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FC United of Manchester
Season 2 - 2013/14 Blue Square Premier
Preseason - Media Prediction: 22nd
The Struggle
Club Info
Blue Square Premier time. This year wasn't easy at all. The board wanted me to avoid relegation, so as usual, I went just that little bit higher with my personal expectation.
The Season
This year really didn't go well. It started off absolutely horribly. Loss after loss after loss, and it wasn't long till we hit rock bottom. There was a brief rise to 17th, which quickly dropped to 20th. I stayed around this point for a long time, only surviving due to other teams losing. However, in the last 15 games of the season, a beautifully timed tactical change (with the help of Glennuk) saved my season. We finished mid-table, just where I wanted. We had a very large squad this season, with lots of ins and outs, as usual.
Blue Square Premier Table | Position Graph
Transfers (1) (2) | Squad (1) (2)
Confidence | Finances
FC United Awards
Fan's Player of the Year
Matthew Paterson
Matthew Paterson was the Fan's Player of the Year this year, as well as top scorer. It was a testament to how bad our season started that he only scored 13 goals in 34 games, however the goals were shared between the squad. He did well, but I did personally think that others were better.
Top Scorer
Matthew Paterson
See above.
The Jordan Swinburn Award (The Surprise of the Season award)
FC United 6 - 0 Aldershot
The moment when the season changed.
The Millward Player Choice Award (Manager's Player of the Year)
Jesse Lingard
This guy deserved to be the player of the year. He didn't play as much, for various reasons, but I believe that when he did... he was fantastic. In a season that was ultimately disappointing, he was a standout.
Goal of the Season
It's that guy again! Greg McDermott, once again, wins the Goal of the Season!
Greg McDermott v Stockport
Career Overview
Code:Season League League Finish Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2012/13 Blue Square North 1th Promoted - Champions 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 13th Survived Relegation
Yeah - they say it hasnt got a bug and that "As i have chosen one of the lowest rep teams in the BSN, I shouldnt be suprised".
Well hold on - I believe we're playing Dafuge's challenge here! Name me one available club who wouldnt be one of the lowest rep teams in the BSN or BSS? And yet they can sign decent players...
Hi everyone.
Found this thread via twitter, and recommended as an option to try this challenge. Just want to clarify one of the rules really, around scouting. Can I only sign players that are on my scout reports or scouts find? Or, does it mean I can only sign a player that is on my "list of players" (if that makes sense), I can't remember the exact screen, but the one where you look for players/staff etc.
In other words, I can't go and use a full player search (by name) by using the player search option.
Just a bit confused by that rule really.
How have people gone with youth intakes? Anyone produced any first teamers or have any great prospects?
Haha CandC - no-one you'd even look twice at so far. Barely seen a double-figure attribute!
Joe Andrews, who's been a first teamer for the last 3 seasons (took him a year to break in) and apparently has potential League One quality. Other than that, nothing really.
11.6 mil to spend and I can now scout the world time to get to work but BF3 has come so may pop on that.
I'm at my wit's end. Please help folks.
That's my game, tell me what I have to do differently?! I have a doctors appointment shortly, wont be back till about 8-9 tonight after food too. Anyone who has any ideas about what I'm doing one, send me a private message please! If it's long and complicated, PM me and I'll give you my e-mail address!!
This one is going down to the wire...
Am even 'throwing' the second leg of the FA Trophy semi at Crewe (am 0-1 down) by putting out second stringers as I have three leagues games within seven days afterward.
Also, speaking of youth products - not a bad way to introduce yourself...
Just got my first job offer. Brentford in League 2! REJECTED!
END OF SEASONIt started well but we failed towards the end, of course I'm happy to stay up but we should've finished in a Play-Off spot, next season is going to see major changes to our squad. I am looking for hungry youngsters and a 25 goal a season striker but I think that might be tough.
HENDON F.C - Season 2021/22
League Table | Squad | Transfer In / Out
Next Season TargetsCode:Season Division Position Cups ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2012/13 Blue Square South 6th F.A Cup 3rd Qual Rnd, F.A Trophy 2nd Rnd 2013/14 Blue Square South 5th F.A Cup 2nd Qual Rnd, F.A Trophy 1st Rnd 2014/15 Blue Square South 12th F.A Cup 3rd Qual Rnd, F.A Trophy 2nd Rnd 2015/16 Blue Square South 9th F.A Cup 2nd Qual Rnd, F.A Trophy 1st Rnd 2016/17 Blue Square South 1st F.A Cup 2nd Rnd, F.A Trophy 4th Rnd 2017/18 Blue Square Premier 10th F.A Cup 4th Qual Rnd, F.A Trophy 4th Rnd 2018/19 Blue Square Premier 1st F.A Cup 5th Rnd, F.A Trophy Winners 2019/20 npower League 2 9th F.A Cup 3rd Rnd, Carling Cup 1st Rnd, JPT 1st Rnd 2020/21 npower League 2 1st F.A Cup 2nd Rnd, Carling Cup 1st Rnd, JPT Semi-Finals 2021/22 npower League 1 15th F.A Cup 3rd Rnd, Carling Cup 1st Rnd, JPT 2nd Rnd
*Push towards Play-Offs in League One
*Reach 3rd Round of Carling Cup
I've got an outstanding left back that came through my youth at the end of my first season. He automatically slotted in as my DL at the start of my second season. I'll post a screenie with my mid-season update --- I'm about 4 games out from the midway mark (so tonight/tomorrow morning, I'll post it).
My current Chairman keeps putting money in when we are seriously in debt, thank god for that!
Don't forget to join the Dafuge Steam Group (featuring a Chatroom!)
Last edited by Swinburn; 04-11-2011 at 19:15.
Yup, so it seems. Fair to say our success is inspite of him, rather than because of him. I'm quite surprised actually, it's a bit silly having him take over a Conference South club but then show no ambition at all.
I had Peter Ridsdale try to take me over a few seasons back, possibly would have been even worse than Ashley. Quite a few big name football-related businessmen seem to be floating about in FM12.
Gypsum's Worksop town - League 2 - 2015/16
League position: 3rd / Position chart - We started strongly, scoring for fun (we finished with 111 goals) and we managed to maintain that throughout the season. Unfortunately, with promotion guaranteed going into the last game we slipped up, and dropped from 1st to 3rd. Which was a shame, but promotion was still an awesome result.
FA cup : 5th round - Got lucky with the draws but unfortunately missed out on a more lucrative tie. Still, a replay at Elland road was great for our finances.
Transfers - Less transfers than usual, but it turned out that much of our BSP squad was good enough for League 2.
Finances - Bolstered by the cup run, our finances continue to look healthy.
General squad info
Star players:
1- Jonas Pettersson - The young Swedish striker showed his sensational finishing ability, scoring 28 goals
2- Victor Zapata-Caicedo - Now in his fourth season with us since joining us in the BSN, Victor had his best season yet, scoring 20 goals with 15 assists.
3- Mehdi Lazaar - The Belgian striker was a late season revelation for us, and ended up with 15 goals and 19 assists.
Notable mentions: Derek Young - The Scottish striker bagged 19 goals. Liam Reffin - Our long serving defender and club captain wasn't as prolific from set pieces, but finished the season with a 7.29 rating.
Code:Year Division Position Other achievements ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012/13 Blue Square North 1st 2013/14 Blue square Premier 12th FA Cup third round 2014/15 Blue square Premier 3rd Playoff winners 2015/16 League 2 3rd Automatic promotion / FA cup 5th round
I think Gypsum proves my point....
Wow, I'm into the FA Cup 4th round after beating Bradford 2-1 in the replay! Wolves, here we come!
Congratulations. Jonas looks like a beast!
My players are OK - but I need a bit more quality to really push for promotion. And I havent found a single player who would discuss terms who would in any way improve my team. Thats stupid, given that some of the players in my team are well below BSN standard.
I could really use a recommendation for a right midfielder - 2nd season - still in BSS.
I can't sign anyone with decent skills.
Club: Banbury United
Season: 2015/16
League: English Blue Square Bet Premier
Transfer Budget: £240k
Wage Budget: £11.6k
Opening Balance: £600k
Closing Balance: £231.2k
Board Expectations: Avoid relegation
Media Expectation: 23rd
My Expectations: Avoid relegation
League Record: Pos 19th, W 13, D 10, L 23, F 66, A 79, Pts 49
FA Cup: 4th Qualifying Round, 0-2 vs Forest Green
FA Trophy: 2nd Round, 1-3 vs Truro
First XI: (4-5-1) Buchmann; Andrews, Sokolik, Morrison, Murphy; Tomsett, Verma, McGee, Bruna, Pelosi; Oblak
Top Scorer: Boris Oblak 10
Top Assister: Gerardo Bruna 15
Best Rating: Marc Pelosi 7.00
Average Attendance: 621 (+256)
Fans Player Of The Year: Gerardo Bruna
My Player Of The Year: Allan Morrison
Notable Results: 2-6 vs Darlington, 5-1 vs Ebbsfleet, 6-1 vs Bromley
Transfers In: 11 players came in, all on frees in order to shore up the squad for their first foray into the elite of non-league football. Christian Montano, a Colombian striker was brought in to compete with the ageing Brian Wake, and I went central midfielder mad with Liam Tomsett, Anjur Osmanovic, Aman Verma, Jake Bailey, Ryan Brobbel and Kelechi Uzoma all coming in to fight for two of my problem positions from the last few seasons. George Ray, a young centre back was also brought in and did fairly well.
