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6 Awards That Would Actually Make The Oscars Worth Watching
#3. Best Casting/Best Ensemble
As awful as Mark Hamill's acting was before that wampa cold-cocked some talent into him, it's pretty hard to argue that he was anything but the best person on the planet to play Luke Skywalker. This is because casting is a delicate, Jenga-like art that could potentially make or break a movie. Consider who Harrison Ford was up against for Han Solo: Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss, John Travolta, and Robert De Niro all had a shot at the part, as well as Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Walken and Al Pacino. Picture any one of these people in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon and you have one hell of a different movie your hands, never mind the Indiana Jones trilogy.
Plenty of other casting near-misses should put us all down on our knees thanking the actor-choosers of the world that they're usually pretty good at their jobs.
Because this guy could have played Oskar Schindler.
And this guy could have been made into an assembly line of Terminators
So there's a reason why the Screen Actors Guild, Broadcast Film Critics and the National Board of Review all give out awards for best cast performances, and why the Emmys actually honor the casting directors themselves by giving out separate awards for comedy, drama and miniseries casting.
While we're dreaming, instead of showing us the actual performances we already watched, they could show us the failed auditions of the people they almost cast. After all, there's no reason we should have to wait 25 years to see narrowly avoided disasters like Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future.
#2. Best Trailer
Trailers aren't quite short films, but they're not just simple commercials, either. But as far as the Oscars are concerned, trailers are exactly worth jack shit. That's a shame because there isn't a single one of you reading this who hasn't seen an amazing trailer, only to watch the actual movie a year later and say, "What the hell is this shit?"
It's an art form all its own. Even with good movies, there's the delicate process of knowing how much to show. Check out the original trailer for Alien, which contains not a word of dialogue but had to have been making audience members poop their pants:
And if you think such mini-gems are the work of the big names and directors attached to the film, think again. Most of the trailers you know and love are contracted to marketing wizards specifically in the business to make even the shittiest movie blow your mind.
That Inception trailer that probably gave you an acid flashback last year? We have the good people at BLT & Associates to thank for that, specifically Zack Hemsey and not Hans Zimmer for the song he composed for it: "Mind Heist."
That epic masterpiece better known as the 300 trailer? Forget about Zack Snyder. You have an entire team of editors, designers, and consultants over at Mojo, LLC to thank for that monster. As for that nerdgasm-inducing trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, a major advertising firm gave birth to that baby.
The best trailers are the ones that straight smoke the movie in greatness. Where the Wild Things Are pretty much sucked, but maaaan, look at that trailer:
#1. Best Acting (Without Appearing in the Film)
Quick! What do Yoda, Belle, Gollum, the Avatar chick, and the entire cast of Looney Tunes all have in common? Besides their ginormous eyes, obviously?
Well, in addition to not being real humans, the voices who provided some of the most memorable characters in cinematic history--and Avatar--are all ineligible to win Academy Awards for their performances because, apparently, voice acting is not "acting."
Sometimes acting is not "acting"
The rationale behind this cop-out is that you have to appear on screen in order to be considered an "actor" actor. The only problem is some of these voice actors kinda did appear in their movies. Andy Serkis (Gollum) and Zoe Saldana (Blue Avatar Lady) both provided their own motion capture for their films, which Gollum himself described as "CG prosthetics" comparable to the heavy makeup and digital shrinkage John Rhys-Davies endured as Gimli.
But even if we kicked all digital actors out of the party, that's still Frank Oz's arm stuck up Yoda's ass that they're filming, isn't it? By these standards Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker's performances in Star Wars would not have been acting simply because their voices were added later and we do not see any skin... which is sort of in character when you consider they play freaking robots.
Not pictured: acting.
However, perhaps the biggest "screw you" in this debate came when George Lucas and Irvin Kershner personally petitioned that Frank Oz be nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back. Not only did their request get rejected like the whole damn thing was a junior prom date, but they received the equally shitty news that "puppetry wasn't an art." Like, ever.
Try saying that to the Sesame Street gang. They're all packing knives.
Puppeteering isn't an art? Voice acting isn't acting? This is the type of bullshit some kid at Starbucks spouts just so he can feel worthy of his soul patch.
If you would like to learn more about what it's like to actually be nominated for an Academy Award, Jacopo asks that you check out SON OF THE CUCUMBER KING by Ray Errol Fox
And be sure to pick up our new book which is sure to be adapted into the most Oscar-winningest movie of all time.
For more on awards, check out The 7 Most Unforgivable Grammy Award Snubs of All Time and A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever.


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In Connes work on the Riemann Hypothesis he talks about constructing $\overline{\text{Spec}\mathbb{Z}}$ as a curve over the field with one element. I just want to know what Spec means. Is the same as spectrum from algebraic geometry?
If you remove the overline, you have the affine scheme Spec Z. It is the spectrum of a noetherian domain of Krull dimension one. This description also holds for any affine algebraic curve over a field, so we have the basis for an analogy. Z has many structural features in common with the ring of polynomials with coefficients in a field (e.g., basic number-theoretic machinery like a Euclidean algorithm), so there are good reasons to think of Spec Z as a curve.
However, there are several differences. First, Z is the initial object in the category of commutative rings, so Spec Z is the final object in the category of locally ringed spaces. In particular, Spec Z is not a curve over any base field. Second, there are maps from the spectra of fields of many different characteristics into Spec Z. This makes objects like zeta functions and L-functions much more transcendental (in appearance), since the logarithm doesn't behave as nicely as it does over finite fields. You can also find a definition of genus of a number field in Neukirch's Algebraic Number Theory, and while it is zero for Q, it tends to be transcendental in general (essentially due to the presence of logs).
Despite the visible flaws in the analogy, there are good reasons for thinking that Spec Z should have a compactification, in a manner similar to the compactification of Spec F[t] into the projective line. The most basic is that Z has a valuation that is not captured by the points of the topological space, namely the usual Archimedean absolute value. For the ring of polynomials in a field, this translates to the degree. By adding this extra valuation you find that if you take all of the absolute values of a rational number (normalized appropriately) and take their product, you get one. Logarithmically, the sum of valuations is zero just like the residue theorem in the function field case. A more sophisticated reason comes from arithmetic intersection theory. If you take a curve defined over Z, you can compute a notion of intersection between two integral points, in an manner analogous to computing the intersection class of two curves in a surface. In the topological setting, you need some conditions for this to be well-behaved, e.g., the surface should be compact, so you can't push the intersections off the end of the surface. This is achieved over Z using Arakelov theory - the intersection over infinity is computed by base changing the curve to the complex numbers, making some distribution on the resulting Riemann surface using the integral points, and computing the integral of that distribution.
I don't think there is general agreement on how to make a geometric object with all of the properties we want from a compactification of Spec Z. In particular, there doesn't seem to be a satisfactory theory of the "base field" yet. There is a way to approximate the compactification using Berkovich spaces, which are an analytic refinement of schemes. The Berkovich spectrum of Z already comes with an Archimedean branch, and if you weaken the triangle inequality, you can have points corresponding to arbitrary non-negative powers of the Archimedean absolute value. Compactification means adding the point $|-|^\infty_\infty$. The local ring at this point is the closed interval [-1,1] in R, with the multiplication operation (i.e., you have some kind of logarithmic structure, instead of an actual ring), and the global functions on this object are given by the multiplicative monoid {-1,0,1}, which is a rather boring looking candidate for the field with one element.
