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Thank you.
Thank you.
did you just take a break from the forum then, or were you arrested/in a coma etc?
I was in the Navy, and then out again.
Bit of a long story actually.
Ah yes, I remember you leaving the Forum's to enter the Navy. Welcome back Mate!
Thank you all.
Now that I have some free time, and with my recently acquired computer and FM09, I will be slowly immersing myself back into the wonderful world of FM...
Anyway, I have an idea for a challenge I would like to run past you guys here before starting a new thread.
It's called the Extremes of Europe challenge. Basically taking the Northernmost, Easternmost, Westernmost and Southernmost European clubs to Champions League glory.
I have even researched what these clubs are. :o
Quite creative mate. Have absolutely no idea who the clubs would be, but am interested
A quick rundown:
Northernmost - Tromso in Norway. The most northern top flight club in the world apparantly, located above the Arctic Circle. Already quite an established team in Norway's top flight, so should be the easiest to achive European glory.
Easternmost - Luch Vladivostok. I think there was a challenge done with this team before. Anyway, a small team located in Vladivostok on Russia's eastern seaboard, they're closer to Japan and China than Moscow. Also plays in the top flight, but more often fighting relegation than challenging for honours.
Southernmost - Either Tenerife, Las Palmas or Vecindario. Located in the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa. Both Tenerife and Las Palmas have some success in the past, but are now in Spain's Segunda Division. Vecindario (in FM09 at least) are one division below and would be a tougher challenge, but I suppose with Spain's league ranking with UEFA, should be easier once you make it to the top flight.
Westernmost - Santa Clara, in Portugal's Liga Honra. Plays in the Azores Islands, 1,500km from mainland Portugal and, at its most Western point, only 2,000km away from St John's, Canada. You will have the tough challenge of breaking Portugal's big 3 should you attempt this.
Depending on which team you go for, you could be bringing the European Cup to Africa, Asia, America or even the Arctic.
Last edited by BenArsenal; 04-02-2009 at 08:24.
Nice idea. For an even longer term challenge, you could have all of those leagues running and try to make a career out of managing all of them
So would it be OK for me to start a thread now?
I'm still figuring out how to run a challenge. So far I'm deciding on not much rules.
go for it, definitely looks interesting and I would take part in it if I had the time now that my Dafuge's challenge effort has gone to pot.
I'll cobble something up tomorrow. :o
Bit late now. Time for bed.
Basically go with similar rules to Dafuge and all that especially with transfers
Anyone fancy running the second community challenge?
If so, send me a PM with an idea for a challenge.
The details are up to you but it can't be more than one season.
Ok basically I have an Idea where I use the free player database, and stick all the premiership clubs with the same reputation so therefore United and Chelsea will not get all the best players.
I then ask someone to sign up a talented youngster for each premiership club.
Note: I have also changed all the teams names
Any interest?
EDIT: I've also changed everyone in the leagues finances to the same
Last edited by LCFCtillidie; 08-02-2009 at 11:37.
You have your database, with the names of the clubs changed. Then you get 20 people to sign up each taking a club.
Each sign-upee then has to pick five players: 1 u17, 1 u20, 1 u23, 1 u30 and 1 30+. All the other players will then be signed by the club ( it would be much easier if you added the players to the clubs in the database first).
You then simulate the season and see who wins.
I haven't thought how to do it for a second season yet though.
I haven't posted in this thread before, and I have never started my own sign-up, but i'm thinking about giving it a go.
I haven't scrolled through all 22 pages of this thread, and so I apologise in advance if this sort of thing has been mentioned previously.
Anyway, here goes.
I'm not sure if anyone is familiar with Dave.s sign-up 'A Trillionaires Playground'. In this thread the creation of and coming together of countries developed, and it has become part of the sign-up now. Anyway, my idea has been influenced by this.
What I am thinking of doing is creating maybe a 4 or 5 tier league system. Within these leagues will be football teams who are based in different countries (1 team per country), and then these countries will be grouped together according to global position to form collaborations.
The target for these collaborations is to, at somepoint in the future, become the most prominent region of the world in football, and dominate the top flight.
The collaborations will have countries (or football teams) in different leagues, and so the top flight teams will be looking to help out the lower league teams by sending them players on loan through a parent/feeder club link. (i'm not sure how this will work - but i'll come back to that)
The teams will be placed in different leagues based on reputations.
An example of the collaborations could be as follows:
The United Nations of South America (UNSA):
Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Columbia, Uruguay, Paraguay....
The United Nations of North and Central America (UNNCA):
Canada, USA, Costa Rica, Honduras, Jamaica, Cuba....
Then the other regions of the world will also be represented.
I think using a no player database is probably best, and then scaling facilities down to suit the league the team is in i.e. top flight teams having the best facilities (probably not perfect though), and then as you move down the league they get progressively lower.
I probably have missed out a few things, but this idea has literally just come to my mind. Please point out the faults, and areas in which this could be improved (which there is probably many), and I hope this gets interest, and one day soon gets going
Thanks for listening
Last edited by tomsmith1989; 08-02-2009 at 20:25.
I have a silly idea for an experiment that might have been suggested before:
What if we took the english league system and put it upside down? Take the premiership and championship clubs and put them into the regional leagues, league 1 and 2 into Blue Square north/south, Blue Square Premier could kinda stay there already, blue square north/south into league 1 and 2 then and well all the regional league teams into the championship and premiership.
Just an early sketch up, im not sure of how many teams are in each league, but it strikes me as interesting to see how english football world would shape up in a matter of 10 seasons.
Waghlon: It's a very common format (relatively), and recently it was proposed that club threads join the CSE Forum. In that debate I argued that the new influx of users would result in a repetition of this experiment idea, and usually it would fail.
That meaning, it's a very likely experiment to fail simply because it's a good idea but its creator doesn't have the interest to keep it going. I also said that it would be excellent if somebody could run that for a significant period of time, i.e. successfully. If you believe you have the determination to see it to the end then you should go for it.
just a small update to my idea a couple of posts up:
Its going to be a 4 tier system, but I am not sure of which leagues to replace.
I'm thinking of setting the reputation of the top league to be that of the English Premier League, and incrementally lower it down the divisions. As for the club reputations, I am undecided on wether to stick with the country reputations, or have the reputations to be set to that of the best clubs in the world for the clubs in the top league, and decrease down the leagues. Anther option would be to have the coallitions start with a 'Reputation points'. This reputation points will be a figure from which the members of the coalition come to an agreement of how to spread the reputation between them to hopefully have the best affect.
Another issue I am having currently is how many teams to have. A 4 tier league system with 10 clubs per league will mean 40 sign-upees. This sounds like a lot. Can anyone shed any light onto this as to wether it will work or not?
EDIT: Also, staying with the 'reputation points' theme, a similar system may be introduced for things such as starting budget, stadium capacity etc...
Also, for example, if I replaced the English leagues down to league two, and put 10 teams in each, would teams get relegated from the bottom league, and then other teams come up?
Last edited by tomsmith1989; 08-02-2009 at 21:25.
rancer: Ok lads. I have an idea! It's MLS related!!!
SI Community: Oh no, rancer is ramming MLS down our throats!! Pesky North Americans!!
rancer: you have no choice!
Anyways my idea:
Name: TBD
Concept: Traveling across North America, and managing every single MLS team playable in the 2008 MLS season to glory. You must win every trophy possible (except maybe the Club World Championship...even the MLS expert is struggling with that.. :o)
And congratulations once you're finished your tour. But you're not done yet! You must take a Caribbean team below 100th in the World Rankings once you're finished your North American tour to the World Cup and win with them!
- only MLS is allowed, you can't defect to Europe!
- load other nations: Canada, US, and as many Caribbean nations as you want (preferably all Caribbean nations if possible). BUT NO MEXICO!!!
Other Rules
- you can manage club and country if you wish
- you cannot manage your country until you completed the club portion of the challenge however
- if you cannot get a national team job, you must retire your manager and holiday for 5 years, and then you will be allow to manage the national team with the lowest ranking.
Any suggestions/additions about this? (outside of not releasing this challenge lol)
In all seriousness, I'm not too fond of Mexico. Mainly because they have their own league that's playable in FM. Mexican regens will still pop up for sure though even without Mexico being loaded. Would you want Mexico?
I guess consider it the forgotten country in North America.
