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Would someone else who uses FMRTE please check AI match prep / tactics on your saves too - just incase its a problem with my save and isn't universal. I don't want SI wasting time on dead ends if its just my save thats like this.
The game is too easy.
The difficulty is about right.
The game is too hard.
Would someone else who uses FMRTE please check AI match prep / tactics on your saves too - just incase its a problem with my save and isn't universal. I don't want SI wasting time on dead ends if its just my save thats like this.
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I don't post often, but I have to say i'm finding FM2012 much much easier than previous editions.
I started a game with New England in MLS, halfway though the season. With 14 games to go, we won the competition undefeated. (IRL New England finished dead last I think this year)
I took the USA under 23 team to olympic qualification, losing the final match to Mexico. (Before being randomly let go before the olympics and no replacement being hired...)
Now i'm four games into my 2nd season and am still undefeated with a career record so far of:
Goals for:59
Against: 20
Win percentage: 86%
Now I sit here watching the games finish 3-0,4-0,6-0... it's kind of taking the challenge out of the game. I know I haven't exactly played that many games, but the apparent easiness is putting me off.
egesagin, lee_uk, grep, alexyfoot, KUBI, milnerpoint, SeanNUFC, Matej, BiggusD et al...
Come on guys! Letsby Avenue. I could do with some feedback on wether AI match prep is the culprit so I can finally fix my save with FMRTE and get back to losing 20 in a row (oh I wish!).
milner I know you're an FMRTE user, give me your input mate.
Erimus1876 this my Liverpool save Second Season
Egad, you have it Erimus. NAIL. ON. HEAD.
Here's what I've just found (sorry, can't get the hang of posting screenies)
I'm on 17 July 2012 - date of first pre-season friendlies. I went through a bunch of the clubs - one from Premier League, Championship, League Two. BSN, Scotland and a Russian club (I don't have Russia loaded).
In EVERY case I see the exact same: Tactic 1 - every single bar is maxed out, 100%. And ZERO for 2nd and 3rd tactic.
The only exception was a club below BSN/BSS level (I don't have a lower leagues file loaded so it isn't playable) which has low figures for the primary tactic (and nothing for the others)
Remember this is the very start of pre-season. For the human manager the players forget much of their familiarity and have to relearn it, but the AI teams are perfect.
Remember also this is the start of the second season.
Therefore, this isn't evidence that proves the game is easier for the human manager, but it is proof that the coding is awry for AI match prep. Badly awry.
For anybody towards the end of their first season, could they please post their conversion ratio (Goals per Shot), which can be found on the stats page under club information.
But, if this is confirmed, that something very odd is happening with the match preparation of AI teams. If is this as any consequence with the "ease" that some users have been experience... yet to be confirmed.
Anyway, nice detective work Erimus!
Great work Erimus1876. I think you have fished out the problem and its not that we are getting better at the game. The coding for AI tactic has gone wrong, which is making the game so easy. Hope SI can acknowledge this and tell us they will fix it. The proof is staring down their face now.
Btw, im playin Skyrim last 5 hours, its great.
@ Erimus
Can you do a test for me? Nuke your set piece settings by keeping your DCs and tall threats back. Play 3-4 games and keep a note of your conversion ratio in each. Then post the result here.
Probably best to have only an average free kick taker take the kicks as well.
Last edited by wwfan; 13-11-2011 at 06:25.
By the way, all my set pieces are left on default 'mixed' settings, but I'll make sure all threats are back in defence when I have a corner/free kick. What team should I be, or doesn't it matter? The team I am currently is very poor attribute-wise (9th tier of the English league structure).
As I said earlier in the thread neither Riz nor myself have seen anything MP related in the pkms we have looked at that suggests its any kind of "smoking gun".
so why have AI teams laughable MP stats as shown in pics by erimus and FM11 seem right?
something must have changed between the 2 FM versions?
Sorry Erimus,i have never used FMRTE at all,but find your investigations eye opening!!
I've holidayed 6 months into my 2nd season to see how AI match preperation and tactics develop.
Here's Man Utd (AI), in January 2013, a good 18 months into the game...
At the rate of improvement its going to take 4 or 5 seasons before the AI has fully trained all its tactics to the proficiency the human manager can in less than 1 season. And thats just for the best teams who have the best coaches and best training facilities. I'm not sure how long it will take all the smaller teams to catch up? Maybe 10 seasons?
Last edited by Erimus1876; 13-11-2011 at 09:35.
Here's my teams tactical training at the 18 month stage (notice the 1st one isn't fully complete as I switched tactics back in October 2012, but it soon caught up).
And the screenshot below is typical of the AI teams in my division. Okay it may not be a smoking gun but I do wonder if the reason I finished 2nd with one of the worst teams in the league is because my team is more tactically astute than the other 23 AI teams I played against
Could this explain the following scenario?:
The people finding the game a normal challenge have been playing against AI teams that, on the whole, have stuck to their primary tactic throughout a match. Even though this primary tactic isn't trained as well as it was in FM11, its still much better than them using their 2nd and 3rd tactics aganist you. And those of us who have experienced easy games could be the unlucky ones who have gone up against AI that has used those untrained 2nd and 3rd tactics against us, or at least switched to them during a match?
Of course, all this depends on wether FMRTE is returning accurate data or not and wether MP has that much of an influence on how the AI plays against us. So yes, its still all speculative in my opinion.
This is, by far and away, the easiest version of FM, and something does seem to be wrong.
As Chelmsford City, I've played 17 games now in the 1st season, and won a remarkable 15 of them, 1 draw and 1 defeat. I've NEVER changed tactics at all, and only signed some moderately decent players.
I even decided to do a small test, and played the last game against 5th place Salisbury City, with EVERY player out of position, including goalkeeper. Still the same tactic I've used throughout the season so far (straightforward 4-4-2).
The result? I won the game 4-1. With EVERY player out of position.
I used to be very average in previous versions...which I liked, because I had to work dam hard to find success. With this version, I've taken over Chelmsford, signed maybe 4 average squad players, whacked 4-4-2 in as my formation, and then just proceeded to hammer teams. I don't need to do anything at all, it seems.
I've asked for a pkm. There is zero reason why it would work any differently between 11.3 and 12.0, but if you want to try to disprove that I'll look at any results you find.
Well i don't have fm11 but have fm10. Just people say fm11 is alot different so i'm assuming the test wouldn't work on that either.
I keep seeing the same argument about 12 being the same as 11.3. Since when 11.3 became the benchmark that we have to go for in every following version. We have been experiencing graduate easing for several versions now and even if 12 was as easy as 11.3 (which I think we established already it isn't), that would not be good enough for quite a lot of us...I personally would expect something better from the newer version, not something that at best is as good as the previous one - makes absolutely no commercial sense. While there have been other improvements in gameplay, the most major issue is getting even larger...so what is the answer to our questions - "it should be very similar to 11.3". Are we supposed to accept that as a positive answer?
Apperently, the only way to enjoy FM12 is to start in lower division, promote unexpectedly with a mediocre team so that in Season 2 you will struggle a bit due to the massive difference in resources between your club and the others in the higher division. However, this lasts 1 (2 seasons max) - then you promote again. This limits the players' choice of clubs quite a bit and you basically know what is going to happen next season. Not goo enough, simply not good enough.
If I understood it right the familiarities within FM12 AI teams are much lower than FM11, correct ? ( after roughly a season )
Does this happen for AI teams correct ?
Does a human team familiarity behave the same between a season of FM11 and FM12 ?
