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The Simpsons Complete Seasons 1-19 DVDS Box Set for $89.99
Purchasing The Simpsons COMPLETE SEASONS 1-19 DVDS BOX SET requires only $89.99, which is 40%-60% of the price on eBay even plus the postage, in addition, we will present three most popular DVD movies. It will be a not bad choice for you to enjoy them by yourself, present them to your friends, sell them out or dropship(dropshipping) them to your clients.
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This site seems fishy to me, looks counterfeit, and I wouldn't trust them with my payment info
From the website:
"All the goods at .::ODVDO::. are legally produced by the publishers in China. We never sell any DVDs produced in the illegal and private ways such as videoing at the cinema or copying.
All the DVDs for sale on our website are formal Asia version: original English pronunciation, English menu, various subtitles that is able to cancel. They are suitable for all DVD regions. The packaging is exactly the same as you see form the sample pictures. All products are boxed and some of them are good for collection."
Some of the poor english on the page the above link takes you to clued me in, but if you go to the Q & A section at the bottom, you can become more enlightened. One should probably list this information in the Woot Deal description though.
@onebaddoggie: Still not sure I trust it but this will be a problem for most people anyway:
Shipping Costs:$96
Payment Costs:$7.4396
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@tygerdave: LOL..yea, I can see how that would be a deal killer for some.
"They are suitable for all DVD regions."
Definitely not legit considering the US releases are only up to season 13 and no studio would release a region-free set. Expect sub-par video and no extras.
When I go to the website to take a look at it my virus software (webroot) flags it as a dangerious. Personally that's all I need to know. Something's not right there.
My thoughts exactly, The US Only released up to season 13 and the box sets are $30 - $40 each when they release.
Fox jumped ahead and has already released season 20 also, which is curiously absent from this collection. Seems fishy.
anyone try to buy from this site? I can see why there is hesitation as they also promise 3 movies with the purchase? Anyway if any brave soul gives it a go I wouldn't mind hearing the feedback on your experience.
We will refuse to return or exchange in any of the following situation:
1. The damage is caused by been used in the improperly way.
2. The goods don't belong to store of east.
3. We don't receive your returned goods, or which are not completely.
4. The original packaging is damaged.
@friman44: US releases usually don't have subtitles available in English and Chinese.
I have not found this box set from any official or mainstream source. Doing a google search for "simpsons complete box set" pulls up a few other box sets from other somewhat obscure dvd websites which seem to do imports.
Ordered the Sopranos set from this site about a year ago and about half the discs worked - please don't do it!!
Yeah this is a joke don't buy
This is garbage, Fox has only released consecutively up to season 12 and the season 20 by itself. These are cheap asian knockoffs. The site looks like garbage too.
I guess they also forgot to mention the $96 shipping charge as well, bringing the total way above the $89.99 listed... what a joke!
The product description sounds like an email I get every now and then from guy in South Africa that has 30 Million Dollars to give away
All your credit cards are belong to us.
This is almost definitely fake. Season 13 is coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray in a couple weeks (or next week?). And they just so happen to have six seasons, with full menus and everything, that don't exist and wont exist for one to five plus years, depending on the season?
I don't buy it.
I'd rather just continue to get them one at a time, then kick myself for doing so when some super-amazing boxed set comes out for the series that's in the shape of the house.
They also have another version available that's seasons 1-20. With the identical box.
Fancy Algorithm FAIL!! Looks like this carp made Front Page just b/c of lotsa comments.
I love teh woots but the 'deals dot' has been too fishy too often. Made 3 purchases and 2 were dirtbag vendors.
this picture from their website is all I need to see:
"The activity that you buy one I give three as present" is currently going on
(For the reason that DVDs are sold very well, the condition of deficiency often appears)
Yeah, but then I'll have to buy Seasons 19-42 late on. I'll wait until comes in one set.
These box sets are a great deal if you actually buy them in china and haggle the price down, I got South Park season 1-11 for $13, and complete Woody Allen and Cohen Brothers filmographies for like $4 each.
um..."It will be a not bad choice"...I can't even follow that..is it a bad choice or not??
"This site has been seized by Homeland Security"
that can't be good...


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This is a thread for today's blog, youth teams & newgens, which can be found at http://community.sigames.com/showthr...10#post7075110
This is a thread for today's blog, youth teams & newgens, which can be found at http://community.sigames.com/showthr...10#post7075110
Sounds fantastic.. Finally some real improvements to the youth setup - loving it!
Sounds absolutely brilliant! Great blog!
Love it. Sounds great
Sounds really good- this is an aspect of the game I get a lot of enjoyment out of so I will definitely be looking to cherry pick the players for the youth team. I also feel the traits system sounds like an interesting concept but i would hope that its just a general pattern and there would be exceptions to the rule.
ie the odd classy Brazilian winger or a Brazilian with low flair.
Overall though it sounds like some good concepts to influence the youth system at the club though I would question about te home grown status of foreign youths at the club. Would it take them 3 years to become a "trained at club" between 15-21 or would they immediately be considered as home grown (0-21)?
Really good read and great feature too. I've never really bothered with the youth set up but I think I may give it a whirl now.
If you can request for youth team to be abolished, can AI teams do this too? And if so, when you are negotiating to take over a club that has no youth team set up can you make it a requirement of you taking over that the youth setup be re-introduced?
Now this I DO like. As a financially-challenged lower league manager, it's hugely frustrating to have a bunch of hopeless youth dumped on you that you have to pay to release - you never wanted them in the first place! Now we get control over that - marvellous.
I thought regional traits for newgens was already in the game - hope it works better in FM12. Can just see the British kids coming through - all strength and pace and 1s for technical and mental attributes!
All this sounds really amazing.
Can't wait to see the extra changes. Really like the new youth promotion. step closer to mabye not linking them to a position to start with (Hopefully). So once we view them through their trialist period if we want them we decided their position. Going to definatly need a top quality assistant manager to have accurate reports.
Not too happy with this, by this I mean national traits. It was supposed to be in FM11 and really didn't work well. Someone mentioned above, I hope this isn't a blanket thing and there will still be flair players from England and tough tackling defensive mids from Brazil. I fear for this I really do.
Love it love it love it. I get hugely involved with the youth side of FM and getting to have a youth team vs assessed youth game is excellent. Hopefully also the scale which lets you know how good your recruitment is will be available so you can see you have 7/8 level instead of very good etc.
I really don't agree about Brazil not producing wingers, their old world cup winning teams had them, indeed maybe the greatest of them all, Garrincha. And I was a huge fan of Denilson (the '90's one!). I don't follow football so much nowadays, but even I know of Amantino Mancini and Willian, and doesnt Renato Augusto play on the wing? If they are low on wingers, surely that's a fashion of the moment, not a historically defined characteristic (as flair would genuinely be) in their culture for example.
Can a country's characteristics change as formations change and time moves on in the game, or are they set? Can they be edited by us?
but overall i think the new changes sound really great.
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Without video in this blog?
Liking this. I only really play long-term games so this is a really key part of the game for me.
Really interesting addition
The ability to filter out the 'chaff' so to speak (don't let the players hear that) is going to be a real boon. I loathe having to negotiate crappy one-season contracts for the useless youth newgens (cheaper) - but this keeps the micro-micro management aspect alive plus makes it more realistic and time saving. Brilliant addition. I like the attribute changes if they are well balanced (racial physical attribs too or not going there?)
Nice to hear Miles talk about balancing those of us who strive for the "hands on: 20" rating and those who think that's too crazy!
Question: I like selling the crappy youth for pocket change, are the trialists going to leave on frees?
edit: related other question, can we now ask our scouts to assess our team? Apologies if this has been added already since I play FM09. It is rare to find a coach who is good AND has 20/20 vision for potential. And it's stupid the manager can't ring up head scout to look at a youth system player (assmans are rarely good at potential I find).