Mexico won the 2010 WC in my game so would be too easy I recon
Saying that Robbie Fowler is on his way next season so they're definately still going for the "has-been trying to get a few more years out of his career" angle which is nice
Not that the MLS is a lot better
EDIT: If you go ahead with that challenge you're probably gonna need to explain the whole draft thing in the OP
Last edited by Whoopy D; 09-02-2009 at 04:25.
Surprise, Surprise, an idea from Rancer involving the MLS
hehe rancr i love it
i have done it with toronto actually
i love tfc
Ah, looks nice the reaction thus far was better than I thought.
MeLikeFM, a great team to support. GO TFC!
I hope to put this idea up this week after I get a biology test out of the way. (Barring any objections on whether to allow a Mexican invasion to MLS )
any MLS challenge would be so much better if it was incorporated into the Scottish/English Leagues. Scottish being the easiest due to the lack of American teams. Just a little input from myself because the MLS is to confusing for myself.
I want to stick with the Drafts, and the roster restrictions, which is why I don't want to switch leagues for this challenge.
What happened to him???Ah, I got no time, with two active (soon to be 3) challenges, and a signup that I seriously need to update (but so busy these days with school, and slightly demotivated by roberto's departure ).
Sensible boy...
Pfft. Some people can manage time. I spend much to long on the forums, and I still got a nerdish set of exam results.
Some good ideas in here
Let me know if there are any new ones, as everytime i try to sign up i end up too late!
I am pondering a new challenge to do with in-game sons but it would have a limited capacity.
I havn't had an in-game son so I couldn't compete
Name: rancer890's FM09 MLS North American Challenge
Aim: To achieve success across North America, managing all 14 MLS teams playable in FM09 to domestic glory. Once you have completed this, you are to guide a national team in the CONCACAF region below 100th in the FIFA rankings and lead them to the World Cup, and eventually win it.
All the teams in MLS (playable in FM09, which means no Seattle Sounders FC)
MLS Teams
International Countries Eligible (you don't have to load all of them of course...)Code:Chicago Fire Chivas USA Colorado Rapids Columbus Crew DC United FC Dallas Houston Dynamo Kansas City Wizards LA Galaxy New England Revolution New York Red Bulls Real Salt Lake San Jose Earthquakes Toronto FC
The TrophiesCode:Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador French Guyana Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Montserrat Netherland Antilles Nicaragua Panama Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenaldines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands US Virgin Islands
- MLS Cup
- Supporters Shield
- US Open Cup (except Toronto FC of course)
- SuperLiga
- Pan-Pacific Championship
- Canadian Championship (Toronto FC only)
- CONCACAF Champions League
- Club World Championship (you don't have to win this with every team, but you must win it to complete the club portion of this challenge)
- only MLS is allowed, you can't defect to Europe!
- load other nations: Canada, US, and as many Caribbean nations as you want
Other Rules
- you can manage club and country if you wish
- you cannot manage your country until you completed the club portion of the challenge however
- if you cannot get a national team job, you must retire your manager and holiday for 5 years, and then you will be allow to manage the national team with the lowest ranking.
Scouting Guidelines
You can only sign players that you are able to scout or trial at the club first, so in short the player must have the 'Get scout report' button on his profile screen. The one exception to this is when you ask a current squad member to recommend a new signing, It is then ok to sign him as the player who recommended him knows of him anyway.
No external utilities such as FMScout should be used and the database should be un-edited. Should SI release a data update, this would be allowed. It is advised that people should update using the latest patches as they are released.
Rules for this Thread
Player naming is allowed. (This is a warning for those of you who do not wish to see this)
Discussion on tactics is allowed. (This is another warning for those of you who do not wish to see this)
Screenshots for anything are encouraged.
Post a screenshot here when you start this challenge.
Progress of your club should be documented using this thread. We want to hear the story of your club all the way through (success and failure), So please keep us updated, even if you are doing really badly.
At the end of every season, could everyone post some kind of season review, including the minimum of a screenshot of the league table. If you give this a title in bold it makes it a bit easier for others to pick out.
How to Post a Screenshot
1. While in FM, press the 'Prt Sc' button (usually next to F12 on your keyboard).
2. Open an image editing program such as Paint and paste the image
3. Save the file as a JPEG
4. Upload the image to an image hosting website such as Photobucket or Imageshack
5. Post the direct Url to the image here.
Anything else some of you might want to add?
Maybe too little too late... but won't it get a bit repetitive, what with winning with every single club???
Other than that, looks like a good OP
Not at all. Darn you rancer! You've given me another challenge to do after dafuge's
The order now is:
Europe Extremes
Rancer's MLS
Nah, Look's pretty good Rancer, Are you going to limit the amount of people at the one club, So we don't get 6 peoplestarting at Toronto FC?
I reckon I will give this a go Rancer, But as usual, It all depends on a certain Greenlandic team!
Blanco: Honesty, I won everything club-wise with TFC except the Club World Championship in 3 years. So I thought of maybe making it harder.
I look at the other challenges, and they take forever. So I decided on winning with every team...
And I don't think you can get bored of winning. Not me anyways.
minisav: sorry mate. Sad to see it's way down the pecking order though.
PluckaDuck: I don't mind expanding TFC's fanbase on the forums at all.
It's alright. It went by chronological order.
toronto are great on FM
so many foreigners hahaha
i got lucky in NACL first season but i think that will be hard to win
It's up now.
Now i just need to figure out how to shape it into an AI experiment/holiday game...
I am going to be doing a similar experiment to last season (the 200 years of holidaying in England). What I want to know is what you all want to know about regen creation and/or development. I am open to any suggestions of what I should be looking for in each crop of regens that pass through England.
The things that I will definitely be doing are:
Nationalities of every crop of regens.
Number and club of high-potential regens (170+ PA)
Analysis of the youth intake at Blackburn each season to keep track of how good their regens are, how good they are at judging their abilities, and what level their regens drop down to after not making the grade at Blackburn.
Some accounting of breakdown of regen CAs.
I will probably run a test season or two on the second patch just to see how my computer handles it before I run the full version on the last patch. Go ahead and give me suggestions on what I can look at. Please keep in mind that I will be looking at each crop of regens individually as opposed to analyzing all regens over time and the regens that clubs are bringing in from abroad.
Bring this to everyone's attention again.
I am currently testing out a code which will let me make future regens appear in the game.
(this is in a thread in GD called 'Regen' if anyone wants to check it out)
And, if it works I will be making it into a sign-up etc.?
Blackburn and Preston - England
Real Madrid and Another Spanish Club - Spain
AC Milan and another Italian club - Italy
Depends on how many leagues you are loading but that would give an interesting spread acroos countries.
UPDATE:I am having problems with the code thing and would need some help as it is not recognised by 09 but is by 08.
If I get it working on 08 then, I will do it on that but 09 would be preferred.
NEW IDEA: I have a new idea concerning a challenge in Spain.
It would be with Valencia.
It would be of moderate to easier difficulty.
It is just a rough idea and would be winning the Spanish League 3 times and the champions league twice plus, the world club championship once amongst others.
As well as this, this would contain a challenges to complete section much like the one on say COD on xbox live
Last edited by pnefc22; 16-02-2009 at 18:41.
Hey guys, i have an idea which im looking for to design today, i just want a few quick views on what im planning to do to see what people think. I haven't yet decided on a suitable title so any ideas for it would be excellent.
Ok so basically i will be recreating English Football. I will be bringing the biggest clubs in the WORLD! to English Football. We will see the likes of A.C. Milan taking on Manchester United and teams such as Arsenal LOSING (hehe) to Real Madrid. Also football management will take a reshuffle, bringing the top managers to England to control this new country of tops teams.
However things dont stop there, the reshuffle and what team you get isn't up to you, however choosing your first 11 players is. I've designed a seeding table which will allow you to pick your players fairly, players seeded 1st are the best players in the world, players seeded 11th are good players but the worst choices available. Basically you choose 1 player from each Seed 1 to 11, but choose wisely as you have to pick according to your positions (will you go super defensive or look to destroy teams with brute force?)
There are a few more bits to add in but thats what im planning, what do your think of it?
Last edited by LLM'er; 17-02-2009 at 19:41.
