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The Burns Paiute Reservation is located north of Burns, Oregon in Harney County. The current tribal members are primarily the descendants of the "Wadatika" band of Paiute Indians that roamed in central and southern Oregon.
History and Cultural Background of the Burns Paiute Tribe
Nine thousand years ago the northern Great Basin, which is now desert, was probably a series of very large lakes. The ancestors of the Burns Paiute people lived in caves near their shores. Horses, camels, mammoths, bison, elk and deer roamed the hills. These people used the fibers of the tule plant, willow, Indian hemp, and sagebrush bark to make woven sandals, coiled and twined baskets, and rope. They also made duck decoys, fish nets, and traps for small game with these fibrous plants. A beautiful soft blanket woven from the furs of rabbits and child's sandals made from sagebrush fibers were found preserved for close to 10,000 years in a cool, dry cave. Archeologists also found clothing made from deer, animal and bird hides. Their diet included a wide variety of items, such as fish (including a great deal of salmon), birds, deer, small animals, plants and seeds.
During the next one to 2,000 years, the climate slowly became drier and warmer. The lakes began drying up and food sources were less readily available. By 7,500 years ago, large mammals such as horses, camels and mammoth were extinct. People began seasonal migrations to take advantage of plants and animals in certain areas. Small family groups would travel separately collecting seeds, berries, roots, hunting small animals, deer, mountain sheep, elk and fish.
These smaller groups came together to harvest, socialize and intermarry with other Paiutes, as well as other Indian tribes. Spring offered roots to be gathered on the sunny hillsides and meadows, and fishing for salmon during the salmon runs. During the summer, berries and fruit were collected as food and stored for winter use. By late summer and early fall, seeds were the main resource to be gathered. Families also came together during this time of the year for communal antelope and rabbit drives. Late fall was the time to collect plant material to make items such as sandals, baskets, and clothing during the long winter months. By November, the families had gathered the cached goods they had put away during the months of harvesting. Materials were then gathered from the area (sagebrush in the desert or tules near the lakes) and they built houses near springs in which to live out the winter. The Paiutes lived in this manner for thousands of years.
The Paiute people believe that the Paiutes have lived in this area since before the Cascade Mountains were formed as they have learned from their stories and legends. Recent researchers, on the other hand, believe that about 1,000 years ago an influx of Paiute-speaking people came from the south and migrated throughout the Great Basin. They brought with them not only their language but also certain types of atlatl and spear points, and brownware pottery. Pottery was not found in the Great Basin before this time. However, the people of the Burns Paiute Tribe were basket makers and did not make pottery. According to the researchers, the language spoken here before the arrival of the Paiute is unknown. This, however, contradicts the Paiute stories and legends that are handed down from generation to generation which tell of the Paiute people living in the Great Basin for thousands and thousands of years.
The Burns Paiute Tribe descended from the Wadatika band, named after the wada seeds they collected near the shores of Malheur Lake to use as food. Bands were usually named after an important food source in their area. The Wadatika's territory included approximately 52,500 square miles between the Cascade Mountain Range in central Oregon and the Payette Valley north of Boise, Idaho, and from southern parts of the Blue Mountains near the headwaters of the Powder River north of John Day, to the desert south of Steens Mountain.


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I understand that it means that the bullets have a spread, so not all of them will hit their intended target. I've seen tables which list a value for the "spread", but I don't know what exactly that value means in mathematical terms.
Is there a way to determine how many bullets will hit? How does that depend on the distance from the Gatling tower?
Finally, if a bullet misses its target, will it still potentially hit other targets? Is it simply a "hit or no hit" or is it more of, "the bullet will follow this trajectory, now let's see if it will hit anything"?
I've been modeling damage from various towers in different maze configurations, so these kinds of specifics are fairly important for that.

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Someone just referenced my account in his question. I believe this is might not be a feature even supported by StackOverflow. But it would be cool to know who reference you in his questions.
[insert name] proposed something cool in a different question while [insert name2] proposed something different. Can anyone tell me whatever about these 2 solutions?
So I had in mind that it could take that form, when someone creates a link to your profile in a question or in an answer. You get notified about it since you might not be watching the current question. In that case, the referenced person may or may not respond but was at least notified that someone used him as an "example"...
And it could also take the form of badges. If you are referenced 50 times or something like that.
Since some people are actually getting scared about spamming. Notifications don't have to be immediate. For example, the example below shows some kind of abuse. Abuse as far as I know isn't tolerated on SO. In other words, the question would probably get edited or closed before it even try to send a notification to the linked users.


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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Texas A&M Judo wins the State Collegiate Judo title over Texas Tech and Texas State. Texas A&M Judo is undefeated in the 21st Century, winning the state title every year since 2000.
As a team, Texas A&M Judo has been dominate in the state. In the 90kg (198lb) division Texas A&M Judo swept the podium with a 1-2-3 finish. Graduate student Cory Klemachevich won all his matches by Ippon (Instant win) beating out teammates Ryan Wenzel (2nd) and Travis Brice (3rd)
In the 100kg (220lb) division Texas A&M Judo took the top two spots with Nathan Westbrook taking home the gold, Carlos Perez taking the silver and Luke Morgan just missing the medals with a 4th place finish.
Another gold medal for Texas A&M judo came from the 66kg (145lb) division. Graduate Student Arash Pourhabib overcame tough competition from Texas State and Texas Tech to take the gold medal. Also in the division, Esteban Valencia was one win short of fighting for a medal.
In the 73kg (161lb) division, new transfer student Sergio Cartagena was the lone A&M athlete and finished with a bronze medal.
The Texas A&M women were full of silver. Newcomers to the team Renee Meraz - 52kg (114lb), Joly Velaquez - 63kg (138lb), and Gabby Wolf-Gonzalez – 78kg (172lb) all fought very well to each earn a silver medal.
Also competing but missing a medal were Jeremy Seidel – 66kg (145lb), Jeremy McCaslin – 81kg (178lb), Frank Cortez – 81kg (178lb), and Christopher Hurtado.
The Aggies will continue their Collegiate competition with the National Collegiate Judo Championships at Iowa State University in March.
Final Team Standing
1. Texas A&M University 28 points
2. Texas Tech University 12 points
3. Texas State University 11 points
4. Blinn College 5 points
4. Hill College 5 points
5. Collin College 3 points
6. University of Texas – Austin 2 points
6. Texas Wesleyan University 2 points
7. Angelo State University 0 points
7. University of Texas – Permian Basin 0 points
7. Stephen F Austin University 0 points
The Aggie Judo team was coached by Bob Perez and Dan Gomez.


