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Has been added as a feature suggestion and will be considered in the grand scheme of things.
Has been added as a feature suggestion and will be considered in the grand scheme of things.
There's also the namings for "stadium" that need to be used... Like Estadio for Spanish-speaking countries, Stadio for Italian-speaking countries, Stade [du/de la/d'] for French-speaking countries, Stadion for various countries (Holland, Poland, Romania...), the suffix -Arena (i.e. Veltins-Arena), Arena (i.e. BayArena), -Stadion (Millerntor-Stadion) and so on for German-speaking countries, and so on...
I'd also like to see the odd stadium named after non-footballing reasons - for example, Stade Louis II or Parc des Princes in France.
Lol oh God what if Brighton moved to Queens Park Park?!
that'd be the last thing we need xD
but good idea overall
And one more - it would be nice if we could name new stadia. While some will start raging about how managers don't do that, it is purely a cosmetic thing but the manager may have other ideas. Alternatively, the fans could pick various names based on the legendary-ness of their legends or whatnot, and you could pick. Or something.
I haven't seen too many people complaining about their managers being involved in the finances of transfer negotiations so I'm sure they won't start raging
great one dude
But don't make problems in transation because in Portugal we only use Arena (never used but still couting), Stadium, and Field
What about like I know Arsenal have done a few times and Spurs were going to do, move area (as they were planning to move into East London for the Olympic Stadium), could that be implemented into the game somehow?
I didn't expect to see this thread again. That is quite a bump!
The only problem with that we now seeing staduims names being whoever sponsors name IE Arsenals and Man City's and we can see be more in future as clubs look for more money.
of course it could. As they have listed as Sponorship of Staduim in current one, would just mean i suppose could not use real life companies names then that would not be to much problem.
But for example, there are some cases, when the stadium would probably be the same for all eternity.
Benfica. Estádio da Luz (Stadium of Light). It was built a new one in 2004... and the name remain the same. I think we should have a option, that, if we want, the stadium would remain with the same name.
And there are other examples. Nou Camp. these are mythical stadium that would probably be named the same even if they were demolish and built again.
Last edited by Keyzer Soze; 19-08-2011 at 15:48.
What i would like to see is when my team announces a new stadium, i would like a list of stadium names to choose from along with an option to type in a stadium name if i dont like the list available.
It would also be nice to have stadium sponsorships.
There are many different naming conventions for stadia and venues so I don't think we could rule any out(not to mention moving into non-football stadiums like the Olympic one). Are they even allowed to use company names in game or are there licensing issues?
Presuming no overlap will be allowed how will this affect teams that are extremely close together, will they just get far less options(making this pointless)? London could be very problematic with so many teams (league and non-league).
I'd rather they focused on other parts of the game.
keep it simple... just give the option for us to give the name we want.
Hoping this is implemented in FM12
Not like they have one guy working there, mind.
Secondly, no software company has everyone working on the same things. Some companies even have a "minor works" team specially-designed for these things - low-risk, low-effort tasks when other teams focus on the larger and more important tasks - since covering a lot of bugs is as important as covering important bugs.
Thirdly, the "impact" of a feature/defect/improvement is never the only factor in determining priority - effort, dependencies and difficulty, amongst others, are other factors used to judge the priority of a feature/defect/improvement. If it isn't a high-impact change but is quick, isn't dependent on anything (or much), and isn't difficult, then that is a good argument to promote it to the front of the queue.
We bemoan any new features that don't work correctly or any bugs that already exist, but then suggest these pointless things to bloat the game. The question to ask is if it is worth it or not, and if the game was in desperate need of new features and had people to spare then I'd agree they should do it - but currently the time and resources could (and really should) be better spent elsewhere.
Has this finally been implemented in FM2012?
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I wonder if we get to see this is FM2012
Why can we not demand a game that is largely bug-free and has lots of features that help immerse users into their game?
Of course you don't. Therefore to claim that "time and resources could be better spent elsewhere" is ludicrous. You don't know what "time and resources" is in the first place!
Well... to be fair, any amount of time and resources spent on a feature he doesn't care for is de facto a waste from his perspective, it's only a matter of how much it will interfere with other things he potentially cares more for. I think it's perfectly fine for everyone to have an opinion on the direction of the game, and that naturally includes criticism of efforts put towards things they do not like/want. I see nothing wrong with voicing concern with the introduction of features you do not like when there are still others that do not improve/are introduced at the rate you'd like. Presumably consumer opinion plays a role as well in how things are prioritized.
Personally, I want better stadium names ASAP.
Users should only judge feature requests on this forum on the merits of it alone, rather than against other features they are interested in. If a feature sounds good, we should ask it to be put in. If it sounds tedious to do but is good anyway, we should ask to put it in.
Who knows - maybe SI have done a lot of work in this area and this is just a trivial addon, so it is actually a really easy thing to do - a good argument for sticking it at the front of the queue.
one question...
what about football outside the great england ?
Not sure if it's been said before but what would be good too, is if in the news item for the stadium being completed/named, it told you the names of some of the stands.
So for example Liverpool could move to a new stadium called 'Stanley Park' with 'The Bill Shankly Stand'. Then the further you get into the game, retired players could have stands named after them or possibly managers who've been very successful at that club.
What do we think?
Thankfully we've had our ground named after our district for years....
And here's a random fact...
The first football ground in the world to have a cantilever stand running the full length of the pitch!!!
Synthonia's cantilever stand (predating Sheff Wed's by two years) must surely push it close?
I think it should definitely happen, though I hope it doesn't. I do yearn for the day that Aldershot name the successor to the Rec after me, even if it is unrealistic!
With small sides it could be a bit complicated I guess, Whitley Bay accidentally playing at the Shields Arena would send some on the warpath...
I'm happy with chairman naming the stadiums after themselves though, their ego usually extends that far.
This would be very nice really!! But I still eant to see my name in the stadium of Benfica 8)
Why not, for every city, have a combination of districts, famous historical figures, landmarks and for realism a few fake company names as if the stadium has been sponsered by them?
For me it would seem an easy addition. Board could give you suggestions (famous player etc) and then you could have the option if you're highly respected to name it yourself. It wouldn't come up that often and essentially some function to validate your chosen name of stadium wasn't already in the stadia list.
I'd be happy with that. Long-term gamers would be happy.
I only skimmed quickly through the thread, but I saw someone mentioned football outside of Britain. I don't know is this has been discussed, but I really think stadium naming out to be more localised by country. At the very least English language within new stadium names (Stadium, Park etc.) should be translated into whatever the local tongue is.
I understand that the SI team are reviewing this suggestion to potentially add to future FMs, but I wanted to post here since this is an idea I fully support.
First of all, I agree with the idea that the names should be chosen from a list of local districts which are entered by the club's researcher. The club that I support, Adelaide United FC, currently plays at Hindmarsh Stadium in South Australia, named for the federal district in which the stadium is located. On my FM11 game with the same club, though, a new stadium proposed in 2020 was assigned the name "Adelaide United FC Stadium", which I find to be a highly unlikely name; even "Adelaide Stadium" would have been preferred, I know of very few clubs which keep the "FC" tag in the name of the stadium. A simple wikipedia search is all it takes to see other South Australian districts which produce much more aesthetically-pleasing names, e.g: Boothby Stadium, Sturt Park, Kingston Arena etc. Surely a new data field for researchers would take up precious little of their time and effort, to create the much-desired reward of realistic stadia. At present, the system of naming stadiums after either the club or a legend of the club and appending the suffix "Stadium", "Park" or "Arena" is wholly one-dimensional and can be unrealistic depending on the scenario. Of course, many stadia in Spain, Portugal, South America and the like are named after well-known figures at the clubs who own them, and so the realism provided by stadium names can be appropriate or inappropriate depending on the region. Thus, further regionalisation is required when creating stadium names.
