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Well are all the teams going to be located in England? Because if you are using teams from all teh small club to big club challenges, you might need to load players from other nations as well as loading England.
Well are all the teams going to be located in England? Because if you are using teams from all teh small club to big club challenges, you might need to load players from other nations as well as loading England.
they'd all be in the English League, I don't see why any loading of players from other nations would be needed :confused:
m's big brother sign up idea- 11 players sign up and every Wednesday the players nominate two people who they believe should go up for eviction, this will be based on Tuesdays match result/player stats etc. Then another match will be played on Thursday and then on Thursday evening and Friday morning non-players vote who they want to leave. I will add the players to a team in the Blue Square South. I would like help on what attributes etc to give the players, thanks.
Oh I would be keen to submit my own AD Fafe current squad as well, even if they haven't completed the challenge, would be great to see them competing against the rest of the stars
Give the rubbish nations a chance - AI Experiment
It's been quite a while since I ran a thread on these forums, but I've decided to make a return with this AI Experiment, however I just wanted to make sure that something similar hasn't been done before?
Using the 2 Malaysian Leagues, the aim is to take some of the worst nations from around the world (2 * 14 clubs + 3 or 4 nations that hopefully will replace the relegated teams) and give them a club in the Malaysian league structure, based in their own country so that overtime it should hopefully produce better youngsters for their nation.
Aim of the experiment will be to see how these clubs affect the quality of players coming through for that country and how nations in different FIFA continents will be affected in their chase to get to the World Cup for the very 1st time.
South America would be ignored, but national teams would be drawn from N America, Europe, Africa, Asia & Oceania.
I know everybody makes some experiment or a database or talks about how they swapped premiership sides with BSS/BSN ... I'm curious, though, has anyone tried just reversing the reputation of the competitions and see how that turns out?
Outcasts. I have created exactly what you have suggested and replaced all possible promotable teams as well If you want the database as it is currently set-up to make your edit easier just pop me a PM Would also greatly interest me to see something similar in an experiment form, if you start it up I will follow along.
Haha, I knew I had seen something similar to my idea somewhere on the forums! Bit of a brain freeze moment this morning!!
I think what I will do is see out your sign up pans out and if I think I there is room for a different thread based on an experiment then I'll let you know just so we aren't covering the same stuff!
Doesnt worry me, let him do it. He's probably a more respected member and will generate more interest anyway.
I laughed.
I actually posted the idea before you.
This was posted a while ago. Just goes to show that people come up with similar ideas every now and again.
How's the ebay sign up coming along?
haza - You do it mate. Knowing m1234566778, he'll abandon it within 3 seconds of starting it. And no-one will sign-up due to his record of failing to finish a single sign-up/experiment that he has done.
it's not the fact that he doesn't finish them, a very small minority of sign ups are actually finished. It's the fact that he abandons them within a week/fortnight.
That's exactly what i meant Paul. Just couldn't phrase it right. I've been up since 3am dealing with vomiting sister and parents
Sent you a pm haza555, I think it would be best if he did it. I think I'm going to stay away from sign ups for a while, I'm not the best at doing them!
I just put a new rig together and just wanted to see how smooth FM was running. I also wanted to test the temperature so I've let FM run since friday on a savegame. The savegame is all the scandinavian leagues and the date is currently 2nd of January 2062. :-D If anyone is interested in this for any use, let me know. I will probably let it run until wednesday or thursday.
Thinking of making a Sign-up with a Created country(s) but aint done something like this for a while so could do with some advice please
you can only buy players from your rivals or favorite persons club
My plan was to reverse absolutely every reputation, from the premiership to the Blue Square north/south, so that BSS/N had 20, BSP the next level etc. I was going to call it oh no, we got promoted! or something along those lines, but I don't mind if you want it. It was also going to be for FM10.
Anyone got a blindingly good idea they would like to run for the SI Community Challenge #4?
If so, send me a PM (don't post it here).
The curious case of Benjamin Button- The sign up
10 players will be given the opputunity to sign-up as 36 year olds who are trotting along in Hyundai A-League. A place where many players at the same age come to see off the end of the careers with a bit of sun, a bit of extra cash and experience a whole different culture. However, joining the A-League will be only the beginning of the career for these future superstars!
Starting at the age of 36, each player will play their seasons like any other would at their age, except with a difference. One serious difference. Intead of getting older and older each birthday, the players will lose a year from their life. So say 'player A' was 29 years of age and had his birthday on Feburary 28, when Feburary 28 rolls along, we will be losing a year off his life and would now be 28 years old. This would happen every year until the age of 17 when they will essentially 'retire' from football.
Apart from this bizarre age reduction each year, it will run pretty much like anyother sign-up would be expected too!!
I hope everyone understands the spine of my idea and I will be looking for feed-back as its beginning (My summer holidays when they finally come round) get closer.
sounds like an interesting idea. Would we all be in one team or would we be all put into different teams?
Sounds good PD I'd be interested in it for sure
Good idea PluckaDuck. I would be interested to see what happens to the players attributes as they slip back into their teens.
What would be the starting CA/PA, repuattion, attributes, etc for the players?
I'd be interested as well
The Biggest Winner
Based on the Sky programme 'The Biggest Loser'
Users are grouped into two, with each pair being designated a Premier League club (minus the top 4 + Man City for the first season) to ply their trade at as strike partners. There will be 20 players.
The goal of the game is to achieve the highest goal to game ratio between them, with a minimum of 15 games required between the pair to qualify, at the end of the season the average of the two players goal to game ratios will be put against all the other pairs in a table, the bottom two pairs will be up for eviction and the rest of the contestants will decide which pair goes, until we are left with 4, at which point its every man for himself, with each player going to a seperate club of their choice with the aim of winning 'The Biggest Winner'
Along with the goal to game ratio however, there will also be a secret task each season, known only by me, that will contribute to attribute raises or, if you fail miserably, attribute reductions.
This is my latest idea and the only one in a while that I feel confident about, it's got a couple of similarities with some signups, GCBs FMX factor in particular, but I've made an effort to make it fairly unique, once I've ironed out any problems and sorted out the introduction and sign-up sheet I will make a thread for it, any opinions on what I should add or change?
