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Reading the answers to this question about WW1 Western Front, it appears that breaking through the trenches was a very difficult task to do. How did the Allies finally make it? Was it the invention of new tactics and technology? Or was it just the numerical advantage caused by the entry of the Americans?
World War One was at the dawn of the modern military age. Military leaders had to adapt to new technologies with new strategies. Near the beginning of the war, soldiers would just stand up out of their trenches and shoot each other. Later, elaborate tactics and new technologies were employed. The battle of Vimy Ridge details the adoption of no less than six strategic firsts: creeping barrage, units of 10-15 men each with their own map (instead of 50 men with one map), suppressive gunfire, flash spotting, and others. Here is a brief look as some of the tactics.
The tactics employed at Vimy Ridge allowed for the attacking Canadians to lose only 10k casualties while taking a heavily fortified ridge from the Germans and inflicting 30k casualties on the defenders. Strategy played a huge role.
I highly recommend reading both of the linked articles in their entirety. They are exciting and informative.
The Allies never did make a real breakthrough in the West. At the end of the war, they were pushing the German Army back, but never breaking through.
The Germans did, against the Allies, but it's a matter of question whether German offensive practices were better than Allied, or Allied defensive practices were worse than German. Given that the British and French were usually attacking, and that the areas the Germans hit were generally the more lightly defended, my guess is that it's a matter of worse Allied defense.
The main problems the offensive faced were communications and logistics. Breaking through trench lines was a matter of coordinating infantry and artillery, and as the infantry advanced it lost all contact. The infantry would hit later trench lines at more and more variable times, so the artillery couldn't coordinate. Moreover, it was almost impossible to supply forces as they advanced; this is what caused the failure of the German Spring 1918 Offensive.
At the very end of the war, the Allies were experimenting with putting radios on tanks, to keep contact with the rear (including the artillery), and that might have made breakthroughs possible. Tanks were also useful for fire support, although very unreliable in those days, so breakdowns were very frequent.
Defensive positions in WWII were often deeper and better held than those of WWI, and were often broken through by well-planned attacks. Aircraft and tanks provided mobile firepower, there were good cross-country trucks, and radios allowed artillery to support the attack effectively until the limits of its range.
A multitude of approaches were taken, not just by the Allies but by the Germans as well:
Most attacks were initially successful; however, it was extremely difficult to bring up support to maintain the ground taken, and counter attacks would defeat gains made.
The Allied forces had more or less developed a pretty successful system of attacking by the end of the war. It did rely on having greater material resources than the Germans. Constant pressure and a large number of well resourced "bite and hold" attacks. This concentrated of wearing down the German army in a pretty brutal war of attrition. Each attack was limited, kept in range of the supporting guns, the objective was not to breakthrough but break in.
Given the limitation and problems 'exploiting' or attempted 'breakthrough' , Allied strategy was not aimed at these. (the problems just could not be solved). The quick succession of bite and hold attacks would eventually wear down the German reserves, and them there would be some sort of breakthrough.
The tank was one major development that helped break through the trenches. The British Mk1 tank was employed with some degree of success at the Battle of Cambrai for example:
The British gained more ground here in six hours than they gained in three months at Ypres for example.
However, due to lack of infantry support most of the ground gained was lost to a German counter-attack soon afterwards.


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Kimberly "Kim" Hope Rosen, a 26-year resident of Colville, passed away on May 30, 2011 in Colville at the age of 51. She was born on March 26, 1960 in Arlington to Ralph William and Mona Lou (Thomas) Burke.Kim was very kind and always enjoyed helping those who were in need, even giving the shirt off her back or last penny to help someone else. She was always willing to open her home to those in need. Kim loved spending time outdoors camping, fishing and swimming. She spent numerous hours floating the Kettle River in the summer. Kim had a Green Thumb and loved keeping a garden and growing household plants. She loved all kinds of animals. Kim's greatest joy in life was spending time with her family. She loved Sunday dinner and barbecues with her family and friends. Kim's grandchildren always brightened her day and made her smile. Kim was preceded in death by her father Ralph Burke, her step-father Rex Harris and her brother Rick Burke.She is survived by her daughter, Janelle Buckley and husband Brad, Colville; her sons, Jason Donner and wife Bernadette, Savannah, GA; David Donner and wife Amber, Colville; and Kevin Donner of Spokane; her mother, Mona Burke, Marysville; her siblings, Sue Murray, Tammy Tanner, Steve Burke, Doug Williams and Randy Burke, and her eight grandchildren, Skyler Donner, Jessica Lane, Aaron Buckley, Rebecca "Rowboat" Lane, Dalton Donner, Andrew Buckley, Daylene "Lee Lee Bug" Donner and Aden "Captain Hook" Buckley.The family of Kimberly Rosen would like all family and friends to share in a celebration of her life by inviting you to a "potluck" at the Colville city Park on Sunday, July 24th at 1 p.m. This will be a time to share and remember times in her life. There will be memory boards and a guestbook to sign and share stories about her life. Main dishes will be provided, please feel free to bring a side dish to accompany. If there are any questions, contact Janelle(daughter) at 684-7772 or 680-6618. Please visit the online memorial and sign the guestbook at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. The Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory in Colville is entrusted with arrangements.