Here is a little taster of what the English Leagues will look like:
1. Barcelona
2. Chelsea
3. Inter
4. Manchester United
5. Real Madrid
6. A.C. Milan
7. Arsenal
8. FC Bayern
9. Juventus
10. Liverpool
11. Olympique Lyonnais
12. Roma
13. Sevilla
14. Valencia
15. Porto
16. Benfica
17. Sao Paulo
18. Fiorentina
19. Sporting CP
20. Boca Juniors
1. River Plate
2. Athletico Madrid
3. Ajax
4. Fenerbahce
5. Palmeiras
6. Zenit St.Petersburg
7. Villarreal
8. Galatasaray
9. Olympique De Marseille
11. Werder Bremen
12. Gremio
13. Cruzeiro
14. Internacional
15. CSKA Moscow
16. Lazio
17. Celtic
18. Schalke
19. Rangers
20. FC Girondins De Bordeaux
21. Dinamo Kiev
22. Chivas
23. Palermo
24. America (MEX)
League 1
2. Udinese
3. Espanyol
4. Sampdoria
5. Deportivo
6. Tottenham
7. Shaktar
8. Napoli
9. Leverkusen
10. Zaragoza
11. Besiktas
12. Paris Saint-Germain
13. Olympiakos
14. Feyenoord
15. Genoa
16. AS Monaco FC
17. Spartak Moscow
18. Anderlecht
19. Flamengo
20. Borussia Dortmund
21. Cruz Azul
22. Osasuna
23. Everton
24. Stuttgart
LLM, wasn't this already done in the editing forum.
Pnefc22, this is a sign-up, not for the editing forum, people will be taking part in it, i doubt someone has done the exact same thing as i propose to do? However thanks for the information as this will help with my editing of the database, i've run into a slight problem along the way.
What happened to your Romania sign-up?
I had to leave unfortunately due to Family problems and i've lost everything i did on it, so i'm back now and looking to start a new 1.
Fair enough, that's a shame, mainly as I was doing well on it
Yes, it is a shame However i recommend you take part in this new sign-up i'm developing, its much better i think as your able to choose several of your own players and it is that which will determine how well you do rather than the AI.
Right here's my newest Idea.
An Alphabet league
Part 1. People sign up with a team made entirely of people who's surname begins with a certain letter of the alphabet.
E.g and A team could contain
10 teams would probably be best, although the idea could possibly stretch to more.
Part 2. After the teams have signed up, it becomes an OOTP ( i think thats the right thing) where you send in your tactics and team lists. I then write up the match report and we see who wins at the end of the season.
The only problem I'd personally have with running this is time.
That Idea sounds good to whoopy.
The reason I think my idea will work, is of the OOTP ones that I've seen, there's been lots of banter and generally lots of following.
The one's that come to mind are WW one and the one for 08 about Euro 2008 ( sorry can't remember who did it)
wisla_krakow did that, based on an original idea by Bambi.
Ah yes. I remember now. With my Might Croatian team that didn't quite make it.
Yeah I think that sort of sign-up lends itself to more banter because there is a more personal touch to it, in most sign-ups you beat the other participants because of what the AI simulates whereas in these type of things you feel more responsible for the win/loss because you've submitted you're tactics/team etc.
I think the picking your own players as well would also lead to some more banter.
E.g If you only picked two keepers and both of them got injured whereas everyone else picked three and are doing fine.
Definately one of the better types of sign-ups I think, I need to go to bed though and I can't stay up all night discussing it. If you do decide to go ahead with it I'm certainly interested but we're not allowed to reserve spots as far as I know so .....
If I were to do it, it probably wouldn't be for a while, because I need to have the time to do it.
I also want to refine the idea a bit.
When I do do it though I will "notify" some of the regular members of the forum about it.
If you go for the alphabet thingummy I want R...
Ronaldo Rooney Ribery will do as a front 3 for me
You could have:
GK: Reina
DR: Rafinha
DC: Richards
DC: Ruben
DL: Riise
MC: Riquleme
MC: Romaric
MR: Ronaldo
ML: Ribery
FC: Rooney
FC: Robinho
And a subs bench of: Robben,Riera,Remy,Rossi, Ramesy
I would definately be interested as well, might even draft a few possible squads for when it comes up
Thought of two more smaller rules for it.
Your team name must begin with the same letter, and so must your Ass Man
And Rijkaard as manager for the R team? Couldn't think of anyone better on the spot...
EDIT - Oops so no manager, get Rijkaard as an assistant then
This is emense i don't believe i nearly missed this.
It will be very comical to see some of the teams that come out.
I think it will be even funnier when people miss out amazing players due to forgetting there an R for instance.
Also who is going to get X, Z, Qetc.
Also with connecting names like dos and van i take it your not counting?
I think if I did it, as an OOTP thing, it would be only about 10 or so teams.
If I were to do it as one where you just pick the team, then I could do every letter.
is someone going to do this cos it sounds great. I wouldn't want to be the x team
I'm going to do a version of about 10 teams, which will be run in around 5 weeks. It will be an OOTP style.
I also reserve the rights to use the other version
So it will start in 5 weeks. Is it possible to reserve a place?
Sounds like a great idea and I am very interested in doing it and will look forward to it.
OOTP isn't really my thing, but I am definately there if you do the other version!
ok im ive read most of the challenges and a few pages of the ideas and im not sure if this has been said anymore but i want some feedback on my idea.
this came about due to dictator sepp blatter trying to basically achieve this challenge . i also wondered if it could be done in real life as well as in this FM.
Single Nationality Challenge
1st goal- win the league with players from the chosen country of your league e.g premiership= english players only
2nd goal- champions league
3rd goal- world club cup
*1st team squad must only contain players from the nationality of the league
*players with double nationality will be allowed (however i may change this)
*if you get sacked you must either start again or get a new job, no adding manager
*there will be a points system for achieving the goals relating to the season it is achieved. there will also be points for players called up to national teams and winning domestic competitions.
*you have four seasons to achieve although again i mite change this depending on feedback.
after doing a bit of research on the clubs in europe i find maybe four year is very difficult but then again who wants an easy challenge, then again it is possible to win the league in your second season as by that time 3 transfer windows would have passed.
the easiest league to do it in would be italy plenty of teams with low non nationals.
of the big european team ac milan, man utd, roma, valencia, fc bayern are good starts with 9, 10, 11, 11, 11 respectively. outside shouts being deportivo, espanyol, villa, west ham, psg, marseille, galatasary, celtic, rangers, sampdoria, palermo, napoli, feyenoord, leverkusen. my reason for this being there reputation within their country and low non national count.
the really big team are the hardest as they have teams with a minimum of 15 non nationals.
so who thinks this is a good idea, or any idea on how to modify it to make it better.
Last edited by dre2000; 25-02-2009 at 04:54.
Am toying with the idea of doing a sign up, 10 managers, start off unemployed see who gets snapped up by which clubs, if they win any trophies or fall off into mediocrity.
What do you think?
right guys I have what I think is going to be a good AI experiment/observation. its going to be called Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs.
Basically we have the 7 dwarfs - 7 players with vastly different personalities, Sneezy, Sleepy, Dopey, Doc, Happy, Bashful and Grumpy. They will all be 16 years old and have a CA of 100 and PA of 200.
I am thinking of having their reputations v.low. They will start on free transfers and all be each others favoured personnel.
There will also be Snow White, our female manager also starting unemployed. She will have a CA - 100 and PA - 200 like the dwarfs but start with a much higher reputation ~150. The dwarfs will all be her favoured personnel.
Now as yet I haven't found a way to get the Queen into the experiment, if anyone has an idea let me know as it might be fun adding her in and despising the dwarfs and snow white.
The overall idea of the experiment is to see how the dwarfs get on in their career. To see if they'll make it to the top, go into management, and play for Snow White.
Again this is in its early stages, I'm still doing the database, but I'd appreciate any feedback/ideas before I get going fully .
dre2000 - I like the idea, altough I am not too keen on the time limit. If I can remember correctly challenges with similar guidelines have been attempted, but none was set out too well, so if you put a lot of effort into making a good OP and challenge description itcould work.
Swafe - I like the managers idea, although owenozy is already doing something similar. You could maybe specify the managers for a region. A suggestion would be adding managers to the lowest rep clubs of different nations of a continent (e.g. Asia or South America) and see which manager can rise to the top quickest and win the continents club competition first?
iacovone - I really like the idea! The only thing I could suggest for the Queen is that se maybe has the highest CA and hates the rest of the charachters.
corinthiano - thanks for the idea mate, will look to put some kind of twist on it
iacovone - i like this idea too and corinthiano's idea seems to really set it off
Thanks for the feedback guys, the Queen will basically be a very talented but extremely hard to work with Manager (hardness of training, dirtiness allowed, unsporting, temperamental, etc) and hate them all.
