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Cobb Egg Salad
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Pancetta & Greens Frittata
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Slow-Cooker Stout & Chicken…
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Halibut Packets with Mushro…
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Bacon, Egg & Asparagus Pizza
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Broccoli-Bacon Salad
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Sautéed Mushrooms with Car…
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Warm Potato Salad with Baco…
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Hearty Kale Salad
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BLT Salad
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Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta
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Bacon Mashed Potatoes
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Wine & Tomato Braised Chicken
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Grits & Greens Casserole
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Smothered Green Chile Break…
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Sautéed Brussels Sprouts w…
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New England Clam Chowder
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Apple-Bacon Pancakes with C…
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Corn with Bacon & Mushrooms
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Seven-Layer Salad
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The Wedge
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The EatingWell Cobb Salad
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Edamame Succotash with Shrimp
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Louisiana Red Beans & Rice
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Clams Casino
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Bacon Chard Quesadillas
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Bacon, Tomato & Farro Salad
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Chicken Club Wraps
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Slow-Cooker Baked Beans
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Slow-Cooker German Potato S…
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Shrimp & Grits with Tomatil…
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Avocado & Shrimp Chopped Salad
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Mushroom & Bacon Quiche
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Kale Salad with Bacon-Blue …
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Cheddar, Scallion & Bacon M…
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Loaded Baked Potato Soup
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Blue Cheese & Spinach Pizz�…
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From a nine-time United States National Four-In-Hand Driving Champion to a former NFL offensive lineman, the upcoming Hermitage Classic is filled with every type of competitor imaginable.
The electrifying combined driving event set for the weekend of Sept. 21-23 at Hermitage Farm in Goshen, Ky., will feature Limit Preliminary up to the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Advanced level of competition. The internationally-renowned Chester Weber, a four-in-hand carriage driver, is one of the many entrees vying for first prize in the classic.
At the age of 18, Weber had already made his mark in the equine world, representing the U.S. as an individual competitor at the World Pairs Driving Championship. "I think I drove my first event at 12 and I'm 37 now, so I've been at it for a good deal of time," Weber said.
In 2008, Weber earned his first individual silver medal in the Four-in-Hand World Driving Championships, the first American to win an individual medal at the World Driving Championships. Last month he repeated the feat, with a second individual silver medal and helped boost the U.S. team to the bronze medal at the 2012 World Driving Championships in Germany.
Although he's one of the most decorated in his sport, combined driving wasn't necessarily the natural choice for Weber growing up. His family owned Thoroughbreds who raced in the Kentucky Derby, with one competing as recently as two years ago. "I'm 6' 2" and right under 200 pounds so the dreams of being a jockey sort of died (early)," he joked.
After learning about carriage driving, however, Weber developed a keen passion for a new equestrian sport. "Something about when four horses are working perfectly in harmony together that's sort of magical on a natural level. Like Niagra Falls sort of magical," Weber said.
His affinity for the sport has not only led Weber to the top of the combined driving game, but it's also sparked his active promotion of the activity, supporting the USEF by serving as a member of the Board of Directors, the High Performance Driving Committee, the National Driving Committee and the Safety Committee. He's acted as the Chairman for the Active Athlete's Committee and the Dressage Search Committee, as well, and was named to the Board of the United States Equestrian Team Foundation.
Weber is also a strong supporter of Steve Wilson and the newly established Hermitage Classic. And for that reason, he's eagerly awaiting his visit to Kentucky to take part in a tradition growing as quickly as the popularity of combined driving, itself. "I think the future of the event (The Hermitage Classic), it has a great deal of potential," Weber said. "Steve and his wife (Laura Lee Brown) and their family, I've never seen them do anything sort of half-way or small. … And I felt like it was necessary to support them."
Avery Wilson
The youngest driver in this year's Hermitage Classic, Avery Wilson, 11, has demonstrated early promise of an accomplished career similar to Weber's.
Competing with a single pony in the 2012 Hermitage Classic, Avery first became inspired to learn carriage driving after seeing his grandpa Steve Wilson, owner of Hermitage Farm and founder of the classic, in competition.
"I was in Florida while (Steve) was at a competition. They also had mini horse lessons (there) and I really liked it and started doing horse lessons at Hermitage," said Avery, a student at St. Frances in Goshen.
Having only participated in driving for about a year, Avery has competed in Florida and Indiana, and will try his hand at dressage, cones and cross-country marathon next weekend, facing competitors who are much older than him.
"I like going through the obstacles and the cones fast," he said. "I really like (driving); I'll probably do it for a very long time."
While he's developed a need for speed, his mom, Dena, doesn't worry too much while watching Avery compete. "I never worry about his safety at all but sometimes he gets a little nervous," she said. "(But) he has a really good team of people who work with him."
One such person on that team is Danielle Aamodt, Avery's trainer, who's been instructing him since April at Hermitage. "He drives well wherever we go and compete," Aamodt said. "(And) as an 11-year-old, he's competing against people who've been doing it for about 15 years.
Avery balances equine training with playing soccer, and hopes to continue participating in both sports. But, with his precocious abilities as a driver, plus support from his trainers and spirited grandfather, a future focus on driving could very well lead to an exciting, prosperous career. "Avery shows a lot of promise," Aamodt said. "He's actually very skilled for such a young age."
Debbie Lawrence
In a short amount of time, Debbie Lawrence has become quite skilled at carriage driving, though she jumped into the driver's seat much later than Avery.
About six years ago, Lawrence's husband, Dwight, bought his wife a pony and two-wheel wooden cart for Christmas, prompting Lawrence to seek the help of trainer-duo Leslie and Jose Hernandez in Georgetown, Ky., to learn how to drive. Once Steve Wilson asked the Hernandezes to move to Hermitage, Lawrence began training at the farm, and within five years has become a top single-pony carriage driver in her division.
"You can sort of put your other (past) horse experience to work with (driving)," said Lawrence, who rode horses as a teenager. "Everyone thinks driving is easier than riding but it really isn't because you don't have as much control."
Lawrence occupies much of her time practicing driving and caring for three Thoroughbred horses, plus her pony, Lodestar, on her Shelby County farm. Due to recent first place victories in past competitions, she's advanced to the Preliminary division in the Hermitage Classic to face more experienced drivers.
And, while the accolades are nice, one of the biggest benefits of the sport has been the ability to spend more time with her husband through driving. "The thing that makes it so great for me is it's something I can do with my husband," she said. "He's not really a horse person but has become one through osmosis. … He works as my navigator (in the carriage), keeps me on time (during the race), helps me find my way around the marathon course."
Lawrence also loves the adrenaline rush she experiences while facing challenging obstacles, such as the daring bridge featured in the Hermitage Classic. "I love the quality of the course (Hermitage Farm is) building; probably some of the toughest hazards in the state and it really prepares you for what you might face in more difficult events in the future," she said.
With all she's learned and proven in recent years as a driver, next weekend should be another successful event for Lawrence. From the dressage to the cones, and the marathon (her favorite component of competition), every moment of the sport is a thrill for her; a thrill all the more special with her husband by her side.
"(The marathon is) the scariest part of the event," she said. "You have a pony full of energy and excited about being there and nervous by all the commotion … but to face that challenge and to manage to get through it win, lose or draw is just a wonderful feeling to get through the course around to the finish."
Max Montoya
Another competitor to join combined driving later in the game is Max Montoya, former NFL guard for the Cincinnati Bengals and Oakland Raiders, who argues there's much more in common between football and carriage driving than you'd think.
About eight years ago, after his daughter ended her hobby of showing ponies, Montoya and his wife found themselves missing the pastime. "Probably 16 years ago (my daughter) started showing (horses)," he said. "(But kids) of course move on into adulthood and move on with their own thing, and (my wife and I) decided, let's continue with the horses."
Montoya's other half began showing horses herself, while he looked into the driving side of the equestrian world. Now, after about seven years of experience and training with the Hernandezes, he's moved from single pony to pairs driving. "Steve Wilson actually talked me into driving pairs now," Montoya said. "It's double the fun there's no doubt."
Next weekend, Montoya hopes to avenge last year's narrow loss in the single-day Hermitage Classic, where a mistake during the final obstacle cost him first place. But, with his background in football and strong competitive nature, he's sure to turn out a solid performance, with a favorable chance at redemption.
"There's a lot of similarities although it's a completely different sport," Montoya said. "(In football), we're working together as offensive linemen, so you have to work hand in hand with each other, and it's the same thing with the horses; you've got to have the confidence and vice versa; and also the competitive nature. … Each and every day you just want to improve. … If we go to the next level that's a great thing. … who knows for me what lies ahead, but I just enjoy the competition."
The 2012 Hermitage Classic will take place Friday through Sunday, Sept. 21-23, at Hermitage Farm in Goshen, Ky. Admission is free on Friday and $5 on Saturday and Sunday. For more information and to purchase tickets in advance, visit www.hermitageitc.com.
Contact writer Ashley Anderson at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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I am running my own Sneaky Archer using Conjuration to support myself. Yesterday I started to think about contracting vampirism, but I have some questions about it.