Best Buy: Liam Tomsett wasn't amazing, but quietly went about his business and did a good job for us in midfield
Worst Buy: Bill Williams looked like a decent striker, but hardly played, didn't play well when he did, and just went around bitching all season.
Transfers Out: Only four players left the club this season, with defensive stalwart Kevin McGarry amongst them.
Best Sale: No transfer fees were made, and none of the players who left were problematic.
Round-Up: Our first match saw us 6-0 down at half time to Darlington. We managed to score two unanswered goals in the second half to prevent what would have been a total embarrassment, but the signs were ominous. After a tricky start though we stopped the rot, and slowly began to turn things around, being as high as 10th midway through the season. Another slump followed though at the end of the season, and we finished a lot lower down the table than we ought to have done. Improvement must be made to our league form next season.
Our cup performance was rubbish, going out straight away in the FA Cup, and only winning one match in the FA Trophy on penalties to Redditch. Obviously we're in a higher division now, but I can't help but feeling both our league and our cup performances had taken a step or two back since last season.
Aims For Next Season: Aim for 60-70 points, do better in both cups.Code:SEASON DIVISION POSITION FA Cup Other Cups Europe NOTES 2012/13 Blue Square Bet North 13th 2nd Qual Round FA Trophy Quarter Final - 2013/14 Blue Square Bet North 7th 2nd Qual Round FA Trophy Second Round - 2014/15 Blue Square Bet South 1st 4th Round FA Trophy Second Round - Promoted as champions 2015/16 Blue Square Bet Premier 19th 4th Qual Round FA Trophy Second Round -
Oh my god. Absolute heartbreak. Final game of the season, we're leading by two points. York on 80, us on 82. All we needed was a draw. York win 1-0, we NEEDED a draw. What happens, we blow it. 3-1 loss to Hayes & Yeading. Absolutely heartbreaking. We have to do it the hard way now, against Burton.
Just sold my striker Håkon Kjæve for £1.7m. He scored 4 goals in his last appearance for FC United. Sad day (But insane money for a L2 team)
Yeah, I shoud have let him go for £100k last year, but he was on fire, how was I meant to know he would die in the next season? Besides, I sold Murphy and wasnt able to replace him which scared me off selling Doyle.
#81 - Kingstonian. Season '13-'14. Blue Square South.
BSS position: 12th League table
FA Cup: 2nd round (lost 1-0 at Oldham)
FA Trophy: Losing finalists
Summary: League was a season of mediocrity. The squad was just 4 or 5 players from last year's play-off final losing team (3 of those staying on non-contract for the whole year) and a load of young 'uns who performed in fits and starts. The side settled down after a few rubbish games early on, but we never had the quality to pull upwards of mid-table. League progress. Frustratingly inconsistent, we would beat teams higher up the table, but couldn't buy a win against the mid-table sides. Season was saved by cup runs, which brought in a bit of cash. We should have won the FA Trophy, but our luck finally ran out in the final.
Transfers: Transfers A lot less turnover this season, no great signings, mostly youngsters with potential. I'm releasing anyone who's potential is dropping below 4 AssMan *'s, so they don't take up playing time from the better prospects.
Future prospects: Great from corners! We're going to struggle again next year unless Chairman Hearn ups the wage budget. I'm not optimistic that will happen, even with £180K in the bank after the cup runs.
Restarting again due to my well-documented issues with not being able to sign anyone (not even my own youth graduates) without the workaround. I still dont see that as a cheat, because it seems realistic to me. However, I have a feeling that players demand more money using this route, and im totally bankrupt not to mention that the players I've signed have all been crap. Hopefully this time my game won't screw up!
Bedford Town - Season 2014/2015 - Blue Square Bet Premier
Squad - Table - Transfers - Transfers 2 - Finances
Final position: 4th promoted via playoffs
FA Cup: 3rd Rnd loss to QPR(0-3 away)
FA Trophy: 2nd round loss to Dartford(0-1 away)
Best result: 4-1 win away against Fleetwoo
Worst result: 0-1 away against Dartford(BSN) in the FA Trophy
Top goalscorer: Ryan Donaldson, 27 (24 in BSP)
Most assists: Ryan Donaldson, 13 (12 in BSP)
Highest Average rating: Ryan Donaldson, 7.21 (7.22 in BSP)
2012-13 Season Review:
After a tough start to the season i surprisingly found my place among the top-5 teams of the league. With a concrete defense leading the way and of course Donaldson up top. I managed to rake in some wins in the cup as well to get some money in the bank. After a comfortable 5-2 aggregate victory over York in the playoff semis, we managed to top Fleetwood in the final.
Player of the season:
Ryan Donaldson - AM/S C - Key player all season long. New club record with his many goals this season. Will he continue to grow at the next level?
Other Key Players
Loris Karius - GK - Once again a big part of the success. A concrete defense was the main reason we went up!
Aristote Nsiala - D LC - Yet another excellent season from the defender. Incredible stable. Will still be a important part of the defense next year.
Stefan Henningson - D R - Signed halfway through the season and the speedster delivered from the start.
Laste Dombaxe - M/AM RC - Still seems to have what it takes at a higher level. Delivers when it matters most as shown in the playof final.
2013-14 Season Preview:
Honestly I didn't think I'd be up here this season. So I'm gearing up for one long battle against relegation. However the tactic I designed seems to work well with me being the underdog :-)
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We're going up! Beat Aldershot 2-1 in the playoff final! Update will be up tomorrow night.
FC United of Manchester
Season 2 - 2013/14 Blue Square Bet North
Preseason - Media Prediction: 6th
League Table | Progress | Squad | Transfers
The season took a while to get going, struggling to find a striker that knew how to put the ball in the net. A gentle rise to the top of the league was achieved by the 23rd game of the season, but ultimately it turned out the peak came too soon and the season finished with a slump.
Career Overview
Targets for new season:Code:Season League League Finish Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2012/13 Blue Square North 4th Reached play-offs 2013/14 Blue Square North 9th Reached FA Cup 1st round
1. Escape the division
2. Find a GK that can achieve a decent average rating
3. Expand the scouting range
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Manager 44 reporting for duty. Tired, hungover, can't be bothered with lots of screenshots.
Carshalton Athetic - Season 2015/2016 - League Two
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Final position: 1st
FA Cup: 3rd round hammering at home to Aston Villa, who ran out 6-0 winners with Delfouneso scoring 5. TV money and gate receipts softened the blow.
League Cup - 5-2 first round defeat at home to Coventry City.
Best result: 7-0 Win against Southend in the Auto Windscreen Painters Trophy
Worst result: Villa above
Top goalscorer: Enric Valles 24 (20 in the league)
Most assists: 18 Ozy
Highest Average rating: 7.59 Enric Valles
2014-15 Season Review:
I'm stunned. League Two turned out to be a cakewalk. We didn't lose until Christmas - although bizarrely this was a rout at Walsall - but by then we were 20 points clear at the top of the table and nearly 30 points clear of the playoff cut off. Promotion was secured with 9 games left and the title with y games remaining. In direct contrast to last season, we were defensively superb but struggled at times to score at the other end. Cup competitions were more or less in line with expectations. I'd dearly love a plum home draw at some point soon, that would allow me to improve my facilities. It was actually a painfully dull second half of the season (I'm writing this with 10 games of the season still to go because I'm bored).
Player of the season:
Funny, in a season like this nobdy actually stood out.
Youth prospects
Stunning youth intake this year. Three kids all touted as having Championship potential. Not sure why my kids are so multinational
Wayne French
Matt Walshe
Paul Abbott
In demand:
I was offered the Swansea City job mid-season, they sat 20th in the Premiership. That'd have been a great job in a different game!
Sheffield Wednesday and MK D*ns also came calling. Taking over MK and sending them back to where they should be would also be an amusing diversion, but alas.
Edit: Newly relegated Wigan also just came a-knocking.
Moustache Update
2016-17 Season Preview:
I have no idea what to expect. 3 league titles in 3 years should make me confident, but I suspect League One will give a stern challenge. Our infrastructure is terrible, we can't scout beyond our borders. Surely that'll catch up with us soon?
Oh and Lucas nearly got crowned the best player in the world. I love FM sometimes.
Edit: Wahey - just been given an £18k wage budget for next year and Wycombe won the play off final to come up with me. Bring on next season.
Last edited by Brizza; 04-11-2011 at 23:43.
A number of players i would suggest taking a look at, all would both trial and sign for me on your save and i think that they will have an impact
- Kenneth From
-Ludvig Linderholm
- Andreas Nielsen
-markus Geiger
- todd wells
- Tommy Chaplin
-Emmanuel Poku
wouldnt say they world beaters for sure but good alrounders in their positions
#79 Hastings United - End of Season 2 - 2013/14
Table - Squad - Profile - Transfers
The aim was to remain in the division, and that happened, just about. A mixed season where I just couldn't get a decent run together. Just lacked quality against the better teams and some silly results against weaker teams. Happy to get out of the season and finished 17th after winning 2 of the last 3 games.