If it happens only for AI teams it is a proof something is deeply wrong, if it happens also for human teams it may be proportional so everybody ( AI and human teams ) gain familiriarities slower and this may it is not an issue.
I think the difficulty is about right. It's easy with the big teams but harder with lower league teams, just how it should be.
Ok mate I've played 4 games with my four tallest players (2 CD's and 2 CF's) staying back at corners and freekicks.
Game 1: 0-0 Draw
My Team... 5 corners, 0 DFKs. No goals scored from setpieces. Shots at goal 13, on target, 2.
AI Team.... 4 corners, 2 DFKs. No goals scored from setpieces. Shots at goal 5, on target 2.
Game 2: 2-1 Win
My Team... 2 corners, 1 DFKs. No goals scored from setpieces. Shots at goal 13, on target 2.
AI Team.... 4 corners, 0 DFKs. No goals scored from setpieces. Shots at goal 15, on target 6.
Game 3: 3-3 Draw
My Team... 2 corners, 0 DFKs. No goals scored from setpieces. Shots at goal 15, on target 7.
AI Team.... 4 corners, 2 DFKs. 1 goal scored from a DFK. Shots at goal 8, on target 3.
Game 4: 1-0 Win
My Team... 1 corners, 0 DFKs. No goals scored from setpieces. Shots at goal 8, on target 3.
AI Team.... 2 corners, 0 DFKs. No goals scored from setpieces. Shots at goal 9, on target 0.
Overall for my team:
My team had 10 corners and 1 DFK, no goals scored from any of them.
49 shots at goal, 14 on target, 6 goals scored.
Here are the 4 pkm's if you need to look at them in finer detail.
Please, lets not jump into rush conclusions.
The match preparation issue, could well be a bug in this year FMRTE.
Let's give SI time to investigate this.
I wish my game behaved the same way as everyone elses. First season 6th and fired with liverpool. Second attempt, 15 wins, 2 losses. Then 1 win in 8 games. I'm not crap at the series but from what most of you are saying tactics arent important and playing players out of position can get you wins with 1 loss a season. Maybe I'm not using some winning tactic everyone else read up on or something. Or everyones playing UTD and chelsea.
Erimus, i notice the exact same thing with FMRTE and AI's match prep, no point uploading screen shots as they look the same as you guys have above, good work digging that up, i wonder if it is contributing towards the overall issue.
Thanks SI. No really. 100% realistic with your Liverpool setting.
So I was testing something. Taking into account my glorious half season and then 9 games of pure rubbish in a row, I let my assistant manager take over. He won his first match, then his second. So I went on holiday for a month because I wasnt in the mood to really play the game after having 3 players I wanted to sign not be able to come because their agents refused to budge on their 3-4mill pay bonus. Imagine my surprise to find that during that month holiday rival teams had pinched 7 of my staff. I've never seen that happen before in any of the other games ever.
Last edited by Vlahka; 13-11-2011 at 16:30.
The flipside is that they tend to overperform against big teams since they're not overawed by the reputation difference. I beat Man Utd at Old Trafford without much trouble and even took out Real Madrid in a friendly, but on the whole, those matches are worth just as much as matches against Norwich.
Sadly, this is pretty realistic...
Last edited by The Hand of God; 13-11-2011 at 16:31.
What would be really nice is to have the option to start the game pre-player purchase for the season. For example if I was signed on instead of the current manager, I wouldnt have the players they'd bought in july/august, and instead would have the money to buy players I'd want. I dont see why they should be there if I'm starting at a time they'd never been bought.
Just like on FM11 i went from winning against every team to just being complete crap at least this time i guess team meetings help to turn this around..
But i don't like these extremes, either you are the best team on the world or just the worse, there doesn't seem to exist a middle ground.
I'm not so sure how much its contributing (if at all). I did a couple of tests, maxed out my next 5 opponents match prep and promptly failed to win a game against any of them;
0-2 lost, 1-3 lost, 1-3 lost, 1-2 lost, 1-1 draw. Dropped from 4th in the table to 8th by the end of it.
So I decided to run a test vs the same team over and over again, a team just 3 points behind me in the table, so pretty much on the same level. To reduce the influence of morale, fitness, and condition, I made them all the same on both teams with fmrte. I played 5 games vs the normal AI MP, then improved their MP in fmrte, and played 5 more to see if there was any difference. There was, but not a significant one. The most telling thing was the press made my opponents odds on favorites in all 10 matches, not giving me a prayer they said I wouldn't get anything from the match, but I got something from 8 out of the 10 games.
Big screenshot alert >
Results vs Normal AI MP:
0-0 draw
2-1 win
1-0 win
0-1 lost
1-1 draw
Results vs Improved AI MP:
1-1 draw
0-1 lost
0-0 draw
2-2 draw
1-1 draw
Here are the 10 pkm's if anyone wants to look at them: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KSEOYKHI
All a bit too inconclusive to be honest, maybe a much longer season-long test is in order. But I think I'll wait for SI's patch now :confused:
Last edited by Matej; 13-11-2011 at 17:22.
Erimus1876- yeah m8, you done more then enough, get some rest and wait for the patch. You done more in last few weeks then people with 5 000 posts. Go play Skryim, its great. O, and they have difficulty levels there, hehe.
I've uploaded my save game for SI to see if it helps identify any issues: "JRS easy save game for evaluation"
Playing as Droylsden in BSN: 30 games into season 1, W27 D0 L3, F97 A30 - 21 points clear of 2nd place
Love it. In previous versions of FM I sometimes got sacked in my first season while I got my bearings. This one I've started twice, come 6th twice, won the FA cup twice, fired twice. Liverpool is frustratingly crap to play in this game.
Erimus 1876, SI and the whole community should give you a donation for your job, despite the results achived. ( Maybe a pinup girl for one night would be fair IMO )
I would like to deeply thank you and as Matej stated, now we can wait for the patch and then, if it will be the case, we could start again to express opinion on difficulty level.
Told that, SI should take into consideration your CV if I was in SI.
won league cup in first season with barnsley and currently 10 pts clear at top of championship. only spent 375k.
Any proof?
Erimus for Prime minister
Well done on that mate, I really dont't think that can be proof about the game being easy tbh, I don't know to much people who have won the League cup with a championship team. You should be proud about it of good management IMO
Thanks. There's your 'smoking gun'.
Conversion ratio with un-nuked set pieces is 1 goal per 4.5 shots. With nuked set pieces 1 goal per 8.2 shots (and conceding at 1 in 9.25). Remove the minor advantages of good morale and match prep (if that is the case) and that conversion ratio will fall to circa 1 in 9 - 10. You'll be able to reduce it with exceptional tactical and man management strategy, but not by default, which is what is happening right now.
I think SI should really consider hiring Erimus.
Really impressing work.
(In your test you have 8 pts with unbalanced MP and 4 pts with adjusted MP: if we consider you've taken two pretty similar teams and lowered every other difference I think your test is a solid base for SI to look deeper in MP situation).
At the moment nerfing your set pieces will make the game fair. The required ME/AI fix is to give the AI more chance of scoring from set pieces and reduce users' chances. However, until that is in place, you will have to do it manually by deliberately undermining your own routines.Hmmm so someone has to be an excellent tactician and man manager to get their team to create less chances?, just to get more realistic results? I'm sure there a plenty of people in that 30% who've used their own tactics and still overachieved, hell I did on one save. Maybe we need some player made tactics that instead of trying to dominate and beat the AI every way they can, instead nerf your team by deliberately stifiling their attacking and creativty aspects, forefeit setpieces by setting everyone to defend, all just to get a more competative game against the AI. :/
Once this is fair, you will then win through being good strategically, tactically and man managerially, as by doing those things right, you'll create genuine and realistic good chances. Currently, all you have to do is win free kicks and corners and have a relatively stable defence.
