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Yesterday I was migrating to my new server, needed to use rsync, I created a RSA key, so that rsync could connect, I saw an error that says
add to trusted key in location x I didn't have that location on my new server, so basically when I do
mv rsakey /location.x The directory didn't exist.
I tried regenerating the key. but that didn't help, now I'm unable to login to ssh nor to filezilla
scp protocol it says
Error: Network error: Software caused connection abort. Error: Could not connect to server
I'm almost certain that the error is caused by RSA key. How can I fix it? By the way I have Ispcp installed, so I might be able to fix it from there.
Note: I have generated RSA keys on the old and the new server, I can login to the old but not the new one.
using terminator on ubuntu 12.04:
$ ssh root@server_ip
Connection closed by server_ip
after doing
mv ~/.ssh ssh_backup i tried to connect and it says
Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer i retried and it gave me the
connection closed error shown above
the output of
ssh -vv root@server_ip
OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1, OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to my_ip_address [my_ip_address] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/me/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/me/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/me/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/me/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/me/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/me/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze3
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze3 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1
debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
Connection closed by my_ip_address
@mattdm I named the location
x because i forgot what it was, you know that error where it basically says: please move rsa key to trusted sources location, or something like that. maybe it was


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I was wondering the same thing, and my conclusion (absolutely baseless actually) was that it's not necessarily bad, but it could be a sign of flames going on in there, and thus the flag. Just a mark to get some attention and perhaps do some cleaning if required.
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Question's a bit too broad. There are sites devoted to this like http://www.useit.com/ (Jacob Nielsen) and books like Rocket Surgery Made Easy (Steve Krug).
And it depends on the site/web application purpose - is it a blog? a store? a web service?
And there are lots of specific answers on usability questions posted on this site addressing common issues. If you search under Usability you'll get tons of returns.
Subjective list of 10 things I see a lot that bother me the most:
Some of the things that bother me the most:
The pop-up type adverts, particularly the ones that actually open a new tab when you press on the close button - unforgiveable.
No Contact Us option on a website (this is even worse than no About Us section). Links that pretend to be links but don't actually do anything.
Flashy-looking websites with loads of colour and poor text contrast - these are much harder to read text on.
Cursive, arty-looking text that can be difficult to understand.
On shopping websites where you are able to sort by price (asc ending or descending) reverting to the default every time you start a new search.
broad questions I don't mind; I can relay what's off the top of my head:
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Why do we use the simple past but not the present or future in the following expressions:
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Why do we use the simple past but not the present or future in the following expressions:
It's an example of the past subjunctive:
Your examples are correct, and replacing them with simple present tense verbs wouldn't be standard usage.
To give the issue an extra spin, the article goes on to say that the present tense is also valid, with a slight twist in meaning:
FumbleFingers, in the comments below, questions the validity of the present tense construction. The outcome of our discussion (such as it was) was that it appears to be significantly less common (therefore either newfangled, dialectical, or both), and it is dubious whether most people would accept it. So my best advice is to take that paragraph with a grain of salt, and use the past tense if you want to use this type of construction.
For all three examples, the present sounds perfectly fine:
and they have pretty much the same meaning as your given sentences. The future is not allowed:
Also, the present progressive doesn't work:
This gives evidence that the first alternative given 'It's time we ate' is not really the past but is more likely a vestigial past subjunctive form.
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For a vanilla option, I know that the probability of the option expiring in the money is simply the delta of the option... but how would I calculate the probability, without doing monte carlo, of the underlying touching the strike at some time at or before maturity?
There is a simple solution if there is no drift, as the probability $p(x,t)$ obeys a simple diffusion equation: $\mathrm{d}(p)/\mathrm{d}t = \frac{1}{2} \sigma^2 \frac{\mathrm{d}(\mathrm{d}(p))}{\mathrm{d}x^2}$, here $x$ is the price difference $\text{price}(t) - \text{price}(t=0)$. Of course there is a simple solution to the diffusion equation (using scaling as a method to solve the PDE):
Assume the price follows a lognormal process. We can convert it into a problem of finding the probability of a standard Brownian motion particle starting from $0$ and hitting $x$ before time $t$, or its first passage time $\tau_x$ being less than $t$. This can be derived through the reflection principle. The paths crossing $x$ are exactly paired up by the segment post crossing through mirror reflection about $x$. We divide the set of path crossing $x$ into two groups. The first
Case 1) No drift.
By the strong Markov property, at the moment a path first touches $x$, the probabilities of the particle taking on either of two path mirror reflecting about the line $x$ are the same, therefore the total probability of touching $x$ is twice of that of particle reaching above $x$ $$P(\tau_x<t) = \frac{2}{\sqrt{2\pi t}}\int_x^\infty e^{-\frac{y^2}{2t}} {\rm d}y=\sqrt{\frac{2}{\pi}}\int_{\frac{x}{\sqrt t}}^\infty e^{-\frac{y^2}{2}} dy={\rm erfc}\Big(\frac{x}{\sqrt{2t}}\Big).$$
Case 2) The drift is $vt$, where $v$ is a constant.
The probability measure is \begin{align} dP(y) &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\exp\Big(-\frac{(y-vt)^2}{2t}\Big)\frac{{\rm d}y}{\sqrt t} \\ &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\exp\Big(vy-\frac{1}{2}v^2t\Big)\exp\Big(-\frac{y^2}{2t}\Big)\frac{{\rm d}y}{\sqrt t}. \end{align}
The set of paths crossing $x$ can be partitioned into two disjoint subsets, one ends at $t$ above $x$ and the other ends below. The probability $P_1$ of the first set is obtained directly using the first expression above \begin{align} P_1 &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_x^{\infty}\exp\Big(-\frac{(u-vt)^2}{2t}\Big)\frac{{\rm d}u}{\sqrt t} \\ &=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_{\frac{x}{\sqrt t}-v\sqrt t}^\infty e^{-\frac{y^2}{2}} dy \\ &= \frac{1}{2}{\rm erfc}\Big(\frac{1}{\sqrt 2}\Big(\frac{x}{\sqrt t}-v\sqrt t\Big)\Big). \end{align}
In the second set, the paths that end in $[y-dy,y],\, y<x$ is a subset of the set of all the paths that start from $0$ and end in $[y-dy,y],\, y<x$. That former set one-to-one corresponds to the set of paths starting from $0$ ending in $[2x-y,2x-y+dy]$. The second expression for the probability measure indicates we can treat the first exponential as a factor or a random variable dependent only on the final time $t$ and the second a new probability measure. The first factor can also be interpreted as a Radon-Nikodym derivative or Jacobian between two probability measures. This new measure makes any two path sets reflectively symmetric about $x$ have the same measure just as in the driftless case, which allows us to compute the probability of second set using that of the first set when driftless. So the probability $P_2$ of the second set is \begin{align} P_2 &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_{-\infty}^x\exp\Big(vu-\frac{1}{2}v^2t\Big)\exp\Big(-\frac{(2x-u)^2}{2t}\Big)\frac{{\rm d}u}{\sqrt t} \\ &=\frac{e^{2vx}}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_{\frac{x}{\sqrt{t}}+v\sqrt t}^\infty e^{-\frac{y^2}{2}} {\rm d}y \\ &= \frac{e^{2vx}}{2}{\rm erfc}\Big(\frac{1}{\sqrt 2}\Big(\frac{x}{\sqrt t}+v\sqrt t\Big)\Big). \end{align} Therefore the probability of the particle passing $x$ or the first passage time $\tau_x$ of $x$ less than $t$ is the sum of the above two probability $$P(\tau_x<t)=P_1+P_2.$$
Allow me to disagree with Jaydles' proposal ; his methodology is valid only if the events of touching the barrier on each were independent.