Going into next season I'm targeting mid table with a sneaky look at a playoff spot. The finances are worrying though at -170k, and that was £600 under wage budget too! (hopes for buyout)...
Player of the season was the new boy Joe Wright although nobody really impressed.
My Career:
Season League Position Notes 2012/13 Blue Square South 1st Promoted 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 17th - 2014/15 Blue Square Premier - -
Last edited by Leroy1500; 04-11-2011 at 23:58.
jsar, thanks, but i'm restarting. screenshot to follow.
Crispypaul (no.52)League: 1st
Bradford Park Avenue
Blue Square Bet Premier
Another good season as we just pipped Luton to top spot.
FA Cup: 3rd round
Pretty decent, Stoke just about beat us.
FA Trophy: Winners
An excellent win over a massive crowd against Luton also helped the finances.
Key Players:
Zah Ansah - signed partly through the season, a quality striker
Thomas Cruise - was a "top gun" at let back (sorry)
Josh Dawkin - top notch left winger
Lauri Dalla Valle - excellent creator up front
Aims for season
- Try not to get relegated!
Code:Season Division Position Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012/13 BSN 1st Champions, Promoted 2013/14 BSP 1st Champions, Promoted, FA Trophy Winners
Last edited by Crispypaul; 05-11-2011 at 01:15.
Meet the new manager of Harrow. More or less my local team, this team is in fact based almost directly next to a school I applied to for a teaching post earlier this year. A friend of mine got the post and in fact in the end three of my fellow trainees ended up working there. Conveniently situated between the boroughs of Northolt and Ruislip, in the far reaches of West London, this will now be my home in FM for the rest of the season.
Their crest isnt as striking as the Worksop one, which annoys me, nor can I find one of an equivalent size. But oh well.
EDT: Just realised I am the one Harrow manager. I like this.
Last edited by GreyedOutMan; 05-11-2011 at 01:31.
EDIT - never mind I saw you restarted.
Decided to give this challenge a go for the first time after much reloading successfully became the new manager of my home town team, Hitchin Town.
Wish me luck!
Crispypaul - Great Season. Thomas Cruise is a great signing. Can't believe he still a free agent irl. Lauri Dalla Valle the star of past dafuge challenges.
Good Luck menace- and GOM
About to start the season soon on mine so likely have a mini transfer update as quite a few in and outs. may be up soon or tommorow.
Tooting & Mitcham - Premiership - 2017/18 - Transfer Update
Going to try a 41221 formation (DM/CMs/RAM/LAM/ST) this season. Basically to fit in and get the best out of Apud and MacDonald
Most over 48months. Sad to see players who were at the club for a while gone(McKee and Brady)
Leandro - Been following Leandro for a while with the games he had for Brazil youth squad and when he made his move to Young Boys. Scouts rate him highly and £3.1m seems a bargain. Was after another Brazil GK based in Holland but he was not interest.
Mario Pirozzi - Bought in to back-up Lasse Pedersen. Was at A.C Milan and scouts think will be similar to the current Lasse Pedersen who just keeps getting better.
James Collins - Adds the much needed experience to the backline. Like him in rl (not just because he welsh ) With 19 Bravery I know he will put his body on the line for the team.
Leandro Almeida - Already my best CB and my ass man (Which is now Terry McDermott) thinks he will be a Leading Prem CB.
Mariano Alarcón - LB has always been a week area but I think Alarcón will fix that in the future as expected to be a Leading LB.
Sunny - Has been relegated from the Prem with a few sides hopefully he will stay up this time. Will be back-up for Muamba.
Fabrice Muamba - Hopefully will do the work which goes unnoticed and from my experience of past FMs CDM do go unnoticed with ratings. I will notice and I'm sure Apud and MacDonald will as well.
Clément Perrin - From the famed INF Clairefontaine which has produced the likes of Nicolas Anelka, Louis Saha, William Gallas, and Thierry Henry. Hopefull he will be as successful. Aim to get him as the Future/long term CDM but will give me options for other CMs if the roles don't work.
Sergio Apud - Started out at FCB Lujan and seems a talent Barca missed out on. Technical is world class will be working on his speed to make truly a great.
Germán Villa - Currently will be playing as Winger RAM but hopefully be able to play him as a IF on LAM when I find a suitable RAM.
Éder - Better finisher and allround player than Kruse was tempted to get a target man player such as Crouch but didn't want to risk failing again trying to get it to work so back to the poacher.
Edit :- One more
Andrés Cháves - Looks a solid defender lack of Jumping only issue. Quick enough to cover and has great passing to be a ball playing defender.
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Good Start We were holding our own and creating before the red card but it did open them up more but happy with the result.
CityAndColour - Canvey Island - 2015/16 - BSS
Final Table (1st, promoted as champions)
Well we've finally done it, and this was perhaps the most frustrating season of them all. Ironically our 83 points was the same total as last season and less than the season before, but was enough to see off the rest of the league without the need for the playoffs again.
It followed a similar pattern to last season, in that we started like a house on fire, and then after around 15-18 games the league form just deserted us. From dominating matches we were scrapping for points, and every now and then we'd throw in a great display. I don't think it's a tactical issue, I think it's more having a young squad and the inconsistencies which go with it (something that pleases me, as in past versions you could dominate with teenagers in the lower leagues, when they should be physically disadvantaged at that sort of a level). Good runs in both the FA Cup and the FA Trophy meant a lot of fixture congestion too.
Throughout this period we still managed to squeeze enough points to stay near the top, as no team could get a stranglehold on the league, and found some form again in the final weeks. Going into the last round, we held a point lead over Ebbsfleet. We were well worth a draw at Eastbourne Boro, while the Fleet suffered a shock home loss to Dartford, handing us the title by a point over Woking.
Ironically enough, after not seeing a missed penalty (for or against) all season, we missed one with the last kick of the game against Boro. Luckily it wasn't costly.
Manager of the Season
FA Cup - Lost 0-5 at L1 side Chesterfield in the 2nd Round.
FA Trophy - Lost 1-3 on aggregate to BSP side Crewe in the semis.
Key Players
Sam Baxter - I've noticed it's hard to get good keeper ratings, but he was very dependable all season and had the third most clean sheets in the league. Easily BSP quality so I'm sorted for next season, save for an experienced back-up.
Aaron Carter and Simon Parmenter - Both solid and durable (102 starts between them) once again. Carter rediscovered his attacking threat at set pieces, while Parmenter will likely captain the club in the BSP next season. One downside is Carter's contract is expiring and he wants a payrise I can't afford (or justify). I don't really want to break up their partnership though.
Klaus Geertsen - Continued to deliver quality from set pieces.
Laurence Benjamin and Liam Williams - First choice on the flanks, they returned 16 goals and 28 assists between them.
Paul Goodyear - The star of my youth intake in 2015, he had a very promising first full season, highlighted by banging five past Croydon in the FA Trophy on route to finishing as the competition's top scorer.
Jack Harper - Strange old season. 33 goals all up and won the league golden boot by a mile, yet he scored 20 of them in his first 15 games. Still can't complain, and he was lethal from the spot. Will be my ticket to staying up next season.
Next season...
My aim is to get off to a good start and hopefully avoid getting sucked into a relegation battle. I have a good core of young players too so will be looking to add some experience, particularly in goal and defensively.
Carl Barrett is set to join on a free in June from Irish amateur side Cahir Park and looks promising.
2012/13 - 9th Blue Square South
2013/14 - 2nd Blue Square South (lost in playoff semis)
2014/15 - 3rd Blue Square South (lost in playoff semis)
2015/16 - 1st Blue Square South (promoted as champions)
Last edited by CityAndColour; 05-11-2011 at 05:40.
@c&c: Good effort on finally getting there! What are your finances like?
#50 - Indsæt Navn - Chippenham Town - Season Update 2013/14
My second season at Chippenham Town was a lot more successful than my first. After a mixed start (initially a few wins, then a couple of losses), my team had a period of excellent results, where they reached the first round of the FA Cup and only lost in the 88th minute against Scunthorpe (League One) away from home. Said defeat did net us some extra cash though, so even though I'd have liked to go further in the tournament, it was quite alright. The FA Trophy, however, caused some embarrassment, as we went out against 10-man Eastleigh in the 3rd qualifying round. Anyway, back to the good line of results; in the league, we went 20 games unbeaten (16 wins, 4 draws) in said period. The excitement eventually ended as Bishop's Stortford smashed us 5-1. Ouch. Following that, we drew Truro, and worse, lost to Eastleigh, who, after this match, stole the throne as league-leaders. Luckily, the team responded well, by winning 8 games in a row to secure the title as Blue Square Bet South champions 2013/14.
On the way to accomplishing this, Scottish defender Jamie McCormack and new Dane Jeppe Larsen were absolutely instrumental, even though the latter only signed in late November. Jamie McCormack also picked up the Player of the Season-award, while I myself was picked as Manager of the Season.
In other news, the board have decided to expand Hardenhuish Park by 600 seats, meaning it'll be able to host 4600 people once the work is done.