Last edited by wwfan; 13-11-2011 at 23:48.
Do you think the poor AI MPs have any impact at all? The short term tests I did hinted at it somewhat, but granted they need to be much more prolonged to know for sure.
Last edited by Erimus1876; 14-11-2011 at 00:03.
I think there are probably three issues. The first, and core issue, is the high conversion rate from set pieces for user teams employing at least one tall forward and one tall DC versus the terrible conversion rate from AI teams. As Erimus's kind testing of nerfed set pieces illustrated, undermining your dead ball routines halves your chances of scoring and puts them in the realms of the realistic (you'd expect somewhere between 1 in 8 to 1 in 11. 1 in 4.5 is unmatchable by the AI).
Secondly and thirdly, the user's ability to keep morale high and have good match prep ensures the defence is stable, which makes it even harder for the AI to score in open play against user teams. Note that user teams that win through pressing continue have very low goals against but nothing special in the goals for columns. That is consistent with what I've seen in these games. The user team doesn't create masses of chances, so the goals for won't be hugely impressive, but does convert chances too regularly. The morale and tactical prep advantages then keep the score down at the other end.
I'm sure it will be fixed. Finding the problem is always the most difficult issue, as this thread proves. Once you know what it is, you have something to aim at. Although, right now, don't let that be a tall player's head if you want a competitive gaming experience.But that must be fixed. WHats the point in having tall strikers if I cant put them to score goals in set pieces . That makes entire position of tall strikers unplayable!
wwfan what do you think, can they quickly fix this bug??
Cheers for that insight wwfan Looks like my 6ft 6' striker is going in the reserves for a while!
But in last year version, there was already a issue with the number of goals scored by "human teams" from set pieces (in particulary from corners). I think we all remember the threads talking about the corners taken at the first post.
My point is, this issue was already in last year version, but with FM2011 there was no discussion about the game beeing too easy.
Isn't a bit strange that the same issue is causing the game to be too easy this year?
I think this thread has illustrated just how hard QA and testing can be. We've had multiple eyes looking at the problem from a variety of different angles, yet it has taken two weeks to determine the issues. It also looks like it is a combination of issues as well, which makes it even harder to find the key problems.
For what it is worth, I made a number of bad guesses in some pkms PaulC forwarded me. I was wrong many more time than I was right. It took a long look into an end of season 'too easy' game to identify the problem with high conversion ratios. The problem also isn't obvious at all because the number of goals scored by a single player from set pieces isn't stupidly high, but within the realms of possibility. You had to look at the scoring ratio of players in pretty much every team to identify where the issue was, then see if it was repeated in other saves (thanks Erimus for the info), then if it was preventable by removing the identified issues (with thanks again to Erimus for doing so).
In the end it came down to user teams having a better conversion ratio (somewhere between 1 goal in 4.5 to 6.8 shots) than the best AI ratio (1 goal in 7.8 shots, which is very unusual as well as most AI teams are a fair bit higher). Once you've identified that, you just have to pin down the players that were distorting the ratio and look at the pkms to see how they were scoring. Add in some other minor user advantages and voila, you have your 'win by pressing continue' seasons.
Last edited by wwfan; 14-11-2011 at 01:47.
Definitely making great strides here. However, wwfan, in the BSN I have poor corner takers and my forwards/DCs are not great headers at all, yet I was still scoring from an inordinate number of corners (but almost none from free kicks).
Erimus - just have him stay back or lurk outside the box.
Okay. Alas I'm in pre-season of 2nd season now, but fortunately I save and keep the save every month, so I will load up the Mat 2012 file and check it now.
This what i'm afraid when people talk about introducing difficulty levels in FM.
This game, have so many details that influence each other. A simple change in one area of the game, can make major influence in various aspects of the game.
If then introduce difficulty levels, bu changing some aspects of the game (for example to make it harder), what would be the consequences in other areas of the game? I think that nobofy would know.
This could leave us, with so many bugs.
MAY 2012 - end of season stats:
My DC and captain (he does have good atts - 15 jump, 15 head, 17 str) - 15 goals (inc. 2 pens). Goals/shots 48%, on target/goals 67%
Other DC (17 jump, 16 head, 9 str) - 5 goals 21% 47%
Main striker (12 jump, 12 head, 13 str) - 36 goals 29% 56%
Second striker (6 jump, 6 head, 7 str) - 29 goals 26% 55%
BSN shots on target:
1. my captain 72%
2. my #1 striker 57%
3. other 55%, then 54%, 53% .... my next player on the list is down in 69th! I think striker #2 and other players are missing because I rested them at the end of the season and played the kids. I kept only the skipper in the first team squad for leadership and striker #1 to break records.
So, my simplistic interpretation is that #1 striker is just damn good - my highest-paid player and clearly the best forward in the division, so his stats are great but not odd.
The stand out stats are my captain, a DC who scored a lot of goals from corners (not all headers). He's also an exceptional player at this level, but should never have stats like that.
What's more my DC#2 has good but reasonable stats. His jumping/heading is better than DC'#1; the key difference appears to be the Strength of the DC#1.
The set piece instruction for DC#1 is 'attack far post' (DC#2 attack near post). It is striker #1 who challenges the keeper. My best corner-taker has 11 for corners.
Last edited by phnompenhandy; 14-11-2011 at 01:20.
Good analysis. The 48% ratio is the main issue and the one that is really distorting the game. You'll actually find a number of AI DCs who have a similar or higher conversion ratio. However, they don't have anywhere as near the number of shots (maybe 6-12 per season).
The FCs high scoring ratios are likely to be knock ons from the set piece issue. Because you have a certain number of 'easy' goals during a season (circa 1 every 3 games), the opposition is forced to play a more open style of play than they might have done otherwise. This results in more space for your FCs. If, as I suspect, the morale / match prep is knocking onto a slightly more stable defence, and perhaps a weaker 'open style' for the AI as it isn't trained, then you are going to clean up the division.
Last edited by wwfan; 14-11-2011 at 03:56.
Makes perfect sense. My forwards score very few with their heads. I studiously keep the ball on the floor in open play. As you say, the effects of the super-DC-from corners problem on the opposition (open play, damaged morale [morale], no plan B [AI MP]) ensure that my forwards get plenty CCCs in most games.
So we've found the 'smoking gun', but let's not fall into the trap of assuming the easy morale and AI poor MP are red herrings' they are issues that need addressing in their own right (Paul!)
Interesting to see my theory about corner goals is turning out to be true here.(suggested earlier in the thread) Noticed it early on in one of my games.
What we had is a player scoring circa 15 goals from set pieces (in the game I used to find the problem, the DC had also scored 15, just as in phnompenhandy's game). This isn't a red flag in itself, but only when taken in conjunction with the conversion ratio. There will also have been a few other goals scored by players following up or in different positions. The increased likelihood of a user scoring a goal from a set piece then knocks onto all the open play issues discussed above.
Looking at individual pkms was a waste of time as they couldn't be taken in context with the overall season. Likewise, testing AI teams over a whole season isn't going to help as all the stats are going to match up to expectations. The only way to find the problem was to analyse a whole season of matches in which the user found the game too easy. That firstly requires the user to be worried about the easiness, then be prepared to report it and upload his game. It also needed the user to have a certain type of player to even generate the core issue, which is why it hasn't been a consistent problem for everyone.
