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6 Painful Things Nobody Tells You About Fighting
Everybody says they know that action movies are fake, but they're lying. For proof, just get a couple of drunk males in a confrontation and you'll quickly realize they did in fact think Hollywood fight scenes were grim depictions of reality. They'll throw haymakers and roundhouse kicks with images of Jean-Claude Van Damme spin-punching a guy through a plate glass window dancing in their heads.
Thirty seconds later, they're laying on the floor, gasping and hissing in pain while rubbing some body part, perhaps while crying. This is when they realize the difference between choreographed movie fighting and real fighting. Because in the real world, it turns out ...
#6. Your Fists Are Fragile Flowers
A punch should be the easiest thing in the world. Just make a vaguely ball-like shape with your hand and let the beatings commence. Hell, babies do it on accident.
"The only accident is that you're still alive."
In the movies, everyone from lab scientists to sassy sidekicks throw punches all the time, with no ill effects to anyone but the recipient, who tends to be knocked out without a hitch. The worst case scenario is that the punch has no effect and the opponent will simply be amused, like that giant Nazi Indiana Jones couldn't hurt without a plane propeller. Right?
Of course it's not right. Have you read this site before? Is it ever "right" when we ask like that?
Not saying that we wouldn't love to live in a word where it is.
Here's the problem -- the hand is a pretty delicate thing. A fight-worthy fist is a lot more than just a bunched-up hand -- developing your curled fingers into a punching tool takes years of training. Even real boxers get it wrong often enough that the most common injury caused by punching failure is known as boxer's fracture.
So, what's the worst that could happen if we get it wrong? Well ... everything, really. There are at least as many ways to break your own fist with your opponent's body as the other way around. Say you align your fingers ever so slightly wrong. Too bad, they are now broken. Hit the target with the wrong knuckle? Enjoy the dislocation of said knuckle. Get the angle wrong? Congratulations, you now have a broken wrist.
Things might've gone differently in the real world for John McClane.
OK, you think, you'll just have to get it right in one shot. You're not going to go 15 rounds with the drunk in the bar, after all. You're just going to punch him right in the face and knock his ass out with one blow. Well, the problem is ...
#5. Punching a Guy in the Head Is a Terrible Idea
Socking a dude right in the jaw tends to be our default response to a physical threat once the "fight" side of the fight-or-flight response takes over. And a lifetime of movies has taught us that a hard smack in the jaw can end a fight in seconds. Hell, we've seen the same thing in boxing and MMA matches, right?
Fighting ain't hard.
Yep. Rare, perfect blows ... out of hundreds thrown. And those guys are professional fighters.
For the average Joe like you, attempting the classic knockout blow to the head is distilled stupidity. Think about it: The head is a small, moving target -- and therefore pretty much the dumbest place you can attack. And missing your punch is what happens if you're lucky.
Think those teeth are any less sharp at high speed?
As the head is basically the hardest part of the human body, a connecting blow actually means you stand a better chance of breaking a hand (yours) than breaking a face (your opponent's). Aside from all the "your fists are as fragile as toothpicks" stuff we just finished talking about, remember that the human skull isn't just hard, it's also sharp. Angle your punch wrong, and you might drive your hand directly into the teeth. This is called a fight bite, and it can cause serious damage -- first with a nasty gash in your hand, and then with an even nastier infection. Why? Because the human mouth is disgusting.
Unless you can afford a really advanced toothbrush.
How nasty is it in there? You'll be unhappy you asked! Human saliva contains as many as 100 million organisms per mL, composed of nearly 200 different species. Species! In your mouth! And now you have those swarming into the open cut in your dainty, womanly fist.
Hey, that's why you just want to kick the dude, right? Well, the problem there is ...
#4. Kicks Are Useless
We accept that this point is a lot harder to believe. After all, a kick is bound to pack a lot more power than a punch, if only because the leg is so much bigger and stronger than the arm. Also, the foot tends to be encased in a shoe in a real-life fighting situation (unless you're being beaten and robbed specifically for your new Jordans), so the fragility factor shouldn't really apply here. Surely, your legs are an ultimate weapon when push really comes to shove. Eat crane kick, motherfucker!
Once again, we have stumbled upon a common misconception, fueled by a gazillion Hollywood action stars and video game protagonists.
Most people don't carefully lean back to let you kick their chin.
Sure enough, a properly delivered high kick or roundhouse can be an instant game changer ... if you're an accomplished martial arts master in a controlled environment, that is. Are you that? Probably not.
While there indeed are bona fide, for realsies kicking experts out there, they are a lot more rare than, say, MMA fighters who prefer to rely on punching and grappling, using kicks mainly as distractions, last resorts and crowd-pleasing flashy moves. The reason for this is simple: Kicks are hard to master and execute properly.
Unless you're a high-powered businesswoman. Then they're just second nature.
In fact, the effectiveness of anything that could be considered a "high kick" in a real self-defense situation is under debate, even in the martial arts community. If for some reason you're thinking about going out and literally "kicking" some ass, read the previous sentence again slowly. The people who get paid to whomp ass aren't even sure if kicks are worth the effort. If that doesn't give you some pause, you've probably been kicked in the head so many times that another beating won't make much of a difference. So, by all means, kick away.
For the average person with no practical training under their belt, kicks (especially high ones) are slow, cumbersome, easily avoidable things that lack power, take a lot of energy and leave you in an extremely vulnerable position for a counterattack (the recipient of which is usually your dick, because that's what happens when you attempt a move that leaves your groin area open in a real fight).
Finish him!
The only kicks that are considered relatively effective when both people are upright are the fairly low ones to the shins and (of course) balls, which even your average citizen should be able to execute semicorrectly on the second or third try.
In theory, that is. In reality, even lower kicks tend to be laughably easy to avoid, as it turns out that ...


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This one is an unanswered question in Math.SE. I've posted it here because I think it deserves more attention.
How many sequences $\{a_n\}$ exist satisfying:
a) $a_1=0$
b) $\forall k\ge1 $ either $a_{k+1}=a_k+k$ or $a_{k+1}=a_k-k$
c) $a_i \neq a_j$ whenever $i \neq j$
d) $\mathbb{Z}=\{a_i\}_{i > 0}$
Are the two below alternating sequences the only solutions?
- $a_{2k}=k$, $a_{2k+1}=-k$
- $a_{2k}=-k$, $a_{2k+1}=k$
Also, it is known that Recamán's sequence satisfies
a) $a_1=1$ and b), c) as above


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The "Hearts of Texas for New York and surrounding areas" drive includes filling a trailer full of supplies like food and hygiene items and hand-delivering them to people in need on the east coast.
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How can you 'tile' a 3D globe if your existing artwork and maps are simple 2D grids?
Are there approaches that can re-use much of the artwork and such?