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Penn's Radiation Oncology Program offers state-of-the-art evaluation, treatment and follow-up care for patients requiring radiation therapy as part of their cancer treatment.
Penn's Department of Radiation Oncology is a national leader in the development of advanced treatment approaches. We were one of the first in the nation, for example, to use a new technique that targets radiation precisely to a tumor site while sparing normal tissue.
Our radiation oncologists are experts in cancer treatment and research, and have contributed to many important advances in the field. This means that when treated by Penn physicians, you will benefit from their expertise in treating your type of cancer. Our patient care service is backed by a major research and teaching program. Our department is conducting basic research to better understand tumor response to radiation, thus enabling us to develop new treatment approaches. We also conduct a wide range of clinical trials involving the innovative use of radiation therapy in combination with other therapies in order to find better ways to treat patients with different types of cancer. This means that our patients have access to the latest research and advances, often before the research findings are published in medical journals. And, because we understand the emotional implications of cancer, we also provide support services to help patients and their families throughout their cancer experience.
The Ruth and Raymond Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine is state-of-the art outpatient facility created to provide an ideal environment for patient-focused care and collaboration among health professionals. Adjacent to the Hospital of the University Pennsylvania, the Perelman Center provides access to several Penn Medicine clinical services and programs including Penn's Department of Radiation Oncology and the Abramson Cancer Center. For more information, visit PennMedicine.org/perelman.
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania is one of a select group of cancer centers in the country awarded the prestigious designation of Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute. This status reflects our outstanding research, clinical services, education and information services and community outreach.
The Cancer Center is comprised of over 400 full-time faculty, all of whom are dedicated to increasing knowledge concerning preventing and curing cancer. Penn's Cancer Center offers multidisciplinary evaluation, so patients can receive diagnosis and treatment options quickly and easily, as well as comprehensive treatment services for all types of cancer. As part of Penn Medicine, we are able to build upon the resources of one of the nation's foremost medical centers and can address all of our patients' medical needs. We are committed to treating each patient as our only patient, while pursuing our understanding of, and ability to fight cancer. The Cancer Center's NCI-designated pediatric oncology research program, whose aim is to improve the chances for cure in children with cancer while minimizing adverse effects, is one of the foremost program's in the country.
About the Cancer Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Housed within one of the nation's leading children's hospitals, The Cancer Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia treats more children with cancer than any other general pediatric hospital in the U.S.
We provide patients and families access to the most innovative, successful treatments for all types of childhood cancer and newest, most advanced research. We have one of the largest pediatric cancer research programs in the United States, where scientific advances are translated quickly into clinical therapies.
Some of the world's most distinguished pediatric oncologists lead the Center, with specific expertise in every area of childhood cancer. Our programs include:
We care for our patients in a compassionate, family-centered environment, focused on the well-being of the entire child and offering extensive support for the family.
External radiation (or external beam radiation) comes from a machine outside the body. The machine directs high-energy rays at the cancer and some normal surrounding tissue. It is the most often used radiation treatment. The machine used to deliver the high-energy rays is called a linear accelerator.
Three-dimensional (3-D) conformal radiation treatment is a type of external beam radiation. It uses computers to allow doctors to more precisely target a tumor with radiation beams (using width, height, and depth).
Intensity-modulated radiation treatment (IMRT) is a type of 3-D conformal radiation treatment that uses radiation beams (usually x-rays) of various intensities to give different doses of radiation, at the same time, to small areas of tissue. This allows the delivery of higher doses of radiation to the tumor and lower doses to nearby healthy tissue.
Internal radiation treatment, or brachytherapy, is given by placing an implant into or near the tumor. The implant is a small container that holds the radioactive source or material. Internal radiation treatment allows your doctor to give a higher total dose of radiation to a smaller area and in a shorter time than with external radiation treatment.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) combines a drug called a photosensitizer or photosensitizing agent with a specific type of light to kill cancer cells. Photosensitizers are drugs that when exposed to a specific wavelength of light, produce a form of oxygen that kills nearby cells. PDT can also work by shrinking or destroy tumors by damaging blood vessels in the tumor. This prevents the cancer from receiving nutrients. Also, PDT may activate the immune system to attack the tumor cells.
Stereotactic radiosurgery uses a large dose of radiation to destroy tumor tissue in the brain. The procedure does not involve actual surgery. The patient's head is placed in a special frame, which is attached to the patient' skull. The frame is used to aim high-dose radiation beams directly at the tumor inside the patient's head. The dose and area receiving the radiation are coordinated very precisely.
Proton therapy is a kind of external beam radiotherapy where protons are directed at a the tumor. Proton therapy is so effective because of its ability to accurately target and kill tumors, both near the surface and deep seated within the body, while minimizing damage to the surrounding tissues.
For this reason, it is favored for treating certain kinds of tumors where conventional X-ray and radiation treatment would damage surrounding tissues.
This is especially a problem around optical nerves, the spinal cord/central nervous system, head and neck areas, and the prostate.
Proton therapy may be used for the following cancers:
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In this photo nominated as Canon Australia Photo of the Week, the background seems to blur while the rider is sharp. Wouldn't this normally be the other way? How was this done?
This is achieved by what is known as panning.
To explain it simply, you basically follow your subject with your camera (in a panning motion.)
It takes quite a bit of practice to get it right, but patience and practice will pay off with great looking shots.
More information on capturing moving subjects can be found HERE.
Taking pictures of your children in action can be very good practice for this technique.
It is easier to get clear focus with bicycle action...
For a good motion blur effect, you should set a slightly slower shutter speed than you normally would.
If you don't aim for the motion blur effect, you can use normal shutter speed, but follow the target in motion. This is not to intentionally get the background blurry for effect, but to make sure the target is not blurry. And it is good practice for the "follow target" technique as you would for a full motion blur effect.
Camera mounted on tripod, IS set on mode 2, and then pan the camera.
That effect was achieved following the subject with the camera as explained by the other answers.
There are, however, other popular methods used primarily in advertising - especially car photography, to enhance the feeling of motion and speed:


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White County 911 will hold an emergency meeting from 4 until 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15. The meeting will be held at the 911 office in Carmi.
The meeting has been called to discuss a contribution of 911 funds toward the purchase of a new generator for the city county dispatch.
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What is a partitioned view? I googled but could not get a satisfactory result.
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Partitioned views are a (very) old technique for partitioning data that are very rarely used today. Oracle added the ability to partition tables back in Oracle 8, which provides much more functionality than partitioned views, at which point partitioned views became obsolete. The only reason to consider using partitioned views would be if you can't afford a license for the partitioning option and you're willing to accept the reduced functionality and extra maintenance required to use partitioned views. The documentation on partitioned views will pretty much all date back to the Oracle 7 days.
In order to use partitioned views, you would define individual tables for each logical partition, create a
Of course, if you use this technique, you have to create a new physical table and rebuild the partitioned view every time you add a new partition which is quite a bit of maintenance. Getting the partitioned view to work correctly and making sure that partition pruning is happening correctly is much, much more challenging than when you're using a partitioned table. Plus you end up with a ton of separate tables with very similar names polluting your namespace.


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In this Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 photo, builders Reginaldo Ferreira, left, Liudmil Petrov, center, and Carlos Martinez of Russe Builders construct a wall to protect a beachfront home in Fairfield, Conn. The national economy is expected to absorb the blow from Sandy with little long-term damage, but in the short term, at least, Sandy is introducing dramatic booms and busts across the Northeast. The effects vary widely across industries, bringing banner years for some while pushing others toward economic ruin. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)


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"Did you see all those tweemos at the premier for Twlight?"
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A hybrid of music between 'Twee' and 'Emo.'
Bands such as 'Los Campensinos!' may be considered Tweemo
by larry.lavern February 10, 2008
Being emo on Twitter
You hear Matt tweeting about how he is always alone? Why is he being so tweemo lately.
by Life Sucks Again March 25, 2009
a little loser who tramps around in claires accessories finest (mainly checkered wristbands, skull shaped earrings and stupid synthetic material pink ties). basically really dykey and dopey looking kiddies from 9-14 years old who wanna be emo like haylee williams and blantantly lie and pretend to slit their wrists... They also brag about liking bands when they dont even know their music cos their friend likes them
did you see her fake eyebrow stud? god shes such a little tweemo!
by Bronagh September 20, 2008
A girl scenester/emo, normally sporting lots of red, white and black, twee little bows and so much polka dot your eyes bleed. They usually type their Myspaces in an incredibly irritating fashion; for example, "lollipops. holding hands. kisses. boys. panic! at the disco." etc, etc.
Check out that tweemo. She looks like a Pipette on acid.
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Given the number of results that are independent of ZF. It seems that once you've found a proof of a theorem that uses the axiom of choice, the odds are that it will be independent of ZF. So my question is:
-Is there any result that has a solution in ZFC which relies on AC, but has another proof that can be done only in ZF?
I'm especially interested in those results which people thought that were going to be independent of ZF, because only a proof relying on AC was known. And then someone found a proof in ZF.
When I say axiom of choice I'm also including weaker versions like countable choice or DC.


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WINTERSVILLE - The Ohio Genealogical Society, Jefferson County Chapter, has completed another chapter in its work for digitalizing original records obtained from the Jefferson County Courthouse that include common pleas records, naturalizations, criminal records, coroners' records, inventories to estates, veterans' documents and various other records.
A complete updated listing can be found on the free website at www.jeffcochapter.com.
Now all probate packets have been digitalized through the work of Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints missionaries Albert and Lynn Mooney, who have been working to get the important documents from 1797 to 1930 unfolded, the wrinkles ironed out and mended when needed and rehydrated, making papers ready to lay flat on the photography table for missionaries Bill and Beverly Pace to digitalize for prosperity.
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PRESERVED — The Ohio Genealogical Society, Jefferson County Chapter has reached a milestone in preserving records obtained in 2009 from Probate-Juvenile Judge Samuel Kerr at the Jefferson County Courthouse. All the probate packets now have been digitalized from 1797 to 1930 and can be found at a free website. Amoung those working on the project are, from left, front, Elder Bill Pace, Sister Beverly Pace, Elder Albert Mooney and Sister Lynn Mooney: and back, Elder Brayden Young, Elder Trey Rudd, all from the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints; and Flora VerStraten-Merrin, local genealogical society president and coordinator.
The purpose of the preservation project in Ohio and around the world is to preserve records and to make them available online for everyone to access for genealogical research, according to Bill Pace.
It's been a long journey since the genealogy society received records from Jefferson County Probate-Juvenile Judge Samuel Kerr in 2009. The many boxes of numbered probate court records completed are stacked around the Jefferson County Chapter OGS headquarters as evidence of its work, as well as the work of local volunteers. Another job in the future will be to list the packets by name, along with numbers, as they are identified now.
The Paces said they were taking 1,000 or more images a week of the probate packets.
The Mooney couple will complete their 18-month service in the middle of March and will be going back to their home in the Carolinas.
The Paces will be leaving in May, but until then they will be digitalizing the loose papers and wills and then doing the larger record books.
Included in the working staff at the headquarters located at 100 Fernwood Road, Wintersville, are two young missionaries, Trey Rudd of Mesa, Ariz, and Brayden Young of Utah, who started their missionary journeys after high school and will continue for two years.
Young has been in the Jefferson County area for six weeks of his 13-month mission. Rudd has been in the Wintersville area for 18 weeks. He explained that transfers are done in six-week increments. Typically, there are four to six transfers in a mission.
Genealogy is important to their mission. "In our religion, those who have passed on are important for us to search out and learn their histories," Young said.
Rudd's dad and brother served in missions and he grew up to see that example in the family.
The work of the volunteers can be viewed at an open house to be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on March 11 at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints in Wintersville. In the event of inclement weather, the date will be March 18.
The chapter is excited about the work that has been completed to date on all the records obtained from the courthouse and wants the public to see the success, according to VerStraten-Merrin.
"We want everyone to know that we are finishing up with filming the probate packets. Next it will be the wills and ledgers. We would like to have any cemetery, township, military or village records brought to us to digitalize as well. This will give people anywhere in the world access," she said.
"This is bigger than us. The digitalization is going on in Italy, Spain, France and other nations too. The family search is massive. It can be done for anywhere in the world," VerStraten-Merrin said.
"We will have images to show on how to use the family search and five-minute videos on how to access the records needed at the open house. Viewers will see that they can sit in the comfort of their living room and look for ancestors. We want to promote our free source and show how easy it is to access.
Also, we are having a membership campaign for new and renewal members. The cost is $20 for single, $25 for couples and $500 for a lifetime membership. A form can be printed from the website of www.jeffcochapter.com," VerStraten-Merrin said. "We want all volunteers who helped us in any way, if it was carrying boxes in from the courthouse, preparing the documents for digitalization or whatever, to come to the open house. And we want the officers who were so helpful in this process to be there too."
VerStraten-Merrin noted how Gordon Grafton, a board member and trustee, had been helpful.
"He died last February and we kept his office seat open until this past January in respect to him. His work came from the heart," she said.


