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Definitely a touch of second season syndrome, but it's still quite early on, so there's plenty of time to improve matters.
Looking good for making the knockout rounds of the CL
Definitely a touch of second season syndrome, but it's still quite early on, so there's plenty of time to improve matters.
Looking good for making the knockout rounds of the CL
That's about as many seats in the new stadium as trains in Crewe.
Feel Like Resigning
Well my Crewe career has been al plain sailing successive promotions followed by a 3rd place finish on our EPL debut. Now everything has turned to complete crap, teams score against us at will, in our game against West Ham we had 8 clear cut chances and scored once it's really starting to annoy me. I have tried a few different formations and tactical approaches but nothing seems to work in the league. Six losses, four draws and 3 wins in recent games is appalling I even considered quitting at one point as it is frustrating me so much. I have got better players in than we had last season but we will be closer to relegation than we will be to qualifying for Europe again.
The only plus side is that we managed to get through our group and book a match against Lyon in the knockout stages. Just a pity that Lyon are the team that I hate playing on FM because more often than not they defeat me. Really starting to think of moving on but will probably end up staying.
Staying to the end of the season may be good. Hopefully the latter half of the season will turn things around. Congrats on qualifying out of the group stages!
I think I might leave, or give it one more year to see if it's just a blip.
How are your players morale? If its suffering a bit, I tend to arrange friendlies for my reserve team at home and get the first team players to play in these to help build morale. Fitness can sometimes be an issue but in the long run it tends to help.
The annoying thing is we will spank someone but seem unable to build on it and put a few wins together. I don't think I have ever fallen so far from one season to the next we could potentially finish 20-30 points worse off than last season.
Morale suffers but is easily built up a bit through the team meetings. I think a better GK and fullbacks would help and a natural right winger will also be a target for next season.
Feel Like Resigning
Thank god for that, the season is over and the end couldn't have come soon enough. I have been nothing but annoyed with this save for the past 6 or 7 months in game. The 5-4 match against Newcastle sums things up, we were 5-1 after less than 20 minutes, overall we had 7 clear cut chances yet they had 2 I really hate that stupid stat. Nothing much else to say really apart from how poor we were compared to the fantastic season we had last year.
The Champions League was a welcome distraction as we got through our group in top place securing it on the last day with a convincing 2-0 win over Bayern. We drew Lyon a team I hate on FM in the next round and lost at their place 2-1 but thrashed them at our 4-1 to book a place against another English team Arsenal. We drew the first leg despite leading twice and couldn't even get the ball off them for the second leg annoyingly we beat them at their place in the league in a match sandwiched between the two Champions League matches. I did enjoy our stint in Europe but there will be no European football next season.
Domestic Cups
The FA Cup was over pretty early we breezed past QPR 2-0 at home in one of our better performances but then we lost 3-2 in the next round to 16th place Championship side Southampton to signal more disappointment. The League Cup was slightly better, we beat Wolves 2-0 away to secure a match against QPR who we beat in extra time 3-1 then we lost on penalties to Birmingham in a match where we played as poor as our league position looks.
Now a dilemma, stick it out at Crewe or go to an ageing Real Madrid squad with a mega transfer budget?
Go to Madrid and sign the 10 best players in the world. You will need to adjust the budget to afford it though
I made a couple of saves to check out their squad etc. They lied that wage budget is £2.9 million and transfer budget is only £302 million.
If you will definitely keep a Crewe save, then take the Madrid job as nothing to lose
Tough choice, wouldn't begrudge you a move (even to Madrid) now.
Real Madrid definitely - your storming progress up the leagues with Crewe has got you the recognition. Now go to the Bernabeau and bring a couple of local Crewe lads with you
It'll be hard to turn them down tbh....you can stay there short term and then move to another continent.
Real purly because i still really like em.
Madrid? Would definitely be a step up.
Real with that kind of budget would be insane, would be alot of pressure for instant sucess though.
Thanks for the opinions guys, if I go to Real Madrid then expect a stay at Crewe spin off thread to appear in a few months!
I am quite sad to leave Crewe but I couldn't resist the progress Real Madrid have to offer for my challenge. I am surprised to see that despite leaving I have remained a legend at Crewe and I hope to one day return, I think it would be a nice way to end my career if I eventually finish this challenge.
Neils Buijs
One of the biggest problems here is that Casillas is 38 years old an dstill the top dog in goal, so I went out and bought the best GK I could find who isn't brilliant but will replace the legend during the season and take over full time from next season. Cost £30 million of the £300 million budget.
Willy Menard
I missed out on this lad when I managed Crewe, I had a £10 million bid accepted but he decided to sign for Sporting Lisbon in stead for half the wage. I saw that a few clubs had bid £20 million for him mainly my rivals At. Madrid so I matched the bid and signed the versatile player for £20 million.
Mario Gotze
The marquee signing of my reign, I have never managed the lad before so splashed out £55 million to sign him from Dortmund I just hope he can pay the fee back with plenty of assists and a few goals here and there.
Kurt Zouma
Never heard of him in real life but I decided that I needed a young-ish CB to play in the heart of my defence. So it took a lot of negotiating but I got him for £43 million he is a physical beast as you can see and should be a rock at the back.
Leopoldo Amat
Not the most exciting signing but a good solid young Spanish player to play in midfield. Cost £12.25 million from Malaga so not an expensive purchase either.
Juan Chumpitaz
The club was fielding a 31 year old Marcelo at LB so I wanted someone a lot young and decided to pay the release clause of £23 million to buy the LB from Betis, looks like a decent player with a bit of room for improvement.
Aston Quiggin
I dreamed of having this lad at Crewe but price, rivalry and reputation stopped any chance I had so I decided to bring him to Madrid to replace ageing stars Benzema and Higuain up front. Cost £34 million but has everything you could want in a striker especially that 20 for finishing.
£17.5 million was the release clause and I am sure acidmonkey will appreciate the name of this quality CB, hoping him and Zouma can form a solid partnership at the back.
So now I only have £293 million left to spend because most of my purchases where made before the budgets were given for the new season, I am actually quite surprised at the lack of expensive player we can attract no Neymar, no Ganso and no players valued at more than £30 million even Jack Wilshere refused to discuss a move to Real Madrid with us. I expect my stay to be over as soon as I win the Champions League even if it is in the first season.
because of that i have to post the vid again!!
Haha, first thing I thought when I signed him.
Quick work in Madrid.
Sliding Doors meets Football Manager.
Hopefully it will not take more than 2 or 3 seasons then I can move on, fancy MLS, Mexico or South Africa next.
MLS is always fun
MLS may have less foreign player rules, but we have crazy contract rules, international spots, DP contracts, Senior, Senior Entry, Generation Adidas, Academy Apprentice, etc.. But all that makes it fun!
It's all a bit easy so far but I guess being able to spend £300 million should make things pretty easy domestically. Quiggin has gone from Stoke City to performing at the highest level for Real Madrid within a few weeks. Di Maria despite being 31 has been great in recent weeks and Gotze is just pure brilliance, I have never managed him before but I can see why people love him so much. Overall the team is flying but there are still some tough away matches to come but we should surely have enough to see off the competition and win the league if we keep playing this well. We outplayed Barcelona and they had something like 4 shots all game but managed to pull it back to 1-1 until Quiggin struck late on to give us the win and ensure that my first El Classico was a win.
Champions League
Going well in the Champions League although Bayern Munich are the only team to beat us this season and they totally outplayed us. We will face AC Milan in the first knockout round in February, a reasonably tough draw as they have some real quality mainly Pastore but I am hoping we have too much for them.
Another Window Another Load of Cash Spent
Lee Campbell
Okay so he isn't anywhere near Real Madrid quality but last time I managed Madrid I signed a player called Wisner who I had managed at several clubs. I like to bring in players I like in the game and see what they can do so despite not having the best attributes and playing awful for Crewe in his one match so far I decided to spend £10 million on Lee Campball as back up to Quiggin.
Iker Muniain
Not really reached his potential but I needed another option in attack because Rossi, Quiggin, Di Maria and Gotze between them were always playing as part of an attacking three so Muniain is now an extra option for the games against smaller sides. £20 million bit steep for a back up but who cares we have 100's of millions.
