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Siegecraft Lite
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by: Blowfish Studios Ltd • 2K
Published: 2011-12-22, by Peter Warrior.
Siegecraft is a medieval themed sort of tower defense game where is more important to aim accurately and make a good use of your weapons rather than firing volley over volley of stuff to everywhere. With 3D Warcraft-like graphics and a smooth gameplay, it's called to be one of the biggest hits on Market. We could say of it that it's a twisted mix of physics games (throwing things, be birds, arrows or whatever) and tower defense (being overwhelmed by waves of enemies and purchasing upgrades between stages).
Your weapons will be the ballista, the catapult and the battering ram. By the way, in some stages you can collect crystals to gain special abilities (flaming or freezing ammo, to name but a couple) and visit the shop to purchase special ammo (cows!). There are three races to choose among: vikings, knights and samurai; each one with its own campaign, in addition to the starting tutorial.
If there's something that truly makes a difference is the option to split the screen and start a hotseat match. Of course, if it could be online it would be too much to ask. Anyway, this game is ideal for players who like no non-sense games and want to rack their brains a little further.
This lite version has as a goal little more then testing whether the game runs on your device. You can only play the first tutorial stages and start a three minutes multiplayer match. It may feel like too little for a lite version, and indeed it is. It's a good game, that's for sure, though users would appreciate to play it more deeply before purchasing the complete game, instead of just testing their hardware out.
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Dunmore, Alberta (Marketwire) January 11, 2011 - Loyal viewers of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' no doubt saw the November 24, 2010 episode featuring Garth Brooks, the Running of the Brides with Carson Kressley, a Food Truck Feeding Frenzy, and a 'Six Million Dollar' Surprise with Ali Wentworth and Lee Majors; and they unknowingly saw wedding accessories from Weddingstar, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of personalized wedding favors, accessories and decorations.
In one segment, Ali Wentworth, roving reporter for 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' tested out a number of the finest food trucks in Santa Monica, California. As she sat down to what she thought was some additional taste testing, she instead discovered she had been set up on a date with the man of her dreams, Lee Majors, in a romantic setting designed by none other than Allana Baroni, Weddingstar's very own 'celebrity contributor.'
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Fox recently attacked President Obama's response to a CBS poll that found 69 percent of the public thinks the debt ceiling should not be raised. However, Fox did not mention that the poll also found that 72 percent of the public believe it is "at least somewhat likely that the economy will take a severe downturn if the [debt] ceiling is not raised"; furthermore, economic experts agree that there could be severe consequences if the debt ceiling is not raised.
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But the public expresses some concern about the economic consequences that could result from not raising the debt ceiling. Seventy-two percent think it is at least somewhat likely that the economy will take a severe downturn if the ceiling is not raised, but just 25 percent think that's very likely to occur. More than half say it is at least somewhat likely that Social Security, Medicare and veterans' payments won't be made, including 19 percent who think that's very likely to happen. Another 38 percent say the stoppage of payments for these programs is not very likely to happen if the nation's debt ceiling is not raised. [CBS News, 6/8/11]
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If Congress doesn't raise the $14.3 trillion debt limit by mid-May, the U.S. government will have to resort to emergency measures to avoid default. One missed payment, which could happen as soon as July if the ceiling is not raised, would likely set off a widespread global panic, causing borrowing costs to skyrocket and severely crippling the nation's economy.
But Republican lawmakers have said they will use the debt limit as a means of enforcing fiscal austerity, insisting they won't raise it without winning concessions from Democrats.
Meanwhile, Jim Millstein, the former restructuring officer at Treasury, who helped reorganize AIG, outlined how disastrous the consequences of default would likely be. Speaking on CNBC on Tuesday, he said that a Treasury default would affect investors of all sorts, and he criticized those who downplay the consequences.
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Varney: "No Politician Is Going To Allow The U.S. Government To Default ... But If It [Happened], It Would Indeed Be Armageddon." On the April 13 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, guest and Fox Business host Stuart Varney agreed with White House press secretary Jay Carney that failure to raise the debt ceiling would be "Armageddon." Varney added that it would be "the worst of all possible worlds economically." From the show:
GRETCHEN CARLSON (co-host): So what will really happen if Congress does not vote to raise the debt ceiling by the May 16 deadline? Stu Varney says it would be Armageddon. You are agreeing --
VARNEY: Oh, yes. It would.
CARLSON: -- with Jay Carney and President Obama.
VARNEY: Look, it's not going to happen, OK? No politician is going to allow the United States government to default. It's just not going to happen. But if it did, it would indeed be Armageddon, OK? It would be the worst of all possible worlds, economically. OK. Go through the chain reaction. All the world's big banks have lent Uncle Sam money. In the event of a default, Uncle Sam doesn't pay back that money. And the banks have no money. They are bankrupt. They cannot make car loans. They cannot make house loans. They can't finance smaller companies. Even their payroll. So you --
CARLSON: OK, so if it's not going to happen -
VARNEY: -- you've got an instant depression. Not going to happen.
CARLSON: This is a major bargaining chip for the Republicans, though -
VARNEY: Yes.
CARLSON: -- who will say, the only way we're going to vote for this, President Obama, is if you give us tons of stuff in return.
VARNEY: Well, there's a great danger in that. Because as you approach this deadline, if you're even talking about default, as even a possibility, a remote possibility, you really spooked the world's money people. You really spook them. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/13/11 via Media Matters]
Goldberg: Not Raising The Debt Ceiling "Would Be Catastrophic." On the April 11 broadcast of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News contributor Bernie Goldberg discussed media coverage of the debt ceiling debate and predicted: "[Y]ou will see stories about how, if the Republicans play hard ball again and act, according to the words of the editorial, irresponsibly and like a bunch of radicals, how if they behave that way again when it comes to raising the debt ceiling, we could have a default in this country, and that would be catastrophic. It would be." [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 4/11/11, via Nexis]
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Are there really open source iPad alternatives? A follow-up.
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The comments here and elsewhere to my post about iPad alternatives have been mixed. No surprise. There will always be Apple defenders and open source defenders. Still, I'd like to take a minute to talk a little more about the topic, address where the majority of the comments fell, and discuss a few more non-iPad options.
Are they really alternatives?
Many people mentioned that several of the iPad alternatives don't count as alternatives because they aren't available. I think that means they're not alternatives if you must buy a tablet today. And unless you're the person who must have every new gadget the minute it comes out, that's perfectly OK. (I'm not one of those people.) There's nothing wrong with looking at what's coming and buying when the technology is ready.
To me, the tradeoff of waiting a little longer for a non-iPad option is absolutely worth it. I don't completely avoid Apple products, although I wouldn't argue with anyone who did. I have a MacBook Pro, and late last year I started looking at tablets. Something small, portable, with a stylus, particularly for artwork. I was hoping the much-anticipated Apple "tablet" would be a functional PC type of tablet, similar to some of the tablet PCs already on the market. When the iPad arrived, I was disappointed along with many others to see that it wasn't much more than a giant iPod Touch.
About the Touch Book--A must-have or must avoid?