I've built something like what you're looking for. I used this site mostly as a reference for the map build process. BUGS Geodesic Map
The basic steps:
In mine, the whole grid is one giant mesh, not repeated cell models (http://blog.chronoclast.com/search/label/OTD). For lower mesh resolutions this runs okay. If you're looking at tens of thousands of cells, you'll want to explore more dynamic mesh building - mine is all pre-built. Cells are textured off a page-map (2/9/16... textures per image) and can blend uv's (that was hard, took forever, still kind of meh).
Here are a couple of articles from Spore
Creating Spherical Worlds
Our game "Save Us!" used that. It is pretty fun to have rts on planet and control it. Save us gameplay (but the game is not fun at all :-))
Save Us! Uses regular 2D heightmap which is transformed to a sphere. It is easy to do, but has problem on sphere's poles. We just have there ocean. Not really nice solution, but works. Problem of non rectangular tiles is not big. It looks quite ok. For determining which tile is clicked we use color picking.
This is old project and the solution is not the best, but it is very very easy and quite good looking.
Much better solution should be usage of icosphere.


text: Here is a simple secondary character from the new Nickelodeon series Robot and Monster. He is a hunk of metal and he is also the pet to Monster. Here is "how to draw Marf", step by step. This block of metal is supposed to be like a pet dog. He barks and keeps Monster occupied when he is alone or in need of a friend. He is obviously really easy to draw, which means you should bang out this lesson on drawing Marf in no time at all. I really don't know what else I can say because this is just a pet to the main character of the animated cartoon series. I guess all I can do is say adios and enjoy!


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We wish you all a happy Heritage Day!
We wish all Capetonians and lovers of Cape Town a very happy Heritage Day. Why not spend the day revelling in the Mother City's rich history? Visit the Bo-Kaap, the District Six Museum or the Company Gardens. Whatever you do, enjoy the uniquely Capetonian spirit of it!
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This week a mother posted a photo of her 5-month-old daughter's straightened hair on her Facebook page.
Since then the web has gone wild with comments on both sides of the argument. The mother does not disclose how her child's hair was done. However, people are upset thinking she is too young for the hairstyle while others believe the mother has the right to style her child's hair how she wants.
What do you think of the baby's hair? Is it a big deal or should people mind their business?
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The department made 108 drunken-driving arrests last year, the second-highest among 35 rural law-enforcement agencies in the state, said Lt. Ray Shupe, spokesman for the police department.
CDOT released its rankings earlier this month. The Durango Police Department was recognized for its �excellent contribution to DUI enforcement,� said Leslie Chase, the high-visability enforcement coordinator for CDOT.
�We look at the number of arrests and agencies that go above and beyond and helping in an effort to enforce impaired driving,� Chase said.
A plaque for �outstanding contribution� to the �Heat Is On� enforcement program also was given to the Durango Police Department, Shupe said.
Stopping impaired driving is about public safety, said Sgt. Rita Warfield, with the Durango Police Department.
�It shows that our officers are going out and patrolling the streets,� she said. �Every time we stop a drunk driver, there�s a good chance that we�ve saved lives.�
Ranked No. 1 was the Avon Police Department with 141 DUI arrests in 2011 during the Heat Is On campaign.
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CDOT�s Office of Transportation Safety looks at the number of DUI arrests as well as participation in CDOT�s website reporting, which requires agencies to disclose their statistics, Chase said.
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I have been using GTD for several years now but I still find it difficult to manage projects with obvious sub projects that roll up into them. These are usually longer term projects with hundreds or possibly thousand of next actions to complete them. How do I properly track my projects with sub projects?
I'm not sure if I got your question right, but I give it a shot given the amount of tasks...
Don't split up later big tasks until you are near the moment that you need to start on them.
This will keep the amount of tasks in your GTD system low, so you don't suffer information overflow...
For example, a book writer has the following tasks:
Of course, these tasks aren't really actionable in for example an half of an hour. That's why we need to split them up in smaller tasks according to the GTD system and The Pomodoro Technique; now, don't do this for the later big tasks to prevent an overflow of tasks.
Some days have passed, the general idea has been noted down.
Some days have passed, the book has been written; and so on...
I usually define project name as "Project/Subproject" and it works fine for me. I use MyLifeOrganized for projects/tasks tracking. It has pretty good dependency and next actions tracking.
Longer term projects are defined as short term goals in Toodledo. If you have even bigger projects, I use the long term goals but that's never really needed.


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Post your most annoying result :
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"its your tactics"
Post your most annoying result :
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"its your tactics"
You arent related to Sheva in anyway are you?
well there was this one time I was Sunderland and had 31 attempts on goal and lost 2-0 at home to Blackpool
i once was manager of west brom and got hammered 1-3 at home to blackburn
On my current croatian save there was some important game where the opponents had 9 CCC's, I had 1 and won 2-0. Can't remember the exact game but I'm not complaining!
Also had it happening the other way around lots of times, of course...
I'd have to say I was really annoyed at this result (I'm Ajax).
Wasn't the fact that I won despite 2 red cards but the fact that they scored in the 91st minute after a stupid foul by Torres (who got suspended for the return). Good thing I beat them at Nou Camp as well otherwise I'd be fuming
I had a game just now, Liverpool v Chelsea. CCCs 0-2 to Chelsea. Goals 6-0 to Liverpool. Absolute disgrace.
Lucky I am managing Liverpool.
i'm actually expecting Sheva Elite to add his thoughts to this thread, i'd be dissapointed if he didn't. But meh, its a way of life with the game
My last 2 results (whilst watching England retain the Ashes, well done boys!!!) have been:
West Brom 3 - 3 Arsenal
Stoke City 4 - 4 Arsenal
The West Brom game I was 3 down inside the 1st half and they only had (you guessed it) 3 shots on goal, only 1 being a CCC. In the 2nd half we was fast out of the blocks and level by the 55th minute converting a pen, a long range free kick and a difficult chance from the left hand side of the area. Then Walcott, who scored the difficult goal from inside the area, wasted 3 CCC and Van Persie who scored both the penalty and free kick missed a CCC one on one and another penalty.
The Stoke game I had 14 CCC and was winning 2 - 4 at half time converting 2 of my 6 CCC, with the other two being at best half chances. In the 2nd half Stoke converted both of the CCC that the got to bring the game to 4-4 whilst throughout the 2nd half I proceeded to miss another 11 (yes ELEVEN) CCC's, finishing the game with a total of 17 CCC's. Quite unreal and something I hope gets tweaked in the 3rd patch.
Manchester United lost to Shaktar 6-0 in the semi's of the champions league, i went to watch the game at old trafford to basically **** in SAF face as i won my game and was in the final.
They beat shaktar 6-0 but lost on pens!!