Andrea Bertolacci
Modric was playing a whole load of games and at 34 that's a bit much, so I decided to buy Bertolacci even at a cost of £60 million I really wanted to sign him so just gave up and paid the huge asking price.
Players Out and Missed targets
Fans a bit upset that I decided to sell Higuain for £10 million to Sao Paulo but at 32 I felt he had little to offer and was starting losing his physical attributes those were the reasons I also sold on Benzema for £10 million to Inter as well as clearing a decent chunk of wages off the wage bill.
I tried to sign Jack Wilshere and Neymar but they were both not willing to discuss a move and neither was Aaron Ramsey. I went in for Ganso but he is 30 years old and would have cost £83 million.
Crewe are currently in 18th place in the EPL and it looks as though they could very well go down if they do not book up their play, it would be a shame given the new stadium I just hope they don't go into a financial meltdown but if they do I hope to save them sometime in the distant future.
Breezed through the league as expected really, only losses against Sevilla once we had already won the league and surprisingly against Real Sociedad 3-0 making them the team to hand us our first league defeat of the season. Gotze, Quiggin and Rossi ripped teams apart as an attacking three with Quiggin scoring 51 goals throughout the season. The double over Barcelona was the most pleasing thing about our league form especially as the trip to the Nou Camp was after Sociedad thrashed us 3-0.
We also added the Spanish cup to our collection with a reasonably easy draw wins over Malaga and Leganes were even easier than they looked and then we knocked out our rivals in the quarter finals despite losing at their place we were in control for most of the match. Sociedad came next once again we lost the away leg but had built a big enough lead from the first leg to see us through. The final against Racing was pretty hard and they bossed the first half but never had any real chances. The second half we took control back and Quiggin popped up with a good finish to win us the trophy.
The One That Really Matters
As you saw earlier the group stage was easy and we dispatched of AC Milan with ease beating them 3-0 at their place and 1-0 at ours to book a tie against Zenit in the following round. Once again similar to the Spanish Cup we lost the away leg but had built a decent enough lead in the first leg to go through without any real worries. Next we faced another Spanish side Valencia who had thrashed Barcelona 7-2 in the first leg and lost 3-0 in the second leg in the previous round. The most important match of the season was next against Chelsea, we totally dominated them but could only take a 1-0 lead at half time. The second half started and they scored straight away a player called Schouten who I had thought about signing from Man City but didn't I started to get worried that they would fluke the win but the main man Aston Quiggin once again scored to seal the win for us, which should have been more comfortable.
Where to now?
A couple of days after this unbelievably easy season I felt that I deserved a bigger wage than £29,500 a week, so I asked for another contract and the board offered me one a paltry £41,000 a week I told them I wanted £1,000,000 a week but they would only offer £50,000, I dropped my asking price to a reasonable £500,000 a week their counter offer £54,000. I went as low as £250,000 a week but they wouldn't offer me any more so I told them to stick it and resigned.
So now I am unemployed and looking for work to try and win the third continental trophy. So I am waiting for an interesting job to come up in Africa, Asia, South America or North America.
What a bunch of tight gits, not offering you those most reasonable of wage demands
Job Opportunities
Internacional - Haven't got a great squad but they have got a 30 year old Leandro Damiao who is a complete beast of a player, bad points are the huge amount of games in Brazil and I am not sure if they are one of the teams that starts with a big TV money deal or not.
Independiente - Top of the Argentinian closing stage so will probably be in the Copa Libertadores next season. Looks like they have a very good and reasonably young side plenty of player that could be sold for a profit and plenty worth keeping around.
Kaizer Chiefs - They haven't won the league since 2012 and are way behind Orlando Pirates squad wise, would probably be the biggest challenge of the these three teams.
It's out of Kaizer Chiefs and Independiente, Internacional are already in the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores but I want to win it from start to finish not sneak in with 3 games left and win it. I really like the look of Independientes squad so am leaning towards them.
They probably weren't going to pay you because you only scored 100 goals in the season...pitiful
Another very good seasons. Let's see who you pick next.
i was on £300k a week at Real
I finally decided to venture to Africa and accepted the Kaizer Chiefs job, as you can see they won the league a while a go but since then have not had a huge amount of success. I took this job because surprisingly they are the most financially strong side out of the three I mentioned earlier. They have constantly sold players over the years and made a decent profit most season seeing them have a bank balance of nearly £16 million. They offered me a transfer budget of £6 million and a wage budget of £50,000 a week. The team needs a bit of work but has some decent players. The only downside is that to qualify for the African Champion League I have to win the league, if I cannot achieve that sooner rather than later I may look for a move to another African country but for now I will try to build up the Kaizer Chiefs and win the league.
South Africa can be fun, just the Champion League is tough there once you begin playing clubs in Egypt.
I tried and failed to sign a number of South African players from other teams in South Africa looks like I will need to build up the clubs reputation before I can sign decent players from my rivals. We had to money but no one to spend it on, I decided if I could get some quick players in I would be okay especially if those players were up front. First I went for Albert Majola a young South African LB on a free transfer, then I bought another South African in Tshepo Mazibuko a young DM/CM for £750,000 from fellow South African team Bloem Celtic. Now comes the spending with £1.6 million on Ladi Uzoma a very quick Nigerian AMR/ST and another quick Nigerian to play as my lone striker £1.2 million signing Michael Daniel.
Everything seems relatively easy at the moment, the fans moaned about Michael Daniel not being worth the money I will admit I overpaid for him but he is scoring and that's all that matters. Sundowns were top until we beat them quite easily as well at their place to steal top place. No one else really put up a fight, Tuks were good against us in the first match and I thought I might have made the wrong move but that wasn't a reflection of our true form. Hoping to keep morale up and keep winning because I think Sundowns will keep putting points on the board.
I predict a riot, over them having such a great manager grace their presence.
Interesting move. One which I am looking forward to reading about.
Good luck in SA, great start!
Good Luck, should be fun in south Africa.
Moaning over Daniel and he's scored in all matches. There should be a press option to tell fans to go shove it
Things still going well for us in the league although a bit strange losing to SuperSport Utd at home then travelling to Orlando Pirates and beating them 4-0. Starting to concede a few more goals than we did at the start of the season but still scoring a few goals. It's going to be a tight finish so we need to keep going and hope we don't slip up and Orlando do.
Thought this was worth posting because I don't think I have ever seen a hat trick of free kicks in one game let alone in a top of the table clash.
First Cup Win At Kaizer Chiefs
Started with a convincing win in the first round of the South African Knock Out Cup over Tuks 4-1, then we played poorly but managed to snatch a win on penalties(some of the worst I have ever seen on FM) Then we faced Black Leopards and came away with an undeserved 3-2 win after extra time. The final was reasonably easy with a 3-1 win over Ajax CT.
I have struggled to get into this save since I moved to the Kaizer Chiefs and this job offer has just come up, however the win over Orlando makes me think I should stay not sure now.
Probably continue having a go with the Chiefs.
Good Luck mate, always nice to see someone doing something different!
Not a bad move. I guess it depends on whether you want to try your hand in the African CL or not...
I would give it another season with the Kaizer's.
I just cannot get into this save any more keep finding myself wishing I had not left Crewe. I have an older save and have gone back to being Crewe manager so I may open a new thread or go back in time on this one. Would anyone be interested in reading if I went back to Crewe? Everything was set there, a good bunch of youngsters with a few more on the way, a new stadium coming, legendary status. I only left because I was thinking of achieving my goal of winning every continental trophy but I should have just kept doing what I was enjoying.
I have always wanted a Crewe save personally to see if I can replicate their youth principles. So go for it
Go for it AB!
You could always return to this if you feel like it in the future.
You could always call the thread 'Staying Where I Should Have'
Definitely return to the Crewe era.
Cool, I'll put a thread up tomorrow night. It's a shame that this challenge has not really gripped me on FM12 like it did when I completed it on FM10 and FM11.
Really enjoyed reading this I've been playing as Crewe for a while now (see my thread) and really enjoying being there - so many good youngsters come through their system!
Enjoyed the career, but completely understand if you're just not into it. Looking forward to your new one!


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It's easy to check that the sum $$ \sum_{n = 1}^{\infty}\sin{\frac{1}{2^n}} $$ is convergent. Can this sum be calculate precisely?