The application of regionalisation can occur in two main ways; first, the application of the national language to the stadium name, and, second, the use of the appropriate local custom in naming stadia. On the first point; regardless of which country a manager is inhabiting, the stadium will invariably be named first with the prefix (club name/legend's name) and then with the anglicised suffix (Stadium/Park/Arena). However, this reduces realism in scenarios where the national language is not english. For example, a stadium in France would be named Stade Marseille rather than Marseille Stadium and a club in Spain would be named Camp Alcorcon or Estadio Alcorcon rather than Alcorcon Park/Stadium. On the second point; a system could be implemented whereby stadium names are generated with a fixed likelihood of being named after a person or a place. As aforementioned, South American and Iberian nations tend to name their stadiums more after people than Western nations, and so a manager in Spain who finds his board building a new stadium should see a higher likelihood that the stadium will be named after a legend/the manager, in, of course, the local language and naming custom.
For example; Joe Bloggs manages Torquay in England. His board builds a new stadium. There is a 75% chance of it being named after a district on the list (Shiphay Park, Plainmoor Stadium etc.). There is a 25% chance of it being named after a legend or the manager (Joe Bloggs Stadium etc.). The local language is English, and the naming convention applies such that the prefix is the given name whilst the suffix is the noun denoting the stadium. In a parallel universe, Joe Bloggs chose to manage Alcorcon in Spain. His board builds a new stadium. There is a 75% chance of it being named after a legend or the manager (Camp Joe Bloggs, Estadio Presidente Fulano etc.) and a 25% chance of it being named after a district on the list (Camp Alcorcon, Estadio Mostoles etc.). Of course, the 75%/25% split is just a random example from my head, but I'd imagine the percentages could be weighted depending on the conventions of the country.
The idea behind all of this is that we simply see more realistic variation in the names assigned to stadia in FM. Of course, the discretion of the researcher would enable any unrealistic district or person names to be removed from the list of potential names (for example, Chelsea wouldn't play at Fulham Park) and no-one would want to see the possibility of earning a stadium with your name vanish, but these occasions should be the exception rather than the rule, and, in keeping with the intended realism of FM, stadiums should be named in the language of their nation and in the spirit of their traditional custom.
Aside from the implementation of the above, an increasing trend in today's footballing world is to see stadiums assigned sponsorship deals which result in the renaming of the stadium. Thus, when a new stadium is announced, alongside the usual message that "a stadium sponsorship deal worth X has been secured", this could be expanded to "a stadium sponsorship deal worth X has been secured with
and the stadium will be known as JetFair Park/DealByte Stadium until 2014", with the board-assigned name of the stadium in brackets on the facilities page next to the official sponsored name in the style of Facilities > Stadium: Emirates Stadium (Highbury), with a board-request option to end the sponsorship deal to retain the original name of the stadium (maybe this could have an impact on crowd numbers as fans appreciate the move to reconnect with the stadium's traditional name).
In the short- to mid-term, I would like to see the suggestions involving districts, local language and naming custom introduced to FM, with the sponsorship suggestion an optional implementation if it proves a popular idea. I would appreciate feedback from forum-goers and SI representatives on this suggestion, though I appreciate it is already being looked into.
I think this is a great idea.
Why not simply have the Board ask the manager to suggest a possible name for a new stadium during a meeting?
The point I'm trying to make is that people who wish to have control over their stadium name already do through editing programs, so the game should stick to providing realism in this case since the difference is, as you say, purely cosmetic.
EDIT: The other thing is that it may be all very well for the user to type their chosen stadium name in if we assume your model, but what about the names of stadia that are created under AI control? The point of the system I outline in my post further up the page is to create a universal yet region-specific way of naming stadia throughout the entire game world which provides realism as well as allowing the opportunity for the user to receive a stadium named after them; the whole point of this thread is to change the way stadia are named by default, the idea of having users naming their own stadia is another issue altogether, really. People wanting to name their own stadia is one thing, but the issue at hand in the thread is people wanting to see realistic stadium names for other clubs as well, rather than just seeing Chelsea move to Zola Park all the time.
Last edited by Adelaidean; 11-11-2011 at 09:55.
Things like kit colour changes and stadium names are things that users may want to perform and therefore it would be nice if they did not have to rely on third-party editors that can ruin your game.
To be pedantic, the game can generate a stadium name and the user gets the option to override it, at which point the generated name doesn't matter any more.
If users want to give stadia stupid names, then so be it. It doesn't harm anything. It is a message that appears once every time a new stadium is built (i.e. it is rare) and allows users to feel like the club is truly theirs.
Why should stadia need an original name if you are going to nickname them? For what purpose?
The game will always generate an original name for any new stadium, just as it does for a new player. Why, if that name can be nicknamed over afterwards, should the original name not strive for realism to satisfy the majority who would want to keep the name as it is given? You ask why stadia need an original name if you are going to nickname them; the point is, not everyone wants to nickname them, so they should have as original a name as possible to start with, it's just common sense.
I reiterate; this thread was created to try and get the default generic stadium names of Zola Park, Chelsea Stadium etc. changed to be less stale and more realistic to start with. People may nickname their stadia as they wish, but the majority of people will wish to keep their original stadium name (I'd assume, anyway, going by the reaction of people I've seen on the forums). I accept that the game may go beyond realism, but its default position will always be realism. Generated player names match the language and region of the player's origin, which is the base realism that the game strives for. That player may then be nicknamed, which goes beyond realism but which allows the user to make their cosmetic changes which, as you say, does not harm anything. All I suggest is that stadia be extended the same courtesy so that their default names are matched with their region and language of origin as realism dictates, and then the user may make their cosmetic changes by nicknaming the stadium afterwards. This way, the majority get realistic stadium names, and those who wish to change their stadium name may do so by nicknaming it afterwards.
It is not outlandish that perhaps a legendary manager would be given some input into the naming of the new stadium, too.
The way I see this working is that the board will one day give you an email saying "We're building a new stadium - do you want to give this stadium a name?" Clicking "Yes" allows you to input a name, and clicking "No" means the board goes off and does its naming magic.
There is an open question whether the board should name the stadium first and the user gets the option (i.e. "We are going to name our stadium the Heskey Stadium. Would you like to change its name?" in that same email). It doesn't necessarily matter, of course, as if this text wasn't in the email, the user might nickname it anyway and the random name becomes meaningless.
Having the ability to name your stadium does not mean that proper stadium names will not be available. These random names will always be available. And there will be an option to rename it.
To the OP, yes, I like this idea. It would/could be a touch that those who like it can tinker with, and those that don't like it could ignore. Not too keen about sponsorship stadiums; York City's KitKat Cresent is far too haunting. I also don't like 'Team X/City Y Community Stadium'. I can't explain why, but I really hate the phrase 'community stadium'.
