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Café Pedro 6: And now for something completely different...
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| Selwink |
Posted on 12-05-2013 10:16
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Geography itself sounds interesting, but what you say sounds quite dull
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 12-05-2013 10:18
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Oh this make me wondering,if you guys want to share what you're going to study or what you're studying. (TMM just said). I'm 1st grade of High school and will probably go with architecture after it,since my father has huge company. I love it!
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| Selwink |
Posted on 12-05-2013 10:20
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Im still in the secondary (or whatever thats called) school. I will do my exams next year if everything goes right. Afterwards, Im thinking of history and/or International Relations and International Organization (fully in English, even though in NL) in Groningen.
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 12-05-2013 10:23
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admirschleck wrote:
Oh this make me wondering,if you guys want to share what you're going to study or what you're studying. (TMM just said). I'm 1st grade of High school and will probably go with architecture after it,since my father has huge company. I love it!
High school, but you're 14? Okay, I'm now officialy confused with the English school system names.
I'm on the 4th grade of the middle school(is it middle school?), it's probably, umm... 10th grade. I have to stay on middle school for 2 more years(depends on the level in NL how long you stay), and then I'm going to university as well. yay. 
Don't have any clue about what I'm going to study though.
@Selwink
Is that HBO, or Uni? If Uni, we might study on the same university in 2 years
Btw guys, there's a School thread, you know?
Edited by Jesleyh on 12-05-2013 10:24
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 12-05-2013 10:26
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Jesleyh wrote:
admirschleck wrote:
Oh this make me wondering,if you guys want to share what you're going to study or what you're studying. (TMM just said). I'm 1st grade of High school and will probably go with architecture after it,since my father has huge company. I love it!
High school, but you're 14? Okay, I'm now officialy confused with the English school system names.
I'm on the 4th grade of the middle school(is it middle school?), it's probably, umm... 10th grade. I have to stay on middle school for 2 more years(depends on the level in NL how long you stay), and then I'm going to university as well. yay.
Don't have any clue about what I'm going to study though.
@Selwink
Is that HBO, or Uni? If Uni, we might study on the same university in 2 years
Btw guys, there's a School thread, you know?
I'm actually 15. Also,i started going in school with 6 years.
In serbia here it how it goes,you will fastly understand.
Primary school lasts 8 years,you start with 7 (i started with 6) and finish with 14-15 years.
Secondary (High school) starts year after and lasts for 4 years.
After that, we're going to college where you can stay 4-6 years,depends on what you're studying.
After college you do whatever you want with your life. 
Understand now? 
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 12-05-2013 10:27
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Yup, got it.
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| juszta |
Posted on 12-05-2013 10:27
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Jesley is right, there is a school thread for it, but I'm gonna write my one here anyways :
I'm having my final exams now (done with 3 written exams, still one to go on Thursday, and then the 4 oral exams in June), so I will start uni next year with a plan of studying computer engineering / software engineering (I'm not sure which translation is better).
One thing is for sure though: If you want to live your college life like TMM does, don't plan to study comp. engineering, you really have to go to lectures and study here |
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| Selwink |
Posted on 12-05-2013 11:06
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Jesleyh wrote:
admirschleck wrote:
Oh this make me wondering,if you guys want to share what you're going to study or what you're studying. (TMM just said). I'm 1st grade of High school and will probably go with architecture after it,since my father has huge company. I love it!
High school, but you're 14? Okay, I'm now officialy confused with the English school system names.
I'm on the 4th grade of the middle school(is it middle school?), it's probably, umm... 10th grade. I have to stay on middle school for 2 more years(depends on the level in NL how long you stay), and then I'm going to university as well. yay.
Don't have any clue about what I'm going to study though.
@Selwink
Is that HBO, or Uni? If Uni, we might study on the same university in 2 years
Btw guys, there's a School thread, you know?
Uni, Im currently in 5th in Dutch, on the highest level called gymnasium (I think its a good case there are different levels)
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 12-05-2013 13:42
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In America you start schooling at age 5, with kindergarten, but it's basically a daycar. Then there are 5 grades of primary school, and 6th to 8th is middle school. High school is 9th to 12th... not sure how you could not have high school in 10th grade. Then college depends on what you want to do and how far you want to go. Average is 4 years.
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 12-05-2013 13:55
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Here the school system is:
Age 6-16 - Elementary School (obligatory)
Age 16-19 - Secondary school
After that you can enroll in either a university or a college.
Bachelor education is usually 3 years whilst a masters is 2.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| Selwink |
Posted on 12-05-2013 13:56
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We have continued this in the School Thread
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 12-05-2013 13:56
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We moved the discussion about schools to the schools thread.
Just saying
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 12-05-2013 14:45
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Anyone see the Leicester - Watford game in the championship playoffs? As a Leicester fan, it was horrific.
Scores level, we had a penalty in the 95th minute to get into the playoff final, missed it, missed the rebound, 20 seconds later Watford go up the end and score, which sends them to Wembely for the final.