If you are working within the standard Black-Scholes framework, you're looking for the probability of a drifted Brownian motion hitting a fixed level before a fixed time ; this probability is derived in most stochastic calculus texts, see for example Karatzas-Shreve or Chesney-Jeanblanc-Yor.
Another way of seeing it : you're trying to price a knock-in digital option with 0 interest rate, or knock-in zero bond. You can find formulae for these in Peter Carr's work on barrier options.
First of all, the delta is not the probability of the option in the black scholes model, it is instead the closely related N(d2) (binary probability)
Secondly, the black scholes model gives risk neutral probabilities - for a binary event this is ok, but it gives no correct measure of, say, how far you would be through
Thirdly, the options you are interested in are traded in the market - they are called binary no touch or one touch options ... there are several mechanisms to price, depending on your model for volatility ... black scholes pricers for them are available online, eg here http://www.volopta.com/Matlab.html
This surely isn't the most efficient way, but if you want something quick and dirty:
You could run a vanilla model that calcs delta for each expiration date between now and expiration, and grab the delta for each. That would give you the likelihood that it's in the money at the close on any day.
From that, you can pretty easily calculate the odds that it's not in the money each day (just subtract the delta from one), multiply them all together, and subract the product from one to determine the likelihood that it closes above the strike between now and expiration.
This does require running the formula to calc delta many times, and it ignores the risk of an intra-day touch, but it doesn't require writing something to calc the exotic you're describing.
I believe you can modify my https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/blob/master/box-option-value.m to do this.
You're effectively looking for the distribution of the maximum (or minimum) of the price for a given period of time.
The required probability is equivalent to asking: what is the probability that the geometric brownian motion of the underlying touches the strike for the first time before the given time $T$?
A strategy for solving this related to Brownian motion - first passage time.
After transforming from geometric brownian motion to brownian motion via the log, the full distribution of the first passage time of a random walker (with a given drift and vol) to a boundary (which should be $log(K/S_0)$ where $K$ is the strike and $S_0$ is the initial stock price), is given by the Inverse Gaussian Distribution.
The explicit form for the distribution is given here http://goo.gl/lzGZ9Y. Using the notation in that link, the parameters of the IG distribution would be $\mu=log(K/S_0)/d$ and $\lambda=(log(K/S_0))^2/\sigma^2$ where $d, \sigma$ are the drift and volatility of the geometric brownian motion.
So, you will want to compute the probability that this random variable, the first passage time of ordinary brownian motion with drift $d$ and volatility $\sigma$ to a fixed boundary at $log(K/S_0)$, is $<= T$, by straightforward integration.
I believe the CDF is known in closed form (see e.g. http://goo.gl/DUK9fh)
An asymptotic answer is
$$ p(t > \tau) \sim \mathrm{e}^{(-t/\tau)} \qquad \text{where $\tau = x^2/(\frac{\sigma^2}{2} \pi^2)$}; $$
However, as in much of statistics, asymptotic answers = "In the long-run" are not usually helpful to traders, or even investors. Example: say initial price $x_0=\$20$, and you wish the probability of reaching say, $x= \$25$ before $x = \$15$ with an annual $\sigma$ of say $0.2$. Convert $X$ to fractions, $X=(\$25-\$15)/\$15$, and calculate $\tau = 1.126$ years. That is without some drift and for reasonable values of the volatility, you are going to have to wait a long time.


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Im using a mac and both the game and the new update have loaded fine but once i'm in the game, when i go to make an offer for a player and press confirm offer the box that pops up to say yes or cancel to confirm the offer has no option on it. Therefore i cannot make any offer for a player. This also happens on other screens where the yes/cancel option does not show and it means i get stuck on screens and cannot get out. Can anyone help?
SI wtf is going on?? Any danger of you answering our questions please?? How can a game work one day then through no fault of my own just stop working!?
Let us know how you get on. Thanks.
Let us know how you get on, thanks.
You should then be able to enter it as normal on re-install. Let us know how you get on.
Also make sure you are patched up to 9.3 - this will be done automatically in you can get Steam running, if you used a uniloc install the patch can be found via links in this thread - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=106355
Let us know how you get on, thanks.
How to Update your version of Java
1. Uninstall any version of Java you have first.
2. Visit this website: http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
3. Find the correct version for your Operating system and download/install from here.
Let us know how you get on. Thanks.
Let us know if this helps with your issue. Thanks.
First of all you need to turn on hidden files and folders. Go to My Computer and at the top select 'Tools' the 'Folder Options'. The go to the 'View' tab and select 'Show hidden files and folders'
Windows XP:
1. Open My Computer
2. Navigate to : Documents and Settings\
\Application Data\
3. Go into the Sports Interactive Folder.
4. Go to the Football Manager 2009 Folder.
5. Delete the 'cache' Folder found inside here.
Wndows Vista:
1. Click Start
2. Click your username on the start Menu
3. Click on AppData and then Roaming
4. Go into the Sports Interactive Folder
5. Go to the Football Manager 2009 Folder.
6. Delete the 'cache' Folder found inside here.
Then try after this. If this still fails you'll need to completely uninstall the game, re-install and re-patch. I'd suggest downloading the patch from a different source to previous and making sure it downloads properly - unless you are using Steam where it will patch up automatically.
Let me know how you get on. Thanks.
