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It is a known fact that Mahatma Gandhi launched a non-violent movement which freed the Indian subcontinent from the British rule on 15th August 1947. But was this the first instance that a freedom movement or a revolutionary protest succeeded by adopting non-violence? Had it been attempted anywhere before? If so, was it successful?
Probably the more appropriate answer is strike actions in general, as also Gandhi did a long hunger strikes himself. Labour strikes date back at least to the strikes of Deir el-Medina:
I am not sure that it is the first case, but an ancient example is the Boston Tea Party protest:
It followed with 8 long years of war and ended with the declaration of independence of the USA.
But I am almost sure that it is possible to find more ancient examples.
As nonviolence of the Tea Party has been challanged, I am adding another answer.
In Johannebourg, South Africa, September 11, 1908 Gandhi lead a non-violent protest of indians against Asiatic Registration Act.
Going out on a limb here, and feel free to disagree, but what about the growth of the early Church?
The growth of the Church in early centuries was a form of independence movement, inasmuch as early Christians simply wanted to practice their faith without fear of persecution. Also, the growth of the church (emphasis on the small "c"), meaning the local communities, is by its very nature non-violent. One could make a very strong case that the activities of the Church (the Vatican) does not fit in that category because of the Crusades, among other reasons, but I'd say that the church as a community of believers is rather closely aligned with a non-violent independence movement.
Again, just a thought.
How about Canada? Now, it wasn't exactly an independence movement, but here goes.
After the American War of Independence Britain's empire was diminished substantially, leaving Canada as England's chief North American possession. Yet, there were still many French settlers in Canada, and they did not get along very well with the British. In 1791, British prime minister William Pitt the Younger divided Canada into two sections (the British section and the French section) to ease tensions. But by the 1830s, Canada was again in turmoil.
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In the small baptist churches I've been a part of, (and the LDS service I attended), the communion elements are served to worshippers in the pews. In my Episcopal church, everybody comes up to the rail. I'm wondering a bit about how this variation in practice arose (Anyone know which came first?) and if there is a way of predicting how any given church will practice it.
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In Catholic churches, Communion is required by the Holy See to be distributed by a minister (priest, bishop, deacon, etc) and may only be done so by a lay person if there are not enough ministers to do the job. This, and the requirements about how the congregants receive the Eucharist from the minister, suggests that in Catholic churches, altar distribution is the way it goes. This is one of the many Catholic practices that originated in the Catholic Churches need to control its congregants. The ministers have control over whether you receive the sacrament of the Eucharist.
Episcopal/Anglican churches also practice this distribution by ministers, although I'm not certain about requirements as I know less about the Anglican church hierarchy. Lutheran churches do too, sometimes referring to it as The Sacrament of the Altar. Both of these come from their close ties to Catholicism back in the day.
In the various other Protestant persuasions, the desire to draw away from the rules and rituals of the more orthodox denominations and the belief that God connects directly with all people, not just through the ministers, lead to a significant de-formalization of the communion rite. Also, since most Protestants do not hold the that communion is a sacrament, but rather a remembrance of Christ's death for Christians on the cross, the formal ritual became unnecessary.
Also because of the lower importance that Protestants place on the Eucharist, it is not celebrated weekly at all churches, including Lutheran and Anglican churches. Catholics, however, are required to take communion weekly.
As to whether you can tell, at Protestant churches, there is not a sweeping generalization to be made based on denomination or size. That said, you could probably tell by when you walk in if you see a communion table set up with those communion cup-holders stacked on top of each other or if you see somewhere to kneel at the front of the church.
I was raised Methodist and we went to the altar and kneeled. I've been Presbyterian for 40 years and we are seated. My husband was raised Syrian Orthodox and they went to the altar too but stood.
I've attended evangelical and Fundamentalist churches most of my life, including Southern Baptist, Regular (GARBC) Baptist, Assemblies of God, Christian & Missionary Alliance, and Evangelical Free Church, and we almost always celebrate communion while sitting in the pews. I've attended a handful of Catholic services and there everyone went to the front of the church for communion. I've generally assumed it was a denominational thing: Protestants do it from the pews while Catholics go to the front. It wouldn't surprise me if Anglicans and Episcopalians did it like Catholics, as their practices are more Catholic-like than most other Protestants. (As they split from the Catholic church over leadership issues rather than doctrine.)


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2. My Windows installation files are pre-loaded on my hard drive. If i decide to go back to Windows (can't think of a reason why, but just in case :) will i still have Windows installation files if i use the option "use entire disk" installation for Ubuntu or is it safer to reinstall Windows (even though i won't be using it) and then run Ubuntu along side it?
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Pellen, owner of MAKA Energy Solutions in Wheeling, wanted to do what he could to alleviate some of the stress caused by the chemical spill that left 300,000 people in southern West Virginia without safe water for some time. The spill occurred when a foaming agent used in the coal preparation process leaked from a chemical plant tank into the Elk River.
Pellen reached out to at least 20 people and organizations. After speaking with West Virginia Senate President Jeff Kessler and getting in contact with Sarah Smith, an assistant to Tommy Dingess, director of administration for the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Pellen coordinated his efforts with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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They fill a plastic bottle with liquid nitrogen, screw the cap on, drop it in a bucket full of warm water, cover it with ping pong balls, and when the heated, expanding gas bursts the bottle, the balls go jumping all over the place...
If you scroll the video to 3:50, you can see that the bucket jumps in the air, seemingly at the same time as the ping pong balls. Of course the force of the explosion is not pushing it up, but down. So what exactly is making it rise over 1 m off the ground?
I can only think of two possible explanations:
- Elastic recoil from the material of the bucket. This seems pretty unlikely to me, as in my experience plastic buckets don't bounce much.
- Pressure difference: the explosion drives everything out of the bucket, leaving a partial vacuum behind, so the atmospheric pressure outside the bucket pushes it up before air rushes back in to equalize the pressure. This seems more likely, but I would had thought that there would have been a longer delay.
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I'm currently about 30 lbs overweight. I'm also generally much warmer than many others around me, and am constantly seeking ways to cool off. I'm already working on slimming down, but I'm wondering - if I lose 30 lbs and reach my target weight, will I be significantly cooler as well? How much difference does fat make in regulating one's body temperature?
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From personal experience, I can say that you will lose some insulation when you lose fat, but that may not change much for you. I lost around 85 pounds of fat, and I can say that I get really cold in the winter. My hands are almost always ice cubes, but my thyroid tested out OK. I have to button up my jackets now, but now I can so it's OK.
I've always run a bit cooler than most people, seeking ways to stay warm. My basic physiology is a bit different than yours. You'll probably still be looking for ways to cool off, but you won't have to work as hard to do it.