Had an annoying result just now.
2-1 up and crusing. Then for some reason my star DC (Botia again!), comes charing out for no reason, through ball gets slipped in behind him. 93rd minute equaliser. Terrible stuff. Still doing OK overall though.
One time Chievo qualifiedfor the CL then got relegated the very next season
Spanish cup final, nearly 3 years ago now
24 shots on target and not a single goal?! lol
The one question I have is, if its not your tactics - then what is it?
Sunderland had 31 shots on goal yesterday and lost 2-0.
i thought i did
Just played a home game with my Barcelona team against Real Madrid early in the 2nd season..
After 55 minutes i had 8 shots on target, 7 of them was CLEAR CUT CHANCES!!!
Real Madrid on the other hand had 1 (!!!!!!) shot on goal wich was 25 yard long shot from C. Ronaldo..
The score after 55:14?
Barcelona 1 - 3 Real Madrid!!!
Quit game... delete the save "Barcelona"!!
alot of the stuff said here is quite realistic... im pretty sure that real betis/zaragoza got relegated the season they played in the champions league from spanish league...
and the guy with the blackpool quote your quite right in my first save( i was brentford) and wigan were in 6th going into the new year but then slowly went downwards finished 12th! and let me remind you what hull did a few years ago for half a season...this is football ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
3 games. 2 goals scored. 16 goals conceded. Enough said.
16 goals conceeded in 3 games ? your tactic must be really poor defensively, just cos you got some good players doesn't mean you are guaranteed to play well without worrying about your tactics. Wins just don't get handed to you on a silver platter
No I don't have good players, I sold all of them and am trying to build a team of only English players. Everyone is unhappy, the team haven't gelled, and the quality isn't there either... Benik Afobe is in my starting line-up, and he only has about 5 attributes that are over 10.
And my last two games have been 0-1 and 1-1 so I think my defense is sorting itself out, now to get my strikers scoring more goals.
Seriously, I encourage you to try and build an entire team (excluding Walcott) on a budget of that size, with such a small amount of transfer revenue made available, and not having the opportunity to buy foreign players. It really is very difficult.
I've got Frank Fielding coming in as cover, I wanted a top quality keeper as it's been Arsenal's main weakness lately.
Just drew 1-1 away at Zenit, things are looking up.
If the board weren't so stingy, this would be a lot easier. Doing this with Man City would be super-easy.
but here's a thread that might interest you, especially if you've still got some money to spare
Ah thanks very much, this'll come in handy for the January window.
Legendary its not your tactics. Its your strikers lol
And liniert I think your players were either paid off....or murcia's goalie ate his spinach that morning lol
its down to luck...
but i have a thought. its the match engine as well as tactics.
the match engine obviously has some flaws, it can't be perfect. dominating the whole match, having many CCC, not just controlling possession and taking long shots, and losing on the counter attack is 1 big issue I feel..
to those people who keep saying "its your tactics" , I agree, but it doesnt mean the match engine is not causing those problems. It so happens that some tactics exploit the flaws in the match engine.
I have a new most ridiculous result ever.
Arsenal (English only) 3 - 0 Man Utd
Having not won or kept a clean sheet all season (15 games in). Takes me off bottom, into 16th.
I have to say that if I see this going onduring the game play - like if I have 15 shots and 6 on target and haven't scored yet then there is something wrong.
Change up things a bit at half-time - bring on a sub for someone only getting below a 7 (in a game where you're dominating most players should be above 7.0)
Put them on overload - put them on shoot on sight, or work ball into box, or pump ball into box, or get stuck in, or get ball forward.
Check to see if the shots are mostly long shots, set players to shoot long shots less often, set the team to work the ball into the box. That should stop them looking for a long shot and actually pass it.
But there are things you can do. I very rarely come across the 46 shots on target and only win by 1 goal.
I'm having some very frustrating times at the moment - my problem is scoring goals despite dominating posession AND chances created. I have all players on "rarely" shoot from long range (BTW in the next edition can we have an option that says "If you shoot from long range I'll break your legs"?), so the chances I create are generally within the box. It seems that after patch 3 the skill level has nosedived - top drawer strikers and midfielders are more likely to hit the corner flag than the target, while the woodwork regularly cops a battering from point blank range.
I accept that "it's my tactics" - what I want to know is why is it that with every patch I have to re-jig my tactics in some random trial and error manner.
It makes me wonder if I'm too casual a customer for SI these days, wanting to only play for a few hours on weekends if I'm lucky. My leisure time is too valuable to be working out why Preston just beat me 2-1 despite some 6 CCC and more than double the shots on target...
it's your tactics
Barca, top of the league, against struggling Getafe, most of the game around their box - we lose due to them scoring a 35 yard free kick. ANGRY!. They had nothing else at all, we had about a hundred chances but surprise surprise all at the keeper even using a top class tactic. Certian games it just f*cks you over.
most annoying result ever was on FM08, where I managed Lyon. 0-2 at home to Nice, who had one shot on target.
On FM11 it's probably Milan losing 0-7 against Chelsea, at San Siro in the CL group stages, in the third season (both AI teams).


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Let $V$ and $I$ be two closed subsets of a Banach space $A$.
The set $V$ is a convex cone, and $I$ is a linear subspace of $A$. I also know that $V\cap I=\{0\}$.
I would like to know whether $I+V$ is closed. I've seen that there is a criterion of Dieudonné which I can't use here because I know that neither $V$ nor $I$ is locally compact.
So my question is : are there any other criteria that I could try to use ?


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Free Range Development Philosophy
Like our name, Free Range Games, we are developing FreeFall Tournament out in the open. We have a track record of listening to player input. Come visit us in the FreeFall Tournament forums, chat with the players, and find out for yourself. Of course, you are always welcome to say hi and talk to us directly. You can also play our game for free and discover the nuances that gamers really appreciate.
Design Principles for FreeFall Tournament
Just as Free Range Games has a philosophy for making games, we also have principles to guide the design of FreeFall Tournament. A few of these are:
- Fun is more important than realism
- Piloting futuristic battle suits should make the player feel super-human
- Each class should have combat advantages and disadvantages, but not be a hard counter to another class
- Every map should have features to showcase advantages of each class
- One-Shotting should be very rare in normal 1v1 confrontation
- Players with good tactical awareness should have opportunities to contribute to their team without requiring lightning reflexes
- Conflicts should generally be won by the team that brings more troops to bear at the locus of contention. However, very skilled/lucky/tactical players should also have opportunities for 'heroic actions' that turn the tide
- Players level up mainly through teamwork, not individual performance
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Is the multiplicative Group of surcomplex numbers of modulus 1 isomorphic to the additive Group of the surreal numbers modulo the sub-Group of surreal integers? And, do Norman Alling's surreal extensions of sine and cosine (defined in section 7.5 of his book "Foundations of analysis over surreal number fields") accomplish the isomorphism?
