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Ask brothers John and Jeff Ramsey who's the more manly of the two, and you'll instantly spark a humble debate.
"Oh, he's more manly," assures Jeff, one-half of The Ramsey Brothers, the weekday morning radio show airing 5 to 9 a.m. on WVEZ Lite 106.9 FM.
"How do you define it?" John – the other half – questions, deflecting the honor.
"Look at him!" Jeff pleads.
"I don't think that's true, Jeff. That's nice of you to say, but I'm (Jeff's) biggest fan," John concedes.
Don't bother inquiring who's the funnier comedian, either. You'll get the same result: "We share the funny," testifies Jeff, who began his career alongside John as a stand-up comedian.
"We started in Louisville doing amateur contests and things and then an agent kind of found us, and then we toured the East coast," Jeff explained of their stand-up gig. "I wasn't even old enough to get into places we were going. He was barely old enough; we're just two years apart."
Though undefeated at Shirley's Comedy Club on amateur nights, John and Jeff grew tired of the frenzied schedule of a comic. The two decided to pursue radio, instead, and, thus in the 1980s, "The Ramsey Brothers" were born at WRKA Louisville.
The partnership only lasted a short while, however, once John began working in television. He now serves as host of WAVE 3 Listens Live and the variety show 725 South Floyd.
Yet, Lite 106.9 knew there was something left in the brotherly duo, and in 2011 approached Jeff, who has worked mornings for the station since 2008, with the idea to reprise the former show.
Though two manly men, "The Ramsey Brothers" is geared toward "hip, family-oriented women." But, keeping their listeners' perspective in mind isn't tough, Jeff said. "We have our guy time, it's just not on the air, on the radio," he said. "We always keep our listeners in mind, but it's not that hard."
"We don't patronize women," John added. "Like some people say, 'Well you can't just talk about sports.' There's some things that transcend, and women are just as interested in the Olympics or when UofL and UK play each other. Today's woman is well rounded and likes a lot of the same things we like."
Working together as siblings, John and Jeff keep each other in check, especially when one might arrive to work a little grumpy due to their 3:34 a.m. wake-up call. "(The rule we have is) you've got to be in a good mood," John said. "We're up at 3:34 in the morning so it's easy to complain but who wants to hear that?"
Through their success in radio, the two-man team have been offered jobs in other markets, but have no desire to leave the city they live in nor their homes just two doors down from each other. It's their passion for Louisville that they believe creates added appeal to their show. And, no doubt their playful banter and obvious love for one another has been key in attracting local listeners throughout the years.
"Jeff's really good about (keeping the show) local. And we think that separates us," John said. "Honestly, Jeff's the captain of the show and he is the funniest of the two. He can say no, but believe me he's the guy. There's very few people I look up to. And, yet he's my younger brother, and I look up to him."


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I want my forum users to be able to insert links and other allowed tags. For example I would like the following HTML in a post to display as the writer intended (i.e. as a functioning link):
A page
However, I want to maintain some level of security and have been reading up on strip_tags() and htmlspecialchars(). I thought at first that I could use strip_tags with something like:
<?php $link_string = strip_tags($link_string, ''); ?>
But strip_tags doesn't protect me like htmlspecialchars does if I understand correctly. For example, incorrect HTML code using special characters can leave me vulnerable. And so can the style and onmouseover attributes for the link tag.
What is the most simple solution to allow the above link in the post while cleaning out potentially harmful characters and code? Is there anyway I can combine these two PHP functions to do this in a simple manner?

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The 7 Most Unintentionally Hilarious G.I. Joe Characters
G.I. Joe is back with a vengeance this summer, and really what could be cooler than a group of constitutionally questionable quasi-mercenaries with killer nicknames and laser rifles fighting a snake-themed international terrorist organization? Nothing, that's what.
Most of the characters had reasonably developed backstories as well, provided by the ubiquitous file cards on the back of each blister-packed action figure. But for every great Joe, there was some sad bastard with a glaringly crippling deficiency that rendered them almost useless in battle. Such as...
#7. Captain Grid Iron
At first glance Captain Terrence Lydon's resume seems pretty solid. Top 10 at West Point? Check. Passed over appointment at U.S. Army War College to get in on the real action? Check. Took the code name Grid Iron and wears battle gear specifically designed to remind everyone that he was the quarterback of the West Point football team like a decade ago? Check fucking plus.
That's right, Grid Iron's entire gimmick is letting people know how awesome he used to be at football. This somehow translates into success on the battlefield.
...Yeah, this can't miss.
It's like if Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite had the lives of actual soldiers resting under his whim.
Most Telling Quote From File Card:
"If he would only stop trying so hard to be likable . . . they might let him play quarterback at the annual G.I. Joe Fish Fry Football Game!" That's right -- the Joes don't even let him play football.
Pathetic Weapon of Choice:
Football-shaped grenades. Outfitted as he is, it's only a matter of time before Grid Iron relapses into his glory days, drops back in the pocket and fires one deep to an unwitting Duke or Scarlett, giving the surviving Joes yet another reason to hate his guts.
Crowning Moment (of Ignominy):
After leading the Joes to victory in a Cobra/G.I. Joe football game against the comically inept Range-Viper, Grid Iron rescues Sergeant Slaughter, flirts with Lady Jaye and destroys half the Cobra armada. As a reward for a hard day's work, Lady Jaye invites him to the uber-exclusive Studio 55, where he shows up in the same ridiculous football-themed outfit he wore all day. Let it go man, let it go.
#6. Raptor
An "ex-yuppie tax consultant," Raptor started falconry as a hobby, then discovered the lucrative nature of the sport and began breeding bigger falcons outfitted with steel claws to take down bigger game, presumably dinosaurs.
Unfortunately, Raptor must have encountered some dire financial straits, because he was caught by Destro trying to poach Cobra's, uh, mink farms.
Mink is fabulousssss!
Rather than killing him, Destro recruited Raptor with the intention of using the man's unhealthy obsession to breed a bird big enough to attack the Joes. We agree that at first glance this plan sounds fucking awesome, but Destro shouldn't have had realistic hopes for its successful implementation seeing as how every member of the elite G.I. Joe team is armed with a flame-throwing laser bazooka. Raptor didn't seem to mind though, as long as he can dress up like a bird and practice animal husbandry. See, he's really into birds.
Most Telling Quote from File Card:
"The bottom line for Raptor is his non-taxable profit margin." That's the bottom line for most of us, actually.
Pathetic Weapon of Choice:
Raptor doesn't carry any weapons, though his costume allows him to fly so long as everyone turns around and doesn't look when he does it. Also, he comes with a falcon. See, he's really into birds.
Crowning Moment (of Ignominy):
Raptor witnessed the turncoat Crimson Guardsman, "Fred VII," shoot Cobra Commander in the back and helped bury the body, but then exposed Fred VII to Dr. Mindbender and took the doctor to the gravesite. As it turns out, Cobra Commander was neither dead nor impressed, and rewarded Raptor for his loyalty by burying him in a sealed freighter beneath a volcano.
#5. Cesspool
Cesspool, a.k.a. Vincent D'Alleva, was a powerful CEO who gave a tour of his toxic waste-to-fertilizer plant to the Joes' elite team of Eco Warriors. Hilarious face-scarring hijinks ensued when a disguised Cobra Commander bombed the factory, causing a chain of events that wound up tossing D'Alleva into a vat of toxic sludge.
D'Alleva was reborn as Cesspool, and teamed up with Cobra Commander in his quest to make the earth as ugly and scarred as he is. We're not sure we can follow his logic of joining forces with the person responsible for his disfigurement to wreak havoc on a nebulous target that had absolutely no involvement in his tragedy, but we're pretty sure that was also Two-Face's motivation in The Dark Knight so we'll let it slide.
And here he is in his grainy MySpace photo.
Most Telling Quote from File Card:
"Armed with an acid assisting chainsaw, he's taken his knowledge of high level dirty dealings and corporate subterfuge straight to the organization that will make the best use of him!" Because nothing says "espionage" like the mechanized roar of an acid-spitting chainblade.
Pathetic Weapon of Choice:
Really, it's the chainsaw. We understand the imagery of a weapon designed to both deforest an acre and scorch the earth beneath it, but seriously, Cesspool is behaving like the Earth was some velvet-clad pimp that slashed his face with a razor after a slow night of trickin' rather than accepting the fact that he was blown up by freaking terrorists. Maybe instead of a weapon, he should carry a mirror. Look at it, Cesspool--that's the real enemy here.
