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As sparks flew, the hits just kept on coming at the Combine Demolition Derby on a Saturday night in early September. Yes, you read it right…a demolition derby featuring COMBINES, the farm harvesters that typically peacefully gather in grain. At the Humboldt Speedway, these massive farm machines revved their engines and charged header-first, crashing into each other with a loud bang as metal crunched, the rear tires of both combines lifted off the ground and the drivers jolted in their seats.
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The 6 Weirdest Things That Statistically Lower Crime
#3. Gangsters Getting Geekier
For as long as cities have been a thing, groups of disaffected youngsters have banded together to murder other groups of disaffected youngsters. Gangs are responsible for a lot of violence and property crime, is what we're saying. So when we hear statistics reporting a 10 percent drop in violent crime nationwide or a 23 percent drop in LA homicides, it's only natural to assume that there are fewer gang members on the streets. But in reality, gang numbers have risen to an estimated 1.4 million gangsters in 33,000 distinct gangs as of 2011.
How does that work? Isn't street crime the entire point of having a "gang"? Are these new gangs making their money by having dance-offs like West Side Story?
Well, they're still committing crimes -- they're just not the kind that require shanking a dude. Today's gangs have apparently discovered that the digital age offers crime that is simultaneously less risky and more profitable than pushing dope and capping asses. While crimes like counterfeiting, bank/credit card fraud and identity theft have spiked over the last several years, gang-related violent crime continues to fall from LA to Raleigh and from Santa Barbara to San Castle. Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Connie Rice says gang-related cybercrime rose by 1,500 percent in LA from 2009 to 2010 alone. It's not exactly a win-win, but it sure as hell beats drive-by shootings or ganking people because they wore the wrong color shirt in the wrong neighborhood.
"That's twice in one week you've worn sweatpants. Now you don't get to eat lunch with us."
The money is a big factor in this, but the disparity in punishments matters as well: Armed robbery will land you seven years in prison and maybe get you shot in the face, while you can make just as much cash stealing someone's identity and only do a few months of time. Plus, no one can shoot you in the face over the Internet (not until the U.S. Patent Office finally approves our application).
The video conference helped.
And since 95 percent of financial crimes go unreported, your average geeky gangster has pretty goddamn good odds of getting away with it.
#2. Illegal Immigration
You don't have to look far to find people claiming that illegal immigrants are wantonly murdering Americans or that they are violent terrorists. But studies have shown that non-citizens born in Mexico but living in America are eight times less likely than male U.S. citizens to be incarcerated. Likewise, the American cities that saw the greatest increase in their illegal immigrant populations from 1990 to 2000 also saw the greatest drops in robbery and homicide.
"Hey, this place looks real nice. Let's try not to fuck it up."
Remember that massive drop in New York City crime rates that Rudy Giuliani liked to take single-handed credit for? Yeah, turns out it might have been in no small part thanks to the steady rise in the immigrant population of the city. Since 1994, America's illegal population has doubled, while violent crime fell 34 percent and property crime fell 26 percent. Eight of the 10 safest large cities in the United States also boast high immigrant populations.
We're crediting Giuliani with that. Who wouldn't want to live in the same country as this adorable little face?
There is almost no way to find out why this is, and this subject is such a political hot button issue that there is almost no way to speculate without your guess being grossly offensive to someone. And guessing is all it is -- some critics say the stats are skewed because the crimes are under-reported, since they tend to happen in neighborhoods full of undocumented immigrants who can't go to the police without fear of getting deported themselves. Or, maybe fear of deportation is motivation enough to just not commit crimes at all. Less cynical types say it's a matter of immigrant neighborhoods being more tightly knit, everybody keeping an eye out, the way we imagine everybody did it in the 1950s. Hell, maybe new immigrants just have a sense of optimism that too many Adam Sandler movies and Kardashian spin-offs have robbed born-and-bred Americans of.
"Come to America, Mavis. This new Shakespearean vulgarity is just the worst."
And if you think those stats are impossible to talk about without triggering a political shitstorm, go tell your neighbors that the crime drop might be partially due to ...
#1. Legalized Abortion
Let's just go ahead and rip this Band-Aid right on off: Economists John Donohue and Steven Levitt (aka the Freakonomics guy) make a compelling case that our massive 20-year plunge in violent crime is partly due to legalized abortion. They note that our crime rate began its decline precisely 18 years after Roe v. Wade -- in other words, right around the time that all those legally aborted fetuses would have reached prime gangbangin' and liquor store robbin' age. Furthermore, they also noted that the states that experienced the sharpest crime drop in the '90s were the ones that performed the most abortions in the '70s and '80s. Their final conclusion?
"Legalized abortion appears to account for as much as 50 percent of the recent drop in crime."
Although we're sure our "stop giving guns to babies" initiative helped.
That's right: According to Donohue and Levitt, as much as half of the recent crime rate cliff drop can be attributed to legalized abortion. There are a few theories as to why this might be the case, each more likely to get us yelled at than the last. Essentially, more abortions mean fewer impoverished, teenaged and single mothers, and studies have shown that kids born into those situations are more likely to turn to crime.
"Your mom's so fat because of a range of socioeconomic disadvantages. I'm sorry, dude."
A bunch of people way smarter than us have come out to both support and slam the theory, and critics make it sound like the proponents are promoting eugenics. But really, even if the conclusions of the study are correct, it doesn't need to change your opinion on abortion. If you think abortion is murder, then "the kid might have grown up to steal your car" argument obviously doesn't suddenly make it OK. Conversely, if you're in favor of legalized abortion, it's because you believe in a woman having that choice, not because you want to exterminate all of society's undesirables in the womb.
See? There's nothing to get upset about at all. We got all worked up over nothing.
Please leave all ire in the comments while we work on that Internet shooting patent.
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For more of what science says about crime, check out 5 Common Crime Fighting Tactics (Statistics Say Don't Work). Or learn about the 5 Ridiculous Attempts at Crime Fighting (That Worked).


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I realize that these objects were originally created by Major Percy Macmahon and today have many applications but what was the original motivation for studying them?
MacMahon invented a technique which he called partition analysis to determine (multivariable) generating functions for many combinatorial objects and as a computational method for solving combinatorial problems in connection with systems of linear diophantine inequalities and equations. This was introduced in his book "Combinatory analysis".
Edit: I was a bit rushed to conclude that $\Omega$ had something to do with the motivation to look at plane partitions, see Richard Stanley's answer. I still believe that it was part of the machinery that he built for the same kind of problems that inspired looking at plane partitions. (I mean all of the results about counting tuples of integers satisfying sets of equalities/inequalities.)
It does not seem from MacMahon's first mention of plane partitions that the $\Omega_\leq$ operator was relevant. At the end of Article 42 of his paper "Memoirs on the theory of the partitions of numbers---Part I", MacMahon says "This partition may be termed 'graphically regularised' by reason of its origination in a subjacent succession of lines in the bipartite graph. This species of regularisation is the natural extension to three dimensions of Sylvester's graphical method in two dimensions." He then goes on to develop some simple properties of plane partitions (without using that terminology) and to conjecture his famous generating function $\prod_{n\geq 1}(1-x^n)^{-n}$. He also suggests less confidently that three-dimension partitions have the generating function $\prod_{n\geq 1}(1-x^n)^{-{n+1\choose 2}}$ (now known to be false). The $\Omega_\leq$ operator is used implicitly to prove some simple results, but it does not seem to be relevant to MacMahon's original motivation. I believe that MacMahon did not explicitly use his $\Omega_\leq$ operator until "Memoirs on the theory of the partitions of numbers---Part II", about three years after Part I. In Part II he does consider plane partitions as an example.
Gjergji's answer, while it's a correct answer and a good answer, and the question itself only address the very first mention of plane partitions in the literature, and not the almost-first mention that was clearly in the air at the time. Yes, MacMahon had in mind generating function theory. However, plane partitions are also a special case of semistandard tableaux, which are used to enumerate basis of irreducible representations of the general linear group. They are a variation of standard tableau, which enumerate bases of irreps of the symmetric group and were first described by Alfred Young a little bit before MacMahon's work.
I would say that semistandard Young tableaux are more like a fellow traveler of plane partitions than an "application". MacMahon must have known something about it. (But conceivably some of these connections were only cleaned up decades later.)


