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I bought an iPhone 4 in France. When moving to Belgium, I've put a belgian SIM card but I noticed that the phone is SIMLOCKED. I contacted the person who sold it to me and explained everything. He proposed me to contact Orange France to UNLOCK the iPhone.
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Genna Riggi and Anthony Rinaldi come from large Italian-American families, and it seemed like they knew someone everywhere they went. It was therefore tricky to keep their budding romance a secret for almost a year.
Their love was not forbidden by any means — their families were friendly. Anthony's best friend was Genna's cousin and Anthony was a frequent guest at Sunday dinners at Genna's grandmother's, who lived on Anthony's street.
The catch was that Anthony is seven years older than Genna. When they started to date in 2005, she was still in high school. Genna's father wanted her to focus on college, not a guy. So it was with some trepidation that Genna broke the news to her parents. Her father asked Anthony to meet him in the parking lot at Municipal Stadium for a talk.
Upon arrival, Genna's father apologized and said he should have invited Anthony to the family home instead.
"What, so your wife can stab me with a butter knife?" Anthony, now 31, quipped.
They had an amicable conversation and it was clear to Genna's father that Anthony would not stand in the way of Genna's education.
"When we started dating, I told her, 'I want to marry you, but I want you to finish school first,'" Anthony said.
Technically, it was her father who invited Anthony into the family's home. Before he became a Hartford police officer, Anthony was a plumber and Genna's dad hired him to help refinish the basement.
After spending more time together, Genna and Anthony began to talk on the phone. At first, they were just friends.
But Genna remembers one specific conversation when she realized the relationship meant more.
"We were talking about what kind of house we would want, what kind of family ... and we weren't even dating," Genna, now 24, said. "I was talking to him on my cellphone while I sat outside the Carvel store where my friend worked. I just had this weird feeling, and went inside after and told her, 'I'm going to marry him.'"
Anthony also knew early on that there was something different about Genna.
"I had dated other girls, but I just never really cared. I realized I'd never been in love. You don't know what love is, and then you do," Anthony said.
Genna attended the University of Hartford. By then, Anthony was a police officer in the city. She spent a semester in Italy, which both say was a test of their relationship.
Anthony proposed a week before Genna's college graduation in 2010. He popped the question at a birthday party for himself, completely catching her off guard.
He hid the ring in a box of Italian cookies, and asked Genna if she could help him carry the tray out to the guests.
Genna's mother, unaware of his exact plan, leapt up and said, "Why do you need her help?"
When she approached the platter, she covered her mouth and backed up. Genna didn't notice, and by the time she made it to the cookies, Anthony was on his knee.
"I was in shock and couldn't believe it," Genna said.
Because she wanted to complete her master's in art therapy next, they decided on a two-year engagement. They married Aug. 11 at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Waterbury before 325 friends and family members. The reception was at the Grand Oak Villa in the Oakville section of Watertown. They took a 12-day honeymoon to Hawaii, which was their first trip together alone.
They purchased land in Oakville and expect to break ground on their home this spring. She will complete her master's in May and hopes to find an art therapy job in a school.
"We have so much to look forward to ... building our home and having kids," Genna said.
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I'm using the Basilisk, which has a teleporter and boarding drone, but no weapons. How can I manage AI (crew-less) ships? So far I've been teleporting my crew there and back, slowly chipping away their hull by destroying newly-repaired systems, until they only have one hull point left, at which point I activate a boarding drone and hope that it doesn't hit an empty room. If it does, I just jump away. Is there a better strategy?
Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. Jump away if you find an AI ship and try to find a weapon ASAP.
You can destroy AI ships with only a crew teleporter. The key to that are the following facts:
If you teleport crew into an AI ship, they will start suffocating immediately because there is no atmosphere. However, as mentioned, you can save them before they actually die, either from teleporting them back, or by using the "healing bomb" (it can miss, so have a level 2 teleporter ready just in case). Until you have to recall them, they can deal system damage. Heal your boarding crew and repeat until the system is destroyed and the enemy ship suffers damage. While you wait for the repair to happen, rotate through the other rooms. Always attack the most recently repaired system, because it takes the least time to destroy again. That way, you should be able to destroy an AI ship with only boarding crews.
For finishing off the last point of hull damage, you can either sacrifice 1 crew member, or use a boarding drone. Note however that a boarding drone cannot die to suffocation and thus cannot be re-deployed in an AI ship, so you must not use it before dealing that last point of damage.
Obviously, the AI ship can still damage you in return, and it will take a LONG time to destroy it that way, so it's most likely not worth bothering. But it is very much possible in principle.
In Advanced Edition, simply get a Clone Bay and deal the last point of damage with a skill-less suicide crew member. Even better - use that one suicidal crew member to ram into the systems even with L1 teleporters!
As a side note: not every AI has split-room design; some actually have connected rooms, in which case simply deploying a Boarding Drone and waiting for a while is sufficient to defeat the enemy. Also, bear in mind that if you encounter an AI at a beacon with a solar flare danger, you can usually just wait till the fire burns through his hull (even AI can suffer damage from fire - it's just that they will disappear shortly after appearing on them).


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Discussion in 'Fantasy / Horror' started by cgw, Nov 1, 2012.
Curious about a generational question:
Lost the question there somewhere.
Anyway ... I was born before 1972, and before I got around to Tolkein in about 1975 or '76, I was reading Arthur Machen, H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson. And I think you'll find there's a subset of people born pre-1972 whose entry to fantasy was through magazine fantasy/horror: Weird Tales (Lovecraft, C. A. Smith, Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, early Bradbury, etc.), Unknown (Anthony Boucher, Heinlein, Sturgeon, Leiber, Fred Brown, Fritz Leiber, etc.), or The Magazine of Fantasy and S.F. (Poul Anderson, Leiber, Sturgeon, Avram Davidson, etc.). Admittedly the crowd who read WT and Unknown on initial publication is thinning rapidly, still a lot of the work from those magazines was being republished in mass market paperbacks from the 1950s into the 1980s: Conjure Wife, Darker than You Think, and collections of stories drawn exclusively from each magazine.
Then there was the mid-1960s surge of popularity for Sword & Sorcery when the Robert E. Howard collections with the FrankFrazetta (sp?) covers started showing up.
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I was born in 1972 and thus am apparently excluded from this poll.
Screw it, I'm voting anyway. First fantasy was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
After 72 and my first was also The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. But if we're talking adult sized novels, it was The Eye of the World followed closely by The Hobbit.
Born 82 and only just attempting my first LOTR read through now.
My theory is that a greater percentage of over 40 will have read The Hobbit first because starting in the 80's there seems to be a larger selection that people may start with (e.g. Belgariad, Wheel of Time, etc). Just a theory. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe may upset my theory a little (if YA counts, assuming it is YA, I never read it)
Born in 93 and first fantasy book was Wizard's First Rule.
Born in 1968 and my first fantasy was Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
Born in 78 and my first fantasy was NOTHING like LOTR, "The Sword Of Shannara"
Born in '68... The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe... et al...
Ok I was born before 72 and I had to read the Hobbit in school. Now I don't really consider that my first fantasy since it was assignment, but I suppose it was, and I hated it at the time. As an adult I just started reading fantasy about 10-12 years ago. David Eddings and the Belgaraid were my first choices, and I have been hooked ever since. Of course I've moved on to more adult stuff, but as an adult I read the Hobbit again, and still didn't care for it. Love the story, hate the writing. Never could get into LOTR either. Loved the movies, just as I am looking forward to the new Hobbit one, but really didn't care for the books.
Ditto Obtuse's answer. In fact, I was born on the exact middle day of 1972, so I can't even use that cutoff to decide whether to pick "before" or "after." I was born in the afternoon, so I guess I'll pick "after." Also, it makes me feel younger.
Anyway, Narnia was my first...but The Hobbit came very shortly thereafter.
So far a statistical dead heat. The only solid information I have gleaned so far is that people born in 1972 read Narnia first.