Maybe to make it more like the programme that inspired the idea, you could make all the players a bit on the big side and edit a few kilos of the winners after each round too.
Good idea, you mean like depending on their goal to game ratio or a similiar factor shave a relative number of pounds off the porkers?
but isn't that just cosmetic anyway?
Yeah it's all cosmetic but it just adds a little bit more of the shows roots to the sign up
Yeah I'll see if I can incorporate some attribute boosts into the game subtly.
One last question, what CA should I give the players? I want them to be Decent/Good Premier League players, I was thinking 140?
The signup thread is up!
I got an idea for a kind of transfer challenge. Basically each week a team is chosen and people play as that team, trying to do good business in the transfer window, making good purchases, selling players for a good fee and bringing in good youngsters etc. When the transfer window is over a contestant can submit a screenshot of their transfers during the window. At the end of the week anyone from the forum has the chance to vote for the person they think has done the best transfer dealings and the person with the most votes could decide the next team.
This is a very basic idea so i thought i would let people give me feedback as their are a few flaws the main one being that people could cheat by either giving themselves a bigger transfer budget, or taking over another team to get them players easily. Also on most of my games the same teams go for the same players during the first transfer window so their may not be too much variety.
People have said before that there are not enough short term challenges in here and i think this could be a good one to do, feedback however will be much appreciated
I like that idea. Surely my vision of bringing back former greats on 2.5M season long loan deals, spending 60M+ on players not arriving until the following season and spending 13M on 30 year old strikers will mean I win easily, yes?
I think we'll all agree that my signings were the best
I dunno my £44m spending on a player who seems to always be injured, and the part exchange deal of that injury prone Croatian would challenge
Awesome idea Super Lampard, I really like it!
Would it actually work though Plucka? What happens if the players decide to retire mid-season?
Having just got back from Vegas and wanting a short sign-up to pass the Summer holiday time, I've had an idea for FM Roulette.
Basically, the sign-up will involve a roulette game and the contestants will be able to bet players using their values. For example, the Manchester United manager could bet Cristiano Ronaldo on RED. Depending on his worth, the winner would get their player back plus a monetary value that could be used to purchase new players. For example, if RED came up, the Manchester United would get Cristiano Ronaldo back plus his FM value, i.e. £35m or whatever it is. They would be able to use that money to sign players from other leagues, i.e. The Championship and down, European Leagues and Rest of World for the value of their players to improve their squad.
Teams would score points for winning things, i.e. Champions League, UEFA Cup, Premiership etc ... before another round of bets took place to shake things up further.
Anybody like the sound of it? Comments and ideas? A
I like the sound of betting away Bendtner, Adebayor, Diaby and co
Don't get me wrong I think it's a fantastic idea, but it would be a massive bummer for you if say some of the players retired in the second or third season.
You make a very good point Paul, I will investigate it some-more!!!!
Start them as 34/33 year olds if they start retiring
Ah that's why arrogantio said determination :o
FM2010 announcement
This might be worth a read if people are planning ideas for FM10
Theres gonna be some great ideas on here with the new utlities available in FM10
Could be starting Dafuges challenge in the Unibond or lower then?
tbf it makes it a good challenge if you start off with a pretty much blank squad, you could always just make it optional anyway, i.e. have the normal rules but if someone wants to they can start off at a lower level, although obviously it again depends on how easy to set up it is.
Could anyone work this out for me. Will Brentwood Town be playable? They are in the Ryman league.
This creating and editing of leagues is going to go down well on CSE isn't it?!
When I was reading the announcement, I immediately thought of CSE and all the people who want to create leagues and such!
Has given me an idea though: FMX-Factor - Manager Edition!
I was thinking of creating a whole new country, like a CSE Nation, where the league would be 1 tier of 20 and 2 tiers of 18, if i could get enough teams, and we would see what would happen. I will obviously flesh out this idea as i get more details on the competition creator, but it would be based on that premise
Oh guys the editor is going to be amazing...Creating leagues brand new (My Old World) will be amazing, and then also adding deeper leagues. So for example the A-League becomes a top level competition and then the lower leagues feed it ie NZ, Aus, Solomon Islands. Haha Could set-up a whole "Oceania Small Club Challenge"
Really this is going to make the whole thing amazing.
Could be some interesting challenges as well:
'dafuge's small club to big club challenge - Japanese style'
Although I do think that the challenges need to be careful on where they stand with editing, it is something I've got to sort out with my own challenge when I look into adding an extra tier to the challenge.
I agree Dafuge it needs to be very carefully controlled in the original rules. Of course it is all dependant on how much the editor can change doesn't it.
I think I am in the mood to drop in opinions so I will put mine forward on the editor thing
At first I thought it was going to be brilliant as well, I mean I could potentially play a a small to big club challenge in Venezuela, Honduras or even Jamaica!!
But then I thought, how enjoyable would it really be? I mean I don't think the editor will have that many league options available that you will be able to recreate a countries competiton structure (league and cups) to be the same as IRL. I am pretty sure you won't be able to replicate the Bolivian and Equadorian leagues with their Aperturas, Clausuras and Liguillas, all with their separate rules. It will also be difficult to replicate the exact cup competitions for certain nations. Therefore it has kinda put me off doing small to big club challenges in FM10 with edited leagues.
I think this just could be me being very picky and annoying, but I just wanted to see what the general opinion on this was. I do also agree that we have to wait for FM10 to come out and then see what the editor can do. And I also think sign-ups will be brilliant with the new addition
That is pretty much my thoughts exactly.
I don't want to play in an edited league, I just want to add one that has already been created by SI. Since step 7 in England has a lot of research already adding that might seem like just playing an official league that is already in the game.
While playing in Jamaica sounds great wouldn't all the squads be empty?
How many players from Jamaica are in the game if you load all players from Jamaica? That's probably the best way to see if that leagues would be viable without adding players manually.
I don't think Jamaica has enough players, just wanted to add an exampl that wasn't Latin American
But leagues in South America like Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela have enough players. Still all of them apart from Venezuela have crazy rules that I don't think you will be able to implement in a league editor...
