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Before you go all what is this I don't even, yes, you are looking at sex doll that reviews video game hardware. From handhelds like the 3DS XL to racing wheels, this pleasure aid reviews them all.
The doll's name appears to be "Doll", and she has a huge collection of all the latest gaming gear, which she puts through the paces. So while Doll liked the Hori Mario Kart peripheral, she was less thrilled about using the Sony head mounted display to play WipEout (it make her head hurt—writing this post made mine hurt).
More recently, Doll liked the 3DS XL, saying that the large screen made the 3DS games easy to see and also made it akin to playing her 3DS games again for the first time. She also is a fan of Hori's arcade sticks, saying that they're solid and that she prefers them to controllers.
Surprisingly, her reviews are actual reviews—creepy, but still reviews.
Don't believe everything Doll says, though. This could be a stunt by Orient Industry, the sex doll company that made her. What's more, while reviewing Taiko no Tatsujin for the Wii, she scored zero points—"well, naturally," she blogged. This is a sex doll, remember!


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Mopar 906 Cylinder Head Improvements - Making The Most Of 906 HeadsWritten by on June 1, 2009 Making The Most Of 906 Heads
If you're like us, you remember the days when there were literally no aftermarket aluminum cylinder heads available for the big-block Mopar. Back then, enthusiasts who wanted more power either hand-ported their own heads using the Mopar Performance templates, or paid a professional to perform the time-consuming work. While the end result of hand-porting depends on the skill of the person doing the work, ported 906 heads can perform very well, and are generally able to provide enough flow for 600 or more horsepower in extreme cases. So why don't more racers and engine builders use the 906 heads? The answer is purely economical.
While 906 heads do perform well when ported, the labor involved with hand-porting these heads, combined with the cost of new valves, springs, etc, has made it more economical in most cases to simply buy a new set of aluminum aftermarket cylinder heads. So if you want the look of a factory head, or if the class you race requires a factory cylinder head, you could have a good chunk of change wrapped up in cast-iron cylinder heads. Realizing this, and knowing the potential of the 906 casting, engine builder Mike Ware of Muscle Motors decided to take action. Knowing that the hand labor of porting cylinder heads adds greatly to the cost, Mike decided to design a CNC program to port these heads, thereby reducing a good portion of the labor involved and making ported 906 heads more affordable than ever.
Starting with factory 906 castings, Muscle Motors completely cleans and inspects the heads before treating them to their proprietary CNC porting. This CNC machine work doesn't only address the intake and exhaust ports, but also reshapes the combustion chamber for more efficient flow. Once the machine work is finished, new guides are installed where needed, and the heads are assembled with Milodon 2.14-inch intake and 1.81-inch exhaust, one-piece stainless steel valves, Comp Cams retainers and 10-degree locks, and Comp springs to match the customer's camshaft. Though factory chamber volume is 79 cc's, the CNC ported 906 chamber volume is increased to 86 cc's. Hardened valve seats are available at the customer's request, and the heads can be further milled to reduce chamber volume if needed.
The net result is a set of factory appearing 906 heads, with well above factory performance, all at a reasonable price. After porting, the 906 heads flow an impressive 313.1 cfm on the intake side and 223.5 cfm on the exhaust side at .600-inch lift. Using the rule of thumb that cylinder heads have the potential to support horsepower double their intake flow, these heads are capable of 600 hp or more when used on a well-built engine. That kind of potential certainly makes the Muscle Motors CNC ported 906 a viable competitor when compared to other heads in the same price range, and gives enthusiasts a good product while retaining a stock appearance.
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Once ported, new valve guides are installed in preparation for a multi-angle valve job. Milodon one-piece stainless valves are used with Comp Cams springs and hardware.Valve seats are precisely cut for 2.14-inch intake and 1.81-inch exhaust valves. Hardened seats can also be installed at the customer's request.The Muscle Motors proprietary CNC program not only improves the intake and exhaust ports, but also blends the bowl area under the valves for a smooth transition.

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I am about to play a Drow Rogue-Fighter and I want to roleplay my character well, and this includes doing a voice. What is the proper voice for a [charismatic] Drow [Rogue-Fighter]? I was thinking something kind of low and blunt, but wanted to know if there are any audio or descriptive references available.
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The closest thing to an official sound for the drow language might come from TSR's The Drow of the Underdark (1991), which describes some drow vocabulary and phrases. The book describes drow speech as follows:
According to this, drow sound like elves, and drow adventurers are likely to speak with little or no accent. You can find several elvish language references on Youtube, including J.R.R Tolkien reading a poem in Elvish. Legolas from the Lord of the Rings movies is another good example, although a drow's cultural background would lend itself to a slightly more violent and selfish tone.
Search for sound clips from Icewind Dale 2, there's 2 drow clips for each gender if memory serves and are really good if that's what you're looking for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p651lYmaUkY, not the exact clip (it's someone imitating the voice clip) but very close, still looking for the original one (my IWD2 CD is broke and I can't reinstall it).
If you want to try to subtly remind the other players that as a Drow there may be something dangerous and sinister about you, you could try speaking something like Christopher Lee as Saruman in the LoTR movies (and many other villainous characters in his career).
Don't raise your voice, and try to keep your tone and pacing even. Enunciate and draw out all the syllables of the words you speak in character.
This may be not be exactly what you want, but many of the Forgotten Realms books by RA Salvatore have audo-book versions available. I think there are relatively few actual drow words in there, but you have, often rather good, voice actors taking pains to voice a drow and to give different voices/accents to different characters as they read.
Plus, they are rather entertaining on their own and worth listening to on commutes.
I have always thought of Drow as having scratchy sharp voices (think wicked witch of the west) based on the writings of the Forgotten Realms Underdark. That said there are always those who do not fit expectations (Mike Tyson for example). So If you want your Drow to sound different (Even from an accepted norm) I do not see any reason it could not.


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What is a 'Wet board'? First time I saw it was on this SE thread and it's not in the terminology thread either.
The term wet refers to the connectedness of the community cards. It's translatable to most all variants of poker depending on the game mechanics.
Specifically, there are three things to consider when judging the wetness of a board,
There are nuances regarding wetness. Wetness is relative to the opponents range. This is important when considering how to proceed against specific opponents, as the same board isn't wet for all types of opponents. For example, vs a tight opponent, a board consisting of high, suited, connected cards is wet, but not necessarily so for an opponent who is very loose. This is after consideration of the width of an opponents likely range.
A wet board is a board with many possible straights, flushes, straight and flush draws, and 2 pair hands that make sense.
For instance, a board of JcTd8d is very wet - there is a club flush draw, and hands like QJ, JT, T9, 98 are all very strong. Plenty of suited one and two-gappers also have a lot of equity.
In contrast, a flop of Ks9d6c is very dry - the only big draw is 78, and 2 pair is fairly unlikely (although many otherwise tight recreational players will play 69).
I know this has been answered, but I would like to offer a simple definition.
A wet board is one on which a single pair is not a significant favorite against a significant portion of a non-air range.
For example, on [Tc 9c 7d] continuing ranges that hit do not contain significant sub-ranges which are huge underdogs to any single-pair hand. This is not true for a board like [7h 2d 2c] on which hands like 66-33, comprising a fair amount of continuing hands, have poor equity versus a better pair.
I don't like defining wetness relative to a situation-specific range since it makes sense to speak about how your opponent perceives the board texture to have connected with your own range (the texture can thus be wet even though Villain's action-inferred range does not connect).


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For the second time in a week, the Pratt Community College women's basketball team reversed the outcome on a team that had beaten them earlier in the season. The victim on Saturday was Crowder College (MO), who felt the Lady Beavers' wrath 86-78.