Insulation traps body heat in, and slows the effect of the outside environment. What you will see is that with less fat (insulation):
I have kept tabs on various body particulars, including daily records of weight,(160) fat (currently 9.5%, moisture (64.5%), heart rate (42) at different times, and blood pressure (range from 112/58 to a high of 229/127) from March 26, 2006 to the present day. I am a distant runner and Decathlon competitor, which includes weights, speed work and of course forms and plyometrics. Recently, due to an injury, my exercise regime went from a high of 35 miles down to nothing. Then, I had the misfortune of falling off the roof. Stuck the landing, but bleed quite a bit. Anyway, things are improving. There is a phenomena called Wilson's syndrome in which the body temp is less than 98.6. When air temp gets below 45 degrees, the body temp goes down. With a 9.5% number, I have had usually a number in the range of 95-96F, but a recent cold spell, and not working out, had me down to 90.2. Death from hyporthermia supposedly occurs at 89F. But, I was fine. There were no symptoms of shaking or cold body parts or whatever. I'm running today. I have recently speculated that there is a defined ratio of air temp, and body fat, that allows it to slide down to 90, without problems.


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Do you like awesomeness? Then you will love this dish. The pesto cream is amazing and has no added fat, and is the perfect topping to tender homemade pasta. I know I said I would never make ravioli again, but I had some serious procrastinating to do today.
Cashew Cream
- 1 cup raw cashews
- 1 1/2 cups water
Tofu Ricotta Filling (slightly adapted from Isa's recipe)
- 1 pound firm tofu, pressed
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- handful fresh basil leaves, chopped fine (ten leaves or so)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- dash fresh black pepper
- 1/4 cup of the cashew cream (more if needed)
- 1/4 cup nutritional yeast flakes
Pesto Cream (adapted from Isa's recipe)
- 1/2 cup pine nuts
- 3 cups basil leaves
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/4 cup nutritional yeast flakes
- remainder of the cashew cream
- salt to taste
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Cashew Cream: place cashews in a blender and pour in enough of the water to cover. Blend into a paste. Add the rest of the water and blend until very smooth.
Tofu Ricotta (for ravioli):
1. In a large bowl, mush the tofu up with your hands.
2. Add lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper and basil. Mush with hands again until smooth and reaches the consistency of ricotta cheese.
3. Add cashew cream, stir with fork. You want the tofu to be creamy, but not wet or soggy. You should be able to form it into balls with your hands. Add nutritional yeast and combine all ingredients well.
Pesto Cream:
1. Dry roast pine nuts in a pan over medium heat until golden (around 5 mins). Place in a food processor with basil, garlic, and lemon juice. Process until blended together.
2. With motor running, drizzle in cashew cream and blend until smooth (does not have to be super smooth--a little texture is nice).
3. Heat pesto cream gently in a saucepan and spoon over cooked ravioli.
When I made ravioli before, I used this method. I made the dough too thin, though. This time I rolled the dough to number 5, and used a pastry wheel to get the funky edge. I also made smaller ravioli (about 2 x 2 inches. This recipe will yield about 45 ravioli with a generous tsp of filling in each. I let them dry on a linen towel for about 30 mins. The end result was a durable yet tender ravioli that did not break apart in the water.
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Ravioli with Pesto Cream
Do you like awesomeness? Then you will love this dish. The pesto cream is amazing and has no added fat, and is the perfect topping to tender homemade pasta. I know I said I would never make ravioli again, but I had some serious procrastinating to do today.
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- Jennifer said...
Mmmm...This looks sensational!
- August 8, 2009 at 12:09 AM
- Ashley said...
Have any suggestions what to use instead of pesto? Pesto and I don't get along very well, and this sounds delicious aside from the pesto. :(
- August 8, 2009 at 12:16 AM
- vegan.in.brighton said...
Woah! This is a little too awesome for me to handle at this time of day...I'll have to try this soon!
- August 8, 2009 at 3:24 AM
- cardiovegsular said...
i don't think ravioli has ever looked so amazing! you are the vegan genius. i want you to cook for me! your kids are super lucky to have you as a dad.
- August 8, 2009 at 2:58 PM
- ia bonto said...
Yes me! I like awesomeness! This does look so good. I'm a big fan of pesto, I think I'll try it.
- August 8, 2009 at 9:18 PM
- Allie said...
So basically...you can come cook for me anytime! :D
- August 8, 2009 at 11:47 PM
- The Voracious Vegan said...
I LOVE awesomeness! This looks beautiful, very impressive recipe. Thanks for sharing!
- August 9, 2009 at 5:10 AM
- Literary Wino said...
oh sweet tofu jesus. this looks amazing. do you need a nanny? au pair? I'm there! oh how I would be there!
- August 9, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- vegetarianzoe said...
This seems a really yummy filling for ravioli! I think it'll enter my kitchen too!
- August 10, 2009 at 3:17 AM
- Carrie™ said...
That looks and sounds soooo good! Thank you for posting your recipe.
- August 10, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- happyherbivore.com said...
yum! you make me want my own pasta
- August 10, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Kelly said...
Do I like awesomeness? YES! And pesto and pasta and... Why did I have a sandwich for lunch and not this?
- August 10, 2009 at 6:27 PM
- dirtyduck said...
wow these are really impressive.and a cashew cream sauce, very good!
- August 11, 2009 at 7:10 AM
- Jelli Bean said...
I love that you make your own ravioli from start to finish! I will definitely be trying this recipe, insisting that my husband try it, even if he decides that tofu means I get to eat all the leftovers. Yum!
- August 11, 2009 at 2:02 PM
- Vegetation said...
Yum! I most definitely want to try this. I might have to use some roasted vegetable ravioli though because I can't eat the tofu, but the Pesto Cream looks wonderful!
- August 13, 2009 at 2:16 AM
- Mary said...
In fact, I do like awesomeness. And I have a lot of basil, so I am all over this one. Thanks!
- August 14, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- keNi said...
you've done it again! i loved this! we used a different pasta dough recipe, and added more garlic and lemon juice (we're garlic fiends)and it was just delicious! thanks for sharing!
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- lulufisk said...
a bit of a stupid question - but as someone who's allergic to nuts, what would be a good substitute for the cashew cream?
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- Rachel Page said...
Just tried this recipe. Goodness! Yum yum!
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How the Seattle Seahawks Solved Peyton Manning
The best quarterback in NFL history was dismantled by one of the best game plans in Super Bowl history.
This, upon further review, is the story of Super Bowl XLVIII. On Sunday, in the immediate wake of the Seattle Seahawks' 43-8 drubbing of Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos, it was natural to surmise that Manning, the league's most valuable player this season, had shrunk on the biggest stage. After all, this is a player whose career playoff record is now a modest 11-12.
But a review of the game film shows that Manning's struggles were destined from the start. Seattle's strategy focused on containing Denver's vaunted short passing game, exposing the Broncos as a team with surprisingly few tricks in their offensive bag.
The Seahawks gladly let Manning break the Super Bowl record for completions. He connected on 34 of his 49 passes. The hulking Seattle defense held those passes to an average of 8.2 yards per completion, the third-worst mark in Super Bowl history, according to Stats LLC. The plan was simple: Let Manning have his short passes, but make sure they stay short.