Let me say at least this: the usual series for sine and cosine "converge" for the finite surreals, and provide an isomorphism from (the finite surreals modulo the standard integers) onto (the surcomplex unit circle).
An alternate for the sine on the finite surreals, write $x = a+z$ where $a$ is a standard real and $z$ is infinitesimal, then use the addition formulas for $\sin(a+z)$ and $\cos(a+z)$.
added March 18 Extension to all surreals depends on the choice for the complementary subgroup of the finite surreals. What (beyond the usual $\mathbb Z$) should be called an "integer". Conway has such a choice in his formulation, called $\mathbf{Oz}$.
surjective ... Conway emphasizes more the algebraic and combinatorial side, less the analytic side. But, in fact, this same thing will work in all the usual canonical ways of constructing nonarchimedean extensions of the reals.
In nonstandard analysis, $\sin$ and $\cos$ have corresponding nonstandard versions, and surjectivity is a first-order property, so it transfers.
In transseries, there are many possibilities: series expansion for $\arcsin$; an integral; a solution of a differential equation; ...
In the surreals, Erlich [LINK] showed $\mathbf{No}$ can be realized as a space of Hahn series, and after that it will be the same as for transseries. It does seem less convenient in Conway's original formulation, admittedly.
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Hahn series look like $\sum_{i \in I} c_i g_i$, where the coefficients $c_i$ are real, and the "monomials" $g_i$ are reverse well-ordered. One possible monomial is $1$; monomials larger than that are "infinite", those smaller are "infinitesimal". The set of possible monomials is an ordered abelian group under multiplication.
Given a general element $A$ of our field of Hahn series, we write it as $A = L + t + S$, where every monomial in $L$ is infinite, $t \in \mathbb R$, and every monomial in $S$ is infinitesimal. Define $$\begin{align} \sin A &= \sin t \cos S + \cos t \sin S, \cr \cos A &= \cos t \cos S - \sin t \sin S \end{align}$$ and for infinitesimal $S$, $$\begin{align*} \sin S &= S - \frac{1}{6} S^3 + \frac{1}{5!} S^5 + \dots, \cr \cos S &= 1 - \frac{1}{2} S^2 + \frac{1}{4!}S^4 + \dots, \end{align*}$$ with convergence in the most trivial sense: each monomial occurs in only finitely many terms of the expansion, so you just collect terms. Then observe that there is an inverse series: $$ \arcsin T = T + \frac{1}{6} T^3 + \frac{3}{40} T^5 + \dots $$ with convergence in the same sense. Actually, for the surjectivity in this problem, it may be more convenient to use one series $\arctan T$ rather than two series $\arcsin$ and $\arccos$. So: Given $X,T$ with $X^2+Y^2=1$ we claim there is $A$ with $\sin A = X, \cos A = Y$. We should take either $A = \arctan Y/X$ or that plus $\pi$, depending on the signs of $X$ and $Y$.
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The answer to the first question is yes and the answer to the second question is no. As Ovidiu Costin confirmed in an email to me, the desired isomorphism can be constructed using an idea I learned from him regarding how to define sin/cos on all the surreals. The idea in Ovidiu's words follows, where N ranges over the omnific integers (finite and infinite).
With sin/cos the idea is not mine but Martin's (or it even goes back to Conway). What it gives is the following prescription: sin(2 pi N+delta)=sin(delta), if delta\in [0,2\pi). This can be taken as a definition as well. Similarly with cos. Clearly sin/cos are well defined on all surreals. Any isomorphism should now be straightforward.
Philip Ehrlich
The following two questions were asked:
1: Is the multiplicative Group of surcomplex numbers of modulus 1 isomorphic to the additive Group of the surreal numbers modulo the subgroup of surreal integers?
2: Does Norman Alling's surreal extensions of sin and cos (defined in his book) accomplish the isomorphism.
In my earlier posting I said the answer to 1 is yes and the answer to 2 is no.
In response to the request for further details, first note that, as Alling himself observes, his extensions of the definitions of sin and cos via series only applies to infinitesimals. Accordingly, we need to know that sin and cos are well defined throughout the surreals. This is the import of Ovidiu Costin's observation (taught to him by Martin Kruskal) that one can define sin(2 pi N+delta)=sin(delta), if delta is in [0, 2pi) (and analogously for Cos) where N ranges over all the omnific integers (finite and infinite). Hence, my answer to 2.
As to the isomorphism itself, note that since the properties of sin, cos are the same for real as for surreal numbers, one would simply write that (x+iy) with x, y in [-1,1] and x^2+y^2=1 is mapped to theta where there is a unique theta such that cos(theta)=x, sin(theta) =y. For theta in [0, 2pi], both sin(theta) and cos(theta) can be defined (following Kruskal) in terms of a surreal loop bracket { | } containing upper and lower truncates of the usual Taylor series (using the ideas found on pp. 145-146 of Gonshor's book on surreal numbers). Alternatively, one can skip the use of surreal loop brackets and proceed as follows: for all surreal x, write x = 2pi N+r+delta, where N is an omnific integer, r is a real and delta is an infinitesimal and define sin(x)=sin(r)cos(delta)+cos(r)sin(delta)
where sin(r) and cos(r) are the usual sin and cos, and sin(delta) and cos(delta) are defined in terms of Taylor series.


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Hi everyone, newbie here. Just wondering what other bloody games that you could recommend?
I just started playing Requiem at FB because my friend suggested it.
One thing I love about Requiem is that not only the mobs get bloody but also my character. It's also cool that mobs body scatters everywhere after killing it.
So, is there any MMORPG that is much bloodier than Requiem?


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Stanford still No. 1 in women's basketball poll
The Cardinal had 22 first-place votes Monday, while Connecticut received 16. Baylor got the other two. It was a lightly scheduled week with most schools finishing up exams. The Cardinal had only one game, routing Pacific. Stanford will head across the country to play No. 21 South Carolina and 10th-ranked Tennessee this week.


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Do you believe P=NP?
I've seen some mathematicians say that if P=NP their work would be worthless and restricted to enunciating theorems. They seem to believe that there exist an almost philosophical impediment to P=NP. Do you agree with that? Does the possibility of P=NP bother you?
Do you believe P=NP?
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Contrary to a popular misunderstanding: if P = NP, then the proof of any statement $A$ can be found by an algorithm in time polynomial in the length of the shortest proof of $A$, not in the length of $A$ itself. Moreover, the exponent of the polynomial could easily be so large as to make this algorithm practically worthless. But most importantly: the shortest, machine-generated, proof of some theorem is highly unlikely to be the most elegant, illuminating, or just human-comprehensible, proof. Thus this idea that under P = NP, mathematics would be reduced to "enunciating theorems", is completely misguided.