It would be interesting to see how many people kept reading fantasy after starting with YA fantasy (as oppposed to really starting as an adult). Does the number rise after the advent of Harry Pottter? As a youth I read a lot of Edgar Rice Burroughs and similar but that did not translate into more (regular) fantasy. In high school I read a lot of Vonnegut but to this day I do not consider it SF. I did not really start untill I was 20 in college and picked up the Hobbit (and Dune).
'71 and The Hobbit during reading time in the third grade with Mrs. Barruzzi. Somewhere around the same time, my uncle gave me a box-set of The Chronicles of Narnia. Later, in the fifth grade, read the various Prydain Chronicles.
Hobbit, absolutely was the first.I want to say it was 75 or 76
Born after 1972
Ok born after 1972 and the first fantasy book I've read, you know I really can't remember, I didn't start reading fantasy until after high school.
Born after 72 and I can't quite recall if I read "The Magician's Nephew" or Susan Cooper's "Over Sea, Under Stone" first. It was somewhere when I was 8-10 years old anyway. Then I mostly read YA horror for a couple of years before LoTR entered around when I was 12-13 and changed what I looked for at the library.
Born in 1966 and I'm pretty dang sure The Hobbit was the first fantasy book I ever read. I think it was in 8th grade. Robert Heinlein was the very first author I ever read, though.
Born in 1975, as best I can recall my first book was A Wrinkle In Time (maybe third or fourth grade). Shortly there after was Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Then lost interest in the genre until high school when I was introduced to the Dragonlance Chronicles. Been building on it since then.
Born in 78, not positive about my answer as I read a ton as a kid and that was a long time ago. I know my dad read Narnia to me when I was younger, that was probably my first intro to fantasy. On my own may have been the Lloyd Alexander stuff, at least as far as traditional fantasy goes, though I couldn't say for sure. Do the Choose Your Own Adventure books count as fantasy?
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I am trying to optimize a function of the following form:
$L = \int_{t=0}^{T}(AR-x)dt$, where A is a system parameter
i.e. I am trying to find the optimum x(t) that minimizes L over all admissible x(t)s. R is related to x using a relation:
$\frac{dR}{dt} = axRY - bR$, where a and b are system parameters and $R(0) = R_{0}$
$\frac{dY}{dt} = -xRY$
I was looking at this problem from mainly a simulation perspective. There is a whole amount of work that went into showing that x can take only two specific values that minimize the function over any given interval. Now, what I was thinking was to convert the integral into its discrete formulation and do the following:
For $t=1$, Let $x = x_{min}$ and calculate $L_{10}$ Let $x = x_{max}$ and calculate $L_{11}$ Finally, choose the one that has the min L.
And then continue with t=2 and so on, in the same way. If I visualize this problem, it is nothing but finding a minimum cost path in a binary tree i.e. something of the following form:
and so on until the last T. I am not sure if my thought process of simulating this is in the right direction. Can someone give me some suggestions?


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STEUBENVILLE — Ohio Sen. Lou Gentile wants Ohio General Assembly members to support proposed federal legislation aimed at protecting coal miners' pension benefits....
It's called consequences...UMWA thought they could survive and destroy the Company at the same time....now the money is gone and there are no new funds to sustain the Union's promises...like we'll protect you from the big bad coal company...forever
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March 5, 2013 -- A new study adds yet more evidence that the decline in physical activity is contributing to the rise in obesity in the U.S. This study, however, is bound to cause some controversy, as researchers found the increase in obesity in women is tied to a falloff in the amount of housework they currently do compared with days gone by.
Published in PLoS One, the study shows that women were doing far less housework in 2010 than they were in 1965, and this has led to burning about 360 less calories per day. In 1965, women cooked, cleaned, and did laundry, among other household work, an average of 26 hours per week. In 2010, the amount of time spent doing the same work declined to 13 hours per week.
The researchers stress, though, that they are not suggesting women, or men, do more housework. Instead, the results should get people to think about how much energy they use throughout the day and also get policymakers to think about addressing the "calories out" aspect of obesity and the energy equation.
"Our results show that we have engineered physical activity out of the workplace, out of the home, and out of our daily commute," says researcher Edward Archer, MD, of the University of South Carolina in Columbia, "and this has severe and dramatic consequences for our health. We need to find a way of reintegrating that activity to make up for the [decrease] in calories expended."
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The amount of energy used in household management declined 42% for non-employed women, down from 6,004 calories burned per week in 1965 to 3,486 calories burned per week in 2010 -- a weekly reduction of 2,518 calories.
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I am 6.2 feet tall, and I have a mountain bike that is 17 inches long. I know it looks bit small for me, but will I hurt myself by riding this bicycle? What should be the preferred bicycle length for someone my height?
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That does seem small for your height. Are you hunched over while riding? Does your leg stay fairly bent all the way through your pedal stroke? Are you comfortable after riding for a few hours?
The preferred bicycle size depends on more than just your height, and is best figured out by going into a bike shop, getting some help from the staff, and trying out a few bikes.
Ideally: You want to have the seat up high enough that at the bottom of your pedal stroke, your leg is just slightly bent, similar to how your leg naturally works when you walk. You want to be able to bend forward at the waist a comfortable amount that you could hold for hours, put your hands forward into a natural-feeling position, and have the handlebars right there. You don't want to have to 'reach' for the pedals. You don't want to have your knees bent too much. You don't want to be hunched over. You don't want to be stretched out. You don't want to be leaning on the handlebars. You want to be comfortable.
It's not just your height that affects what size bike you want. It's how long your legs are, how long your torso is, how long your arms are, how flexible you are, and how much core strength you have.
2 people that are both 6'2" may have very different proportions (long legs with short torso, short legs with long torso, or anything in between) have different sizing needs.
Generally, bike size affects both how long the bike is (from headset to where the seatpost goes), and how tall the bike is (from pedals to where the seatpost goes). Both go together.
There are 3 contact points: pedals, saddle and handlebars. You can't really move the pedals, except to get slightly different length crankarms. However, you can get a longer seatpost, seatposts with different amount of setback, and you can move the saddle around a fair bit. You can also get different stems and different handlebars to move the handlebars around quite a bit. All that means that for a bicycle that's only a couple sizes too small, you can probably still adjust it to give you a reasonable fit.
With an MTB that's ridden off-road, you may want a frame that's a touch small, so that when you fall with the bike between your legs, your feet can hit the ground well before your crotch hits the top tube.
In other words: can you get the fit right on this bike? If it feels good to ride for hours and doesn't give you any pain, it's probably fine...


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Your progress has been immense! Great loyalty and perserverance Jack. Are you still enjoying the save? I'd imagine the journey to the top is more exciting than trying to remain there... And I say I'd imagine because I'm yet to achieve much in my FM career lol.
yeh it was hard to reject United when they offered me the job. I am enjoying the save more than ever. after spending so much money im trying to now use my own resources at the club to hopefully move forward, Unless i need to spend money if the right player becomes available. I want to try and become the most succesful club domestically and in europe so that should let me prolong it.
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Southampton win back to back Club World Championships
After winning last years competition we went into this one full of confidence as the teams you face aint exactly brilliant are they. However we played Boca Juniors in the final and we showed our gulf as we ran out 6-2 winners with Leo Werdens helping himself to a hat trick.
4 more needed to equal Barcelonas record of 6 wins in the competition
..Also reached 500th game against Wolves recently.
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My Chairman has decided he now wants to sell club which is a shame as he has certainly backed me all the way.
Congrats on reaching 500 games mate and great win v Boca. Hopefully I can have as much success as you with Ipswich Town. Currently 3rd in the Championship in season 1.
fingers crossed for you mate. Ipswich just got relegated from Prem but are currently in 2nd place in championship with not many games to go. If you can keep Wickham you should be okay.
Well done on the CWC win. You hoping on a tycoon takeover? Hopefully they don't decide to install their own manager!