Good for Watford and Neutrals, terrible for us 
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| cio93 |
Posted on 12-05-2013 14:49
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
Anyone see the Leicester - Watford game in the championship playoffs? As a Leicester fan, it was horrific.
Scores level, we had a penalty in the 95th minute to get into the playoff final, missed it, missed the rebound, 20 seconds later Watford go up the end and score, which sends them to Wembely for the final.
Good for Watford and Neutrals, terrible for us
https://pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread....ost_715648
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 12-05-2013 14:49
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Ah. Thanks |
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Posted on 13-05-2013 00:30
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admirschleck wrote:
I'm actually 15. Also,i started going to school at 6 years old.
In serbia here is how it goes,you will quickly understand.
Primary school lasts 8 years,you start at 7 (i started at 6) and finish when you're 14-15.
Secondary (High school) starts the year after and lasts for 4 years.
After that, we go to college where you can stay 4-6 years,depends on what you're studying.
After college you do whatever you want with your life.
Understand now?
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 13-05-2013 04:27
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Just wrote all this: Spoiler
Welcome and thank you for visiting my own blog on Alejandro Valverde, one of the strongest riders in the peloton right now. I have decided to create this blog to follow every movement from Alejandro this season, as he is also one of my favourite riders!
Game Notes:
[spoiler]
This story will follow a fictional narrator as he aims to report on all of Alejandro Valverde's exploits as a cyclist.
I've used the PCMdaily 2013 db, but made some stat changes.
For now the difficulty will be Hard because I haven't played PCM for about a month, and I haven't played 12 very much at all.
Evolution of attributes is .3
I will be playing as Movistar (obviously)
Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
Alejandro began cycling around the age of 6 years old. People close to him knew he had talent from an early age and from the age of 11-13 he won atleast 50 races consecutively, due to being a very strong all-rounder, which earned him the nickname "El Imbatido" which means The Unbeaten.
Thanks to success at a young age he was signed to the Banesto junior team but he would travel to the races away from home so he had mainly poor results as he could not get accustomed to the travel. The next year he moved to the Kelme Development team and thanks to better performances he was signed to the Kelme pro team the year after that!
In 2002 Valverde turned pro and had his first real breakout in his 2nd year when he won 2 stages and finished 3rd at the Vuelta a Espana. That year he also finished 2nd at the World Championships. During the off-season he was widely thought to move on to a team with better finances but Valverde stuck with Kelme and in 2004 he followed up his 3rd at the Vuelta in the previous year with a 4th overall.
In 2005 Valverde joined Illes Balears - Caisse d'Epargne whom he still rides for today under another name (Movistar). That year he wom Stage 10 of the Tour de France ahead of Lance Armstrong but had to retire later in the race and barely recovered in time for the World Championships but still managed 2nd place.
In 2006 he took a Double in the classics winning La Fleche Wallone and Liege Bastogne Liege. However another goal of his for the season was ended to injury as he crashed out of the Tour de France in one of the weaker fields of the decade, where he was one of the real favourites to win. He focused on the Vuelta and finished 2nd which also helped him win the UCI ProTour 2006.
2007, 2008 and 2009 may go down as the peak of his carrer as he managed to win many spanish stage races and finally completed the Tour de France in 6th place (2007). He also won LBL and the UCI ProTour again in 2008 as well as the Criterium Dauphine Libere that same year. In 2008 he won the 1st stage of the Tour de France and wore the Yellow Jersey a dream of his. 2009 he avoided the Tour and raced the Dauphine Libere and Vuelta and won both.
In 2010 Valverde won the Tour de Mediteraneen, 2nd at Paris Nice and won the Tour of Romandie, but all of his results were later voided from that year after a suspension which was backdated to January 1st of the year.
Valverde returned from his suspension in 2012 and immediately won a stage of the Tour Down Under on Willunga Hill and later finished 2nd overall. He also won Stage 17 of the Tour de France after his GC ambitions were lost, but it was overshadowed by in-team fighting between Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins. He returned to his most successful Grand Tour, the Vuelta a Espana and was not really considered a top favourite after his Tour performance and teammate Juan Jose Cobo who won the 2011 version of the Vuelta, as well as Alberto Contador who had just returned from a doping suspension. AS the race went on it was clear that Valverde was a real contender and he held the leaders jersey and ended up finishing 2nd overall, but may have won if he hadn't lost a large chunk of time from a crash on Stage 1.
Doping
Over the years, Valverde has been under lots of scrutiny for doping. While nothing has actually 100% proven that he has doped, he was brought to court and after a lengthy battle he was banned from the sport for 2 years. Valverde is widely linked with Operacion Puerto and when the Italian Olympic committee linked his blood to that of some blood samples in bags found from Operacion Puerto he was banned, and is most likely guilty of doping. Former riders from Kelme also claim that Valverde used Testosterone in 2002 for the Vuelta.
before deciding on a different rider 
Edited by valverde321 on 13-05-2013 04:29
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| Selwink |
Posted on 13-05-2013 06:49
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That's a lot. It would be even worse if you don't like the rider you chose, but I suppose that won't happen
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 13-05-2013 09:14
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valverde321 wrote:
Just wrote all this: Spoiler
Welcome and thank you for visiting my own blog on Alejandro Valverde, one of the strongest riders in the peloton right now. I have decided to create this blog to follow every movement from Alejandro this season, as he is also one of my favourite riders!
