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Were there laws governing the rules of conducting war before modern (20th century) international treaties and conventions such as the Geneva conventions? For example, were there rules regarding the treatment of prisoners, non-combatants, neutrals, etc., respecting diplomats, parlay/truce, the definition of combatants, allowed/forbidden weapons, etc.? Who defined the rules and how were they enforced?
One modern document that is considered a body of laws concerning warfare and predates the Geneva Conventions, is the "Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, General Order № 100", issued by President Lincoln in April 24, 1863. It was prepared by Francis Lieber and its commonly called the Lieber Code or Lieber Instructions.
It's contents are:
Here's an example of its articles, article 88 concerning spies:
The Lieber code was issued during the American Civil War and is a precursor to the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. The term "Geneva Conventions" usually refers to the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) and if that's how you used it then it's not only predated by the Lieber Code and the Hague Conventions, but also the three other Geneva Conventions:
Taking a leap back in history, Frédéric Mégret examines the "laws of war" during the Crusades, in A Cautionary Tale from the Crusades? War and Prisoners in Conditions of Normative Incommensurability and concludes:
The following quote is from Chapter B, The Impact of Traditions of Restraint in Warfare, and gives a (rough) idea of the combatants' approach to warfare:
Going even further back, Deuteronomy 20:19 discusses environmental damage during warfare:
A somewhat comprehensive set of laws of war, stemming from tradition and religion, was present in Ancient Greece as well. Adriaan Lanni, in her paper The Laws of War in Ancient Greece mentions:
As for a contemporary source, Herodotus in passage 82 of the first book (Κλειώ) of his Ιστορίαι (Histories) mentions bilateral agreements to limit the number of combatants:
Interesting reads:
@Yannis Rizos has covered a wide variety of sources very deeply and has my upvote. However I'd like to point out that Wikipedia references some non-Christian attempts to regulate war. (I would prefer to cite them individually here, but quite frankly the context provided by wikipedia in this case is, I believe, very added value).
For most of human history there are a dearth of international institutions to enforce or discuss the underpinnings of "laws of war". Someone more knowledgeable than I would probably point to the Lakota Warrior Societies, but I lack the scholarship to advance that argument, nor can I point to any analogous institutions in Africa, Asia or elsewhere in the world. The dominant international institution in Western Europe is the Catholic Church, which attempted to regulate warfare through the Truce of God. Islam also attempted to issue instructions about conduct of warfare in Muwatta Imam Malik, but I'm not qualified to comment on how widespread or effective those attempts were.
The Peace of Westphalia which establishes Westphalian Sovereignty and associated concepts such as the national state. I believe it is the first time that the concept of "neutrality" is introduced, but I can't find solid evidence. Modern scholarship calls some of these assumptions into question, but I don't think it is possible to understand that debate without a firm understanding of the Westphalian Sovereignty.
I'd also note the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe which effectively created laws of war by establishing international conventions about spheres of influence.
Finally there are the many optimistic but doomed efforts such as Kellog-Briand Pact which although subsequent to the Geneva Convention might be relevant to the underlying question.


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Perfect Pie Crust
This foolproof method for pies and tarts will give you a tender, golden-crisp crust every time, without the stress or the floury mess
EASY AS PIE? That will sound like an oxymoron to those who have struggled with unruly dough only to throw up their floury hands in defeat. This was my story, too, until a number of years ago, when I devised the foolproof pie crust method I've used ever since.
Learning a few basic principles and techniques will revolutionize your pastry-making. First off, get to know gluten, the network of proteins that forms as you add moisture to and work a wheat-flour dough. That network is what gives the dough elasticity; it's what allows you to roll the dough out into a circle without the dough (or you) falling apart. You want to avoid excess gluten development, however, as it makes for a tough crust. Overworking the dough and adding too much liquid are the two main culprits.
I find it quickest and easiest to use a food processor for making dough. Just be sure to pulse the machine rather than letting it run as you combine the ingredients, and to stop processing long before the dough forms a ball. Of utmost importance: Make sure all your ingredients are cold before and during mixing and handling. You want to keep the fat in the dough from melting as long as possible, so that a flaky structure will form around it as it bakes. Equally important: Add as little water as possible to the dough. To optimize results, start with less liquid than the recipe calls for. Grab a handful of dough. If it just sticks together, you're set. If it won't adhere, add another teaspoon of water and try again.
When you're ready to roll, place the dough ball between two large pieces of kitchen parchment and flatten it into a disk. This one adjustment—rolling dough between layers of parchment paper rather than directly on a floured work surface—has made the single biggest difference in my crust experience. No more sticky bits clinging to rolling pin, hands and counter; no more flour everywhere; no more difficulty moving rolled dough from counter to fridge to pie dish or tart pan.
Even if you're using the parchment method, your dough won't always roll right out into a perfect circle. So then what? Well, I've discovered that it's fine to "cut and paste." Just remove the top piece of parchment, slice off protruding edges of dough and use them to fill gaps. Then replace the parchment and reroll. If the dough becomes too warm and soft to handle, just pop it (still between parchment layers) into the refrigerator to firm up. You can also cut and paste when fitting a rolled piece of dough into the pan. As most of the crust will be concealed beneath a filling, cut and paste to your heart's content.
And last, but certainly not least: Let the rolled dough rest in the refrigerator or freezer before baking. This is your fail-safe; it will help to reverse the effects of overworking or excess moisture by giving the gluten an opportunity to relax its tightly coiled structure. From four to 48 hours is ideal, but even one hour of resting will tenderize the crust dramatically.
To make sure I have crusts available when friends arrive bearing homegrown fruit or when an unexpected guest drops in for dinner, I often make several dough circles at a time and park extras in the freezer, where they'll remain, rested and ready, until they're needed. Then, all that's left to do is take one out, press it into a pie dish or tart pan, and proceed according to my whims and the fillings at hand. It really is as easy as that.
Fresh Raspberry Tart With Vanilla Crème Fraîche
The pie-crust recipe below can be a base for all kinds of tarts and pies. Right now, when fresh raspberries are really coming into their own, you can hardly do better for a filling, and crème fraîche laced with vanilla balances the berries' acidity with luscious sweetness.
Active Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 2 hours (includes making and resting crust) Serves: 6-8
2 cups crème fraîche
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons sugar
½ cup currant jelly
2 tablespoons water or framboise liqueur
One 10-inch baked sweet pie crust, room temperature (see recipe below)
3½ cups fresh raspberries
What To Do
1. Make vanilla crème fraîche: Add crème fraîche, vanilla and sugar to a small bowl and stir to combine.
2. Make currant glaze: Warm currant jelly in a small saucepan set over medium heat. Add water or framboise to jelly in a slow stream, stirring to combine, until consistency is like heavy cream.
3. Use a pastry brush to cover bottom of crust with currant glaze. Starting in center of crust, arrange raspberries in a spiral, continuing until crust is covered.
4. Use a pastry brush to glaze raspberry tops. Repeat with a second coat of glaze. Serve immediately, passing around a bowl of vanilla crème fraîche for topping. (Tart is best if served within 3 hours.) Do not refrigerate.
Sweet Pie Crust
I find pie dough easiest to make in a food processor, but you can also use an electric mixer or work it by hand. Whatever the method, remember to work quickly and not over-process.