I'm going to hopefully run it on full detail over the whole of the British Isles.
sounds great
when do you think youll get it on?
Really good idea iacovone, But I do agree with rising her CA a little more, to maybe 150 or so. Apart from that, absolutely brilliant idea!
Hopefully getting it going today or tomorrow


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CU-Boulder seniors Emma Coburn and Joe Morris have been invited to compete on Saturday, Feb. 16, at the 106th Millrose Games, one of the most prestigious indoor track and field meets in the world.
The Millrose Games will take place at The Armory in New York City and features some of the world's top talent. Coburn is entered in the women's New York Road Runners' Wanamaker Mile while Morris will race in the 60-meter dash.
The field for the women's mile is incredibly deep. Coburn will be competing against three other 2012 Olympians, Sheila Reid, Nicole Sifuentes and Hilary Stellingwerff as well as Pac-12 foe Jordan Hasay (Oregon). The field will consist of 14 runners. This will be Coburn's first race since August of 2012.
"I'm excited to start my indoor season at such an incredible venue," Coburn said. "There have always been excellent competitors at the Millrose Games and I am really looking forward to being a part of the Wannamaker Mile."
Morris is entered in a field of seven racers in the 60 and is the only collegiate runner. Jeremy Bascom, Richard Brown, Doc Patton and Gerald Phiri all competed at the 2012 London Olympics; Kind Butler and Reggie Dixon round out the field with Morris.
"I am honored to have been invited to run with an elite field at Millrose Games," Morris said. "I have been a little rusty with a recent injury but I am mentally preparing myself to go out and compete. I think this will be a great experience for me as far as racing on big stages. I hope to go out there and execute a smart race."
In total there are 13 collegiate athletes competing at the meet and seven of those athletes are from three Pac-12 schools. Arizona has three athletes in the meet and Oregon has two, like the Buffs.
The men's 60 is scheduled for 7:37 p.m. and the women's mile is set for 8:40 p.m. ET.
The Millrose Games will be streamed live on ESPN3.com and will be tape-delayed on ESPN, Sunday, Feb. 17 from 6-8 p.m. ET. More information can be found at Millrose-Games.org.


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June 23, 2013
To the editor: Does anyone see a movement in Washington that, at its core, has national prosperity as a focus? Or, do we continue to see a hunt for scandal, distractions about certain lawmakers,......
The only thing for this country is a return to the principles of our founding fathers, if we are to hold any hope for our children's future America. What has become of the American way? Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are solely to blame for this although they each do have their demons. I blame most of our problems on the majority of society, most people don't care enough to know what is happening or even make an informed vote. Obama's election was a double edged sword, I'm proud of America for coming as far as we have in terms of racism however far too many people voted either for or against Obama simply based on his skin color. Those are the types of people who have ruined this country. Is it really that much to ask of someone to make informed decisions based on facts and a candidate's past history?
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The best thing for this country and the citizens would be a return to the governing principles of our founding fathers.
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I agree with you on this Mr. Galownia. I hope there will be a change come 2014.
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If you tried to go online to order something from L.L. Bean late Monday, you may have experience a little trouble. That's because the company said its website jammed.
"Yesterday was screaming busy" and "the joint was jumping," said Carolyn Beem, a spokeswoman for L.L. Bean.
Beem said many people were ordering online and taking advantage of Cyber Monday and a promotion which is still good until midnight Tuesday.
The promotion is 10 percent off all online purchases.
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An open invitation to local leaders be it legislative, religious, educational and community, to talk about the "Elephant in the Room". We will be addressing sexual violence and talking about contemporary trends in anti-sexual violence law. Invite is also open to local law enforcement agencies, attorneys and other groups that would be impacted by pending or recently passed legislation.
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Nebraska City EMS transported one patient for what appeared to be minor injuries from a two-car collision Tuesday afternoon at the south intersection of highways 2 and 75.
A Dodge Ram pickup with Otoe County plates and a Ford Escape with Missouri plates collided.
The pickup had damage on the front and the Escape had damage on the driver's side door.
Fire and EMS removed a female from the Escape and transported her to the hospital.
The driver of the pickup appeared uninjured.
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Can I screen share with a computer that has no monitor?
My computer is OS 10.6.8.
Can I screen share with a computer that has no monitor?
My computer is OS 10.6.8.
Yes you can. Enable Screen Sharing by connecting the computer to a display (and keyboard) once. Then you can easily unplug display/keyboard and access the computer via Screen Sharing.
As long as you do not mess with the network and screen sharing settings of the headless computer you also can turn it off and reboot it without loosing the ability to screen share again.
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It's a great way to set up a home media server. Good luck.
Yes, I do this very thing with a "headless" Mac. I encode video on a Pro, but send it to the MDD G4. I can then pull it to any TiVo in the house. In other words, the headless mac acts as a server. I can also see its (non existant) 'screen' through VNC.


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| Adrienne Blume, Hydrocarbon Processing,
Innovation is key to keeping the energy sector at the forefront of US economic growth, and more of this innovation must come from women, says Amity Shlaes, a project director at the George W. Bush Institute.
By Adrienne Blume
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HOUSTON -- The Women's Global Leadership Conference (WGLC) in Energy and Technology was given an
inspirational start on Tuesday morning by Amity Shlaes,
director of the 4% Growth Project at the George W. Bush
In her keynote address, Ms. Shlaes noted that the conference,
now in its tenth year, is not only about fossil energy, but
also about human energy. Innovation is key to keeping the
energy sector at the forefront of US economic growth, and more
of this innovation must come from women. "The message to women
today is to rise to the top to walk in the halls of power,
speak up, and improve your company as you do it," Ms. Shlaes
The director is a major proponent of what she calls "leaning
out"i.e., going out to obtain knowledge, and bringing
innovative ideas to the table to help businesses grow. Women
are often recruited to help rationalize, stabilize and
socialize a company, but they are not often found in
innovative, cutting-edge positions. That needs to change, said
Ms. Shlaes. Change starts with better education and ambition.
"Find ideas by attending conferences like this one, and bring
those ideas back to your company," she said. "After the first
innovation, take it to the next innovation."
Women can achieve greater audience by actively participating
in, and bringing about, change within their organizations. Ms.
Shlaes noted that innovation can and should be disturbing.
"Sometimes an individual idea can help the [larger] ideas grow.
You want to think about cooperation and collaboration, but
sometimes you want to think about something more," Ms. Shlaes
said. "You want to have the ability to lean out at the edge of
your company."
Ms. Shlaes outlined four principles for conference attendees
to actively participate in company innovation. First, she
advised women to add science to their education. "With that
knowledge comes the power that you want in the boardroom," Ms.
Shlaes said. She quoted First Lady Michelle Obama as saying,
"If we're going to innovate, we have to educate."
The second principle involves mentoring. Seek mentors as you
progress in your career, but recognize that there are limits to
the mentor/mentoree relationship, Ms. Shlaes cautioned. As it
is a super/inferior relationship, sometimes mentees fall into
the trap of helping to forward their mentor's ideas rather than
their own. "Your networking emphasis should not be on
friendship, but on knowledge," Ms. Shlaes noted.
Thirdly, "Be prepared for the chance that your company will
not be interested in the knowledge you bring," she said. In
that scenario, do not be afraid to leave your company and carry
your innovative ideas to a new business, Ms. Shlaes
The director's last principle involved work/life balance.
Often, she noted, the work/life balance is upset by
dissatisfaction with work, rather than by time-management
issues. "You may find happiness in a new business that has
longer hours. You might be happier because, in that new
company, you may even be the boss," Ms. Shlaes said.
The director closed her keynote address by telling
attendees, "Your industry is the most innovative in the world,"
and noted that women in the energy sector have ideas that will
make it grow faster and faster. "Lean out, go get the
knowledge, and bring it back to the table," Ms. Shlaes
said. "Lean out even further, and we'll all be glad you
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Very inspirational articleKnowledge is the key to empowerment and is well articulated
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Thanks for this article, it's inspirational for us women in the energy industry. It is true we have great ideas and we are good in getting more knowledge.