And a little screenshot to prove that Jeppe Larsen was on trial before signing: Here
Code:Season Division Position Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012/13 BSS 11 FAC 1st rnd, FATr 1st rnd 2013/14 BSS 1 Promoted, FAC 1st rnd, FATr 3rd q.
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#18 reporting - reddevil4ever - npower League One 16th - Season 2017-18
overall a poor season with us struggling till the last few weeks where we then managed to string a few results together to pull clear of the relegation zone, we just could not seem to score and as the saying goes we really couldn't hit a barn door. Table Graph
on the squad front 7 players were let go that were causing troulbe and complaining all the time or were promoted youth players who didn't make the grade. to counter this and to get cover for a couple of positions we were short in 5 players were signed, there has been a downside, some of these are complaining about lack of 1st team opportunities so they may have to let them go this transfer window. if thats the case that will free finances to try and sign a couple of good strikers, and then we might stand a chance of scoring in this league. Squad Xfers
once again if it wasn't for our tottenham youth reject keeper we acquired 3 years ago we would definately have been relegated, out of 51 matches Mirko Ranieri made 48 appearences keeping 18 clean sheets and conceding only 51 times.
also on a negative note finances were poor this season with us making a loss of over £461,000 most of this was due to the stadium bank loan repayments of £354,000 over the year and also the fact we had no cup runs to get extra tv money and gate receipts. on the upside to this the new stadium will be ready this summer for the new season which will help as we had near sellouts every home game this year so next year with a stadium double the size hopefully attendences will increase therefore making more turnover and hopefully at end of next season a healthy profit.
Plans for next season:
1) Improve squad were needed.
2) Control wage budget to help make a profit, by resigning backup players on low weekly amounts but high appearences fees therefore only paying large sums when they play, working on this principal could save around £4,500-£6,000 per week.
3) Have a good cup run or 3.
4) Try to increase scouting network if possible
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James Homer's Profile for Harrow Borough. Did they change my age? I was sure I was born in '87?
Anyway, we have a striker with 2 finishing and a central midfielder with 1 passing - grrrreat!
Started with a draw followed by two losses.
He might be invisible - I'm going to nickname him Invisible Man - but check out this player I started with. Impressive, eh?
Congrats Drew.
#86 Gilbster
I will be giving up on my AFC Hornchurch save partyl due to almost getting relegated from BSS after the relegation from the BSP and partly because everyone else seems to have a way of signing non contract players, and for whatever reason, I just dont have the option. I have also lost my enjoyment with the club which is a shame, as I was convinced I could do something with them, but this is a setback too far as far as I'm concerned. So gonna restart, be back in a few hours with a new team.
In the Semi-Final of the FA Cup with FC United (I'm in league 2!). Shrewsbury, Corby, Blackburn, Doncaster, Chelsea and Hull have be beaten. What is going on? If this wasn't me I would scream about cheating....
Gotta love goals like this.
Into the fa Trophy Final
Glad to see my 'We'll score more than you' mentality still works in League 1. Won our first game 5-2.
Hastings United (#68)-- Midseason updated
So far, a much better run for the second season, compared to the first. A good run of form 8 games unbeaten, 6 in the league have me in the playoff spots at the end of 21 matches.
Compared to my first season (where I was knocked out in the 3rd qualifying round of both cups, having tough away draws in both), my cup run is much better this year. I lost a tough away match to BSP Dag & Red in the 4th round replay (having forced the replay with a stoppage time goal to snatch a 1-1 draw at home). A first round proper tie would have been nice, but I'll aim for that next year. Meanwhile, in the FAT, I'm through to the 2nd round proper, after demolishing Hampton & Richmond 5-1 in the 3rd qualifying round, then beating Kingstonian at their grounds 2-1 with another stoppage time goal. Next up is an away tie at BSP Dover who are sitting 7th in their division. A tough matchup, but I'm looking forward to a potential upset. If my current run of form doesn't peter out before, I fancy our chances.
My current squad has been performing solidly, though I am starting to pick up a couple of injuries. I just lost AMR/Striker Cassidy for 2-3 months, to go along with Harris (2-5 weeks) and McCartan (11d - 3 weeks). I've just enough cover to get by without them...but another injury will have me hunting for a replacement. Fortunately, I'm still £1K under my wage budget
Team stats: Overall, the team is performing very well. We are currently 4th in goals scored (39---trailing first place Ebbsfleet by 8). We are also 5th in goals allowed (25 --7 more than 1st place Ebbsfleet). From set-pieces, we are 3rd in goals scored from corners (7, behind Ebbsfleet and Eastbourne Boro, both on 8). We are not quite as lucky on IFKs (2), and DFKs (0)...an area I need to look at improving. The biggest area for improvement is in discipline. We are leading the league on red cards (4) and are 3rd in yellows (30). Though, over the past two months we have improved in this area, it is something to keep an eye on. We are also bottom of league in salary per year (at £137K), as fitting with our rock-bottom reputation (whatever ground we had made up at the end of the season, we have somehow lost---at start of the season we had leapfrogged two other BSN/BSS teams...but are once again at the bottom). Hopefully, a good 2nd half will fix that.
Individually, I have a couple of standouts. First, is the centre-back I signed last season, Jordan Tunnicliffe. The rock of the defence last season, he's picked up where he left off without missing a beat. Currently second in the league in MoM (4), he leads the league in key tackles (18), is 2nd in key headers (49) and 6th in league for interceptions (146). His AVR of 7.35 is outstanding (4th in league), and he adds 3.25 tackles per game. He's also chipped in with 4 goals. Early leading candidate for team (if not league) player of the year.
Offensively, Ethan Mannion is on target for a 20 goal season, having grabbed 7 league and 3 cup goals. He suffered in the early fall with a lot of misses, but he has recovered nicely, and his 43% shots on target is currently 13th in the league. His 7.03 AVR is steadily improving as his SOT has improved as well. He's added 7 assists and 3 MOM.
Last year's youngster of the year, Chris Molyneaus, now 17, has continued to impress. He's netted 10 goals, added 1 assist, 1 MoM, and his SOT of 58% leads the team. His injury problem has been relieved a bit, as I've added a striker to spell him. He's gottion 12(10) appearnces so far this season, and the extra downtime will hopefully improve his resillience.
For new players to the squad, I've two that have made a real impact. Padraig Byrne was added in mid July as a playmaking MC. In his 27 appearnces, he's made 11 assists, as well as scoring 6 goals of his own. His AVR of 7.34 is 2nd on the team only to DC Tunnicliffe. Overall, a very pleasing signing.
Finally, a youth prospect of my own: Dalvinder Malessa was a product of my youth setup at the end of season one. He immediately became my teams bast DL, and, at the beginning of the season, I promptly slotted him into the first team squad. He hasn't let me down either. He's made 19 appearances (14 league) and is 2nd int he league in tackles/game (at 4.93). He seems to do well in big games (an AvR of 7.12 in cup matches with a 72% pass completion rating), he's tallied two assists so far. A lad with a bright future, my AM has touted him as a potential Good League One left back. I've got him on contract until 2015 on a measly £5/week, though I expect I will offer him a new, larger contract at the beginning of next season. He's too good to let go!
That's it for now --- I'm hoping for a strong push in the second half to cement my place in the playoffs. Overcoming 1st place Ebbsfleet (already on 52 points at the midway mark) will be tough, but I'll settle for a playoff run. I still have the FAT to contend with, hopefully a decent run will net me some more funds to play with next year. The board has chipped in some £70k so far, to keep our debt...manageable...but I don't look like getting out of the red this year. A promotion will surely help.
edit: Oh, yes, and I've won my first Manager of the Month award --- December of season two (Mannion also won player of the month in the same month). Things are definitely looking up!
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#84 – Hastings United – Blue Square Bet Premier – 2014/15 - 1st
Well, a wholly unexpected promotion in my first season in the BSP. I was aiming at midtable and consolidation and defeats in my first two games seemed to point at a difficult season to come. Great home form and an on form Cedric Baseya who hit 38 goals saw the championship claimed. Baseya wasn't particularily impressive the previous season, mainly due to two long spells out with injury but was head and shoulders the best player this season.
Automatic promotion looked unlikely however as Crewe who were the main competition for the title held a significant lead right up to the tail end of the season. They were only displaced at the top of the table with two games to go and both teams had equal points going into the final game of the season, although my significantly better goal difference meant that I had matters in my own hands. I was sweating though going into half time nil-nil away at Hayes and Yeading though with Crewe having missed a penalty in the first half at Barnet. In the end though top place was secured with a one-nil win.
A mention should go to ex-Chelsea youngster Euclides Camara who I signed for the future but ended up putting straight into the team. Although he didn't set the world alight he performed admirably and is only 18.
I'm looking forward now to League two. My bank balance is healthy at just over a million, aided by drawing West Ham away in the FA Cup 3rd Round and selling my star defender Aristote Nsiala to Hearts for £350k. Can't persuade my board to increase my scouting range though...
Is it still possible to join in this challenge?
Any time, B87! Just follow the inst's in post one, post your manager profiile, and start away!
Went for a team that plays in red this year, which is a first for me on this challange!