You can rewrite the series as $$\sum_{n=1}^\infty (-1)^{n+1}{1\over (2^{2n-1}-1)(2n-1)!}.$$ To do this, simply expand each term using the sine series and exchange summations. It is not a closed form, but it converges much more rapidly than the original series.
I have tried this problem by considering a more general question. Denote function $$ \zeta(x) = \sum_{n = 1}^{\infty}\sin{x^n}, ~ 0 \leq x < 1. $$ It's obvious that $\zeta(0) = 0$. One can use this this sum to get various differential equations $\zeta$ satisfied. Then once $\zeta$ can be solved explicitly, the above sum is a especial case $x = \frac{1}{2}$. But I have not find a solution yet. Is this approach possible?

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STEUBENVILLE - Big Red's Mike Blackburn wanted his wrestlers to make a statement Thursday in the Class 4A portion of the Bill Hinegardner Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Dual Meet Championships.
Mission accomplished.
Competing on the home mats, Big Red disposed of Martins Ferry 57-12 and Harrison Central 63-9 to claim the 4A crown. The victories give Blackburn's squad a sweep of OVAC titles. In January, Big Red earned the overall championship in the conference's Ron Mauck Tournament.
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OVAC CHAMPS — The Steubenville Big Red wrestling team poses with the 2013 OVAC Class 4A Dual Meet Championship Trophy following victories over Martins Ferry and Harrison Central Thursday at the Crimson Center.
-- Fred Younce
PIN -- Harrison Central's Westin Fogle gets set against Oak Glen's Barry Strum during Fogle's pin victory during the semifinals of the OVAC Class 4A Dual Meet Championships.
-- Fred Younce
WIN BY PIN — Oak Glen's Brodie Bittinger locks up the pin of Harrison Central's Kyle Dodds during the semifinals of the OVAC Class 4A Dual meet Championships Thursday at the Crimson Center.
-- Fred Younce
"We wrestled pretty well and it's quite an accomplishment to win the OVAC dual title for the third straight year," Blackburn said. "These kids deserve it, they have been working hard."
According to the Big Red coach, capturing both the Mauck event and the Hinegardner duals means "we have a lot of real good individuals and we are pretty solid as a team."
"Overall, we are pretty competitive no matter where we were," he continued. "We have nine starting seniors, a sophomore and three freshmen. When you have that many upperclassmen and that much leadership, hopefully you are a pretty solid team overall."
Fact Box
Bill Hinegardner OVAC Dual Meet
at Steubenville High School
Class 4A
Steubenville 57, Martins Ferry 12
106 Tariq Wilson (Steubenville) pin Takota Haggerty (Martins Ferry) 0:10
113 Dakotah Goff (Steubenville) dec. Theodore Zoumpoulidis (Martins Ferry) 4-0
120 Trevor Neavin (Martins Ferry) over FF
126 Anthony Craig (Steubenville) dec. Damon Outward (Martins Ferry) 8-5
132 Anthony Parada (Steubenville) pin Dennis Russell (Martins Ferry) 0:24
138 Jake McKitrick (Steubenville) dec. Bryce Colemon (Martins Ferry) 6-1
145 James Wise (Martins Ferry) dec. Nico Moray (Steubenville) 11-9
152 Zach O'Dell (Steubenville) over 0 (Martins Ferry) FF
160 Andrew O'Dell (Steubenville) over 0 (Martins Ferry) FF
170 Mark Cole (Steubenville) over 0 (Martins Ferry) FF
182 Brandon Jones (Steubenville) pin Mike Wear (Martins Ferry) 1:51
195 Charlie Keenan (Steubenville) over 0 (Martins Ferry) FF
220 Greg Moray (Steubenville) pin Zac Coole (Martins Ferry) 0:44
285 Jon Bodkin (Martins Ferry) dec. Ryan Wood (Steubenville) 1-3
Harrison Central 39, Oak Glen 24
106 Anthony Heavilin (Harrison Central) pin Shane Logston (Oak Glen) 0:56
113 Danny Wyke (Oak Glen) maj. dec. Brandon White (Harrison Central) 12-4
120 Josh Cornell (Oak Glen) dec. David Forrester (Harrison Central) 2-0
126 Hunter Pizzino (Harrison Central) dec. Kyle Mack (Oak Glen) 4-1
132 Avery Flowers (Oak Glen) dec. Antony Risley (Harrison Central) 5-1
138 Nick Tice (Oak Glen) dec. Bryson Porter (Harrison Central) 7-2
145 Alex Shuman (Oak Glen) tech. fall John Coniker (Harrison Central) 16-1
152 Cyle Riedel (Harrison Central) pin Devon Chadwick (Oak Glen) 3:45
160 Brodie Bittinger (Oak Glen) pin Kyle Dodds (Harrison Central) 1:07
170 Zac Jones (Harrison Central) over 0 (Oak Glen) FF
182 Giovannie Rocchi (Harrison Central) over 0 (Oak Glen) FF
195 Westin Fogle (Harrison Central) pin Barry Strum (Oak Glen) 3:57
220 Cole Howes (Harrison Central) over 0 (Oak Glen) FF
Steubenville 63, Harrison Central 9
106 Tariq Wilson (S) maj. dec. Anthony Heavilin (HC) 13-2
113 Brandon White (HC) over FF
120 David Forrester (HC) dec. Dakotah Goff (HC) 4-2
126 Anthony Craig (S) dec. Hunter Pizzino (HC) 5-0
132 Anthony Parada (S) tech. fall Antony Risley (HC) 18-3
138 Jake McKitrick (S) pin Bryson Porter (HC) 2:20
145 Nico Moray (S) maj. dec. Cyle Riedel (HC) 13-1
152 Zach O'Dell (S) pin Danier Hunt (HC) 1:06
160 Andrew O'Dell (S) pin Kyle Dodds (HC) 2:35
170 Mark Cole (S) pin Giovanni Rocchi (HC) 0:46
182 Brandon Jones (S) tech. fall Westin Fogle (HC) 18-3
195 Charlie Keenan (S) over FF
220 Greg Moray (S) over FF
285 Ryan Wood (S) over FF
Third Place
Martins Ferry 34, Oak Glen 32
106 Shane Logston (OG) dec. Takota Haggerty (MF) 2-0
113 Theodore Zoumpoulidis (MF) dec. Danny Wyke (OG) 4-3
120 Josh Cornell (OG) tech fall Trevor Neavin (MF) 15-0
126 Damon Outward (MF) major dec. Kyle Mack (OG) 14-6
132 Avery Flowers (OG) pin Dennis Russell (MF) 0:50
138 Bryce Coleman (MF) dec. Nick Tice (OG) 4-2
145 Alex Shuman (OG) pin Zac Mey (MF) 1:50
152 James Wise (MF) pin Devon Chadwick (OG) 1:57
160 Brodie Bittinger (OG) FF
170 Mike Wear (MF) FF
182 Double Forfeit
195 Barry Strum (OG) FF
220 Zac Coole (MF) FF
285 Jon Bodkin (MF) FF
Big Red's win over Martins Ferry came in the semifinals. Harrison Central reached the title match by disposing of Oak Glen 39-24. In the battle for third place, Martins Ferry clipped the Golden Bears 34-32.
In the championship bout, Big Red got pins from Andrew O'Dell (160), Mark Cole (170), Jake McKitrick (138) and Zach O'Dell (152). Of the matches actually contested, Big Red lost just one. Harrison Central's David Forrester recorded a 4-2 decision at 120.
"I thought we did fairly well," Harrison Central's William Bryant noted. "We had a couple of kids home sick. I'm not saying that would have a made a difference in either match. We're still a young team and we have grown a long way from the beginning of the season. I'm proud of them.
"I'm disappointed in the deficit of the loss to Steubenville but at this point in time, they are the better team. We'll continue work harder and make each day count."
The Huskies will be back in action today, hosting Indian Creek and St. Clairsville in a tri-match starting at 5:30 p.m.
As far as Oak Glen's Patrick McGillian was concerned, his Golden Bears "gave up too many forfeits. That was a big thing."
In the consolation match against Martins Ferry, each team won four of the eight matches actually wrestled. The Purple Riders got the win thanks to three forfeits. Against Harrison Central, the Golden Bears won six of the matches contested.
"Plus, we just didn't wrestle well," he added. "I didn't feel like they were prepared and it showed. We have wrestled some of the kids we faced tonight before and we wrestled them better."