Late last month, the Crowders had knocked off PCC at the Beaver Dome 80-67, so that was a 21 point turn-around for the Beavers.
Pratt had started off the week on Monday by turning the tables on Lamar (CO). In between the two revenge wins was a defeat of Allen County, so the Lady Beavers had a very good week at 3-0.
The PCC women go into the break at 10-3. They will be off for a few weeks for finals and the holidays.
January 2 they will get their final pre-conference tune-up against the McPherson JV, then the Jayhawk season is in full swing with games against Cloud County and Seward County in the first week back.
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Shannon Paul, at her excellent and Very Official Blog, wrote earlier this week about a situation where a company tried to pitch her via a comment on one of her blog posts. The product had nothing to do with the topic she'd written about (using her grandma's carrot cake recipe as a metaphor for sharing great content) and the pitch itself, for skincare products from a company called Yes-to-Carrots, came off as a "free billboard" advertisement. The story has somewhat of a happy ending, as the offending commenter later called Shannon to apologize. But trying to pitch via public comments shows a pretty incomplete understanding of effective blogger relations on the part of Yes-to-Carrots.
Pomegranates, however, are a different story. A few weeks ago, in my post about the changes to US Airway's inflight magazine, I mentioned that part of the magazine included an excerpt from the new book Rubies in the Orchard, which is Lynda Resnick's story of the founding and marketing of POM Wonderful pomegranate juice. I said I had read the chapter excerpt in the magazine and was likely to read the whole book at some point. It was merely a mention in a post that wasn't really about the book at all, but two days later I received the following e-mail:
I enjoyed your post, Blogs on Paper at 35,000 feet. Did you pick up the Rubies in the Orchard book yet? I'd be happy to send you some POM juice to enjoy while you're reading.
Send me your contact info and I'll get you some juice within a week or so.
I sent them my address, more to see what happened than anything else. Today, I received a package in the mail with a case of POM Wonderful juice, a personalized letter, and a fact sheet about pomegranates and their health benefits. I didn't intend to blog about their outreach, as it's really nothing new and bloggers are frequently targeted and pitched. But POM Wonderful's efforts were in such stark contrast to what I read about on Shannon's blog that in the end, I did end up writing about them again (although I'm sure they're sad to learn that my blog's audience is about 15 readers, including my dad). Perhaps most importantly for them, however, is that they've gained a customer: I really did like the juice and will probably buy it.
I'm sure Yes-to-Carrots and POM Wonderful both ended up at Shannon's and my blogs, respectively, via a Google alert on a certain keyword (although Shannon's follow-up post seems to indicate that her commenter may have been a regular reader). But what separates the carrots from the pomegranates was what they did with that info. POM Wonderful used it as an opportunity to send me a private e-mail. Yes-to-Carrots inappropriately posted a public comment to Shannon's blog. As Shannon noted in her own comment, "I can't think of an example where it would be a good idea to pitch someone in the comments."
Even though Yes-to-Carrots did the right thing by calling Shannon to offer an apology and trying to start a dialogue with her, she stated that she might now be hesitant to buy a product that she already knew of and liked. Yes-to-Carrots potentially lost a customer because of botched blogger outreach. POM Wonderful gained a customer because they did a good job. Sometimes being a little seedy is a good thing.
Update: Jeremy Epstein, who posted the original Yes-to-Carrots pitch on Shannon's blog, posted a "learn from my mistake" post at his own blog. Check it out – very impressive and goes a long way toward undoing the "damage" from the initial comment, in my opinion. Kudos to Jeremy!


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LAMPASAS (November 28, 2012)--A Central Texas man has been arrested in connection with a fire that severely damaged a Lampasas restaurant at which he had recently been hired.
Lampasas police, in a news release issued Wednesday, said Fythian "Junior" Phillips, 40, was arrested at around 1 p.m. Tuesday in Killeen on a Lampasas warrant charging arson.
The news release said Killeen police, the Killeen Fire Marshal's office, Lampasas police and the Lampasas Fire Department coordinated on both the investigation of the Nov. 18 fire at the Lucky Ranch Grill and on Phillips' arrest.
The news release said Phillips was taken to the Bell County Jail, but his name did not appear on an online list of inmates Wednesday afternoon.
Assistant Lampasas Police Chief Sammy Bailey told News 10 Phillips had only recently been hired at the restaurant.
The Lucky Ranch Grill, at 311 East Third St. in Lampasas was closed at the time of the fire, which was reported at around 10:20 p.m. Nov. 18.
Lampasas Fire Chief Terry Lindsey said firefighters got the fire under control quickly and were able to prevent the flames from spreading throughout the building as well as to other structures in the area.
Lindsey said the inside of the structure on the southeast side suffered the heaviest damage from fire and heat.
Lampasas police and fire investigators remained at the scene throughout the night and investigators from the state fire marshal's office arrived Monday to investigate the blaze.
Firefighters said at the time that they believed the blaze was intentionally set.


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Anybody who logged onto Facebook on election day got hit with a crazy number of "go vote!" messages. Most were from your friends, many were from the companies you've Liked. (We tried to make ours go down easier by pairing it with a picture of an adorable puppy.) But there were also some messages from Facebook itself. They were either just general messages to go vote or a list of your friends who've already voted (who then told Facebook that they voted, of course).
But here's where it gets interesting. Not everybody saw these messages. Four percent of Facebook users got no message. Why?
Because they were all being subjected to a big social experiment.
By splitting up the population into these experimental and control groups, researchers will be able to see if the messages had any effect on voting behavior when they begin matching the Facebook users to the voter rolls (whom a person voted for is private information, but whether they voted is public).
Researchers want to know if social pressure from Facebook affects people's decisions about voting. So, with Facebook's cooperation, they're seeing if the "your friends are voting" messages gave people the final push to perform their civic duty.
For most people, Facebook and politics are like potato chips and cupcakes — addictive on their own, but pretty revolting when paired together. The number of posts for (or more likely, against) a candidate before the election was topped only by the number of posts by people complaining about their Facebook feeds being hijacked by friends talking politics.
(Somebody could make a killing on a Facebook app that blocks all references to specific candidates. Get on that, innovators.)
But maybe the constant politi-chatter is reinforcing your political beliefs as it annoys you. You might roll your eyes when one of your friends posts "NOBAMA!", but maybe that post is a reminder for liberal voters to cancel out that guy's vote and a reminder for conservative voters to back that guy's vote up. Maybe individual political messages all blur together after awhile, but the combined effect of seeing them again and again every day helps you develop your opinion.
Think about it this way: Ask the next person you see which presidential candidate they voted for. Most people will answer quickly. Now ask someone how they voted for a specific local ballot measure. Many people won't even be able to remember.
And which are you more likely to see as a Facebook post — "NOBAMA" or "MEASURE 82, I CHOOSE YOU!"?
(Note to self: Make Pokémon themed bumper sticks supporting ballot measures that end in 2's.)


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I humbly ask for prayers for a new job, and a place to live. I completed my temporary job with the hospital on March 15th, and have not been able to find work since. I have my resume out a few places (including the company I worked for before the hospital). In addition, my roommate has moved out and is going to China for a year. I am unable to afford the rent on my place, and must be out of my apartment by April 29th. My spiritual father recommended that I not take on another lease until I have a job, so if I do not have a job by the end of the month I will have to put all my things in storage and impose on my brother (who lives 30 miles away). Please prayers that I will find a job and a place to live by the end of the month. Thank you.
Can you give us your Christian Name, so you can be included in my prayers? I had been out or work for -8- months, more or less, and God granted me reemployment effective this past Monday. May God Bless you in your job search.