Last edited by Harmonica; 15-09-2011 at 11:32.
You could always retrain a brazilian wingback to play attacking winger?
Last edited by Riz Remes; 15-09-2011 at 11:33.
Not sure I like this.country based positional traits
But I really like this.With FM 2012, we've given you more control over which players make it into your youth squad.
And this could be awesome.We've also improved the way youth recruitment works at different clubs for their youth setup. The club's youth recruitment network and youth facilities are not only linked to the quality of newgens produced by the youth setup, but also the scope of the recruitment. So clubs with excellent recruitment networks and state-of-the art facilities have the ability to attract youth players not just from the local regions, but from other continents as well.
I don't know why, (like I can talk I'm still playing FM2008), but I see this being counter-intuitive. Unless the code is spot on, doesn't this mean you're always going to get the same types of players from each country or region, and then maybe one or two individual traits? "Players in Spain are more likely to play a short passing game." Regardless of whether it is true or not, I don't think it helps to generalise like that. It is just like when so called pundits say that Italy is all about catenaccio, when frankly it isn't, and when it was, that was in a small era of Italian football. Look at Guidolin and Udinese for example now, or Zeman and Foggia from 1989 to 1994.
Please re-assure me SI that there will still be a random factor in the way youth players develop, and not just based on generalisations. I'm still looking for the right time to buy a new version.
Sounds really good; love trying to develop my youth team and so anything that helps that is good news. Hopefully it will now mean I don't consistently get 4 new defensive midfielders 5 strikers and no one else instead I should get a more vaired selection of players in different positions.
Just to clarify, can you reinstate your youth team after getting rid, and if so, how long would one have to wait until the board allowed it?
Things like these are never a "blanket thing". They are called traits or templates because they are used as guidelines for the creation of newgens to model some real life tendencies. As in real life, not all players follow these tendencies so there can and will definitely be exceptions to the stereotypical players. Not all players are made from the same mold even if they come from the same nation, but in order to create order from chaos that is newgen creation, we need to have some level of traits to guide the process along
As was said already, not all players will be from that mold of traits. But a majority will. The likes of Spain they do have a short passing game, so it would make sense. But every now and then you'll get a Xabi Alonso, which is probably the only long-range passer (or a small %) of players in the Spain squad that are good at that.
English newgen - 15% chance winger; Brazilian newgen - 4% chance winger.
with thousands of newgens generated every season, you'll still get a big variety.
One the newgen traits, would be interesting if after a few years, the traits change to bring a different type of football to a country would keep long games interesting with have to change a style of play.
How many Youth Candidates will there be to choose from?
Not really bothered by any of this. About the biggest issue stopping me from having a game that lasts more than 2 seasons at the moment is because there are hardly any newgens with decent mental or physical stats being added to the gameworld.
Or ones with nonsensical attributes like heading 15, jumping 15, strength 4.
Before someone shouts "peter crouch" at me - he can't actually jump.
So far so good with the announced changes, I truly hope the updated youth system works.
Now all I have to decide is whether I get the game from launch or wait until everyone else has helped iron out the bugs & buy it in February, considering I was not planning on getting this version as I felt the game hadn't moved on in recent years it's a big to the guys & gals at SI.
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I like this feature, I like having a tinker with my Youth squads throughout the season, buying players under 18 and throwing them into the Youth squad and then seeing how they go after a couple of seasons. It only has around a 40% success rate for me, but with this new level of interaction with the Youths then I might be able to do much better with my Youth squads.
That's excelent.
great feature!
But there are no "eras" so to speak in FM, so every season is the same. I would agree if for example, Spain's short passing approach was phased out, and let's say during the 2070-80's someone came along with something different and changed their approach. Then the new-gens would also have attributes that make them more suitable for that "era in football". For argument's sake, let's say catenaccio-style counter-attack sweeps across Spain, creating a style of play generally adopted by most teams. Then according to this new feature, youth players develop attributes more intertwined with this approach. Does that happen in FM?
Also, separate question what happens to players past 30? Do they still decline rapidly quickly? Look at Ryan Giggs yesterday as a point in example.
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The positional traits for newgens is a great addition.
In Spain the flat 4-4-2 is almost non existant; We simply don't produce wide midfielders and English-style box-to-box central midfielders are a rarity - you'll either have two DM's playing in a 4-4-2, with attacking midifelders on the wing, or attacking midfielders who are played further back.
Really like the sound of these improvements. Personally, I probably get the most 'game satisfaction' from bringing through a newgen from my youth team into a first team star. Getting fine-tooth control over who makes it into your youth squad will certainly enhance this experience.
It should also greatly ease the development of the potential stars that one already has in your youth team, without needing to 'clear out the chaff' by releasing players on a free. (I had to payout over 300,000 in dumped contracts for useless youth players in starting a new save with Italian C1A team Atletico Roma - granted that will still be a problem when first taking over a team). Before reading SFraser's Guide to Developing Youth Players I hadn't thought about the potential negative effects of keeping these players around - potentially keeping your starts from getting maximum play time.
EDIT/ADDITION: Also, with regard to the issues about national templates, and "eras" - it would be interesting to see the ability in a future version to choose your own youth system's 'templates' so that the 'national templates' become an aggregation of the youth systems in that country. This way, if Barcelona suddenly started (bizarrely) emphasize slow hulking target men, and other Spanish teams follow, it influences the development of new players and playing styles from Spain.
Last edited by Kanukki; 15-09-2011 at 12:03.
This is a good addition. But what about newgen coaches, have you looked into improving that area as well? I remember last versions had issues with newgen coaches having bad mental attributes and their tactical preferences being too similar.
I would hope that area was improved also from FM 2011.
Edit: I would think if you added nation based youth position, the tactical preferences for newgen managers is also tuned for that specific country. I mean if Brazil doesn,t produce that many wingers, having managers that will use tactics with wingers will break the immersion, no?
Last edited by andu1; 15-09-2011 at 12:00.
sounds like an excellent change and addition to the game - just out of interest have SI thought of letting teams have a "youth scout" who you can use to search for specific types of players from the schools? I'd love to be able to tell my scouts to go out and find me some under15's that I could then sign to the youth team through this system - an example?
well I don't play with any wingers but every year I get 4 or 5 AMR or AML youth players - I know in FM12 I can just release them for free which is great but ideally I'd like to set my search for new youth players to just GK, DC, MC and SC.... does that make sense? (a bit like the loan report option from my assistant)
or I'd like to set an attribute search..... "go find me kids with pace and acceleration of 10+"
The last part of the blog said there are more features and improvemnts in the section, so maybe thats one of them wont know until the game is outNo. Nothing in these changes seems to have any impact on the amount of regens with poor mental and physical stats across the entire gameworld. Not to mention the fact that the number of players with ability over 150 plummets season after season. I don't see how these features are relevant to that.
I play at Lower League levels (not LLM rules though!) - so... a couple of questions:
A/ Does this mean that after the inherited Youth squad are rationalised (i e sacked or promoted) all Youth prospects will be non contract (i e no more huge compensation costs for dismissalls) but you can keep drafting prospects though year on year on a non contract basis for assessment. Presumably the Board wont close the Academy because you have no Youth team?
B/ If I close the Academy in the Blue Square BSS to save money, can I reopen / develop one at a later stage as my club climbs the League pyramid and acquires wealth, and how would that work (I ask anytime/ end of season or by Board suggestion to me)?
thank you! <3 this will make my brazil games even more enjoyable.There have also been improvements in the way that the newgens are generated, with country based positional "traits" now being used. In Brazil, for example, it's rare that they have natural wingers in real life, with those players more likely to be wing backs, so you'll see less Brazilian newgen wingers, and more Brazilian newgen wing backs.