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Late Rally Comes Up Short, Baseball Falls to Catawba, 10-5March 14, 2014
SALISBURY, N.C. – Despite a four-run ninth inning, capped off by sophomore Steven Cooper's second home run in as many games, Anderson University baseball dropped the opening game of a three-game set to South Atlantic Conference favorite Catawba, 10-5, Friday evening at Newman Park.
Cooper turned on a pitch and sent it over the right field wall for a three-run home run, his second of the season after knocking out a first inning home run in the series finale at Wingate last weekend. Combined with Cooper's home run and Jonathan Zalud's second inning solo shot, four of AU's five runs on the evening came from home runs. For Zalud, the home run was his first of the year.
Despite the blasts, the Indian offense was too much for the Trojans, as the home side recorded 18 hits for 10 runs. The top of the Catawba lineup of Blake Houston and Paul Kronenfeld combined for six hits, six runs and three RBI to pace the team, while Kronenfeld blasted his fourth home run of the season in the fifth inning. Catawba's Ethan Satterfield also posted three hits, while Julio Zubillaga and TJ Wharton claimed two hits apiece.
Matching Cooper's two hits for the game was senior third baseman David Jones, finishing 2-for-3 with a run scored. The Trojans knocked out seven hits for the game, but was unable to figure out Catawba's pitching trio of starter Craig Brooks, who picked up his fourth victory of the year, and relievers Michael Trombino and Joe Watson, as the group posted 11 strikeouts.
Brooks' counterpart, right-hander Spencer Earle, tossed 5.1 innings and struck out four Catawba hitters for the game.
In the tightly bunched SAC standings, which sees the separation between first and ninth place by just five games, Anderson is now 7-6 in the league, a loss behind the Indians at 7-5.
Anderson returns to action on Saturday for the final two games of the three-game series with a doubleheader at Newman Park. First pitch of the opening contest against Catawba is set for 1 p.m.


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Its been years since I installed an anti-spyware program. Keyloggers and other nasties might have gotten installed and so I'm looking for a program to flush them out. I used to use Spybot-S&D, but I think in the past it would slow the PC down. Which free anti-spyware program do you recommend/have used extensively?
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Here's a direct link to Microsoft Security Essentials:
Note (*): Your PC must run genuine Windows to install Microsoft Security Essentials.
First thing I do on a new install (thus making this answer slightly off-topic), is install Hijackthis and make it automatically start at every boot. The very first time, shortly after installation of the OS, I blindly acknowledge all lines.
Then after that, at every boot HijackThis is automacically started and I must be able to explain to myself new entries when they appear or take counter actions.
I have a fairly good IT background, that is the second catch in this answer, though my Windows knowledge is not much better than a just above average user. For this HijackThis to be workable, you need to be able to search the Internet when there are findings and you need to be able to estimate the value of what you've found.
The advantage is that it takes very little system resources. The disadvantage is that it requires some basic knowledge of how a computer works. Another disadvantage is that it takes time to analyse the reports, but findings are only reported every once in a blue moon to me.
Virus Bulletin an industry leader in Anti-virus/Anti-spyware comparisons has a chart that may help you out (See http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/index, http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Oct11-Apr12-large.jpg)
Based on this I would suggest that you look at something like Ad-Aware for good detection which comes in a free version (see http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php), however there are quite a few options.
Personally I have used Ad-aware and it is quite good. If easy of use is an issue you should consider using Microsoft Security Essentials, which is ideal for home use. It is easy to used and free. (See http://windows.microsoft.com/mse)
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Suppose I wear a bicycle helmet, and I fall hard and my helmet cracks. Do I buy a new helmet or can I try repair the old one with some glue?
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They're designed to take the impact of the fall, once they've done the job they can't be used again and you must buy another. It's not safe to attempt to repair a helmet with glue.
Helmet manufacturers recommend replacing helmets after the crash, even if there are no visible cracks, just to be sure. If you see a crack, the helmet cannot do its purpose anymore. You might want to replace the helmet if it is getting old (a few years or so) even if there has been no crash.
Remember, most of us are making money with our brain, so we need to protect it.
You should NEVER repair any bike helmet under any circumstances! The helmet manufacturers even recommend replacing a helmet after several years of use. ( Imagine that! ) I don't replace my helmet that often, but do inspect it for structural damage, which occurrs mostly with the styrofoam liner that begins deterorating after some days in the sun and sweat/oils from the skin. I guess we all have to ask ourselves...how much is my head worth if there's an accident? I doubt anyone thinks their head isn't at least worth the $50 to $100 price tag of a helmet every 5 or so years.


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The Ministry of Islamic Affairs has completed all of its projects for this year's Hajj season, including the refurbishment of about 9,076 mosques at the holy sites, the Saudi Gazette has reported.
Copies of the Qur'an and prayer rugs have also been provided to the mosques. Three expert groups of technicians will work around the clock to ensure the smooth operation of infrastructure, including electricity and water delivery.
To avoid overcrowding and congestion, increasing the number of mosques at the holy sites was a priority for the Kingdom. The Ministry of Islamic Affairs has built 150 new mosques and assigned 880 imams to the holy areas for this Hajj season.


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Your baby's hand coordination continues to improve as her brain is better able to make sense of the feedback it receives. The eyes will often open but only for short periods at a time, reducing the chance of a stray finger coming too close.
At this stage of pregnancy, your baby's muscle mass and fat are continuing to increase. Her skin is now thicker and less translucent, and begins to look pink rather than red as the underlying blood vessels are overlaid with more flesh. Growth hormone is being produced by your baby's pituitary gland but before she's actually born this does not influence her growth. Instead insulin and insulin-like growth factors are key. As your baby's skeleton is now close to its final size, her overall length is established. Your baby is still, however, very skinny.
A sonographer can make a good estimate of your baby's weight from an ultrasound scan but her final birthweight will very much depend on when she is born. She'll continue to grow throughout the pregnancy, although in the last few weeks growth is mainly due to fat deposits rather than to muscle mass.
If you're trying to guess how heavy your baby will be at birth, the latest research indicates that the size of your baby has a lot to do with "imprinted" genes. These are genes that are marked as having come from the father, which promote the baby's growth, or the mother, which are growth limiting and attempt to preserve her resources.
Twins look adorable when they're dressed alike, so you may be buying-and certainly will be given-lots of sets of matching clothing. But it's much easier to tell identical twins apart when they're dressed differently. It also helps everyone relate to them as individuals, which is good for their development.
Also keep practicalities in mind: every time one of your twins gets dirty, are you going to change them both? You may find it pays to be flexible: if there are only two clean onesies, then that is what they'll have to wear, regardless of style or color match. Newborns don't care what they wear, but if you get in the habit of dressing them the same, they may become conscious of it in the toddler years and get distressed if they're wearing something different.
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WACO (December 17, 2012)--After more than a century of creating, shaping, repairing and selling hats, Standard Hat Works at 1826 Circle Road in Waco is closing its doors.
Founder William Gross opened the store in 1909 at 622 Washington Ave.
He was a Hungarian immigrant who walked the streets of New York City selling the hats off his head before moving to Texas.
The store moved in 1968 to a location on Waco Drive because of a fire threat and then was forced to move again after a devastating fire in October 1993.
Standard Hat Works has served a wide array of celebrity customers, creating custom hats for George Strait, Clint Black, Garth Brooks, Neal McCoy, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey and others.
Despite spending years collecting much of the needed machinery to create standard-setting hats, Lenny Lawson, who's owned the business since 2006, has decided to close the store.
While Lawson's passion for hat making continues, he says he is no longer making custom hats.
Now, customers are greeted with a phone recording that "personal problems" have prompted the closure.
The store is currently open Saturdays only.
Customers who have hats at the shop now are advised to pick them up in the next few weeks because the business is not expected to remain open for long.


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A set of short screencasts providing a "tour" of the network capabilites in the Silverlight 4 beta. We'll look at raw HTTP access, socket access and WCF capabilities.
In this video, we take a look at using HTTP methods beyond GET/POST and introduce the idea of the other HTTP networking stack.