Active Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 1¾ hours (includes resting dough)
2 cups flour
¼ cup sugar
½ teaspoon salt
2 sticks cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
4 tablespoons ice water
What To Do
1. Mix dry ingredients together in a food processor. Add butter and pulse until pea-size clumps form. With food processor off, pour 3½ tablespoons water evenly over top. Pulse until no dry patches remain, taking care not to allow dough to form a ball. Grab a handful of dough and squeeze. If dough will not cohere, add remaining water to dough in food processor and pulse to incorporate. Remove dough from food processor and form a ball with your hands.
2. Flatten dough into a disk on parchment paper. Place a second piece of parchment on top and use a rolling pin to roll out dough until circle is 13 inches in diameter.
3. Press dough into a 10-inch fluted tart pan with a removable bottom. To form a thick and sturdy edge, fold excess dough inward and press against sides of tart pan. For a more delicate edge, trim away excess dough. Refrigerate unbaked crust at least 1 hour or as long as 48 hours.
4. Once dough has rested, preheat oven to 400 degrees and position a rack in lower third. Cover pie crust with a sheet of aluminum foil, gently pressing down over sides and bottom of crust to prevent over-browning. Fill foil-covered crust with dried beans or rice and bake 20 minutes. Remove crust from oven. Discard foil and beans and prick crust several times with a fork. Return crust to oven and bake until golden, 5-10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.


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In its closely-watched monthly report on the oil market, the watchdog agency cut its oil demand growth forecasts for the coming year by a marginal 90,000 bpd, but warned that recent signs of recovery in the global oil demand could be the result of one-off factors, rather than sustained improvement.
By SARAH KENT
LONDON -- Signs of improvements in the global economy that
have driven expectations of higher oil demand growth this year
could be overly optimistic, the International Energy Agency
said Wednesday as it revised its forecast for demand growth
slightly lower.
In its closely-watched monthly report on the oil market, the
Paris-based consumer watchdog cut its oil demand growth
forecasts for the coming year by a marginal 90,000 bpd, but
warned that recent signs of recovery in the global oil demand
could be the result of one-off factors, rather than a sustained
trend of improvement.
In particular, the IEA called into question the extent to
which a steep increase in Chinese apparent demand at the end of
2012 could be taken as a sign of a more long-term improvement
in demand.
"While higher Chinese refinery runs at that time may have
responded to an actual increase in end‐user demand, they
may also have led to significant product inventory builds,
potentially setting the stage for a slowdown or for an increase
in product exports later on," the report said.
The agency's cut in demand growth expectations for the year
to 840,000 bpd follows the release last month of an update to
the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook in
which forecasts for global economic growth were revised
slightly lower for the coming year.
The IEA has already revised its estimates of global demand
in the fourth quarter of 2012 down by 210,000 bpd from last
month's estimates, largely as a result of lower demand from
Saudi Arabia and the US.
Nonetheless, demand assessments for the fourth quarter are
still nearly 500,000 bpd above estimates made in the agency's
December report.
The backdrop for this cloudy demand picture remains an oil
market of shifting supply and demand trends that is causing a
significant disconnect in prices globally, the IEA said.
The IEA expects non‐OPEC production to rise by 1
million bpd this year, largely due to higher output from North
America and parts of Asia.
But even as non-OPEC supply is seen increasing, the price of
global benchmark Brent has soared thanks in part to improved
economic signals in the US and China and a revival of investor
appetite for stocks and commodities.
Meanwhile, the world's largest oil producers also seem to be
cutting back. Supply from OPEC fell to its lowest level in a
year in January, the IEA said.
Geopolitical uncertainties are also underpinning prices
following on from the attack on the In Amenas gas facility in
Algeria last month.
Tighter sanctions on Iran could also see supply from the
Islamic Republic fall further, the IEA said.
Preliminary data for imports of Iranian crude in January
show volumes fell below 1 million bpd while the IEA said
production in the country is hovering below its lowest in 30
"It is hard, under the circumstances, to overstate the
challenges involved in bringing supply to market, which often
result in unprecedented price pressures," the IEA said.
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
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Cited: Christian D. Parr, 28, 243 Pebble Lane, Colliers, failure to signal turn and no seat belt; Shawn L. Lazear Jr., 27, 2506 Eldersville Road, Follansbee, no seat belt; Sean W. Shaffer, 29, 304 Pennsylvania Ave., Colliers, loud exhaust and no seat belt; and Craig N. Moran, 24, 7622 state Route 152, Richmond, loud exhaust.
Theft: Radio amplifier taken from vehicle in the 200 block of South Fourth Street, Wednesday.
Arrested: Laurie Crothers, 25, 343 Lincoln Ave., Mingo Junction, bench warrant out of municipal court, operating vehicle under the influence, possession of hypodermic needle and possession of drug abuse instrument, Wednesday.
Theft: Unlocked vehicle entered in the 500 block of Clinton Street and $200 and GPS unit taken, Wednesday.
Arrested: Jonathan L. Brown, 23, 626 Prospect Ave., contempt of court warrant and obstructing official business, Wednesday.
Arrested: Rikki Sanders, 27, 5826 Timothy Road, Bergholz, two bench warrants out of municipal court, today.
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Theft: Tools taken from truck parked on county Road 26, Steubenville, Wednesday.
Arrested: James N. May, 35, 506 Public Road, Yorkville, rape, Wednesday.
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I'm new to Oracle, so I apologize for such a simple question, but I've already wasted several hours on it.
I have the following stored procedure:
create or replace procedure MyTestProc (outparam OUT VARCHAR2) AS
select 'test' into outparam from dual;
How do I call this stored procedure, and insert the value of
outparam into a variable? I'd like to be able to do this so I can then use the result for other things, e.g., printing it to output.
Using functions, I was able to do this as easy as:
variable tmpString VARCHAR2(100);
call MyTestFunc('test') INTO :tmpString;
print tmpString;
How do I do this with stored procedures?


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Is there a way to label an Email w/the word task, email it to myself and have it added to my tasks list automatically. I know I can open the email and add tasks but I'd like to do this via a filter rule.
No, this isn't currently possible. (support posting) The quickest way I've found is to create a filter that applies a label to these emails. Then, I am able to open up the label, use keyboard shortcuts to navigate and open an email, and then
If a filter action to add to tasks is ever created, I'll just have to switch my filter action rather than creating a setup then.


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I am hoping there is a way to create a facebook page using the open graph API. The documentation only shows API calls I can make once the page exists.
Currently, I have movie profiles on my site that I would like to create a page for each on Facebook. I know I can just add the Like button and once clicked, it will create the page for me. But I'm hoping to have a programmatic way to do the same.


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AutoCAD Gallery
Word is starting to get about the the Gallery being back in business, and posting is starting to pick up.
I'm going to suspend the "Pic of the Month" concept until we start getting a larger number of monthly posts. Make sure to spread the word that the Gallery is back in business and ready for showcasing your talent, and as always, click the link on the left to see our member showcase.
Please remember, the AutoCAD Gallery Forum is intended as a showcase. To get answers to your technical questions, please search the other, technical, forums before posting your question. You may find that your question was already asked by one of your fellow AUGI members.
For consideration here, you should actually post your images, and not a link to another web site. The preferred format will be JPG.
To add an image to your post, you may want to check out the Forum FAQ "What Are Attachments?".
Also, when posting your images in the Gallery Forum, please let us know how you completed your image. Also, it would be great to share your experiences on creating your images and models.