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I want to improve my English vocabulary. I want to know some of the best ways to improve my vocabulary. How many words should I learn daily? What resources should I use?
Not "the best way", but a very useful resource I found some months ago: Vocabulary.com.
In a few words: it is a system that allows you to exercise vocabulary. It tries to guess your level based in the answers you give, and so it shows you the words you should not know yet, and when you fail your answer, it remembers them in order to show later again.
It has been very useful for me. I am learning vocabulary with a book, and for every word I need to exercise, I search for it in the dictionary available at that site, and click the option "learn", so when I take the test after that, the word will appear among the other words the site offers me.
Depending on your goal, there are a number techniques. And while they may not be easy/fast, you can enjoy the learning. In all cases, you want to mirror the way a native speaker would acquire the skill you're looking for so that the learning can be deep and your usage natural:
No matter how you acquire the skills, make sure you practice them aggressively. Writers don't become writers JUST by reading. Orators don't become speakers just by listening to speeches. Don't say "no" if someone invites you to a dinner party or picnic. Go and DO. Pretty much all English speaking cultures (heck, pretty much all cultures) are quite forgiving if you just make it clear that you're still learning and are putting effort into it. Nobody will think poorly of you.
A good resource is the English.Stackexchange.com website - a very useful resource for understanding particular nuances of the English language.
Also, depending on your level of skill in the language, you may find English Language Learners useful.
Reading a lot of text in English as well as listening to podcasts did the trick for me. If you are interested in the topic, you can do this in your free time and even have fun in the process.
In my opinion, to improve your English vocabulary, you need to immerse yourself as completely as you can in the language itself. You should do this by speaking English alone for extended periods of time regardless of the difficulty you'll occasionally face, watch the British news, shows, etc.
You'll be surprised how much this would help and make some good English-speaking friends both locally and online and practice face to face or by participating in Skype calls, Google hangouts, etc.
Finally, read. This is the biggest way to boost your vocabulary. Read serious books, novels, etc. not just junky magazines. I hope this helps.
I'm Dutch. I started blogging about things that interest me. A personal goal when I started the blog was to improve my English while writing. I try to be critical, and double-check before I actually publish the post. Sometimes I Google for other phases and words. If English isn't your foreign language, it is hard to measure if you are writing things right. For me, blogging and answering questions on English forums helps.
I think the best way to learn something is to enjoy learning it...As per my personal experience ,I think following are the best ways to improve english vocabulary...Best as in you dont have to put stress about learning but learning would be fun for you...
(1) Reading
Daily spend some time to Read english novels,newspapers,articles...Whatever you love to read..Note down the new words you find,check its meaning and start using those words in your conversations.
(2) Listening
Watch english movies,news...Hear their pronounciation and note it down..Also when you hear someone speaking a new word,store it in your mind memory and start using it.
(3) Practicing
Try to speak in english as much as you can..In your conversations,Start using all the new words you have learnt.. And remember "A single day of sub-zero temperature is not enough to create three feet of ice"..It simply means You cannot build good vocabulary by working hard for a single day/week..You need to practice it daily as "Practice makes a man perfect"...
Best wishes :-)
Honestly the best way is to prepare for an exam, maybe taking lessons but there is also a lot of material on the Internet. I give a link for the exam I prepared for, I'm not saying it's better than anything else but I was very satisfied with it: CAE, you also can check your level on this site...
Just to complement other answers: the biggest bang for your buck lies in prefixes and suffixes.
Learning common roots and endings will let you infer what words mean. Add some context and you will have a good clue.
Use Leithner box (for example ediscio.com) and put the word with several example sentences in the answer section and try to memorize them. Also you need to immerse yourself in English (or any other language that you want to learn).
Find an audiobook with text. A typical audiobook would last for about five hours.
1) Use the audio to set the pace, mark and look up all the unknown (or unfamiliar) words.
2) Read with the audio.
3) Go to step 2.
Trick: find a book that really conveys useful information rather than just showing the basic language usage.
If you want to just know words and their meanings, then it is fine to read "word of the day" sites etc. But knowing what a word means and knowing how and when to use them is totally different. So i would suggest you read....and read some more. Not only do you read words with some context(which would help you in remembering the words) you would also learn what is in the book :)
I'd like to repeat what I've heard many times:
Anything that requires will power to motivate you to completing will tire and exhaust you in the long term.
The biggest hurdle is actually starting. My take is to do productive tasks at a trivial pace then build up from there in trivial increments.
It is very scary to review a lot of words, so divide down into extremely small sections. Learn 1 word every week. Spend 5 minutes just looking at it and remembering it. Set a reminder every week to just look at the word. Add another word every month. If you feel the yearning to increase, then you should definitely do that. If you feel like it's becoming a burden, slow it down.
Essentially you are trying to program a habit and habits require time to develop. Hope this helps!
I started on reading articles that I have interest in. When I see new vocabulary I'll do this:
1) without knowing that word meaning, if I can read on and understand I'll just read on..
2) If I see this word again and I still understand with the context, I'll try to guess the meaning... but don't open the dictionary yet.
3) If I see it again, I will open dictionary and try to remember
4) If I see it again and I can remember then I'll just read on.. But if I can't remember it. I'll put the word in the vocabulary notebook with the meaning.. and sometimes with the example sentence from what I'm reading
5) This way, if I see the word again, I'll look thru the vocabulary notebook.
Good thing is when you revisit the vocabulary with its context and that example paragraph, you'll recognise it better, you can remember it and even easier to use it in daily dialogue
A way that works but I found a little boring is to open a movie or TV episode you've already watched, which has subtitles available in both English and your native language. Open Notepad, set the subtitles on English, and listen to the dialog while watching the subtitles, and write it into Notepad. Then watch it again with the subtitles in your native language, and write it into Notepad. This will help you improve reading, writing, listening, and vocabulary.
good luck.
In addition to vocabulary.com and all the good answers above, here are some things you can try.
Try googling newly learnt words by typing the search query
and then checking the word's description data. For eg. if you google define enquire, you would get plenty of details.
If you use Chrome web browser, this dictionary add-on may be useful where you simply double click a word to get its definition as a little speech bubble (this seems to work with other languages as well).
Another suggestion that is variable based on your English level but I find useful here since this question is really applicable to any language is to use duolingo.com to learn English using your native language (depends on language availability on their website).
Reading is good "Passive" way of improving vocabulary, but when you are resorting to making lists, that is "Active" method. Problem with active method of learning words is that it is cumbersome and boring, and you doing retain and unless you use it in writing sentences to apply the word, very little chance is that you increase your lexical size.
Improve Your Vocabulary - VocabMonk is an active learning tool which is personalized and makes sure you grasp the learnt words by applying it. It is lot of fun too as you can play vocab challenges with your friends.
Give it a shot!
Read the book Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis and do the exercises therein. It's an excellent resource for increasing your vocabulary.