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Kept my job and was offered a 1 year extension to my 4 year contract worth £60k p/w...
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As you can see we demolished the league which seems to be getting easier. We scored goals and kept them out aswell with the best goals for and goals against record in the whole division. We lost 2 games all season and drew only 5 so maybe next season il try and go unbeaten. We also reached a huge 100 points aswell winning by a margin of 15 points. Arsenal seemed to struggle this year aswell finishing 10th so missing out on Europe. Newcastle went down with Hull and Blackpool.
Cup competitions
Again we dominated in Europe but fell at the last hurdle as we were knocked out in the Semi Final by League Runners up Man City who would face Manchester United in the final. We defeated Lyon and Bordauex on route to the Semi. We also reached the FA Cup Semi Final also but old boy Lukaku came back to haunt me with 2 goals in a 3-1 win to knock us out. We had an easy route to the semi defeating Coventry, Pompey, Stoke and Norwich on the way. However we played awful in the Semi final. Leagye cup we went out on pens to Chelsea in the 4th round.
Not much to write about as we sign Centre back Peter Choyo from Arsenal for £7.25 mil and AML youngster Evan Poiret for £1.3 million saw me spend less than £10million. Also sold a few fringe/reserve players bringing in around £14mill so probably the first season ive made a profit in the transfer window.
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Manchester United 2-3 Southampton
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Still some way of beating Manchester Uniteds total wins of 16
Southampton crash in 3rd round League Cup
With Ripper resting his whole first 11 it was left to the fringe players in the League Cup once again and with Man city in there way. In a match with so much attacking flair it surely didn't disapoint as 3 goals each took us into extra time. We did have to come from 3-1 down to force extra time and my players started looking tired but a goal from City's Alexis Sanchez knocked us out as as we lost 4-3. It didnt bother me much as less fixtures meant i could concentrate on Europe but less games for my fringe players who will more than likely play in the FA Cup.
After 2 games in charge of the dutch national team my home country England came calling and well it was to hard to refuse, So i now plan my assault on qualifying for the upcoming World Cup.
Glad you kept your job! Another great season to justify keeping you on too
Will be interesting to see how you get on with England
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Stoke City 0-5 Southampton
After knocking out Wigan, Cardiff, Wolves and Birmingham we faced Man city in a close affair in the semi final. A 2-1 win saw us reach Wembley were we would face Stoke. Stoke have been struggling in the league and to make matters worse they sacked there manager around 2 weeks before the final. I fielded a youthful first 11 and we ran over them by scoring 5 unanswered goals. Goals from Demin, Chamberlian, Benitez, Baldini and bolina saw us win the FA Cup for the 2nd time since i arrived at the club.
I have also now entered the European hall of fame in 19th position...
Adding the FA Cup we also managed to win the league but it was trickier than it looked with 3 games to go i only had a 3 point lead but we won our 3 remaining games to bring my 5th Premier League title in a row home to St Marys. We certianly didnt have the best defence record which was a shame but goals it what we do. We scored a whopping 129 goals which could be a league record but not to sure yet.
My squad performed sensational even my fringe players when they stepped in. Pastore showed no sign of age now hes the wrong side of 30 with goals all season and assists to but a specialmention has to go to Werdens who smashed in 46 goals in 47 games. Elsewhere Medina from the wing hit over 20 goals aswell.
Finger nails are bitten down after this sensational Champions League final. People are calling it the best ever final the European stage has ever seen with both teams going straight for the attack. The game went into extra time after a mammoth first 90 mins saw the game finish 3-3. I thought it was over when Man City scored in the first half of extra time but 2 goals in reply saw us win the Champions League for the 3rd time. Ive never been so nervous watching a game on fm but all i can say is phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!
Nice one, 140k wow.
140k? Damn you thats bigger than my stadium
i honestly have no idea why its so big it seems a bit unrealistic but i cant complain...even if i fill half of it the money will be good. We currently have a 55k capacity and fill 98 per cent of that
Ambitious chairman by the sounds of it
When did England lose a CL slot? No doubt it'll be back to four after an all English final.
England Confedirations Cup
With this competition not really top priority i decided to pick a lot of youngsters and got rid of the established stars who were approaching 30 or over. I did keep Wayne Rooney cosindering he was captian at the ripe old age of 34. The group stages would always see us finish in top 2 with us fighting for Spain for top spot. With 2 wins out against New Zealand and Cameroon we went into the Spain game full of confidence and a 2-1 win against Spain saw us move into the Semi finals where we would face USA. A few changes were made due to tiredness which is understandable especially at the end of a gruelling season. We would then face Spain in the final. My players back sort of fresh helped as we scored the only goal of the game to win the Confedirations Cup.
Southampton F.C 2021/22
With the news the new stadium would be built in 2 years time i virtually holidayed the league campaign in a rush to get there and well unfortunatly it bit me in the ass as we finished runners up for the first time in 5 years. Even though we scored the most goals again we fell 4 points behind eventual winners Man City. England regained its place in europe aswell after the all english final last season in the Champions League.
Euro Super Cup
We would play fellow English club Tottenham in the Euro Super cup and i decided to play a few youngsters and we won the game with the only goal when Demin scored as we retained the trophy. We also won the World Club Championship after beating Los Angeles after extra time 3-1
Champions League
After winning every group game with ease i felt confident going into the knock out stages but our form then started to seem to dip as every game became a sort of struggle. Maybe it was expected as we know Champions league games are never easy but with the squad we have now we should be dominating Europe. We struggled against Werder Bremen. then against Sevilla in the Quarter final where we then would head to Milan in the Semi final. After winning the home game 2-1 all we had to do was stop them scoring at home or atleast we needed to grab a goal at the San Siro. We were stagnante all game and didnt even muster any chances despite Milan scoring in the 9th minute we failed to get the goal we needed to send us to another final. We went out on Away goals. Disapointed.
Domestic Cups
We won the domestic treble after beating Man city 2-1 in the community shield. We also won the League cup after beating teams like Blackburn, Fulham, Wolves and Man city in the Semi Final. We travelled to Wembley favourites against Wigan who reached the final for the first time since losing 4-0 to Manchester United those years ago. Again Wigan conceded 4 goals as we ran riot and showed our strength indepth as we put out mainly a reserve team. We also managed to return to Wembley again in the FA Cup final where we would face another suprise finalist this time in Wolves. We knocked out Manchester United and Arsenal plus Newcastle on rout to the final. I fielded my strongest first team and again we dominated the final scoring 5 goals with Wolves scoring 2. So we could say we won the treble even if it didnt involve the League or Champs league in that equation.
Summer Signing
With Neymar approaching 30 i decided to move in on his replacement and well with not much quality around for my left wing i splashed £34million on 22 year old Mauro diaz from Spanish club villareal. His overall value was around £17mil but he had a Min fee release clause of £34mil so instead of beating around the bush i met the fee release clause to get the transfer done straight away. I may have paid over the odds a little but i managed to bring my man to the club. I now am happy that i have a brilliant player to take over the left wing role by Neymar.
Next Season
With Pastore approaching 32 im debating wether now to ease him out the team as he doesnt really fit my policy at the club but he still performs amazing for me so maybe we will see. He may have lost some of his pace but that is expected and well he is still showing his class at 32. so who knows.........
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England World Cup Qualifying Campaign
We were given a relatively easy group to qualify for the World Cup and despite me dropping most of the senior players and bringing in the talented youngsters of the nation we didnt seem phased at all as we virtually won ever game with us drawing one against Austria. so we now travel to the world Cup which is this summer so hopefully i can lift the gloom off the nation and bring us a trophy home.
here are a few key English players.
Latest news
England crash out of World Cup qaurter final after losing 3-2 against Argentina. Argentina went on to win the torunament after a 1-0 win over Italy in the final. But it was England overall performance that led to the shock decision that ripper handed in his resignation. After there opening 0-0 draw with Croatia, England then struggled against Iraq and Paraguay to scrape through the group stages. We then played Uruagauy and a win over them saw us go into the qaurters against Argentina.
