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A long time ago in a BBQ galaxy far far away there was a very patient blogger by the name of Kevin Kelly. Now Kevin asked this BBQ chick named Diva Q for her top BBQ joint recommendations. Time flew, computers crashed, kids whined, trips were taken and eventually she finally got the darn list done of some of my favorite BBQ Joints. There are too many great BBQ joints to eat at so this list is in no way complete but just a few that I enjoy throughout North America!
On another note Kevin has a great blog. He goes out of his way continually to feature BBQ joints from all over. Take a gander at his ever expanding list of BBQ places plus his blog fun times and BBQ for all !!
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Protestants on wane?
New studies find fewer people claim an affiliation
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But what happens the week after Christmas?
Barring some miracle, the churches will return to their sparsely attended naves, a chagrin that mainline Protestants have been lamenting for the last two decades. But this fall, there was new reason for concern: For the first time in its history, Protestantism is no longer the majority religion in the United States.
A study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found only 48 percent of adults identified themselves as Protestants, down from 53 percent five years ago. The decline included white evangelicals, whose numbers dropped 5 percent in the last five years. Membership in black churches remained unchanged.
One reason for the turnabout is the dramatic growth among Americans who are not affiliated with any church — the so-called "nones." The Pew study reported about 20 percent of Americans say they have no religious affiliation, a jump from 15 percent five years ago.
"This is of real concern to me," said Greg Sterling, Yale Divinity School dean. "If you think of education and the forces that have built the great private research universities, these have been motivated by different religious traditions, Protestant and Catholic alike; Jewish, too. As that erodes, when you are left only with rationality without faith, I think we've lost something."
During the presidential election the country had no Protestants on the Republican ticket for the first time in U.S. history. Also for the first time, there are no Protestants on the U.S. Supreme Court. Although Catholicism is now the majority religion in the country, that religion is holding steady largely due to the impact of immigration. Nearly one-in-three Americans were raised in the Catholic faith, yet fewer than one-in-four now describe themselves as Catholic, according to Pew. Foreign-born adult Catholics outnumber Protestants by nearly a two-to-one margin.
Many Protestant ministers expressed concern and frustration about the shift, blaming an increase in distraction, "radical individualism" and the mixing of politics into religion, particularly from the Christian right.
"The image of Christianity has been largely through evangelicals," said the Rev. James G. Bradley, formerly of St. John's Episcopal Church in Waterbury. "It's been a detriment in that people start to view religion as a political force rather than a cluster of spiritual communities."
"The right has co-opted our message," said the Rev. John F. Wilmarth, of Harwinton Congregational Church. "The progressive Protestant church has not been vocal enough to reclaim the message."
As a result, he says, "The image of a Protestant church is what you see on TV on a Sunday morning, the (Jerry) Falwells and the like. The image most people have of church, of Christianity, is, correctly or not, that the church is an intolerant body. And that our churches have not been strong enough in proclaiming our message of inclusivity."
The Republican-American's attempt to contact several evangelical pastors for this story was unsuccessful.
Sterling agrees with Wilmarth. His concern is that all Christian churches may be tarred with a similar brush.
"Evangelicals have aligned themselves too closely with the political right," he said. "They have taken stances on some issues that have alienated younger people, especially certain sexual issues, that have driven younger people away. From where I sit, what most concerns me is that Protestant Christianity, especially mainline Protestantism, and many Roman Catholics as well, have represented a reasoned attempt to engage society and I see that dwindling."
A Pew study released earlier in the summer found that two-thirds of Americans say it is important for the president to have strong religious beliefs, although more Republicans (81 percent) than Democrats (61 percent) say it is important to them.
The same survey found that more than half of Americans say it does not bother them when politicians "talk about how religious they are," while 43 percent say this makes them uncomfortable. Nevertheless, the report found widespread opposition (66 percent) to religious groups publicly endorsing one candidate over another during elections. And a Pew poll released last spring found 54 percent, believe "churches should keep out of politics."
The country remains deeply spiritual. More than 9 in 10 Americans say they believe in God and more than 80 percent believe in heaven. But somehow, says the Rev. Warren Ruff, pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Waterbury, "There are people who are quite spiritual in their orientation. However, people just don't connect with groups the way they used to. Radical individualism in the American psyche has created a cafeteria line of doctrinal beliefs. We pick and choose what we like."
Randall Balmer, chair of the department of religion at Dartmouth College, agreed.
"What's happening is that there's real impatience and disgust with what people call organized religion. People say, 'I don't follow any particular religious leader. I'd rather cobble together my own spiritual life in ways that I find meaningful and satisfying."
He agrees that the increased politicization of religious issues has harmed organized religion.
"There's a kind of shrillness and a coarseness to the religious rhetoric in politics these days that you really didn't see before," said Balmer, an Episcopal priest. "A lot of it is the religious right and what amplifies those voices is the fact that many of them have access to huge media networks."
Such a religious shift has major political implications More than 32 percent of those under age 30 are nonaffiliated. These "nones" tend to lean heavily Democratic and express more liberal social views. The unaffiliated are also increasingly liberal on social issues — another finding with major political implications. Nearly three in four say abortion should be legal, compared to 53 percent of all Americans. A slightly smaller number (73 percent) favor same-sex marriage (compared to 48 percent of all Americans), reports Religion News Service.
"The religiously unaffiliated are among the most strongly democratic groups in the population," said Greg Smith, senior researcher at the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life. "In this year's presidential election, seven in 10 religiously unaffiliated voters voted for Barack Obama. Among white evangelical Protestants in 2012, 79 percent voted for Romney. This group of religiously unaffiliated voters is almost strongly Democratic as white evangelicals are Republican."
"The point politicians need to get is that it is time to stop pandering to the religious because there is a growing percentage of the population that does not want to hear that stuff," Ryan Cragun, an assistant professor of sociology who specializes in the nonreligious at The University of Tampa, told RNS. "It is time for them to realize that they are going to be left behind if they do not do that."
It is not as if pastors have not been trying to reverse the trend.
"Throughout the years, I have probably knocked on 50,000 doors, inviting people to worship," said the Rev. Scott Nessel, pastor of St. James Lutheran Church in Southbury. "And 49,999 of them have claimed to already be part of a community. Statistics just don't bear that out. A lot of us claim to have that connection, when it may or may not really be there. I've been rebuked in many, many languages and have had many doors shut in my face."
Both Nessel and Wilmarth claim they have been harmed by an increasingly mobile society, often more eager to attend soccer matches than prayer services.
Many clerics also note that the severity of many churches in the part has exacerbated the alienation.
"We have done our part to alienate people," concedes Nessel. "Everyone has their own personal history and their own personal experience with the church, and we might not do a good enough job of preaching forgiveness and the ability to do away with guilt and regret and allow people to feel welcoming in the community and the church."
The Rev. Bob Pohl of St. Peter's in Cornwall says something has to give.
"We have to change, not change the essence of who we are, but how we come together to experience God needs to be less grounded in a particular tradition and more flexible. Our challenge is to find more ways of touching and reaching other people without becoming another loud voice in the cacophony of sounds around us.
"Just the image of people walking through a church door is very difficult for people," said Pohl. "All of our symbols immediately trigger that fear or anxiety that brings back the experience."
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I have been told that PING presents a security risk, and it's a good idea to disable/block it on production web servers. Some research tells me that there are indeed security risks. Is it common practice to disable/block PING on publicly visible servers? And does this apply to other members of the ICMP family, like traceroute (wikipedia on security)?
The ICMP Echo protocol (usually known as "Ping") is mostly harmless. Its main security-related issues are:
It is common practice to disable or block Ping on publicly visible servers -- but being common is not the same as being recommended.
Some ICMP packet types MUST NOT be blocked, in particular the "destination unreachable" ICMP message, because blocking that one breaks path MTU discovery, symptoms being that DSL users (behind a PPPoE layer which restricts MTU to 1492 bytes) cannot access Web sites which block those packets (unless they use the Web proxy provided by their ISP).
ICMP has a data component to it. It can be used to build tunnels, and this is not just a theory thing, it's available in the wild. It's been found by several different researchers as parts of malware toolkits. Not to mention there is a prominent howto on this topic, not to mention the wiki, or the hackaday
ICMPTX uses the ICMP echo and ICMP reply. ICMP echo is not always harmless, since it contains a data component, it can be exfiltrating data or being used as a control channel, or being used (in the case of ICMPTX) as a tunneling protocol.