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l don't mean to be all intrusive by adding a prominent line at the top of this page, but your facility is so continually hazardous for me to use, and that people involved with the space take no direct action about the specific causes of those hazards, l can't help but conclude that l am an example of someone excluded from your facilities.
-- No problem Elle, you might want to put any further discussion on your User Page and link to that --Malaclyps 15:34, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
- Noisebridge is governed by its members and its mission is to support members' activities.
- We are an all inclusive group.
- Decisions are made at membership meetings.
- Responsibilities can be delegated.
- Membership meetings have the final say.
- Consensus is preferred over majority decisions. Every one needs to be heard before a decision can be taken.
- Our actions in the space and with members are Civic, Courteous and Lawful.
- This is not a space for commercial ventures, there are many good alternatives for that (add links).
- Noisebridge is not allied with any sect, denomination, political entity, organisation or institution.
Membership expectations
- members should contribute not only monetarily but 'in-kind'
- we will be flexible in monetary contributions for members with different levels of income and/or expenses
- there is no Management responsible for (things such as) taking out the trash and buying juice and resistors and pens; each member is expected to do things that they see need doing
- 'sudo leadership': there are no General leaders, only temporary ones in case of projects that really need one
- members are expected to be trustworthy
- members never represent The Community; they only speak for themselves (e.g. to the media)
- any member can bring guests any time
- new members must be sponsored by two current members
- nobody will live in the space (although occasional overnights are OK in case of missed BART and such)
Decision process
- as noted elsewhere, consensus is the goal. In case this fails we will have to fall back on majority voting. We will know that consensus has failed when ... ?
- individuals are always responsible for their own decisions
- if you think it needs doing and it won't cause problems for anyone, then do it. use your judgment on whether it requires a consensus process (a possible guideline is that things you or you and one other person can do probably don't require general discussion; things that require, say, 5 or more people or expenditures of over, say, $100, probably do)
From my perspective, NoiseBridge is a continuation of the hacker space I had in mind when I started the SFhackspace google group a few days ago. So, I'll quote from some relevant parts of what I wrote there:
I was totally inspired by Chaos Camp in Berlin this summer (2007). There were so many incredibly beautiful projects that people showed at the Camp, and many of them came out of hacker spaces that exist all over Germany and Austria (in big cities, but also in lots of small towns). Since I've been back from Berlin, I've been talking to lots of people about starting a hacker space here.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a space that is open to members 24/7, a place to work on projects both solo and collaborative, a place to support and be supported in your projects, easily accessible to mass transit, safe to get to night or day, a place with a kitchen and a shower, a place to hang out with other geeks? Excitement has been building to create such a space! It turns out that there are several other people who have been independently thinking about starting a hacker space here. There are probably lots of people that none of us know that are also thinking about this as well. This all tells me that it is really is time for a hacker space here!
I uploaded a document that is from some Chaos folks. It gives ideas about what has worked (and not) for them. It is a good place to look to get some ideas, and is a good starting point for discussion.
Last night (18-Nov-07), as I type, a group of us discussed some ideas that we were all jazzed about (as I remember it -- others please feel free to edit this): a space where members pay between $50 and $100 per month (depending on the rent and any common fund we'd like to build up); exploring the intersection of art and technology; diverse membership is cool! (both in types of people and in the types of geekiness members are into); no tolerance of intolerance, including no homophobia, racism, sexism; agreement that people will work interpersonal things out with each other (including not talking behind others' backs); respect for others' well being; there will be space for members to work on projects, and a common space for events, classes, art; members can store their projects in storage drawers/lockers/bins; the focus of the space is non-commercial.
Photography is directly related to art, chemistry and mathematics. Building new an unique processes and integrating technology is very much in line with our purpose. ioerror 14:02, 19 November 2007 (PST)
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What Colleges Need to Know Now: An Update on College Drinking Research
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The problem of excessive drinking by college students is entrenched, complex, and multifaceted.
Drinking in college has the potential to cause considerable harm to the students who drink and to
those around them. Excessive drinking also negatively affects institutional property, community
property, and the institution's academic and financial well-being.
Ongoing scientific research to fill gaps in knowledge about this important public health
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As with other complex and entrenched human behaviors, changes in alcohol consumption on college
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sensitive to individual student freedoms and campus culture and that is implemented in ways that
promote acceptance by relevant constituencies. College students themselves should have an
opportunity to participate with college presidents, staff, faculty, and representatives of the
surrounding community in a rational decision-making process aimed at reducing alcohol misuse and
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I'm resizing an image based on a non-integral conversion factor (a bmp image, in fact). I understand how resizing works, just non with a decimal number. For instance, if the factor were 2, I would simply write the individual pixels twice to the output file. You can't really write 1.5 pixels if the factor were, say, 1.5. Conceptually, how might this play out?
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Don't think of the process as "where would this pixel go?", but rather as "from where did that pixel came?".
Then, it's easy to see that each pixel in the final picture will come from a position at a fractional coordinates in the original image, that just means it will have a color that is a weighted average of the near pixels.
That's why Photoshop (and others) lets you choose the subsampling algorithm. Some are prettier but use more origin pixels, or need more precise math, while others are fast and doable with integer numbers but not so good looking.
This is actually a big topic. What you are asking about is called image resampling. And there are many different algorithms that can be used. See the wikipedia article for a basic introduction.
But as Javier hinted at, you dont generally take a pixel and write out a scaled version. Rather, you look at a destination pixel, and figure out what source pixels you need to reference and how to weigh them to calculate the destination pixel.


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I have recently made a Bavarian Wheat that all my "co-drinkers" liked quite a lot. I have fermented that pretty cold (18C/64F), since I don't like these beers when they are overly estery and tasting to much banana-like. Now I want to use the same malt-bill and turn it into a Belgian Wit just for kicks. I was going to use White Labs WLP400 (Belgian Wit) for it. Which fermentation temperature would you use for that in comparison to the Bavarian Wheat?
According to Zainasheff in "Brewing Classic Styles" (for Belgian Wit):
I'm guessing that part of that is to clean up diacetyl and the like. Most of the yeast flavor happens in the first 72 hours of fermentation. That's quite a bit warmer than what he recommends for the German wheat beers, but that also makes sense, Belgian beers having a bit more "funk" than Germans.
The Belgian Wit Ale yeast is a low producer of phenols but fermentation temperatures on the higher end of the yeasts range will produce more of the spicy phenol characteristics. I made a wit about a month ago and fermented at about 66 and the yeast character turned out relatively low compared to the spice and orange peel I added. I would stay around 66-68 for a good fermentation. Actually when using Hefeweizen yeast the lower the fermentation temp the more fruity esters you will produce. The banana character increases as the temperature increases along with the spice phenols.


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Let $T$ be the set of pythagorean triples, that is, triples of integers (a,b,c) satisfying a2 + b2 = c2. We think of $T$ as the set of right angles triangles with integer lengths. And let $f : T \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}$ be the function $(a,b,c) \mapsto \frac{ab}{12}$ which computes the area of a triangle (divided by 6, which seems to always be a factor for some reason).
I was wondering: what are the number theoretic propertires of $f$? It seems to produce numbers with few prime factors. What is the reason for this? For instance, $f(3,4,5) = 1$, $f(36,77,85) = 3 * 11 * 7$, and $f(65,72,97)=39*5*2$. Can we put a bound on the number of prime factors in the numbers that $f$ spits out? Or at least, can we give a 'generic' statement such as 'The output of $f$ almost always spits out numbers with less than 8 factors' or something?


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Harmony at one point as well as Injuries
Harmony at one point as well as Injuries
Hope you get back right away Almondo :s
I have 5 games left in my first season 2 points behind Northwich who are top. Had a great season so far!!
I have got some heavy fixtures this month... Arsenal, Man City, Juventus, Arsenal
Young player of the Month for september is kinda funny
Coulibaly won it, 2nd Gitinov and 3rd Mateu... all Guiseley players
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Right it went very good I must say!
won 2-1 vs Arsenal (League Cup)
draw 1-1 vs Man City (PL)
lost 1-0 vs Juventus (CL)
won 4-1 vs Arsenal (PL)
won 1-4 vs Portsmouth (PL)
I just cant win in the CL haha
play off place guarenteed, now to try and over take Northwich and win the league!
nice 1 bily, GOGOGO
Finally top of the league, just got to hold in for two more games!! Please football manager god let me hang onto this!!
how is it going bily?