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migration to gxt2.3.1 - grid header menu no longer displays properly.
I've just migrated to gxt2.3.1 and its all good so far, apart from the grid header menu's no longer display properly.
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Was the resources css updated as well?
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thanks for the reply. At first, no I just switched in the new library, but when I saw the problem I copied in the entire resource directory.recompiled GWT and same problem. (refreshed cache in browser etc). But I agree it does look like that kind of problem. I've now realised its with all menus (e.g. button menus as well).
UPDATE - it must have been cached somewhere - perhaps on my server. It now works. Thanks for your time.
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Seems I missed where you said it works, good job. I'm closing the issue. Reply with more if needed.


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I'm trying to use a bash script to process a webserver log file and replace any IP's it finds with their corresponding DNS hostnames.
An example entry of a single line from the log file is:
<12>1 2013-11-04T15:04:05+00:00 networkname kernel - - - kernel: [161030.740000] ACCEPT IN=br0 OUT= MAC=00:11:22:33:44:11:00:11:11:11:11:11:11:11 SRC=192.168.1.6 DST=192.168.1.1 LEN=71 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=30324 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=43729 DPT=53 LEN=51
(I have changed all private details in the above line for example purposes).
So above, the two fields SRC=192.168.1.6 and DST=192.168.1.1 contain IP addresses, that I need to convert into DNS hostnames (I understand they are just internal addresses, this is just as an example).
This is what I have come up with so far for my script:
while read line
for word in $line
# if word is ip address change to hostname
if [[ $word =~ 'DST='^[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}$ ]]
# check if ip address is correct
ip=($word) | cut -d'=' -f 2
echo -n `nslookup $word | grep Name | cut -d' ' -f 8`
echo -n " "
# else print word
echo -n $word
echo -n " "
# new line
done < "$logFile"
The part that is throwing me is interpreting the DST= and SRC= fields as an IP address, I'm not really sure of the syntax to strip this off prior to DNS processing, then adding it back on following DNS processing, or if there is a better way?
I did search the forums in advance and found the following article: resolve all ip addresses in command output using standard command line tools
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My host has Sendmail() disabled. I'm basically looking for a way to bypass this. I want visitors to be able to send me (gmail account) an email where they first fill in their e-mail address, so they become the sender. It's for support questions and remarks.
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I'd like to disable the commenting function for all of my friends for some of my photos but not for all of them or my status updates which is the only privacy control panel I can find. Is this possible?
The Facebook privacy settings do not allow you to disable comments on a specific photo or album. You can exclude certain friends from commenting on (all) posts, which includes photos, but it will also keep them from commenting on status updates and other wall posts.
The closest you can get to what you want is to put all the "no comment" photos into one or more albums, then hide those albums from the people you don't want commenting on them. However, if you still want them to be able to see the photos, you're out of luck.
Actually you can't. But you can just limit them to your "friends", and not to "friends of friends" or "everybody".
...and you're done.
Otherwise, just go to your photo and block those specific people whom you don't want to see it.
It seems you can only change privavy settings or view order but not prevent commenting only. And this depend on the type of album
I found out there are 5 (up until now) different Photo Albums on Facebook:
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For my fellow Word Nerds, Norman is an old friend of mine. He asked me to write a review for him and I never got around to it (oops!) so perhaps I can make it up to him by posting it here.
Awarded "Best of 2011" in Arts & Letters by Kirkus Review!
This is NOT your parents' vocabulary book.
The Word on Words uses interesting word origins and humor as memory devices for the reader to build a dynamic vocabulary with practical applications in education, business, law, and other fields.
The Word on Words is a new kind of vocabulary book, combining learning and entertainment like no text you've ever read. It defines 1,500 words in the context of fascinating essays about art, history, literature, pop culture, sports, and psychology. The book also emphasizes the playful aspects of language—hence its subtitle, The Play of Language. As my wife says, "You learn better if you have a smile on your face."
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Forgot to mention that I bought the Kindle edition when it first came out (at a much higher price) and I would love to have a solid copy, It's really targeting high school and maybe college kids studying for SATs or GREs. If you buy the Kindle edition, be sure to read it on a computer or Kindle Fire. Some of the graphs and graphics are wasted on a regular Kindle.
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The Wilkinson family tree is not full of athletes. In fact, we are all much better at sitting in our armchairs and cheering on the Red Sox or Patriots than getting out and tossing around a ball. A few Wilkinsons were athletes in high school or college. Some still jog or do yoga, and a few cousins have expanded this to 10K races and marathons. But one, and only one Wilkinson, has made it to the Olympics.
|Brett Wilkinson
from www.Row2K.com
In 2004 my fourth cousin, Brett Wilkinson, competed in the Athens, Greece Olympic games. Brett and I share a common 3x great grandfather, Aaron Wilkinson, who was born in South Berwick Maine in 1802 and died in Peabody, Massachusetts in 1879.