From my perspective, this has been one of the toughest 'whys' I've ever seen in FM. I suspect Paul will agree.
Have to say, massive for your complete honesty in this wwfan - no attempt to hide behind diplomacy or patronise us.
Agreed, really enjoyed reading his posts in this thread.
Yeah, really appreciate this thread.
Just to clarify, what exactly is it that we can do then, at present, to try and make the game a bit more challenging?
I've heard the expression "nuke" your set-piece settings...but what does that entail exactly?
I think FM2012 is the best version yet in terms of the game itself, but the ease with which I'm rolling teams over is as depressing as losing every game!
1: Highlight the difficulty of catching issues. Too many times I've seen forum users complain that SI's testers aren't doing a good job. Finding the problem(s) in this instance took an awful lot of effort from an awful lot of people.
2: Provide a workaround for people who want a challenging game before there is an update.
3: Dismiss the silly conspiracy rumours about SI intentionally dumbing the game down for mass market / console user appeal. The problem is, quite simply, an extremely well hidden and subtle bug that will only affect users with certain types of players in certain tactical positions.
Therefore, the 'nuclear' option is to keep your powerful player away from the 6 yard box for set-pieces. To do that, you need to go into the set-pieces creator and manually move him out of the way.
I'll repeat a point I made a couple of days ago - when the fix is out there will be a massive outcry from gamers outraged that their DC has stopped scoring from every corner. Ha!
wwfan, to tie the problem down a little more, how about my stats above: My DC#1 had an unrealistic number of chances and goals, but my DC#2 was within the realms of acceptability. Why? Remember that #2 has better jumping and heading attributes. Is it:
1. DC#1's STRENGTH is the decisive factor?
2. The position at corners - DC#1 set to attack far post - is the problem with 'challenge keeper' and 'attack far post' settings? (how do free kick stats compare?)
3. Is it both in conjunction?
4. Is it one of these factors in conjunction with something else?
#2 is still pretty high. 1 in 5 is too good for a player who is only a threat at set pieces. As for the the questions, only Paul can really answer those. Personally, I think the far post header is more dangerous than the near post one because the player is meeting the ball and heading it back in roughly the direction it is coming from, not trying to divert the angle. That would be realistic too. It also puts the 'challenge keeper' player into play, who can divert balls headed straight at the keeper past him. Strength may be a factor as well, of course.
I definitely love this thread. It highlights the complexity of every simulation : tweak a little bit some factor, ruin the balance of the simulation.
I'll take a look at my game where I'm clearly overachieving, but last time I checked I had about 15% of my goals on corners, and not too much by my tall players.
Last edited by xavierm; 14-11-2011 at 08:04. Reason: spelling
And at least we've got an insight into how we can temporaily reduce certain aspects or improve others in the game now, to make it a better challenge to those seeking one while waiting for the official patch
Fantastic that the problem has been found and it does help a lot to explaining why i dont suffer, because of the FM11 corner bug i had set my corners up so they aim towards my two smaller strikers, which means i dont score a lot from corners or freekicks. Plus for the 1st 5 seasons my best freekick taker had 11 for the attribute and very rarely hit the intended target,
Its brilliant to see this thread lasted the course and we got to the bottom of it, big well done to Erimus for all his testing, and a big thanks to wwfan and Paul for giving this so much attention.
Now if only GD was this nice all the time!! hahaha
Isn't it strange that this corner issue happens only to user teams? I would expect any player with proper ability to score unrealistic number of goals.
Maybe human teams can defend better the set pieces and corners.
Somewhat dissapointed by this conclusion, we know for a while that there are a lot goals from set pieces on FM surely the people that complained about the game being too easy noticed that they were scoring a very high number of goals from set pieces? (namely corners).
So the people that were winning everything just pressing continue didn't noticed that they were scoring 30 goals/season (made up number to prove the point) from corners?
I do not believe it! The ME is straight and AI teams have tall players?
It's not 30 goals. It's mid teens, which is why it is difficult to spot. The problem is the high conversion ratio, when user teams score at a goal every 4.5 - 6.5 shots meaning they can play quite conservatively yet guarantee goals. If DCs were scoring 30+ goals, it would have been spotted in a second.
But how come it's not happening to AI teams, they also have all the big guys upfront? Match prep, morale? I think that's the real question.
10 or 15 goals per season for a DC is almost equally unrealistic as scoring 30
Because it was absolutely imperative the AI didn't score too many goals from corners, it seems like the knock on is that their set piece routines were so bad they hardly scored any. Delivery accuracy would have been tweaked up to ensure they were scoring at the right ratio (dead ball v open play goals). Consequently, any half decent user routine dominates.
Weren't you pretty scathing abut ME testing? This issue highlights exactly how difficult it is to spot problems. 1000 plus posts and two weeks before any solid progress has been made.


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This answer about calcium supplements and strength-building mentions calcium helping the body to absorb protein, a claim I have also heard several times before.
Can anyone offer a deeper explanation for how/why this works, or any reliable sources?
When you eat excess protein, your body leaches calcium from other sources in order to process the unnecessary protein. This means it will take calcium from your bones, if needed. The calcium loss can result in many health problems, including osteoporosis. According to this article from Michigan State University, the average Western diet includes double the protein needed for the body. The article also states,
If you want to try digging more deeply into the real science behind all of the interactions between protein and calcium, this article from The American Society for Nutritional Sciences has some less cryptic information about the calcium-protein interactions in the body, and this page has lots of diagrams of various chemical reactions in the body. The last mentioned page ends with the sentence,

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To provoke is to stimulate or give rise to a strong emotion or a reaction, which is typically an unwelcome one. A sample sentence could be
Does that clear your doubts?
In this sense provoke is about creating a reaction
while stir up is used to mean excite
Stir up is in common English usage because of a phrase in the old Anglican collect for the last Sunday before Advent
where it was a translation of the Latin excita. It was taken as an indicator that it was time to make (i.e. stir up) Christmas puddings.
Provoke means "stimulate or give rise to a reaction or emotion (typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone," while stir up means "arouse strong feeling in (someone); move or excite.
The difference is that provoke is also used for an unwelcome reaction or emotion, while stir up is used for a strong feeling.


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Is there a difference between the various types of flour that you see in the stores (i.e. Cake, Bread, and All-Purpose? Is it really necessary to stock 3 types of flour in my pantry or is this just a scheme from the manufacturers to get more money?
There are actually quite a few differences between the different types of flour. The number of different types you store will really depend on your particular requirements.
All purpose (or plain) flour is a blend of different types of wheat and has a relatively low protein content.
Bread flour is typically made from a single, high protein wheat. It also has a higher gluten strength. It may also contain ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
Cake flour is also typically made from a single type of wheat (different from the wheat used in bread flour) and has a high starch content, it also has the lowest protein content.
There are many other types of flour, all of which server specific purposes, for example;
Self raising flour, Whole wheat flour, Chick pea flour, Rice flour, Semolina flour
And others.
Essentially it's important to use the right type of flour for a give recipe.
Chef Darin Sehnert, of chefdarin.com and the teaching chef at a cooking school in Savannah, GA, has a great in-depth article on the various types of flour:
He answers questions such as "Why and when to use cake flour" and "Why and when to use all-purpose flour." It's a long read but does a great job of exploring the different types of flour.