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New York, NY–Dia Art Foundation presents Opus + One, the first comprehensive museum exhibition in North America devoted to the work of Paris-based artist Jean-Luc Moulène. Commissioned by Dia, Opus + One will comprise objects and images created over the past two decades and will be on view at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, in New York's Hudson Valley for one year. Organized by Dia curator Yasmil Raymond in collaboration with the artist, the exhibition additionally includes a new work commissioned for the Dan Flavin Art Institute, in Bridgehampton, NY, and a major publication. A reception for Jean-Luc Moulène will be held at Dia:Beacon on Saturday, December 17, 2011, from 2–4 pm.
Opus + One unites two bodies of work: over thirty-five objects from the ongoing series Opus (1995¬–present), and the monumental photographic essay La Vigie (2004–2011). The title derives from the Latin word Opus, which Moulène designates as the encompassing term for his three-dimensional work. The suffix, "+ One" comes from the notation of recurrence in mathematics, yet it also reflects Moulène's interest in the idioms of advertising and capitalist tactics, as well as his conception of the viewer as a hypothetical consumer.
In the Opus series, Moulène employs a diverse selection of natural and manufactured materials—bronze, cardboard, cement, fiberglass, and wood, among others—to construct a range of three-dimensional forms, some handmade and some industrially manufactured. Several works within the group resemble a scale model or maquette in their pragmatism and unfinished quality, while others are life-size references to the human body or animal organs. Taken together, Opus undoes predictable classifications of figuration and abstraction and complicates the viewer's impulse to search for representational or metaphorical identity in objects.
La Vigie centers on a single subject: the persistent Paulownia Tomentosa, which grows in the cracks of sidewalk and buildings throughout the Parisian urban landscape. Comprising 299 photographs, printed in color and in black and white, the series chronicles the evolving appearance of the plant over seven years, as well as an array of quotidian incidents that transpire in the neighborhood that surrounds the French Ministry for the Economy, Industry, and Employment where the plant grows. La Vigie reveals an ever-shifting landscape, including the physical evidence of antiterrorism vigilance, and demonstrates Moulène's interest in politics and strategies of resistance. It also reflects the important role that photography plays in the artist's practice as a method of surveying and annotating, and extends his investigations on the classification, production, and circulation of images and objects.
Recognized for his meticulous and eclectic creative output, Moulène moves fluidly between three-dimensional work, photography, drawing, and printed matter. His career cannot be easily divided into periods or a single narrative but rather can be conceived, as he has said, as "one continuous performance" in which the reality of his surroundings are collected, rearranged, and reframed. Dia's exhibition will reveal the wide-ranging nature of his practice, as well as the diverse aesthetic strategies that he has adopted over the years. As Raymond states, "Moulène's multidisciplinary practice, which spans over three decades, has focused on reinventing the visual language of art. By freeing it from consensus and literalness, his definition of art carries objectives beyond art itself."
Dia's exhibition advances its legacy of commissioning projects and exhibitions from midcareer artists that encourage significant explorations in new directions within the artist's practice. It continues in the spirit of the program presented by Dia in New York City from 1987–2004, and projects by artists including: Robert Gober (1992–93); Katarina Fritsch (1993–94); Jessica Stockholder (1995–96); Thomas Schütte (1998–99); Rosemarie Trockel (2002–2004); and Pierre Huyghe (2003–2004), among others. It also follows the commissioning of major new works shown at Dia:Beacon by Vera Lutter (2005–6); An-My Lê (2006-2008); Tacita Dean (2008); Zoe Leonard (2008–11); and Koo Jeong A (2010–11).
The Dan Flavin Art Institute
Opus + One includes a concurrent presentation of newly commissioned wall objects, Monochromes/Samples (2011), that are on view in the Dan Flavin Art Institute's special exhibition gallery.
A major publication designed by Marc Touitou will be made in conjunction with Opus + One. A diverse group of authors will address specific subjects in Moulène's work through fiction, nonfiction, and art historical texts. Writers include art historians Briony Fer and Thomas McDonough, author and curator Corinne Diserens, poet Manuel Joseph, author and artist Jalal Toufic, exhibition curator Yasmil Raymond, and Dia director Philippe Vergne.
Perspectives from the Curator at Dia:Beacon
Walk-through of Opus + One with Yasmil Raymond
Sunday, March 11, 2012, 2 pm
Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY
Gallery Talk at Dia:Beacon
Eva Respini on Jean-Luc Moulène
Saturday, March 31, 2012, 2 pm
Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY
Artists on Artists Lecture at Dia:Chelsea
Akram Zaatari on Jean-Luc Moulène
Monday, April 30, 2012, 6:30 pm
Dia:Chelsea, 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Conversations at Dia:Beacon
Jean-Luc Moulène in conversation with Yasmil Raymond
Saturday, May 5, 2012, 2 pm
Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY
Opus + One is made possible by Dia's Commissioning Committee: Jill and Peter Kraus, Leslie and Mac McQuown, Genny and Selmo Nissenbaum, and Liz Gerring Radke and Kirk August Radke. Additional support has come from Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art (a program of FACE), Cesar Cervantes, Aaron and Barbara Levine, Lisa Schiff, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. Special thanks to Galerie Chantal Crousel, Thomas Dane Gallery, and Galerie Greta Meert.
Jean-Luc Moulène
Born in 1955, Jean-Luc Moulène studied aesthetics and the sciences of art at the Sorbonne University in Paris. He participated in Documenta 10 (1997), ARC / Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1997), the Sao Paulo Biennial (2002), the Venice Biennial (2003), Taipei Biennial (2004), and most recently the First International Biennial of the Image, Luang Prabang, Laos (2007) and the Sharjah Biennial (2011). Among the institutions that have presented solo exhibitions of his work are Centre d'Art Contemporain de Genève (2003), CCA, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu (1998, 2004), Jeu de Paume, Paris (2005), Musée du Louvre, Paris (2005), DAAD Galerie, Berlin (1996), Culturgest, Lisbon (2007), and Carré d'art-Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes (2009).
Moulène's work has been included in group exhibitions at: Witte de With, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rotterdam (1990, 2003), ARC / Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1991, 2000), Ein Harod, Israel (1993), Le Magasin, Grenoble (1995), Museum in Progress, Vienna (1996), Grey Art Gallery, New York (1997), Villa Médici, Rome (1999), Yokohama Museum of Art (2000), Triennale de Milano (2001), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2001), Ottawa Art Gallery (2001), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2002), Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes (2002), Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (2003), De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2004), Grand Palais, Paris (2006), Landesmuseum Joanneum GmbH Kunsthaus, Graz (2007), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2011, 2007), Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg (2010), CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (2011) and MuMa, Le Havre (2011). Moulène currently lives and works in Paris.
Dia Art Foundation
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SUNRISE, Fla. (December 24, 2013) – Florida Panthers Executive VP/General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has reassigned G Jacob Markstrom and D Alex Petrovic to San Antonio (AHL). In addition, the team has activated G Tim Thomas from injured reserve.
Markstrom, 23, has played in 43 career National Hockey League games, all with Florida, going 11-25-5 with a 3.21 GAA. He has appeared in 12 games with Florida this season, posting a 1-6-3 mark.
The Gavle, Sweden native, has played in 10 games with the Rampage this season, going 4-5-1. He was drafted by Florida in the second round (31st overall) in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
Petrovic, 21, logged 15:35 of ice time with a team-high eight hits on Monday night in the Panthers 6-1 loss to Tampa Bay. He has played in 30 games for San Antonio this season recording 11 points (2-9-11) and 46 PIM. The Edmonton, AB native has played in seven games NHL games, all with Florida, recording 27 PIM.