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Hall of Fame:
Daniel6505, level 49: Destroyed enemies that were challenging TKE and slandering our name.
Wave_rida, level 50: Was former second in command of TKE, and was one of the finest leaders this alliance has ever seen. I am proud to have made the decision to put him as second in command
Member of the month:
Inactive/Retired Leaders/members:
Neakiaro, level 52 (quit) This Person Deserves the highest amount of shame and dishonor. Spit whenever you hear his name.
Wave_rida (Joined TDK after TKE disbanded.)


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5 Sep 2012 3:43 AM #1
Unanswered: Form and disabled fields: how to send their values anyway?
I've made custom form with some fields.
When the user checks one checkbox, some other fields are disabled.
This is just visual, I still need to send all the values.
The problem is that
But I need to send them anyway. All my server code is based on the fact that I get all the fields. This is for homogeneous reasons (it's like that with all the other stuff with stores: I send all the fields)
onSave: function(){ var form = this.getForm(); if (form.isValid()) { var data = form.getValues(false); data.id = this.idPartenaire; data = Ext.JSON.encode({ data: data }); this.forEachField(function(){}); Ext.Ajax.request({ headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, url: '/json/gestion/item/partenaire/', method : 'POST', jsonData : data, params : { mode: 'update' }, success: function(form, action) { console.log('success'); }, failure: function(form, action) { switch (action.failureType) { case Ext.form.action.Action.CLIENT_INVALID: Ext.Msg.alert('Failure', 'blabla'); break; case Ext.form.action.Action.CONNECT_FAILURE: Ext.Msg.alert('Failure', 'Ajax failed'); break; case Ext.form.action.Action.SERVER_INVALID: Ext.Msg.alert('Failure', action.result.msg); } } }); } },
I'm talking about a generic and proper way, because my workaround is like that:
if (form.isValid()) { var data = form.getValues(false); var form = this.down('form').form; data.livraison = (form.findField('livraison').checked ? 1 : 0); data.livraison_delai = form.findField('livraison_delai').value; data = Ext.JSON.encode({ data: data });
5 Sep 2012 3:48 AM #2
what if you use readOnly instead of disabled? you can change a field to read only using the setReadOnly method:
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I've tried it, but is doesn't appear "grayed" and the user interaction is "broken" (= the user doesn't know he can't change it).
And when the user clicks on the other checkbox (the one that 'grays' the other ones), there's a feeling that nothing happened, because there's visually no change (= the use may try to modify some values, and because they became readonly this won't work, which may be very confusing).
5 Sep 2012 4:11 AM #4
but if this works by getting the values of those fields, then you can use it. you can change the css class of the fields to 'x-item-disabled' using addCls method (and removeCls to change it back to normal)


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What would happen to me if, while living in Europe, say, in the 13th or in the 15th century - in fact, in any time of the existence of the Roman Catholic Church before reformation - I openly declared that I didn't believe in Christ or in the existence of God. What consequences would I have been facing then?
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You would have been excommunicated by the church and shunned by the community. But then again, for some individuals, the solace that comes from "having the courage of your convictions" and "being right" may have made that option more palatable (see de Tocquville below).
People would have thought you odd, and possibly a public health hazard. (After all, God could punish the village for your unbelief.) But, if you were willing to move, you'd probably have been ok.
There were all sorts of dissenters - Waldensians, Hussians, Huguenots. When they became large enough to threaten the local potentate, sure, you'd be dealt with- but the fact that these groups could begin to number in the tens of thousands shows how tolerant the High Middle Ages could be.
Sociologically speaking, the community simply cared about other things far more - surviving the Plague (1347 - 1350), resisting invasions (When Genghis Khan invaded Poland in the 1240s, people thought the world was coming to an end!), ignoring the Papal politics of your time. Heck, for at the least the latter half of the 14th Century, you had three Popes to choose from. They were so busy fighting amongst themselves, they would have had little time for you. And, if you were a peasant, you were either so busy trying to make a living (before the Black Death) or choosing which of several jobs you wanted (after the Black Death), religious conformity would have been low on your list.
Duns Scotus, for example, was able to get away with chipping away at the ecclesiastical authority of the Pope pretty signficantly - and he prospered.
It is unlikely that you would have been publicly "executed" - you just would have been so weird that nobody else would have wanted anything to do with you.
In other words, while you may have been anti-Christ, you certainly weren't "the Anti-ChristTM". You were just a nut!
Incidentally, as Alexis De Tocqueville (Democracy In America) points out that your persecution at the hands of a despot would have entitled you to take solace in your martyrdom. In contrast, simple ostracism may seem a greater punishment, if only because you would have realized how different and alone you truly were. All that said, if you were truly an atheist, your love of reason should have been sufficient solace for you not to care.
The inquisitors official purpose for inquisitorial penalties (which were torture, imprisonment, and not uncommonly, death)
or roughly:
So the inquisitions were absolutely aimed at serving as an example; if your beliefs were not in agreement with the local church, you were by definition heretical, and would have been at risk, without doubt. A vocal and proud non-believer would make a fine example. Many labelled as atheist were targetted for legal persecution, continuing the tradition of earlier times.
Add to that, as Affable Geek rightly notes, you were likely to be shunned from family, friends and society (although I outright reject his conclusion that an atheist would "not care" about this - in a violent, hard and outright hostile time, where there wasn't easy and anonymous access to services such as buying food, affiliation in a society was even more important; an outcast is not likely to fare well).
Of course, in many cases punishment was in part political in addition to religious; if you were challenging the local officials (by encouraging people to think, always dangerous). Add to this that royal authority etc was usually "by divine right" - thus: by rejecting the faith you are undermining the local rulers, which was not well tolerated. If you think politics and religion are intertwined now... it was worse.
Also, at this point the word "atheist" is usually applied as an insult, applied to things such as different religious beliefs, suicides, and immoral people. The term itself (in everyday usage) didn't really mean the same as it does today (i.e. not believing in a supernatural deity). It was held as a threatening position (to society) by Thomas Aquinas, and even those in favour if religious liberty (John Locke, Thomas More) excluded atheists in their considerations.
Summary: it would not have ended well. Your best option would have been to disbelieve quietly.


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Revision as of 21:32, 9 March 2010
Moderator: Jason Dusek
Note-Taker: jof
- New WiFi access point
- Albert introduces himself
- Henrik is visiting from Denmark
- Touring hackerspaces and would like to interview people
Introduction and Names
What Noisebridge is about
- A collaborative environment to work on projects
- "Noisebridge is a machine for turning Alcohol into flamewars"
Treasurer's Report
- Not present.
- Remember to pay your dues!
- "Is anyone owned money?"
- Jason thinks we do not
Amount in bank: $???
Very brief primer on Noisebridge consensus process
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Membership binder
- Zedd has the binder. Up for membership:
- Glen Jarvis is here and up for membership
- Zedd Epstein is up for membership
- Christopher is up for membership
What's Going On at Noisebridge
One short sentence about each of the following:
- Circuit Hacking Mondays (7PM, 2169)
- Python Mondays (6:30 PM, 2169)
- Linux Discussion Group - Wednesdays from 18:00 to 20:00 in the Turing classroom
- SCoW craft group - Wednesdays at 7PM
- GameDevelopment - Wednesdays at 8PM, back from Berlin and 2010 class is in session
- Shop Friday still plans to come back when the shop is done.
- Sensebridge and the EEG group - Sundays at afternoonish (1-2ish) - come to try brain scanning
- Spacebridge - Sundays at 5PM planning meeting this Sunday to decide
- Knots, Go, and Locks! - Sundays 3PM
- Five Minutes of Fame
- Welcome To Our Kitchen Come celebrate Pi day this Sunday with the opening of our newly completed kitchen!