McGillian did single out Alex Shuman and Brodie Bittinger for "wrestling well."
Shuman, who competes at 145, recorded a technical fall against Harrison Central and a pin against Martins Ferry. Bittinger (160) won by pin in the semifinals.
"As a team, we have a lot of work to do before the regionals (which start next weekend)," he noted.
The Golden Bears will compete against Weir High and Brooke Saturday on the Bruin mats.
Eight Big Red wrestlers went 2-0 on the night - Tariq Wilson (106, he recorded a pin against his Martins Ferry opponent in just 10 seconds), Anthony Craig (126). Anthony Parada (132), McKitrick, the O'Dell twins, Cole and Brandon Jones (182).
Greg Moray, who competes at 220 for Big Red, needed 44 seconds to dispose of his Martins Ferry foe. He earned a forfeit win against the Huskies.
Big Red is idle until sectional action begins on Feb. 15 and Feb. 16 at Buckeye Local. Blackburn said Thursday's matches definitely will help his club get ready.
"We haven't seen too many guys from Harrison Central before, even in the OVAC tournament," he pointed out. "They'll be at our sectionals and tonight gave us an idea of what they have. Plus, it gives us some like opponents to help out at the seeding meeting."


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How would one integrate the following?
$$\int \frac{x^{n-2}}{(1 + x)^n} {\rm d}x~$$ where $n$ is a positive integer.
How would one integrate the following?
$$\int \frac{x^{n-2}}{(1 + x)^n} {\rm d}x~$$ where $n$ is a positive integer.
$$\int {x^{n-2} \over (1+x)^n} {\rm d} x = \int (1+x)^{-2} \left({x \over 1+x}\right)^{n-2} {\rm d} x =\int y^{n-2} {\rm d} y$$
using the substitution $y = {x \over 1 + x}$.
For me, the most natural way to begin is by letting $t=1+x$. Then the integral becomes $$ \int \frac{(t-1)^{n-2}}{t^n} dt = \int \left(1 - \frac{1}{t} \right)^{n-2} \frac{dt}{t^2}. $$ Then let $y=1/t$. Or maybe even better: $y=1-1/t$, which brings you back to Marek's answer.
If you would have had some other powers that didn't interact as nicely as $n-2$ and $n$, say $(t-1)^a/t^b$, you could have expanded using the binomial theorem and integrated term by term.
I would like to do it with the following hint:
My first instinct would have been to substitute $x = \tan^2(\theta)$. $$I = \int \frac{x^{n-2}}{(1 + x)^n} {\rm d}x$$ $x = \tan^2(\theta)$. \begin{align} I & = \int \dfrac{\tan^{2n-4}}{\sec^{2n}(\theta)} 2 \tan(\theta) \sec^2(\theta) d \theta\\ & = 2 \int \dfrac{\tan^{2n-3}}{\sec^{2n-2}(\theta)} d \theta\\ & = 2 \int \sin^{2n-3}(\theta)\cos(\theta) d \theta \end{align} Setting $\sin(\theta) = t$, we get $$I = 2 \int t^{2n-3} dt = 2 \dfrac{t^{2n-2}}{2n-2} + C = \dfrac{(\sin^2(\theta))^{n-1}}{n-1} + C = \dfrac1{n-1} \left(\dfrac{x}{1+x} \right)^{n-1} + C$$ This is just a round about way of doing what Marek did. But I would not have realized immediately to split it in such a nice way as Marek had done.


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when I'm playing zerg I have almost always a problem of low gas and lots of minerals. Especially it happens when playing with terran because I need mutas + banelings. How to spend minerals correctly? Maybe expanding just for gas is an option?
The short version is: You're backing up on Minerals because you don't have enough Larva for your Mineral Dump (ie. Zerglings). You need more Hatcheries, but not more Expansions. Put the new Hatcheries in your current bases (3 Hatch on 2 Base is a nice ratio, but 5 on 3 is nicer).
I'm going to use some terms here to help you understand the solution to your problem and I think I should define them before I use them:
2.5 is sort of a funny number to choose. However, a fully saturated base should produce 2.5 Minerals for every Gas.
There is a reason you see people go Roach/Hydra or Muta/Ling and not Hydra/Muta or Roach/Ling (at least not after the early game). The reason is that these units aren't just synergistic in combat, they're also synergistic in production. Usually, when planning the force you want to take to battle you want to plan a "Money" unit. This is a unit who you're bringing along to do the heavy lifting. To help prevent you from just massing Ultralisks or Thors, these "Money" units are Gas Heavy. As a result you need to plan a Mineral Dump, a unit to throw those excess minerals at. While expansions are great Mineral Dumps they suffer from the problem of needing to be defended. To combat this you need to plan your army intelligently and not just build units because they're "cool".
One of the big problems Zerg in particular runs into is that their basic Mineral Dumps are Zerglings (I'm ignoring Roaches for the moment which are also a great Mineral Dump but don't suffer from this problem). Zerglings have the unique property in that they're Larval Expensive. For 100 Minerals of Zerglings you need 2 Larva (by comparison the numbers are 1 for Roaches, .6 for Hydras, .5 for Muta and .25 for Ultralisks). This means to field and maintain a large Zergling Force you need higher larval production than you would otherwise get. Often time if I'm running Muta/Ling I'll go 3 Hatch on 2 base. This is probably what's happening to you:
Your prioritizing Larva for Mutalisk (a smart decision) and not having enough left over for Zerglings.
The solution here is not to expand but to place those extra Hatcheries (and Queens) inside your current bases so that you have enough Larva for a larger Zergling force.
On the same topic Banelings are actually fairly Gas Heavy. This tends to get over looked because you get 4 for 100 Gas but it is true. The reason you get away with Muta/Baneling is because you're actually building Muta/Ling and sacrificing Mutalisks for Banelings (a smart choice against a Marine Heavy opponent). So don't forget to build those Zerglings!
yes, this is the most common problem with Zerg - you do get a lot of minerals and starve on gas. The best way to overcome this is to expand and prioritize gas over minerals at the expansions. The most common way I do this, is when I have 500/600 minerals, I try to expand and make the gas extractors first, once the bas is up and running I start harvesting minerals from the new expansion. If you still have a problem with minerals even expanding enough to get 2/3 bases, spend the money on zerglings / roaches to keep your minerals low and gather enough gas to go mutalisks.
One more thing, going muta from 1 base is really risky as you won't have enough units to defend early rushes. Try a common 2 base muta build when expanding really early - 14 pool, 15 hatch.
Hope this helps!
Expand when you can afford it and make sure that you get enough gas for your plan.
Any excess minerals can be used for Zerglings and Overlords,
If you want to spent some gas too, the gas ratio of Roaches, Hydralisks and Ultralisks are perfect.


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You might think that the title is an overstatement of a well-known fact but it is the best title I can come up with for the wonders the intersection operator does in some fields of math.
Recently,(on summer vacation) I was studying one subject after another and after changing about three subjects, I began to notice that in all these the set-theoretic intersection operator always carried over some property of the parent sets to the one obtained after the intersection.
To summarize briefly:
Let $A$ and $B$ be two sets, say with property P. Then, $A \cap B$ has property P.
Evidences, some trivial:
The intersection of two open sets is open.
The intersection of two closed sets is closed.
- The nonempty intersection of two subspaces of a metric space is a metric space.
......and so forth.
The intersection of two subspaces of a vector space is a vector.
The intersection of two subgroups of a group is a group(w.r.t the same binary operation and clearly the intersection is between the underlying sets).
- The intersection of two sub-fields of a field is a field.
......the list continues.
The third subject was Graph Theory, but I haven't yet come across the notion of intersection.
Now I would like to ask
whether this trend always holds or whether there is some underlying principle each discipline abides by when using the notion of intersection. Is there any property deviating from this trend? What are the reasons for the ubiquity of the quoted property?


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Show that the function $g(x)=x^4+x^3+1$ is one-to-one on $[0,2]$.
My attempt
To prove one-to-oneness, we shall use the definition, that is, if $f(x_1)=f(x_2)$ , then $x_1=x_2$ for all $x_1,x_2\in[0,2]$
Suppose $f(x_1)=f(x_2)$, then ${x_1}^4+{x_1}^3+1={x_2}^4+{x_2}^3+1$
Which wasn't much of an attempt, as I got stuck.