Petrovic was drafted by Florida in the second round (36th overall) in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.


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Consumer Reports just named the safest cars for teens to drive. If you're considering buying a car for your teen, you might want to check out some on the list including the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Ford Fusion. Got us thinking...what was your first car? Did you love it or hate it?!
It's that time again! The summer is ending and it's time to go back to school. Dr. Meier has some great tips for getting the kids ready to go back to school.
Here are his suggestions:
1. SHARE AND PRAY: Share how you feel about going back to school with God, a couple friends and your parents—both positive and negative feelings and hopes and concerns. A SHARED BURDEN IS HALF A BURDEN. Talking about your concerns decreases your anxiety about them by about half.
2. FINANCES are tough for most families in this current economy, so just do the best you can with the resources available to you to have clothing and supplies as close to the norm of your particular school as possible, without being seductive or provocative.
3. ENMESHMENT: Some parents are nice and mean well, but cripple their children by being overly enmeshed with them and their decisions. As much as is reasonably possible, encourage your children to make their own decisions, be independent, choose their own clothing (within boundaries of course), and develop their own close friends. Do NOT be your child's best friend. Children who are overly dependent on a controlling parent have the most fear of going to school. Being a parent is the only job whose success is measured by your children no longer needing you to survive and make their own decisions.
4. SOCIAL PHOBIA: You may have six children, five who are outgoing and one who is shy from birth on. Social phobia is often a genetic, inherited phenomenon, correctable within a week or within a few weeks by prescription medications from a child psychiatrist, such as Neurontin, for example, which is not addicting. Some types of social anxiety are curable with professional counseling alone, but other types require medication for an inherited chemical imbalance.
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Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold, $p$ a point on the manifold and $v \in T_p M$. Let $\gamma$ be the geodesic starting at $p$ in the direction $v$. There exists a time $t_f$ such that there exists a Fermi coordinate system adapted to $\gamma$ up to time $t_f$.
My question: Does there exist a lower bound for $t_f$ in terms of the 2-jet of $g$ at $p$?
That is, I have solid estimates on $g$ up to its second derivatives at $p$: $$\|g\| + \|\nabla g\| + \|\nabla^2 g\| \le h \qquad (1)$$ for some $h$. I would like to show that there exists $f(h)$ such that $$t_f \ge f(h)$$ for all Riemannian metrics satisfying (1) at $p$.
Edit (Mar 19): Taking the helpful advice of Anton, Deane, TK and Willie into account, I've reworded the question:
Let $U = B(0,r)$ be the closed Euclidean ball of radius $r$ in $\mathbb R^n$. Write $$\lambda = \inf_{x \in U} \inf_{\|v\|=1} \langle v,v \rangle_{g(x)}$$ as the minimum eigenvalue of the metric in $U$, and suppose that $$\frac{1}{\lambda} + \|g\|_{C^2(U)} \le h.$$ This is a more refined version of (1) above. Since $$\ddot \gamma^k = -\Gamma^k_{ij} \dot \gamma^i \dot \gamma^j,$$ our estimate gives a control on the acceleration of a geodesic $\gamma$ in $U$, so there exists a minimum self-intersection time $t_i$ depending on $h$ and $r$ (i.e., if $t, t' \le t_i$ then $\gamma(t) \ne \gamma(t')$).
Does this imply the existence of a uniform lower bound on $t_f$ (depending only on $r$ and $h$)? If so, can we relax the control on the second derivative of $g$?
More succinctly: Are existence and non-self-intersection of a geodesic the only obstructions to the existence of Fermi coordinates?


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I am looking for a solution where people in my company can easily share short informatoin including images in Sharepoint. Basically I am looking for something sort of www.yammer.com like, but within the Shareppoint univers. It must be possible to do it from a mobile phone, be it blackberry, iPhone or other types of smartphones.
I've been over sending emails to a blog, and then show that in a webpart on my frontpage. I have also tried to find out, if the newsfeed from the mysite is the right solution, and even tried to find third party solutions. I haven't rueld out any of these solutions, but I have a feeling that a simple answer is right in fornt of my nose. I just can't seem to grasp it.
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Since I'm likely to be playing your challenge with the added leagues I wouldn't mind setting up the challenge thread.
Since I'm likely to be playing your challenge with the added leagues I wouldn't mind setting up the challenge thread.
I have no problem with it going back to GD this year, so long as I know where to find it.
It's probably better off there since it will get a lot more attention from people who wouldn't normally have know where to look for it, or looked for it all together.How does everyone feel about the records thread?
Would anyone mind if it moved back to GD?
Yeah sure, how many levels should we go down? I was thinking just go down 3 levels and let everyone decide which level they start from, or would it be better to start from a set level?
Whoever ends up setting up the edited version of dafuge's challenge, I'd suggest you like at using Super Bladesman's file (assuming he's happy for it to be used for it or isn't setting up his own challenge). He's been working on it during beta testing and it'll be released when FM 2010 is out on Friday. Will mean the challenge can be set up quickly and it should be accurate. As he's a mod and beta tester, I'd trust him to not sneak in anything unrealistic with the editor (e.g. add himself in a random county league club with 200 PA, or give a county league club a sugardaddy).
Since he's trying to make the most realistic and accurate English file, there's probably no point someone else doing the same work all over again, to just get the same result. He'd no doubt have had time to test it as he's worked on it. With all the rules to set up, and the way the game handles different things, it was never going to be something that can be done quickly with little testing.
He's talked about it in a few threads, here's one of them - http://community.sigames.com/showthr...nd#post3986437
Yeah I was gonna post in here about it, I'd read about it in the OTF FM10 thread, it'd definitely be the best route forward imo
I'm planning to create a giant World League (depending on the new editor's capabilities), which once completed has the potential for various challenges/experiments. Eventually I might post this in here as a possible relatively small to big club challenge, as long as I'm not stepping on anyone else's toes in doing so.
It has the potential for you to take any club in the world (PC processor permitting) from relative unknowns to true World Champions.
Would people in the CSE forum be interested in something like this?
p.s. please note this is still in early planning stages at present, and is still a way off production. I have a thread in the Editor's Hideaway if you are interested in details, link below:
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I was thinking of making a sign-up called the REAL CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - Who is the best at predictions?
I would create a league with the top teams (based on reputation) from around the world
The number of the clubs would depend on what the editor allows
Then everyone who wants would predict the scores from a league day and get points depending on their accuracy
Basically something like this only with all the best clubs in the world
Alright, here is what I was thinking for the sign-up that I want to create. Since I am unable to shift around the nation's continents, I am going to change a random Caribbean nation to a "CSE" Nation. I am going to create 3 leagues of at least 10 teams, (the actual number will depend on the interest, but I am hoping to get at least 30 teams), and each team will have a certain amount of money to buy players, I will provide screenshots of the values. All teams will also create 2 players for their team as a start to this nation. The leagues of this nation will hopefully be placed in Europe, and thus, get into the European Champions League, if that is impossible I will probably change Malta or another small European nation.
I think the initial 'draft' for players will have to be well thought out, with 30 teams it could get extremely chaotic. It seems like a decent idea though and if run well will be a popular sign up imo.
The draft would be much like my England Takeover sign-up where each team will be given a certain amount of money with which to purchase a 22 man squad
Could I reserve a spot because that sounds great.