Brett is a rower, and competed in the men's fours (quadruple sculls). His boat came in eleventh, and a Russian boat took the gold medal during the 2004 Olympics. If you are unfamiliar with rowing, a scull is a boat with the rowers pulling two oars each (one in each hand). When the rowers have one long oar (both hands on one oar), it is known as a sweep.
Brett is a rower, and competed in the men's fours (quadruple sculls). His boat came in eleventh, and a Russian boat took the gold medal during the 2004 Olympics. If you are unfamiliar with rowing, a scull is a boat with the rowers pulling two oars each (one in each hand). When the rowers have one long oar (both hands on one oar), it is known as a sweep.
I've never met Brett, and I only know about his athletic history because another cousin has filled me in on the details of this side of the family. I was surprised to hear we had an Olympian in the family. And even more surprised to hear he was a rower. If you hear you have an Olympian in your family tree, Google can lead you to lots of Olympic history, with lists of athletes, statistics, medal winners, biographies, interviews, and maybe even a video! Every sport has it's own website, and for rowing I checked the archives at www.Row2K.com and www.USRowing.org . High school and college athletic departments often have great websites, with lots of statistics and photos.
How do I know so much about rowing? My own daughter rowed in high school and then for the Simmons College crew. She also rowed in the 2006 Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston. She rowed in a collegiate 8+ race (eight women and a coxswain). Brett Wilkinson was also at the 2006 HOCR, rowing out of the same boathouse (Simmons college uses the Riverside Boat House), in the Championship Men's Doubles, and he came in 3rd place. This same year my daughter's rowing coach, Nikolay Kurmakov, a former Soviet Union National Champion, won the gold medal in the HOCR Senior Master Men's Eight race, rowing out of Riverside. He won gold at the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Head of the Charles Regattas, and set a course record in 2007.
|Former Soviet National Champion, Nikolay Kurmakov, gives a pep talk
to the 2006 Simmons College 8+ boat before the HOCR
|The 2006 8+ boat shoves off for the HOCR from Riverside Boat House.
My daughter is in the number 4 seat.
Considering that we spent all day during the Head of the Charles Regatta 2006 at the Riverside Boat House, we must have bumped into Brett at some point. We also spent all weekend of the 2005 and 2007 HOCRs at Riverside Boat House, too. I know that Brett Wilkinson participated in all the HOCRs between 1997 and 2008, and placed in the top 5 spots several times. Nikolay and Brett, as team mates, must have known each other. Perhaps he is in some of our family photos, warming up or cheering on his team mates? Perhaps we made some passing remark to him about the weather, or the regatta, as we stood on the docks? But we'll never know, will we?
|Simmons College parents cheering from the peanut gallery
at the Riverside Boathouse during the 2007 Head of the Charles Regatta
For more information:
A 2004 interview with Row2K.com http://www.row2k.com/olympics/features.cfm?ID=194#.UBaDYrRtq68
Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo


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The victim didn't show up for work Monday morning, so a co-worker went her home, located in the 12700 block of NE 10th Place, to check on her.
"She didn't show up for work today. A co-worker was worried, came to the apartment and found the door open. (The co-worker) walked in and found her dead on the floor,"said Carla Iafrate with Bellevue Police.
Iafrate said the victim lived with someone, but police haven't located that person yet. While no suspects have been identified, Iafrate said there does not appear to be a threat to the surrounding area.
The crime has shaken residents in the quiet neighborhood.
"I never thought something like this would exist in my own backyard," one woman said. "It's very unsettling."
Police have not yet said how the woman died, but Iafrate said she was not shot.


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For clang and linux.
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Readd test target.
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User's job to set compiler path.
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Add intel64 target
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Need to contrib dependancy for solarisstudio dist.
Add default verify to linux-verify.
Rename sunstudio to solarisstudio.
Changed option from -mcgrope to -mcprobe.
Use CURDIR instead of PWD.
Fix mingw broken build.
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[Issue #108] Reverted beta and gamma to ADMB-9 code.
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Build scripts for all user contributed libraries now finished. Also Windows (adlink.bat and adcomp.bat) modified to link to these libraries.
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[Bug #6] Hard code the command to build for macos10.5 with snow leopard.
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Whenever you break a subroutine on a piece of ice, you may pay 1 cred to break 1 additional subroutine on that ice.
When would I need this card? With most icebreakers, it's 1 cred to break a subroutine.
When would I need this card? With most icebreakers, it's 1 cred to break a subroutine.
As of right now, there are two situations in which E3 feedback implants are useful.
The first is that it isn't always 1 cred to break a subroutine. Aurora, Peacock, Battering Ram, and Wyrm all cost more than 1 cred to break a subroutine. Two of these (Aurora & Peacock) are the same faction as E3 feedback implants. So it's feasible that you'd save a little bit of money over time.
The second use is against bioroid ice. Bioroid ice subroutines can be broken by spending a click. So with E3 feedback implants any bioroid ice can be bypassed by paying 1 click + 1 cred/remaining subroutine. Which makes things like Janus only cost 1 click + 3 creds.
If there are things added in the future that allow breaking subroutines via non-icebreaker methods, E3 implants would also be useful in those situations.
