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#2. Most Testing Is Futile
While some variation of what you're about to ingest might at some point make it to the drugstore shelf, chances are that you have just signed up for yet another medical pissing-in-the-wind project. Drug testing involves a whole lot of trial and error. Only one in 10,000 drugs makes it from early concept stage to legal status as medicine. Of the ones that make it to human clinical trial stage -- by which time most of the glitches should've been weeded out -- a staggering 80 percent never gain the FDA stamp of approval. In other words, four chances in five say your participation means precisely jack squat in the grand scheme of things.
"Turns out infecting people with syphilis doesn't control head lice."
What's more, drug trials on humans are wildly inaccurate. Clinical trials typically use a three-stage system that involves up to a few thousand willing participants. However, adverse reactions may only show up when the drug is taken by millions of people -- too many to get into a trial. In other words, they won't find out until the drug is already in distribution.
So even if your particular prototype drug happened to be among the precious 20 percent that eventually hit the shelves, there's no telling what it will do in the long term. Maybe it turns out to be the next Viagra, or maybe it proves to be another thalidomide. It happens all the time -- hell, Valium was on the market for 20 years before someone figured out that it's addictive.
"A drug that lets people forget all of their problems? It'll never catch on."
But let's face it, at the end of the day, you're doing this for the money. So, about that ...
#1. The Money Sucks
Look, risk or no risk, the point is that drug testing is a lot of money for not much time or effort. It's the risk that you're getting paid for, so if you don't wind up with neck dongs, then you've beaten the system. Right?
Oh, quit whining. They can probably just lance it.
Well, a $500 check for popping some pills for a couple of days sounds like good money ... that is, before you factor in exactly how much of your time the study is going to take. A good chunk of better-paying clinical trials involve staying in -- or at least visiting -- the lab for several days, for blood sampling and monitoring of the effects. So after you get that $500 check, more often than not you realize you're in minimum wage territory.
Take this seemingly sweet-ass deal:
Holy shit, $1,900 for a four-weekend thing! Who wouldn't want to take part in this, even knowing the risks? That's great money, even after you notice that the "four-weekend study" spreads those four weekends over nearly three months.
Or is it? If you get out a pad of paper and add up all of the hours they've asked for up there, you'll get 220 hours across the three months. Factor in, say, five hours for return-visit commuting, and you'll get a grand total of $8.44 per hour. That's a McJob wage right there, and at least they don't require you to inject the secret sauce and see what happens.
And if something horrible happens, you might get workman's comp.
One study found that the average hourly wage of guinea pigs was actually slightly more than that: some $9.50 per hour. Sure, it's more than minimum wage, but we can't help but feel that your health and safety are worth at least $10.
Don't get us wrong; human guinea pigs are needed, and most of the tests are pretty routine fare. Just don't be so surprised when you find yourself scratching that suspicious itch as you fill in your hard-earned petty cash in its very own "human experiment subject" tax form.
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What preposition should I use in the expression "put ___ the backseat"?
The sentence goes like this:
I have a few items on my plans, item A is the least important one, so I will put it ___ the backseat.
Should I use "at" or "onto" here?
What preposition should I use in the expression "put ___ the backseat"?
The sentence goes like this:
Should I use "at" or "onto" here?
I think the idiom you are looking for is to take a backseat, which means to be in a position of less importance or a position of not being in control. If you're in the driver's seat, you're in control of the car; if you're in the back seat, you're not in control.
Here are some examples of this idiom from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA):
There aren't any idiomatic uses of
If you are speaking literally about placing objects or people into the back seat of a vehicle, you can use in, on, into, or onto, depending on the circumstance. You can only use into and onto for motions, while in and on can be used for either state or motion. Generally, you use in and into for people, and on and onto for objects, although sometimes people are on a backseat, though typically only if they are not sitting normally. Also, both back seat and backseat appear to be in equally common use. Examples from COCA:
In examples:
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Onto examples:
Well you could save yourself some trouble by saying you are going to postpone it.
I'm not familiar with this idiom about back seats. There is an idiom "to put on the back burner" which also means to postpone or delay.
I think the proper use is neither of those choices, but, rather, either "in the back seat" or "on the back seat".
I'd use "on the back burner" as @delete suggests.
Should you use "at" or "onto": There is no fix rule per se, and mostly it's a matter of context, we tend to use one preposition over another. There are many exceptions and overlapping situations.
And if you wish to use a proper idiom, then,as explained,use:
to take a backseat
to put it on the back burner.
Alternatively, use COCA.
"Put it at the backseat," sounds intuitively odd. But there seems to be a rather poetic use of "put" and "at" when one puts something at the presence or body of another person. Here is an example from The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 4 (New International Version, later 20th Century and linguistically updated):
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People go the movies for a wide variety of reasons.
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In today's day and age, the term "going to the movies" can be applied rather loosely. It can still mean making the trip the theater, sitting back and watching the story enfold on the big screen, but it can just as easily mean dropping a DVD or blu-ray into a player and watching from the comfort of your living room. We can even download films to watch on our computers, smart phones or tablets.
The bottom line is, we love to watch movies. And, we love to read and talk about them.
That's what will make this evening special for fans of movies of all types - it's the night the Academy Awards are presented.
Residents of the Tri-State Area will have a couple of extra reasons to watch this year's Oscars. One, of course, is that longtime area musician and Weirton resident Rick Witkowski scored original music for "Inocente," one of five films nominated in the best documentary, short subject category.
Another is that the man who actually lived the story dramatized in the film "Argo," former CIA officer Antonio Mendez, is coming to Steubenville to speak on April 9 as part of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, Herald-Star Concert and Lecture Series.
"Argo," one of the nominees for picture of the year, is the story of how the CIA helped rescue six Americans from the Canadian embassy in Tehran in early 1980. Canada had provided refuge for the six after they managed to escape capture as the U.S. embassy in Iran was overrun in November 1979. Without giving away too much, the operation involved fake official documents, disguises, fake identities and a fake production company working on a fake movie called "Argo: A Cosmic Conflagration."
Fans around the country already have determined that the real "Argo" is a very good movie. It stood in 12th place when last week's box office receipts were totaled. The film took in $2,625,357, which is not too bad when you consider that it was released a little more than 19 weeks ago.
The movie is based on Mendez's work as a CIA officer and has earned seven Oscar nominations. It is considered to be the front runner for film of the year. Its director, Ben Affleck, also could walk away with best director honors. And, while it's always fun to predict what movie or which individual will win in each category, we're absolutely sure that Affleck, who portrays Mendez in the film, will not win the best actor award - for some inexplicable reason, he was not even nominated.
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"Argo" the real movie has all the elements of a classic thriller - spies, clandestine operations and a climactic chase. It's interesting, though, to contrast the way the book Mendez wrote about his role in the operation, "Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History," details the work with the way Hollywood portrays it.
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Enjoy the Academy Awards, put your money on the thriller - "Argo" - and then make plans to hear Mendez describe his life in the CIA, and how he actually pulled off the rescue, on April 9.
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Is there any game theory package around? I mean supporting functions which take a game in matrix form and tell you all about nash equilibra, best strategies, ect
I have this hope that Mathematica 10 will make the efforts in my NashEquilibriaIn33Games Demonstration seem extremely primitive and that it will directly implement a good chunk of game theory. I think it's time for Wolfram Research to take the leap into this now well-established area of Math/Econ/Biology, etc. The work being done in algorithmic game theory perhaps creates some additional motivation. There's stuff now in Graph and DiscreteMarkovProcess that might well provide some new support for such an initiative. I would love being able to write Nash[some representation of a strategic form game,Method->"LemkeHowson"] or Nash[some visual depiction of an extensive form game,"SubgamePerfect"->True].
In the mean time, here is some code that will help find pure (but only pure) strategy Nash Equilibrium in n-player games. I have little doubt that both of these methods can be substantially improved, but perhaps they will provide a start.
Have you looked at demonstrations.wolfram.com/NashEquilibriaIn33Games and the linked sources?
It relies on formulae and solution methods from Hal Varian's 1996 book "Computational Economics and Finance: Modeling and Analysis with Mathematica" (which I have had on my Amazon wish list for years but have never gotten around to buying.)
The sample notebooks from Varian's book can be found in the Wolfram Library Archive.