Season: 2012/13
Club: Harrow Borough
League: Blue Square Bet South
Media Prediction: 22nd
Actual Finish: 13th
Season Review:
After completing this in the last 2 seasons and tried it 5-6 times, I knew what to expect. I've always been a bit slower at the start of the games, so when we found ourselves just outside the relegation zone after 6 games I wasn't panicking yet! However, my experiences last year gave me a good idea of how to progress and I used that to bring in suitable players and tactics. We started moving slowly up the table and had some very good performances to boot. However we were very poor against certain teams (especially Tonbridge, which were the team I managed last year...grr!) so never got any momentum. Our home form was amazing and would have put us close to the play-off places, but we only picked up 15 points away, which is what I'll work on for next year.
I plan on offloading most my squad, those I want to keep seem to be attracting other clubs so it may be a whole new team.
Finances are poor so I'll have to work on that, but I'm optimistic for next season and hope we can build on our 13th place finish.
Lost all cup matches, so nothing to report and not helping our finances!
Final League Standings
League Positions
Here we go...!Code:Season League Position Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012/13 Blue Square Bet South 10th
Season 2012-2013 Review
The Dripping Pan
Media Prediction: 18th
My Prediction: 1st
Final Position: 8th
An interesting experience for my first season as Lewes boss, I was hoping to get promoted on the first try but unfortunately our form was too scatter gun to maintain a promotion push. Next season will be an even bigger push to get out of the Blue Square South.
FA Cup: Beaten 4-1 by Dorchester in the Second Qualifying Round
FA Trophy: We fought all the way to the Semi Finals but were beaten 5-3 on aggregate to Bromley
Managers Player of the Season
Ben Mackey: 24 goals makes Ben our top goal scorer, a solid performer all season round.
Just got promoted from playoffs after a fantastic 3-1 win against Bury
My 2nd season in the BSP and im sure its my last, up to L2 and aiming for a Mid table finish.
Will post a full update either later today or tomorrow
Due to me getting very drunk and basically ruining my Weymouth game is have decided to start again this time with St Albans here is my Profile
Looking at some of these BSN/S updates, I can't believe it took me three seasons of 80+ points to get promoted!
At work at the moment, but can't wait to get home and get stuck into the off-season. Have managed to re-sign Carter for another season so my backline remains in tact.


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I'm working on a very simple email-like messaging functionality as part of an App Engine application. It is simpler than email in that there are no "subject lines". In other words, two users (or more, but not hundreds) can just exchange messages in a conversation thread that contains all of their back-and-forth messages (like IM, but with a thread that persists between sessions). So far, I'm thinking of modeling this with two types of entities: Message and Conversation
class Message(db.Model):
sender = StringProperty(required=True)
receiver = StringProperty(required=True)
message = TextProperty(required=True)
timestamp = DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
class Conversation(db.Model):
messages = ListProperty(int) # List holding the datastore-assigned integer ids of the messages in this conversation
users = StringListProperty()
Since creating a Message requires the creation or modification of a Conversation, I would like to store Message and Conversation in the same entity group so that those changes can occur in a transaction. I figured that I would have the Message entities as children of their associated Conversation entities.
The Message needs the key for the Conversation entity to specify it as a parent. The Conversation needs the id of the Message to store it in the messages property.
What is the most efficient way to do this?
- If I have the datastore assign an id for the Conversation entity, then I need to (1) put the Conversation entity into the datastore to get its id, (2) put the Message entity into the datastore to get its id, and (3) update the Conversation entity to add the new message id and put it again into the datastore. This requires 3 trips to the datastore, which looks inefficient.
- I could also create a unique key name for the Conversation entity (e.g., ';'.join(sorted(conv.users)). By doing this, I could avoid one of the three trips to the datastore outlined above.
Is there a way to do this with a single trip to the datastore? Am I worrying about a marginal amount of efficiency, which I should really not worry about? Is there a smarter design pattern for what I'm looking to do? If so, I would really appreciate a pointer.

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I have tested Ubuntu in i7, i5 but lower then 4 core/8 thread CPU. In two system which has i7 processor with 4 core/8 thread i have the same problem. After reboot it never reboot itself auto.
I need to physically turn it off (power out), and power on.
What is the way to reboot for such system? (less then 4 core/8 thread CPU its working nicely).


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I'm by far no network admin, but I know on the PC I use at work, we need to change our passwords every 30 or 45 days.
Is there something like that on Ubuntu that can prompt users to change their passwords every 30, 45 or whatever days I specify?
Password Expiration
When creating user accounts, you should make it a policy to have a minimum and maximum password age forcing users to change their passwords when they expire.
To easily view the current status of a user account, use the following syntax:
To set any of these values, simply use the following syntax, and follow the interactive prompts:
The following is also an example of how you can manually change the explicit expiration date (-E) to 01/31/2012, minimum password age (-m) of 5 days, maximum password age (-M) of 90 days, inactivity period (-I) of 5 days after password expiration, and a warning time period (-W) of 14 days before password expiration.
To verify changes, use the same syntax as mentioned previously:
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I've got mostly Ubuntu servers, but have a need for 2 FreeBSD boxes. On all of the Ubuntu systems I've gotten extremely used to having Byobu on top of GNU Screen. I've been trying to figure out how to get it installed on the FreeBSD boxes from the source tarball, but run into problems at every turn.
I've got everything listed in the README installed (screen, python-newt, and gsed). But I'm still not able to run it properly. It will multiplex the screen just fine, but the bottom line that displays system status and context information just says
Invalid Message (magic 0x00000000000) and byobu-config says that the snack module is not installed, which I can't seem to find.
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About the group
Information about what this group does.
The Linux Study Group (LSG) has been created in direct relation to the sf-lug group.
A few of us get together to share studying skills for linux system administration and hack on any and all things linux/f.o.s.s..
We have an eye on certification and use the LPIC (2nd Ed, O'Reilly) book and RHCE Study Guide (4th Ed, Exam RH302, Osborne) by Michael Jang on red hat certification.
Emphasis is on everyone being welcome, doing first, then learning.
We meet in a classroom reserved @ those times & days listed which has full connectivity via wireless/hardwire and whiteboards.
We encourage new people of all user levels to join in.
We also encourage users/hackers of other (or multiple) operating systems who are interested in linux and what they can and will do with it.
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In Theorem 3.2 of 'Introduction to spectral theory of automorphic forms' by Iwaniec,the first bound is about the coefficients of automorphic forms
$$\sum_{|n|\le N}|n||c_n|^2<<(N+|s|)e^{\pi|s|}$$
whereas in the paper 'On the uniform equidistribution of long closed horocycles', by A. Strombergsson, it says that this bound needs some revision (the note after Proposition 4.5 in the paper.) Also another bound is given:
$$\sum_{|n|\le N}|c_n|^2=O((N+|s|)e^{\pi|s|})$$
The reason is that the formula on page 61, line 7, in Iwaniec's book, is not correct.
I'm not familiar with these stuff, and want to know which statement is correct, Iwaniec or Strombergsson? Or both? Also what's the best estimate towards these coefficients (maybe in various forms)?
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How do I clear my browsing history?
Windows and Ubuntu please.
Update: Already do all use ccleaner, clear my flash cookies, etc... Everything minus the sandboxie thing.
How do I clear my browsing history?
Windows and Ubuntu please.
Update: Already do all use ccleaner, clear my flash cookies, etc... Everything minus the sandboxie thing.
Personally, I see from Molly's comments, you are concerned about the whole infrastructure - logs etc.
The first thing,
Do not try at work or any machine you do not own. You simply do not know what monitoring tools are installed, there could be keyloggers, or ANYTHING that sends everything to a remote location completely outside of your control.
Next, as for your actual machine, you really want to run all the usual tools such as CCleaner to clear out your local machine from every day objects. This should work well, but there is always a remote chance someone can recover your files - You may want to look in to either trashing your hard drive, or doing a complete wipe with something like DBAN.
Lastly, infrastructure - Logs are kept at many different levels. Your ISP will have various logs that can contain information on sites visited, your routers DNS can have a cache (but it is usually wiped after a few hours)... Your best bet is to use a web based proxy service or even better TOR.
However, if someone really wants to trace what you have been doing, they will try to find a way - ask ISP for sites visited if they keep logs... if they see a proxy server, they can ask them for logs... Your best hope is an ISP that doesn't keep many logs or perhaps using a VPN type service in a foreign country.
All this being said, do not do anything illegal!... That is the best way to not get into trouble for browsing!
run your web browser sandboxed.
restart your computer and all history is history, gone for good. really, truly and beyond recovery.
Sandboxie is freeware, however, if you register the software for even more options, you'll get free lifetime support and updates and you may install the software your license on as many computers you own.
(this works for Windows only)
Ignoring secure-delete (which probably isn't that important) for a minute, the most notable history trace you'll gather that isn't removed by Firefox's "Clear Recent History" option is Flash data storage. The storage control feature of Flash is unfortunately separate and has unusable controls which don't even delete the full history.
On Linux you can remove these properly by deleting
Short of setting off an EMP every time you want to clear your history, any system that keeps your history in RAM and doesn't write it to disk will probably do what you want. Its easier to never have something to remove than to remove something once its there.