Crowning Moment (of Ignominy):
Depending on the version of the continuity ascribed to, Cesspool either dies alone of cancer in his suburban home after all his assets are seized by the government, or he gets shot in the face by Crimson Guard Commander Tomax during a breakout from a maximum security prison. Both storylines seem to agree that he dies like an asshole, though.
#4. Darklon
Darklon is actually a distant cousin of Destro, though through no fault of his own amounts to little more than the K-Mart version of his famous relative. For example, while Destro is descended from a long line of mercenaries and weapons suppliers based in Scotland, Darklon hails from a long line of mercenaries and weapons suppliers based in the kingdom of Darklonia, a nebulous Eastern Bloc nation sharing its borders with Borovia and Madeupbullshitistan.
Also, Darklon wears a green fishnet shirt, which presumably is a hand-me-down from Destro that stokes the fires of his resentment.
Most Telling Quote from File Card:
"His telephone solicitors have been known to drum up business for his mercenary army by offering 'reasonable hourly rates' and cash rebates!" So he's Destro armed with an autodialer? Is that seriously what we're trying to convey with this?
Pathetic Weapon of Choice:
We're inclined to go with the autodialer, but Darklon has another primary weapon in his vehicle, the Evader. Basically a souped-up motorcycle, the Evader features a "ballistic deflection shaped canopy" with "minimal ballistic entry canopy vision ports." Also, it doesn't have any doors, and we're pretty sure the machine gun attachments require him to take both hands off the wheel if he feels like firing.
Doubtless the Evader serves as a constant, lumbering reminder of Darklon's inferior mercenary lineage.
Crowning Moment (of Ignominy)
After his years of loyal service to Destro and Cobra, Darklon returned to his family's ancestral castle to putter around and supply local insurgencies with weapons of mass destruction. Cobra Commander suggested to Destro that Darklon could be a threat, so Destro responded by casually blowing up Castle Darklonia, incinerating Darklon along with any chances of a reconciliatory family picnic.


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Today, Bowling Green City Parks and Recreation celebrated the launch of a new program, Tee it Forward. It's aimed at bringing new and experienced golfers to the city's courses.
City and park officials gathered for a ribbon cutting at Crosswinds golf course. The program gives the city courses two additional tees at each hole, giving golfers at different experience levels more options when playing.
"Level one tees play form about 3,000 yds, and level two from 4,000 yds. It just makes the game more enjoyable and fun again. You're hitting shorter irons into greens. It's great for junior players and beginners, and families can go out and play together," said Bowling Green Parks and Recreation Golf Course Operations Superintendent Tony Witmer.
The Tee It Forward program joins the city's new texting program as another way to get new golfers involved in the game.
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There does not seem to be any way in the current Facebook settings for stopping unknown people from poking me or reducing the "Can send friend request" list to narrower than "Friends of Friends". Any suggestions how to achieve this?
I'm not sure the second part of the question question makes sense...
If you think of Facebook connections as ever-widening circles, you have:
You want to reduce the "can send friends request" to "narrower than 'Friends of Friends'", right? But if you look at the hierarchy above, exactly who would include? Either "some" Friends of Friends, which Facebook would need to know how to narrow to "some", or just to "Friends". If the latter, well, Friends don't need to send you a friends request, true?


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Magenta Skycode
Category: Documentaries/Film, Music,
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Posted: Sep 14th 2011
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How did this track get under the radar last year? (Well, my not-always-working radar, anyway!) Beautiful track and accompanying video from Finnish indie band Magenta Skycode. Definitely song of the day. Now, to buy the album... (love the album cover, too)


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5 Awesome Things Invented by the Last People You'd Expect
Most of us picture inventors as awkward nerds in lab coats surrounded by test tubes and toiling away with obscure instruments until they birth an entirely new concept from the ether of their genius. But great inventions can come from anywhere. Even the last place you would ever expect ...
#5. The Big Bang Theory Was Invented by a Catholic Priest
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Georges Lemaitre was a Belgian Catholic priest and a professor of physics who received a doctorate in mathematics and studied astronomy at Harvard and MIT. And the early 20th century turned out to be a hell of a time for studying astronomy. Scientists had just begun observing distant objects with strange colors, which suggested that they were moving away from us at incredible speeds. What was going on? Were these objects actually much closer than we thought, but somehow tiny? Were they "island universes" (a term that meant "galaxies," which was actually a pretty revolutionary concept at the time)? Had the drunken jerks over in biology been sticking colored gel on the telescope lenses again?
Lemaitre had an idea. And he, unlike most of the others, also had an explanation: The universe has a constant, homogenous mass but is constantly expanding. A little bit later, he refined this theory to say that the universe had always been expanding, ever since its earliest point, when it sprung from a single "primordial atom."
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It was the most pregnant thing that ever existed.
Many scientists disagreed: Einstein said the universe was static. ("Your calculations are correct," he told Lemaitre, "but your physical insight is abominable." That's pretty much the nerd equivalent of getting served.) Others were even more dismissive and called Lemaitre, strangely, a religious nut. That's right: As counterintuitive as it seems now, the big bang theory was originally viewed as a religious description of creation.
Think about it: Creationists say that there was originally nothing, but then God created the heavens and the Earth, and light, and BBQ Pringles, and everything else worthwhile. If you squint your brain real hard, it sounds a bit like the modern big bang theory, doesn't it? Science, at the time, said that this was nonsense. The universe had always been and always would be; it had never been created. The idea that one little "atom" started it all at a defined point in history sounded a hell of a lot like a priest spouting pseudo-science to back his own beliefs.
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At least it makes Genesis a little more interesting.
But that was OK, because at least somebody believed in Lemaitre's scientific theory: the Vatican. The Catholic Church elected Lemaitre to its Academy of Sciences in Rome, and he became its president in 1960. And the pope happily declared that the man's big bang discovery was proof of creationism and validated Catholicism, but Lemaitre told him to hold back on this last pronouncement. Lemaitre liked science. Lemaitre liked religion. But he said that, much like the Ghostbusters' streams, you shouldn't ever cross them. Because that would cause total protonic reversal. Or a bunch of pointless arguments. Whichever.
#4. The Super Soaker Was Created by a NASA Rocket Scientist
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We assume that the fine folks at NASA spend all day working on warp drives and teleporters and such, because we are woefully ill-informed adult-sized children. But still, we figure they're occupied with important science stuff way above our pay grade. Like engineer Lonnie Johnson: He spent his days working in NASA's jet propulsion lab in Pasadena as part of the team that built Voyager, Galileo, and the Mars Observer spacecraft. He helped test the stealth bomber and developed new systems for nuclear reactors. It's like he was always destined for genius level work: When he was a teenager, he designed his own robot sidekick.
But then you go ahead and check his Wikipedia page. It barely mentions NASA, instead choosing to focus on other, much more important accomplishments, like a really, really effective toy squirt gun.
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"He filled it with acid! RUN!"
Johnson's major contribution to society came in 1982 while he was screwing around at home working on something silly and trivial, like a new type of heat pump. Heat pumps normally use Freon gas, but Johnson was trying to make one that worked off of water alone. When he switched on the pump, water fired out and slammed into the shower curtain with way more force than he had expected, and the idea of heat transfer suddenly seemed a whole lot less interesting than shooting some poor son of a bitch right in the face with it.
So Johnson turned his new pumping system into the Super Soaker, and Larami Corporation marketed it with the slogan "Wetter is better" (a suspiciously adult slogan for a children's toy). The product brought in nearly a billion dollars after a decade of sales, and Johnson used that money to do the responsible thing: That one silly invention has helped his research company develop new methods for generating electricity from heat and more efficient ways to store energy in batteries. And, most importantly, he created a device that beeps when your baby pees.
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So you know when to run away from it.
#3. An 11-Year-Old Invented the Popsicle
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Well, of course a little kid invented the Popsicle. Who else even wants a stick of frozen juice? Adults have enough money to afford far superior desserts, like booze, or at least ice cream. But that's not the unexpected bit. This is: 11-year-old Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle back before people had freezers.
Back in the day, the kids were all keen on this newfangled biz called "soda water powder" -- a Kool-Aid-like drink mix that makes carbonated beverages. One night in 1905, Frank accidentally left his drink outside on the porch, because he was a kid, and kids operate in a special timeless universe where consequences happen to their future selves who are entirely different people and not at all their concern. That night just happened to bring record low temperatures, which froze the soda water and left him with a mess most people would consider garbage and throw away. But thanks to the quantum mechanics of children as outlined above, the fallout from licking garbage was Future Frank's problem. So Present Frank went ahead and tried it. He liked it. He showed it to some friends, and they liked it. But, as is the tragic way of the world, he eventually showed it to an adult, probably one with a top hat and a sleazy mustache, and that bastard went away and made millions on the invention, leaving Frank to toil away his life in poverty.