EDIT: There was discussion about whether or not E3 feedback implants could be used as the triggering condition for itself, so here's a link to a thread on BoardGameGeek where this got answered. (It does trigger itself) http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/910289/e3-feedback-implant-official-answer
As more cards come out, new synergies will obviously appear, but I think its best use at the moment is against some of the incredibly tough Haas-Bioroid ices which allow the runner to spend a click to break a subroutine.
For instance, Janus 1.0 is a level 8 HB ice and has four subroutines which all read


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Learn about the names Ella and Emma.
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WEIRTON - Concerned with the frequency of collisions at the U.S. Route 22 west ramp on Three Springs Drive, city officials will spend the next week considering how best to alter the traffic pattern to reduce the risks.
West Virginia Department of Highways Traffic Engineer Jay Wallace reviewed four scenarios DOH thinks could make the busy intersection less dangerous and asked council for its recommendation. While DOH would have the final say, he said their wishes would be taken into consideration.
"Look at it, study it, (tell us) if there's something we're not seeing," he said, adding they "don't want to fix (one) problem and create something else."
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ROAD TALK — Weirton Police Chief Bruce Marshall and Department of Highways Traffic Engineer Jay Wallace discussed fixes for a high-accident stretch of Three Springs Drive on Tuesday. -- Linda Harris
City officials say northbound drivers attempting the left turn onto the Route 22 ramp are colliding with southbound traffic with alarming frequency.
Wallace said part of the problem is southbound drivers use their right turn signal to maneuver into the right-hand lane, "and the movement doesn't turn the (turn) signal off." Some northbound drivers see the turn signals blinking, expect the oncoming cars to turn onto the ramp and proceed to make their left; by the time they realize the oncoming traffic isn't turning, it's too late.
Other times, he said cars making the left onto the ramp appear to be accelerating to "try to beat southbound drivers to the yield" sign. "It's aggressive driving by left-turning vehicles," he said, adding that fixing the problem will require more than putting up a new sign or two.
"(Putting) more and more signs confuses drivers," he said. "You want to try and be selective about what you're putting out there."
Generally speaking, the scenarios under consideration to fix the problems involve using pavement markings on Three Springs Drive to narrow southbound traffic to one lane for a short stretch and moving the northbound left-turn lane, though Wallace pointed out narrowing the roadway, however briefly, is going to reduce capacity on the recently widened stretch of highway.
"The fact is, there's so much traffic on Three Springs Drive that no matter what you do, you're never going to stop accidents," police Chief Bruce Marshall said.
Also representing the city were Mayor George Kondik, City Manager Valerie Means, Fire Chief Jerry Shumate, City Clerk Nicole Davis and Councilmen George Ash, David Dalrymple, Ron Jones and Fred Marsh.
Dalrymple called for the study in January after his father was involved in a wreck at the intersection. At the time he said that in talking to police, he learned there'd been "a lot of accidents in that area and a lot of near misses" and believed the safety issue needed to be addressed.
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Reading about producitivity lately, it seems that multi-tasking is a bad strategy* (and I certainly feel that it contributes to stress), but I'm not sure how to avoid it when working on legacy software that takes tens of minutes to compile.
What strategies can I use to avoid the overhead of task switching, without just sitting and watching my code compile?
I've tried doing small tasks (cleaning my desk, checking e-mail), but I go through tens of edit/compile cycles on this project per day, so quickly run out of trivial tasks to complete.
Alternatively, what are some strategies for managing context switches without burning out?


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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Signals
From: Ralph H Castain (rhc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-08 13:47:55
I found what Pak said a little confusing as the wait_daemon function doesn't
actually receive a signal itself - it only detects that a proc has exited
and checks to see if that happened due to a signal. If so, it flags that
situation and will order the job aborted.
So if the proc continues alive, the fact that it was hit with SIGUSR2 will
not be detected by ORTE nor will anything happen - however, if the OS uses
SIGUSR2 to terminate the proc, or if the proc terminates when it gets that
signal, we will see that proc terminate due to signal and abort the rest of
the job.
We could change it if that is what people want - it is trivial to insert
code to say "kill everything except if it died due to a certain signal".
<shrug> up to you folks. Current behavior is what you said you wanted a long
time ago - nothing has changed in this regard for several years.
On 4/8/08 11:36 AM, "Pak Lui" <Pak.Lui_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> First, can your user executable create a signal handler to catch the
> SIGUSR2 to not exit? By default on Solaris it is going to exit, unless
> you catch the signal and have the process to do nothing.
> from signal(3HEAD)
> Name Value Default Event
> SIGUSR1 16 Exit User Signal 1
> SIGUSR2 17 Exit User Signal 2
> The other thing is, I suspect orte_plm_rsh_wait_daemon() in the rsh plm
> might cause the processes to exit if the orted (or mpirun if it's on
> HNP) receives a signal like SIGUSR2; it'd work on killing all the user
> processes on that node once it receives a signal.
> I workaround this for gridengine PLM. Once the gridengine_wait_daemon()
> receives a SIGUSR1/SIGUSR2 signal, it just lets the signals to
> acknowledge a signal returns, without declaring the launch_failed which
> would kill off the user processes. The signals would also get passed to
> the user processes, and let them decide what to do with the signals
> themselves.