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Is there something similar to office for Windows but free? I am student living on a budget, office is not an option at the moment.
closed as off-topic by Journeyman Geek♦, Tog, Breakthrough, Mokubai♦, Dave M Sep 12 '13 at 12:59
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Try OpenOffice.org
Edit: Since the creation of this post, many if not most of the supporters of OpenOffice.org have migrated to LibreOffice, which was originally based on OpenOffice.org and now has a more active development than its parent project.
There are a number of web-based Office services that are also free and offer some of the functionality of Microsoft Office, including:
Zoho Office
While these tend to lack the more advanced features of client-side Office suites, they do have excellent collaboration features.
Search for your school through the MSDN Academic Alliance. Even if it's not free, it will be significantly cheaper (to the tune of $30 or less).
You didn't specify if you need MS-Office interoperability.
AbiWord for word processing has some interoperability with MS-Word, and seems popular for people who find OpenOffice too cumbersome.
For spreadsheets, there's also Gnumeric although they seem to be a bit unsure as to the stability of the windows build.
I use OpenOffice personally, which does a pretty good job overall, including easy production of PDFs, and MS-Office interoperability as far as Word and Excel goes.
And of course, there's Google Docs that others have mentioned.
Libre Office is another new kid on the block, created by former OpenOffice.org developers who left following the Oracle buyout of Sun. It's fairly new but releases seem to be coming thick and fast!
I know it's not free, but you can get Office 2007 Ultimate for $60 if you are a student. All you need is a .edu email address. Just go to www.ultimatesteal.com.
It looks like that program is just for the US, but they have similar programs in the UK and Canada.
Thanks to Gnoupi, here is the French version.
If your school does not offer a cheap education version of office, Microsoft does make a $70 home and student edition if you need maximum compatibility.
EDIT: Newegg mentions a 3 user licence. So maybe you can get 3 people to go in on one.
You might check out Lotus Symphony.
Another alternative not yet mentioned is LaTeX. It is not a wysiwyg editor like Word or Libreoffice, but it is specifically geared for publication quality typesetting, and especially useful for academic work. It has specific abilities to typeset math, and also has tools to work with a bibliographic database and automatically format your references and footnotes.
There are several free/open-source distributions, includeing mikTeX, and TeXLive.
Support websites include TeX.stackexchange.com and Latex-Community.org.
Examples of thesis templates exist here and on GitHub.
A good starting point for learning LaTeX is the wikibook.
See also the stackoverflow discussion is LaTeX worth learning today?
You may also want to try the Google office products: Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets and Google Presentation. Over the last year they have added a lot of features, such that now they are pretty close to what you'd find in a offie suite, minus the fancy features you'd never use. They also export quite nicely to Microsoft Office and other formats when you need to and you don't have to worry about loosing your work when your computer crashes or the program/browser crashes (they save automatically, almost too automatic).
Another option/new commer is Office Live--Microsoft's answer to Google Docs, etc. It has some nice features that Google Docs doesn't have, but is also free...so you can use both :)
Here is a comparison between the 2: http://www.pcworld.com/article/168309/microsoft_office_vsgoogle_docs_a_web_apps_showdown.html There are ofcourse many other comparisons out there.
Edit Another possibility is OpenGoo. It's an open source solution that you can install on your own server and manage yourself.
OpenOffice is overrated! If you want something very very close to MSOffice 2003, then get Kingsoft Office 2007 Personal (Free)
Perfect Option for the majority: For those who want basic features of Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel, simply get this FREE Microsoft Office 2010 Starter Edition.
ThinkFree is actually a well executed Java clone of Office, and its free.
There was another one that did PowerPoint only, and did it really well, but I can't remember the name of it now
SoftMaker Office 2010 for example. Perfect alternative, cheap, fast, lightweight.


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I'm aware for a while now that goals really can be empowering in life.
But what I haven't found alot of info about are money related goals.
Do you find them good or bad? Can they truly push you out of your comfort zone?
Do you have any experience with money goals? Have they worked out for you?
For example, a SMART money goal might be: "earn 100,000$ by the end of the next year".
Do you prefer having more concrete, less abstract goals?


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In what ways can the assassins be useful, and what is their job in a team fight and the entirety of the game?
An assassin is typically a chamion with high mobility and burst potential, but limited sustained damage. Generally, they counter the ad/ap carries quite significantly, as they can move around them quite quickly and burst them down.
During the laning phase the assassins are typically in either the top or mid lane, depending on who they enemy picks. During this phase it's a good idea to harass the enemy as much as possible using your burst/movement speed to your advantage to win trades. Romaing to help other lanes is usually a good idea as well, just as long as you dont leave your lane for too long to do it.
During mid-late game, your job is to kill the carries quickly. Focus on the squishy targets, using your mobility to get around any CC.
Assassins carry the roll of killing off the weak targets like support and carries. During laning phase they can roam around abit picking of the easy gankable targets. In team fights there primary focus is taking down lik said before, the carries and the support. Mostly circumventing the tank and going straight for them so that the rest of the team has an easyer time to take the rest down, because their carry is either fighting for their life or dead.
Simply answer: Kill the AD Carry, AP Carry and Support, they can even kill the Tank, but the point of the assassin champions is to nullify the opponent damage/support, and get advantage for your team in team fights.
Here is a list of the Assassin champions in LoL.
but the most common are the one who has the flag of assassin, those are:
What is characteristic in those champions are the high burst damage (in 1 or 2 seconds they can finish a full health champion easily), they high mobility and they possibility of good escape/survivability.
They are usually solo top and mid, so they can farm fast and do they job.
To nullify a assassin is hard, but basically you need to avoid his farm, and force ganks on them.
There is not such thing as the best assassin, they all do they jobs quite good, but they are more counter-picks.


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"Light" was created on day 1 - Genesis 1:3-5. However the sun was created on day 4 - Genesis 1:14-19.
How is this possible?
"Light" was created on day 1 - Genesis 1:3-5. However the sun was created on day 4 - Genesis 1:14-19.
How is this possible?
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Let's look more closely at your linked verses:
This verse implies the creation of light and the implementation of it to create the first day. Darkness already existed, so only light was needed.
This verse implies the creation of the sun and moon—notice the "greater" and "lesser" lights.
These lights—the sun and the moon, which were created three days after light itself was—are simply vessels to carry greater and lesser versions of the previously created light which govern the limits of the day and of the night.
And if we read a bit further:
Stars were created to be vessels for light as well, but to separate this greater light (the sun) from this lesser light (the moon), and to govern both day and night.
Before questioning the bible (and God, by extension), always look more closely at what is being said and you will understand. This is especially true for scripture, because many times we find it to be ambiguous, but upon closer examination it just comes to us.
The key to this question is to recognize the point of view from which the story is being told. The point of view is established in Genesis 1:2:
If we read the rest of the account from the point of view of "hovering over the waters," the order of creation makes perfect sense, according to a modern scientific understanding of the formation of planets:
1 Taken from Genesis 1: A Scientific Perspective, by Hugh Ross, Page 5.
It is unfortunate that this concept is often used to make the Bible seem to contradict itself.
However, contrary to popular belief, the Bible doesn't waste words.
The fact that God tells us how many days, also gives us time periods; in other words, God began to measure time cycles (such as day and night) before the sun ever appeared.
He said first, let there be light. Then according to the Bible he separated darkness from the light. This doesn't have anything to do with a sun/moon cycle, but rather with light and darkness, and time periods.
Another point to bring up is that "God is Light". This is told to us by the Apostle John in two places, with the second being in the book of Revelation 22:5:
What's written in the Bible is not necessarily intended to be used as a science textbook. While what's written is entirely true and reliable, we do have to read it in the way it was meant to be understood.
It seems sensible to be that the creation account in Genesis is not an attempt to describe in precise detail exactly how God created the universe. Rather, it is an expression of a far more important idea: God created the universe out of nothing merely by speaking it into existence. As finite beings, we are not likely to fully understand the mind of God or the full complexity of his creation, and so it's entirely likely that what is expressed in Genesis is simplified so that we can understand some important feature(s) of the underlying facts. In that sense, I think it's possible to read precision into what is written. The thrust of this idea is that we should understand that we should have a healthy amount of skepticism of the quality of our own understanding of something (presumably) very, very complex, and that we should focus on the ideas we think God is trying to get across to us.
That aside, it seems entirely plausible that in the early portion of creation, natural laws had not yet all been implemented. We're told next to nothing about such things directly. If you don't create the entire universe simultaneously, then it makes some sense to me that portions of it would not function the same way as they do now and that not until it was completed should we assume that it would closely resemble the universe we observe today (regarding physical laws, in this case). I see no reason why certain natural laws could not be circumvented or ignored by the Creator during this process. Speaking things into existence is not something I think I can grasp at a scientific level because I have no such power to recreate that phenomenon, nor can I observe it happening (to my knowledge).
Rather than read contradiction into the details of the creation account in Genesis, I think it makes much more plain sense to accept it for what it does say (because it's not incorrect) and attempt to answer those questions that the ultimate author of text intends to address.
I don't know how light can exist without a source, but then again, I don't know how you could create light out of nothing. God's power to accomplish all these things is quite beyond me.
I don't fault you for wondering how God accomplished all that he did, and I think it's possible to find an answer. I'm just not convinced that Genesis 1-2 is an attempt to provide a detailed answer to that question.
God created light on the first day of creation. The sun is just something that produces light.
The underlying assumption of many is that the sun defines day and night, so day and night cannot exist without the sun. However, that assumption is perhaps incorrect from a biblical perspective.
If the sun is supreme, then the sun would, indeed, define day and night. However, the Bible teaches that God created day and night first. God, as Creator, is certainly powerful enough to define a "day" independent of the sun. The earth could have spun prior to their being a son around which to orbit. We certainly aren't given enough information to know for sure, but it certainly is a possibility.
Later, the Bible indicates that God created the sun, and perhaps the revolution of earth continued, but now had hours of light and dark due to the light produced from the sun.
Again, we can't know for sure, we the assumption that the earth could not have been rotating or have a definition of day an night prior to there being a sun could be invalid. Mankind has only existed after the creation of the sun, so our perspective is limited and it is perhaps difficult to envision something outside the box that we are in.
In the cosmology of the raquiyah, the dome separating the waters from the waters, it is perfectly comprehensible that the day could exist without the existence of the sun.
For us post-Enlightenment folks, it's interesting to think about our wondering and confusion about that. We have an ingrained mental model of the solar system. It's fairly clear to you and me that the sun isn't just a light in the sky, but it's the source of the energy that warms the earth and makes the atmosphere glow blue.
So, for you and me to wonder about the Genesis 1 cosmology, and how it could be so, is to get in touch with our ancestors who wondered how it could be so. Watch the film The Truman Show to get a sense of what this dome cosmology might have been like.
There's another cosmological model besides the dome in the Bible: the circles-of-heaven model of antiquity. St. Paul talks about ascending to the "third heaven." That's part of a cosmological model that puts God in the seventh heaven. We have echos of that model in the hymn verse "immortal, invisible God only wise, with light inaccessible hid from our eyes."
For a biblical take on all this that reminds us of our contingent and limited human perspective, I strongly recommend that you read Job Chapter 38. Any translation will do. http://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Job+38
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Change state law to allow fireworks
As laws go, Florida's prohibition against fireworks is a real dud. Before, during and after state-sanctioned displays Thursday night, area explosives enthusiasts were lighting up area skies with personal pyrotechnics despite the absence of any agricultural menaces such devices are permitted to shoo away.
We're OK with the displays, but it's long past time for the Florida Legislature to act on its literally loopy fireworks statute. That law — F.S. Ch. 791 — bans the use or sale of "any article prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration, or detonation." The law exempts items such as sparklers, snakes, party poppers, smoke machines, snappers and other novelty items.
The loophole in the law that produces such prodigious booms and bursts on and around the 4th of July — and just about any occasion nowadays, it seems — is the exemption allowing fireworks for "frightening birds from agricultural works and fish hatcheries." For a state of city dwellers and suburbanites, we have an awful lot of farmers and aquaculturists around here.
In 2007, it looked like the state Legislature was prepared to address the silliness. It created the Consumer Fireworks Task Force that was charged with recommending changes that would legalize certain fireworks and strengthen enforcement of those that would remain illegal. The recommendations arrived at the Capitol in 2008 and fizzled. Since then, fireworks use has proliferated. Little to no effort is made by local law enforcement to enforce the law, which is a good thing, we think, given how uneven and arbitrary such enforcement would be.
We are a state of laws. Looking the other way is no way to engender respect for public order. The Legislature should tweak the statute to allow personal fireworks — like 42 other states — and put an end to this charade.
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All the references I can find to Covering Set appear to be algorithmic. Is there are any reference for the simple existential question ---
Suppose we have $k$ sets $X_1,…,X_k$ which are subsets of a ground set $X$ of size $n$. We know that $|X_i| \geq t$ for all $X_i$. We would like to find the smallest set $Y$ such that $Y \cap X_i \neq \emptyset$ for all $i$.
Given fixed values for $k, n, t$ what is the largest $Y$ which might be necessary to do this?
The greedy algorithm for constructing $Y$ is to add the element of $X$ to maximize the number of $X_i$ covered in each stage. Apparently this requires $|Y| = O(\frac{n}{t} \log k)$.
If I am not concerned with an algorithm for finding $Y$, only guaranteeing that it exists, is there any asymptotically better result possible?