- Videos of PyCon talks Saturday, March 27, 10:00 to 22:00
Project Updates
2169 Mission
- Kitchen
- Nearing completion.
- We have hot water!
- Plumbing
- Library/dead.tree : books in the new bookshelves are wanted by someone. if you want books that are in the boxes or on the old bookshelves, move them to the new bookshelves.
Consensus items
- Jof for President of Noisebridge
(I think this is proper for consensus on March 9 following its discussion at the previous meeting on March 2. -- Seth)
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so the past days i tried to achieve the following:
the idea being to have a div (red) that is ultimately centered (using margin:auto;), and on the same level (x-axis) another div that has a fixed size (blue).
on a huge enough display, maximized, it looks great. now the fun part is when having a smaller screen and/or resizing the window. because of the auto margin, one of the divs overlaps the other:
this is what i want to prevent. (in explanation: red being the menu, blue being the logo)
so the first idea was to shift the red div the needed pixels of the blue div to the right, using padding-left:??px;
but that makes the red div no longer center itself absolutely, but padded ??px to the right. figuratively centered in an extra box (grey).
second idea being to create another (transparent) div on the right of the red div. but that makes the min-width of the whole site become out of bound:
in other words: the scroll bar becomes visible far to early. it's ought to appear just when the window is smaller than the sum of pixels of the red and blue div together. and not, like in img 4, where it appears just when the window is smaller than the sum of pixels of the red div and both divs right and left from it).
so what i want is that: two divs, not overlapping (even when resizing), the right one at a fixed size, the left one in the center of the window, whithout creating a ghost div, creating blank space on low resolutions. oh and please no javascript, if possible.
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If you are leading Spinning classes on bikes that do not
have a Spinning Computer, there are two simple, effective ways to help your riders determine their cadence range, and by doing so, gain further
appreciation for the established cadence parameters in the Spinning program.
Just to set the stage: Remember that cadence is pedal stroke speed. It connotes how quickly a rider can turn the pedals over during a one minute period. This is known as RPM, or Revolutions Per Minute. In the Spinning program, the recommended cadence parameters for flat terrain are 80-110 RPM and 60-80 RPM for hills.
The 15 Second Count
In the absence of a Spinning Computer, you can help your students determine their cadence by simply having them count how many RPM occur during a 15 second time frame and then multiplying that number by 4. You
will need a timing device to monitor the 15 seconds. Any watch or clock with a second hand will do, or most smart phones have a stop watch feature.
1. Instruct your riders to focus on their right or
left foot and as it reaches the bottom of the pedal stroke and sweeps past the floor. Riders will be counting how many times the foot passes through this point during the 15 period.
2. Before starting this drill, give some guidance
to your riders. Let them know that a count of 20 during the 15 seconds, for example, is equivalent to 80 RPM. A
count of 25 correlates to 100 RPM, while a count of 15 correlates to 60 RPM.
3. Instruct your riders to start their count and
keep the count in their heads.
4. As the instructor, quietly monitor a 15 second
time frame. At the end of 15 seconds, instruct your riders to stop counting and determine their RPM.
5. In general, a count of less than 15 during the
15 seconds is below the suggested cadence for hills, while a count greater than 27 is above the suggested cadence for flats.
Use a Metronome
For about $30 you can purchase a metronome, a device that makes repeated clicks or beeps to mark a certain pace or RPM. I use a Matrix MR-500 quartz metronome and I also have a Boss DB-30 metronome. Let's say I want my riders to find a cadence of 100 RPM. I can set my metronome to that pace. I hold the metronome up to my microphone so riders can clearly hear the click or beep and then I ask them to match their pedal stroke –once again at the bottom of the pedal stoke – with the sound of the metronome.
The metronome and the 15-second counting method are
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I heard this one while taking a differential geometry class in Mexico City. I love it.
"Groups, as men, will be known by their actions".
-Guillermo Moreno.
"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is." --- John von Neumann. (From a 1947 ACM keynote, recalled by Alt in this 1972 CACM article.)
"The difference between mathematicians and physicists is that after physicists prove a big result they think it is fantastic but after mathematicians prove a big result they think it is trivial." Lucien Szpiro during Algebra 1 lecture.
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" - Gian-Carlo Rota
"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things." Henri Poincaré.
(This was in response to "Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing.")
Oh, he seems like an okay person, except for being a little strange in some ways. All day he sits at his desk and scribbles, scribbles, scribbles. Then, at the end of the day, he takes the sheets of paper he's scribbled on, scrunches them all up, and throws them in the trash can. --J. von Neumann's housekeeper, describing her employer.
"The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps..."
-Alexander Grothendieck, writing to Ronald Brown
"The Axiom of Choice is obviously true, the well-ordering principle obviously false, and who can tell about Zorn's lemma?" — Jerry Bona
Beginning of A. Douady's thesis. Quoted by Michèle AUdin in her Conseils aux auteurs de textes mathématiques.
In a less barbarous language: The purpose of this thesis is to obtain the degree of Doctor for its author.
It's hard to beat John Stembridge's page of quotes. My single favorite one on this page: "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because there were giants standing on my shoulders." - Hal Abelson.
D. Hilbert, talking about an ex-student. I'd love to remember where I got this from!
"The art of doing mathematics is finding that special case that contains all the germs of generality." -- David Hilbert
Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician...All you need to do, is give me your soul: give up geometry --Michael Atiyah
"God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it."- André Weil
"Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate." - David Mumford
Grothendieck comparing two approaches, with the metaphor of opening a nut: the hammer and chisel approach, striking repeatedly until the nut opens, or just letting the nut open naturally by immersing it in some soft liquid and let time pass:
"I can illustrate the second approach with the same image of a nut to be opened. The first analogy that came to my mind is of immersing the nut in some softening liquid, and why not simply water? From time to time you rub so the liquid penetrates better, and otherwise you let time pass. The shell becomes more flexible through weeks and months—when the time is ripe, hand pressure is enough, the shell opens like a perfectly ripened avocado! A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet it finally surrounds the resistant substance."
Grothendieck, of course, always pioneered this approach, and considered for example that Jean-Pierre Serre was a master of the "hammer and chisel" approach, but always solving problems in a very elegant way.
Not famous yet, maybe from now on!
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.
Terence Tao
"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions", F. Klein (from Reed & Simon: Methods of modern mathematical physics)
"The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain." -- Jacques Hadamard
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
--John von Neumann, reply to a physicist at Los Alamos who had said "I don't understand the method of characteristics."
---- footnote on page 226 of Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, Rider, London, 1990.
(taken from Warren Dicks' Home Page)
Dieudonné in "Foundations of Modern Analysis, Vol. 1":
Gian-Carlo Rota, in an interview with David Sharp.
"In these days the angel of topology and the devil of abstract algebra fight for the soul of every individual discipline of mathematics." - Weyl
"It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."
Pierre de Fermat
"It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out."
-Emil Artin, Geometric Algebra
Hermann Weyl, Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science.
"The question you raise, "how can such a formulation lead to computations?" doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered." - Grothendieck
"Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen." - Hilbert.
Translation: We must know, we will know.
" Last time, I asked: "What does mathematics mean to you?" And some people answered: "The manipulation of numbers, the manipulation of structures." And if I had asked what music means to you, would you have answered: "The manipulation of notes?" "- Serge Lang
"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies."
--Stefan Banach
"Good mathematicians see analogies between theorems or theories. The very best ones see analogies between analogies."