The difference is the amount of protein contained in the flour which can range from 5% to 15%. Bread flour usually has a minimum of 12% because bread needs it to rise properly. Cake flour has lower amount of protein, and all-purpose is in the middle.
See also here. The link at the bottom opens a table of the different protein ratios for the different products it is used for.
One element of the question that hasn't yet been answered: "Is it really necessary to stock 3 types of flour in my pantry...?"
Probably not. At least two are good, but it will cost you more than just buying AP. You can actually blend your own all-purpose flour by mixing a soft flour (like cake or pastry flour) and a hard flour (like bread or "high-gluten" flour). Many professional bakers take this route. I have entire cookbooks where all recipes specify mixtures of two types of flour, usually bread flour and pastry flour. "All-purpose" does not exist, and you tailor your blend to the specific purpose of the recipe.
Speaking of which, as alluded to in other answers, not all "all-purpose" flour brands are created equal. Gold Medal probably falls around the middle, while King Arthur all-purpose is harder and closer to bread flour. White Lily all-purpose is softer and closer to cake flour.
There are also further subdivisions than three. Most commonly, I've seen a five-fold division. Going from softest to hardest:
For a while, I only tended to stock high-gluten and a very soft pastry flour. I could then create any other flour in-between by blending these two in whatever quantity was appropriate to the application. That's effectively what all-purpose flours do anyway, so this gives you more control. I haven't done this for a while, because I've moved away from the place I could buy specialty flour in bulk 50-pound bags for reasonable prices (and I've moved away from the people I used to share these purchases with). Things like pastry flour and high-gluten are so expensive and generally available only for mail order, so the home baker is stuck with the options in the grocery store. (By the way, I personally avoid most cake flours because of the bleaching, which can also affect the flavor of the flour -- a good-quality soft pastry flour is almost always sufficient. "Unbleached cake flour" that you sometimes see these days is usually pastry flour in terms of strength.)
I haven't discussed here the various types of whole-wheat flour, which seems like a different question. Whole-wheat is naturally high in gluten, often even higher than bread flour, but because of the additional bran and germ elements, it doesn't tend to rise as high or produce results that are as chewy as bread flour. Various size grinds and different levels of "extraction" (i.e., what size particles are taken out, how much of the whole-grain elements are removed) make various brands of whole-wheat flour seem very different. And then there are things like self-rising flour... just don't do it (in my opinion). Add your own leavening if necessary.
Finally, it should be noted that this classification only goes for the United States. Similar sorts of flours exist in Europe, for example, but different types of wheat and different processing can yield further variety in other characteristics of the flour. This is just a continuum from soft/tender to chewy. But by varying things like ash content, moisture content, etc., you can change other characteristics of the flour, like how much water dough will absorb, etc. without changing the tender/chewiness factor as much. So Europeans end up with types of flours that can do things differently from what American flours do.
Cake flour has less protein than AP flour which has less protein than bread flour. Cake flour is sometimes ground finer. The wheat used is known as soft (cake) or hard(bread) or a mix...the goal being to achieve a certain protein level. Professional bakers will care about this more than you need to.
No, you can't turn AP flour into cake flour, but you can, pretty much, use AP flour instead of cake flour. The cake MAY potentially be a little tougher/firmer, but you probably won't notice the difference.
Having cake flour around won't mess you up, if you make biscuits regularly, for instance, since soft flour is better for biscuits, which you definitely don't want to be tough. But if you just want to make this cake, substitute AP for the cake flour and you should be fine. If it calls for beating it for a long time after you add the liquid, you might cut back on it a bit, so that you develop the gluten a little less (more protein can build more gluten...see bread flour above), but most cakes don't call for a whole lot of beating anyway.
Cake flour has a lower protein content than AP flour. It's essentially the opposite of bread flour (higher protein content). You can add protein (turn AP flour into bread flour) in the form of vital wheat gluten to increase the protein content of your flour, but I don't know of any way to go the other way around. Some brands of AP flour from the southern US are "softer" and could probably be used as cake flour. "White Lily" is one of these.
I think it is worth mentioning that in the Central-to-Eastern Europe and in other places likely as well, you differentiate 3 basic types of flour according to how fine it is milled:
It is quite difficult to purchase whole flour in many parts of the world and people don't use it to bake bread there. This makes Eastern-European people quite unhappy about the bread quality all around the world.


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For the last four months I've kept my word for the year at the center of my decisions and I have been learning so much through it. The lessons haven't been easy ones, but it's been my experience that the best discoveries come through the hard stuff, so I'm okay with that. My true priorities have become so much more clear since I've been making the conscious decision to flourish, and that feels like a tangible reward from all the work I've been doing. I'm feeling more comfortable in my own skin too, which is something that I wasn't even aware I was in need of. I tell ya, it's amazing what God can do with one little word!
I had so many plans for this space and the things I wanted to share through my journey of flourishing, but it turns out God had a different plan. Shortly after the year started I was given the opportunity to start working as a freelance designer for a design firm that sells products, including faith based art, to national retailers. It's hard for me to put in words the blessing that this is to me. I love being able to create my own designs and custom work for my clients, but being able to create work that glorifies God to be sold in stores around the country…well, it makes my heart want to explode with joy!
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I'd like to see a proof why $\varphi \in \operatorname{Hom}{(S^1, S^1)}$ looks like $z^n$ for an integer $n$.
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How secure is your Woot password?
Since the site redesign you don't need to re-enter the CVV code for your credit card when ordering, just your password. So how secure is your Woot password. Think it is pretty good? Now go read this:
Now answer it again. I sincerely hope that Woot keeps our stuff hashed, salted, encrypted, and behind the best security possible. But, since the change, I certainly made mine much, much harder (totally random, no cuteness). Have you done the same? Or are you still using monkey123?
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You are not supposed to type out your password like that...you are supposed to type xxxxxx!
Seriously though, I do need to do a major overhaul on the passwords, all of them. I have not changed mine recently and I am due. I am not looking forward to the adventure but I do have it on my todo list.
I thought passwords were •••••••••. Have I been typing in the wrong thing all along?
@pattiq: I, for the most part, use LastPass to keep them all straight. I pay the money for the Pro version that has mobile apps. Even then, it is kind of a pain, in that I try and use the maximum password length allowed in highly important sites. So, good luck trying to enter 20 totally random alphanumeric characters without an error. So, I really need to have access to the account directly via the plug in.
So it's somewhat secure.
Well, I am completely screwed when Anonymous hacks Woot.
My password is secure. I will have to request a new one whenever I am logged out.
Mine's secure, it's password with a capital 2. Nobody will figure that out.
No else here uses: Woot! as their password?
But seriously, even if the password were stolen credit cards have zero liability for fraudulent purchases (Paypal does as well) so I'm not that worried.
@iggz: Way better then mine:
password1 = Instantly where
password123 = a year,
Woot! = 0.3375312767 seconds
per http://howsecureismypassword.net/
or everyone could post their passwords here and I can tell you how long it takes to crack them.
Dude! Not cool! Not cool at all!
First, you frakking hack my password! How the heck did you figure out that it was monkey123?!!
Then, on top of that, you go and post it here for everyone to see!
What the frak is wrong with you?!!
Do you know how many sites I use monkey123 on?!! It is gonna take me hours to change it everywhere!
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@caffeine_dude: I always thought that website was funny... "everyone come here! type your password for everything!"
@caffeine_dude: It would take a desktop PC about 6 thousand years to crack my password.
After that long, I won't care.