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A biscuit is placed in the center of a group of men. The men jack themselves off, or circle jerk. As each man gets off he sprays his load onto the biscuit. The last man to get off has to eat the biscuit.
A biscuit is placed in the center of a group of men. The men jack themselves off, or circle jerk. As each man gets off he sprays his load onto the biscuit. The last man to get off has to eat the biscuit.
"Hey! Wanna go over to Jak's house tonight? We're going to play some biscuits and gravy!"
"Kevin had to eat the biscuits and gravy."
"Kevin had to eat the biscuits and gravy."
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Last nite after my wife gave me head, she finished it with a nice dish of biscuits and gravy and it felt splendid
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A solid deuce followed by an unexpected gusher of explosive diarrhea.
I thought I just had to drop a digger, but instead I ripped the biscuits and gravy!
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When a guy tea bags his own cum
I can't believe he did the biscuits and gravy on our first date!
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When a man pulls out and shoots his load on another man's balls. Then a third party licks the cum off of the "biscuits" that are now covered in "gravy".
Craig told me that , after a long guys night out, it was nice to wake up to biscuits and gravy. And, by that, I mean balls covered in jizz...
by Amir Rockwell November 19, 2013
In a threesome with two girls and one guy it's when the guy busts on one of the girls tits then the other girl licks it off. Just like biscuits and gravy.
My girlfriend and I had a threesome with one of her friends. I can't believe she actually had some biscuits and gravy!!!
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When plowing a chick doggie style, you whip it out, cream in her ass crack, and slap her butt cheeks together repeatedly.
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I have Ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop , and I want to upgrade it to Ubuntu 12.04. I have tried to upgrade from upgrade manager but based on my home internet speed , it estimated around 48 hrs so I quit it .
More over I have Ubuntu 12.04 installable , So I wanted to ask what will happen to my 11.04 if I install 12.04 over it , will my data of 11.04 will be lost ?
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Cory Booker is the mayor of Newark, New Jersey. But based on his more than 1 million Twitter followers from across the country, there's a good case to name him America's Favorite Mayor.
Besides being extremely accessible to his constituents on Twitter (often responding to pleas for help obtaining a job with a "send me ur #" message), he's also been responsible for helping to change the public image of Newark and the quality of life for its residents by bringing multi-million dollar investors like Oprah Winfrey and Mark Zuckerberg into the city. And when he's not busy running the city of Newark, he moonlights as a superhero. Seriously.
The mayor has been known to join city police on late-night patrols and even chased down a suspected bank robber on his way to his inauguration ceremony. Just last month, Mayor Booker raced into a burning building and saved his neighbor's life, suffering smoke inhalation and second-degree burns on his arms and hands in the process.
But the Mayor hasn't missed a beat. Recently, EBONY caught up with Mayor Booker to discuss his health, heroism and his hope for the city he loves.
EBONY: How's your hand? Any permanent damage?
MAYOR CORY BOOKER: It's really fine. I feel really thankful to God to be alive. It could've been much worse. But really, I've had worse burns in the kitchen.
EBONY: And the woman you saved, how is she doing?
CB: She's going to be all right but she suffered much greater injuries than I did. She was in there longer than I was and her lungs took a beating from all of the smoke inhalation. But she has such a strong spirit and lots of family and friends around her supporting her, so she will be fine.
EBONY: You've described the moment you didn't think you'd get out of the fire as a time where you got really religious and had a "come to Jesus" moment. What did you mean by that?
CB: It was a feeling of panic. I was calling out to the woman [trapped in the burning house], but she wasn't responding and I couldn't find her. There were flames on one side and on the other it was pitch black from all of the smoke and I couldn't breathe, so I just felt that I was sort of done for. At that moment, I felt my spirit just surrender to the larger power of the universe. But then I heard [the woman] call out to me and it was like her voice saved me because it made me focus and enabled me to find her and get her out of there.
EBONY: That is really amazing. You were both in real danger in that house and the outcome could have been very tragic for you both. Why do you think your life was spared?
CB: I really appreciate you saying that because, reflecting on it all, it seemed like I arrived just in the nick of time, she called out to me just when I was giving up. God delivered us from that [fire], so He definitely has a larger plan and I'm just a participant in it. There is an orchestration at work that is bigger than me. I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness you discover an indistinguishable light. [This situation] helped me to understand that more deeply. Life is not an accident, and I just know I'm extremely grateful to be alive.
EBONY: Risking your life to save another person is not an isolated event for you. There are countless examples that the public is aware of where you have sought out to help individuals on a personal level, whether it was holding a 19-year-old gunshot victim as he laid dying, or chasing down a bank robber or shoveling an elderly man's driveway after a snow storm. This seems like great evidence of a spirit of heroism and a deeply caring nature. Where does that come from?
CB: Well, I don't feel these [events are] so unique. I'm in a city which, unfortunately, reveals the heroism in a lot of people on a daily basis. I get to observe human character and human love regularly and I don't think it's unique to me. When we were out there shoveling snow, there was an entire van full of volunteers with me. When I chased down that bank robber on my first day [in office], there were two security guards with me. When a retired guy goes into a lawn that's overgrown in the neighborhood and starts mowing it, he's the hero of the neighborhood that day. The guy who works a full time job but still manages to coach little league, he's a hero. And there are firefighters who


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Rapture Untamed (Mass Market Paperbound)
They are called Feral Warriors--an elite band of immortals who can change shape at will. Sworn to rid the world of evil, consumed by sorcery and seduction, their wild natures are primed for release . . .
The most combative--and tormented--of all the Ferals, Jag is a predator who hunts alone--until daemons terrorize the human population. To stop them, he partners with Olivia, a flame-haired Therian temptress as strong as she is beautiful. But Olivia is no ordinary immortal. The survivor of a vicious supernatural attack, she possesses a deadly and forbidden skill--one that must remain hidden, especially from the powerful Feral Warriors.
As Jag and Olivia's sensual dance of dominance and seduction gets wilder and hotter, a dark force sets its sights on Olivia, threatening to destroy everything she has vowed to protect. And the only one who can save her soul is the arrogant jaguar shifter she lusts for but dares not love.
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When New York Times bestselling author Pamela Palmer's initial career goal of captaining starships didn't pan out, she turned to engineering, satisfying her desire for adventure with books and daydreams, until finally succumbing to the need to create worlds of her own. Pamela lives and writes in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.