The same can also be said of a players mental attributes. Players in Brazil, due to the way they grow up playing the game, are more likely to have flair. Players in Spain are more likely to play a short passing game. All of these traits are now reflected better in game.
@Miles: Why you write like a child and put extra space between every line?
Some one please write shortly here what's the difference to fm11 in this?
I think:
A) youths already at the club who have a contract will cost to release only newgen will have the option of ot having a contract throught the assesment phase. I do any with your youth team then you will get no prospects coming through
B) Yes you can request to re-open through the Board Request but will be based on finances etc.
EDIT: I think you will start from the lowest and will have to develop it again, so if you close good facilities you would start back on basic.
Last edited by The Welsh Lad; 15-09-2011 at 12:10.
I like the new features concerning the youth setup. Very useful for those managing at every level and caters to everyones playing style in the way in which it can be run. Will definately be spending more time with my youth setup I can see now.
As for the traits, I think it will be a good addition personally, so long as they are not overpowering and it is clear to see. All in all, I'm actually really looking forward to getting my hands on the new game and playing with the few new features that have been announced already.
Is the national traits thing dynamic? 4-4-2 is much less popular nowadays in general, but could make a return in the future. Likewise 3-at-the-back formations could become popular down the line depending on where things go.
The biggest difference for me is the way youth is recruited, ie picking out the talent. It's basically having loads of players scouted for you, and then weeding out the boys from the men - a lovely addition for those of us where youth becomes the game's major selling point after a few seasons. In FM11 there were no nation-specific traits (another feature I think boosts the realism - not sure why people are complaining), and obviously in FM11 you couldn't be rid of your academy. That is the one feature I'm unsure about, as I'm not sure it ever really happens in real life?
Overall though, this is the best blog update yet. Excited now
This seems like a very good rip off from Football Manager LIVE...
Maybe there are more in store from the dead pieces of FML..
Liking these features, keep up the good work SI.
I don't think it would always be back on basic, I'd hope it would reflect your national and league reputation. For example, if you closed the academy in the BSS and re-opened it in the PL 15 years later, it would be unrealistic for a PL academy for have a basic youth academy. Maybe average or adequate.B) Yes you can request to re-open through the Board Request but will be based on finances etc.
EDIT: I think you will start from the lowest and will have to develop it again, so if you close good facilities you would start back on basic.
That said, I hope SI have improved the reputation system on FM12, in the last one it was one of the biggest flaws in the game if you progressed though the leagues quickly. I took a club from the BSS to the Championship in four consecutive seasons and the game just hasn't recognised my meteoric rise. If a club did that in real life, they would be extremely well known (think Hoffenheim a few seasons back), so to have my reputation as 'regional' in the Championship is laughable.
Sounds amazing! Finally i can stop releasing youth players that will never make the team, for free!! Great feature guys!
I didn't like this when I first read it, and the more I think about it, the more I don't like it.There have also been improvements in the way that the newgens are generated, with country based positional traits now being used.
Homegrown and Foreign player rules spring to mind. Are there going to be enough players, with suitable attributes and positions, to build a team within your nation's regulations?
Considering the game can be played over a great many years, restricting the types of players to a certain era, based on their nationally, seems odd.
Do feeder/parent clubs affect the nationality of the kids coming through your youth setup? Have you fixed the issue from a couple of years back where if you had Brazilian or any other non-eu kids come through your academy, they all magically had English as a second nationality?
"So clubs with excellent recruitment networks and state-of-the art facilities have the ability to attract youth players not just from the local regions, but from other continents as well."
Has the game been coded to simulate clubs like Ajax or Athletic Bilbao. Athletic Bilbao only signing Basque players. While at Ajax the recruitment is focused on firstly local (Amsterdam born/living), then national (Netherlands born/living) players. With foreign players signed only if there is a gap in the squad or they are scouted as players with huge potential (like Eriksen).
If not - then it is very easy to have a scout with high potential skill search only for young players when assigning scout tasks. I typically scout the U18 league competitions constantly and it turns up a few quality finds per season (whether they are already on a pre-contract or not is another thing...)
You can do the attribute-specific youth search already too. Find the button on the add scouting assignment screen that lets you specify restrictions. Beware that 95% of all scouts will be next to useless at finding very specific players, or scouting anywhere you haven't a) added a country to the game save database, or b) run an active league (and you need youth leagues too).
Hopefully the traits are dynamic if not now but can be adapted in the next installment, So after say 10 years different types of players are more likely to be developed to create a new era.
Basically scouting for my new youth team players - as with what happens in real life when scouts turn up to local under 9, 10, 11,12, 13, 14 and 15 games looking for talent for their academies.
A very good overhaul change to the youth system after many games...
Very good job guys.
So the better youth facilities are, the better chance of having more talented youth trials???
or is the youth facilities quality is only for training purposes?
if you read back over the posts my SI you'll see that there won't be a stereotype, or at least they hope. It's just traits and a mold to begin with new gens.
If I'm being cynical I see this going wayward, with Brazil having a pool of 36 world class full backs to choose from and no wingers (or something similar), until a patch.
Considering how heavily-weighted the match engine traditionally is towards high physical attributes, isn't this just going to lead to English clubs and players becoming even more dominant as the game goes on?
YES YES YES! The ability to save a few bucks in youth contracts and cherry pick the best prospects will make struggling lower league clubs a little easier to manage. I absolutely love the idea of an evaluation match as well. Top stuff.
'Positional traits' aside, will the tactics a team uses (including those set for youth team) influence the positions of the Youth Candidates?
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like the sound of this and all the other new features. I have to say I am guilty of not developing in-club youth and normally buy from other clubs, or cash in on what I have, but would be good to have influence on potential new talent and to excellent idea to be able to see them in action before making decisions.
Another quality addition to the game.....cannot wait to get my hands on a copy of the game!!!
Nice one SI.
roll on 21st October !!
So, rather than having a group of 10 or so youths dropped on you at the beginning of the season, you'll get to pick from a group of 16 or so. Forgive me if I'm missing the obvious, but what's so good about that? Rather than just disposing of the rubbish youths after they have been put in the U18s, you now get to reject them and ensure that only the good ones get to the U18. Is that it? Doesn't seem that useful, what am I missing?
DISCLAIMER: Despite the negative post I'm still nailed on to purchase FM12 on release day so please no flaming!
Check some of the posts from LLM players.
EDIT: #65 & #80 for example.
I'm loving the new feature that allows us to pick the new season's youth players. You can see every season in FM11 which players will perhaps make it and which won't and yet your lumbered with them anyway. I mean i can see a slight problem if no one good comes through and for a season or two the youth and reserve teams look a bit bare.
All in all if implemented correctly this could be a cracking new feature!
But also with the youth players you need to sort out how greedy they are. I mentioned it in other threads but a no hoper asking for £2,000 a week? They'd get thrown not just out, but out a window for asking for that. And believe me, it's not just 1-2 a season, it's more like 7-8 players each year!!
I usually sorted the youth players by value. A 16 year old worth £2m would usually make it ok. Whereas a 16 year old worth €2k probably wouldn't.
I think this will really draw on you to pick the best of the best, and not let that £2m 16 year old player go off. I imagine trialists don't get a value. So it will make it harder in picking out the better players.
It just adds another bit of depth to the game. I don't think any manager just turned up one day 10 new footballers at the training ground. Surely the coaches of the youth academies make their recommendations to the manager and the manager then makes the decision based on coach and scout reports + the match against current youth sides. That really to me reflects reality and adds a bit more realism and depth to the game.
I keep getting confused with either tactics influence what positions you get or positon depth. The formation I'm playing with is a tactic that Claudio Raneiri was with Juventus DR-DRC-DLC-DL, DMRC-DMLC, MR, AML, STRC-STLC.