@caffeine_dude: I tested some of my passwords. Less than a day, 39 days, 6 years...one was 633 decillion years. Oddly enough, that's the easiest one to remember.
I winder what the hackers will buy for me?
Ugh, thanks to this stupid post I went and updated my password. Now I'll have to remember a new word after all these years. Grumble, grumble...
Same password as I use for my luggage - 123456
You mean 'BOC123' might not be a good password for Woot! ?
my password is a sentence that makes no sense.
I will just leave this here:
@miquinn: I agree.
@xdavex: I wonder if in accounts for moore's law.
I hope you have seen this, if not: http://xkcd.com/936/ edit @j5: posted it already.
@morriea: I am sure you are getting a boc
@panthiest: a sentence that makes no sense = 312 nonillion years
@thumperchick: BOC123 = 0.544195584 seconds
@mml666: 123456 = Instantly
@theghostofsnapsterpast: monkey123 = 7 hours
Yes, but...
Those calculations assume that the individual attempting to crack your password is just going to use brute force guessing. In this case really the length is all that matters. RTFA. They aren't doing that anymore.
Large collections of passwords have been leaked, and the bad guys today are, sadly, smarter than before. They studied them. So, what they have discovered is that people are doing cute things like: since I'm a leet dude, I'll just change to leetspeak, and be l337d00d. So, among the dictionary attacks they add words with common substitutions. Another very common password is a proper name followed by a recent year. So, if one uses the first name of their first sexual experience followed by the year (i.e. Gertrude1983, or maybe Gertrude1983!! cause it was good) that is likewise easly broken. I used to think I was being cute using keyboard patterns. Nope, all those are amonst the first guessed.
@wilfbrim: The XKCD article is still accurate. A collection of randomly chosen words is significantly more secure than l337 sp34k encoding. Especially now with educated guessing algorithms.
Passwords don't work anymore. Security companies still put out articles about "better passwords" so that companies can due there "due diligence" if sued and to make people "feel" safe.
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WASHINGTON—The attacks on American diplomatic missions sparked a harsh debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on Wednesday, with Mr. Romney using the episode to escalate his argument that the president is an overeager apologist and Mr. Obama to charge that his Republican foe "seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later."
Mr. Romney said an early response from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo amounted to an apology for the American value of free speech, for which he blamed the Obama administration.
The comments reflected his longstanding argument that Mr. Obama has apologized for American actions and embraced criticism of the country, a critique the Obama campaign rejects.
But Mr. Romney's decision to criticize the president before the situation overseas had become clear became subject of debate among members of both parties.
In their own statements on the incidents, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) and many other Republicans responded to the news but didn't criticize Mr. Obama.
Mr. Obama, in turn, worked to advance his case that Mr. Romney lacks the judgment and experience needed to be commander in chief. "Gov. Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later. And as president, one of the things I've learned is you can't do that," the president told CBS's "60 Minutes."
The president also put the advantages of incumbency on display, appearing in the Rose Garden to express condolences for the four American lives lost at a U.S. consulate in Libya and vow to pursue justice.
The situation didn't keep either candidate from the campaign trail. After delivering their morning statements, Mr. Romney attended a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Fla., and Mr. Obama flew to Las Vegas to headline a rally with some 4,000 supporters.
The events put foreign policy, long a muted subject in the campaign, at the center of a race that has been dominated by the U.S. economy. They also added to the importance of the third and final presidential debate scheduled for October, which will focus on foreign affairs.
That could be helpful to Mr. Obama, whom voters say they trust more to handle world affairs. On the campaign trail, the president and his allies regularly talk about his work to end the war in Iraq, kill Osama bin Laden and degrade al Qaeda's strength.
The written statement by Mr. Romney's campaign issued late Tuesday night accused the Obama administration of a "disgraceful" response to the events abroad. It was referring to a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that had condemned a U.S. film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. That film has been faulted for sparking the anti-American protests there.
The following morning, after the events in Libya were clear and the death of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were known, Mr. Romney said his criticisms remained valid.
"It's a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values, that instead, when our grounds are being attacked and being breached, that the first response of the United States must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our nation. And apology for America's values is never the right course,'' Mr. Romney said at a news conference in Jacksonville, where he also offered condolences to the families of the Americans killed in Libya.
Mr. Obama, in the CBS interview, criticized Mr. Romney's response to the incidents.
"It appears that Gov. Romney didn't have his facts right," he said. Aides said Mr. Romney had wrongly suggested that the Cairo embassy statement condemning efforts to incite Muslims was issued after the violence had begun; it was issued before the violence unfolded. The White House also rejected assertions that the administration was apologizing for America.
The president added that the embassy statement was issued by people on the ground, facing danger.
"My tendency is to cut folks a little bit of slack when they're in that circumstance, rather than try to question their judgment from the comfort of a campaign office," he said.
Other Republicans questioned Mr. Romney's timing. Rep. Peter King of New York, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Mr. Romney had a legitimate point but made it at the wrong time.
Rushing to criticize the administration, he said, "injects it into the political debate, and to me, when there's a crisis unfolding, it can be counterproductive to become part of an intense partisan debate."
"If there was ever a moment to take your time and be measured, this would have been a good one," said veteran Republican strategist Ed Rogers. "What he said was imprecise and not very polished. And how he said it was not worthy of the moment."
Ari Fleischer, former press secretary to President George W. Bush, noted that Mr. Obama was intensely critical of the war in Iraq when he was running for president, despite violence there. "It's what challengers do, and it is appropriate," he said of Mr. Romney's criticisms of Mr. Obama.
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Once you have learned some basic strategy, the best way to learn is to play. If you don't have a friend or neighbor to play with, then I highly recommend the American Go Association. They have a great resources page, links to clubs, books and teaching software.
The AGA maintains a list of Internet Go Servers for on-line play, including some turn-based servers. Turn-based servers are good for beginners because there is no pressure to move quickly — you play via email. The Dragon Go Server is dedicated to Go.
The great thing about Go is that it is easy to handicap. You and a much more accomplished player can both enjoy a game together, you just have to handicap the expert player.
The interactive way to Go. It is only rudiments, but helpful at the beginning.
Only one advice: Play on small boards !
Just start by understanding a "simplified-but-faithful" formulation of the rules, like Strasbourg Rules, and then practice with a partner (either a beginner or an experienced player) on a 5x5 board.
Once you both feel too cramped on 5x5 (typically after 5 to 10 games) then move to 7x7, and so on.
Only after quite a long time does it become enjoyable to play on 19x19. Don't try it too soon, or you'll be disoriented by the many possibilities and loose interest in the game.
GoGrinder is a free desktop program for practicing Go problems. There's also a (paid) version of GoGrinder for iPhone on iTunes.
Mac Software. It hasn't been updated in a while, and I have no idea if they're interested in porting it to iOS, but a company in Switzerland called Sente have produced a very nice, and free, Go client for OSX called Goban (and it still works on Snow Leopard, despite not having updates since 2006). It lets you play against the Gnu-Go program (which it bundles), and it lets you connect to internet Go servers that support Go Modem and Go Text protocols. How good you think the opposing play AI is, well, I'm not sure an experienced Go player would appreciate it, but I sure do as a learner.
At one point, I was able to download and compile up a simple Go Server for OSX on my own, so I could host my own Go Server and then people at my workplace could connect to it and we could play games over our intranet, but I wouldn't recommend that for the non-technical.
