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Real Madrid Club de Fútbol

cleave — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:56:03 +0800

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About the Club

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (commonly known as Real Madrid or Madrid) is a Spanish sports club best known for its football team. It is the most successful team in the world and has even been named "The Best Club of the 20th Century" by FIFA in 2000, having won a record 31 La Liga titles, 17 Spanish Cups, a record 9 European Cups and 2 UEFA Cups. Founded in 1902, Real Madrid has since spent all of its history in the top flight of Spanish football. The club's home colours are their legendary all white and they play their home games at the 80,354-capacity Santiago Bernabéu football stadium. Unlike most European football clubs, Real Madrid's members (socios) have owned and operated the club since its inception.

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The Crest

The first crest of Real Madrid had a simple design consisting of a decorative interlacing of the three initials of the club, "MCF" for Madrid Club de Fútbol, in dark blue on a white shirt. The first change in the crest occurred in 1908 when the letters adopted a more streamlined form and appeared inside a circle. The next change in the configuration of the crest did not occur until the presidency of Pedro Parages in 1920. At that time, King Alfonso XIII granted the club his royal patronage which came in the form of the title "Real", roughly translated as "Royal". Thus, the crown was added to the crest and the club styled itself Real Madrid Club de Fútbol. With the dissolution of the monarchy in 1931, all the royal symbols (the crown on the crest and the title of Real) were eliminated. The crown was replaced by the dark mulberry band of the Region of Castile. In 1941, two years after the end of the Civil War, the "Real Corona", or "Royal Crown", was restored while the mulberry stripe of Castile was retained as well. In addition, the whole crest was made full color, with gold being the most prominent, and the club was again called Real Madrid Club de Fútbol. The most recent modification to the crest occurred in 2001 when the club wanted to better situate itself for the twenty-first century and further standardize its crest. One of the modifications made was changing the mulberry stripe to a more bluish shade.

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The Stadium

After moving between grounds the team moved to the "Campo de O'Donnell" in 1912, which remained its home ground for eleven years. The club then moved for one year to the Campo de Ciudad Lineal, a small ground with a capacity of 8,000 spectators. After that, Real Madrid moved its home matches to Estadio Chamartín which was inaugurated on 17 May 1923 with a match against Newcastle United. In this stadium, which hosted 22,500 spectators, Real Madrid celebrated its first Spanish league title.

After some successes, the 1943 elected president Santiago Bernabéu decided that the Estadio Chamartín was not big enough for the ambitions of the club. Work on the grounds started on October 27, 1944. Originally called Estadio Chamartín as well after Madrid's previous stadium, it was inaugurated in December 1947. Real Madrid officially adopted the present name, Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, on January 4, 1955 in honor of the club president Santiago Bernabéu. The first match held on the Bernabéu was played between Real Madrid and the Portuguese club Belenenses and won by The Whites with 3–1, the first goal being scored by Sabino Barinaga.

The capacity has changed frequently, peaking at 120,000 after a 1953 expansion. Since then, there have been a number of reductions due to modernizations (the last standing places went away in 1998–99 in response to UEFA regulations which forbids standing at matches in the UEFA competition), countered to some extent by expansions. The last change was an increase of about five thousand to a capacity of 80,354, effected in 2003.

The Santiago Bernabéu has recently been upgraded to Elite Football Stadium status by UEFA and even has its own Madrid Metro station along the 10 line. The stadium has hosted the 1964 European Championship final, the 1982 FIFA World Cup final, the 1957, 1969 and 1980 European Cup finals and is due to host the 2010 Champions League Final.

Capacity: 80,354
Length: 107 m
Width: 72 m
Surface: Grass
First match: Real Madrid vs. Os Belenenses (Portugal)
Address: Avenida de Concha Espina 1, E28036

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The Kit

Real Madrid's traditional home colours are all white. The clubs' nicknames "Los Blancos" ("The Whites") and "Los Merengues" (after the dessert meringue) were influenced by it. The kit initially adopted a blue oblique stripe on the shirt; but unlike today, dark blue socks were worn. The striped shirt was replaced by an all-white version, modeled after the shirt worn by Corinthian F.C. in 1902. In the same year, the blue socks were replaced by black ones. By the early 1940s the manager changed the kit again by adding the club's crest on the left breast (which have remained ever since). On 23 November 1947, in a game against Atlético Madrid at the Metropolitano Stadium, Real Madrid became the first Spanish team to wear numbered shirts.

Madrid's traditional away colours are all black or all purple. The club's kit is currently manufactured by Adidas and their current shirt sponsor is bwin.com.