The Wolfram demonstrations site includes other examples that may be of use.


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Pi appears a LOT in trigonometry, but only because of its 'circle-significance'. Does pi ever matter in things not concerned with circles? Is its only claim to fame the fact that its irrational and an important ratio?
Does the number pi have any significance besides being the ratio of a circle's diameter to its circumference?
It is difficult to know if a circle is not lurking somewhere, whenever there is $\pi$, but the values of the Riemann zeta function at the positive even integers have a lot to do with powers of $\pi$: see here for the values.
For instance, you can prove that the probability that two "randomly chosen" positive integers are coprime is $\frac{1}{\zeta(2)} = \frac{6}{\pi^2}$.
$\pi$ appears in Stirling's approximation, which is not obviously related to circles. This means that $\pi$ appears in asymptotics related to binomial coefficients, such as
$$\displaystyle {2n \choose n} \approx \frac{4^n}{\sqrt{\pi n}}.$$
In other words, the probability of flipping exactly $n$ heads and $n$ tails after flipping a coin $2n$ times is about $\frac{1}{\sqrt{\pi n}}$. This asymptotic also suggests that on average you should flip between $n + \sqrt{\pi n}$ and $n - \sqrt{\pi n}$ heads.
Because of the formula $e^{i\pi}+1=0$ you will find $\pi$ appearing in lots of places where it's not clear there is a circle, e.g in the normal distribution formulae.
Yes, the ratio $\pi$ of a circle's circumference to its diameter shows up in many, many places where one might not expect it!
One partial explanation (similar in spirit to "circles lurk everywhere") is that the equation for a circle is a $quadratic$ (eg. $x^2+y^2 = r^2$.) After nice linear functions, the next most commonly used functions are quadratic functions and everywhere one runs into a quadratic function, a trig substitution (e.g. $x = r \cos \theta; y=r\sin \theta$) may be useful, turning the quadratic function into something involving $\pi.$ This explains the antiderivative $\int \frac{1}{1+x^2} dx$ involving $\pi$, the sum of reciprocals of squares $\sum^\infty\frac{1}{k^2}$ involving $\pi$ and the area under the Gaussian distribution involving $\pi$. And so on....
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Good: The Relic - A Monster movie set in my hometown that knows what it is & gets the job done. A solid cast, some vicious kills, (that poor SWAT team member) & a great monster design. I saw it a few months ago on the premium channels & the CGI held up very well. Usually, CGI effects from the 90's look horrible in HD, but not this time.
Bad: Sudden Death - The Die Hard ripoff had some moments (basically any scene that Powers Boothe is in) but the stupid crap far outweighs it. Till the day I die, I'll always hate the obnoxious kids & the Van Damne impersonating the goalie scene.
Ugly: End of Days - Like Andrew said this has a horrible, convoluted script that makes no sense. Satan can stop handgun bullets but later on Arnold/Jericho's rifle shots can hurt him. Gabriel (my only good performance in the last twenty years was Dean Keaton in The Usual Suspects) Byrne is once again sleepwalking & collecting a paycheck. The ending is a WTF! Was Satan capable of a quickie that lasted five seconds? A Sound of Thunder was pathetic but at least it had the excuse of financial & production problems of trying to film it during the floods in Prague. End of Days has no such excuses.
BTW, I disagree with Michael about Thunder being so bad it's good. I can watch Maximum Overdrive a million times since it has a "fun bad" quality to it. Thunder takes itself too seriously so it comes off as "pathetic bad". With the comparisons to Alien, I'm going to have to check out Outland one day.


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I just received my RS-1, RD5 and EZ-leveler II. I dialed it in last night, and my first Pano (nikon d800e + Nikon 16mm) was almost perfect. I have a question about the bubble level though. As I understand it, the bubble level should be at the center of rotation. If I center the bubble in the circle and then rotate the RS-1 180 degrees (3 x 60 degree clicks) the bubble starts to cross the circle. It goes back to center when rotated another 180 Degrees back to where it started. Is there an adjustment that I've missed, or a reason that this should happen?
By the way, please start a forum thread for the RS-1. I found some of Heinz's photos that answered some setup questions, but I had to hunt for them. It would be helpful to have a dedicated thread for the benefit of all users.


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In the repetition of the Amida, it seems (see Teshuvos Igros Moshe 3 (9), OC 104 (7), OC 125 Biur Halocho d.h. "elo shoskin ..") that the Chazzan should say the pesukim of Kedusho loud enough so that someone who has not yet finished his own Amida can hear them and thereby fulfill his obligation. But some Chazzanim do not, especially on Shabbos and Yom Tov. What sources do they have to rely on?
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In Rambam's text of the siddur (printed after the various laws of prayer, blessings, and the like, in the back of his code), he writes:
I once heard (I do not remember from who) that on Shabbos and Yom Tov since the Davening is done at a slower pace - in general people are holding along with the Chazan - and thus it is unecessary to say the Pesukim out loud.
It is also very possible that the Chazan is saying it out loud, however as there are often more people in Shul on Shabbos/Yom Tov and often they are Davening louder than during the week, it may be hard to hear the Chazzan saying the Pesukim.


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I want to develop a 3D game (sci-fi type with spaceships) which can be played on multiplayer mode and by multiplayer i mean around 10 players for start as it will be a personal testing project and mostly educational. I have been searching for some days about the available languages and engines but i am kinda confused. Since i have been learning Java for my 1st year in I.T university and i have pretty good understanding i thought i would go with the Java language and develop that game on an applet so it could be played on a browser. After going through an applet game tutorial i understood how graphics work on an applet.
So.. 1st question: Could an applet carry the burden of a 3D game especially on multiplayer? My thinking: It's a space game so the graphics should not be such a big problem since it wont be that crowded with entities apart from ships, planets and some effects.
If the java applet is not the way for my project i would't mind "developing it on desktop"(i mean not making it a browser game). 2nd question: Should i use Unity engine for my purpose(space game)? If not name other language/engine combo.


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Started at 12:30. I'm going to time how long it takes me to fill my squad. I'd guess about 45 minutes.
Just about to start my search for players.
Started at 12:30. I'm going to time how long it takes me to fill my squad. I'd guess about 45 minutes.
Right, League Cup semi 2nd leg ahoy. Decided not to chicken out of the attacking style of play I've been employing this season. Let's take the game to them.
Good luck!
And that's something I will have to watch out with then (finances), going to try and keep wages pretty low for as much as possible.
GL Terk. You and your cup runs.
I dunno if it's worth it mate actually, I was losing money but it wasn't a total debacle, so I got board handouts of 80k or 40k every few months to keep me going. In the BSP I won the FA Trophy and that totally wiped out my debts in one go.
In the end success is probably worth more than fiscal security at the lower levels if you stay in the wage budget. Just my experience with this save though, I don't know if anyone has slipped into administration.
Well that holidaying didn't take long.
Decision time, < or > 1000 rep?
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Un-frickin-believable! Canvey are going to Wembley.
Seems like with Spurs currently mired in a relegation battle they sent their kids out to fight for them. Carlos Vela was the only regular starter who was in their XI and they had two 16 year olds, both of whom were making their competitive début. In fact they had five guys 18 or under in their starting XI, and only two of them had played a league game before.
The first half was massively tight, but once their 17 year old centre back gave away the penalty at the start of the second half, their whole team just fell apart. Vela did hit the woodwork twice when the score was 1-0 on the night. Guess it was just destined to be.
Okay thanks for the advice both of you!
Lovely work Terk! Good luck on your trip in the biggest competition in the world as far as I'm concerned
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Congrats Terk. Hopefully City are in the European spots in the Prem
Ouch , that's a tough game Terk.
Anyway just finishing searching and scouting for players of what I call (round 1 of negotiations) 40 minutes. Urgh.
Good luck minisav.
Well apparently I'm joint 2nd favourites at 6-1 to get promotion. Wish I'd told the club I'd do better than avoid relegation now
Good luck, minisav I can just about make that sound genuine to someone who supports both Aberdeen and Man Utd.
You might be right, I have no idea. Long way til I am worried about anything like that haha.
Haha, thanks.
Blame my father. Pretty sure I'd be dead if I'd chosen somebody else.