Also I am rather new to proving conjections and surjections.
Help! Thanks in advance!


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It may well be true that any Democrat is going to have to handle that sort of sewage in the general election, but I've now--belatedly!--figured out that the real audacity in Barack Obama's campaign--far more than his positions on the issues, which almost seem an afterthought--is his outrageous belief that the entire country, not just Democrats, wants to see a straight up election; that the entire country is tired of the pestilence of tactical tricks that the Clintons learned from their co-dynasts, the Bushes. (The latest example being their sudden, sociopathic emphasis on the importance of the Florida primary, a contest all three candidates had agreed to eschew at the behest of the Democatic National Committee.)
For all their differences, the Bushes and the Clintons share a fundamentally shameless, almost indecent, ruthlessness that I find very hard to stomach, even in people with whose politics I sympathize. Time to turn the page.
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For the uber-liberal newspaper in the uber-liberal city in a decidedly blue state that has been thought as a shoo-in for the Clintons (oops, Hillary), we have this touch of a Reformation: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi f=/c/a/2008/01/27/ED6EUKN15.DTL
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It is a small point, but I don't think that referring to Bill and Hillary Clinton as "Billary" is very Obama-like. For all those who want the tone of American political discourse to change, perhaps they should start figuring out how to criticize the Clintons without nastiness and sarcasm. Obama himself is not doing anything of the kind, and if we are to believe his rhetoric, it's not a purely tactical move on his part for the sake of winning the nomination. It's what he's proposing as a new way to conduct politics. If even his supporters can't do it, I don't see much hope for the kind of change he promises.
Great point David. But it is the fashion and many are getting on board. Still lost in all this is the demonizing of women. Most men say that leaders like Golda, Margaret Thatcher and Madeline Albright were rough (and bitchy) figures. So it continues. Look at your history from Fulvia, (one of Anthony's wives) Cleopatra to the present. And even Willie is not exempt as Lady Macbeth has been the forever symbol of female bitchiness. I am amazed how easily people forget how Obama attacked everytime he was losing or lost in this race. He is the refuge for the Anti-Hillary, the anti-feminine, however nicely the praise or criticism is couched.
Further, to place the Clintons with W. Bush is absolute balderdash. Secondly, the father of W has much more integrity than W has.
And thirdly, defend the Iraq vote.P.S. David, you're right, that is a small point. Was it tongue-in-cheek or thumb to nose?
Grant,It was small but sincerely meant. It is the kind of thing Obama himself would never do. It's petty and snide and dismissive. Doesn't "change you can believe in" have to start somewhere?
I can only say "Amen" to David Nickol and his call for civility on this issue. That goes for both sides, Bill Mazzella. Advocating for Obama does not make one a misogynist, nor does advocating for Clinton make one a racist.
I don't get what's so bad about being a bitch. Bitches get stuff done. They have the self-confidence to follow their instincts. They don't put up with a lot of shilly-shallying when there's a deadline looming or a crisis at hand. They have ambition and high standards.Being a bitch is only a problem if you can't compromise with others, if you send your husband out to be the pit bull so you have deniability, if you can't accept criticism, and you waste time twisting the knife once it's in. Some people say I'm a bitch. I usually demur and say I'm merely bitchy, but I'm working on it!
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I am all for keeping nastiness to an extreme minimum, but let us also grant the possibility of genuine disgust. One response that I have not yet found goes something like this: If Bill Clinton's strategic comparison of Obama to Jackson was designed to cultivate white backlash, then it would be entirely proper to be disgusted with it, yet, I disagree with you Joe, and do not see the intention of the comparison in that way. Instead, what seems to happen is that one such as myself who does worry about a meaner level to the comment is put on the defensive for being disgusted with what is perceived. When is it O.K. to express disgust with the actions taken during this campaign?David Nickol, you have asked what going beyond partisanship would look like. I am not sure, but I think it would include three things: first, as Margaret has already discussed, it would include a willingness to extend the art of the deal across the aisle. In working to get things accomplished, anti-partisanship means willing to shop for support from those who might get on board if they can get something out of doing so. Second, I think it would include an openness to hearing out the opposition. Regular lunches and dinners, more open access at the White House, etc. These things I think can be done among people who respectfully disagree with each other. Finally, there would be less vindictiveness and retaliation, especially among those in one's own party who disagree for understandable reasons with a position you are promoting.I think Barack Obama would rather lose this race than do certain things to win. I think the same attitude would follow if he were president with respect to legislation.
Joe Petitt, I just do not get your logic. No one worked with the Republicans more than Bill Clinton and they bashed him every chance they got. So where is your argument?Grant, I do not agree with Hillary's vote on the war but could understand her making it with the information we had at that time. David G, I did not say that a vote for Obama was necessarily misogynist. What I mean is that those who are will gravitate to the Obama or Edward's camp. Look at all the bashing of Katie Couric, just because she is a very strong woman. As far as attitudes toward women I am certain that most men are at a primitive level and that too many women have bought into the attitude.
Bill says: As far as attitudes toward women I am certain that most men are at a primitive level and that too many women have bought into the attitude.Jean replies: Bill, BILL! Do you not see how, by saying that most men are morons and women have bought into that attitude against their own interests, that you're belittling a lot of women? I don't think "most men" are at a primitive level about women. And if they are, there are plenty of women like me here to point it out to them. (See my rant on what's so bad about being a bitch above.)I'm frankly more suspicious of men who say they're feminists. I first ran into this line of bull in the Unitarian Fellowship back in the mid 70s, where one of the men was getting a lot of attention by telling the youngest and prettiest women in the group that he was a feminist. It was nothing but a make-out line. Most of the men saw that right from the git-go, but were wise enough to shut up and let the guy hang himself. Which he did, eventually.I'm sure you're not that type of guy, but constantly telling us we've been duped if we don't want to support Hillary is insulting.Give us some credit for being able to fight our own battles.
Joe,You said:
When is it O.K. to express disgust with the actions taken during this campaign?</blockquote?My answer would be: When you find them disgusting. I think your messages set a pretty high standard for expressing opinions without being snide or nasty. My mother was ultraconservative--a big fan of Barry Goldwater, for example. She and I used to have screaming arguments. It was a family tradition. So I have nothing against speaking one's mind. Interestingly, it was a few years after my mother died that my siblings and I, to our amazement, discovered our father was actually a Democrat. We had always taken his silence to indicate he agreed with our mother. Regarding Obama's political style, I just found a piece in The New Republic written by someone, like me, who is concerned that Obama may be advocating something like "unilateral disarmament," in the struggle between Democrats and Republicans. Here's a key passage from the article:Time after time, Obama brought adversaries into the process early, heard out their concerns, then fashioned compromises many of them ultimately supported. In other words, he used the very strategy he's been describing on the campaign trail--the one giving people like me such angst. And yet, if you talk to liberals in Springfield, the ones who've spent decades fighting for universal health care, you don't hear a lot of disappointment with him. As far as they are concerned, Obama's signature inclusiveness was always a means to an end--a way to push the limits of reform rather than accept them. And, they say, it worked.
The complete article is athttp://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=88a93be1-0e3b-40a7-becf-0dcdbf... the other hand, we have Paul Krugman saying todayFirst, those who dont want to nominate Hillary Clinton because they dont want to return to the nastiness of the 1990s a sizable group, at least in the punditocracy are deluding themselves. Any Democrat who makes it to the White House can expect the same treatment: an unending procession of wild charges and fake scandals, dutifully given credence by major media organizations that somehow cant bring themselves to declare the accusations unequivocally false (at least not on Page 1).
I messed up my blockquotes! When do we get a preview feature? (The Americablog has one. I went to a Christian Brothers high school, and I have a very competitive streak when it comes to the Jesuits.)
Bill Mazzella, if you don't mean to suggest that everyone opposing HRC is a misogynist, then I suggest that you stop writing comments that read as if, in fact, that is exactly what you are suggesting. Jean: re the "b" word: It's not nice because it is meant to demonize women, and to put them in their place, with a strong undercurrent of insinuating that they are not sexually attractive. I decided long ago that there are situations where you do have to choose between being seen as available for a date and retaining respect and authority. Not fair, but not a big deal if you are already married and shouldn't be dating your co-workers anyway.