If not, you'll have to re-load your skin in the preferences. If this still doesn't work it may be worth deleting your cache file:
First of all you need to turn on hidden files and folders. Go to My Computer and at the top select 'Tools' the 'Folder Options'. The go to the 'View' tab and select 'Show hidden files and folders'
Windows XP:
1. Open My Computer
2. Navigate to : Documents and Settings\
\Application Data\
3. Go into the Sports Interactive Folder.
4. Go to the Football Manager 2009 Folder.
5. Delete the 'cache' Folder found inside here.
Wndows Vista:
1. Click Start
2. Click your username on the start Menu
3. Click on AppData and then Roaming
4. Go into the Sports Interactive Folder
5. Go to the Football Manager 2009 Folder.
6. Delete the 'cache' Folder found inside here.
Let us know how you get on. Thanks.
i notice that you are answer issues that people have posted after several of us has posted our problem of not being able to open game. Is this as you do not know how to resolve this issue yet or other reasons, i would be good to know if you have acknowledged this problem or not. cheers
First of all you need to turn on hidden files and folders. Go to My Computer and at the top select 'Tools' the 'Folder Options'. The go to the 'View' tab and select 'Show hidden files and folders'
Windows XP:
1. Open My Computer
2. Navigate to : Documents and Settings\
\Application Data\
3. Go into the Sports Interactive Folder.
4. Delete this folder
Wndows Vista:
1. Click Start
2. Click your username on the start Menu
3. Click on AppData and then Roaming
4. Go into the Sports Interactive Folder
5. Delete this folder
Let me know how you get on. Thanks.
yeh i have changed the skin to the 2008 one and its seems to be working now. Thanks!
just did all of that,
just too make sure ill try and explain my problem in full,
i click on launch game in steam
get another page and click launch page
then i need to give permission to use it as an admin
it then goes to performing first time setup...
Installing: activator.exe (step 1 of 1)
then a window pops up
SI activator has stopped working....
a problem has caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and will notify you if a solution is avaialble
it then closes and goes on to the page where to input the activation code but half way through this it fails aswell and has a similar message
is this anymore help? it just happened out of the blue after working near perfectly for months, i havent done anything differant from normal to cause this.
is any other users experancing this??
looking forward to resolving this issue.
On the FM09 box it says it is compatible with XP and Vista but i can't seem to get it to work on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
After the nightmare of getting it installed which i only managed to do by searching the forums, was something to do with it not being compatible with my operating system, i left the installer open with the error message there and had to open the install anywhere to get it sorted.
Can't rmember exactly what i did or the link from here i got it from, was a few days ago, but that was the installation anyway which is fine
The game now crashes straight after i double click the icon without any error message other than the standard 'Football Manager 2009 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.' send error report box.
Anyone any ideas as to what i can do to get it to work, i have tried to find an answer and am also not sure if i am even posting this in the correct place.
Sorry if the information i have given about my problem is a bit rubbish!
Any help would be great.
I have kinda got round it by launching the windowed version but thats not ideal and has already started crashing, when i go to the preferences screen for example. I have been looking on the last few pages and haven't found an answer to this... so I think the best thing is to submit a ticket to Sega (not quite sure how you do this though!!)
Ok, so when I try to activate it using Steam it comes up with Invalid Product Code. So I found out and went to http://keylookup.fm2009.softanchorinsight.com/ to see if it could work out whether I'm reading my code wrong and what it could be. It just tells me Invalid license key and doesn't give anything else.
Now I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that the key I've been given simply doesn't work (as I've gone over it hundreds of times, know the letters that are written, and it doesn't work).
got my game finally workin lol more than 6 months after purchasing it thanks to the peson who helped me
why o why did SI make the fatal mistake of programming in an activator. maybe its time they start to think of some ways to fix the problem. maybe they could send all users that are experiencing these problems and the many others with other faults a replacement copy with the activator stripped out. I've been buying FM and champ man series for as many years as i can remember and this game and the support from the "official website" (apparently) has put me off for life.
Thank you SI
How can I stop the following problem from occurring:
After an actual match that I play, computer registers completely different scoreline, for instance my team wins by 2-0, but after that match it says that I have actually lost that game 0-1.
I use Mac OS 10.5.6 and play the game with my friend over network, he is the server and runs on Vista.
It would be nice if you can address it in your subsequent updates...
I am getting "You cannot go on Holiday on match day" message
I have searched around and it looks like people with pirated copies get this
I have not pirated this and have the box in front of me.
I haven't played the game for a couple of months so yesterday I downloaded the new (9.3) Patch from the FM links (rapid share)
Now when I open FM it takes me an eSellerate site and tries to charge me $30, I hit the decline option obviously.
I load up the game as normal and it all looks fine until I want to go on holiday? What the hell?
I've tried activating (I have a mac so I didn't need to previously) but it is telling me my code is an incorrect length. I have looked over it a dozen times and counted the letters and numbers. It's 25 and it 100% correct yet it gives me this message.
What gives?
Did you download the correct patch? If you are running on a Mac you need the Mac specific patch which can be found via the following link - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=106355
Also are you running Football Manager or Worldwide Soccer Manager? Again you'd need the specific patch for your game. Let me know and we'll try and help out. Thanks.
When I join my friends game (he is a host) he is also running 9.3 version of a game (WSM) on a Vista, he updates his game using steam, so I'm pretty sure game versions that we are using is the latest and I would not have been able to join him had we had conflicting versions of a game.
Last time we played we got the same problem, but it is worse. Now it happened when we were playing a friendly match against each other on the same stadium and same time!!!! In short, until my friend made a substitution, game was OK (whatever I was seeing, my friend saw), but after his subs, we totally followed two completely different games!!! In my version of a game I won 1-0, but in his version I won by 3-1 scoreline. Even though different versions of a game was running simultaneously, all the subbs that we've made happened. Again, me and me friend were playing against each other, but actions on my screen didn't correspond to actions on his screen, with completely different scorelines and stats (except for substitutions). After that game, WSM crashed and we had to restart the game and cancel our friendly match to avoid this problem. On the game time line, we are on a year 2018. My team is Udinese and his is Lazio.
Please heelp.
Hey! ok so I go to start the game and I get Failed to setup Graphics system
what do I do!
any help would be much apreciated.
ERROR: Cannot run game:Failed to set up graphics system
Fix: Please download the following update from the Microsoft Direct X SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
When downloading this file please use the Firefox browser as some people have encounter difficulties when using Internet Explorer
You should also check that you are running the latest graphics driver, you can do this by visiting the computer manufacturer website, or by visiting the graphics card manufacturing website.
Also if you are running Steam, make sure this is not running when attempting to install
hey everyone,
When its come to the submit team selection page my team is in order. But when im in the match and on the my sides home stats page my team are out of order, apart from the keeper and strikers. Although they are all actually playing in there right postions, it is very annoying and ive put up with it since season two.