> SGE needed this so the job kill or job suspension notification to work
> properly since they would send a SIGUSR1/2 to mpirun. I believe this is
> probably what you need in the rsh plm.
> Richard Graham wrote:
>> I am running into a situation where I am trying to deliver a signal to the
>> mpi procs (sigusr2). I deliver this to mpirun, which propagates it to the
>> mpi procs, but then proceeds to kill the children. Is there an easy way
>> that I can get around this ? I am using this mechanism in a situation where
>> I don't have a debugger, and trying to use this to turn on debugging when I
>> hit a hang, so killing the mpi procs is really not what I want to have
>> happen.
>> Thanks,
>> Rich
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Just managed to persuade them to replace the San Siro.
Is it going to be bigger than 80,000? I don't want a downsizing.
Just managed to persuade them to replace the San Siro.
Is it going to be bigger than 80,000? I don't want a downsizing.
I would presume so otherwise what's the point.......
In real life, newer stadiums might have similar or smaller capacities but more modernized amenities such as luxury boxes. Any income lost from the decrease in seats is made up by additional revenue from luxury boxes, premium services such as dining, technological improvements that improve efficiency such as A/C etc
Very highly doubt a massive club like Inter/AC would move to a smaller stadium.
What would you say about Spartak Moscow and CSKA Moscow those are to move to their own new stadiums with capacities lower (45000 and 35000 correspondingly) than in Luzhniki Stadium (80000)?
So does anyone know id it is possible on the game?
Also, is there some sort of bug?
Just the planning phase is due to take 4 YEARS?!
No bug - Liverpool's "planning" has taken 10 years already.
my new stadium for liverpool is into its 2nd year despite the fact it said it would be finished July 12th 2011, its now late January 2012
I'd say 4 years is on the low end of realistic. If you think that the point your told is the point at which the board say, yes we need a new one, we have a budget of x (which seems realistic).
What is also annoying is how, it started off as a one year plan, but now it is 4.
Also IRL, these things are always being considered. Clubs are always 'planning'. IRL, Milan have been looking into a new stadium for years. So if the decison was made to go ahead. They would already know the possible sites, theyd know if they can get planning permission, and theyd know what architects to go to. (They were thinking of going with the ones that built Schalke's IRL).
On this game, its as if they are just sitting around doing nothing, and when I suggest a New Stadium, its as if I'd suggested we relocate to India or something.
Started as a one year plan and now it's 4 years... You must have a really short memory, or aren't old enough to remember the debarcal that was wembley stadium. That was AT LEAST 4 years over due and ir was costing the fa £100 million a year to look after the derelict site, and then it went something like 50% over budget. I'd love to see the thread you would make if THAT happened to you.
The Emirates Stadium was 'planned' from the 1990s when Highbury was deemed inadequate for European nights.
The site was chosen in 1999, and it took seven years until it was completed.
And let's not even talk about Wembley.
Yes, then as I said.
Every big club should start the game in the 'planning' phase.
Every big club has some sort of preliminary plans for a new stadium (unless they have moved very recently, or the existing one is perfect).
But even if a club has been 'planning' a new stadium for years, it doesn't mean things will go smoothly once they decide to go ahead.
There are always hiccups and delays to these sort of things.
I'm actually surprised you even find time to play the game with the amount of threads you start every time you find something in the game that isn't to your liking!
I'm quite happy with the time it takes on the game, 3-4 years is very quick. Just got a 66000 seater for Liverpool, after our 6th season. Named after me of course.
A smaller capacity may also be cheaper to maintain - much so if the previous stadium is quite old. Add in the conferencing facilities, and i can be worthwhile.
I would guess that even if a team moved to a slightly smaller stadium the new stadium would have room for a lot more expansion in the future.
The game should either refelct this by having the team automatically start in the planning stage, or once they do finally give the go ahead, things should move quicker.
Just doing a bit of reading and Chelsea for example, actually get 2 or 3 offers a season to relocate their stadium. So someone who owns some land or a big architect will present them with plans. So if they were to agree to it one day, it would not take too long at all to actually do it
And surely seeing as Chelsea are bankrolled by a billionaire cash is no issue so surely by now they could have built there new stadium ??
Face facts not every club plans new stadiums for the future they look firstly at what can be done with there existing one. and a hell of a lot of clubs have more important things to spend there cash on than designing new stadiums for that one day when they just might get more fans or win a league and even if they did there are a lot complications when moving to new grounds or building them. try getting planning permission for an extension on your house or to build one and see all the compliactions and paper work you need to go through. And that's even before you get people complaining about it as there are always complaints from people when building and development is involved.
AFAIK Milan aren't planning to build a new stadium IRL. They wanted to buy San Siro though, but they can't at the moment. Inter were planning to build a new stadium, but I don't know what happened to that. Milan have never even considered to move in a new stadium, let alone planning a new one.
Chelsea have a lot of legal obstacles to clear before they could consider building a new ground in real life. Property developers dangling speculative 'offers' at them does not count as planning.