So there is no need for me to have MCs unless I decided to change my tactic with is unlikely at the moment. So my team is sort on MCs which aspect has biggest pull, Tactics or Positon Depth
Something I was asking for years back, so definitely a step in the right direction.
And for those complaining that over time the national styles should be allowed to change, I'll argue that this a major shift in the style of a nation's play isn't something that happens often. You have Brazil who moved to wing-backs, yes, but then partner that with Argentina who STILL obsess about the #10 and playing 4-3-1-2. Even with watching Barca/Ajax/Spain in the modern era, there are a great many English managers, coaches and pundits/reporters who obsess about having great work effort, playing two up-top, using a "proper" #9 and everything else that dates back to the 40s. And don't forget, while the youth products might have a certain preference for short-passing (Spain), this doesn't mean the national team won't evolve after a while if their Spanish FA bring in someone who likes to play direct.
Ghana tends to produce a vastly different style of footballer than other West African sides. It is a physical reality that Ghanaians tend to be much shorter than the giants of Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast ect.
Because their rivals are bigger and stronger Ghanaian football has adapted to play a short passing high tempo game to take advantage of superior technique, first touch, and stamina.
Their players tend to favour teamwork over individual flair and produce very strong midfielders.
I hope one day we will be able to implement a club philosophy. I might with to encourage the youth academy to favour certain traits over others.
Must say I'm feeling very underwhelmed by this years additions. Just doesn't feel there's anything substantually different to FM2011, least excited I've been for a release.
I have a feeling that they are holding onto a big nugget of an improvement and either its going to be the last blog or we will have to find it ourselves
Which of the 800 updates/new features do you like the least?
Seen as FM11 only had about 400 new features/updates - I think FM12 will be significantly changed.

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This is a simple question, but its been bugging me. Define the function $\gamma$ on $\mathbb{R}\backslash \mathbb{Z}$ by $$\gamma(x):=\sum_{i\in \mathbb{Z}}\frac{1}{(x+i)^2}$$ The sum converges absolutely because it behaves roughly like $\sum_{i>0}i^{-2}$.
Some quick facts:
- Pretty much by construction, $\gamma$ is periodic with period $1$.
- As it approaches any integer from the left or right, it goes to positive infinity.
- It is symmetric at every half integer; that is, $\gamma(n+1/2+x)=\gamma(n+1/2-x)$ for all $n\in \mathbb{Z}$ and $x\in \mathbb{R}$.
Can $\gamma$ be expressed in terms of more familiar (presumably trigonometric) functions?
My best guess is $\gamma(x)=\sin^{-2}(\pi x)$, but this is based more on what I hope it would be, rather than what it is.


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Is there a competition for the absolute worst dungeon master in the world? Because I would totally win that.
My Little Professor loves games - board games, video games, classics like chess and mah jong, he loves them all. So, when he discovered table-top gaming, which combines games with a nebulous mythology element - he loves mythology - he was hooked.
But he needed someone to play with; for that, he recruited the Sassy Saint and the Long-Suffering Husband (who is roughly 90 percent checked out, watching the sporting event du jour and must be prodded to remember his turn and pay attention to the game every single round).
Everyone wanted to be adventurers; no one wanted to be the dungeon master. Because being the dungeon master sucks. It's hard work.
Don't believe me? I need three different books - one for the rules, one full of monster statistics and a third listing all sorts of mystical doo-hickeys and dwarven-forged pig-stickers. There are charts upon charts upon charts - from charts listing how far the average adventuring type travels in a minute to the difference in difficulty between climbing a ladder and cliff.
You need an eidetic memory to run this stuff, and I'm lucky if I can remember if there's something in the refrigerator for dinner.
Then there's half a dozen dice and the math. Roll the dice, add another number and then subtract that number from yet another. Plus, there's variable modifiers to be kept in mind. I hate math. I have to use a calculator.
There are so many things to keep track of, I need a legal pad.
So, keeping count, that's three books, a calculator and a legal pad. But we're not done yet.
There are maps. I've drawn some maps. Did I mention I'm artistically challenged? Trees and bushes have a vaguely cloud-like (or maybe sheep-like?) appearance. The LSH said I should have the kids color them, but I think he's just trying to delay the next game.
All of this is only the mechanics and stage dressing for the adventures - which requires yet another book. Since it's a more-or-less "choose your own adventure" deal, I'm stuck flipping back and forth.
You should see me; it's awful. Almost every single turn is bogged down by multiple pauses to check rules and do math.
"Hold on, I've got to check and see what this guy is supposed to say. Something-something, you'll never succeed, followed by an evil cackle. I'm not actually cackling, just imagine I did."
"Can I throw a freezing burst?"
"I don't know. Let me look up the rule. I can't remember how that's supposed to work."
"What about throwing it around the corner?"
"No, wait there's a rule about lobbing things around the corner, I've got to check ... no, you've got to be able to see them."
"OK, then, what about that monster?"
"Wait, I think it's immune to cold. You can use that, but it won't do anything. I can't believe I wasted the time looking up that freezing stuff. I should've looked at this first. Do you have a fire spell?"
"OK, roll for damage."
"Hold on, I've got to subtract it ... where's my calculator gone?"
Like I said, the title of World's Worst Dungeon Master? I'm a lock for it.
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In Greece, this dip is on every table and goes with just about any dish— and there are probably as many variations as there are cooks. It always contains drained yogurt, cucumber and garlic; some use red wine vinegar, while others use lemon juice. Dill is popular, but occasionally mint is added instead; olive oil is added in some recipes. Tzatziki is most often served with flatbread, however it is a great accompaniment to grilled vegetables, meat, or fowl, or any vegetables, raw or cooked.
• 2 cups Greek yogurt, drained
• 1 large cucumber, peeled and grated or chopped fine
• 3 large garlic cloves, pressed or minced
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
• About 1 tablespoon lemon juice or red wine vinegar
• Salt and freshly ground pepper
1. Drain yogurt in a colander or large sieve lined with cheesecloth for at least a few hours or overnight.
2. Drain grated or chopped cucumber for 30 minutes or so.
3. Stir yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, dill and lemon juice in a medium bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste.
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BeanModel generation with AutoBean support
We've recently converted our in development webapplication from using GWT-RPC to using RequestFactory. In this process we could not get the BeanModelGenerator to read the getters from the proxy interface. The following generator fixes this problem.
package com.wis.wisweb2.intra.core.rebind; import java.util.List; import com.extjs.gxt.ui.rebind.core.BeanModelGenerator; import com.google.gwt.core.ext.typeinfo.JClassType; import com.google.gwt.core.ext.typeinfo.JMethod; import com.google.gwt.requestfactory.shared.BaseProxy; /** * BeanModel generator with support for GWT AutoBeans. * * @author Stig Runar Vangen */ public class AutoBeanBeanModelGenerator extends BeanModelGenerator { @Override protected final void addGetters(final JClassType cls, final List<JMethod> methods) { // Ignore methods of Object if (cls.getSuperclass() != null) { addGetters(cls.getSuperclass(), methods); addClassGetters(cls, methods); } if (isAutoBean(cls)) { addClassGetters(cls, methods); } } /** * @param cls * class to test * @return <i>true</i> if given class qualify for AutoBean generation */ private boolean isAutoBean(final JClassType cls) { if (cls.getQualifiedSourceName().equals(BaseProxy.class.getName())) { return true; } for (JClassType classType : cls.getImplementedInterfaces()) { return isAutoBean(classType); } return false; } private void addClassGetters(final JClassType cls, final List<JMethod> methods) { for (JMethod m : cls.getMethods()) { if (m.isPublic() || m.isProtected()) { String name = m.getName(); if ((name.matches("get.*") || name.matches("is.*")) && m.getParameters().length == 0) { methods.add(m); } } } } }
<!-- BeanModel for AutoBean --> <generate-with class="com.wis.wisweb2.intra.core.rebind.AutoBeanBeanModelGenerator"> <when-type-assignable class="com.extjs.gxt.ui.client.data.BeanModelLookup" /> </generate-with>
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28 Feb 2011 7:25 AM #2
Thank you for sharing this. I've been looking for a way to use ExtGWT with GWT 2.1.1 RequestFactory as well, but I couldn't find any infos about this on forums, etc. I'm glad I've found your post, but I have some questions:
- Did you find easy to work with ExtGWT + RequestFactory after making this patch?
