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The 6 Most Baffling Video Game Spinoffs
A spinoff doesn't necessarily have to be bad. On TV, both Frasier and The Jeffersons were spinoffs, and audiences went right along with that shit. If the audience loved the characters here, they'll love them over there. You'd think it would be even easier with video games -- hell, Mario is really just a spinoff of Donkey Kong. Yet the game industry has birthed some absolutely baffling spinoffs, taking the new games so far away from what made the originals great that they barely reside in the same solar system.
#6. The Typing of the Dead
The Original:
The House of the Dead was an arcade light-gun shooter about killing zombies while waiting for the 3 o'clock showing of Wild Wild West to start at the mall. An endless army of corpses, monsters, and horrible dialogue attacks you as you weave your way through a blood-splattered mansion built by a mad scientist to house his ultimate creation, which turns out to be a naked claw monster you must defeat by firing bullets into its dick. There have been five or six sequels so far, all following the same basic premise of having the player endlessly pull a trigger into a violent gore explosion while occasionally scaring the shit out of them by suddenly throwing half-skinned jawbone maniacs into their faces.
"He's after our Visine!"
The Spinoff:
Some coke-nostriled developer decided that eviscerating the prowling legions of the undead would lend itself perfectly to an educational game, and came up with The Typing of the Dead, which regrettably is exactly what it sounds like.
This is how we picture every Internet argument.
Zombies attack you, and you have to successfully type phrases that appear onscreen before they juice your eyeballs with their teeth.
Seemingly in an effort to compound the freewheeling lunacy of the premise and thereby increase the horror quotient, the game has you type out everything from benign non sequiturs to bizarre instructions for handling gasoline while a hulking ragebeast tries to bore through your skullbone with a chainsaw. Your character doesn't even carry a handgun, opting instead to wear a baffling keyboard harness like a steampunk war correspondent, presumably to compose a sternly phrased letter to the zombies' supervisors.
"You'll be bussing tables at a Guy Fieri restaurant once this little grenade hits the comments box, Scabby Jeans."
A part of us thinks that this is the dumbest idea in video game history; another part thinks that maybe all education should be conducted this way.
#5. Pokemon Channel
The Original:
In the Pokemon series, you kidnap adorable creatures and force them to battle other adorable creatures so that you may collect more adorable creatures and become the master trainer of all adorable creatures (it's less a game and more a self-fulfilling prophecy). The majority of Pokemon titles were developed for handheld systems in order to make absolutely certain that they became life-dominating obsessions.
Michael Vick loved this game.
The Spinoff:
Some gamers rabidly defend video games as a legitimate art form, and Nintendo, apparently with the singular purpose of forever silencing those arguments, released Pokemon Channel. This was the gaming community equivalent of dressing an alcohol-sweating boxcar drifter as Santa Claus and having him run through an orphanage screaming "FUCK YOOOOOU" over their Christmas porridge.
The "gameplay" of Pokemon Channel consists of you watching Pikachu while he watches different television shows. That's it. That's not just us reducing the game down to broad strokes for comedic purposes -- that is literally the game in its entirety.
"Alrighty, now to figure out the parental code so I can watch me some Pokemen."
There are no missions to accomplish, no enemies to defeat, and no way to skip through any of the shows, even if you've already been forced to watch them. The only way to progress in the game is to watch Pikachu sit through different shows in real time, which in turn unlocks more shows for him to watch. This is basically a simulator for anyone who had to suffer through hours of Bonanza marathons because their dad kept the remote wedged between a can of Keystone Light and his regret-soaked Fruit of the Looms.
There is no interactivity to speak of, which we're pretty sure is the defining characteristic of a game. You just supervise a tiny creature while it watches television, and clearly somebody somewhere felt that this was a worthwhile investment of both time and money.
There's no way that this game proposal didn't start out with the words "bet" and "stupid."
#4. Bomberman: Act Zero
The Original:
The Bomberman series features an adorable robot of the same name running through a colorful world and setting off explosives to solve puzzles. He's dressed like a harmless cartoon Eskimo, and his bombs are giant time-fused balloons that deliver the most nonthreatening explosions in recorded history. Bomberman could not be more child-friendly if he were wearing a BabyBjorn.
Oh no! He's going to throw cupcakes at us and hug us to death!
The Spinoff:
Somebody decided that Bomberman needed a dark, gritty reboot similar to a Darren Aronofsky fever-tainted nightmare about the Teletubbies and turned the character's bright Saturday morning cheeriness into Jacob's Ladder.
"It all started with the murder of my parents ... that I committed."
In Bomberman: Act Zero, Bomberman is a cyborg slave forced into a televised deathmatch against other cyborgs, sort of like Gerard Butler in Gamer, only somehow less interesting. Essentially, they took everything fun about Bomberman and made it crazy and depressing.
This is the same character as that adorable one at the beginning of this section.
The vibrant gameplay that had been carefully refined for over a decade regressed to a gulag of miserable sameness wherein you march one of the generic bounty hunters from The Empire Strikes Back through a forest of giant lunchboxes to try and kill your enemies, who belt out screams of blood-curdling agony when they expire.
It's a bondage slave murder maze inexplicably based on a children's game, and like Michael Bay, it somehow manages to make explosions boring.
"I ... win? I think?"


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IRVING, Texas - Conference USA is excited to announce the sites and dates for the 2013-14 Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
The first C-USA championship of the 2013-14 academic year will be cross country. The one-day event is set to be hosted by North Texas on Saturday, Nov. 2, in Denton, Texas.
The 2014 Indoor Track and Field Championship dates have been adjusted to Feb. 28-March 1 due to facility availability. The Fair Park Crossplex will host the two-day event for the third consecutive year in Birmingham, Ala.
For the second straight season and fourth time in the last nine years, Rice will serve as host to the Outdoor Track and Field Championship. The four-day event will take place May 15-18 at Holloway Field and Ley Track in Houston, Texas.
The Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships will be televised on Fox Sports Network on a tape-delayed basics, while daily highlights and interviews will be available on the C-USA Digital Network for all championship events.
Sport | Date | Site | City
Cross Country | November 2 | University of North Texas/Eagle Point XC Course | Denton, Texas
Indoor Track & Field | Feb. 28-March 1 | UAB/Fair Park Crossplex | Birmingham, Ala.
Outdoor Track & Field | May 15-18 | Rice University/Holloway Field/Ley Track | Houston, Texas

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What is the best possible strategy to convince a stakeholder to adopt a new approach when they seem to hold on to a particular idea which is more generic. What I would like to hear are the best ways to systematically unfold the conversation to convince them when we know something works better.
First, consider their point. Is doing something new really the right way to go? If it is then prepare to meet with them.
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Worker security
October 25, 2013
Dear?Editor, Sitting in a rocking chair on the porch, maybe do a little traveling around the country, visiting family and friends....
Workers here are FORCED into unwanted unionization by the Dems, who love slavery. That is why Dems are known as the puppets of slave owners!
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Yea right..labor unions...I watched (from afar) while this valley tanked because of labor union dysfunction. When the lazy man would hide behind his union while the honest hard worker was forced to become like his "union brother or sister". Funny how powerful the UMWA thought they were and they caused their own demise..They have dismantled themselves...
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House GOP in early Oct:
We're angry because we don't want the ACA to work!
House GOP in late Oct:
We're angry because ACA isn't working!
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Since the days before the Civil War, democrats have always been the party favoring slavery, and they still do...only now some of the slaves are white and the master is the government!!! Dems love slavery and forcing their will upon others.
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or you could go as a BUDGET and NEVER leave the senate!!LOL!!
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I'm going to go as a jobs bill for Halloween and never leave The House.
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funny you should say that, Promo....and Ben Lofton did that same exact thing yesterday after writing a dozen letters bashing republicans!!!...LOL....but lets not drag Ben down to the level of BCF....when local businesses dont want BCF around, they just post up "help wanted" signs and he runs for the hills!!!