"Do you believe P=NP?" - no.
"...Do you agree with that? Does the possibility of P=NP bother you?" - no.
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STRATTON - The Steubenville Catholic Central swim teams split with East Liverpool Tuesday at the Stratton Municipal pool. The girls earned a 63-25 victory, while the boys dropped a 60-28 decision to the Potters.
Moriah Vosteen, Erin Mulrooney, Elise Pergi and Maddie Gulan won the 200 medley relay in 2:12.84. Vosteen won the 200 freestyle (2:34.69), Pergie the 200 IM (2:52.53), Sammi Fornsaglio the 50 free (30.46), Mulrooney the 500 free (7:03.63), Gulan the 100 back (1:15.81) and Pergi, Fornsaglio, Derda and Vosteen captured the 200 free relay (2:05.90) and Gulan, Vosteen, Mulrooney and Derda the 400 free relay (4:46.62).
For the boys, Timmi Schlich won the 100 fly (1:11.12), Brian Thompson the 500 free (6:11.06), Jacob Arai the 100 back (1:10.81) and Arai, Noah Flored, Schlich and Thompson the 400 free relay (4:33.59).
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I have a professional photographer friend. He works for news agencies. He covers up the brand name on his cameras.
This was the only photo I could find from him with his camera but it shows the coverings.
I have a professional photographer friend. He works for news agencies. He covers up the brand name on his cameras.
This was the only photo I could find from him with his camera but it shows the coverings.
There are several reasons:
Ming Thein once said he tapes the brands to "avoid reflections in reflective objects I photograph such as watches." Makes sense if you are into that sort of photography.
Because he doesn't want to advertise for the camera brand.
This is probably most common among journalists, who tend to take this seriously. (You want an ad, you pay for it!)
Yesterday I was taking photos at our son's graduation event. At middle of the event, another photographer on the other side of the large room took a direct look at me with his camera (Canon with a long lens) and then turned back to continue his job. That may have been a "gear-check" done on me and it immediately reminded me of this question here.
Covering brand-name and markings on your gear:
Why the large majority of people who use cameras never cover their camera in tape? Because they don't get into situations like the above, or they just don't care, or it simply never crossed their mind to cover anything. Some even want to show brand names and markings. After spending a lot of money on their kit, why not let others take notice of it?
Some pros might also cover up the branding to avoid the public approaching them all the time to ask about the gear. Not sure about your friend, but wedding photographers get interrupted all the time with questions, and I'd imagine if they'd get more questions if poeple recognised the brand and shot with similar gear.
It's also common to cover them up to help reduce theft, as thieves will target certain brands. Pro cameras can get pretty beat up -without the brand, thieves might not give their gear a second look!
The all powerful corporate promotional consideration. The same reason that product logos are frequently blurred out on video clips shown by news agencies and shows that use video clips from the public. You even see it in TV shows sometimes where they'll be using a product and will specifically remove branding.
Typically when you do see branding, you'll see a blurb in the credits about promotional considerations being provided by such and such company and the product will be featured more prominently.
I'd take a photo of my kit but i just sent it in for servicing this morning. I personally cover EVERYTHING on my camera body AND lens that's not black with cut-to-size duct tape.
I spend a lot of time shooting in less that ideal conditions and in places where i shoudln't be and don't want to be seen. Changing my 70-200mm IS II from white to black took some time, but it certainly hides it much better from casual observers. Essentially its 'urban camouflage' (i've been attempting to get a tape in a pattern like this however its been hard to find). The bright white word 'Canon' above the lens, the shiny '5DMKIII' stamp, the red-rings on the l-series lenses and even the flash hotshoe are all covered on my kit.
The other reason I'll cover up everything on my kit is when I go out photographing wildlife with my girlfriend. Birds especially are quite 'touchy' about anything out of place (like a big white lens), so using things like lensCoats actually help from time to time.
A lot of people do it when they travel so they're not advertising what camera they have.. same goes for the camera strap!
Especially for the News Industries and other similar industries, assets (including gears such as camera, lens, even accessories) are considered CONFIDENTIAL.
Various reasons why it is confidential:
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Welcome to Dreamhorse!
The fun and easy horse game on the web
This is the game where you can breed horses and compete with them in various forms of competitions. What kind of horses will you breed?
Please leave your remarks and wishes for further development on the feedback page!
The game is and will allways be free to play. No fees. We are planning to implement ways for you to supporting the game, and for that you will get some extra features. Our aim is to never let these features affect your chances in the game.
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Introducing diseases
Published by Vidde at 2015-09-10 19:13
Good news, everyone! Horses can now get sick with various diseases.
What is going to happen?
Diseases will be generated automatically and excaped horses will contract these diseases. They will then infect other horses nearby. Horses on same farm will be infected by air born diseases while horses need to be in same stable to be infected by others.
If horse is not in a stable (the ones needing a box in your farm page) will be transmitting diseases to all of your horses, so put them inside.
What should I do?
You will notice a green button when having clicked a horse. Clicking that button will show you available vaccines as research gets done on them. You should give all your horses vaccines for all diseases where vaccines are available.
You will be able to monitor vaccination status for your horses through your office.
My horse got sick! What should I do now?
Seing a red plus on your horse in farm, "My things"->"Horses" or in office will alert you your horse is showing symptoms of a disease.
Click the horse and follow the link to see a vet!
Veterinarians are generated to help you diagnose your horse and pick out the most cost effective medicine. They will not be right every time, so there might be a point in getting second opinions if you feel the diagnosis does not make sense.
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In Jantzen's AMS text 'Lectures on Quantum Groups' he makes the following remark (p.187, preface to Chapter 9):
"For general (complex semisimple f.d. Lie algebra) $\frak{g}$ we can consider for each simple root $\alpha$... a Lie subalgebra (of $\frak{g}$) isomorphic to $\frak{sl}_{2}$ (ie, the Lie subalgebra $\frak{s}_{\alpha}$ generated by suitable $X_{\alpha}\in \frak{g}_{\alpha}$, $Y_{\alpha}\in\frak{g}_{-\alpha}$). So, if $M$ is a f.d. $\frak{g}$-module, then one can find (for fixed $\alpha$) a basis $v_{1},\ldots,v_{n}$ such that $Y_{\alpha}v_{i}$ is either $0$ or a nonzero multiple of another $v_{j}$ and such that also each $X_{\alpha}v_{h}$ is either $0$ or a nonzero multiple of another $v_{l}$. However, in general, there does not exist a basis that works simultaneously for all simple $\alpha$. (There are exceptions, such as the adjoint representations...)..."