- Did you encounter any other issues after doing this?
- By defining the generate-with in GWT module def file, does this mean all your *Proxy client beans will be automatically wrapped by the generator?
- Suppose you have a PersonProxy bean that has the name property. How do you specify in code that the AutoBean for this should be used for filling a TreePanel?
28 Feb 2011 9:08 AM #3
Glad you liked the post.
> Did you find easy to work with ExtGWT + RequestFactory after making this patch?
We've been using this factory for over a month now, and I've never had any problems with it.
> Did you encounter any other issues after doing this?
This factory seems to work exactly like the one provided in GXT.
> By defining the generate-with in GWT module def file, does this mean all your *Proxy client beans will be automatically wrapped by the generator?
Using the generate-with replaces the GXT factory with the provided one. You will still have to tag your model classes in the same way as if you wanted them to be processable by the old factory.
> Suppose you have a PersonProxy bean that has the name property. How do you specify in code that the AutoBean for this should be used for filling a TreePanel?
You set the display property as you would do otherwise:
28 Feb 2011 10:01 AM #4
I've tried to make one of my proxies, interface CityProxy extends ValueProxy, ModelData so that the generator will automatically generate a ModelData implementing wrapper for it. Not sure this is the way to use actually use the generator you built, but it throws this error:
[INFO] Invoking generator com.google.gwt.requestfactory.rebind.RequestFactoryGenerator
[INFO] [ERROR] The method public abstract <X extends java.lang.Object> X get(java.lang.String property) is neither a getter nor a setter
[INFO] [ERROR] Invalid Request parameterization java.util.Map
[INFO] [ERROR] Requests that return collections may be declared with java.util.List or java.util.Set only
[INFO] [ERROR] The method public abstract <X extends java.lang.Object> X remove(java.lang.String property) is neither a getter nor a setter
[INFO] [ERROR] The method public abstract <X extends java.lang.Object> X set(java.lang.String property, X value) is neither a getter nor a setter
[INFO] [ERROR] Unable to create RequestFactoryModel model due to previous errors
Also, if I try to make "City implements BeanModelTag" and remove that "CityProxy extends ModelData", the onSuccess method from my request, returns a CityProxy that doesn't extend ModelData.
Is there anything I could debug/test in order to fix this? If I did something wrong applying your solution, I'd be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.
28 Feb 2011 10:25 AM #5
Could you post the code for the Proxy and the Request? It might be easier for me to see what the problem consists of if I see the code.
28 Feb 2011 10:26 AM #6
Yes, just a few moments to extract it. Thank you!
28 Feb 2011 10:35 AM #7
28 Feb 2011 11:14 AM #8
All examples that I found seem to use RPC with BeanModelTag. I don't have a clear idea how to integrate RequestFactory with this. How did you make it work with RequestFactory?
Thank you!
28 Feb 2011 11:26 AM #9
You'll need to convert the proxy object to a BeanModel instance using the BeanModelFactory before adding it to the ModelData list. Read more on how to do this here:
28 Feb 2011 11:29 AM #10
I'll try that, I appreciate your help with this!
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Many, many women do struggle with weight gain during and after breast cancer treatment. As far as tamoxifen goes, in trials, as you've already pointed out, we do get conflicting information. One thing we do know is that Tamoxifen can push women into early menopause and we also know that menopause - whenever it comes - can result in weight gain. The best strategies to counteract weight gain are also helpful to reduce your risk for breast cancer recurrence, so it's a win-win!
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Black and White Swans in Swan LakeKirov 1990 dvd
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Posted 06 October 2007 - 04:18 AM
The question that occurs to me is: how effective can a symbolic visual effect be if it confuses most people -- actually distracting them from what is going on -- and requires reading program notes before the performance?
It seems to me that color symbolism such as that involving the mixed black-white swan in the corps merely puzzles or distracts audiences more than it moves or enlightens them. It seems imposed by the director from above rather than arising from the nature of the story itself. Doesn't this defeat the purpose?
Color symbolism in literature -- and thanks, Mel, for those references to the Tolkien books -- is another matter. A good writer can integrate explanation into his text in a way that someone creating from the stage cannot.
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I'd always assumed that the black swans in the final act were a sign of Seigfried's betrayal.
This symbolism resonates strongly with me.
Posted 06 October 2007 - 01:38 PM
Totally agree...And then, is there any proof of the use of the black swans in the imperial days...any reference in the Sergueyev C.?
The cygnets in Act II are white, so there isn't much reason for them to turn black in Act IV.
Posted 07 October 2007 - 06:53 PM
An interesting rationale for the new look--Does anyone know how long it was performed this way? And why it was changed back to white?
''Mr. Balanchine discussed the idea often and with many people,'' says Peter Martins, the company's co-ballet-master-in-chief. ''His choreography has been retained, of course, but with some small mathematical changes to accommodate the increased number of dancers.'' For this production, the number of swan maidens attending the Swan Queen has been increased from 22 to 28.
''Balanchine was very excited at the idea of the black swans,'' Mr. Kirstein recalls. ''He thought it might make us see the ballet again. Our 'Swan Lake' has never been traditional, anyway. Balanchine created it as an homage to Lev Ivanov, the choreographer of the lakeside acts. The idea always has been to challenge our received notions of 'Swan Lake' in order to discover the possibilities within the greatest score ever composed for a ballet. Actually, the score always has been the problem.''
It wasn't changed back to white, but Martins' full-length Swan Lake has (probably temporarily) replaced Mr. B's 1 act sort-of-synopsis. Probably some season in the not-too-distant future, they will bring back the one act, and the black swans will reappear.
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Posted 08 October 2007 - 04:32 AM
since most productions in the west referred, at least early on, to the extant petipa/ivanov scheme, this detailing would have been included as a matter of course when budget allowed.
there is a striking photo of a very young vera trefilova in a black swan maiden costume, complete w/ black tights, black toeshoes and unbound hair, in a cat. of historic opera/ballet images from an exhibit celebrating the maryinsky - 1783 - 2003.
so the initial appearance of these dark-toned swan maidens seems to have been for adolescent, student dancers.
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The 5 Most Surreal Financial Apocalypses From History
Nothing in the world is more taken for granted than money -- our only concern is whether we have enough of it, not whether it will work at all. Nobody puts in ten hours of overtime and spends the whole time praying that by payday the grocery store will still accept the currency ... despite the fact that this exact situation has played out again and again. Money is a fragile thing, vulnerable to a whole lot of societal factors that you have no control over whatsoever. Which is why sometimes things just go completely insane ...
#5. Hungary's 13,600,000,000,000,000 Percent Inflation
So you head down to the grocery store to get a box of Pop-Tarts for lunch, because you live alone and haven't flipped the page on your Dragonriders of Pern calendar in three months. When you get to the store, you realize you've left your wallet at home, so you have to put the Pop-Tarts back on the shelf and drive to your apartment to get it. By the time you make it back to buy your lunch, you see that the Pop-Tarts are twice as expensive as they were when you first got to the store an hour ago. At lunchtime the next day, they're five times as expensive. A month later, they cost more than your car.
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What? When Did This Happen?
The Hungarian economy experienced possibly the most catastrophic hyperinflation in history between 1945 and 1946, with inflation topping out at roughly 200 percent per day and prices doubling about every 15 hours.