Anyone got any ideas how i can fix this please?
Zomg... Sorry in advanced...
I got the XML error thing. I came here saw the advice... I can find the icon... HOWEVER in properties I cannot find "target"...
Sorry for being soo noob. Forgive me. Thanks in advanced!!
If you are moving players about, keep the attacking players attacking, don't pull a striker back to be a CB, else the order will change again.
Ok I downloaded the 9.3 patch and updated it. When I try to launch the game it says "Football Manager 2009 is already running" when the game hasn't been launched.
What have I done wrong here?
EDIT: It now says Facegen failed to initialise, etc. Could that be part of the problem? I have downloaded the patch and I use A laptop with Vista on it and I'm pretty sure I have the latest graphics drivers, etc.
Last edited by Sabotage; 07-04-2009 at 00:58.
where do i find my license key
I've got a problem with the game. I'm using a Mac and immediately after I installed the game, I downloaded the 9.3.0 patch for mac. The game worked fine and I wasn't asked for activation whatsoever until half the first season was over and the game asked me for an activation to continue.
I entered the activation code and was told that the code length was invalid. I was advised to check the code and it's correct. I'm not really sure what went wrong but I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. When I uninstalled the game, I manually deleted all FM2009 files so that the system would be clean and reinstalled the game.
The game wouldn't start now and a window pops up to say "The application Football Manager 2009 v.9.0.0 f 23553 quit unexpectedly."
Please advise.
2. Choose "Properties" from the pop-up menu. In the "Target" field, add the --reset_preferences command line option after "fm.exe", so it should look like this:
"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\fm.exe" --reset_preferences
3. Press OK and then try to run the game as normal, using the shortcut.
4. You'll want to remove the command after you run the game, as otherwise it will continue to reset your preferences every time you launch.
Thanks dal3, however your info wouldn't apply to my system because I'm running it on a mac, not windows.
I purchased football manger 2009 just after it was released. I activated it through steam and have been playing it ever since recently. It has stopped working. Everytime I try and load the game I keep getting the message SI intaller has stopped working. Then I get asked to type in my code which I do then A a message comes up saying the program football manager 2009 had to close. I have tried all the recomended things on the technical forums. I have un-installed all the game files of my computer then re-installed the game. But I keep getting the same message SI installer has stopped working. I have downloaded your football manager 2009 activate tool. But this has not solved the problem. I keep getting the error code 255.
I have trawled through all your support forums and have not found a solution to this problem. I have rung Sega's support line twice only to be on hold for over an hour both times and give up on anybody answering me.
I really enjoying playing this game online with my mate and I'm baffelled to why it has suddenly stopped working when I have been playing it ok since october November time.
Please sort this out for me. When I pay £30 for a game I don't expect it to stop working after 6 months. I'm gutted.
Originally Posted by millsey89
just did all of that,
just too make sure ill try and explain my problem in full,
i click on launch game in steam
get another page and click launch page
then i need to give permission to use it as an admin
it then goes to performing first time setup...
Installing: activator.exe (step 1 of 1)
then a window pops up
SI activator has stopped working....
a problem has caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and will notify you if a solution is avaialble
it then closes and goes on to the page where to input the activation code but half way through this it fails aswell and has a similar message
it just happened out of the blue after working near perfectly for months, i havent done anything differant from normal to cause this.
i am having this exact same problem, any progress on a solution?
Hi, i already did that but no worries. I actually went to SEGA help to get it sorted.
Thanks anyway, i am glad that i am enjoying the game.
I have to say i was <> that close to literally boycotting all SI and Segas product in future. <> that close! Nonetheless, thanks for the brilliant game.
Good luck guys with your problems. I might be back here soon, lol
I was so excited yesterday to get to playin fm2009 for the first time, i installed the game (which was bought, for what i thought was a bargain at £20.00 (how wrong was I!!!!!!!)) and then it asked me to activate it, which was no biggie; as i could activate it by phone, as there's no internet connection at my girlfriends house where we both love playin it together.
So i put a fiver on my mobile and did the phone thing, which took me forever with all it's riduclous amount of number business goin on! i was told on the phone and on my screen the game had been activate, GREAT!!!
Not so......
I double clicked it to get the show on the road and low and behold i'm being asked to input my product key and activate the software!! As you can imagine i was pretty pi*sed off, but i kept my calm and wasted the rest of my credit to phone up again for a second time to be told activation is succesful once again by both phone and screen and only to be asked for my product key and activation when the fm09 icon was double clicked!!!
all i wanted to do was play the new game that i have been so loyal to for the last 11 years!!
SI you do wonders, but this ain't good customer service AT ALL!!!!! sort it out will ya??? doubt it!!!
so people what do i do?
waste more money trying to activate it to be told it needs doing again??
someone out there help me, all i want to do is enjoy my easter with fm09!!!!!!!
steam updated my football manager 2009 to 9.0.3 and now it just crashes when i try start a new game my old games can no longer be loaded and also i get a xml parsing error i tried what it says above but it just says file name and somet are differant hope anyone can help thank you
I'm running FM2009 on a iMac and every time i click the right button on it I can't seem to get out of it. It stays with the right button in which makes it near impossible to play the game.
Has anyone come across this before and is there a patch and if there is how do I go about incorporating the patch into my game.
i have a strange problem with my FM09. few days ago i formatted and reinstalled my system and since then i experience computer crashes during matches in 3D (before then everything worked perfectly).
Sometimes it happens during first match, sometimes during second or, in best case, third. suddenly my screen goes all black, then it goes back to the game like nothing happened and few moment later my computer freezes. to reset it is the only option.
i tried different versions of Directx and graphic drivers but it didn't help.
Please, help.
My computer: Radeon x1950, Windows XP SP3, FM 09 with patch 930 installed.
Really sorry if this has been mentioned before guys but please can you help me?
I play fm on a mac and recently updated my game to the 9.3.0 patch.
Everything works fine apart from the 3D match engine which has suddenly started getting massive lag and has a really jerky motion.
I was on 9.1.0 and the match engine was fine before, all running very smoothly.
Anyone know how I can solve this?
The mac I am using has the following specs:
imac 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
3GB ram
Currently running Mac OS X 10.5.6
Graphics card is the ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT.
Thanks in advance, hope someone can help!
hey can someone please tell me how to get player pictures in the game. eg i want a pciture of davide santon on the game how can i get a picture of him so that when i view his profile theres a picture of him
thy may have crossover work around to play intel based games in a non intel i feel they could be more hlep in this.
that is if you have tried to get the latest java/graphics/directx etc
I'm stuck trying to register my game. I have installed using both Uniloc and Steam now and both times my product key has failed to work. I type it into the Liscense Key lookup site and it says invalid. I don't know what to do next as i have followed the instructions on all of the other sites. Any ideas???