David,Upgrades cost money. As you know, we don't have much.
Grant,Actually I didn't know, but thank you for telling me. For anyone who cares, you can go to http://www.download.com and search for HTML editors (or any kind of softare you want). You can specify what operating system you want, and whether you want freeware or shareware. There are many free HTML editors available that would work for previewing messages (and doing spell checks, as well).Or, you can just type it up over at America, preview it there, and post it here. (Just kidding.)
Jean and Barbara,Your argument is with Elizabeth Schussler-fiorenza and such. Have you ever done a critque on her book? I think "everyone opposing Hillary" is too strong. Yet there is an education for the taking in this campaign. So far Gloria Steinam got it right.
If you want to to talk about, let's say, Carly Fiorina, and how her treatment in the press differed compared to men, then game on -- and certainly, the Clintons, writ large, have suffered horribly at the hands of the press. Notwithstanding: I can still have an argument with Bill and Hillary Clinton, who, so far as I am concerned, are still accountable for their decisions and their actions regardless of the unfair treatment they receive. It is inconceivable to me that Hillary Clinton would be the front runner in this campaign were she not Bill Clinton's wife. There are two problems with that: one, it's a form of dynasticism that I find personally threatening, and two, the idea that the "first woman president" got there because of her husband only tells me how little the ball has moved. I don't have a vested stake in entrenching undemocratic trends or nepotism, even when it benefits a single woman, which, in my darker moments, is what I think an HRC presidency represents.
Barbara, when I hear men call a woman at work a "bitch,' it's usually because they WISH they could marginalize her, but they're afraid of her, as in, "I gotta get ready for meeting with that bitch Jean. If I don't get this stuff together, she'll hang me out to dry."I don't think being a bitch has an on and off switch, not even to get dates. If there is, I never found mine.Whether Hillary has been unfairly treated by some elements in the press is, to me, immaterial. You don't vote for people because they've been picked on; you vote for them because they have a record of achievement. Which she doesn't have, in my view.
It seems to me that, if it looks like a Billary, then it should be called that:http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/01/clintons-p...
I make the case for Carla Fiorina and HRC. Barbara Bush called HRC a "rhymes with itch" while Bill was running against her husband. And Barbara Bush who is no angel is universally loved. That is something to ponder. I never said that Hillary does not have her faults. My point was, is and will be, that criticism of her is more than magnified because of her gender. That is what I appeal to you to look at. Points to ponder:What Holiday is named after a woman?Was Cleopatra a good leader?Was Mary Magdalene a distinquished woman?Was Eleanor Roosevelt a great person?Why is Katie Couric so harassed because she is a national anchor?
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Bill: enough.
Answers to Bill's Are You Smart Enough To Be A Woman Quiz:What Holiday is named after a woman? Mother's Day.Was Cleopatra a good leader? She was politically shrewd, but how do you mean "a good leader"? I don't think she was kind to widows and orphans, particularly. She also reportedly had her brother whacked because she wanted to be queen and felt she'd do a better job. She promoted Egyptian culture and national pride. Forged an alliance with Caesar (also had his child), which kept Roman aggression at bay. For awhile.Was Mary Magdalene a distinquished woman? In the Gospel of Mary, she was the one who got the apostles out of hiding after the Crucifixion and told them to get busy and get on with Jesus' work. She was also a saint, and it doesn't get more distinguished than that. Was Eleanor Roosevelt a great person? Yes, indeedy, in ways too numerous to count. She could also square dance. I saw her doing it on a PBS special. She was at a community center she helped build in W. Virginia with the WPA workers. Why is Katie Couric so harassed because she is a national anchor? She isn't harassed because she's a national anchor. She's harassed because she was on a morning show, which tends to brand you as a lightweight in the news biz and lump you with journo-celebs like Barbara Walters and Phyllis George. People also remember when Deborah Norville (sp?), another morning show anchor, edged out Jane Pauley, in a move many people felt favored style over substance. Plus, KC was spunky and smiley on the morning show, and people felt she might not be the right person to deliver bad news. Guys like Chet Huntley and Howard K. Smith had faces that begged to report bad news.
Sorry, Grant, my bad.I'm off to beddie bye, anyway.
I agree with the sentiment that Bill has overplayed the misogynist card - could it have been influernced by his choice of candidate?We need to have a more unified Democratic party at this poin tand I think the anger is reall y being pointed not at Hillary but Bill.
The idea that anyone, woman or man, must be difficult or "bitchy" to be successful or an effective leader is way overplayed. I will grant that a difficult person is almost always more effective than someone who is trying to be liked, but it is certainly not the best way to lead.Isn't it possible that Hillary earned this reputation not because she is a woman, but because she is not a very nice person? There is, in fact, is a lot of published material that indicates she treats the people around her, including the supposed downtrodden she so sympathizes with - like maids, cooks etc. - badly. I have had conversations with three people who have had "close encounters" with her (one on several occasions), not in front of cameras, who to one degree or another described her as either unpleasant or dissmissive. (Not so Bill, who they all said was pretty charming.) I don't care either way whether she is pleasant since I wouldn't vote for her anyway, but I don't buy the people just don't like powerful women line. There are a lot of powerful and effective women that people don't call the b word.BTW - Maybe Katie Couric is getting such a bad rap because she's a lousy anchor - granted, not as crummy as Rather, but she's no David Brinkley.
I don't know what published material Sean speaks of, but I do know that HRC also has a reputation as a funny, charming and gracious woman, borne out the one time I was ever in the same room with her. Of course, you are not going to admit that if your goal is to put her in her place. Characterizing someone as a bitch is often just a way of not having to dissect the truth of the situation, or the fact that a woman might be right about something you disagree with. I think Jean more or less has it right.
I think when a successful woman (or any woman) is called a bitch, the implications are (a) she is unlikable and (b) she is a failure at being a woman. It is the latter which is the really hurtful part. I don't think there is an equivalently hurtful expression for a man. Calling a man an SOB implies that he is unlikable, but it doesn't imply he is a failure at being a man. I was just thinking that we think of Harry Truman as "feisty," and we love him for it. I just found the letter Truman wrote, while president, to the Washington Post critic Paul Hume, who gave Truman's daughter Margaret a bad review for her singing. I can't resist reproducing it here. (Notice Truman does avoid calling him an SOB in the last paragraph.) What would we think if Hillary wrote something like this? (Of course, I dont think any modern politician could get away with it.)
THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Mr Hume: I've just read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an "eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay." It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful. When you write such poppy-cock as was in the back section of the paper you work for it shows conclusively that you're off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work. Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below! Pegler, a gutter snipe, is a gentleman alongside you. I hope you'll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on your ancestry. H.S.T.
Barbara, there are all kinds of them from openly ideological accounts like, Unlimited Access, and Hell to Pay, to less ideological ones like Roger Morris's Partners in Power, and the more recent Bernstein and Gerth and Van Natta books. They all paint a less than flattering portrait that would earn anyone the reputation I talk about.All I am saying is that there is more to it than just political opposition and sexism. You don't hear the same sort of chatter about Condi Rice or many other powerful women.
Sean, and one reason why you don't is that those who have less than high esteem for, let's say, Condi Rice or Karen Hughes are usually willing to frame it in terms of the real issues they have, which almost always have zero to do with their sex. The problem with the "b" word is that it is frequently used as a statement of personal dislike of women when one won't or can't articulate one's real political or other substantive resentment. This is because (1) there is no real disagreement, just resentment that the person in charge is female or (2) there is another agenda altogether that one does not want to become the center of attention. It's the coarsest kind of ad hominem discourse.
There are loads of people who dislike Rice and Hughes. Spike Lee is particularly contemptuos of Rice. Imagine if they ran for office. The ranting of Katie took place before she even took the anchor job.Cleopatra was a competent ruler and Mae West was brilliant. Here is "Things I will never do" by West. http://www.simonlouvish.com/maewest_1.htm
Barbara,Ah, I see, Condi Rice doesn't get that treatment because liberals are more high-minded and never stoop to personal attacks. I didn't realize that, sorry.
Sean,Do you think your tone helps advance this discussion? And everyone else: isn't it time for this thread to end?