How the hell did this happen? After being left in economic shambles after losing World War I, Hungary experienced a period of nasty inflation until the League of Nations bailed them out with a loan. The Hungarian korona was replaced by the gold-backed pengo, which for a time was the most stable currency in the region, despite sounding no less made up. However, the Great Depression punched Hungary's agriculture industry in the Hungonads, and this, combined with their willingness to print as much pengo as they damn well felt like, started the inflation train rolling. Eventually it would literally take a truckload of bills to buy a loaf of bread.
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She's lighting that cigarette with a billion pengo note.
Naturally, the government's response was to print even more money in larger and larger denominations, finally culminating with the 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 pengo note (imagine a hundred quintillion dollar bill).
Only the introduction of a new currency backed by gold, foreign currencies and foreign securities -- the forint -- broke the free fall. After that, there was only one thing left to do with the mountains of surplus pengo:
#4. Argentina Runs Out of Change, and Nobody Knows Why
So you walk into Big Lots to buy a wading pool and a jar of mayonnaise, and one of the cashiers stops you and tells you that they can't sell anything today. Assuming that you've been profiled, you stop at a small family-owned drugstore and try buying just the mayonnaise. You pay in cash, but instead of giving you your change, the kindly old proprietor scoots a jumbled pile of candy corn across the counter.
Fighting the urge to punch the senility out of his skull, you hurry outside to try and catch the bus downtown, but you don't have any coins to pay the fare. Noticing your plight, the bus driver offers to sell you the change you need ... for 20 bucks a quarter.
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These are made mostly of copper, but they're worth their weight in gold.
What? When Did This Happen?
Welcome to Argentina, where a few years ago they were plagued by a mysterious coin shortage. In the third-largest economy in Latin America, change was insanely difficult (if not flat-out impossible) to come by, for reasons that no one can seem to determine for certain. The Argentine government accused ordinary citizens of hoarding and even melting coins for their metal value, because evidently they believed that their citizens were trying to build the Iron Giant. The citizens blamed the government for not minting enough coins, despite the fact that the government had actually minted over 500 million new coins in 2008, only to see the shortage get even worse, like the entire nation was made up of nothing but sofa cushions.
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Commerce became a nightmare; with no coins to give to customers, big stores simply refused to sell anything to anybody, and smaller businesses literally handed out candy instead of coins for change, presumably because somebody once saw that work in a cartoon. Even the banks, which historically are places where money lives, refused to give out more than a few coins at a time, even under threat of heavy government fines (possibly because the fines were payable by bills and/or credit).
And yes, Buenos Aires' privately owned bus companies, which accepted only exact change for fare, would amass coins and then turn around and sell them for a profit, which if you think about it is the most perfect business plan anyone will ever create.
A government plan to implement an electronic card payment system was promised, but full deployment has been delayed for years, presumably because the citizens of Argentina are now hoarding all the plastic cards and building forts with them.
#3. Businesses Just Print Their Own Money During the Civil War
Let's say you're in a war-torn environment where government-backed currency has no value and you have to exchange your personal wealth for privately minted coins, such as Chuck E. Cheese's. You do all your business there -- eating, drinking, collecting trinkets to decorate the room above your parents' garage that you refer to in conversation as a "studio apartment." Over time, you've amassed a considerable private stock of tokens and tickets.
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Mr. E. Cheese is a close personal friend.
But one day you go to trade some of them in for a Dixie cup of cherry Coke and a New Kids on the Block pencil sharpener when the owners reveal with a chuckle that all of your wealth isn't worth the paper it's printed on and direct you past the Rampage machine toward the door.
What? When Did This Happen?
By the time America entered the second year of the Civil War in 1862, government-minted coins were disappearing from circulation. As you might imagine, this made it nigh impossible for people to conduct any kind of business, because the government was split in two and both sides were printing their own paper money.
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It was a true tragedy for the National Mint.
Eventually, businesses (and private citizens) began to mint their own coins, which are now known as Civil War tokens. The tokens were used by shopkeepers, soldiers and civilians alike, and displayed either the name and location of the business that had minted them or one of a variety of charming patriotic slogans, such as "If anybody attempts to tear it [the American flag] down, shoot him on the spot" and "Black people -- who are they kidding, right? Long live the South."
Collector's Universe
Why are there palm trees in front of the White House?
Problem was, back then the U.S. economy was still based on the gold standard, meaning each printed and/or minted form of currency represented a certain amount of gold that the government physically held in reserve. Therefore, all of the privately minted coins that had made it into circulation were worth diddly shit, and the minters of each coin were more than happy to remind anyone who came looking to collect on their printed value of that fact. This is why hoarding Dave & Busters prize tickets is not a sound retirement plan, for instance.
The federal government (that is, the Union) finally intervened in 1864, when it made the minting and usage of non-government-issued coins punishable by a fine of up to $2,000 and a maximum of five years in prison. In their defense, they kind of had a lot going on at the time.


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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Stater Bros. Markets last week announced the promotion of Mike Slaton to the position of VP real estate of Stater Bros. Markets. Slaton's present position of senior director real estate will be eliminated.
Slaton has more than 27 years of real estate experience. He first joined Stater Bros. in 1981 as a Courtesy Clerk at the company's North Redlands Supermarket. Later that year he was promoted to a Clerk at the same store, and in 1984 he was promoted to the position of real estate analyst at the corporate offices.
In 1988, Slaton accepted a position with a major real estate developer. For the next 20 years, he held a variety of operational and managerial positions in the Western United States with increasing levels of responsibilities.
In 2008, Slaton returned to Stater Bros. as director real estate, and in 2010 he was promoted to his most recent position as senior director real estate.


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Source: Borges VF, Kufe D, Avigan DE. Curr Opin Gastroenterol, 2002, pg 723
Much improved understanding of tumor cell biology in the recent years has led to the discovery of tumor-associated antigens (protein molecules found specifically on tumor cells) that distinguish cancer cells form normal cells. However, the clinical efficacy of cancer vaccines has lagged behind the science due to various reasons. This article reviews strategies for inducing tumor immunogenicity and the efforts to translate results from the laboratory into the clinic.
Tumor cells accumulate DNA mutations during transformation into a cancer. These mutations leads to the production of altered antigens not found in normal tissues. These represent targets for selective recognition by the host immune system. These antigens are expressed with a molecule called major histocompatibility complex (MHC) for potential recognition by CD8 T-cells, which induce the immune response. In addition, antigen-presenting cells, such as dendritic cells, present antigens to CD4 helper cells, inducing a response including antibodies generated by the immune system. These dendritic cells are being found to be more and important in the immune response. T cell activation is also greatly enhanced by co-stimulatory molecules, which leads to the release of several cytokines. These, in turn, lead to further T- cell activation and the positive feedback system required for an aggressive immune response. Tumor-specific responses are muted, however, because cancer cells present antigen without the co-stimulatory molecules required for this immunity. Hence, potentially reactive T-cells are not induced, causing tolerance to antigens. In addition, tumor cells have been shown to express factors that inhibit antigen-presenting cell function and migration, also suppressing immunity. Several strategies are being pursued to enhance efficacy of cancer vaccines.
The premise of this strategy is that the introduction of a tumor antigen will be taken up by an antigen presenting cell and presented to T-cells. The resultant recognition of the foreign antigen by the T-cells causes an expansion of the population of these specific T-cells with the resultant immune response. Peptide vaccination has most commonly been studied in melanoma. Clinical trials have shown evidence of T-cell induction and response, though minimal. Hence, ongoing work in peptide vaccines is in improving the capacity to stimulate the immune response more and to understand the mechanism of immune suppression by the tumor. The concurrent administration of cytokines has been used as has altering one or more amino acids in the antigen to improve the immunogenicity of the antigen. These methods have both shown to enhance the response to peptide antigens.
