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On the page, Patricia Highsmith could inspire a law-abiding citizen to become a willing accomplice to murder, at least within the realm of the imagination. Her fiction features ordinary protagonists with whom one readily identifies, though they are often unlikable and elicit from readers (and from other characters within the narrative) a mixture of desire and repulsion. As we gain access to their psyches and get caught up in their extraordinarily hapless predicaments, we find the moral ground slowly shifting. Before we know it, we're colluding with them, hoping they will get away with theft, deceit, even murder. Her most infamous creation is the slick, charismatic, insinuating and unconscionable Tom Ripley, who covets other people's station in life, and kills to appropriate it for himself. In all five books in the Ripley series, you can't help but root for the antihero as he lies, kills--and slips away without a trace.
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Born Mary Patricia Plangman in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921 to parents whose brief marriage had unraveled nine days earlier, Patricia Highsmith believed she was destined for a miserable existence, remembering her young self as an "alert, anxious-faced child over whom hangs already the grey-black spirit of doom." Her mother, an illustrator, would remarry a commercial artist, Stanley Highsmith, in 1924, a man the young "Pat" soon came to resent. Before she was 10, she was already relishing fantasies about murdering her stepfather for coming between her and her mother. She would later write in her cahiers, "I learned to live with a grievous and murderous hatred very early on. And learned to stifle also my more positive emotions. All this probably caused my propensity to write bloodthirsty stories of murder and violence."
Her parents' career ambitions brought the Highsmiths to New York City in the late 1920s, but a mixture of economic strife brought on by the Depression, as well as ongoing marital problems, would periodically force them to return to Texas. In 1933 Mary left her second husband, taking her young daughter with her to Fort Worth. But a few short weeks later, Stanley came to retrieve his wife, leaving Highsmith behind with her grandmother. She would never forgive her mother for the yearlong abandonment. Mary was tempestuous and emotionally abusive, and according to Meaker, "had once made the mistake of telling Pat, in a joking manner, that probably the reason Pat loved the smell of turpentine was that she had swallowed some in an attempt to abort her." When Highsmith was 14, Mary asked her daughter, "Are you a les? You are beginning to make noises like one." Wilson writes that these remarks made Highsmith feel "more alienated and introverted" and that in retrospect, Highsmith felt that if "Mary really cared about her...surely she would have attempted to help."
As Highsmith grew older, her mother became increasingly sinister, and may have been suffering from an early onset of dementia. Wilson portrays Mary as a merciless critic, dismissing her adult daughter as pretentious and elitist. She was disrespectful of Highsmith's work, even though she was the dedicatee of two books, and unapologetic when she lost a copy of the manuscript for The Talented Mr. Ripley. A manipulative and meddlesome presence in Highsmith's life, she would often phone and write to Meaker to complain about the women in her daughter's life, lovers and friends alike. Mother and daughter would stop all communication in the 1970s, but even in her absence, Mary continued to haunt Highsmith. "Mary Highsmith was never far from her mind, particularly as Pat looked back on her life," writes Meaker. "Pat's bitterness over her relationship with her mother was almost as relentless as her fury at the Jews."
Highsmith was mistrustful of kind women, choosing instead to seek out the ornery, the disparaging, the unpredictable, the absolutely inaccessible--in other words, she pursued women like mom, and consciously or not, set the transference into play. Her friend Lil Picard was "bossy and proprietary" in Meaker's estimation, and sociologist Ellen Hill, with whom Highsmith had a tormented relationship for years, was practically interchangeable with Mary. Wilson and Meaker both depict her as icy, needy and eager to belittle Highsmith.
In Wilson's book, where most infatuations blend into one another in an indistinguishable hodgepodge of torturous conquests, Hill is the one lover to emerge as a fully realized person. Highsmith was romantically prolific, and a biographer has to be judicious, but too many important girlfriends get lost in the "beautiful shadows," as it were, including Meaker. Wilson appreciates the importance of women in Highsmith's life--for example, he intuits that it was her obsession with a married woman, and not merely her growing disillusionment with things American, that led her to move to Europe in 1963. He even interviewed the daughter of the woman who unwittingly inspired Highsmith's pseudonymous lesbian 1952 novel, The Price of Salt (later published under the author's name, and retitled Carol). But he has a tendency to get mired in long, overwritten passages that establish historical background for readers to understand the world in which Highsmith lived. This is especially apparent in earlier chapters, where Wilson needlessly describes the New York sights young Highsmith may have seen, or popular books she may have read. He also goes to great lengths to rehash each of her novels and the ensuing critical response both in the United States and in Europe, book by book, critic by critic. A thorough researcher does not necessarily make for a discerning writer, though he does include plenty of necessary and delectably strange details about his subject, her penny-pinching (she drove nearly a hundred miles to save money on a jar of spaghetti sauce) and her fascination with snail-breeding (Highsmith had more than 300 live snails, becoming so fond of her little pets that she'd smuggle them--thirty at a time--under her breasts as she traveled between England and France).
Wilson excels, however, at evoking the author's frustration with the publishing industry and her reception here and in Europe. Highsmith experienced early success with the publication of her 1950 debut novel, Strangers on a Train, with a boost from Alfred Hitchcock, who adapted it to the screen the following year, hiring detective novelist Raymond Chandler to write the screenplay. Hitchcock's was ultimately a far tamer version of Highsmith's story: Hers featured both men carrying out a crisscross murder scheme; the filmmaker, opting for a more moralistic route, had only one man actually committing a murder.