That is from 2005. I'm not saying anything is concrete, but its not like it is a brand new idea. It would not take them 4 years just to plan a new stadium. They already have a lot of the ideas. The main thing stopping them IRL, is Berlusconi like Abrahamovic doesnt want to sink his money in. And also, Milan cant even fill up the San Siro.
If Milan were very rich, and attendances were up, a new one could be built in 3 years.
I assume you don't have any idea about the construction business.
Like I said, having plans is one thing. The actual execution, no matter how well you 'planned' it, will never be as easy as you think it is.
Clubs only go ahead (not plan) with a new stadium if they decide that their existing facilities are inadequate, AND they can ensure that they can get the relevant project done.
Lots of clubs have plans to have a new stadium, but they are just that, plans on paper. Whether they can get approval and funding and etc is a whole completely different matter.
I don't think Sheva lives in the real world sadly. I along with others have tried telling him this but he refuses to accept the facts. He is unfortunately one of these people who needs to complain if anything isn't going his way and when people try to help him throws it back in there faces. In this case rather than accept that his stadium in the game will take time just like in real life he would rather bitch and moan about it and then supply us with links to websites of what appear to be very unreliable sources.
I'll try to explain this to you, using the Emirates Stadium example, breaking down the timeline.
1993: Highbury upgraded to all-seater after the Taylor Report (due to Hillsborough incident requiring all stadiums in England to be upgraded). Plans in place for a new stadium after further expansion deemed impossible due to surrounding housing. Various sites considered.
1999: Site in Ashburton Grove chosen, although Arsenal also considered moving to Wembley. Said site consists of a recycling plant and Royal Mail Office which needed to be bought out. This was very expensive as the club had to fork out the bill for both facilities to be relocated and took about 3 years.
2002: Residents in Islington (the borough where Arsenal is located) protest against new stadium, with a number of lawsuits filed. Also problems with Met Police with regards to parking and access to surrounding streets on matchday. Health And Safety would not grant building permission until said issues were resolved.
2004: Groundbreaking (actual construction) begins of Emirates Stadium (you will note this is 11 years after initial plans have been proposed and 5 years after site is chosen). Structure completed in 2005, ahead of schedule and on budget.
2006: Emirates Stadium opened for use.
The Emirates is considered one of the best planned and well-constructed football stadiums of late, yet even from planning to completion took damn near 13 years. 5 years from site chosen to actual start of construction.
It is never that easy mate.
So I guess that's a yes, and rightly so.
It surprised me actually, always thought FM didnt do this, and was a bit flawed in that department for that reason. It seems realistic to want to upgrade your stadium without nescessarily increasing the capacity. Now if only we could suggest such improvements to the board instead of just expansions.
1989: Ajax' old stadium de Meer isn't good enough anymore so they start looking for plans to build a new stadium.
1993: The plans for Amsterdam ArenA are finished and building is commenced.
1996: Building is finished. Ajax and Amsterdam stayed within their budget of 96.000.000 euro.
This doesn't say all though. Because designing the Amsterdam ArenA took 10 years, it means that the setting up the new stadium from scratch took 13 years.
Money also held Arsenal back to some extent. I
Really Sheva, pray tell which clubs are at that stage? Maybe spurs are at that point out of all 20 premier league clubs. And when do spurs expect to be on their new stadium? 2016-2017. 5 or 6 years away.
Try again.
I have never saw a club move to a smaller stadium, in game. So i assume you can only move to a bigger stadium.
Name me the clubs who have already CONFIRMED their desired site for a new stadium, for definite.
Chelsea still can't decide whether to move to Earl's Court. Everton had problems deciding whether to go to Kirkby. And etc.
I can only remember Liverpool wanting Stanley Park, and Spurs recently confirming their chosen site.
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Add to those two the 'thinking about it' group of liverpool, chelsea and everton.
But only 1 club is actually in the planning stages, and thats spurs, and even they arent finalised because they still have 3 options (improve white hart lane, move to that new swanky stadium they have planned, or use the olympic stadium)
Also, there is absolutely no way to plan a stadium without a site. Sure you can have a lovely artists impression of what you want to build, but the actual site that it sits on will influence the stadium design more than any artists impression.
Please drop it - Ill start quoting planning law soon and it will just get boring for everyone else.
You don't just say "I want my new stadium here" and throw money at it and expect it to magically appear. As I laid it out (and others have pointed out) there is a lot of planning and permissions and knock-on effects from your decisions.
Ok - not in the way you are implying.
Step 1 - find a site
Step 2 - employ architech, planning officers (lots of a stadium of this size)
Step 3 - submit basic planning proposal
Cost - Many millions.
Repeat that for every site you want to look at - 10+million before you have even started formal planning applications. (this stage will take a minimum of 2-3 years, more like 5+)
So, now you have found a site and basic planning has been proposed and accepted its time to submit formal planning applications.
The plans that are drawn up at this stage by quantity surveyors will be unbelievably detailed - it will show every single pipe, the thickness of the glass in the windows, every electrical socket.
These plans have to then be looked over in great detail, provision made for traffic etc. The council will then submit a return proposal saying that X has to be changed and that Y has to be improved in the local aread, all at the clubs expense.