Yes, this is the same Spec as in algebraic geometry. As far as I understand, the symbol comes from the often cited analogy of Spec Z with an open algebraic curve. The overline then is supposed to suggest a "compactification", i.e. one wants to also consider the valuation given by the absolute value geometrically. I think this can be understood as an algebraization of Arakelov theory.
As far as I understand, since such a compactification does not exist in the category of usual schemes, one passes to a bigger category with the "scheme associated to the field with one element" as terminal object, and the hope is that in this category a suitable compactification of $\text{Spec } \mathbb{Z}$ exists. There are different approaches to $\mathbb{F}_1$-schemes, see for example here or here.

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I have a rather unruly inbox at this point. There's probably at least a thousand messages in there, with 300 or so of them unread. I'm trying to find ways to achieve inbox zero. As part of this I want to unsubscribe from all bulk email I'm getting, and as part of this, want to be able to figure out which senders have sent me the most mail in my inbox. Does anybody know of a tool or something that lets me know who has sent me the most mail?
I'm also wanting to find who's sending me the most mail so that if it's something I can't unsubscribe from I can create a filter for it to just make it more efficient to deal with my inbox. I'm sorry if there are already questions like this, but I didn't find anything.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 6. 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012
November 6-9, 2012
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rSmart is exhibiting at booth #1361
The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference was designed to provide information and solutions to education technology challenges at a university level. The event draws an attendance of higher education IT professionals of multiple skillsets. rSmart CEO, Chris Coppola, will be offering his years of expertise in open source solutions for higher ed during the Kuali Foundation Open Meeting for CIOs and Senior IT Leaders Wednesday November 7th, 2:30 PST, in Room 607.
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What do you have planned for the week? Anything fun or special?
Im sitting here on the couch with the kids playing on my Kindle fire. My hubby is the bestest and has spent all day cooking, cleaning and doing laundry. Why is he doing all this and being so sweet in the mean time? The kids and I have the flu. Since we will be spending at least half the week on the couch or in bed I would like to read about all the fun things we could be doing. So I'm asking my fellow wooters to give me something to read, tell me anything fun you have coming up this week.
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Work, so not really fun. Hope you and the family get better soon, and that your husband avoids infection.
Went to the zoo today with my cousin, her husband, his sister and her (the sister's) 2 year old daughter. That's kinda fun, I guess. For the rest of the week, I'm gonna mow, look into student loans for next semester, buy stuff for school and then maybe catch a movie with a friend if she ever gets any time off from work. Other than that, I'll probably just watch TV, something you can do with the flu, so it's not that exciting.
groan about how much this weekend has left me hurting (removed shingles and replaced with sheet metal the roof on my porch by myself)
@mommyleah: Sorry you & your children are sick. Hope you recover quickly. Lucky you to have someone to take care of you.
BTW - eat canned ham. That's what I'll be doing. ::snicker::
I'm not going to be up to anything exciting this week (school) BUT next Sunday I'm going to the shooting range and firing off a few hundred rounds =3
I have an older police-issue 9mm (my father's) and a bunch of hollow point rounds. Pew pew!
I have a mammogram scheduled tomorrow morning. Does that make you feel better? Might be going to see the Avengers within the next few says. Going out to dinner for frog legs Tuesday night to celebrate nine years of nonsmoking.
Fun huh?
Well, I might ride into work tomorrow (the rest of the week is supposed to be wet).
That's about it. (I'm working and my officemate is away in class and I will be going it alone, so not too much fun stuff at all.)
Feel better. The kids too.
Feel better soon!
Tomorrow night I am going out to a "TV Dinner" event at a local cinema that serves beer and food during the shows - they are showing Doctor Who episodes, and your ticket turns into a voucher you can use towards your bill (therefore, "TV dinner"). It's going to be a lot of fun and last I checked nearly sold out. Also there will be "nerd burlesque" during intermission from these folks so it will be very geeky.
Wednesday is my Work-at-Wootaversary! :)


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FORT HOOD (October 24, 2012)--The Division West Halloween open house and fun run will provide family entertainment Saturday.
A 5k competitive run will begin at 9 a.m. and participants will be in costume.
Costumes are encouraged for the 1-mile family fun run at 11 a.m.
Race courses will be designed with obstacles and Halloween-themed surprises.
Military equipment static displays, free barbeque lunch, concert and "trunk or treating" will be among the activities.
The lunch, to be served at noon, will be donated by the All American Beef Battalion and the concert will be provided by the Clayton Adams Band.
Prizes will be awarded to the person with the best costume, fastest survivor and the best decorated trunk.
The trunk or treating fun is set to begin at 1 p.m. and wrap up at about 2 p.m.
The public is invited to participate in the activities which will get underway on North Fort Hood, about five miles southeast of Gatesville.


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What's your favorite cross training activity? I usually do sets of sprints, push ups, and sit ups, but it's getting to be a little boring. Also, I don't think it's really an efficient workout either.
Hey Wilco - welcome to the new community
My favorite cross training activity would have to be cycling. I also look forward to my weekly soccer games, although it's a little harder on the knees on the FieldTurf.
If you can, maybe mix in some sprints on the sand. My softball coach used to take us to Loyola beach at the end of practice in the fall and just drill us. It definitely gives your workout a little something extra.
Rock climbing has got to be one of my favorite cross-training activities. It lengthens and strengthens muscles simultaneously. I feel great after a session on the rock. Gym climbing is great too, I recommend giving it a try, you might be surprised!
Thanks much. No beaches is Oklahoma, but we do have the nation's largest indoor rock climbing facility. Going there this weekend with a friend actually. Thanks for the suggestions.
Very cool. Oklahoma also has the ASA Softball Hall of Fame museum and complex. Check it out, the World Cup of Softball is there this week!
I hit the gym and hop on the bikes and then lift weights. Other than that, I swim in our pool, just starting laps this week.
I run, lift weights (aerobic circuit training with free weights), ride my bike, and swim. Oh, and good old fashioned yard work too.
What is your primary form of exercise? I'm a runner and I supplement that with elliptical training on a regular basis and swimming when I get the rare opportunity. I also have a regular strength training routine of push-ups, pull-ups, and crunches to maintain muscle mass. Other activities such as biking, team sports (soccer, basketball, etc.), rock climbing, kayaking, etc. are also great. Find something that you enjoy and supports your main goal areas.
I thought of this thread last night after carrying up way too many trips of both laundry and groceries up to my apartment on the third floor of our building. Doing laundry and buying groceries were both overdue. Almost to the point where, as I grabbed as many bags as possible for each trip up, I wondered if it could be considered a new form of cross-training. Either that or a new event for some kind of bizarre, urban strong man competition. Hehe.