And SAF is a legend.
christ what a topsy-turvy season so far.
Horrific first 5/6 games start left me in 20th; lowest point being a 3-0 drumming against Merstham in the cup quali stages.
Tactics changed, Leon McKenzie put as a target man with Rob McCormick as the complete forward and thats transformed my team.
A great run left us in 6th, the highlight being a late comeback from being 2-0 down to beating (now top) Bishop Stortford 4-3.
Having some serious defensive issues and keep letting in late goals, but on the whole I'm there or thereabouts in the playoffs and hanging in there, waiting for a late charge.
Half a season to go, currently in 7th on 37 points.
come on the boro!
They're the local club!
It was them or Montrose!
Made my first signing. A player who is apparently twice as good as the 2nd best player of that position. Pity I signed him for a different position isn't it?
I hate it when that happens, minisav. I signed Ross McCormack this season as a winger, my scout says he's our second best striker. I guess that's what happens when you sign someone to play in one of their secondary positions.
Lost 1-0 to Villa in the FA Cup. Second half goal from Riccardo Montolivo settled it.
Has anyone had this happen to them before?
BTW thats my keeper. Now in the reserves (for a reason)
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That's a shame Terk!
Yidd0! Damm internet won't let me even see the picture. Really slow tonight!
I'm already £140 over wage budget and have only signed 12 players. That went well
bloody image has gone upside down. reuploading :P lol.
I wasnt amused to say the least.
My squad is completed! First game coming up, should be interesting.
By the way, how did others approach the lower division football? I personally at any level like to try and get my teams to get the ball down and play football but can't help but fell that it could be more successful going a little longer in our play?
Thanks both! Probably going to start a little director early on. Got some striker who's 196cm, so he can be a good target man!
Opening day win against Worcester 2-1 at home, so pretty pleased!
Incidentally I got out of the BSP by ditching the wingers altogether, I wonder whether the AMC/narrow formations are a bit overpowered since it's quite easy to split the defences. Either way since I dropped the wingers in my third season I haven't looked back.
7 Games in and 9th, 3 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses.
Going to completly change the tactics from direct play to more counter-attacking style.
Just beat Bromley in the playoff semi-final. (went on holiday)
Time for Chelmsford. Sadly, gotta go to work lol. :P
Sold Waweru on deadline day to promotion chasing Coventry Got £1.5M for him, but it's sad to see him go.
After having a break from my save to go and study the tactical aspect of the game some more I have finally come back. I had 9 games left in the season and I won all 9 comfortable finally getting the best from my players.
It was all to late to make a push for the playoff places after being awful the rest of the season but I am looking forward to promotion next year assuming I can keep my players and I dont suffer from the forum curse
Cant wait for my bloody shift to finish so I can take Cheltenham on in the BSS playoff final. I kinda feel abit ****** that I skipped alot of the season until pretty much April, is there anything in the rules that says this cannot be done? Dont want to be invalid after one season.
Are there any major drawbacks to having any players on P/T contracts? I only have one on a F/T now after he got leagues top scorer with 27 (Robert McCormick) Hoping I'm not going to have to stretch the budget out greatly for next season to keep him on board. I've already rejected a 6k bid from Grays during Jan and he didnt seem too miffed about it.
Also, I got abit of a decent parent club: Watford (not bad for a BSS team) so that should generate some revenue plus if (and I do mean IF) we get promoted I'll actually be able to loan some of their players. I tried earlier in the season but they were having none of it. Even their 17 yr old's with **** stats didnt want to join (was just a test to see if they were interested more than anything)
Season report up later tonight. Peace!
I am having my hardest season this far. Got 3 superb strikers for 2 places. But at the moment I have 1 striker left since everytime 2 other strikers getting injured. When one is better, the other takes his place. So playing a lot of matches with my youthtalent (16 years)... but he is not good enough of course... really hard games since I cant score and still getting goals against
Boston united season 10 2020/21
A very consistent season underlined by promotion through the playoffs
League Table, Position Graph
Fixtures pt 1, Fixtures pt 2, Fixtures Pt 3
FA Cup
League Cup
Johnstone's Paint Trophy With a 1st round bye we got all the way to the final. Losing out to Leyton Orient.
Key Players
Nabil Sharif
Aidan Campbell
Julien Raimbault A good back up for Sharif and Campbell
Martin Owen
Code:Season League Final Position Achievments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 7th none 2011/12 Blue Square North 2nd Promoted Via Playoffs 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 15th none 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 20th none 2014/15 Blue Square Premier 12th none 2015/16 Blue Square Premier 3rd Lost in Playoff Final 2016/17 Blue Square Premier 1st Automatic Promotion, FA Trophy 2017/18 Coca Cola League 2 2nd Automatic Promtion 2018/19 Coca Cola League 1 21st Relegated to League 2 2019/20 Coca Cola League 2 4th Lost in Playoff Final 2020/21 Coca Cola League 2 4th Promoted via Playoffs
Other Winners
Premier League - Chelsea
FA Cup - Tottenham
Carling Cup - Everton
Champions League - Arsenal - An all english final vs Aston Villa
UEFA Cup - Athletico Madrid
Aims for next season
Stay up
Tooting & Mitcham United FC - Barclays Premier League - 2038/39
Without signing any new players things are getting increasingly difficult. Long gone are the days of a clean sweep of trophies, now my aims are simple in the aim to just win something.
League Table
League Positions Graph
We were missing a couple of key players and got off to an awful start winning just one of our first four games. Things picked up, then dipped again as we starting drawing and losing too many matches. At this point, for the first time ever, I was fearing for my job. As injured players returned, we started to click and rolled out 12 straight wins to put us right back in amongst the CL spots, which was my new aim. Even though our form then dropped, Chelsea fell apart and started throwing away points which allowed us to take the title before the season had finished.
Community Shield - this was a great result as my kids faced the old master, who looked like he would come back to haunt us.
UEFA Super Cup - I had pinned all my hopes on Jon Punal and until now he hadn't scored, so this was a great way to repay me.
FIFA Club World Cup - this was easy, we even rested a few big players.
FA Cup - things were looking good until we had 'one of those games' against Middlesbrough.
Carling Cup - we did put out a weak team but yet again we were cruelly dumped out of the cup.
UEFA Champions League - the group stage was simple enough but our challenge came to an abrupt halt with this unexpected hammering by Man City at home. We beat them in the second leg but there was no way we were going to claw back that deficit.
Transfers - I took a huge step in promoting my youth players as I sold all but one of our foreign players. The money that will come in (eventually) should put us in a great financail state.
Squad - the squad is pretty good right now, but I worry that as the star players get older they will not be replaced.
Key Player Profiles:
Jon Punal - this was more than Sacchi scored last season so I feel like I've made a good decision.
Tom McGoldrick - without doubt, the most talented player in this squad.
Brian Jones - a pretty good season for a youngster.
Steve Shutt - he's past his peak but we just aren't the same team without him.
George Fry - this kid is the future of this club.
Career OverviewNext SeasonCode:Season League Position Achievements ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square South 5th Promoted via playoffs 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 8th 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 2nd Promoted via playoffs, FA Trophy finalists 2013/14 Coca-Cola League 2 6th Lost in playoff final 2014/15 Coca-Cola League 2 1st Promoted as champions 2015/16 Coca-Cola League 1 4th Promoted via playoffs, JPT finalists 2016/17 Coca-Cola Championship 9th 2017/18 Coca-Cola Championship 6th Lost in playoff semi 2018/19 Coca-Cola Championship 4th Promoted via playoffs 2019/20 Barclays Premier League 16th 2020/21 Barclays Premier League 11th 2021/22 Barclays Premier League 3rd FA Cup finalists 2022/23 Barclays Premier League 7th Carling Cup finalists, FA Cup winners 2023/24 Barclays Premier League 3rd 2024/25 Barclays Premier League 5th Champions League finalists 2025/26 Barclays Premier League 3rd Carling Cup finalists 2026/27 Barclays Premier League 2nd 2027/28 Barclays Premier League 1st Premier League and Champions League winners 2028/29 Barclays Premier League 1st PL, CL and CWC winners, Carling Cup finalists 2029/30 Barclays Premier League 1st PL, CL, CWC, FA Cup and Carling Cup winners 2030/31 Barclays Premier League 1st PL, CL, CWC, and Carling Cup winners 2031/32 Barclays Premier League 3rd Club World Cup winners 2032/33 Barclays Premier League 2nd FA and Carling Cup winners 2033/34 Barclays Premier League 1st PL, CL and Carling Cup winners 2034/35 Barclays Premier League 1st PL, CWC FA and Carling Cup winners 2035/36 Barclays Premier League 1st PL, CL, FA Cup and Carling Cup winners 2036/37 Barclays Premier League 1st Premier League and Club World Cup winners 2037/38 Barclays Premier League 1st Premier League and Champions League winners 2038/39 Barclays Premier League 1st Premier League and Club World Cup winners
I really badly need a new stadium now as I cannot continue to be a selling club. Things are going to get more and more difficult over the next few years and I need to be able to hold on to the best players at the club.