Strangers put Highsmith on the map as a mystery novelist, but this was something of a curse, since she wanted to see her finely crafted stories and novels considered alongside Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Camus and Poe. Being trapped in a genre certainly kept her stories out of the publication in which she most longed to appear during her lifetime, The New Yorker (which published her story "The Trouble With Mrs. Blynn" posthumously, in 2002); instead, hers were regularly featured in publications like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
Being a mystery writer also set Highsmith up to disappoint and confuse the general American reader, who didn't take kindly to the moral challenges she posed in her fiction. She was one of a handful of high-minded noir writers, like Chester Himes, David Goodis and Jim Thompson, who proved to be too dark to be appreciated in their own time by American readers, instead finding their audience in Europe. Highsmith consistently garnered praise from her critics on both sides of the Atlantic throughout her career for her rare insight into the criminal mind and her intricate plotting. But commercial success would almost always elude her, especially in Britain and the United States, where her books would rarely sell more than 9,000 copies. (The Ripley series was the exception, inspiring films by René Clément, Wim Wenders and Anthony Minghella.)
Highsmith wasn't about to let sales affect her literary vision. Writing was her life--not only a means to navigate the world but the very thing that got her out of bed in the morning, her escape from heartache and depression. She rarely sacrificed her industrious writing schedule, even when she was drinking heavily. Instead, she tried to change her luck by switching literary representation, which she did several times, from her first agent Margot Johnson, whom Wilson says she fired because "she believed she just wasn't working hard enough to sell her books and raise her advances," to Patricia Schartle at McIntosh & Otis in the United States and A.M. Heath in England, two agencies that worked together, representing Highsmith for more than twenty years. When Highsmith began to take an active role in managing her financial affairs later in life, she became obsessed with her earnings and decided she didn't want to pay their respective commissions. "The latter two agents take 5% each on German, Italian, Scandinavian, etc. sales, causing me to lose 20% instead of 10%," wrote Highsmith in a letter to her friend Alain Oulman. "With double taxation arriving or creeping, I cannot afford this."
Schartle was infuriated by the allegations that both McIntosh & Otis and A.M. Heath were fleecing Highsmith, and subsequently fired her client. Highsmith had already burned a number of bridges on both sides of the Atlantic with her paranoiac demands and stinginess, and had no one to represent her in the States or in Britain. She resolved to reassign all of her literary management over to Diogenes Verlag, her Swiss publisher, who to this day serves as the executor of her literary estate.
If Highsmith was unfair to her agents, she also bore grudges against the US publishing industry, which she believed to be disloyal to her and her huge body of work. She was constantly moving from house to house--Harper & Row, Doubleday, Alfred A. Knopf, the Atlantic Monthly Press and the Mysterious Press--in search of a contract. Editors with whom she worked for years would have to reject projects because publishers didn't know how to market her properly, as she was a hybrid of heady, high art and genre fiction. Gary Fisketjon, her editor at the Atlantic Monthly Press and Knopf, said, "She defied categorization, but was temptingly close to fitting into the category of mystery and she had a cynicism about human transactions that wasn't particularly user-friendly." Fisketjon had to pass on her last novel, Small g: a Summer Idyll, which features a story line about a young gay man who is tricked by his doctor into believing he is HIV-positive. "In the best of all possible worlds it would be published as a young title, but the lunatic right-wing fringe that's running this country wouldn't have that," he said.
Fisketjon's rejection marked the end of the line for Highsmith, who would be without an American publisher for the rest of her life. It was "a final symbolic gesture summing up the uneasy relationship between the displaced writer and the country of her birth," writes Wilson. He cites a lament by Neil Gordon, writing in this magazine, that America "denied her...her painful and complicated insight into guilt and denial--much as her characters deny their guilt. That leaves her, so to speak, denied in the unconscious of our literature much like the guilt is denied in her characters: always present, never cured, never acknowledged and never understood."
The demonstrated lack of enthusiasm by American publishers ultimately wore on Highsmith. Meaker thinks it exacerbated her anti-Semitism, as Highsmith believed most of the publishing industry was Jewish. Highsmith railed against her American publisher Otto Penzler, who removed her dedication to the Palestinians in her novel People Who Knock on the Door, and even her first editor, Joan Kahn at Harper & Row. "Christ, what a little dictator she was! That whole family of Jews thought they were God's gift to publishing...like so many of that tribe," she said to Meaker on their last visit in 1988. Meaker's portrayal of Highsmith can be sympathetic, even tender, but she doesn't shy away from depicting her former lover as a racist and anti-Semite. By contrast, Wilson is more than halfway through his biography before delving into her virulent anti-Semitism. Perhaps it cast a sharper impression on Meaker because she had to put up with her incendiary remarks in person. Meaker became so exasperated with Highsmith's merciless rants during their last encounter that she told her she sounded "like someone with an obsessive-compulsive disorder. You can't go for long without bringing up the Jews, just as someone has to compulsively wash their hands, or go back three steps."