Joking aside... Wilco, is getting a bike and flying around the OKC roads an option to break up your workouts?
For me, it depends what I'm training for. If it's for a 10k race, than obviously I'll do different types of running workouts, but I also like to incorporate my martial arts training, such as training. Granted, I've been doing Karate for quite awhile, but it tends to keep me very loose and flexible, which is great.
However, at one time I trained for Karate tournaments, so I did a lot other activities, such as running, sprints, weights, basketball, etc.
So for me, it really depends what I'm looking to train for.
I like cycling. It allows you to see much more scenery and balances out the workout to the legs. I also use Tae Kwon Do. It is uses allot of high kicks keeping you flexible.
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I would like to add a second loopback network device on Linux, so that I have
lo and (e.g.)
lo2. This is so that I can use netem to simulate a throttled network over lo2 without compromising my standard loopback interface.
Note that I can not use an alias interface here (such as lo:1) since netem will affect the underlying (lo) interface, not the interface alias.
How can that be done?


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Let $f: \mathbb R^n \to \mathbb R$ be a smooth function. Then the first derivative $f^{(1)}$ makes sense as a function $\mathbb R^n \to \mathbb R^n$, and the second derivative makes sense as a function $f^{(2)}: \mathbb R^n \to \{\text{symmetric }n\times n\text{ matrices}\}$. I would like either a proof or a counterexample to the following claim:
Claim: Suppose that for every $x\in \mathbb R^n$, $f^{(2)}(x)$ is invertible as an $n\times n$ matrix. Then $f^{(1)}: \mathbb R^n \to \mathbb R^n$ is one-to-one.
Some comments:
- If you replace $\mathbb R$ by $\mathbb C$ and "smooth" by "algebraic", then the only such functions are (inhomogeneous) quadratic in $x$, since over $\mathbb C$ all non-constant functions have zeros. Then $f^{(1)}$ is (inhomogeneous) linear, and so one-to-one.
- If you replace "invertible" by "positive (or negative) definite", then $f$ is convex, and so the claim follows. In particular, the claim is true when $n=1$.
- This is a special case of the following more general question. If $g: \mathbb R^n \to \mathbb R^n$ is smooth, then its derivative makes sense as a function $g^{(1)}: \mathbb R^n \to \{n\times n\text{ matrices}\}$. If $g^{(1)}(x)$ is invertible for all $x\in \mathbb R^n$, is $g$ necessarily one-to-one? Of course, then $g$ is locally a diffeomorphism, but I don't know if it is globally. I don't think it is.
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I was part of a small company, and sometimes we had to bring down our Exchange server to perform maintenance. The majority of mail during the downtime would get redelivered in a timely manner, but sometimes important emails would take days to finally get redelivered.
Is there a way for another server to accept the incoming email and then pass it along after the maintenance window is over?


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Baked Salmon with Cucumber Dill Sauce
Categories: Low-calorie, Passover, Quick to fix, Valentine's Day
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Equally good with salmon steaks or fillets, this light dish is quickly prepared
Prep Time: 10M, plus standing
Cooking Time: 10M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 1/2 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and finely chopped
- salt
- 1 cup plain low-fat yogurt
- 2 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1 scallion, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp chopped dill or mint
- freshly ground black pepper
- 4 skinless salmon fillets, about 6oz ( 175g) each
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
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- To make the sauce, toss the cucumber with 1/2 tsp salt in a sieve and let stand to drain for 1 hour. Rinse with cold water and pat dry with paper towels. Mix the cucumber, yogurt, mustard, scallion, and dill. Season with salt and pepper.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Arrange the salmon in an oiled shallow baking dish. Brush with oil, sprinkle with lemon juice, and season with salt and pepper.
- Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes, until the salmon is opaque when pierced with the tip of a knife. Using a slotted spatula, transfer the salmon to dinner plates. Stir the pan juices into the cucumber sauce. Spoon the sauce over the salmon. Serve hot.
- Prepare ahead: The sauce can covered and refrigerated up to 2 days ahead.
- Good with buttered new potatoes and steamed asparagus.
Salmon Pasta: To make a quick pasta salad, leftover salmon and sauce can be tossed with cooked pasta and refrigerated.
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Vegetable Samosas
Categories: Entertaining, Finger Foods, Spicy, Vegetarian
Type: Appetizers and Snacks
Type: Appetizers and Snacks
Enjoy the flavors of India in these pastry pouches full of healthy and slightly spicy vegetables.
Serves: serves 4
- 2 potatoes, cut into cubes
- 1 cup finely chopped vegetables-use combinations of favorite vegetables, such as carrots, beans, peas, spinach, cauliflower, and parsnips
- 1 tsp mild curry powder or paste
- 2 tbsp cream cheese or cottage cheese
- salt and pepper
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp butter, melted
- 8 sheets filo pastry
- 4 tbsp poppy seeds or black sesame seeds
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- Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C).
- Boil the potato cubes in lightly salted water for about 10 minutes, or until soft. Drain well.
- In a separate pan, bring enough water to a boil to just cover the chopped vegetables, and cook them until tender but still crisp.
- Drain well and put the vegetables and potatoes into a bowl.
- Add the curry powder or paste, cheese, and salt and pepper. Mix everything really well together.
- Melt the olive oil and butter in a small saucepan.
- Lay out one sheet of filo pastry and brush it with the melted butter and oil.
- Lay another sheet on top and brush again. Then cut the pastry lengthwise into strips about 3 in (7 cm) wide.
- Put a heaped teaspoon of filling at one end of a strip.
- Fold the pastry diagonally so that it makes a triangle. Keep folding over along the length of the strip until your triangle is completed.
- Brush the outside with butter and roll the samosa in poppy or black sesame seeds. Repeat with all your pastry and filling.
- Put the samosas on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, until golden. Serve the samosas while they are still warm. Makes about 16.
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I've just managed to successfully set up my printer (Canon MX320) using the Printing app on Ubuntu 12.04. However the only 1 remaining problem is that each time I tried to print it will only print the file on the top half of the page only: meaning that for some reason, the printer "squeezes" the whole content of each page in the file to fit into the top half of the page only (so the proportion in the print-out is not correct vertically).
This happens with every type of file I tried to print (Documents, Images, Web pages). I checked the Printing's setting & properties and couldn't find anything related to this issue yet and I've already made sure to set all the information correct (paper size, source etc.).
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Feta-Stuffed Peppers
Categories: Entertaining, Finger Foods, Party Snacks, Quick to fix, Vegetarian
Type: Appetizers and Snacks
Type: Appetizers and Snacks
Peppers stuffed with feta cheese make this a mouth-watering appetizer that everyone will love.
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 20M
Serves: Serves 4
- 51/2oz (150g) feta cheese
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed through a press
- 1 tbsp finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 12 fresh piquillo peppers (see Cook's Notes)
- 4 tbsp olive oil
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- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Combine the feta, garlic, parsley, and pepper in a bowl and mash together with a fork to form a smooth paste.
- Cut the stem end off the peppers. Using a melon baller, remove the seeds and membranes from inside the peppers, then stuff with the feta mixture. Brush with oil, then pack tightly into a small baking dish. Spoon the remaining oil over the top and bake for 20 minutes, until the peppers are tender. Serve hot.