Ripper stated he wanted to concentrate solely on club management for the time being.
Southampton F.C 2022/23
End of season update in pics.....
Once again we finished runners up in the Premier League with Man city now winning it two times in a row. Manchester United also put up a fight with us and them finishing 2nd and 3rd by goal difference only. It was pretty the same as last season as we Won the FA Cup final against Man utd but they got there revenge by beating us in the League Cup final. We also got back on track in Europe as we won the Champs league for the 4th time. Most of the season was holidayed.
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How long does it take you to complete a season Jack?
It didnt take me long today because i am baby and missus free so i just cracked on with it. I did holiday most league games though so it probably helped the speed( thats how desperate i am to move into new stadium lol). Plus i got a good pc but only english leagues loaded for this save as i know im not going to manage abroad and just stay with Southampton.
Oh I see. Must be really cool having a new stadium built. Not got that far into the game myself yet. Congrats on the previous season, not winning the Premier League is not such a big deal if you achieve a European and FA Cup double. Good luck next season.
yeh cant wait to move into it to be honest. Yeh winning the champs league softened the blow but two years on the trot we havent won it so i want to win it this season hopefully.
im in 2023 and just had message saying reloaction to new stadium is complete but on board room it shows completion not until 2024 so not sure lol
ok so played my first match at home and it ws in new stadium and i filled 104k seats surely thats abit unrealistic?
Saints win World Club Championship
After defeating Nagoya stolz in the semi final we would meat last years runner up America (mex) in the final. We dominated the game but were sloppy sometimes as we were caught on the break twice to conceded 2 goals. However the win was never in doubt despite the slip ups and goals from Chamberlain, Martinez,Baldini and Choto took us onto our 4th time of winning this. 8 more to catch most winners Barcelona who are currently on 12.
Unbeatable Saints
We have now broken a club record with us now going 48 games undefeated and still rolling on. I didnt even realise we were on such a magnificent run but a new record has been set.
Even though the financial backing has been removed i still was offered a whopping £117mil transfer budget and tempting as it maybe to go out and splash the cash i have now decided to use my youth facilities considering there one of if not the best in World football. Well apart from Atletico Madrid it seems who have got some amazing youngsters in there team.
With the likes of Javier Pastore, Maximiliano Martinez, Alex Chamberlian and Neymar all the wrong side of 30 i was in the mind set of how im going to replace them. With the excepetion of possibly 35 year old Javier Pastore the rest still have a season or at the very top so i have a little headstart in replacing these club legends. I was tempted to just cash in on them but the sentimental side of me kicked in and well hopefully they retire at the club. Ive tried speaking to Pastore about taking up a coaching job but hes not interested and going to leave football once he retires. A shame because he is a Saints legend. Well they all are in my eyes.
Young blood
My first thought was to go and buy the very best in the business but a deeper look into my reserve and youth squad before splashing the cash. I was quite suprised how some of my youth players have improved. I found 1 who come from my own acadamy in Richard Bradshaw.At only 21 he would be the perfect replacement for when Pastore and Martinez decide to call it a day. He spent the whole of last season on loan and it has done him the world of good. Some areas still need improving but is now on the fringes of the first team squad this season. Recently making his debut in the Euro Super Cup Final.
I also have these youngsters pushing aswell who i signed when they were between the ages of 16 and 18. Micheal Caton who was signed from Man united. A player who has only improved over the last year or so. Was in and around the first team last season with some promising performances. He was involved in 35 games scoring 10 and 9 assits. Which is brilliant considering he didnt start all of those 35 but injuries gave him a chance and he took it. A big squad player this season again.
Youth signed in Transfer window
Drame--16 year old French goalkeeper signed for £1.1mil from Stade Rennais. just back up really
Dick Hartman--15 year old centre back cost me a whopping £7.5mil. Probabl overpaid but hopefuly long term replacement for Aslan.
Simon Morgan--the next Ryan Giggs? Who knows looks very promising and will probably spend a season in reserve with view to loan.
Giancarlo Colucci--young striker signed from Roma for £2.1mil. Joins long list of strikers at the club.
Nicolas Munsch--16 year old centre back signed to fill my u18s really.
Fred Karamba--Another french starlet from Lyon cost me £1.7mi. Operates out wide right.
I was also told in this years batch of youngsters that charlie Townsend could become possibly one of the best in his generation so fingers crossed.
Still doing well Will be interesting to see how you fare without all the cash now.
Liking the 'web-page' updates too.
The moneys not really a problem to be honest. I have over £100mill bank balance but i have now decided to scout extensive around the world for players under the age of 18. Hopefully looking to find the next Messi or Ronaldo.
Answer me this. What makes you so successful in FM11?
i managed to keep chamberlain through the lower leagues and built my squad around him. I went for mostly determined youngsters and players to get me into the prem. Players like Kyle Bartley who is not blessed with the greatest stats but over performed earning himself a few England call ups. I also spent a lot of money to get where i was also. I managed to sign Neymar for free and that was the start of me attracting better players. My team is built on lots of pace and short passing football. Creative very high. Mostly though i do beleive it was the financial backing that got me there.
Once you get to the top it just seems a cycle where you keep adding one or two stars every summer so you get better but the AI doesnt really. Although United just spent over £100mil in one transfer window and are currently top half way through. Im struggling to keep the pace lol
season 2024/25
Just a quick update as im currently in the middle of a huge decision in the save, Anyways we won the League again pipping both Manchester Clubs. FA Cup we did poo knocked out 4th round, League Cup we beat Arsenal in the final. Champions League we failed to reach the Semi Final asAtletico Madrid knock us out. So we won league, League Cup, world Club championship, Euro Super Cup and Comm sheild.
Ive also came to a tough decision which youll see in next update coming shortly....
Rome wasnt built in one day...........
With most of my experienced players now past 30 and the majority of my first team around 30 i was in a dilemma where i wanted to keep my veterans as a sort of thanks for getting the club where it is today. But i also wanted to rip the team up and build another one with the best youngsters my scouts could find. Ive been scouting all season for players who are under 21 and good enough and hungry enough to carry on taking the club forward. We have had a succesful few seasons recently. After long research i decided to be ruthless and not the the sentimental issue affect me when it came to getting rid of players.
Players like
Javier Pastore,NeymarandBongouro]would stay despite there ages although i placed them in reserves hoping they choose to retire soon. However the likes of Igor Demin, Martinezand Jerome Maclua. Even though Jerome is only 28 he was naking noises about wanting a new challenge so when Barcelona offered £34.5million i snatched there hands off and accepted the deal. A £24million profit made on him so well happy with that. With a bare squad now due to these lot moving down into reserve or moving on to another club i decided to check what young players were good enough to replace such superstars. some of these players have been at the club over 10 years and it was gut wrenching to accept the deals but the club must move on so i managed to bring in players who i thought would be perfect replacements even if there not fully developed i would chuck them straight into the first team squad. The players i signed.
Alessandro Bartoli--18 year old winger signed from Roma for £1.8mil.
AnteNemic--Cost me a whopping £10million for a Amc who will be in contention for starting line up. Signed from Rivals Man City.
Benjamin vollmer-- 18 year old wing back signed from Bayern. good prospect to replace Leandro.
Borja Ayuso--The big summer signing for £17mil. A brilliant prospect only 20 and a key member already. Big things expected.
Richard Bradshaw--youth product looking to step into the first team. Proud hes come from acadamy.
Eduardo Fernandez--One of the Fernandez brothers. Not by blood though. spanish midfeilder could become the next Xavi.
Sergio Fernandez--the other brother as i call them. Spanish striker who could be next David Villa hopefully.
Harald Meyer--Signed for £7.5mil from Bayern. future replacement for captian Willems when he calls it a day.