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I know you can't contract werewolf disease more than once ( the only way to become infected is questing with the Companions ), With
Can I heal Vampirism, and then get the disease again?
How long ( in game hours/days ) does it takes for each stage to end and start a new (higher) one ?
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I recently switched to Ubuntu from Windows 7. I was previously learning C++ with Microsoft's IDE, Visual Studio.
- How would I go about programming C++ on Ubuntu, preferably with an IDE?
I recently switched to Ubuntu from Windows 7. I was previously learning C++ with Microsoft's IDE, Visual Studio.
You have the standard gcc that comes with Ubuntu. Just ALT+F2 and type
To start programming in the console, just type
then just press CTRL+X and press Y, then ENTER to save and close.
Compile this test.c file using gcc by typing:
The same can be said for C++ code. It works the same way as gcc: Compiling a
This is one way.
Another way I recommend is using Code::Blocks which has been known to work since I have tested it (Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10). Works right out the box, no errors, no nothing. The one I have used so far was Code::Blocks 8.02 but 10.05 came out a couple of months ago and it looks good.
You can install it by running
The last method I recommend is
I will leave here some links so you can test:
APTANA - http://www.aptana.com/
You would start with an editor with syntax highlighting, like gedit, scite, emacs, vi or something else.
You would then learn to compile by hand, what an include-path is, what a library-path is, how to switch warnings on and off, how to build .o-files, libraries (.so), executables, and how to build makefiles.
Then you would switch to an IDE, because now you would know what to configure to what values. It's harder if you don't know what, and don't know where. I don't use C++ anymore, so I only may say that from hearsay, Code::Blocks has some good reputation.
Whether it is useful as a visual GUI-Builder I don't know - it isn't even clear from your question, whether you're looking for such a thing.
As Olcay pointed out in the comments, you need to install c++ tools (compiler, linker and so on) for c++ - maybe some dev-packages (development) too.
It's not a typo, it is g++ for gnu-c++.
The two most popular IDEs (If you go by reviews on the software centre) are Code::Blocks and Geany. They aren't as feature packed as Visual Studio though.
To install them you can either search on the software centre for them or stick
in the terminal.
I recommend you to use QtCreator or NetBeans - you should try them and you will see that these 2 IDE's are the best for C++ development.
Depending on what you want to do, you might want to use:
You may try the Ubuntu SDK.
Install it by typing this in terminal:
From the
IDEs are pretty much a necessity with C++ because of their code completion and project management features. If however you want to stick with vim, the "YouCompleteMe" plugin is very effective and uses clang for it's backend. It also can be configured using an unobtrusive dot config file that you can check-in to your source tree and YCM will do the right thing when you're in that tree.
Now if I could only get YCM working with the Linux kernel sources.


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On Ubuntu Tweak, it says that Janitor can be run to free up some disk space. Is this safe? I am running 12.04.
I know you already got your answer, but I somewhat recently went through ubuntu-tweak's source (when it was announced that it wasn't going to be developed any longer) and translated everything that it did to the equivalent in bash. If you're interested to know, Ubuntu Tweak does nearly exactly:
And here's a link to my original comment on the matter from reddit.
Yes of course , It cleans unused files such as caches for apt tool , cache for browser and so on , but if you back up your downloaded programs with APT on CD Application don't clean apt cache. if you clean apt cache you can not back up programs with APT on CD Tool.


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Top 10 Ways Parents Can Help with Homework
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Blowing off kids' requests for homework help is one extreme, but doing the work for your child is the other no-no. Avoid simply giving answers. Instead, ask questions that let your child see the problem in smaller, sequential steps. You won't be there to take your child's tests for him, so doing his tough science projects and math problems for him will not help in the long run.
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Hopefully, this apparent antipsychotic action of nitroprusside can be replicated. In the meantime, it should be noted that their background work on animals found that nitroprusside inhibited the action of phencyclidine, thought to act on NMDA receptors. Phencyclidine, however, has a higher affinity for the dopamine D2 receptor (with dissociation constant of 4 nM at the D2High receptor) compared to the ionotropic glutamate receptor (with dissociation constant of between 100 nM and 2,000 nM) (Seeman and Guan, 2008).
More importantly, Giannini et al. (1984, 1984-1985) showed that phencyclidine was selectively blocked in emergency room subjects by haloperidol, which has selective D2 blocking action but no action on NMDA transmission. Therefore, should nitroprusside and related drugs (amyl nitrate, nitroglycerin) have antipsychotic action, the potencies of these drugs on dopamine transmission will need to be examined.
Giannini AJ, Eighan MS, Loiselle RH, Giannini MC. 1984. Comparison of haloperidol and chlorpromazine in the treatment of phencyclidine psychosis. J Clin Pharmacol 24:202-204. Abstract
Giannini AJ, Nageotte C, Loiselle RH, Malone DA, Price WA. 1984-85. Comparison of chlorpromazine, haloperidol and pimozide in the treatment of phencyclidine psychosis: DA-2 receptor specificity. Clin Tox 22(6):573-579. Abstract
Seeman P, Guan H-C. Phencyclidine and glutamate agonist LY379268 stimulate dopamine D2High receptors: D2 basis for schizophrenia. Synapse 62: 819-828 (2008). Abstract
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The authors report on a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled
study of 20 persons with schizophrenia early on in their disease
course. After a single infusion of sodium nitroprusside, a rapid
improvement of symptoms was observed, with evidence suggesting a
persistence of effect for four weeks after drug administration. This
treatment was adjunctive to antipsychotics, mostly dosed in the low
range, but there were subjects receiving relatively high doses,
suggesting they were not easy to treat. Patients on clozapine were
excluded. The use of lithium, antidepressants, or anticonvulsant
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The authors do acknowledge that further studies are required. The
accompanying editorial by Dr. Coyle notes "the field is littered with
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schizophrenia is not a new idea (recall the experiments with the
peptide secretin), their use in early-episode schizophrenia is
intriguing, as we usually reserve more heroic interventions for those
who have been treatment resistant. Mainstream use of parenteral
administration of medications can ultimately de-stigmatize these types
of therapeutic interventions, opening the door to novel approaches for
an illness that begs for more effective treatments.
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Walking in Putin's Shoes UPDATE
Patrick J. Buchanan, you remember him, invites us to consider the current situation in Mittel Europa from Putin's point of view.
"When Putin defended the seizure of Crimea by saying he did not want to visit Russia's two-century-old naval base at Sevastopol, and be greeted by NATO sailors, did he not have a point?"
Buchanan, the isolationist, has his own point about NATO, etc., but still an interesting note of empathy.
UPDATE: Two developments of note: 1. One of the leading candidates Vitali Klitschko, a former boxer, has withdrawn his name from the presidential election, arguing that candidates should unite behind Petro Poroshenko a billionaire in order to heal the division in Ukrainian society. This may put pressure on other candidates to stand down, i.e., Yulia Tymoshenko. Story here.
2. Right Sector, the right-wing of the Maidan protestors, is surrounding the Parliament and demanding the resignation of the Minister of the Interior...these are the right-wingers that Putin has cited as being anti-Russian and fascists. Story here quote after the break.
"In citing extremist action, Mr. Putin sought to capitalize on a tense internal showdown in Kiev. Members of an ultranationalist group, Right Sector, have surrounded the Ukrainian Parliament over the last two days, demanding the resignation of Ukraine's acting interior minister over the shooting death of one of the group's leaders earlier this week in western Ukraine.
"The presence of masked, armed demonstrators threatening to storm the Parliament building offered the Russian government an opportunity to bolster its contention that the ouster of President Viktor F. Yanukovych, a Moscow ally, after pro-European street protests last month was an illegal coup carried out by right-wing extremists with Western encouragement."
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Wallace Stegner several times in different writs quoted or paraphrased Bancroft on the historian's task : "Present a man in his own terms and judge him in yours." If we are not yet ready for history, Buchanan and many others are working on the "first draft."
The trick with Bancroft's theorem is, as Stegner discovered, that it is usually a good deal harder to present a man in his own terms than it is to say those words. The background story Buchanan recites is worth consideration, but whether that represents anything much like complete history, or whether anyone's behavior is determied by history seem to me well worth considering before accepting that Buchanan's version of Putin's underlying narrative amounts to "presenting a man in his own terms." Where in Buchanan's version, for example, do we see the insights of Hannah Arendt's analysis of nationalism in the rise of totalitarianism in European history, specifically for Russia? In what sense does the Russian (and Soviet) narrative of the Great Patriotic War - earnestly held by generations now of Russians - explain Putin's motivation? And, dependng on how one answers that, what are the implications for judgment?
Andthat does not even get us to Putin's history in the security apparatus, or the idiosyncracies of his personlity as potentialy pertinent to understandng his actions.
True, we can't know. Buchanan's focus on the geopolitical reminds me how little consciousness our political leaders seem to have about its impact.
Buchanan nails it! Americans just assume that they are not at all in imperialistic, expansionistic entity also bent on world domination. Just watch the respective Democratic and Republican conventions.