You could use a Bart PE disk or an Ubuntu live CD for your browsing - that way when you re-boot there's nothing to recover as nothing was saved to disk.
There are still router logs, so you'll want to clear those too. And records of your DNS look-ups, so you may want to go with a service like Open DNS where you can turn off the history feature. And still route through TOR just to be sure.
You'd probably get a better answer if you were clearer on what you were trying to do and why. If all you want to do is brows porn without your significant other seeing, you'll get one answer. If you're trying to look for another job from work without the boss knowing you'll get a different answer.
Clarifying the question will get you better answers faster than a bounty. ;)
For Windows, you can use Ccleaner. It can erase browsing history from IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Netscape, Windows history (recently opened files, commands), temporary files, file cache) and in registry cleaning as well.
Refer here for more information: http://www.ccleaner.com/features
Browsing in a virtual machine seems like it would be safe. You could try VMWare, for example. It might be a hassle, and I don't know if the performance hit would be worth it. Plus, you may need another Windows license to use it on Windows.
If you don't want to leave any traces, use Ubuntus Guest-Account-Feature. The guests home directory will be destroyed after the you've logged off. Also, to leave no traces at all, use a Live-CD.
On Windows and Ubuntu, you can use the individual browser's cleaning function.
DNS entries are cached on your machine. Remove them via the command prompt in Windows:
In Ubuntu (from ubuntugeek):
Also, Flash cookies are stored on your machine:
An easy fix is to run CCleaner with the Flash Player option checked under Multimedia.
I know this isn't a way to remove traces from surfing but rather how to not leave unnecessary traces. I think it might be worth looking into. If you have a computer at home you can tunnel your traffic through this machine. http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/12/08/ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy-forwarding-secure-browsing/
As others have mentioned, if you don't own the computer it might still be compromised, there can be keyloggers or spyware.
Try using Google Chrome in incognito mode. It seems to work very well and I have not been able to find any traces what so ever. Also, in IE, you can remove all browsing data and it works ok then in Chrome, this works as well. I also believe this option is available on Safari and Firefox as well.
Fow Windows, CCleaner does the job:
Gutman (if you are super paranoid) + Wipe Free Space, since your history is in your user-folder, which is usually on C:


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Early Sunday morning….
There should be good news forthcoming for the WTVY-TV area with regards to Isaac's path…but first a little background.
As I compose this between the hours of 2 to 5:30 am cdt Sunday morning, over the last 24 to 36 hours there have been several significant changes from the computer weather guidance models concerning the path and intensity of Isaac 'when' it moves into the Gulf.
(A quick word on weather model 'flip-flopping' on Isaac's path prediction…the computer guidance is only as good as the data that is input before the computers do their work. If the weather data is changing more so than usual (which evidently it has been doing), then the results will incorporate those changes – thus, different paths…but I'm not sure I've seen so many changes in such a short time).
First, the window appears to be quickly closing for Isaac to move north through the Florida Straits into southern Florida, then up along the Florida EAST coast – thus, bypassing the Gulf. The trough (area of extended low pressure) to the northwest of Florida as expected reformed northeast of Florida early on Saturday and appears too far removed and too weak to 'pick up' Isaac and move it across the Florida peninsula into the Atlantic.
However, Isaac has short term but not overly significant issues. Another smaller trough is persisting in the northwest Caribbean. I pointed out this trough (full of dry air) on the Friday night weather on WTVY-TV – at that time it had made it to Havana. It then merged with another area of low pressure and is currently southwest of Issac. For much of Saturday (and continuing into Sunday morning), Isaac and this other area of low pressure have not been getting along.
Early this Sunday morning, looking at satellite imagery, I see Isaac just off the northeast coast of Cuba with the other low (trough) in the northwest Caribbean. This Caribbean trough is responsible for thunderstorms between the Yucatan Peninsula and Jamaica. In addition, the Caribbean trough with its dry air (along with high terrain across eastern Cuba) is disrupting flow into Isaac. In fact, Isaac's main area of thunderstorms is split into 2 parts – one to the north of the center and the other separated to the south and southeast of Isaac's center.
This weakening will prove temporary, but the disrupted flow is causing short term problems in Isaac's intensity.
Indeed, Isaac has weakened in the last 24 hours and its sustained winds have dropped from 70 mph to 60 mph.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) believes Isaac will be steered almost westward for awhile on Sunday due to the tug from the Caribbean trough…then Isaac turns northwest as it crosses the Florida Keys. A longer westward motion (say closer to the lower Keys, or Key West) before entering the Gulf would be better news for the WTVY-TV area (more on that later).
Fewer hurricane models continue to show, FOR NOW, a chance of a turn northward then northeastward toward Apalachicola or even east of there.
What I have seen from the hurricane models over the last 36 hours is the renewal of the trend for a more westward track through the Gulf of Mexico.
I have often mentioned the two primary weather models are the GFS and the ECMWF models. It just so happens they have been the best performing models this tropical season…the ECMWF has been the better of the two, but the GFS did better with Tropical Storm Debby back in late June that caused the flooding northeast of Apalachicola, especially in Wakulla county.
Without getting too bogged down in revisiting these models' tendencies over the last week, I will keep the discussion to the last 2 days, which is much more important.
Late Friday, the GFS model started targeting Isaac landfall for southeast Louisiana (there are several different GFS models – all of which make up what's called the GFS ensembles, which show variations of 'what if' scenarios).
Boy, did it ever target southeast Louisiana – and it hasn't let up since.
Meanwhile, the ECMWF briefly gave life to the possibility of Isaac moving more north through the eastern Gulf and even turning northeast of Apalachicola and cutting across northeastern Florida and southeastern Georgia. This was a little surprising and a big change from its previous run (which was toward the western Florida panhandle).
I think rightfully in this recent ECMWF change the NHC decided to wait for more consistency from the ECMWF before giving it credibility.
Meanwhile, the GFS in the Saturday computer runs (the two main computer runs) showed remarkable consistency in stating its case for the southeastern Louisiana hit (the GFS' conclusions showed 2 main targets: a hit near the mouth of the Mississippi River and then a path perilous close to New Orleans, OR a landfall about 50 miles south of New Orleans, then a move more west along the Louisiana coast).
Through the day Saturday the NHC briefly alluded to increasing model guidance moving Isaac's path more westward, BUT only shifted its OFFICIAL landfall path slightly westward (from just west of Panama City to near Ft. Walton Beach).
Finally, what you might consider the coup de grace, the late day Saturday ECMWF came in and not surprisingly, 'gave up' (actually, better data was incorporated into the computer run) on the northeastern Gulf path – and now had the landfall target close to the Alabama / Missippippi line.
At the very least, the NHC should now begin a definitive shift of Isaac's path farther to the west. Unfortunately, this also means a chance of a much stronger hurricane for the north central Gulf coast.
The 4am complete update has arrived from the National Hurricane Center (NHC)…and here's the news (you can find the full NHC update under an accompanying article on the Home and Weather pages)…
Issac slightly stronger (65 mph, still a tropical storm), but here's the important change…
The NHC has indeed shifted Isaac's path significantly to the west.
This shift is actually farther westward than I anticipated – given the conservative nature of the NHC. Nevertheless, it is justified, as I already pointed out, the trend has been there from 12 to 36 hours.
An eventual shifting even farther westward is possible later Sunday or Monday (unless, of course, ridge and trough positions change, along with the steering winds for Isaac).
The current forecast landfall is near Dauphin Island and Mobile Bay around 2am cdt Wednesday Aug 29…still as a Category 2 (sustained winds near 105 mph).
Also, Isaac may move a little faster through the Gulf than previously thought. That could be bad and good news. A faster moving Isaac could create more tornado potential as its winds reach inland areas. However, the faster movement may also work to hold excessive rain totals down.
The longer soon-to-be Hurricane Isaac remains over the Gulf, the greater chance the intensity increases. (The NHC would be the first to tell you intensity forecasts for hurricanes leave much to be desired, especially in rapid intensification modes). Isaac will pass over very warm central Gulf waters, but Isaac should miss the warmest water that lies in the south central Gulf.
IF THIS NEW FORECAST PATH HOLDS, this is what we can expect for the WTVY-TV area:
Hurricane Watches (already in effect) for the nearby coast..
Hurricane Warnings still likely from Apalachicola westward..
Tornado Watches for all of the Florida panhandle..southern and southeastern Alabama and probably southwestern Georgia.
There will be other watches (ESPECIALLY FLOODING POTENTIAL – 3 to 7 plus inches of rain still likely), warnings and advisories to come..
In short…CONTINUE PREPARATIONS in case the path changes yet again…STOCKUP ON SUPPLIES..PUT GAS IN YOUR VEHICLE..GET CASH from the bank / ATM..
The recent NHC update on Isaac is good news, but the danger potential remains.
All of us at WTVY-TV will be here as Isaac draws near.
ALL THE BEST and BE SAFE!!