The Oxford United Story
An improvement on last season, but once again they failed in the playoffs.
Meh. Going to start this one again. Was my fault, spend £2,000 of my £2,400 wage budget on 5 players and it killed me as all my defenders we're really poor as could only afford low wages.
Learned from my mistakes and hopefully this time, will budget a little better and set out a clear gameplan.
And the holidaying and then transfer begins, urgh!
Sorry to see you lose Waweru Terk
And I was sorry to see Waweru go, but that's my financial reality. To be honest, I'd have accepted a bid of £1M, so to get £1.5M was very nice indeed. I managed to bring two decent loan strikers in before the deadline to cover him until the end of the season and then in the summer I'll put some real effort into finding a replacement for him.
Tried to arrange a bosman move for a young Dutch regen striker who my scouts were very impressed with, but he's decided to move to Turkey in the summer instead
Yeah at least you got decent money, what are the other two strikers like? any good.
To be fair, your pretty much safe now anyway so you can start to look around and build for next future. Only december of holidaying....come on, quicken up!
I've finally decided to start the best of the challenges, at the helm of Carshalton Athletic, because well they sound quite cool.
The game decided it hates me and didn't save my progress despite me doing it on more than one occasion. Luckily there was one from the 24th. I'll put my profile up when I do my EoS report.
I am now the manager of Farnborough
They have the same colour of badge and home kit as Staines so all good for me
The two strikers are decent stop gaps, nothing more. They'll do until the end of the season but I doubt I'll be looking to sign either of them permanently.
Good luck Occam's razor.
Not nice Minisav, at least you could load some part of the game.
Terk - Yeah, fair enough then!
Anyway just started with Murther Tidifull. (My pronunciation anyway)
Championship is ruddy hard, in 14th atm after 12 games with 12 points. Just can't put the ball in the back of the net (12 goals) but our defence is keeping us in the game (only 15 conceded).
Hopefully we can just keep getting results and get a bit of a cushion up.
Kings Lynn - Barclays Premier League - 2018/19 - Season 9
Well there was somewhat of a revolving door at the Training ground during pre-season as i tried to improve the squad and also give it a bit of depth, i was concerned that the sheer volume of ins and outs would impact on how we started the season and that our perfomances may suffer. Also as a side issue it was anounced that we would be returning to the Newly upgraded Walks Stadium in the December, this meant that income from the regular 18000 gates at Carrow road would be a thing of the past as we move back to our 12500 capacity stadium, not what the finances needed right now, but nothing we can do about it so will have to cut the cloth accordingly.
We were again predicted to finish dead last, but the squad is now used to this and have lost count of the number of seasons this has been the case (I think it is 7 in a row now).
The team on the pitch started sporadically and picked up a few wins and a few draws but they were so inconsistent, it was so frustrating to see them play like world beaters one week but then like park footballers the next. After the first 10 or so games though they seemed to settle down and i have put this down to squad gelling rather than anything else.
After the initial problem period we actually held our own and again defied the predictions to finish in a very respectable 10th position, was well pleased and the magic 40pt barrier was reached by the last weekend in January so no fears of relegation battles this season.
League Table
League Positions Graph
Key Players
Victor Bernal - Rock Solid at the back and i hope he can progress as he looks a decent prospect
David - Combative Defensive midfield, the Steel to Morosi's Silk
Angelo Morosi - Creative Flair in the middle of the park, puts in a shift as well
Romelu Lukaku - The Battering Ram, Strong and Physical, Terrorised a number of DC's
Jason Harper - A top prospect and if he progresses could lead the line for years to come
Next SeasonCode:Career Overview Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 1st Champions, Promotion 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 5th Play Off Winners, Promotion 2012/13 Coca-Cola League 2 18th 2013/14 Coca-Cola League 2 2nd Promotion 2014/15 Coca-Cola League 1 5th Play off Winners, Promotion 2015/16 Coca-Cola Championship 13th 2016/17 Coca-Cola Championship 6th Play Off Winners, Promotion 2017/18 Barclays Premier League 17th 2018/19 Barclays Premier League 10th
Depending on the money available and the calibre of players we can attract i am hoping for another top 10 finish, we are not yet up to a european challenge and i think that soon we will no longer be seen as underdogs in almost all games and the tactics and approach may need to be tweaked. Key for the success of the club is for the young players to develop, we have some top prospects and they could form the spine of the team for years if they can progress to the right level,
Also, not sure what impact moving back to the Walks Stadium will have on Finances due to the reduction in gate money, hopefully not to much but could be a factor to take into account.
Last edited by PVentress; 18-02-2010 at 09:44.
reached 4th in the prem last season but my challenge is now over as all my saves have been corrupted and i don't feel like starting again from scratch
Farnborough FC - Blue Square South Division 2010/2011
Well, the end of my first season in the Dafuge challenge. I'm happy to report that after a fortuitous victory over Chelmsford, Farnborough have been promoted to the BSP.
League Table
It was a tough match last time out, but we managed to grab the lead early on and hold on. Was a topsy/turvy season with a few mini runs and then a massive dip in form only for it to pick up again. Had a late surge towards the playoffs and managed to grab 2nd, only 4 points off the overall league winners.
Didnt fare well in the cups, being knocked out early on in both competitions.
Key Signings
Robert McCormick - 26 goals in a season is not a bad return. Leagues top scorer and provided a few too!
Ian Deakin - The main reason behind our big push towards the end of the season. After the embarrassment of my original keeper (see last posts, two OG's in one game, the latter in 89th min in a 3-3 draw)
Kaby - A fantastic little player I brought in on loan from Chelsea for the season. 44 games and 22 assists from a AMC is definitely a fantastic record.
Aim For Next Season: Survival. hang in there, maybe in the top half to push upwards.
ps: how do I put the code in?
Last edited by Yidd0!; 17-02-2010 at 21:08.
Congrats Yiddo!
I'm absolutely useless at this game. It's just fustrating me. 18th after 11 games with Merthyr Tydfil or however you spell it. Urgh!
I tell you what, the Championship is properly tough. Despite selling out every home game (4502 capacity, wow) and being massively under my wage budget and spending nowt on transfer fees, we're still losing money
Fingers crossed for Man Utd away in the cup!
Last edited by Crispypaul; 17-02-2010 at 22:35. Reason: Can't read
could it be loan repayments or something?
I don't think so, Yidd0. I'm assuming Crispypaul is like myself in the Championship, no debt but a small stadium. Hitting the wage budget, or even being a good whack under it will see you lose money because you simply can't bring enough into the club. Hence why I put so much effort into my cup runs, an away tie against a Premier League side in the FA Cup can bring in £500K in gate receipts..
Nope, no repayments. Despite being £8k under budget on wages p/w expenditure still outstrips income.
My £1.4m England U-21 left back is being linked to other clubs on a fairly regular basis, as are some others, so it looks like some sales will be required.
It's a difficult position, I'm guessing simply you will have to get to the Premiership, bring in the TV money etc, before getting your stadium expanded?
Pretty much just scrapping for relegation this season, pretty **** really. Hopefully will be able to mount a challenge next year for promotion.
Keep going with it, TPF. I got sacked from my first job before I landed with Canvey.
Will battle through it, hopefully get to the end of season by tommorow.
Did poor in both cups, however 1 loss in 7 games and won my last 3 games out of nowhere really, same team, same formation as failure but something has just "clicked" I suppose. My striker Andy Pugh has got 7 goals in these 3 games. Still 17th at Christmas but at least it's improving.