Other problems also exist with peptide antigens. They depend on intact antigen presenting and the development of a population of T cells in order to be effective. If the antigens, which remember are just small proteins, are rapidly cleared, a response obviously will not be generated. Also, tumor cells can avoid immune recognition by simply downregulating the antigen that the immune system is responding toward. Especially if the antigen is not essential, this can be very easy for the tumor cells to accomplish.
Another approach in vaccine therapy is using genetic material, introduced into the antigen presenting cells as either naked DNA or as a viral vector, to encode the desired targeted tumor antigen. By introducing the DNA directly into the antigen presenting cells, the hope is that there would be a rapid and intense immune response. In preclinical investigations, using naked DNA for this purpose has elicited only weak responses. Although the concurrent introduction of cytokines (to enhance the immune response) has had some success, overall this method is not being used in the clinic. The other way DNA for gene therapy vaccines is introduced is through viral vectors. This is using a modified virus, with the desired DNA contained within its genome, to introduce the DNA. This approach is potentially limited by the generation of a host-immune response to the viral vector itself. This could lead to a rapid clearance of the vector without much introduction of antigen. Ongoing work is focusing mainly on introducing cytokines or other co-stimulatory molecules along with the DNA to attempt to enhance the immune response.
Another method of augmenting antigen presentation and immunogenicity is using a vaccine of modified tumor cells. This has the advantage of presenting the immune system with many antigens at once (since the entire cell could be foreign). However, this method has also had problems generating an aggressive immune response because of the lack of co-stimulatory molecules. Hence, a variety of cytokines and other co-stimulatory molecules have been concurrently administered. However, this has shown only modest benefits. Recently, a study investigated the use of a whole cell vaccine in conjunction with chemotherapy. This seemed to add to the efficacy of the vaccine, though chemotherapy could turn out to attenuate the immune response rather than assist it since chemotherapy, by its action, tends to decrease white blood cell populations.
As stated above, dendritic cells are an important antigen presenting cell that seems to be essential in the propagation of the immune response, through the many co-stimulatory molecules it releases. Dendritic cells are strong inducers of T-cell mediated immune responses. Therefore, another strategy in the development of cancer vaccines involves the manipulation of dendritic cells. Pulsing dendritic cells with tumor-derived peptides has been attempted to induce tumor-specific immunity. In animal models, vaccination with peptide-pulsed dendritic cells was protective against later challenges with tumors bearing that antigen. In clinical trials, vaccination with peptide-pulsed dendritic cells has been shown to induce antigen-specific immunity in patients with melanoma. Vaccination resulted in the generation of peptide-specific cellular immune responses in most patients.
Another strategy involves pulsing the dendritic cells with whole tumor proteins. Using this method in low-grade lymphoma patients, there were complete or partial remissions observed in several patients. Gene transfer methods using virus vectors or even retrovirus vectors have also been attempted. Again, there are limitations. With viral vectors, there is a risk of the dendritic cell expressing not only the desired antigen, but also the viral antigens, hence targeting itself for immune attack. With retroviral vectors, the retrovirus requires dividing cells for incorporation. Though this can be done with dendritic cells, the process is cumbersome and expensive. Another method involving dendritic cells includes creating hybrids of dendritic cells with tumor cells. This requires electrical or chemical fusion, though this remains a hopeful route of improving on cancer vaccines.
Though vaccine studies have demonstrated minimal toxicity, evidence of immunologic response and clinical responses in small patient populations, correlation between immunologic response and clinical response has not been consistently demonstrated. Different vaccine strategies exist, with little clarity as to which of these methods will prove to be most efficacious. Many of the methods have considerable technical challenges and thus will not be available in many centers. Also, most clinical trials using vaccines are being conducted in patients with advanced disease, although vaccines would likely be most efficacious in patients with low volume disease who have not had their immune systems compromised by multiple chemotherapy regimens. All of these hurdles must be overcome in order to bring the potential successes of cancer vaccines into the clinic.
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We have land for sale beside Grenada`s most beautiful beaches.
Both Cabier Beach and Crochu Bay are protected by an offshore reef at the joint entrance to the two bays. Cabier beach has really firm sand (good enough for a 2 hour beach cricket session with some of the locals when they visit on a Sunday without moving the pitch once) and runs in a 400 yard crescent from the lodge.
Its clear warm waters are normally calm and are great for swimming and snorkelling.


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Copyright ©2009 Beaufort County Library
A Department of Beaufort County Government
When not in use for library sponsored events, the Beaufort County Library welcomes the public use of its handicapped accessible meeting facilities in keeping with the Library's mission to "supply the materials and expertise to answer the needs of people for sound information, personal growth, and leisurely pursuits".
Meeting rooms are made available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups. Permission to use a Library meeting room does not advocate or endorse viewpoints of meetings or meeting room users. Meetings and programs must be open to the public.
The meeting rooms of the Beaufort County Library are available for the following uses:
• Library sponsored or co-sponsored programs;
• Public Library Foundation and Friends of the Library events;
• County and other government agency meetings and programs;
• Non-profit community groups with a cultural, educational, or community welfare emphasis;
• Commercial entities or professional practitioners that provide an educational opportunity related to his or her field of experience. In such a case, an educational opportunity offered by an expert provides benefit to the participant. However, no attempt to sell a specific product or service is permitted nor is solicitation of personal information;
The meeting room will not be considered scheduled until the application is approved.
The meeting rooms will not be approved and are not available for the following groups, entities or functions:
• Groups charging admission fees or asking for donations.
• Classes conducted by instructors for their profit.
• Non-library related groups soliciting or actively selling items for services.
• Social gatherings, social clubs or social activities, unless sponsored by the library.
• Library facilities may not be used for commercial purposes; no fund-raising activities may be held except by the Library, the Friends of the Library and the Library Foundation.
• Religious services, however, religious study groups are permitted.
• Any group whose beliefs espouse racial discrimination by reason of gender, race, ethnicity or other socially unacceptable philosophies, groups who espouse hate philosophies or political agendas, which are not in accord with the orderly decorum in the safe operation of the Beaufort County Library System.
• The Library facilities are not available for political meetings and other campaign-related purposes during the election year of the individual requesting such meeting, including appropriate timeframes for special election candidates or elected officials.
• At any time ninety (90) days before any election, political party primary event, or presidential preference primary event: political parties, political action committees, political movements or any political group who may engage in endorsing candidates or any other group or organization, whether non-profit or charitable organization or not, who may engage in a political agenda by endorsing candidates or causes which may be on election ballots in an upcoming election.
A. Meeting rooms may be reserved during regular business hours up to one year in advance of the desired date by a responsible adult on a first-come, first-served basis.
B. An application form is completed when the reservation is made. The person who will be responsible for the room and the meeting must make an appointment to come to the library and have an orientation tour at the time of the first reservation.
C. At least one week's notice is preferred for reservations. Last minute requests will be considered based on a 24 hour notice, as well as time and space availability.
D. Standing appointments are only for Library and Friends of the Library events.
E. Groups may make up to two reservations at one time; no additional reservations may be made until after the dates of the initial reservations have past. This regulation may be waived for groups acting in partnership with the Library.
F. Reservations may be made for a limited series of events with the Branch Manager's approval.
G. Reservations are not transferable and immediate notification should be made of any cancellations. After 30 minutes, a group may forfeit its reservation if it fails to appear as scheduled.
H. Library staff may attend or observe any meeting or program at any time.
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someone who enjoys stealing and will try and get whatever is in their reach.
Cassie Mclankyfuck is a clepto, she even stole some little girls virginity
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Someone who enjoys the thrill of thievery. Can also be used as a verb in some instances to describe the act of stealing.
Marc asked amy to go to the store and clepto a new hard drive for him.
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some one who likes to grab people
tim is a clepto to all the girls and guys i kno!