The American political class is one thing but the American people quite another. They are, as a collective, shrewd and wise. The resurgence of so called isolationism and even libertarianism is but a corrective to historical excesses of the political class.
Can we all get along, and just solve this together. Here's a piece in the National Interest: "A Way Out of the Ukraine Crisis."
"Leaving aside Crimea, where the situation is already fully resolved, it is obvious that neither Europe, nor the United States, nor Russia, nor even Europe and the U.S. together can save the Ukrainian economy and state on their own from the deep crisis that has overtaken the country. In all likelihood, the only good way out is a trilateral solution...."
Our national ignorance, not only of geopolitics, but also of geography (sensu lato), languages and cultures, and what is available for history, have been major contributors to our poor performance in the world - I mean not only Vietnam and the "GWOT", but our poor reputation more or less across the globe - all my lifetime.
Of course, our ignorance of our own past and even current conditions is hardly less. Not one in a thousand of us could explain the orginal meaing of "a City on a Hill," thinking it to be from Ronald Reagan. We subsidize the growing of cotton in the desert while we bemoan water restrictions for our lawns. Eveyonehas anopinion on poverty, but we have no basis for judgment excpt intuition betweeen Paul Ryan and TNC (or TNC and Chait).
Bu weall have opinions: mostly "Hooray for our side" (Stephen Stills I think).
City on a Hill. Would that be Boston? Not now. Way back? Or is it Jerusalem?
Felt like rationalization, IMO. If anything, this reinforces the reported comment by Merket about Putin - *he is not in touch with reality*.
Reminds me of what happened at the turn of the 19th to 20th century leading up to World War I....Putin's imagined empire is similar to what we saw with dying and decadent monacharies in Europe (funny, a number of those royalty have been determined by history to suffer from various mental illnesses). Many of these now long dead royals also viewed their *empires* in the same way as Putin....and can't think of any reason that we would feel compassion for them much less empathy.
Putin lives in the past - yes, it may be important to understand his frame of reference but empathy - nope!
And Buchanan's ending paragraph about the US and the Americas is just weird.
I likely do not agree with Buchanan on a host of issues, but, like George D, I think Buchanan "nails it". Putin aside, are the Russian people themselves supportive of Putin's actions? I know there have been protests in Moscow against Putin, but do they represent the prevailing sentiment in Russia?
On the other hand, I'm not convinced that we Americans, as a whole, are "shrewd and wise". Most Americans, it seems, are ignorant of current issues. We know the superficial, but we often don't have any real knowledge of issues' underlying ingredients --- culture, history, language, customs of other peoples. If Americans are leaning toward isolationism, it's because they are tired of military engagements intended, as they see it, to solve other nations' problems.
Over at Paul Elie's blog, he suggests another factor that might be propelling the Russian land-grab in the Crimea:
"A little tablet-friendly history (correct me where I'm wrong): Again and again in the centuries after the schism the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church sought to establish spheres of influence. Again and again each sought to establish its authority over local rulers and national governments. Again and again the leader of the Russian nation made local decisions based on a symbolic calculus of where Russia should stand vis-a-vis the West, framing his case for territorial expansion and aggression, Fall-and-Redemption-like, in terms of the restoration of a long-violated original order. Sound familiar?"
Is the issue most basically just what constitutes Mother Russia? The people of Russia are supporting Putin. Magical phrase that, "Mother Russia". Everything That Rises
See: Holy Father, Help Me Out Here: What the Heck Are We Gonna Do
In a recent talk that I heard, a retired diplomat faulted the way the NATO expansion took place, starting with Clinton and continued under Bush II. He reminded us that when the USSR went down, Bush I promised Gorbachev essentially that "we will not take advantage of your weakness." Perhaps in once sense the expansion of NATO right up to the borders of the old USSR was not a breaking of that promise, but perhaps in another sense (Putin's, for example) it was. Imagine, he said (reminding us that Kennan had opposed such expansion) what the US reaction would be if Canada were to sign a mutual defense treaty with the People's Republic of China.
None of which means, of course, that Putin is right and we are wrong. Nor does it deny that much of East and Central Europe has eagerly sought both integration within NATO and integration with the EU, understandably anxious to find shelter from the cruelties and exploitations suffered under the Soviet empire (to say nothing of the pre-Soviet Russian empire).
His own guess was that the West and Russia would work out a kind of a neutralization (or Finlandization) of Ukraine (while hanging on to the Crimea with its naval base, of course). As he and others have pointed out, the parallels between today and 1914, to say nothing of 1939 (when Hitler and Stalin swore their undying friendship so they could gobble up Poland) are too horrifying to contemplate.
NATO expansion seems to play a large role in the articles I've been reading about Putin's moves. But that's odd because it appears that NATOs military wherewithal steadily declined after the end of the Cold War. European countries have cut their defense budgets. The U.S. has withdrawn many of its assets and personnel from Europe (in favor of Iraq and Aghanistan). As a reassurance to Eastern European countries, Poland, the Baltics, Czech Republic, Slovakia, etc., it may have worked, but it doesn't sound like NATO is battle ready.
MOS, re: City on a Hill
The phrase comes from Matthew 5:14, "A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden." It enters American history via John Winthrop's 1630 sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity" on board Arbella en route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Winthrop's point, as one would rightly expect from a Puritan, was certainly *not* to celebrate, but rather to warn his flock that they would be judged by what they did, how they acted in charity. Peggy Noonan's adaption of this as theme for modern celebration of "American Exceptionalism" is perverse historcailly and obtuse theologically.
Mark L.
Peggy Noonan as Reagan speechwriter? Yes well, not the first time she got things wrong, nor the last. And not only her! Trickle Down. Remember that?


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54-Day Rosary Novena
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We typically do 3 each year: (i) August 15 (The Feast of the Assumption) to October 7 (The Feast of the Holy Rosary); (ii) November 1 (All Saints) to December 24 (Christmas Eve); and (iii) Ash Wednesday - Divine Mercy Sunday (the Sunday after Easter).
The Lenten Novena begins on Ash Wednesday - March 5. All Catholics are asked to spend Lent with special prayer, fasting, and alms-giving. This rosary novena presents the opportunity for increased prayer and meditation on the mysteries of our faith.
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IANAL, but just be honest how you got the code.
You should be able to use the code in your project provided you supply attribution details and source code. Just make sure the license you are using allows for this.
Most projects will be unable to incorporate expressive content from StackOverflow due to the ShareAlike element. Neither Apache 2.0 (by extension MIT and BSD) or GPL licenses list it as compatible.
Apache: say to contact the Legal committee, I wouldn't expect there to be happiness regarding CC-SA in software. The same type of thinking would hold for MIT and BSD projects.
FSF: don't explicitly list LGPL or AGPL, but I would expect the same to hold.
Mozilla and Eclipse may be happier with CC-SA and I could see it being feasible that a future CC-SA license could resolve the FSF concerns.
Summary: you probably need to ask each SO answer to license the code differently than the default.
Linking directly to the answer (or question and multiple relevant answers) should satisfy the attribution provision of the cc-wiki (attribution, share alike) license that has been selected for SO.
The full text of the CC by-sa 2.5 license says:
"You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform a Derivative Work only under the terms of this License, a later version of this License with the same License Elements as this License, or a Creative Commons iCommons license that contains the same License Elements as this License (e.g. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Japan)."
My personal opinion is that this renders the sa CC licenses viral: there is no such thing as a "compatible" license, because the share-alike requirement is that one of an enumerated set of licenses is used, not just "any license with similar terms". Whether your work is a Derivative Work or not depends on what you've copied - seeing a copyrighted implementation of bubble sort doesn't necessarily mean you can never use bubble sort again. If it's not a Derivative Work then the CC license is irrelevant, so you can distribute your work under any license you want, including MIT.
However, I am not any kind of lawyer, and certainly not your lawyer, so my personal opinion is worth what you're paying for it.
Note that CC Deeds (the thing you see when you follow the link in the corner of the page) each have a really tiny link at the bottom, behind a door marked "beware of the leopard", leading to the actual license.
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If the input is important, I would put somewhere (in a credit page/file perhaps): "With help from XyzAtSO given at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151515/bla-bla" or something along these lines.
Personally, I see my (original!) code snippets here more or less as public domain but giving credit is always nice and appreciated.
Well, as all content on Stack Overflow seems to be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license, I think that a link to the answer should be provided. That should satisfy the "Attribution" part of the license.
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Charly's Cake Angels, a television series about the world-famous Charly's Bakery in Cape Town, is now airing on the Good Food Channel, having enjoyed success in countries including Italy, New Zealand and Switzerland, as well as South Africa of course. If you live in the United Kingdom, catch Charley's Cake Angels on the Good Food Channel from 17h30 to 18h00 on Wednesdays.
The 13-part series premiered on the channel last week and is already a hit. Viewers have voiced their appreciation on the Charly's Bakery Facebook page, which has more than 15 000 fans. Miz Sami posted: "Your show rocks and I hope there will be another season...thanks for bringing Charly's flavour to the UK!" Sheena Lumsden added: "I love your show, I am watching it on UK TV and love the way the cakes are done and decorated. I think you are all extremely talented but love how you do so much for charities."