Sean, let me state it even more directly: "B" is what you say when you can't say anything else. I leave it to you whether conservatives or liberals are more likely to direct this particular epithet at women. In large part, the scorn and hatred directed at Hillary Clinton is in inverse proportion to anything she has actually done to deserve it. So, let's say, Madeline Albright would not be called "b" because conservatives (or others) would single her out only when they had specific policy grievances. Nancy Reagan, to use a different example, was also not well-liked (although I don't recall her being called "b", I am sure she was). She received more of the Hillary treatment, though not nearly as much. Whether or not Peggy Noonan considered her to be a nice person, I don't think she deserved it.
Grant,Given that the thread was begun with about as strong an attack on the Clintons as I can imagine happening on dotCommonweal, especially from an official contributor . . . .
Billary . . .sewage . . .pestilence of tactical tricks that the Clintons . . .co-dynasts . . .sociopathic . . . fundamentally shameless, almost indecent, ruthlessness . . . .Time to turn the page.
. . . . it seems to me that as long as anyone is defending one or both of them, it's only fair to let it play out. And given that there's a strong element of misogyny in the hatred that some feel for Hillary Clinton, and an antipathy in general to women in power, I don't think a discussion of "bitch" is a side issue. I work in a pretty genteel industry (publishing) but let a woman in power assert her authority in any but the nicest of ways and she is sure to be called a bitch behind her back.
I don't think that's a particularly good reason to let these wheels keep spinning.
Last night, we watched the State of the Union -well, sort of. My wife -far more genteel than I -kwpt mumbling "b.s." during GWB's presentation. I read the new NCR (with some great aerticles like the one on the gay parish in san Francisco or John Allen on the catholic Bishops in Kenya) while keeping one ear on the Bushian SOS.Then, the mysoginist Democrats had a woman give the rebuttal. My ears really perked up when I heard the phrase disdained on one side of the aisle, but putatively supported by my Church, "the common good."I also beleive I've heard Mr. Obama bring up that topic as well...
Just for the record, David -- while I certainly do agree with it, almost all the language you are quoting was written by Joe Klein.
Eduardo,I understand that, but of course when you introduce the quote with "Joe Klein gets it just right," they in effect become your words as well. I almost always agree with you, but this time I don'tIn an case, I certainly can't object to your quoting someone who writes for Time or being harshly critical of the Clintons. My only point is that I think as long as people are reacting to the initial message, it's only fair to let them continue.
Barbara,First, a clarification. I don't approve of anyone calling anyone names. As you say it is not helpful and tends to avoid thoughtful discussion of issues. I do think your examples, however, kind of support my point. People did call Nancy Reagan the b-word. Why? Because they didn't like her and there she had a reputation for being a difficult and manipulative person. I think the same thing is predominantly at play here. There is something that rubs people the wrong way, and she has a long-held reputation. People would call her that if she was running for President of the United States or of a Garden Club. Just as calling her that name quashes discussion, and I agree with you that it does, broadly ascribing sexist motives to everyone who doesn't like her or agree with her does too.
Grant,I could easily be distracted from this discussion by a new thread about this book review by Lawrence Joseph, which I found very interesting.
Impressions of EternityWhat do we mean when we say God?Do You Believe?Conversations on God and Religionby Antonio Monda, translated by Ann Goldstein
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2121It would fulfill both the "religion" and "culture" requirements, and move away from politics for awhile.
I quoted Harry Truman's famous letter defending his daughter in this string this morning, and I was surprised to see in the Times just now that she died today. The obituary devotes several paragraphs to the letter. Skip over them if you think it's wrong to laugh while reading an obituary. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/us/30cnd-daniel.html?hp
Bob: I belong to Most Holy Redeemer, the parish featured in NCR. It is not a gay parish. It is not a gray parish. It is a Catholic parish with a rather larger proportion of membership being gay & lesbian.Not a meaningless distinction by any means. I have never been to a "gay parish" so I don't know what that would be.BTW, I thought the article was good so far as it went. The author could have given a much broader picture of who we are, what we do, and how we concretely live out our lives as Catholic Christians. Nonetheless, after the recent brouhaha about the Archbishop of SF and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence communion dustup, this article was a breath of fresh air.
To Grant (but, really, to all of you):You wrote, in two comments above, "Isnt it time for this thread to end?" and "I dont think thats a particularly good reason to let these wheels keep spinning." While Ive felt impatient with certain posts, Ive seen no basis for suggesting that they end. What I (or you) may see as the spinning of wheels, others may see quite differently; and ongoing comments are evidence that they do see it differently. In that case, can it be right to suggest that that they stop sending comments?
I think this thread is going in circles. Especially unenlightening was the discussion of the word "bitch." Gene, there have been lots of threads with willing participants that outlived their usefulness long before they died.
Grant,Perhaps it might be appropo if you clarified that you have never really been patient with a thread on women's advancement, for some reason. This was true even when you moderated the Commonweal Yahoo list. Correct me if I am mistaken.
You are mistaken.
Grant, I understand that the "bitch" rhetoric makes people uncomfortable, which is why I think it needs to be on the table. It's the elephant in the room. It's the word that crops up whenever people talk about Hillary around the coffee table, and I hear it from women more than men.Until people grapple with the bitch factor, we're going to have it cropping up every time a woman runs for national office.I have a general idea, still somewhat half-baked, that our presidential campaign structure favors men-speak rather than women-speak. Think: You make short stops in many places, and your news coverage really depends on your ability to speak in soundbites and make off-the-cuff wisecracks. Not all women--certainly not Hillary--can do that well. It's just not the way women speak. In fact, I would submit that what makes women good political leaders, their ability to sustain a dialogue and listen to all participants rather than make unilateral decisions and say things like "I'm the Decider," makes them poor stumpers on the campaign trail. One of the benefits of having a serious female presidential candidate is that it's forcing us to listen in "stereo" rather than "mono." To both men-talk and female-talk. I'm also unhappy with charges that the press has treated Hillary unfairly--as if the press were some sort of monolithic entity, which, if you've ever had to attend a press conference with a dozen or so more reporters from different media and news outlets you'd know. If Hillary is being more scrutinized because she's a woman, it also means she's getting more press coverage. She could turn that to her advantage, though, in my view, she has not done so.I think Hillary has a somewhat bitchy style overall (Barbara's statements to the contrary duly noted). I don't know if that's good or bad. The women I've worked for who have been called "bitches" were usually high achievers, usually right, but not well loved for a variety of reasons, some fair, some not.As a voter whose two favorite candidates have dropped out, I need to be able to acknowledge what I see as Hillary's unattractive stump style, and then get beyond it and start seriously comparing her to Obama, who is far more poised and engaging, but may have less substantive ideas.Bottom line: What I see on this thread are people trying to sort out issues from non-issues and, for us Democrats, to choose between two front runners who both have some good qualities, but who have shorter track records than one might wish.OK, I'm done now, and will get off the thread.
I think b should be as foreign to polite discourse as n and c are. Imagine if you said (paraphrasing Sean): I only call blacks n when they are particularly nasty. That's the difference in how women are treated -- it's not only permissible to use sexually charged epithets but even those who don't defend those who do. So yes, whatever you think of HRC, it is an elephant in the room. No one is ever going to beat back their instinctive reactions, whether sexist or racist, but denial that they exist (qua Christopher Hitchens) is not helpful. Moreover, building on them through the use of coarse and degrading language polarizes people, for instance, I am not a defender of HRC (go back and look at my first post) but I cannot help but defend her from the way she has been treated. I am simply not interested in a dialogue with, and I frankly trust the motives of, those who use such language. They therefore are not finding common ground with me even though it surely exists.
Obviously, that should have been "distrust" the motives of those who use such language.
I'm sure we all wish political discussions could take place on the high ground. "Bitch," to most people, is a degrading word, has negative sexual connotations and all like Barbara said. I have a somewhat different take on the word, but I won't go there again.But, and sorry to be back here again, I think people are getting hung up on the word "bitch" and how it doesn't fit in with the highbrow tone of this blog rather than looking at what it means as applied to Hillary.When I hear Democrat women call Hillary a bitch and ask HOW she's a bitch, it usually turns out that people mean "divisive," and using the epithet indicates just HOW divisive they think she is. Most people who don't like her feel she won't be able to work with Congress and the country will stall for four years if she's elected. In my view, that's the opposite of being a bitch, i.e., somebody who gets stuff done, even if people resent her for it.In addition, some of those who use the word "bitch" can't forget the fact that Hillary said she wasn't a "stand by your man" woman who stayed at home "baking cookies." To a lot of women, it indicated, perhaps wrongly, that Hillary had nothing but contempt for women who weren't out there pursuing careers outside the home and holding their husbands to uncompromising feminist standards. Well, she knows better now, if indeed, that's what she was trying to say.