In general, I think street names make the best names for stadiums. Wrexham currently play at the Racecourse Ground, but if it was renamed after a road, then it would become Mold Road. (Amusing to some, but Mold is a genuine town in NE Wales. And in welsh, the name would be Stryd Yr Wyddgrug. Easily rolls off the tongue). Another possibility is that Wrexham could relocate to Coronation Street (!)
Last edited by LiquidFury; 11-11-2011 at 12:29.
The ways that you and I have suggested here are ultimately the same in their practicality: both ways mean that the stadium's name can be changed by the user at their whim, but they differ in that my suggestion allows people to have the stadium's name assigned in a realistic manner and may then nickname it afterwards, whereas yours makes them choose at first whether the name should be kept as the board's suggestion or whether they should name it themself. In every other aspect of FM where the user may alter things themselves, like nicknames, the option is there but not forced upon you. When you get a youth candidate, are you asked "Would you like to nickname this player?" No, you are not. FM gives you the option to, as my suggestion would and as you would like, but assumes that you would rather leave things as they are, which is the default position of FM, since the target market are looking for a realistic management simulation. Look at it from the perspective of the majority FM gamer; they get the news item saying that the board builds a new stadium - they can then move on with their game as normal, or if they want to change its name, they can go to the facilities screen and nickname it. Under your system, they get the news item saying that the board builds a new stadium and are then asked to keep its name or name it themselves; this is what I do not agree with, since it is actively unrealistic that a manager would be asked this, and my suggestion would maintain the realism but provide what is effectively the same option; we are arguing over semantics here.
Now, the key point that I wish to make is this: the ability of the manager to name or rename the stadium is not the point of the thread, and nor is it why I initially posted in here. If you read my first post in the thread, it is an explanation of a way the game could change the way it generates the default stadium name. We both agree that the game will generate a stadium name which can then be overridden by either of our proposed renaming systems; the point of the thread is to try and change the way FM generates these names to make them more realistic by naming them after places rather than legends, and in the language of the stadium's country etc. (read my first post in this thread fully to see what I'm getting at here) - the point is that this has nothing to do with the manager's ability to rename the stadium. This is about how all stadiums in the game are named. It's all very well for a manager to rename his own stadium, but, as I mentioned in an earlier post, what about every other stadium at AI clubs? You responded to this earlier by saying that the manager could nickname other stadiums too, but they aren't going to nickname every single stadium in the game world. Again, the point of this thread is to see that every stadium, by default, has a more realistic name like stadia in real life aside from the stale "Drogba Park" or "Torres Arena", which has nothing to do with the user nicknaming the stadium, yet we seem to have gone off on a tangent here.
Who knows, perhaps advertising that feature would make it a feature the majority use.
The first and last of Dafuge's photos are embarrassingly laughable.
I rejoiced at seeing this thread then despaired as I saw the thread was three years old. I suppose it is the same in 2012 as in the previous titles? I found it fairly annoying to see new football grounds named after people listed as club legends. You know, those legends that won't have a stadium named after them, not in the foreseeable future and most probably not ever. Lineker Arena and the like.
I just had an idea - what happens if you nickname yourself and a new stadium (with your name obviously) gets built, then delete the nickname? Is it Nickname Stadium or Name Stadium?
The other thing about naming it yourself is that, while it is good for your own stadia, you still get Chelsea building Drogba Park and suchlike. I'd much rather it was just universally fixed as this thread suggests so that you don't have to name it yourself, it will have a realistic name already as will new stadia right through the game world.
Last edited by Adelaidean; 14-11-2011 at 10:24.
Stadiums AROUND THE WORLD almost always get named after former players, managers, owners/chairmen, national heros(or saints related to the region) or athletes(either former athletes of the club that operates in more than just football or great former athletes of the nation). In some countries, like England, they use the street name as well and in just some rare occassions they use the district name (which in most cases is named after a saint anyway so it's still under the same filter)
I think this is mostly an England thing and if implemented it should be treated as such. Don't drag 90% of the world just because the game is English based, make it more realistic and keep districts for Britain.
yeah. agreed.
at least until they (can) win EURO 2012 ;p
this has been needing to be changed for too long
Si get your finger out and get this sorted in fm13 , the nickname idea is probably the best one as at least if someone doesnt want to do it they dont have to .
Mind you this system is not used everywhere - in Eastern Europe for example the majority of the stadiums are named after real world figures (not necessarily footballers, in Bulgaria for example many of the stadiums are named after national heroes). So if this is to be done, then care should be taken in regards to which countries you apply it in because customs are not the same everywhere - obviously in the UK it is far more likely to be a district name. You were asking for real world examples at some point - Santiago Bernabeu anyone (mind you Spain is not much different from what I described above, many Stadiums are named after people). Same goes for Italy. In fact, I think UK is the only where you'd most definitely be more likely to name it after a district.
Logically the team researchers would just provide 3-4 potential names for new stadia, that suit the individual club they research for. They should know information like the situation in Bulgaria and suggest appropriate names based on that.
It will probably never be possible for every club in the world because there are just so many on FM, but the vast majority of researched clubs could be improved with a very simple process.
I agree with you.
New Arsenak stadium to be named Highbury?
Great idea thumbs up from me.
To reiterate the post I put earlier, I agree with having the option to rename a new stadium; the district method is very appealing.
Just thought I'd upload this screenshot of Vauxhall Motors' new stadium. By pure chance, this name works as a sponsorship stadium, even if it is just 'Team X Stadium'.
nice idea.
Moving into Aberdeen Stadium... Almost takes the fun out of a new pitch.
Lluís Companys - (olympic stadium)
Vicente Calderón - Atletico
Benito Villamarín - Real Betis
Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán - Sevilla
Manuel Martínez Valero - Elche
5 out of the top 11 spanish teams are named after club legends/persons with affiliation to the club
Almost every Argentine club does the same. Few of the famous ones.
Estadio Monumental Antonio V. Liberti - River Plate
Estadio Juan Domingo Perón - Racing Club
Estadio Alberto J. Armando - Boca Juniors
Estadio José Amalfitani - Velez
Belgium - the "famous" ones in Europe/Champions League this season;
Stade Maurice Dufrasne - Standard Liege
Jan Breydelstadion - Club Brugge
Constant Vanden Stock Stadium - Anderlecht
France has a few as well, so does Italy (altho they are somewhat hindered by the fact that Italian law dictates a person needs to be death for atleast 10years before you can name a building after him/her. Napoli wanted to name their stadium after Maradona but couldn't because of this). It's a common practice in Uruguay and to some extent Portugal.
Don't forget Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadium
Stadium naming customs are not the same everywhere, that much is true, but surely it is a safer and perhaps the better – and definitely very easy, should this change be introduced – option to go with districts considering the problem people have with stadium names right now is the grounds getting named after team legends as represented ingame rather than real world, historical club legends. Long story short: Santiago Bernabeu is nice, but I would rather have Madrid Stadium than Neymar Arena.
Rubbish, if Neymar has become a legend of Real I'd prefer Neymar Arena than Madrid Stadium...AND it will be against the country traditions to do the opposite. Don't change something in the WHOLE game just because it is the way in England (don't get me wrong, I live here, but traditions are different in different locations of the globe).
The Madrid situation is a bit more than that though. The stadium was named after him 20 years after he retired, and while he was the chairman of the club (and the project manager for the stadium). It wasn't just because he did well as a player (which is how it works in FM).
I'm sure there are other clubs who have named stadia after players who have had decent careers there, but for me the naming of a stadium should come from a bit more than that. Perhaps being a locally produced player at least?