The Seahawks have a few trademark moves: They pressure the quarterback with their endless parade of talented defensive linemen, and their oversize cornerbacks push receivers out near the sideline. This leaves large spaces in the middle of the field, where safeties Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor wipe out receivers that come through.
What the Seahawks did on Sunday was take that standard operating procedure and make tweaks to neutralize Manning.
The first rule of facing Manning is don't blitz. According to Pro Football Focus, there were 184 instances this season when brave, foolish souls blitzed Manning; he devastated them in response, compiling a quarterback rating above 100 in those situations.
The point of blitzing—that is, sending defenders other than linemen to rush the quarterback—is to get the quarterback uncomfortable, gambling that he won't be able to find the hole in the defense that was created when the blitzing player left his post. That doesn't work on Manning. The Seahawks knew this, so they tried something else.
On Denver's first third down of the game, Seattle sent only three pass rushers. The rest dropped into coverage. This is almost unheard of in the NFL. The play resulted in a short three-yard completion that forced a punt. In another critical instance, the Seahawks sent the standard four pass rushers—yet defensive end Cliff Avril got to Manning anyway, hitting his arm as he threw. Because linebacker Malcolm Smith wasn't blitzing, he was there to intercept the floating pass and return it for a backbreaking touchdown.
In fact, on some plays, the Seahawks would even drop their linemen into coverage, even though they weigh around 300 pounds. A typical play saw them backing straight up and standing towards the middle of the field and giving Manning yet another (large) object to avoid. The three-man rush could still apply pressure, however.
This was the theme throughout the night. The Seahawks wanted to keep every play in front of them to prevent the Denver wide receivers from executing their blocking schemes to break off big gains after the catch—the Broncos' trademark.
To counteract these and the "pick" plays Denver runs, in which one receiver runs interference for another by running into a cornerback, the Seahawks had a clear plan.
When two Denver receivers lined up next to each other, Seattle cornerbacks such as Richard Sherman would begin to backpedal before the snap. This was to get away from the Bronco receivers. The Seahawks knew those receiver pairs likely would try to pick the cornerback—or to execute downfield blocking on a short pass, which could lead to even bigger gains. So the Seahawks' cornerbacks had no problem starting the play three or four yards away, waiting for it to develop, then rushing in with their superior tackling skills to stomp it out.
Seattle's defensive plan will go down as one of the best efforts to stop an individual player in Super Bowl history. The gold standard was coach Bill Belichick's strategy that engineered the New England Patriots' 2002 upset of the St. Louis Rams. In that game, Belichick knew that Rams running back Marshall Faulk was the key to the offense. He figured St. Louis could execute nearly any play—from a big run to a deep pass—by either giving the ball to Faulk or using him as a decoy. So Belichick's plan was to devote a player to knocking Faulk on his behind on every play, taking him completely out of the equation.
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We have been speaking Deisler
Anybody got any good thread names? I'm so uncreative lol.
For writing and stylistic tips, you can have a gander at some of the more popular threads in here. Are you doing match-by-match, monthly or seasonal updates? It's quite easy once you get into it, but it's nice to have a format you can use for each update as that makes things easier. Personally I use seasonal updates and just quote my last update and then years, screenshots and text around the new season. It works quite well. Then you have the more match by match updates with a short comment on each match and perhaps a table screenshot at the end.
All up to you how you want to do it, and you can experiment along the way to you find something that suits you. Good luck.
Anyone have a FM12 xml file of Albania by any chance???
OK, 15 songs ...
Got Till It's Gone: Janet Jackson, Q-Tip & Joni Mitchell
The King: Iarla O Lionaird
Don't Want To Be Part Of Your World: David Byrne
Houses In Motion: Talking Heads
The Choice Is Yours (Revisited): Black Sheep
The Upper Peninsula: Sufjan Stevens
The Magnificent Seven: The Clash
Batacumbele: Yerba Buena
Le Monastere Dans Les: John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia
Landslide: Dixie Chicks & Sheryl Crow
Honey Bee: Cassandra Wilson
What's New: Carmen McRae & Betty Carter
Ba Ba: Sigur Ros
Yamfe: Toumani Diabate & Ballake Sissoko
Original Sufferhead: Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Where have all the Scum fans gone? LOL
Anyone here that can help me with the code thing? I thought it was [php] [/*php] (minus the star) but I can't seem to get it right.
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Would people have any interest in reading a thread about Athletic Bilbao? Just started a save as them and having fun. With my last save crashing I would like to get another thread up and running.
Would be an interesting read,especially with the restriction of Basque only players.
That's what I am thinking it takes a lot to manage them to success especially the more season you play.
Also the irony of "you're writing is an adequate level" is lovely
I feel so small.
Then again, I did say 'adequate' level, which I think saves me. I wont edit the post seen as I've been found out, by a few of you
want to do a career thread and wondered what people would be interested in reading about?
Any sort of struggle against adversity really.
I was just reading this article on Wikipedia and by god I love the internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_Havana#Former
I feel proud after that
is anyone still reading my thread? i know its gone a bit boring due to the team but im about to embark on a Major rebuild of the squad.
I read I just don't comment
As long as someone is reading I'm happy
im like flamers, read em all tbf most of my time is sat reading these. Motivates me to play fm
hello every bady i want play fm2012 online hamachi id real madrid900 and password 123 we started in french ligue if you want join in hamachi good bye
I dont know if im writing this in the correct place or not to be honest but....
Just woundering if anyone could help me....i know how to post screenshots on to my career, but i noticed on others that you can have a link inside a word (i.e, a players name, aresult etc...) how do i do that? If anyone could help that would be great, just send me a message or reply in here.
This is the correct place for anything, even sharing poor music tastes
Anyway I know full well that unfamiliar codes can seem tricky to do. The best thing to do for anything you're not sure about is to copy a template from another post (which you can see by 'quoting', which shows you the coding for images, layouts , links... anything you'd want to use rather than the aforementioned things they do), this is the layout anyway...
[URL=" (link)"](wording)[ /URL]
Just without the space between the '[' and '/'
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Cheers for that Delta & my musical tastes varey from the stranglers to N.W.A just to let the community know
Dear Christ, I'm busy! Thank God I have a holiday in 3 days
I feel like a bit of a dick by not following any threads lately other than occasionally updating my own, but after everyone at the office got a rather threatening email over use of the internet, I don't want to risk coming into the forums anymore during the day. And at night I've had very little time lately - barely enough to play FM.
However I impulse-bought FM2012 during that Steam promotion yesterday, and now I'm considering cutting my FM11 career short (well, it's 22 seasons long) to start one on FM12. I've already got a team, a thread title ready and everything.
For what it's worth, I've been a long time follower of this thread, but don't post on people's threads very often. I'm keeping up with about six or seven at the moment, as well as doing my own and trying to play the game. Oh, and live life as well, of course.
Yeah, I've severely dropped off recently. Add to that March Madness coming up and I'm snowed under.
I have barely responded to people's threads other than my own. Maybe that's why not a lot of people post replies in my thread...