Skills development and creativity are just two of the strengths Charly's Bakery has been prasied for. "I think it's great the way you have time and patience to train people who have no previous skills in baking/icing," Yvonne Cartwright wrote on the Facebook page.
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Pairings for Those Salad Days
THERE ARE VERY FEW foods that kill the flavor of wine. Strong spices inevitably lacerate the taste buds and are best avoided if you are thinking of opening that special bottle. So too are dishes that are overly acidic, bitter or sweet as, broadly speaking, they tend to clash with their respective partners in wine. Anyone who has tasted a glass of red wine after a mouthful of salad heavily seasoned with vinaigrette knows that the taste is mouth-puckering, whereas a protein-based dish, such as steak, usually marries well with the strong bitter flavors and wild fruit of young red and white wine.
With pairings in general—as long as you avoid too much salt with white wine, and vinegar with red—my advice has always been to trust your own palate. It is usually right. When wine is served with food, the objective isn't to intimidate your guests with overly complicated rules and prescriptions, but to simply make sure the two complement each other.
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But problems begin to arise when you leave the meat behind and go for the vegetarian option. It just so happens that most wine-and-food absolute write-offs are based around vegetables. Asparagus is a notoriously difficult customer, leaving white wine tasting a little metallic. A partially ripe tomato can strip a red wine of all its charm, while spinach, artichokes and even sweet carrots can cause problems. Nuts are generally good accompaniments to most aperitifs, but woe betide the wine lover who attempts to pair dry roasted peanuts with wine. Perhaps this is why wine lovers tend to approach the conundrum of matching wine with vegetarian dishes with such trepidation.
Difficult pairings aside, there are a few guidelines that will help you find a suitable partner for that truffle risotto or mushroom tart.
With any pairing, one is looking for harmony. The flavor of neither the wine nor the food should overpower one another. A useful trick is to try and think not just in terms of the smell or flavor of the wine but also its texture.
This is particularly important with vegetarian dishes, which are themselves texturally softer. Soft, light dishes tend to pair well with red wines that are low in tannin, less powerful and high in fruit. Generally, these are wines such as Pinot Noir, Merlot, Shiraz and Zinfandel. In France, try red wines from the Loire, any Gamay-based wines from the southern Rhône or Languedoc and Beaujolais-Villages. Further afield, try Chianti and Barbera from Italy and Rioja from Spain.
The important point is to match the intensity of the wine with the intensity of the dish.
'The fresher the food, the lighter and fresher the wine. You do not want something heavily aromatic. You want something that is savory and understated.'
"For most vegetable dishes that are not heavily laden with spices, you want wine that is not challenging," says Sriram Aylur, chef and proprietor at London's Michelin-starred Indian restaurant Quilon, pointing to German Riesling. "The fresher the food, the lighter and fresher the wine. You do not want something heavily aromatic. You want something that is savory and understated."
For risotto, one should opt for a dry, fairly neutral white wine, such as a Pinot Grigio, a Rueda from Spain, a Chenin Blanc from the Loire in France or a dry Sémillon. If you wanted to go red, I would opt for Italy and a Barolo. If the dish contains lots of raw vegetables, pair it with a light, fresh wine, such as an Old World Sauvignon Blanc, a white Burgundy or a Chablis.
For anything with a slightly spicy/Asian feel, I would look to Riesling, Gewürztraminer and Pinot Gris from Alsace and Viognier from the Rhône. Bone-dry pale rosé wines from Provence in France and New World Chardonnay are a vegetarian's friend, as they provide a good accompaniment to lighter, fresher ingredients.
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You weren't kidding about it being close!
Final Transfers - Other then the one loanee who went out,I made none of these transfers as due to the previous manager blowing the wage budget and then some,there was no money for me to bring in my own players so had to make do with what we had.
BSB Premier - League Table - Playoff Semi-Final Leg 1 - Playoff Semi-FInal Leg 2 - Playoff Final - What a turnaround,from where I took them over languishing nearer the bottom to playoff winners which see us get promoted to League 2.It was a close battle for a playoff place throughout the whole season and it took till the final game of the season to secure it.Okay,we didn't really have the best attack but our defence was the second best in the league which helped massively as we climbed the table.We were up against Fleetwood in the playoff semis,we dominated the first leg as we recorded a very impressive 5-1 victory in which we dominated.The 2nd leg,we lost 2-1 it was a close game which they did just edge but it wasn't enough as we went through 6-3 on agg!In the final,we played Lincoln which was also my first game in charge back in October....in a quite ironic twist,our playoff final result was the same as the first time we played them with the same goalscorer.....16 year old Ashley Gallagher!We were the better team for the last half of the season,even if there was no catching Wrexham so on the form we were on,we did deserve promotion!
FA Cup - 2nd Round - We had a better run then the FA Trophy but that's not saying alot really.We beat Billericay 3-0 in the 4th qualifying round.The first round saw us go up against Bath where we came out the victors with a comfortable 2-0 win.We were then drawn against League 1 side Charlton,we were no match for their quality but I am happy with our performance as we gave it as good as we got!
FA Trophy - 1st Round - Not much to say,we underperformed ,we paid the price and got knocked out.No complaints.
Player,Stats and Awards
A quick glance at the Overall Team Stats for the season.
Kenny Deuchar was top scorer hitting 17 goals in 46 appearances,he was a number of players who were struggling when I took over but he sound his feet with the formation I was using and was able to provide the goals which helped fire us up the table.
Abu Ogogo topped the assist chart with 15,not bad for a player whose primary position is right back!He was my second choice MR as he was better then the others in the team so the risk I took was worth it as he is only ranked as competent at MR.His performances saw him win Fans Player of the Year.
A special mention to Mark Arber and Ashley Gallagher who both performed brilliantly from when I tookover,unfortunately Mark Arber is retiring at the end of the season which is a bit of problem as it leaves me lacking in the DC area.Gallagher on the other hand is only 16 so we may see plenty of him in the future,he scored the winning goal in my first game against Lincoln as well as the winning goal in the playoff final which was also against Lincoln.
Finished the season as I started my reign with Dagenham and Redbridge,beating Lincoln 1-0 with 16 year old Liam Gallagher scoring the only goal of the game both times!I don't actually know how this team was doing so bad when I took over as we had a decent setup who were massively underachieving but a tweak of my 4-4-2 diamond formation helped the team and saw them play much better football in which we eventually secured a playoff place and won it to secure promotion to League 2.
The only downside to promotion is that we are quite a bit over wage budget so during the summer,a lot of players will be leaving the club to free up the wage budget and practically having to build a whole new team again due to the inept financial performance of the last manager,it's going to be a very long summer!
Code:Season Club Division Country League Cup Continental Avg.Att Notes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12 Persepam Prem Division Indonesia 2nd 1st Rnd N/A 739 Promotion! 2012/13 Persepam Super League Indonesia 4th 4th Rnd N/A 1400 Top 4 Finish! 2013/14 Dag + Red BSB Premier England 4th 2nd Rnd N/A 2040 Started Oct,Promoted!
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Excellent progress so far.
I received an offer from Burton Albion at the end of the season,bit of a no brainer really.....Burton who were relegated from League 2 in 24th place or stay at Dag + Red who finished 4th in BSB Prem and won the playoff...Don't worry Dag + Red....I'm staying
This is brilliant BWG. Keep up the good work, can't wait to see the way this goes. You have done well at eah club but i think the promotion with Dag, esspecially with the wages being so high, is going to be a very difficult challenge and i wish you all the luck. I think you will pull out a mid table finish and that is estimated on your team as it is before your summer tweaking
This will probably be one of the most difficult challenges yet as we are down to about 10 first team players which has freed a lot of wages up.Think I'll need all the luck I can get,I'd be honest,I'd snap your hand off at the chance of a mid-table finish....I'm just looking to avoid relegation
Ouch 10 had to go. Hopefully you can pull in some good replacements on a free.
I still think you can finish mid-table if you can replace Arber with a great CB and find yourself a top striker.
With your strike-force atm i don't know if Deuchar will be able to hack first team in L2 at his age or get a speedy striker to complement him.
Not trying to tell you how to do your save just get sucked into things that are exciting and written well.