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I'm using thunderbird with gmail imap. I have several filters setup since I receive a lot of email from several mailing lists. The notification for new mail is always lit, since I always have unread email. But I would like to restrict the new email notification to only my inbox for gmail or a specific subset of folder that I consider important. How would I do this if it is even possible?
Starting with Oneiric, the Thunderbird version shipped with Ubuntu has an add-on bundled that handles integration into the message menu. That add-on called "Message menu and Unitiy Launcher integration" provides some additional options on the General tab in your Thunderbird settings (not sure about the wording, as I'm re-translating from German here ;) ). Near the options to play a sound file when a new mail arrives and such, you can decide whether the message notification should be lit for new mails and whether to do that for every folder or just for the inbox. I don't know a solution for choosing a custom set of folders, but maybe there's an add-on out there to do that.
TL;DR: Edit -> Preferences -> When new messages arrive -> checkbox "Show in the messaging menu" -> change radio from "For messages in all folders" to "Only for messages in my Inbox folder"
The Mailbox Alert let's you display different notifications and play sounds on different folders. Even on search folders.
There is a bug in the add-on launchpad asking for that kind of feature. At this time, as Henning wrote, or all email or just inbox folders. All email includes RSS feeds :(


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I have read (but I cannot now find where) that Arnold & Serre had a public debate on the value of Bourbaki. Does anyone have more details, or remember or know what was said?
I was there. Arnol'd is one of my big mathematical heros, but I found the whole thing really sad. It was in French, but my French is decent. Arnol'd began his part with a phrase I've heard him say before: "In Russia it is impolite to talk ill of the dead, so I will not talk about Bourbaki" and then he proceeded to lambast Bourbaki in as nasty a way as you've ever read in any of his writings. I just felt like hanging my head. It was embarrassing watching him insult French Mathematics in front of 500 French men and saying things that seemed silly. It went on from there, Serre with a kind of sad understated dignity, not fighting, Arnol'd wanting a fight, hurling insults. The two barely even addressed each other. And yes, he did mention Toth, and if memory serves, he stated that Toth was probably Thales and had most likely come up with Newton's inverse square law. For me, the whole event was sad, embarrassing, and myth-crushing. Well, us mathematicians, we are all humans.
Arnold's account of this debate (in Russian) is here: http://www.mccme.ru/edu/index.php?ikey=viarn_burbaki&post=25742517_1256 and here http://vivovoco.rsl.ru/VV/PAPERS/NATURE/BURBAKI.HTM
Let me translate few words from the beginning.
Then he describes Serre's speach and his own. According to Arnold's account, his talk in the debates is published as "Mathematics and Physics: a parent and a child, or sisters?" English translation: Physics-Uspekhi, 1999, 42, 12 1205-1217. Here is a free version: http://ufn.ru/en/articles/1999/12/c/
However, comparison of dates shows that this cannot be the true text of Arnold's talk in the debates. I re-read the account of the duel (cited in the beginning) and on my opinion 90% of what Arnold says there (about Serre and about other things) is just not true. Unlike this account, the paper in Physics-Uspekhi looks reasonable, when Arnold writes about math.
My impression is that I also read Serre's talk somewhere. But I cannot find any trace of it in the Internet. So all we have this biased (to say the least) account by Arnold.
It appears that there was an event on Bourbaki, for a general audience, at the Institut Henri Poincaré (Paris) on march 13th, 2001, with Arnold and Serre.
The announcement says:
Translating roughly to: Serre: The contribution of Bourbaki, Arnold: Mathematics and Physics. Arnold and Serre are two of the greatest names in the history of mathematics. They have very different 'epistemological' conceptions. Their confrontation, exceptional in public, should be ineteresting for everyone interested in reflections on the sciences.
Unfortunately I do not have more information about this event at the moment. However, since the existence of an actual event was also unclear it seems to be a partial answer.
Also, Pierre Colmez mentions a debate (put under quotation marks) between Arnold and Serre on Bourbaki, recalling how the latter began his contribution. I cannot be sure if this is this event he is talking about, but it would fit very well as it was not really debate but two talks yet still somehow set up one against the other, so a debate in quotation marks.
Regarding things that were said, it is recalled (by Colmez) that Arnold began with a list of bad deeds of the "Bourbaki criminals" [criminels bourbakistes], including the inclusion of $0$ among the natural numbers, something about the meaning of A implies B [that I do not understand/cannot translate], and that children cannot calculate anymore on account of Bourbaki -- recalling an anecdote about a child who in reply to the question "what is $2+5$?", said it is $5+2$ since addition is commutative [this anecdote was the starting point there, although it appears that while this apparently happened, it was actually a joke/prank of the child, whose parents were mathematicians and who is today also a mathematician].
In retrospect it does not seem that Arnold's 2+5=5+2 comment was that effective particularly in view of the information provided by Joël. On the other hand, there is one aspect of this matter that did not come out sufficiently in the earlier answers. Namely, Arnold is a fabulous pedagogue. To give a quick example, his book Mathematical methods of classical mechanics has benefited thousands, if not millions, of readers. Many people share his doubts about the effectiveness of the Bourbaki method. Verbal excesses of course cannot be justified but there is a genuine issue there nonetheless.


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6 Movie Plots Made Possible By Ridiculous Understaffing
Movies are filled with military bases and lairs, fully staffed with no-name henchman, janitors and cafeteria workers milling about the background.
But for every U.S.S. Enterprise bursting with disposable red shirts or chocolate factory crawling with indifferent orange pygmies, there are movies where the entire plot seems to happen purely because the facility is operating with a skeleton crew.
#6. Jurassic Park
You can't criticize InGen for cloning dinosaurs for their park. Let's be honest; if the technology actually became available, we'd start saving up for tickets to the place right now, even if they warned us that rampages were happening every couple of weeks. Hell, that makes us want to go more.
If, you know, they hire some freaking staff first.
The Staff:
Despite the fact that the park seems to be overrun with scientists growing dinosaurs in beakers and one guy who shovels triceratops shit all day, the entire computer technician staff seems to be made up of Samuel L. Jackson and Newman. Well, OK. It's a sophisticated system. Maybe it runs itself. And if both of those guys take a sick day at the same time, uh, maybe you just shut the park down? Because not a whole hell of a lot has to go wrong with the system before the dinosaurs are just running free.
Adware could have caused this.
Of course that brings us to the security team whose job it is to stop that, a team which consists of game warden Robert Muldoon. SPOILER: All of those people we just mentioned are quickly eaten by dinosaurs.
If only I had held onto my butt.
What the hell? Even smaller theme parks like Disneyland tend to have more security, just to keep toddlers from getting mangled by the Country Bears robots.
Why Some Extra Staff Wouldn't Have Hurt:
Instead of breeding more attractive, popular and harmless dinosaurs, John Hammond thought it might be a good idea to breed super-intelligent (and apparently pure evil) velociraptors, despite the fact that they would hardly have been an attraction since before 1993, only paleontologists and guys who regularly read the dictionary knew what they were.
Even stranger, they also don't appear to be part of the park's tour, and are instead quarantined to a Kafkaesque holding pen, where even just a brief sight of them feeding seems to be enough to cause Jeff Goldblum to completely lose his appetite.
And he's not easily sickened.
So when things unexpectedly turn all Westworld, it might make sense to have some guys with guns handy. In fact, the only person on the entire island who seems to have access to a gun is resident mercenary Robert Muldoon.
Of course, the whole thing could probably have been sidestepped if Denis Nedry hadn't spent all of his time eating Butterfingers, installing viruses and downloading fetish porn. Sure, this stuff happens in regular offices every day, but Cracked headquarters aside, workplace laziness and hijinks usually just lead to perfect fodder for an international sitcom phenomenon and not carnage, terror and children with permanent psychological scarring.
All of which could have been avoided if they had just hired enough staff for a regular zoo, with maybe a few extra to account for the fact that no human has ever worked with these animals before and you have no idea what they're going to do.
#5. The Nostromo (Alien)
No one could have predicted the fate of the doomed spaceship Nostromo, as it drifted through the infinite cosmos like so much molasses in the rain. Well, maybe you could have predicted it if you glanced at the crew roster and noticed it only took up two inches of the page.
We should only need two, maybe three guys, tops.
The Staff:
The Nostromo, a massive spaceship as long as two and a half football fields, with three decks and towing a gigantic ore refinery, is staffed by only six crewmembers, a robot and a cat. And while this sounds similar (but different enough for legal purposes) to the premise of Space Kitty and Robo-Boy, the new animated TV show we're developing (tune into Nickelodeon Fall 2014), it also sounds like there aren't enough crewmembers here to man the average sailboat, not to mention an entire spaceship.
This thing was about the same size as the Titanic, yet there were fewer crewmembers aboard the Nostromo than there were total members of the Ramones.
They'd have a better soundtrack, too.
The Titanic met with disaster even though help was never more than several hours away. In the film, it takes months or years to get out to where they were--they had to be rendered unconscious for the trip.
Of course, this wouldn't be a problem as long as nothing terrible happened.
Why Some Extra Staff Wouldn't Have Hurt:
Something terrible happened. We'll spare the gory details, but give you a gory synopsis: John Hurt gets face raped by a space omelet monster, and gives violent bloody birth out of his chest to a space worm monster baby.
All the rape symbolism happened to this guy.
With calling for backup impossible, the crew's only option seemed to be hoping that the monster baby likes to commit suicide for fun. When it doesn't, things go straight to hell pretty quickly. With a single alien baby on board, everyone but Sigourney Weaver ends up dead, robots get decapitated and Jonesy the cat gets the scaring of his life.
If only there had been more crewmembers. Or at least, some crew members that weren't quite so delicious.
He's surprisingly tender. Also, good in Repo Man.
We know what you're saying. "How could they have known somebody was going to get face-pregnant by an alien?" But that's missing the point. Anything would have left these guys fucked. If there was so much as a chemical spill or minor fire on board that took out a few crew members--or ruined their supplies--the survivors have to hunker down and pray help arrives by next Christmas.
Hell, forget the alien, a really bad outbreak of food poisoning could have completely crippled this operation.
#4. The Back Entrance of Mordor (The Return of the King)
As far as fire-infested, totalitarian countries go, Mordor is pretty much tops. In addition to being the possible inspiration for hell, Mordor appears to be an entirely impenetrable state, despite the fact that no one in their right mind would want to voluntarily visit.
And while Sauron is able to watch over most of the world as a semi-omnipotent (and strangely literal) giant flaming eye, and guards the front entrance with a gate the size of a hotel and half of his army, he decides for some reason to leave the back door entrance into Mordor guarded by... one big spider.
The Staff:
Shelob's Lair is guarded by the titular giant spider with a sweet tooth for fuzzy Hobbits. Granted, even running across a regular sized spider is probably enough to send the average Cracked reader scrambling back to his warm home in the Shire, so the idea of a monstrous spider, older than time itself, just sitting and waiting to make Hobbit-burgers out of you and your slow-witted gardener is actually pretty terrifying. That is, until you realize how scary the rest of Middle Earth is.
This is a world where killer goblins ride on wolf monsters, ghosts fight in wars and Grim Reapers fly around on razor toothed dragons. Hell, even the nicest Elf in Middle Earth always looks like he's pissed at you.
Twenty-four hours a day he pictures himself kicking your ass.
Giant arachnids seem like the kind of thing you'd run into on the way to Mordor.
Why Some Extra Staff Wouldn't Have Hurt:
When Frodo, Sam and Gollum find the enormous gate into Mordor locked and guarded by people who look like Smurfs as designed by H.R. Geiger, Gollum proves his worth by telling them about the secret back door that Sauron apparently keeps unguarded and unlocked.
The little Hobbit skeleton may have been lying to them, but what he walked them into was less of an ambush and more of a minor inconvenience. Gollum brought them through what ended up being a perfect entrance into Mordor, which means that Gollum's trap was actually more helpful to the Hobbits than most of Gandalf's plans.
"But the bad guys didn't know about the back entrance!" you say. And we say bullshit. After Frodo walks through the very large and roomy cave Gollum shows him, he gets attacked by the spider and wrapped up in web. Who shows up immediately after?
A half dozen orcs, who immediately say, "Looks like old Shelob's been having a bit of fun." So they know about Shelob, they know about the lair. They go there all the time. Somebody put stairs there to make it easier. What would those jackasses up there have done if, instead of a couple of Hobbits, they met 5,000 pissed-off dudes swinging swords?