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If a conservative were to quote Abraham Lincoln as a reason for the way something should be today, Liberals would pounce saying we need to join the 21st century.
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Throughout much of the twentieth century, business leaders and public officials assumed that the great danger to the American polity would come from the far left—from communist revolutionaries or New Left anarchists. But it never really did, and doesn't today. The real threat to America's large republic is from the far right. The middle-American radicals represent the dark intolerant side of American politics. They reject the attempt, beginning in the Progressive Era, to smooth the rough edges of a capitalism that, left to its own devices, leads to monopoly, inequality, and poverty. And they promote the polarization of the parties, making a functioning government impossible and throwing into question the Constitution they claim to revere. - John B. Judis
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I will say this much about Bens writings.....they are better than these local yokels using the Letters to the Editor section of this paper to get free advertising space for their mayorial elections!!!!.....what a hoard of cheapskates!
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Thoughtful,That's why one fourth of American jobs pay poverty wages, and three fourths of Americans live paycheck to paycheck? 76% of Americans have no retirement savings. The fact remains that without unions the employer makes all of the rules, can change them at anytime. They may give you an employee handbook, but who writes it? Unions allow workers to ensure that things important to them such as wages, benefits, and working conditions are agreed upon with the employer in a legal binding contract.
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Class warfare comments simply does not solve or address this issue. Any individual can elevate their worth to a current position or job, seek out alternate training for another position with more responsibility, income level, or opportunity, or look for small business needs within their area. I have mentored thousands of individuals. this process helps that individual seek out their inherent strengths and talents, weaknesses, and develop an action plan for self growth, timeline to meet, and a vision for their ultimate goals and expectations. Many of these individuals have had families, had to continue to work full time, and were able to succeed and reach a path for meeting their economic and aspirational goals. Easy by no means, challenging, you bet, sacrifice, absolutely. Worth it, only each individual can make that decision.
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If workers are so bad and undeserving of a decent wage. Let the CEO's make their own products or provide their own service. Let them also buy all of their own products and services. The employer class need us more than we need them. "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed." Abraham Lincoln Dec. 3 1861
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It is very sad to see folks brainwashed by liberal socialist into believing that paying dues to criminal unions is good. They take the money to empower agendas that create the worst environment for the workers. Then the jealously that drives the hatred of the hardworking risk takers or lucky people. If CEOs are so bad then start your own company and support your union employees until they drive you out of business or create a socialist company where all employees, regardless of skill, education, risk tolerance or talent all make the same salary?
Better yet, have the government set the salaries and allowable product prices for everyone like Soviet Russia or Venezuela...they are doing so well? Galt/Taggart 2016.
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BCF is in man love with Robert Reich and the kenyan pygmy in DC...typical water boy..ignore him....
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GOP Unfavorability:
Seniors - 65% Independents - 67% Women - 63% White Collar Whites - 70%
Keep up the good work, Republicans!
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I can almost understand a guy trying to think and vote like his daddy and grand-daddy would.....they see it as sort of a family tradition or loyalty passed on through generations. What I cant understand is how long it takes todays working stiffs to figure out that daddy and grand-daddy got a RETURN on their investment.....but they never will!!!....HELLO young worker!!......your loyalty is a one way street and you are the only car on the road!!!!
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Vote for Roosevelt!
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....can somebody jolt the turntable?...the broken record is playing again.
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Mr. Ben, there are many opportunities for individuals to improve their expertise, develop their talents and skills, seek out job advancements, and elevate their level of responsibility, income, and promotional growth. It is beyond any political affiliation or membership.Millions of Democrats and Republicans have enhanced their careers.
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Today's GOP is doing all it can to dismantle unions. Republicans hate the working man. Only 2 types of people vote GOP: Millionaires and suckers.
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Through Monday, Amazon is selling Fun.'s latest album Some Nights for only $5! Click HERE to get the album for a ridiculously low price!
"It's the bold, adventurous and grandiose album that the Top 40 chart needs right now." -AbsolutePunk.net
Through Monday, Amazon is selling Fun.'s latest album Some Nights for only $5! Click HERE to get the album for a ridiculously low price!
"It's the bold, adventurous and grandiose album that the Top 40 chart needs right now." -AbsolutePunk.net
Click HERE to read Hayley Williams of Paramore's answers to 20 Questions from Audrey Kitching on Buzznet.com.
"I am laughing things off a lot more easily these days than I was at 19, when I wrote the last album. A lot of change… a lot of positivity. Even the songs with the more serious subject matter feel less toiled and troubled. Musically, I am most inspired by the personality captured in every instrument. That, to me, is actually what is making up this newer sound that is happening."
Gym Class Heroes will premiere the official video for 'The Fighter' featuring Ryan Tedder tonight on E! News. Check out the clip above and tune in at 7pm to see the incredible new video!
Jack Antonoff of Fun. recently published a blog on The Huffington Post's Gay Voices titled 'Straight Allies: The Importance and the Realities' and shot the PSA above for the Human Rights Campaign. The band has also named Revel & Riot - an organization that promotes LGBTQ rights, awareness and equality through art, design and education resources - their official charity partner for their current tour.
Revel & Riot is giving away tickets to the Fun. tour. Click HERE to enter and HERE for a complete list of the band's upcoming tour dates.
Check out the new twenty | one | pilots promo photo taken in the Los Angeles studio where Tyler and Josh are working on their new album. Visit twentyonepilots.com to see where you'll be able to check out the band live this summer with Neon Trees and Walk The Moon!
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Andrew, Nate and Jack from Fun. stopped in to 3FM's morning show in Holland with host Giel Beelen and performed this cover of Carly Rae Jepsen's song 'Call Me Maybe.' What do you think about their version of the song?
Gym Class Heroes new video for 'The Fighter' (feat. Ryan Tedder) is dropping this Wednesday, May 23rd on E! News at 7:00 PM. After the E! News broadcast you'll be able to catch the video at 8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST at EOnline.com.
Some Nights is out now in the UK! Get your copy on iTunes (UK) or at your local record shop. Click HERE to download now!


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Navy Chief Petty Officer Eleuterio Roman, left, and Lt. Steve Hartley, monitor screens on board the USS Freedom as it nears Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Monday, March 11, 2013. The USS Freedom, which is stopping in Hawaii on its way to a deployment to Singapore, has advantages its bigger siblings lack. It is small enough to move among the many islands and shallow waters lining the extensive coastlines of Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)
It's the size a football field - traveling up to 50 miles an hour in waters as shallow as 13 feet.
The U.S.S. Freedom is the first of the navy's new "littoral combat ships"- which will bring speed, maneuverability and power to the pacific fleet's near shore capabilities.
Its powerful "jet" propulsion system is unique to the navy.
Lieutenant Commander Charles Harris, an operations officer on new vessel, explains how it works. "It just sucks in all that water, pushes it back out and we're actually propelled by the water that we suck in and push out the end of the ship."
Ensign Charlie Hasenbank, an auxiliary officer touts the Freedom's capabilities, saying, "…at 40 plus knots, our jet system can drain and Olympic size pool in 3 seconds."
And these are the only navy warships driven by throttle.
The ship's 57 mm gun is impressive. The commanding officer, Commander Timothy Wilke says that "it shoots 220 rounds a minute, when you compare it to other 5 inch guns that shoot around 20 rounds a minute."
551C's are planned for the Navy to address 21st century threats like piracy and terrorism.
Ramsay Wharton, of Joint Base Pearl Harbor explains that "one of the key features of these littoral combat ships is its ability to rapidly deploy personnel. Inside the U.S.S. Freedom right now, these are 11 meter, they call them R.H.I.B. boats, but they carry a 12 person boarding team. Get them out the door, and conduct anti-piracy and maritime interdiction missions."
At around 650 million dollars a piece, Freedom and 3 others like her, will rotate deployments from San Diego to Singapore --part of the administration's new Asia Pacific strategy. Its unique capability allows it to switch out equipment and manpower to meet its war fighting needs.