45" on the way and 4-0 in front against Anderlecht hehe
Unlucky Almondo im sure you will be able to bounce back
Good Luck Bilyletdinov7
FC United of Manchester season 2010/11 Final position 1st
Started off poor with 2 win in 8 games. After defeating Droylsden 1-0 in the F.A. Cup 3rd Qualifier my season turned better going undeafted in 12 games (in all competitions), knocking out Barrow and Darlington in the F.A. Cup 4th round qualifier and the F.A. Cup first round, and beating Telford in the F.A trophy. I then finally lost to Gillingham in the F.A. cup 2nd round but then went back on a 11 game undefeated run, including a good run in the F.A. trophy deafing Altrincham in the 1st round and Burscoughin the 2nd. Losing to Blyth made my team struggle against Vauxhall at home but still came out winners 2-1, then drawing at Hyde, but then gave a fine performance at home to Gainsborough winning 3-0. Stocksbridge was the next team to be deafed in the F.A Trophy 3-2 away from home. From that game the players struggled with fitness resulting in only win one game in 7, including being knocked out of the F.A. Trophy by Bishop's Stortford in a replay. After being knocked out and Ashley Vickers having to go on holiday, the players found fitness and hammered Hinckley 5-0 and going undeafeted for the remaing 10 games.
At the beginning of the season I was given £10,000 to spend on transfers, of which i spent £1,700 on two players. I brought in 8 players on a free and one loan signing.
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Looking forward to next season, will be looking at free's loans and if i spend anythin it will be nothing more than £2,000.
Just remembered something from my Staines game on 09. I remember picking up a cracking centre back on a free. His name? Dedryck Boyata
Anyone else been asked for a friendly against the glenn hoddle academy haha!!
Yea, I guess everyone. They still ask my reserves while in the Premier League.
I just qualified for the 1st knockout rnd of the CL ole!!
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So far the lowest i managed to reload was Banbury and Kingstonian Can please someone confirm that because i would like to start a good tough challenge.
That's a great result, hrbfc And congratulations on winning the BSN, Bily
Late season charge for the play-offs, anyone? After our horrid mid season slump we've now lost only 1 of our last 16 games (won 9, drawn 6) and we're in 10th, 4 points outside the play-off zone with 5 games to play. Picked up John Bostock for £20K from Llanelli in January and he's been brilliant.
By the way, Q.P.R (top of the Championship) are on an awesome FA Cup run this season. They beat Liverpool in the 5th round, Arsenal in the Q/F and Everton in the S/F. Newcastle await in the final and I'm really hoping they pull it off.
Screenshot of Bostock? I think you can do it, other teams will keep dropping points.
Jamie Spencer - Season 10 (20/21) Premier League -14th Place -Survival!
Was initially quite faithful to the side that got us up to this division and I only really signed extra squad players and 2 or 3 improvements to the 1st team. it became clear by January that this team would not be good enough to stay in the league so I went out and spent massivley and in the end it was worth it as we survived with ease. Liverpool came bottom too.
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http://img209.imageshack.us/i/mastersv.jpg/ - Wonderkid Centreback but he was kicking up a fuss so he is out of here.
http://img709.imageshack.us/i/hausmann.jpg/ Took this guy ages to get going, dont think he scored in the 1st 15 games but I kept with him and he repaid us with a fine 2nd half of the season. Expect big things from him next year.
An interesting season and we spent a lot more than we made in transfers which is unusual for us, got a few players who have attitude problems so i'll be kicking them out. We also have a lot of squad players who can fetch us some pretty decent money, I hope to use said money to bring more class to the side and maybe get a top half finish.
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I'm sure you can do it Terk good luck
Congratz The Art of Drowning on survival, top half finish next season is a reasonable aim, good luck
John Bostock
He got released by Spurs and then spent 18 months at Llanelli, was desperate to get back to a decent team, but settled for us instead His £600 per week put me over my wage budget but I figured it was a gamble worth taking. He's really brought a better attacking balance to the side; delighted with him.
Picked up this guy on a free after he was released by Arsenal. My scouts said he has the potential to be a leading championship striker, but I just don't see it. Do you guys?
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Looks like your scouts have been having a laugh at your expense there, Dons
Signed a deal for a guy called Edwin Waweru to join us at the start of next season (just missed the free transfer deadline this season). Released by Auxerre at the end of last season and will cost me £525 per week in wages, so I'll have to be tighter in other areas of the squad, but he looks brilliant for this level and my scout, Jason Koumas, is raving about him. Have been able to scout France this season (guessing the cash raised from last season's cup run helped in that decision) but he's the first quality player that has come through being able to scout there.
I have to say that so far Jason Koumas = scouting legend, at this level at least. He was the one who found me Bostock as well, so he got a nice big contract extension
Just had a look to see why Man Utd ended up in the Euro Cup and not Champs League and turned out they ended 5th due to a surprise team getting 4th......... West Ham???
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We had a good year last season and with a young squad I was confident of taking the club forward.
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We almost led from start to finish. Liverpool, who won the league last year were no where to be seen. Despite spending all that money, Man City sild even further down the table.
Community Shield - despite a comeback, we got the win we deserved.
FA Cup - things were going well until the semi final against Villa.
Carling Cup - the win against Chelsea was key as we won the final easily.
UEFA Champions League - despite the opening loss, the group stage was easy enough. A series of home wins and away draws set up a final against title rivals Man Utd, which we won surprisingly easily.
Transfers - another huge profit was made, which strangely seemed to help our performances on the field.
Squad - the number of English players is rising as I start to look to the future.
Key Player Profiles:
Emilio Sacchi - he's finally made it as our top scorer. Being described as a world class striker, I'd expect that at least.
Tom McGoldrick - the main reason I sold Sahan. His goals from midfield showed I had made the right decision.
Chris Blackmore - easily his greatest season yet, but he's getting on a bit.
Steve Shutt - the rock of our midfield, straight from our youth academy.
Greg Scales - one of our new hot prospects, who has improved a lot.
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
It seems that we are back to our best, so my short term aim is to maintain this success in the hope of the board building a new stadium. I'm going to need to continue to balance the finances so I may still need to sell off the stars in favour of talented youngsters.
NJ dafuge. Interesting to see Oxford make it all the way to the PL too
Good to see Tooting claim the title again, Dafuge
Final day of the season in League 2, still got a shot at a play-off finish.
7th MK Dons 75pts
8th Lincoln 75pts
9th Canvey 73pts
It is only a very outside shot, however, because on the MK Dons play Lincoln. Have to hope that they draw and we beat Port Vale by two or more goals. Going to be very tense.
80 minutes
Canvey 4 - 1 Port Vale
Lincoln 0 - 0 MK Dons
81 minutes
Canvey 4 - 2 Port Vale
Lincoln 0 - 0 MK Dons
86 minutes
Canvey 4 - 2 Port Vale
Lincoln 1 - 0 MK Dons
Full Time
Canvey 4 - 2 Port Vale
Lincoln 1 - 0 MK Dons
Denied by an 86th minute goal in a game I had no control over despite us putting on one of our best performances of the season. ****ing gutted.
Unlucky Terk. That's awful. Better luck next go round.
Unlucky Terk. that is totally gutting
Unlucky Terk
unlucky Terk. next season should be the one.
Congratz on finally regaining the title dafuge.
Unlucky Terk, it was a good effort in the match against port vale, you just have to hope your team plays like that all of next season
Last edited by hrbfcrule; 30-01-2010 at 10:53.
Cheers guys It does at least give me hope that we can make a push for promotion next season. Update coming soon.
Here is my League Cup Run this season:
2nd Round: 3-0 won away to Swindon
3rd Round: 2-2 won on penalties at home to Burnley
4th Round: 2-1 won at home to Peterborough
Quarter Final: 1-0 won at Home to Blackburn
Semi Final 1st leg: 2-2 vs West Ham away
Semi Final 2nd leg: 2-2 vs West Ham at home won on penalties
Final vs Man City
Could i beat them again, i beat them earlier in the league 1-0 or would my team bottle it in their first ever final of a major tournament
The final did not start well after just 16 mins Theo Walcott found himself clean through and made no mistake about the finish
However we got back into the game and after 39 mins we equalized after a mistake by their right back allowing Sazanov in to cross for Biagioni to finish into the bottom corner
We were then dealt a cruel blow on the stroke of half time, after playing well throughout the 1st half and looking to go into half time with a draw. Theo Walcott lost his marker and slotted home from 6 yards from an excellent counter attack by Man City
We never really got going after half time and a 3rd Man City goal (which looked very offside, although having done some Andy Gray style analysis on it maybe my right back was playing him on) came in the 54th min which killed us off and thats they way it stayed.