In a way, Highsmith's anti-Semitism is emblematic of everything that was at war within the mind of this extraordinarily conflicted woman. Many of the women she loved, the friends she cherished and the writers who inspired her art were Jewish. Yet her dislike of Jews dates as far back as her elementary school years in New York City, and as she got older and increasingly more paranoid, her anti-Semitism became more acute, possibly a symptom of her neurosis.
Throughout Beautiful Shadow, Wilson makes a daring case for recognizing Highsmith as a political writer, arguing that her grim vision was as shaped by the world's turmoil as it was by her own. With its depictions of people coming undone against the pressures of conformity and harboring various paranoiac fantasies, Highsmith's fiction, he argues, responded to what she perceived as the hypocrisies and perversions of cold war America. It's an interesting argument but something of a stretch: As politically feisty as Highsmith was, and as much as she may have wished to imbue her literature with a political consciousness, she hardly touched on the affairs of the world in her novels and stories. The passion that underlay her opinions--which could seem abitrary at times, and were often as unpredictable as her temperament--was doubtless genuine. She was an avid reader of books and newspapers, and even as she became increasingly isolated, she kept herself apprised of current events. Her zealousness, however, was more an expression of her displaced fury than of altruistic concern for the oppressed. Highsmith was always an armchair activist whose principal weapon was her acid tongue. In fact, her single letter to the editor (a response to William Safire's attack on Gore Vidal's 1986 Nation essay about Israel and the American right) appeared in the International Herald Tribune, under the pseudonym "Edgar S. Sallich of Brione, Switzerland." The neuroses and murderous fantasies of Highsmith's fiction were born of her own internal struggles, particularly with her mother, not of the cold war.
Meaker, who is in a position to know, doesn't remember Highsmith as a politico, per se, just as outspoken. "From what Pat wrote me about her life," she says, "she had never been a part of any political group or movement." Meaker portrays her as a devoted cat lover and dedicated friend, a social creature who balanced work and play with ease. But we also see how prone she was to riling others with bawdy jokes and, especially after a few drinks, provocative, occasionally racist or anti-Semitic comments. Her charms would eventually wear away with age (and a potent mixture of inner rage and alcohol), only to be replaced by unbounded cruelty. Amazingly, her writing never suffered--it only got better.


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Most of us began decorating for Gasparilla at the beginning of January, right after we took down our holiday lights and decorations. Wreaths made of beads, pirate flags, feathers and skull & cross bones grace the front doors of many homes in our area.
Kids of all ages get excited this time of year as they decorate their wagons, put on their swashbuckling costumes and catch pirate booty! Here in Tampa, we began celebrating last week with the Children's Festival & Parade! Finishing off a great day of pillaging and plundering, the kids enjoy a "Piratechnic" Extravaganza, a.k.a fireworks.
Local boat owners gear up their vessels for the Pirate Invasion as they plan to defend the city against the legendary pirate, Jose' Gaspar, and his crew of plundering pirates.
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How about a little history of Gasparilla?
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Jose' Gaspar, a young Spanish aristocrat that turned pirate, terrorized the coastal waters of West Florida. Plundering any ship flying the flag of Spain as payback to a woman that tried to frame him for stealing the Spanish crown jewels. Some say he plundered over 400 ships, though Gaspar's diary only boasts of 36 victories from 1784-1795.
In 1821, after many years of pillaging, Gaspar convinced his crew to go their separate ways and live their lives in peace... that is, until they saw a British ship. One last plunder, they thought. Their last hoorah. Gaspar and his crew closed in on the ship and as they got within cannon range, it was too late! The British ship dropped it's colors and raised the US flag! Jose' Gaspar was deceived, the seemingly defenseless British ship was actually a US Navy warship, the USS Enterprise. A bloody battle took place and left Gaspar's flagship burning. He wrapped a heavy chain around his waist, jumped overboard and sank into the ocean.
Legend has it, when Jose' Gaspar died, he left an untold fortune in buried treasure somewhere along the Florida coast. Though it's never been found, the story of Gaspar was discovered and his memory was revived by Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla (YMKG) in 1904 and adopted as a city-wide celebration.
In 1904, a society editor for the Tribune had been working on a plan to produce a festival, a 3-4 day event to draw attention to the city. With the encouragement from George Hardee, a Collector of Customs, the annual 'May Day Festival' had turned into the Gasparilla Festival. Hardee encouraged civic leaders to create a "Mystic Krewe" to participate in the event and that is exactly what happened.
On May 4, 1904, tons of people lined the streets for the parade for the inaugural invasion as 50 members of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla 'invaded' the city on horseback wearing masks and costumes. And each year, to this day, Ye Mystic Crewe of Gasparilla, led by legendary pirate Jose' Gaspar, invades the City of Tampa. Defenseless to the Jose' Gasparilla, the Mayor surrenders the Key to the City of Tampa into the hands of the Captain of YMKG.
In 1911, YMKG had their first 'invasion' by water on a rented ship called Samuel T. Beacham. In 1937, the Krewe purchased their first ship, the Jose' Gaspar I. And the current ship, Jose' Gaspar II, was built especially for YMKG and was christened in 1954. The Jose' Gaspar II is the only dedicated pirate ship sailing in the world today.