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Men's Tennis Hits the Road to Erskine on WednesdayApril 8, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – After suffering a heart-breaking 5-4 setback to South Atlantic Conference rival Wingate last weekend, Anderson University men's tennis looks to get back on track when it heads to archrival Erskine on Wednesday. First serve from Due West is slated for 2:30 p.m.
The Trojans
After a grueling week which saw AU take part in five matches, including four South Atlantic Conference contests, the Trojans finished the week with a 3-2 record with wins over conference foes Lincoln Memorial, Lenoir-Rhyne and Catawba. With last week behind them, the Black and Gold enter the mid-week match with EC with an even 7-7 record and a 7-2 mark in conference play.
Three Trojans posted 4-1 singles records for the week, highlighted by freshman Juan Carracedo's play at the No. 1 position, as he defeated four conference opponents. Carracedo capped off his week with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Wingate's Neal Towlson for AU's first point in the singles round against the Bulldogs. This season, Carracedo is 6-3 against SAC opponents.
Senior Danilo Faria (No. 6) and sophomore Inaki Iriberry (No. 5) also went 4-1 for the week, as Faria recorded a perfect 4-0 mark against conference opponents. The senior's lone loss last week came in three sets against Limestone's Daniel Lopez, as the Trojans fell to their in-state rival, 6-3. Iriberry won four straight matches before falling to Wingate's Ryan Forbes, as he enters Wednesday's match with a 9-5 overall record.
In doubles, Iriberry and sophomore Tomas Passalacqua are a perfect 9-0 against SAC opponents this season. The tandem is 8-2 in their last 10 matches, while adding a 9-8 win over WU's Filippo Pezzoli and Tyler Schofer on Saturday.
The Flying Fleet
Erskine has fallen on tough times this season, entering Wednesday with a 2-14 overall record and on a three-match losing streak. The Fleet's last victory came on a Spring Break trip to Hilton Head Island, S.C. when they blanked Washington & Jefferson 9-0 on March 18. Since the win, EC has dropped to nonconference opponent Saint Leo (6-3) and Conference Carolinas members Pfeiffer (5-4) and Limestone (7-2).
Junior Wilson Mathewes comes into the rivalry match with Erskine's highest win total and only winning record on the year with a 9-7 mark, while splitting time between the No. 2 and No. 3 positions. Projected No. 1 player, junior Jason Harris, is 2-8 in the top position this season. Teammate Jack West has also seen action at No. 1, holding a 1-5 mark as the team's No. 1.
In doubles, the tandem of Harris and Mathewes is 9-6 for the season with a 4-1 mark in Conference Carolinas. The team is 7-3 in their last 10 matches, but suffered an 8-6 setback against Limestone in their last time out.
The Series
Over the last four seasons, Anderson has defeated the Fleet five times, capped off by a 6-3 victory in last year's regular season finale at Max Grubbs Memorial Courts. With softball's Cup-clinching win over Erskine on April 3, the Trojans can add on their lead in the Beville Cup standings at 10-2.5.


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5 Ridiculously Offensive Ads That Somehow Got Approved
We've all said things in our lives that in retrospect really could have been worded better, like giving someone a compliment that inadvertently makes a racist connotation, or ordering a meal in a way that accidentally denies the Holocaust. The average person apologizes and moves on, but if you're an advertising executive trying to reach thousands of people when you put your foot in your mouth and eat half of it before you realize what you've done, things get a bit more complicated.
#5. A Tanning Salon Offers Native American Skin Tone for Thanksgiving
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In a lead-up to Thanksgiving 2013, tanning salon Club Sun unveiled a Facebook ad for their upcoming special Thanksgiving deals, in which they honored the Native American people by "giving thanks" for their contribution to white American culture. What was that most important contribution? Our most prevalent staple, corn? The inspiration for our democratic government? This entire lovely continent? Nope: super sexy tans. Club Sun offered customers the opportunity to bake their skin until it reached that same delightful Native American color.
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"You'll leave a trail of tears if you pay more elsewhere!"
An author at Jezebel took the company to task, lambasting it for being "stupidly offensive" and guilty of "idiotic cultural appropriation." Others joined in the criticism, utterly disgusted with white corporate America's casual racism.
The only problem being: Why did everybody assume stupid corporations have to be run by whitey?
Yep: Turned out that the ignorant marketing director being accused of grossly appropriating Native American culture was in fact a Native American named David Arnett. Of course, that doesn't make this any less vapid or offensive, but at least Arnett issued an apology ... which, uh, not everyone was impressed with.
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"Sorry for being proud of my heritage and sexy color."
In the meantime, Vice President of Sales Larry Andrews publicly lamented that people will always look for something to complain about. Because seriously, wouldn't Thanksgiving be so much more peaceful if those Native Americans weren't around to complain? We have a feeling somebody made that observation once before, Larry, and it didn't turn out well for pretty much an entire race.
#4. Target Associates Plus-Size Women With Manatees
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Marketers know the value of adding a little flair to the names of their products: Who wants to get around in a regular old red suit when we could be sporting a "fire engine red tuxedo"? Target was following this gospel when they began advertising their "kimono maxi dresses" online. In particular, the gray version for plus-size women, which was marketed as "manatee gray."
"We knocked off $2.99. Why can't you just be thankful?"
The problem comes when you look at the smaller sizes of the dress, which were marketed as "dark heather gray." Same color, same dress -- but the skinny girls get "dark heather" and the bigger girls get "stupid sea cow." Obviously, plus-size women took exception to being physically compared with a seal-shaped wad of blubber.
A Target spokesperson explained that "manatee gray" was a standard seasonal label used for many products and clothing sizes. The discrepancy arose from having two different teams upload the dress information. Apparently Team Skinny Girl didn't know what season it was and failed to coordinate color names properly with the other team. Well, either that or Team Skinny Girl is kind of a passive-aggressive bitch who takes out her own insecurities via judgy color palette selection.
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And totally named Heather.
#3. Ferrero Accidentally Calls Germany Racist
Barack Obama ran on the simple, optimistic campaign slogan "Yes we can." It won him the election, started a movement of political optimism that lasted all the way until he got into office and started doing things, and even went viral. The chocolate company Ferrero, which you may know from those tiny Rocher orbs that promise the world and deliver only emptiness, decided that it wanted to jump on the bandwagon. So they ran an Obama-style election spoof to advertise their Kusschen ("little kisses") in Germany, then capped it off with their new slogan: "Germany votes white."
The ad they came up with featured a sign reading "Yes weiss can" -- "weiss," in German, meaning "white" -- which seemed to fit with their white chocolate ad campaign perfectly. It ticked all the essential advertising boxes: barely culturally relevant, a far-reaching pun, and casually racist.
Now, it might seem a stretch to associate the mere use of the word "white" in an advertising campaign with the subtle promotion of racism, but this is Germany, which historically hasn't always been the "funkiest" of nations. The slogan they were subverting was used by the first black president in U.S. history, and their own slogan was basically saying "white people run Germany."
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An idea that of course has absolutely no basis in reality.
You can see how the whole ad campaign was probably unintentional and well-meaning, but you can also see the ghost of Adolf Hitler smiling with approval at the connotations. Progressive Germans were upset, complaints were lodged, ads were pulled, and chocolates still got eaten, because seriously -- you do not need to try that hard to sell chocolates. Just tell us they're chocolates and we will shove our dollars into your pants like you just pulled off a Spinning Brass Monkey.


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How to Draw Unique Fabrics
Draw a little leather jacket.
Draw the top half of a female fashion figure. Map out a short and tight little jacket. Add folds on the side where the waist might bend, on the elbow of the sleeve, and coming from the top of the sleeve.
Use the side of your pencil to block out the darkness of the leather and leave areas white for shine. Darken around the folds to show the depth of the fabric.