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Forever cowering in a brooding depression until the day he killed himself with a sharpened Popsicle stick.
Or that's how it would have played out in the movies. But Epperson rather cleverly sat on his invention, keeping it secret for 18 years, until he was finally in the position to make something of it. In 1923, he began creating his own versions of the treat, and he called them Epsicles ("Epp's icicles"). His children refused to use that name, since none of them called their father "Epp," so they began calling them "popsicles." The fact that they'd originally been made with home-mixed soda pop was a total coincidence.
Epperson even got a patent for the invention, under the marginally less marketable name "frozen ice on a stick." So when the Popsicle company suddenly discovered that a whole lot of other retailers had the gall to sell cold flavor on a slivery piece of wood, they sued those suckers. And that's how this story ends -- with the clever little kid with the big idea doing just fine and the thieving jerkwads presumably freezing to death on the streets. Probably stickless, because that shit is patented.
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And so began the Popsicle bootleg era of the 1920s.


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Planning a larger kink event like Winter Wickedness is stressful enough, without adding in efforts to shut it down by the Radical Right. Although we recognized an effort such as this is largely based on misinformation and people's fear of the unknown, we had invested significant amounts of time, effort and capitol, and were unwilling to be swayed by biased attempts to cancel the event.
With two weeks left before opening day, we heard that a local Christian radio station had done an inflammatory story on our event. Subsequently, the host hotel began receiving a smattering of calls from the listeners demanding the event's cancellation. We initially contacted the NCSF to consult with their specialists as a preparatory step, in case this was picked up by the mainstream media.
A week later, the Radical Right had discovered their efforts were not producing the desired effect. They stepped it up and began contacting the mainstream media, the local authorities, including the health dept, the fire marshal, the local police dept, etc – in an effort to bring more pressure. We again reached out to the NCSF, which had Susan on the case, and Robin coming in for the event. Between the coordination of the Action Alert e-mails, Robin on the ground as the local media spokesperson, Susan keeping the heat on, and calling in to offer the media another voice – we had the NCSF as an invaluable ally in maintaining our sexual freedoms.
Although what it is that we do (WIITWD) is legal, safe, sane and consensual and had been given the go ahead by the local and state authorities; the radical right's sensationalism, grassroots efforts and pointed innuendos implying inappropriate behavior, can create enough fear to jeopardize a venue. The NCSF has proven to us, beyond any doubt, that they are willing and able to fight back the bias and discriminatory efforts against us. The NCSF is a valuable asset to the Kink, Leather, GLBT and Alt Sex lifestyles. Adventures In Sexuality (AIS) is proud to be an NCSF Coalition Partner and will continue to bring the NCSF to all our events.
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Support the Holiday Inn - Worthington, OH!
February 4, 2009
Please make a phone call now to support the Holiday Inn Worthington, the host hotel for Adventures In Sexuality's (AIS) Winter Wickedness Event taking place February 6-8th. The religious extremist group, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, along with a local religious radio station in the Columbus, Ohio, area are running a smear campaign against this pansexual BDSM event.
Peter LaBarbara of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality calls the event "a freakish sadomasochistic perversion-fest" and urges people to call the hotel's corporate headquarters to pressure them into canceling "for the sake of decency and public health."
Bob Burney, a religious extremist Talk Radio DJ, devoted an entire segment of his show slamming Winter Wickedness and attempting to link the event with non-consensual and criminal activities. He urged his listeners to call and mount a campaign against the hotel. (Tuesday, Part 3 starting at 10 min 42sec: ) Click here to listen.
It will only take a minute for you to help! It doesn't matter where you live or if you're not going to
attend this event. Please call the Intercontinental Hotels Group Corporate Customer service line at 800-621-0555, then press option 1, then option 5, and thank them for not discriminating against groups, and for being willing to face minor adversity for the sake of our freedom.
You can also call the Holiday Inn Columbus-Worthington today at 614-436-0700 – they'll be very glad to hear a friendly voice to counter the hatred of the religious extremists.
Suggested points to make:
1. Thank you for upholding the Fair Accommodations Act and choosing not to discriminate against legal events.
2. Please don't let a small number of religious extremists manipulate you by drumming up fear with their misinformation campaigns.
3. There are over 200 weekend-long BDSM events that take place every year in America – we bring in a lot of revenue in these hard times. We like to stay at hotel chains where we have been welcomed when we're traveling on personal or business travel.
4. Organizers of BDSM events such as Winter Wickedness at The Holiday Inn comply with state and local laws prohibiting public sexual intercourse and other forms of sexual intimacy. Demonstrations, lectures and discussion groups as well as dinners and evening parties compose the variety of offerings to guests, nothing different from any of the other hundreds of conventions hosted by your franchisees on a weekly basis.
5. Thank you for standing strong against hate and ignorance.
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24 Jun 2012 7:56 PM #21
Thanks...Any Sencha engineers weighing in?
Thanks for the workaround.
It would be nice, though, if someone from Sencha could address this. I am trying to work thru the sample CarStore app so I am not doing anything outside of the ordinary. Having paid for the Architect application, it should at least work as advertised. Hopefully a fix is in the works.
Anyone from Sencha monitoring this thread? Please advise, thanks.
25 Jun 2012 8:38 AM #22
The problem is that Architect doesn't work correctly yet with Sencha SDK Tools Beta3. The work around, per Phil Strong's post is: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...ools-v2-beta-3
This worked for me... good luck. Hopefully, Architect will be updated soon to eliminate the need for this workaround.
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Sorry for the delayed response. It's hard to get to them all every day.
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Disappointing to see people having to restart their games. I've just had my first intake and was disappointed to see no Liechtensteiner players come through.
I notice my DB is also lacking in players, but I'm pretty sure I could just turn on the swiss leagues to fix that one so that's what I might do.
Curacao would have been amazing in the Dutch league as so many are dual nationality.
I've come across a lot of them.
Same with Surinam. I just think a European test would bring the greatest reward / most frustration, I may not have succeeded by the time FM13 comes out, but I'll give it my best shot.
Vamos Andorra!
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how many players in the db do you need to manage a country?
70-80! :O so unless you take rubbish san marino who seem to have a decent pool of players in the game (or another team like this) you have to produce loads of players before you can manage them, if they only have 10-20 players in the db?
It's a good challenge and a long term one, creating a large pool of players is easier than getting enough quality players for San Marino to compete in Europe, let alone the world.
Then a lot of countries have dual nationalities like Curcao, Netherland Antilles and Surinam with Holland, you can load Holland to help I'd assume?
Also depends how much you want to get into your game, you can holiday large chunks until you get the national players you want?
I've got my first Andorran youngster and found a good Andorran coach from the 5 Andorran staff on the game.
Hopefully that will help my cause.
It could be a very long came before I even become competitive, let alone qualify.
Curacao is now the name for the Netherland Antilles, I loaded the dutch league in that save but the player numbers never increased for any nationality including second. It concerned me that even if I got enough players back to play as them if a few retired then the game would probably sack me due to lack of players, just like it does if you get relegated to a non playable league
I had NA on my mind after Curcao, apologies. I wasn't sure but put it instead! Loving the challenge at the moment. Trying to flood my club with Andorrans where I can.
Has anyone noticed if they come through other academies in your league at all or just the club you're managing?
When I was trying it with Montserrat there weren't any coming through at other clubs until I added the English leagues. If you are after Andorrans may be worth loading the Spanish leagues. Still may not get many through but it should help.
On another note I have started again. Haven't liked the English league on any save so far on FM12 and wasnt enjoying it at City. I have taken Biscotti's advice and have swanned over to Belarus to take over at Dinamo Minsk. I have taken Belrusian nationaility too so hopefully the challenge should be achievable. Only about half way through the season and this save looks to have legs already. Some decent talent at the club, hopefully the youth intake will be as good as the facilities.
where can you find out how many players of a certain nationality there are? the player search doesnt show them all due to scouting restrictions do they?
Since I had barely started and the DB updated today, I restarted with the 12.2 DB. Still Finnish at Inter though.
Real Madrid/Panama - Youth Intake - 2011/12
Youth Intake
Emanuel Herrera
Javier Torres
Torres doesn't look like much of a player but Herrera has a lot of promise, also he solves a real problem for me as my reserve Keeper is banging on about wanting 1st team football so now I can tell him to do one and put Herrera as my back-up between the sticks
Now that the new patch is in I've run a quick check of the database and some nations have gained more players from the quick check I've just done,for example Botswana have 10 more players since the update, so at some point tomorrow I'll update the nations on the opening post
Brettney's Manchester United Sri Lankan Adventure: Youth Players 2nd batch!