Current implimentation in distribution, with howto, (ICMPTX): http://thomer.com/icmptx/
Real attack scenario using ICMP data transmission for payload injection: Open Packet Capture
Use of an ICMP data transmission protocol via similar methods to ICMPTX(2006) for trojan C&C and Exfiltration: Network World
It is true that ICMP can be used by attackers to gain information, transport data covertly, etc. It is also true that ICMP is extremely useful, and that disabling it can often cause problems. Traceroute does in fact use ICMP, so disallowing certain ICMP types will break it.
The question highlights the classic balance of security and functionality, and it's up to you to determine how much functionality you're willing to lose to gain x amount of security.
One recommendation is to allow only certain types (the most commonly used), and disable all the others. Here are my iptables rules. Keep in mind that these are allowed because everything else is disallowed by default.
I think that outbound echo reply is more dangerous that inbound echo request because of ICMP amplification (either rate limit or deny this traffic). However, after decades of pondering this topic -- I've concluded that ICMP is more dangerous than useful, and thus it should be blocked in both directions, with logging on potentially spoofed outbound traffic.
The best of all worlds is null routes on everything that could be stateful-but-unwanted (TCP connections) and reflexive ACLs (performance driven) for anything stateful-but-allowed and/or not-fully-stateful (UDP datagrams), while removal of other IP protocol types, as they are unnecessary. IPsec AH/ESP is unnecessary, use OpenVPN (or similar) instead.
After you've blocked ICMP traceroute, you also need to contend with UDP based traceroute, as well as technology concepts such as found in the 0trace, LFT, and osstmm_afd tools.
While even Nmap Xmas scans are not picked up by Snort/Suricata, let alone SQLi or Javascript based attacks (in any direction), we need to recognize the importance of risks tied to network and application security attacks against modern infrastructure. We should deny, test, and verify any sort of footprinting traffic -- and I don't see why this wouldn't include ICMP but really it doesn't start or stop there.
Instead of answering the primary question of "what are the security risks of ping", I'll answer your sub-question of "Is it a good idea to block/disable on production web servers"
I think we can find a balance between security and utility here. Support staff generally find ping useful when checking the latency or availability of a certain node. Security staff are concerned about many of the security issues outlined in this page, and are often the "bad guys".
Why not consider disabling Ping in a whitelist / blacklist format, and make that known to your support staff. If your core audience is in a certain geographical region, limit the ability to ping based on IANA IP allocation
Ping and Traceroute are required to troubleshoot networks. With modern firewalls, and security tools there is very little, and bordering on non-existant chance of either protocol being used successfully in an malicious way.
In 1996, sure it was a problem, but it is now 2015 almost 20 years later, and blocking these only leads to dramatically increased time frames to resolve connectivity and performance. Crippling the ability of tier 1/2 teams to identify and fix simple routing and network issues is a service delivery issue which impacts customer's satisfaction with whatever network services you provide.


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The December 2007 issue of Health Care News reports on the House's successful effort to defeat an attempt to override President George W. Bush's SCHIP expansion veto. Also on page 1:
- The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reconsider its July decision not to pay for anemia drugs.
- A Minnesota law requiring pharmaceutical companies to disclose financial connections to medical practitioners is stirring controversy.
- Maine's uninsured rate did not improve significantly between 2003 and 2006 despite a universal health care initiative passed in 2003.
Also in this issue: European health care, interstate insurance, childhood obesity, health savings accounts, medical errors, politics and prescription drugs, junk science, Hillary Clinton's health care plan, and more. Dr. John Dale Dunn reviews Making Medicaid Work: A Practical Guide for Transforming Medicaid, which he says misses an opportunity to suggest real reforms. "It offers better color schemes for the staterooms and new deck chairs," he writes.
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SUNRISE, Fla. – Florida Panthers Executive VP/General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has signed F Logan Shaw to an entry-level contract.
Shaw, 20, finished second on the Quebec Remparts (QMJHL) in scoring, recording 68 points (26-42-68) in 67 games while also finishing with a team-high +30 during the 2012-13 regular season. He added eight points (3-5-8) in 11 playoff games. The 6-foot-3, 204-pound forward was awarded the Marius Fortier Trophy, an award given to the Remparts player most involved in the community.
The Glace Bay, Nova Scotia native played in 311 games for Cape Breton (2008-12) and Quebec (2012-13) posting 187 points (86-101-187) and 173 PIM during his major junior career. Shaw played for Team Atlantic at the 2009 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, recording two assists in five games.
Shaw was selected by Florida in the third round (76th overall) in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.
Florida hosts the New York Rangers tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. The game can be seen live on Fox Sports Florida and heard on 560 WQAM.


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Hi, some setup photos for you D90 NN5/RD16 and NN3 MKII.
You can not use the 17-55mm/f2.8 DX with the NN3, the upper rail setting needs a 132 at zoom 17. So you need an NN5 for this lens.
Do not feel irritated with the picture of the 10.5mmfisheye lens. It shows the lens with the mounted lens ring for the R1. And it is shaved, cause i normally use it with D3 on R1. But now problem at all to use it with the mounted lens ring on NN3 and NN5.
If you like to use larger and heavier lenses with the D90 than shown in the NN3, you have to choose for NN5.
The tripod for NN3, normally used for R1 is a lightweight solution from gitzo, GT1541.
The tripod for NN5/RD16 D3 is a manfrotto 055ProB.


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I have a process I can't kill with
kill -9 <pid>. What's the problem in such a case, especially since I am the owner of that process. I thought nothing could evade that
kill option.
Normally, processes cannot block SIGKILL. But kernel code can, and processes execute kernel code when they call system calls. Kernel code blocks all signals when interrupting the system call would result in a badly formed data structure somewhere in the kernel, or more generally in some kernel invariant being violated. So if (due to a bug or misdesign) a system call blocks indefinitely, there may effectively be no way to kill the process. (But the process will be killed if it ever completes the system call.)
A process blocked in a system call is in uninterruptible sleep. The
A classical case of long uninterruptible sleep is processes accessing files over NFS when the server is not responding; modern implementations tend not to impose uninterruptible sleep (e.g. under Linux, the
You may sometimes see entries marked
Sometime process exists and cannot be killed due to:
It sounds like you might have a zombie process. This is harmless: the only resource a zombie process consumes is an entry in the process table. It will go away when the parent process dies or reacts to the death of its child.
You can see if the process is a zombie by using
Check your
You can use
If @Maciej's and @Gilles's answer's don't solve your problem, and you don't recognize the process (and asking what it is with your distro doesn't turn up answers ). Check for Rootkit's and any other signs that you've been owned. A rootkit is more than capable of preventing you from killing the process. In fact many are capable of preventing you from seeing them. But if they forget to modify 1 small program they might be spotted ( e.g. they modified
As others have mentioned, a process in uninterruptible sleep cannot be killed immediately (or, in some cases, at all). It's worth noting that another process state, TASK_KILLABLE, was added to solve this problem in certain scenarios, particularly the common case where the process is waiting on NFS. See http://lwn.net/Articles/288056/
Unfortunately I don't believe this is used anywhere in the kernel but NFS.
You wrote you own the process so my reply is slightly off topic but for the record, note that the init process is immune to SIGKILL.
First, check if its a Zombie process (which is very possible):
You will see something like:
(Note the "Z" on the left)
If the 5th column is not 1, then it means it has a parent process. Try killing that parent process id.
If its PPID = 1, DON'T KILL IT!!, think which other devices or processes may be related to it.
For example, if you were using a mounted device or samba, try to unmount it. That may release the Zombie process.
Made a little script that helped me a lot take a look!
You can use it to kill any process with a given name in its path(pay attention to this!!) Or you can kill any process of a given user using the "-u username" parameter.
Kill actually means send a signal. there are multiple signals you can send. kill -9 is a special signal.
When sending a signal the application deals with it. if not the kernel deals with it. so you can trap a signal in your application.
But I said kill -9 was special. It is special in that the application doesn't get it. it goes straight to the kernel which then truly kills the application at the first possible opportunity. in other words kills it dead
kill -15 sends the signal SIGTERM which stands for SIGNAL TERMINATE in other words tells the application to quit. This is the friendly way to tell an application it is time to shutdown. but if the application is not responding kill -9 will kill it.
if kill -9 doesn't work it probably means your kernel is out of whack. a reboot is in order. I can't recall that ever happening.