Never the less i am happy with my players, we matched Man City for large parts of the game and maybe next time we will win a trophy.
Canvey Island
League 2
League 2
With the media predicting us to finish dead last and the board just hoping that we could sneak survival, the prospects didn't look bright. We started better than anyone expected, however, setting ourselves up nicely in mid table before a mid season slump (five defeats in six games) threatened to send us tumbling down the table. We picked up though and almost sneaked into the play-offs on the final day. Having won 8 of our final 9 games we were denied by an 86th minute goal at Lincoln which kept us out of the play-offs by just a single point.
League Position Graph
League Cup
A win over Championship side Coventry was a good early season boost to our confidence before we got fairly well pummelled by another Championship side, Sheffield Wednesday in the second round.
Johnstone's Paint Pot
A couple of penalty shoot out wins over League One sides (Gillingham and Bournemouth) were similar boosts to our confidence, really letting us know that we can compete against League sides before we fielded a weakened side against Leyton Orient in the semi final to avoid a fixture pile up.
FA Cup
Another great run, we beat Hayes & Yeading in the first round before thumping League 1 strugglers Northampton 5-1 in the second round. A trip to Villa Park was our reward, more money spinning goodness, and we put in an excellent performance, going down 2-1 with our heads held high.
Early in the window I found it difficult to bring players in but eventually we found some quality, particularly in the Premier League loan signings that we picked up, but I enjoyed spending my first real transfer budget as well. We strengthened in January after our downturn in form and in particular, John Bostock and Graeme Kelly did well for us. We'll have to be similarly clever in the market next season.
Key Players
There was no absolute stand out like James Foster last season, but the striker did have another good campaign. He struggled over the first half with both form and fitness, but once he struck a good partnership with on loan Spaniard Juan Collado the goals started flowing once more. Goalkeeper Jeet Padaruth continues to impress between the sticks. My coaches think he's playing at the absolute limits of his ability and we should look to replace him, but there are more important parts of the squad to work on right now.
Jim Gordon struggled with injury over the course of the season but when he was fit he showed that he's very capable at this level, and Graeme Kelly provided superb cover for him in the second half of the season. Loan signing Enrique Bernardini quickly became a favourite of mine with his tricky wing play, and with his contract at Liverpool up in the summer I'm hopeful that something can be done to get him here permanently.
Our signing of the season was almost certainly John Bostock. Having spent time with Llanelli after being released by Spurs, he welcomed the chance to get back into English football and he really provided our midfield with a better attacking balance. He'll be vastly important to us next season. As will Kostas Tsioukas, my big Greek centre back who keeps improving and making it difficult for me to leave him out. Finally, we picked up former Man City striker David Ball after he impressed against us for Braintree last season, and he had an excellent first half of the season, though was a little disappointing in the second half.
Next Season
I'm sure the board will want somewhere around mid table, but there's no question in my mind of where we should be aiming, and that's for promotion.
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
Canvey Island 100 Club*
Code:Name (Position) League Games (Overall Games); League Goals (Overall Goals); Average Rating (Dates at club) Jeet Padaruth (GK) 168 (198); 63 (72); 6.95 (2012-Present) Joseph Owusu Tabiri (DR, MRC) 105 (130); 3 (4); 6.91 (2012-Present) Theo Angus (DL) 101 (122); 0 (2); 7.08 (2012-Present) Matthew Darlow (DC) 155 (185); 15 (18); 6.84 (2011-Present) Ismail Yakubu (DC) 102 (113); 4 (4); 7.09 (2013-Present) Mark Hartmann (MC) 166 (197); 19 (29); 6.91 (2010-Present) James Foster (ST) 107 (129); 61 (71); 7.21 (2013-Present) Kyle Wilson (ST) 103 (120); 36 (44); 6.96 (2013-2016)
*This is a new feature tracking those who have played 100 or more league games for me at Canvey Island. With goalkeepers, the league goals (overall goals) figures are replaced by clean sheets.
Last edited by Terk; 30-01-2010 at 12:56.
Losing in a final is always gutting, hrbfc Hopefully you can make up for it next season.
we got drawn against Barrow away in the 3rd round which we won 3-0. Im now in the 4th round for the first time and I got Crewe at home. I have a really good chance of getting to the 5th round.
Beat Crewe at home 3-0 and now in the last 16 I have got Man Utd at home. Obviously if it was away it would have been better but it will do.
I was getting a bit giddy with Truro, start of the season we looked like it could be a bit of an outside title challenge. At the halfway point it looked at least Europe was on the cards. A 16 game winless streak meant we only avoided relegation by 5 points.
i'm 20-1 to beat United. Here we go.
That's harsh, Drowning
Good luck, Liverbird
It's only a pre-season friendly, but this should at least be a bit of a confidence boost.
nice result Terk. Final score was Kings Lynn 0-4 Man United good attendance of 8,200.
Ha finally it's happened - my strikers hadn't scored for 1102 minutes between them and they scored in the same game.
Unlucky Terk on just missing out on the playoffs. I'm liking the 100+ appearances for the club thing. I might copy that for my next season update if you don't mind
Could anyone point me in the direction of any saves where the first season has been holidayed?
Something odd happened at the start of the season, I recieved the young players released message. When I clicked to check the list of players it was empty. No one of my rivals has signed someone who was apparently released by West Ham a couple of years ago, I check their transfers from that year and there was no trace of him.
how can you holiday to 24 june if u start in july?
or is it 2010?
2010 then create a new manager.
thanks im already in september in 5 mins
can somebody recommend a club"
I have just took charge of Carshalton, so I will post my screenie soon
took hednesford
im dutch and turkish in rl
The journey begins
Feel free to copy the 100 Club idea, thought it would be a nice idea to keep a track of those players who've made a significant contribution to the club, and to see if I end up with anyone who gets over 100 appearances without really deserving them (like Djimi Traoré did at Liverpool ).
Good luck to both Tug and Jake
My left winger, Robert Eagle, in for an injured starter, just had one of the most involved games i've ever seen a single player have on FM.
7th minute, he scored an own goal off a corner to put York up 1-0.
2 minutes later, he scored a goal himself to make it 1-1.
25th minute, he takes a corner which my center back volleys in, 2-1 us.
46th minute, straight from the kick off, ball gets played out wide and he beats his man, crosses, and Paynter heads home to make it 3-1.
2 minute later, 48th minute, Eagle's tackle goes straight to their forward on the edge of the box, and after a slipped through ball, they score and make it 3-2.
Eagle had a goal, 2 assists, an own goal, a tackle that lead straight to their 2nd goal, and won man of the match in a 3-2 win over York. Getting man of the match in a game you scored an own goal in after 7 minutes is impressive all in itself.
That's brilliant, Dons You certainly couldn't accuse him of hiding from the ball.
Last edited by Terk; 31-01-2010 at 01:11.
I'm not saying I enjoy revenge or anything, but given the circumstances of how Lincoln kept us out of the play-offs last season, this win felt pretty good Lincoln have actually started the season in truly awful fashion. They've played 6, drawn 1, lost 5, scored 1 and conceded 28. They'd already been beaten 6-0 by Northampton before we got to them. I don't feel sorry for them in the slightest
Had a bit of think about my team and going to see if in the summer I can bring in two awesome young defenders. Depends how my new LB does and how my CBs perform this year. Have a very good DM who has problems with some of the squad so if needs be will move him on and put Rodwell into his natural DM position instead of CB and bring in a 24yo French one I spotted. Won't be getting any youth from my own system who are Prem quality anytime soon unfortunately.
Pretty ridiculous. Good luck newbies. How's Waweru doing Terk? I'm very interested in his progress
Taking his time to settle in (doesn't speak any English yet) but there have been some flashes of real quality. 4 games, 1 goal, 1 assist so far but some of his all round play certainly leads me to believe that he'll be a real asset. I've been fortunate so far because we're unbeaten in the opening 6 games, and with the rest of the team playing so well I can afford to give him the time he needs to get comfortable in the team.