Man Utd Youth;
Just the 1 Sri Lankan player once again nowhere near as good as last seasons either ... We are also already on a Treble for the season Community Shield, Club World Cup and League Cup ... Still no sign of the Sri Lankan job coming up.
Gnanasena Hewage Profile|Gnanasen Hewage Coach Report
eally interesting challenge mate and one i am tempted by. will have a think about it and maybe have a couple of little plays with it see what happens. hope it takes off for you.
brettney1980 - you might have another season at the earliest to wait before the Sri Lanka job becomes available, I've noticed that international managers don't seem to get sacked til after the 2014 World Cup
rlipscombe - Cheers for the support, I came up with it cause I always try a save with a big club but usually start losing interest after about 4 seasons so decided this would keep me more interested in carrying on a save, also there are very few challenges out there where you can take over one of the giants straight from the off.
Hmm thinking about Kenya as I used to live there, Venezuela as I live near there, and Qatar as I may soon be moving there.
But great challenge with a great twist LOVE IT
Sounds like a good challenge, might give this a pop when my current save dies down.
Turning Qatar into a good team in time for WC '22 sounds like a good idea!
Herrera looks a decent prospect Jimbo. A little eccentric maybe but should prove to good enough back up to Casillas
The new Manager of Barcelona has been announced as Kenyan International Glenn Crane.
The former defender has 25 caps to his name with one solitary goal.
Retired early due to a serious Knee Injury and becomes the youngest high profile manager in History.
Brettney's Manchester United Sri Lankan Adventure: Season 2012/13
Another hatfull of trophys but still no sign of Sri Lanka dropping their current manager ... Is there no way i can offer my services!?
Squad Stats
Transfers - Luka Modric (overpaid for him i guess) for £52m was the big signing of the summer.
Competitions Info;
Community Shield: Won!
European Super Cup: Won!
World Club Championship: Won!
League Cup: Won!
FA Cup: Lost In Semis.
Premier League: Lost on Goal Difference!
Champions League: Lost in Final!
Youth Watch: Mohamed Jiffry Mohamed Anees
End of season news ... Ryan Giggs retires, Wayne Rooney wants to leave
EDITL Forgot Champions League!
Last edited by brettney1980; 08-03-2012 at 12:44.
2011/12 season summary
League: Winners
French Cup: Quarter-Finals
Coupe de la Ligue: Winners
Champions League: Quarter Finals
A strong season, but I do feel we could certainly have done better. More disappointing, though was the lack of any Liechtensteiner regens coming through the academy this season. That being said, there are a few pretty good french prospects, so it's not like I've not got some youngsters to nurture
On the plus side they have agreed to invest some of the funds raised into youth and training facilities so hopefully we will have a decent bunch come through
Real Madrid/Panama - End of Season - 2011/12
Everything almost went to plan this season but a small blip towards the end cost us 2 trophies. In the league we were toe to toe with Barcelona for the most part but a couple of bad results for them meant we had enough of a gap to afford any slips and we took advantage winning the league by 3 points. In Europe we coasted through the group games to set up a game against Benfica, fairly easy games to win 6-2 on aggregate, the draw pitted us against Barcelona in the quarters and we lost the 1st leg 2-0 at the Nou Camp a week later when they came to visit we thrashed them 5-0 and advanced to the semi's. Porto stood between us and the final a routine 2-0 win at home before travelling to Portugal where we were disallowed a goal in the opening minutes, this clearly spurred on Porto who beat us 3-0 putting us out of the Champions league 3-2. The Spanish cup went to plan to begin with 9-0 agg against Cadiz, 4-1 agg against Sevilla, 5-3 agg against Valencia and 5-2 agg against Ath Madrid put us through to the final against Athletic Bilbao. We just couldn't find the target and had to come from behind to force extra-time, nothing happened over those 30 mins and it went to penalties where we went down 3-2. A note of interest is that in all saves I've had on FM12 I have yet to do the League/Cup double hopefully that can change next season.
League Table
Champions League
Spanish Cup
In Panama news, they reached the 3rd round in North American World Cup Qualifying but are currently bottom of their group which includes Mexico
Code:Season | League | Cup | Europe -------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12 | 1st | Runners-up | CL semi-Finals --------------------------------------------------------
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After a lot of work on Ajax and Andorra, Title winners 2 seasons and Cup winners and despite an Andorran coach, I received just 1 Andorran by my 4th intake.
I think it was unlucky, there were a few U18s at Andorran sides but nothing to shout about.
I think the task of it all would have been too much, so I have sadly given up (maybe too easily) on that game. I just don't think I could have even competed with other European teams let alone manage to Qualify and win a World Cup.
I like this challenge though, so didn't want to bin my enthusiasm though. I decided as no on has take Surinam yet, I think I will, but I will still be Ajax. I will update later as I am busy, but I have already had 2 Surinam players. One who could excite world football and have another U19 who has Surinam as his second nation.
I think I may have a bit more luck with this game.
Sorry for cheating/failing at my first attempt. Onwards and Upwards.
This seems like a really good challenge, decided to go with the team with the BEST Youth Facilities in the world!
RGUOR Minsk playing in the Belarusian Lower League (4th Tier) I haven't edited them, this really is how they appear in the game.
I'm a former Mongolian International Ant Fletcher with 25 caps and 6 goals to my name, makes me the 2nd highest goal scorer in Mongolian history.
Dinamo Minsk/Belarus 2012 Season Review
Squad - League - Cup
Good first season domestically as we did the double. Really struggled to find a goal scorer in the first half of the season. Forked out £250k for Du Bala in the summer transfer window and he made all the difference. He notched 19 goals in 23 starts to ensure we topped the league. The cup is quite a strange affair in Belarus as it is spread over two seasons. At the start of the season we finished off what was started last year to lift the trophy. We wont be retaining it though as we have already been knocked out on pens to a lower league team. Had quite a tough draw in Europa league qualifiers. We managed to get past Red Star 4-1 on aggregate in the 3rd qualifying round. Basel were too strong in the next round though and we went out 4-3 on aggregate. As there is no U-18 squad all youth intake went straight into the reserves. Didn't get any list of candidates so no screenshot of the full bunch. Iliya Ostrikov was the one the ass man picked out as being the best. Doesn't look great but pretty sure we can train him on to become good enough for the reserves at least.
In Belarus news they are currently ranked 68th in the world. They are second bottom of the world cup qualifying group and don't have much chance of progressing with France and Spain in the same group. Hopefully this means the position may become available soon. I am very surprised at the standard of some of the players. Glad I started a game here, gives me some good scouting knowledge for future saves. Some of these players are good enough for mid-lower level premier league and are very cheap.
I think the Finland coach can feel me eying his job. As of Sept 15th of the first season Finland is the "Most Improved Nation" moving up from 75th to 54th in the rankings. *******.
Same thing is happening over in Belarus. Since my update they have moved up to 49th in the rankings. Had some great wins over the Czechs, Poland and Slovakia. Think I'll start withdrawing my players to ruin his chances
RUOR Minsk/ Mongolia - Youth Intake - 2011/12
Youth Candidates
Badmaanyambuugiin Dagvasuren Attributes - Badmaanyambuugiin Dagvasuren Coach Report
The only Mongolian of the intake and the lowest potential at just 1* but his name...it's just so "Badman"
Brilliant name
That name just makes me want to link this
Anyways, aside from that, I don't remember the last time I played as a team where I had cash to splash with. Only mid-way through July and already £24m spent. Still got another £5m or so in the budget too, which I'm using to chase youngsters with.
Well, Fnord Fjord may get lucky and get a vacancy on the Finnish international team, mainly because the team has been plagued with injuries and has started losing but, I ain't picky.
Decided to see what I can do with Macau.
Darren Denton has taken over the reigns at AC Milan.
EDIT: Can we take the national team jobs at youth levels?
Last edited by dinthead; 09-03-2012 at 11:10.
Don't see why not. It can only help to develop your players and get the national job in the end.
After a lot of work on Andorra, unfortunately the game has gone to rest.
I decided that I will be Surinam as there is more chance of progressing as a nation than Andorra ever will.
For the purpose of the challenge, I took over Ajax in February to find that they were sat in 13th in the Eredivisie.
Not wanting to mess with too much too soon and hoping I'd keep my job, I went on holiday to get rid of the nightmare season.