And I think adding an extra tier to England would be possible, their rules aren't too different from the BSN/BSS, are they?
i am thinking of a who is the greedest?
players start with nothing but along the way options will give players decide which path to go and the one in the bottom can create the next decision...
I'm thinking about basing a sign-up around CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Personally, I feel if it's done right it could turn out to be a great sign-up. Recently i've really fancied starting a sign-up but i've struggled for ideas. After diving into restarting a sign-up which had halted and then not really being interested in it after a while, i'm really looking to think this through and not rush into it, and because of that it'll be run on FM10 if I can develop the idea enough.
So, I came in here to get some help developing the idea, and to see what people think of it.
A few of the ideas i've got rattling around my head at the moment are:
- Having a series of 'murders' within the footballing world. One of the problems I can see with this is that it may come across as a little 'tasteless'. I'd write a 'short-story' to set the scene and then at some point reveal a group of suspects and drop certain clues that need to be picked up on to solve the 'murder'.
- I was also contemplating having the users who are taking part obtain higher ranks as they solve 'murders'. This could mean that those at a higher rank would have some sort of advantage. An extra clue, or getting the list of suspects sooner. Alternatively, it could make the whole thing a little harder for them. For example, the list of suspects that goes to those who are a higher rank could be longer and so making their job a little more difficult. This would then mean that their would be a substantial use of the PM system, and i'd have to rely on those participating to keep some things to themselves.
- A possible way of determining the 'victim' and the 'murderer', and possiblty the 'suspects', could be to simulate the weekend fixtures throughout the English leagues (i'll probably use the English leagues due to my familiarity with them or it may be the top leagues around Europe) and use the first player sent off as the 'murderer' and the first player to be injured during the weekend fixtures would be the 'victim'. A possible way to determine the group of 'suspects' would be to take the second red card of the weekend, then the third, and so on. Although, the list of suspects would probably have to be players who are similar (e.g. play for the same team, same age, same nationality etc...) as it'll probably help tie in with the 'setup story' and not make it too obvious.
If you read through that, then thank you. As i've stated, this idea is very much just a thought i've had. I'm giving myself plenty of time to try and develop it into something which could work well as a sign-up. There are a lot of gaps in my idea, and that's where I need help. All feedback is welcome and greatly appreciated.
That sounds like a cracking idea tom.
Thanks Weeeman. I've got from now until at least the end of Oct to develop it. I'm just hoping I can bring it all together into a feasible sign-up plan.
It does sounds like a good idea, and will be great if you can pull it off
The new editor will make it interesting as everyone is saying but we won't know about it until we get our hands on it.
Looking forward to people creating the San Marino and Italian Serie D as lower levels than Serie C2 and an active San Marino league should benefit the San Marino Challenge
I'd probably be more interested in the said challenge in domestic San Marino. Would we have to do it dafuge style, or could we just be Murata?
Alright, I am definitely looking for feedback on this, as I think it could be a great sign-up and it will allow for a lot of the community to be involved, and I would start the information gathering as soon as possible, ideally this weekend.
For FM10, with the new competition editor, as I stated a page earlier, I am looking at creating a nation based on the CSE Community. I will be basing an entire league structure on it, having 3 tiers, the first with 18 teams and the bottom two having 20 each, if I am able to fill up all the slots. Right now I would be looking for people to create teams, based on this years editor, and I will provide more information as more information becomes available through the blogs and such.
So right now I would just need team, stadium, chairman, and playstyle information, just like it can be done in the editor, then when I ahve more information about league structure, reputation, and the registration rules, I will have a draft (or something similar) for all the players in the teams.
I am just trying to get a feel for whether I would be able to get 58 people interested.
They thought they had seen it all, Brazil the Kings, Spain the Impressive...
That's my sign up, you can probably see it as soon as you enter the forum but it's seriously lacking in posts with over 25 places left to allocate.
Basically It's a new nation in the place of Yugoslavia that when created will challenge the Global Stage and it will be comprised of you guys but only if you post for more info visit the thread otherwise post please!
My thoughts Spartan5:
- Good idea in theory and I think there might be a few sign ups similar to this in FM10.
- 58 players is a tough ask - ok there are 53 players in the Eurovision sign up, but that requires 1 post in creating players, unlike this that would probably require a series of players.
- A 58 player draft system (if used) would just create chaos in my opinion. Robert's EPL draft contained 20 players and that took an age.
- I'd focus on a small league system - if you want prom / reg, then aim for fewer teams in each league I reckon.
12 then 10 and 10 is a nice friendly league system
my draft took ages because I was rubbish with that spreadsheet and even when I asked you for help I still got it wrong
It wouldn't be a draft persay, it would be more like my failed England Takeover signup, where I give each team a certain amount of money to spend on players and they start with that squad, but I am open to making the league smaller, it was more based on interest how big the leagues would be.
even if you did get 53, it would be way too much work for you considering you'd probably get randomers signing up who never come back. What MeLikeFM suggested sounded qg though.
Yea, I will prob make it smaller then, but I want to find a way to get the most active users in it with maybe a couple random people ad hope they participate.
Hey, I've got two challenge idea's here, I've been thinking about them and want to know what you think!
Fall From Grace
The goal in this challenge is to take over the best four teams in any nation. (E.g, Man.Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool) and attempt to get them all relegated from the Premier. Obviously, this won't be possible in one season, so it should take two to get them all into the Championship.
After you've wrecked their premiership career, you could try going all the way and getting them down to League 2, or even the BSP/ BSN/BSS. It would be interesting to see which clubs would come out top.
And if you want, as an extra, once you have done that in England, move on to Italy or Spain, Germany, France or even Scotland. Your manager is bound to get sacked, so once they do, retire and start a new manager as manager of the club that sacked you. This will be quite hard, to wreck the top 4 completley. But I think that it would be quite pleasurable, especially if one of the top 4 is your rival club...
The Glory of Youth Players
In this challenge, feel free to take control of any club in any of the leagues- but I recommend teams with good youth systems (AC Milan, Arsenal, Ajax, Barcelona).
Your board has been taken over by a very poor bussinesman, who cannot afford to give any transfer budget to the club.
You cannot buy any new players
If a club makes an offer for one of your players, you must sell them.
You can only add to your first team squad with your youth players and reserves.