Did you use sudo before command?
It should help.
There are cases where even if you send a kill -9 to a process, that pid will stop, but the process restarts automatically (for instance, if you try it with


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The Ohio Northern Promise Frequently Asked Questions
What is The Ohio Northern Promise?
What prompted the timing of this important decision?
Did the current economy influence the creation of The Ohio Northern Promise?
Why is Northern offering such a program?
How does the Four-Year Graduation Guarantee work?
What academic programs are eligible for the Four-Year Graduation Guarantee?
Who is eligible for the Four-Year Graduation Guarantee program?
How will The Ohio Northern Promise impact the University's finances?
What are the immediate benefits to new students and parents?
How will current undergraduate students benefit?
What is The Ohio Northern Promise?
The Ohio Northern Promise is a set of initiatives to make an ONU education more affordable, to reduce student loan debt, to sustain academic quality, and to prepare students for career success. More specifically, The Ohio Northern Promise is about affordable excellence. It contains three key elements:
- Offering a four-year graduation guarantee in most undergraduate programs to lower student debt
- Engaging students in high-impact practices to deepen and enrich learning
- Sustaining an impressive record of job placement and graduate and professional school admission rates for graduates
A hallmark of an ONU education is engaged learning, learning that occurs both inside and outside the classroom because of direct involvement in high-impact practices – internships, capstone courses, field experiences, study abroad and experiential learning. Ohio Northern University will expand its already extensive opportunities for high-impact practices that enrich and deepen student learning and student achievement. Finally, Northern will continue its impressive record of job placement and graduate and professional school admissions rates for our graduates, rates that average 93 percent over the last four years.
The three elements of The Ohio Northern Promise will make The Ohio Northern Experience more affordable and provide greater value to the students we prepare for lives of success and service. ↑
What prompted the timing of this important decision?
ONU is well-positioned to make such a bold move now because it is operating from a position of strength in so many areas. Ohio Northern consistently attracts very well-qualified students, and total enrollment in 2013 is the highest in four years. The University receives top marks in many national rankings including U.S. News and World Report, Washington Monthly, and The Princeton Review. Last year, the University completed a comprehensive campaign that raised $110 million (against a $100 million goal), and endowment earnings have returned to pre-recession rates. Following two years of study and implementation, ONU has improved operating efficiency and made the investment to enhance significantly enrollment and financial modeling. The University continues to create high-demand programs and has begun planning for a new engineering building. The combination of these elements makes now the ideal time to launch The Ohio Northern Promise. ↑
Did the current economy influence the creation of The Ohio Northern Promise?
In the last year, Ohio Northern University has given more focused attention to considering what kind of changes are needed to sustain academic quality AND become more affordable to qualified students and the families that support them. The University conducted a pricing study, held campus-wide forums on financial and enrollment trends, and, last spring semester, met with nearly 200 full-time faculty members in more than a dozen small-group conversations. The changes that ONU believes will work best for Northern, and that are best suited for these times, have emerged from these deliberations and were formulated in recent months. The proposal was presented to members the Ohio Northern University Board of Trustees at their annual meeting last weekend. The board devoted much of its meeting time to a thorough discussion of the University's proposal to change its own financial model and reposition Northern for even greater success in the future.
The Ohio Northern University is predicated on the view that the prolonged effects of the 2007-08 economic downturn, also known as the Great Recession, have created dramatic, even fundamental, economic changes that are having an adverse impact on higher education. The forces of impact include the following:
- A steady decline in middle-class wages and wealth
- An increasing sensitivity to price
- A growing concern about debt, fueled by stories of debilitating student debt
- A continued rise in tuition levels
- A shrinking population of high school graduates in Ohio over the next decade
While the economy has changed, much of higher education has not. The proposal discussed at the Board meeting is definitely a meaningful change for ONU. It represents a way forward that seeks to reverse some of the trends cited above and makes a quality education more available to the best students we can attract.
The proposal also demonstrates that we have listened, thoughtfully considered, and developed a plan that is right for our time and taps into the national and statewide conversation about college costs, completion, student outcomes and return on investment. In the jargon of the day, our proposal says, "We get it!" ↑
Why is Northern offering such a program?
The current economic downturn has created unprecedented financial challenges for all sectors of higher education, including the private nonprofit sector, leading many to believe that the old ways of operating and managing are inadequate. We believe that the conventional high tuition and high financial aid model embraced for decades by most private colleges and universities is not working today and is no longer sustainable as the economy resets to a new normal. Despite this financial turbulence, Ohio Northern University remains academically strong and one of the top-ranked private universities in Ohio and in the region. ↑
How does the Four-Year Graduation Guarantee work?
First-time freshman students who enroll in a major designed to be completed in four years are guaranteed that they will graduate in four years. If it takes longer (through no fault of their own), there will be no additional cost for completing the degree.
- Student signs up for the guarantee prior to matriculation.
- If a student switches majors, the guarantee may hold if the new major can be completed in the guarantee period.
- Student must successfully complete a minimum of 30 credits per year. ↑
What academic programs are eligible for the Four-Year Graduation Guarantee?
Ohio Northern University offers more than 80 baccalaureate programs. Of those programs, more than 70 percent qualify for the Four-Year Guarantee Program. ↑
Who is eligible for the Four-Year Graduation Guarantee program?
Students across most undergraduate programs will complete their bachelor's degrees in four years. This is a campus-wide commitment from the University. Assigned academic advisors will continue to help students plan their coursework each semester, and, if the students commit to stay on track, the University guarantees that they will graduate in four years.
If, for any reason not related to student performance, a student is not able to complete their course work within four years, the University will offer 16 credit hours of tuition required for graduation. This, combined with our tuition-rate reductions, helps ensure that students who take out student loans to finance their higher education will minimize student debt. ↑
How will The Ohio Northern Promise impact the University's finances?
This decision is intended to make the value – in terms of experience, outcomes and cost – of an Ohio Northern education more transparent in the marketplace. While some of the benefits to students and families will impact Northern's finances, we are confident in our ability to manage this financially. Given the economic times, Northern will continue to look for opportunities to further strengthen our financial position for the benefit of both the University and our students. ↑
What are the immediate benefits to new students and parents?
To make degree attainment more affordable, Ohio Northern University will reduce tuition for all students to rates similar to those charged prior to the recession, and the University will offer a four-year graduation guarantee. Completing a bachelor's degree in four years will permit students to minimize their student-debt levels. ↑
How will current undergraduate students benefit?
Although current undergraduate students may see a reduction in scholarships and grants, their net tuition charge will be frozen at 2013-14 levels for 2014-15. Some students will pay less than 2013-14. Current students will not otherwise be charged a 3 percent, or about a $1,000, increase in tuition for 2014-15 as would have occurred in the traditional financial model. Letters are being mailed to the student's attention at their permanent addresses to outline the new financial aid model. ↑
What are the risks for ONU?
No decision about tuition setting is risk-free. Ohio Northern University has calculated the short-term risks as best it can and is prepared to fund this change through a combination of sources, including attracting additional new tuition revenue and gifts, controlling costs, and exercising budget discipline. ↑


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The Spotify indicator icon clashes with the native Unity theme, and is redundant, since it is already listed in the Sound indicator menu. Is there a way to remove or disable the Spotify indicator? Or at least to change the icon (couldn't grep it on my filesystem). I am using the Spotify "preview" with 12.04. Thanks!
For Spotify version 0.8.8 and earlier
The best way to do this is to remove the icon used by spotify to display the indicator. This can be done by executing the following command in the terminal,
Replace user_name with your user name. This should effectively disable the spotify indicator. Exit spotify and restart spotify to notice the change.
For versions higher than 0.8.8
open up a terminal and open the zip file as root:
Then, inside the zip file, navigate to the _linux subfolder and delete the .ico files inside it. That's it.
It could be worth trying to use apparmor to prevent spotify from loading the icon.
/usr/bin/spotify { # deny read access to the icon deny /usr/share/spotify/theme/other/_linux/icon.ico r, }
Wait for a few seconds and try running spotify again.
For more recent versions of Spotify the solution proposed by Nik no longer works. This is because the config files have been put inside a zip file, which is located at
You could do essentially the same as Nik proposed. First, open up a terminal and open the zip file as root:
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According to an article published in the science journal Nature, scientists from MIT and Harvard have managed to observe light photons as particles. That means that while light doesn't really have matter or mass in the way we normally understand it, it can still be made to "stick together" to form light molecules.