Keep up the stupendous work lad, routing for you all the way. GO DAGGERS
World Cup 2014Group Stages
Holders - Spain/Hosts - Brazil
Knockout StagesCode:Group A Group B P W D L F A Pts P W D L F A Pts 1st Brazil 3 3 0 0 7 0 9 1st Uruguay 3 3 0 0 7 0 9 2nd Israel 3 1 1 1 4 4 4 2nd U.S.A 3 2 0 1 6 6 6 3rd Ghana 3 0 2 1 2 5 2 3rd Greee 3 0 1 2 1 4 1 4th Jamaica 3 0 1 2 2 6 1 4th S.Korea 3 0 1 2 1 5 1 Group C Group D P W D L F A PTS P W D L F A Pts 1st Paraguay 3 2 0 1 3 1 6 1st Cameroon 3 2 1 0 3 0 7 2nd Spain 3 1 2 0 2 1 5 2nd Switzerland 3 0 3 0 2 2 3 3rd Russia 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 3rd Italy 3 0 2 1 1 2 2 4th Japan 3 0 1 2 2 5 1 4th Saudi Arabia 3 0 2 1 1 3 2 Group E Group F P W D L F A Pts P W D L F A Pts 1st Argentina 3 3 0 0 8 2 9 1st Holland 3 2 1 0 5 0 7 2nd Honduras 3 1 1 1 3 5 4 2nd Chile 3 2 0 1 6 2 6 3rd England 3 1 0 2 6 4 3 3rd Senegal 3 1 0 2 1 7 3 4th Iraq 3 0 1 2 0 6 1 4th Norway 3 0 1 2 0 3 0 Group G Group H P W D L F A Pts P W D L F A Pts 1st Colombia 3 2 0 1 4 2 6 1st Germany 3 2 1 0 7 1 7 2nd Belgium 3 2 0 1 4 4 6 2nd Ukraine 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 3rd S.Africa 3 1 1 1 4 3 4 3rd Iran 3 1 0 2 2 5 3 4th Bosnia & Herz 3 0 1 2 1 4 1 4th Ivory Coast 3 1 0 2 2 5 3
The first major talking points of the World Cup are the poor performances from England and Italy who were both dumped out in the group stages which somehow didn't cost Sam Allardyce his job as coach.The second talking point was the surprise packages of Israel and Switzerland with the latter being very unlucky in the loss to Germany in the semi finals.
As for the final two,they were both lucky to get their,Holland could have lost twice but they managed to hold out to record fortunate victories over Ukraine and Brazil.Germany had the ref on their side in the 2nd round,had better finishing against Argentina,had the help of the officials in the semis (Switzerland had two goals disallowed!) They were the better side against Holland so they did deserve to win that match and it would have been fair if they did it in normal time!
I will try my best to keep up the stupendous work!
Can't wait to see Arbers replacement. Being a defender myself i like seeing how they work out.
Anyone U-21 is a good buy aslong as theres enough experience around them as they will make a few mistakes as you know.
I always try and use my youth players to bulk out my squad, they will only get sub apperences as people like Ogogo will prob be used as sub MR again i guess along with other versatile players
England knocked out by Honduras! Doh! :confused:
Well done on the promotion. I'm sure you'll be fine in League Two next season
That right,knocked out by Honduras.England couldn't finish their chances, 13/4-8/4 and Honduras win 2-1!
Thanks,I did arrange a pre-season friendly against Torquay who are also in League 2 and we won 3-0 but that was with the majority of first teamers still on holiday so I'm pretty optimistic
Transfer Budget - £0
Wage Budget - £12,500 p/w - Currently Spending £14,629 p/w
Pre-Season Transfers - 11 out,6 in.It is all I could do on a budget of £12,500 p/wI have mainly bought for the future so these players will eventually come good so I'm not bothered as my only expectation this season is to avoid relegation.All the players I have signed have 5* Potential ability at this level so we should be okay if I use them as my main players and mix my youth in with them.Those who left,I wanted to keep but due to having such high wage expenditure and their refusal to play for less,I had to let them go to give me room for what I wanted to do.
Expectations - My expectations in italics
League 2 - Avoid Relegation -Avoid Relegation
FA Cup - 1st Round - 2nd Round
League Cup - Learn from Experience of Participation - Be competitive
J.P Trophy - Learn from Experience of Participation - 2nd Round
Key Players
Mark Ellis - DC - One of the older heads in the squad even though he is only 25 years old.Ellis is a direct replacement for Arbers who retired at the end of last season.Rated at 3.5*,he is the leading DC in the team so will be looking for him to step up and help the youngsters out.
Femi Ilesanmi - DL - He should be rewarded for his loyalty alone as he was one of the players who signed a reduced contract.He is a first class left back who is rated at 4* so will be first choice at the moment.In the future though,he will be challenged by Aaron Pringle who is a 18 year old left back with 5* PA although it is more then likely I will use Ilesanmi to tutor him.
Joe Keenan - MC,ML/AMC,AML - Probably one of the better signings the previous manager made.Didn't start off to well last season,but he soon picked his performances up and finished up with 4 goals and 11 assists.He does have talent and should be able to cut it at this level.He will be mainly used at ML due to a hot prospect playing at AMC.
Ashley Gallagher - AMC - Even though he is 17,he is far too good to be put under the section "Ones to Watch".He scored the winning goal in the playoff final which saw us promoted last season.He is already rated at 3.5* for current ability with his potential ability being 5*.I'm very curious at how good he can actually be,in the future he could possibly a good player in the Championship so he is definitely worth keeping.
Kenny Deuchar - ST - The grandad of my strikers.As the other 4 choices for a forward position are 18,18,18 and 17 with 3 of those being 5* P.A.I will be keeping Deuchar as he is my best striker,will be able to tutor the youngsters as well as allow them to develop without too much pressure due to playing in the first team.He was last seasons top scorer hitting 17,we have stepped up a level but I feel he will still be able to hit 15 for the season.
Ones to Watch
Kieran Bray - DR - Was dubbed the best player out of last year's youth candidates.Is the already the second best DR in the squad so will most likely be getting games in the forthcoming season.I have no doubt he will be able to up his game and should do a solid job as backup.Rated at 1.5* CA but has 5* PA,will be getting kept for a few years which help move the club forward.
George Pilkington - DM,MC - Signed on a free,he was a product of Liverpool's academy.He is rated at 2* CA and 4.5* PA,when scouted it said he could become a good Championship player.He is backup for the DM position in my 4-4-2 diamond.I like what I have seen from him in pre-season,he scored one in three appearances and is not afraid to put a foot in,just what I like to see.
Dan Bond - ST - A product of our very own youth setup and was part of the 11/12 youth candidate squad.Was mainly used as a sub last season but will be our number two striker this season die to the financial difficulty,I am hoping playing first team football will help him develop.Currently rated at 2* CA but is another player with 5* PA.Give it another couple of seasons and he should be able to help the club to improve.
Pre-Season Overview
It was a very difficult pre-season with regards to the chairman keeping the same budget after getting promotion.We had to let a lot of players go and could only bring in about half the amount,the rest of the team is made up of our own youth players from the u18 team.Other then losing 4-1 to St. Mirren,it was a rather good pre-season winning 3 out of 4 games so I am fairly confident that we will be able to avoid relegation this season.I have two major concerns,the lack of an experienced keeper as my number one choice at the moment is 18 with the number two keeper being 15 years old.I am taking a risk here as I cannot really do anything with any wage budget.The second major concern is the state of the finances of the club,we are currently (as of 2/8/14) £955k in debt and is still in increasing!I'm hoping that a good cup run and increased attendances will help decrease the debt but at the moment it's not looking too good.
Also regarding my future,I am currently being linked with jobs in Sweden for teams in the First Division Elite.However,I have no interest in moving as I have got myself a challenge here and I want to see if I am able to improve the clubs fortunes.Here comes the beginning of what could be a crazy season!
Last edited by B.W.G; 06-11-2011 at 19:26.
Congratz B.W.G on promotion and good luck with League football.
Nice to see we're not the only country to have trouble against Honduras..
I'm dual nationality in real life,if England mess up in the football then I'm Welsh seeing as Wales don't really have high expectations
Ellis looks like a real coup and i think your choice to make Gallagher more first team is deserved for him after some key goals.
Can't wait to see how your first half of the season goes
Nice season so far with Dag & Red, hopefully you can win the playoffs for promotion
Shroom420 - Ellis has been solid in the league although he had a bit of nightmare against League 1 side Swindon in the League Cup.(Although the whole team did!).Gallagher has performed very well as well,even though he doesn't score much or chips in with alot of assists,he is always involved when it comes to attacking.
deltablue - Very useful indeed!
arinceo -We got promotion form the Blue Square Bet Premier and currently sit in 3rd place in League 2 after 3 games but it's very early days
League 2
We've not too bad in the first half of the season,most our wins have come from heroic performances as most of the time we've not had a lot of possession but have come out with a positive result.As you can see,it is mighty close for a playoff spot,as for promotion....it's in their hands.With 23 games still to go,we need 15 points to guarantee our survival in the division,we are currently on a bad run having not won in five games but I feel confident that we could have survival sorted by March.
FA Cup - Beat Hereford and Salisbury in the first and second round.We are away to Leicester in the third round which will help decrease our ever increasing debt!
League Cup - Lost to League 1 side Swindon 4-3 in the first round.I thought we were terrible but it turns out Swindon are the top dogs in League 1.
JP Trophy - We made it to the Southern Quarter Finals where we lost to Plymouth 2-1 on penalties after drawing 0-0 in regular time.
Mid-Season Overview
I am ecstatic with how we have performed so far with a bunch of kids!At the start of the season,there were only 9 players that I had to register as the rest were under 21.Nice to see we have a mini cup run in the FA Cup and I generally do believe we could upset Leicester as they are struggling in the Championship.My main aim for te second half of the season is to get the 15 points I need for survival then try to build from wherever I finish.