- If you can't get fresh piquillo peppers, use some from a jar and drain well before using.
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Does one really need to install a task manager? My phone does slowdown on rare occasions but it's not something that hampers regular usage.
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FAQ: Why You Shouldn't Be Using a Task Killer with Android (geekfor.me) - xda-developers
As Android was designed you don't need to kill apps.
No, and even more so with the latest 2.2 versions of Android. I used to use them, but I've stopped and everything has been better since I stopped using a task manager/killer. There is an app called Watchdog if you'd like to be notified about a process using a ton of CPU for a long period of time, which then will give you the option to kill that run-away process.
Yes. You should have a task-killer app, but not for the reasons you think.
I've had runaway processes (maybe watchdog can help) like google maps which then ran twice, once to kill my cpu/ram and once to actually work. I had to use the task killer to kill both instances and then run the normal one.
RARELY will you actually need to manually kill anything. But like all programs, sometimes stuff happens. I've had apps crash the entire phone and they were not running in root or anything.
Sometimes when an app crashes or gets to a state that it's not response it's nice to be able to shut it down manually . . . but as for slowness issues a task manager isn't necessary as the OS itself handles multitasking better now.
This comprehensive, informative & easily readible article entitled "Android Task Killers Explained: What They Do and Why You Shouldn't Use Them" will provide you with a quick overview of how Android handles process management on its own fairly well by default. (Essentially that a Task Manager/ Killer App is not required- it was more useful in early version of the Android OS)
The Article will explain:
When I was running Froyo, I installed task manager not to kill tasks, but to find an easy to review list of what is running and learn more about how apps work. This seemed the easiest way to learn what was running quickly.
Now that I have Gingerbread, I just use the "running" list under applications in the settings menu.
Ideally, you don't need a task manager for the reasons mentioned by Cristi.
Random slowdowns on Android are likely from one of two sources:
If you experience slowdowns, and can't or don't want to uninstall the apps that cause them (or you don't know which ones it is), then a task killer can really make a difference. The same applies for older devices that don't have enough RAM.
So: it shouldn't be neccessary, but you might try it as a workaround if you have misbehaved apps on your device.
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Given that the two "th" sounds don't actually sound like a combination of "t" and "h" why was that particular combination selected or become adopted by the majority ?
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The "TH" being pronounced as an interdental fricative is called digraph, which is a "pair of characters used to write a single phoneme" (a single sound, said in plain words).
EDIT: @z7sg and @mP01; I found the historical course of this sound/letter:
The origin of 'th' really has nothing to do with the development of the English language. It comes directly from the Roman alphabet.
It is likely that this combination was chosen by an early scholar while translating Greek and this standard was then generally adopted. The 'th' digraph can be found, for example, in the writing of Lucius Livius Andronicus (c. 280/260 BC – c. 200 BC).
According to the OED:
Let me offer my personal speculation, for what it's worth of course.
But first, I need to introduce a fact well known to students of Old English but that probably needs to be mentioned here.
The vast majority of preserved Old English written documents come from Wessex. King Alfred was the most prominent king of the House of Wessex but the whole period between the 6th Century and the Norman invasion is dominated culturally by the Kingdom of Wessex.
The dialect spoken in Wessex and Sussex was West Saxon whilst Mercian was spoken in Mercia, East Anglia and Essex (including in London), Northumbrian in Northumbria and Kentish in Kent.
After the Norman invasion, French was ubiquitous but Middle English gradually recovered from London. That is, with a strong Mercian East Midland background.
Now to the point.
The initial English spelling of /θ/ was indeed th as in Latin. My understanding is that the 'þ' (thorn) and 'ð' were introduced in Wessex where they replaced the initial 'th' inherited from Latin, whereas other kingdoms of the Heptarchy were probably immune to this trend (that's what needs more investigation).
Later when the evolution of English was driven from London, the use of 'th' came back into fashion, also probably under the growing influence of Latin (non Latin characters being probably considered less prestigious).
wikipedia has the following to say about 'th':
Important Edit
The Saxon origin is right, the Norse isn't. Here is how things came to be.
Here is a last citation from wikipedia regarding this part of the story:
The modern digraph th began to grow in popularity during the 14th century; at the same time, the shape of thorn grew less distinctive, with the letter losing its ascender (becoming similar in appearance to the old wynn (Ƿ, ƿ), which had fallen out of use by 1300) and, in some hands, such as that of the scribe of the unique mid-15th century manuscript of The Boke of Margery Kempe, ultimately becoming indistinguishable from the letter Y. By this stage th was predominant, however, and the usage of thorn was largely restricted to certain common words and abbreviations. In William Caxton's pioneering printed English, it is rare except in an abbreviated the, written with a thorn and a superscript E
Now why one might be under the impression that the thorn came from Norse is that it was used in Old Norse around the same time as Old English and survives till today in Icelandic. It is supposed that the thorn in the Icelandic alphabet is also from Runic origin.
influence alone can not be held responsible for the gradual fall out of use of the
It's a question of how printing began in Britain. In written script even late in the middle ages thorn þ (usually) or eth ð was used; "th" was found bot wasn't the most common.
But printing started on the continent and the first English printers bought their typefaces from there. Since the 'th' pronunciation was rare on the continent (and not seen in Latin which a great many books were written in), there were no typefaces for thorn þ or eth ð, and English printers were forced to use "th". Since printing produced vastly greater numbers of books and documents than scribes could, the "th" spelling became the most common and replaced the old letters.
"Ye" as in "Ye olde shoppe" came about due to misunderstanding old manuscripts hands which, written quickly often didn't close up the top of thorn so that þ often looked like Y.
Far too many manuscripts from ancient Roman times are lost to know for sure who chose TH to represent θ and why. It wasn't the /θ/ sound we think of now, though.
The reason it was used in the first place was that after the Norman conquest, French became the primary language of the literate, and "th" was the closest that French had to the sound. Nowadays, "t" and "th" are the same in French, but a thousand years ago it was still a somewhat different sound and could maybe substitute if you didn't mind sounding foreign. So that was the natural choice to transcribe our words their way, even if it wasn't /θ/, without resorting to weird pagan runes.
In other words, it was because the first scribe decided to do it that way, everyone else followed the same pattern, and it wasn't important enough to ever bother changing.
It won out over the thorn "þ" (later simplified to "y") in Elizabethan times largely due to French being the refined language of the nobility and upper classes, so it was kind of inevitable that it would percolate down to the lower classes, especially when the upper classes drove most of the printing that was unifying English around the country. The "French" commonly spoken in England was more of a branch from medieval French mixed with some Parisian, becoming its own distantly related creole before merging entirely into English, but it was still seen as superior to English long after it was essentially dead. (This is now called Anglo-Norman French, and later Law French. Many current legal terms come from this offshoot of French.)
This is the same reason we have silly grammar myths like "no split infinitives" -- they just can't exist in French, so they obviously shouldn't in English. The whys were slowly forgotten, but the rules persisted.