Here is my Surinam profile:
Denith Van Hoof
My Surinamese players:
Mark Jap A Joe
Carlos Kinsiani
The both have Dutch as second nation. I have one youngster that has Surinamese as a second nationality too:
Stefano Denswil
Ajax Season 2011/12:
Eredivisie 13th
Champions League: 3rd in Group
Euro Cup: 1st Knockout Round Ajax 1-3 Valencia (agg).
Dutch Cup: 3rd Round, Ajax 0-3 Sparta
Not sure who was in charge, but possibly one of the worst seasons for Ajax ever? PSV 3rd, Twente 10th and Feyenoord 11th.
A weird Dutch Season. Roll on next year and the Surinamese invasion.
So i ask my board to buy me Neymar.....they say no.
I ask them to buy Thiago Silva from milan, they stump up 34.5 million and bring me the centre back on a silver platter.
Pique and Thiago Silva CBs With Puyol to rotate in, or take the RB role from Dani Alves on occasions, and Abidal or Adriano (or hopefully soon Aly Cissokho) on the left.
Predicting alot of clean sheets!
Forza Barca!
PS; Also buying Mcdonald Mariga, the only kenyan worth anything!
Last edited by glennuk; 09-03-2012 at 14:04.
Sorry about that. *nerdy time over*
This topic intrigues me... I havent really got properly into FM12 quite yet, but something I always like to try is having a go at San Marino, both the club and the country. They start from the smallest beginnings... but with some decent effort and guidance, they can definitely provide a pretty huge return...
Introducing Christopher Chagrulaf, former Guamanian International player and the new manager of the New England Revolution in the MLS,
I also applied for every Guam national team post and got the U-21 gig!
Last edited by SetUpMan50; 09-03-2012 at 19:07.
Great challenge. Will follow this thread with great interest. Good luck everyone!
Good to see more people taking part, International youth management is perfectly acceptable as it gets your foot in the door with the FA
I am going to try to do it wit Luxembourg
And be the coach of Monaco
Last edited by toonbalmy87; 10-03-2012 at 00:38.
Since I have a career updates thread that is taking up a lot of my time, is it alright if I just holiday through seasons and only play international matches (when I get the job)?
RUOR Minsk/ Mongolia - 2011/2012 Season Review
Squad - Belarusian Cup - Belarusian Lower League
A very good debut season, our squad shrunk considerably to stick with our budget of £425 p/wk and I had to release a few players to be able to sign Badman, I'm optimistic about playing in the 3rd Tier (Second Division) next year and maybe get back to back promotions.
That damn Finnish manager just keeps pushing Finland up higher, they're now up to 38th in the world. They drew a pretty gnarly group for World Cup though so hopefully he chokes on the pressure.
With one week left to go in the mid-season transfer window, Inter is sitting +6 up at the top of Serie A and have only had one loss this season. We've also qualified for the First Knockout Round of the ECC.
So other than the a-hole coaching Finland doing really well, I'm doing good in the challenge so far.
Dinamo Minsk/Belarus 2013 Season Review
Squad - League
We won the league again but it was mush closer this year. Had to sell most of my top stars as they wouldn't sign new contracts. Got quite a bit of cash in though and have been able to get the board to improve facilities again. Also helped by getting past Derry, Sheriff and APOEL to reach CL group stage. The group looked a killer and thought we would get destroyed every game. Somehow we actually managed to finish 3rd. Madrid failed to score against us as we beat them at home and drew over there. Chelsea in the KO stage was too much and they thrashed us 7-2 on aggregate. It all means plenty of cash which will help to develop the stars.
Youth Intake
New bunch came through and we have three 4* potential players and a 3 1/2* which is good news.
Belarus News
Bernd Stange is not doing me any favours. He has pushed Belarus up to 30th in the world rankings. They somehow managed to beat France away and some good friendly victories over Turkey and N.Ireland. Euro qualifying group doesn't look to difficult either with Portugal proving to be the thoughest opponents. With the other teams being Moldova, Denmark and Hungary they have an outside chance at qualifying.
Real Madrid/Panama - End of Season - 2012/13
A very successful domestic season, we started off with winning the Super Cup comfortably and never really looked back, Barcelona are not the team they were last season this may be down to the fact that Guardiola took the Spain job and Barcelona appointed Ancelotti, whenever we dropped points they seemed to drop points too so our gap widened constantly throughout the season winning the league at the Nou Camp with 4 games to spare. I finally got over my personal hoodoo of doing the double the only real scare was Villareal in the quarters where i needed penalties to beat them. Europe was a different kettle of fish however, easily through the group stage only dropping 2 points set up a meeting with Lyon. We lost the 1st leg in France 2-0 but I was confident we could turn it around at home despite them not having a shot at goal in the 2nd leg and us having 26 we could only manage a 1-0 win and crashed out of the Champions League.
League Table
Spanish Cup
Champions League
Another couple of Panamanians came through the youth academy, with Striker Pablo Gallardo looking promising for Panama, not quite got the potential to be Real Madrid quality, and a defender Carlos Diaz who doesn't even look Panama quality let alone Madrid quality
Youth Intake
Pablo Gallardo
Carlos Diaz
In Panama news they are in the final group of World Cup qualifying where they are currently unbeaten, and their manager is relatively young so I may have a bit of a wait for the job to open up
North American World Cup Qualifying
Gallardo looks a decent player. Should be good enough for a lower league team at the very least.
Yeah he could be my main striker once the National Job becomes available, and it might be sooner rather than later as Panama have lost a couple more games to teams they should beat
Belarus job just became available as Bernd Stange retired from football. Threw my name in the hat thinking I must have a chance seeing as my Minsk team is doing okay and I got laughed at. Looks like I'll have to wait a while longer for the top job.
Decided to give this a try with the Cook Islands, with my club being Benfica. I've never managed a big team before, so it's odd having millions to spend! First 2 seasons were Zé Roberto on a free and Chris Brunt.
This year we had a couple of Liechtensteiner players come through the academy:
Manfred Damm - Report
Norbert Hillebrand - Report
Neither look at all promising, but hopefully they can at least improve to the point that they might get a call-up.
Fancy taking part
Today Partizan Belgrade have announced there new manager former Montenergrian International Danilo Djuradji
After speaking to the media after the heartbreak of a career ending injury against England in the euro qualifiers he stated "he couldn't wait to make Partizan to be a force in European football again"
Dinamo Minsk/Belarus 2014 Season Review
Squad - League - Champions League
Third league success on the run but it's getting a lot closer. Went down to the wire this year and we were lucky enough to get the point required on the final day. Lot of potential in the squad and the CL money is meaning we can upgrade facilities on regular basis. Struggling to attract the best coaches though. Think we may need to have a decent run in a European competition. Managed to edge past Linfield, Omonoia Nicosia and Anderlecht to reach the group stages. Had another tough group and we were the whipping boys as we didn't get a single point.
Youth Intake
Not a great intake this year. Only 3* potential but I'll be giving them contracts to give them a shot at improving.
Mikhail Afanasiev
Leonid Afanasiev
Igor Osipovich
Belarus News
The new fella is doing quite well and remains unbeaten 7 games into his Belarus career. Results include away draw in Hungary and shutting Portugal out for a 0-0 draw at home. Even with the decent results they have dropped to 35th in the rankings.
Panama Under 21's are going to be playing in the French Youth Invitational, guess who they hired as manager?
Panama U21 manager?
Good stuff. Should be able to throw some of your youth prospects in.
Real Madrid/Panama - Youth intake - 2013/14
So the latest crop came through with 2 more Panamanians but they dont look the most promising
Youth Intake
Arturo Rivera
Jose Jesus Rios
Rivera may just have enough potential to be an International player but I cant see him being a Madrid player. The Spanish players seem to have a bit of potential though I could have the next Ricardo, Andres Palop, Fernando Hierro and Michel Salgado.
Still checking in here and it's good reading folks progress ... Even if i'm not able to play at the moment, since the update patch i cant load any of my save files (all coming up with errors) and don't feel like starting again incase all my saves end up this way ... Good luck guys.
Right decided to go with real madrid as club decided to go wats easiest in two seasons iv had 1 luxembourg player so not much to say really
Haha, quick update as i played a couple of games today.
Won the world club championship, and also beat real madrid, who sacked Mourinho (After all those comments he said about me in the media..fool)
I am top with Barcelona, and eagerly anticipating the transfer window (Currently in mid dec of first season)
Watching Wanyama (Sp?) of celtic, to see if i should sign him and try and make him a Kenyan star.
PS: Forgot that it was actually fun to play a big team game at times too
Jim, how did you get hired as the U21 coach? I don't even see that job listed.