Edwin Lambright, editor of the Tampa Morning Tribune, said "Tampa Society, and the Tampa public generally, were so enthusiastic about the first 'invasion' for the Mystic Krewe, that a citywide demand was voiced that the organization be made permanent." And that it has!
Here at Scrubin Uniforms, we are happy to live in sunny Tampa, Florida and hope that you get the chance sometime to come visit for our legendary Gasparilla Festival. Arrrghh!
Other Gasparilla festivities going on this season: Pirate Fest Street Festival, Invasion, Parade of Pirates, The Knight Parade, The Distance Classic, Festival of the Arts and Music Festival


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We visited the area for a few days and stayed at this hotel due to the great price. The rooms were great as you expect from a Marriott brand. They have a Continental breakfast with the normal items as well as packaged breakfast sandwiches you can heat in the microwave. The entire staff were very nice and helpful especially the lady setting up the breakfast area. I would not hesitate staying here again.
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This house is also excellent for temporary corporate relocation. Enjoy depending on your travel and relaxation plans.
Within walking distance is Cocowalk, a fun-filled area of shops and restaurants. This is one of the best areas in Miami for fine dining. It's also about a 10 minute drive to South Beach, the Downtown Financial District, and Key Biscayne. Rent a couple of bikes, and enjoy the bike paths that go for miles alongside parks and the Bay in a tropical landscape. Enjoy sailing, canoeing, kayaking, safe running and bicycling trails.
The house is in a quiet area of the Grove, fostering a picturesque setting to relax after a fun-filled day. The cottage is completely surrounded by trees, if you look at the picture of the street the cottage is the one you can't see. It is almost as if you are in your own paradise!! The Cottage is a five to seven minutes walk to CocoWalk and all Main Highway.
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I really enjoyed my stay at this hidden little gem. It was conveniently located and quick walk to all restaurants in Coconut grove. The place itself was spacious and clean. I really loved the decor. The yard was absolutely amazing and peaceful. Diana was a pleasure to work with. highly recommend!
We had a great 2 month+ stay in the Canopy Tree House. It was clean, comfortable and private. The pebble garden under the trees was a great place for candle-lit dinners, lolling with a book and our dogs loved it. Inside it's dark, but cosy. The location is terrific - a friendly neighborhood, very central to Coconut Grove restaurants and shops. And, like her house, Diana is charming.
Many water activities at nearby Coconut Grove Marina: Sailing classes, and fishing tours. Other water sports at Crandon Beach at key Biscayne: Waterbikes, Kayaking, sailboats, etc (driving or biking is recommended to key Biscayne).
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We've improved Slashdot's video section; now you can view our video interviews, product close-ups and site visits with all the usual Slashdot options to comment, share, etc. No more walled garden! It's a work in progress -- we hope you'll check it out (Learn more about the recent updates).
No, it's a case of "you are unreliable and not very trustworthy, we'll take the code and do things the right way."
BTW; Kubuntu is probably one of the most pointless distributions around anyway. It's just Ubuntu with - usually - an exceptionally broken KDE on top. Sometimes I think the rationale for Kubuntu is to give KDE a bad name.
If you want a good KDE experience, Opensuse is probably the best bet, possibly together with Mageia.
I may be wrong, but I think the french-based original Mandriva was almost dying one year ago, for various reasons among which a basic economic one (founders split and close to bankrupcy, not reactive...). they apparently turned to other customers than the average end-user.
I did use Mandriva seriously 3 years ago then dropped it on the occasion of an update deleting everything and not recovering from the backup...
Mandriva was cooler than Ubuntu, actually automating many hardware handling, and less hegemonic -I'm going to look seriously into Mageia, yes.
As a Mageia packager, I can report that it was indeed really fun and enriching working on Mageia 3.
We have to thank the whole friendly community, which provided code, tests, reports, fixes, documentation, translations, comments and donations. Our goal is to make a great community distribution for everyone, with an emphasis on the ease of use and on empowering users and making them part of a community.
We hope you'll like it if you give it a try!
Now let's start the work on support and on Mageia 4.
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Is there any library which can be used to validate chess moves and simulate games in .NET? It would be great if the library can understand moves in Algebraic notation and also provide simple API for making moves. For example, game.Move("E2","E4") etc. In the second case, the library should be able to generate Algebraic notation for the moves. I don't want it to make moves or to play chess etc, just a library for game validation and game simulation. Any links?
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Have a look at the C# Chess Game Starter Kit. It is a C# Open Source Application that does exactly what you requested and it is free for commercial use.
For a detailed explanation of the source code see:
There is also sharpchess which is open source (under GNU GPL) and written for .Net v2 It has a core engine as well as a WinForm GUI. Although it does play chess, I believe that you potentially strip out the "game engine" to leave a shell for simulation.
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Week off to make way for some actual PCM15 news and a busy weekend of ManGameness.... back now!
PCM14 Tools
TiemenD has given us a collection of three simple editor tools. Rather than having to fuss around with a complicated full on editor these tools are designed to be super simple and quick, often taking no more than a type and a click. There's a Team Changer, a Money Changer and a Date Changer. Really really easy to use they work very well for making easy changes to a save game! You can get them from the downloads section here.