You can still see thorn as "y" in early American colony documents, but by the revolution it had completely disappeared. The Francophilia of many upper class Americans certainly helped there, too.
TL;DR: it's more or less a convention (going way back) that an "h" changes the preceding consonant from a plosive into a corresponding fricative.
I.e. you simply loosen up your lips and get "f" (ph) instead of "p," and "th" instead of "t."
Having "th" stand for both "th" and "dh," in my humble opinion, is a historical mishap.


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I've stopped rotating in the league unless the league is already wrapped up. They just don't play well when I shove a couple of young ones in.
I've stopped rotating in the league unless the league is already wrapped up. They just don't play well when I shove a couple of young ones in.
I've been struggling to find a good striker, so eventually I went for a loan.
Let me introduce Mario Napoli. He should surely rip League 2 apart
Just come back from 2-0 down, to win 3-2 in the League Cup 1s round against Colchester away who are in league 2, two divisions below me, thanks to an equaliser and a winner from Kevin Leerdam (as well as an offside goal which at the time would have made it 2-2). Thats a supersub for you, and a tactical victory for me as the players praised me for the half time team talk. The other goal was from one of my other substitutes, Javier.
I also played a 16 year old promising Belgian keeper in goal as my main keeper is not allowed to play cup games seeing as I forgot to check before I submitted the loan in. Not a bad keeper tbf, the first goal was an own goal that bounced off a player after he saved it, the second goal was a decent goal tbf. Did well enough with a 6.7
I have a decent strikeforce consisting of a Norwegian, an Italian, a Spaniard and a Dutchman. I present to you (in the order of the nationalities I just mentioned, Fredrik Tonstad, Gabriele Dalla Bona, Javier Díez (short name Javier) and Michel Xhofleer. Good names imo
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bohoo! after 32 league games i got my first loss! I was hoping to go all season undefeated in the league because i dont think i have ever done that before. Guess it has to be next season
Mike Burke just got his first England call up! - and cap!
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Grrrr im off the favoured personnel list but i notice a striker who i bought in the summer is on there admitedly he did scored 24 goals in 28 games.
Ive just sold him in the january transfer window for 300k plus 25% of the next transfer fee and now the fans are unhappy with me. i thaught it was good business as a got him on a free and 1/2 a season later ive made 300k profit plus ive had a just as good replacement lined up also on a free
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A truly disapointing season, we met a bad form just when we were suppose to be playing best and we lost the Semi Finals in the CHL once again.
The other cup where terrible as well. Although i send a weaker team we should have done alot better and we were out after just one game in both League cup and FA Cup.
To make mathers worse we started losing points in the League. After 32 games undefeated we had this terrible form and our lead got smaller by 10 points the last 5 games.
Luckily we had enough to secure the title in the end.
Terrible just terrible after our big lead after 30 games that it had to come down to the last two games to win the league. and getting knocked out in the overtime of the CHL semis.
Goals for the upcoming season:
We need to do better. I need to win a cup or two next year. And try to blend in some more of my own youth products in the squad
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Congratz kaNovi you've got some good youth prospects there
My first board takeover on fm10 has just finished, taking just over half a season and the first thing they do is terminate the link with my parent club, Chelsea , and they didnt even provide me with any extra investment
Finally the best Youth product this year is an attacking force! im gonna play him straight away in the ST position! he could become a club legend!
Now on to Copa America
Just beaten my first premier league team on this save.
Fa Cup 5th round - incredible victory over fulham, we were out played but we took our chances and the best thing about it was Sutton born youth product Freddie Gleeson scored the winner.
Edit: just realised it was on tv as well, yay extra money
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My youth academy is really unbelievable.. i have never had this many great players promoted ever in any FM game! This makes me positiv that i might have a chance of winning PL+CL with only my own prospects. Im gonna give the new guy as many games as possible, think i might just let him be a starter? to see how far he can get and how many goals he can score for the club
He's definitely got the potential to be that good, it's obvious, good luck!
Was about to end the transfer window thinking I'd signed enough quality but then realised I was sorely lacking at CB. Gois should be good in the future but noticed his partner Lopez was 24 and wasn't going to be more than decent. I decided to bring in Papa Gueye and Danny Morais instead and I'm glad I did. Shipped out Parkhurst and Lopez is in contract talks. Both those two should be there for a couple more years allowing Gois to develop. Have McIntosh as well to come back from loan. Will be on the lookout for a young quality CB though in the future. Squad should now be able to challenge for the title and a top 4 spot. This is it.
Phew that was a tough first transfer window in the Championship, got myself a couple good players but I also lost my strongest MC, and failed to pick up a good GK so far...not sure how the season is going to go but I have a feeling I won't be topping the charts again.
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I was looking to try to win the Copa America before moving on to another International management job.
Group Stage Did alright but there was room for improvement in all the matches
The Quarter Finals against Uruguay we played better and i was sure we would make it to the final when i saw we were meeting Peru in the Semis
Semi Finals STUNNED! just a terrible display and i would have to try another country if im to win the Copa America. Its a little embarrasing losing to Peru, Brazil has the best squad in the world
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Steve Canham Became my 3rd own ranks player to get an senior cap!
There is some kind of curse in my game. In the league cup we havent won the last 3 3rd round matches? even tho i play a pretty good team we lose to Championship squad at home. Its unbelievable..
Edit: actually its 6 years i havent won a 3rd round league cup match :-O
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I use the same tactics the only difference is that i use a couple of players who doesnt get that many league/important matches
Just played my second match as Boston - lost 4-1 with two offside goals, you'd have thought that it might have generated a press conference - but no.
My god, 6 of my players are wanted by the same club lol! f*ck off Brighton
That's an intense level of interest.
Right. First match in the premier league put me back in my place. Ouch, lost 3-0 vs Liverpool and were nowhere!
I've just lost a pen shootout in the cruelest way possible - Sunderland's final and winning pen strikes the post rolls along the line hits my Keeper as he lands from his dive and rolls over the line
EDIT: And I've just noticed Sunderland were using a youth keeper against me who got man of the match, looks like I really need some new strikers
Hunterlaar just scored 2 goals against Wigan!! Won my 2nd match in the Premier League! 1-4 vs Wigan
I'm satisfied with my start at Truro. 7 goals scored in 5 games is a bit of a worry, but one conceded in that time and 2nd place in the BSS is far less worrying.
All of my signings have been freebies, which isn't a surprise at this level and few of them have featured, Simon Downer aside. The guy is a beast and I'm surprised he agreed to sign.
Argyle are on board as a parent, but none of their kiddies fancy the commute to Truro and the 8k a year isn't going to make much difference. Hey ho.
I haven't done much LLM in FM10, but so far so good. In previous versions I found hoofball to be the best way out of the BSS/N, but I've got my lads playing some quite attractive football, even if I need a decent striker to finish the moves off. Hopefully the Premiership/Championship releasees will be willing to sign for a BSP team when I get promoted. Flooding my squad with kiddies capable of playing in League One/Two always did the trick in previous versions.
I'm pretty confident I've got the measure of the BSS, though. Anything but promotion at the first attempt will be a failure.