I agree with users like Drew Kwashnak and Michael Howell who say that the TouchBook is clearly the most compelling of the options--on paper. (Should that be "on screen" these days?) Unfortunately, I've heard some of the same things chad mentions--that on delivery, it's not what it seems to be. Does anyone have firsthand experience to share?
More alternatives
Several people mentioned more open source tablet options--including real, available right now options. Thanks! I'll be posting about those later this week. If you know of others, leave a comment here.
The bottom line
Here's what it comes down to for me: The iPad is designed for consuming. I want to create. And because of that, for me, the list of negatives greatly outweighs the list of positives. Of course, if this device is truly doing what you want and need, that's great. That's what's important. But I'm willing to wait for something better. Something meant for sharing. Something more open.
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Ruth Suehle - Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager for Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team. She's co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O'Reilly, December 2013) and a senior editor at GeekMom, a site for those who find their joy in both geekery and
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Chris Grams on 20 Apr 2010 Permalink
"The iPad is designed for consuming. I want to create."
I love that.
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David Spalding on 21 Apr 2010 Permalink
I understood from the launch that graphics and "office suite" applications for the iPad were either available at launch-time, or within the foreseeable future. I don't see a need in my life that the iPad solves, but I'm open to the possibility that in 12-18 months, iPad version 1.1 or even 2.0 will edge closer to my portable digital device needs. Let's see what you can do with it in April, 2011. As it is now, the iPad seems a "sofa-computing solution."
Disclosure: for 7-8 years, I used a Casio Cassiopoeia PocketPC as my daily "second brain": keeping appointments + notes + task lists, listening to music, reading eBooks, looking up reference questions, playing a few old-fashioned games. I didn't need or crave WiFi or browsing -- computers were usually nearby (or my latest phone provided that).
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Auryn on 20 Apr 2010 Permalink
I salute your bottom line!
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Brotherred on 20 Apr 2010 Permalink
The first one is the best I have seen. The others are pretty good as well.
I also expect that you have heard about the other two but I see almost nothing reported on the Adam.
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NewGear on 12 May 2010 Permalink
This looks interesting - just renamed the product from WePad to WeTab.
No idea if this is a legit product (or will be).
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Paul Booker on 21 Apr 2010 Permalink
I salute that bottom line too :-)
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Drew Kwashnak on 21 Apr 2010 Permalink
The iPad is another example of Apple's focus: customer experience. They remove the biggest detractors to the whole "user experience" such as Flash and lock down the hardware, OS and even the programming languages the system will handle in return for stability, consistency (and profitability).
Apple focuses on making the system do what people want; long battery life, look (and feel?) good, familiar yet innovative interface, bright screen, etc.
Open source, though, fights attempts at consolidating what is needed for this "customer experience". So far the most focused distribution I've come across is Ubuntu and at the same time people are complaining about it.
So even waiting for the Linux/ChromeOS/whatever tablet, is that really going to be any different than installing what is already available on an already available convertible laptop/tablet? Not unless somebody goes the extra mile to "put it all together".
Maybe if Google does this, otherwise the competition is pretty thin.
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David Spalding on 21 Apr 2010 Permalink
I think the tablet market will be effectively snuffed if we continue to refer to these gadgets as "PCs" or "personal computers." The term(s) has been too closely aligned with a CPU box, a monitor, and two or twelve input devices, with an optional mobile appendage (or two or three) off to the side for portable data or media use, or more recently, a powerful or stripped down laptop version of the above device.
The successful "tablets" or "personal digital devices" have been operating on a different paradigm, be it "phone plus other stuff," or "media player plus other stuff," or "Internet device plus other stuff" (or as often has been the case on initial launch, "$DEVICE minus useful stuff they couldn't get quite right", e.g. read-only calendar, or a calendar that didn't sync with anything users already had). I have to credit Jobs & Co. for realizing that a tablet need only be an oversized iPhone/iPod Touch, not a full-fledged computer -- the current MacBooks accomplish the computer's job in about the same form factor.
I think Ruth's criticism that the iPad is primarily a device for browsing and consuming media is apropos, but not necessarily a failing of the iPad. If the iPad is only a replacement for a portable web browser, phone/message/social network/online chat terminal, eBook reader, media player, and interactive entertainment console, then it probably fits the bill. The tech-savvy among us want more, but mainstream consumers may be happy to simply, um, consume. It's kind of disheartening if that's all any personal digital device can do. Apple's latest "killer app" may succeed by only appealing to the lowest common denominator, and that's just plain depressing to think about.
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John Beetem on 21 Apr 2010 Permalink
Freescale has an interesting reference design for a tablet w/ keyboard docking station based on their iMX-515 (1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8), with 7" 1024 x 600 touch screen, 512MB DDR2, camera, and 12 hour battery life. "Consumer products based on the design are expected by Freescale to start shipping by next summer, with prices expected to fall under $200." Not sure what "next summer" means -- article is from Jan 2010.
Marvell is working on something called "Moby", a $100 tablet computer aimed at students... kind of like OLPC with an actual $100 price tag. It's based on a 1GHz Armada 600 series processor, a high-end ARM variant. Not a lot of details at this time.
It will be interesting to see what comes out this year, how they do in the marketplace, and how open they really are.
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Drew Kwashnak on 22 Apr 2010 Permalink
Looks like Dell may be offering a Tegra-based 7-in tablet to complete.. and it should be running Android 2.1!
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Drew Kwashnak on 29 Apr 2010 Permalink
(or at least they are planning on).
So HP buys Palm and there is talk already about them planning on offering a slate-like tablet running the WebOS.
Be interesting to see what comes from all of this!
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Brock Edmiston on 04 May 2010 Permalink
Now that I'd like to see!
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Brian Bainter on 11 May 2010 Permalink
It used to be that we saw people going around with rather large calculators on their belts. Now we can carry around an iPad on our belts! Well not really... My question is, if the iPad is nothing more than a large form factor iPod Touch, what's the point? Portable? Yeah, but I can't put it in my pocket. I guess I'm just too old school, but why would I want something that doesn't give me anything more than what I already have when what I already have fits in my pocket and I have to carry this new thing around.
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Ashley Grayson on 11 May 2010 Permalink
Ruth: I think you are confused. Don't lead yourself astray. You say: "The iPad is designed for consuming. I want to create." Sounds deep but what do the words mean? I work with lots of creative people and they focus their creativity by ignoring distractions. Why create anything unless it is for others to consume? The iPad is the game changer. You should be focusing on what you can create for people to consume on the iPad, not continuing to distract yourself with busy work by dragging tools optimized for the desktop onto a tablet. Use the force, let go. Stop fiddling and start thinking. Ninety percent of what people do on computers is fiddling. Ninety-five percent of what programmers do on computers is fiddling. I'd say 100% of the use of Flash on web sites is to distract the public from the fact that there's nothing there. The iPad you see is not the iPad.
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John on 11 May 2010 Permalink
"The iPad is designed for consuming. I want to create"
Really? This is a popular meme, but I have to wonder did you actually look in the app store?