Books. Kiseido publishes a series of books on Go, in English. I have K31 ("The Second Book of Go"), which I thought was quite useful, and most of the Elementary Go Series (K10-K15), and, again, I found them quite useful. K31 says that it assumes that "you're new to the game, but you've already read a newbie intro book on Go", but I didn't think it was necessary. Once you know the rules, I thought that K31 was a perfectly fine place to start your studies.
I don't consider myself anything more than a beginner, and I also am not the sort of person who enjoys reading series of problems and such, so I haven't progressed past these books from Kiseido, but they do offer a whole raft of books for players of all skill levels (ostensibly).
Start by playing with "strong" (or at least stronger) players if you can. You'll get whipped, but at least you'll learn some of their "typical" moves.
After you have served an "apprenticeship," then look for opponents close to your own strength. Try to beat them with the techniques you have learned from others.


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why would the bills hire a bunch of hasbeens?
Here's an article about Coaches in the Hot Seat:
I think its pretty accurate that almost every coach listed will be fired except for Reid. Here are my predictions about who they hire:
San Diego - fires Norv, and hires Steve Mariucci. (They prefer coaches with prev HC experience)
Dallas - fires Garrett, and hires Jon Gruden.
KC - fires RAC, and if Pioli is still around, hires another Hoodie Disciple like Mangini. If Pioli is not around, ownership could go for an established HC like Billick or Holmgren.
Carolina - fires the GM and Riviera, making way for the return of NC native son, Bill Cowher.
Cleveland - fires Pat, and hires Ohio native son, Jay Gruden; or Nick Saban.
Jets - will only fire Rex Ryan, if a big name is available like Holmgren, Cowher, or Gruden. Ownership has money to spend on a big name head coach.
Bills - fire Gailey, and I think the smart choice would be Marty Schottenheimer, depending on how much ownership wants to spend. I think some other good possibilities would be Hue Jackson, Jay Gruden, Fewell, Dennis Green.
why would the bills hire a bunch of hasbeens?
If Ron Rivera or Marvin Lewis get the boot, would you be interested in either of them?
Well Schottenheimer is actually one of the most successful coaches in history, and was only fired because he didn't get along with the GM. If you don't want your team in the playoffs, then don't hire him.
Hue Jackson, Fewell, Dennis Green all have a record of success, and have built playoff teams.
College coaches and coordinators are risky and might require a lot more time to build a winning team. Ralph Wilson doesn't have enough time for another mistake like Mularky, Gaily, Jauron, Williams.
Besides the Bills don't exactly have a star QB or other pieces that would make it easier for a 1st time coach to be successful.
Solid predictions, however I don't see Saban leaving Alabama for Cleveland. Maybe Dallas, but not the Browns.
I wouldn't object to Marty in Buffalo, but have a wild hunch Brian would be brought in as part of the deal, and I have zero interest in seeing him run the Bills offense into the toilet.
RIP Jack Kemp (1935-2009)
I want the Bills to hire Cinci DC Mike Zimmer as their next head coach.
Cowher to the jets..... I'd bank on that
I have been off the EJ is a "franchise QB" bandwagon since week 2 of 2013 season vs Carolina
There will also be less pressure to succeed than Miami.
The Browns also have a better QB potential than other places.
Dallas wants Gruden.
I think Marty knows enough to get the team to the playoffs with or without Brian.
Marty's not going to risk wins if his son isn't doing a good enough job.
Yea, let's hire even older, outdated men to replace the old men we already have. Here's an idea, how bout the BIlls hire a coach that doesn't have 1 foot in the grave?
I think it will come down between Norv Turner and who else sucks..... Dom Capers
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I wouldn't object to Marty in Buffalo, but have a wild hunch Brian would be brought in as part of the deal, and I have zero interest in seeing him run the Bills offense into the toilet.
Please just fire Gailey and get someone in here to take a q.b. in the 1st or 2nd rounds next year.
I think its pretty safe to say Gailey will be back next year
Gailey's lackey DC is the problem. His lack of blitzing is bad
Gailey's terrible play calling at times hurts the team
I'll give you credit for putting this in the right forum but the content bites
I love the smell of charcoal in the morning.
Gailey obviously will be back next year. Its one thing to call for him to be fired but to say you predict him to be let go is pretty silly. What is that prediction based on? Nothing about this organization says that these people would fire Gailey.
First of all Cowher does want a team with an established Good Starting QB. San Diego is the perfect spot for him. Nice weather, the 3-4 defense is already in place. Love him or hate him Phillip Crying on the local Rivers is there.
Gruden will end up in Philly, his brother will end up in Cleveland I believe and Dallas will either hire long hair aka Rob Ryan as LONG as he DOES NOT hire his brother Rex lol... The Jets will probably land the OC from Atlanta I forgot his name and I am just too lazy to look it up but those of you who know football know WHO I am talking about and why I am even mentioning his name. Also I can see Mike Zimmer from the Bengals getting a HC job somewhere as well...
IF the Bills fire Chan (for the record I hope they don't) I believe Ralph will go after the OC from Atlanta or Gary Zimmer DC from the Bengals. I wouldn't mind Perry Fewell but all you Johnny come lately types will cry that Ralph did go after a real Head Coach LIKE YOU ALWAYS do lol
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I'm looking for a road bike that's primarily for commuting around town and pulling a trailer with two kids. It's been a few years since I rode so I'm a bit of a noob. Please give me reasons why one is better over the other, I'd prefer having easier upkeep as well.
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One minor point: In the US you hardly ever find 5/10/15 speed bikes, except perhaps at WalMart. Generally there will be from seven to 10 cogs on the rear.
Re the "right" gearing, it depends on the terrain, but if it's at all hilly where you live and you'll be pulling a trailer, and you're not a gorilla, you need some low gearing to get the trailer up hills, so two or three front rings would be advised.
Maintenance is essentially identical for any derailleur-style bike. There's a little less maintenance if you have only one front ring, but the difference is negligible.
Mainly you want to buy a decent quality bike from a reputable bike shop, then take it back once or twice in the first few months (at least the first visit should be free) to have it tuned up (since shift and brake cables stretch when the bike is new). (You may be tempted to buy a fancy internal gear hub bike or some such. Don't. They're more expensive to buy and maintain, and generally less reliable. Re disk brakes, there are some arguments in favor of them, but no compelling reason for you to go with disks unless you like to spend money.)
Otherwise, wipe the chain with a rag and squirt a little chain oil (from the bike shop) on it every few months. (No need for this when it's new -- wait a few months.) Every year or two haul it back to the shop for a tuneup (or learn to do it yourself).
There are two main things to consider:
That is to say it matters not only how much gears the bike have, but how low and how high can they get.
As a suggestion, I would try a double compact or a triple chainring in front, with a rear cluster having the greatest cog around 28 teeth (for the hills), or 24 teeth minimum if you live in a flat area.
Hope this helps.
I'll give some insight from my personal experience...
I was looking for something similar to you. I bought a 27 speed road bike that I currently use for commuting. I live in a flat location and I find that I only really use 2 gears, 1 for acceleration and small hills, and another for straightaways.
Keep in the back of your mind the route you will take to and from your start point and destination. If you are really using this bike for commuting you will probably have a prominent route that you take. If that is the case, it may be best to minimize the maintenance and possibilities of problems by going for a 5 speed.
Also, for easy upkeep, shy away from embedded gear boxes. Instead go for an external cassette, you'll be happier because you will be able to do the basic maintenance on your own.
More gears != more gearing range. Are you in a hilly town or a flat one? Traffic-jamming or cruising longer distances between stops?