Let us know how you get on. Thanks.
They can be contacted via this link - http://help.sega.com/?group=default&t=EnglishUK
Let us know how you get on - I also suggest anyone else dealing with a similar activation issue to this contacting Sega via the same link. Keep us updated with how you get on, thanks.
Skinning Hideout for information regarding this issue.
First of all you need to turn on hidden files and folders. Go to My Computer and at the top select 'Tools' the 'Folder Options'. The go to the 'View' tab and select 'Show hidden files and folders'
Windows XP:
1. Open My Computer
2. Navigate to : Documents and Settings\
\Application Data\
3. Go into the Sports Interactive Folder.
4. Delete the Football Manager 2009 Folder.
Wndows Vista:
1. Click Start
2. Click your username on the start Menu
3. Click on AppData and then Roaming
4. Go into the Sports Interactive Folder
5. Delete the Football Manager 2009 Folder.
Let us know how you get on, thanks.
Let us know if it proves helpful and you solve your problem. Thanks.
Purchased FM09 yesterday.
Not had much joy with it yet.
Downloaded latest patch and also had to download the DXSDK Graphics.
Then managed to start up the game, it showed it was running the latest version - 9.3.0
The game is freezing very often (slow and frustrating to use)
And the players seem to be getting injured too much.
Tried running in windowed mode, following the instructions in a previous thread. The game wouldnt run at all then.
Tried to run the program compatability to match my computer (windows xp pro) But, the only options there, are - windows 95, 98, NT and 2000.
Already un-installed the game and re-loaded but, no joy.
Would be grateful for any ideas on how to get the game running correctly,
I would suggest when starting a new game only running a very minimal amount of leagues (no more than a couple) else the game will be very slow.
Okey Dokey,
Will keep that in mind when starting up a new game.
The issue with the high number of Injuries, which I've noticed a few people complaining about. Is this just something to get on with or is there something which can be done about it?
Install the 9.3 patch and the rate of injuries will decrease from 9.0. Other than that it's something as a 'football manager' you'll have to deal with. Thanks.
Just bought a copy, and can't get the activasion right...
Trying via the Anchor thingy, and it just says that the code is invalid. Donno if I don't get the numbers right, if so, how do I solve that? And yes, I've tryed that link, and it just says invalid code and donsen't got any suggestions...
Can you take a screenshot of your manual? If so, send it to me in a PM and I'll take a look. Let me know either way.
You've got a PM!
Hi I need help before I give up.
I have installed the game I purchased in GAME I got thru the keycode easily enogh,but had to download the links that are posted for graphics.now when I try load the game i get this
fm.exe was unable to open please close sorry???
the info im getting is appver:9.0.023544
mod name fm.exe
offset: 00c0e857
can some1 please help my out I THINK IT A GRAPHICS ISSUE BUT IM NOT THE SURE THANKS
Ibought the game last week in my local pc shop I installed the game but when I try load it I get a msg fm.exe cannot open sorry???
when i click the view report I get: appver:220.127.116.1144
what is this ???????
I have downloaded the sdk already I think it could be a graphics problem but please help
i have a problem with fm. i have 2 saved games. when i load one of them ı can play normally. nothing happens. but when i load the other i could not play. the game close suddenly. i tried to enter the game so many times but i couldnt can i solve this problem? help me please
please help me urgently??
Was told i could find a fix here
I have re-installed 3 times but data editor wont work just gives me the message
this application has failed to start because the aplication configiration is incorrect.
Any help would be greatly apreciated
Let us know how you get on, thanks.
Fix: Download and install this Microsoft update - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
This should fix your issue.
thank you so much
Hi, I'm having issues getting the game started. I've had it working a few times along with (slowly) the 3D match engine. Often when attempted launching of the game, my laptop freezes. Spoken to the manufacturer who says its because the laptop does not meet the spec. I would have thought that if this was the case I wouldnt have been able to get the game working at all in the first place??? Anyway.... upon reboot of the laptop I send off the error message thing that comes up and am directed to microsofts website which informs me that Error Message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER (Q293078). I have the game running at the moment but am afraid to close it down in case I cant get it running again! Any suggestions? Thanks
This issue occurs if the graphics adapter is caught in an infinite loop while it waits for the video hardware to become idle. This can indicate that there is a problem with the video hardware, or that the graphics adapter cannot program the hardware correctly.
The Stop error message may also occur in video adapter drivers that do not represent a physical device. For example, this Stop error message may occur in the virtual video adapter driver that is used by Symantec PCAnywhere. If PCAnywhere is installed on a computer where this error message occurs, visit the Symantec Web site to determine whether there are any available fixes for your version of PCAnywhere.
more here with the fixes too http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293078
Hello, i'm new here, also i'm from Holland so please dont blame me for errors in my text..
I got a problem. I bought FM09 back in november, en all the time it worked great. I even installed it on a friends computer. But now i get a annoying bug. The error -819. It comes up when i wanted to start FM. The program asked me to activate my copy of FM. So i did, but the SoftAnchor interface said this:
So i searched for a solution and some people advised me the FixV2 Activate Tool (as seen below)
Now my question: What can i do about this? The top screen says i must receive a new key, but in my opinion there must be nothing wrong about my current one. Can anybody help me whith this? Thank you..
(PS. if i overlooked something im sorry for that..)
Unbelievable.. I tried yesterday, and it failed, and now it works. Cant thank you enough!!
I got the latest patch. I have a Mac I use tiger it works fine when i take off 3D and it got to Jan 1st and it says i need to put in an activation code. However, i installed the game for my mac and wrote in the code in the manual and it isnt working! Any suggestions?
P.S. when i put in my activation code it says INCORRECT LENGTH? I've also used the keychecker site
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 08:25 AM
The program became "all-Balanchine" at almost the last moment. According to Edward Villella, a number of injuries -- including several male principals and soloists -- forced the cancellation of the "Fox Trot" section of Villella's own Neighborhood Ballroom and its replacement by Serenade. I have enjoyed Neighborhood Ballroom in the past; it's a sleek, stylish and theatrically savvy work. But the new program allowed us to see a wider range of Balanchine -- and gave new opportunities to a couple of excellent younger dancers.
Serenade: MCB performs this as I remember from NYCB in the early days, as a dramatic ballet -- almost as far i the direction of a story ballet as Balanchine allows -- which takes place in a world whose inhabitants just happen to be beautifully trained classical ballet dancers. Miami takes this ballet very seriously and has more than enough resources to dance it at the highest level. The opening tableau was made even more stunning by John Hall's lighting and by Haydee Morales' version of the Karinska costumes (somehow softer and more ethereal than I remember from the past).