I'm no fan of Apple's nannyish tendencies, but there's nothing FOSS that even comes close to the iPad.
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John on 11 May 2010 Permalink
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Jim Frost on 19 May 2010 Permalink
The iPad is what the apps you get make of it. You can certainly "create" with one; Apple's own productivity apps are there, for instance (though frankly I'd rather get fingernails pulled than try to write much using the virtual keyboard) and there are (much better!) things like Sketchbook Pro.
Seriously, Sketchbook Pro and a stylus gives you a portable version of what you used to (just a few weeks ago!) have to pay a few thousand dollars for, between the $900 for a Wacom Cintiq 12X and the price of the PC and the hundreds of dollars you'd spend on Adobe Creative stuff.
The iPad is less expensive than the Cintiq alone, and Sketchbook Pro is a staggeringly cheap $8 (I can't imagine that price will last). To put it bluntly this is one hell of a bargain to a creative type. I think this opens the door not only to creativity, but even creativity at costs mere mortals can afford and with superior ergonomics to boot.
Out of the box the iPad is clearly a content consuming device, but out of the box a Windows PC is not much different -- and you can certainly be creative on those (until they get eaten by malware anyway).
I know that the real irritation is that Apple has to approve everything that goes on these things, and as a geek myself this annoys me because it means, for instance, that it is more difficult to build my own applications or to get non-mainstream applications that Apple might not approve of (like a decent WiFi scanner, since those require use of private APIs).
On the other hand, and I think it's very difficult to overstate the value of a malware-free environment to almost everyone, and particularly to those people who have become familiar with the disaster that is the Windows computing environment.
Whether this trade-off is good or bad depends on your point of view, but I think it's inarguable that even a "closed" ecosystem can be extremely useful, even in a creative sense, and it's disingenuous to suggest that the Apple stuff cannot be used in this manner. The only way you could possibly believe otherwise is if you hadn't actually tried to use the devices in that way, or bias has made you completely blind even to the possibility. The *actuality* is that people are using them in this way.
Having said all that, I welcome as many competitors as we can possibly get in the market. Competition improves the breed and reduces prices and that's good for everyone.
Getting to open source, I have to say that Android has a heck of a lot of catching-up to do (and I think almost every viable iPad competitor is going to be Android). It (as evidenced by the phones) isn't anywhere near as polished as the iPhone OS nor does it have anywhere near as rich an app ecosystem. I hope (expect) that both will mature, and certainly they've come a long way already, but I am worried that it will suffer the same fate as UNIX: Death by a thousand variants. There is, as you might already have noticed, more than an inkling of that already in the Android phone market.
The thing that really ought to be worrying the Android tablet makers is that "openness" is not going to sell product in significant numbers -- price is. I have long thought that Linux in general will win primarily because it is royalty free; once it got "good enough" there were real incentives to use it, and it is so very good today.
Unfortunately, as much as it's vogue to complain about Apple's high computer prices, looking at their iPod and iTouch and iPhone and iPad prices they are getting very, very good at leveraging high volumes to keep prices very close to what the competition can possibly make money on, and they're doing it while retaining excellent margins.
Consider that the competition was expecting the iPad to come in at $800 and Apple undercut that by nearly half right out the door, despite gross margins of almost 100% *at the low end* and much greater than that on the rest of the line. Everyone figured they could make a $600 unit, easily undercutting Apple ... and they can't. That has led to a lot of scrambling as to how to make the things cheap enough to compete without cutting back on the hardware so much as to make them terrible (like a lot of the netbooks).
And that comes full circle back to the argument about wanting something more like a full tablet PC than a big iPod touch. Recall that those full tablet PCs hit the market in 2001 or so at $2000 -- almost twice the cost of laptops with essentially the same hardware -- and nine years of market "development" shrank the price to around $1000 today. Sorry, but you're going to have a hard time making a full-function device at price points like the iPad offers and still make money at it.
Moreover, the argument is silly. The form factor does not lend itself to attaching lots of stuff to the device. Unlike a laptop where it is reasonable to operate in a connected desktop mode, tablets suck when there are wires going to them. I think Apple is cutting the hardware feature set just about perfectly and that other makers should sit up and pay attention. One USB port is enough (and the iPad has one with a small adapter).
Sun Microsystems used to say that "the network is the computer," and in the case of a tablet computer I think the network makes or breaks it as a general computing device (and is the reason why I think the WiFi-only iPads are a lousy buy). Here I think the competition has a hell of an opening: Apple does not (yet) provide the network services you need to make the thing really useful as a general computing device. Remote filesystem and printer access in particular are nonexistent, and it cries out for both. We're left to shuffle data in inconvenient ways, or not have access to it at all. I'd be surprised if that opening lasts very long though, and it's not clear that the early Android devices are going to do much better out the door; I rather expect them to be little more than iPad knockoffs -- more potential than competition.
It'd be nice to be wrong though, and at least this time around they're not going to cede the market to Apple by default for several years.
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Screw Mounting Wickedbeard Armor Part 1
The moment I saw Gavâs turorial, http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/showthread.php?t=20322, I decided I was going to screw-mount my armor. Itâs just to cool looking not to. Thanks Gav.
This tutorial is really no different than Gavâs. What is different is the ease at which Wickedbeard Armor lends itself to template making and mounting. Though the armor is shaped, it is flexible enough to flatten out for template making. The templates are used to outline the armor onto your vest, FLAT. I did not, and do not recommend, flattening the shoulder armor. There is just too much curve there and you stand a good chance of ruining the part.
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Auto Fault Self-diagnosis
Vehicle maintenance is past the core machinery repair manual skills, the main emphasis on vehicle maintenance technology, and to repair parts for the major maintenance technology, but also assembly and disassembly process to adjust the combination of parts repair process. The tools we can use to launch x431, lexia3, mb star.In contrast, the modern automobile maintenance is based on mechanical, electrical, hydraulic integration of the core of the comprehensive system diagnostics diagnostics.
Automobile Maintenance prominent diagnostic techniques, and to accurately diagnose faults as the goal, fully demonstrating the "seven diagnostic, one-third of repair" of the modern car maintenance methods; a result, many electronics companies have coveted cars, and equipment maintenance markets, have developed to meet the future automotive self-diagnosis tasks.
In the solid basis of development of automotive electronics automobile self-diagnosis function. Do not overlook the launch x431 of use.Since the beginning of electronic technology and vehicle technology combination, the electronic technology in the car on the increasingly wide range of applications, especially in the field of electronic technology of integrated circuits, large-scale integrated circuits and VLSI development, a car special offers functionality, reliability, fast response, low cost of automotive electronic control systems.
However, the electronic vehicle control, but also brought new problems. First, automobile electronic control systems become more complex, more and more difficult vehicle maintenance, vehicle maintenance capability of technical staff is relatively increased; other hand, the electronic control system security debugging features to prevent car because electronic control system itself fails, resulting in vehicle emissions control and can not run.