Spring Classics
We are about more than just PCM here and the real cycling season has kicked into its spring time overdrive! The Cycling section contains all you could want to satisfy your cycling addiction. This weeks Flanders action has a thread, and there will be more separate WT race threads for the other classics. Catalunya has it's own thread, and keep an eye out for a Pais Vasco thread. For smaller races we've got the Other Races thread which is always up-to-date with the latest results from across the world. Plus the News thread to keep yourself abreast of the latest news.
This time of year also comes with big Fantasy betting! nobeer currently leads with a big $1,673! dominocx chases with $1,281 ahead of Szczena on $900. Plenty of races and chances to bet coming up in the next weeks so it's certainly worth getting stuck in.
Man Game Madness
Hard to miss the Man-Game at the moment. The Off-Season is upon us in full force so you won't be escaping it any time soon either. No more chances to join this season but that doesn't mean it isn't a good time to start following. New 2015 Team HQ's are going up alongside calendar reveals. Head to Twitter for some great snippets of chat from teams and all the latest announcements.
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EPIC is right in the midst of it's own Spring Classics time. Tom Boonen staying upright to win E3 ahead of Vanmarcke and Cancellara. In the last couple of weeks we also had Kittel win MSR ahead of Sagan and Hanzen. Gent-Wevelgem and more are just days away so plenty of EPIC racing to be found.
The ICL has passed through the Giro! Chris Froome walked through the three weeks without trouble whilst Marcel Kittel swept up sprints left and right. The ICL speeds along with various other races like AToC and Tour des Fjords recently. Tons of racing to see there.
Finally CycloCross A New Dawn has almost completed its first season! The World Championships were held today and deliver all the promise such a race holds. An excellent report is worth a read. Not long until the season will conclude and new players will be welcomed in.
Thread of the Week
So many choices! Cafe Pedro has been busy this week for various, not always happy, reasons. As already mentioned the Cycling sections have been a hive of activity and discussion as the real season continues to excite and enthrall. I'm going to give Thread of the Week to one of my favorite stories which is close to ticking off another great season, NRS 2015 by tsmoha. I love this story and it's just an excellent read and has been really picked up the pace this week.
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Just a quick final note. The site will be undergoing some server maintenance at some point in the next week. This means that for a short time PCM.Daily will be unavailable. Don't panic, it's always to make the site better.
Cycling Manager Italia have just released the first interview about PCM 15, conducted between emmea90 and Freire from Cyanide. The headline information is undoubtedly the addition of the new 'Pro Cyclist' game mode. This is the much-requested 'Be a Pro' style mode, and here is the first information on it:
"This a brand new mode that has been built from scratch with a totally new experience for players. Instead of managing a team, you'll play a young rider that you'll develop all over his career, that's a whole new story, something that has been ask for long time by the community. The first tests and feedbacks about this new gamemode are very positive.
You start with a young talent between 19 and 22 years old, choose your main speciality (sprinter, climber, etc...) and then sign for a continental team. During the season, you manage closely your fitness parameters, training (with the possibility to make a pure specialist rider or to develop several domains if you want a more all round rider), race calendar and cyclist evolution."
We commented at the time that the 'Auto' mode added in PCM14 could effectively be used as a 'Be a Pro', and indeed it was after creating this mode that Cyanide realised it would be quite easy to extend that into this new 'Pro Cyclist' addition.
In career mode, Cyanide have been looking at improvements to rider development, scouting and development teams.
They are also making changes to the AI, on the 'easy' hills, cobbles and mountain stages. This includes improving the way that the stronger sprinters perform on hill stages where they might have a chance, allowing for sprint finishes on the cobbled races such as K-B-K, and the possiblity of favourites adopting a 'Sky train' on the final climb of a mountain stage.
You can read the full interview on Cycling Manager Italia, where there were also some questions on the Multiplayer mode.
Velogames is offering the next event with the Spring Classics containing 11 classics in total. You pick a team of 12 riders (100 points in total) and have 24 transfers to change the team a bit from race to race.
As always PCM.Daily has opened a Fantasy League. So if you want to compete against other members join the league by using the following code: 20111010
For further information use this thread here.
Small note: Additionally to the Spring Classics also the Fantasy Catalunya League will start soon. So watch out for a thread including the league code over the next days.
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Man-Game Applications Open
Yes that's right! The Management Game is now taking applications for new managers! The 2014 season is almost at an end and this is your chance to join in the sites best initative. For all the information start by going to the Want to join the Management Game? 2015 Season thread.
Betting Addiction
The PCM.Daily fantasy betting season rolls onwards. Daily bets for Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico have seen big shake ups in the standings as we head towards big classics time. As i write this Polo_7 holds a $96 lead over acac.
We've also added a new Betting initiative, Man-Game Betting. Yep you can't escape the Man-Game these days! Open to everyone this secondary game provides a chance for revenge if you miss out in the main betting game. krisa currently holds the lead.
Man-Game Madness
Away from Applications it's a full on rush off off-season activity. Primarily of which is currently the World Championships this year hosted in Hamilton, Canada. Argentina claimed victory in the B-Worlds to qualify for the main event. Frison brokeaway to win the U23 RR. The TT's have been dominated by the favorites, with Phinney winning back-to-back titles. All to be found in the [Man-Game] Other Races thread.
We've also had the final season rankings released and Champions crowned. Wikipedia win the Pro-Tour for the second time in a row. Quickstep dominate the Pro-Continental Tour. Grupo Nutresa steal the Continental Tour crown.