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Us Carnell Petetan was booked into the McLennan County Jail at 7 p.m. Tuesday and is held on a charge of murder-intended death and on a parole violation.
A jail records clerk said early Wednesday Petetan has not yet seen a magistrate so no bond has been set on the murder charge but there is a no bond on the parole violation.
Petetan is charged in the Sept. 23 death of his wife, Kimberly Petetan, 41, who was shot repeatedly in the torso during what police say was a heated argument at the Landing Apartments, in the 2500 block of East Lake Shore Drive in Waco.
Petetan was arrested the next day in Bryan after he was stopped on a traffic violation and officers discovered he was named in a warrant.
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Does anyone know of a dock for an iPhone that has standard usb data/power, but also a headset jack (not just speaker / headphones output)?
I wonder what is that for, if it's to connect to a stereo, the jack on the Universal Dock is more than enough.
If the idea is to use the phone to answer calls while in the dock, I would strongly suggest a Bluetooth set as that's what they are made for. You will find plenty on the Apple Store as well.
The biggest problem you face here is the fact that you want to use your phone, as a phone, while in a dock.
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BluePhone Elite was an option for this (with serious caveats), but it never had terribly good support for the iPhone. Only because of the limitations imposed by Apple. And, apparently BPE is dead now? What a shame. That was a good app for many many other phones.
I'm (unfortunately) very confident in saying that you will have a very hard time finding this dream product of yours, and you're better off simply plugging your own headset into the headphone port, or like balexandre suggested, pair a Bluetooth headset. A product like you want will invariably not pass Apple Certification, which means you will not easily find it in any mainstream store (not only Apple Stores, but BestBuy and it's ilk).


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In his America essay Bishop Thomas J. Curry of Los Angeles opines: "The dominant academic interpretation of American Catholic history, one that portrays the role for Catholic laity as 'pray, pay and obey,' is itself a recycling of the anti-Catholic interpretation that prevailed in the 19th and 20th centuries. The insularity of Catholic commentators renders them largely incapable of locating Catholicism, past or present, within the larger American context."
When I entered graduate school in U.S. History at a public university and expressed an interest in American Catholicism I was urged to discover on my own the "dominant academic interpretations" in the field. I was soon immersed in works that treated the contributions of Catholic thought to New Deal-era reform movements; the 'evangelical' dimension of parish missions; the role of Catholicism in shaping American notions of ethnic identity; and many, many others by scholars whose integrity and intellectual honesty was a source of my vocation. None recycled an "anti-Catholic interpretation;" they were anything but insular in their outlook and they inspired me and many others to continue seeking ways to locate Catholicism "within the larger American context." So how can we take seriously an essay that is grounded in such an ideologically-driven misreading of U.S. Catholic historiography?
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Hi Jim -- we haven't met or corresponded for quite a while. Hope you and your family are doing well. As a fellow contributor to the scholarly study of American Catholicism, I can only answer your question briefly. We can't take Curry seriously, because he's so clearly unfamiliar with the literature he criticizes. It's also clear that he doesn't understand what historical interpretation involves. I can't comprehend how locating Catholicism within the broader outlines of American history is an act of hostility or apostasy, as he seems to imply. One would think that Curry himself would welcome a historical approach, if only to answer, in his own terms, the question of what he considers "anti-Catholicism" is so rife among Catholic intellectuals. Does he think they -- or we -- just woke up one morning and decided to be contrary?
Obviously academics dont appreciate outsiders commenting on historiography, especially if they are Bishops. Below is a view from inside the guild. It comes from Wilfred McClay, an award-winning historian. Hes an Evangelical Protestant and political conservative. "But there are many people who do have legitimate complaints, particularly younger scholars of my acquaintance who are shocked at the arrogant closedness of the academy when they encounter it, and are terrified of the job market, the tenuring process, and all the rest. The two categories, conservatism and Christianity, have to be dealt with separately, but each is toxic in its own way, and the combination of the two can be lethal to one's career prospects. "The moral dilemmas faced by these young people are considerable. I have numerous younger friends who are in graduate school at leading graduate institutions, and who feel the intense pressures of professional deformation from very early on. They come to me for advice about how to balance their concerns. There is a lot of talk in such discussions about "what hill you want to die on," but I encourage them to think more positively about the challenges they are facing, to think of them as opportunities. But they need good solid advice about how to negotiate these waters, about where to think like serpents and where to think like doves. I don't think that their churches, or the people they've looked to as spiritual leaders, are much help, alas. "Just as an empirical matter, I think politics generally trumps religion in the academy, by which I mean that Christians who make it very clear that they are not politically conservative but who are outspoken about their faith may fare a little better than, say, outspoken conservatives who are committed secularists. But only a little. In fact, you could populate a small college faculty with all the brilliant younger scholars who are on the left politically, but who have gone unemployed or underemployed for years because they are "too religious." Such people may make it clear that they aren't conservatives, but in the end it makes little difference. In general, all it takes is for them to hint that they might be opposed to unrestricted abortion rights, and they are in trouble. Though they may never hear about it in any direct way."http://gcc.savvior.com/VISION_VALUES_CONCISE_Q_A_with_Dr_Wilfred_McClay.php
Before allowing Mr. Molloy to derail the conversation into the subject of liberal bias in the academy, first take note of his sweeping claim that "obviously academics don't appreciate outsiders commenting on historiography, especially if they are bishops," which is just about as unsupportable a claim as one can make on the basis of Jim's and Gene's posts.
I quoted McClay, not to derail the conversation into the subject of liberal bias, as Gallicho seems to think was my intent, but to point out that some knowledgeable observers contend that there might, just might, be traces of religious bias in the academy, even in history workshops. If Ive again exceeded the bounds of propriety Im sure Ill be properly chastened.
Anti-religious bias in the academy? Wow, stop the presses. Thanks, Molloy, for reminding us of the obvious.I know Bill McClay. (I'd contest Molloy's characterization of him as an "evangelical," and I don't think that "conservative" captures his politics, either.) He's been very helpful in my own career, which does indeed exemplify much of what he says about the difficulties faced by religious scholars. He's right -- since I'm politically left-wing, I've had an easier time of it than other openly religious historians. But I also have to say that my stating my opposition to abortion didn't lose me any friends, either. (I won't make any broader claims for that personal experience; I'll only note that it contradicts McClay's assertion.) I've also been blessed to teach at a Catholic university where the sight of students carrying around Bibles, or taking theological issues seriously, isn't taken as evidence of cretinism. In any case, Bill's comments have nothing whatsoever to do with the point that Jim Fisher was making. One of the oldest conservative tricks is to characterize their opponents as "insulated" from Catholic masses whose doctrinal conservatism is assumed. It's the old wine-and-cheese-limousine-liberal-who-looks-down-his-nose-at-the-regular-people routine. Boring.
Zowie - If I'm not derailing things I'm using well-known conservative tricks, all within three seemingly innocent lines. It could be pointed out that to compound my perfidy it I failed to mention that McClay is on the editorial board of, heavens forfend, First Things. Perhaps another fiendishly clever trick to lure innocents into saying something positive about people holding another point of view?I thought I was simply suggesting that McClay's point of view shows that there's more to the Bishop's complaint than is thus far allowed on this site.
Patrick,You would not understand. You are uninitiated in the discipline of 'cultural history.' I mean, you didn't even quote Gramsci.
Lame attempt at hipness, mlj. Quoting Gramsci went out a while ago. By the way, will you ever have the courage or even the courtesy to give us even a first name? Typing three small-case letters is, as Bill Mazzella pointed out a while ago, like addressing a corporation.
I might add that two important theoretical influences on cultural history have been anthropologists Victor Turner and Mary Douglas -- both practicing Catholics whose interest in the meanings of objects and social practices was spurred, in part, by a sacramental sense of reality. So enough of the red-baiting, please.