We could be in for a takeover soon (but not soon enough!) as his status has dropped from Loves the club to Enjoying life at the club.The fact that I'm in 9th at the halway point is impressive as we are the second lowest on the Salary per Annum table with a total of £776k which is £2k ahead of Tranmere who are the lowest spenders.Top spenders on salary are Stockport who spend £1.77 million per Annum,if I had that sort of wage expenditure,I'd be able to make sure I was challenging for the title!
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My mid table finish guess is still on, if you can finish closer to the playoff places then you have don't excellent.
Finishing mid table would be brilliant itself but a promotion this year if you could pull it off is a dream (might ruin your chances for a takeover though if you did that)
Keep it up lad, can't wait for the end of this season
edit: comgrats on the cup run and the 1-1 against leicester, come on you DAGGERS
This is me so even I can't put anything past myself so who knows where I will finish.I had not won for five games on the league then I go and beat Hereford 4-1 to take me up to 8th place!
If we can get past Leicester then we will have bottom of the Championship Portsmouth in the 4th round at Fratton Park!
Epic victory there.
Great cup victory
Thanks guys
You've made a lot progress since I last popped into this thread . Brilliant cup win
Thanks hopefully we can add Portsmouth to the scalps as well
Awesome! How about your finances? How did the 4th round games affect them?
We're still in debt,it's down to £244k but at the start of the season we were in a debt of £944k so we have made £700k profit this year!
Hopefully we get get past Derby and get a Premiership side in the Quarter Finals which should get me out of debt.
That is truly amazing, I salute you!
Good luck against Derby
Impressive cup run! Nice work! Are these fully deserved victories or have you been riding your luck a little bit?
The first games were most certainly riding my luck.I rode my luck against Leicester in the replay although against Portsmouth,we were much more even compared to other games.
With the few english lower league careers going on here, I'm getting a bit confused, and thought you were in the Premier League after scrolling it up and seeing the word "Premier". It did seem a little soon. You might want to change your update titles in red, it says Blue Square Premier when you're in the League Two.
Solid run in the league if not the usual heights of back-to-back promotions I've come to expect from your careers, but the cup run is that sort of excellence. Get those finances sorted and I can see Dag & Red step up a gear quickly.
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Changed them....its' what I get for copying and pasting without checking the finer details
Thanks For some reason,I'm just finding this edition a lot more difficult then FM11 so may take a bit longer for success!We've got Derby at home,which should be winnable but will be pushing my luck even further! As for the finances,after the Derby game,they should go below £200k debt which will be quite remarkable considering how bad they were at the start of the season.
Dai Ryder daggers legend in a season and a half xD.
Congrats on the cup wins they are remarkable, hopefully they aren't affecting your league form to much but i guess we will find out end of season update.
This has been a great read, i am really enjoying it (the extra cup updates are really upping the excitement aswell)
The cup has been a relief to me as our league form is quite inconsistent but we are still in the chase for a playoff place,we are sitting in 8th place after 32 games,at the moment we are 2 points behind a playoff spot but only 4 points off 4th place which is the highest playoff spot!
Its football, as we know anything can happen.
Definitely hope you win that one as well.
The cup run is over,we were no match for Norwich.
We lost 4-2,shots wise it was 30/10-4/1....that's right...I had one shot on target and I scored twice in the game
On the plus side,my finances are looking much healthier as it currently sits at £264k in the black!
Great work in Indonesia and England! Looking forward to seeing how your season plays out.
Unlucky in the cup run, you did well to get that far though.
You cup run was awsome to follow BWG and scoring 2 against norwich (esspecially with 1 shot on target xD) is great in itself.
Now to concentrate on the league, lets get another promotion
Thanks guys
Season is over,we finished 8th just missing out on a playoff spot by 1 point and we had the advantage of a greater goal difference the team above us as well....so quite gutted but will have a full report up tonight.
2014/15 Transfers - A lot of players left but not by choice as it was to reduce the small wage budget we had,we only managed to bring in a few players which I though would be suitable at League 2 level.Even with these players bought in,we did not manage to bring in players with more experience which I thought would help barring Mark Ellis who was the oldest incoming player at 25!
nPower League 2 - League Table - I don't know whether to be happy that we avoided relegation or be gutted that we missed out on a playoff spot by one point.I feel that we were very lucky to finish where we did,but you cannot rely on skill or the time and even the best of clubs need luck.We had a very young team in which we had 9 players over 21 so the team has a lot of potential which they can possibly fulfil which I hope the experience can help my players improve their consistency as that may help the team in the future if we are to achieve any success.Our defence was very good so we just have to improve the attacking and consistency then we could potentially challenge for a playoff spot.
FA Cup - 6th Round - We beat Hereford 2-1 in the first round then eased past Salisbury 2-0 in the second round.In the third,fourth and fifth rounds,we claimed the scalps of three Championship clubs of Leicester,Portsmouth and Derby.The 6th round saw us against Premiership side Norwich,we were no match for them at all and even losing 4-2 flatters us.
League Cup - 1st Round - Not quite sure how we scored three as we were really poor.This could have been much worse as they should of scored a lot more then four goals but our defence managed to keep it respectable but I was not happy with our performances and they need to improve if we are to have any success.
J.P Trophy - South Quarter Finals - We had a bye in the first round.In the second round,we faced Leyton Orient and went through on penalties after a 2-2 draw after 90 minutes.In the quarter finals,we faced league 1 side Plymouth.We drew 0-0 after 90 minutes but lost 2-1 on penalties.We didn't too bad as I wasn't really expecting much as I put out weakened sides in both matches so we did quite well.
Players,Stats and Awards
Darren Holmes was top scorer hitting 15 goals in 52 appearances.It wasn't a great ratio but he had a 16 hour drought and was our major goal threat.When he struggled,the whole team struggled.Also being so young probably did help when it come to pressure as the other strikers in the team didn't really have much effect and were not much help to him.
Abu Ogogo topped the assist chart with 16.He did as well as he could in a young team and was the major creative force as he would change positions during the game to give more options when attacking.
Mark Ellis won Fan's Player of the Year.He truly deserved as his performances at the back helped secured vital victories as well as chipping in with much needed goals.All I can hope is that he is able to have the same impact in the next season.
Special mentions to Femi Ilesanmi and Engin Uludag who helped the team to finish 8th in the league.Their solid performances throughout the whole season helped the team at the back as we were very good defensive and these two were part of it with help from Mark Ellis as we showed our toughness in defence.
This for me was rather a mixed season,ecstatic at how we performed in the league and the FA Cup but at the same time,I am disappointed to miss out a playoff place by one point.However,I do have to remember that in our entire first team,we only had nine players who were over 21 which shows the team did very well as they are probably not near to reaching their potential yet and it will probably take a year or two without signing anyone but we have been given increased budgets next season!
However,there is one minor problem and that is the board want me to gain a a top half finish in the league which may be pushing it a bit as we were very lucky last season when it came to some victories and our luck may run out.I might start looking for a new job in the new season as I think we will struggle with what I need to achieve and with the budgets I was given but if I go down then I will go down fighting.
Code:Season Club Division Country League Cup Continental Avg.Att Notes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12 Persepam Prem Division Indonesia 2nd 1st Rnd N/A 739 Promotion! 2012/13 Persepam Super League Indonesia 4th 4th Rnd N/A 1400 Top 4 Finish! 2013/14 Dag + Red BSB Premier England 4th 2nd Rnd N/A 2040 Started Oct,Promoted! 2014/15 Dag + Red League 2 England 8th 6th Rnd N/A 3742 FA Cup Last 8
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Brilliant Cup Run but unlucky not to get a play-off place
Very unlucky to miss out on the playoffs, but as iHeadHunta x said a brilliant cup run
Solid season B.W.G, will set you up nicely for a promotion push next season. Handy little cup run too
Yep, won't be surprised if you go up next time.
Thanks guys
Hopefully,it will go my way this season but if Pre-Season is anything to go by then I will need to give the players a good old fashion kick up the ass
Pre-season doesn't mean much
That's always a relief to hear,losing to Boreham Wood and drawing with Maidenhead was not what I had in mind
Some of my best seasons have come after a bad pre-season so don't take anything from the results.
That's good to hear about pre-season!Hopefully,we will be able to kick it up a notch or two and help us improve on last season
Transfer Budget - £5,000 - £0 Remaining
Wage Budget - £19,430 p/w - Currently Spending £23,376 p/w
Pre-Season Transfers - The two who left were on ridiculous wages in which I managed to get three players in for the same cost!We bought in eight players who were either better then what we had gave us more strength in depth in my aim to at least come in a playoff spot.
Expectations - My expectations in italics
League 2 - Top Half -Playoff Spot
FA Cup - 2nd Round - 3rd Round
League Cup - Learn from Experience of Participation - Be competitive
J.P Trophy - 2nd Round - Southern Quarter Finals
Pre-Season Fixtures
Key Players
Engin Uludag - DC - The French-Turkish Englishman,who really improved during the season due to his exposure of first team football.He is rated as the best DC at the club and put in some solid performances throughout last season.I will be looking for more of the same from him as I want a playoff spot at the very least.