I never said it wasn't ambitious, , and I will be able to keep track of it, b/c every team won't be able to purchase every player as they will only have a certain amount of money.
but he has 10 extra teams? :confused:
I added more players in because it would go on forever if every player in the draft had to go. Some players like Steven Gerrard weren't signed by anyone!
oh, I just meant that 660 players would eventually be 'assigned', I don't know how many players he will use in total.
but yes Robert, your draft was absolutely epic!
And I never even managed to complete two seasons of it I'll write up an ending to the second attempt at some point, but there isn't any point to have a transfer season if everyone's now on 10?
I just don't understand what make this idea different from the similar things that are already running/have run.
it does sound similar to Robert_296's sign up, with the exception that there are potentially 3 divisions. I think when run well, the 'draft' sign up will work and be popular because it's exciting to pick players for a team of your own. I agree that it doesn't seem particularly different from other things already being run though.I just don't understand what make this idea different from the similar things that are already running/have run.
player drafts are one of those things, like the fantasy league, where I think the effort isn't worth the reward, run properly they would be brilliant but it takes a ridculous amount of time and effort to make one of that size, whch afaic makes it completely impractical
Its more of a combination of the "draft" type sign-up and the create a player and watch a new national team rise. The idea being teams will watch their club rise in the domestic league, their individual players excel for the national team, the national team excel on the international stage, and maybe their youth players become world beaters.
Ok, despite the fact last seasons version of the "Real London CSE" challenge flopped hard, would anyone be up for it in FM10? Added bonus being, you would start in the Lowest possible league (Level 10).
I'd like to say yes, but for the next few months i'll be invested in my Leeds save. Although, I would start it when my interest starts to falter.
I would but not for a couple of months
I'll leave it until the new year, at the very least. I want to get my own save going on FM10 anyway
That's good then. I'm glad to hear it's making a return. On a side note, is there going to be any sort of thread to do with the achievements available through Steam? Or is that something noone is really a fan of? I don't even know how to find them...
Yes, I was struggling to find them. I know I have at least three though
I have three. You need to go on to your Steam profile, then click on game stats for FM10.
I have 11 out of 60.
Pretty cool it tells how many hours I spent on it...nearly 3 full days just playing the game.
I'd urge people to check out Spartan5's new sign up.
It looks very good, and although it took me an age to sign up, it looks fantastic.
just looking at the sign up sheet made my head hurt
It was just one of those signups where I thought it looked promising but then scrolled through the signup sheet and once I reached the bottom I just thought **** it
I have 11 achievements btw
I understand the sign-up sheet is long, and it will take time, but it doesn't need to be all done at once, in fact, it might even be easier for me if it isn't. But I think its the best way to make sure people will stay active, because it took a lot of work to do the sheet.
The Roy Hodgson Journeyman Challenge
This is my idea for a new challenge and I wanted to get some opinions on it. If there is enough interest, and people think it is a good enough idea, I will start this up.
Essentially, Roy has been one of our (England's) best managerial exports in the modern game, managing in six different countries and also managing three different national teams.
I would propose loading the following countries (number of leagues from each to be decided but two top from each would probably suffice):
Plus loading in all players from U.A.E. and Finland (Hodgson managed their national sides).
I would not prescribe a career pathway or even what clubs should be managed, as I feel that would be limiting. I would only suggest that individuals start their managerial career as an unemployed manager with automatic reputation. Then, the challenge would be to win a major domestic trophy in each country (i.e. either the league or the domestic cup) before moving on to another country. You would, essentially, tick off each country (e.g. I win the Swedish title, so therefore I can tick off the Swedish leg of the challenge and move on to one of the other countries). In several cases, the manager might start out in the second division of the league and have to work his/her way up to the top flight by building up their team or jumping ship to another team in the same country. I also propose an international 'leg' of this challenge, where the manager must win something with one of the national teams of the six nations or Finland/U.A.E.
To sum up, there would be seven legs of the Hodgson journeyman career challenge:
Sweden - win league or main domestic cup
Denmark - win league or main domestic cup
Norway - win league or main domestic cup
Switzerland - win league or main domestic cup
Italy - win league or main domestic cup
England - win league or main domestic cup
International - win a tournament with Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, England, U.A.E. or Finland.
Haven't finalised the format just yet but but something along those lines.
Perhaps even a 'Europe' level, involving winning the Europa or the Champions League as well?
Any thoughts on this idea chaps?
I have a new challenge idea as computers getting better and better. Starting with at least 51-117 (if no editor used) or more can person handle (until all 208 nations) if they can use them. With all database (nearly 293000) Allowing them starting "sunday league footballer" (Automatic is %100 Forbidden) and unemployed... Startable day is earliest day of FM 2010 (Malaysia 2008 November / though I didn'T test exact starting day of laos). Moving between team to team allowed but no resigning allowed... You can move only get offer or sacked... National job is allowed (also u21-u19 jobs) challenge has few parts "putting your team in top league" "move to top league" "first appearence in a international club competition" "winning the club comps" "working all continents" "putting a small nation to continental nations competition" going to world cup and more ............... Probably the name is "Unemployed in the full world"
Very few would be able to run it, so I doubt there'd be many doing it
I dream of the day I could run 208 nations worth of FM
Those anyon want a game on fmo
i have default patch
or is this not the thread to post matches
Here is a list of all achievements on Steam taken from the FM wiki.
FML Server - This is not the place. There is a thread in the FMO forum where you can make yourself available for online games. Here it is - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=19804
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A new Idea I like lurking the asia challenge and now I saw Oceania is completed in somehow (I saw all leagues in a site) . And africa is near to completing... I hope someone can open africa and oceania challenges very soon
Earlier today (10th November) I came across the Glenn Hoddle Academy challenge that saint_clark tried to start. After reading through it I decided that seemed quite interesting. Unfortunately he never got around to starting it so I thought I might try it. Then noticing an exchange between PaulHartman and M12..... about whether or not the team should be in Spain or England my mind started to churn. Aided by a long bus ride the idea developed that rather than having the Glenn Hoddle Academy in England/Spain why not have an Academy based in every European country? Any one participating would have to follow a modified version of the rules that saint_clark developed for his challenge.
I will create a database that will be made available for anyone to download with a number of Academies. Each Academy would start in the lowest playable league in its country (with a few exceptions) and they would almost identical, with the only differences being names, kits etc. The challengers would be able to pick any Academy they wanted to with the aim of creating a footballing tour de force. Each Academy will have similar staff and facilities as well. The main measurement of the challenger's success will be the amount of cash they receive in transfer fees from their player sales with bonuses given for success in competitions.
At the moment I would like to see if anyone would be interested in actually playing this before I start the task of creating the DB. I will start on the rules tonight as they aren't too hard to come up with and I already have a framework.
Based on what the rules would be, I would be interested in participating in such a challenge
WW's Small to big club challenge - The World Superleague
Some of you may have seen my international team challenge that is currently on going. Well over the weekend I took a break from that and decided to start creating my own World Superleague structure.
So far I have:
World Premier League
World First Division
World Second Division
Regional First Division A / B / C
Regional Second Division A / B/ C / D / E / F
World Development Leagues A - O (15 leagues)
In total there are about 640 playable teams in the league structure, with the vast vast majority of all the FIFA nations with representation.
However, I thought as good as that may be to play - how about making a new version of the Small to Big club challenge - A world challenge. So I now have relegation from the World Development Leagues, so that a previously unplayable team in the league structure can become playable. Currently you could play as one of 150 previously unplayable teams.
So, question is - would anyone want to play in this form of small to big club challenge?