EPIC has headed to Malaysia. Orica have looked very strong taking stage wins the the current GC lead for Diego Johnson. AG2R have taken a handful of sprints as well. Great action in Asia. The Omloop wasn't to be outdone where Peter Sagan claimed victory the hard way through multiple attacks for Cannondale.
The ICL hits the Giro hard! A big battle if shaping up for all sorts of competitions and stages. The Rider has written up a fantastic preview for the race that i really recommend reading, and you do so here.
It's all about the real cycling world at the moment. Tirreno-Adriatico sees a big showdown of GT contenders and the thread has been lively with discussion. Langkawi has been keeping the Other Races 2015 thread lively this week. A week of classics keeps the Womens Cycling thread alive as well. But the Thread of the Week easily goes to Paris-Nice 2015, aided by an engaging race full of talking points!
"You have to sprint on feeling, not thinking. You must have faith in yourself but you cannot think about it too much" - Jean Paul Van Poppel
Velogames Gets Serious
The always popular Velogames Fantasy Cycling Game is really stepping its game up this season! Currently their Paris-Nice game has opened and you can join the PCM.Daily League right now, details and discussion in this thread. (race starts Sunday so join quick!)
Hopefully we'll get a Tirreno-Adriatico game this weekend. Then we are very close to the Spring Classics game and to the brand new Womens Game which should both start in the next week or two.
Admin Applications
Quick update! Applications are still open. If you have already applied don't worry, SportingNonsense has not yet had the time to really look at the applications, and it's not a decision to rush. If you still want to apply just send a PM containing your application to SN
PCM Addons Blooming
Spring is almost upon us in Europe and there is a plethora of new addons to PCM from the community. There's been a huge spike in DB projects, spearheaded by the FIFA Database || PCMDaily. The PCM 14: Graphics section as a whole is bursting. Finally there is also a boost in the PCM 14: Stages section. I can't go through all the projects and threads here, but there is plenty to tuck into.
Where do i begin! It's the final days of the 2014 regular season. Races in Zurich, Lombardia and Japan wrap the season up nicely and confirm the final rankings tables. I will not spoil anything here and just point you to the relevant areas.
PT: Giro di Lombardia Discussion
PCT: Japan Cup/Japan Cup Discussion
CT: Zuri Metzgete/Zuri Metzgete Discussion
Ultimate final rankings are still to be confirmed for the PCT and CT divisions, and we still away the Giro di Lombardia race report. Then of course we still have the Worlds to come. Basically there is still much to enjoy and follow!
The ICL is just speeding along! The Flanders classics have been dealt with, including a few surprises like a 16-man sprint for Roubaix! The Ardennes/Hilly classics are underway as well. Plus the CT division and U23 division continue to fly as well. It's a thriving game full of action right now.
EPIC has eased off a bit this week. Oman continues to be the best source of action where Riblon looks set to take the GC win for AG2R in a shockingly powerful performance. Plenty should be coming up in the next week though.
My Thread of the Week this week goes to PCM.Daily Big Brother S2. The game got going this week and Week 1 in the House has been tough. A version of IWS kicked things off before Flappy Bird gave a chance to save an nominated member. It's great to see the game kicked off and should be fun to follow.
It`s time again for some Velogames action. Today starts the Paris-Nice selection.
As the race starts on Sunday, make sure to join the league in time. Therefore you will need the following code: 06075524
Also there is a thread here, where you can post/discuss etc.
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Given the departure of two admins, we are currently considering whether there is need to appoint one or more new admins to help out with the site. If you are interested in this position, please feel free to send a PM to SportingNonsense, explaining why you would make a good admin for the site, perhaps including ideas of how you would aim to contribute. - written by SN
New Patch Released
As covered on Wednesday Cyanide have released a new patch for PCM14. The big fixes were to online gameplay. Primarily this was fixing stability and crash issues, but aslo adding in custom tour and stage features as well as some Amada housekeeping.
On the single player side they added the ability to force your riders trajectory on the road. This opens up some great opportunities on windy stages and for avoiding those pesky blocking breaks. Cyandie also made changes to TTT AI to change their difficulty.
The final month continues to ratchet up the pressure across the game. The PT title fight refuses to be decided, same for the CT title. Both of those look set to go to the last day of racing. Similarly close for various relegation and promotion battles in all three divisions. Frankly almost anything can still happen.
This week has seen a spike in action off the road. The closing of the season has signalled a rush in Team HQ updates. New sponsors, old sponsors, new jerseys, stat changes and just general chit chat between managers. Worth reading for both existing managers and those hoping to join up in the future.
EPIC exploded! The TDU concluded with Katusha and Kristoff on top of the opening WT event. EBH and Sky sealed Qatar. Stybar reigned on the cobbles in KBK. Garate brokeaway to win in Marseillaise. Von Triesenburg brokeaway to win Strade Bianche. And then San Luis and Oman are mid-race as well. Tons and tons of action!
The ICL keeps up though. Cancellara won MSR after Paris-Nice and Vuelta Tachira concluded. Nibali, for Air China, won Tachira in style. Costa, for LA Aluminios, won Paris-Nice just ahead of teammate Velits. But there's always more racing to see in the ICL, very very active.