Wilke adds that "40 percent of this ship's volume is reconfigurable so if you need us to do a surface threat, which is what we're currently manned up for. If there's a mine concern, we would pull into port and swap out our mission packages to handle any mine threat."


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Say I have a gas cylinder filled with nitrogen to some volume at some pressure. On that cylinder I have a regulator so that I get a steady pressure out. I wish to discharge the cylinder. How many hours until that cylinder is exhausted?
I would assume the 'new volume' would be Vl=(Ph*Vh)/Pl. However, I don't understand how the flow rate is determined.


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Natasha Singer
Natasha Singer is a reporter for the business section of The New York Times, covering education technology. She also writes a Sunday Business column, called Technophoria, on tech innovations and their implications for society. This year, she is doing a part-time fellowship at the Data & Society Research Institute in Manhattan, researching the use of learning apps in primary and secondary schools in the United States.
Ms. Singer was previously a reporter in the Sunday Business section, where her series on the consumer data industry, titled "You for Sale," helped prompt several congressional and federal investigations, as well as the enactment of a student online data privacy law in California.
Ms. Singer previously reported on the pharmaceutical industry and medical ethics, also for the business section. She came to The New York Times in 2005 to develop the Skin Deep column for the Thursday Styles section and cover the beauty industrial complex.
A Boston native, Ms. Singer graduated from Brown University with a degree in comparative literature and has a master's degree in creative writing from Boston University. Before joining The Times, she was a correspondent for Outside magazine, covering the environment and biodiversity, and was a health and beauty editor at W Magazine. She also worked in Russia as the Moscow bureau chief of The Forward, the editor at large of Russian Vogue and a correspondent for Women's Wear Daily.
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Rutgers Law Schools Applaud NJ Supreme Court Decision Making Clear That Clinical Program Case Files Are Not Subject to Public Disclosure Act
In a decision that has national implications for clinical legal education, the Supreme Court of New Jersey has ruled that the client files and litigation materials of the clinical programs at Rutgers School of Law–Newark and Rutgers School of Law–Camden are not subject to the requirements of the State's Open Public Records Act (OPRA).
"Today's decision is a victory of substance over form," said Rutgers–Newark Law School Dean John J. Farmer, Jr. "All of Rutgers Law is pleased with this result," added Rutgers–Camden Law School Dean Rayman Solomon. "Together with the Legislature's actions last week, this decision recognizes the need to protect the autonomy of the University and academic freedom."
Dean Farmer continued: "We are pleased that the court recognized the history and special status of Rutgers University as the state university, as well as the nature and importance of clinical legal education. We are particularly gratified that the court recognized the threat to the integrity of our judicial system and the unique disadvantages our clinics and clients would have faced if OPRA were held to apply."
Explained Rutgers–Newark Vice Dean Ronald Chen, "Rutgers' clinics, unlike law firms in the State and the clinics at New Jersey's private law school, would have been forced to tell their clients that private materials submitted to the clinics that don't fit into the relatively narrow protections of attorney-client or related privileges would be subject to requests for disclosure as public records.
Professor Frank Askin, Director of the Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, added: "This means that anyone who wanted to harass the clinics and their clients could make demands that would divert the clinical faculty from their primary purposes of training students and providing legal services to underrepresented clients to responding to and litigating such requests in court."
The appeal was from the dismissal of a lawsuit by a real estate developer seeking to compel the Newark Environmental Law Clinic to disclose case files under OPRA. The amicus briefs stressed the deleterious impact and chilling effects on public law schools' clinical legal education programs from a potential ruling that clinical case files are records available to the public under open records laws.
Dean Farmer argued in the Supreme Court on behalf of the clinical programs at the Rutgers–Newark and Camden Law Schools. The friend of the Court brief had been prepared by the faculty and students of the Constitutional Limitation Clinic at the Newark law school.
In holding that clinic documents unrelated to state funding are exempt from OPRA, the Court emphasized that the purpose of the law was to provide transparency for governmental activities, and noted that: "Clinical legal programs do not perform any government functions. . . . Instead they teach law students how to practice law and represent clients. In addition, not even the University, let alone any government agency controls the manner in which clinical professors and their students practice law."
Said Professor Jon Dubin, Associate Dean for Clinical Education at Rutgers–Newark Law School, "The Sussex Commons Assoc., LLC v. Rutgers, the State University decision is critically important not only to Rutgers but to public universities in other states with similar open public records laws that could be applied against their law clinics and their clients. It is for this reason that several national higher education organizations, including the Association of American Law Schools, the Clinical Legal Education Association, and the American Association of University Professors, filed amicus briefs with the Court in support of the Rutgers' position."


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I'm looking for a threaded solution to updating my JTree every second.
Basically, I'm...
- Importing an external file
- Creating an Enumeration off of that
- Building the tree off the enumeration
The external file can change at random, and the data in the tree needs to represent this change in a somewhat reasonable time manner. How would I be able to have the tree redraw without repainting the entire content pane which the JTree (via a panel) is in?


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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received at his palace in Riyadh today U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During the audience, the two discussed discussed bilateral relations and regional and international developments.
The meeting was attended by Minister of Defense Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz; Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal; Riyadh Governor Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz; Chief of General Intelligence Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz; Commander of the National Guard Prince Miteb bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz; Deputy Foreign Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz; Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Adel Al-Jubeir; and U.S. Ambassador to the Saudi Arabia James Smith.


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Regular visitors to Australia, Future of the Left are contractually obliged to tell you that their fourth studio album "how to stop your brain in an accident" will be released on 25th October 2013 through Prescriptions/Remote Control.
Recorded by Charlie Francis (R.E.M, The Noisettes, Sweet Baboo) at the prestigious Monnow Valley Studios in Monmouth, and mastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios, it contains fourteen songs and runs to/at/on 46 minutes, all of which are completely necessary. if you are alive and even vaguely in love with the idea of rock music being more than an ersatz lifestyle choice then it is clearly their best album yet. Yes, they would say that. No, it's not open to debate.
The album is also accompanied by mini album, Human Death, which was recorded during the same album session. It is available on the same release date and sold separately. The 6 songs on this are by no means lesser in quality. They are album worthy but simply did not fit on the record. After an extremely prolific period of writing the band wanted to record as much as possible, hence these additional songs in the form of this extra mini album.
Listen to first song off the album 'bread, cheese, bow and arrow' below:


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How is theoretical computer science getting united with physics? Phenomena like Quantum Computing uses Quantum Mechanics to be able to compute things, how are computers helping not just to model our equations but actually predict new equations, helping us to see the computational aspect of nature and how various things are being looked at from new perspectives using Computer Science?
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this is a broad, complex, somewhat tricky question with many angles that an entire survey or book could be written on but unfortunately it seems one hasnt yet. heres a "grab bag" of some deep parallels noticed over the years that such a book might cover & "research leads" for further inquiry.
There are numerous examples of people using genetic algorithms, for example, to optimize some output where an actual solution of the equation would be otherwise impossible. Information entropy, which is a generic computing concept, has some hold on statistical physics. But I cannot think of a case I have seen where a concept from cutting edge computer science informed a new physical theory directly. Advanced CS concepts typically end up as tools in a physicist's arsenal, or inform new discoveries, but I do not think a computer has predicted anything that would be generally regarded as "fundamental physics".
The link between Computer Science and Physics can be very subtle sometimes. For example, consider this article:
The point is the following. Consider a quantum algorithm in order to solve an NP-complete problem (i.e.: a hard problem, which is conjectured not to be solvable in polynomial time). Now, consider a classical simulation of that problem. Of course, the classical simulation is performed in a classical computer... and thus, it can not give the solution in polynomial time. Either it will fail, or it will take longer times. The article discusses a certain simulation technique for quantum computing, which is known to yield the correct results, but in unknown time. If we assume that NP-complete problems can not be solved in polynomial time (as conjectured), then "something" must prevent the classical simulation from doing so. In the discussed case, it must be the maximal entanglement achieved during the procedure, which must increase fast enough with the system size.