I have all the leagues in place, just need to refine the leagues, so I could set up the challenge by next weekend if interest is there.
In addition, I would be willing to let a reliable member of the forums run a sign up from the database if there is interest in that.
@WW - I think it looks like a cracking idea for a challenge, another one for me to fail
Elsewhere, I urge everyone reading this to check out the Official CSE Rap in the forum group!
That sounds great WW, I'm currently involved in the Big Euro challenge but I'm certain you'd get a lot of interest there. What sort of level would the unplayable clubs be? Any egs of clubs?
The way I have structured the leagues is that for example one of the lowest playable divisions includes a league purely of lower ranked Euro nations (eg: Your San Marinos, Liechtensteins, Andorras etc), to allow them to be competitive at the very start. Now obviously over time the divisions won't stay as "pure" (for want of a better word) as what they are initially designed for due to the mix and match of promotions / relegations.
This means in theory you could have an unplayable league club with a higher rep than some playable league teams.
The one thing I want to structure if possible is that unplayable division teams are linked to the respective lowest playable divisions. Not sure if this is 100% possible, but I plan to give it a go - this would give a variety of clubs to choose from and the unplayable clubs eligible at the start of the 2nd season for each league would be more closely alligned to the club reps of the existing teams in those leagues.
WOuld like to give it a go, once my game is finally up and running properly!
Would be a really fun challenge to be involved in I think!!
It sounds great tbf WW, I'd be very keen to see it get off the ground
I've made a very less than perfect (almost fantasy like) recreation of the Spanish 5th Tier (for personal use originally) and wondered if there would be any Interest in a Andorra double challenge?
It would work something along the line of taking control of FC Andorra and trying to get them promoted to the top Tier of Spanish football eventually winning the league and then the Champions League whilst at some point taking the Andorra national job and attempting to Qualify for a major tournament. I also thought of having the optional extra of either only using Andorrans or not signing any players at all and relying on your Andorran Youth prospects.
So what do you think? Would anyone be up for the Challenge?
brettney - you'd definitely get people interested by doing that. Its basically the exact same format as the San Marino double challenge and that's always been popular
OMG, an Andorran challenge??? Count me in!!
But it could mean I'd be splitting myself between that and WW's challenge, as they're both great ideas
(For anyone that doesn't know, I relly have a thing for Andorra, it all started with the Extreme League Sign-up WW run a few years ago, but has continued on and I now regularly name teams after them in sign-ups!
I'd have a go as a small to big club challenge.So, question is - would anyone want to play in this form of small to big club challenge?
Hello, a few months ago I posted an idea for a sign up that I had.
The basic idea of this new sign up, is that 14 of you sign up, along with myself making a total of 15. Then each person is randomly allocated 1 of 15 different teams in England, Italy or Spain (the teams will be the five teams from each Nation with the highest reputation. E.G - Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal & City. Then another random allocation will place the 15 of us, into 5 groups of 3.
The idea of the sign up is to have the 5 groups of 3 all battling it out against each other to win the sign up. Each in game, game week will see the 15 teams play games in their respective leagues. The results of these games will earn their 'user' money (300 pound for a win, 100 for a draw, 0 for a loss). For example, if Arsenal win, rancer890 will get 300 pound. The money earned will then be combined with the other 2 people in your group. For example, say Arsenal win, Man City lose and Inter Milan draw. For that game week, your group has 400 pound.
The money that your group earn will then go towards getting your group around Europe quicker than the other 5 groups. I will not go into too much detail yet, but the basic concept is that you travel across Europe in your groups (this is all fictional) by spending the money that you've earned in-game.
I am posting this in here just to see if anyone else wants to reserve a place. I asked people if they wanted to reserve a place originally at the end of my previous sign up, and about 8 people did so they were all PM'ed. I also PM'ed 3 or 4 people that were posted the most in that sign up. Since I have now received all of my PM's back (or at least I think I have), I have filled 11 places. If anyone wants to reserve a place now (on a first come, first served basis) then you have until this time tomorrow. I don't know if all 4 places will have gone by then, but I know that most regular people read this thread, so I thought leaving it for 24 hours would be fairer for those in different Timezones, than leaving it open in here until around 10/11 tonight.
What do you guys think of a challenge where you take over any national team from the start of the game and try to take them to World Cup (or future competitions) glory using only players that have never been capped? Then, you can only use the players that made their debut for the national team during your reign as manager e.g. If Wilshere is given his first cap by you as England manager then he is still allowed to play for your England team for the rest of his career due to him making his deubt under your management.
Forget my idea, I have just noticed the FM10 Uncapped Challenge.
I assume that 11 is including me? Paul.
I'd be interested Paul, sounds like a good idea
Count me in as well Paul, sounds promising.
welcome aboard gentleman
2 more places up for grabs if anyone is watching with interest!
Was I included Paul?
Sounds interesting paul can you count me in please.
I'd be interested
on that basis, sign up is closed!
Awesome. Good luck with that. May give it a go at some point. Hope it's successful
Just thinking through some ideas for my next sign-up (obviously got "It Could be You... to finish first) and can't decide whether to :
(1) Re-do this but with "Races" being seasonal and going to a different league every season.
(2) Re-do it but using clubs instead of players in their own "F1 League"
(3) Re-do it exactly as it was but seriously cut down on the updates because I don't have anything like that sort of time anymore.
(4) Something else that I havent thought of yet but probably club based.
I was going to do a signup based on superleague formula. But I'm not sure how to work it. Could have a tournament at the start to decide upon the grid and pole (winner) gets money. And then the actual season is the race.
WhoopyD, I was just about to ask about the F1 sign-up, because you mentioned that it could be making a return for FM10. I reckon keeping to a similar formula to the lst version would be best, but with renaming the teams. For example, Celtic-Ferrari, Rangers-Red Bull, Dundee-Manor F1 ect.
The days of the brilliant Webber-McBob partnership, ahhhh the memories.....
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I had an idea for a challenge that seems as if it would have been done before, so I must ask . . . has there ever been a master challenge? One that sought to prove that you could find success managing in any situation?
Here are the winning conditions I had in mind:
1)Win a league title on every continent-forcing players to adapt to different football cultures and climates.
2)At least one of these titles must be a lower league (any second division or lower)-forcing players to succeed with less talent and resources.
3)Win a continental title with any club (e.g. the Champions League)-forcing players to succeed at the highest level, with the highest pressure.
4)Qualify for the World Cup OR win any international tournament with a national team from each continent-same idea as #1 but forcing players to win with the players they're given. I originally wanted WC qualifying only but that might make the length of the challenge ridiculous so I made it a bit easier.
5)Win a continental title with any national team (e.g. the African Cup of Nations).
6)Win the World Cup with any national team-the objective of the last two requirements is for the master manager to prove he can achieve the highest honors in the game.
Has anything like this been done before? I know there have been international challenges, and lots of club growth challenges, but has anyone ever tried to put it all together? This would be quite an undertaking and would require many game years of play. At the same time, though, you want to achieve quickly so you can move on to the next task.
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Anyway, the problem with that format is there's no control over where the players go so people can be disadvantaged if they move somewhere like Russia or an unplayable league which seems a bit unfair. That and massive amount of time it took to do each update. I'll have a think anyway.
To cut down on the update time, you could go with option #3 from further up the page and remove some of the content.
So . . . not a particularly exciting idea, then?