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The 6 Least Solemn Funerals Around the World
Funerals are for the benefit of the living. The people being buried don't give much of a shit whether you spend a million dollars on a ceremony or throw them into a ditch, because, you know, they're dead. The whole point of a funeral is to help people go through the grieving process -- but everyone grieves differently, and some do it ridiculously. So who are we to judge if you choose to ...
#6. Surround Your Casket With Strippers
Believe it or not, in some cultures, popping a boner in the middle of a funeral is considered rude. In China, on the other hand, it's openly encouraged -- hence the (absolutely real) tradition of hiring strippers to pose during the service.
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Please pretend we've already done a pun with the word "stiff" so we can move on.
You see, in rural China, it's considered lucky and a mark of honor to have as many people as possible attend your funeral. Sometimes, however, not enough people show up, and some extra measures are required to boost the crowd numbers -- sexy measures. Like hiring strippers to perform during the funeral, which needless to say is a pretty effective way to get more people to show up when the corpse you've put up as the centerpiece for your party lacks the expected drawing power.
It's all very tasteful, though. According to one report, "Some strippers even take off the trousers of male viewers and persuade them to join in the dancing, while others bathe in public or perform nude with snakes."
Via Chinese-Outpost.com
"Oh no! Another friend of mine has been poisoned! I guess we'll just have to have another funeral."
The Chinese government doesn't really appreciate that their funerals look like rap videos, so they have been cracking down on the "obscene performances" and even set up a hotline where concerned citizens can report "funeral misdeeds." They've actually arrested people for putting together these shindigs.
The phenomenon is also popular in Taiwan, where it can include something called "Electric Flower Cars" that accompany the funeral procession. These would be brightly colored trucks outfitted with blinking neon lights, with racy burlesque action going on in the back of the flatbed. Some say that these performances are necessary to "appease the wandering spirits," which is a classy way of saying that ghosts get erections, too.
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"They're shitty tippers, though."
#5. Get Buried in a Plane-, Phone-, or Uterus-Shaped Coffin
The casket can be the most expensive part of a funeral -- if you're going to spend thousands of dollars on a box you'll only use once, why not go with something with a little pizzazz? Like, for example, the "fantasy coffins" of the Ga people in Ghana, also known as the race car beds of the funeral world.
Reuters via The Telegraph
"I think we found a section worse than coach."
The people of the Ga ethnic group in southeastern Ghana believe that coffins should reflect who you were before you died, especially if you happened to be the sort of crazy person who wanted to be buried in an amusement-park-looking contraption. The Ghana artisans can model your coffin after anything, and we mean anything -- for example, if you're a fisherman, you might get a fish-shaped casket:
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Because if you're dead, sanity really isn't an issue anymore.
Or if you were always on the phone, there's a special model that allows you to spend eternity inside of one:
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It comes with Snake preloaded, so at least you won't have a boring afterlife.
What if you just sat around drinking soda and booze all day? No problem, they've got a solution for that, too:
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This seems like an elaborate joke the Ga people are playing on us, but it's real. The coffins aren't exactly cheap, either; they can cost what an average family makes in a year, and can be personalized for anyone from an airline pilot to a gynecologist. We're not even kidding about that last example, by the way -- there is a recorded instance of a lady-parts doctor placing an order for a lovingly polished wooden uterus.
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They drew the line at the proctologist's request.
The functional art of these African craftsmen has made its way to European shores in recent years in galleries and as part of worldwide museum exhibition tours. Perhaps not coincidentally, being put to rest in your own unique, made-to-order wormbox has also become increasingly popular in the U.K., where one funeral home is now offering a new line of "Crazy Coffins" shaped like skateboards and guitars, among other things.
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There's no way this doesn't play the intro to "Stairway to Heaven" when you open it.
#4. Go Out in a Giant Fist-Shaped Cannon, Like Hunter S. Thompson
When he wasn't writing books that would be endlessly quoted by annoying college stoners for decades to come, eccentric author Hunter S. Thompson liked to dabble in complete and utter lunacy and extensive drug use, a hobby that tragically led to his suicide in 2005. And when it came time to do away with his remains, it became obvious that a simple ceremony for close friends and family just wouldn't cut it. Something so mundane would be an insult to the man's memory.
Nope, Gonzo looked at the phrase "go out with a bang" with manic literalism and arranged to have his ashes mixed into some fireworks that were shot out of a cannon ... 15 stories tall ... shaped like a fist.
Reuters via Spiegel.de
God's jaw is still dislocated.
The final shot in Thompson's lifelong blood vendetta against the concepts of subtlety and restraint was fired when, following his specific instructions, his ashes were mixed into some fireworks and loaded into a 150-foot-tall cannon. Then, in a ceremony that even ancient Egyptian pharaohs would have considered "a bit much," Thompson's nearest and dearest gathered around this massive tribute to overcompensation and watched as his earthly remains were shot into the sky.
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Oh, and the giant red fist was clenched around a peyote button, because at this stage, why not?
If you too decide to go this route for your funeral, be aware that it will set your family back $2 million, but don't worry: You can always just get Johnny Depp (who played Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, of course) to foot the bill. Unfortunately, Depp later erased any goodwill Thompson's ghost may have held toward him by starring in The Rum Dairies.
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Thanksgiving, eat and drink till I want to nap, then watch football and nap
Christmas not so much, the gf and I havent figured out a decent schedule as we both still want to visit our families and catch up with everyone, that means 3 Christmases in a roughly 9 hour period, its hectic but I enjoy it.
I dont really enjoy how Christmas has gotten so commercial, last year we tried homemade gifts and that was ok but a ton of work
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When I'm talking to a person in opposite time zone and the person greets with "Good morning" or Good evening/afternoon as per his time, is it ok to reply "Good afternoon" (as per my time-zone) when he said "Good Morning", and similarly replying as per my time zone, at other times?
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The person saying the greeting is wishing something good for the other.
So if it's morning where you are, I should wish you a "good morning", regardless of my local timezone.
Likewise, if it's afternoon where I am, you should wish me a "good afternoon", regardless of your local timezone.
However, if they're already greeted you but used the wrong part of day, it doesn't really matter, the intention is the same. I would still reply with the appropriate greeting for their local timezone.
If someone greets you according to their time zone like good morning/evening/afternoon, I think we should wish them the same, rather than explaining them the time zone difference. These would also make them feel comfortable that there is no gap between you people.
If you are on formal terms with the other person, it would be appropriate and necessary to respond with "Good morning". The idea is to respect his gesture of wishing you, in the first place, rather than distracting from it. Also note the pronunciation, your stress will be on Good, to show that you care more about that part of the greeting :).
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Throughout me playing various versions of FM, you seem to occasionally get tycoons taking over clubs and bankrolling them to success.
I was just wondering has that ever happened at YOUR club?
Throughout me playing various versions of FM, you seem to occasionally get tycoons taking over clubs and bankrolling them to success.
I was just wondering has that ever happened at YOUR club?
Recently had a takeover on my Newcastle save. Mike Ashley sold to another local businessman, not put any money into the transfer kitty though. If truth be told, it would have spoilt my game if i'd had a bottomless pit of funds. Part of the fun is finding a hidden gem (a mystery to me why people use GS) or developing a youth into a class player.
Nope, no tycoon for me thank you very much!
Had a tycoon before but wouldn't want one again. It just gave me the freedom to buy pretty much whoever I wanted. I like to buy young or cheap players and turn them into stars. If my club become good then I like to think most of it is down to what I have done. The tycoon took that away from me.
i pray for a tycoon before i sleep every night. ive only had it once in fm 09.
just seen Gladbach who were in the relegation zone get taken over by a latvian tycoon
i have actually stopped my long term bottom to top with basingstoke as second season now since i had a tycoon. ruined it for me. sounds good to begin with bottomless pit of money but when you have a good young squad and youth making 2 to 3 star players every season you dont need to spend it.
agreed with op as well. better buying cheap young players and developing hidden gems.