First, I wonder if he is not confusing anti-Catholicism with anti-clericalism? He may well not like what someone like Garry Wills, for example, is writing, but it's hard to see it as anti-Catholic. Presumably Bishop Curry would agree that clericalism and the clericalist mind-set are unfortunate (if not perhaps heretical) aspects of the Church as it exists in the world. But from where does the mind-set spring? Is is it only academic interpreters of American Catholic history who speak of the role of the laity as to "pray, pay, and obey?" Can he think of no examples of bishops or priests speaking and acting this way? Or does he, perhaps, have rather loose guidelines for what is, and is not, anti-Catholic? If one were to suggest (as seems to me obvious) that there might be a relationship between the forms of ecclesiastical governance and administration, and the appalling sexual scandal of recent years, would he consider the very raising of the question as somehow "anti-Catholic?" Would those bishops who engaged in cover-ups, or who tried to pay off victims to keep them quiet, have felt quite so free to act in such un-Christian (anti-Catholic?) ways, if they had considered themselves accountable to those over whom they seek to exercise authority, as well as to the Vatican above them? And if we conclude that they would not have, should we consider ways of reforming our structures of governance -- which are, after all, nothing more than the creations of fallible human beings, in order to prevent such scandals (of any sort) from doing us such great damage again? Just as it is mistaken to assume that all criticism of Israeli policies must be anti-Semitic, so it is mistaken to assume that all criticsm of various aspects of the Church is anti-Catholic.
It was Bishop Curry's use of the hoary "pay, pray and obey" motif that initially drew my attention. I've been reading U.S. Catholic history for nearly 30 years and don't recall a reputable book published during that time reflecting the views the Bishop ascribed to our field. His statement seemed a caricature of a pre-existing and already bizarre caricature and as such must be intended to serve some ideological purpose. It's great to have bishops interested in U.S. Catholic history but we need to find some 'common ground' in reading practices before we can advance the discussion.
I marvel at mljs red-baiting skills. That was one trick I failed to use. Apparently using a single word, Gramsci, is enough to sound the alarms. No doubt congressional hearings and denunciations have been scheduled, along with the obligatory street rioting. Now that I see how easy it is to practice this trick I have no excuse to avoid it in the future.But I am troubled to learn that Gramsci is no longer au courant. Even worse, I learn that cultural theory may be subject to a certain trendiness. Who would have suspected? To many this will comes as devastating news and to others it will be simply unbearable. May the holy saints preserve us and, more importantly, may they preserve cultural theory.Long ago I missed an opportunity to take a course offered by Victor Turner at the U of Chicago. To compensate for my sin Ive been following Mary Douglass work for some time and, as it happens, am currently reading a book about her work. There I learn that her book Natural Symbols indicted the gulf between intellectually motivated Catholic reformers and the beliefs of their flock. Richard Fardon, Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography, p. 43. I immediately recognize this as a conservative trick on the part of Mary Douglas. To use the technical term supplied by McCarraher it is the old wine-and-cheese-limousine-liberal-who-looks-down-his-nose-at-the-regular-people routine. She further identifies herself as an anthropologist descended from the Bog Irish. Of course to find Mary Douglas using these tricks only confirms me in my wickedness and to learn that her thought reflects a sacramental sense of reality places me further in her debt. In truth, though, conservatives are so corrupt and so devious, even without the help of Mary Douglas, the true extent of our trickery may never by fathomed, even by the most cynical of our foes.Now I perform another conservative trick, perfected in the conservative laboratories. Its called derailing the derailing and is meant to return the discussion to Bishop Currys complaint. The allegedly benighted Bishop cited the neglect of Philip Hamburgers work in Catholic academia. I searched for any Commonweal review or discussion of the book. I couldnt find one. I may have missed it but if not I suggest is as an excellent topic for our professional historians to showcase their skills.
Patrick,You are beginning to understand the talismanic power of cultural theory!


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YORKVILLE - Citing both a lack of demand as well as other ongoing projects, American Municipal Power will not build a hydroelectric power plant at the Pike Island Locks and Dam.
Had it been built on the western side of the dam, the plant would have generated 256,000 megawatt-hours of renewable power per day for use in AMP participating Ohio municipalities.
"We have four other hydropower projects ongoing. We just don't have a need for this one," said Kent Carson, spokesman for Columbus, Ohio-based AMP, adding the closest of these projects to the Upper Ohio Valley will be at the the Willow Island Locks and Dam near St. Marys, W.Va.
AMP also operates the New Martinsville Hydroelectric Plant at the Hannibal Locks and Dam, which began generating power in 1988.
In October, Boston-based Free Flow Power Project submitted a competing proposal to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. However, both AMP and Free Flow eventually withdrew their applications.
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"Empty Nest Syndrome" refers to how parents feel whenever their last child who was living with them leaves for college or to out on his or her own. Either parent can feel lonely or depressed (or happy and relieved and proud of the child) when this happens, but the most common thing I have seen as a psychiatrist is the Moms getting somewhat lonely and depressed when the last child leaves and many Dads celebrating having more independence and freedom in the home and feeling pretty good about the child going off to a career or job and becoming more self-sufficient. So here are some pointers for parents who may experience any emotions when their last child leaves the home, making it an "empty nest."
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I googled for that problem which directed me to download a boot repair tool,
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then I opened the live ubuntu from a USB, launched the "boot repair" again, choose : recommended repair , then restart, It returns to the first problem , grub menu appear, from which I can choose only ubuntu , but win 7 show this msg again :
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We have a kitchen with a U shaped with a peninsula that divides the kitchen and the living room/dining room. If the end of the peninsula is against a black wall, how far up the wall do we stop the backsplash? I'm also assuming the backsplash will be stopped at the end of the counter top so it doesn't go into the dining room as well, right?
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CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report ...
Undocumented Immigrants as Taxpayers
As the debate over illegal immigration continues to rage, some pundits and policymakers are claiming that unauthorized immigrants do not pay taxes and rely heavily on government benefits. Neither of these claims is borne out by the facts. Undocumented men have work force participation rates that are higher than other workers, and all undocumented immigrants are ineligible for most government services, but pay taxes as workers, consumers, and residents.
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A 2006 study by the Texas State Comptroller found that "the absence of the estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants in Texas in fiscal 2005 would have been a loss to our gross state product of $17.7 billion. Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received."
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Lvl 9 vs League 2: With 30 mins left, do you think I stand a chance of a shocker?
Grats Andehlson - wtg!
Lvl 9 vs League 2: With 30 mins left, do you think I stand a chance of a shocker?
Oh well - 3 mins later of the screenshot, they equalized... But 1-1 and a replay away will give some more cash in the bank
6th of October: FA Cup 3rd Round (home, draw)
10th of October: Sussex Charity Cup (home, lost)
13th of October: FA Vase 2nd Round (Away, won)
17th of October: FA Cup 3rd Round Replay (away, ???)
The board is delighted about FA Cup (Superb), and dissappointed with Charity Cup (poor)...
Hello??? Might it have something to do with the fact that the lads played for their life against Oxford 4 days earlier? We were 27 mins away from direct qualification to 4th round, but they whine about the ****** Charity Cup... Jeez
Just changed to a 442 Diamond and had my first good match in a while.
Using a standard 442 I had played 8 in the league, won my first 2 and drawn the next 8.
Switched to the 442 Diamond and won my next match 2-0, away from home, against a team that were heavy favourites.
Glad I can help someone
The record for me with the two different tactics:
442 Flat: 4-2-0 7-3 (6 open play)
442 Diamond: 4-2-0 13-5 (10open play)
I scored 6 goals more and let in 2 more, which means it for me is a better tactic/formation. Even though I scored fewer goals from open play (8.77%), it creates so many more chances, and more goals from my forwards(5 vs 3) that I can live with scoring a bit more from corners
They obviously do everything to throw me out of all cups. I always draw better teams than myself it seems (all but one this season) - Now its FA Vase 4th round against Bishop Auckland
You got far enough
Just started the new season. Got a few 5-star (assistant reports) youngsters but since 3 of 09/10's 5-star players werent good enough to warm the bench I guess it doesnt mean a lot
But 2 are fairly promising (compared to previous year's 5-star flops)
Tony Stone (F C)
Stuart Gillespie (M R)
According to my assistant manager they would be leading stars for most Northern League D1 sides. We'll see
Just completed my pre-season, was tarting around the world for a bit of cash -
4-0 Whitchurch Utd Reserves
1-1 Deal
1-1 Blue Star (Sri Lanka)
2-3 Nooristan (Afghanistan)
1-0 Kickers (Afghanistan)
0-5 San Lorenzo (Argentina)
1-4 Vélez (Argentina)
1-0 Bridgnorth
At least we won a game against a foreign team! And after looking at Afghanistan's national team, it's nice SI listed USA as a fierce rival.