Oscar Fann WTVY-TV meteorologist


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well right now im in college so i cant afford anything speical, At home though before I was gaming on a Zeinth 30inch 480i (lol) and now here at the college they give you free cable on rez so they also give you this free shitty ass Daewoo tv. Its mono sound and like 20inch and its so bad. So I definatly dont have a nice gaming center at all, but it gets me threw. I might buy a cable to connect my 360 to my 20inch LG204WT moniter though. That would be such a wiser choice.


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I am learning to play the harmonica. As with so many people around the world, the approach I use is to take a song and its notes somewhere from the internet and practice it until I can play it well.
But somehow I feel I'm missing something very important here. As I proceed further and deep into it I feel this thing can briefly divided into two parts:
- Learning how to play a instrument.
- Learning what to play on the instrument.
The whole Idea of practice is to do the first part. That is to learn the instrument, its behavior, its sounds and then getting so used to it that ultimately playing the instrument becomes a part of your muscle memory. I know that is no ordinary feat in itself but there is hardly anything special about it. I am programmer by profession, and I can type real-real fast. I know editor commands of a code editor called Emacs so well that I do some actions automatically. But none of this help me in software cognition or code cognition. They sure help me in expressing ideas faster, but they are tools when I solve the problem on paper I can express it quickly on the computer. In other words typing quickly is not programming.
The very same way I draw parallels between learning a instrument and learning typing. Currently I take song notes from the internet and just practice. So currently I'm just learning the instrument not music itself. I also see that a few people have the intuition to just figure out music by ear! I know there is some logical cognition involved which helps such thing to happen.
My question is how can I learn music cognition, what should I read and practice about music that helps in thinking and producing my own music? And understand music produced by others? Is it possible to develop music cognition? Or is it only some sort of natural talent?
Are people who play just by ear and intuition good in music cognition by natural talent?


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BELTON (November 26, 2012) - A big, dirty mess had to be cleaned up on one highway Monday evening after a dump truck overturned.
The truck was headed toward Belton on FM 93.
The driver was attempting to turn on George Wilson Road when the load shifted causing the truck to overturn.
DPS Troopers at the scene say the driver of the truck could have been going too fast to make the turn. He wasn't hurt.
A large mound of dirt spilled from the back of the truck.
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Clark said that some people could shower in the evening, instead. She said picking the person who usually takes the longest in the bathroom is best.
If there is a fight between siblings about who should take a shower in the evening, Clark said to alternate days so that the new schedule is fair to everyone.
3, 2, 1 -- Launch
Once you are ready to head out the door, Robertson said having what she calls a launch pad could help you leave nothing behind.
This is a place for charging cell phones and keeping keys, book bags and anything that needs to go out of the door with you.
"The launch pad in your home is where you come and go from," she said.
Robertson said figuring out a peaceful and organized way to do your morning routine can significantly affect your day.
And, Clark said, if one morning does go bad, don't let it carry over into the next.
"It is important to remember that just because your morning doesn't go smoothly one day, doesn't mean that it has to be that way for the rest of the week," she said.


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5 Heroic Movie Deaths That Didn't Actually Help Anyone
#2. Alien: Resurrection -- Christie
The Heroic Sacrifice:
In Alien: Resurrection, Ripley finds herself fighting those pesky aliens once again, this time as a clone and alongside a group of mercenaries trapped in a spaceship. One of those mercenaries is gun-toting Christie (Warrick from CSI), whose specialty is making extremely unlikely shots by ricocheting his bullets on just the right angles.
Because boastful badasses always have the best luck in the Alien franchise.
At one point, the troupe have to make their way up a rickety space ladder to escape certain death -- unfortunately, one of them, Vriess, is wheelchair bound, and the ship doesn't appear to have any working access ramps. Christie is nice enough to give Vriess a lift, strapping him reverse-piggyback-style, but as the two ascend to safety, they are suddenly attacked by an alien who manages to get a grip on Christie's foot. As they struggle with the alien, the situation is reversed, with Vriess hanging from the ladder and Christie piggybacking on his back.
"It was your turn anyway, man."
When the alien is finally shot in the face, Christie is left with a pile of dead meat still clinging to his foot -- and since Vriess is slowly losing his grip from all the weight, Christie sees no other choice ...
"Welp, suicide ahoy."
... and cuts himself and the alien loose, saving Vriess but dying in the process.
Wait a Second ...
Let's for a second ignore the fact that the expert marksman repeatedly missed the massive alien climbing toward him -- maybe he was just thrown off by the fact that there was nowhere to bounce his bullets. There's an even bigger problem in this scene, namely the fact that the "grip" on Christie's foot looks like this:
This is why you should always spray your boots with Pam before fighting aliens in space.
That seriously looks like something they had to glue to the actor's boot because otherwise it'd just fall off by itself. Christie couldn't shake that off? Or kick it away with the other leg? Or just tilt his foot slightly and let gravity do the rest? Remember that the alien is dead now, so it's not like it can put up any resistance.
"Yay, I survived a vicious alien attack. What, it's slightly touching my foot? NOOOOOO!"
The alien did manage to burn Christie's face by spitting on him, but clearly alien saliva isn't as acidic as their blood, otherwise the aliens could have just loogied their way out of their cell earlier (they had to kill one of their own and use his blood to eat through the steel). Except for the instantaneous scar, Christie seemed just fine, and it didn't look like the acid was eating through his skull or anything.
Unlike Ron Perlman's character, who looks exactly like that all the time.
And this actually gives us the only rational explanation for Christie's behavior: He knew that his second career as a male model was over, and decided that life wasn't worth living as a cripple (to which Vriess probably said "Hey, fuck you.")
#1. The Shining -- Dick Hallorann
The Heroic Sacrifice:
Some of you only know The Shining as "That movie where Jack Nicholson smashes through a bathroom door with an axe and says, 'Here's Johnny!'" The background is that Jack and his wife and son are staying at the Overlook Hotel, acting as caretakers while it is closed for the winter. The hotel happens to be haunted by some evil spirits (or something) that drive Jack crazy and make him try to murder his family.
Hey, we've all been there.
Dick Hallorann, meanwhile, is the kindly old chef with psychic powers who works at the hotel. He isn't there to help the family when shit goes wrong, because he spends most of the movie vacationing in Florida. But then he gets a mental newsflash from young Danny (Jack's son) that shit of a most terrifying nature is going down at the hotel (remember, we said he was psychic).
"My nostrils sense danger!"
Hallorann promptly heads to the hotel to rescue the family from the crazy father and/or evil spirits driving him to murder. He arrives, at which point he's greeted by Jack Nicholson with an axe to the chest. Hallorann dies, but hey, at least he did everything he could to help Danny and his mother, right?
Great job!
Wait a Second ...
You know what would have been even more helpful and much safer for everyone involved, though? Calling the freaking cops. He didn't have to tell them the information was coming from his psychic abilities: He could have made up any old bullshit to get the cops to the Overlook. "I just realized I left the stove on and the house is slowly filling with deadly gas. Hurry! Before it's too late." And with that 10 second sentence, Hallorann would have easily solved the entire plot of the movie without even moving from his bed, where he was at least 30 percent less likely to get axed in the chest.
Let's reconstruct the events from Hallorann's perspective: So he's just chilling in Florida when he gets the psychic message from Danny ...
You needed to see this again.
... and he's so convinced that something urgent and terrible is going on at the hotel that he immediately tries to call over, but the lines are down due to a snowstorm. Since that plan failed, he goes for the next fastest option: Getting dressed, buying a plane ticket and boarding a plane to Colorado, which is a four-and-a-half-hour flight.
Add at least 15 minutes for picking that tie.
Hallorann arrives in Colorado and borrows a snow cat to get closer to the hotel, because as we mentioned, there's a freaking snowstorm going on. So that's at least another hour, probably more, where Hallorann knows Danny is in danger ...
... and at no point in this six-hour-plus journey does it occur to him to call the state police.
So what was Hallorann thinking about that whole time? Not a plan of action, that's for sure, because the first thing he does when he gets to the hotel is loudly announce his presence and get himself killed. Couldn't he have scanned the area for axe-wielding maniacs with his mental powers or something? Or used the mental link with Danny that allowed them to communicate over several states and ask him what's going on?
"I usually reserve that for more important, ice-cream-related conversations."
Maybe he did try to get in contact with Danny and the kid was too scared to reply back. Maybe the same weirdness going on in the hotel interfered with his powers. That still doesn't explain why the hell he didn't at least try to call the authorities ... but then again, some things in The Shining are better left unexplained.
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And what are its effects on C. elegans?
The paper is Burnett C, Valentini S, Cabreiro F, Goss M, Somogyvári M, Piper MD, Hoddinott M, Sutphin GL, Leko V, McElwee JJ, et al.. 2011. Absence of effects of Sir2 overexpression on lifespan in C. elegans and Drosophila. Nature 477: 482–5.


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I've setup a handful of CentOS 5.6 servers with Oracle 11gR2 and not run into this particular problem, but I have hit a wall with CentOS 6.3 and auto-starting Oracle. Not sure if this is related to the newer release of CentOS or me having a PEBKAC moment, but I need a hand.