This part takes another 3-5 years, unless by some ridiculous chance the planners and the council actually agree on everything (wont ever happen, some resident will always complain about something)
Oh, and once you have finally agreed with the council that everything is ok, then you have to go to a public consultation.
So, now we are 6-10 years down the line, having spent something stupid like £50Million in fees and costs. And you think that all clubs will do this 'just cos'.
So 6-10 years later you can start building. Absolute minimum of 2 years, and thats for a small stadium.
So 8-12 years without any delays, hold ups, re-negotiations, contractor failures etc
And you are STILL complaining about a 4 year delay?
I think this would be a good read.
Most clubs look to simply expand their existing ground. Only Spurs and Liverpool have definite plans to move out.
I could list out all the delays and problems clubs have with plans to move to a new stadium, but it would take forever.
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Sheva, you clearly know nothing about construction, development or planning I strongly suggest you quit before you make yourself more stupid than you already seem to appear to be (I'm going on the way you compose yourself on every other thread you have started).
Every club has long-term plans - they're just not concrete. For example, a Championship side could have a 15-20 year "masterplan" to establish themselves in the Premier League and add 10,000 capacity to its stadium. That's not really "planning" though - they could identify several plausible sites. They then would of course have contingency plans in case things don't work out - for example, they could start saving some money for a basic 2,000 capacity upgrade plus health and safety upgrades which will definitely take place in 5 years (because the savings would have been made) - in that case, they could start planning.
In other words, these plans 10 years ago are generally non-committal - they're not binding. While the Emirates was planned 10 years ago, it was only binding when planning really got underway.
very annoyed, It was meant to take the club 1 season to finish the planning then start building the new stadium. It took an extra 10-11 months for the bug to correct itself, now its saying end of May 2015 for end of planning.
So instead of 1 seasons, now it's going to take 5 seasons to plan, 3 left to go. Only good thing coming out of this is I have 3 more seasons to become Liverpools most successfull manager.
I may be struggling but may get close to beating Paisley if I win every competition possible, including 2014 World Cup. That would also include 3 EPL titles, 3 FA/League Cups, 3 Champions League Titles, 3 UEFA Super Cups & 3 World Club Championships.


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Carrie Fisher: Ted Kennedy once asked me if I'd have sex with Chris Dodd
posted at 7:12 pm on November 10, 2011 by Allahpundit
Can we really trust her on this? It sounds … so unlike him.
In a week filled with accusations about skeevy behavior by politicians around women, it's only right that we pay tribute to the master.
"So, [in 1985,] having recently graduated completely healed and normal from my first stint in a rehab, and appearing in an almost perfectly respectable piece of work, I found myself driving from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., to have dinner with Chris Dodd, this senator who I knew virtually nothing about. Nor did Senator Dodd — like most people, then, now and always — have any idea who I was in the wide, wide world beyond this cute little actress who'd played Princess Leia."
"Suddenly, Senator Kennedy, seated directly across from me, looked at me with his alert, aristocratic eyes and asked me a most surprising question. 'So,' he said, clearly amused, 'do you think you'll be having sex with Chris at the end of your date?' … To my left, Chris Dodd looked at me with an unusual grin hanging on his very flushed face."
Her reply: "'Funnily enough, I won't be having sex with Chris tonight,' I said, my face composed and calm. 'No, that probably won't happen.' People blinked. 'Thanks for asking, though.'"
His retort: "'Would you have sex with Chris in a hot tub?' Senator Kennedy asked me, perhaps as a way to say good night? 'I'm no good in water,' I told him."
Princess Leia is a confirmed hater of racist teabaggers so there's no right-wing agenda at work here in badmouthing Teddy. How could there be? Given his track record, this vignette seems downright charming. If you've never read Michael Kelly's famous piece on Kennedy, here's the immortal passage on the "waitress sandwich" he once created with his buddy Chris at La Brasserie:
It is after midnight and Kennedy and Dodd are just finishing up a long dinner in a private room on the first floor of the restaurant's annex. They are drunk. Their dates, two very young blondes, leave the table to go to the bathroom. (The dates are drunk too. "They'd always get their girls very, very drunk," says a former Brasserie waitress.) Betty Loh, who served the foursome, also leaves the room. Raymond Campet, the co-owner of La Brasserie, tells [waitress Carla] Gaviglio the senators want to see her.
As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd's lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, Loh enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room. Kennedy, Dodd and their dates leave shortly thereafter, following a friendly argument between the senators over the check.
Follow the link for lots, lots more. That incident allegedly happened in 1985 and Kelly's piece came out in 2007, yet Kennedy remained a progressive icon in good standing to the very end. Just something to bear in mind if/when the Cain story starts up again and the left puts on its most disapproving frowny face.
Exit question: What does Fisher mean when she says, "People blinked"? Did Teddy say it loudly enough that people at other tables heard?
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Audio book sales are increasing since 2010 in the world.
But do audio books really help us analyze a book? I ask because some people (including me) like to touch what they read. This is also the reason why I don't like e-books.
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Yap, that'd be great thanks. I don't think the current layout is great tbqh (although admittedly I wouldn't be able to make anything better).
Can't remember if I mentioned this earlier, but I had a whack at it a few days ago. Absolutely terrible
You still going to knock up a design Rob?