I've been busy lately with school. Early April will get worse (4 exams in 6 days!!!) but after that I won't have to worry about school for 4 months.
ok check out my thread as the inaugural FMCU cup will be announced in the next hour, complete with information on the teams involved.
Rancer 4 in 6 days, nothing. My housemate has 20 in 15
How the hell do you manage that one?!
You do engineering :P He modules are stupid, he has 2 weeks of exams where I have about 10
I did engineering and while it was mental, it was nowhere near as mental as that!
I did Engineering and had a maximum of 6 exams per semester, and that only happened once.
Ours is modular but all exams are in the final term
So, yeah. I'll be on a plane in 48 hours time...
To Santarcangelo?
Well that's disappointing, eh.
I've not been posting near as much in peoples threads but I think that comes with time of the year as for most people.
Doesn't stop me reading them though
Big news in my thread fellas, big news.
Anyone who wants a 50% off coupon for a friend message me on Steam
Steam is a pile of sh*t.
Logged on at Vancouver Airport because I have a couple of hours wait. I now can't play it until the bloody thing updates. Using airport wi-fi. Which is slower than Paris Hilton.
You can tell Steam to not update the game?
Steam is fine.
Does FM 12 still have the annoying 'player sees rejected offer as a reason to demand a new contract thing' that I'm getting reacquanted with on FM11? I don't remember that being an issue. Very annoying with a side of promising young players. Was bad enough with getting a few bids a day for my MTK side in FM12 without facing that situation as well.
It's happened a few times to me on FM12 but not as frequent as on FM11. Usually just to the very promosing youngsters. I tend to put £30m asking price on any player I plan on keeping for a while, seems to stop the AI bidding on your players
"Does FM 12 still have the annoying 'player sees rejected offer as a reason to demand a new contract thing' that I'm getting reacquanted with on FM11? I don't remember that being an issue. Very annoying with a side of promising young players. Was bad enough with getting a few bids a day for my MTK side in FM12 without facing that situation as well. "
IRL MTK is well-known for asking for large sums of money for its youngsters and telling them to sit on their asses if they want to move - that's a tradition to follow
It's every SINGLE time an offer comes in for one of my players
I offered my player out who was in the reserves and after the bid was not good enough I rejected it, then he asked for a new contract due to the clubs recent interest in him.
i dont get players demanding new contracts for that
Rancer, AB or anyone who likes the MLS, what teams have funds for wages and transfer funds and can someone explain the rules for the MLS? Also, I don't want the best team either.
Gone with Houston in the end. Would someone like to explain all the contracts etc etc please and everything else, thanks.
- AA (Academy Apprentice) - there contracts are for playing who come through the youth system. Don't count against the cap.
- Entry-Level Senior - 1 or 2 year contract at minimum wage
- Senior - contracts from minimum wage (it increases every year) to the max senior contract of $325,000
- DP (Designated Player) - contracts over $325,000. Don't remember how much it counts against the cap though ($400k iirc?) because the value changes every year IRL...the amount you can offer depends on the salary budget you have
- similar to transfer budget
Draft Picks
- Superdraft and Supplemental Draft. It's how you restock your rosters with the best talent from the US amateur leagues. The parity system is such that the worst teams get the highest picks in the draft. Pick and choose the best talent.
Trading/Part exchanges
- you can trade players, draft picks, allocation money, International slots, (don't think you can trade DP slots anymore). The system is a bit annoying though where you can't acquire multiple assets at once.
Houston are an okay club. They're a playoff team (although when over 50% of the teams in the league make the playoffs, it's hard not to be a playoff team)
Cool, still don't know any good free transfers but I have some wages. I'll see where it goes. Like all my previous attempts off managing in the MLS, I've got bored and sacked it in because I was confused.
The challenge with Houston is transition--the team is on the wrong side of their careers and while Ching and Davis are still quality, they are fading fast. It's not clear what sits behind them. So they're an interesting team to pick up. You have Cameron, some decent other pieces. But some attacking creativity in midfield is desperately needed, and it's not clear that Bruin (or any of the others brought in) are the answer up front.
I've sacked it in and gone back to my Chester save.
It's about this time of year I start my journeyman career save and this year is not any different.
These have been my previous attempts in last two years;
[FM10] The Good Foot
[FM11] Godfoten
I hope to get my new career posted up, within the next week or so.
Look forward to it Gundo!
BTW, Gundo, please go to the right team in Verona this time if you end up in Italy.
The Flying Donkeys have always been my favourite Italian team, followed Hellas Verona's results last few seasons aswel.
Might have to start another chapter of my Crazy Canuck FM adventures because of bloody crash dumps with a conflict with some of the European files.
Would anyone fancy reading a save based on a fantasy American league (with promotion/relegation), all-youth challenge from a level 8 league?
Youth Challengers definitely seem to be popular at the moment.An fantasy American League using all-youth would be interesting to follow.
FC Magdeburg playing in the 4th league in Germany had failed to score in 5 matches......
Thats awesome
Hi, i got a question that maybe you guys can help me, im planning to do a career starting in i na semi-professional team. My question is: How can the club become professional? I tried to offer a new contract to a player that is already professional, the only professional player in the team, and it only allows me to offer a part time contract...
Thank you for your time and help,
You have no control over that, when you're at a high enough league level and with enough money in the bank (I think), the board will decide to turn the club professional but you have to wait for that rather than there being anything directly you can do yourself.
Delta isn't there a boardroom option to ask to turn professional?
There might be, but you'd probably still need the above factors for it to be a successful request, and it still stands that the board have to think you're ready rather then there being a 'go professional' option when you want it.
It also hinges on how ambitious the chairman is etc.
But how can i have a professional player and i cant even renew with him in a full time basis as he is right now?
Thank you for your help once again
The semipro/pro thing is hard coded in now as you used to be able to be semi pro and have all your players full time.
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I've noticed some people, at the end of a season, create a table that shows who they managed each season and how the did. But I can't figure out how to do this. Can anyone tell me?
Thanks, dafuge. Never crossed my mind to quote someone else's and then copy/paste it.
Anyone else preordered/going to buy Diablo 3? Been watching YouTube videos of people playing the beta and it looks great, preordered it from Amazon yesterday.
The Youth Only challenge has certainly gotten a lot more popular this year. I'm seeing one new youth thread one day these days.
Bloody hell I'm getting seriously addicted to this game. Think I've spent almost two full days of my holidays stuck to FM. If I hadn't just spent a weekend with the GF, not touching the computer at all, I'd be questioning my sanity at this point.
Btw as I'm writing this I'm loading up the game for a quick 30 minutes session before I go out for dinner.
I met an Italian football fan at the football yesterday at St. Albans City v Weymouth. Almost an Italian version of myself, in fact! Whilst he was drooling over the prospect of watching English Non-League football at its very best at Clarence Park, I was talking to him and asking endless questions about Serie C, D and below (basically, the Italian equivalent of 'Non-League')!