The next video in this series is here and the previous videos are;
Part 1 - WebClient and HTTP GET, XML
Part 2 - WebClient and HTTP GET, RSS, ATOM, JSON
Part 3 - WebClient, HttWebpRequest and HTTP POST
Part 4 - Cross Domain and Cross Scheme
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I am really liking this series so far - I watched the first 4 videos yesterday, this one today, and am looking forward to any more you will be doing on this topic.
If Silverlight 4 Beta was supported for VS2010 RC, I would be following along, but alas.
Thanks for the feedback - much appreciated. I take your point about VS2010 RC - I'm in the same place myself and have stuck with the beta for the moment. Hopefully, this will get sorted out soon
By the way - there's around another 6 of these videos to publish yet, working my way through and will publish 1 or 2 a day for the next few days.
i like these videos . do you have some videos and tutos , about Channel Model in WCF.
(excusez l'anglais , je suis français).
i have a question ,
i would like use WCF4 (Channel object model) , and WF4 , in order to build , a custom transaction object (an activity). and use it with a workflow (scheduled workflow IHE , for example).
i continue in french -> d'une manière plus générale , j'aurais une application qui ferai différents Workflow de transactions avec d'autres applications , avec différents types de messages (HL7 , DICOM,... ). et en utilisant différents mode de transports (TCP , HTTP , SMTP/POP3 , web service ...).
J'avais pensé utilisé les possibilités qu'offre le couple WCF4/WF4 (re-hosting du designer ,Channel ...), pour construire une infrastructure de communication et d'orchestration qui me permettrais de faire tout ce que je veux.
do you have an idea for this ?
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TOPEKA – More than 500 family members, friends and co-workers joined Governor Sam Brownback today on the south lawn of the Kansas Statehouse as he honored state employees with 40 and 50 years of service during an employee appreciation brown bag luncheon and ice cream social.
"On behalf of Dr. Colyer, Cabinet Secretaries and agency directors – thank you for your dedication to our state and its citizens," Gov. Brownback told the state employees. "You help keep our communities safe. You help educate our college students. You help those who need a hand up. You help run our state government. The work you do on behalf of your fellow Kansans may sometimes be behind the scenes – but it is always appreciated."
Two employees were recognized for their 50 years of service to the state: Marlyn Burch is the Director for the Life Division with the Kansas Insurance Department. Lloyd "Duane" Zimmerman was an Engineering Technician Specialist with Kansas Department of Transportation. He recently retired.
The Governor also thanked all state employees for their service and dedication to their jobs.
"We're got a great workforce. We've got a dedicated workforce. I'm proud of them and their families are proud of them," Brownback said.
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I am a little confused with the gtk stuff. I heard Ubuntu 12.10 already has gtk3.6.0. I am trying to install a theme that says it requires gtk 3.6.0. So when I click download, it doesn't download, nothing happens.
Themes in gtk2 download just fine though, and when using the terminal to check what version of gtk3 I have, it says I have none.
What do I need to do to either install gtk3, or enable it so I can run any themes from gnome-look?


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So, it doesn't seem entirely clear from the Core Rulebook: does one get the favored class bonus (+1 to hp or +1 skill) at first level? I wouldn't have thought so, but I notice that the Hero Lab Pathfinder character building tool interprets the rules so that you DO get the bonus at level one. Is this true?
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Under section 4 of the Character Creation Outline it states "...and the choice of gaining a hit point or a skill rank each time a character gains a level (including his first level)..."
So, yes, the favored class bonus does apply at 1st level.
Absolutely, a character gets the bonus at first level if they have chosen their first level's class as their favored class. (And why wouldn't they?)
This is according to Paizo: Favored Classes
You really can't get more authoritative a source than that.
When a player makes a character they choose that character's 'favored class' at first level. Any time they gain a level in that particular class the player can choose to take either +1HP or +1 skill point. I'm not sure why Hero Lab would be calculating it differently.


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The promise of spring break is what gets us college students through the mountain of assignments, meetings, projects and exams. Now is the time to start thinking about ways to make your spring break a genuine break. Whether you're working, traveling, volunteering, catching up on school assignments, or relaxing here in Boulder, now is a great opportunity to plan what you'll do to make sure this break is just that, a break.
What does a great break look like for you?
Students do a lot of different things to take advantage of a week away from their hectic school schedule. What does a great break mean for you? We've thought of a few ways people can make it a break, so scroll down to find the style that suits you best for some tips to get your break on!
Get Active:
1) Try Something New
Get out of your routine and take the opportunity to try something awesomely new. Go climb that mountain you have always admired, invest in a kayak, talk to The Outdoor Program about their trips, or get your bike back out after winter and go for a ride. Think about sports you've never tried, like cross country skiing, snowshoeing, or take a swing dance class.
2) Active Rejuvenation and Relaxation
Even while you're out there taking on the world be sure to make some space for relaxation. Use spring break to get back some of that calm that the semester can chip away at. It may be as simple as taking some time to notice and catch up on what's going on in the world around you. Take a yoga class and move your body, then go get your sun salutation on at a beautiful place.
3) Day Trip It!
You might be familiar with the area where you'll be hanging out, so this could be your chance to explore. If you're staying in Boulder you could head down to Golden for a hike, take a trip up to Lyons, or venture out towards Nederland or Estes Park. Get out and explore!
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One of the great things about cities is the access they offer to museums, galleries, historical monuments, and other sites of interest. Go learn about your city, and take advantage of some great student discounts at places like these while you're still in college! If you're around Boulder or Denver then take some tours: Celestial Seasonings, the Denver Mint, Hammonds Candy Factory, Banjo Billy's bus tour, or others!
2) Food Glorious Food
Get in touch with your inner foodie and sample some of the great food that your city has to offer. Go try a type of food you've never had before, cities often have great hidden gems, and authentic ethnic cuisine. Venture out, and find a new favorite food!
3) Check Out a Performance
Cities are bustling centers for artists. Explore the different types of performance where you are. Check out some live music at a fun venue, or the opera, a play, a free poetry reading, go to the symphony, a concert, or a dance show.
4) Give Back to Your Community
Spring break is a chance to contribute to your community. Cities can be home to many people in need, or struggling to make ends meet. Consider donating a day by volunteering at a local food bank, a homeless shelter, or soup kitchen. Check with the Volunteer Resource Center on campus for opportunities.
Relax it up:
1) Play Catch Up
We all know how good it feels to be on top of our academics, so use this week o' freedom to make the rest of your semester way easier. Get ahead on assignments, or catch up on things you've missed. Do your work in cool and relaxing places. Read at Chautauqua, sit at a café on the 16th street mall in Denver, or take work with you on your flight or epic road trip.
2) Nothing Like Home Cookin'
A hectic schedule often means that students sacrifice cooking time in order to get work done, or grab some extra Z's. Cooking at home, and enjoying delicious food can be a great way to relax. Try your hand at baking muffins, or get out that spice rack and invest in a cookbook. You could even make big dishes, and invite friends over for a dinner party, or freeze some of what you make so once school starts, you have delicious home cooking to get you through those busy, frenzied days.
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Use some of your break to listen to your body and give it what it needs to relax. Sleep in late to recover from those late-night study sessions, get a massage to work out the knots from too much computer use. You could even explore new methods of relaxation like acupuncture, ayurveda, or rolfing. If exercising helps you to relax, then take a few yoga or aerobics classes to move to active rejuvenation
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Date: 01/01/1970
If you're crafty, this is the group for you. Chat, snack, and meet your neighbors, as we knit, stitch, bead, and sew. Bring any project you're working on, or come just to be inspired. All ages and levels of experience welcome. Call or visit the library for details, or to be added to the handcraft email list.
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I have one incident edges and multiple outgoing Edges, for which I want to pick an outgoing edge such that the angles between the outgoing edge and the incoming edge is the smallest of all. We know the coordinates for the vertex $V$ .
The angle must start from the incoming edge ($e_1$) and ends at another edge ($e_2$, $e_3$, $e_4$).
Also, the angle must be form in such a way that the face constructed from $e_1$ to $e_2$ must be in counter-close-wise direction. In other words, the face that you construct when you link all the vertexes $V$ in $e_1$ and $e_i$ together, must be a counter clockwise cycle.
So in the case below, edge $e_2$ must be picked because the $\theta$ is the smallest.
Is there an algorithm that does this elegantly? The few algorithms I devise are just plain ugly and requires a lot of hacks.