In conclusion: the paper extracts some physical predictions out of a computer science "conjecture". That is not as strange as it sounds, because theoretical computer science, and computational complexity are branches of mathematics.


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6 Absurd Movie Scenes (That Actually Happened)
As much as certain comedy sites seem to revel in mocking the absurdity of classic movie moments, the fact is, that's what Hollywood films are for: We watch them because we want to see things that could never happen in real life.
Except that some of those moments actually did happen, either because they were inspired by reality or because someone saw the movie and said, "Hey, let's do that, too."
#6. Face/Off -- The Cops Ram a Bad Guy's Plane Off the Runway
The Absurd Scene:
In Face/Off, John Travolta is an FBI agent and Nicolas Cage is a dangerous lunatic (he plays a terrorist). At one point Cage's character dresses up as a priest, headbangs his way into a church and grabs the ass of a girl singing in the choir. Then he and Travolta switch faces, literally. Everything about this movie is insane, is what we're saying.
It warped poor Nic forever.
Earlier in the film, before the two switch, Cage is trying to escape in a plane and Travolta stops him by ramming a helicopter into it:
Travolta prevents the plane from taking off and forces Cage to crash into a warehouse made entirely from fireworks, apparently. If you seriously think, even for a second, that a real law enforcement agent would actually try a stunt like that then you're hugely misinformed about how much money they make.
This is about a thousand pensions worth of damage.
The Reality:
Unless we're talking about a cop from Brazil, that is. In 2009, a police chase in Sao Paulo, Brazil, turned into a John Woo film when the cops found themselves racing to reach a plane full of smuggled goods that was about to take off. And then it got really crazy.
As the car closes in, the officer in the passenger seat leans out the window and aims his rifle ... but then the driver says, "Don't shoot, I'm going to hit the wing."
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"Yeah, OK, that plan makes more sense."
The officers duck and the car rams the wing, breaking the windshield ...
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They must have been driving a pickup truck, because it would take a flatbed to haul those enormous balls.
... and the plane is knocked sideways and lies crooked on the runway.
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The cop is yelling "We should exchange insurance info."
As the car turns around, the cop in the passenger seat hops out and runs toward the plane with his rifle ready. If you watch carefully, you can see he starts to shuffle because his legs were getting in the way of the biggest adrenaline boner ever popped.
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Heroes are real. And they apparently have the same fashion sense as Steve Jobs.
The officers arrested five suspects and confiscated $200,000 worth of goods, including notebooks, electronic surveillance equipment and a bicycle, which presumably they intended to use as an alternate method of escape.
#5. Mission: Impossible -- Rappelling from the Ceiling
The Absurd Scene:
In the first Mission: Impossible, Ethan Hunt's impossible mission is to sneak into the CIA headquarters and steal some classified files. Problem is, the computer he needs is in a room that's so secure (due to all sorts of lasers and shit on the floor) that the only way to get in undetected is through a vent in the ceiling. So he rappels in and ... do we ... do we really need to go over this? When we said Mission: Impossible, literally the first thing you thought of was this:
Ethan avoids the alarms, downloads the files into a floppy, gets lifted back through the ceiling and escapes. There's a reason that scene is so iconic -- it's completely insane. It's the sort of highly improbable scenario that could only exist in the universe of an action movie, where half the things people do are the result of a director/actor thinking of a cool stunt and forcing the screenwriter to come up with a way to include it.
"Ethan, the bomb can only be diffused by bungee jumping out of this blimp into a live volcano."
Besides, any place with that much internal security would have plenty of other external measures as well. It's not like someone could just climb onto the roof, cut a hole in the ceiling and rappel inside.
The Reality:
In March 2010, a group of highly organized professional thieves used the exact same method as Ethan Hunt ... to rob a Best Buy in New Jersey.
Don't laugh -- their reason was exactly the same: to thwart a system of state of the art motion sensors covering the floor.
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Which begs the question, how long has Best Buy been a front for the CIA?
Like Hunt, the thieves had to reach the computers to extract what they needed: namely the computers themselves, like 20 of them, valued at $26,000. According to police, they climbed an exterior pipe and removed a piece of the roof using a suction device. At this point they rappelled into the store, staying 10 feet off the ground at all times -- any lower would have triggered the store's alarm.
"Just looking, thanks."
Still hanging from cables, they broke into the store's storage racks and helped themselves to 20 MacBooks. When they were done, they rappelled back out and left without a trace. Store employees only realized what happened the following morning, when they noticed more debris than usual on the floor and a brand new hole in the ceiling.
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These guys were so well prepared that they even made sure to stay behind store banners so the security cameras didn't see them. At this point we're pretty sure they didn't go for a government agency simply because it would have been too easy.
#4. The Abyss -- Ed Harris Breathes Liquid
The Absurd Scene:
In The Abyss, Ed Harris plays Bud, a guy who works as the foreman of a futuristic underwater drilling rig, with everything the job entails (dealing with crazed Navy SEALs, missiles, deep sea aliens and so on). In one scene, Bud has to deactivate a bomb that lies ticking on a shelf too deep to reach using scuba gear, so he puts on a suit full of high-tech "breathable liquid" instead. It begins to fill up at 1:35 here.
As the fluid fills his lungs, Bud starts freaking out, and the other guy tells him, "We all breathed liquid for nine months, Bud, your body will remember" -- which is a crock of bullshit. You also absorbed nutrients from a placenta when you were a fetus, that doesn't mean you can plug one into your belly and do away with food.
There's no simple way this could work in the real world ... but this is a James Cameron movie, and vaguely scientific-sounding mumbo jumbo is what he does best. "Breathable liquid" is no more a thing than "a machine that switches your body with a giant blue cat person." Right?
Or "a rich lady who dates poor people."
The Reality:
Not only is this technology real -- the movie itself shows you a real example of it. Remember that scene where a rat is submerged in liquid and doesn't drown?
Yeah, those aren't special effects. That's a real rat, breathing liquid.
In fact, the American Humane Association gave The Abyss an "Unacceptable" rating because they "do not feel it was necessary to subject the rat to this experiment for the purpose of filming the scene." The fact that it was a real rat wasn't widely publicized at the time, possibly because the scene was reportedly censored in some markets, like the UK, at the behest of animal rights organizations.
"We tested it on Ed Harris first to make sure it was safe for the rat."
So how did they do it? Pretty much the same way they explain it in the movie: by using an oxygenated fluorocarbon liquid that mammals can breathe. You see, when someone drowns, they don't die because they have water in their lungs, they die from lack of oxygen. The water is more an inconvenience than anything, since it gets in the way of you getting to the air. If your lungs were full of a fluid they could extract oxygen from, you could breathe it just fine.
"Just fine" = "While completely losing your shit."
But what about humans? Well, in 2010, a guy called Arnold Lande patented a scuba suit just like the one in The Abyss. Breathing liquid solves the three most dangerous medical issues associated with scuba diving: barotrauma and decompression sickness, which are caused by pressurized gas expanding as the diver rises, and alien-killing underwater nukes too deep to deactivate by other means.


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Amazing cup run again, bet you were fuming the Sheff. Wed match went to extra time after a 92nd minute equaliser though.
Amazing cup run again, bet you were fuming the Sheff. Wed match went to extra time after a 92nd minute equaliser though.
deltablue - Thanks
cerud - Think the chairman already has one there
adelaidean - Thanks!!Not really,I've taught my players well in not doing it the easy way
Final Transfers - 2015/16 - Those who left the club were not good enough and were on ridiculous wages so off they went to free up some wages.Those who came in were to help strengthen the team and bring in a bit more experience to the club with my aim of finishing in at least the playoff spots.
nPower League 2 - League Table - Wow,topped it at Mid-Season and finish the season in top spot to claim the League 2 title.The title race went down to the last game of the season in which,we both drew.We drew against Mansfield while Darlington drew against Stockport.We were struggling a bit right up till the end of March,where in the last 9 games,we won seven of our last eight games and keeping six clean sheets!In that run,we faced Oxford,Leyton Orient,Stockport and Torquay which was four of the top six!On that run alone,I feel we deserved to win the title due to having the harder run in.One thing to note is that we won the title with the second least amount of points accumulated for the title (Only Plymouth was lower with 85 points in the 2011/12 season!)