Therefore, in order to cope with situations such as these, automotive electronic control technology R & D personnel, conducting Vehicle Electronic Control System design, while increasing fault self diagnosis system. It can run the process in the automotive electronic control systems continuously monitor, including: engine start, engine, electronic ignition, fuel injection and other system operation status.
Once Fashengyichang case, Zaigen Ju-specific algorithms calculate Chujutidi Guzhang reasons, and to Dai Ma Xingshicunchu in the driving system (or Chen traffic black box), while the corresponding fault Yunxing module Gongneng start, Shi Chan Sheng failure of Qi Ju Neng to repair shop for maintenance, and technical maintenance personnel can use the vehicle self-diagnostic function to find the fault code for the failure to accurately repair the problem fast.
The basic principle of fault self-diagnosis and composition. Reliability and easy maintenance from the point of view, automotive electronic control system should be equipped with self-diagnostic function; since the 80's GM vehicles the United States developed the first in a new electronic control system malfunction self-diagnostic function to add, the global world-class car manufacturers emulate, have produced in various electronic control systems equipped with a fault in the self-diagnostic function; after a long period of development, self-diagnostic module will not only address the safety of automobile electronic control systems and vehicle storage memory failure also able to provide immediate car produced by a variety of system operation parameters. Also noted that the use of what tools, such as lexia3 of use.Since then, the "car fault self-diagnosis function" has become the new car factory and car repair workshop fault detection problem indispensable helper.
The basic principle of fault self-diagnosis and composition. Reliability and easy maintenance from the point of view, automotive electronic control system should be equipped with self-diagnostic function; since the 80's GM vehicles the United States developed the first in a new electronic control system malfunction self-diagnostic function to add, the global world-class car manufacturers emulate, have produced in various electronic control systems equipped with a fault in the self-diagnostic function; after a long period of development, self-diagnostic module will not only address the safety of automobile electronic control systems and vehicle storage memory failure also able to provide immediate car produced by a variety of system operation parameters. Since then, the "car fault self-diagnosis function" has become the new car factory and car repair workshop fault detection problem indispensable helper.
Currently, for sensors, electronic control systems, implementation of the components are three kinds of monitoring devices to detect the fault reason, fault self-diagnosis module to a different response measures:
When the car of a sensor or circuit failure, its signal can no longer control parameters of a vehicle, to car to run continuously, fault self-diagnosis program in the memory module did give out pre-set transfer the experience of value as input parameters of the circuit response, the automobile will continue to operate in a short time.
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Where to Shop for Automotive Parts and Equipment
A complete range of automotive tools and equipment can be found online. Consumers do have the advantage when shopping on the Internet, as they are not only provided quality merchandise, but merchandise at a discount. Top providers on the Internet will stock a wide range of automotive tools and equipment from recognized brands in the industry. Many consumers are turning to the Internet due to its affordability. Automotive tools and equipment, are expensive, and if you are in search of parts that are hard to find, the Internet is often the best source there is. When you begin to shop and compare the various online sites, you will notice that the greater reputability a company has, the more automotive tools and equipment they will offer. Automotive tools and equipment are necessary at some point in time for every driver that performs repairs on their vehicle. Workshops require automotive equipment that is specific to repairs so that they can safely and efficiently perform the repairs.
What types of automotive tools & equipment will you find online?
Automotive equipment will include all the automotive equipment that is found in the marketplace today such as:
* Tire changers
* Suspension and brake testing systems
* Brake lathes
* Short and mid-rise lifts
* Pit lifts
* Post lifts
* Mobile column lifts
* Auto lift equipment
* Wheel alignment and wheel balancers
* And, more
Other types of automotive equipment and automotive tools that you will find from the online vendors that are used by both the automotive shops and the home mechanics will include:
Lubrication Equipment: Each vehicle on the market has so many moving parts that comprise the operation of the vehicle and each of these moving parts need lubrication. Grease valves, oil meters and oil pumps are just some of the lubrication equipment that you will find online.
Air compressors: Air compressors are used to inflate a tire or tires. They may also be used to operate other pneumatic tools, as it is a source of compressed air. Air compressors come in many different makes and designs such as the electric powered, gas powered or diesel powered.
Other Automotive Tools: Other automotive tools that are used in both the industry and by the at home mechanic are hammers, dollies, screwdrivers, jacks, and monitors. These are specific for automotive repairs and automotive tools that the online vendor should have a variety to offer.
Service and Exhaust Equipment: For the shop or mechanic that is servicing vehicles, the proper service and exhaust equipment is necessary. This equipment includes brake fluid exchangers, booster cables, paint, battery chargers and so on.
When you do find an online store that seems to provide you with exactly what you need, make certain that they are reputable. The online site should have everything in tact on their site from their terms and policies to their customer service. Also, a description of each product that they offer to the consumer should be detailed. Dealing online is one of the greatest advantages to the consumer, and in the auto industry, the advantage is even greater.
Why you should use CTEK Car Battery Chargers
Well, let me be honest this article will take me hours to write as there is far too much to include. I may as well be lazy and call this Why you should NOT use CTEK Car Battery Chargers, but then, Ill only have one word to write – which is expensive.
Yes, the only disadvantage of CTEK car battery chargers is that they are a bit costly; brand new chargers will cost 50 and above. But when you find out more about these chargers, you will realise that they are worth the cost and more.
Here are a fraction of reasons why you should buy and use CTEK car battery chargers:
CTEK chargers are produced by CTEK Power Inc a renowned Swedish company which applies the best technology and knowledge to make state of the art battery chargers.
The worlds top automotive manufacturers, such as Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini and Mercedes Benz depend on CTEK battery chargers when it comes to the use and preservation of car batteries. They also include CTEK chargers in their official product range.
The chargers are known as being the smartest battery chargers in the world and are suited for all types of lead acid batteries. CTEK chargers are computerised and automated and are designed for safety. Nothing in the charger can be damaged, and no sparks are generated even if the clamps are short circuited. If you connect the clamps the wrong way, nothing will happen as the charger is reverse polarity protected. In this situation, an error light will blink, until you connect the clamps the correct way.
CTEK chargers can be permanently connected to your car battery. As they are fully automatic, you can keep it connected to your battery and forget about it for months. It will not damage your battery or electrical and computer systems in your car. They are able to detect when the battery is fully charged, and then revert to a state where they stop charging, until the battery voltage drops again. This is the best way to charge batteries completely without the risk of overcharging or boiling them. This is what makes CTEK chargers unique they are able to regulate the charging voltage to prevent any damage to your car.
CTEK chargers come with a two to five year guarantee, and are extremely robust. They are water proof, shock proof, weather proof and can be used outdoors. You can use the same CTEK charger for other purposes apart from your car you can charge batteries from your motorbike, lawn mower or boat. How amazing is that!
With all these benefits, it is no doubt that CTEK are the leading brand of car battery chargers.
Auto Electrical Service Watch Out For These 6 Warning Signs!
If the six signs below look or sound familiar, your vehicle may beginning to have starting problems commonly associated with starters or alternators. It is time for some form of auto electrical service. As a lot of vehicle owners have learned from experience, ignoring problems doesn't fix them, they only get worse! You may up with real car problems ranging from "slow" starts to a car that refuses to start at all.