The aim is to get your full squad full of your home-grown youth players.
Because of the awkwardness in this challenge, if you are sacked you can retire then go back to that club.
Please tell me if you will give these challenges a go, or if they are a good idea!
I think the first one is a decent idea, but it would be very hard to get such big clubs relegated. It would be easier yet still difficult with clubs like Spurs, Everton, Aston Villa, Newcastle... oh wait .
The second idea is also a very good idea, these are the kind of challenges that look good on paper, but nobody ever does them :/
Last edited by PaulHartman71; 21-08-2009 at 10:52.
What I'm about to do (Just setting up the game now) is buy awful players for millions, and do everything i can to make the 1st teamers happy. Release bad media comments, discipline them, never play them, and offer them to interested clubs for no money at all.
Should be good, I would love to see Rooney's face when I transfer list him
And I agree about what you said about them looking good on paper! I'll probably forget about it after telling everyone how fat Mike Ashley is.


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IEA's "Golden Age of Gas Scenario" Leads to More Than 6°F Warming and Out-of-Control Climate Change
The International Energy Agency has just issued a special report titled, "Are We Entering a Golden Age of Gas?" The answer to that question is "yes" only if you are a natural gas producer who doesn't care much about humanity. For the rest of us, the report makes clear natural gas by itself does nothing to avert catastrophic climate change. Quite the reverse.
The UK Guardian's story put it well:
Natural gas is not the "panacea" to solve climate change that fossil fuel industry lobbyists have been claiming, according to new research from the International Energy Agency.
Reliance on gas would lead the world to a 3.5C temperature rise, according to the IEA. At such a level, global warming could run out of control, deserts would take over in southern Africa, Australia and the western US, and sea level rises could engulf small island states.
Not exactly a champagne moment.
UPDATE: I've added a featured comment (and link) by Tyler Hamilton, business columnist at The Toronto Star.
Ironically, the IEA report is built around what it calls "The Golden Age of Gas Scenario (GAS Scenario)" — except, of course, the acronym for "Golden Age of Gas Scenario" should be GAG Scenario not GAS Scenario. And GAG is exactly what the planet would do if the dash to gas becomes our primary energy policy, rather than a high and rising price for CO2.
The reason is clear. Absent a high CO2 price, gas displaces as much low-carbon electricity as it does high-carbon coal. That was precisely the point made by Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the IEA, at a London press conference:
"While natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel, it is still a fossil fuel. Its increased use could muscle out low-carbon fuels such as renewables and nuclear, particularly in the wake of Fukushima. An expansion of gas use alone is no panacea for climate change."
The Guardian notes, "The IEA also warned that gas could push out renewables, if governments come under pressure to reduce renewables subsidies and opt for gas instead, as gas companies have been urging.
The report itself makes clear that in the GAG scenario:
Natural gas displaces coal and to a lesser extent oil, driving down emissions, but it also displaces some nuclear power, pushing up emissions…. This puts emissions on a long-term trajectory consistent with stabilising the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at around 650 ppm, suggesting a long-term temperature rise of over 3.5°C.
Note that the GAG scenario assumes that not only does oil production peak in 2020 — but so does coal!
Yet we still get 650 ppm and more than 6°F warming even with that incredibly optimistic assumption — and with the additional optimistic assumption that industrial coal consumption (and CO2 emissions) only rises 22% from 2008 to 2020. And assuming we don't have a lot of that gas leaking into the air (see New study questions shale gas as a bridge fuel and Is natural gas cleaner than coal?).
Oh yes, and then we have the assumption that we can actually stabilize at 650 ppm. In fact, once we go above 450 ppm, the carbon-cycle feedbacks are going to accelerate and shoot us to much higher levels of greenhouse gas concentrations — see "NSIDC bombshell: Thawing permafrost feedback will turn Arctic from carbon sink to source in the 2020s, releasing 100 billion tons of carbon by 2100."
In any case, 650 ppm is probably sufficient to lead to the ultimate disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet and many tens of feet of sea level rise — see New study of Greenland under "more realistic forcings" concludes "collapse of the ice-sheet was found to occur between 400 and 560 ppm" of CO2. That SLR is likely to kick in sooner rather than later — see JPL bombshell: Polar ice sheet mass loss is speeding up, on pace for 1 foot sea level rise by 2050.
Finally, back in October, the National Center for Atmospheric Research published a complete literature review, "Drought under global warming: a review," (See NCAR analysis warns we risk multiple, devastating global droughts even on moderate emissions path). That study makes clear that Dust-Bowlification may be the impact of human-caused climate change that hits the most people by mid-century, as the figure below suggests (click to enlarge, "a reading of -4 or below is considered extreme drought"):
The PDSI [Palmer Drought Severity Index] in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl apparently spiked very briefly to -6, but otherwise rarely exceeded -3 for the decade (see here).
The large-scale pattern shown in Figure 11 [of which the figure above is part] appears to be a robust response to increased GHGs. This is very alarming because if the drying is anything resembling Figure 11, a very large population will be severely affected in the coming decades over the whole United States, southern Europe, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Chile, Australia, and most of Africa.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research notes "By the end of the century, many populated areas, including parts of the United States, could face readings in the range of -8 to -10, and much of the Mediterranean could fall to -15 to -20. Such readings would be almost unprecedented."
For the record, the NCAR study merely models the IPCC's "moderate" A1B scenario "" atmospheric concentrations of CO2 around 520 ppm in 2050 and 700 in 2100, which is pretty darn close to the GAG scenario
So much for a Golden Age.
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Not only is gas threatening to crowd out renewables, cheap natural gas — viewed as an input fuel — is dramatically improving the economics for unconventional oil. More cheap gas means more dirty oil. Not a good combination. http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2011/05/26/higher-oil-prices-arent-leading-to-higher-clean-energy-investments-sadly-its-quite-the-opposite/
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Let $n,k$ be positive integers. Is there a closed form of the sum
$$\sum_{s=0}^{k} \binom{n}{s} \binom{s}{k-s}\text{?}$$
By that I mean a representation which is free of sums and hypergeometric functions or alike.
Combinatoric interpretation: This is the number of possibilities to distribute $k$ balls in $n$ urns, where each urn has at most $2$ balls.