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2010/11 Review
Blue Square North
For much of the first half of the season it looked like I was merely treading time until the board sacked me; indeed when we lost against Ilkeston in late December, the media were very much expecting the axe to fall. However, a few games prior we had switched to a 4-3-3 and it finally came good in the next match at Eastwood, sparking a fifteen match unbeaten league run which fired us well into play-off contention. A couple of draws (against Stalybridge and Workington) were followed by two defeats (against Alfreton and Corby) to end our run and put us in serious danger of losing our grip on 5th place right at the end, but we ended the season with two good wins (over Cambridge City and Ilkeston) to make sure we were in the play-offs.
In the play-offs we were pitted against Hinckley, and though we had much the better of the home leg, we could manage only a 1-1 draw. We were gifted a chance in the second leg when Hinckley were reduced to ten men right on half time, but we conceded from a corner on the hour and couldn't force our way back in. Hinckley went on to win promotion, beating Alfreton in the final.
League Positions Graph
FA Cup
We were forced into a replay in the 2nd qualifying round against Redbridge and managed to sneak through, but we couldn't repeat the trick against King's Lynn in the 3rd qualifying round, losing the replay 3-0 on our own turf.
FA Triphy
We met our target of the second round, having disposed of Forest Green and Market Drayton in the rounds previous. We drew at Alfreton in the 2nd round, forcing a replay at our place, but a poor performance saw us lose 2-1 and get dumped out.
The squad was pretty small when I joined so we had to make up the numbers, and we did that pretty well, though it was some of our loan signings who fared particularly well, particularly those on three month deals such as striker Josh Knight, defender Luke O'Neill and midfielder Zeyn S-Latef. Goalkeeper Adam Legzdins did well enough in his short spell that, when Crewe sent him packing on a free transfer, we picked him up without hesitation.
Key Players
Ryan Austin
One of our two season-long loans, Ryan joined from Burton and was rock solid in the centre of our defence. He was the only one of our centre backs not to net an own goal and I'll be trying hard to get him back on board for next season.
Danny Cullip
A free transfer that I was very happy with, Danny brought a lot of experience to our defence and quite often ended up captaining the side, having taken regular captain Andy Duncan's place in the team. Despite his advancing years he's penned another one year deal in the hope that he can help take us up next season.
Chris Rowney
I never really considered him a regular starter in our midfield at the start of the season, but played as the defensive point on the midfield once we switched to the 4-3-3, he became invaluable. He had an eye for getting forward at the right time and that seriously helped his assist count and he'll be in the side from the off next season.
Robert Duffy
Brought in on loan from Mansfield, Robert took a while to settle into the league team but played well alongside Michael Proctor, and though he missed his fair share of chances, I'd be willing to look at bringing him back next season.
Michael Proctor
The undoubted star of the show, Michael was the fourth top scorer in the league, though he could have been joint top had he not missed three penalties in the course of the league campaign. I thought his pace (or stunning lack thereof) might hold him back a little, but he was consistent throughout the season and now stands as the club's top league goalscorer of all time with 25.
Next Season
After missing out in the play-offs, the next logical step is to aim for promotion. I'm sure that's what the board will want and it's what I want too. There are a good few players leaving at the end of their contracts in the summer, so it will be a busy period trying to bring players in, but if we can do that and build on the strengths we already have then I'm confident that we can at least match this season, and hopefully do better once the play-offs come around.
Career Overview
Code:Season League Final Pos. Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 5th Lost in play-off semi final
Unlucky with the playoff semi final loss Terk, with a few good signings you should be able to get automatic promotion next season
Good luck next season Terk, glad you managed to turn it around
Great turn around Terk. You've got a great chance of promotion next season.
Looking for Bowler? That would be pretty crazy if he got a call up! Bowler
New Rooney eh?
Cheers, guys The board definitely expect promotion for 2011/12 and the media are predicting us to finish 2nd, but the wage budget has been cut by a third, so it could prove difficult.
In my opening 8 games I've scored 12 goals unfortunately I've let in 13. Created 24 CCC's the opposition have created 11.
Also had 42 Shots on target to 33 by my opponents.
Well pre season hasn't gone well. 7 friendlies, 1 win, 1 draw, 5 defeats. Morale is not high going into the league season Still, I think I've pulled in a few good signings, so maybe it's just a case of getting them to gel better.
My Team Billericay and profile
After about half an hour searching for a team below 1000 i finally found one. Joined later then this last year so hopefully should get more done this time.
Ill do seasonal updates.
Last edited by Demon4; 10-01-2010 at 17:58.
Sutton Utd L1 2013/14
Fa Cup: Lost in 6th round 2-0 to Bristol City
JPT: lost in 2nd round to Brighton 2-1
League Cup: lost in 2nd round to peterborough 2-1
League: 7th
League Table, League Graph
Squad, Transfers
After a slowish start things really picked up and we slowly crept into the playoff spots and were even 1st at 1 point. but we could not continue this run of form and we dropped to mid table and stayed there for quite a while. In the last 2 or 3 games i played some of my younger players who managed to get us a few wins and push us into 7th including a last day 3-0 away win albeit against already relegated leyton orient.
Overall im happy with this finish, after 3 succesive promotions i would have been happy to take this although we still need a lot of work done to push for a playoff place or automatic as we got battered by some of the higher teams, conceding 4 or 5 goals as well.
Player/s of the season
Ruben Ramos , Stats - He was so amazing that he scored 10 more goals than any of my other players and he was only with us for half a season. unfortunately he wanted to move to a bigger club but i made 300k + 50% of next sale. He scored 24 in 28 in the league and 31 in 35 overall he then went on to score 10 in 13 for swansea which saw him claim the league 1 golden boot by 4 clear goals
Paolo Sanna - my replacement to Ruben Ramos he didnt do to badly scoring 11 in 19.
Igor -The club's top scorer shows he can cut it in league 1 despite having to spend a bit of the season on the bench. He scored 21 in 25 appearances and 24 sub appearances.
Fa cup, incredible!!! we managed to get to the 6th round (quater finals) and we had a decent opportunity to make it to the semis but we got thrashed by Bristol City. fortunately the scoreline flattered us.
We started with a few easy draws against lower league opposition, then in the 4th round we were drawn against championship strugglers Forest, we went on to give them a lesson in finishing, beating them 4-1 at their ground.
But more was to come as we were then drawn against premiership high flyers Fulham, to be honest we were completely out played but managed to take the lead in the 50th min, the lead didnt last long as they equalizes in the 52nd min, then Sutton born Freddie Gleeson, from our own youth setup, gets the winner in the 86th min.
I was hoping for a much bigger team in the quater finals, in the draw there were teams like chelsea, man city, man utd, liverpool, arsenal i really wanted a money spinner but we get the only non premiership team(apart from us)
League cup: managed to get my 1st win in this competition but never looked likely of making it further than the 2nd round
JPT: slightly disappointed as we were beaten but League 1 relegation candidates Brighton.
improving nicely now and the board have finally allowed the expansion of my training and youth facilities.