Close gears (i.e., many gears) are great for touring in flatter country because you'll be more likely to have just the right gear for the grade, the wind, the load, and your condition, and be able to stay in it long enough to matter.
In hillier country or when traffic-jamming, you won't stay in one gear long enough to care how close to just-right it is or isn't; having enough gears to cover the conditions you'll encounter will be more important.
It goes down to where are you riding, Flat or hill, 20 meters difference on height is not a hill. Keep it simple! the less gears you can have in your bike, the easier will be the upkeep, where 5 gears is optimum for flat area, and 21 for hills. Do not buy a cheap bike, insist on good quality brakes and gear.(not excellent, as it is expensive without reason) If you are not planing on going off road, use sleek road tires, even on a mountain bike. No back suspension, as it will take your power away while pulling a trailer. I used to pull on a trailer, get one that fits properly to the bike.


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And the Winners of Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards in Data Integration are…
By Irem Radzik-Oracle on Oct 17, 2012
At OpenWorld, we announced the winners of Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards 2012. Raymond James and Morrison Supermarkets were selected for the data integration category for their innovative use of Oracle's data integration products and the great results they have achieved.
In this blog I would like to briefly introduce you to these award winning projects.
Raymond James is a diversified financial services company, which provides financial planning, wealth management, investment banking, and asset management. They are using Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator to feed their operational data store (ODS), which supports application services across the enterprise. A major requirement for their project was low data latency, as key decisions are made based on the data in the ODS. They were able to fulfill this requirement due to the Oracle Data Integrator's integrated solution with Oracle GoldenGate.
Oracle GoldenGate captures changed data from different systems including Oracle Database, HP NonStop and Microsoft SQL Server into a single data store on SQL Server 2008. Oracle Data Integrator provides data transformations for the ODS. Leveraging ODI's integration with GoldenGate, Raymond James now sees a 9 second median latency (from source commit to ODS target commit).
The ODS solution delivers high quality, accurate data for consuming applications such as Raymond James' next generation client and portfolio management systems as well as real-time operational reporting. It enables timely information for making better decisions.
There are more benefits Raymond James achieved with this implementation of Oracle's data integration solution. The software developers and architects of this solution, Tim Garrod and Ryan Fonnett, have told us during their presentation at OpenWorld that they also reduced application complexity significantly while improving developer productivity through trusted operational services. They were able to utilize CDC to generate alerts for business users, and for applications (for example for cache hydration mechanisms).One cool innovation example among many in this project is that using ODI's flexible architecture, Tim and Ryan could build 24/7 self-healing processes. And these processes have hardly failed. Integration process fixes the errors itself. Pretty amazing; and a great solution for environments that need such reliability and availability. (You can see Tim and Ryan's photo with the Innovation Awards trophy above.)
The other winner of this year in the data integration category, Morrison Supermarkets, is the UK's 4th largest grocery retailer. The company has been migrating all their legacy applications on to a new-world application set based on Oracle and consolidating all BI on to a single Oracle platform. The company recently implemented Oracle Exadata as the data warehouse engine and uses Oracle Business Intelligence EE.
Their goal with deploying GoldenGate and ODI was to provide BI data to the enterprise in a way that it also supports operational decision making requirements from a wide range of Oracle based ERP applications such as E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Oracle Retail Suite. They use GoldenGate's log-based change data capture capabilities and Oracle Data Integrator to populate the Oracle Retail Data Model. The electronic point of sale (EPOS) integration solution they built processes over 80 million transactions/day at busy periods in near real time (15 mins). It provides valuable insight to Retail and Commercial teams for both intra-day and historical trend analysis.
As I mentioned in yesterday's blog, the right data integration platform can transform the business. Here is another example: The point-of-sale integration enabled the grocery chain to optimize its stock management, leading to another award: Morrisons won the Grocer 33 award in 2012 - beating all other major UK supermarkets in product availability. Congratulations, Morrisons,on another award!
Celebrating the innovation and the success of our customers with Oracle's data integration products was definitely a highlight of Oracle OpenWorld for me. I look forward to hearing more from Raymond James, Morrisons, and the other customers that presented their data integration projects at OpenWorld, on how they are creating more value for their organizations.


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Is it actually worth it to read the Book of Optics by Alhazen to get basic knowledge about Optics? I know it's way too old but this book was important in the optics field. Also where can I find it cause I looked in Amazon with no luck. I'm fine with an English copy or Arabic copy
As usual with this kind of question, you have to define what you mean by "worth". It's probably (rather: it's surely) not the first book that you should refer to for photography. On the other hand, it is a book of enormous importance in the history of mankind, so it is worth, in the sense that a masterpiece is always worthwhile.
In this vein, have you already read Galilei's works? They are (in my opinion) rather enjoyable even for modern readers and they surely are masterpieces (scientific and literary ones).
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From a brief search on Amazon, here are some links. I don't know about the quality of the editions, since I read them in the original version.
As a minimum, Galilei is relevant if you are interested into astronomy. The use of the telescope is also quite relevant... and now I will stop arguing about the relevance of Galilei, since he certainly doesn't need me :-)
It would be worth reading if you are interested in the history of science. It really depends on your interests. You would probably need a reasonable understanding of optics and physiology, so you can appreciate where he's right or wrong.
The wikipedia link you gave also has links to english translations. For example, this one:
Looking at a few of the listings I can see links to amazon.co.uk and Barnes & Noble.


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The tournament consisted of the Rampage and the three other teams in the Midwest Sled Hockey League. San Antonio opened up the tournament with a 3-0 victory over the Colorado Avalanche Sled Hockey team on Friday night. They followed up that effort with a 4-2 win over the RIC Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday morning.
However, the Rampage dropped their lone game of the weekend on Saturday night during the team's Military Appreciation game to the DASA St. Louis Blues, 2-1. San Antonio wrapped up second place in the tournament with a 5-3 win over the Florida Bandits Sled Hockey Team on Sunday afternoon. With this weekend's results, the Rampage remain in second place in the league with playoffs starting in March.
"Overall it was a really good weekend," said Josh Sweeney, who led the Rampage with seven points on the weekend. "It was a disappointing loss to St. Louis but we played hard and gave it our all. The turnout from the fans was great and it was exciting to play in front of such a good crowd here in San Antonio."
The San Antonio Rampage Sled Hockey Team features three U.S. National Sled Hockey Team members with Sweeney, Rico Roman and Jen Yung Lee. The U.S. National Sled Hockey Team won the 2012 International Paralympic Committee Ice Sledge Hockey World Championship in Hamar, Norway, and the 2012 World Sledge Hockey Challenge in Calgary, Alta.
The San Antonio Rampage Sled Hockey Team was the first team to form that consists of all wounded military service members. The team is run by Operation Comfort, a nonprofit organization that works with wounded Service Members coming from Iraq and Afghanistan who are recovering at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, Texas.
The Rampage Sled Hockey Team was formed in January 2007 and was adopted by the San Antonio Rampage shortly thereafter. The Rampage (AHL) continues to host various fundraising events, including their annual Military Appreciation Night on March 2, to raise money to support the Rampage Sled Hockey Team. The sled hockey team started with seven players and has quickly gained popularity in which the team now consists of more than 20 players. The team began playing in tournaments in 2008 and has since traveled throughout the United States.
The Rampage (AHL) will host their 10th annual Military Appreciation Night, sponsored by Champion A.C., on Saturday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m. at AT&T Center. Individual and season tickets can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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