Interesting but Long
Hmm . . . bit disappointing that both my ideas went over like a sack of potatoes. Ah, well.
has anyone ever tried coming up with a signup where they sign up as managers instead of players, and see how there careers go, or am i arriving late to the party with that thought
or failling that some sort of sign up, where the players are young footballers from a country that finds itself under the control of a crazed dictatoer, who send theese footballers out into the professional world of football, to make a name for his country, but as hes crazy every year he eliminates the players with the lowest reputation?
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I've seen managers used before, but I'm not sure I've seen it done quite that way. What I mean is, the sign-up was focused on creating a team and the user would just make up their manager to go with it. I don't know that I've seen one where creating a manager was the purpose. To be honest, though, isn't that what the game itself is about? Personally, I would not have any interest in watching the progress of an AI version of myself.
There have been plenty of "national team dictator" or "super player laboratory" type ideas. BUT, yours has a very, very interesting twist. Like a combination of the Djibouti sign-up and the "It could be you . . ." sign-up. If that hasn't been done, I say go for it, because that sounds really interesting.
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just created my own database, its based on WW's idea of Super League but mine is based on reputation and with an added twist. Ive based mine on the British Virgin Island, adding 4 leagues, World League 1, World League 2, World Leage 3 - A,B,C,D and World League 4 - A,B,C,D. With 4 Cups, BVI Super Cup with all leagues in it, BVI Upper Cup WL1 and WL2, BVI Lower Cup WL3 and WL4, BVI Winners Cup winner of BVI Upper Cup against Winner of BVI Lower Cup. The idea of this sign-up is take an added team; BVI FC who is a team full of BVI internationals only, to glory by winning all 4 cups and winning all 4 leagues, this could take you at least 4 seasons but you can only use BVI Internationals, with second nationality BVI being allowed
Kenco, you and minisav are right on about the length of the challenge. I do see that as the major hinderance, as it would require quite a lengthy game save to pull off. Any ideas on how I could make it more managable while retaining the intent and uniqueness of the challenge?
Also, as far as ideas going bad, my impression is that there there is only a small percentage of the CSE crowd that visits this thread unless their trying to sell an idea. So the feedback from here may not reflect how well the idea may go over on the full board.
No idea how to sort it.
Your main problem is the fact that long challenges are normally beaten by the ones that are there such as the small club to big club or the Double challenges.
And you're right that not many people do come into this thread. Normally see this thread as a way to iron out any problems before you post it/get some kind of interest.
I just had an idea for an experiment and was wondering if anyone would be interested.
Basically, my plan is to use the transfer embargo edt file to enforce a transfer embargo on every team in the Football League & Premiership that would end in 2020 (Just an example date) and then holiday to see how the AI reacts. e.g. If teams spent their spare money on youth facilities or not, how the premier league clubs would cope in Europe etc.
I would then do yearly updates with a a little bit of information on each team such as promising regens etc and also track the fortunes of the England team.
Its just a brief idea so far and I'm open for suggestions on how to improve it.
That sounds awesome. I'd love to see that?
A very original, yet effective idea. I really like it!


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I'm not aware of a solution in Spotlight with(-out) tinkering.
It certainly would add a lot of "trouble" to users with HDD as the the amount of file to index will be too much - hey, after all it's the
Quicksilver allows to index user defined directories in Preferences → Catalog. You can then define the dept to which you want to descend. Optionally, you can even descend in bundles!
Though I'm not entirely sure about Spotlight, Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com/) is an incredible app I've come to wonder how I ever lived without. You can bind it to Spotlight's default keybind (Command-Space) and set it to search your entire system.
It may not be exactly what you're looking for, but you can access the backend database of Spotlight directly from the command line with the mdfind command.
There's also Find Any File, which doesn't seem to use indexing, but rather does a full disk search, so expect it to be much slower, but not limited by Spotlight/mdfind's exclusions.


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I want to branch an open source package and develop a new branch of package alternatively.
The package is in quilt format and need to use dquilt for update but i don't want to use it for my branch development.
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Hot Rod Top Speed ChallengeWritten by Brandan Gillogly on August 14, 2013 The Mile-High Club
The standing mile. It's a simple premise, one that's caught on big lately: From a stop, you accelerate your car to the fastest top speed possible before the 132-foot timing traps at the end of a single mile. It's a great high, and the East Coast Timing Association has been dealing it since 1994 at Moultrie, Georgia (briefly), and Maxton, North Carolina (from 1995–2011). After losing the Maxton venue, the ECTA kicked off races at the Airpark in Wilmington, Ohio, in 2012 and hasn't looked back, with participation numbers soaring.
The ECTA season opener is the site of the HOT ROD Top Speed Challenge each year, and this one went down on the weekend of April 28. Like it did in 2012, the buzzkill of rain loomed, but everything went by the schedule on Saturday, and the 175 pre-registered cars logged 250 passes. Sunday morning brought rain, and pit vehicles hit the runway to make laps on the course and help it dry out. It turns out that a Mazda 3 Sport rental car makes for a mighty fine track dryer. Racing got underway again, and after a lunchtime rain delay, racing was back on until the scheduled close. Because many racers were either satisfied with their Saturday performance or they banked on being rained out all day, the twin lines for the start were shorter on Sunday and many racers got to make three to five passes.
Because the ECTA started a new record book after moving from Maxton to Wilmington, many of the cars that ran were the first in their class to record a run, which meant they were the record holders by default. Of the 100-plus records charted during the weekend, 43 were of the first-run sort, and some records didn't last the weekend. For complete event results, visit www.ecta-lsr.com.
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Rick Lind's Torino Talladega set a new C/Classic Gas Altered record at 196.42, beating the previous record of 195.511.The scariest moment at this year's Wilmington opener came on the fifth run of the weekend. Dean Sabatinelli crossed the traps at 230 mph while taking on the APS/G-1650/4 motorcycle record and suffered a brake-handle failure. Once he used up the 3,500 feet of shutdown area, he had to avoid an area riddled with light posts, so he took to the grass. Dean was fine, and his '03 Hayabusa looks OK, considering. If it's any consolation, Dean upped the class record by more than 35 mph.Just half an hour after Dean Sabatinelli's incident, Ron San Giovani set the record for XF/Blown Gas Lakesters at 171.89 mph—then spun his belly tanker into the grass.ECTA Board Member Keith Turk and Ron look on at the car, which drove off the grass under its own power and ran 170 mph later in the weekend.The water-dissipating grooves in the concrete surface make tires howl, so things sound fast even off the line. Here's a size 13 boot for reference.The 9,000-foot runway of the former DHL shipping hub gives racers a relatively smooth path to test their vehicle's mettle. Each run begins after a track official ensures that the rear tires are past the black starting line. No head starts allowed.Ronald Keselowski, uncle of NASCAR driver Brad, earned his entrance to the ECTA 200 MPH club with a 216.240-mph pass on his second run of the weekend. There is no class for them in the SCTA, but former NASCAR cars can compete in the Gas Circle Track class at ECTA events. HOT RODThis real-deal '69 Torino Talladega belongs to Chris Grote. He drove it to the event and ran a best of 130.59 mph.