Noah Morice--youngster signed for backup.
most of these have been put into the first team squad and hopefully should become the future of Southampton Football Club. im not expecting miracles and wether we win a trohpy or not this season it wont bother me much as we enter this transitional period. I just hope the board understand my intentions on building the next World class squad. As you can see some of the players ive put into the reserves or sold could easily still walk into any team in the world and some have moved on but the likes of Neymar and Boungounou will stay at the club even though they are probably still world class players. Its the hardest thing i have ever done on FM considering the success they have brought to the club. Hopefully they become coaches at the club but Pastore is having none of it at the moment.
I didnt want to change the whole first team so decided to keep the usual back four as a solid base to build on.
My squad.....young squad..
Decided to continue with this.
Southampton F.C End of Season 2025/26
League Table
Position Graph
Champions League
FA Cup
League Cup
Finances With my chairman withdrawing his financial backing we were now looking to make a profit each season and we did well with most months making a profit adding to the coffers.
Key Players
Leo Werdens coming to the end of his career. Will be impossible to replace.
Toon Willems Captain marvel and another coming to an end of his career. Has been a brilliant servant to the club and has guided us to many trophies.
Micheal Caton
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Toon Willems should be at Newcastle.
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was somethig here
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And on an even sadder note......................
We say goodbye to a legend
Javier Pastore has officially retired from football. Leaving the game at 36 he was the main reason why Southampton are the club they are today. He became the first world class signing the club saw and tranformed the club into multiple Champions League winners. He was signed for just under £45million in 2016 and became a club legend helping us win many many trophies. A world class player who won virtually every honour there was while at the club. A loyal servant who made it into Southamptons overall best eleven with 325 appearances scoring 131 goals and having an average rating of 7.48. A player every young player at the club should mould them selves on and work towards Pastores acheivements. A Sad day.
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Good luck with England, I always enjoy seeing how well we do in the future. It gives me great hope that it will happen in real life eventually!
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something here but now its gone
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Any new updates? this is one of the threads i enjoy reading the most
A cheeky request, which roles do you give you CM's in your 4-2-3-1? Its that department I am always unsure of in that formation.
Your a true gent, thanks for that
this feels wrong
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Betto going to be a beast
One of my small gripes with fm is how you have to spend fortunes to get decent players on long term saves :/
he better be a beast for £61million lol..
so i did u dump
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Gotta admire the fact that you attack in every game, is that a recent thing or is it something you have always done?
always done it right from the start. Ive not changed my tactics at all so my squad is used to the way we play.
That's pretty impressive, I've never had the balls to do that
Any updates?
currently in march at the mo so will post one when season has finished.
Just noticed Brentford in the BSP have been taken over by a tycoon. gonna follow there situation closely.
and another one
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pood my pants
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something shouldve been here
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gutted i lost my save
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deleting all this ive typed making me cry.
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great season yet again
Mad amount of goals from Andrade!
Searching through my computer i found an old file of this save and loaded it up to find its in 2025 yet the other file was 2031 so deleted all my updates from 2025 and will bblast this for a bit. Gutted i lost 6 seasons as lots of things happened but il soldier on for now.
im currently in 2025/26 season just started....
Gutted to see you lost so many seasons but nice to see the thread alive again. Do you have fm12 jack or just prefer fm11? I've gotta say I prefer fm11 myself.
I was scrolling through, wondering why there were so many edited random posts here. Now I see you lost your save :o
Good luck replaying it all
yeh its a bummer replaying it all but gets me the chance to build again. and ive not gotten fm12 didnt really fancy it so kept plugging away at fm11
Good move imho
Southampton F.C. End of Season Review 2025/26
We went into the campaign on a back of another successful season and i was looking to build on that. We had won the League title the past 2 years and wanted to continue my aim of becoming the all time most successful club not only in England but the World of Football. Everyone at the club knew it was going to be harder than ever to win the title and it proved as it went down to the wire. With 3 teams smashing the 100 goal barrier in one season just goes to show how the top 3 teams really went for it as the stats show. I dont think i can ever remember a season were 3 teams have scored over 100 goals but it shows the strength of the English game at the moment. We were crowned champions with a game to spare but it was much tighter than that all through the season as us and Man City swapped places all through the campaign. We only won 1 game more than our challengers and that was the only difference really. We Lost 2 games all season and still despite my team being the dominant force in England i still havent managed to remain undefeated through a whole season. A clear target of mine. Some other shocks aswell as Newcastle finish rock bottom and get relegated winning only 2 games all season. Also a disapointing season for spurs who finished 12th in the final Premier League table.
We have won the Champions League 5 times in 9 years before this seasons campaign and after Man City won it last season i was determined to win it this season and we were sensational right through the competition. We reached the Champions Leaguefinal drawing only 2 games and winning the rest. Which shows our dominance in Europe and just how good my squad is. We beat teams with ease on route to the final also. We headed into the final against suprise package St Etienne and unlike Norwich in the FA Cup i didnt underestimate them. Especially when they had the Competitions top scorer in there squad. We had a few injuries and had to patch a squad together with two players on the bench who were still light injured. We also were missing Legendary striker Leo Werdens who had smashed the clubs all time Goal scoring record recently. It was a tight affair as expected and the game decided to come into life on the 75th minute when Jiri Klicka opened the scoring for us. St Etienne then equalised on 83 minutes but Jorge Molina then poked home the winner 3 minutes later and we held on to win the Champions League. Despite there not so big name i could see why the likes of Real Madrid were disposed of by the french team. However we won it again to add to the Premier League title.
If were going to be succesful for the next 10 years and not now then my aim is to focus on some of the talented youth we have available at the club. So what better way to give them some much needed game time than the domestic cups as these cups without sounding disrepectful didnt really mean as much to me as winning the title and the european Cup. However that doesnt mean i dont want to win them.It was a chance for some of the young guns and fringe players to prove to me they have a future at the club. The League Cup we did sort of okay. We beat Ipswich and Leicester before heading to a Qarter final showdown with Chelsea. i was tempted to play my big guns against Chelsea but only on the final day did i decide against it and put my faith in my youth. They didnt disapoint me despite losing 1-0 we showed they could match one of Englands big guns and if we could put the ball in the net we would have won comfortably but thats football. The FA Cup i had the same approach and after beating Mansfield, Leicester, Hull and then getting our revenge on Chelsea we headed to a Semi final against Norwich who by there standards were flying in the League as they finished a mighty 8th in the League. I probably went into the Semi Final underestimating just how far they come especially when at the end of the season i found out they had won the Europa League beating Sporting in the final 4-0. We started the match slow and never got into our normal fast attacking game as Norwich killed the game at any attempt. It finished 0-0 after 90 mins and then Norwich scored in extra time and we never recovered as Norwich headed to another final and another trophy as they lifted the FA Cup. One to watch next season maybe?
Transfer wise we spent a whopping £91 million on quite a few players as i continue to build for the future. With most of my players hitting 30 its time for me to start thinking about replacing them. The main area looking for a goalkeeper who could eventually replace the legendary Goalie Francisco. We scouted the globe looking for someone who could step in and fill such shoes and as people know things like this could end up a nightmare most notably when Peter Schmeichel retired from Manchester Uniteds side of 99 and they struggled to replace him for many years. So we made sure we picked the right goalkeeper and as i expected he came at a price. Igor Durica would be that man. Only 22 years old and playing in the not so good dutch League i identifed this was the man who would replace Francisco eventually. Looking at him he sort of reminds me of Schmiechel in the wya he dominates his box and his brilliant coummunication skills. We also have a bit of time to get him used to the demands of English football which will help us. Especially with him being so young. With my two centre backs now approaching 30 i moved quickly to meet the min fee clause of Spanish centre back Robert Who would provide us with cover and hopefully then step in as i look to replace my central pairing at the back shortly. A beast in the air and like a cheetah on the deck he seems to have it all for a centre back and i will have no problems putting him into my starting line up. He cost me £16.5 million from Atletico Madrid. My other summer signing would be another spanish star in 20 year old Borja Ayuso who was signed from Athletic Bilboa for around £17million. He would step into my squad with no problems at all and the boy never even let the big price tag affect him at all. The present and the future of the club is right here.