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I'm looking to get prepaid SIM cards while I'm travelling in SE Asia this fall. How is the availability of micro SIM cards (i.e. the kind you use for Iphones) in Vietnam and Cambodia. And more specifically in Hanoi and Phnom Penh. Is it regularly available or should I bring a phone which can use the regular SIM card size?
I can't vouch for micro SIMs, but this wiki (very handy) will give you the lowdown on getting prepaid SIMs most everywhere you need to go. Shops or airport kiosks will probably know more about getting a micro SIM. If all else fails, though, you can use a SIM cutter.
I can't say about the smaller places, but in the big cities like Hanoi, Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh it's fairly easy to get the sim cards. (both normal and micro sim's)
it appears that the 3G network is also quite good, and not expensive. (check viettel.com for some information)
You should travel with a micro (or nano if you have an iphone) sim cutter. They are relatively cheap to obtain off ebay. This will make your life much simpler as you can obtain regular sim cards everywhere.


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Upsets happen in every sport. If they didn't, we wouldn't watch. But what happened in soccer last week was remarkable even by the standards of what we're used to seeing.
On Tuesday, Bradford City advanced past Aston Villa of the Premier League to the final of the League Cup, a competition reserved for the 92 teams in the English game's top four tiers. Bradford is in League 2, the lowest level of fully professional soccer in England. The last time a club that far down the pecking order reached a cup final was 50 years ago.
And then Luton Town—which plays in the Conference National, the fifth level of the food chain—won Saturday at Norwich of the Premier League, reaching the Sweet 16 of the FA Cup. It was only the seventh time since 1945 that a nonleague club advanced this far in the competition, but it was the first since 1989 that a club outside the four highest echelons, known as "the league," eliminated a top-tier side. To put this in appropriate context, 758 clubs from rank amateurs to Manchester United competed in the FA Cup this season, and only 18 teams are left.
Domestic competitions and such David vs. Goliath days are generally absent from U.S. sports. Maybe the only comparable event is college basketball's NCAA tournament. But there are 347 teams playing Division-I hoops, and only 68 qualify for March Madness—meaning even the No. 16 seeds lorded over their own conferences.
That is not the case in soccer. Neither Bradford nor Luton is particularly impressive among even its peers. Bradford sits in 10th place in League 2, and the first-leg win over Aston Villa was its only victory since December. Luton is sixth in the Conference, nine points away from automatic promotion and one spot away from the four-team playoffs, which award one other promotion spot.
And yet both clubs have pulled off impressive results in their cup runs. Bradford eliminated a team from the second tier (Watford) and three Premier League clubs (Wigan, Aston Villa and Arsenal) on its way to Wembley. Luton beat Wolves, a second-tier team that was in the Premier League last year, and now Norwich, currently 13th in the Premier League table.
The romantic twist on all this is that many fans of Luton and Bradford have tasted the top flight in their lifetimes and are now stuck lower down the league lists largely for events beyond their control. Bradford was in the Premier League between 1999 and 2001, but overspending led to the club being placed on two occasions in administration, the British equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The club has been in League 2 since 2007 and fought to avoid relegation in the past two seasons.
Luton was a top-flight fixture from 1982 to 1992, winning the League Cup in 1988 and reaching the final again a year later. Then it slipped down the League pyramid. In 2008, Luton was docked 10 points for financial irregularities and was punished again a year later, this time with a 30-point penalty that sent it down to the Conference.
For their long-suffering fans, it isn't hard to see how recent events are a reminder of what was and what might have been. Of course, party-poopers will throw out the usual caveats. The League Cup and FA Cup aren't particularly lucrative in terms of prize money, so some bigger clubs tend to play youngsters and reserves, especially in the earlier rounds. Avoiding relegation and achieving promotion—or, for Premier League teams, a place in European competition—are seen as more important goals.
But that doesn't apply to all clubs. In fact, the Arsenal team that was knocked out on penalties by Bradford in the quarterfinals was Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's best at the time, much like the Villa team that lost to Bradford in the semifinal. Luton beat a Norwich squad that included just four players who appeared in at least half of the Canaries' Premier League games this season—but it is likely that the lowest-paid Norwich player on the pitch made at least 10 times as much as the highest-paid Luton player.
It is hard to overstate the disparity of resources. The 20 Premier League clubs will split more than $900 million in domestic television revenue alone this season; the 72 clubs in the second, third and fourth tiers will share $134 million, with the bulk going to the second tier. As for the likes of Conference clubs like Luton, they have a revenue-sharing TV deal worth almost nothing last season.
And here's the thing: This past week was as a reminder that wages and reputations only matter so much on the pitch. Soccer is still about 22 guys, four officials and a ball. Most things can happen—and they often do. Norwich wasn't the only Premier League club dumped out of the FA Cup by lower-level opposition. Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur fell to second-tier Millwall and Leeds United. Liverpool and Queens Park Rangers were eliminated by third-flight Oldham Athletic and Milton Keynes Dons. Even Chelsea—the reigning champion of Europe!—was held to a 2-2 draw by third-tier Brentford. They will square off next month to settle the tie.
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I do not mean a "wingman" in the definition of being a pilot, I believe that would be "un ailier."
I am looking for the definition of "wingman" in the sense of a fellow man who helps you pick up girls at a bar. Is there a good translation for this?
I do not mean a "wingman" in the definition of being a pilot, I believe that would be "un ailier."
I am looking for the definition of "wingman" in the sense of a fellow man who helps you pick up girls at a bar. Is there a good translation for this?
I would use compère.
Some of the definitions seem to fit perfectly:
About propositions:
The word I would use since I am french would be entremetteur (a go-between / a matchmaker), it is someone who will encourage a new relation to begin by promoting each part to the other, who matchmakes. It is usual to say:
Acolyte peut correspondre à "Wingman" même si la traduction exacte d'acolyte est "Henchman"
Acolyte: (Péjoratif) Personne qui est au service de quelqu'un d'autre, ou son compagnon.
Même sens que ami, associé, auxiliaire, camarade, compagnon, comparse, compère, complice, condisciple, confrère, copain, partenaire.