Third season over didn't get any new luxembourg player won the league last two seasons Luxembourg haven't done anything
I don't get how Ajax finished so poorly last year, maybe it is great having no European competition this year, but we have started with a bang, currently top, not sure we will stay there though, time will tell.
Anyway, Beat Heerenveen in 4th to make a 5 point gap between 3rd/4th to give us some breathing space and 2 days later, had a cup game against Go Ahead. This was 4 days before playing away to PSV, so I used it as rotation and made 9 changes. Time for a Surinamese invasion I thought, but I wanted to win this too. So went for reserves and 2 Surinamese were named in the squad aswell as 2 Dutch U21s.
Ajax 2-0 Go Ahead with Carlos Kinsiani netting his first goal in his first appearance and becoming Ajax's Youngest Ever Goalscorer with a neat turn and placed finish. Hopefully this won't lead to a Dutch call up!!
Lorenzo Pique, who I signed on a free, played 90 minutes at right back.
Progress for the Surinamese lads.
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Real Madrid/Panama - End of Season - 2013/14
Real Madrid do the Treble
Well technically the quadruple if you count the Spanish Super Cup. A very successful season all round despite only earning 1 point in the league matches against Barcelona they were awful for most of the season. We had a fantastic season in the league only dropping 13 points while scoring 128 goals and only conceding 18.
The Cup was another routine success where we broke the Spanish record for goals in the competition with 36 including 11 over 2 legs against Sevilla. The Champions League was my greatest achievement. A routine journey through the groups pitted us against Ajax where we comfortably won 4-0 over 180 minutes to set up a quarter final with Bayern Munich, a 2-1 win in Munich followed by the same result at home put us through to a tie against Chelsea. We won the 1st leg 3-0 in Madrid before travelling to London where Ronaldo got himself sent off after 5 minutes, down to 10 men and we scored. In the 2nd half Ramos also saw red putting us down to 9 men but the tie was never in doubt and a 2nd goal on the night put us through to the final 5-0 where we would me our biggest rivals Barcelona. A tense affair but Sergio Aguero broke through the defence to score what would be the only goal of the game and the one that sent the trophy to Madrid
League Table
Spanish Cup
Champions League
In Panama news they missed out on the Play-off for the World Cup by 1 point. In under 21's news my 1st game in charge was a friendly against Syria we won 1-0 but it was a poor match. Another friendly against Armenia saw us lose 2-1. Onto the French Youth Invitational, and the big boys, where our 1st match was against Australia and we were outclassed 4-0, Portugal were next and we got the best result of my International career, losing 2-0 we managed to claw it back for a 2-2 draw, leaving us the simple task of beating Brazil to advance, 4 goals and 90 minutes later the dream was over. My job was not helped by Herrera choosing to play for Spain's U19's and Gallardo thinking he was good enough for Spain rejecting a call-up. The sooner I get the top job the better as I may be able to sway them with a full cap.
French Youth Invitational
Code:Real Madrid Season | League | Cup | Europe --------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12 | 1st | Runners-up | CL semi-Finals --------------------------------------------------------- 2012/13 | 1st | Winners | CL 1st KO round --------------------------------------------------------- 2013/14 | 1st | Winners | CL Winners Panama Under 21's Season | FYI --------------------- 2013/14 | Group Stage
I am guessing i would need to turn the dutch league on to get more Luxembourg players ??
Congrats Jim have you signed Bale yet he is immense at LB i think he got 18 Assists for me last Season
Be starting this challenge up tonight after work. Looks like it could be a lot of fun.
Ahh I'm thinking of Virton or something like that!?
Ahh thanks Jim, Maybe that'll help? I'll stop clogging the thread up.
Former Nicaraguan International star, Eduardo Garcia has taken over at top Argentine club Boca Juniors.
Welcome aboard TwinsFan86.
Dinamo Minsk/Belarus 2015 Season Review
Squad - League - Champions League - Cup
We won the league comfortably with a lot of games to spare. Pleased with how the formation is coming along too. Trying to develop a very strong defensive formation. Can't see me being able to win the CL by outscoring the opposition so need to keep it tight at the back. Only 13 conceded in the league is a good start. The cup was easy enough and most of the games were played using reserve players. In the CL we swept Ulisses of Armenia and Zestaponi of Georgia aside. Hapoel Tel Aviv were stronger but we edged past them to reach the group stages for the third year running. Thought we had a chance of getting out of a reasonable looking group. Man City would be tough but I thought we could beat Shaktar and Fenerbache. Unfortunately it wasn't to be as we came 3rd after 2 poor results against the Turks. Still we have the Euro cup next year. Should all help to raise the clubs reputation so we can get better coaches and players
Youth Intake
Some of the recent intake have been getting first team action and performing for us. Yuriy Kashevskiy was back up target man but still started 20 games managing 11 goals and 7 assists. Vitaliy Milronchik started 23 games in the centre of midfield. Not as many assists as I would like but has still played really well. So with having some talent through recently I was hoping for better than the 3* potentials that came through. Also hoping to get some defenders soon. All the best youth players coming through are midfielders and strikers at the moment.
Ass man said Shushkevich has the talent to be the most gifted player through the system in recent years. Don't see it myself but I'll give him a shot.
Belarus News
The new manager is doing me no favours at all. He has managed to qualify for the Euro's and raised the world ranking to 27th. He's only 43 too so no chance of him retiring. Disappointed he's not calling any of my youth players up yet. They look better than some of the first teamers.
Sold Dani Alves for 37 million to Man City. (only really sold him, as he was unhappy i fined him, the little twit)
Bought in Sime Vrjalsko, Aly Cissokho, Antoine Griezmann and still had money to spare, so managed to sign Damiao for the rest + a bit more Good day
Not sure how I have done this but I am in the quarters of the Europa league with Minsk. Beat Tottenham 3-1 on aggregate and stumbled past D. Kiev 2-2 on away goals. Think we have come to the end of the road though as we have drawn Man Utd.
EDIT:Lost 4-2 on aggregate to United. Was leading 2-0 in the first leg until the 70th minute. I then made the mistake of trying to hold on to the lead and they scored two goals late on. I was completely outclassed in the return and not sure how we only let 2 goals in. In the end they had 11 CCC's to my 0
Last edited by ShyBaldBuddhist; 14-03-2012 at 15:18.
unlucky against United SBB, the World Cup has just finished and England approached me to be their manager, turned it down of course, but it means I should get the Panama job no problem when it becomes available
March 17th, 2012
Youth intake for Inter this year looks really good, both for the club and for Finland.
The three most promising were a superb M/AM(C) named Giacomo Pettinari, a solid AML (which fits great into my tactics) named Giovanni Migliore and a future Finnish star ST/AML named Markus Tuominen.
So far it's been a good year for Inter, we're still at the top of the table (up by +9 now), have made it to the Italian Cup semi-finals, and passed the Champions Cup first knockout round (barely edging out Olympiakos 1-1 and then 1-0 (where they had a denied penalty)).
Good stuff on landing the Panama job jimbo. Now the hard work begins
I just brought in Mario Frick as my new AssMan. No sign of there being enough players in the DB for me to get the national job any time soon though, so I think the swiss league will have to be turned on.
April 14th, 2012
Breaking News!
Won the Serie A and that put me as the 10th best Finnish coach of all time. This should help when the Finland job comes open.
Good going 18rabbit - there is only 1 Panamanian in the Panama hall of fame and its me. Made it into the spanish hall of fame too. I need to increase the Nations ranking I think as my brighter looking youngsters are refusing call-ups
So i've had my Save Game rescued and i'm back ... Here's my latest Sri Lankan Youth Prospect - Awesome name right!?
Brettney's Manchester United Sri Lankan Adventure: Youth Players 3rd batch!
Man Utd Youth;
Thilan Jayanath Seeman Ratnayaka Mudiyanselage Profile|Thilan Jayanath Seeman Ratnayaka Mudiyanselage Coach Report
I'm into problematic territory now .. The Sri Lankan jobs are seemingly unavailable - Too many Sri Lankans have retired leaving too few to choose from i guess!? I'll try loading up the Indian League see if this helps any .. I may sign aload of Sri Lankan free agents to Man Utd reserves ...
Season 2012/2013 Review.
Eredivisie - Dutch Cup
The season was a lot better for Ajax this time around, with no European football, I just wanted to bring that back. The quality of the production line here is insane. The league was won with 2 games to go, so I decided I would plays some reserves, youngsters and fringe players. Surinamese youngsters Kisniani was given 180 minutes over the last two games, after his goal in the Dutch Cup, he scored versus NEC and set up a goal versus NAC. The 16 year old with 2 goals and an assist in 3 games. Holland U19s wanted him, but I withdrew him from their squad, fortunately they haven't come back again, but he is good enough. Netted over 30 goals for Ajax U19s and Ajax 2 and 15 assists in 27 games. I am now his favoured personnel, so I hope I have some influence over his international future.