Sutton Utd Premiership 2020/21
Fa Cup: Lost in 5th round 2-1 to Sunderland
League Cup: Lost 3-1 to Man City in Final
League: 3rd - Champions League Place
League Table, League Graph
Squad, Transfers
A very disappointing start saw us just above the releagtion zone with 9 games gone but things picked up thanks to Miguel Angel. This good form had a little blip during january while all my good players were getting nicked by bigger clubs but it continued sone after that and we ended well. We were even the 1st team to beat Man City that season.
I expected my team to get a Euro Cup place this season but they went 1 better to get a Champions League place, i doubt we can make a significant impact on the tournament but the income will do us good.
Player/s of the Season
Miguel Prats - Came in january and scored 14 from just 23 appearances
Paolo Biagioni - Partnered Prats during 2nd half of the season and played extremely well scoring 22 in 42 appearances
Miguel Angel - What would i do without him? he got us out of the slump we had at the start of the season with a string of good performances. He lost his 1st team place when Prats came in but is a useful sub scoring 12 in 14(23) appearances.
Edson - a solid 1st season for my keeper conceding just 60 in 48, not bad but will need better to compete with the likes of Chelsea and Man City
Idan Uzan - Another solid season from my cm gets a lot of small injuries though which can be quite annoying
Andrej Stolarik - His 5th season at the club and he is solid as ever, even scoring a handful as well
Daniel - a very good season from the "wonderkid" showed great potential, could have a difficult time keeping him though
Carioca - Spent good money on him in the summer and he proved his worth
Fa Cup: nothing special, the usual beating of lower league teams before succumbing to mid table sunderland, a bit disappointed. The League Cup however......
League Cup
2nd Round: 3-0 won away to Swindon
3rd Round: 2-2 won on penalties at home to Burnley
4th Round: 2-1 won at home to Peterborough
Quarter Final: 1-0 won at Home to Blackburn
Semi Final 1st leg: 2-2 vs West Ham away
Semi Final 2nd leg: 2-2 vs West Ham at home won on penalties
Final vs Man City
Could i beat them again, i beat them earlier in the league 1-0 or would my team bottle it in their first ever final of a major tournament
The final did not start well after just 16 mins Theo Walcott found himself clean through and made no mistake about the finish
However we got back into the game and after 39 mins we equalized after a mistake by their right back allowing Sazanov in to cross for Biagioni to finish into the bottom corner
We were then dealt a cruel blow on the stroke of half time, after playing well throughout the 1st half and looking to go into half time with a draw. Theo Walcott lost his marker and slotted home from 6 yards from an excellent counter attack by Man City
We never really got going after half time and a 3rd Man City goal (which looked very offside, although having done some Andy Gray style analysis on it maybe my right back was playing him on) came in the 54th min which killed us off and thats they way it stayed.
Never the less i am happy with my players, we matched Man City for large parts of the game and maybe next time we will win a trophy.
Due to summer spending we spent the season in the red although we made roughly 1 mill profit/month which took us out of the red by january.
Finally my new stadium is a month away from completion, we gave Gander Green Lane a good send off with a 1-0 win over Peterborough which also secured us our Champions league spot
150+ appearances
Miguel Angel (ST): 267 appearances, 125 Goals, Average Rating 7.06
Acoran Romero (DC): 217 appearances, 8 Goals, Average Rating 6.97
Ezio Massaro (DL,DR): 191 appearances, 2 Goals, Average Rating 7.03
Andrej Stolarik (DC): 161 appearances, 10 Goals, Average Rating 7.05
Code:Career so far: Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square South 2nd Promoted via playoffs 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 1st Automatic Promotion 2012/13 League 2 3rd Automatic Promotion 2013/14 League 1 7th N/A 2014/15 League 1 1st Automatic Promotion 2015/16 Championship 14th N/A 2016/17 Championship 4th Lost in Playoff Semi Final 2017/18 Championship 1st Automatic Promotion 2018/19 Premiership 13th N/A 2019/20 Premiership 8th N/A 2020/21 Premiership 3rd N/A
Congratulations on qualifying for the CL. The bump in TV money should certainly help your finances
Oh for Gods sake seven first teamers now out - 3 of my back four, both strikers and two starting midfielders. It really dosen't want me to go up this season.
Hastings United - 2012/2013 - Blue Square Premier
Well, a carbon copy of last season really. Media prediction was 18th, we finished 8th again after another dreary post-christmas slump.
Season Summary
Final Table
League Positions - Graph
Cups: We made it to the 1st Round of the FA Cup where we were beaten by Plymouth 3-1, but we deserved to get at least a replay if not the win outright. The FA Trophy we were knocked out by Gateshead in the 2nd round on penalties when we dominated both games (40 something shots total, 3 goals over the 2 games).
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
We're well settled into the BSP now, so my personal goal would have to be promotion this season, if only to boost our attendance numbers which aren't enough to run a club at this level.
First 3 games in the league:
Carshalton 0-1 Farnborough
Weymouth 1-3 Carshalton
Carshalton 1-1 Dover
So the home form so far has been very shakey, so I will be looking to tweak the mentality I have been currently playing at home. The finishing of my players have been very very poor so far as well, apart from the 2nd half of the Weymouth game. I need to try and stop the team from having so many long shots, and work the ball into the box more to create more chances that way.
I have noticed that we always have a height advantage, the first three games this has occured. I should have really adapted the tactic to play more physically and more direct, its these small things I will learn from playing lower league management.
My last 5 games have all ended 1-1, still can't complain really as I'm still 7 players down, and now another on international duty.
Just got humped by the 14th placed side 4 shots 3 goals lost 0-3.
My latest 1-1 draw stats
Shots 20
On Target 10
Woodwork 2
CCC's 3
There stats
Shots 3
On Target 1
Woodwork 1
CCC's 0
It's really starting to **** me off.
Last edited by Swindon69; 31-01-2010 at 09:52.
my game crashed aaaa
didnt save im manager of maidstone now ill post pictures soon
2018-2019 Season Review-Kings Lynn-League 2
After surviving last season I was hoping to push on and get a top half finish. In the summer we got taken over but there is no plans for any investment. We started the season slowly and it looked like we would be in for another relegation battle. But good runs of results saw us climb up the table and at one point we were level on points with the last playoff spot but we fell away towards the end into 9th which I am very pleased with.
The main highlight of the season was our FA Cup run where we reached the 5th round before being beaten comfortably 4-0 by Manchester United.
Stars of the Season
Stars of the season were my 3 most creative players.
Scott Norris-young forward I signed this year he was brilliant. If he had higher composure he would be brilliant at this level.
Nick Main-My advanced playmaker contributes brilliantly from midfield with some important goals and assists.
Sam Hill-My other striker who partnered Norris had him on loan last season got him permantly this season and he played really well.
League 2-9th
League position graph
FA Cup-5th round-Manchester United
League Cup-1st round-Norwich
Johnstone Paint-1st round-Rushden
Manager Overview
Next season promotion is the aim.
Code:Season League Position Achievements ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 18th None 2011/12 Blue Square North 4th Promoted via Playoffs 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 16th None 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 19th None 2014/15 Blue Square Premier 16th None 2015/16 Blue Square Premier 3rd Playoff Semi losers 2016/17 Blue Square Premier 5th Promoted via Playoffs 2017/18 League 2 21st None 2018/19 League 2 9th None
Boston Utd BSP 2014/15
Hugely dissapointint second half of the season - I lost 7 players to injury and had an enoromous run of 1-1 draws where I pounded the opposition smashing shots against the woodwork etc.
Finished in 3rd place and was banned for the 1st leg where Histon beat me 2-0 to record their first ever win against me, I then played in the Trophy final a few days later which I won beating Torquay on penalties.
Three days later I drew the home play-off leg 2-2 and went out.
I'm seriously thinking about whether I want to continue playing this - I fed up with elements like being twice as likely to hit the woorwork and opposition keepers being twice as likely to pull off great saves, my players being kicked off the park and shirt pulling being seen as worse then two footed lunges or elbows in the face.
And so it begins.
Ive just realised that I'm using 10.1 patch still, will it be better to use 10.2?
I might as well do it now and holiday the season while the match is about to start
I do think 10.2 is an improvement, so yeah, I'd patch up before I started if I were you.
Well I've decided to continue - totally revamped the team, with my 39 player/coach retiring from playing I've gained knowledge of Spain.