The Top Speed Challenge is a HOT ROD award for the drivers of the fastest street-legal cars at the ECTA's opening weekend. There are two classes: Real Street is for single-carb, non-boosted cars, and Super Street is for multicarb, blown, or injected cars. HOT ROD Drag Week™ veteran Eric Yost piloted the Dirty Bird to 230.89 mph in Blown Gas Super Street, making it the fastest vehicle at the event, narrowly beating Dean Sabatinelli's 230.77 run on a Suzuki Hayabusa. Yost ran this same car in 2010 and ran a killer 241.408 mph—pretty amazing for a legit street car that has also won Pro Street classes at Drag Week™!The Sloan Boys Racing '03 Saturn Ion Coupe is a street-driven, rear-wheel-drive, turbo-LS-powered monster. Jim Sloan tried to beat his own Ohio record of 206.32, set last September, but couldn't break the 200-mph mark this time out, running 193.38.In case you weren't sure how important aerodynamics is in land-speed racing: With the fairing on, the APS/PG-350/4 motorcycle of Tim Cyrus and Matt DeFever ran 116.49 mph. With the fairing off, the bike ran in the A/PG-350/4 class at 92.44 mph.In case you weren't sure how important aerodynamics is in land-speed racing: With the fairing on, the APS/PG-350/4 motorcycle of Tim Cyrus and Matt DeFever ran 116.49 mph. With the fairing off, the bike ran in the A/PG-350/4 class at 92.44 mph.Jody Perewitz was trying to beat her own APS/PBF-1650/4 record of 184.977 mph, but a broken voltage regulator bracket killed the engine on the shift to Fifth gear during her first run. The blown R&R Cycles 100ci V-twin was tuned by Dan Thayer and makes 233 hp and 196 lb-ft of torque.


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This is a book drive that collects book donations to raise money for the Alternative Breaks scholarship fund. There are collection bins located throughout campus that are just begging to be filled with gently used books! The books will go towards foundations such as Invisible Children, World Fund, and Books for Africa.
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Christmas is past and it's back to business as usual for most folks this week, or is it? The telephones have been strangely quiet here at the Nevada Daily Mail this morning and so has the police scanner.
An earlier trip to the courthouse showed very little activity on the Square and parking would not be a problem if you had business in the courthouse.
Even the inside of the building seemed a bit quiet. Some of the staff, it seems, has taken some of their vacation time to extend their holiday.
Such is life in small town America. That is part of the allure of living in a rural community. Any major city will be hustling and bustling right now, but towns like Nevada slow down and enjoy this season of the year.
We spend more time with our families. We eat more meals together, we watch football together. Kids play with each other better but they will always argue over the others' toys.
By the end of the week most of the new will be worn off the new gifts and everyone will be looking forward to the New Year's celebration. In some cases, departing family members will not be missed. In other cases, damaged relationships will have been repaired. That's just the way of things.
The one thing that remains constant this time of year is the generosity of the Vernon County Community. As a reporter, I get to see much of the goodness of our community firsthand. The annual food giveaway at the armory, the Salvation Army bell ringers, the Teen Angel program, the VCAD toy drive, holiday meals at the American Legion, secret Santas paying off layaway debts and other community events confirm that Nevada is a great place to live and that the people here care about each other.
I am proud to be part of this community and see that giving to one's fellow man is not a thing of the past. With all of the negative things that go on in the world, it is nice to know that small town America, towns like Nevada, still has some of those core values that are valued so highly and help to tie us together as a community.
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OK, up first is Smallville and boy, they give us the goods as Clark finally becomes who he's supposed to be, and he does it in spectacular fashion! All kinds of people stop by for the finale, including Lex, who is as rotten and horrible as ever (but still incredibly well dressed). I think they tried to put too much into a two hour episode as Darkseid didn't get quite the battle and send off I was hoping for, nor did the whole Omega/everybody gets evil thing get resolved the way I wanted, but we do get the coolest shot of Welling at the end. I'll give it an A-.
Then I just finished up one truly riveting hour of Castle, where much of the mystery surrounding Beckett's mother's death is resolved, plus we get a courtroom shootout, a traitor revealed, a great deal of their relationship is thrown on the table and one incredibly cruel cliffhanger which I will punch creator Andrew Marlowe for if I ever meet him. September is too damn far away!!!!!!
Last week saw the finale and end of Outsourced, which had become a favorite, but we're treated to a great finish as Todd and Asha finally start to figure things out and Rajiv manages to get married without too many things going wrong, other than his bride and her father walking in on the bachelor party, which is not a part of the standard Indian wedding and some good laughs are had. Also said goodbye to Better With You as they comically try to get married as Mia has the baby, including kidnapping a judge in for surgery ("Are you really a plainclothes nurse, or is there even such a thing?") to perform the ceremony as chaos ensues. They might have cancelled it, however, I'll never miss anything that Jennifer Finnigan is in EVER, and I'll stand by my prediction of Jake Lacey becoming a star, the guy has too much charisma and charm to not be, it's just a matter of finding the right role for him.


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While there is a vast amount of literature available on Iraqi operations, until now little has been written about the counterinsurgency and stabilization operations in Afghanistan. With this book, a Canadian military historian, who has observed field operations in Afghanistan since 2003, offers a clear view of what is happening in that country. It is the first to look at units unknown to most Americans—the provincial reconstruction teams, the embedded training teams, the strategic advisory team, among others—that helped the Afghan people establish a government. Working shoulder to shoulder with Afghans at all levels of society and at great personal risk, these international teams, the author argues, helped stave off a civil war and prevented the insurgents from exploiting the chaos.
Dr. Maloney observed the efforts of these teams as they unfolded in 2004 and 2005. His personal story takes readers on a journey from Badkashan province, the exotic and poppy-laden land in the north; to Kabul, the intrigued-filled capital; to Kandahar province in the south, where the threat of IED attacks was a daily occurrence. His astute observations about this international effort and how the Taliban has evolved are certain to help readers better understand the situation in Afghanistan today. His book is the first to provide details about how the reconstruction teams were organized, how they worked, and the problems they encountered while attempting to stabilize the provinces. Maloney argues that the war in Afghanistan is unique and the country and its people, as well as its insurgents, must be taken on their own terms, not in relationship to the American experience in Iraq, Vietnam, or any other conflict.
Sean M. Maloney is the Historical Advisor to the Canadian Army's Chief of the Land Staff and is an Associate Professor of History at Royal Military College of Canada. He served in Germany as the historian for 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade, Canada's Cold War NATO commitment in Europe. He has extensive research experience in the Balkans, Middle East, and particularly in Afghanistan where he has observed counterinsurgency operations in the field since 2003. He holds a Ph.D. from Temple University and is the author of nine books, including the controversial Canada and UN Peacekeeping: Cold War by Other Meansand Learning to Love the Bomb: Canadian Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War. He lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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"Stabilization, nation building, and state formation are enormously difficult undertakings, and Sean Maloney demonstrates the complexity of these challenges well in Confronting the Chaos…The informed public and those interested in counterinsurgency and development doctrine will find the book useful as well. Maloney makes what is in some ways doctrinal analysis not only readable but also entertaining by structuring the book "as a travelogue"… His writing style is more like that of a journalist who really understands what he sees than it is of a conventional historian who strives for four-decimal-place precision. Maloney tells stories, recounts interviews, passes on observations, and more than once stops to analyze and explain the complexity of what he has seen. Confronting the Chaos is a welcome addition to current accounts of the effort to wage a successful campaign in Afghanistan."
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After replacing the harddisk drive in MacBook Pro with a Solid State Disk I am wondering which settings I should change and how.
Thinking of things that are supposed to protect the SSD like
- enabling TRIM support
- disabling suspend to disk
- disabling the shock sensor (if no standard harddrive is used anymore - does that make sense at all?)
Update: Upgrading to a SSD is just the best decision - totally different, much better experience with the MBP.