The first part of this statement is standard (we are applying complete reducibility of $M$ as an $\frak{s}_{\alpha}$-module). However, I hope that someone can illuminate the last sentence on 'exceptions' - is this a typo/mis-statement? Or am I missing something here?
It is not possible to obtain a simultaneous basis for the adjoint representation of $\frak{sl}_{3}$: indeed, if $\alpha_{1},\alpha_{2}$ are the simple roots and $\frak{s}_{1},\frak{s}_{2}$ the corresponding $\frak{sl}_{2}$-triples then we can decompose $\frak{sl}_{3}$ as
$\frak{sl}_{3}$$\cong L(1)\oplus L(2)\oplus L(0)\oplus L(1)$
when we consider $\frak{sl}_{3}$ as either a $\frak{s}_{1}$-
or $\frak{s}_{2}$-module. Here, $L(n)$ is the irreducible $\frak{sl}_{2}$-module of dimension $n+1$. Also, in both decompositions we have $L(0)$ appears as a subspace of $\frak{h}$ (the $0$-weight space).
If we were to have a simultaneous basis as described above we would need a basis vector $u\in\frak{h}\subset\frak{sl}_{3}$ corresponding to the copy of $L(0)$ appearing in the $\frak{s}_{1}$- and $\frak{s}_{2}$-decompositions of $\frak{sl}_{3}$. This would imply that $\ker ad \;X_{\alpha_{1}}\cap \ker ad \; X_{\alpha_{2}}\cap \frak{h}$ is nonzero, which is impossible (as can be seen by a basic calculation) since we are in characteristic $0$.
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We have Mariner 9.9E outboard motor. Having hard time figuring out year and Yamaha equivalent (early Mariners were Yamahas in disguise). There is very little information on those, and it is hard to find exact owner and repair manual.
Serial number on the motor starts with 682C, and, according to this reference it should equate to Yamaha 6E7 model (9.9D) from 1981 on. On Australian Yamaha support site I had found owner's manual for 9.9D from 1984 (first edition). But I had read that Mariner 9.9E with SN 682C 551*** should be 1981 (hearsay-ish).
- Is it safe to assume that international Yamaha 9.9D from mid-80s is equivalent to my particular Mariner? Could changes requested by Mercury be significant?
- Given above, must I seek out specific Mercury or Yamaha service manual (no luck so far), or something like umbrella Seloc would be enough?
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Hollywood, homelessness and '17 Miracles' shaped LDS actor's faith
Utah director T.C. Christensen knew he had to find a part for Jasen Wade.
The mysterious actor with light brown hair, blue eyes and ruggedly handsome features caught the director's eye while reading for the 2009 film "Treasure in Heaven: The John Tanner Story." Christensen was impressed.
"Pioneer films require a certain intangible that Jasen has, a rough quality that will let the audience believe this guy lived in the 1800s, slept outdoors and battled the elements," Christensen said. "The way he carried himself, his looks, his skills, I had to find a place for this guy."
Not only did Wade get a part in "John Tanner," Christensen asked him to play the lead role in his next pioneer film, "17 Miracles." From there, Wade became a paratrooper in the World War II film "Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed."
It's a long way from the Southern Utah stage where Wade started acting in the 1990s. It's far removed from the frustrating years of trying to make it in Los Angeles. And then there's the morning he woke up depressed and penniless in a Pennsylvania Walmart parking lot.
Wade's journey to an acting career has been like a pioneer trek across the dusty plains — at times energized with daily bread, favorable weather and optimism, and other times fraught with starvation, early winter blizzards and desolation. Along the way, he has learned priceless lessons in faith, commitment and trust in God.
"That's what got me through my dark days. It has everything to do with where I'm at spiritually," Wade said. "I may not be the perfect Mormon, but we just keep trying to move forward. It's kind of a discouraging tale, but it has a happy ending, eventually."
Wade was born in Spain, where his father, an officer in the Air Force, was stationed. When he was 4, his father opened a dental practice in South Ogden, Utah.
Wade graduated from Bonneville High School and was involved in student government. He recently helped organize his 20-year class reunion.
"No one told me when I ran for senior class (officer) that I'd have responsibilities for the rest of my days," Wade laughed. "I'm kicking myself for that one, but we did it."
Wade served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Moscow, Russia, from 1993-95. It was a time of political unrest and turmoil in the country, and the church was young. Wade witnessed the best and worst of human nature, but knew the Lord was watching over the missionaries.
"It was like being in a movie. It was fun and challenging, different than I ever thought it would be," Wade said. "There were things you didn't think you would be dealing with at 20, but you kind of rise to the occasion, somehow make a difference and help change lives. Then you come home and scratch your head — how did we do that?"
College indecision
After his mission, Wade started out studying psychology and history at Weber State, but his interest soon dwindled. The idea of becoming a park ranger was appealing, so he transferred to Utah State. But when he learned the process involved some law enforcement training, he bailed out and transferred to the University of Utah.
"I didn't want to write tickets," Wade said. "I wanted to be a steward of the national parks."
This time he decided to major in Russian, but that faded as well.
"I didn't feel like I belonged. I couldn't find my place," he said. "I was still looking for something."
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Is the following sentence grammatical?
I'm suspicious of the word proceed in this context — isn't the word continue a much better fit?
I agree. "Proceed" needs a preposition like "with", "against", or "to". "Continue" can be used with a preposition but does not require one.
In your case, there are probably some initial steps to be taken before setting up a web site such as "paying money" or "filling a form of personal information" e.t.c. So, setting up a web site is another new step after those steps.
If so, I would use proceed to.
Also, proceed to and proceed with may slightly differ in meaning / sense
In your case, using continue might also be possible. But you should be careful with the context. The closest senses of continue:
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I initially was considering using a Markins Quick Shoe QR48 and P300U Plate and came here to confirm whether it was a suitable combination to use with the NN3. As I've been perusing the discussions about quick release solutions, I'm becoming more confused rather than less confused. I've seen it repeated many times that it's not recommended to use QR systems with NN3 and the NN5 should be used instead. However even on the Nodal Ninja Store site, the quick release system is listed under accessories for the NN3. Some of the solutions suggest various accessory plates that can be used with various systems to get a workable solution.
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My propane grill needs to be cleaned, how should I go about doing so?
When the grill has cooled completely (after dinner):
The method I use is to leave on high for a few minutes to burn off the worst of the food residue.
Then I scrub it with a wire grill brush and , while still warm, I then re-oil with cooking oil.
There are proprietary products you can use and I've seen people using oven cleaner but I steer well away from those!
Here's my method.
One benefit of this method is that you don't have to clean up afterward, and you take advantage of the heating-up of the grill that has to happen anyway, rather than keeping the grill on extra afterwards.
It depends in the quality of the grill and what parts you are looking to clean. I always take the grill grates, and the peices that go over the burners and power wash them. they are both high quality, and can take teh beating. The other internal parts I wipe down with rags and burn it off.