Code:Career so far: Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square South 2nd Promoted via playoffs 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 1st Automatic Promotion 2012/13 League 2 3rd Automatic Promotion 2013/14 League 1 7th N/A
Last edited by hrbfcrule; 10-01-2010 at 20:37.
Just signed a new striker! Really was in need of one and must say he looks awesome in my eyes - altho his fitness kinda sucks...
Welcome Gustavo Vidal
It looks like my 3 loan guys provided me with some stability. After 9 games I'm sitting in 3rd place with 16 points.
Strangely enough its not hot boy Napoli that bangs in the goals. No its old-timer Johansen with 6 goals for 9 matches now.
Last edited by MikaelS; 10-01-2010 at 21:33.
Kingstonian (2031/2032)
Premier League Prediction - 2
Premier League Position - 1
Another bad season, seriusly im so annoyed that we cant get the CHL or the FA Cup trophy back.
But we didnt feel like playing a final 1 so we of cause also blew
the CHL Semi But i understand the team, why bother when we already won the PL.
The only team i havent got my revenge against is Aston Villa so this much be to no1 goal next season. They are going down!
Bowler Huge expectations towards this guy
Brackenridge Had a loan spell playing 20 games in the Championship
Goals for the upcoming season:
Win it all.
Have to admit that im getting a bit bored and i might take a break soon. I have a lot of classes this semester so well see
Code:League Season Finished Achievements ------------------------------------------------------- Blue Square South 2010/11 4th Playoff Final losers Blue Square South 2011/12 1st Blue Square South Champions Blue Square Premier 2012/13 5th Playoff semi-final losers Blue Square Premier 2013/14 1st Blue Square Premier Champions League Two 2014/15 2nd JPT Winners, Promotion League One 2015/16 13th none League One 2016/17 2nd Promotion Championship 2017/18 14th none Championship 2018/19 12th none Championship 2019/20 5th Playoff semi-final losers Championship 2020/21 5th Playoff final losers Championship 2021/22 1st Championship Champions Premier League 2022/23 10th none Premier League 2023/24 14th FA Cup semi-finalist Premier League 2024/25 13th FA Cup Winners Premier League 2025/26 9th none Premier League 2026/27 7th none Premier League 2027/28 2nd Uefa Cup Semi-finals, FA Cup Final Premier League 2028/29 4th Champions League Winners Premier League 2029/30 1st Premier League Champions - CHALLENGE COMPLETED Premier League 2030/31 1st Premier League Champions Premier League 2031/32 1st Premier League Champions
Last edited by kaNovi; 10-01-2010 at 21:55.
Truro City FC - Blue Square South - 2010/11
Media Prediction: 22th
Actual Position : 8th
Predicted to finish last, and based on the difficulty I had signing players (I've managed Blue Square Regional sides before but never a newly promoted one) I thought I'd be in for a massive fight for safety. Started well, unbeaten in our first 9 (albeit with a decent amount of draws), then went on a horrible run of 10 or so games without a win. After that, we played at about the level we finished at, better than the majority of the league, but just not up there with the top dogs. Maybe with a few signings next year, we can go up.
League Table
FA Cup
Happened to come in around our horrible patch without a win, and despite getting one home win, we soon got stuffed by lower opposition
FA Trophy
Much the same really, although at least the opposition were a team who eventually finished higher than me in the league. Bad cup performances have resulted in an ever increasing debt of 235 k that I need to try my best to minimise next season, hopefully improved cup performances can help that.
Signed up the best I could find with a limited number of players showing interest. Need to beef up my scouting knowledge really.
I'll only be looking to keep about half of these for next year.
Career Overview
Next SeasonCode:Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square South 8th None
Promotion and balancing the books please, not always a duo that are easy to combine.
Good update kaNovi, shame about the CL again. I'm finding it quite easy to keep winning it on my save, the only teams who are even tricky to beat are the English ones, and I rarely seem to encounter them. Even the likes of Barca, Real and AC Milan are rubbish! Having said all that I'll probably bottle it this season now!
Good job CSF, good luck next season
8th place is a good, solid start, CSF Gives you something to build on for next season.
And congratulations on another disappointing title, kaNovi
haha ty
I just recall that Villa also beat me last year in the semis AND beat me in the Uefa Cup semis!!!!!
Last edited by kaNovi; 11-01-2010 at 08:26.
FM10 Small Club to Big Club Challenge All-Stars Challenge - Sign-up Stage
Just a bit of an advert for something that involves people playing this challenge.
Basically, a team is being created using players from the various challenges in this forum. It needs submissions from this challenge to make up a significant part of the team.
I'm going to try and enter some of my FM09 Dartford team, along with some of my Tooting team once I've got a bit further into my game.
Have a look and see what you think.
Right, so all our best players become 1 team called the 'dafuge team'? And then we kick the hell out of the rest?
Could be fun.. im not sure i have anyone good enough! atleast not when i look at Hamiltons players :-O
Maybee Silva in a couple of years
Last edited by kaNovi; 11-01-2010 at 13:55.
When I get Vidal next month I have to see how he does it in front of my team in the Premier League. But I really got a good feeling about him... So maybe he can join Roberts in front
silva looks amazing already!
Vidal does look nice.. and theres problary potential for alot of improvement when he joins your club! But take a look at hamiltons Brennan.. i think it would be difficult to replace him up front
Just finished the first pre-season. Won 3 Lost 2 Drew 1. I think i will struggle the first season as my front line is pretty poor. Got a strong back 4 what has been boosted by free agents coming in. Also hired a scout as i did not have one already at a club.
I have also bought my friend in real life Ben snee.
Last edited by Demon4; 11-01-2010 at 15:57.
How do you change the coach who gives you backroom advice?
Second Season Shitness Syndrome strikes again. Things initially looked good, taking 7 points from the opening 3 games and playing well, but then it ground to a halt and we took only five points in our next eight matches and the board saw fit to sack me. Given that this is the second time this has happened at roughly the same point in the second season, you have to put two and two together and come up with the answer that I'm **** in the transfer market at this level.
As I've mentioned a few times, I've not been doing too well with the finances, often putting the club in huge debt with my transfers. Last season I reached an all-time low of £40m in debt, which became £20m once all the prize money had come in. Even with the big money sales recently, a lot of it was spreadd over four years and £40m of it is dependant on Javier scoring another 21 league goals.
With my aim of a new stadium, I needed to get the finances sorted so I've taken fairly drastic action.
Possibly the biggest transfer window in our history.
All of the fees are straight up, no clauses, so this means my balance is now £75m, although I have zero transfer budget. There's no doubt my squad is weaker for it, but it has made a huge difference to my balance, and my wages. You can see here how much a lot of these players were earning.
Here's what has happened:
Out: Stephen Agbo
In: Valerio Motta
Reasons: Agbo is constantly wanting a new challenge and costs me a bomb in signing on fees. He's getting on a bit and it was nice to make a reasonable profit by bringning in a younger replacement who looks almost as good.
Out: Pol Sesma
In: Emilio Sacchi
Reasons: my scouts spotted this youngster and I knew I needed him. As a replacement for my star striker, the profit was well worth it. It is a shame to lose Sesma, but £50m is a lot of money.