FA Cup - 6th Round - Another cup run ended at the 6th round and another ended by a Premiership side.We Ebsfleet and Crystal Palace on route to the 3rd round.In the 3rd round,we actually beat Chelsea 1-0 in the replay.The 4th round saw us dispose of fellow League 2 side Newport County 2-1 in a replay.The 5th round saw us up against Sheffield Wednesday,we drew the first match 3-3 before winning the replay 3-2 in extra time.We were up against Man City in the 6th but I couldn't pull another upset out the hat as we went down 2-1,we did the best we could and I'm happy with it.Man City went on to win the final 2-0 against Liverpool.
League Cup - 1st Round - We were expected to keep it competitive and that is what we did even if it did take Bristol City a last minute goal to beat us.The better side won so no complaints from me.
J.P Trophy - 2nd Round - We had a bye in the first round before drawing Crawley in the second round.We lost 2-0 but I'm not angry with the team but with the officials instead,we had a goal disallowed for offside when he was onside and a stonewall penalty denied.Crawley get a controversial penalty and score from an offside position.It was just one of those days.
Player,Stats and Awards
A quick look at the top performers in the team as seen via Player Stats.
Kenny Deuchar was the top scorer hitting 14 goals in 43 appearances.This was his last season before retirement.He came up with some key goals but I know we will miss him as he always gave it his best.Has become a coach but will not bring him in as he isn't a very good coach but also because I will look to strengthen the team before the backroom staff.
Abu Ogogo topped the assist chart with 11 in 48 appearances.His assists total may have dwindled in the last few seasons but that's because there are now a number of players who are a creating chances which has helped the team in the last third of the field.He has the ability to play in League one so he will have the chance to show what he can do.
Two other players made an impact especially in defence and they were Femi Ilesanmi and Engin Uludag.They were both excellent in defence and were the most consistent performers in the team.The only gutting thing about these two is the injury to Uludag,he broke his leg during a game in which the player who did it got away without a booking to my annoyance.Uludag will not have a problem moving as he has the potential to be a leading Championship player,he is already rated as a good League 1 player.Ilesanmi is a good league 1 player but I doubt he will get any better.
Wow,what a season....brilliant cup run,nervy league run then a run which we should be proud of.I have to admit I was getting a bit nervy in March as we were not putting in the performances which I knew we were capable of but the end of season run where we won seven of the last eight while keeping six clean sheets was nothing short of sensational.I've seen the budget for next season,we should be able to survive if I can strengthen the team up,I've seen a couple of central defenders and wingers which will help improve the team.I need to find a new keeper and forwards who can finish as I may have to go down the route of trying to outscore the opposition.
My rep is now up to National which I've already noticed it's affect as I was linked to MK Dons and Exeter,the latter getting relegated from the Championship.I'm going to give League 1 a shot with Dag + Red but will consider any offers which I receive,I have signed a new contract which last till 2018 but we will see what happens.All I can say is Bring on the new season!
Code:Season Club Division Country League Cup Continental Avg.Att Notes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12 Persepam Prem Division Indonesia 2nd 1st Rnd N/A 739 Promotion! 2012/13 Persepam Super League Indonesia 4th 4th Rnd N/A 1400 Top 4 Finish! 2013/14 Dag + Red BSB Premier England 4th 2nd Rnd N/A 2040 Started Oct,Promoted! 2014/15 Dag + Red League 2 England 8th 6th Rnd N/A 3742 FA Cup Last 8 2015/16 Dag + Red League 2 England 1st 6th Rnd N/A 3778 Promotion!
A bit easy, heh? Beating Chelsea at that point is insane. Keep it up.
I put it down to luck beating Chelsea but I am actually struggling with this,I went back to basics to help secure promotion....4-4-2! For some reason,I am not finding this game as easy as FM11!
Another fantastic cup performance, and well done on promotion too
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I'm hoping to get the pre-season report up tonight but we will see how fast we'll get it done!
Congrats on the promotion, dude!
I've decided to take a big risk with a forward and pay him £3.2k a week (if he decides to accept),I feel we have got a strong enough squad but they may need time to gel!
Nice job on yet another promotion! With all those great cup runs your financies must be looking pretty good as well
We are down to the last £800k,went a bit crazy throwing the money around during the Summer...I'm hoping for some good cup runs this season
Should be pretty strong now then.
We're not too bad now,I've strengthened most positions now.We seem to be weakest in defence now and at MR position but I've signed an AMR who I will be re-training to MR.
An interesting winner in Euro 2016....Ukraine beat Belgium 1-0 in the final!
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Solid season B.W.G
We expect some results in League 1!
Not much pressure
Mr. Giant Killer....I like it,will try my best to keep it up!
Transfer Budget - £125,000 - £0 Remaining
Wage Budget - £31,997 p/w - Currently Spending £38,802p/w
Pre-Season Transfers - We let a few go who were asking too much for wages or on too much anyway as I needed to free up some of the wage budget to bring in players who are definitely able to play at the next level as I want to at least get mid-table this season.I will look to get in a few loans in defence and at MR as this is where we are weakest.
Expectations - My expectations in italics
League 1 - Avoid Relegation -Mid-Table
FA Cup - 2nd Round - 3rd Round
League Cup - Learn from Experience of Participation - 2nd Round
J.P Trophy - 2nd Round - Southern Quarter Finals
Pre-Season Fixtures
Key Players
Ben Gibson - DC/DL - A summer signing from League 1 side Middlesbrough.He will walk straight into the first team and will primarily play at DC with Uludag,I will need him to be at his best if we are to achieve mid-table position in the league.Can't say he was given a fair chance with his old club but will get one with us as he is rated as the best defender in the team.
Jonathon Bateson - DR/DL - Performed well in his first season with us,he is rated as a good League 1 defender so we will need him to perform to his best.Will primarily be played at DR but his versatility at playing at either fullback position will help us in times of need,can play at DC as well if needed so he will come in handy this season.
Mario Cubel - MC/ML,AMC - Has the honour of becoming the first actual foreigner to play for Dag + Red under my management.Signed from League 1 side Barnsley,should be able to cover Centre Midfield position after Carter's departure,he will be playing alongside Ashley Gallagher in the middle of the park in which I hope it will be a success.
Gil Blumstein - AMC/AMRL - Another summer signing from League 1 side Carlisle.He can play practically anywhere in midfield so will start the season playing at ML.His versatility will be very useful as it will make it easier changing things during matches.Rated as a good League 1 player so I'm hoping he is able to contribute.
Neal Toomer - ST - My wildcard for this season,he was released by Chelsea on a free and it is costing me a arm and a leg to pay his wages.His potential ability when I scouted him was a decent premiership player so I am hoping he is able to take over Kenny Deuchar who retired at the end of last season.Still young and is rated as the second best striker in the team but I've put him here for potential alone.
Ones to Watch
Colin Paton - ML/AML - Signed him on a free last season as a backup,his performances were so good that he was too hard to drop from the team.He played in the latter half of the season 17 times scoring twice and providing 5 assists.May not sound great but last season,he was rated as a decent Blue Square Bet Premier player while playing in League 2.Now rated as a decent League 2 player but has the potential to be a good Championship player,less pressure on him this season due to the signing of Blumstein.
Jake Hunter - ST/AMR - Another one I signed last season,he scored 6 times in 21 appearances but probably would have got more and played more if it wasn't for the broken leg which ruled him out for 5 months.He started hitting form at the end of the season after a slow return.He is another player who has the potential to be a good Championship player and is also the 4th best striker in the team.