Or if SI had the time to do the legwork, research which countries really do have geographical names and which have names named after people. With the additional option to rename.
There's no way they would be able to do it for really minuscule clubs imo, as the research would be near-impossible. Whether the names are districts or not is irrelevant in my eyes, it just adds unnecessary complexity.
I wanna to be able to name my own stadium. Something like 'Britannia Fortress' or 'the New Castle'. hehe
I like Adelaideans idea, but I'd also like some rogue sugar daddy or tycoon to have a 1% change of naming the stadium after himself as a vanity project, if only to have some variation on the player name/city mechanism.
While stadium nicknaming doesn't hurt, I'm not keen on it because it's ultimately only a fix for us. The iffy naming convention will still apply across all other clubs. I'm not spending my time systematically renaming every single new stadium... I'd really prefer a system was implemented where realistic names, following local naming conventions, was put in place, to maintain realism for the whole gameworld. Anything else becomes an inadequate workaround in my eyes.
i really like this idea
I know this is an old thread, but there's some great ideas in here that still don't seem to have found their way into the game.
Once again, I'm moaning about the names that appear for new stadia in long term games. These are the clubs in the PL and Championship who had new grounds built in my game:
Arsenal - Molina Arena
Chelsea - Terry Park
Man City - Man City Stadium
Swansea - Nikolopoulos Arena
Torquay - Torquay Stadium
Tottenham - Hoddle Stadium
Wingate & Finchley - Dafuge Arena
Altrincham - Altrincham Stadium
Bath - Bath Stadium
Burton - Burton Stadium
Chelmsford - Chelmsford Stadium
Cheltenham - Cheltenham Stadium
Grimsby - Grimsby Stadium
Hereford - Hereford Stadium
Leamington - Leamington Stadium
Lincoln - Lincoln Stadium
Are there any plans for FM14 to change this?
The inclusion of a rule that restricts stadiums being named after people to those who achieved icon status at least 50 years before the new venue is built would be a good start, other than that I do not see what can be done for a more realistic feel as every new ground that is built (In the UK at anyway) now comes with a commercial name rather than any sort of name based on the local area.
i get naming stadiums after humans for foreign teams but it very rarely happens in the uk (obvious egotistical chairmen spring to mind)
if fm was to keep with the times it will mostly be sponsorship names for new stadiums, i dont understand why they cant do it as there is already emirates, reebok etc.
one solution would be to use the games sponsors, id rather have the sega arena or war child park than the keegan stadium
There's certainly scope for some real life commercial links to make it into this aspect of the game, not sure whether SI would go for that or indeed whether they could convince real world companies to pay for the right to possibly have their brand appear in the game at some point in the future.
In liverpool though, there isn't exactly certain districts that support a certain team. I live in Anfield yet there are plenty of Everton fans and in Everton, there are plenty of liverpool fans.
Agree with several suggestions here.
Don't let a stadium be named after a player until something like 30+ years after their time at the club ended.
Name them after districts. But ask researches to have a look at areas of their city that might be appropriate(they don't have to go into much detail in the search, just look at large green areas or derelict buildings, or buildings scheduled for destruction. Google Maps and a google search will make that easy.
For example, in Newcastle, there could be:
City Stadium - The area in Heaton by Warrick Street.
The Moor Ground - Somewhere on the town Moor.
The Exhibition Ground - Somewhere in Exhibition Park
Leazes Park - Literally a hundred or so metres away from St James
The Grandstand Arena - Anywhere in the area about a KM further up the road than St James
Cochrane Park - Could buy that land from The University.
Granted, in reality I doubt they could build a stadium in any of those places. And if they were to build a new one I'd actually think they'd want to build it in the same place or would just improve it. But at least people would be able to think 'Hmm, I know where that is, it would be there'.
But to do that for every playable team in the game, sibce any of them could conceivably get a new stadium? Seems a hell of an undertaking for ultimately little gain.
I agree the current system is not suitable, but I'd think a large, generic pool for each country may be a better bet- think how many in England are simply named after a random sponsor or the road the stadium is on. Take the top 100 most common road names, for example, and you've got variety with near-enough realism.
There must be a simple way of implementing this. Even if there can be a vast pool of words for a stadium name to develop from, for instance:
Dome etc
And from this hypothetical categorised list a name could be formed which could have a touch more originality. It wouldn't bother me that it wasn't based on an actual district since doing that for all the teams in the game would be tricky. If Tottenham moved ground, instead of Hoddle Park or Perryman Arena or Tottenham Stadium you could end up with a variety of mixtures like,
(using the list above, even though it's crap)
Parkland Arena
Twiggle Dome
Sherbet Way


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Yes, you can brine koshered meat. That is what corned beef is.
However, it is not quite correct to say,
It is not permitted to eat it uncooked. It is wasteful to throw it away.
As long as the original salt/blood mixture is washed off (which is required of the Koshering agency), you can re-salt without the kashering requirements. (Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 69:20)
Here in Borough Park, in a Satmar butcher shop, they are selling pickled chicken, and friends of mine where I eat shabbbos have said that they'd had pickled turkey. I'm pretty sure pickled means brined.

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CADIZ - Harrison County Sheriff Ronald J. Myers conducted the third monthly Shale Safety meeting as a forum for local government officials, representatives of oil and gas companies and law enforcement personnel to get together and discuss the issues arising from the boom of gas related industry in the county.
During the meeting at the Puskarich Library in Cadiz Monday, Lorna Bower of the Harrison County Emergency Management Agency announced that her agency would be conducting an exercise Friday evening, April 5 in Scio.
"The first step when developing an emergency response plan is to conduct a risk assessment to identify potential emergency scenarios," said Bower. "This is not meant to frighten anyone, it is designed to develop an understanding of what can happen, which will enable us to determine resource requirements and to develop plans and procedures to prepare in the event of an actual emergency situation."
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Truck traffic is on the rise in Harrison County as illustrated by Sheriff Ron Myers' report that the updated total for traffic into the Scio construction site for Atlas Gas was up to 135,182 vehicles which is counting traffic on the township road going just one way out of the Midstream facility.
"According to Bower, this will be a full scale exercise with evacuations by school bus and public transportation to the Jewett First Station where the Red Cross will be stationed, "We will be including local fire and EMS which will respond to accidents and injuries as if there was an actual leak, we want to make it as real as possible."
The exercise will be held at 6 p.m. in the village and spectators are welcome, as well as volunteers. Bower can be contacted at the Harrison County Emergency Management office, 740-942-3922.
"This is our first exercise," said Bower, "We plan to have many more in the future at the various potential risk areas in the county so we can address as many risks as possible."
Sgt. Greg McCutcheon of the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported that last Tuesday Ohioans and environmental groups including Earth First! and Appalachia Resist had disrupted operations at Greenhunter Water's hydraulic fracturing or fracking wastewater storage site along the Ohio River near New Matamoras.
Around two dozen officers representing the Washington County Sheriff's Office, the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the New Matamoras Police Department worked to contain traffic and the crowd of 100 protesters.
"Ten people were arrested during a Tuesday anti-fracking protest including a man who spent nearly five hours chained to a 30-foot-tall structure he erected which he had wired to a water truck and a fence inside f the facility," Sheriff Myers reported.
Sgt. McCutcheon reported that there was no violence at this protest but some other protests in Pennsylvania had been violent, including an incident in PA where a homemade explosive device had been planted near a pipeline.