Out: Juan José Dorta
In: Greg Scales
Reasons: Dorta has been disappointing and didn't always get in the team, again I've made a huge profit and cut the wages.
Out: Sebastian Engelmann
In: Geoff Bowles
Reasons: £30m is a lot for Engelmann, who is probably my third choice striker. Bowles is technically not a transfer, as he came through my youth team, but I have to make room for him as he looks great.
Hopefully we will not suffer too much in the upcoming season but I think this will benefit us in the long run.
were can i get logos and kits or my tonbridge team?
I think you have done some nice transfers there especially the Agbo/Motta trade , initially you would problary struggle offloading them all in the same season, but in the long run its problary the right decision! You think that your squad is strong enough to win the league again ?
Terk im sorry to see you get sacked Whats next then? are you gonna try again?
Last edited by kaNovi; 11-01-2010 at 19:33.
Dafuge where did you get your Tooting and Mitcham badge?
2019/20 - Hendon - BSP
All I can ask for is progression. All I want is progression. What I get is actually one foot forward, two steps back shenanigans.
Media Prediction: 14th
Actual Finish: 11th
League Graph
I can accept an 11th place finish because it's near enough where we finished last season. The whole one step forward thing is when we got a win, it was often followed a draws or losses until we hit an excellent run of form near the end, winning eight games on the trot to secure ourselves as a mid-table club.
League Cup - We followed on from our fine FA Cup run last year by knocking out Championship side Cardiff after extra time. As luck would have it, we drew Blackburn in the next round and stumbled to a respectable loss.
Johnstone's Paint Trophy - More heroics from the lads! This time, our victime were Bristol Rovers (as they were in our first ever League Cup match) and we overcame them on penalties. Oxford brought us back down to earth with a three-nil thumping.
FA Cup - Last year's heroics were not to be as we couldn't overcome fellow League 2 side Yeovil.
Key Players
Curtis Osano - He had an absolutely brilliant season as a newcomber, contributing 7 goals and 7 assists. Fans Play of the Year in a phenominal season for him.
Jamie Callaghan - Finally found his feet this year after struggling for much of last year. Top scorer with 25 goals whilst laying on a further 9. Great season.
Andy McGarvey - He's been at the club for lord knows how long now but he's managed to find his way into the first team - what a big contribution he made. 10 goals and 6 assists capped off a brilliant season for the Northern Irish international.
Luca Santonicito - Entering his tenth season now and capped off his ninth marvellously with a massive 14 assists! Club captain and definitely not out of my first team plans yet.
Career Overview
Code:Season League Position Achievements ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 1st BSN Champions 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 23rd Relegated 2012/13 Blue Square North 1st BSN Champions 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 15th None 2014/15 Blue Square Premier 9th None 2015/16 Blue Square Premier 5th Promoted through playoffs 2016/17 League 2 18th None 2017/18 League 2 16th None 2018/19 League 2 10th FA Cup run until fourth round. 2019/20 League 2 11th None
Going well in the BSP with 7 games to go I'm currently second 4 points above 6th. but Shrewsbury are running away with the league and are 17 points ahead of me. Hopefully I will be able to hold onto my playoff position.
Unlucky Terk at least the AI manager did no better.
Cheers, Liverbird Good luck with the the play-offs, should you manage to hold on.
Question: Given that I'm now collecting a dole cheque, I obviously want a new job. Clearly the club I take over has to have been promoted to the BSN/BSS, but my question is this, do they have to be in their first season at this level or could they have been promoted in the first season of the game? For example, Farsley were promoted in 09/10, whilst Holiday Man was doing his gardening, and are still in the BSN, whereas Truro were promoted to the BSS in the season just past, 2011/12. Could I theoretically take control of either?
Oh, and I've had an offer from Altrincham, but they're BSP all the way, far too lofty for the likes of me so they got told where to go
If i were you i would holiday until 25th june and take one of the new promoted teams.. =) then the AI wouldnt have had a chance to screw up the team
I want to continue with the same profile though, rather than start fresh.
Anyway, the problem has just solved itself. In the middle of October 2012, I've just been approached by Canvey Island. Newly promoted to the Blue Square South, they got impatient very quickly, sacking their manager after he took just one point from 8 games. They won their next game with no one in charge and then offered me a 3 year deal which I readily accepted. 21st in the league, this could be tough
Nice, good luck
I havent bought a player the last 2 seasons but this season it seems like the injuries are really hitting me hard and i thought that i might take a look at the transfer market to get a good midfielder in. Then i noticed that there are actually not even one really good MR. I have my own MR who is okay but not that good? but in my game hes the best one :o
That might also explain why Canham already got capped this much, as i dont think he looks that good..
Unlucky on your sacking Terk. hopefully 3rd time lucky good luck
qualified for the playoffs with one game to go. not too confident but you never know.
That's quite a transfer window dafuge! Makes me wonder how much we could bring in if we were to sell some of the big names off. I know I could have got £40m for the DR who ran down his contract, as it was rejecting that offer that made him decide to do that.
Good luck with Canvey, Terk
Despite the transfers I've already mentioned, this kid is worth a look:
Jon Puñal
For someone who has only just turned 15 he looks pretty good.
cannot believe what just happened. The first leg was away at Barrow and we just got absolutely stuffed 5-0. Thats promotion down the drain.
won the second leg 2-0 but really gutted we didn't get promoted this season. Out of time to write a report now.
I now have four top young strikers of various ages, I really need to choose two:
Geoff Bowles (0.5/3)
Adam Bowditch (2.5/3)
Emilio Sacchi (3/3)
Jon Punal (0.5/3)
(CA/PA stars)
Saachi is clearly the best, Punal could become the best and Bowles came through my own youth team. Bowditch isn't bad either. I think all four could become brilliant, but I need to decide who to give the chances to.
They all look pretty good! Dont you think it would be to early to start playing Punal in the PRL?
I usually tend to play my own youth products more than the prospects i have bought, and i think you could do the same with Bowles, he does look quite good! But then again they all do
My big hope Bowler Has improved drasticly after about 10games last season + a tutoring. He has the potential to become a club legend for sure ! Although i would have liked for him to score some more goals!
Finally got round to playing my first game with Canvey and my right winger opened the scoring directly from a corner. First time that's ever happened to me in FM. And to make it better, it bounced in off the underside of the crossbar
We went on to lose 4-1 though, and it was against another struggling side, Weymouth, who hadn't won in 5
Also just made my first cash signing in the game, £500 for a goalkeeper from Airbus.
is it too late to start this? looks a good challenege
Bilyletdinov7 it's not too late. Come on in and have fun.
Also I seem to have hit a mid season slump in January with Boston. Sat at the top of the table most of the season though and have got a FA Trophy 3rd round game coming up against Chester.
I have to ask, how the hell are people getting out of the BSN/BSS, let alone completing the bloody challenge? This is one of the most rock solidly difficult things I've tried in years. Probably since my many seasons of futility at Leigh RMI in CM01/02.
Nice one i will start this tomorrow


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