Pre-Season Overview
We have had a rather productive pre-season,I am happy with the dealings we have made and I am pretty confident that we will be able to avoid relegation this season which is the boards expectations.I am feeling pretty positive for this season as I'm not going to take the pre-season results into any consideration due to the fact that the assistant manager was in charge of them even if the 6-0 drubbing to Blackpool was truly deserved but to my luck it's not had much effect on the morale.
Will give it a shot managing in League 1 for now as I doubt I will start being linked to higher clubs or actual concrete offers to around the half way point.I will be here till 2018 at the very least unless I get offers which give me excellent opportunities to excel,the second way that I will be leaving is if I'm sacked so I'm hoping my team can be at least consistent to try avoid that scenario.
League 1 get ready.....the daggers are coming to town!
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Brilliant season B.W.G , and good luck in league 1.
That was a great season, highlighted by the Chelsea match. I think Toomer is definitely going to get the results for you.
roganp - Thanks
abulezz - Thanks Toomer has made unspectacular start like the rest of the team as we lost 3-1 to Portsmouth
Congratz on last season and good luck in League 1
In other news,we have actually got past the first round in the League Cup,we beat MK Dons 4-1 and have been drawn against Hull away from home!Going into our 2nd league game which incidentally is also against MK Dons!
Looking good for League 1 All the best in your cup runs too!
We're not doing too bad in the league as we are sitting 9th after 6 games.We lost 3-2 Hull but took them to extra time in the League Cup.As for the J.P Trophy,we have received a bye to the second round again!
Excellent start to League 1 life then.
It is indeed Just added another 3 points to the tally with a 4-1 victory over Wrexham.
League 1 seems to be quite a tough league with teams like Portsmouth,Sheff Utd,Middlesborough,Exeter and Millwall among the bigger teams in the league.My target is 55 points in the league as that should guarantee survival.(Currently on 13 points from 7 games!)
nPower League 1
FA Cup - We've made it to the 3rd round where we will face League 1 rivals Doncaster at their ground.In the league fixture,we lost 2-1 so it will be a tight game.We beat Crystal Palace in the 1st round before easing past Northwich in the 2nd round with a 4-0 victory.We have every chance of going quite far if we keeping getting the easier draws.
League Cup - Made an improvement in this competition as we reached the 2nd round.We beat MK Dons 4-1 in the 1st round with a clinical performance.We faced Hull in the 2nd round and we under performed as we got beat 3-2 even though we did take them to extra time.
J.P Trophy - Made it to the Southern Quarter Finals where we got beat on penalties by League 1 entertainers Portsmouth.We had a bye in the first round and edged past Millwall in the 2nd round with a 1-0 victory at The Den.
Mid-Season Overview
First thing I did was sack my Assistant manager and bought in ex-Hartlepool player Sam Collins to takeover the position.The league season has been absolutely astounding,I was not expecting this and we have made progress in all cups so far to help bring in a bit more money.Youth product Ashley Gallagher has been my player of the season so far as he has hit ten goals in twenty appearances,Rimmer and Toomer have not too badly either hitting nine goals and seven goals.Sitting in fifth place at the halfway point is brilliant and the fact we are only seven points behind the league leaders makes things even sweeter as we are right in with a chance.
During the first half of the season,I was given two opportunities to leave Dag + Red with Preston and Hartlepool (24th place but not on screenshot) both making offers for my service.I rejected both and stayed loyal to the Daggers as we are fighting for promotion and I feel we may actually get it as there is not much difference between the top teams and us which shows I may have got the transfers right during pre-season!
On a Dag + Red unrelated matter,Portsmouth have been the entertainers of the league scoring a whopping 59 goals while also conceding 36,they are flying high and giving the fans entertainment...even if they did beat us 3-1 on the opening day of the season which I didn't find too entertaining for my liking!
Last edited by B.W.G; 15-11-2011 at 20:03.
Definitely not a time to leave.
Entertaining as in "Doesn't matter how many are scored against us, we'll just score more!" Love the mentality
deltablue - Definitely not,although we have quite a tough run in which will make or break our season!
cerud - I took that mentality in our last game,we beat Darlington 4-3 with us getting the winner in the 83rd minute
Just beat Doncaster Rovers in FA Cup 3rd replay 5-3 courtesy of 89th and 91st minute goals,my reward....a trip to White Hart Lane to play Tottenham Hotspur...should bring me in a bit of money!
The cup master strikes again.
Another cup run is on the cards. Good luck against Spurs
You're doing fantastic in the league, and you are only 7 points off of first spot! Automatic promotion could happen!
Good luck against Spurs
Best of luck for the Spurs match.
Thanks guys
We drew 1-1 in the first game but in the replay,we lost 2-1 due to an inept officiating performance from Andre Marriner and Co,disallowed goal and a penalty not given.At least now I can concentrate on the league and hope the players will not be too bothered about it!
Last edited by B.W.G; 13-11-2011 at 14:56.
THe game wont install on my computer. I just read all 3 pages in one sitting. EPIC!!!!! Love the cup runs!
Keep it up pal.
That is unlucky
Thanks,glad your enjoying it,will try my best to keep it up
So close to yet another epic victory.
Last edited by deltablue; 14-11-2011 at 13:09.
Another great cup run, any tips on how you pull that off, perhaps the players are more match fit mid-week than the AI sides or something? :confused:
noikeee - I think it's just my players are more motivated for the cup games as I cannot get the same performances in the league!It's not match fitness for sure as I've got smaller squads then the higher teams and we've were playing two games a week!I normally look to stop the momentum of play by having my players go in hard but I have to be honest,we have been very lucky with the refereeing as we could have easily had players sent off!
Looking good for another successful season. The league is very tight at the moment, but you could still easily find yourself in the promotion places
Wow, very close indeed. Exciting climax.
Wow, close season! Should be a good finish.
We slipped up against Barnsley but we beat Sheff Utd,our last 3 games are against Doncaster,Stockport (FA Cup Finalists this season!Beat Chelsea on pens and will face Utd or Liverpool!) and Oxford! So we do stand a very good chance of a playoff spot!
We finished 4th in the league so we will have to go through the playoffs,we are up against Barnsley in the Semi-Final who we have not beaten this season.
I mentioned Stockport got to the FA Cup final,they faced Man Utd in the final....they just dwarfed any achievements I accomplished in my cup runs.....
Good luck with the play offs
Before I do a final season update,I won promotion through the playoffs beating Doncaster in the final,I was favourite for the job at Danish side Silkeborg who have just been relegated from the Superliga so I have applied for it to see what happens as my hope was to see what they offer me but then I get this offer through....
They are a Germany 3rd division side but offering a lot by looking at those budgets!
So my options are: -
a). Stay at Dag and Red
b). Wait for the Silkeborg offer
c). Move to the highly appealing RB Leipzig
d). Move to Dunfermiline as I delayed an offer to see what happened by the end of the season.
What division are RB Leipzig in?
Wow...tough decision. How do oyu think Dag & Red would get on in the Championship League? Is it worth it to try and get them into teh Premiership?
German 3rd Division
My Current wage budget is £32k p/w while RB Leipzig is £89k p/w
RB Leipzig have average facilities but they have a stadium which holds 44345 but they have to pay rent of £1 per year!
Looking at their squad,they massively underachieved as if I had their players with Dag and Red,we would have achieved automatic promotion.
If you think you can take Leipzig up straight away then go for them. I don't think Silkeborg will gain you much long term due to the lower league reputations.
Not bad. You'd definitely be able to move RB Leipzig up the pyramid quickly. Could be a decent choice so long as it doesn't feel like a step backwards for you.
I've decided to take the RB Leipzig as it is too good to turn down,I feel I'll be able to take them up pretty quickly.....first transfer target....Ashley Gallagher!
Next post will be end of season report!