A close call this week. However a dramatic finish to IWS and Dekkers Hour attempt almost were considered for the top sport. The Cycling News thread has been buzzing, not for exactly the right reasons, also coming close. But it's Thread of the Week for the Belgium opening weekend 2015 thread, still to be very active tomorrow as well.


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Can someone explain the differences?
Can someone explain this in a way that not only I will understand, but that I can then explain to the higher authority in my life? (IF you have to ask you're not married)
Exterior trim:
Full capping;$60@
Aluminum Stop trim with wood stops:$40@
Aluminum stop trim only:$20@
The full capping covers the small stops and face trim ( most likely brick mold) all in one piece and gives the entire opening a nice, finished look. The other two options would just consist of an "L" shaped piece of metal right next to the window to cover the blind stop (or where it was cut off). The face trim is left untouched, whether it is currently capped or not. The difference between the last two options is that one gets new wood stops behind it ( preferred), while the cheapest option just floats the aluminum.... Does that explanation help?
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With the Marines working to make Afghanistan their fight, Afghanistan was bound to find its way onto the USNI blog. From USA Today comes a report that Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are getting more lethal and more frequent:
"Last year, 3,276 IEDs detonated or were detected before blowing up in Afghanistan, a 45 percent increase compared with 2007. The number of troops in the US-led coalition killed by bombs more than doubled in 2008 from 75 to 161. The Pentagon data did not break down the casualties by nationality. Roadside bombs in Afghanistan wounded an additional 722 coalition troops last year, setting another record."
The anti-IED fight in Afghanistan is far more complex than the largely flat-land mine-like anti-IED struggles in Iraq. Rather than come from below, IEDs can come from the side-slopes, even from above. After spending billions to build vehicles able to withstand blasts from below, are we gonna need to re-orient and cover the vulnerability of, say, a blast from the side? What about an IED-induced landslide? What vehicle foils gravity–or, to be precise, IEDs aimed at collapsing the road-bed rather than penetrating armor? Making matters worse, we're starting to discover our countermeasures–built to confront the Iraqi IED threat–aren't up to the complex task ahead, too. The USA Today article continues:
"Devices useful in Iraq to counter roadside bombs may have to be 'Äúruggedized'ÄĚ to work in parts of Afghanistan, Navy Capt. Vincent Martinez, deputy commander of Task Force Paladin, said in an interview at Bagram Air Base last month."
"Ruggedized" is putting it mildly. How much Iraqi anti-IED work has been done in the snow? Mark my words, the IED fight in Afghanistan is going to be far harder than the work in Iraq. What was a solution in Anbar may not translate to Kandahar. Here's a photo sampler, from ruswar.com.
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Apron sink/Size of sink base question
Working on trying to figure out what size apron sink base would fit a 30" sink base. We are going with KraftMaid cabinets, and the sales rep said,
For a 30" apron sink base, the usable sink is 25 5/8"w
for a 33" sink base - 31 5/8"
and for a 36" sink base - 34 5/8"
From searching around here, there seems to be two different ways to install a farm sink--using the same size cabinet as sink or using a bigger sink cabinet.
I like the look of the sink being the same (or close) size as the sink base cabinet.
If I want a 30" sink, could I still fit it into a 30" cabinet since there are filler pieces on either side?
If you want the sink same size as the cabinet, then your cabinet isn't 34 1/2" tall. the cabinet would be 34 1/2" minus the height of your farnhouse sink if you wanted undermounted to the granite. I don't know if kraftmaid offers such a cabinet though i bet you could order a 24" deep wall cabinet the height you need and have the trim carpenter set it on a homemade toe kick. Also, you might want to consider each cabinet next to the sink as having a flush finished end in case some of the sides will show (don't know what apron sink you're planning on) and maybe even a skin for the top of the sink cabinet in case any of it will show. That also means your DW can't fit up snug to your sink because the ugly sides of it will show when the door is open. You will either have to have a small cabinet between the sink and the DW or a 3/4 finished panel.
but thats what I was trying to say... if you want the sink the same size as the base, 30", then your base isn't as tall because the sink will sit on top of the base, so the question isn't how wide should the sink base be, you've already said you want the sink as wide as the sink base, so the question is how tall.
Now if you want the kind of sink base that somes with a wood apron on the sink base and you want it to be cut out and scribed to the apron sink, then i would say the sink base should be 3" larger (or more) than the width of the sink. That leaves you 1 1/2" on either side of the sink once it is installed.
I guess I am still not really understanding what height has to do with this. Do you have a picture of it?
Are you just saying to not use an "apron sink base" at all and just go with a normal, but shorter base cabinet?
sorry I am so dense about this! :)
First question: what kind of apron-front sink? Some are meant to sit atop a cabinet that's been cut down to recieve the sink. That'd be like the stainless steel or copper ones, and maybe some fireclay sinks with more regular rectangular shape. There's a thread on here (I think bichonlover started it) where Poorowner and I responded with pictures about our stainless apron front sink installations. Here's a picture of my sink. It's in a same-size cabinet with two dishwasher panels on either side. You could get away with not using the dw panels, but I needed them to deal with a spacing issue, and to cut down on dw noise.