"We have no reports of any violence so far but it is probably coming," Sgt. McCutcheon said. "We are asking that everyone be alert and aware and report anyone out of place at your facility."
"We want to emphasize that you should not touch any suspicious object, stay clear and make contact," Sgt. McCutcheon warned that some of these groups are considered domestic terrorists or vandals.
The group called last Tuesday's action "the latest in a series of escalated acts of resistance to destructive extractive industries."
"These are fringe groups and our Central Intelligence Unit is monitoring them," Sgt. McCutcheon added. "If you see something we suggest you call 911 and they will contact the proper authorities."
Sheriff Myers reported that the updated total for one-way traffic into the Scio construction site for Atlas Gas was up to 135,182 with 38,280 vehicles passing the speed sign up to last Saturday's count.
The sheriff also reported that there had been one vendor related accident on SR 151 outside of Scio in which a truck hauling gravel had overturned in a ditch.
"I do not have the report from the highway patrol, but we suspect speed and an overloaded truck were factors," Myers said. "The driver did not have a valid operators license."
Jim Albright of the Harrison County Highway Dept. told the Sheriff he had to "slam on the brakes," to avoid a collision with a truck which ran a stop sign at the intersection of Cr 44 and CR 17.
According to Albright the first truck in a small convoy of three stopped at the intersection but the two trucks following did not heed the stop sign.
The sheriff reported that a full-time deputy was patrolling Scio 6 days a week which was being funded by Momentum and in addition the Ohio Highway Patrol was stepping up their weight and inspection presence in the county.
Myers stated that his department had issued several citations and Sgt. McCutcheon said that the Motor Vehicle Enforcement units had "put a lot of trucks out of service."
In addition the sheriff reported that there had been numerous speed complaints on trucks, trucks driving vehicles off the roadways and water trucks driving through Deersville.
Representatives from the local gas companies in attendance stated they had contacted all of their vendors but stated that there were limits to their influence over drivers and therefore it was a difficult issue to address. They renewed their pledges to continue and address the issues with contract haulers and all concurred it was an ongoing priority for all of their firms.
The company representatives suggested that residents or drivers get the name and or truck number of the vehicle and make note of the time and location of the incident and report it to the sheriff or one of the company representatives by telephone.
Lee Ann Wainwright of the Appalachian/Michigan Strategic Business Unit for Chevron North America gave her direct number for any complaints about vendors at Chevron sites: 877-847-8408.
The sheriff also reported that the guard rail at the intersection of SR 646 and U.S. 250 was severely damaged from the super-loads trying to navigate the corner
"We need to address this issue with the upcoming tourist season and the potential that a vehicle could go straight through into the water," said Myers. "I feel it is not worth someone's life going down into the lake."
Anna M. Kuzmich, P.E. statewide shale coordinator for the Ohio Department of Transportation and District 11 representative Jim Zitko said that the guardrail had been nit a least four times since they last repaired it, "The intersection and the road were just not designed for that type of traffic." said Kuzmich promising to work on the issue.
Zitko also stated that ODOT was getting more involved in locations where companies were using "permanent" signs for work zones, "We are contacting these sites where they have signs up on yard stakes and duct tape and letting them know that these signs for the work zones must be taken down and put back up each day."
He brought a limited number of work zone booklets and advised that the state had a link on their web page for the PDF file.
ODOT also announced that once the asphalt plants were fired up that the state crews would begin full depth repairs along SR 151, SR 646 and SR 800.
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In 2012, the Division of Student Affairs at Marquette implemented the recommendation of its Assessment Team to create a regular cycle of program review for all functional areas within the purview of the Division. Using national standards developed by the Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS, 2012) or other discipline specific professional associations, the program review process is designed to assist departments with self-improvement, continue a culture of data-driven decision-making, and fulfill the goals in the Student Affairs Strategic Plan, which articulates the Division's desire to:
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This network is full of up-to-date knowledge regarding more and more different topics. I don't know any other knowledge base (global brain) with similar properties and options and minimal redundancy. Only alternatives seem to be:
- searching the web with Google (problem of spam, duplicates, imho much less ordering as no social & semantic rating/tagging)
- reading scientific literature (without good background knowledge of topic and terminology hard to grasp, often paywall)
- hiring/asking (finding) an (true) expert
What I especially like about SE is the possibility to introduce yourself rapidly in a new topic by reading the most important Q&A that you should/have to consider (by sorting via votes/tags). You don't need to know the appropriate search terms as with many other search services.
You might answer "just search SE with Google like most boards/forums lacking a good built in search" But I'm quite unsure this is the most productive way here or if the Google algorithm is even falsifying drastically the social/semantic ordering of the important knowledge here in its page rank.
In short, what methods/operators offered by the SE network and other services (there are e.g. even a lot of third-party search apps for Twitter's second class built in search) should I use to minimize search time and gather valuable information that I'm actually seeking for on SE?
I currently use mostly
the operators here http://stackoverflow.com/search for site specific search, unfortunately you cant search tags or tag-synonyms on all SE sites(?). Or can I search with Google somehow for tags on a single Q&A site?
http://stackexchange.com/ for searching all sites with Google and mostly use Google
AROUND(x)operator to get a not too falsified results ranking.
Are there better ways to look for standard knowledge & questions on a new topic (for yourself) and staying up to date (subscribing to SE tag-feeds)? The features of SE are constantly optimized and increased; so you may miss a lot. How do you use our second brain in a productive way?
As this question got some interest and fav-bookmarks I wrote my own answer (I found by chance) how to use SE brain productively when e.g. introducing yourself to a new topic. Other problems would imho be:
- updating your knowledge with SE (e.g. you were in holiday for some weeks)
- sort questions somehow by basic/advanced/expert knowledge (maybe high reputation of user asking & answering)
- staying up-to-date on specific questions/problems (productive use of SE filter, search, rss, ... -options)
- staying up-to-date on feature updates of our second brain (e.g. sort by this tag or look this thread)
- how to reduce redundancy on your subscribed SE RSS feeds with SE tools?
- how to become aware of knowledge streaking a topic you follow but you don't know it's actually important (e.g. for future-planning, maybe its better here to follow one of the SE well-known experts here on a specific topic (if this is possible somehow - e.g. show questions a expert made at least a comment or an answer), on twitter this is the common way)
- 3rd-party tools to use SE (some examples)
- hidden features of SE
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The 5 Most Easily Avoidable Movie Deaths
There are a few things in movies that we totally get: gratuitous violence, unwarranted nudity and scientifically impossible explosions -- we understand why all of that happens.
What we don't get is when a movie decides that a character is going to die but then has to jump through mind-boggling hoops to make it happen, against all logic and common sense. Here are some prime examples.
P.S.: Don't you dare read this article and then complain about spoilers.
#5. Darth Maul - The Phantom Menace
As we neared the end of The Phantom Menace, we all knew what was coming: the inevitable drawn-out lightsaber battle involving Qui-Gon Jinn, his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Darth Maul, aka the one guy who almost made this big bucket of CGI turd worthwhile.
What evolutionary purpose do those horns serve?
Three Force practitioners battled around the palace on Naboo at a furious pace until Maul managed to get Jinn by himself and kill his ass. Then, Maul fights Obi-Wan until he has him dangling over an abyss, unarmed, clinging by his fingertips.