6 Warnings Signs of auto electrical problems:
1. Dashboard Lights These lights are warnings that something needs immediate attention. Don't ignore them, hoping they will go off on their own.
2. Strange Sounds If the engine is starting to make strange sounds, schedule an auto electrical service as soon as possible.
3. Burning Smell A burning smell could be caused by over-heating electric connections, indicating a circuit or fuse malfunction.
4. Dim Lights Dimming lights is an indicator of a failing alternator–the car battery can't keep a charge to run the lighting system.
5. Dead Battery This is especially common during the winter months when lights are on for longer periods of time or if the lights are left on after turning the car off. A simple jump-start should take care of the immediate problem, but don't forget to have your battery checked. Weak batteries can cause damage to starters and alternators.
6. Electrical Malfunctions — A broken connection or single little wire can lead to a series of electrical malfunctions. A simple auto electrical service, such as reconnecting an on-line fuse or connection can bring life back to your car.
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"According to the Green Car Congress, Southwest Airlines is the latest carrier to experiment with renewable jet fuel. It recently signed an agreement with Red Rock Biofuels to purchase low-carbon fuel made from forest residue. Southwest will buy approximately 3 million gallons of the renewable fuel per year, with the first deliveries expected in 2016 for use in the San Francisco Bay Area. Red Rock Biofuels' first plant is expected to turn 140,000 tons of the forest residue into 12 million gallons of fuel per year.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines started using biofuel on flights between New York and Amsterdam last year, while South African Airlines and Boeing plan to test a tobacco-based fuel grown in the airline's home country. In addition, Boeing is also involved in the development of "green diesel," which is made by splitting molecules from waste oil and fats with hydrogen. All of these efforts could help lower the airline industry's overall carbon emissions, which account for 2 percent of the global today. By some projections, that total could rise to 5 percent by 2050." **
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Wiring Harness And Its Uses In The Automotive Industry
Wiring harness is that versatile tool that is capable of meeting diverse requirements in all industry sectors. However, it finds special use in the automotive sector for exceptional automobile set-ups. The wiring harness used in the automobile industry is a durable solution that has the capacity to resist high temperature and is ductile in nature. These automotive wiring harness varieties are dimensionally accurate and hence are in wide demand across various automobile manufacturing set up.
Most of the manufacturers that deal with this wiring harness variety ensure that they conform with the industry standards and you as a customer should only go for these ones to ensure safety. The best part about automotive wiring harness is that they can be customized as per the requirements and specifications of the user like different color coding and the specifications etc.
All high-grade automotive wiring harness varieties, find application for multiple purposes. They are used for ignition system, battery cables, AC, etc. in automobiles. Most of the manufacturers today fabricate these harnesses by using finest grade of materials. They are also stringently tested on each stage of fabrication to guarantee defect free harnesses. These types of harnesses are used for all types of vehicles like passenger cars, commercial vehicles, two wheelers and three wheelers, multi utility vehicles, farm, material handling equipment and off-the-road vehicles.
All harnesses for the automotive industry are designed to perform under extreme conditions with uninterrupted services and can hence sustain heavy loads. Apart from the standard ones there are special varieties like bus harness, truck harness along with wiring harnesses for four/two wheelers.
Among the various application areas where wiring harness for automobile is required includes power windows, horn relay and connector, dimmer switch connector, power door locks, circuit breaker for headlights, backup lights, ignition switch connectors horn, cigarette lighter, engine fan, radio battery, wipers, brake lights and many more. These harnesses are easy to install and are cost effective solutions to all kinds of electrical needs in automobiles. As per their requirements, these types of harnesses come in three different varieties viz; industrial automotive wire harness, high grade automotive wire harnesses and standard automobile wire harness.
Most of the manufacturers that produce or supply wiring harness also keep stock of other electrical tools like extension cord, and power supply cord, etc. that go well with any electrical or electronic appliances. Use these with locking plug for ultimate safety, as you would not want to risk the lives of your dear ones.
Automotive Advertising Agencies Focus on People Using Social Media Vs Product or Price
The role of the automotive advertising agency has changed to follow the new rules of the road on the Internet Super Highway. Newly empowered consumers are no longer limited to shopping for a vehicle using information provided by self serving auto dealers pushing information to them using conventional media like radio, T.V. or newspaper. Social media has allowed car shoppers to gather information from like minded customers before, during and after their shopping and/or buying experience. These online friends are playing an increasing role in the car shopping process and automotive advertising agencies are using them to influence buyers.
The new pull / push nature of the market powered by the Internet requires automotive advertising agencies to focus on people vs. product or price. Car shoppers are following their own agendas when pulling information from the world wide web that no longer requires them to rely on an auto dealer as the source. Today's online shoppers prioritize people when selecting a dealership they are willing to do business with. That is not to suggest that product and price aren't important. It simply suggests that all systems start and end with people and that people are the true asset of any auto dealer, automotive advertising agency or vendor!
The most obvious evidence of the priority that people play in the auto shopping/buying/service experience is the explosive growth that social media has enjoyed as a marketing media vs. conventional radio, T.V. and print that used to dominate the automotive advertising landscape. Automotive advertising agencies recognize that people have always preferred to do business with people that they like and social networking has expanded the spheres of influence of car shoppers/buyers to include their online friends.
The market is a conversation amongst friends before, during and after the car shopping/buying/ service cycle. Auto dealers that have friends in the social networking communities are more likely to be invited to participate in the dialogue. More specifically, automotive advertising agencies realize that it is difficult to befriend a building or a website! It is the people that work at the dealership to support their families that have the story to tell to their friends and who will earn the sale — not the Chevrolet, Toyota, Mercedes, etc. — or the extended service hours and weekly specials. Saturday service hours have no appeal if the customers don't like or trust the people that they are handing their keys to. Having a friend in the car business is a relief that trumps the best process, product or price for the average car buyer.
Automotive advertising agencies also recognize that people play a role in both the real and virtual world showroom experience which will be reflected in the number of units sold and their job performance at the end of the month. First impressions are irretrievable and they are not limited to a large inventory, clean showroom or a dealer centric selling system that processes customers in sales and/or service. The atmosphere in a well run dealership reflects the morale of the staff in sales and service which directly impacts the customers that an automotive advertising agency drives to the dealership.
A smiling sales person, service writer, operator and cashier can't be forced as a part of policy — much like customer satisfaction can't be bought or taken for granted by simply offering the best price; it must be earned. It is earned when a dealer or manager appreciates the individual and team contributions of his staff — and tells them so on a regular basis! It is maintained by HR departments and hiring practices that select personality over prior auto sales experience with compensation plans that reflect individual contributions along with job descriptions and defined areas of responsibility that are managed and monitored by a caring management team.
Employee retention is directly linked to customer satisfaction and customer retention and neither can be taken for granted. Automotive advertising agencies are counseling their auto dealer clients to invest in their people before, during and after they are hired to compliment their investments in automotive advertising. It is their people that will represent their dealership and it is their people who will sell their cars and service to a growing list of friends and customers.