RB Leipzig are tycoon backed (I think), so you'll have plenty of money to spend. Obviously, that comes with added pressure, but it's a very tempting offer. Depends on how committed to Dagenham you are, but I'd probably take the job in Germany.
2016/17 Transfers - Let a lot of players go to free up the wage budget as I knew things were going to be tighter and that I would need to spend money to bring in better quality players to help meet my expectations.The players I bought in were much better then what was already in the team and I felt quite confident in avoiding relegation.I took a gamble with Neal Toomer as he was our top earner on £3.2k a week and at 19 years old as well.My aim was top half as I didn't think there was too big a gap between League 2 and League 1.
nPower League 1 - League Table - Playoff Semi Final - Playoff Final - We were brilliant throughout most of the season except for the last few games which ruined all chances of automatic promotion.We were in the running right up until the middle of March then everything went downhill as we chocked.We secured a playoff place with a game to spare which I thought was amazing considering our chances at the start of the season.We were drawn against Barnsley in the playoff semi-final,we lost a one sided game 2-1 in the first leg but a much improved performance in the 2nd leg saw us secure a 3-1 victory and saw us take the tie 4-3 on agg.We were drawn against Doncaster who came from 3-1 down to win their semi-final 6-5 against Exeter.We were very lucky in the Playoff final as our finishing saw us take the victory,Doncaster were the better team but they could not convert.Stunning way to finish the season,Dag + Red's highest position ever and get to have a spell in the 2nd tier of English football!
FA Cup - 4th Round - We got through the first two rounds without having to go through a replay for the first time.We beat Crystal Palace 2-0 before beating Northwich 4-0.The 3rd round saw us draw with Doncaster before two very late goals in the replay saw us take the tie with a 5-3 victory.We were then given a tough tie at Tottenham,we drew the first game 1-1 in which we should of lost as they had three disallowed!The replay they won what appears to be quite comfortably,however...our other shot on target was disallowed so it could have been a bit tighter but there wasn't much we could do.
League Cup - 2nd Round - Under my management,this is the furthest we have managed to get.In the first round,we were the more clinical side as we beat MK Dons 4-1 which to me is a false scorline as they did match us.The 2nd round saw another away trip for us as we travelled to Hull.We were outclassed but even then it took a very late goal for them to beat us although it was a deserved defeat as they were the better team.
JP Trophy - Southern Quarter-Finals - We had a bye in the first round for the third successive year.In the 2nd round we edged a tight affair against Millwall as we won 1-0 at The Den.We faced Portsmouth in the quarter finals and we were very lucky not to concede during the game,however we were punished when it came down to the penalty shoot out and it was a deserved defeat at the end of the day.
Players,Stats and Awards.
Join top scores this season,both Neal Toomer and Jay Rimmer scored 19 goals each.Toomer hit his in 47 games while Rimmer hit his in 46 games,these two were my first choice strikers and their contribution helped massively by keeping us around the playoff spots.Both should be able to make it in the Championship!
Ashley Gallagher topped the assist chart with 13 but also helped contribute with the scoring by hitting the net 13 times in his 44 appearances.His performances saw him win Fans Player of the Year!
Special mention to the loanees Ryan Morrison and Joel Ambalu who performed brilliantly when the playerd.Morrison was a rock at that back and scored so vital goals,we genuinely missed him when he was injured as he formed a solid partnership at the back with Gibson and Uludag.Ambalu was the 3rd choice striker but still chipped in with 14 goals in 25 appearances,I guess I should have played him more as he could have easily scored 20!
Could not have thought of a better way to finish my time at Dag and Red then by winning promotion to the Championship via the playoffs.We most definitely overachieved this season although during the last few games,we were absolutely terrible which cost us an automatic promotion place!(Won two in the last eight games!)We didn't do as well as we have in the cups but we had our best performances in the league cup and JP Trophy which was an encouraging sign of our overall improvement.It will be tough for them next season due to a number of reasons.
As for me,I am moving to Germany to manage RB Leipzig otherwise known as Red Bull Leipzig,they vastly underachieved with the quality of players they had at their disposal and finished the season in 16th.My reasons for moving are bigger stadium,better facilities,slightly better players at our disposal and bigger budgets.I am in quite a stong position to finish near the top but with signings,I believe we can be challenging for the title.
Code:Season Club Division Country League Cup Continental Avg.Att Notes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12 Persepam Prem Division Indonesia 2nd 1st Rnd N/A 739 Promotion! 2012/13 Persepam Super League Indonesia 4th 4th Rnd N/A 1400 Top 4 Finish! 2013/14 Dag + Red BSB Premier England 4th 2nd Rnd N/A 2040 Started Oct,Promoted! 2014/15 Dag + Red League 2 England 8th 6th Rnd N/A 3742 FA Cup Last 8 2015/16 Dag + Red League 2 England 1st 6th Rnd N/A 3778 Promotion! 2016/17 Dag + Red League 1 England 4th 4th Rnd N/A 5828 Playoff Winners!
Good luck in Germany, although its kind of sad you are leaving D&G!
As they say,all good things must come to an end!
Good luck in Germany
Should be quite interesting....I've been in Germany for two days and had offers from clubs in South Korea and Czech Republic
I have still been reading this thread just soooo busy atm i haven't had time to post.
First of all congrats on the great work you did with the Daggers (especially the most reacent promotion).
I personally think that the 2 best options are either stay with the Daggers or move to Leipzig as the board seem to really want you.
Hope that helps narrow down the decision xD
edit: t yped this ages ago and forgot to post it, now posted i have noticed you decided to leave and go Germany. Can't wait to see what you can do
Last edited by Shroom420; 15-11-2011 at 22:54.
Hope you get some wings with RB Leipzig to fly up a couple divisions!
Thanks shroom420,glad you enjoyed what I managed to do with The Daggers and will try by best with Die Bullen! (German for The Bulls!)
rancer890 - I drink enough of the stuff to have my own wings so don't be too surprised if we do fly up a couple of divisions with me at the helm
Good luck at RB Leipzig, great work taking the Daggers so high!
It will be interesting to see how the Daggers do with the new manager,he has quite high tactical knowledge but below average motivation,they could be in for a long season!
Great high to go to Germany on.
Welcome to the Red Bull family. You should do well with Leipzig.
Thanks deltablue
Azeryk` - I did try but they were too "busy"...I checked their fixtures and I wanted a friendly in the middle of their 6 day rest,bunch of spoilsports!
ArsenalMetro - Thanks,hoping I will do well
Nice to know you're much in demand now.
Fantastic final season with D&R
Good luck in Germany, although I will miss your FA Cup giant-killings
Thanks guys
Don't worry AK22,there is always the German Cup for a giant killing or two although we're not in it this season so we will have to wait!
Should have the pre-season update done later tonight!
Brilliant way to leave D+R
Good luck in Germany.
Transfer Budget - £1.3 million - £0 Remaining
Wage Budget - £97,000 p.w - Currently spending £101,195 p.w
2017/18 Pre-Season Transfers - Bought in quite a few players to give the team a shot at promotion this season,those who have come in will be playing to a 4-2-4 formation this season,I mainly strengthened the defence and goalkeeper areas as well as the wing positions.Those who left were not interested in renewing their contract so they left,also the majority of them were not good enough.This team now has my mark on it,anything that goes wrong is my responsibility.
Expectations (My expectations in itallics)
3. fußball liga - Mid-Table - Fighting for Promotion
Pre-Season Fixtures
Key Players
Sascha Stradner - GK - New signing in Pre-Season,he just edges the race for the spot as the clubs number one keeper but with two others who are roughly the same ability,he has to be on top of his game to keep that spot.He is a young keeper who can possibly improve as he gets older,my main worry are his mental stats but they will improve in due time.
Jop van der Linden - DL/DC - Best defender in the team and is our undisputed number one choice left back.Cost us £16k from FC Oss which could prove to be a bargain as I hope he can make a big contribution for our first team.Has played solidly in pre-season but we will see how he fairs during the season which will prove if he can be a success at the RB Leipzig.