The cup was a poor performance, but I wanted to win the league and so I used my youngsters for it.
I had a decent Youth Candidates and another class Surinam youngster come through. Unfortunately I was hoping for more than one, but quality is better than quantity.
Say hello to:
Gordon Kemble
Great news! He retired! The press were unsure who was in line, but I couldn't apply.. I soon found out why a couple of moments later. The Surinam Clique
Surinam are flying high in 96th.
Not sure I'll have a say anytime soon.
Found this interesting. My star keepr announced he is retiring after this season. Ok no big deal. I go to look at his new staff attribute bar and find that he now has some knowledge of GUAM!!!! How awesome is that, he will most certainly be hired into the backroom after this year.
End of 2011/2012 Season Report
The Goals
- Win League Title - 2012
- Win Champions League - Not complete
- Win World Cup - Not complete
2012 Cup Finishes
- European Champions Cup - Runner Up - (Damn you Barca! We were 3-3 in extra time and then they manged to sneak one more in at minute 112)
- Italian Cup - Winner - Barely squeaked by in a penalty shootout with Juve.
- Italian Super Cup - Winner - Beating out AC Milan in extra time, 2-3.
2012 League Tables
Senior Squad - 1st place by 19 points, qualified for ECC.
U20's - 1st place Group 1 by 14 points.
Status of International Achievements
Manager for Finland - Position still filled by Mixu Paatelainen (Secure)
Finland World Ranking - Moved from 75th to 44th, peaking at 35th in January 2012
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Visiting and hosting some of the fun at Cinco de Mayo Saturday, I walked to the other end of Fairlawn Plaza, which is about to become the new home of a long ago departed radio station.
WREN Radio.
It's about to return, not on the air, but on the internet and mobile phones.. as an oldies station. They're already on with sort of a computerized continuous playlist of songs with local commercials inserted into the computer to play automatically. But they're about to go live from Fairlawn Plaza with DJs who have waited long enough for oldies on internet radio to become the hottest radio show in Topeka.
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By Orgad Kimchi-Oracle on Jul 08, 2014
How to add high availability to the network infrastructure of a multitenant cloud environment using the DLMP aggregation technology introduced in Oracle Solaris 11.1.
This article is Part 1 of a two-part series. In Part 1, we will cover how to implement network HA using datalink multipathing (DLMP) aggregation technology, which was introduced in Oracle Solaris 11.1.
In Part 2 of this series, we will explore how to secure the network and perform typical network management operations for an environment that uses DLMP aggregations.
Once we virtualize a network cloud infrastructure using Oracle Solaris 11 network virtualization technologies—such as virtual network interface cards (VNICs), virtual switches, load balancers, firewalls, and routers—the network itself becomes an increasingly critical component of the cloud infrastructure.
In order to add resiliency to the network infrastructure layer, we need to implement an HA solution at this layer, such as we would do for any other mission-critical component of the data center.
A DLMP aggregation allows us to deliver resiliency to the network infrastructure by providing transparent failover and increasing throughput.
The objects that are involved in the process are VNICs, irrespective of whether they are configured inside Oracle Solaris Zones or in logical domains under Oracle VM Server for SPARC.
Using this technology, you can add HA to your current network infrastructure without the cross-organizational complexity that might often be associated with this kind of solution.
The benefits of this technology are clear and they take into account the limitations of existing technologies:
Since the IEEE 802.3ad trunking standard does not cover the case for building a trunk across multiple network switches, the network switch becomes a single point of failure (SPOF). Some vendors have added this capability to their product, but these implementations are vendor-specific and, therefore, prevent combining switches from multiple vendors when building a multi-switch trunk. Because Oracle Solaris provides resilience, DLMP aggregation can be implemented across two different network switches, thus eliminating the network switch as a SPOF. As an additional benefit, because the aggregation is implemented at the operating system layer, there is no need to set anything up on the switch.
Building a network HA solution that is based on previously available IP network multipathing (IPMP) can be a complex task. With IPMP, HA is implemented at Layer 3 (the IP layer), which needs to be configured in the global zones and within each zone, and requires multiple VNICs to be assigned to each zone or virtual machine (VM). This involves more configuration steps, requires spare IP addresses out of the address pool, and generally can be an error-prone process. In contrast, the DLMP aggregation setup is much simpler since all the configuration takes place at Layer 2 in the global zone; therefore, every non-global zone can directly benefit from the underlying technology without the need for additional configuration. In addition, every new Oracle Solaris Zone that is provisioned automatically benefits from this capability. Moreover, we can create an aggregation over four 10 Gb/sec network interfaces; combining all the interfaces together, we can achieve up to 40 Gb/sec of network bandwidth.
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The misunderstanding of floating point arithmetic and its short-comings is a major cause of surprise and confusion in programming (consider the number of questions on Stack Overflow pertaining to "numbers not adding correctly"). Considering many programmers have yet to understand its implications, it has the potential to introduce many subtle bugs (especially into financial software). What can programming languages do to avoid its pitfalls for those that are unfamiliar with the concepts, while still offering its speed when accuracy is not critical for those that do understand the concepts?
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You say "especially for financial software", which brings up one of my pet peeves: money is not a float, it's an int.
Sure, it looks like a float. It has a decimal point in there. But that's just because you're used to units that confuse the issue. Money always comes in integer quantities. In America, it's cents. (In certain contexts I think it can be mills, but ignore that for now.)
So when you say $1.23, that's really 123 cents. Always, always, always do your math in those terms, and you will be fine. For more information, see:
Answering the question directly, programming languages should just include a Money type as a reasonable primitive.
Ok, I should have only said "always" twice, rather than three times. Money is indeed always an int; those who think otherwise are welcome to try sending me 0.3 cents and showing me the result on your bank statement. But as commenters point out, there are rare exceptions when you need to do floating point math on money-like numbers. E.g., certain kinds of prices or interest calculations. Even then, those should be treated like exceptions. Money comes in and goes out as integer quantities, so the closer your system hews to that, the saner it will be.
Providing support for a Decimal type helps in many cases. Many languages have a decimal type, but they are underused.
Understanding the approximation that occurs when working with representation of real numbers is important. Using both decimal and floating point types
Providing an approximates operator would help. However, such comparisons are problematic. Note that .9999 trillion dollars is approximately equal to 1 trillion dollars. Could you please deposit the difference in my bank account?
I don't believe anything can or should be done at a language level.
We were told what to do in the first year ( sophomore) lecture in computer science when I went to university , ( this course was a pre-requisite for most science courses as well)
I recall the lecturer saying "Floating point numbers are approximations. Use integer types for money. Use FORTRAN or other language with BCD numbers for accurate computation." ( and then he pointed out the approximation, using that classic example of 0.2 impossible to represent accurately in binary floating point). This also turned up that week in the laboratory exercises.
Same lecture : "If you must get more accuracy from floating point, sort your terms. Add small numbers together, not to big numbers." That stuck in my mind.
A few years ago I had a some spherical geometry that needed to be very accurate, and still fast. 80 bit double on PC's was not cutting it, so I added some types to the program that sorted terms before performing commutative operations. Problem solved.
Before you complain about the quality of the guitar, learn to play.
I had a co-worker four years ago who'd worked for JPL. He expressed disbelief that we used FORTRAN for some things. (We needed super accurate numerical simulations calculated offline.) "We replaced all that FORTRAN with C++" he said proudly. I stopped wondering why they missed a planet.
The two biggest problems involving floating point numbers are:
The first type of failure can only be remedied by providing a composite type that includes value and unit information. For example, a
The second type of failure is a conceptual failure. The failures manifest themselves when people think of them as absolute numbers. It affects equality operations, cumulative rounding errors, etc. For example, it may be correct that for one system two measurements are equivalent within a certain margin of error. I.e. .999 and 1.001 are roughly the same as 1.0 when you don't care about differences that are smaller than +/- .1. However, not all systems are that lenient.
If there is any language level facility needed, then I would call it equality precision. In NUnit, JUnit, and similarly constructed testing frameworks you can control the precision that is considered correct. For example:
If, for example, C# or Java were altered to include a precision operator, it might look something like this:
However, if you supply a feature like that, you also have to consider the case where equality is good if the +/- sides are not the same. For example, +1/-10 would consider two numbers equivalent if one of them was within 1 more, or 10 less than the first number. To handle this case, you might need to add a
By default, languages should use arbitrary-precision rationals for non-integer numbers.