Ce terme traduit des notions de complicité, d'amitié et de fraternité dans les bons et les mauvais coups.
complice is worth considering. However it is a general term, so you may need to explain the context of girl-picking if relevant.
In my social circle, people tend not to translate "wingman", because a good translation seems to be lacking. Some people use "co-pilote", but in my opinion it doesn't sound right. "rabatteur" and "entraineuse" both carry on a sense of professional activity, and sometimes in a negative way, I'd avoid them too.
If you really have to translate, "acolyte" is the closest I can think of, but "wingman" itself works best, IMO.
It's true that "Ailier" doesn't seem right, mostly because it's used in sports and has a different connotation.
I naturally would use the term "acolyte", which is normally used for a preist assistant but also used outside this scope for any people who helps another one performing a task.
Perhaps rabatteur ?
From TLFi :
But a rabatteur can be outside the bar, in the street for example.
Also : entraineuse ; it's in bar, but it's not limited to prostitution. From TLFI :
Boute-en-train selon Émile Littré
1° Terme de haras. Cheval entier placé au voisinage des femelles à l'effet de les mettre en chaleur et de les disposer à l'accouplement.
2° Petit oiseau qui sert à faire chanter les autres.
3° Fig. et familièrement, homme qui met les autres en train, en gaieté.
Le 1° est biologique, le 2° romantique, le 3° le comique ... choisir selon la 'girl' à séduire.


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5 Oct 2012 6:05 AM #1
UI elements not Garbage Collecting
We use extended GXT elements all over our product that are not getting garbage collected once they are out of use. This is causing a crazy build up of memory that us devs didn't have issues with because we're running juiced machines but a few clients crash almost immediately.
The biggest and most problematic case is in our panel that we use to display a tree of results of an job the client ran..once they go to view a new result this is executed along with some other stuff in a set results method:
public void setResult(final JobProcessorDTO jobDTO, final ResultTreePanelListener rptl) { if (resultsTreePanel != null) { remove(resultsTreePanel); } resultsTreePanel = new ResultsTreePanel(jobDTO, rptl); resultsTreePanel.setColumnWidths(savedColWidths); } if (jobDTO.getMatchResults().size() != 0) { moreResults.setEnabled(true); } else { moreResults.setEnabled(false); } this.rptl = rptl; this.jobDTO = jobDTO; add(resultsTreePanel); layout(); }
Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated as we're stuck dead in the water with this one
5 Oct 2012 6:08 AM #2
Could you please move this thread to Ext GWT 2.x? Sorry about that..we are on GXT 2.2.5 and GWT 2.4.
5 Oct 2012 7:44 AM #3
How do you know it isn't getting GC'd? From the snippet of code provided, it appears you are overwriting the resultsTreePanel variable, which I assume is what you are referring to - assuming there are no other references to that object, it should be safe for the browser to garbage collect. If you do have other references, then it isn't leaking, just 'still referenced', and it would be wrong for it to be garbage collected.
Again, I don't have a lot of code to go off of, but here's another thought: GXT 2.x's TreePanel and TreeStore are designed to allow the data to be totally replaced in the store, and the panel to update accordingly - is there a reason you are just making a new panel instead?
For the most part, Java rules about garbage collection applies in GWT as well - just make sure nothing else referenced the object anymore, and the GC will pick it up on the next pass. The only exceptions apply to interacting with JS and the DOM - and in these cases, unless you are writing your own JSNI code, the rule is pretty simple - it also needs to be detached from the dom, i.e. from any other attached widget.
Chrome's Inspector has heap tools that might help you to track down any references you dont think should still be there. Compile to PRETTY or DETAILED so you can read the results before attempting to see what is getting referenced where.
5 Oct 2012 8:17 AM #4
Thanks for the reply..I'm using VisualVM and taking heap dumps after every iteration and each time it shows there being one additional ResultsTreePanel instance. I'm seeing the same thing when we use extended dialogs..when we close the dialog the memory doesn't reduce and the heap dumps show it still has one instance of that dialog..when we open that dialog again and close it now theirs two and the memory again increases.
Results tree panel is a bad name, it is really just an extension of ContentPanel and all it really has it in it is a grid, a DTO and an instance of an interface we use to make calls back to the ResultsPanel to update results. The reason we rebuild each time is because the grid to display the results have varying number of columns.
5 Oct 2012 8:54 AM #5
From quickly reading your post, it sounds like something else is referenced to that old instance - can VisualVM tell you what is referencing that object still?
8 Oct 2012 7:39 AM #6
I'm trying to use Chrome inspector to see whats going on but I can't see my classes within the heap. Under the Profiles tab, looking at my snapshot 1 heap, I can't seem to find anything that resembles my classes at all. Do I have to do something specific for it to include my classes?
8 Oct 2012 9:00 AM #7
As long as you have compiled your code (dev mode won't work) with the style parameter set to PRETTY or DETAILED, you should be able to read the constructor names. Then either start with the types that have lots and lots of instances, or filter for the class names you know might either be big, or have lots of containing data. This is what the top panel is for - starting with constructors that have been invoked, and showing instances that are still on the heap.
Once you focus on an instance (or a sub-property of an instance, or some other object in the tree, like dom nodes which seem to have a special way of being drawn), the bottom grid shows what references that object, so you can try looking for that object in the first grid, and so on, to find out why it is being retained.
Take a look at https://developers.google.com/chrome...heap-profiling for more details on how to use this tool. You could also consider filing a support ticket and granting access to the source or a running instance of your app to get some direct help with this.
8 Oct 2012 11:16 AM #8
hmm..Don't see anything useful in there at all. All of the constructor names are showing up as things like X, sz, Ssb, q1c, kS, OS, E2, lz. Bunch of jiberish
8 Oct 2012 12:15 PM #9
This means that you have compiled with style=OBF, the default, to produce a small output. This is unreadable.
Set style to be PRETTY or DETAILED.
9 Oct 2012 9:34 AM #10
Finally got it compiling to detailed by adding it as an option to the JRE on the build. Now we're even more lost as to what the issue is. Both a colleague and I have each ran the product, taken snapshots at several points through out the process of which it crashes. The snapshots on initial log in are the smallest at around 27.5MB for him and 10.5 MB for me. When we take a snapshot after the first step of executing the steps to reproduce the issue our heap sizes jump about 5-7MB. After that the heaps stay consistently at that size even around the time it is about to go down.