Update: One method that I think of ( and proposed below) is to use the cross product for each edge against the incoming edge $e_1$, and get the minimum $\theta_{i}$. i.e.,
$$e_{1} \times e_{i} = |e_{1}||e_{i}| \sin\, \theta_{i}$$
But the problem of this is it doesn't really work. Consider the following test cases: $$e_1=(1,0)$$ $$e_2=(-1/\sqrt(2),1/\sqrt(2) )$$ $$e_3=(1/\sqrt(2),-1/\sqrt(2))$$
One would find that
$$\theta_2 = -45^o$$ $$\theta_3=-45^o$$
Both are equal-- even though we know that $e_2$ should be selected.


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All Rise...
The Charge
Is ANYTHING worth crossing the Swede?
Opening Statement
Marlon Brando essentially improvs his way through this wacky, weird, dark, unpredictable film. Garish, often cartoonish colors and odd camera angles add to the strange feeling this movie brings. Charlie Sheen and Thomas Haden Church put in performances unlike anything we're used to.
The Evidence
Everything seems safe and normal enough as I open the case. I see a film with Marlon Brando (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, The Godfather), backed up by Charles (yes Charles, not Charlie) Sheen (The Arrival, Platoon, Major League), Thomas Haden Church (George of the Jungle, TV's Wings), and Donald Sutherland (The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H, Virus). Also starring Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, The Replacement Killers). The disc sits inside an Amaray Keep Case and the packaging shows it is loaded with yummy extras. All is well for a DVD reviewer, right? I'm all set for a nice comedy with proven stars, popcorn at the ready.
The above was the journal of the reviewer recovered later. He's receiving care and we have high hopes for his return to normalcy, and we'll have him review something formulaic as a step toward full recovery. Because, brother, formulaic this ain't.
As Free Money begins, we see a couple cute but strange looking twins telling their father they are pregnant. Marlon Brando jumps with the news, and looks like an overgrown walrus more than a man. He is the Swede, by God, and he is going to fix those guys who had the audacity to take advantage of his daughters. Those guys are Charlie Sheen playing Bud, and Thomas Haden Church playing Larry, two nobodies in this forgotten area of North Dakota. Only one of the twins is really pregnant, but they both claim to be so they can get married together. The girls manage to convince the Swede that they really love these boys, and so they escape gruesome death by a hair. Instead they all get married. Very quickly we see things aren't quite right. The color schemes are strange. One shot will show everyone wearing a shade of green matching the walls, grass, or whatever is nearby. The next shot will be blues, all matching. Maybe some garish yellow accent to break the field of blue or green. Sheen looks nerdy rather than the handsome, intense actor we usually see. Church has his hair dyed some sort of blonde with green overtones. At any rate, the girls quickly tire of living under the conditions these two men live in, and decide all of them are moving back home. Home is nice for them, since the Swede runs the whole town and is the local prison warden. Home is not so nice for Bud and Larry, who quickly become slave labor around the house, and are told they can have "conjugal visits" with their wives once a month. One of the funnier scenes in the movie involve a cattle prod being used as punishment for sleeping with their wives on a non-designated day.
Things aren't going much better at the prison and the town. Donald Sutherland plays Judge Rolf Rausenberger, who has blood on his own hands and is owned by the Swede. The two cooperate on letting a prisoner escape and shoot him in the woods. Mira Sorvino is called out to investigate, as Agent Karen Polarski. It turns out she also happens to be the judge's daughter, but has taken her mother's maiden name.
Now for the main thrust of Free Money, if you can say this film has a main thrust. Bud and Larry are understandably upset at their new lot in life, when they find out an annual money train passing worn out currency from Canada to the US is coming through soon, and the people handling the shipment are even bigger losers than they are. I'm not going to give away any more of the plot, but it involves using the Swede's prize pickup truck and some severe ramifications of the sons-in-laws actions.
This film, though it does have a plot, actually more than one plot, moves around from place to place and with people getting stranger and stranger. I only learned later from the commentary track that this whole film was basically Brando improv-ing his way through, trying dozens of different things, often changing the whole scene and plot in the process. The screenplay changed day to day, sometimes drastically. I have to wonder whether the director was really directing at all, it sounds like Brando just ran over him and did whatever he wanted. The humor, such as it is, is often very dark. I was surprised to learn that the director, Yves Simoneau (Mother's Boys, Perfectly Normal, Les Celebrations) was actually Canadian, since this movie seemed much more like a foreign film. This is the first time I'd have to call a Canadian film foreign. Maybe Quebec is really a different country after all; in fact most of the cast and crew have French names. Despite all that I have to say I liked this film. I really have to say that, because I'm afraid the Swede will come after me if I say I don't.
Now for the disc. As our first reviewer started to say, it's a very nice DVD. The video is a non-anamorphic transfer in 1.85:1 format. The picture is crisp, with bright, but not oversaturated colors and no bleeding, artifacts, or film noise. The sound is even better, a 5.1 Dolby Digital track. Envelopment was right there, and it gives your surrounds and subwoofer quite a bit to do. And did my unfortunate predecessor mention extras? This Sterling Millennium series gives you plenty. The interactive menus contains 24 full-motion chapter stops in the 91 minute film. Of course you get bios and filmographies, and the trailer for the movie, along with trailers for Legionnaire, Progeny, Space Trucking, A Murder of Crows, The Confession, and Urban Menace. There is a photo gallery from the film and a cute trivia game, and of course the aforementioned commentary track with the director and writer. If I had a DVD-ROM I could also access the screenplay, print it out, and access scenes directly from the script. This list of extras is one of the big reasons I made the move to DVD from VHS.
The Rebuttal Witnesses
Probably the biggest complaint with this DVD is the lack of anamorphic enhancement. Free Money isn't a film for everyone either. To many it will seem too weird, and will have some scrambling for the tint and color controls on their televisions. It's not your television, Brando and company have taken over your set for the next 90 minutes.
Closing Statement
If you like avant-garde or foreign films this is right up your alley. For Brando fans I think you have to give it a try as well. For the rest of you, I'd definitely rent it first and see if it's your cup of tea. I also have the feeling that a second viewing will give you a better understanding than the first. There is some violence and the humor is dark. So, don't say I didn't warn you.
The Verdict
The film and the disc are both acquitted, without a doubt. I just hope the director doesn't do a Pauly Shore movie and let him run everything the way Brando did; I don't think the results would be pretty. Sterling is given a stern warning to commence with anamorphic transfers in the future, but commended for using the Amaray Keep Case.
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The court is refusing to consider legal challenges by several industry trade groups against an Environmental Protection Agency move to expand ethanol use in the US.
By BRENT KENDALL and RYAN TRACY
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to
consider legal challenges by several industry trade groups to
an Environmental Protection Agency move
to expand ethanol use in the US.
Trade groups for food
producers, the oil and gas sector and the auto industry all
sued to contest a pair of EPA decisions that allowed the sale
of gasoline blends containing 15% ethanol. The agency regulates
fuels based on the pollution they create.
Currently, most of the US gasoline supply contains 10% of
the renewable fuel.
The EPA's move handed a partial victory to ethanol
manufacturers, which had pushed the agency to allow the higher
blends. The agency allowed the so-called E15 fuel for use in
vehicles dating back to the 2001 model year, but not for older
cars and trucks.
The various trade groups alleged they would suffer a variety
of harms from the increased ethanol use.
For example, members of the food industry argued it would
cost more to make and distribute food products because the
introduction of E15 fuel would increase demand -- and prices --
for corn, which is used to make most ethanol.
The auto industry alleged the new fuel could damage vehicle
engines, prompting consumers to bring warranty and safety
claims against car makers. Petroleum refiners and importers
said the introduction of E15 would force them to incur
substantial costs.
The ethanol industry says E15 passed an EPA safety review
and consumers benefit from having the option to buy fuel with
more ethanol, because ethanol is often cheaper than oil-based
fuels. Ethanol supporters say the renewable fuel is just one
factor in corn prices.
Last August, the US Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit threw out all of the legal challenges without
passing judgment on the EPA's ethanol actions. The appeals court
said none of the challengers had a legal right to sue because
the harms they might suffer were too far removed from the EPA's
decision to allow E15.
The Supreme Court, in a short written order on Monday, let
that ruling stand, rejecting the challengers' appeals without
The high court's decision won't have an immediate impact on
the US gasoline market: The vast majority of filling stations
don't offer E15 fuel, save for about two dozen stations in the
Midwest, according to a recent count by the ethanol trade group
Renewable Fuels Association.