I bought a plastic box with lid, (suitable for under the bed), and I put the grills and plates of my BBQ in it with a large pitcher of cold tap water and some "degreaser" dish soap. I then boil a tea kettle of tap water and pour over the top of the cold water and everything in the box (so as not to melt my plastic box) and put the lid on so it will stay hot. in half and hour to 45 minutes everything comes right off with the BBQ wire brush and the stainless steel scrubbie. Wipe down the inside of the BBQ and put foil on the bottom and put back together. Wish there was an easier way, but it's the cleanest way for me.
As many have said, I like to turn the grill on high, close it, and let it burn off the bulk of the residue; then I use a grill brush to scrub all of the remaining residue and char off; after that I wipe down the grill with oil (usually olive oil).
Like you'd cook any other metal surface you cook on. You can use the grill to cook off some kinds of debris. You can scrape with a metal scrubby. You can buy abrasive pads and metal brushes. You can buy spray grill cleaner, but be sure to clean that off really well before cooking on it.
Since there is only my husband and myself, there isn't much meat and/or veggies. But, after each use and once we have eaten the grill is cool enough once the dishes from the meal are washed (by hand) I then take both the grill and the burner cover into the kitchen and wash. When I see a lot of debris is sitting on the bottom I then clean it up with paper towels and discard. The grill is easy to clean with this method and we don't have to worry about eating charred whatever.


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I have recently entered into the HDR world, and I'm a little confused. My new camera has bracketing features, 2 modes actually. One is TV bracketing and the other is AV bracketing. In other words, one uses a fixed shutter speed, and the other uses a fixed aperture size. I tried both and it seems that I will be able to make good HDR photos, but... Which one is better? Thanks!
I'd suggest sticking to using a fixed aperture size, otherwise the depth of field will be different between shots (as well as overall exposure), which will make it a lot easier to combine images afterwards. Given the best HDR shots are done using a tripod to maintain the same field of view between shots, exposure time is less of an issue.
Definitely shoot in AV (aperture value) mode and vary the shutter speed!
You don't want to change aperture between shots as the effect is dependent on how well the photos line up, if one photo was shot with a wide aperture the foreground/background might be out of focus in one shot and not in another. I would normally focus the image in advance and turn AF off to ensure the focus is identical in each shot.
A tripod is recommended for the same reason, however good software can account for a certain amount of camera movement (especially for distant objects), but it can't account for changes in focus!
Would be interesting to see the effects of results of using TV, I imagine you'd get weird ghosting effects in the Out-Of-Focus areas, but it could look interesting.
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Rich Robinson knows music, well enough to know he doesn't want to follow Jackie Greene. The two members of the Black Crowes, founding brother and guitarist Robinson, and recent addition on guitar, keyboards and vocals Greene, brought their tour to the Paradise Rock Club in Boston on Friday night, for a torrid night of rock 'n' roll before about 600 fans.
Many of us may have thought the two would be performing together in some hybrid band, but Greene and Robinson and their respective bands played separate sets. With Greene's anchoring set approaching 80 minutes, while Robinson's was nearly as long, it was a lot of music and a long night for those hardy enough to be on hand for the opening act, Project Omega.
We didn't make that one, but arrived early in Robinson's set, and he and his quintet were in fine form. Right off the bat, it was obvious Robinson's vocals have improved markedly since his solo debut, and he's seemingly much more confident now about his singing ability. Of course as a riff-master, he has few peers, and dazzling guitar sounds were the order of the day. But Rich Robinson's own compositions also carry a sweet sense of melody, so that just as you're recognizing the Jimmy Page or Rolling Stones influences in his guitar, he unveils the kind of melodic grace that convinces you The Beatles might be one of his most direct links.
In short, if you go into a Rich Robinson show expecting to hear Black Crowes greatest hits, or perhaps Crowes-lite, think again. His music covers a much wider palette, doesn't have the thunderous aspect of that band, and features much more meaty vehicles for guitar aficionados.
Robinson's current band is built to explore his new music, and quite a few moments Friday night reminded us of the kind of wide-ranging jams you'd find at an Allman Brothers show. Other spots seemed to evoke a Grateful Dead kind of rootsy rambling. While there were some heady and mind-bending guitar lines, there really wasn't much of the usual Black Crowes crunch, and it'd be accurate to say Robinson's band doesn't deliver rock quite as heavy as the band he fronts with brother Chris Robinson.� Fans know Chris Robinson's solo offerings tend to go in the direction of the Crowes' hippie-jamband aspects, but while there's plenty of jamming potential with Rich's music, it is more Southern-rock mainstream. That impression might just be because Rich Robinson's songwriting is just so effortlessly melodic.
Those melodic aspects were a real factor in making the ballad "The Giving Key" a soulful delight, drenched in waves of guitar lines. Early in their set the Robinson band did a lengthy instrumental, and it was certainly the kind of swinging shuffle-blues, as Rich played gorgeous slide guitar, that reminded listeners of classic Allman Brothers. On that note, keyboardist Matt Slocum is a terrific foil for Robinson, providing contrast and a soloist able to go toe-to-toe with the leader.
Robinson played a hollow-bodied electric for the midtempo rocker "In Comes the Night," with a world-weary vocal hinting at some sort of redemption. Several of the later songs in the Robinson set had a distinct '60s feel, reveling in a rough, garage rock feel. One tune in particular stood out, for its deceptively simple drum pattern framing psychedelic guitar accents, almost as if 'Pet Sounds' met '60's blues-rock, and it seemed to be "Trial and Faith" from Robinson's new album "The Ceaseless Sight."
Robinson, 45, is very spare with song intros, and he does still have a tendency to slur his vocals, but the set-ending "Inside" was another special treat, subtly funky thanks to Slocum, and with all manner of special effects guitar highlighting the spacey theme.
Greene, 33, and his quartet hit the ground running and never let up, in one of the invigorating rock sets of this or any other year. Starting with a big steel Resonator guitar, Greene opened with the easy-thumping blues, "Don't Let the Devil Take Your Mind," but that classic blues theme was updated by his witty lyrics and all-out delivery. Switching to acoustic guitar, Greene next uncorked a blazing hootenanny kind of raveup in "About Cell Block #9."� The cool ballad "Shaky Ground" proved Greene can be just as effective with nuance and slowly building tenson.
Greene's dozen song set had everyone moving by the time he did a barnburning cover of the Grateful Dead's "Bertha." That seemed like a moment impossible to top, but Greene did so on the next song, the cathartic rocker, where he played electric guitar and harmonica, "The Ballad of Sleepy John."� There was more buoyant rock power with "(I'm Falling In Love With A) Mexican Girl," which rode a syncopated, South of the Border rhythm.