Abu Ogogo - DR,MR - Has been the top provider in the last couple of seasons as he topped the assist chart both times.He is Mr Versatility himself as he can actually play anywhere in defene, as well as DMC,WBR,MR and AMR.He is very handy in matches as I am able to change his position during games and we won't be affected to much by doing so.Will be looking for him to carry on his consistent form as we look to climb the table.
Darren Carter - MC/ML - One of footballs journeymen as we are his eleventh club since he first started playing.He will be playing in the MC role as I've tweaked the tactics to a 4-3-1-2 formation in the hope of making the football more attacking.He should be able to make a great contribution at this level but will play a bit more defensive allowing the other midfielders to get forward more.
Ashley Gallagher - AMC -Regarded as the best player in the team by the assistant manager and the coaches.Did very well last season,scoring 10 goals in 49 appearances from the AMC position and is still getting better.I feel this season he will be better yet and would love him to get nearer the 15 goal mark for this season.Always had a hand in the build play of attacks and hope he can do the same this season.
Jay Rimmer - ST - Our number 1 striker in the team.I've been aware of him since he played for Man Utd u18s where he did make a few first team appearances as well.He was Leyton Orient last season but they did not really give him a chance as he started three games while making a further eleven appearances from the subs bench.He is a poacher so will have him do that and see how he fairs,I'm hoping he will get around 15 goals!
Ones to Watch
Morgan Rowley - AMC - 1* CA,5* PA - Ashley Gallagher's long term successor at this level and League 1 level.It is handy as not only the play in the same position but also the same role in the position.He was the stand out player from the Youth Candidates last time,will give him a couple of years to develop as by then he should be backup to Gallagher.Currently the 4th best AMC in the team.
Albert Hunt - ST,AML - 5* silver,5* gold PA - The Cork born youngster has the potential to be a leading League 1 striker and was also another stand out player from the Youth Candidates last time.I've already seen good link up play between hi and Rowley in the u18 friendlies so it will be exciting to see if they can do it a few years down the line.Already a adecent player at Blue Square Bet Premier level but is currently the 8th best striker in the team so does have a lot of competition to break through but he should be able to do it as he is fairly ambitious.
Pre-Season Overview
If we take out the pre-season results from the friendlies then it has been a solid pre-season.I've tweaked the formation to be more attacking this season and I feel we stand a good chance at meeting my expectations of a playoff spot.The major threats to my ambitions are Oldham,Walsall and Brentford who all came down from League 1 but they have much stronger squads than those around us.We are back in debt (which is entirely my fault this time!) so will be looking for good cup runs in all cups as this will help wipe the debt out and put us further into the black.
My reputation seems to be growing as I was linked to a number of League 1 jobs but I decided to stay put and see if I can get the promotion with Dag and Red,the only downside to managing here is that the Chairman would not allow me to have a contract which was more then a year!If a really good offer in comparison to what I have here comes along then I will have to think about it but for now I will focus on what needs to be done!
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Nice to be linked to higher league jobs! Thinking of jumping ship or just nice to be mentioned ?
I find it nice to be linked to higher league jobs even if it's just mentioning it.
I would seriously consider jumping ship if it is a very good offer.The only thing I can guarantee is that I want a shot managing in the A-League and the MLS,not bothered by who I'd manage in the A-League,in the MLS it would probably have to be Seattle,Toronto or Vancouver but would consider the others.
As for Dag + Red,we have made a good start so far,played five....won three....drew two! I've decided to go for a 4-1-1-3-1 formation and so far it is paying off with eight goals scored and three conceded.We did however lose 3-2 in the first round of the League Cup to Championship side Bristol City.
Definitely go for Vancouver. That's one of my goals given that it my team for where I live
You probably won't get offered any of those jobs, I've always found in the lower leagues that clubs just don't pay compensation for a new manager even if it would be a low amount due to the 1-year deals. But it's always nice to know that your wanted and gives an idea of where you can go if you decided to resign at any stage.
but good start to the season and the result against Bristol C isn't too bad considering the size difference of the clubs.
Rowley and Hunt both look fantastic! Cant wait to see what they are going to look like in a few years!
cerud - Vancouver has just been made favourite for a job I want to take in the MLS then
Azeryk` - Your right with they won't pay compensation for a new manager.I also noticed that if you declare interest in a job,the chairperson will give you an answer if suitable and whether compensation fee would be a problem.It's probably from an older version but I've just not notied
Thanks...with Bristol City,it did take them a 90th minute goal to knock me out as well.They are pretty much a mid-table side so I am happy with our performance.
abulezz - Rowley is rated as the better of two by our assistant manager (JPA 11!) who reckons they would be leading League 1 players but I reckon they could eventually do a job for the teams fighting against relegation in the Championship.
I've not noticed that before, although in FM12 I've only declined interest in other jobs as it's either been too little a jump up in club size to be worth it; or it's been while I'm been doing well and not wanting to leave.
Manage TFC.
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FA Cup - We beat Ebsfleet 2-1 in the first round before we claimed the scalp of League 1 side Crystal Palace as we won 2-1 at Selhurst Park.In the third round we have been drawn against Premiership giants Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.Not only we will get a lot money from the game,we will also receive an extra £140,000 as it has been moved back for TV.Normal circumstances would rule a shock out but Steve McClaren is in charge of Chelsea so anything could be possible.
League Cup - Lost 3-2 to Bristol City in the first round.We were much more competitive then last season so that is an improvement straight away.
J.P Trophy - Received a bye in the first round before we controversially lost 2-0 to Crawley in the second round,they were given a soft penalty and a goal from an offside position whereas I had a goal disallowed for offside and a stonewall penalty denied!
Mid-Season Overview
I am quite stunned to be sitting top of the league at the halfway point on the season,out of all honesty I was hoping to be in a playoff spot but we have been playing out of out skins.Out of the four games we have lost,two of those were where we finished with ten men so no complaints really.We made a quick exit in the League Cup and J.P Trophy but in the FA Cup,we have made it to the third round where we will play Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and it's televised.....cher-ching!
In the Summer,I applied for the Oldham job after they were relegated to League 2 but they turned me down.Fast forward 16 league games,they sack their manager and offer me the job....no thanks! I will be here till the end of the season at the very least but if a really good offer comes in,then I will see if I can delay the decision till the end of the season.
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Really nice! Good luck with the second half!
Thanks,will try my best to
I am absolutely over the moon with this result but at the same time disappointed that we couldn't hold on!
This was a minor shock compared to League 1 Portsmouth knocking Everton out and Exeter beating Tottenham!
Finances are now at £469k in the black,the Chelsea game is my last for the night due to it being 1am and me being knackered.
Great result there.
That is one heck of a result!
How you missed to add Turkish league? It would be enjoyable.
Good result
These cup runs are becoming your bread and butter! Consistent performance will have you with heaps of cash from when you move up the league and need to bring in players. How's your stadium holding up in L2? Any chance of an expansion needed yet?
Great result.
Thanks guys
KaanTR - I've added the Turkish league down to Division 2 which will start 19/6/16 so I may get an opportunity to manage their in the future.
cerud - Thanks!!At the moment,we are averaging 3354/6077 so we won't be having an expansion or a new stadium anytime soon.
noikeee - Nope,I was a tight ass with the bonuses,after choking last season,I put them on low leauge and cup bonuses...will help save money!
Right decision to stay for another season then, by the looks of it
Excellent result against Chelsea, good luck in the replay!
I think that has to be the biggest upset I've seen on FM12 - good job
It certainly is right up there as one of my best victories on any version of FM
Fantastic result vs Chelsea. Now do what you need to do against Newport County...
Very impressive result against Chelsea! Did your keeper have the game of his life to keep Chelsea out, or did the Chelsea strikers just not have their shooting boots on?
I had a feeling you had a chance at home after an away draw.
Away draw,home victory.....the story of my cup runs
Drew away to Newport in the 4th round so hopefully I can muster up a home victory!
With regards to league form,going through a minor blip at the moment as we've only recorded 1 win in 4 games...need to somehow improve consistency.
Great job in the replay, very impressive
We won the replay against Newport County 2-1,we are now away to Sheffield Wednesday in the 5th round who are a mid-table Championship club.They have a big ground which hopefully they can fill so it gives us some more money,we currently have £845k in the bank!
Not a bad source for a potential promotion warchest
wow great stuff I hope you pummel City (Although I can't see that happening)
Good luck!
I seem to be a cup specialist!Who knows what will happen,I've already knocked out Chelsea who sit in 2nd in the Premiership while City are 3rd so it could well happen
I'll try my best!
You've had an amazing run anyway
You are amazing mate!
In the game against City,we lost 2-1 but I know deep down we gave it our all.The boys put up a fighting effort which kept me satisfied in defeat.
As for the finances,we now have a massive £1.9 million in the bank!
Top work there
Time for that bank account in the Caymans


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Isn't G a continuous function and although you leave the immediate vicinity of the earth with an escape velocity won't it always exert a force, however small it may be. Won't that force eventually pull the object back to the earth (assuming the absence of other objects)
What is escape velocity? In reality, how can something no longer be under the gravitational influence of something else?