Two potential stars on my books are Marvin Lambert, a centre mid, and Micky Godfrey, a striker with an attractive finishing attribute!
First league against Verwood, bring it!
I just noticed one weird thing you can do at this level.
You can still fine a player 1 or 2 weeks wages if they get sent off.
I just fined one of my players a weeks wages, a massive £0, after he got sent off and he is apparently annoyed at being fined £0.
Lucky players... I got a £110 fine from the FA
I'm going to give this a bash. I love getting sacked.
Gavin Hart at Great Yarmouth Town
My best player is undoubtedly my 15 year old goalkeeper. I lack any strikers. Many of my youths are better than my older players already.
Last edited by gcah2008; 15-11-2009 at 15:47.
Paul Thomas GK
Tommy Williams GK
Andy Stanley GK
David Jones GK
Callum Martin GK
Dave Faulds DR
Danny Dawson DRC
Nathan Winters DRL
Gary Collins DR
Noel Prescott DL
Andy Ward DLC
Michael Hyde DLC
David Grieve DL
Sean Hall DC
Greg Steadman DC
Darren Kelly DC
Martyn Broad DC
Tom Armstrong DC
Jamie Lloyd DM, M C
Matthew Eastwood DM, M C
Terry O'Connor M RL
John Potts M R
Kwame Yahaya M R
Jamie Folkes M R
Nathan Judge M L
Carl Masters M L
Darren Ashby M C
Richard Lee M C
David Burton M C
Karl Joyce M C
Sam Birch M C
Anthony Heywood AM RLC
Liam Smith AM RLC
Joseph Simpson AM L
James Brown AM L, ST
Ben Paterson AM C
Conor Sinclair AM C
John Rice AM C
James Breeze ST
Ashley Smith ST
Jeff Dean ST
Bob Bates ST
Stuart Thompson ST
Jamie Cain ST
Adam Baxter ST
Thats the squad they have - Only one player have left since last season, Michael Needham.
Tell me if he is there, and who it is and I'll give you his stats
Last edited by supersaint; 15-11-2009 at 17:11. Reason: I hate forum formats :(
Just wondering people, you knw when u link the url, how do you change it to what you want to call it for e.g 'Gavin Hart at Great Yarmouth Town' instead of http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/6057/yarmouth.jpg
Code:[URL ="http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/6057/yarmouth.jpg"]Whatever you want to name it[/URL] Without the space between URL and =
Im on a roll now:
Wick (H): 3-0
Chichester(A): 2-0
Wick was 4th when I met them, Chichester 8, Peaceheaven 1st - Im now top of the league with 3 points and 3 matches in hand
And the goalscoring have really changed after switching from flat 442 to Wide Diamond - Im already up to 30 goals, only 3 goals less than I scored whole season last year
And my top goalscorer overall has one goal more than last years had
Getting on quite well, considering this rubbish team. Yet to concede in competitive matches.
Look how I stacked up on friendly matches, trying to earn some cold hard cash.
So my first season was over with Worcester Park and I was fairly happy with the team after being predicted to come 21st and ending up 17th in the league.
I reached the 3rd round of the FA Vase and the 2nd round of both The Combined Counties Cup.
However, some how they were dissapointed in with the league position :S
Roll on next season
Doing well there guys
You know top flight players complain about fixture congestion and too many matches?
Well, Im currently on 5th of February - We have so far played 25 league games and 25 cup games, and have 13 league and at least 2 cup matches left.
Thats 65 matches - for a Level 9 team
Thought I'd give this a go, seeing as I play my teams home games at Tavistock's pitch, and recently played a friendly against Tavistock AFC U18's. (I play for the other Tavy team)
Finally finished 2nd season.
Board expected play-offs just after being promoted to Level 9, demanding people...
- Finished #1 in league
- FA Cup 3rd round - Losing to Oxford after replay
- Finalist Sussex Senior Cup
- Winner FA Vase Cup
Teams from higher leagues beaten in cups
- Bromsgrove (Southern Premier, FA Cup)
- Chesham Utd (Southern 1st Div, FA Cup)
- Kettering (Blue Square Premier, FA Cup)
- Whitehawk (Isthmian 1st Div, Sussex Senior Cup)
- Lewes (Blue Square South, Sussex Senior Cup)
Made a profit of £86K this season, which would have been a loss without the prizemoney of £87K
The board have given me a transfer budget of £10K and wage budget of £2K. I guess I dont need the transfer budget, so I just have to put it into the wage budget instead then
All in all a good season - now I just have to live up to the board expectation of a playoff place
Des Tiny's Stone Dominoes
Hopefully not falling like the name suggests
Well I have started a game as the Stone Dominoes in NW Counties Div 1, I quite like the size of my starting squad, but the players look average at this point. Des Tiny is a Scottish-born Kiwi who has come back to take over on of the smallest clubs in England. The youth team looks alright as well.
Last edited by Lower Leagues Rule; 16-11-2009 at 05:29.
No not stoned haha, though our game against the reserves is not looking so good at 1-1, though I do like my Youth MR, he is the third best in the squad, but has clear potential at 16 haha, may just start him and build the squad around him. Not only did we draw 1:1, but the friendly brought a huge crowd of 0 to our ground.
Last edited by Lower Leagues Rule; 16-11-2009 at 05:38.
Supersaint - Are you noticing any speed issues now that you've done a couple seasons; as I swear I can already feel some slowness when clicking anything?
Last edited by Azeryk-; 16-11-2009 at 07:06.
Well here i go first time signing up for a challenge, wish me luck with my local side of Grimsby Borough who have only just got into level 10 bless 'em
just finished pre-season and i only lost one! which was to norwich in league one and it was only 2 - 0 which is very respectable i had a nice 4 - 0 win in there which was nice and another good thing my under 18's gave me a run for my money and i just pipped them 2 - 1
Hmmm.. stupid board
9% Confidence! (salaries)
Their comment
15% is out of control?!
So 143€ out of 1059€ is out of control...
Takes so long to load after the FA Vase games... Ahhhhh
Good note is that I won 3-0
Yep my team turned semi-pro. Problem is I dont care so I didnt renew anyone's contracts (after turning Semi-Pro). Just can't afford it...
Basically I am only paying my U19 squad
Hi guys, I am still going on with my FM09 GYAC challenge, does anyone mind if I post in here (clearly noting that it is the 2009 version of the challenge) so that I have some people following my team?
Let me know if anyone objects, otherwise I'll post my updates in here.
Well the half way point of the season has come around fairly quick, another season for Worcester Park which has been so inconsistent with us sitting fairly average in the league table. However, there has been some good points so far in the season.
Due to the 'great?' youth facilities we have been able to bring through some first-team youth players. The best of the bunch is the left-back who started playing for me at the age of 15, Stuart Hall. The attacking midfielder who has been hit with a bad injurying but has come back stronger, Steve Dukes and lastly, the best finisher in the team, at a remarkable... 7! Matt Johnson. However, there has been one Mr.Consistent for me and that is, Dale Willmott, his peformance in the Tokyngton match was outstanding. Without him we could be much worse off!
Even though the league has looked very dull, we have had one hell of a cup run! We were unfortunate to be knocked out of the FA Vase cup in the 2nd round but have been amazing in the Combined Counties Premier Cup knocking out 2 premier side and one division one side, the main highlight being the latest one, 2-1 win over high flying Cove. Also, we are still in the Combined Counties Division One Cup
All in all, looking forward to next half
:o 6 games unbeaten! Up to 10th, We've got hope!
Last edited by tomo_whufc; 16-11-2009 at 21:38. Reason: 5.. Now 6 :D
Just reached half way through the first season with this challenge. I am Meir KA, and we are sat in 4th place joint on points with 2nd place after 21 games. Not a very exciting team to watch though, good defence but poor strike force means that only scored 11 and conceeded 11 in these 21 games!
Best 4 players so far this season are regular back four, with 17 year old centre back Michael Russell looking like a good prospect.
just been on a nice 7 game not conceding spree (don't know how) just 4 points off the leader and on a 8 game unbeaten streak, also i have only scored two goals from open play the rest are from corners and penalties (which i've had 3 games in a row!!) http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/189...byborough4.png
Just saw this topic and thought why not? :P I need a break from my Newcastle team anyway. So I started a new game with this database loaded, made a new manager... for Bloxwich United in English West Midlands Premier League Division
Manager -
Team -
Wish me luck!