Just because you have the money doesnt mean you have to spend it, pump it into youth, wages and facilities.
I got taken over on fm10 and i only spent what i needed to to improve my squad, i didnt spend stupid amounts on unrealistic transfers.
I did not get a tycoon takeover but i did manage to turn a debt ridden Rangers into a £200m valued European giant who has won the CL twice and now sees my average yearly budget at just below £100m a season.
Yet i never spend it, i just hate the idea of spending more than £15m on any one player. (bought 2 players for 12m each and the rest of my 60+ signings this save have been anything from 8m to free.
Plus i am saving up for a new stadium.
Happened when I was at Adelaide United. I got 29m into the bank and a 11m trasnfer budget. The problem is you can't spend the money given as the wages can't be adjusted in the A-League. As such, you cannot ever offer more than around 1.5m per year in wages. If the tycoon wanted to bring in a Dario Conca or Nic Anelka as has happened in China you just cannot do it in Australia. We even have a rule (which the MLS copied) where you can have two players who you are allowed to pay whatever you want and it doesn't affect the salary cap.
I was appointed manager of Coventry after they were relegated to league one in the first year, upgraded youth facilities to 'state of the art' and the training to 'top' i've £18mil in the bank and £8mil to spend on players, managed to sign people like Peter Whittingham, Fraizer Campbell, and a few of my better layers from my time at stevenage.
On FM2011 Tns got a tycoon, which was fun.
Scunthorpe have got one in my Arsenal save
just seen young boys get taken over by tycoon during my sheff weds game.....made a save of when it happened so I can have a go when I want a break from the rise of the mid week side
Never had a tycoon takeover & would love that to happen.
Recently though I've been implanting a Sugar Daddy into my low league starts & that's fun.
Happened to me at Arsenal. First thing he did was fire me.
I haven't had my Oldham team taken over by a Tycoon, but there have been two Tycoon takeovers both happened to English clubs. Everton by an English Tycoon and Tottenham by a Brazilian Billionaire.
Just because you get a tycoon take over doesnt mean you cant keep to your philosophy.
I attempted a Rangers game, thought it would be interesting with the lack of funds, 2 months into the game club got taken over by an indian tycoon. Walked the league that season, then bought a load of top quality players....dominated Scotland for a while.
Wouldn't say no to having a tycoon, I think at times when you really need investment it's a god send.
I've taken Boston United up from Conference North to the Premier League, and after a few season in the Premier League, straight after a season winning the Club World Cup, League Cup and Premier League (for the first time), I had an Argentinian tycoon takeover.
He seems to be good at business, as we now have sponsorships bringing in around £35m a year. I have won the league 3 out of the 4 seasons since he took over, the League Cup every season and the Champions League in the latest season (part of a League, League Cup and Champions League treble).
It has simply given me the freedom to buy the players I've wanted, without having to sell players to balance the books. In the seasons since he tookover, I have spent £71m, £79m, £117m and £51m (haven't even got out of July yet!), but still brought in £23.5m, £56m, £40m and £6.75m - a £191.75m net spend over 3 and a bit season.
I do spend a lot on young players, as I struggle to get enough home grown players for the Champions League. I have now started buying players at the age of 15 or 16, and hoping they develop enough. I buy the odd established player, but only if I need to and lack quality in a certain area - such as £30m on 24 year old who had scored 79 Premier League goals in 2 and a half seasons!
Had a board takeover whilst playing as Arsenal. It was towards the end of my third season in charge, but I didn't get fired. No change in my transfer budget or debts.
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I've never had a Tycoon at all, but it wouldn't bother me if I did because I never buy players anyway. All I'd do with money is pump it into facilities
Heres the save guys Nearly everyone is availible to sign it looks like for the toon if unlike me you play that way, only major signings I've made for Newcastle prior to the takeover are Cortouis and Robin van Perise
Just started a new game as legia Warsaw, and Hearts have just had the news message saying that a tycoon is interested.
I only had my club taken over by a tycoon once. He sacked me 3 days later
What year did you all get the big tycoon takeovers in?
Has anyone ever had a tycoon, spent loadsa money and got people on huge long contracts....
....then had the tycoon bail and leave you with a shed load of debt!!!???
That would be a fun mess to sort out. Especially if you soon got relegated and had to go back to basics/youth development.
well my chairman is selling up I am 3 seasons in at dover been promoted every season got a very young team with a little experience like mcsheffery ilunga and wordsworth with all of my players wanted by bigger clubs got a good win ratio (obviously) and has a tactic that works against bigger and smaller reputation teams not perfect though as I do still concede all the players like me and respond to my team talks.
despite all this a consortium are trying to take us over and replace me with peter freacking reid!!!!
Had none in FM12, but one at Newcastle as well in FM10.
Actually it spoiled the fun for me because having endless money made any success feel dull and too easy while any runner-up position already felt like disaster. In my view you can only lose once you are that rich.
In year 3 after the tycoon takeover I won the CL and immediately after the tycoon withdrew his spending to the club. Immediately thereafter the save was fun again
Do you need to have certain leagues playable to trigger a tycoon takeover? anyone ever had one in the lower leagues and to get one does the club always need to be up for sale?
You need to be in a league in which tycoon takeovers are allowed, which is the case in all English leagues. There is an extra file in one of the db folders in which you can check in which countries such takeovers are not allowed.
With respect to the league level I belive that a tycoon takeover is more likely the higher you are (as obviously EPL participation is more interesting to any investor than a challenge for promotion to the BSN), but I have seen clubs in lower leagues having had tycoons as well.
If a (your) club is having a takeover, each kind of takeover has a certain likelihood to appear, so there is always the possibility that it's a tycoon when you are in the right country, but a tycoon takeover is obviously the least likely variant.
So tyo get a tycoon takeover in england i need to have all the english leagues playable? where can i find this file? its not in my db folder and has anyone ever set there game on hoilday for a few seasons in serach of a tycoon takeover?
i'm in the year 2029 any big takeovers happen around that time? a few premier league clubs have that there owner is happy to stay. can a takeover happen to there club when it says that?
Never ever been taken over. Even in my Portsmouth save last season when I got them to Champion League status... Happens to my mate all the time!
Arsenal and Getafe got taken over by Tycoons
They both bailed 18 months later.
Arsenal are still well funded anyway even after withdrawing of funding, whilst getafe are still lurking in the top 6
In my Liverpool save Sheffield Wednesday got a Tycoon takeover and their still in the npower after 4 seasons mid table built a new stadium and upgraded facilities... but their still in the npower division after 4 seasons... who knows that their doing with the money.. Not buying players thats for sure.. Same thing happened in Italy Bresca(spelling) got a tycoon around the same time as sheffield.. again their lingering around religation..
I was bored after about 15 seasons at liverpool and a 600mil transfer budget so I decided to start a new save with my home town Widzew Lodz in Poland. There was a tycoon take over for a mid table team that fell apart at the last second. I dodged a bullet as they would have made my life alot harder in that league but at the same time would be nice to get that league goin as im trying to do.
Cheltenham were taken over by a Qatari oil baron on my save, while in the BSP. They've only managed to improve from a 4th place finish as he joined, to two consecutive 3rd place finishes, despite spending £3.3m on wages a year! Looks like they will be promoted at the third attempt though.