Which goes to show just what being a Jedi "Master" is really worth.
But before Maul can kill him, Obi-Wan pulls some elaborate Jedi shit and cuts the Sith Lord in two as he, not Obi, falls into the pit.
Why it's baffling:
It's like at the last minute Maul completely lost his mind, or maybe had some kind of seizure. After managing to handle both Jedi at the same time without even a scratch, and getting Obi-Wan into that precarious position over the pit, what does he do?
He stands at the edge and starts mindlessly slashing his blade at the floor, like a kid who just got his first lightsaber. We're not kidding. This happens. He seriously just starts slapping the floor with it, to make sparks shoot up.
So he winds up standing there on the lip of the chasm for a long time. This whole time, he has Obi-Wan at his mercy. He knows Obi-Wan is a Jedi and thus can do some superhuman somersaulting tricks, and to do him in all he needs to do is lean down and knock Obi-Wan off his perch with his lightsaber. Really, just kind of reach down and poke his hands with it. Or just pick up something nearby and drop it on his fingers.
Come on, guy.
Instead, he just stands up there while Obi-Wan sloooowly looks over and notices Jinn's lightsaber lying on the floor, then slooooooowly figures out what he's going to do. Then he ponders it for a few seconds more. Then, finally, when Obi-Wan begins to make his move, this confused looked glazes over Maul's face. What did he think was going to happen?
Obi-Wan somersaults over Maul's head, retrieves the lightsaber and then lands behind the Sith. Maul has time to turn and look, standing perfectly still for a full second ...
... before Obi-Wan finishes him off for good.
Honestly, now. The guy had been flipping around like he was on fast-forward the whole fight, and he just freezes up when the fight is basically over? Was he coming down off his meth high?
It's a hell of a crash.
Still, in terms of "standing still and waiting for death to arrive," he doesn't hold a candle to...
#4. The Witch-king of Angmar - The Return of the King
It's the last movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and features the last stand of Men and their allies against the forces of the Dark Lord Sauron. Nazgul soaring, elves killing elephants, dwarfs axing orcs, ghosts flying around being all green and shit. Everything you'd ever want in a Middle-earth battle is right there. On top of all that, the witch-king fights Eowyn, although we use "fight" liberally here, as he sort of just pirouettes around with a mace while she clumsily side-steps.
As the witch-king is about to strike the final blow, he commits the cardinal movie villain sin and decides to open his gaping hole for one last "You're so dead" line. Enter the hobbit Merry from left field to stab the bad guy in the leg, all but sealing his fate to take a sword to whatever it is he has under that hood.
Seriously, man, what do you even need those eyeholes for?
Why it's baffling:
The witch-king had so much time to do Eowyn in. And he just didn't bother.
Even after he's been Tonya Harding-ed by Merry, why does he just sit there and wait for his comeuppance? In the 10-plus seconds it took for Eowyn to remove her helmet, deliver her obligatory "Hear me roar, bitch" line and then stab him, why didn't he just cut her in half instead of waiting on his knees and watching as the sword entered his head?
Good strategy there, King of Evil.
And we can already hear you hollering from the comment section: "You fools! In the book, Merry was using an enchanted sword made by the Dunedain of Arnor specifically to slay a Nazgul!" That's great knowledge to have ... for anyone who has read the books.
Unfortunately, there is no point where Peter Jackson includes this tidbit in the movie. Merry's just using a laughable little midget-sword. Maybe he could have included a short exchange between Merry and whoever gave him the sword along the lines of: "Here you go, hobbit. This sword will really ruin a Nazgul's day," but then you'd have to ask why they couldn't get some of those swords for other people getting slaughtered by the Nazgul on the same battlefield.
"I would use it myself, but I figured, meh, might as well give it to someone who'll be totally useless on the field of battle."
Instead, we have a villain built up to be the most second-most-badass being in Middle-earth who is inexplicably paralyzed by a cut to the back of the leg.
#3. Wicked Witch of the West - The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy's quest to get home takes her all over the Land of Oz, leading her and her crew of freaks to the Emerald City to meet the actual Wizard of Oz. He offers to return her to Kansas if she can get him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West -- the same vengeful witch whose sister was killed by Dorothy at the beginning of the film. The same one the party has spent the better part of the film trying to escape from.
Dorothy and her friends find their way to the witch's castle, and the malevolent woman sets the most flammable guy in the room, Scarecrow, on fire.
In an attempt to save her friend, Dorothy grabs a nearby bucket of water and throws it on him. Unfortunately for the witch, she was standing right behind Scarecrow as he was splashed, taking on some water herself. In a twist that would be stolen and subsequently ruined by M. Night Shyamalan, the witch melts in her clothes -- much to everyone's astonishment.
Why it's baffling:
No one foresaw the witch's weakness being water. Except, you know, perhaps the witch herself. She had to know, right? Having lived with that weakness her whole life?
So why exactly does she have random buckets of it lying around her castle?
A little clean-up saves a lot of trouble.
It'd be like you keeping big, open buckets of hydrochloric acid sitting around your living room. Yes, there are uses for a bucket of water around a castle, true, but how clean do one's floors need to be when one is a) a witch, and b) deathly allergic to water?
And even if she absolutely had to have water in the building somewhere for whatever reason, why did she decide to fight Dorothy and company in the presence of it -- especially when her plan involves setting fire to a walking sack of straw?
The woman has the mentality of a video game level boss, leaving a bunch of ammo and power-ups lying around her fortress, right in the path of the hero. Is it all just an elaborate way to commit suicide?
"Sweet, sweet death."


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Potato Gnocchi
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Gnocchi is a family-favorite that is easy to make using leftover mashed potatoes.
Prep Time: 20M
Cooking Time: 5M
Serves: Serves 4
- about 2 cups leftover mashed potatoes
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1-2 tbsp all-purpose flour, plus extra for the work surface
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- Put the leftover mashed potatoes in a bowl. Mix in the egg. Stir in enough flour to form a soft dough. Transfer to a floured work surface, and knead gently for a couple of minutes-don't overwork the dough, or it will become tough.
- Divide the mixture into four equal portions, and roll each into a cylinder. Cut each one into pieces about 11/4in (3cm) long. Use the back of a fork to make a ridged pattern on each piece.
- Cook in a large pot of boiling salted water for 2-3 minutes-when they float to the surface, they are ready. Scoop out using a slotted spoon, and divide among 4 shallow bowls. Serve immediately with a tomato or Gorgonzola sauce, or a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and some pesto over the top.
- It's important that the potatoes aren't too wet. You could boil them in their skins, which will help, but remember to peel them before mashing.
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What If the NFL Had a Draft Lottery?
The NFL draft kicks off Thursday with Kansas City having the No. 1 overall pick. That's the prize the Chiefs get for finishing with the worst record in the league last season.
NFL stars like Andrew Luck, Cam Newton and Matthew Stafford have all been plucked by the worst team in the NFL through this draft system. But what if the NFL used a similar system to the NBA and put all non-playoff teams in a weighted lottery?
Well, for one, Newton would probably be a Tennessee Titan. We took a look back at the NFL draft since 2005 and simply added the NBA lottery rules and results to it.
For instance, last year's draft lottery was won by the New Orleans Hornets, the third-worst team in the NBA. If the third-worst team in the NFL won last year's top draft pick, it would have been Luck to the Minnesota Vikings, not the Indianapolis Colts. (It wouldn't have been all bad news, since the Colts would have won the second pick, with the consolation prize being Robert Griffin III.