I've got a working install of Oracle 11gR2 on CentOS 6.3. It runs and is functional. Now I just want it to start with the server. To that end, I've done the following things I usually do:
Created /etc/init.d/oracle:
# oracle Init file for starting and stopping
# Oracle Database. Script is valid for 10g and 11g versions.
# chkconfig: 35 80 30
# description: Oracle Database startup script
# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions
case "$1" in
su - $ORACLE_OWNER -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart $ORACLE_HOME"
su - $ORACLE_OWNER -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbshut $ORACLE_HOME"
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
Than ran the following two commands:
chmod 750 /etc/init.d/oracle
chkconfig --add oracle --level 0356
When I try a
service oracle start, (as root) however, I get this error:
env: /etc/init.d/oracle: No such file or directory
Not sure how to figure out what file we're looking for.
If I run that script's actual start command with the variables expanded the database starts with no errors.
su - oracle -c "/opt/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/dbstart /opt/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1"
So... what am I missing here? Some casual web searching makes me feel like this approach should still work.


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My one and only @nicolerichie is named one of the 100 most powerful black women on twitter. My life is like twitter. She runs it.
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This re-release of the Suite de Ballet, A Song of the Night, and The Wandering Scholar by Gustav Holst forms part of the new Hickox Legacy commemorative series on Chandos Records, leading up to (and continuing beyond) the fifth anniversary, in Nov 2013, of the conductor's untimely death.
Both the Suite de Ballet (1899) and A Song of the Night (1903) are early works. The Suite de Ballet is light music, expertly written and colourfully scored. It brings to mind the works of Edward German and Sir Arthur Sullivan, but also glances in the direction of French composers, at Chabrier in 'Danse rustique' and Saint-Saëns in 'Scène de nuit'. In A Song of the Night Holst demonstrates confident and imaginative writing for solo violin. He left no clues as to the specific meaning of the song, but at the time of writing he was deeply immersed in learning Sanskrit, and his enthusiasm for Indian mythology may well have inspired the work.
Through her collection Mediaeval Latin Lyrics and her book The Wandering Scholars, Helen Waddell (1889 – 1965) exercised considerable influence on British music in the 1930s, and her translations have been set to music by many composers, Holst being one of them. The Wandering Scholar (1929 – 30) is a one-act comic chamber opera featuring just four characters, and no chorus. Holst uses modest orchestral forces; there are no big numbers, no set-pieces, and no overture. It is a simple rural tale, told simply, with original music that suggests (but is not actual) folk music. The premiere performance took place in 1934, but Holst was too ill to attend, and died soon after, before he had the chance to review any of the details over which he had felt uncertain as he was composing the work. In 1968, his daughter Imogen Holst and her friend Benjamin Britten edited the score in order to address some of Holst's earlier concerns.
BBC Music Magazine wrote of the disc: 'Holst's Chaucer-like farce [The Wandering Scholar] comes up freshly minted in this lively recording… the couplings reveal Holst in light-music and Romantic modes, respectively, and throughout Hickox inspires some full-blooded music-making.'
"...This well accoutred reissue is welcome indeed."
Paul Corfield Godfrey - MusicWeb-International.com – 5 October 2012
"... This well accoutred reissue is welcome indeed."
Paul Corfield Godfrey - MusicWeb-International.com - October 2012


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I have noticed that some people are better at hearing music, e.g. they are better in distinguishing the notes or noticing mistakes when someone is play.
Is it possible to train oneself to hear music better? If yes, how?
I have noticed that some people are better at hearing music, e.g. they are better in distinguishing the notes or noticing mistakes when someone is play.
Is it possible to train oneself to hear music better? If yes, how?
It's absolutely possible, based on personal experience.
I was essentially tone-deaf before starting interval training, and now have no problem recognizing notes and playing songs by ear. It provides a major advantage because you only need to figure out one note of the song. The next note can always be identified if you can recognize its interval from the previous note!
I also recommend trying to playing/singing along with songs. It's easier to recognize notes when you know how they physically feel as well as sound, and I've found that playing with songs is the best way to learn to play by ear. You can clearly hear when you play the wrong notes (most of the time), and it's easier to experiment until it sounds right and write down / remember the note that you played, rather than trying to determine it purely by listening. Eventually I found that I was able to start picking up notes just from listening.
Training to play by ear starts with 2 of your senses: Feeling and obviously Hearing.
Most people underestimate their ability to Play By Ear. Practically ALL THE TIME, everybody would rate themselves very low in their scores until I show them their TRUE scores whenever I conduct a TALENT EVALUATION on them. It would be good to assess the strength of your ability in terms of the above and also your dexterity and memory ability. Once you know it, you will know FOR SURE what your chances are.
Once you can do that, the below applies:
Learning intervals have a part to play. However, personally, I feel that by the time you analyzed the intervals, the music would have gone far, far ahead in real time....unless you have already memorized the tune and are playing it back from what you have heard; or you are rewinding the tape or CD over and over again just to listen to the relevant parts.
For me, having taught 5000+ people to play by ear over the last 25 years, I prefer to use "active sensing" to find the right keys. Of course, it takes time and making a lot of mistakes initially to acquire that ability. However, once acquired, you tend to zoom to the right notes quite quickly or at the least, nearby. If you 'miss'; you just simply "bluff" your way to the right notes.
Learning the rudiments is great and that's what I did but I find that other than the rudiments, the rest are not really that helpful until you have gone through the experience first and then when you look back, then only you understand how it was applied. It's easier to understand that way. That's why I take the student through the experience first and then only tell them the theory behind it. Otherwise I would bore them to death. (This is also the reason thousands upon thousands of wannabes gave up music - theory first, practical later or never at all).
What I mean by "active sensing" is: Each and every note in the scale (doesn't matter what key) have a character. Like learning to recognize faces, you learn to recognize sound. As you hum the scale, LISTEN and FEEL the character of each SOUND. Taking Note 1 as the reference point, you will notice that Note 2 tends to sound SMALLER (More comfortable visualizing it as smaller than bigger); Note 3 seems to rise up to a level closer to Note 1; Note 4 is VERY STRONG - higher than Note 3; Note 5 drops down to a level close to Note 1; Note 6 rises up a little and Note 7 DROPS A LOT and than Note 8 goes back to a level like Note 1 except of higher pitch.
There are finer things inside each note (maybe you won't be able to describe them but you can feel them) that you will notice as you go through the range. As you go along trying to find melody notes, you will UNCONSCIOUSLY hit the right notes as you go along.
These variations of the 7 notes also are the building blocks for your expression. Singing or humming out the character of these notes adds to the expressiveness of your song if you sing them with awareness of the characteristics. For a simple start, try it out with Love Me Tender or Aura Lee and see if what I say is true or not.
These characteristics are also the building blocks of your chords. Notice that Chord 1 consist of 3 notes of Middlish strengths; Chord 4 consist of 1 very strong note and 2 Middlish notes and Chord V7 consist of 3 weaker notes and only 1 strong note that tends to want to push you to finish on Chord I? In that respect, these 3 chords creates 3 different expressions that are fundamental to almost any songs.
These strength and weakness are relative to each other in a scale. People will ask me: Based on this theory, won't the expression spiral upwards or downwards with no ending? It is a mystery I am not able to explain as yet. Somehow they seem to fit like a close fitting right with lots of components inside and end up in circular motion (instead of spiral).
Whatever it is; try to develop these awareness described above and see if that would help you.
After interval training, which is a necessary first step, one important way to improve your ear is actually to improve your brain: learn music theory. There are musical conventions that let musicians make educated guesses when they have trouble picking out individual chords. For instance, in the chord progression
The next step is to practice. Start by listening to songs with simple chords (pop music and country come to mind) and trying to identify the notes and chords. Use published chord books as an answer key. Then move on to more complex harmonies (jazz, classical). Music is about patterns. As you learn to recognize more patterns (the sounds of individual chords, like a sus4b9, the sounds of chord changes, like a bII6-V-I), you'll be able to recognize chords just based on "feel" (our powerful pattern recognition capabilities).


text: Columbia Law School professors and graduates recently authored briefs in connection with Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Professors Gillian E. Metzger '95 and Trevor W. Morrison '98 argued in an amicus brief that the legislation's minimum coverage provision falls within the scope of Congress' tax power. George W. Madison '80, general counsel of the Treasury Department, played a key role in drafting the federal government's brief defending the constitutionality of the law's minimum coverage provision. That brief was prepared and filed by Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. '83, who also argued the case before the Court.


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A woman was taken to the hospital following a head-on collision Thursday morning on Kansas 5 Highway, according to information from the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office.
The accident was reported at 7 a.m. Thursday south of Tontine Road.
Natalee A. Kincaid, Kansas City, Kan., lost control of a 1994 Honda vehicle on K-5. Sheriff Andy Dedeke said there was black ice on the roadway.
The car struck a 2004 Chevrolet pickup truck head-on. The truck was driven by Kelly Fireoved Jr., Basehor.
A 2009 Ford F-150 pickup truck had been traveling behind the Honda. That truck's driver, John C. Kylen, Louisburg, attempted to stop but struck the Honda, according to Dedeke.
Kincaid was transported by Leavenworth County EMS to University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kan.
The other drivers were not injured. The Honda vehicle and Chevrolet
truck were towed from the scene, according to information from the Sheriff's Office.
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