I just love some of the name of teams in lower league
And sometimes the name combinations made by FM, makes me giggle. My DR scored a goal at home and I found myself saying "Dyke scores at the Crouch"
One thing I dont like, is all the cups - After five months of the season (end of December), we have played 16 league matches and 17 cup matches. We have at least 2 cup matches and 26 league matches left. That makes it a total of 61 matches this season - last season we played 69 matches... Poor semi-pros
And thanks to the cups, Im currently 3rd in the league with 5 games in hand
Nice going York and Sheep Just dont get too excited by the good defending - its just because ai strikers are even more crap than your own
GL "Don Corleone"
@super - Thanks :P So far I am enjoying a fair amount of goodluck it seems. Almost at the end of midseason and i'm sitting at the top of the table. My strikers blow monkey bits, miss penalties, and score no more than a maximum of 3-4 goals every 5 matches but hey, a draw is better then nothing My defence seems to be quite amazing and has blocked a lot of goals.
I'll post the league table once I reach midseason...a couple hours I guess if I can stop watching star trek :P
Its funny how after a goal the commentary goes "The stewards struggle to hold the fans back!" and there are like 65 people watching the match lol
Last edited by BlackEnd; 17-11-2009 at 15:03.
So I have decided to give this a go. I am not expecting to do very well but it looks like fun and a definite challenge.
Just taken over AFC Emley in Northern Counties East Division 1. Here is my profile.
Ok what is with all the cards at this level, didn't have a problem in pre-season but just played my first league game and had six yellow cards and one red card. Didn't think too much of it, played my next game which was in the cup and got five yellow cards and three red cards. Checked my tackling instructions and it is at default.
Anyone else having this problem? Or have I just been a little unlucky?
I was looking for a reason to do a new level 10 save for the small club to big club extended edition, I think I've found one Gonna go look at clubs now.
Say hello to the new manager of Croydon Municipal
Just beat them actually
Decided to try this challenge as done something similar in FM2009. Managing Croydon Municipal as its close to my nan's house.
My profile: http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/p...85/profile.jpg
Lots of fouls, lots of cards = looking at position worst on this, light tackling no matter what position and increase closing down a little bit
One question. with staff, can you hire staff who came through your youths but you released them?
So a nice twist of events. Bloxwich United was taken over by a tycoon who gave the club 2k(zomgh4x) and has changed the status of my club from Amateur to Professional. Funny thing is he hasnt given me any wage budget....how am I supposed to offer players a full time contract?
And now my players have started asking for fulltime contracts :| The goalkeeper is asking for 1800 a week!! Is he mad?
EDIT 2 - Holy mother of....
Last edited by BlackEnd; 18-11-2009 at 09:32.
WHAT 5M!!!! Ill be lucky to get a packet of cheese and onion crisps for my transfer budget.
That is hilarious! £5m at that level is obscene. Weird you have no wage budget though! You should be able to get your youth facilities up very high with that money though
transfer transfer money to wage budget.
Been keeping an eye on this for a week or so now and thought, meh why not start.
So here's the personal profile of the new manager of Team Northumbria of the English Northern League Division Two.
I've always been a fan of the lower leagues on Football Manager but never something quite this extreme... it should be a fun challenge.
At first glance our squad doesn't look up to much at all but we do have a number of players with pace and acceleration over 12 and a youth striker with finishing and composure of around 10, so it's not all that bad...
Here's my first three league results;
Won 1-0 vs. Sunderland Ryhope CA (Away)
Won 3-2 vs. Guisborough (Away)
Won 3-1 vs. Hebburn (Home)
So not a bad start at all.
Well well well, from my last post it seemed as if it was going to be another mediocre season, how wrong was I
From my last post we were sitting 17th in the league. After that post we went on a 14 game unbeaten run in all competitions which saw me going up to 2nd in the league and the main highlight the 3-0 victory over Farnborough Resevers, thanks to a certain Josh Rhodes who decided to come into form in the second half of the season. However, this run had to end somewhere and it did, After this we struggled to pick up points but Worcester Park were able to secure a succesful 12th place in the league (predicted 17th).
We also had the small matter of the Combined Counties Premier Cup. We were in the semi-finals with there being a suprising 3 D1 teams and one PREM team. We were drawn against Sport London e Benfica who was one of the 3 in the D1 teams. After a hard fought game, we were able to win 1-0 in extra-time thanks to a well placed header from Andy Dawson. So we were there!!! The first final in 90 years in the Combined Counties Premier Cup. We were against the underacheiving Mole Valley who finished below us. The game ended 1-1 and unfortunately it went to penalties and the even more unfortunate thing was... we lost 6-5 on penalties! However, we did earn some good dough out of it
And yes, we had another small matter, the Combined Counties Divison 1 Cup. We were also in the semi-finals in this and were drawn against high-flying, top of the table, Knaphill... We won 2-1! Couldn't believe it, hadn't beaten them in the past 2 years in the league and decide to beat them in the cup, typical. So we were in another final! This time this one was against the semi-finalists in the other cup, Sport London e Benfica. However, we had some injuries and we had a fairly weak side out and were taught a lesson with us losing 2-0. However, we did earn some good dough out of this, aswell!
So all in all, a very succesful season. Next season here we come!
Well, might as well give this a go. I've taken over at South Park
I have got to January and I'm 16th of 19 teams in the league. Fortunately, with no relegation places, they are calling that a mid-table position. I'm still in the FA Vase. Lower I come this season, less expectation I will be set next season, I hope.
Edit: Just won in the FA Vase 4th round Replay, go Great Yarmouth Town.
Last edited by gcah2008; 18-11-2009 at 20:34.
Great job mate, good luck
Sold 45 season tickets and won my first game 2-0. Awesome
I'll give an update while I wait for the inevitably long FA Vase.
I came 15th (of 19) last season. I forgot about renewing my staff contracts, just holidayed some summer. So had to sign 2 obscure staff, assistant manager and physio.
Second season and I've finished my 18 friendlies within a month, getting over £250k in gate receipts. Tasty! Now, I've won my first 3 league matches! My expectations in the league are to just enjoy the experience, so I can't really get sacked, I guess? :P
Lost 1-0 the next game. The fans are saying I should have played a 15 year old striker. He may become my new impact player.
Thought I might as well show my friendlies.
So just finished my first season with AFC Emley in the Northern Counties East Division 1. Finished 4th which meant a playoff against Daisy Hill. Dominated the game, Daisy Hill got a man sent off, but we just couldn't find that goal. So it was off to penalties, and after missing are first two I knew it was not to be our day. Daisy Hill go up with a 3-2 victory on penalties. Will give a more in depth season review a bit later on.
Just got Boro & Leeds amongst others now so its fine
Last edited by Boynebattler; 20-11-2009 at 20:09.
Alright chaps - been looking around the forums and love this challenge section, this one in particular caught my eye, Ive been a member for while now (Mostly Browsing) but thought i'd get involved.
Ive just started a save with AFC Liverpool in the North West Counties Division One. The Media prediction for us is to finish 1st :confused: "Pressure" although haven't really had a look around the squad yet, maybe they will be right.
Here's a quick look at my FACILITIES
and my FREINDLIES
Last edited by Boynebattler; 20-11-2009 at 20:08.
I finished the league in 7th, after a poor finish to the season. I was 2nd with 9 games to go. Lost in the semi-final of the Eastern Counties League Cup on penalties too. Atleast there is a great side, my under-18's won their U18 league. So my youth is somewhat decent.
Time to create some more money-making friendlies!
So, just finished season one, and boy am i not used to this low level of football management , however all water under the bridge now, and we'll move on.
Managed to finish 9th after being 15th for 60% of the season lying in 15th and was knocked out in 1st rd of all comps barring one, my own league comp - managed a Quarter Final in that, but who am i kidding, this wa the 2nd rd - :o
Below is the link which details all the essential info from the season in one picture, managed to cut and paste crop ect... on photoshop so its better than 3-4 different pictures.
So onto season 2, lets hope we can grow as a team, after all my avge age of squad is just 22
As no-one has objected to my proposal to continue updated my FM09 GYAC game in here (currently in the 2023/24 season), I will post my updated in here shortly, and also a quick summary of the club achievements to date given it's my 15th season in charge!
Well, I couldn't turn down the opportunity to manage my local side of Westfield.