Of course, the NFL has no plans to start a lottery system—there's been no concerns about widespread tanking at the end of the season to get a better draft pick like there has been in the NBA, but hey, Viking fans can dream, can't they?
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When I use
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When I use
Add the following code line in the main text immediately before the chapter/section entry that starts a new ToC page:
This will enlarge the first ToC page by the value of
EDIT: For top-level-entries (e.g. chapters in books) that add some vertical space before their respective ToC entry, a larger value (say,
EDIT 2: I have no satisfying answer why the page number is still positioned the way it is, but a workaround. Ignore my first answer and instead add the following to your preamble:
This will reduce the vertical space between chapter ToC entries from 1.0em to 0.8em, which hopefully is enough to make your ToC fit on one page.
EDIT 3: And here's a "satisfying" answer for the observed behaviour of my first solution -- quoting from source2e:
You could try making your table of contents in a slightly smaller font:
Or if some of your contents entries have long names and break onto a second line, you could give them a shorter optional name that appears in the contents:
There is also the option to try and make your contents be two columned. Several packages do this (e.g. biblatex's documentation is like this) but I can't remember how to do this.
Yet another way to forcibly make ToC fit into one page is to put
right after the
It's maybe not elegant, but something will have to give, and this is one more option. The advantage is that you don't reduce the vertical space between the text and the footer, which is in most cases smaller (thus less flexible for changing) than the space between the title and the first entry. Hope it helps!


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Here's a situation that usually happens in some companies:
Announce interesting product X. Promise a release date. Release on the promised released date, ready or not. Users discover and report defects. Send patch after patch after patch after patch after patch.
My question is:
Ummm, what could be the factors that would lead them to tolerate these undesirable practices?
So, in the name of quality, what can be practically and realistically improved in those practicies?
I can think of time constraints, user feedback, sponsors pressuring the company, lack of money.


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Krzyzewski to Return as Team USA Coach
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski will return as coach of the U.S. men's basketball team for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, according to a person familiar with the matter. An official announcement is expected Thursday.
Krzyzewski, 66, took over Team USA in 2005, with the national team coming off its worst Olympic performance in the professional era (a bronze medal in 2004), and has since coached the U.S. to a 62-1 record, including gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and the 2010 World Championships.
Krzyzewski has said repeatedly since the 2012 London Olympics that he wasn't planning to coach the U.S. team in Rio de Janeiro or in the 2014 World Cup in Spain. USA Basketball director Jerry Colangelo gave Krzyzewski time to reconsider, and Krzyzewski hinted at his change of heart in an interview Saturday with Sports Illustrated. USA Basketball holds an initial minicamp for the national team starting July 22 in Las Vegas.
Krzyzewski, college basketball's all-time winningest coach, is widely credited with reviving USA Basketball after its slump in the mid-2000s. Team USA won the gold medal in 1992, 1996 and 2000 with future Hall of Famers dominating the competition. But the U.S. lost three games at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and settled for the bronze as the rest of the world seemed to close the talent gap.
Krzyzewski, who attended the U.S. Military Academy, in eight years has won over superstars like LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant, instilled pride in playing for the national team and preached continuity across all levels of USA Basketball. In 2008, his first Olympics as head coach, Team USA was nicknamed the Redeem Team, and the U.S. team in 2012 was so loaded that it earned comparisons to the 1992 Dream Team.
The biggest threat in the next four years for Team USA, which hasn't lost since 2006, may be the 2014 World Cup, where a wily Spanish team that lost to the U.S. in the last two Olympic gold-medal games will be playing in front of a home crowd. The U.S. won the 2010 World Championship without James and Bryant, instead showcasing young talent like Durant, Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook.


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Gearing up for the Minstrels Carnival 2014 in Cape Town
The sounds of brass instruments and drums are popular on the Cape Flats at this time of the year.
Thousands of people, from toddlers to grandparents, are preparing for the annual Minstrel competition – which traditionally starts at the beginning of January and ends in February. The show-stopping colours and sounds take to the streets of the Cape Town CBD on 4th of January 2014.
Ring in the New Year
One of the most widely anticipated events is the day-long procession on January 4th 2014, when people line the streets in the city to watch a colourful spectacle – more than 100 satin-suited troupes march through the CBD, playing musical instruments, dancing and performing.
The procession will start at 11:00 in Keizersgracht Street in District 6, heading down Darling Street, Adderley Street, Wale Street and ending in Rose Street. The festivities are set to wrap up at 20:00
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Preparations start months in advance, troupes practise for long hours on open fields in their communities, and outfits are custom-made by dedicated tailors across the city.
Most of the Minstrels live on the Cape Flats and as the year draws to a close troupes prepare to compete against each other.
If you live on the Cape Flats you know the festive season has arrived when your evenings are punctuated with the sound of brass instruments wafting across the warm summer air.
A season-long competition, which runs until February at stadiums on the Cape Flats culminates with the best troupes being crowned winners.
Troupes also have processions through suburbs on the Cape Flats, with their festive music luring people from their homes to cheer them on.
In some neighbourhoods wire is strung up between electricity poles and the troupe's colours in strips of material, are dangled from it.
This is also the time when tailors are busy sewing thousands of brightly-coloured satin outfits.
The Cape Town festive season would not be the same without the Minstrel parade which takes place on Tweede Nuwejaar (Second New Year).
The streets come alive
People line the route from the day before, when the Malay choirs take to the streets to herald in the New Year.
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Hi heinz,
bad newz, i tried with these settings, and the pano is worst than ever !!
i'll go with the 54-99,5mm and see what the Grand canyon look like ;)
Have fun, and see you back in september.
Hi heinz,
bad newz, i tried with these settings, and the pano is worst than ever !!
i'll go with the 54-99,5mm and see what the Grand canyon look like ;)
Have fun, and see you back in september.
In case you have some time left, could you send the different sets of pics for lower rail setting @ 54, 55 , 56, 57 to check them?
Hi John,
he is using different LRS between 54 and 56 using Smooth's method we recommend. Then he seem to shoot a normal pano and is dealing with stitching errors.
By the way: since some days I tried to open your website like other users. It does not open. Not the site about epcalib.html. Not the home page of your site. It is linked to this: http://perfectoasis.com/showthread.php?sid=5110
So long and kind regards,
Last edited by hindenhaag; 08-11-2012 at 07:05 AM.
Heinz, I know about the problem on my web site. If you copy the required URL directly into your browser, it loads ok. Clicking the link in the post redirects you somewhere else. All of the html files on my site were hacked by the addition of two lines of code at the end, which came to light a few days ago. I have uploaded fresh copies of all these files but that doesn't seem to have cured the problem. How the files were corrupted I don't know. There's a Google Redirect virus, described here: http://www.2-viruses.com/how-to-fix-...-virus-problem . I installed a new Windows 7 on a spare disc today and before doing anything else, I tried clicking on links in my posts at the PTGui forum and that gave the same redirect action. I am now considering moving my web site to a new server in the UK (it's presently on a GoDaddy server, and I found reports of similar things happening to other users on their systems - but no solutions).
I could solve the first problem by connecting to www.Johnhpanos.com instead of the epq..html and have set this to the forum for other users. But some time later I got the same redirection. What a pity.
I will try to find out as well what happened.