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Thoughts on Halo 4
Ok, so a new developer made this game I suppose. Which, is good because Halo 3 which I was sooo excited to get, had worse graphics and texture than Halo 2. It became very evident that the makers were just milking it. It even ended the exact same way.
I do like Halo 4, but I wasn't quite as excited for this one because of all the other Halo related disappointments. It's a really fun game and it reminds me of why I liked Halo in the first place but I do have my own gripe.
I find it very tedious that supposedly Master Chief is basically lost in space, gods only know where in space they are, and he and Cortana get sucked up by a much more maneuverable Death Star. Why in the hell is all the architecture identical to all the old Halo architecture? I guess all species have a severe talent of getting in sync with all the aliens and beings in the universe and all use an identical building scheme. That's my gripe.
That and I am tired of my husband killing me. I was playing with Lurch the other day and I was piloting my little Banshee and flew up to just in front of the door we needed to go into. I exit the Banshee and start looking around for Lurch then all of a sudden I'm knocked off the ledge I parked on. I was thinking that I got sniped or something until I realized it was actually Lurch who landed his freaking Banshee on my character.
He also has a habit of walking his character directly in my line of fire. I keep trying to remind him that friendly fire is indeed on. He also tends to forget to tell me that he's dead so I can stop fighting and move to a safe location so he can re-spawn. The last time he neglected to tell me he was dead he decided to sit back and observe what he has lovingly dubbed as "my battle lust" because I was meleeing every alien I came across and apparently it amused him.
I think I might have ran over him with a Scorpion, but it's so fun just annihilating everything in sight. I really can't tell you how many times now I have had a friendly grenade thrown under my character, or how many times and types of vehicles have run over me. My partner is apparently my own worst enemy. It's still a blast and I almost look forward to seeing how we end up killing each other.
It's the little things in life you cherish.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
~ Joseph Campbell
To survive is to thrive and prosper. And we have most certainly survived. - Locust Queen, GOW2
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"Ich verstehe mich wirklich gut mit meiner Mutter Sylvia, der sehr intelligent ist, weil sie nett ist."
Is the usage of "der" in the relative clause correct here, since 'mit' takes the dative case?
No, it's not correct. The case of the relative pronoun (here:
So, the correct form is:
Indeed dative for feminine determined article is der. But the relative clause is in nominative, because you have the verb sein there.
Maybe you thought you should use dative, because you use it inside an apposition, which indeed inherits the case of the object it is describing:
Notice there is no verb. But I don't really know if in German one speaks like that about one's mother. That is I guess I just find strange meine Mutter Sylvia, since you don't have two mothers. And if you want to mention her name, maybe it's a better idea to split the sentence in