First win of the season comes 8 games in, a 2-1 close call against bottom Mansfield. Signing Alan Marriott in goal has really helped. As I type this, I think my game has crashed. I didnt save it after I won. FML.
Finished 12th in the Championship, will post my end of season update tomorrow.
Oh dear Yidd0!!
Congrats Terk, that's a good season that!
reloaded. beat mansfield and am on an unbeaten run of 5
have to be up in 4 hours for work... *****.
£250k in the red. Dissapointing. Should be safe now for this season and look forward to next to be fair!
Nice work Yidd0 and haha, ouch! I've got to be up at 8 unfortunately but I'll soldier on through the night
Wowa, 2-0 down to Woking, 15 minutes to go, throw on striker on as sub and he scores 3 in the last 6 minutes to win 2-3! (Will show in end of season update)
Last edited by The-Perfect-Fm'er!; 18-02-2010 at 02:45.
Since the BSP I've relied on a narrow diamond 4-1-2-1-2 and just lumping the ball through the middle, which has worked pretty well IMO. Apart from being within the technical abilities of my players, it also meant I didn't have to bother with wingers so meant I could have a pretty thin squad.
However, it's obvious that I just don't have the skill in the middle of the park to make it work at this level, but I didn't realise this until a fair way into the season. I drafted in a couple of fairly ordinary wingers to get a very rigid, direct 4-4-2 going but it's messy stuff. Getting some wins now and hopefully I can improve over the Jan window but right now it's getting desperate.
Our defence is competitive for this level though so I'm relying a bit on 1-0 smash and grabs too.
EDIT: But having said all of that we just beat Premiership Stoke 2-1 in the FA Cup 3rd Round
Last edited by aeropaus; 18-02-2010 at 04:26.
Aeropus - I hate them sort of seasons where it's not to progressive, just all about doing enough and then building for next season and sorting out what players you want for what football your looking to play.
Merthyr Tydfil - Blue Square South - Season 2010/2011
Here we go then, just a short update, not exactly the most exciting season!
League Table
As you can see, it weren't the greatest season and not one I possibly hoped for, however we will look to build on it and challenge for promotion next year! Didn't do very well in the cups. Knocked out Fa Cup in 2nd round qualifying and Fa Trophy knocked out in the 1st round of that.
Best Player:
This is a short one this, hopefully will be able to post 3/4 players in coming seasons but honestly, only one real player shining through.
Andy Pugh
Also got player of the season in the division so a really good season for him and hopefully he can produce more of the same next season!
Sorry, it's only a short update but it weren't the greatest and funnest season i've experienced. Will add more screenshots and information in future years!
I've followed backroom advice and switched to a 4-1-3-2 formation. Quality right winger wasn't available and I've some good CMs so made sense to change that. Ended up with me bringing in some CMs as well, two who should be starters alongside my captain Paz in the 3. Transfer window almost closed and it could be tricky with strikers. Might be able to get a 30yo Higuain for less than 10mil but it means I'll be over 25 registerable. My 4th choice striker is 19 and good enough for the Prem so could do with regular match practice. He obviously doesn't have to be registered so would be between one of Taison, Zarate or Anichebe to be sold or not registering a 30+yo Lorik Cana who I brought in as backup.
Anichebe counts as nation trained and English despite playing for Nigeria. Taison I just recalled to the Brazil squad for his second cap so can't really just sell him so. Zarate's the oldest of the lot but still good. Should really just loan Cana out with a recall clause as well as Edson the 19yo striker, in case things get sticky.
GJ staying up Perfect, BSN/S is such a dodgy league to get in and out of so keep with it mate.
Just gone 5 straight unbeaten in January so we're 15th now on 34 points with 29 games gone, and a nice 4th round FA Cup tie away at League One Oldham, so hopefully that's the turning point that keeps us up. Still a lot of work to do though to reach 50 points.
Nice Aeropus, should get through that round, would you want a winnable tie or perhaps a bigger tie for financial reasons?
Bit gutted really, had to sell Andy Pugh because of his wage. My wage budget was £500 lower this season which is a big difference in the BSN/S. So just about got a squad together including two youngsters as back-up's, so could be another difficult season in store although I think overall, I'm stronger in a few departments like midfield especially.
Hopefully you can get a good replacement up front, if not then look on loan or for someone who's lightning quick, I remember I dragged in a one-star striker as a backup and he ended up getting a goal a game off the bench because he was so quick and the opposition defence was knackered by the time he got on.
Hastings United - 2017/2018 - Coca-Cola Championship
Season Summary - 18th
We survived.
This was the most difficult season by far. We'd played a narrow diamond formation for the past 4 or 5 years and ground out victories through good defence, but we didn't have the skill to do that at this level. We were very much struggling in the first half of the season to even compete.
We switched to a very rigid, basic 4-4-2 formation and drafted in a couple of players who were serviceable on the wing to see us through, and we played much better in our games and certainly deserved to stay up.
We were somewhat lucky in a way the division wasn't as competitive as in past years; 47 points was sufficient to stay up and it wasn't even really close in the end as we survivied by 11 points. Even so, it was a frustrating season and we got taught a valuable lesson.
Final Table
League Positions - Graph
League Cup - 2nd Round
Beat L1 Oxford 2-0 away in the 1st round before deservedly losing to fellow Championship side Bristol City in the 2nd round by the same score.
FA Cup - 5th Round
Got a good run in this for once. Obviously a bye to the 3rd round as a result of our new league status, and we beat Premiership Stoke 2-1 at home. In reality we cruised to victory here.
We then made a messy sandwich of Oldham, beating them in the replay 2-1 after drawing the tie 1-1 at Boundary Park.
In the 5th round, an even game saw us 2-2 with Championship Bolton (who would get promoted to the Premiership), before getting beated 2-0 in the replay.
Squad - Pretty weak really. Will probably look to sell a few in the summer as we bring in better players.
Finances - A profit, but still in the red.
Key Players
Adam Hunter - Top man again, but I'm really in a dilemma about his future. I don't think he's good enough for this level of football and I think his ratings flatter him. He's worth 325,000 and I could probably get more than that for him, but we'll see. He's been with us since the first season so it's a shame to see him go.
My head says sell, my heart says keep him. A decision awaits.
Manuel Diaz - Made the most of our switch to a 4-4-2, really excelling at this level.
Florent Cuvelier - Bossed the midfield for us.
Career OverviewNext SeasonCode:Season League Position Achievements ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square South 3rd Promotion (Playoffs) 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 8th None 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 8th None 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 4th Promotion (Playoffs), FA Trophy Winners 2014/15 Coca-Cola League 2 6th Playoffs (Semi-final defeat) 2015/16 Coca-Cola League 2 2nd Promotion (Automatic) 2016/17 Coca-Cola League 1 2nd Promotion (Automatic) 2016/17 Coca-Cola Championship 18th FA Cup 5th Round
Short term goal is to build a Championship quality side. Medium term goal is to make a run at the top half of the table.
It's an important summer for us; we struggled through this season but we have a blank slate now to work on, so the offseason will be crucial.
Last edited by aeropaus; 20-02-2010 at 21:59.
Well played Aeropaus - saw Hastings play a couple weeks ago, they could do with your management skills right now
Congratulations on survival, aeropaus. It looks to me like getting out of the Championship (the right way) is going to be the biggest challenge yet.
Congrats on the survival mate.
The change for me was going from a rigid 4-4-2 which my players clearly didnt love, to a narrow 4-1-2-3 with the greatest part of our team (the attack) being let loose on poor defences & attacking midfielders supplying our strike force. Great news is I'm still waiting on two of my first-teamers to return (both MC) who have been involved since day 1. When there back, Farnborough will be unstoppable (I bet noones ever had to say that before...)
Also got pace on the bench in the form of a coule young wingers who i've retrained to play through the middle. Got my solid as a rock DMC who not only has pace, but can score a few. 3rd top scorer so far on free kicks and bullets outside the area. Will get you the name when I get home (about 7ish) Definately worth a look if your in need of some midfield stability.
Still chuffed that my only transfer which actually cost me anything was for a bank-breaking £8 to FC Belize. Might aswell payed for the player in turnips.