Tottenham have just been taken over in my Burnley save, they sacked AVB and got in Michael Laurdrup... they went form a 4* team to a 5* after finishing 10th in the league, so far theyve spent 230m and are still in the process of signing aguero for 45m, crazy monies!! Im in 2016 btw.
And now fulham have been taken over by a greek tycoon, with the manager having 200m to spend... im struggling to get fourth each season with no budget (20m) and these guys are now going to be competing!!
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I have seen a few clubs have a tycoon take over but never at a club i am managing .The nearest i came was a mesage that a tycoon was interested in taking the club over but that was it and a while later another board member (Yvonne Allen)took over the reins of the club from Ken Bates .
On a save I finished about 1 month ago, Valencia got a tycoon takeover in the 2072.
They had been flirting with relegation each season since their promotion back into La Liga in 2064, but rather sensationally, managed to avoid the drop even when it looked inevitable.
Anyway, some Mexican (iirc) businessman took control and started pumping tonnes of money into the club. New stadium and facilities announced in the first 3 years, as well as significant investment in the playing squad (about £400m over about 4/5 years). They got a top manager, a regen called Manuel Velasquez (or something like that) who had led Man Utd to 8 titles in 11 years (as well as 3 CL's, 2 WCC's, 7 FAC's, 5 CC's + 8 CS's), and they never looked back really.
I was the manager of Malaga, and they bought 4 players from me over the 5 or so years with a total bill of about £130m (of which, my chairman released about £40m :@ ), and they have gone on to pretty much dominate European football since the takeover.
Their first title was in (iirc) 2075, and in the next 10 years, they won 8 league titles and I think 5 CL's. I gave up trying to challenge them, because, it was impossible for the squad and finances I had and so I left to go back to League 2 Cheltenham Town, who I had at one point, got to the CL final after winning 3 successive PL's.
can you still get a tycoon takeover at your club, if your small but with 73m in the bank?
anyone else
Birmingham just got a Czech tycoon takeover in season 2 in my save. Despite spending 32M on players they sit rock bottom of the EPL but have managed to get Jurgen Klopp from Dortmund as their manager after sacking Chris Hughton.
In my Vitesse save (already backed by a sugar daddy) .. PSV midway through the first season got a tycoon takeover.
In the 3 seasons since they have had Roberto Mancini, Carlo Ancelotti and currently have Jose Mourinho as managers... they all flopped miserably so far without a trophy to their name and probably spend at least 50m per season, if not near 100m on their squad. Got some good players, but the bloke dosent have patience, hence the revolving managerial door.
West Ham were taken over by a Spanish Tycoon in my recent save(currently in the year 2026). They won the FA Cup soon after, beating Manchester United in the final 2-1, but are struggling in the new season and sit 10th in the league after spending £76M in the summer.
Best Tycoon I've seen were Barrow in the Blue Square regionals. Seven seasons later and they are in the Championship, with a remarkably good team.
Others in my save include Coventry (League 1/ Championship yo-yoer) and AC Milan...
Fulham got taken over by a tycoon in my save (29/11/2012) but so far they've not been too impressive except for one 4th place finish - they usually finish mid-table'ish
If you can put Man United in debt, whilst still keeping your job, you will always get a tycoon take you over. I got United in huge debts and then got a tycoon take me over and give me £500m. I suppose if United needed a buyer who could get them for cheap in real life they would probably get a tycoon anyway as they would be in huge demand.
After 5 years of being a sugar daddy, my chairman has just withdrawn his funding! However, he has still given me a huge transfer budget for the next season (I'm in June). £97m in the bank though... luckily I had bought a lot of high potential players, which should keep us going without the need for large investment.
So nothing which happens in or around 2029 in other people's saves can be used to predict what may or may not happen in yours.
Recently started a new save and half way through the season and Wisła Kraków have just been taken over by an American Tycoon. Will be interesting to see what they do once the January Transfer Window opens.
Airdrie on fm10 game ended up with an italian tycoon.
Took them four seasons to get out the first division, the chairman there just seemed to pour money in every season. Their transfer budget matched celtic's at the time.
This might be slightly off topic, but can I add my own tycoons with the editor? I know I can add non-players, but I can't set them specific as club owners or anything like that as far as I know. It would be more fun to see headlines like "Bill Gates buys Fulham FC" than some made up dutch tycoon.
Monterrey in Mexico have just had a tycoon takeover on my save and PSV have had one on the missus game. In my game it looked like a tycoon was going to takeover an Algerian side but in the end the takeover failed.
Im half way through an MLS season and I had most leagues already loaded and suddenly decided Id load the South African league up to. Prob not the smartest thing ive ever done considering the problems doing that can cause but did it anyway. Seems ok.....but one thing i noticed instantly was after clicking to progress to next day, every team in the league had the old transfer embargo message saying there about to be taken over.
anyone else had this? find it odd every team in the south african league would be having a take over currently happening.
staying on topic, ive never had a club im at get taken over but happens to other clubs constantly. Never noticed it making much difference though and I get no messages saying theyve got millions to spend like the image above in this thread. Would be an exciting addition to the new FM.
Would like to see Portsmouth and Rangers being an exciting challenge to take on in the new FM. But I get the feeling it will be similar to the current FM where they just get a new board and continue life as a normall club. In real life right now Portsmouth has 5 players listed as official squad members on there website (3 of them transfer listed and set to leave). Theyve had to play there friendlies with a load of Kids + a few trialists. Nobody knows whether the club will survive. I get the feeling on FM13 though theyll simply get a new board within days of game start and then sign a few people and live happily ever after as a normal club.
Atletico Madrid ALWAYS have a tycoon takeover on this years on my saves.
How long do Chairmen stay at the club? Or is it just randomly selected?
And has the new chairman ever come in and completely cleared the debts straightaway?
If one happens at my club, I tend to resign and pretend talks between myself and the new tycoon chairman have gone badly.
It is one way to ruin save imo. If you have never been in the position before, it's good fun, but after a few seasons first time, it does get boring.
got a 500m transfer kitty at arsenal and no debts, 5th season
Had a Tycoon takeover on FM11 with QPR while in the Championship. We reached the playoffs, but I deliberately lost the final to stay in the Championship, so that the reputation was a bit lower and that players of high reputation wouldn't be interested. Built a young, British side, obliterated the league, then quit. Even making it that bit more sensible by avoiding promotion and big-name players, it was still boring.
Playing as Athletic Club now on FM12, and it's like having a Tycoon as I've got £120m to spend, and the board still insist on adding to it during the season, but as it is money we have earned rather than been given, I'm not as inclined to spend it - not as though there is anyone to buy in 2017/18 anyway.
Had one in FM09 or 10 at Rangers. Was really fun as I could reach my goals quicker and look more towards our academy.
I can't get one atm as I'm playing in the Bundesliga, wouldn't need one anyways.
In my save though as far as I can tell, only Nottingham Forrest and Rangers have tycoons. Rangers just got one in 2020, and instantly boosted up to 'Continental' rep and starting signing heaps of players. Hopefully they get back on track and start winning things. I subscribe to them so found out they improved both facilities too.
I had a tycoon at Chievo in FM11 last year and they threw money at us, even in serie c. Currently I'm managing in Norway on '12 and AI managed club Brann had a tycoon takeover 6 seasons ago, cue the 6 year domination of Norwegian football league & cup and regular appearances in the CL knock-outs.
Never Ever had one i do pray to get one but my grimsby team is the best in the world know so if anything they could fund the "Coulam Stadium"
Also, in real life, following heavy investment into a club, how many managers actually stay on? 25% or less i'd say.
I've seen a few but never been taken over by one myself, would love it if it ever happens though.