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Real Madrid Hymn

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Toilet/Potty Training

cleave — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:17:02 +0800

Ok, how do you, accomplished parents, do it? Let's share some experience here. I'm out of my wits with this issue.

I have a 3-year-old kid and according to some friends, he's old enough for potty training. So I went out and bought all the necessary devices for the task. In my case, it's like 'you can take the horse to the water, but you cant make it drink'. To make matters more challenging, my mother-in-law was against using the potty because it'll make the potty thing dirty. It's a potty for God's sake, it's supposed to be crapped and peed on.

One of my friends suggested that 'bribing' the child with toys would work. I have some reservations on that idea. I'm not too comfortable introducing the elements of corruption to my kid at this early age (I'm sure he'll learn about it from his friends and PDRM later in life).

So, if any of you parents who have passed this parenting hurdle, please kindly share your pointers, tips, pitfalls and whatnot. They will be helpful to us, rookie parents.

So China made MIUI....

cleave — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:29:32 +0800

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Google : Hiya Japan, we created this awesome new mobile platform called Android...

Japan : Android?

Google : LOL yeah Android. We even have a little green robot as our mascot.

Japan : Robot? rike Gundam?

Google : No, no. It's an OS for mobile pho...

Japan : ah yes, Mobile Suit Armor. Ok, we make.

Google : make?

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While the rest of the world were busy creating custom ROMs from the AOSP trunk, Japan totally miscued the concept and went on making real Android robots. Well, what do you expect from a land that gave us anime, pokemon, sumo and tenga eggs?

Source:
http://www.robots-dreams.com/2010/09/these...oids-video.html

fLockscreen

cleave — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:56:52 +0800

AndersWeb and Eliot Stocker, the guys behind ADW Launcher and cool ADW themes respectively, are making a new lock screen app. Currently, they're accepting applications for a closed Beta. You can check out a video of the app and apply for the Beta program here:-

http://flockscreen.piratemedia.tv/

[Rumor] HTC Glacier

cleave — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:47:55 +0800

http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-brief/5094...per-fast-speeds

http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=20035

HTC Hero Official Thread V2

cleave — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:18:12 +0800

V1 thread is here:
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1152212

Processor - Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz
Operating system - Android™
Memory - ROM: 512 MB RAM: 288 MB
Dimensions - 112mm (L) x 56.2 (W) x 14.35 mm (T)
Weight - 135g (with battery)
Display - 3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320×480 HVGA resolution
Network
HSPA/WCDMA:
* 900/2100 MHz
* Up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:
* 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

Device Control - Trackball with Enter button
GPS - Internal GPS antenna
Connectivity - Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g
HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)
3.5mm audio jack
Camera - 5.0 megapixel colour camera with auto focus
Audio supported formats - MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and Windows Media® Audio 9
Video supported formats - MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 and Windows Media® Video 9
Expansion Slot - microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
Special features - G-sensor
Digital Compass
Battery - Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
Capacity: 1350 mAh
Talk time:
* Up to 420 minutes for WCDMA
* Up to 470 minutes for GSM
Standby time:
* Up to 750 hours for WCDMA
* Up to 440 hours for GSM

Hero Specs

HTC launched their latest Android phone, with its state of the art HTC Sense user interface (Sense UI), the Hero, in MidValley Gardens Hotel. The recommended retail price of the Hero in Malaysia is RM 2,399. It’s available in white or brown. Both versions will have a fingerprint, smudge resistant screen. Celcom will be announcing their own plans and packages for the HTC Hero at a later date.

http://mytechnews.info/b/2009/09/htc-launc...n-malaysia.html

Microsoft going after Android?

cleave — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:39:53 +0800

hmmm....WTH

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/microso...s-licenses-htc/

Apple is suing HTC (or Android indirectly)

cleave — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:09:51 +0800

http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/rotte...ver-20-patents/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-s...in-htc-lawsuit/
http://gizmodo.com/5483689/the-apple-paten...ustrated-guide/

I believe the sign of desperation is at its maximum.
What do you guys think?

Faulty Tag in Codemasters

cleave — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:00:03 +0800

The 'C++' tag filtering is not working as it supposed to. When you click the tag on any topics that was marked by it, the result will return a page filtered by the 'C' tag instead.

Upon further investigation, it seems that the forum software is truncating the '++' symbol (which I believe there's a good reason for this). So, this URL:-

CODE

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showforum=12&tag=C++

is truncated to this:-

CODE

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showforum=12&tag=C

The same goes when I omitted one of the '+' signs like so:-

CODE

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showforum=12&tag=C+

will also yield the same result as this:-

CODE

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showforum=12&tag=C

Changing the tag 'C++' to 'CPP' might solve the problem. Just a proposal though.