Canvey Island
My first season at this level and I was very worried about having come too far too fast. In the end though, we survived by a very comfortable 25 points, which I think is more indicative of the lower half of the table being quite poor rather than us being particularly good. We spent most of the season bouncing around between 14th and 18th, though a bad patch of form just before the halfway point of the season (which saw us drop to 20th at one point) did worry me. However, a good little run at the end of the season (3 wins and 2 draws in our final five matches) saw us jump up to 12th and a perfectly mid-table finish.
We tried to play a little more expansively this season and it cost us at times defensively; although some of my better performers were my defensive players, we struggled without a quality keeper and let it far too many goals for my liking (76 in the league; only two other teams finishing outside the relegation zone conceded more), so that is a real area of concern for next season.
League Positions Graph
League Cup
Where to start on this amazing journey? How about with our first game? We dumped Aldershot out in the first round before thrashing fellow Championship side Birmingham, just days after they fell into administration. It took extra time to see us squeeze past Sheffield United before we grabbed another heavy win, overpowering an understrength Watford side. That put us into the quarter finals and we stunned West Ham 2-0 on our own turf. Tottenham awaited in the semi final, and we were unlucky to come away from White Hart Lane in the first leg with only a 1-1 draw. Spurs' league troubles meant that they sent a young team to face us in the second leg and duly paid for it as we romped away in the second half. The final was against Man City, we took the lead early on but eventually we just ran out of steam and their pressure told as they wrapped up the trophy with a 3-1 win.
FA Cup
My pre-season target of an away day at a Premier League club was met, we drew Aston Villa in the fourth round having beaten Brighton via a replay in the third. We did very well at Villa Park and perhaps deserved a replay, but Riccardo Montolivo settled it in their favour.
Without much of a transfer budget I again scoured the free transfer and loan market, looking particularly to bring in some experience to balance out what was a pretty youthful squad. Some did well (Phil Bardsley, Lewin Nyatanga) others didn't quite live up to what I expected (Joleon Lescott, Gonzalo Castro), but overall I think I did some good deals. The big news going out of the club was the sale of Edwin Waweru at the end of the January window to promotion chasing Coventry. He'd already rejected Stoke but eventually decided it was time to leave and the £1.5M fee was something I couldn't turn down. He scored 8 times in 14 games for his new club over the rest of the season and I was gutted to see him just miss out on promotion when Sheffield Wednesday beat Coventry on a penalty shoot out in the play-off final.
Key Players
It seems slightly strange that so many of my best performers were defenders in a season where we conceded so many, but without some of these strong performances then my sub standard goalkeepers would have let in a hell of a lot more. The Terkleton Player of the Season award most definitely goes to my 6'2" Greek, Kostas Tsioukas. Released long ago by Championship club Middlesbrough, it was time for him to prove that he could play at this level and he did that with ease. With Phil Bardsley and Lewin Nyatanga either side of him in the full back positions, we have the basis of a solid defence.
Iain Blackman celebrated joining the 100 Club with a superb season from the left flank whilst John Bostock had a good season which could have been even better had it not been injury interrupted. My long standing favourite, James Foster, struggled with the step up in level (though he was my top scoring striker) and although it will be with a heavy heart, I expect to part with him this summer. He's been with us since the BSS and scored over a hundred league goals for the club, but he'll do better if he drops down a level and I can't, in all good conscience, see a player I admire so much inevitably sit in the stands as he would with us next season.
Next Season
Like aeropaus, the short term target is to build a squad that is comfortable within this division before then, in the medium term, targeting promotion to the Premier League. This is quite clearly the toughest step of the challenge yet, and I'm preparing myself for a pretty long stay in the second tier of the country's game. Around the back of of next season I may just reach my 500th game in management as well, which will be a nice landmark.
Career Overview
Code:Season League Final Pos. Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nuneaton Town 2010/11 Blue Square North 5th Lost in play-off semi final 2011/12 Blue Square North 12th Sacked 11 games into the season Canvey Island 2012/13 Blue Square South 10th None 2013/14 Blue Square South 4th Promoted via play-offs 2014/15 Blue Square Premier 3rd Promoted via play-offs 2015/16 League 2 8th None 2016/17 League 2 3rd Automatic Promotion 2017/18 League 1 4th Promoted via play-offs 2018/19 Championship 12th League Cup Finalists
Canvey Island 100 Club
Code:Name (Position) League Games (Overall Games); League Goals (Overall Goals); Average Rating (Dates at club) James Foster (ST) 215 (260); 118(135); 7.12 (2013-2019) Jeet Padaruth (GK) 213 (243); 76 (89); 6.96 (2012-2018) Matthew Darlow (DC) 194 (232); 16 (20); 6.86 (2011-Present) Mark Hartmann (MC) 183 (217); 20 (31); 6.91 (2010-2017) Kostas Tsioukas (DC) 168 (202); 25 (28); 7.17 (2014-Present) Theo Angus (DL) 125 (150); 0 (2); 6.87 (2012-2018) Iain Blackman (AMLC/FC) 117 (141); 27 (33); 7.14 (2016-Present) John Bostock (AMC) 113 (135); 13 (18); 7.07 (2015-Present) Joseph Owusu Tabiri (DR, MRC) 105 (130); 3 (4); 6.91 (2012-2016) Kyle Wilson (ST) 103 (120); 36 (44); 6.96 (2013-2016) Ismail Yakubu (DC) 102 (113); 4 (4); 7.09 (2013-2016)
Last edited by Terk; 18-02-2010 at 13:09.
Nice season Terk! Lets hope you can get the team around the promotion places!
Funny to see Portsmouth hanging there
Cheers, foost. And yeah, I'm hoping Pompey go down next season
This coming season I'm just hoping for consolidation, to be honest, rather than targeting the play-offs or anything above. The League Cup run and the sale of Waweru last season mean that I do have a bit of a transfer budget to play with this time and that my wage budget has gone up, so hopefully I can attract better players, but I'm not setting my hopes too high. If I could win promotion at the end of my fourth season in the Championship then I'd be pretty happy; I'd feel that I'd had enough time to build the squad. Obviously if it comes earlier than that then I'm not going to complain, but that's my target.
On a bright note, just had my first player through the club's youth system who looks like he'll be able to break into the first team. Introducing Sam Mills. My assistant manager, Joe Cole, reckons that he's got the potential to play in the Premier League.
Good season there Terk. It's always good to stay in a division when you've just got up into it really instead of going straight back up. I think that's where I went wrong when I first got promoted from League 2 and went straight back down.
Edit: Mills looks good there. His stats are great for a 15 yr old
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Luckily I've not suffered the agony of relegation yet, but I'm sure it'll come at some point (most likely whenever I get to the Premier League). I think the time between getting to the PL and getting a new stadium will be a very difficult one.


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I'm new to stitching. I've done a little research and I think a Nodal Ninja head would suit me as they are relatively compact, lightweight and affordable. I just need some help in choosing the right head.
Objective: To use a Nikon D700 to shoot high resolution images to match the quality of the best medium format backs (e.g. P65) or scanned 4"x5" film.
Subject Matter: Urban Landscape, Architecture, Interiors
Aspect Ratio of final image: 4:5 or 2:3. (I'm not interested in panoramas)
Focal length: The final stitched image will have a wideangle field of view, somewhere between 20mm and 35mm on a single 35 frame. (Nothing ultra-wide)
Current equipment: Nikon D700, Manfrotto tripod, Manfrotto 3 way head, Nikon manual focus primes (20, 24, 28, 35, 50, 85). I intend to use one of the wide angle lenses to create a master, single-frame reference shot, and then the 50 or 85 to create a spherical stitch (I think that's the word (?) - 2 or more rows, with the camera vertical).
Software: I'm looking at Autopano Pro and PTGui. I'm on a mac.
Quick Release: In general I like to use QR plates for speed of operation. I juggle between the Manfrotto system (rectangular plates) and Kirk (arca style).
I hope this is enough info for some advice.
Thanks in advance.


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How to make use of QR codes with your iPad (teachers & students!)
It has been recognised for some time now that using QR codes can really support learning but how can the iPad support the use of QR codes in the classroom?