However, if we look at the browser process via task manager you can surely see the memory continually increasing through the process. Chrome starts around 100,000K for my instance and crashes when it nears around 600,000-700,000K.
This occurs in every browser but the two heap tools that we've tried now both don't reveal that anything is out of place through out the process. The only thing we see is the huge memory the browser takes up.
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I am presently using LAStools to analyse LiDAR data. Can LAStools classify the points into various features such as vegetation, roads, buildings etc? If so, how is it done?
LASTools can perform a ground classification using "lasground" and then can perform some limited feature classification using "lasclassify". The performance and quality of feature classification in point clouds is strongly influenced by the type of landscape collected. Some landscapes just do not lend themselves to acceptable automated results. The best feature classification is provided when the vendor performs a "hands on" approach where considerable editing is performed after a given ground/feature classification algorithm is applied.
I am not sure how many tools are implemented in the ArcGIS LAS Toolbox. You may want to look at the available LAS commandline executable tools for more detailed analysis.
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Is there a performance gain by handling data with stored procedures versus feeding it into functions after retrieval?
It depends a lot on what you're doing with the records, and what your network architecture looks like. For example, if the stored procedure is going to reduce the overall amount of data transmitted from MySQL to PHP, and you have a relatively slow link between the PHP instance and the database, a SP could certainly help you.
I would recommend you start with some of the 'heavier' manipulations you do to your data on the PHP side, see what you can write as a SP, and then benchmark it.
A point in favor of doing more processing in the database is that the database can't optimize what it doesn't see. As an example, setting a property of a persisted class to a constant value for all instances will definitely perform better if done in the database layer.
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Robert was a graduate of Carrollton High school where he enjoyed athletics and served as a manager for the basketball team. He had played baseball for the former Mechanicstown Kangaroo baseball team. He had been employed at the former Town Pump Restaurant in Mechanicstown.
Robert is a member of the Cornith Presbyertian Church in Mechanicstown. He was an avid Pittsburgh fan of both the Steelers and the Pirates. He also rooted for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Funeral services will be Friday, December 28, 2012, at noon in the Sweeney- Dodds Funeral Home at Carrollton with Rev. Ryan Hale officiating.
Burial will follow in the Mechanicstown Cemetery.
Visitation will be Friday from 10 a.m. until service time.


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The Jefferson Society, the leadership givers of the United Way of Jefferson County, will host its annual Jazz in the Garden at the home of Derek and Lisa Ferguson in Wintersville beginning at 6 p.m. on Thursday.
It will feature the jazz music of Dr. Francis Sunseri and his jazz musicians and cuisine by Piergallini Catering. Desserts will be donated by Sodexo Food Service at Franciscan University.
The event is held each year to thank the leadership donors for their faithful support of the United Way.
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READY FOR 'JAZZ' — Looking forward to Thursday's Jazz in the Garden are, from left, seated, Lisa Ferguson, host family; Anthony Mougianis, 2013-14 campaign chair; and Derek Ferguson, host family member, and standing, Anita Jackson, Jefferson Society Chair Jazz in the Garden, organizer and sponsor; infant Peter Giampolo with grandmother Kay Hindman, sponsor, Hindman Family Cos.; Daryle Griffin, president and chief executive officer of Brightway Center, sponsor; Christine Hargrave, Hall of Fame coordinator; Dave France, board chair for United Way; Beth Rupert-Warren, executive director of the United Way of Jefferson County; and Doug Orr, general manager of Sodexo Food Service at Fanciscan University.
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"It is refreshing and rewarding to work with my Jefferson Society team and to experience the faithful support by our Jefferson Society members year after year," said Anita Jackson, Jefferson Society chair.
"This is my seventh year, and each year we usually make our goal. In the 2013 campaign, the Jefferson Society raised $196,581.55 of the overall goal of $445,225.69," Jackson said.
During the evening's program, Christine Hargrave, the Hall of Fame coordinator for the Jefferson Society, will announce the 2013 inductees.
The honorees will be singled out for what the committee deems outstanding contributions to the overall cause of the United Way.
Donors making Jazz in the Garden possible include Dominick "Donnie" Teramana and the Hollywood City Center, the Hindman Family Cos., Brightway Center, Sodexo Food Service at Franciscan University of Steubenville and Jackson.


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The Peeshwank jumped in the car at the bus stop. I could tell he was excited despite the absence of my purse in the passenger's seat. (The purse means we are going to Sonic for Happy Hour drinks. No purse = No Sonic, which usually elicits extreme grumpiness from the end of the street to the house.)
Me: So, what's up, P?
Peeshwank: Can I stay home tomorrow?
Me: Why?
Peeshwank: Because it's Take Your Kid to Work Day and you work at home.
Oh crap.
I guess it was bound to happen eventually, but still. Remember when it was just Take Your DAUGHTER to Work Day? Yeah, those were good times. I could send my little man off to school under the whole "Sorry-you're-not-a-girl" guise. Now what do I do?
So I told him he could stay home as long as he writes when I write. When we're done, we'd edit, revise, and rewrite. Then we could track sales on our dashboard, do some Twittering to other authors, check out Publisher's Weekly to make sure our work is still on trend in the market, and send off our entries to all the Spring writing contests.
He scoffed and said, "Never. Mind."
Over dinner, we went into negotiations. He agreed to chronicle his day shadowing me which will be featured as a guest blog here tomorrow. Possibly.
If it's not too incriminating. If it is worthy of being read by the masses.
So, I'm going through my daily routine to see how I can make it an enriching experience for The Peeshwank and I think I'm going to have to rearrange things a bit. You see, my current schedule looks like this:
6:00 – 6:21: Check Facebook/Email
6:21: Put boy on bus
6:25 – 7:00:
Nap Write
7:00ish – 8:00ish: Run on treadmill while watching Sportscenter
8:00 – 8:30: Shower, dishes, laundry
8:30 – 11:00: Drink a pot of coffee while reading
11:00: Eat some wheat thins while reading
Noon: go to Sam's/Wal-Mart and get irritated with all of humanity
2:00: Read some more while dozing off occasionally
3:30: Wine time
Drunk-thirty: LOTS OF WRITING
You see my dilemma? I know, I know. Taking the kid to Sam's is like the LEAST enriching thing I could do tomorrow.