Automotive advertising agencies have extended their areas of responsibility to include their involvement in all aspects of day to day operations at an auto dealership. Most selling systems and related processes include a meeting and greeting, an initial manager T.O. to qualify the customer's needs, an inventory and facility walk, a test drive, a feature benefit presentation, a desking procedure, a manager T.O., negotiations, an F&I introduction, a delivery procedure and service introduction. All of these steps are then supported by a state of the art CRM/ILM, DMS and follow up system. Unfortunately, all of these well thought out procedures are only as good as the sales person who entered the customer into the system and/or who is expected to follow up if not sold or who is relied on to solicit future service and referrals.
All of these actions reflect on the job performance of the automotive advertising agency and they must be addressed as part of their areas of responsibility. Automotive advertising agencies recognize that sales training is all too often limited to a few weeks immediately after the hire and/or some outsourced trainer hired to pump up the staff. Given the complexity of a well planned selling system — as described above — how can a new hire be expected to retain everything that they need to know? Add product information and an understanding of how human nature impacts the negotiation process and — once again — the investment in the people becomes self evident.
There is a paradigm shift taking place in the way that sales and service training should be applied at a dealership and it is up to the automotive advertising agency to insure that it is understood and applied. Forward thinking automotive advertising agencies have discovered that sales and service training can't be limited to the new hires and or as needed to motivate the staff. It must start in the hiring process by selecting trainable personalities and then integrated into the selling system in such a way that the processes teach the sales person as much as the customer. Buyers and sellers must form a habit to listen and learn from each other before they can presume to sell or buy anything. A sales person does not need to know everything — they simply need to know where to find the answers that are relevant to the customer to move them through their buying decision.
Automotive advertising agencies often rely on new technologies to provide efficiencies applied to proven old world wisdom. New mobile sales applications are being developed that promise to provide a salesperson with the right information at the right place and the right time which will integrate training into the sales process. The key is to focus on the people part of the presentation supported by the processes, products and the price rather than the other way around.
Philip Zelinger is a former auto dealer principal with an earned reputation as a nationally recognized automotive advertising expert specializing in the technology sector. His philosophy that a rising tide floats all boats motivates him to listen and learn so he can presume to teach. To that end, Philip shares best practices on the respected automotive advertising resource networking portal — http://AdAgencyOnline.Net — as well as the blog talk radio station featured on the site — WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time — http://blogtalkradio.com/adagencyonline.
For a complimentary consultation on your automotive advertising needs, or to share your wisdom and insights with the online automotive advertising community hosted by Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. visit the portal and contact Philip Zelinger directly. To quote Philip, "Help is only a click away because — after all, what are friends for!"
Automotive Advertising Agencies Don't Know What They Don't Know But Social Media Has The Answers
Automotive advertising agencies are being asked to deliver more for less by a consolidating auto industry in response to reduced sales volume, profit margins and automotive advertising budgets. The solution, as is often the case, lies in the leveraged use of technology applied to a constant in the auto industry — change. Another constant that can be found in the auto industry is human nature. These two constants, change and human nature, power the explosive growth of the use of social media by automotive advertising agencies. Unfortunately, the change is happening at warp speed on the Internet Super Highway and agencies don't know what they don't know when it comes to new technologies and applications being developed to monetize social media.
Attempts to provide a presence for automobile dealers on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter fall short for the same reasons that these online communities of friends are so successful with consumers. People hate car dealers and they often turn to advice from like minded consumers on social networking sites to get away from them. Automotive advertising agencies that impose on these personal conversations with self serving sales messages are often ostracized and even virally attacked as an intruder. The potential damage to the online reputation of their auto dealer clients represents a risk to reward formula that has forced many agencies to abandon social media as a viable channel to deliver a retail sales or service message.
Fortunately, the same social media that teaches consumers how to buy a vehicle can provide automobile dealers with the information and the tools that they need to sell them one. Social networking portals developed by advertising professionals, automotive vendors and auto dealers allow their members to share best practices with the common philosophy that a rising tide floats all boats. Each online community boasts its own personality and rules of the road to keep members in their lane. The temptation to sell to each other is controlled by the same social pressures that exist on consumer facing social networks for those that forget why they are there — to listen and learn so they can presume to teach their auto dealers how they can sell cars and service to their online friends.
In addition to sharing best practices, many automotive advertising agencies use social media to discover new technologies and vendor applications that have not yet been discovered by the mainstream auto industry. Recent discoveries that I can contribute to my searches on social media include an automated video production platform that produces scalable interactive videos from pictures using human voice to narrate them that are placed on the auto dealer's website and pushed through a dedicated API with YouTube onto the world wide web. An equally revolutionary discovery was a consumer centric inventory marketing platforms that offers auto dealers free listings and free leads with the ability to purchase real time market analytics and social networking profiles that empower the salesperson to answer the customer's questions even before they ask them. Each of these vendor applications were introduced to the market through automotive advertising social networking communities that enabled them to listen and learn from their members about how they can improve their products and services before they introduced them to the general market. My access to these automotive advertising solutions was only possible as a result of the time I invested on social media looking for them so that I could stay one step ahead of the competition.
Online blog talk radio stations hosted on automotive advertising networking portals provide a another social media forum for finding and reviewing new automotive advertising solutions. Regularly scheduled blog talk radio shows with live interviews of the developers of bleeding edge automotive advertising applications allow their online audience to ask vendors questions in an open forum. These open exchanges of ideas in a problem solution format help the vendors as much as the automotive advertising decision makers that follow the shows. A new mobile sales presentation platform with an integrated training component was recently discussed on a blog talk radio show to solicit feedback from the audience. Their insights were used to modify the platform before the vendor began their beta test it in the real world saving thousands of wasted dollars and man hours that would normally be required to mature their application.
The opportunity for automotive advertising agencies and auto dealers to listen, learn and contribute to social networking communities allows them to discover what they don't know while allowing them the opportunity to share what they do know. Auto dealers are people too/ The same efficiencies and extended resources that attract consumers to social media to research their next vehicle purchase is sourced by automotive advertising agencies who need to stay one step ahead of the competition in a consolidating auto industry that demands more for less. Automotive advertising agencies don't know what they don't know but they can definitely find out on auto industry focused social media. After all, what are friends for!
Philip Zelinger is a former auto dealer principal with an earned reputation as a nationally recognized automotive advertising expert specializing in the technology sector. His philosophy that a rising tide floats all boats motivates him to listen and learn so he can presume to teach. To that end, Philip shares best practices on the respected automotive advertising resource networking portal — http://AdAgencyOnline.Net — as well as the blog talk radio station featured on the site — WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time — http://blogtalkradio.com/adagencyonline.
For a complimentary consultation on your automotive advertising needs, or to share your wisdom and insights with the online automotive advertising community hosted by Ad Agency Online, L.L.C.. vist the portal and contact Philip Zelinger directly. To quote Philip, "Help is only a click away because — after all, what are friends for!"