Greene switched to electric piano for the brooding ballad "Shaken," and stayed at the keyboard for the Beatlesque ballad "Grindstone" with its anthemic chorus "I want something new.."� Greene's extended intro, on the B-3 organ, to "Tell me Mama" was one of the night's highpoints, a jazzy r&b solo of jaw-dropping intensity. Then, he more than matched it with his soulful vocal on the dynamic blues tune.
Greene was back on guitar, uncorking a brain-curdling six-string solo on the chugging rocker "I Was Born An Animal," and then led the band through the rockin' romp "Farewell, So Long, Goodbye" to end his regular set.� Despite the fact that show was running late, the club full of giddy rock fans brought Greene back for an encore, the joyous "Like a Ball and Chain."
Lots of fans probably had mixed feelings about Greene being added to the Black Crowes--happy for his success, but regretful if it meant his own blazing rock career would be put on hold. Friday night was a terrific reminder that Greene himself is one of contemporary music's most compelling performers. And it was also proof that Rich Robinson is an intriguing artist himself, and need not be confined to being known simply as a Black Crowe.


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Telephone Number: 0121 464 0104
Transport: Bus 28, 52, 997
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-11pm, Sat - Sun 9am-4pm
Parking: Free parking for 200+ vehicles, disabled bays available
Disabled facilities available at this site? Yes - For more detailed information please visit Disabled Go's access page for this site
See Essential Information below for further details about facilities, courses, prices and times relevant at this leisure centre.
For more information about discounts and Passport to Leisure, please contact the leisure centre direct.
Available to book online
- 5-a-side Football
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Pay and play (just turn up on day)
- Aerobics
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Other Activities/Services
See Essential Information below for prices/timetables information. To make an enquiry, please contact the leisure centre direct.
- Children's Parties
- Hockey
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- Playschemes
- Basketball
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- Sports Hall available to hire
We run children's playschemes every holiday and half term. We run these in conjunction with the Beeches Club and Sportswise UK. Please contact the leisure centre
Groups normally run from 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday.
- General Opening Times
Open and Closing Times
Opening Time
Closing Time
Monday - Friday
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- Aerobics Fitness Class Timetable
Fitness Classes Day Class Time Price Monday Junior Street Dance - level one 6.15pm - 7.15pm £3.90 Junior Street Dance - level two 7.15pm - 8.15pm £3.90 Bums and Tums 6.30pm - 7.30pm £4.90 Tuesday ABS Blast Class 6.00pm - 6.30pm £1.60 Bums and Tums 6.30pm - 7.30pm £4.90 Wednesday Boxing - All Levels 6.30pm - 7.30pm £4.20
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Court Activity
Monday – Friday
5.40pm – 9.40pm
Table Tennis
Monday – Friday
5.40pm – 9.40pm
Limited availability - please call the centre to book
- Children's Parties
Why not invite your friends to join in with your birthday celebrations and hire our Sports Hall.
You can provide your own activities and party games such as a game of football, soft-rounders or turn our hall into your very own dance floor.
Cost for hire of the Sports hall is £63 for 2 hours.
Please note we do not provide catering, please make your own arrangements.
For more information and to check availability, please contact the nearest leisure centre.
- Facility Hire
Our Bar and Function room is a great venue to hold a special event such as a birthday party, engagement party, anniversary party or christening.
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- Fridays - £125.00
- Saturdays - £150.00
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- Do you sell shuttlecocks and grips?
Yes we do please ask at our reception on your next visit.
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If you wish to make a booking for yourself click on the button at the top of this page.
If you already have a self service account you will be asked to sign in using your details.
If you do not have a self service account you will be taken straight to the online bookings as a non member guest.
Follow the instructions to make your booking.
If you have the advanced booking option on your leisure card you will be able to book 8 days in advance and pay for the court/pitch when you arrive at the leisure centre
If you do not have the advanced booking option you will only be able to book 7 days in advance and will be required to pay at the time of booking.
If you wish to track your bookings (and take advantage of the advanced booking option if you have purchased this) you need a self service account. Sign up for one now.
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If you wish to make a booking for someone else click on the button at the top of this page. You will need the leisure card number and postcode/surname of the person you are booking for.
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If you wish to book up to 8 days in advance you will need the advanced booking option. An Advance Booking option can be added to a standard card or PTL card for an annual fee of £15. The Advance Booking option allows you to book courts and pitches an extra day in advance of other customers (8 days ahead, instead of 7).
- Can a junior use the fitness studio?
Juniors aged 14 and 15 can use the fitness studio. They must bring proof of age and a letter of consent from their parent or guardian to the first session.
Juniors can only use the fitness studio at certain times and at other times must be accompanied by an adult. Please contact the leisure centre for specific times.
Alternatively the ICE gym, available at Kingsbury LC, Small Heath LC, Aston Villa FC, Hamstead Hall Community Learning Centre and Northfield Pool, is designed especially for children aged 8 – 16. All our instructors are professionally qualified and have undertaken additional specialist training to enable them to train children. All instructors are cleared via the Criminal Records Bureau.
To use the gym, each child must complete a three stage induction process, where they will be shown how to use the equipment safely. The induction course. After that, kids can visit the gym as often as they like, paying for each visit separately. Alternatively, monthly membership is a available. Please check with your local centre for prices.
If you have any queries about the ICE gym or about children's fitness, please contact the leisure centre of your choice.
- At what age do adult prices for sports and leisure activities apply?
For all sports and leisure activities an adult charge will apply to anyone aged 16 years and above.
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"When you guys get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy."
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buying up all the guns and ammo i can just to PISS OFF the douche bag liberals
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gun control means hitting your target
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CAMERON (February 5, 2013)—Cameron police issued an advisory Tuesday after receiving a flurry of calls reporting a phone scam in which senior citizens were asked for Social Security numbers and bank account information.
"This is most likely a scam and anyone giving out this information will be risking their bank values and security by talking to these people," police said in a press release.
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A special meeting of the Newburg School Board on Thursday night did not yield any significant changes to the upcoming 2013-14 school year budget.
The board thought that some budget amendments might have to be decided at the meeting because of some district personnel issues but no new amendments were voted on.
The approved budget has total revenue of $4,337,031 and total expenditures of $4,389,280.74.
What was discussed at the meeting is the arrival of a dozen new foster care children who are dealing with behavioral disorders to the district.
A new foster care home is coming into the Arlington area. The board discussed how to integrate these new students in the school's curriculum and programs and associated costs.
Also on the agenda was a discussion on the need for a speech language pathologist. Superintendent of Schools John Westerman noted that a speech pathologist is hard to find.
The board moved to continue to research their possibilities in this department.
And finally the 2013-2014 school calendar was approved. The first day of classes commence Aug. 22 and end May 9, 2014.
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