As a result I've managed to pick a 21 year old ex-Real Madrid keeper who to my shock has pulled off more great saves in 6 games then his predecessor,and a 21 year old ex-Real Madrid striker called Sunday N'Diaye who dosen't look fantastic but has Acc 14, Pace 13 and finishing 15 who's scored 6 in 6 so far.
Also junked 4-4-2 in favour of 4-2-3-1.
Good to see you're sticking with it, Swindon
The 2016/17 season has started superbly for me, we're top of League 2 after 10 games, have already had a League Cup game against West Ham which netted us some £300K and we're scoring goals from all over the place. Only sour note is that my 6'6" Irish centre back stuffed his ACL and is out for 11 months
Kings Lynn - Blue Square North - 2010/11
Following two previous attempts at this challenge that were both curtailed by corrupted saves and crash dumps, I have finally decided to take another shot at it.
Forgot My Profile Post so here it is
Profile 1, Profile 2
We were predicted by the media to finish 19th so I knew I had a lot of work to do.
League Table
League Positions Graph
We made a cracking start and won 5 of our first 6 games, we hit the Play Off places from the start and never really looked back. We did hit a slump in the middle of the season but pulled it back pretty quickly and finished strongly to take the Title.
The Cups were not Kind to us this Year and we really made no impact at all
FA Cup Took a 4-0 hiding in the 1st round proper from Luton
FA Trophy A 3rd Qualifying Round defeat here
Key Player Profile
Robert McCormick My Star Player, Scored a hatful and performed heroics all season
Kyle McAusland Partnered McCormick and did well, Scored his fair share but also suffered with Injuries.
David Stephens Rock Solid at the Back
Craig McShea Utility player and used between both wings and striker position, probably didnt allow him to perform to his best
Tom Millar Midfield Enforcer, tireless around the pitch and made the most of Limited ability
Solomon Shields The Creative part of the Midfield two, Scored a few and created many more
Next SeasonCode:Career Overview Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 1st Champions, Promotion
The squad in its current state is not up to the next step, more ins and outs are vital if we are to survive,
First aim is to establish a decent start and hope we are within striking distance of the Play offs around January,
More realistic is to strengthen and stay up in order to push on the following year.
Okay, I have holidayed the first season and I'm in the process of reloading to get a team I want to use. The problem is, I don't know which team I should use
I'd suggest you go with a team who have a reputation of over 1,000 unless you want to make it really challenging for yourself.
I do actually feel sorry for Lincoln now after their start to the season.


text:
Is it an insult to call someone 'cabrón' in Mexico?
A: Hola
B: ¡Hola, cabrón!
Is it an insult to call someone 'cabrón' in Mexico?
No, it isn't exactly an insult in Mexico. It is just for a person with not a kind personality.
According to RAE definition:
Depends on context.
If it's your friend, there's nothing wrong because you are calling as a affectionate way, more or less.
For example, in Spain we have a famous corrupt treasurer called Luis Bárcenas, and in his party, the Popular Party, her colleagues calls him "Luis, el Cabrón".
But in fact it is an insult. Also a very hard one. If you don't have a much confidence with the person you should avoid it.
In México, cabron has different meanings. The first one from your example:
In this case it's just used as
There's also a third meaning, very common by the way, and it's used to refer to someone who is really good at something specific, for example:
another example:
These 3 meanings are used in México and I know them from my experience as a native Mexican.
Also can mean "difficult; hard to do" as in:
(Mexican - Guadalajara.)


text:
Human beings are kind of lucky in the sense that both genders generally find sex fairly pleasurable. We imagine society would be quite radically different if, say, males thought sex was something to be avoided at all costs.
Yet for many (or even most) species, that is the reality they live with every day. For one gender, sex is the only reason they're alive; for the other, it's a terrifying, painful nightmare. For instance ...
#7. Rhesus Macaque Males Get Attacked Right as They're Climaxing
For most animals that reproduce sexually, the fun comes with a price. If you're a guy, every so often other guys are going to try to kill you so they can have sex with your girlfriend. It's nothing personal, you're just an obstacle to their mission of spreading their genes around. For communal animals like monkeys, if you're going steady with a lady, you'd best watch your back.
"Guess where this banana goes."
But the rhesus macaque takes male rivalry to incredibly dickish new levels. Imagine, if you will, that you're a dominant male macaque and you've just won a fight over the affections of a lady monkey. You take your well-earned reward right there in front of everyone, but just as you reach your climax and throw up your o-face, suddenly you have some shrieking monkey asshole all over you, clawing at your eyes and biting your neck.
That's right, these monkeys have learned that the best time to attack a strong opponent is when he's at his most vulnerable: right at the point of orgasm.
The rhesus macaque's o-face is one of constant vigilance.
And this isn't just some hilarious coincidence some scientists saw once -- over half of all macaque sexual encounters end this way. Every time they start to get really into it, they know in the back of their monkey minds that they're putting a "beat the crap out of me" sign on their backs.
How do the sexing males keep falling for this? Apparently, the macaques have also mastered the art of bullshitting. According to researchers, a rival will sneak up to the coupling pair and "feign indifference by digging casually in the sand or pretending to collect handfuls of pebbles" until the moment is right.
"Mind if I stand suspiciously near your genitals and just, y'know, chill?"
And it's not always just one attacker -- up to nine monkeys have been known to join the surprise attack, leading to the world's most severe case of monkey blue balls.
Hey, speaking of which ...
#6. The Short-Beaked Echidna's Balls Swell Up to 500 Percent While Waiting for Sex
Lots of men suffer anxiety about the power of their equipment. Not so for the short-beaked echidna, which packs a four-headed superpenis. When it engages in sweet echidna loving, only two heads work at any one time while the other two rest, meaning it doesn't need to worry about the 20 or so minutes of downtime that plagues human men.
"Another couple of dicks would come in real handy just now."
Unfortunately, the echidna has a different problem. Short-beaked echidnas are basically solitary animals, and the only time they gather is mating season, from the end of June through the beginning of September. To get ready for this, their testes start swelling with seminal fluid. The bad news is that the testes aren't external, but they stay inside the body. And when we say they swell up, we mean really swell -- to at least 200 percent of their normal size, to be exact.
"Oh, oh God, I can't feel my feet. I can't feel my feet!"
What's more, the ladies they're looking to impress are incredibly picky. So picky, in fact, that they will only have sex with one guy, one time, during the entire mating season. So the male has to follow her around, along with several other guys, while they try to fight their way to the front of the line of suitors.
They have to do all this while dealing with their gigantically, painfully swollen balls, knowing that if they don't get their chance, it will be 10 months before they get to try again.
Currumbin Wildlife Hospital
"Large bundles" of echidna sperm. Their whole mating cycle must be like the first two hours after a trip to P.F. Chang's.
#5. Red Velvet Mites Jerk Off Alone, Then Leave
When the time comes for the male red velvet mite to settle down and raise a family, it has an incredibly romantic method of attracting a mate. First, it seeks out the perfect love nest, just an out of the way little vacation spot with lots of leaves and branches and other stuff that lady mites love.
Then, it hoses the entire place down with its semen. It just comes everywhere. Did we say romantic? Really it's more like a college dorm room.
You do not want to hold a black light up to this image.
Next, it's time to find a girl. Luckily, the mite has already demonstrated its skills in creating a gloopy, dripping modern art masterpiece. Ladies love an artist, so the mite leaves a trail of roses to what researchers like to refer to as a "love garden." Well, not really roses, but more like silk out of its butt.
Once the right sexy mite female has been found, the male says, "Alright, enjoy yourself! Bye!" and just goes ahead and leaves. No really, he's had his fun. When a female mite follows the trail, "sex" involves her sitting in the goopy, spermy mess he left behind and getting inseminated. Happy honeymoon!
"No no, it's fine, go ahead and start without me!"
It's kind of like if our love ritual involved the guy masturbating onto the bed and then heading off to the bar while his wife rolled around in it for a while.
Still, it could be worse ...
#4. Seed Beetles Get Their Lady Parts Destroyed During Sex
Imagine that you are a female bean weevil, also known as a seed beetle. You're really going to regret this in a minute, but bear with us. Picture yourself cruising down Seed Beetle Lane, where all of the studliest dudes hang out. After a particularly enticing courtship from one of the males, you take him back to your beetle bed inside of your bean house.