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Response by Marcott et al.
Readers will be aware of the paper by Shaun Marcott and colleagues, that they published a couple weeks ago in the journal Science. That paper sought to extend the global temperature record back over the entire Holocene period, i.e. just over 11 kyr back time, something that had not really been attempted before. The paper got a fair amount of media coverage (see e.g. this article by Justin Gillis in the New York Times). Since then, a number of accusations from the usual suspects have been leveled against the authors and their study, and most of it is characteristically misleading. We are pleased to provide the authors' response, below. Our view is that the results of the paper will stand the test of time, particularly regarding the small global temperature variations in the Holocene. If anything, early Holocene warmth might be overestimated in this study.
Update: Tamino has three excellent posts in which he shows why the Holocene reconstruction is very unlikely to be affected by possible discrepancies in the most recent (20th century) part of the record. The figure showing Holocene changes by latitude is particularly informative.
Summary and FAQ's related to the study by Marcott et al. (2013, Science)
Prepared by Shaun A. Marcott, Jeremy D. Shakun, Peter U. Clark, and Alan C. Mix
Primary results of study
Global Temperature Reconstruction: We combined published proxy temperature records from across the globe to develop regional and global temperature reconstructions spanning the past ~11,300 years with a resolution >300 yr; previous reconstructions of global and hemispheric temperatures primarily spanned the last one to two thousand years. To our knowledge, our work is the first attempt to quantify global temperature for the entire Holocene.
Structure of the Global and Regional Temperature Curves: We find that global temperature was relatively warm from approximately 10,000 to 5,000 years before present. Following this interval, global temperature decreased by approximately 0.7°C, culminating in the coolest temperatures of the Holocene around 200 years before present during what is commonly referred to as the Little Ice Age. The largest cooling occurred in the Northern Hemisphere.
Holocene Temperature Distribution: Based on comparison of the instrumental record of global temperature change with the distribution of Holocene global average temperatures from our paleo-reconstruction, we find that the decade 2000-2009 has probably not exceeded the warmest temperatures of the early Holocene, but is warmer than ~75% of all temperatures during the Holocene. In contrast, the decade 1900-1909 was cooler than~95% of the Holocene. Therefore, we conclude that global temperature has risen from near the coldest to the warmest levels of the Holocene in the past century. Further, we compare the Holocene paleotemperature distribution with published temperature projections for 2100 CE, and find that these projections exceed the range of Holocene global average temperatures under all plausible emissions scenarios.
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
Q: What is global temperature?
A: Global average surface temperature is perhaps the single most representative measure of a planet's climate since it reflects how much heat is at the planet's surface. Local temperature changes can differ markedly from the global average. One reason for this is that heat moves around with the winds and ocean currents, warming one region while cooling another, but these regional effects might not cause a significant change in the global average temperature. A second reason is that local feedbacks, such as changes in snow or vegetation cover that affect how a region reflects or absorbs sunlight, can cause large local temperature changes that are not mirrored in the global average. We therefore cannot rely on any single location as being representative of global temperature change. This is why our study includes data from around the world.
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SOUTH African captain Graeme Smith has ridiculed aspects of Australia's game plan for the series that will decide the No. 1 Test ranking, and taken aim at Australia's unproven top order.
Smith was far from shocked by the contents of Australia's plans for the Proteas, but promised that their publication would ''touch the motivation springs'' for South Africa to repeat its series success in Australia four years ago.
He took issue with the claim that his fast bowlers can't back up for third and fourth spells.
Nor did Australia's beliefs about Smith, that he is prone to lbw dismissals and was heavy-footed when out of form, come as a surprise. ''Well, [ if I get out lbw] it won't be the first time and it probably won't be the last,'' he said.
''It's nothing we didn't expect. All of us have played enough against Australia, we know what it's going to take to be victorious here. Our preparation has been clinical and good and intelligent.
''Certainly the stuff that happens in the papers and maybe things Mickey [Arthur, Australia's coach] has said have only added motivation for us.''
Of Australia's strategy to wear out the quicks by bringing them back for third and fourth spells, Smith said: ''We've played a lot of cricket together and we haven't always bowled teams out for 100 or 150 … I think we have been equally good in conditions all around the world.
''You don't travel from 2006 and be unbeaten away from home if you don't have the capability to think on your feet and if you don't have the skill to do different things. I think our guys have proven that.
''It would be awesome if they don't have to come back for third and fourth spells because it would mean we're ahead in the game.''
The Gabba Test begins on the first anniversary of one such occasion, when Australia was bowled out for 47 in Cape Town. Smith said he hoped to revive some of the doubts that appeared on that disorienting day by getting stuck into Australia's unproven top order.
Australia will send a green top three, in terms of Test experience, into battle against Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel. Ed Cowan, David Warner and debutant Rob Quiney have played 16 Tests between them.
''The goal is to have our bowlers expose the top order as much as possible,'' Smith said. ''Everyone wants to have a team three down as quickly as possible and give yourself the best opportunity to bowl people out. That inexperience and all the stuff that has been going on hopefully is something we can exploit because it means we've got Australia under pressure.
''We know because Gary [Kirsten's] daughter turns one tomorrow and she was born on that day [of the Cape Town collapse]. To have Australia 21-9 or something like that is something quite hard to still fathom today. Our goal is to really get into the batting order and create a lot of pressure. If we can do that first up hopefully we can create a bit of doubt.''
Australian captain Michael Clarke, who along Arthur denied the existence of a dossier on the South African players, defended the decision to bat Rob Quiney in No. 3 spot in his first Test.
''I have actually [thought about batting at No. 3], I've spoken to Justin Langer and I had some time talking to Ricky about it over the last few days as well,'' Clarke said. ''We think at the moment Rob is best suited to No. 3 for this Test match. Hopefully he performs really well and grabs hold of his opportunity. I've said for a while now it doesn't bother me where I bat. Ricky and Michael Hussey are in the exact same boat. They don't really care where they bat, it's about what's best suited for the team.
''We thought our middle-order played really well together last year, all last summer. We're looking to do the same thing. We think Rob's got plenty of experience in first-class cricket opening the batting and batting at No. 3. He's probably used to that position a lot more than me for the start of this series. We can assess as Test matches go on, as time goes on. I really hope Rob grabs his opportunity with both hands.''


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VM-FEX Support on Microsoft Hyper-V
Cisco Fabric Extender technology is now available on Windows Server 8 Hyper-V.
One Infrastructure Supports Different Network Traffic Types
Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) collapses virtual and physical networking into a single infrastructure. Data center administrators can now provision, configure, manage, monitor, and diagnose virtual machine network traffic and bare metal network traffic within a unified infrastructure.