Oh, and does anyone have any suggestions as to what we should do with the free merchandise we get? I had made an arrangement with someone to have the competition linked to the forums, but it never really followed though.


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Do You Know What The Fiscal Cliff Will Cost You?
Pleas read this article. http://nj1015.com/what-will-the-fiscal-cliff-cost-you/
From the article: What The Fiscal Cliff will cost each and everyone of you beginning January 2013.
The tax increases wouldn't affect everyone equally, though all taxpayers would pay more. Here are the average increases for people at different income levels:
Income level Tax increase
Lowest 20% ($20,113 or less) $412
Low-middle 20% ($20,114 – $39,790) $1,231
Middle 20% ($39,791 – $64,484) $1,984
Upper-middle 20% ($64,485 – $108,266) $3,540
Highest 20% ($108,267 and above) $14,173
Top 1% ($506,210 and above) $120,537
Source: Tax Policy Center
For myself at my income level that is equal to what I spend a year on vacation/fun things. It looks like I won't be having any fun next year. :-(
And for a shot at a little humor. Fiscal Cliff is not the guy who sat at the end of the bar and drank beer on Cheers! ;-)
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I'm honestly worried more about the spending cuts than the tax increases. Working in the defense industry is a little scary right now. But, I guess, on the bright side, I may paying significantly lower taxes in 2013. That's something, right?
Somehow I think Congress will find a way to prevent supposedly "mandatory" cuts to Defense. That seems to be the "Norm".
I prefer not to dwell on it unless I have an option not to pay it. Otherwise I just get my checkbook out.
It's sad on The Price is Right when the yodeler goes over the fiscal cliff*.
*But really, I'm kind of terrified.
gt0163: you will not be paying significantly lower taxes. The amounts stated above are on top of what you area already paying. They are an increase. No one will be paying less if the country goes over the fiscal cliff.
I'll be paying more, but given my situation (single, no kids, few deductions) I'm not going to get hit near as hard (proportionally) as many people. Welcome to my world, folks. Many months more than half of my outflows are tax. 60% one month.
@hessem: Pretty sure that was a tongue-in-cheek reference to paying less taxes because he'll be unemployed.
Everybody's making this such a big deal. Congress made it dire on purpose for both sides of the aisle to be absolutely sure they pass a budget before January.
Of course nobody would dare work on it before an election, so we only get two months to do it. But make no mistake - they've been working on their plans longer than that. This seems like media sensationalism to me.
@omnichad: It's been over 3.5 years since the Senate last passed a budget, and President Obama's last 2 budgets got no votes in the house and senate. Zero.
So let's not pretend that the election had something to do with it.
That is the problem with the tax cuts in the first place. They were never meant to be permenant, so eventually you have to pull off that band-aid. The Bush tax cuts, which from an economical standpoint, should have only lasted 3 years, stuck around way too long. Now everything thinks those cut rates are the normal rates.
The greatest thing, LONG TERM, that could happen is to fall off the cliff, suffer for a year or 2, then come back stronger than ever. It has to happen eventually, why not now?
@jkaleda: The problem is that it is not just the US in a bubble, if we go over the cliff, the effects will be felt worldwide. The consequences will be multiplied and could keep the pain up for a lot longer than a couple more years. Since a certain few Americans will not want to see the pain hit them, companies will cut jobs left and right in order to keep the profit margins going. Those lucky to have a job will be doing the work of several people with no end in sight.
The fear is that once companies see what they can get for fewer and fewer workers, that will be the new norm. Unemployment benefits cannot be the lifeboat for long. Things have the potential to be very bleak for many years to come.
I was shocked to read that the Capital Gains tax on selling long term capital gains will be going from 15% up to 23.8% and that taxes on profits from stock dividends will go from 15% for the average schmo up to 39.6% overall and 43.4% for top earners as of January 1, 2013.
I would think that there would be a run on the stock market before that kicks in? I liquidated mine before the election, and it's a damn good thing I did it, too. Very worrisome and untimely as the housing market is making a slight comeback.
The only thing articles/posts such as this do is create/help spread mass hysteria which can be far worse than any cliff.
It's going to be what it's going to be. Worrying, crying, complaining, etc. isn't going to effect what is going to happen. Just hope for the best and plan for the worst.
@hessem: Yes, but if I loose my job I'll be making less which will shift me into a lower tax bracket and, therefore, I'll be paying less.


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I could make a long list of awful remakes. It puzzles me why directors, producers and actors want to be associated with films which generally turn out to be dreadful distortions of much loved classics.
I suspect the only good remakes (few and far between) are ones which are often described as "re-imaginings" or to put it more prosaically, where there are marked changes to the original's plot and/or characters. To be honest, I am struggling to think of any remakes which surpass the original. The ones I think stand at least respectably in comparison with the originals are Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), King Kong (2005), The Italian Job (2003)and 3:10 to Yuma (2007). It's a thin enough list, and I can't think of any remake where I found myself thinking how pleased I was that someone had taken the decision do it and what an improvement it was. Can anyone offer an example? I am told True Grit) (2010) was good, but I have not seen it.