Ive only had a tycoon takeover my club once in all versions of fm. Just my luck it was a mess around save where i downloaded one of them lower league structures where england went all the way down to level 11 (from this level it would take either 6 or 7 back to back promotions to get to the blue square north/south level) and i picked a team at the bottom. Low and behold i had a ukranian business man take over and pump money into the club. Only bad things was that i was that low a team (terrible league/reputation) that i couldn't really spend the money on anyone decent lol. I did afford some free players high wages though and walked the league as other teams barely had a squad. Got bored before the season finished and left lol FM 2010 i believe it was...
Never happened to me, but I've just seen MK Dons get taken over by a Russian billionaire in 2014 on my save. It said he's injecting 85M to buy players - eeeeek.
Not a tycoon, but my already successful Czech team (had won the CL once, next season quarters and season after that lost final) changed owners.
I had already bank account of 60 million, but new owners decided to add to my account another 50 million. In addition to summer transfer market with positive balance of 43 million (3 mil spent, 46 mil earned), I am now in Czech league with around 143 million euro's in the bank after stadium expansion and facilities improvements. This is enough cash reserves to pay the wages of my players for 10 seasons.
When a club gets taken over by a tycoon it doesn't really matter that much. I gave Wembley FC a sugar daddy and they struggled to get promoted whereas in real life they'd just buy up the best players from the lower leagues and walk the league.
On FM 2010 Liverpool would always be bought out by a tycoon in the first year or so, who'd then give you 200m to spend the next summer
It wasnt a tycoon of sorts but a consortium, headed by Oliver Beirhof, took over my Hearts save at the end of the first season, cleared a load of debt and chucked in a few million to help fund rebuilding the squad. Also has spent around 15m adding 15k seats to the stadium.
Also, sort of related....I know in older versions the chairman sometimes took matters into his own hands and signed the odd star player....does this still happen?
My American Tycoon has just withdrew his funding for my Wisla side
Udinese just been taken over on my game, so quit my job at Cardiff (who i have spend 10 years managing) applied for the job... got it & then 3 months later my tycoon decides to 'withdraw funding' one of the terms in the contact was 'sign high profile players' like that gonna happen now!
had it happen on my Andelecht (I know i've spelt that wrong!) game. Had already won the Belgian league 3 years in a row when a tycoon from Saudi Arabia bought the club. Gave me a budget of around $150M, so I decided to bring all the Belgian players overseas back to their home nation. Just signed a 30 years Hazard for next season, cost me $45M! Into my forth year with the tycoon, won the league each year and the cup, 1 Europa league title and runners up in the CL. To memory I only have about 5 players in my squad who aren't Belgian (including a 19yr old Brazilian CB who is just amazing, picked him up for less than $1M a year ago and he's already worth $10M!), so I don't think I'm cheating too much with this extra money!
I had a tycoon takeover my lowly Belarusian side in FM09 or FM10. I were playing Gundos challenge and had just gotten promoted to the top tier in Belarus and this Scottish billionaire bought my club and pumped in cash. Built a new stadium and improved the facilities. I had a transfer kitty of £20M, but the most expensive player who wanted to join me was valued at about £100k. Still, it was fun and I bought up most of the best player who wanted to join and won the league a couple of times. Didn't make much success in Europe though as the kind of players with quality enough to gain progress wouldn't join me. This was before dynamic league reputation anyhow.
On last years game, I was at Arsenal when a tycoon took over - first thing he did was fire me.
playing dafuge challenge with Kettering Town, i had a tycoon takeover at the end of my 4th season, when i was entering championship. And from a club with £60k wage budget and £0 transfer, i have now £450k wage and £11mln for transfers. And my new chairman is ambitious and "he will not rest untill the club will be among best in Europe" (his words)
How do you find out if a team is being linked with a takeover? In FM12 I think it was events you ticked in the manage subscriptions for the leagues you picked then you would get messages saying teams were being linked or had a takeover but on FM13 I ticked the finances box in manage subscriptions for the leagues I had selected but I haven't seen one message about takeovers so must be doing something wrong.
pull the plug... basta*d...
wish there was an easier way to hear about the tycoon takeovers.
Unless im wrong I was told on these forums that the only way is to subscribe to pretty much every team playable in the game. This of course takes a looooooong time!
In FM12 during my 2nd year with Hertha Berlino (escaped relegation by 1 point), an Arabian one came to lead the Club to the 3rd position and to the Champions League.
I've been able to buy players like Bosingwa, Isco, Steven Davis, Nicolas Gaitan, Gazzi, Ciro Immobile and De Jong during the same transfer window.
Once when I was St. Johnstone manager in fm 12 Kilmarnock got a mega rich tycoon, spent about 40 million over 4 seasons and even had a string of respectable bosses. They couldn't ever knock me off the top of the table so after a while he withdrew his funding and they got relegated soon after, very satisfying.
I thought then it would only happen after failure.
Just see it as a challenge, you got the lift up there, now you have to do the rest on your own!
Had a few takeovers during the years, but never by a tycoon. On my current save Everton got taken over by a tycoon in 2017 and got relegated at the end of the season! :-D
In 2030 with Newcastle and just moved into a new stadium, but the loan as a result is crippling. Hoping in the next few seasons I can get my first ever tycoon otherwise I could end up like Arsenal
I've played every version of FM averaging at least 20 sesaons per version but never had a tycoon take over.
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Anyone know how the Spanish elections work? I have noticed that a few clubs have been voting for their new presidents, will this happen at my club eventually, i.e Real Madrid?
Any club in FM can be taken over by a tycoon, or this just happens in UK in FM13?


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Always puzzle me to hear people list photography (in the context of it being art) and something different than art. Is there a reason for this historically?
Not all photography is art, not because it's bad, but because it never meant to be. Some documentary photography may be art, but most isn't. Much photography is just decoration, or otherwise functional, not meant to be art, let alone upper-case-a Ahhrt, or Fine Art.
"What is art?" is a constant question — in fact, it's a question with no fixed answer, but a continuing conversation. See some of this in the context of photography at What makes "fine art" fine art? In fact, a useful definition may be that art is any work which participates in that conversation — it's the dialog itself which makes something art rather than an intrinsic feature of the work. Clearly, that's beside the point of much photography, which simply isn't interested in that.
But you don't have to even be concerned with this question to appreciate the craft of photography, as many people do. Art is important, but the label isn't necessarily a value judgment.
And of course, there's no question that there's plenty of art that isn't photography:
I probably should have made the photography circle much smaller next to all of art, but hey, this is a photography site after all. :)


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Running up to and following the launch of Xbox One in 2013, did Microsoft pay media outlets and video producers on YouTube for positive coverage of the console?
According to a report on Ars Technica, Microsoft and video outlet Machinima offered higher advertising rates on viewed YouTube videos for mentions of Xbox One.
As per a traditional advertising arrangement, this certainly wouldn't be a problem but the fact that it was specified in a legal agreement that the video creators weren't allowed to say anything negative about Xbox One, Machinima or Xbox games during the necessary thirty seconds of coverage, and were instead encouraged to be positive or simply neutral, makes the deal a little murky.
This offer to video creators has since expired, but as Ars Technica writer Kyle Orland correctly points out, this method of promoting products will only become more and more prevalent as product manufacturers – Microsoft or not – find new ways to advertise their goods that don't involve easily ignored traditional methods of getting your attention.
When this kind of 'stealth marketing' involves a trusted source like Machinima, however, it becomes difficult to be able to continue to trust the opinions of people you once thought of as reputable.
Read the full report through the link and let us know if you think paying for neutral – and positive – opinions of products is a problem, or if you are able to make up your own mind without the influence of authoritative sources of information.
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