With me spending £91 million i knew i had to try and balance the books just to keep the Suits happy. We managed to shift Jerome Maclua to Barcelona for £34.5million and then Man city smahed me with a bid for my goalkeeper Eddie Stewart who was an exceptional talent but unfortunatly i had Francisco in goals. He was sold for a whopping £44.5million (i remembered selling him for around £32mil on prev save so pushed for £50mil this time around sorry lol) He couldnt wait to get out the door and to be honest for that money neither could i. This was why we moved for Durica in the winter transfer window. Striker Igor Demin and Paul Tomlinson also left for a combined fee of around £22million. Despite me spending £91 milliin i managed to make a profit of over £30million. Crazy i know. I am hoping to cut my spending down dramatically as i want to hopefully un earth some of my own gems. I have some good youngsters in my youth teams but at the moment loan football is there only option.
Mind you i am desperate to sign Arsenal prodigy John Lyons but so far Arsenal have rejected my latest bid of £45million. I dont really want to spend that much on a player but he could be worth it as this boy is special. and hes English to top it off. Hmmmm decisions decisions!!!
My Squad has the perfect blend of youth and experience at the moment but i have some choices to make like club captian Toon Willems is now 32 and with Pedro pushing for a place hugely i got the decision to make wether its time to slowly replace my club captian with my upcoming star. Right winger Ricardo Medina is also 31 and Leo Werdens is now 30 i would usually replace them but sentiment reasons are forcing me to keep them in the team. Especially because there still performing at the highest level. I do though like to have a young squad and this is where management becomes tough when you have to eventually have to replace your legends with your young guns. We could probably do with a new left winger for cover and possibly another centre midfielder. Maybe John Lyons hmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
Key Player
I made a slight tactical change for this season and pushed up my attacking midfielder and played with 2 strikers. Someone to compliment my ageing striker Werdens. Jiri Klicka was starting to get itchy feet at the club so i offered him the chance to show me he has what it takes to become a world class striker and he didnt disapoint me scoring 34 goals in 42 games. He was sensational all season and was important in the success we had this season. Despite his startiing appearances he has asked again that he wants a new challenge. Dont want to sell but might force my hand.
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500 league app club under my management.Code:Season Country League Position Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 England League 1 2nd League Runners up 2011/12 England Champshp 16th N/A 2012/13 England Champshp 5th Play Off Winners, Manager of the Year 2013/14 England Prem League 16th Avoided Relegation 2014/15 England Prem League 8th N/A 2015/16 England Prem League 3rd League Cup Winners. FA Cup Semi Finalists. Champions league Qualifier. Manager of the Year 2016/17 England Prem League 1st League Champions. Champions League Runners up. 2017/18 England Prem League 1st Community Shield Winners. League Champions, Champions League Winners. 2018/19 England Prem League 1st Community Shield Winners. League Champions, Champions League Winners, Euro super Cup Winners, World club Champions, FA Cup runners up. 2019/20 England Prem League 1st Community Shield Winners. League Champions, Euro Super Cup Winners, World Club Champions. Takeover completed 2020/21 England Prem League 1st Community Sheild Winners. League Champions, Champions League Winners, FA Cup Winners. 2021/22 England Prem League 2nd Community Shield Winners. League Runners up, World Club Winners. Euro super Cup winners. League Cup Winners. FA Cup winners. 2022/23 England Prem League 2nd Community Shield Runners up, League Runners up, League Cup runners up, FA Cup Winners. Champs League winners. 2023/24 England Prem League 1st Community shield Winners, League Winners, League Cup winners, Euro Super Cup winners, Champs League winners, World Club winners. 2024/25 England Prem League 1st Community Shield Winners, League Winners, League Cup Winners, Euro Super Cup Winners, World club Winners. 2025/26 England Prem League 1st Community Shield Winners, Champions League Winners. International 2019/20 England Confederations Cup Winners 2021/22 England World Cup Quarter Finalists. Resigned 2029/30 England World Cup Quarter Finalists.
Code:Name Pos Era Apps Goals Avr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Francisco Goalkeeper 2016-?? ??? n/a ????? Toon Willems Defender 2014-?? ??? n/a ????/
Southampton F.C.--2026/27 FA Cup Review
This year my aim was again to continue what i was doing in the previous years and picking fringe or youth players for these games. Histon who are struggling in the Blue Square Prem pulled out the dream tie when they pulled us out of the famous 3rd round hat. all the talk before the game was about how there could be a possibilty of a huge upset but i told my young players to focus on the game and not to let me down. We ended any hope of that famous upset when Brazilian striker Maranhao who has been in the reserves since i wasted £9million bringing him to the club opened the scoring. He added his 2nd of the game. It was suprising to see him score 2 goals but this is Histon not exactly some one like Everton now is it. Will be sold if possible this summer. Left winger Bartoli added the 3rd before Wonderkid striker Sergio Fernandez completed the rout.
The next round we faced an even trickier tie with us pulling out Spurs away. Spurs seem to be in a slump at the moment, League wise anyway. The past 2 years have seen Spurs finish 11th and 12th respectively and you could say that is a disapointment for such a big club. However they have been to the last 3 Europa cup finals in 6 years winning once. They also lost the League Cup final in 2024 where they had lost to me. They then sacked manager and club legend Ledley King last season and replaced him with Andre Vila Boas. So if anyone can improve them surely its him. Anyways back to the game and we were poor all game and didnt deserve to go through. Our only goal had come from an Own goal aswell which shows how bad we played. Didnt deserve to go through. Good luck spurs..not!!
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Southampton F.C.--2026/27 League Cup Review
My aim with Southampton is to become the most dominant force in World football in which i want to be the most time winning team in every competition i enter. We are closing in on some records and after this seasons triumph we have now won it 5 times. However we are still way behind Liverpools record of 9 wins in the competition. Again we went into the cup with the same outlook as the FA Cup with youth and reserves to. We beat Crawley with ease. A 3-2 win against Aston Villa was followed by a Penalty shootout win against the Scousers. That set up a Semi final with main rivals Man City and for that i picked my strongest squad available. Especially when the previous night we knew the winners of this tie would be facing Wolves in the final. So get past city and we will win it. simple?.
Manchester City, The club with huge spending power are my biggest rivals league wise. They are always challenging for that title and at one stage of the season they were running away with the title. They do however seem to slip come the business end of the season and seem to struggle where as other clubs push on. The mega rich chairman though has now passed the club on in recent months so will they still be splashing the cash? Your dam right they will when they smashed me with a £66million bid for my star centre back Jorge Molina. The man i signed from Barcelona for £13.75million has become one of the worlds best centre backs and formed a colossal partnership at the heart of my defence with Aslan. Im gutted hes going to Man city but the chairman accepted the bid over my head. I was however tinkering on the idea wether to sell him or not anyway to maybe a European Club because i wouldnt of allowed him to leave for a main rival. However £66million for a 30 year old centre back is worth it...I hope!!.
So with there financial backing now tightened at the club will they continue toi build on there success only time will tell. With Leanardo currently at the reins they seem to be looking good at the moment however we were to much of a match for them in the Semis and seemed to want it more than our rivals.
Wolves in the final up next and to be honest i was feeling quite comfortable with us winning the cup again. Wolves havent done anything of much in recent years and seem to be happy as a mid table club. Finishing 9th and 15th in previous seasons. The game will be remembered for a stunning hat trick by Spanish sensation Sergio Fernandez who destroyed Wolves with 3 class finishes to put our name on the cup.
Great write up, Jack. I absolutely love the aim of trying to win every competition more times than anyone else. Well done on adding another CC to your collection.