Well the fact that it has the camera built in makes it super-handy for working in the classroom with QR codes, but how can they be used to support learning, what methods can you employ in order to create them and then share them?
A QR code (or Quick Response code) is like a bar code, in that it can be scanned with a reader and it will present some information based upon what is held within the code. In the case of a bar code it is normally a number which corresponds with a product or ISBN number or similar. In the case of a QR code, different types of information can be held within them:
- URL (website address)
- Email address
- Phone number
- Text
- vCard
- YouTube clip
- Facebook profile
- Wi-Fi details
- Twitter profile
- Map coordinate
Now the idea is that you have an app that will create the code and the information is held within it.
One of my favourite QR code creation tools is one called QRReader. Not only does it read QR codes, but it stores the ones you've read in your history and enables you to create all of the types listed above, and more. Download it here for free: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/qr-reader-for-iphone/id368494609?mt=8
Here is an example of a text QR code:
If you scan it, you can see that it includes a fair amount of text.
"Once upon a time there was a young boy named Oscar who had lots of friends. These friends were called Thomas, Percy, Gordon, Toby, Harold, Jack but his best friend of all was called Dougie. He also happened to be Oscar's little brother. One day Dougie decided to watch Winnie the Pooh. It was his favourite film and so he called to Oscar to see if he wanted to watch it with him. He did. Ahhhhhh."
Imagine if that text contained quotes for students to analyse, or a written evaluation of a piece of work or a comment made by another student on that piece of work. The text option is really useful.
Now imagine if a QR code was next to a piece of Art work displayed around the school (because the school recognises the value of displaying work everywhere around the school (if you don't have that at your school, be inspired by Pete Jones' (@Pekabelo) enthusiasm in his great post here: http://deeplearning.edublogs.org/2012/07/25/judging-a-book-by-its-cover-ideas-and-thoughts-on-how-learning-is-displayed-in-schools/) and it was this code:
The fact that the QR code is there, next to the work, takes the work to the next level. It brings it alive for the audience viewing it there on the wall. Students (or staff) can just scan the QR code and listen to the student reflect upon how they came to create that piece of work. It doesn't have to be Art work either, it could be a poem, a particularly noteworthy calculation and a detailed explanation of how it was calculated; it could be a section of code written in a Computing lesson where the student explains how the various elements of code come together…
Remember though, the QR code can link to any online content, so with that in mind; any app that you use on your iPad which can create online content, can in turn then be turned in to a QR code which can support displayed work, be inserted in to work to take it to another level, so forth and so on.
Flip it around and you're the teacher (of course you are) – it could be a link to the rubric you're using with your class to reflect upon their work – you've got it stored in Dropbox, wondering how to share it with the students…. Simply get the share link for the document, embed it in a QR code, share that with the students on your lesson resource/wall display/wherever… students scan it and they instantly access that resource, or the YouTube video you wanted them to view or the blog you want them to comment on or the….. you get the idea.
I've been thinking a lot about SOLO recently too and so I've created a presentation / wall display template for lessons where SOLO and SOLO stations (via Tait Coles @totallywired77) can be used – I thought, if all students are using iPads, I can simply get students to access the resources for each station (SOLO level) electronically; by scanning the QR codes on the relevant slide. The various slides on the presentation are broken down in to the different SOLO levels and then the slides can be populated with various pieces of information/resources linked to each of the SOLO levels via a QR code. Each slide too also has a QR code on it linking to a SoundCloud soundbyte explaining what each SOLO level means and what it might look like for them as learners progressing through the lesson.
Check my presentation here: http://db.tt/Wedd4mih
For more ideas on how you can use QR codes in your lessons to support learning, check Tom Barrett's 'Interesting Ways to Use QR Codes' crowd sourced document here.
Can you think of some more ideas to add to the list? Can you think of some more ideas from those different types of QR code listed at the top? Please let me know if you do!
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I teach kindergarten and I'm very interested in many aspects of QR codes. Like you I can think of lots of ways to use them with our iPads in many areas of our learning. I'm curious to see if there is a way to create a QR code that my students can scan and it take them right to the iPad app that I want them to work on at a particular station. Is there a number attached to apps??????? Our school blocks youtube so I'm trying it out now to see if I can upload it to another program to bypass youtube all together. I saved a youtube video in my dropbox and it worked here at my house. Any other suggestions please pass them along. 🙂
Tammy Davis
Damn this is mindblowing! I never thought of using QR codes for education at all! I can now imagine stuff like having QR code treasure hunts for learning journeys etc. Great post!
Very informative article about the use of QR codes to support learning in class rooms. It offers multiple uses on varied platforms and that's the best part about OR codes
Thanks for sharing these. We'll be starting 1:1 in a month, and using QR codes will most likely play a huge role in sharing and connecting kids to resources.
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In our dept we use QR codes as support and extension.
Each table have a laminated word document with various QR codes with direct links to various grammar points, verb conjugators. If students need further extension or support they can click when the need arises.
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I'm trying this number-theory problem, but i don't have any idea how to solve it.
Can you give me some hints ?
We have got any $\mathbb{Z_+}$ number. Let it be $n$.
Then we must proof that $2 \nmid \sigma(n) \implies n = k^2 \vee n = 2k^2$.
Thanks for any help


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DSolve tries to solve differential equations, it is sometimes not smart enough to generate conditions according to different possible value of parameters. Consider the following minimal example, $x'=x^2-a$:
DSolve[x'[t] == x[t]^2 - a, x[t], t]
The result is
{{x[t] -> -Sqrt[a] Tanh[Sqrt[a] t - Sqrt[a] C[1]]}}
This would be wrong if $a \leq 0$. (When $a<0$ one may argue that the above result is correct in the sense of complex $\tanh$ function; I did not bother to think about this, but this is definitely not we normally want.)
If the problem at hand is
Integrate, we can use
Assumptions to explicitly state the range of parameter; but
DSolve does not provide such an option. So, is there any way to achieve a similar effect? I tried to use
Boole etc. but failed.


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What were Eastern and Southern Europe like in the medieval period? Did Southern and Eastern Europe have knights and castles like Western Europe? I've never heard for example of Italian knights in the crusades. All I know that eastern Europe was under Byzantine influence for a long time. Specifically I'm looking for information on Romania in the 15th and 16th centuries?
Confining my answer to the area around modern-day Romania (IOW: The north-east Balkans).
In the beginning of the middle ages, this area was sort of a borderland between the territory of the Huns and of Eastern Roman Empire. It kept this state for another hundred years after the mid 6th century, except that the Huns were replaced by the Avars, and the Eastern Roman Empire became what we know today as the Byzantine Empire. At the end of this period, Slavic tribes began to move into the depopulated Balkans in large numbers.
By the mid 7th century, a (likely Turkic) tribe, the Bulgars, were defeated by the Khazars and driven into this area. At first Avar vassals, these Danube Bulgars eventually threw off the yoke, and set up their own empire in the area, known as the First Bulgarian Empire. At its height in the late 9th century, it encompassed nearly all of the Balkans, save the coastal Byzantine areas. This is also the period when the Slavs got their alphabet (and thus literacy in their own languages became a possibility again) and when the people of Balkans were converted to (mostly Eastern Orthodox) Christianity.
After this the Bulgars went into a long period of decline, during which their territory got slowly squeezed out between the Byzantines and the Patzinak Turks. By the mid 11th century, the borders of the two met on the Danube. Not much later another Turkic tribe, the Cumans, took over the Patzinak's territory. They held it until the Mongols arrived in the late 13th century, and took it over.
Meanwhile south of the Danube, in the early 13th century the Venetians convinced the leaders of the 4th Crusade to expend their efforts within the Byzantine Empire itself, essentially dismantling the Empire. This allowed the Bulgarians to reassert themselves in the area south of the Danube. This second Bulgarian Empire lasted until the end of the 14th century.
At that point, all of the Balkans south of the Danube was conquered by the Turks. The area immeditately north of that was being run as the Principality of Moldavia (with chiefly Vlach nobility) from the mid 14th century until it was also conquered by the Turks at the very end of the 15th.
That pretty much brings us into the modern era.