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STEUBENVILLE — An Eastern Ohio grand jury examining whether other laws were broken in the case of a 16-year-old girl raped by two high school football players prepared to resume work today after a......
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Call us whatever you want, friend, makes no difference. We are your friends, neighbors and relatives who live in this fine city with you.
The elite players in this "game" have a lot to lose, perhaps you are one of those.
The rest of us have already lost. We no longer trust our leadership because they are corrupt, driven by the want of power and money. Our towns awful reputation has given us the name Stupidville. We, the citizens, have allowed all of this to happen. It is time to come together and clean house, healing our fine city.
This is just the beginning, friend. Mark my words.
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Love you old lenny, you say what we old schoolers out here are thinking, but just can't put in words as you. Let's hope justice is served, but it is Steubenville and everyone in the country, not just here should now know what that indicates. A county that operates like Wash DC and looks like a mini Detroit. How much worse can you get. Take care
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Oh, you holier than thou idiots. How about letting the GJ do their job and let people be tried and convicted before passing judgement. Bill of Rights, anyone? The State was called in to eliminate anyone saying there was a cover up, very smart and the right thing to do. The BOE and SHS have done everything they have been asked by the GJ, the State and the Judge. Ease off people and let due process work. I am sorry that your hatred for all that is Steubenville over runs your American values.
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First it was, "We'll release a statement after the trial." The trial was over, and there was no statement. Then it was, "We'll release a statement after the GJ." I'm sure the next response will be, "We'll release a statement after those indicted have had their trials." I'm not holding my breath on the school district making a statement anytime soon!
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We await justice for Jane Doe from all those who tried to cover up the rape and protect the Big Red Football program. Steubenville is full of scum that needs to be scrapped off the top of the pond. Coach Sac should have been canned long ago for what he said and did about the rape, and now should go to jail along with the BOE & Principal who failed to do their duty, and those who supplied the houses & alcohol.
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Who exactly is the person in the school district that shields the coach from speaking publicly on the record? How can this anonymous person prevent a news organization from demanding a response? It seems there is a cabal- this coach , a principal who is subservient, a superintendent who genuflects at the coach's altar, a school board that values game tickets(another story) over moral oversight and the local press, which has neither the gumption nor the mission to investigate. What a sorry lot ,
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The fact that DeWine had to come into our town to get justice in this case is an atrocity. So many of our "leaders" dropped the ball on this or they even tried to cover this up in order to protect our football team and our championship-winning coach. This goes much deeper than just a rape. This is corruption, just like in drug cartel controlled towns in Mexico, we have our own little cabal composed of coaches, school administrators, government officials, school officials, attorneys, parents and law enforcement officers. Each of them has a piece of the big money pie that is Big Red football.
If just one big name in the house of cards falls, then the rest of them fall too. We all know who these big players are and they have been at this for years. How much longer will we support them and their crooked little cabal?
I and many others are done. We've had it. Please Grand Jury, do your job and get this filth out of our town and in prison where they belong. God bless yo
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When you go shopping, it seems that they only offer Glatt Kosher. I would imagine non Glatt would be cheaper. Is there anywhere that someone who is not Makpid (It is an American post world war phenomenon to be Makpid) on Glatt that you can purchase fresh meat with a reliable Hashgacha?
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As indicated, most meat available in America today that is up to conventional kosher standards is also glatt. From what I understand if I heard correctly from Rabbi Hershel Schachter, "glatt" was the excuse for creating a far superior standard of kosher in America than what had preceded it (e.g. requiring the slaughterpeople be Sabbath-observant).
When Rubashkin's was in business, Trader Joe's would carry some non-glatt meat that came from Rubashkin's plants; it had a shield-K kosher sign of a Rabbi Zeilingold. I was told from someone in the field that it was considered "reliable, though not glatt." But that has since gone the way of Rubashkin's.
I believe all the kosher slaughter done in America today that is up to conventional standards is done under either the OU, Star-K, or cRC; and I think all of them require glatt.
Go to the United Kingdom and you can find meat under the London Shechita Authority (a joint venture of the London Beth Din, the Federation of Synagogues; and the Sephardic organization) available in "plain", "glatt", or "Beis Yosef glatt." All are considered reliable (though many ultra-Orthodox in the UK instead go with the all-glatt Union of Hebrew Orthodox Congregations' "Kedassia" certified meat instead.)
CYLOR about what's considered a reliable hashgacha, but Hebrew National is widely available, has hashgacha (I don't eat it, but, as I say, CYLOR), and isn't glat.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation, released today, was the fifth and final new Star Wars novel released by Del Rey in 2012. I would say that Annihilation is more in the vein of Mercy Kill or Scourge rather than Darth Plagueis or Apocalypse but we'll get into that later. First, here is the official synopsis.
The Sith Empire is in flux. The Emperor is missing, presumed dead, and an ambitious Sith Lord's attempt to seize the throne has ended fatally. Still, Darth Karrid, commander of the fearsome Imperial battle cruiser Ascendant Spear, continues her relentless efforts to achieve total Sith domination of the galaxy.
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Joined by hot-headed smuggler Teff'ith, with whom he has an inexplicable bond, and wise Jedi warrior Gnost-Dural, Darth Karrid's former master, Theron must match wits and weapons with a battle-tested crew of the most cold-blooded dark side disciples. But time is brutally short. And if they don't seize their one chance to succeed, they will surely have countless opportunities to die..
Annihilation is the fourth novel in what is kind of a series of Old Republic novels based on the MMO with the same name. I say "kind of a series" because the individual novels don't really have an ongoing narrative and can essentially each stand on their own. If anything Annihilation is a sequel to the Dark Horse Comics series The Lost Suns which tells a previous story of our main protagonist Theron Shan. Reading this comic series before reading Annihilation is not necessary but it may help you get to know the characters better and understand some of the references they make.


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