"Come on in, Big Boy."
With the candles lit and some Marvin Gaye on the stereo, things start to heat up in Bean Manor. You start to disrobe, and then he whips it out and JESUS CHRIST!
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Look at it! Loooooook at it!!!
That is, as science puts it, the "nightmarish penis" of the male seed beetle. It's a godawful doom-rod covered in sharp spikes and spines. This medieval torture device is about to go places you really don't want it to go.
You may be thinking that it probably isn't as bad as it looks, and maybe this is just what turns seed beetles on. But rest assured, it is every bit as bad as it looks. Female seed beetles sustain "heavy injuries" during sex, and all of their reproductive organs get severely damaged. They have even been known to die from it.
This poor young hatchling will soon learn the meaning of female suffrage.
Scientists believe that the male has evolved his murder-dick expressly for that reason. To injure you. Because if females can never mate again, then only his offspring get to live on to commit unholy atrocities via their own death wangs.


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I am new to brewing, my first batch is in secondary now. This is more of a curiosity question. Is there a point when an aged beer becomes a health risk? If so what are the signs of spoilage?
Once the wort has fermented, no harmful pathogens (germs) can grow in beer - an old beer may degrade and become stale, but it's never harmful to drink. Historically, beer was brewed in part to avoid drinking contaminated water.
There are many references on the net - just a quick search brings up this:
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Consider the pair $(g, L)$, where $g$ is a pseudo-Riemannian (i.e., nondegenerate and of arbitrary signature) metric and $L$ is an (1,1) $g$-selfadjoint tensor field.
Does there exist a local description of such pairs; for example in the form "in a certain coordinate system $g$ and $L$ are given by formulas ...".
For me, the state of art is as follows: for Riemannian metrics, the answer was known to classics: The existence of such $L$ implies the local decomposition of $g$ into a direct product: $g= g_0+ ... + g_k$, where $g_0$ is flat (we can think therefore that $g_0= dx_1^2 +...+dx_m^2$ in a certain coordinate system) and each $g_i$ has irreducible holonomy group. For such metrics $g= g_0+ ... + g_k$, the tensor $L$ also can be decomposed into the product $L= L_0+...+L_k$; moreover, $L_0$ is given by arbitrary symmetric matrix with constant entries and other $L_i$ are proportional to identity with constant coefficients (the coefficients depend on the component).
For the pseudo-Riemannian metrics one can do the same splitting if $L$ has different eigenvalues; so the interesting case is when $L$ has one real eigenvalue or two conjugated complex eigenvalues. And this case looks quite open for me; only the special case when $L^2= 0$ or $L^2= -1$ are known.
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As the Market Basket board of directors weighs a buyout offer from fired CEO Arthur T. Demoulas, employee protests and customer boycotts continue across eastern Massachusetts.
Employees are urging customers to boycott Market Basket until former CEO Demoulas, who was fired last month, is reinstated. Demoulas is known among employees for his generosity as CEO, but has fought for decades with his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, over how to run the company.
In June, Arthur S. took control of the board and ousted Arthur T., an action that employees have been protesting ever since. The largest protests have been huge rallies at the company headquarters in Tewksbury.
For the past two weeks, Market Basket employees all over the state have been protesting, including outright strikes by delivery drivers.
Last week, Arthur T. made an offer to purchase the percentage of the company that his side of the family doesn't already own, which the board said it is "seriously considering" in a statement on Friday.
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I'm currently involved in a project to design and implement an in-house question-and-answer community for our university. We've explored some open source frameworks such as OSQA, but we are also considering designing the community from scratch.
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I'm thinking of buying a stovetop grill pan similar to this one:
What can something like be used for? I.e, could it be used for grilling a chicken breast or vegetables like egg plant, and/or everything else that can be barbequed?
If so, what would be the method of cooking on this, i.e, would I need to oil the grill? How much would I have to heat it up? Would I marinate my chicken breast or can it be put on without any marination?


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As a community, we are one. To battle all enemies and maim the foundation of their own. Let us create a hitlist to put an enemy's name and attack him together but please also try to give some spy details.
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These two databases work together. A user 'submits' for points in a status of 'submitted'/UserPoints[PendingPoints:Column] once 'approved' UserSubmission[TotalPoints:Column] points are now 'TotalPoints'
I have a work flow that does this math for me. If 'approved' CurrentUser[UserPoints]PendingPoints - CurrentItem[Points] then Add CurrentItem[Points]+TotalPoints then update list item. ^^^ This works but has this flaw...
If a user types a wrong point value it will double add... Or is the data is deleted it doesn't delete the item(s) points...
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Vincent Hilldrup
Hometown: Paris, France
Class Year: LL.M. '13
Prior Education:
Tufts University, B.A. in history and German, magna cum laude
Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne & Sciences-Po (Grande École), J.D. in Law & Economics and International Business Law, cum laude
What I Did Before Law School:
I was a paralegal at Winston & Strawn, D.C. office. There, I worked in International Trade, Arbitration and Litigation.
Why I Chose Penn Law:
Given my pronounced interest for business law and corporate work, Penn Law was an natural choice for me. Penn Law's interdisciplinary approach to legal education is in perfect lock-step with developing needs of the changing business world. Moreover, Penn Law can boast having a law faculty of prominent professors, such as Professor Mooney and practitioners who are willing to make the trip from NYC to teach class, such as Jay Clayton and Joe Frumkin (two partners from Sullivan & Cromwell) or Professor Flocos. I was also very impressed with the interventions of Professor Gatto who provided the class with insight into the financial decision making and was instrumental to my understanding of company valuations. Finally, the fact that Penn Law is located in Philadelphia, 3 hours from Washington, D.C. and 2 hours from New York City is an ideal location for those seeking employment on the east coast.
My Best Experience at Penn Law:
Barbecue day in August, when an elderly gentleman was walking around the barbecue tables. Dressed in a casual red polo and brown corduroys, he came up to me and introduced himself as a professor at the law school We began talking about Japan and international law and bankruptcy. He was quite brilliant and I was definitely fascinated by what he had to say. I had only a cursory knowledge of bankruptcy and did not think much of it at the time. However, this professor would eventually become the professor who would influence me the most at Penn Law. His name was Professor Mooney.
My best experience at Penn:
Wine Walk, Pizza Party at Blockley's, Open Mic Night, Boat Cruise, Wharton Fashion show… there are just too many to describe. All I know is that all these event wouldn't have been possible without GAPSA. Therefore, I would say that being part of something so wonderful and helpful to the Penn community and working with such great and dedicated people was my best experience at Penn.
Professor Who Influenced Me Most + Favorite Course:
Prof. Charles Mooney. He was a great mentor and professor. I took his seminar on private financing and decided to write about fraudulent transfers in leveraged buyouts. I learned a lot during this one year long seminar and the class time frame provided students with sufficient time to research their topics and reflect on where they wanted to take the reader. Prof. Mooney is extremely knowledgeable and very supportive of his student's works, despite his busy schedule. He offered invaluable insight into my paper and allowed students a lot of flexibility in defining their topic and narrowing the scope. In my humble opinion, papers are the most important and best assessment of a student's abilities, because they reward hard work and passion.
My Favorite Philadelphia Moment:
The various events that were brilliantly orchestrated by GAPSA members. Specifically, the Wine Walk was a big success.
What I'm Most Proud Of:
To have had the opportunity to be part of Penn Law's LL.M. Class of 2013 and meeting people from different countries, legal backgrounds and from all the different schools at Penn.
My Extracurricular Activities at Penn Law:
Barbri representative
Member of the University Council at University of Pennsylvania
LL.M./J.D. soccer
Penn Law School Gaming Club
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Getting to know J.D. students during the gaming club's game nights at the Goat and the GAPSA center, where I got to meet fascinating people from the various school that comprise the UPenn Graduate School student body.


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When the first race of the day goes off right around 2 p.m. today at Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort, it will mark the beginning of a big day of racing.
The highlight of today's nine-race card will come about 5:40 p.m., with the 43rd running of the West Virginia Derby.
The race consistently brings some of the top horses and riders in the world to the Chester track, and with good reason. The eighth race on the card is listed as a Grade 2 stakes race, which puts it in some pretty exclusive company. Plus, the purse of $750,000 for the 1 1/8-mile event will make it one of the richest races run anywhere in the world today, which isn't too bad for an event that was first held in 1923 at Tri-State Park in Huntington.