The first cast leads were Deanna Seay, Tricia Albertson, and Patricia Delgado, with Yan Zou as the first partner and Didier Bramaz in the role Villella has described as the "dark angel." This is Seay's kind of ballet -- she was also an exceptional Caroline in Lilac Garden and in one of the more introspective solos in Dances at a Gathering -- and she danced it beautifully and movingly. Albertson, the fast bravura role, seemed comfortable and confident. Patricia Delgado continued to surprise as the woman who brings in the dark angel and escorts him away when he is through. Her dancing this year has depth, suppleness, and confidence that have turned her, for me, one of the more interesting dancers in the company.
Yang Zou is a beautifully correct dancer, light in his jumps and, at this early stage of his career, somewhat light in the effect he makes on stage. Bramaz (the dark angel) is a dancer who captures the eye by the calm way he goes about creating clean and elegant classical movement. Without showing off, he's also an attentive and very helpful partner. His was a slightly aloof, and therefore rather mysterious, figure -- a slightly impersonal messenger from another realm. On the Sunday matinee he switched to the first male role, becoming a more ardent, more human and passionate partner.
The second cast -- Jennifer Kronenbrerg, Jeaneette Delgado, and a corps member, Amanda Weingarten -- were less dramatic. These were dancers first. The story element seemed to fade a bit. Kronenberg was almost too beautiful at the beginning, too obviously the most glamourous and talented woman in the class, showing none of Seay's nervousness and giving no anticipation of some of the more troubling events that occur later on. Her emotionalism -- a kind of emotional disintegration? -- was gradual and very compelling. More than almost any other dancer I've seen in this role, she built up to the conclusion and made it seem inevitable, deeply sad, and oddly promising.
This was a great opportunity for Weingarten who, I confess, I've never focused on her in the corps. In a big solo role she had beautiful line (I have a vision of a couple of arabeques with arched back). She was in command the space around her and had the stage presence to fit in well with the principals. I hope we'll get to see a lot more of her.
A quibble about the ending to this ballet: it takes quite a bit of time to set up the lift, which undercuts -- for me -- the final vision of the woman being carried off as she cambres back with arms outstretched. Apparently Balanchine, in the absence of male dancers, hired several strong men would could execute a lift and walk, and not much more. I wish he had rechoreographed that particular bit.
Pas de Dix At 19 minutes, this was a little short for a full act. The impact has to be big to carry that off. For me, only one of the casts made that kind of impact: the second cast of Jeanette Delgado and Renato Penteado. Delgado -- younger sister of Patricia, and now a "principal soloist" -- is one of those smaller firecracker ballerinas, bursting with technique, who can occasionally oversell -- and over-smile -- in her performances. Here she kept the salesmanship in control and let the technique speak for itself. The result was scintillating. Pentado -- injured for much of last season, but back to normal this year -- has a lot of the burden of filling in for injured male principals. He was dancing at his best this weekend.
Mary Carmen Catoya, dancing with Penteado, did a superb solo variation. She has amazing technique, and -- when she is aso projecting emotional energy, using her eyes, and relating to the audience -- she is a world-class dancer. If she can sustain this throughout a performance -- as she did dancing Sugarplum with Rolando Sarabia a few months ago -- she is a thrilling performer.
Rolando Sarabia made a kind of return from injury partnering Deanna Seay in yet another cast. In the December Nutcracker he brought out qualities of passion and grandeur in Seay that I'd never seen before. With him, she blossomed. For some reason, chemistry and even timing were quite off this time around. Both were tentative and seemed out of sorts. During the curtain call, she fell into a curtsy abruptly and he bumped into her from behind. Something was wrong, and it dampened the entire ballet.
Bourree Fantasque: Villella was moved to revive this after Susan Pilarre brought it back for the School of American Ballet a couple of years ago. At a pre-performance talk he mentioned that he hadn't seen it since 1958 at NYCB. That year was also my own first -- and last -- experience of this strange ballet -- actually a kind of stitching together of several different ballets that makes sense only when all the dancers join in a thrilling finale in the "we're all on stage dancing our hearts out" style of Stars and Stripes or Western Symphony.
The First Movement -- a spoof on ballet partnerships created for Tanaquil LeClerq and Jerome Robbins -- got a wonderful performance from both casts. Kronenberg and Jeremy Cox had a kind of chemistry that's based on the premise of an absurd lack of chemistry. It's hard to believe, as one watched them make this part of the ballet genuinely (though subtly) funny that they were also the finest Prodigal Son and Siren just a few years ago.
Second cast were the soloists Andrea Spiridonakos and Alex Wong. They were a bit more like kids, and the element of Tall Girl, Short Boy was more obvious. Wong's a natural in almost every role, and he has a stage sense that goes beyond that of most young ballet dancers. His reaction to being kicked in the head by Spiridonakos -- twice! -- got the biggest laugh of the weekend.
I love the flexed feet, the jumps and plies in wide second position, and all the neo-classical artillery that Balanchine brings to bear in this movement. It's fun, and the corps danced it with spirit, style, and -- as far as I could tell -- great technique. As in so many MCB corps performances, they created the illusion of spontaneiity, ease, and joy.
Second Movement: Here we switched to a kind of romanticism. Haiyan Wu -- supported by the impeccable partnering of Didier Bramaz -- was an obvious choice for the lead. She sailed through the part with great class and was a joy to watch. I also loved Patricia Delgado in the second cast.
One of the stars of the evening was the corps, performing movements like the tick-tock-tick-tock movement of the port de bras, with spirit, timing, and -- to me -- incredible synchonization. The Kravis opening night was only the third time they have performed this for a paying audience. Someone, they danced it like they had owned it for a long time and still loved it llike it was brand new.
My favorite soloists of the various casts were Jeanette Delgado and the very young corps member Daniel Baker. There were a few partnering bobbles, but both are natural dancers clearly in love with what they do.
The finale -- with each set of soloists leading a battery of corps forward in jetes, one after another, 8 times -- is thrilling and unforgettable. It makes you wonder: why isn't this ballet revived more often? Could it be the less-than-effervescent ho-humness of some of the Chabrier score?
I hope this productdion makes it to City Center when MCB visits NYC next season.
Posted 22 February 2008 - 01:38 PM
Posted 22 February 2008 - 01:55 PM
Maybe I misheard Villella. The context of his remark was a discussion of the role of the male dancers in the ballet. But I do see the point about the female character.
Keeping in mind that angels enter our lives to bring us guidance, it's the girl who brings the boy in who's the angel.