Southampton F.C.--2026/27 European Review
European Super Cup
We played suprise package Norwich in the Super cup final and the final was ruined in the 6th minute for Norwich when they were reduced to 10 men straight away. Then the forgone conclusion as we dominated the final with Mauro Diaz helping himself to a double before Aslan completed the 3-0 victory.
World Club Championship
A pointless competion as the teams we face are weak. I played my reserve side for both games and won easily. The only good thing about this competition is the £3mil prize money you recieve for winning it. We beat Seongnam 5-0 before dispatching America(MEX) in the final 3-1. Won it 6 times and are now the Record holders of most wins with 6. So one competition down a few more to go.
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There are four shield types in Second Edition - body, buckler, medium, and small. The benefits and penalties are clearly spelled out in the rules.
The shield becomes much more valuable in defense if, in your campaign, you use "Skills and Powers" or "Combat and Tactics" rules, and allow the character to take shield profeciency. That table has additive defense for each of the four shield types, increasing with the size of the shield. That is additive the normal amount of defense obtained from shield use. These really makes the shield more desirable to use. I had a campaign where most fighters were using two weapons, now most opt for the shield.


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5 Best Backyard Water Games for All Agesby Lindsay Hutton
Backyard water games are a blast for kids of all ages. When the temperatures start to rise, break out the hose and sprinklers and cool off with these wet and wild games.
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Water Spray Wars
Here's a good way to enjoy a hot summer day without a swimming pool. For this game, you'll need some spray bottles, or empty dish soap bottles with the cap on.
The player who is "It" gets the spray bottle and must tag the other players by squirting them. The person who is tagged first gets to take over the spray bottle and do the squirting.
Try playing this game as Freeze Tag. You must freeze in place when you are squirted. You can be unfrozen by having another player crawl between your legs. If "It" manages to freeze everyone, he or she gets to squirt again.
If you have a backyard pool, this is a great game to play in the shallow end. Waist-deep water makes it harder to get out of the way!
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5 Shockingly Progressive Ideas From 'Primitive' Cultures
If you view history in time-lapse, it's like a Benny Hill sketch with the ethnic majority zanily scrambling around to the tune of "Yakety Sax," beating the minorities with their shoes ... then brutally raping and murdering them. We're a terrible species, and it's only recently that we've started to accept that we should maybe possibly (kind of) consider accepting each other's differences (a little bit), rather than trying to oppress folks into normality. But that's a faulty assumption: We're not only less progressive today than you might think, but there have been some truly shocking moments of tolerance in history that make the modern world look downright bigoted.
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When you think "Vikings," you think "casual rapists" somewhere after "horned helmets," but before "longboats." But in actuality, Vikings win extra bonus points for their relatively fair treatment of women. It wasn't full equality, but in family life, women were the ones in charge of finances, and they had total freedom to divorce their husbands. Their sagas also featured strong female characters -- something many male writers are still struggling with today, unless "strong female character" means "drama ballast with tits."
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To boldly go where several cliched female scenes have gone before.
Vikings weren't an entire culture of casual rape. In fact, Viking rape laws were far more progressive than their so-called "civilized" European counterparts. On the continent, women were considered property and so rape was a property crime -- there was no "victim," but the father or husband, whose property had been damaged. While Icelandic law punished both rape and attempted rape with outlawry, which was basically the death penalty. Rapists weren't executed outright, but it was totally legal to kill outlaws with impunity. And knowing the Vikings, "no consequence kill" was probably roughly analogous to "free ice cream buffet."
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Sadly both of those things came to a head after a tragic misunderstanding at Dagr the Dairyer's ice cream social.
Compare that with the "you were asking for it" defense of today, and you get the sense that Vikings would be awfully disappointed with the "progressive" future. If the spirit of Olaf the Mad saw the way we treat rape in modern courts, he would shake his head and walk away, shedding a single tear into his beard at the injustice of it all. Just before cleaving a man in two with his axe and setting fire to a passing horse-cart.
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They have so much to teach us.
Hey, they don't call him Olaf the Mad 'cause he's way into illustrated parody magazines.
#4. Native Americans Respected Transsexuals
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People have had the feeling that they might have been born the wrong gender for a pretty darn long time. History is just rife with transsexuals -- why, you can hardly swing an inoffensively gender-neutral scarf without smacking a few in the mouth -- but even today they face some harsh discrimination.
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And seeing shit like this doesn't make it any easier.
But at least in America, that's an example of social backsliding: Firsthand accounts from European explorers detail not only homosexuality among the Native Americans, but transsexuality, as well. Transsexuals in the Americas were known as "two-spirits," the idea being that they had a spirit within them for each gender. A concept that is as simple and sweet as it is surely the plot of a sex-themed anime game set in an all-girls high school. Two-spirits not only faced no discrimination in the New World but were treated with a form of respect that is somewhat rare even today: They were fully considered to be the gender they self-identified as, and not their biological sex. Even spiritual and political leaders could be transgendered, and their people wouldn't bat an eye: Leaders like We'wah, a cultural ambassador to Washington for the Zuni Nation.
No way We'wah could hold that kind of office today -- you can't even have an ethnic-sounding lunch without catching some flak, much less rock public office with a transgender identity and a name like a guitar solo.
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"You can say that again." -Lisa Bowchikachikabowwow, former candidate,
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#3. There Were Black Professional Athletes ... in the 19th Century
Baseball historians love to reminisce on Moses Walker, a black man in the 1880s (well, presumably he was black before the 1880s too, unless he was involved in some sort of tragic Blaccident), who played professional baseball. In fact, the unofficial ban of African-Americans in baseball didn't kick in until 1889. They weren't exactly commonplace, but still: Black men playing professional baseball in the 19th century!
No? That little milestone not doing it for you? All right. How about this. What's the whitest sporting event you can think of? Wow, everybody said the Kentucky Derby? You're right, of course. We just didn't think it would be unanimous. Weird.
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We're all a little whiter just for looking at this picture.
So if you had to guess, what race would you say the winner of the very first Kentucky Derby was?
If you answered "super-Aryan," guess again! Because that's not a race (you're thinking of Super Saiyans), and, what's more, it was a black man.
"Winning was nice, but I'm not gonna lie; it felt a little weird whipping something to force it to work harder and faster."
In fact, whites were the minority in horse racing back in the 1870s. At least 13 of the 15 jockeys in the first Kentucky Derby were black. And black jockeys won 15 of the first 28 Derby events held. Of course, white men didn't like being beaten by perceived "inferiors," so they did the only thing they could: They trained harder, sacrificed more, and through an unbeatable combination of determination and talent they ... stopped letting black dudes race.
"Fine, I'll just take my skills and put them toward riding your wife instead."
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Is there some natural bijection between irreducible representations and conjugacy classes of finite groups (as in case of $S_n$)?
This is a different take on Steven Landsburg's answer. The short version is that conjugacy classes and irreducible representations should be thought of as being dual to each other.
Fix an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic not dividing the order of our finite group $G$. The group algebra $k[G]$ is a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra, so its dual is also a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra of the same dimension; it is the Hopf algebra of functions $G \to k$, which I will denote by $C(G)$. (The former is cocommutative but not commutative in general, while the latter is commutative but not cocommutative in general.) The dual pairing $$k[G] \times C(G) \to k$$
is equivariant with respect to the action of $G$ by conjugation, and it restricts to a dual pairing $$Z(k[G]) \times C_{\text{cl}}(G) \to k$$
on the subalgebras fixed by conjugation; $Z(k[G])$ is the center of $k[G]$ and $C_{\text{cl}}(G)$ is the space of class functions $G \to k$. Now:
The second identification should be clear; the first comes from considering the central character of an irreducible representation. Now, the pairing above is nondegenerate, so to every point of the maximal spectrum of $Z(k[G])$ we can canonically associate an element of $C_{\text{cl}}(G)$ (the corresponding irreducible character) and to every point of the maximal spectrum of $C_{\text{cl}}(G)$ we can canonically associate an element of $Z(k[G])$ (the corresponding sum over a conjugacy class divided by its size).