It's easiest to think of this problem in terms of energy. At launch the object of mass m has certain amount of kinetic energy corresponding to its velocity v
\begin{equation} E_k = \frac{mv^2}{2} \end{equation}
and certain amount of gravitational potential energy corresponding to its separation r from the central body of mass M
\begin{equation} E_p = -\frac{GMm}{r} \end{equation}
As the object moves away from the central body, it slows down under the influence of the gravitational field, so its kinetic energy depletes while its gravitational potential energy increases since it is now further away from the central body. Kinetic energy is transformed into gravitational potential energy and the total mechanical energy is conserved.
The critical realization is that the amount of kinetic energy ΔEk the object loses as it moves a unit of distance further away from the central body becomes smaller as r grows. This is due to the fact that decrease in kinetic energy ΔEk is equal to the increase in gravitational potential energy ΔEp and Ep's growth slows down considerably as r increases as can easily be seen on the chart of Ep against r. At infinity Ep reaches 0, which means that as r makes infinite change, Ep grows only by a finite value. This fact explains why it is possible to depart to infinity using a finite amount of kinetic energy.
If an object's initial kinetic energy is smaller than that finite amount then it will fall back. If it is equal or larger then it will depart to infinity.
Let's consider some concrete numbers. Imagine a 1kg spacecraft 10,000km away from the center of the Earth speeding away with velocity 8.929km/s. Its kinetic energy is 39.8MJ and its gravitational potential energy is -39.8MJ. When the object reaches 11,000km distance from Earth's center, its velocity will have decreased to 8.513km/s due to gravitational pull of the Earth and its kinetic energy has dropped to 36.2MJ. At the same time its separation from the center of the Earth grew to 11,000km so its gravitational potential energy is now -36.2MJ. Thus on the first 1,000km the drop in kinetic energy (and increase in gravitational potential energy) was 3.6MJ. As the object continues on to 12,000km its velocity drops to 8.151km/s and its kinetic energy to 33.2MJ. At the same time its gravitational potential energy increases to -33.2MJ. This time, the drop in kinetic energy (and corresponding increase in gravitational potential energy) is only 3MJ. For each subsequent 1,000km the drop in kinetic energy becomes smaller and smaller. If you continue this way summing up all infinite decreases in kinetic energy that the body will experience as it departs from Earth, you'll find that the total kinetic energy dropped by 39.8MJ to 0J while the gravitational potential energy increased from -39.8MJ to 0J. At the same time though, distance increased by ∞km.
No, because the fall-off of gravity is $1/r^2$, the force becomes weaker and weaker as the object moves away, at such a rate that it will never pull the object back in, even though the force is never actually zero. If the gravitational force only fell off as $1/r$ then you would be right, it would always pull the object back in eventually.
My guess is your discomfort is equivalent to some form of Zeno's Paradox.
It's true that it doesn't matter how far away you get from the Earth, there will always be an attractive force, and that if you are at rest gravity will pull you towards the Earth.
However, if you start at Earth's surface with that speed, you can show that your trajectory will never take you back to Earth. It will be a hyperbola. The reason is that your speed in the direction opposite to the Earth never goes down to zero. It gets smaller and smaller as you get further (because gravity pulls you back), but it never gets to zero.
A vary nice way to see it (if you are familiar with potential energy) is the definition from wikipedia: the escape velocity is the speed you need so your kinetic energy plus the gravitational potential energy add up to zero. This means that the object has enough energy to get out of the gravitational well. It doesn't matter if the gravitational well extends to infinity, the object will not return to the Earth because it will always have nonzero speed.
Yes the Earth will always exert a force, but that force will get smaller and smaller as the object get further and further. Even if we assume Earth and the object are the only 2 masses in the universe, the gravity from earth will always slow down the object, forever (ie until its distance is infinite), but the velocity of the object will always have a radial positive component, even if it tends towards 0 at infinity.


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In seeking solutions to gun violence, let's turn back to God
We constantly look to gun control, security in our schools, study of the psychological makeup of murderers, and our politicians to solve the problems of mass murder. Every cause has an effect, and in the Newtown shootings, we are seeing the effect of the worst thing that ever happened to America. We have forgotten God.


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BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Sam's Club announced that it is helping members and non-members prepare for spring celebrations by inviting them to a national "Spring Taste of Sam's Club" sampling event from April 15 to 17.
This complimentary tasting weekend will showcase gourmet finds and crowd favorites at locations nationwide from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m, Sam's Club reported.
During the event, Sam's Club said it will introduce its new cookbook, Fresh, Fast and Fabulous, featuring recipes from renowned barbecue chefs Rod Gray and Troy Black, as well as Sam's Club Members. A selection of recipes from the cookbook will be sampled during the event. Each club will have 800 cookbooks available plus a free copy to be given to every new member.


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Katie Holmes's New Curly Do: Love It or Hate It?
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Katie Holmes might be busy filming The Kennedys, but the stylish star briefly set aside her Jackie O persona on Monday night to attend the N.Y.C. premiere of The Extra Man, where she showed off a new, modern-day curly shag with side-swept bangs. Never one to shy from taking beauty risks–from her trendsetting banged bob to her much-buzzed-about pixie cut–Katie always manages to bring something new to both the red carpet and the streets of N.Y.C. And while her new corkscrews prove that something as subtle as a curling iron can put a little kick in your step, we're not sure if we prefer Katie's beautiful brunette locks curly or straight. Tell us: What do you think of Katie's new look? Vote now!–Jessie Goldberg


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Worm Farm
- 2 old buckets
- Dirt
- Garden worms
- 1 cup dry-meal dog food
If you like to fish or live near a lake, a worm farm could be a fun hobby!
- To prepare the bucket, make plenty of small drainage holes on the sides and bottoms with a hammer and a thin nail.
- Fill the buckets with rich garden soil, add the dog food, and mix well.
- Sprinkle water on the soil until it is moist but not soggy.
- Now go digging in your yard or compost pile to find twenty-five worms.
- Put them on top of the soil filled buckets and watch them burrow out of sight.
- Stand the bucket on bricks in a pan full of water to keep the ants from eating the worms.
- Start a crop of worms in the second bucket after a month to give you a steady supply.
- Check your worm farm once a week to see if it is still moist. Too much water is worse than too little.
- Every three weeks, dump the top five inches of dirt out and mix it with a half cup of dog food.
- Dump the rest of the dirt out, put the dirt with the dog food in the bottom of the bucket, and pile the rest of the dirt back in.
- This is a good time to check how your farm is growing. You should have hundreds of worms in twelve weeks.
More on: Earth Science and Nature
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Earlier this week I had a 'perfect storm' moment on my servers: Two backup jobs (one for each RAID10 array on the system) had been humming along for 18 hours, and then we had a sustained spike in traffic on my I/O intensive application. The result was unacceptably slow performance, and I had to force our administrator to cancel the backup. (He was not happy about this...not at all. "I'm not responsible if...")
The end result was lots of stress, unhappy customers, and a very grouchy Stu.
The bottleneck was disk utilization. Once the jobs were canceled, everything was working just fine. What can I suggest to my administrators to lessen the impact on my servers?
Here are some of the gory details:
The backup command itself (I got this out of
ps, but really don't know what it means.)
bpbkar -r 1209600 -ru root -dt 0 -to 0 -clnt xtx-le00 -class F_Full_on_Thursday
-sched Incr_Fri_to_Wed -st INCR -bpstart_to 300 -bpend_to 300 -read_to 300
-blks_per_buffer 127 -stream_count 8 -stream_number 8 -jobgrpid 223932 -tir -tir_plus
-use_otm -use_ofb -b svr_1259183136 -kl 28 -fso
The system
- RHEL4 64-bit
- 4GB RAM (~half used by applications)
- DL380G5 with two attached SAS RAID10 partitions, ~550GB and ~825GB
The data
- ~10 million files
The application
- busy from 0900 to 2300 on weekdays
- I/O intensive (99% read) mostly focused on a few hundred MB of files


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I have a broken package that is preventing QGIS from loading python plugins, updating itself, or even un-installing.
The main symptom of this problem is the following message that appears when QGIS is booted:
QGIS works, but none of the python plugins do and I cannot update, reinstall or uninstall QGIS. The paths of action I have tried so far are:
- Reinstall PyQGIS (which I believe to be causing the problem) using Synaptic, which leads to this error:
- Updating the packages and reinstalling, using `sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade`,
This leads to the following error:
dpkg: error processing python-qgis (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
- Following advice from here on broken packages, forced install
sudo apt-get install -fand
sudo dpkg --configure -a.
The latter option flags the following error, which tells me (more or less) what the problem is, but not how to solve it:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-qgis: python-qgis depends on python-qgis-common (= 1.9.0+git20121201+80fa7aa~precise1); however: Package python-qgis-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing python-qgis (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: python-qgis-common python-qgis
How do I solve this so I can have a fully working version of QGIS again?