I am not buying it. It's a double standard and people should be called on it. Until they are forced to use actual words to express real thoughts instead of epithets, our discourse will continue to be completely inapt, prompting anger and hurt feelings rather than real reflection.
I'm not trying to sell anything.And I thought I WAS calling people out on the whole "bitch" question by asking them to explain what they meant. And what I found was that there ARE reasons behind the epithet that have little to do with gender or campaign style.Health care has been THE number one struggle for those of us out here in the utland for more than 10 years. And joblessness (and therefore access to the means to keep health care) is going up even as we speak, and with them foreclosures, not on big over-priced McMansions, but on modest homes that people can't pay mortgages on because they've lost jobs.As the economic frustrations here grow, there's a lot of anger about the health care debacle Hillary led years ago. I think it's fair to say many women believe she squandered the chance to get their vote when she squandered a chance to help them eight years ago with their health care struggles because she refused to compromise on her plan. Certainly, it's not nice to call Hillary a bitch, but that epithet, coming from lifelong women Democrats ought to be of some concern to the party.Moreover, it wasn't nice for people to call Nixon a crook, either. But, in the final analysis, were they far wrong?
I still say the biggest myth is the notion that Hillary messed up on health care. She was the only one who confronted the problem big time. It is not a question of how good her plan was. The point is insurance companies did not want to lose money and so they spent a fortune ridiculing her in countless ads. William Kristol warned the republicans to oppose her since such a step would give democrats a big advantage. Amazing how distortions have become truth on this issue. Are we that naive that we think the lack of health care in this country is Hillary's fault. If they thought her plan was no good, why didn't her critics come up with an alternative.
Senator Clinton was not merely "dismissive", nor "bitchy" to those who serve her, but downright "rude" and "crude" according to the Senate cloakroom person who took care of her personal services the whole time she has served as Senator (whom I know extremely well)... This person is so upset by his presumption that she will be the next President he has withdrawn from all federal political activity (after being politically very active for twenty-six years), and doesn't even respond to the Congressional invitations to help out at the State of the Union address (he has since retired from his old job of twenty-six years). I call that "traumatized"--and he is, in fact, an otherwise sweet soul.
Jean, I didn't mean to seem so harsh. The level of acceptable derision directed at women bothers me. Even if the person has an underlying substantive reason for disliking a woman in power, it's still unfair (and unfairly tolerated IMHO) to scorn her as a woman in a way that it would not be appropriate to scorn someone based on ethnicity or race.


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When I run LibreOffice it shows another icon at the launcher. If I open new files it will keep showing new icons for each file.
When I run it from the terminal it does not return any error messages.
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When I run LibreOffice it shows another icon at the launcher. If I open new files it will keep showing new icons for each file.
When I run it from the terminal it does not return any error messages.
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As someone else posted I do not see this issue. I see the following when opening lots of new files of the same application i.e. Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress.
I think the needs clarification but it could be a bug and make sure you are installing from Natty's official repository and not an old PPA.
The only thing I can add is that I have a custom libreoffice launcher, hence the white writer icon.
I can't see any identical icons in the sidebar, it will open separate icons for LibreOffice Writer, Calc, Impress because they are all separate programs. Is this what you mean? Sorry I can't be of more help.
It's meant to do that, I'm not sure of a work-around to stop it.
Each new opened file in LibroOffice will have its own icon on the sidebar. It's exactly as OpenOffice was used to do in ubuntu 10.10
This is normal behaviour, even if it seems a bit odd. LibreOffice/OpenOffice create separate windows for every document, and unity tracks each window as a separate window due to the way LibreOffice reports itself to the window manager. Hopefully this problem will go away in future versions of LibreOffice, but unfortunately there is nothing you can do at this point, other than maybe grouping the windows with the compiz plugin, (which may not actually group the icons on the launcher - I cannot be sure because I have not tested this as yet).
Well I must say that this behaviour it's normal on LibreOffice 3.3. In fact it happen to me some times, but... (see the image attached, sorry, too big)
I've just install LibreOffice 3.4 from libreoffice page 'cause there isn't any PPA yet. And everything it's fine, I've installed lo-menu extension for LibreOffice (not deb) and App Menu works fine, but when I open a Document (from writer icon, from libreoffice center) the upcoming new icon have not "Icon"..
Maybe 'cause the *.desktop files on
It could be perfect if no extra icon open next to Writer, Calc's one, but will be fine if the next icons opened it has an icon.
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My most recent batch I tried almond extract, but I'm not getting the nuttiness I expected. I've heard using different malts can get different nutty flavors but how can I get a rich nutty flavor?
A rich nutty flavor comes from a combination of a little roast/toasted malt and some biscuity strong malty notes.
You get roasted/toasted from things like toasted malt, pale chocolate or chocolate malt (used in moderation). You can get the malt/biscuit thing from munich malts, and biscuit/victory malt. (Granted biscuit and munich don't taste the same, but I lumped them in together for the purpose of this discussion)
It depends on the style beer you are making though on how much and which malts you chose. If we are talking about Nut Brown then chocolate, victory and munich is just what you need.
Other malts to consider may be special roast (not special B) and melanoidin malt.
These are the malts I have worked with and gotten the most nutty flavor out of in things like brown ales, dark Amber, Porter or stout.
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Victory, Biscuit, Amber, Brown, Chocolate, Special Roast, Roasted Wheat, some Light Munichs.
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Trojan Volleyball in Costa Rica Days Five & SixAugust 12, 2014
The AU volleyball team is on the verge of wrapping up a weeklong mission trip to Costa Rica that began early last Tuesday morning.
The Trojans are in Central America Tuesday for their second visit in four years and have competed against schools and various club teams, while also visiting orphanages and schools to share their Christian testimony during volleyball clinics for local teams.
Here are the team's updates from the fifth and sixth days …
"On Sunday (Day 5), we took the day to attend church and we had the chance to go zip lining and slid down a very interesting water slide. It was definitely a well-earned adventure for the team.
Day Six started off with a trip to a squatter village, mostly full of Nicaraguans who are in the country illegally. This ministry is always tough! First we bought groceries for some families that live in a squatter village. It's tough to see the conditions they live in, the condition of their health, and some of the things they do to survive. The village is very rough. There are dog feces everywhere, the grey water and sewage run through ditches, some homes have water and electricity and some don't! Also in this squatter village, many young girls go into prostitution at age 11. Our mission in the village was to partner with a pastor who serves this area. After hearing his testimony we all took the bags of groceries and handed them to several members of his church. We also went into the homes and talked to the families and prayed with them. This was truly a heartbreaking trip seeing how the families lived and what some of the women and kids experience.
At one point a little boy ran up to us and asked us to play with him but we could not, so he followed us. We finally came to a stopping point and Priscilla and a soccer player from Cedarville began to tell the boy about Jesus. He had never heard of Jesus so the two worked together to tell him all about our Savior. It was a cool to see since Priscilla only recently made Jesus the Lord of her life.
Lastly, we headed to Cartago to see some sights and to play Cartago. Even though they were a very good ball control team, we played our best volleyball of the week and beat them all five sets that we played. After the match, Shannon Gillespie shared her testimony. She did a wonderful job talking about some tough things she experienced growing up.
This has been a great trip for this group of returners. They are going to do great things on the court but most importantly, they are going to do amazing things off the court. I am so excited to see their global impact once they begin their own ministries, whether it is in the classroom, in the medical practice, in their business office or in the mission field. A part of us will always remain here in Costa Rica. We made some amazing friends and served some awesome Ticos (nickname for Costa Ricans). God showed us so much through the various ministries, He stretched us farther than we have been stretched before, and He showed us, through His word, that we all are always in the mission field.
We want to thank everyone for your support, whether it was in prayer or through a financial gift. Your support made it possible for us to serve the people of Costa Rica and you helped make a permanent impact on our student athletes."
Check back with www.autrojans.com, Facebook and Twitter (@autrojans) for more updates from the team.