I found this on Google: http://www.google.com/search?client=...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Last edited by hindenhaag; 08-11-2012 at 08:55 AM.
instead of shooting 4, 8, 4 shots you could try to shoot 8 around @+/- 30º and an extra Zenith +90º and Nadir1 and Nadir2 @-90º. You could compare this version concerning CP. 8 shots @0º prevents from having overlap in horizon area on the other way.
My web site was hacked several years ago. The hacker placed a folder with hundreds of links to porn sites. They also deleted every file called index.html. The problem was not with the provider, but with a very easy password I was using. Once I used a very strong password, hacking and virus infections went away. I am with Godaddy.com.
The solution is to always keep a good backup of your web site and use a strong password.
Dennis, Thanks for the advice. I maintain a mirror of the web site on my PC which is used for updating the site, so I automatically have a backup of it. Changing the password is a sensible precaution, but I expect to upload the files to a new server in the next few days anyway. I hope that will deal with the present access problems.
Hello John, Heinz,
i'm back,
i'll try to restart some tests maybe next week, and upload the results of LRS 54 and 56mm ... and see if PTGUi can stitch better than APP.
i delete all my last trials, but i want to try different settings in APP...
I'll let you know anyway.
I tried quickly yesterday a 360° pano i did in Monument valley, and no stitching problem (but there is no reasons of such issues in Landscape) i'll show you the result when editing ;)
Have a great day !!
Thx for response,
Hope you had some great days. I already had a short visit to your great pano. It works for me in Safari. It takes some time, actually at first you get a white page.
Success and fun with all your stitching.
All Right, i'm Back !! (ok, i went to See Terminator 2, 3D in Universal studio ...)
so with little time this morning i was able to try again my settings
in the following link you can see the sawtooth method.
With 54mm (this is LRS) we can see slightly movement, with 56mm this is perfect ...
however as you can see from the pano @56mm there is way to more default in the ceiling ... This is driving me mad !!!
i'm sure if John use PTGui he will have a perfect stitch.
Btw, i DL a trial of PTGUI but i'm not able to get a good stitch, it always says that my control point are bad (even when set manually ...)
i'll send the link to APP forum and to PhotoPano to see if ppl can help me with setting of APP....
Thanks for your help ...
i forget to mention that in APP, i remove all automatic control point, and then add them all manually...
Last edited by gepetto; 09-07-2012 at 02:47 AM.
http://ge.tt/1SsXUKN/v/0 (1.5MB)
You have images in different orientations - the zenith and two nadirs - and PTGui prefers them all in the same orientation. Turn off auto rotation in the camera to avoid these propblems. You have also used auto white balance. Set a fixed white balance so that you have consistent colour thoughout the shots. (If you shoot RAW, convert with a fixed white balance. Avoid all auto adjustments).
Last edited by John Houghton; 09-07-2012 at 07:54 AM.
I deactivate the Auto rotate, and start a new bunch of pictures, again @-30° and +30° +Z+N, add all control point manually, and i think thats all good ...
this was 1 room, have 6 more to do, with uni color on the wall, that will be a hell of a work, but this will be 4 later, my head is started to ache ... ;)
I'll try this weekend at a different place with these settings and let you know!!!
you can have a look at the equi and the .swf files in the link below (Zip file).
John Thank you so much for your time and patience, i owe you many beers !!! :p
If you have 6 more to do - all the same shooting configuration - shoot them in exactly the same way and use a template to stitch them. PTGui's automatic control point generator will work better after the images are aligned with a template (a project file for a similar successful stitch is applied via File->Apply template).
BTW, I uploaded a revised gepetto3.jpg file in place of the original, as I was able to get a slightly better stitch after making a change to do with the two nadir images and their orientation.


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This article got me thinking If NASA is going to use our primitive space exploration technology to capture an asteroid wouldn't an Extra Terrestrial species have used UFO's to maneuver celestial bodies? They clearly would have come across this problem along time ago and the videos of UFO's levitating and vectoring themselves demonstrates they operate on similar applied electromagnetic forces that the celestial bodies use to maneuver themselves around in solar systems. Couldn't they maneuver meteors, asteroids, possibly even speed the advance of collisions developing protoplanets and move moons into orbits with planets? Maybe they build solar systems to live in they way earthlings build housing developments?
If NASA is going to capture an asteroid with a spacecraft, wouldn't a UFO be able to manuever a celestial body? [closed]
closed as off-topic by TildalWave, astromax, Robert Cartaino♦ Feb 16 '14 at 17:31
You are assuming
Asking what they would do if they existed and if they had capabilities is really the realm of science fiction. There can be no good answer to your question at this time. Maybe later we'll know, maybe never.
One of a million possible answers:
An advanced civilization wouldn't do this without need. If necessary, they would use gravity instead of magnetism, since magnetism acts differently on different kind of matter, gravity is much better suited.
They would exploit the chaotic behaviour of n-body systems like planetary systems mainly governed by gravity, and find out which distortion of minimal intervention would return the desired result.
They would know the need long time in advance, hence be able to act, when there is still enough time to get the desired result with a reasonably small effort.


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I think the difference between Ricky Ricardo stereotyping and blackface is that Desi Arnaz was able to become quite wealthy from his self-parody, and any humiliation was quickly mitigated by all the cash - laughing all the way to the bank, to cite the great American apothegm.
In vaudeville, jazz, r&b, and rock n roll in the US there is a long history of black artists having their intellectual material robbed and reused without remuneration, and their lives ending in poverty.
So whites in blackface are a pretty potent graphic symbol of this ongoing robbery - and not just a sort of wimpy PC complaint.
But also:
Whoopi Goldberg can bring all the Aunt Jemima dolls to the set or can use the term niggah as much as she'd like - that's a sort of gallows humor allowed to the condemned, and shouldn't be read as a signal that everything is all right now.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Specific use case - very very new to MPI
From: Kenneth Adam Miller (kennethadammiller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-24 13:22:41
Actually, please disregard the "Can this be done safely with.." part,
because I don't want to have to use a condition variable; I want it all to
happen by inter process communication through OpenMPI
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Kenneth Adam Miller <
kennethadammiller_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I have a specific use case that I want to describe, and I'm brand new to
> MPI. It's rather complex, so I want to be careful that I design it so that
> there are no race conditions.
> Pool A is a buffer (of type 1) handle manager, that feeds buffer handles
> into thread set 1, and receives old handles from thread set 2. There is
> only one thread running pool A.
> Thread set 1 is a set of N threads that fill up buffers of type 1 with
> regular data. It pushes full buffers to thread set 2.
> Thread set 2 is a set of M threads that compress buffers of type 1 into
> data buffers of type 2. Once the buffer of type 1 has be used up, it is
> cleared and sent back to Pool A. It pulls fresh data buffers of type 2 from
> Pool B, and sends freshly filled compressed buffers to Pool C.
> Pool C does something with the buffer, clears it and hands it to Pool B.
> Can this be done safely using an implementation like what I see here:
> http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/threading/implementing-a-thread-safe-queue-using-condition-variables.html
> ?
> Note 1: -= denotes a 1-to-N connect and =- a N-to-1 connect
> RR = Request reply relationship
> http://imgur.com/6tWZglJ
> Questions: does MPI work with intel PIN tools? If so, then how can I apply
> it to this? (I need specific modules and some examples, the OpenMPI manual
> just appears to be a bunch of references with no textual guides...).