly to you.
quote: Either way, regardless of whether or not YOU use a battery, improved battery life is a major selling point for the average user.
quote: Well it DOES apply to me. And I'm not going to sacrifice the niceties of Windows 7 and deal with the crap UI of 8 so I can get an improvement of 4% battery life on my laptop...
quote: Major selling point? Really? 4% is a major selling point? I think not...
quote: We're not talking about Windows 7, we're talking about the features and improvements that are provided compared to Windows 8.
quote: First, please provide a reference to where you got 4%.
quote: Secondly yes, any improvement in battery life is always a major selling point of an OS. 4% or 40%, it's an improvements, and that is a selling point.
quote: The original post we have been replying to directly implied the difference of battery life between Windows 7 and 8/8.1.
quote: Again, you need to learn proper contextual comprehension. The statement I made was that the trade-off of 4% better battery life is NOT worth giving up the well loved attributes of 7 that one looses when moving from 7 to 8/8.1.
quote: Actually no, it wasn't, because it was MY post.
quote: If you weren't happy with Windows 8 you aren't going to be happy with Windows 8.1.
quote: Learn to read bro, it'll help you make actual arguments.


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I've had reasonable success with sticking my NN5 on a monopod and pivoting around at waist height to get up to around 2.5m.
However this has only worked in decent light and there's no chance of doing HDR stitches.
I'd probably only want to go up to 5m in total but I'd like to try some long exposures (30 secs +) so I'm looking at possibly putting the NN5 on a monopod, then mounted on a rotator on a tripod.
I'm having some trouble finding suitable couplings for sensibly priced kit (Gitzo's pods come with 3/8 female threads for the spikes but they're not cheap and the new NN Pole is too expensive as I only do these for fun.)
Would someone be kind enough to share their experiences and suggestions on doing this on a limited time and money budget?


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Rush Limbaugh's 'Slut' Attack Costs Him Advertisers
Including two mattress-makers. But is he losing any sleep?
Call him what you will — shock jock, blowhard, gross sexist monster — but Rush Limbaugh is sticking by his decision to call Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" for her congressional testimony supporting contraception coverage. This much was clear on Thursday when, instead of apologizing for his remarks, Limbaugh channeled Santorum sugar daddy Foster Friess and promised to "buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want." Now advertisers are pulling out of his radio show, including, somewhat ironically, mattress manufacturers Sleep Train and Sleep Number. (Quicken Loans, a mortgage refinancing company, also suspended its ads after reviewing "feedback" from their clients and staff.)
And it's likely that more of Limbaugh's sponsors will make for the exits, now that a full-scale boycott effort is under way on Twitter (spearheaded by @StopRush, an online activist who led a boycott of Glenn Beck's Fox News show in 2009) and with the Daily Kos circulating a petition urging advertisers to join the protest.
Limbaugh may also soon face a lawsuit. Fluke herself has not ruled out the possibility and, even if she doesn't take legal action, it seems the Democrats will: New York's own Representative Carolyn Maloney yesterday told an audience in the city that "we will be filing a slander suit against Rush Limbaugh."
While the left has been loudly pillorying Limbaugh's boorishness and misogyny, the right has only quietly denounced him. Speaker John Boehner refused to respond directly and instead used a spokesman to say that he "obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation," a not-so-subtle jab at Democrats, including Maloney and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, both of whom cited Limbaugh's vitriol in recent fund-raising appeals. Speaking to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Rick Santorum did concede that Limbaugh was "being absurd" before semi-justifying the whole thing by saying that "an entertainer can be absurd." And, as for Mitt Romney, all he could muster was a tepid, "It's not the language I would have used."
So much for all those female voters the GOP needs to woo in November.
Update: It looks like Limbaugh has decided he'd like to see this particular National Conversation end. His website has posted a short statement in which he admits to having "[chosen] the wrong words in my analogy of the situation" and issues a direct apology to Fluke "for the insulting word choices." Of course, he hasn't changed his position on the contraception issue: "I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability?" In this case, it seems they got a call from their advertisers.


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As a Gabbai Sheni I have noticed that often the Gabbai has a difficult time getting someone to daven from the Amud. Some Shuls have paid Chazonim, yet others can not afford that. What can a Gabbai do in order to get people to be willing to Daven from the Amud?
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I was talking to a friend of mine today about this question and he told me that recently he was in a Shul and no one wanted to Daven Musaf for the Amud. The Gabai has already Davened Shacharis and read the Kriyas HaTorah. So the Gabai made a loud announcement "Good Shabbos - Thanks for all of you joining with our Minyan. I am leaving now and will come back once someone goes to Daven Musaf" and he went out of the Shul. Within a minute someone went up to Daven.
I would arrange for a chazan ahead of time, not right before davening. You probably know who the good chazanim are, so simply ask them a few days in advance and make a schedule (for yourself).


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"Battle of Pocotaligo" with Bluffton Historical Preservation Society
Location:Beaufort District Collection
Date & Time:Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 11:00am – 12:00pm
Local historian Chris Clayton will share his research about the unsuccessful Union attempt of October 22, 1862 to wrest control of the Savannah-Charleston Railroad line from the Confederates. The program will be held in the Colcock-Teel House, 46 Colcock Street in Bluffton. $3.00 suggested donation. Information: 757-6293; heywardhouse.org