Some (and I'm thinking about the handmade Shaw's and other fireclay ones) are meant to go into an apron-front cabinet that's had a cutout in the blank apron front to receive the sink. Thus the cabinet has to be wide enough to hold the sink and still have some space on either side of the sink for the cutout. I think I've seen Shaw's owners with 33" sinks in a 36" cabinet, and the like.


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Gloucester have received a boost ahead of Thursday's Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final against Biarritz with the news that nine of their players have re-signed with the club.
The Aviva Premiership side announced earlier this season hat Jonny May and Tom Savage have opted to extend their stay at Kingsholm while they have confirmed that James Hudson and Matt Kvesic will join the club ahead of next term. And alongside May and Savage, a host of players have also decided to re-sign.
Gloucester stalwart Andy Hazell, who made his debut for the club back in the 1997-98 season, has penned a new deal while veteran second-row Will James and front-row Nick Wood have also extended their contracts. And fellow front-rowers Koree Britton, Dan Murphy and Yann Thomas have all re-signed.
They are joined by Gareth Evans, Dan Robson and Shane Monahan in committing their respective futures to Gloucester. And Cherry and Whites boss Nigel Davies was delighted with the news. "I'm very pleased with the way that the squad is shaping up for next season," Davies said. "The players named today are a real mixture of those with potential for the future, and a number with considerable first team experience.
"They've all played a part for Gloucester so far this season, and each and every one is the kind of individual we want at the club. They've all bought into what we're hoping to achieve here at Gloucester, and it's good to know that they'll be with us next season.
"We've created a real sense of unity and purpose at the club over the past few months. There will be a lot of continuity in the squad from this season to next, and that can only help in the development of this group of players."
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She looks like a real world girl, not a pin up. They might pretty her up a bit more.
But I can buy her as a high school student. She looks a bit like an older Ginny Weasley...
MJ, however, is supposed to be gorgeous and way out of Peter's league. Emma Stone is much more of a MJ type than this girl is. She's cute and everything but she's not the super-model, drop-dead, gorgeous that MJ is supposed to be.
It's pretty terrible casting, IMHO.
I'm afraid that I have to agree, despite the fact that Shaylene is cute as hell. IMO, both sets of Spider-movies have cast perfect Mary Janes... except they both casted them as Gwen Stacy.
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Beautifully built and designed houses comprising 240 m2 with panoramic triple-glazed windows. Warm and draft-free in winter and cool in summer with overhanging roofs. Electric central heating throughout and 3 open fires for wood with wood-burning stove on lower floor (which has Italian tiles and under-floor heating). Specially built mosquito-nets for many windows (although not very prominent in this part of Sweden). Wood for open fires and sauna can be purchased locally. This is a truly unique and stunning place which people invariably become very attached to! No smoking or pets. NB No outdoor fires are allowed in Sweden May - September other than eg BBQ due to fire risks.
Nearest small shop is in Furusund, where there is also a nice restaurant with sea views and cafe. Ferry across to next island with cinema, restaurant etc. Another ferry-connected island is 3 kilometres away with restaurant. 21 kilometres away is the charming, traditional seaside town of Norrtalje, with excellent supermarkets, banks, shopping, restaurants, lively music/cultural scene.
Contact owner by email or telephone to discuss/check availability. 30% non-refundable deposit paid to secure booking, remainder 8 weeks before arrival and a refundable security deposit of £500. Minimum 1 week's let. Low and high season rates as indicated. In cold, mid-winter conditions, higher rates apply due to energy costs. NB Owner also speaks Swedish.
Together with six friends we had a lovely relaxing time in your delightful family holiday home. Your caretaker Thomas was friendly, helpful and informative and keeps the house clean and welcoming. The house is in an idyllic situation surrounded by wild billberries, strawberries and fascinating birdlife amongst trees and lakes. Lots of lovely walks and rowing boat outings and some of us had bracing swims in the Baltic out to the small island. Great breakfasts and dinners on your verandah with lovely views out over the sea and the restaurants you recommended were excellent. We enjoyed it so much so that we are taking another six friends to your house later this year.
We were a group of eight on a family trip with our own three grown up children plus partners/friends. It was a superb holiday and we all loved the archipelago house. Apart from the facilities (sea, boat, views, sauna, games etc) it's such a comfortable place and clearly a second home for the owners, with all the pictures and photos around. We really liked the feeling of being invited into that home and having a sense of its history - not like a run-of-the-mill holiday let at all. A beautiful house in a beautiful spot, with plenty of space for spreading out even if the weather keeps you indoors (which it didn't!). The owners and caretakers couldn't have been more helpful. Thoroughly recommended.
We stayed at this property for two weeks in August 2014 and would have no hesitation recommending it. The property is exactly as described and is very well kept with excellent facilities.
The two adults and four young children in our party spent most of the fortnight enjoying the property and surrounding island, with plenty of time spent swimming in the sea, playing on the beaches, fishing (we saw and caught many large fish including perch and pike right off the jetty at the property), boating, and sunbathing. In fact, we were almost reluctant to occasionally get in the car to go sightseeing. We ate out on the veranda for almost all our meals, enjoying the fresh air, quiet, and beautiful sunsets.
With plenty of space in and around the property, and a whole island to explore, the children were unusually happy to entertain themselves and we achieved the most relaxing family holiday I think we've ever had.