Those who need to optimize can always ask for floats. Using them as a default made sense in C and other systems programming languages, but not in most languages popular today.
What can programming languages do? Don't know if there's one answer to that question, because anything the compiler/interpreter does on the programmer's behalf to make his/her life easier usually works against performance, clarity, and readability. I think both the C++ way (pay only for what you need) and the Perl way (principle of least surprise) are both valid, but it depends on the application.
Programmers still need to work with the language and understand how it handles floating points, because if they don't, they'll make assumptions, and one day the perscribed behavior won't match up with their assumptions.
My take on what the programmer needs to know:
Use sensible defaults, e.g. built-in support for decmials.
Groovy does this quite nicely, although with a bit of effort you can still write code to introduce floating point imprecision.
I agree there's nothing to do at the language level. Programmers must understand that computers are discrete and limited, and that many of the mathematical concepts represented in them are only approximations.
Never mind floating point. One has to understand that half of the bit patterns are used for negative numbers and that 2^64 is actually quite small to avoid typical problems with integer arithmetic.
I find it strange that nobody has pointed out the Lisp family's rational number trick.
Seriously, open sbcl, and do this:
That should help somewhat in some situations, shouldn't it?
If more programming languages took a page from databases and allowed developers to specify the length and precision of their numeric data types, they could substantially reduce the probability of floating point related errors. If a language allowed a developer to declare a variable as a Float(2), indicating that they needed a floating point number with two decimal digits of precision, it could perform mathematical operations much more safely. If it did so by representing the variable as an integer internally and dividing by 100 before exposing the value, it could improve speed by using the faster integer arithmetic paths. The semantics of a Float(2) would also let developers avoid the constant need to round data before outputting it since a Float(2) would inherently round data to two decimal points.
Of course, you'd need to allow a developer to ask for a maximum-precision floating point value when the developer needs to have that precision. And you would introduce problems where slightly different expressions of the same mathematical operation produce potentially different results because of intermediate rounding operations when developers don't carry enough precision in their variables. But at least in the database world, that doesn't seem to be too big a deal. Most people aren't doing the sorts of scientific calculations that require lots of precision in intermediate results.
One thing I would like to see would be a recognition that
If one has a
By contrast, if one has a
Although the IEEE-744 standard requires that floating-point maths be performed as though every floating-point number represents the exact numerical quantity precisely at the center of its range, that should not be taken to imply that floating-point values actually represent those exact numerical quantities. Rather, the requirement that the values be assumed to be at the center of their ranges stems from three facts: (1) calculations must be performed as though the operands have some particular precise values; (2) consistent and documented assumptions are more helpful than inconsistent or undocumented ones; (3) if one is going to make a consistent assumption, no other consistent assumption is apt to be better than assuming a quantity represents the center of its range.
Incidentally, I remember some 25 years or so ago, someone came up with a numerical package for C which used "range types", each consisting of a pair of 128-bit floats; all calculations would be done in such fashion as to compute the minimum and maximum possible value for each result. If one performed a big long iterative calculation and came up with a value of [12.53401391134 12.53902812673], one could be confident that while many digits of precision were lost to rounding errors, the result could still be reasonably expressed as 12.54 (and it wasn't really 12.9 or 53.2). I'm surprised I haven't seen any support for such types in any mainstream languages, especially since they would seem a good fit with math units that can operate on multiple values in parallel.
(*)In practice, it's often helpful to use double-precision values to hold intermediate computations when working with single-precision numbers, so having to use a typecast for all such operations could be annoying. Languages could help by having a "fuzzy double" type, which would perform computations as double, and could be freely cast to and from single; this would be especially helpful if functions which take parameters of type
These above are applicable in some cases, but not really a general solution for dealing with float values. The real solution is to understand the problem and learn how to deal with it. If you're using float point calculations, you should always check is your algorithms are numerically stable. There is huge field of mathematics/computer science which relates to the problem. It's called Numerical Analysis.
One thing languages could do--remove the equality comparison from floating point types other than a direct comparison to the NAN values.
Equality testing would only exist is as function call that took the two values and a delta, or for languages like C# that allow types to have methods an EqualsTo that takes the other value and the delta.
As other answers have noted, the only real way to avoid floating point pitfalls in financial software is not to use it there. This may actually be feasible -- if you provide a well-designed library dedicated to financial math.
Functions designed to import floating-point estimates should be clearly labelled as such, and provided with parameters appropriate to that operation, e.g.:
The only real way to avoid floating point pitfalls in general is education -- programmers need to read and understand something like What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic.
A few things that might help, though:
Most programmers would be surprised that COBOL got that right... in the first version of COBOL there was no floating point, only decimal, and the tradition in COBOL continued until today that the first thing you think of when declaring a number is decimal... floating point would only be used if you really needed it. When C came along, for some reason, there was no primitive decimal type, so in my opinion, that's where all the problems started.


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11 Apr 2012 2:39 PM #1
NICE TO HAVE: Sub-Folders for Views and Stores
G'day Sencha,
Is it possible to have the ability to create sub-folders under Views and Stores to help organise large projects with various profiles? The examples have this in the folder structures - but cannot replicate in Designer.
11 Apr 2012 4:05 PM #2
You can currently organize your classes this way by prepending a package name to the userClassName.
The underlying code will be generated in an appropriate folder, etc. We have not implemented a feature to see them in packages in the Inspector yet. This feature may come in the future.
Thanks for the feedbackAaron Conran
11 Apr 2012 4:31 PM #3
It's the organisation of the components in designer that I am after - not that concerned with how the generated app folders look like. A true design and generation (CASE) tool should divorce you from having to rely upon looking at the generated code.
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// vote++;Perfection as a goal is a nice idea that can point one in a specific direction. However, since "perfection" is an ever changing (evolving?) and moving target, one must admit that perfection can never be obtained...
When in doubt, check the d4mn source code!
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19 Jul 2012 12:37 AM #6
Would love to see that too in a future release! ++
6 Sep 2012 6:05 AM #7
+1 on this, Really, Really want to see this in a future release (As soon as possible) I'm not even that concerned with packaging; some form of arbitrary foldering system would do for now.
We are having quite allot of trouble with the sheer volume of views we have, a mechanism to hide/expand groups in the Project inspector would save us allot of time.
6 Sep 2012 9:04 AM #8
I'd like to see this also. This particular issue is one of the reasons we just use Sencha Architect as a layout tool early on in the development process. At some point, we have to abandon the architect, and switch to other IDEs to finish/maintain the code.
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This is a serious problem with medium to large projects.
Apart from folding, a search in the project explorer is needed.
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Read this article on font legibility. At least look at this graph of on-screen reading times (shorter line = faster/better):
The differences aren't that large, but it's worth noting that Times (a serif font) came in second place.
For medium-large text consider ClearType (or whatever Apple's alternative for it is). For very small text (~<= size 10.5, in my experience), this can look blurry (contrary to its intention) -- see the WPF explanation on this. I'd generally agree with KahWee Teng's answer -- stick with the platform default for non-web apps unless there's a compelling reason not to.
In general for small type it is better (easier on the eyes) to use a sans-serif font. For larger type, more freedom of expression is "allowed" for different type faces because it is easier to read larger letters.
For smaller screens such as mobile device, it's better to use sans-serif fonts. Ultimately you should look at the platform UI guides to make your application feels native (unless you're creating a game).
From my point of view, and if applicable (domain and system), you should use the currently configured font. If the user chose some font for his system, who are you to tell him otherwise?
For large bodies of text, sans-serif fonts (eg. Tahoma, Arial) tend to work well on screen, while serif fonts (eg. Times New Roman) work well in print.
Presuming you don't destroy user's your eyes with something curly and pink, the size of your font (14px+ on a big screen), line-spacing and good background contrast can have a bigger effect on legibility than font face, in my opinion.
There are a lot of factors here. What is the application? A website? A mobile app? Clean is the way to go. For small devices, apple uses Helvetica. While it's not my favorite font, it is clean and easy to read.
That article is a bit out of date (2005).
A more current article: http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/legible-readable-typography/
And linked from the article (which is not all that readable, honestly):
I wanted to add that no font is a magic bullet. While a bad font and lose the game, a great legible, readable font wont win it for you either.
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Create an advertising campaign promoting a new, over 60s television channel for Channel 4. This new channel is about quality programming, and will challenge the audience in a characteristically Channel 4 fashion. No Larkrise to Candleford here, please.
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