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Yeah its called the Upper League Cup in Vanilla... probably the mod used prevents the EU rule from happening
Yeah its called the Upper League Cup in Vanilla... probably the mod used prevents the EU rule from happening
Possibly, I do have a custom XML so that probably overwrites the updates...
Not really much I can do though...
On target
Clear Cut Chances
as Iceland manager I observed a match between HK and FH
Shots 33 17
On Target 12 3
Woodwork 2 0
Clear Cut 6 3
Score 0 3
HK at the time is 4th in the league FH is 7th... they have a great striker who scored a hat trick, and a goal keeper great on one-on-ones while HK if I put on a reserve team could cause trouble... a little biased at times
Yer but to score BOTH of there on target AND 2 out of 3 shots.. Both long range from a guy with 8 long range shots.. HUUUMMM...
Season 16 January February and March Update - Urvalsdeild:
Results | Finances
We won every game except the two we just decided to fall asleep in. As explained above the second draw was just stupid and we should have won.
Finances took a hit when the chairman decided that taking £9m was a good idea...
Transfers | Squad
Sene has gone, I feel a could have got more than the £4.9m for him but the board took over the transfer. I also made my biggest signing of my career, an 18 year old striker from Boca who looks the business!
That is all of the squad that I could fit on one screen, that shows you how big it is! You might notice how many 18 year olds and 4.5 potential players I have as well. I am building for the future in a BIG way.
I agree with ya...
wow my best has only been a 4.5 million transfer you're the Icelander!!
Well you would spend £5m on a striker that Boca are playing at the age of 18!
I tried to pay 11 on an Inter milan wonderkid... but they wanted 26 million you got lucky!
I won't say my budgets this year then :P
Do tell... its us vs the man!!! Icelandic Domination OVER all!!!
£250k p/w and no transfer or £19m transfer (after my £5m spend and £75k wage) if I remember correctly. Not got FM open right now
Rodrigo looks fantastic!
ah I have had over 200k p/w... 19M transfer is sweet if you can find the right players
He is great, the other teams seem to be learning to mark him tightly now though which is quite frustrating..
Ah my uber striker just about every season I've had him scored at 1 goal/game for years... something needs tweaking then if the defenses are to blame to hampering your scorer
He still scores 1 per game so far this season but he was at 1.6 last season. It could just be the league getting better though
True... I am dominating this season its amazing... hope I can do better in Europe
Our defence has got a lot worse this season due to Sene being sold but oh well...
You got 19 million buddy :P you should rock!
I just buy youth players, I will do until my rep gets higher to really fight for the big players
should still be able to get some bigger players :P
About Championship quality, nothing better...
Interesting, it'll come
I'm sad that Sene has gone I know there wasn't anything you could do to keep him.
You have a massive squad but I guess you have to as you seem to lose some due to internationals
Can we have a screen of the ex-Boca kid?
@hrbfcrule about 11 on internationals.. :@
This is him at Boca:
Yes you read that right, youth caps for Argentina!!
Nice! I'd get him training as an AMR or AML as well given those stats. Personally I'd go with AML as his jumping and heading along with his right footedness will make him a hell of a threat at the back post as an inside forward.
Or play him as the right striker in my front 3 with Target Man support and train his strength He also has 4.5 potential and is 3 right now to show you how good his is
Scheduling fail:
Good thing you've got a big squad, eh?
Yer.. It's tough though cos half of them are youths who have never played a competitive game in there lives...
Yeah Iceland is scheduling hell
Oh well it gives my youths a chance for some match experience
6 games in 10 days? What's the problem?!
I forgot to say that 4 of those were cup games, one being the SuperCup... I want the quad this year so I needed to play well in them all...
KFK are now the proud owners of a 13,000 all-seater stadium. The largest stadium in Iceland!
Very Nice!
Why thank you, I am still filling it out most weeks though. I had 13002 people in the first game (capacity is just over 13,000) so hopefully another expansion will come. We also improved our training and youth facilities again.
Yeah you will, This is the 2nd time straight I'm expanding my stadium and also training facilities are upgraded too
To think my stadium was 3000 capacity about 5 seasons ago :P Damn glory hunters costs me money :P
I started out in season 1 with a 1000 seater lol
I had a 1500 capacity stadium with 500 seated in my first few years
Season 16 July Half Season Update - Urvalsdeild:
Results | League Table
So much win, can't say much more.
Surprised at the table?
The European Seeding still the same. However if you look at the table we should get an upgrade next year: Clicky We also improved a lot in the European standings, getting into the Knockout rounds helped a lot.
Finances | Transfers
Now over 13000 seated, we own the largest stadium in Iceland but really need to keeper succeeding in Europe.
The new transfer is an 18 year old Turkish D RC from FC Bayern II who looks the bomb.
Any information you want then just ask.
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I'll start off by saying I love your thread and have followed it for a while. I am new to FM and the little FM I have played has been with larger teams but i decided to start a journeyman save starting with lower league clubs, much like your Iceland club. I was just wondering how you found all these good players that you signed on Frees and the players from places like Africa. Do you look for them yourself or what?
Thanks for the help
Any of your games been called off for volcanic activity yet?
hahaha no the volcano's went dormant again or the league doesn't care lol
Real team play under volcanic ash!
Ok, first of I'm impressed with my chairman. And second OMFG:
You know you have a good prospect when Real Madrid are coming offering you money...
The Bastardo bid is now at £10.4m
Negotiated it to over £20m.
Last edited by Flamers; 16-03-2011 at 19:41.
woah thats sweet... most I got actually offered is 5 for one lol.... hope you can keep that kid at least until you can get max money
Weirdly a £7.5m and a £2m offer were accepted for different players after! I think it's because Bastardo is a legend so it will take a lot to take him away.
domination expected now mate.
European development is now a must. Good luck
Funny no one ever bid yet for my uber striker, must be cause he's known to be the man
Season 16 Review - Uravlsdeild:
League Results | Icelandic Cup Deildabikar Results | Icelandic Cup VISA-Bikar Results | Icelandic Supercup Result | European Results | League Table
Perfect season. We won everything we could have, only 3 draws all season.
I didn't take a screenshot of the European groups or the odds but basically we are 200-1 and you can see the group in the fixtures. Our great result was against Real at there place, we had far fewer shots but just seemed to get the into the net. Close range shots and keeping possession seemed to work well.
We had the league secure with 3 games left this season which was great, we had it with 4 games left due to a huge goal difference. To complete our rout of the league we got the 2 of the top 3 Golden Boots , the 2nd best player of the year the winner didn't deserve it IMHO, the 3 Young Playesr of the Year (the winner is the Boca striker who is now at Real Madrid), 7 players in Team of the Year!, the 2 best goals of the season and I won Manager of the Year!
Finances | Transfers
Now £30m in the bank again which is good for the club.
Brought more and sold fewer however the £2.5m profit that was made on my Boca striker who had been here for 6 months helped.
Key Players
1. Franklin Bastardo. He has never been upset, is currently a club legend and rightfully so. His value is also creeping up as well.
2. Blessing Salami. He is becoming better and better and is really starting to show his class. He presence at corners is also a great help.
3. Claudio Sanchez. A classy keeper, he's not the best but seems to get the job done so I'm happy with him.
Youth Players
1. Johann Hallgrimmson. Another season, another switch, this time £10.5m to Lazio.
2. Garðar Sævarsson. HE still isn't good enough to break into the first team yet. A few more years of development should help him though, he is starting to show some promise.
If you want any more screenshots then just ask me.
I'd have Salami on my home shirt and Bastardo on the away
In our off season we are playing Brisbane Roar They are paying us £170k for the trip :P
Season 16 - International News:
Ivory Coast Results | Africa Cup Of Nations Group | World Cup Qualifying Group Round 3 | Africa Cup Of Nations Qualifying Group
I feel like I have hit a brick wall with Ivory Coast, I got as far as I could but South Africa seem to have become a massive force in African football. I starting look for a new nation in August and got several offers.
Peru Job Offer | Uruguay Job Offer
I applied for loads of jobs in early November and only Peru and Uruguay got back to me. Both of the squads were not great and I didn't think I could get much higher than they were.
Croatian Job Offer | Croatian FA Expectations
I have moved from the 53rd ranked team to a team 40 places above them, 13th! I doubt that I can keep them there but I can try!
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Hey your croatian job offer and expectations link aren't properly linking
Try now
Good luck at Croatia. I'm sure you can do something with them
Great job, and I just offered the Croatian Job too they're ranked 5th in the world. Iceland is 147th, I think I'll copy you... I can't do a thing w/Iceland
When the Iceland job comes up I will take it as it's more in keeping with my save. I have wanted a European job for a while as it is the home of football basically.
Being there in the year and a 1/2 I saw the team ranking go from 115th to 151 for awhile
Nice job on getting a European country to manage
Way to go, moving up to Croatia! Stepping stone to greater things, like Belgium.
Belgium football is not the greatest footballing nation in my save :P I'm hoping to manage France, Spain or England at some point in this save.
Oh and Croatia are now 11th in the world
And I'm the best manager in Icelandic history and the 10th best from England
Excellent... likewise here... yeah Belgium is lame... except they always seem to beat England though lol
Season 17 Prevue - Urvalsdeild:
Results | Expectations | Media Expectations
We did well this season and managed to qualify. It seems to be that if we can get a lead we win by miles, if we don't we lose.
Expectations are normal.
Finances | Transfers
Shareholders took £8.25m this season, also Lillestrom cancelled the link so no more loans from there.
Not many transfers.
Still looking good
Key Signings
1. Thierry Diaby. Released from Real Madrid with nearly 50 youth caps. He will be part of my midfield rotation.
Youth Spotlight
None, carp again.
If you want any more screenshots then just ask me.
wow save that money up, need to spend more on player salaries!
That's a crazy amount of youth caps!
Another great season, well done. Impressive result over Napoli too, was that enough for 2nd in the group?
It was, the knockout rounds have been drawn but I don't but to ruin the surprise. All I will say is that it's a touch easier than last time....
Heh, when did you change the league names? I didn't catch that before.
What do you mean? I have always used the Icelandic ones?
Ah, "Flamers League" must be a preseason tournament? I always get confused by the season you play up there.
Oh that, yer I did a Cup and a League and was told I won the quad twice.. FAIL :P
Really great game you have going on with a team that a bunch of Bowling buddies are playing with, Keila means Bowling in Icelandic..
Only thing I would like is to see you use more Icelanders )
Also how is Þór Akureyri doing, my local team )
Promoted from 1. Deild Karla in 2014 and never finished lower than 8th in the top flight, reached Europe a couple of times but went out first time.
Thanks for the explanation
I got 5 Icelanders on my first team!
3 Natives :/
My best native was brought from me and is now making the trip around Europe...
Season 17 January February and March Update - Urvalsdeild:
Results | Finances
A perfect start to the season really. We pushed Athletico Madrid, even going ahead at there place but it wasn't too be.
We are still nice and well off though.
Transfers | Squad
Another big spend, £6m on a 20 yer old German keeper who looks that he could be very helpful.
The squad is shrinking slightly which is good.
Last edited by Flamers; 21-03-2011 at 16:18.
Yours is still probably smaller due to the scheduling failure that is Iceland. Currently I'm looking at 11 players on international duty some matches.. Luckily it's only 1-2 per season.
Yeah Iceland is a scheduling failure, there's always that 1 international week that Iceland's league ignores...
Blessing Salami is the best player name ever.
I just realised my best 3 players are all 19... WOW....
Wow indeed. Have fun with that either by playing them or cashing in. Hehe.
I want to keep them, as I do with all of my players. I am one of those FM players who hordes players
Heh likewise, but we need them in Iceland
how you finding attracting world class players?
Impossible. No other word. My best chance is buy them young and train them up, hence the average squad ages of 23 (including 3 over 30's!)
could you post a screenie of average attendance please?
Ok, I shall do it next time I load FM up. I'm having a few days break to do exams and be with the girlfriend
Thanks pal, good luck with the exams!!
Exams??? Girlfriend???? FM2011?????
The choice is simple, play while studying... have the GF play with you...