He was an awesome guy. A Cremonese fan and said to me that he wants to bring me a scarf and shirt next time he comes to St. Albans so that I will support his team. I told him that he has to make St. Albans City his English team! I did want to tell him that I once took his beloved Cremonese to Serie A and that I won the Scudetto with them on CM03/04 with Milan Baros and Toledo up front, but I thought it best not to admit just how much of a nerd I am to a total stranger. :o
Crouchy its worse admitting to your family you are a nerd. They judge you much more I would love for him to be on these forums and find you
Flamers, I hear that you are doing YouTube videos of Minecraft now...... *blatant plug* ........ I've heard that you are doing Sea of Flame II, which is an awesome map...... *very blatant plug* ........ looking forward to seeing how you get on dude........ *extremely blatant plug*
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31 Jan 2012 4:15 PM #1
Unable to register Designer: "A server error has occurred"
I'm unable to register Sencha Designer 2. I get the error message:
A server error has occurred
This happens when I enter a valid Sencha ID and password.
Any suggestions? I'm not able to use Designer unless I can register.
I tried from Mac as well as Windows. Is the problem with my specific Sencha ID?
31 Jan 2012 4:41 PM #2
Sam -
We've run into this across all of the operating systems but have yet to isolate what the problem is.
We are investigating what the problem is.Aaron Conran
1 Feb 2012 10:54 AM #3
Seems like a problem with my account. I created another Sencha ID and was able to register Designer, and start using it.
4 May 2012 1:10 AM #4
Problem message : A server error has occourredSeems like a problem.I havealready registered.Ican notuseext designer, Ido not know and it show message : A server error has occourred.
Thank for the answer.
10 May 2012 2:11 PM #5
Still getting this error now on new signups. what gives?
Don't pull the plug on 1.2, architect isn't fully baked yet.
12 Jul 2012 2:43 AM #6
Same error
Even I am getting the same error..
Any solution?
12 Jul 2012 9:09 AM #7
25 Jan 2013 10:25 AM #8
"Server Error Occurred" while registering for Ext Designer
I created a new account and received the confirmation mail for the same. But still unable to register for Ext Designer with my valid credentials.
-It gives me "Server Error Occurred".
-I use Windows 7
-Created a different Sencha account and tried registering through that, but same error.
-Mine is a trial version.
-Have sent a mail regarding the same to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Could anyone please help me with this. Thank you!
Thanks and Regards,
28 Jan 2013 11:23 AM #9
It is unlikely that you will receive any response form "firstname.lastname@example.com".
Send an email to architect.feedback at sencha.com and Viciki will be able to help you out.Aaron Conran
10 Jun 2014 2:27 AM #10
same error me too
at today the server error still remains, please when this bug will be fixed ?


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Stansell in the New Republic on Catholics and abortion
So I'm breezing through recent issues of The New Republic and I'm jolted out of my chair by the following: Opposition to abortion in the late 1960s and early 1970s was "drummed up, exacerbated, and orchestrated by elites at the highest levels of the Catholic Church and the right wing of the Republican party."Thus concludes the third paragraph of a lengthy review of three recent books on abortion by University of Chicago historian Christine Stansell. Stansell is in fact a distinguished historian, and I've frequently assigned her excellent American Moderns a study of Greenwich village bohemians in the early twentieth century. But this essay -- and not just that sentence -- gets a great deal wrong. Small factual errors -- Pius XII permitted the rhythm method in 1952, well before Paul VI endorsed it in 1968 -- are less important than the tone, which implies that Catholic opposition to abortion was somehow cajoled out of an unwilling Catholic populace by a conniving hierarchy. Note the language: opposition to abortion was "drummed up, exacerbated and orchestrated." Or later: the bishops finessed a "rhetorical sleight of hand" by shifting attention away from birth control to abortion. Or later still: a "Catholic vendetta" (really?) made abortion a constant issue in national politics. Or one more time: "the deep resources and coffers" of Catholicism fed the campaign to make the fetus "an icon to rally believers."All of this is unfortunate. Stansell is right to see significant connections between the intense, decades long and agonized Catholic discussion of contraception and the emergence of abortion as a national issue in the mid-1960s. I tried to make these connections in my Catholicism and American Freedom.But Stansell's conspiratorial tone is disappointing. Her dubious assumption that absent the Catholic bishops abortion would "have ended up as legal, available, something seldom discussed as a personal matter" is actually the mirror image of arguments made by Catholic conservatives such as George Weigel: that Catholic dissent over birth control might have been quashed if only bishops had resolutely defrocked clergy willingly to publicly venture their disagreement with Humanae Vitae. Both Stansell and Weigel overestimate episcopal influence. By the mid-1960s, the overwhelming majority of Catholic couples, priests (as evidenced in Leslie Tentler's fine study) and, perhaps, even bishops, were either ignoring Church teaching on contraception or fervently hoping that this teaching would change. When it did not, Catholic couples resolved to simply ignore church teaching, as they do today, over forty years and innumerable episcopal statements later. Many of today's more conservative priests and seminarians claim to fully endorse church teaching on contraception. But theirs is an easy orthodoxy unavailable to priests fifty years ago, forced to grapple with the issue on a less abstract plane, as they listened to endless anguished couples discussing dilemmas of contraception, sex and family in the confessional. Abortion was different. The rapid change in laws on abortion -- illegal almost everywhere in 1962, legal at any point in the pregnancy and for any reason after Roe -- produced a major popular reaction. This reaction came primarily from within the Catholic community but not because bishops ordered it. Instead bishops, Catholic intellectuals seasoned (and traumatized) by the contraception debate and a wide swath of Catholic opinion found the radical quality of Roe and some of the state laws that preceded Roe startling. Catholic public opinion in its broadest sense on abortion is not significantly different than the general public. But the most mobilized Catholics in the late 1960s and early 1970s -- many of them liberals and not, as Stansell assumes, all Republican conservatives -- were appalled by the Supreme Court's unwillingness to permit any restrictions on abortion. (That the Justices, like the bishops, are an unelected "elite" does not trouble Stansell.) Stansell cannot bear to use the term pro-life without revealing scare quotes, and she cannot credit opposition to legal abortion as a genuinely popular movement. She is uninterested, for example, in polling data suggesting young people are more opposed to abortion than than their parents. She concludes her essay dwelling, a bit wishfully in my estimation, on the "adamantine" fact that most Americans are pro-choice in that they still favor legal abortion. They are and they do. But not in the last months of a pregnancy. Not to select fetuses based on gender. Not with government funds. The more interesting and accurate historical story is exactly this complexity. Stansell might have turned her talents toward helping us understand this complexity. But she hasn't, and the soundbite quality of the essay is both a pity and a missed opportunity.
About the Author
John T. McGreevy is the I.A. O'Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
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Do I remember accurately the laments of the nascent pro-life movment in the early 70s about the foot-dragging of the Catholic bishops on the abortion issue? I think James Kelly of the Fordham Sociology Department has written extensively on this.