But the decision effectively kills the legal challenges to
E15, which is the ethanol industry's main hope for growth
beyond its current 10% share of the gasoline market.
Dow Jones Newswires
Editor's note: The following is the statement of response from the
American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM)
trade group:
The Supreme Courts decision denies the
petitioners their day in court and will have negative
repercussions for consumers. It is unfortunate that EPA's
decision to place politics ahead of science will stand,
said AFPM president Charles T. Drevna.
EPA's waiver allows gasoline containing 15% ethanol, called E15, a 50% increase
over a safe and efficient product to be sold into the general
fuel supply. AFPM challenged the legality of EPA's
decision because E15 has been shown to cause engine damage in
most automobiles, boats and outdoor power equipment, such as
chainsaws and lawnmowers.
The DC Circuit Court, which first considered AFPM's
case, ruled that the refining industry lacked standing to
challenge EPA's decision. The court reached this conclusion
despite the fact that refiners are forced to produce new
gasoline blendstocks, invest in the infrastructure necessary to
carry two types of fuels, and face potential liabilities from
engine damage because of EPAs decision.
In a disenting opinion, Judge Kavanaugh of the DC Circuit found
EPA ran roughshod over the relevant statutory
limits. AFPM petitioned the Supreme Court to
reconsider the district court's ruling, arguing that the DC
Circuits decision incorrectly limits the ability of
injured parties to seek judicial review of federal agency
AFPM continues to assert that EPA overstepped its
authority under the Clean Air Act when it granted partial
waivers to allow the use of E15 in certain engines, including
vehicles model year 2001 and newer.
Objective tests have shown that E15 may cause engine damage in
vehicles and therefore should not be an approved fuel under the
Clean Air Act that can be sold in the general gasoline
All comments are subject to editorial review.
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Jaime Bárcena -México-
That legal arguing about EPA´s E15 use autorization affects gasoline crude oil producers market.So those contenders are wrestling and fighting for that market indeed not for such aplicable environmental regulation. Both kind of fuels do not affect vehicle motors performance and also it does not produce them any operational damage or bad behavior actually
The ethanol industry claim of their E10 or E15 fuel being cheaper than 100% oil-based fuel is factless propaganda. When you consider that the heating value of the E10/E15 fuels are less than regular gasoline, this results in using more E-fuel with lower MPG. The gas stations typically charge about 5 or 10 cents per gallon less for E10 fuels, which doesn't account for the equivalent drop in MPG. So you are putting a less efficient fuel in your tank and paying more per gallon. Doubtful than the E15 will be significantly cheaper than E10 (with further reduction in MPG) so the profits will be higher and the consumer will be poorer. Also, most of the corn for ethanol is from livestock feed supply, not consumer food supply. The corn feed supply will increase in price due to higher demand and shorter supply (taken away by the E10/E15 fuel), thus almost all food products made for raising livestock will be inevitably higher priced.
Michael Brady
It makes perfect sense. In the middle of an oil boom in America the EPA forces the people to make fuel from food. The EPA is out of control an seemly cannot be reined in by the American people.
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I removed the Mail.App app early on on my Macbook Air, and now I want to take a look at using Mail.
It's not in my time-machine backups, and looking at the files on the restore thumbdrive, I can't see where it could be. Apparently it's not part of iLife, so short of reinstalling the entire OS, I'm not sure how to get it back.
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A World Without Maps
Measuring and Mapping Space:
Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Institute for the Study Of the Ancient World
Through Jan. 5
New York
The contradiction may seem insuperable—that the main point of an exhibition about ancient maps is that there weren't any, or any that have survived. But don't let that put you off. The show at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) is titled "Measuring and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity." Its explanatory circular tells of focusing on "ancient cartography and the ways in which Greek and Roman societies perceived and represented both the known and unknown worlds." All of which certainly suggests that you will see maps. And you will, but not what you expect.
Many of us may have a vague sense that we knew of such maps, indeed that we have a distinct memory of what they looked like, scrawled on hide or parchment or somesuch. It turns out we were wrong. Or rather that we were semideceived into forming such memories by the imaginings of scholars who lived a millennium or more after the classical era ended. In effect, the Medieval world invented the idea of the ancient map.
This little gem of a show delivers quite a few startling challenges to our assumptions and is worth the visit for the mental rearranging it asks of us. More than 40 objects, some of them facsimiles, are divided into five sections: "Mapping the World," "Measuring the World," "Roman Geography and Politics," "Secular and Divine Geography" and "Peripheries and Imaginary Geography." All the artifacts come from prominent U.S. institutions, mostly in New York, including the Morgan Library & Museum, the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There's also an ancillary room with a digital presentation and the photo-facsimile of a horizontal Roman-era map (the original sits in an Austrian museum), which depicts the empire's road-lines. It's the only one of its kind that has survived. It isn't exactly a map—but, rather, a decorative illustration of Roman power with Rome at the center.
Why do we have virtually no ancient maps of the ancient world? After all, sailors, traders and soldiers had to find their way around. The show's curator, Roberta Casagrande-Kim, distinguishes between a map and an itinerary. The latter "must have existed aplenty, but being strictly functional probably deteriorated through overuse," she says. A map, however small its focus, suggests a kind of implicit overview, and that is the show's subject.
We learn, first and foremost, that the ancient world's notion of the globe came together in Ptolemy's "Geographia," a written (not drawn) second-century description of the globe as it was then known. Ptolemy's work itself articulated a largely Greco-Roman conception from Aristotle and Strabo onward of where things lay. His manuscripts were rediscovered and translated into Arabic in the Middle Ages and then traveled to Europe, in Latin translations, during the early Renaissance. Upon entering the main room, you see large medieval folios that reconstructed the macro-order of things from Ptolemy's original. For a great swath of history, much of humankind believed this was the world it went to sleep and woke up in. The Earth, at the center of the universe, radiated a concentric order of things, including the motion of the stars. This is what Galileo was up against.
In that first section, we encounter the show's pièce de resistance. Lent by the New York Public Library, it's a world map from a Florentine manuscript (c. 1460) that meticulously visualizes Ptolemy's Earth. America, Australia and the polar continents simply didn't exist. Northern reaches of Asia and southern Africa faded into blank space where, as we see depicted in a later section, semimythical creatures roamed. According to the curator, knowledge had expanded hugely by 1460, and the book's author surely knew it, but he stuck to second-century norms as a matter of faith. The fact is, both the ancients and pre-Galileo Medievalists equated geography with divine order, geophysics with metaphysics, and simply didn't see the need to connect "itineraries" with map concepts. None of which affected the Roman penchant for precise measurement and engineering. We see the measuring tradition alive and well in surveyors' codexes from the sixth century showing city grids.
In the "Divine Geography" section we see how Christianity adopted the globe-views of antiquity, while adding its own schematized layers—for example of Cherubim and Seraphim populating the heavens (the kind of codification emulated by Dante). These images were a symbol of continuity and of power—of the faith's dominion in sync with the eternal verities through space and time. Roman coins, all on loan from the American Numismatic Society, showing emperors standing atop globes demonstrate the idea's origins—you held sway over the mortal world as intended by the immortal gods. Heavenly and earthly power were synonymous, part of a complete order. The correct way of encompassing that order through physical and metaphysical schematics, such as maps, gave the gods their due and accorded humankind a stable place in their plan.
The real trouble began when empiricism discovered—and, worse, began to depict—a detached world, one that followed its own laws and required its own maps. But the show's timeline stops at that Earth-changing juncture.
In the ancillary room, you see a digital quantum leap in the history of mapping the ancient world. It's a complex achievement, and visitors should spend time fathoming it in situ. But briefly put, ISAW has developed software (with others) that collects all available information on ancient sites. The information comes from institutions world-wide, such as museums, colleges and publications. Whether it exalts or buries the gods further, only time will tell.
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You can also check the status of your order and individual items by accessing your account details and following the prompts.
Please allow 10 working days from dispatch of your order before notifying us of any late deliveries.
It may be advisable to check with your neighbors to see if your delivery has been left with them, check any places it could be left such as: garage, porch, or behind garbage cans if it was too big to fit through your mailbox. Contact your local post office to see if the item has been returned to the depot as undelivered and awaiting collection.
Please see our returns policy.
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