Hope you'll be at the Fort Lauderdale performances, Jack, and that we'll be hearing your reactions.
Will any others be there or at Miami the following week?
Posted 22 February 2008 - 09:43 PM
I attended Ft Lauderdale today and will do so again tomorrow. I also plan to see the performances in Miami next week. My brief impressions:
Seranade: This is only the second time that I have seen this ballet. I was very impressed by dancing of both principals and corps. I expected this to be my favorite of the evening. It came in third.
Pas de dix: I simply cannot take my eyes of Mary Carmen Catoya when she dances. She exhibits remarkable balance both in stationary positions and in turns. Tonight, she projected a strong personality and was a delight to watch. Callie Manning also caught my attention with fast, precise steps. I had hoped to see Haiyan Wu in the movement as I believe that this would have fit her style well. (Deanna Seay substituted in this performance)
Bourree Fantasque: Edward Villella, in his opening remarks mentioned that this ballet is rarely performed any more and that he could not understand that. I think that the audience agreed with him as the company turned in a very entertaining performance. So, there must be some reason that this ballet has fallen by the wayside, but for my simple tastes, it was fun and a great "closer." Perhaps there are technical reasons that more expert observers than I find objectionable.
Posted 23 February 2008 - 01:54 PM
Undeterred by that gaffe, I will try a few more remarks in haste on a shared computer. iwatchthecorps certainly saw what I saw Friday night; Catoya was really phenomenal in her variation in Pas de Dix, and I would expect her to do that again Friday night in Miami. Everybody, go! (I'll be elsewhere on previous a committment.) She even had the opening-night crowd, not the best, in her control; they applauded all over the place in the opener, Serenade, which is understandable, but when they started to break out again, loudly, in her variation, they stopped abruptly as she continued; they too couldn't break their attention away from her. A real triumph!
But I liked Serenade with Seay quite well; her dancing was dark in the first sequence of jetes, and loooked like a harbinger even if you didn't know the ballet from before. She was in fact The Woman Who Falls, but on her re-entrance as the Girl Who is Late and then again in Tema Russo she is bright like the others, even smiling a little in T R at first (Zou was a good partner for her). So I liked this difference for what her dance intelligence brought to it.
I was glad to see Bourree Fantasque again, having seen it a few times at SAB Workshop in June, and liking Chabrier's tricky, witty, frothy music. And I really liked seeing another of the dancers called Jennifer Kronenberg, with her sharp, quick wit. Saturday afternoon, in Serenade we got the light, soft, clear, clean Jennifer Kronenberg -- all those at once, not bad -- and so: Will the real Jennifer Kronenberg please stand up so we can tell who you are? No, no, I mean, will the real Jennifer Kronenberg please keep on dancing? We love all of you gals!
Friday night the Catoya phenom reappeared in the third movement of Bourree! Wow! Jeanette Delgado acqitted herself well Saturdayafternoon, but, well... Actually the delight of that performance was her sister Patricia, who made the quirky turns under her partner's arm flow into a lovely sequence and then, as the music subsided and he moved away, bourreed down front to us and let her smile subside too, unusually for her, and making her dance more complete in this way.
More when I have a chance.
Posted 23 February 2008 - 07:27 PM
Pas de Dix: I was impressed with Rolando Sarabia. It is the first time that I have seen him dance. He has a look that is fundamentally different than the other men in MCB. His physique reminds me much more of a San Francisco Ballet Dancer. I liked his dancing but felt that the choreography was not as interesting as it could be.
Bourree Fantasque: Wow..I liked it again this afternoon...I am astonished that this ballet has fallen out of the rep. Maybe if/when Edward takes this to New York that will change.
I am really looking forward to next week in Miami.
Posted 24 February 2008 - 09:45 AM
Seay also subbed for the ailing Wu in Bourree Fantasque 2nd movement again, and Catoya appeared only in the third movement of this, with Penteado, her only partner this weekend; they're superb, together or separately!
There was news of Carlos Guerra: He is expected to dance the first installment of Program IV, in Miami, only, and then have his surgery.
Skipping back to Pas de Dix for a moment, this version does not have the male quartet number I've read about: It's ensemble with principals, female variation, female variation, variation with two women, princial male variation, principal female variation, ensemble-coda. Jeannette Delgado Saturday night gave a very creditable account (with Penteado; his large, shapely clarity, continuing the dance from beginning to end in his variation pleased me better than Rolando Serabia Saturday afternoon, with Seay, but Serabia showed flashes of briliance); but nobody but nobody dances like Catoya! And the audience likes it very well, every time.
Those waves of grand jetes toward the end of B. F. are almost too much, but not quite!
Posted 25 February 2008 - 11:47 AM
Wu still being out, she was subbed for by Jennifer Kronenberg -- I'll make it Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg, like it is on the cast sheet -- as the Girl Who Falls, etc, etc, etc. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not complaining how this role winds on through the ballet; it gives whoever is in it -- and Villella has some nice women -- a big opportunity to unfurl some fine dancing and some characterisation too, if they so choose. Kronenberg is an interesting contrast to Seay, shorter, apparently, but larger, apparently, in motion. Longer arms and legs, especially advantgeous in Serenade, where she danced brightly and expansively early on and also fully realizing the unearthly drama at the end -- I mean, she has her mortal side, but the three also seem to me pawns of the supernatural, the boy the most clearly, of course, and the girl who brings him in, whatever her character-name might be, most clearly an agent of the supernatural.
In Pas de Dix, I got an actual response to my rhetorical request for the various Kronenbergs to dance on -- she came back on and, in due course, began her variation here with head well up to announce this would now be very much in The Grand Manner, and having introduced it that way, she proceeded to perform it grandly. Were we suddenly back in Old Russia? Had she been listening to Villell'a introductory remarks about how this ballet shows where Serenade came from?
Whatever her method, which I suspect is more physical than intellectual, and power to her, it was yet a different Kronenberg before us now, and a superbly different rendition of a different part from just minutes or hours ago. Her partner was Rolando Serabia, who had danced the previous matinee with Seay, and this time I thought his variation was better organizeed at no cost in brilliance. I'm sorry to differ a little with his fans here, but I still prefer Penteado in this for the way he fits clear small gesture into clear large phrases fitted into sequences clearly placed about the stage.
The first movement of Bourree Fantasque featured Andrea Spiridakos and Alexandre Dufaur, and this pair seemed to me to have an edge over Allynne Noelle and Alex Wong at Saturday's matinee by more deftly and easily participating in the subtle and not so subtle ballet humor in this movement. If you can't have Kronenberg and Cox in this, that is, who the evening audiences got: This star pair may have been a tad less good as a comedy ensemble, though, and seeing Spiridanakos and Dufaur combine was a different treat in its own right.