"But the most mobilized Catholics in the late 1960s and early 1970s many of them liberals and not, as Stansell assumes, all Republican conservatives were appalled by the Supreme Courts unwillingness to permit any restrictions on abortion."Right! And as a liberal and a Catholic I see the accusations from conservative Catholics that liberal Catholics are all pro-abortion as contributing to the misapprehensions of people like Stansell. Such accusations are not uncommon even here on dotCommonweal, and they are neither accurate nor fair.
@BrendanWhat?? I suppose you don't see that one going up on your classroom walls... :)
We and our friends were liberal CFM families in the 50s. We all had huge families, 5-6-9-up to 12 children. Any healthy couple not using birth control and married 25 years could easily have 10-15 pregnacies in that time, some being mis-carriages. Where are these families with that number of children today? .. not in any parish we go to now..And we were all CFM liberal pro-life thru the 70s and the ones still alive are still that today. Stansell a historian??? can she name one pro-choice pol in the 50s 60s?? I can... Reagan...
Mary -- Actually, I'm shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that that post got removed! Why, when I first saw it, I thought it was actually part of Julia Flyte's breakdown from Brideshead Revisited that Waugh had decided not to go with, or perhaps a passage from Karl Rahner when his supernatural existential was malfunctioning, or maybe just St. Hildegard of Bingen on a bad day, or an in-breaking kingdom announcement. I can't imagine why it was removed! Did the USCCB's doctrinal committee complain that it was causing error and confusion? (For anyone who didn't see it, right before mine there was a post by someone that got deleted, it was... well, it was.)
More evidence of the CW editors' conspiracy, only now they're revealed to be a gang of whale-tail wearin' zionist mafiosos.
Republicans in the 60's and 70's? Really? What was Professor Stansell smoking?
It is interesting that this issue often brings out the worst in people. Apparently it's had that effect on Ms. Stansell's scholarship. Is there any issue that's more revelatory?
I hate it when comments get deleted, particularly if they're not legally actionable. It always makes the post about deleting things instead of the original post. Plus it makes me feel cheated out of seeing the train wreck.I don't know if Ed is bemoaning or musing about the demise of the cheaper-by-the-dozen families. Five kids per family was about average for our Catholic neighborhood (I was born in '54).A lot of girls from our old neighborhood got together last spring. I noticed the pattern seemed to be two years of voc/tech training or biz school, early marriage, three kids in quick succession, a tubal ligation, then back to work when the kids were in school full-time. No idea if this is typical of other working class Catholic Boomers.All of them are still practicing Catholics.
Hey Jean, I also was in one of those 5 kid (plus 5 "miscarriages") families. Similar pattern you describe among the kids, though among the group I knew, the women made their husbands be the one to get the tube job.
Should also mention that all of them are pro-life, but they disagree somewhat on how the problem should be addressed and intensity of feeling about the topic seems to vary.Mary, would be interesting to see an attitudinal survey of Boomer and GenX women who stayed in the church but had smaller families.Some Catholic women my mother's age (late 70s/early 80s) seemed quite willing to complain that they had too many kids once we were all grown up--and they were fairly specific about which kids ones they could have done without. Mother love was a pretty unsentimental thing in my neighborhood. Again, would be interesting to see larger survey ...
Totally agree with your observation about moms. (Mine surprises me constantly with how more "liberal" she's gotten with age--or perhaps just finally admitted. "There was a war on!" is mine's go-to to avoid difficult comparisons :)I've found data from the National Survey of Family Growth very useful. I'll look for surveys specific to what you mentioned, but I had this link handy--it's not completely on point, but interesting nonetheless.http://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&cont..."survey+data+Catholic+women+age"
Mary, thanks for the link. Fascinating report, especially the bit below: One reason that faithful RC women--those who frequent church and believe that their religion is very important--had more frequent use of sterilization (than less-faithful Catholics) is that sterilization is a one-time event. Couples can have the sterilization surgery, confess to a priest, and then be back in the grace of God and the Church. The constant use of the pill and/or condoms, on the other hand, requires either frequent confession or a guilty conscience.
Here's an article (in French) and comments that I think capture the opinions of a large part of the population.http://www.rue89.com/2011/05/01/femmes-echangent-ivg-en-allemagne-contre... describes the coming and going of women across the border between Germany and Poland: crossing into Poland to get IVFs, crossing into Germany to get abortions. One side theme: the swipes against Catholics, primarily accused of hypocrisy. Legal abortions in Poland: 400 per year. Other abortions, either illegal or abroad: of the order of 100000, that is, very roughly one for every four (maybe three, maybe five) births. That, in a country where almost everyone is Catholic and where abortion carries a heavy social stigma. The Catholic church has managed to silence other voices within our ranks and pretend as though there was only voice, a united view that abortion is a great evil akin to murder and must be illegal. Poland shows a vastly different reality in which a large fraction of Catholics, when push comes to shove, are perfectly willing to have abortions. They exist, they are at least a large minority or maybe a majority, but they keep silent. How can one contend that the church is not hypocritical, when a diverse reality is hidden under the blanket of uniform official statements?Of course Catholic bishops do not represent Catholic opinion. They present the Catholic leadership's views on ethical matters, but that can be completely disconnected from the judgement of regular Catholics. Their role is not to speak for Catholics (they're not elected), but for the truth or what they think is the truth.It is true that when I speak to non-Catholics, they have the annoying tendency to say: "You are Catholic, the bishops say x, therefore you think x". Isn't that mistaken view implicitly encouraged by the bishops themselves?


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8 Nov 2011 9:53 AM #1
Ext.form.field.ComboChain extension
Ext.form.field.ComboChain extensionI have found no extension of chained or linked combos, so I decided to create one.
An extension of the combo class which provides to chain and link combos in a form
Code and example how to use the extension are at the link below:
I attached an example, which is not the last version of the combochain code, since I did some modifications to work on local store for you to check it how it works. For the last code of the comboChain check github link.
Hope It helps.
I'm opened to hear improvements
Last edited by carlosgoias; 30 Nov 2011 at 8:58 AM. Reason: Adding some especifications
18 Nov 2011 9:14 AM #2
I may be crazy, but i dont see any examples on the github page
18 Nov 2011 9:17 AM #3
You are right, I will add an example tonight!
18 Nov 2011 5:43 PM #4
I attached an example, didn't update the github, since I did some modifications to work on local store for you to check it how it works.
Hope It helps.
27 May 2012 11:07 PM #5
Bad principle
Do not use this plug-in large projects.
Currently, the plugin uses a proxy extraParams models.
To store using the same model - proxy one!
The plugin should convert to the use of filters.
Maybe later I'll change the principle of the plugin.


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TEMPLE (January 7, 2013)--Spare Time Fun Center is set to open in Temple this year and employees are needed.
The company is accepting applications for management and part-time positions.
The facility, located at 5434 205 Loop, will feature bowling, an arcade, laser tag arena and party rooms.
The venue will have 24 bowling lanes, 65 arcade games, a two-story laser tag arena, six 20 x 20-foot private party rooms, a large event space for up to 200 guests, big screen TVs, and a sound system.
It will also feature a full bar and serve an American casual menu, a spokesperson for the company said.