Game Notes:
[spoiler]
This story will follow a fictional narrator as he aims to report on all of Alejandro Valverde's exploits as a cyclist.
I've used the PCMdaily 2013 db, but made some stat changes.
For now the difficulty will be Hard because I haven't played PCM for about a month, and I haven't played 12 very much at all.
Evolution of attributes is .3
I will be playing as Movistar (obviously)
Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
Alejandro began cycling around the age of 6 years old. People close to him knew he had talent from an early age and from the age of 11-13 he won atleast 50 races consecutively, due to being a very strong all-rounder, which earned him the nickname "El Imbatido" which means The Unbeaten.
Thanks to success at a young age he was signed to the Banesto junior team but he would travel to the races away from home so he had mainly poor results as he could not get accustomed to the travel. The next year he moved to the Kelme Development team and thanks to better performances he was signed to the Kelme pro team the year after that!
In 2002 Valverde turned pro and had his first real breakout in his 2nd year when he won 2 stages and finished 3rd at the Vuelta a Espana. That year he also finished 2nd at the World Championships. During the off-season he was widely thought to move on to a team with better finances but Valverde stuck with Kelme and in 2004 he followed up his 3rd at the Vuelta in the previous year with a 4th overall.
In 2005 Valverde joined Illes Balears - Caisse d'Epargne whom he still rides for today under another name (Movistar). That year he wom Stage 10 of the Tour de France ahead of Lance Armstrong but had to retire later in the race and barely recovered in time for the World Championships but still managed 2nd place.
In 2006 he took a Double in the classics winning La Fleche Wallone and Liege Bastogne Liege. However another goal of his for the season was ended to injury as he crashed out of the Tour de France in one of the weaker fields of the decade, where he was one of the real favourites to win. He focused on the Vuelta and finished 2nd which also helped him win the UCI ProTour 2006.
2007, 2008 and 2009 may go down as the peak of his carrer as he managed to win many spanish stage races and finally completed the Tour de France in 6th place (2007). He also won LBL and the UCI ProTour again in 2008 as well as the Criterium Dauphine Libere that same year. In 2008 he won the 1st stage of the Tour de France and wore the Yellow Jersey a dream of his. 2009 he avoided the Tour and raced the Dauphine Libere and Vuelta and won both.
In 2010 Valverde won the Tour de Mediteraneen, 2nd at Paris Nice and won the Tour of Romandie, but all of his results were later voided from that year after a suspension which was backdated to January 1st of the year.
Valverde returned from his suspension in 2012 and immediately won a stage of the Tour Down Under on Willunga Hill and later finished 2nd overall. He also won Stage 17 of the Tour de France after his GC ambitions were lost, but it was overshadowed by in-team fighting between Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins. He returned to his most successful Grand Tour, the Vuelta a Espana and was not really considered a top favourite after his Tour performance and teammate Juan Jose Cobo who won the 2011 version of the Vuelta, as well as Alberto Contador who had just returned from a doping suspension. AS the race went on it was clear that Valverde was a real contender and he held the leaders jersey and ended up finishing 2nd overall, but may have won if he hadn't lost a large chunk of time from a crash on Stage 1.
Doping
Over the years, Valverde has been under lots of scrutiny for doping. While nothing has actually 100% proven that he has doped, he was brought to court and after a lengthy battle he was banned from the sport for 2 years. Valverde is widely linked with Operacion Puerto and when the Italian Olympic committee linked his blood to that of some blood samples in bags found from Operacion Puerto he was banned, and is most likely guilty of doping. Former riders from Kelme also claim that Valverde used Testosterone in 2002 for the Vuelta.
before deciding on a different rider
What a bummer, because it's well written! Though good to hear you're cooking up a new story |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 13-05-2013 11:26
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miggi133 wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
My ankles have been quite weak the past few years. 3 sprains in 3 seasons. Only now am I surrendering to the wonders of ankle braces
my constant claf problems are (well hopefully were) a result of weak ankles... My Physio adviced me to strengthen them by standing on one foot whenever it is possible (like brushing your Teeth or cooking)... Have you ever tried to strengthen your ankle that way?
I did start looking into specific ways of strengthening my ankles when the one I sprained a year ago still felt "unstable" until just recently. However, after the off season where I've been quite careful and been dosing my training, I thought I had overcome my ankle problems. Didn't feel any issues and had just bought a new pair of cleats with extra protection around the ankles.
But as shown, my hopes of good ankles were destroyed two games into the season
baseballlover312 wrote:
[quote] CrueTrue wrote:
Defensive end (US football)./quote]
You play American football? 
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