Kagan Soylemezgiller - MC/AMC - Was one of the more expensive signings but he comes in as the undisputed number 1 MC.He came in quite late during pre-season so only managed to get in one game but he was solid so I have quite high hopes for him during the season.He will be played as the more attack minded MC so will more then likely be amongst the goal scorers this season.
Stian Ringstad - AML/D/ML - Bought in specifically for the AML position but his versatility will come in handy down the left hand side.He was actually on loan here last season and was one of the better performers.There was an agreement to pay £70k if we wanted to keep him but I forgot about it,saw him on the scout reports then signed him for £24k.Doesn't look much but he was ideal for the AML position.I hope he is able to contribute with goals and assists.
Pascal Breier - ST - Paid £55k for him during pre-season which looks to be a bargain if pre-season fixtures are anything to go by as he hit 3 goal in 3 games.He is the best striker in the squad and is our main goal threat.He will have support from the AMR and AML positions as well as his strike partner so he will more then likely be the top scorer this season.I am hoping he is able to hit at least 20 goals this season!
Ones to Watch
Thomas Fink - DC/DR,DM - He was the big money signing of pre-season but I bought him more for his potential as he was rated as a good Bundesliga player which is quite exciting.I don't think I would have got him if we were any other 3. fußball liga club as they don't have the same backing.I will more then likely be playing him as a first choice DC to see if first team exposure helps his development.
Korbinian Raab - DM,MC - Another player who has the potential to be a good Bundesliga player,he is currently being trained as a MC to see if that can strengthen his positional rating for it.He is a RB leipzig original as he signed with them in the 2011/12 season.Quite old for a one to watch but that is mainly down to the poor quality of the clubs current youth.I do have hopes for him,although he is not fully competent with the MC position he will be given a go there to see how he can perform.
Pre-Season Overview
Was rather a busy and productive pre-season in which I feel I have achieved quite a bit,I have tried to have bought in the right type of players in for the formation I will be using this season.I was impressed with what I saw in the pre-season fixtures even when we were beat by P.S.G reserves so the signs are there we can potentially be challenging the top dogs this season.The media have predicted us for 19th which is a relegation spot,the board want a top 10 finish and I want to be challenging for that 3rd place at the very least so hopefully my aim is nearer then the media prediction.
During the pre-season,there is only one real downside to things and it has come from a player.My 5th choice MC (well he is now anyway!) is being a constant pain,not only is he being a pain,he is also milking the club of £11.75k a week!He won't accept a mutual termination and the board are not willing to release him so if any problems arise this season then it will be more then likely from him.On the plus side,as we are only in one competition which is the league,we should be able to fully concentrate on it without any distractions which will also help minimise any injuries from the number of games in a season so I am quite confident about our chances.
Last edited by B.W.G; 20-11-2011 at 00:08.
I think you have done very well and there do seem to be quite a few bargains in there.
What happened to signing Gallagher? He is going to be an awsome player but if he was to expensive then he wouldn't be cost effective when buying a whole new team .
Keep it up lad great job
With regards to Gallagher,he is still at Dag and Red.He rejected an offer from Ipswich whereas we had an offer accepted for £750k but his agent insisted they were not interested even if I could offer more then the £3.6k p.w he is on so maybe next season.
As regard to the season,we have made a storming start...played 6 won 6 while we have scored 22 and conceded 3!
Wow! Great start at Leipzig! Hopefully, it will translate into promotion!
As they say,it's a marathon not a sprint!I feel we have a great chance of promotion but we have to play to our fullest.
One thing I have noticed is that the ll teams are awful.Weder ll have already conceded 32 goals in 7 games while Borussia Monchengladbach ll have conceded 19 without actually scoring themselves!
Great thread i have been following for two weeks and i must say your career is one of the most interesting one's i have read about i love your cup succuess good luck on promotion even though it is clear you dont need it.
Thanks,I'm glad you've enjoyed it so far.
I'll take any luck you'll give....you can never have too much luck
3. fußball liga
We've made a stunning start which I hope we can keep up.Our biggest win was 6-0 against Union Berlin but all I can hope is that we keep our scoring record up in the second half of the season.Half the job is done,now we have to make sure that we don't get complacent and mess up.
Mid-Season Overview
We have been nothing short of stunning,we have already racked up mooere points then we did in the entire of last season and to see us scoring like we are is nothing more then a joy to behold!Our one loss came against Karlsruhe in which we lost 3-2 despite being down to ten men from the 2nd minute!Our two draws came against Sandhausen and Darmstadt (finished with 10 men!) but even those minor blips have not managed to stop us from topping the table.The funny side to the table,Werder ll have already set a new record for goals conceded so it will be interesting to see how many they will actually concede....I'm going for 125!
Even though I have been at RB Leipzig for half a season,I rejected offers to manage clubs in Belgium,Czech Republic,Greece,Bulgaria,Romania and Turkey!I've also been linked to jobs in back in England (Including Preston again who've just had a tycoon takeover!) as well as in Chile but I will be staying here till 2020 unless I'm sacked as there is a lot of potential to do well here!
Last edited by B.W.G; 21-11-2011 at 22:21.
Excellent start to your career in Germany With Red Bull backing you and a World-Class stadium like the that you could easily lead the team to the top of the Bundesliga.
Great start! A 13 point lead is nothing to laugh at - its going to take something special from your opponents to knock you off!
Impressive, running away with it for sure.
Thanks guys
RB Leipzig have got all the tools to be a big club but I think they just needed someone to kick start them.We've played one more game and our lead has now increased to 14 points so things are looking good indeed!
Very easy so far. Looking very good for promotion
Thanks,most games have been fairly even but we have been the much better side when it comes to finishing.
Saying that,we beat Werder ll 7-0 in the return game with Breier hitting 5 so unless something absolutely catastrophic happens then we should go up
A stroll in the park so far, keep it up!
In job related news,I seem to be favourite for club jobs in Uruguay every time there is a sacking...no chance of moving
Great start to the season, looks like you can go a long way with Leipzig.
Keep it up B.W.G, the Red Bull really is working for you.
Been following your career with interest, only just realised I felt like a bit of a weirdo not commenting even if it was just to wish you luck!
Not that it looks like you'll need it anymore.
Azeryk` - Thanks!I'll probably get a better look next season as we will (more then likely) be competing alongside the teams relegated from the Bundesliga
rancer890 - Thanks!It is indeed although I do keep away from the Red Bull Cola
Pooku - Thanks!As I said in post 286,you can never have too much luck.So I am more then willing to take yours as well


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He Said:
His 1981 pamphlet The Way to Happiness was the first moral code (in the history of the universe) based entirely on common sense. By following the 21 precepts outlined in this revolutionary, yet common sense approach to morality, entire communities are transformed into Utopian paradises that resemble the everything-is-made-of-candy room in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
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But Actually:
It turns out that there was already a few "morality codes" or "bullet points for being good" that had been established in list format! Some even predating Hubbard's by at least 100 years! There's this one list, called 'The Ten Commandments' that even had some of Hubbard's same points! Observe:
The Ten Commandments
Author: God, or maybe Moses
# 9 - Do not murder.
The Way to Happiness
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
# 8 - Do not murder.
Well, maybe Hubbard let it slip his mind. All moral codes are bound to overlap at one point:
The Ten Commandments
#5 - Honor your mother and father
The Way to Happiness
# 5 - Honor and help your parents.
Oh come on L. Ron, that's just sloppy. You didn't even attempt to realign the numbers.
In addition to the moral precepts clearly stolen from every other list of moral precepts, Hubbard did offer some innovation with his own list. Such as:
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SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Ronald B. Herzman addressed the Class of 2013 at both ceremonies and drew upon insight from writers such as Dante and Shakespeare as well as friends and family in advising the graduates to look outside of themselves for success.
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