The center originally set a January opening date but later posted on their Facebook page that it will not be open for business until February or later.
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KILLEEN (February 1, 2013)—Texas Humane Heroes in Killeen, which used to be the CenTex Humane Society, is offering free adoptions this weekend, but it's a limited offer.
The goal of the event is to find homes for all of the dogs at cats in the shelter.
The Mega Adoption Event is from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the shelter at 5501 Clear Creek Rd. in Killeen.


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On Tuesday afternoon, a new postmaster was installed at the Dodge City Post Office, Dorothy Briseno, a 27 year post office employee, replaced former postmaster, Mario Saucedo who has taken a position at a different post office.
"I'm excited to take this new position," Briseno said.
Although the official swearing in and celebration took place this week, Briseno has actually been acting postmaster since June 15.
Briseno started at the Montezuma Post Office back in 1993 as a clerk. Over the years she was promoted until she became the postmaster, a position she held for 19 years.
Last October, she came to the Dodge City Post Office as an Officer In Charge or OIC. When Saucedo announced he was leaving, she applied for his position, was interviews and hired.
"I'll be in charge of everything in the office," Briseno said of her new position. "I'm responsible for all operations here in Dodge City."
Recent consolidations in post offices across the country have made the work Briseno must do more difficult, but getting ready for some new changes have also be challenging.
"We're getting ready for even more changes," Briseno said, "but that's all I can say right now. When it gets closer I'll be able to say more."
Born and raised here in Dodge City, when she's not working Briseno enjoys going to the lake with friends and family, and participating in the many clubs and organizations she's involved with.
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Can I just cut the carbon seat tube, cut a vertical slot for compression and use a conventional seat clamp to hold a seat post in it?
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That is unlikely. The inside of a frame is machined/molded to a specific size for the seat post. An integrated post is not finished internally. Also, it is unlikely that the internal and external diameters of the post/frame/clamp would match well enough to be ridden safely.
Seat post fitting is a zero tolerance game, and they are dimension-ed to the tenth om millimeters. You would have to be beyond lucky for that to work out.
I had a similar issue and found that the inside diameter was an odd size. One millimeter is a mile as far as seatpost sizes are concerned. Another issue is that on some frames (in my case a Schwinn) the seat post won't insert past the top tube. This leaves very little post inserted. I settled on a Ritchey WCS mast topper. It will allow for approx. 40mm of height adjustment by using spacers. It is an alloy model that weighs about 17 grams more than the carbon at about 1/3 the cost.


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FORT HOOD (December 3, 2012)--III Corps and Fort Hood officials will host a tree lighting ceremony Wednesday.
III Corps Deputy Commanding General Brig. Gen. Dean Milner will preside over the ceremony which begins at 5:15 p.m. in the east Atrium of the III Corps Headquarters.
There will be a variety of musical entertainment including the Ellison High School Chamber Singers, Fort Hood Family Housing Children's Choir, Killeen High's MadJazz Band and the 1st Cavalry Division Band.
Pictures with Santa will be printed on the spot for children to take home with them.


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You often hear intergalactic space is an example for a very good vacuum. But how vacuos is space between galaxy clusters and inside a huge void structure? Are there papers quoting a measurement/approximation method (building the difference of a very near known and far away similar spectral source)? Are the rest particles mainly Hydrogen, He,...? Is it important at all to know the average density of intergalatic space in cosmological research?
According to Universe Today, for the intergalactic medium they state a figure of only one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. As a point of comparison, the University of California, San Diego quotes an interstellar density of 1 atom per cubic centimeter.
As to why it is important, all this material has photoionization effects on observations. Even though it is incredibly diffuse, because temperature is defined by the excitement state of atoms, this intergalactic medium is millions of degrees! This level of excitation could cause you to get erroneous results if you do not compensate for it. Piero Madau of ClaTech has a series of web pages that explains it much better than I can. That probably explains a great deal more than I could here, although it will require quite a few pages of reading.


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8 Simple Questions You Won't Believe Science Can't Answer
#4. How to Beat Solitaire
Odds are pretty high that you're reading this article while you're at work. And once you're done wasting time with Cracked, odds are you'll continue to waste time with something else. And conveniently at your fingertips is one of the most played and addictive games of all time, one that you don't even need a partner for: solitaire.
"Mrs. Jones in the cancer ward can wait. I just got the fourth ace!"
More specifically, Klondike solitaire, which is as familiar to career procrastinators as Minesweeper. All of us at some point, usually around our 10th consecutive loss, have buckled down and tried to figure out the secret. After all, if Rain Man can break Vegas, surely you can beat a goddamn Windows game.
"I just got the king of diamonds. Engage Protocol Delta."
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that scientists get distracted when "studying" solitaire, or the fact that solitaire may have evolved from freaking black magic, but pretty much every damn thing about the game has remained a mystery since the 1800s. In fact, big-time mathematicians openly admit that it's one of the "embarrassments of applied mathematics" that almost nothing about the standard Klondike solitaire game is currently known.
For example, when the math geeks tried to find the odds of winning, they ran into a problem. They couldn't even get a fixed idea of how many winning hands are possible. The mathematicians came up with an approximate percentage of how many hands are winnable that was somewhere around 80 or 90 percent. But think about it -- when you play solitaire, do you win at least eight out of every 10 hands? Either you have the lamest X-Men superpower ever, or you're lying.
Sorry, kid. No one in history has ever gotten laid for their ability at solitaire.
Now, there's some wild-ass guesses out there as to what the actual odds of winning Klondike are, but you'll never get an exact answer, even if many computer people agree that you don't have a good chance of winning at the game.
You might think that it's just because scientists are too busy breaking apart neutrons and quarks to bother trying to hack a card game. But consider that science has already cracked the secrets to the seemingly much more complicated game of Monopoly. But solitaire? It's simply beyond our powers of understanding. Then again, if we actually did know how to beat solitaire, we'd have to go back to work faster.
"Ma'am, I've told you this before. I'll deal with your 'home invasion' when I've won two in a row."
#3. How Many Species of Animal Exist
In the 21st century, the days of Marco Polo and Columbus are long behind us. Nobody is exploring new lands and finding exotic new creatures like the platypus for the rest of the world to call bullshit on. So surely, having stomped across every nook and cranny of this blue earth, we should by now have some kind of ballpark figure about how many species we have left to kill, right?
Gotta catch 'em all!
Actually, not even close. When you ask taxonomists (scientists specially tasked with finding and cataloging animals), they'll tell you they haven't even scratched the surface in their attempts to find all the creatures that live on the planet. However, despite working on this mission for almost 250 years, along with discovering over 15,000 new living beings each year, taxonomists don't even have the faintest idea of how many species live on Earth.
In fact, although scientists have identified almost 2 million of the species we've got, estimates for the amount of species that are actually on the planet range from a measly 5 million up to a daunting 100 million. The reason for this supernova-sized room for error is that, no matter what method the scientists use to make their estimates, there's always some amount of guesswork involved.