In general there is no natural bijection between conjugacy classes and irreducible representations of a finite group. To see this think of abelian groups for example. The conjugacy classes are the elements of the group, while the irreducible representations are elements of the dual group. These are isomorphic, via the Fourier transform, but not canonically.
Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field whose characteristic is either zero or prime to the order of $G$.
Then the center of the group ring $kG$ has one basis in natural bijective correspondence with the set of irreducible representations of $G$ over $k$, and another basis in natural bijective correspondence with the conjugacy classes of $G$.
1) $kG$ is semisimple (this is called Maschke's Theorem) and Artinian, so it is a direct sum of matrix rings over division rings, hence (because $k$ is algebraically closed) a direct sum of matrix rings over $k$. There is (up to isomorphism) one irreducible representation for each of these matrix rings. Those representations are therefore in natural one-one correspondence with the central idempotents that generate those matrix rings, and these form a basis for the center.
2) For each conjugacy class, we can form the sum of all elements in that conjugacy class. The resulting elements of $kG$ form a basis for the center.
This gives a (non-natural) bijection between irreducible representations and conjugacy classes, because there is a (non-natural) bijection between any two bases for a given finite-dimensional $k$-vector space. I do not see any way you can make this natural.
I would suggest that no such general natural bijection has been found to date. I am not sure how one would ``prove" that such a natural bijection could not be found, notwithstanding Gjergi's answer. I take the view that the equality between numbers of irreducible characters (over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero) and the number of conjugacy classes is most naturally obtained by counting the dimension of the center of the group algebra in two different categorical settings: from the group theoretic perspective, the natural distinguished basis for the group algebra (the group elements) makes it clear that the dimension of the center is the number of conjugacy classes. On the other hand, from a ring-theoretic perspective, the structure of semi-simple algebras makes it clear that the dimension of the center of the group algebra is the number of isomorphism types of simple modules, that is, the number of irreducible characters. Moving to prime characteristic (still over an algebraically closed field, now of characteristic $p$, say), it is rather more difficult to prove, as R. Brauer did, that the number of isomorphism types of simple modules is the number of conjugacy classes of group elements of order prime to $p.$ However, there are contemporary conjectures in modular representation theory which suggest that there may one day be a different explanation for this equality. In particular, Alperin's weight conjecture suggests counting the number of (isomorphism types of) absolutely irreducible modules in characteristic $p$ in quite a different way, but one which still degenerates to the usual "non-natural" count when the characteristic $p$ does not divide the group order, which is essentially the same as the characteristic zero case. No general conceptual explanation for the conjectural count of Alperin has been found to date, though a number of approaches have been suggested, including a 2-category perspective. But it is not impossible that such an explanation could one day be found, and such an explanation might shed light even on the "easy" characteristic zero situation.
Later edit: In view of some of the comments below on the action of the automorphism group on irreducible characters and on conjugacy classes (which is really an action of the outer automorphism group, since inner automorphisms act trivially in each case), I make some comments on (well-known) properties of these actions, which while not identical, have many compatible features.
Brauer's permutation lemma states that for any automorphism $a$ of the finite group $G,$ the number of $a$-stable complex irreducible characters of $G$ is the same as the number of $a$-stable conjugacy classses. Hence any subgroup of ${\rm Aut}(G)$ has the same number of orbits on irreducible characters as it does on conjugacy classes. The Glauberman correspondence goes further with a group of automorphisms $A$ of order coprime to $|G|$. In that case the $A$-actions on the irreducible characters of $G$ and on the conjugacy classes of $G$ are permutation isomorphic.
While the actions of a general subgroup of the automorphism group are not always as strongly compatible as in the coprime case, various conjectures from modular representation theory suggest that it might be possible to have more compatibilty when dealing with complexes of modules than with individual modules. As a matter of speculation, I have sometimes wondered whether there might be some analogue of Glauberman correspondence in the non-coprime situation for actions on suitable complexes, although I have no idea for a precise formulation at present. Since the dimension of the center of an algebra is invariant under derived equivalence, this is one reason why I do not dismiss the idea of a more subtle explanation for numerical equalities.
Expanding slightly on the other answers:
To ask for a "natural" bijection is presumably to ask for a natural isomorphism between two functors from the category of finite groups to the category of sets. First, we have the contravariant functor $S$ that associates to each $G$ the set of isomorphism classes of irreducible representations. Then we have the covariant "functor" $T$ that associates to each $G$ the set of its conjugacy classes.
The first problem is that $T$ is not in fact functorial, because the image of a conjugacy class might not be a conjugacy class. So at the very least we should restrict to some subcategory on which $T$ is functorial, e.g. finite groups and surjective morphisms.
But the key problem still remains: There is no good way to define a natural transfomation between two functors of opposite variances. So when I said in my earlier answer that "I do not see any way you can make this natural" I might better have said "This is not a situation in which the notion of naturality makes sense".
All of this, of course, is really just an expansion of Gjergji's and Qiaochu's observations.
Steven's and Gjergji answers points that there is no bijection, however possibly this idea should not be put into the rubbish completely.
Ideologically conjugacy classes and irreducible representations are somewhat dual to each other.
The other instances of this "duality" is Kirillov's orbit method - this is "infinitesimal version" of the duality: orbits in Lie algebra are infinitesimal versions of the conjugacy classes. But pay attention orbits are taken not in Lie algebra, but in the dual space g^. This again manifests that there irreps and conj. classes are dual to each other. However think of semi-simple Lie algebra - then g^ and g can be canonically identified...
Another instance is Langlands parametrization of the unitary irreducible representations of the real Lie group G. They are parametrized by conjugacy classes in Langlands dual group G^L. Again here are conjugacy classes in G^L, not in G itself. However for example GL=GL^L...
So it might be one should ask the question what are the groups such that conjugacy classes and irreps are in some natural bijection or something like this ?
Here is some natural map conjugacy classes -> representations. But it does not maps to irreducible ones, and far from being bijection in general.
A colleague of mine suggested the following - take vector space of functions on a group which are equal to zero everywhere except given conjugacy class "C". We can act on these functions by $f \to g f g^{-1} $ - such action will preserve this class. So we get some representation. In the case of abelian group this gives trivial representation, however in general, it might be non-trivial. It always has trivial component - the function which is constant on "C".
I have not thought yet how this representation can be further decomposed, may be it is well-known ?
It appears that similar question has been asked at sci.math.research Tue, 19 Oct 1999. The answer by G. Kuperberg is quite interesting. Hope no one don't mind if I put it here:


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Take notes, N7.
That guy is way too good at trolling people.
I might be on tonight. I DON'T HAVE TIME TO PLAY HALO WITH ALL YOU NERDS EVERY NIGHT.
And Skyrim + steam mod packs on PC is amazing.
Okay, on a serious note. This dude ignores his radar and his first reaction to randomly chuck grenades is killing me.
At least be half way decent.
Look, if there was a "All Dark Alley Troll Team" he'd be the starting Power Forward. There is no doubt about that. That's a troll you want on your side when you're in a dark alley and feminazis/whiteknights are waiting to jump you.
But I'm on the "All Pop Da Trunk Troll Team" I ride on fools.
Me & Pres bond on twitter being Browns fans... it's tough to win though when your mascot's a mexican:
N7 has the same shit Clayton Biggsby had
I just noticed that Halo 4 cites VGChartz on the back of its case with a little asterisk at the bottom. Was 343 really that desperate for a quotable? Might as well not even bother quantifying a statement at all if that's your only resort. "Most Anticipated Game of 2012."*
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They probably just didn't want to source them right underneath the quote.
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This staunch defense of H4's campaign really speaks to the hard truth Gatsby is trying oh so hard to conceal.
I have the medicine right here man.
What if a police officer is trying to rape you? What does Sonic sez then?
Just got two overkills, one of which being an extermination.
Da Bess
Because me & used weren't there to out Beast you.