Italy was one of the key participants, money and and troops provider for the crusades. Italian mercenaries, the Condottieri were employed throughout Europe. Italy was the leading producer of body armor in Europe (followed by Germany). Politically Italy was fragmented into rivaling city-states and the papal area, time to time subjected to the Holy Roman Empire.


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I'm trying to edit
/etc/sudoers via
visudo, but I don't know how to change the root rights.
I want root to be prompted for the user1's password, when he tries to use
su user1.
Well, it's not really a good idea, but it IS possible. As somebody here pointed out, you can't prevent root from being the computer's god, but you can modify the "su" program to ask for passwords. It can prevent root from re-logging to other accounts unless he compiles his own version of su and uses it.
First, you'll need a compiler to be able to re-build su. As a root, perform:
Then, download and prepare the GNU Coreutils:
Now access the src directory and locate the su.c file. In line 223, you'll find:
Change it to:
Now, back in the coreutils-8.20 directory, run make. Compilation might take long time. Once it's done, overwrite the current su binary with the new one:
And again - you're doing it wrong.
SIDENOTE: running
Root can become any user without requiring any authentication. Even if the
On Ubuntu (and many other systems that use PAM), the absence of a password prompt when root runs
Note that


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Is there a performance difference in MySQL between varchar sizes? For example,
varchar(25) and
varchar(64000). If not, is there a reason not to declare all varchars with the max size just to ensure you don't run out of room?
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You must realize the tradeoffs of using CHAR vs VARCHAR
With CHAR fields, what you allocate is exactly what you get. For example, CHAR(15) allocates and stores 15 bytes, no matter how characters you place in the field. String manipulation is simple and straightforward since the size of the data field is totally predictable.
With VARCHAR fields, you get a completely different story. For example VARCHAR(15) actually allocates dynamically up to 16 bytes, up to 15 for data and, at least, 1 additional byte to store the the length of the data. If you have the string 'hello' to store that will take 6 bytes, not 5. String manipulation must always perform some form of length checking in all cases.
The tradeoff is more evident when you do two things:
Obviously, VARCHAR holds the advantage since variable-length data would produce smaller rows and, thus, smaller physical files.
Since CHAR fields require less string manipulation because of fixed field widths, index lookups against CHAR field are on average 20% faster than that of VARCHAR fields. This is not any conjecture on my part. The book MySQL Database Design and Tuning performed something marvelous on a MyISAM table to prove this. The example in the book did something like the following:
This directive forces are VARCHARs to behave as CHARs. I did this at my previous job back in 2007 and took a 300GB table and sped up index lookups by 20%, without changing anything else. It worked as published. However, it did produce a table almost double in size, but that simply goes back to tradeoff #1.
You could analyze the data being stored to see what MySQL recommends for column definition. Just run the following against any table:
This will traverse the entire table and recommend column definitions for every column based on the data it contains, the minimum field values, maximum field values, and so forth. Sometimes, you just have to use common sense with planning CHAR vs VARCHAR. Here is a good example:
If you are storing IP addresses, the mask for such a column is at most 15 characters (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). I would jump right at CHAR(15) in a heartbeat because the lengths of IP addresses will not vary all that much and the added complexity of string manipulation controlled by an additional byte. You could still do a PROCEDURE ANALYSE() against such a column. It may even recommend VARCHAR. My money would still be on CHAR over VARCHAR in this instance.
CHAR vs VARCHAR issues can be resolved only through proper planning. With great power comes great responsibility (cliche but true)
The answer to this is actually rather complex. The short version: there is a difference.
For (2) I admit the wire protocol is not something I am intimately familiar with, but the general advice here is try and apply at least some minimal effort to guess the length.
It's my understanding that the smaller fields may be includable in the index directly, whereas the longer ones cannot. Due to that limitation, if you want the strings to be indexable, I would say keep them shorter. Otherwise, no, being as how they're both varchar then ops like sorting or comparing will operate in like time, whether the fields are 25 or MAX.
A varchar column that size makes queries on the entire table more likely to use temporary tables. According to the High Performance MySQL book. When the optimizer tries to see if it can run this query in memory or if it needs a temp table, it looks at the row size based on the table definition, meaning, for speed it does not try to see how much of the 64K characters you re actually using. This is why the writers recommend you not stretch out that definition way beyond the actual possible values that would go in the column. Obviously, if you set yourself up for more queries going into temp tables (even if the actual data size could fit in RAM) you have now incurred I/O penalties you could have avoided.
This phrase implies that you ask the question because you're not sure about the data you'll be storing in the database. If that's true, you'll be well served to find out as soon as you can, because you'll need that for capacity planning. If you might be getting data elements with 7000 characters, for example, you need to know because that would have performance implications on any DBMS.
That said, I prefer to have column sizes related to the expected contents. For example, a phone number is unlikely to be longer than 50 characters, even if you include a country code and extension. Similarly, a zip or postal code will most likely be 20 characters or less.
Most of the answers in this thread are 5 years old, written before InnoDB and utf8 were defaults. So, let me start over...
When a query needs an internal temporary table it tries to use a
Also, note that
(In the future, temp tables will probably be


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The 5 Most Kick-Ass Apocalyptic Prophecies
There are a lot of apocalyptic scenarios looming out there, in various religious sects in the nooks and crannies of history. Though the scenarios are wildly different in method, you can rest assured that most will leave us all equally dead.
While we can't know which one is actually going to happen, here are the ones we're rooting for, along with the heavy metal album cover each most resembles.
#5. Judgment Day
Source: Christian New Testament
What to watch for:
Four guys on a multicolored assortment of horses will charge across the world, spreading War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. In other words, things will look exactly like they do now, so you'll need to actually see the horses to know something is up.
What comes next:
Few denominations can agree on what happens, and when. The basic idea is that while we all play "Spot the Antichrist" amid tornadoes and earthquakes, pretty much every comet in the universe hits Earth, turning the rivers and seas to poison blood. Mankind fights a gargantuan war involving 200 million soldiers. Then, invincible scorpion locusts swarm across the land, stinging the crap out of everyone who hasn't been marked by God.
Satan walks the Earth. Then, after a period of time somewhere between seven to 1,000 years, Jesus returns with tears of love in his eyes, and gives everyone a pass to Heaven.
Ha, no, we were kidding. The Good Shepherd divides the survivors into "sheep" and "goats." Guess which group spends an eternity in everlasting fire.
Can you survive it?
The Christian apocalypse is tricky. Some sects say the believers will be sucked off Earth before any of the most terrible stuff happens, leaving the other 99 percent of humanity to suffer the millennium of unspeakable horrors. Others think the believers will be left to do battle with Satan' hordes along with the rest of the godless heathens.
Luckily, according to the Bible, all this can only come when no one is expecting it. So we're safe for now, thanks to this article.
A heavy metal album cover for reference:
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Seven separate seals, trumpets, thunders and judgments, including war and disease and meteors and monsters ... at times the author seemed to be spinning the Wheel O' Disaster to see what kind of horror would strike the world next. It's all over the place and honestly, it just feels like piling on. We give it a 4/10.


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The scientific consensus is that no one ever fills up their memory capacity by learning facts and so on, even in the information age. My question is therefore, is there an evolutionary reason as to why we have evolved to have such large memory capacities, when we never come close to filling it up?
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We don't have large memory capacities.
If anything I would have asked the opposite, why is our memory so bad and unreliable considering how large our brains are. Even with this gigantic brain we struggle to remember a few phone numbers. Here's how our short term memory compares to monkeys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJAH4ZJBiN8. I have no explanation as to why humans are so bad at this, this amount of data should be nothing for a brain of our size.
As for long term memory, I'm not really convinced it is that large really, it seems to me people in general in ten years.. have forgotten pretty much everything. Occational glitch.. occational stuff, and even that is usually vague and full of wrongs. And when people cram for exams.. take the best students ten years later and see how much they still remember, it will be just a tiny fraction.
What do you mean by "filling up their memory capacity"? Are you expecting some sort of a state where the persons hard disk is full and nothing.. nothing new can be learned? That state doesn't make any sense, the brain is always deleting from memory plus it would make more sense to have the memory slowly deteriorate, rather than fall off a cliff into no functionality at all.
We don't remember anything. We always feel like we are going to remember the now for so long and all but we don't. And we have this bias because we don't remember what we don't remember, which is nearly everything.