"Anyone have a d10googol we can roll?"
One of the early estimates from 19th century taxonomists said that there were about 400,000 species on Earth, and seeing as how we've already discovered five times that many, it's only logical to conclude there was some faulty sciencing involved there. In fact, the most recent estimate, which claims that that there's less than 10 million species, is being heavily criticized by scientists. Hell, even the people who put out this estimate admitted publicly that they might be way off.
There are a few good reasons why the birds, bees, and bacteria remain woefully uncounted. First off, the research on species takes place mostly in the northern hemisphere, which remains more technologically advanced than the southern, so it's very likely that places like Australia have yet to show us the complete horror of their fauna.
Somewhere, deep in the outback, the fabled and terrible Murder Koala waits.
But the biggest reason that science is still shrugging its shoulders and making sad trumpet noises is that 99 percent of all living space is under the ocean, and humans have explored less than 10 percent of it (experts say we have better maps of the surface of Mars than of our own oceans). We discover new and horrible types of life there all the time!
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#2. The Length of the U.S. Coastline (Or Any Coastline, For That Matter)
Of all the subjects we learned in high school, the one with the least amount of mystery was probably geography. The continents, rivers and mountains aren't going anywhere. At least not very fast, they're not. Sure, the fine points can get more complicated. Maybe the tallest mountain isn't the one you think, and maybe the largest desert will surprise you, but even then, it's all just a matter of committing definitions to memory and spewing them back to your teacher. It's all freaking measurements! Surely the length of the United States coast isn't something "up for debate."
What do you need besides a ruler?
Yet estimates vary wildly. The Central Intelligence Agency, for example, officially lists the length of the U.S. coast as around 12,380 miles. But another study came up with 29,093 miles. Then this study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (a U.S. government agency) came up with 95,471.
What the hell?
"Somewhere around that second set of docks we found a pub and blew the whole damn count."
You see, measuring coasts isn't simple and indisputable, like measuring a straight line on a piece of paper. It's complex and prone to wild exaggeration, like measuring your dong in the bathroom. The reason is that, depending on how much detail of a coast you want to measure, you'll always get a different final outcome from someone who chose to take into account a different amount of detail. If you want to just take the rough outline of a coast, you can get a measurement like the CIA has. But when you get into the fine details of every little inlet and estuary, suddenly the numbers get much bigger as you calculate in all of these twists and turns.
Avsa, Wikipedia Commons
Keep zooming in, and this can literally continue for infinity.
And the thing about all those numbers is that they can all be adopted as "official" measurements by government agencies, and nobody would bat an eye. In fact, the disparity between coastline measurements is accepted and is a pretty well-known problem in geography dubbed the "coastline paradox." This coastal conundrum comes from the fact that, no matter how much detail you choose to take into account in your measurement of a coastline, no matter how many of the zigs and zags you measure, there is always more detail to get. This paradoxically makes every single coastline of every single country infinitely long.
#1. How Gravity Works
Come on, it's gravity. Is there any concept in the universe quite so basic? You throw shit up, it comes down again. Despite his textbook reputation, Newton didn't discover gravity. It was discovered by the first fish ancestor who crawled onto land and found it had lost the ability to swim upward. What's to understand?
One aborted attempt at parkour and the subsequent ER visit can drum the basics into even the thickest skull.
Turns out there are four basic forces that hold the universe together, and out of these four, gravity is the only one that doesn't make any sense. Specifically, how it can be so incredibly weak and incredibly strong at the same time. Gravity holds the entire universe together, and no matter how far out you travel, it never completely disappears. And yet, it is the weakest force in existence. To illustrate, you know when you bring two magnets near each other and they snap together? That force is actually 10^36 times stronger than gravity. Yeah, the technical term for that is "a big-ass order of magnitude" stronger.
"Using the scale devised by Dr. R. J. Fuckton, of course."
To add to the confusion, because all these other forces are controlled by their own particles, it stands to reason that gravity should have its own particles, too. But this hypothetical critter -- the graviton -- is basically the only one we haven't found yet, unlike the particles that mediate a lot of the other important forces in nature, which have been altogether more cooperative.
But the mother of all baffling gravity mysteries is that, once you get down to the level of atoms and molecules and even smaller stuff, gravity just plain stops working. In fact, gravity is one of the biggest reasons why quantum physicists and real-world physicists have nothing to say to each other. We know more about what's inside an atom than we do about why a ball comes back down when we throw it in the air. For all science knows, it's because of ghosts.
"Ghosts are one of the four fundamental forces, along with poltergeists, unicorns and David Bowie."
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I hope this is suitable to MO.
Question. Let $X$ and $Y$ be two open sets in $\mathbb R^n$ and $\mathbb R^m$, respectively. In what sense can we consider $\mathcal{D}^{\prime} \left(X\times Y\right)$ as a tensor product of $\mathcal{D}^{\prime} \left(X\right)$ and $\mathcal{D}^{\prime} \left(Y\right)$ (where $\mathcal{D}^{\prime}$ means distributions of the standard kind, i. e., those acting on $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}$ functions of compact support)? What if $\mathcal{D}^{\prime}$ is replaced by $\mathcal{E}^{\prime}$ (distributions with compact support) or $\mathcal{S}^{\prime}$ (tempered distributions)?
Remarks. I am trying to understand in how far distributions form a coalgebra, and what can be derived from this viewpoint. The applicability of coalgebras to distribution theory seems to be one of the selling points of coalgebra and Hopf algebra theory, but I have yet to see a place where this is actually elaborated upon and applied to yield nontrivial results. "I have yet to see" does not mean much, though, as I am a complete greenhorn at analysis, and there is not much literature avaliable on the coalgebra side.


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In probability, events are considered to be closed under countable union and complement, so mathematically they are modeled by $\sigma$-algebra. I was wondering why events are considered to be closed under countably union and complement?
In Nate Eldredge's post, he has done an excellent job on explaining this, by using whether questions are answered or not as an analogy to whether events occur or not, if I understand his post correctly. However, if someone could explain plainly without analogy, it could be clearer to me.
I was particularly curious why events are not considered to be closed under infinite (possibly uncountably) union, but instead just under countably union? So possibly to model events using the power set? I think this is not addressed in Nate Eldredge's post.
My guess would be that the reason might be related to the requirement on the likelihood of any event to occur to be "measurable" in some sense. But how exactly to understand this requirement is unclear to me.
PS: This post is related to my previous one Interpretation of sigma algebra, but the questions asked in these two are not the same.
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These two kinds of phrase frequently pop out in the topics of GRE analytical writing. Is there any substantial difference in meaning?
EDIT: I know the difference between the word "endeavor" and "inquiry", but can the "field of endeavor" and "field of inquiry" be used interchangably to some extent? For example, can the former include scientific research?


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If a player creates an asset in Leverage like Baseball Bat d6 (paying the plot point to do so) can the PC then give the bat to some other PC? Of course they can in the fiction, but does the other PC gain the d6 as well?
If so, players could effectively give away their plot points, and that doesn't seem right.