Manager Profile
Should be fun, or insanely difficult... hopefully both.
Welcome aboard Gareth.
Success is NOT an option! Then you'll enjoy the challenge.
You get the idea?
I've just finished arranging my friendlies leagues and cup for the 4th season. I'm expecting alot of gate receipts and TV revenue.
Bradford, Anderlecht and Zamalek in friendly league.
Notts County, Northampton and Farnborough in friendly cup.
Bradford, Tigre and Zamalek in friendly league. (TV)
Anderlecht, Standard Liege and Rangers in friendly cup. (TV)
Nunthorpe Athletic in friendly match.
Aston Villa, Birmingham and Anderlecht in friendly league. (TV)
Rangers, Valladolid and Rayo Vallecano in friendly league. (TV)
Genoa, Atalanta and Lazio in friendly league. (TV)
Anderlecht, Rayo Vallecano and Tigre in friendly league. (TV)
Ludlow in friendly match.
Leicester City, Derby County and Notts Forest in friendly cup.
Anderlecht, Rayo Vallecano and Tigre in friendly league. (TV)
Ilford, Nantwich and Rugby in friendly league.
Anderlecht in friendly match.
Fritwell in friendly match.
Your players will be knackered, good luck
gcah2008 - thats gonna be a lot of revenue generated
Whats ya bank balance like now, im on saeason two, just started ansd ive got £227k
Thanks. Hopefully I can actually get out of this division now. My original youths are starting to develop, I think.
Im thinking ive got about 3-4 years at least to get out of tthis hell hole, i mean i go on arun of 2-3 wins and think ive got it, then lose to bottom o league at home, frustrating isnt it, but bloody great.
I know exactly what you mean. I started one of my season's with 6 consecutive wins, thought I'd romp it. Then halfway through the season, couldn't even get a point for love nor money.
Friendly results
Got completely destroyed in most of friendlies. Not much effect on either team morale or board confidence. Then there is my wonderful finances, £1.7mill+ of my turnover is from gate receipts and £1.3mill+ from TV revenue.
And my board has finally considered training and youth facility upgrades.
Got upto December in season two, went to my dads to whatch the darts and when i come home, my game is not on and when i reload it its upto Aug,
So i'm just gonna start again, see if i can make a better start.
This is why there is a autosave option.
Unlucky Boyne.
I'm coming to the end of the 4th season, I'm third in the league and I've won the Norfolk Senior Cup. Hopefully I can end it with promotion this time.
My board has.... expanded my youth and training facilities... agreed another youth and training facility expansion.... turned the club professional...
FM09 GYAC - Mertyr 15 yr Recap - Mary Mark!
Hi all, I am going into my 15th season of this challenge on FM09 with Mertyr (I am not buying FM10), and have been updated my career here: http://community.sigames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31
However, with this new thread appearing, I thought it would be best to share my updates in this new thread, and whilst I'm at it I'll also provide a quick 15 year history of my time at Merthyr:
2009/10 (BSS): Finished 2nd in my first year in the BSS, and gained promotion through the playoffs in my first attempt
2010/11 - 2014/15 (BSP): 5 years in the BSP, during which I managed to win my first trophy, the FA Trophy. I finished 2nd in my 5th season of the BSP, and again won promotion through the playoffs to League 2
2015/16 - 2018/19 (League Two): 4 years in League Two, in my 4th year everything came together and I managed to end the season champions of League Two!
2019/20 - 2020/21 (League One): Two very tough years in League One, the 2nd season saw me finish 21st, 3 points away from saftey, and relegated back to League Two
2021/22 (League Two): Finished 3rd in my first season back in League Two to secure automatic promotion back to League One, and also managed to win the Johnsons Paint Trophy!
2022/23 (League One): A fantastic first season back in League One, where I managed to finish 3rd, just missing out on automatic promotion to the Championship! I won mean Playoff semi-final, but lost the playoff final 3-4
In addition to just missing out to promotion to the Championship in 2022/23, something fantastic happened... as part of a board takeover (2nd one for the club), in addition to giving the club a couple of million in cash, the new chairman decided to upgrade the youth and training facilities (which were both average initially) - after the upgrade they are both world class and cannot be upgraded any further! With this great bit of new, I'm confident that a push into the Championship (and maybe one day the Premiership?) isn't too far away.
So, that is the short history of my club, now onto the 2023/24 season update!
Keep it going Mark we're reading mate.
FM09 - Merthyr 2023/24 Season Update - League One - Marky Mark!
2009/10 - BSS, 2nd - Promotion through playoffs!
2010/11 - BSP, 18th - Setanta Shield Qtr Final
2011/12 - BSP, 6th - Setanta Shield Qtr Final
2012/13 - BSP, 18th
2013/14 - BSP, 14th - FA Trophy winners!
2014/15 - BSP, 2nd - FA Trophy Semi-Final, FA Cup 3rd Round, Promotion through playoffs!
2015/16 - League Two, 20th
2016/17 - League Two, 13th, JPT S Quarter Final
2017/18 - League Two, 9th
2018/19 - League Two, 1st, FA Cup 3rd Round, League Two Champions!
2019/20 - League One, 16th, FA Cup 3rd Round, Carling Cup 3rd Round, JPT S Semi Final
2020/21 - League One, 21st, FA Cup 4th Round, Relegation
2021/22 - League Two, 3rd, FA Cup 3rd Round, JPT Winners!, Automatic Promotion!
2022/23 - League One, 3rd, FA Cup 3rd Round, Lost in playoff final
2023/24 - League One, 2nd, FA Cup 4th Round, Automatic Promotion!
After just mising out on automatic promotion last season the team managed one better this season by finishing in 2nd place, and by doing so securing promotion to the Championship! Despite finishing 2nd the season could have gone either way, with Merthy managing wins in games they didn't really deserve to win, and despite sitting in 3rd or 4th for most of the season, managed to save their best till last and climb into 2nd place come the end of the season.
2024 League Table and Graph
Whilst there were again contribution from all players, one player in particular stood out, and that was young striker Mark Quinn
Another injury interupted season meant he could only play 39 matches, but he manged 26 goals, 7 assists, 12 MOM and an average rating of 7.33, breaking the previous record of 7.32 set in 2009. He also League One Top Goalscorer runner-up and part of the League One Players Select. There is now a lot of interest in him, but hopefully the lure of Championship football will keep him at the club!
Seasonal Best XI and Overall Best XI
A short update by me this season despite the sucess, that is because I am in the middle of an engrossing debut Championship season! Hopefully I'll have more good news to report shortly!
New Club Records
Highest League Position: 2nd in League One
Most Games Without Losing: 15 - 31.10.2023 to 10.1.2024
Most Games Without Conceding: 7 - 31.10.2023 to 2.12.2023
Highest Average Rating: Mark Quinn - 7.33 (38 apps)
Most League Goals for Club: Marcus Griffiths - 242
Youngest Player: David Powell - 16 years 10 days v Plymouth (A) Carling Cup 1st Rnd 16.8.2023
Last edited by Marky Mark!; 25-11-2009 at 22:57.
Great stuff Markymark, is your squad completely home grown?
Also, are they all welsh or have some second nationalities cropped up?
FM09 GYAC - Merthyr 1,000 Apperances Challenge - 2023/24 Update
Matthew Harris, MC, 35: 764 apps in 18 seasons
After managing 15 apperances last season, I wanted to give him a few more in his last season, but with his stats plummeting and a place in the Championship up for grabs I couldn't manage it, so he didn't add to his tally of last season, and retires with 764 apperances, the current Merthyr record, around 100 apperances ahead of the next closest player. Unfortunatly I don't have a pic of his stats prior to retirement (though I can tell you they were pretty awfull), but as you can see he has stayed on as a coach, becoming the 3rd ex-player to become a staff member.
Rob Simpson, DC, 31: 672 apps in 15 seasons
After a solid season last season he was again interupted by injury this season and only managed 35 apperances this season. Given the lack of any decent up and coming defenders to replace him, he will probably stay in the starting lineup for the next few years at least and should be able to overhaul Harris' record, but will come well short of the 1,000 apperances mark
Chris Thompson, GK, 25: 454 apps in 9 seasons
53 games this season, and although he has not yet reached the half way mark of the challenge, is still on track to reach it if he can stay injury free and playing for the next 11 seasons (and of course not be poached by another club!) - still unlikely, but it is getting slightly more likely with each passing season...


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