Wu had been cast in the "searching" 2nd movement; and although Villella seems to think of Bourree Fantasque as a rousing finale, which the third movement certainly is, building and building with those eight waves of massed grand jetes diagonally across the stage, and beyond, there's -- well, there's always "more" to a Balanchine ballet, isn't there? -- more in this case being the searching-finding-losing kind of pas de deux in this 2nd movement, which resonated for me with the events of the last movement of Serenade, only here the whole business is "lighter", and instead of an apotheosis, there's that bang-up finale.
So, a wonderful program, as one person remarked to me as it ended Friday evening.
Posted 25 February 2008 - 12:21 PM
This surprises me, too. Arlene Croce actually suggested that -- now that Tanaquil LeClerq and Jerome Robbins are no longer available to dance the first part -- NYCB should never have revived it in the 90s.
Bourree Fantasque: Wow..I liked it again this afternoon...I am astonished that this ballet has fallen out of the rep. Maybe if/when Edward takes this to New York that will change.
I guess some New Yorkers just get to see too much ballet.
As for me, I found that it grew on me. It's Balanchine tossing out one idea after another. Possibly it doesn't cohere. But it's a huge opportunity for a good companyto show off what it can do -- which may explain Villella's proliferation of casts.
I agree!
Those waves of grand jetes toward the end of B. F. are almost too much, but not quite!
One of my performances had Spiridonakos substituting for Noelle, with Wong as partner. (So many possibilities!). Assuming that Spiridonakos learned the part with Durfaur, I would imagine that their partnership would be effective. Dufaur, French-trained, has grown tremendously as a stage performer in the past 2 seaons. I really like seeing him -- and her -- in the right roles.
The first movement of Bourree Fantasque featured Andrea Spiridakos and Alexandre Dufaur, and this pair seemed to me to have an edge over Allynne Noelle and Alex Wong at Saturday's matinee by more deftly and easily participating in the subtle and not so subtle ballet humor in this movement. If you can't have Kronenberg and Cox in this, that is, who the evening audiences got: This star pair may have been a tad less good as a comedy ensemble, though, and seeing Spiridanakos and Dufaur combine was a different treat in its own right.
Did anyone else attend? We'd love to hear what you thought or anything that crosses your mind about the ballets or performances.
Posted 25 February 2008 - 12:52 PM
Posted 25 February 2008 - 02:08 PM
The program says: "Costume design by Barbara Matera after Karinsky. Costumes courtesy of American Ballet Theater." They certainly looked like the costumes I've seen in photos from the first NYCB run, though most of those are in black-and-white. The strange headdress that LeClerq wears in early photos from Part I has been simplified and made smaller.
As a Karinska fan I have to ask if the Bouree Fantasque costumes for this revival were based on her original designs?
Posted 27 February 2008 - 06:04 AM
In Suzanne Farrell's notes on some of the ballets NYCB is bringing to the Kennedy Center this week, she writes that
(from Ft. Lauderdale, FL) Whoops! bart, you must have reported Villella's remarks accurately, for he said on Friday night that "This guy became referred to as The Dark Angel", while Saturday afternoon he was more equivocal.
I have fond memories of dancing the Dark Angel, one of three ballerinas in the final movement.
Thanks for all the great, detailed reports, folks.
Posted 27 February 2008 - 07:29 AM
Maybe Villella was thinking of the (male) Dark Angel in Orpheus, which he must have seen often while a member of NYCB. That Dark Angel, like the ballerina in the earlier Serenade, also escorts someone whose eyes are covered.
It's possible that the company's dancers, when they first saw Orpheus (1948), saw a similarity to the earlier Serenade (1935) and began using the label, informally, for that ballet as well.
Posted 27 February 2008 - 06:23 PM
This surprises me, too. Arlene Croce actually suggested that -- now that Tanaquil LeClerq and Jerome Robbins are no longer available to dance the first part -- NYCB should never have revived it in the 90s.
Bourree Fantasque: Wow..I liked it again this afternoon...I am astonished that this ballet has fallen out of the rep. Maybe if/when Edward takes this to New York that will change.
I guess some New Yorkers just get to see too much ballet.
Thanks for all the interesting reports on MCB -- I do hope to see them in NYC if possible. However, I do not think that NYCB revived it in the 90's -- was it perhaps ABT?
And, I think the old saying goes something like: "you can never be too rich, too thin or see too much ballet."
Posted 27 February 2008 - 06:50 PM
In the context of a review of the Balanchine Celebration, Croce writes about NYCB in 1993:
I do not think that NYCB revived it in the 90's -- was it perhaps ABT?
(from: Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorier)
Curating does not mean worshippping relics; it often means the opposite. Was a new production of Bourree Fantasque (1949) needed to prove yet again that the first movement just doesn't work anymore? Created for two great comedians, Le Clercq and Robbins, on the intimate scale of the City Center stage, it cannot begin to explain why audiences of the time were left, in the words of one reviewer, 'limp with laughter.' I am sorry for whatever inhibition has kept Martins or, better, Robbins from replacing it, for the other two movements are worth saving. Legat and Beck would not have hesitated.
I Googled and found the following, from a 1993 review by Anna Kisselgoff:
A more genuine revival on Thursday was "Bourree Fantasque," a whirlwind of kinetic wit that Balanchine choreographed to Chabrier's music in 1949. American Ballet Theater staged this effervescent plotless work in 1981-82 with Balanchine's consent. His own company had performed it through the 1950's, but a 1967 revival was short lived.
When "Bourree Fantasque" was being revived by Ballet Theater, Balanchine felt his jokes about inverting conventional ballet style would look dated. But Ballet Theater succeeded because it caught the humor of the first movement, with its tall girl-short boy duet. The dancers, experienced in the Romantic ballets, gave the second section the right perfume of elusive love.
Both companies have the same energetic platoons of cumulative ensembles to work up circling dancers into the third section's exhilarating finale, led frantically here by Nichol Hlinka and Nikolaj Hubbe. Kyra Nichols and Erlends Zieminch were more straightforward than necessary in the second movement. Only Darci Kistler and Damian Woetzel, in the first movement, seemed right, relinquishing Ballet Theater's broad humor for a sparkling elegance and chic.
I don't know about leaving the audience "limp with laughter" -- it would possibly take a pie in the Odette's face to do that nowadays. But I would definitely say that Jennifer Kronenberg and Jeremy Cox were in the school of Darci Kistler and Damian Woetzel: "elegant and chic."
The ABT production dates from 1981. I don't know its history after that.
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