When you add the purses from the other races on today's nine-race card, it totals more than $1.65 million.
While offering a day of great racing, the event also presents an opportunity for Mountaineer to show itself off to a broad audience. More than 20,000 fans regularly have come to see the derby card in person, and many thousands more are expected to watch the live telecast of the event on FSN.
It's a chance to show off not only the facilities at Mountaineer, but to shine a positive spotlight on the Tri-State Area.
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This is at the beginning of a new era. Humanity is growing, evolving, changing. No-one knows just how it came to be, but children are being born with a mutated gene that manifests at around age 15. These children have either strange features or powers, or both. Normal humans both hate and fear these strange mutants and shun them from society. In time, there will be a group that is formed to give support to these mutants, a school run by a mutant named Charles Xavier, but all this is yet to be. This time, no-one is supporting these strange humans, most wish only for them to be excised from the human world.
Among the people who wish this are an anti-mutant group known as Humanity Against Freaks, or HAF. They target the mutants and also any place that allows mutants to frequent, such as shops, hotels, cinemas. They are fueled entirely by hatred and altho there is no main leader, they are organised in frightenly efficience. The police are powerless to act; and indeed, some of the higher police officers are members of the organisation.
Fighting on the other side are a small group of mutants known only as the Vigilantes; they use their powers only to protect themselves, but are generally viewed with mistrust by most of the population, some of which hail the HAF as being heroes who only are trying to protect humanity from the mutant menace. The Vigilantes are set upon from all sides, so don't use their real names, only codenames. Seeing them as mutant terrorists, the police are determined to stamp them out.
1. This RP is for experienced RPers ONLY. If I do not consider you experienced, then you can't join. Don't spam the RP begging to join. Any players must also abide by the main forum rules.
2. If you need more information, read this link: X-Men - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia However, understand this; the X-men do NOT EXIST YET. This RP is set in an era back when the X-men were either not born yet, or just toddlers. So don't play one of them please, original characters only.
3. If you're playing a mutant, you only have one power. If a power is already taken, you can not have the same one. I want everyone to have different powers, not say 4 people all playing as pyrokinetics. You can either have a freakish appearence, or be normal. If I think your character is unrealistic, you will be asked to change it; do not have an attitude about this.
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5. If you are unsure about anything in the storyline, PM me; don't spam up the RP asking questions.
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Age: 15
Power: Shapeshifter
Bio: Paul has been at the orphanage his whole life. He doesn't know anything about his parents at all. When he was 12, his mutation manifested and he was then set upon by some of the other kids at the orphanage. He was able however to fight them off by changing his shape; he badly injured them, so now he's generally avoided. Paul has a very hot temper, he can also be stubborn to the point of being extremely irritating to anyone who's dealing with him, and also extremely selfish and only concerned with black and white, missing shades of grey.
Paul sat on a bench alone in the small outdoor area that belonged to the orphanage. Nearby, some of the others who lived in the orphanage either played or sat in various places talking, depending on age. Paul made no attempt to join any of the groups; he'd learned very early on, even before his mutation had manifested, that he wasn't welcome. Paul had just seemed odd in his childhood years and hadn't been popular. When he began puberty however, everything changed as he developed not only as a teenager, but also a mutation in the form of shapeshifting powers.
The powers had come on unannounced; he had suddenly changed shape in the common room and had immediately been set upon. He had changed shape again, taking the shape of a tiger and had fought off his attackers. Since that day, he had become an outcast and was severely left alone. In the orphanage, new cases were often being brought in and Paul often watched them to see if they were like him, but too often he was disappointed. He longed for the day to come when he could leave the place forever.
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Gaming system advice
So my PS3 had the YLOD (I posted about it a couple weeks ago) and I got it repaired. It just happened again.
I should be able to get it fixed again, since it's within the warranty period provided by who I sent it to, but I'm fearful it'll happen a third time.
What I'm thinking is to get an external and use the system software to make a complete back up of my system, replace the PS3 and load the back up.
Question is this: would the backup be, for lack of a better word, complete? I want to make sure it will mirror, so that all my videos, downloaded games, and save files and everything will copy over.
If I have to redownload some games, so be it, but I have a few videos that I can't redownload and so on. I feel like it should since I used this tool to back up when I upgraded the hard drive, but I had deleted some stuff I had to argue with Sony to get back...so overzealous, but better safe than sorry.
Secondary question: what's the best retail place to get a 300gb external?
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Don't get the solder reflowed.
Reballing the contacts on the graphics chip is a permanent fix. There are many online providers of this service.
Most repair shops will just hit the chip with a heat gun until the solder melts back sort of into place. Reballing takes all the solder off the chip and re-adds new solder, ball-by-ball onto the hundreds of contacts on the GPU. When it's done it's a good solid permanent fix.
EDIT: \I commented on your earlier thread and recommended this site: http://fixmygpu.com/ but they are a little high.
@omnichad: is it bad that the fix was a reflow the first time? The impression I got from the site was that they went a little further, cleaning it out with some sort of special equipment and using fresh solder...seemed to be a little better than the average.
At this point, I'd rather just replace and get a PS3 slim. To my understanding, they don't have the heating problems the fat ones do. I'd lose my PS2 backwards compatibility, but whatever. More and more PS2 games are being rereleased as collections or showing up on the store. Wouldn't be a huge loss.
@thedogma: Fresh solder? I don't think you can call that a reflow unless they're just using words they think everyone has heard. I would try their warranty. Everyone makes mistakes, and you may have gotten someone who's just starting out.
Unless they pulled the chip off the board, balls and all and wet all the contacts on the board with fresh solder after cleaning. I'm not sure that's possible, but I can't imagine how else you could use fresh solder and call it a reflow.
A reflow won't hurt, but from what I've heard it's only very rarely a permanent fix.
@omnichad: Likely was just a reflow with a fancier name, then. I'll ask when they call me back
EDIT: just checked the site, they only do a regular reflow, but have some fancy equipment for it that they claim most people dont.
@thedogma: Probably something like this:
Certainly better than a hair dryer and a screwdriver (some people are literally charging for doing this). And it does have its uses.
@omnichad: Something like that, probably
When this happened to my PS3 18 months ago I did the at-home fix with a heat gun. It worked, then it died again. Then I sent it to Sony and for $99 they fixed it. It happened again. I sent it in again and they sent me a different system.
I sold the replacement system and got a newer version, but I pulled the hard drive from it and did an image file of the drive before selling it.
I then put the image file onto the drive of my new PS3 and all was well.
Honestly, you can't wrong with Sony's service and the free shipping both ways.
Threadjack: Dogma, When your BOC arrives you will need to bend the mylar wings at the silver line.
Xbox 360 FTW! Just kidding...
I had a ylod a week & a half ago. ended up buying a new system.
if I didn't have playstation plus I would have lost all my saved game data.
@jsimsace: FLAME WAR!!!
@wilcononomous: I'm thinking about just replacing the system. Only problem is I don't have everything backed up with Plus. Probably around 60% of my save files. I think my best bet is to get an external hard drive and use the backup process and load it to the new system (since I can't just swap the hard drive)...but those are all costs that I really don't want to take on right now.
...being jobless sucks.
How many of you with YLOD owners are actually knuckleheads who put your gaming console inside an enclosed cabinet or 3-wall shelf?
I guarantee you will keep getting that YLOD after repair if your console is not on a completely open and well ventilated area.
You can't take a radiator out of a car and expect it to perform. It will overheat, break down parts, and fail.
Heat must be "pulled" away from computers and consoles, not fresh air blown onto the unit. It's simple physics.
I've had my 160GB fat for 3 years and never ever had a problem. It's not that I "got a good unit" as if others were bad, it's that mine is on an open shelf.
Additionally, the "reflow" fix is temporary and is supposed to allow you enough time to backup your hard drive (which can be 10 straight hours) so you can restore all your content to another ps3. You can also buy a newer ps3 and transfer content using a cat5/ethernet cable super easy.
@cravit8: Nope, was always in a well ventilated, open area.
It broke a second time and I got it reflowed again. The guy who fixed it suggested keeping it flat (I always had it standing up) and so far, so good. But it is backed up now, all except my current Borderlands 2 progress, but that's up to date with Plus. If this one breaks again, I'll just buy a new one, yeah.