The VM-FEX software extends Cisco fabric extender technology to the virtual machine with the following capabilities:
- Each virtual machine includes a dedicated interface on the parent switch
- All virtual machine traffic is sent directly to the dedicated interface on the switch
- The software-based switch in the hypervisor is eliminated
VM-FEX: One Network
Cisco VM-FEX technology collapses virtual switching infrastructure and physical switching infrastructure into a single, easy-to-manage environment. Benefits include:
- Simplified operations: Eliminates the need for a separate, virtual networking infrastructure
- Improved network security: Contains VLAN proliferation
- Optimized network utilization: Reduces broadcast domains
- Enhanced application performance: Offloads virtual machine switching from host CPU to parent switch application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)
VM-FEX is supported on Red Hat Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and VMware ESX hypervisors. Live migration and vMotion are also supported with VM-FEX.
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280
Simplify and supercharge your converged infrastructure.
Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects
Create a single, highly available management domain with network connectivity and administrative capabilities that support all attached blades and chassis.
Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers
Cisco UCS standalone servers balance I/O, memory, and processing performance with fluctuating workloads.
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Provide a unified, converged fabric over 10 Gigabit Ethernet for LAN, SAN, and cluster traffic.
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text: Hello all, I joined the TDH a few short weeks ago and I love it. Everyone that I have conversed with and done business with have been excellent! So I thought I would share a little more of my Star Wars Obsession with you all. Keep in mind that it is a work in progress, but I would love feedback and or suggestions as I move forward.


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Best bets for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival for Sunday, Jan. 27:
"Upstream Color"
Film Church
10 a.m. • Filmmakers Lodge, Park City
Wrap up the Sundance experience by talking with some diehard movie lovers as festival director John Cooper interviews some of this year's award winners.
U.S. Documentary and U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize winners
1 and 4 p.m. • Eccles Theatre, Park City
All the award winners get screenings on the festival's final day with the Eccles playing host to the U.S. competition's two top picks.
"Sound City"
6 p.m. • Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl directs this musical documentary about the artists who still make their music at L.A.'s premier old-school recording studio.
Sean P. Means
Need a ticket?
At 8 a.m., hit a Sundance box office (Trolley Square, 700 E. 600 South, Salt Lake City; Gateway Center, 138 Heber Ave., Park City; or Peery's Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden) to see if any tickets have been released to today's screenings. Or get in the wait-list line at the theater two hours before the screening.


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Green Bay Looks to Bounce Back at Loyola
By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - After seeing its rally spoiled by UIC on Thursday night, Green Bay will aim to bounce back quickly on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Loyola in the Horizon League Game of the Week. The Phoenix has bounced back well of late, winning three of its last four games following a loss.
Green Bay's defense was the catalyst in the teams' first meeting this season, a 57-47 Phoenix victory on Jan. 9 at the Resch Center. Freshman Jordan Fouse (Racine, Wis.) tied a school-record with seven steals and Green Bay forced 18 turnovers and held Loyola to just 31.6 percent shooting. The Phoenix dominated the opening 20 minutes and led 28-12 at halftime.
The Phoenix has won three-straight games against the Ramblers, including a series sweep in 2011-12. In those three meetings, Green Bay has leaned on its post players. Senior Brennan Cougill (Sioux City, Iowa) and junior Alec Brown have combined to average 26 points and 15.3 rebounds per contest. The duo has made 32-of-57 shots from the field.
FOLLOW THE PHOENIX: Fans will be able to catch Saturday afternoon's Horizon League game at Loyola live on Time Warner Cable's Sports32, the Horizon League Network and ESPN3.com. Jim Barbar will handle the play-by-play dutie Joel Cornette alongside as the color analyst.
The game will also be carried live by WDUZ The Fan 107.5 FM and online at thefan1075.com. The play-by-play voice of the Phoenix Matt Menzl will be on the call alongside Andrew Gavin. Live stats will be available on LoyolaRamblers.com. You can also stay up-to-date by following @GBPhoenixMBB and @GBGavin on Twitter.
1. INSIDE THE SERIES: Green Bay holds a 25-15 edge in the 40 all-time meetings against Loyola. The Phoenix has won three-straight games and seven of the past eight contests versus the Ramblers. In contests in Chicago, Loyola has the advantage with a 10-8 record. In last year's meeting at the Gentile Center, junior Kam Cerroni (Sussex, Wis.) made a game-winning three at the buzzer as the Phoenix won 73-70 in overtime.
2. SYKES IN THE CITY: Sophomore Keifer Sykes, a Chicago native and a Marshall High School grad, has been terrific in his three games in his hometown. The 5-foot-11 guard scored 18 points on Friday night and is now averaging 19.3 points and six assists per game while shooting 50 percent from the field in games played in Chicago.
3. IMPACT FRESHMAN: Thursday was another stat stuffing night for Fouse. In 31 minutes, Fouse totaled six points, seven rebounds, four blocks, three assists and two steals. The strong effort for the true freshman is common for one of three Phoenix players (Brown, Sykes) to start all 21 games. The 6-foot-7 Fouse leads all Horizon League newcomers in rebounds (2nd), blocks (3rd) and steals (t4th).
• WINDY CITY WINNING: In the past two seasons, Green Bay has experienced success against teams from Chicago. Led by Chicago native Keifer Sykes, the Phoenix is 7-1 against Loyola (3-0), UIC (3-1) and Chicago State (1-0). Sykes had 11 points and nine assists in the first meeting against Loyola, and the sophomore is averaging 14.6 points and 4.6 assists per game in the eight games against his hometown schools.
• DEFEND THE HORIZON: Green Bay sits in a tie for fourth place in the Horizon League standings as the top six teams enter Friday night separated by just 1.5 games. Green Bay is in position to fight for the conference title based on its defense and rebounding. Through nine games, Green Bay leads the conference in scoring defense (59.4), field goal percentage defense (.367), three-point field goal percentage defense (.284), rebounding margin (+5.4) and blocked shots (5.7).
• STILL ON GUARD: In Green Bay's five league wins, the Phoenix has not allowed more than 58 points and has a scoring defense of 50.8. The team's victory margin is 15.0 and it has made twice as many free throws (86-43). Those five opponents are shooting just 33.6 percent from the field and are being outrebounded by 9.6 boards per game. In its four HL losses, Green Bay is allowing 70.2 points per game and 40.9 percent shooting. The Phoenix rebounding margin dips to just plus-0.3 and its opponents have made 38 more free throws.
• RESERVE ROLES: Green Bay's bench has provided a solid lift in recent games, contributing double figures in seven-straight games. Against Cleveland State, three Phoenix players combined for 31 points off the pine, and the reserves outscored the Milwaukee bench 21-0. Cougill has reached double figures off the bench in seven of nine Horizon League games, including five consecutive.
• BROWN'S GRAND NIGHT: Brown sparked Green Bay's dominant second half last Friday, scoring 15 of his career-high 23 points. The 7-foot-1 big man surpassed the 1,000-career point mark in the process to become the 25th member of the program's 1,000-point club. On Monday, Brown was recognized for his strong play against Valpo and Milwaukee when he was named Horizon League Player of the Week (20.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, 2.5 blocks per game).
• FREE AND EASY: Green Bay is first in the Horizon League and its 75.5 percent from the line ranks 15th nationally. The Phoenix is 360-477 on the season and also ranks tied for 25th nationally in free throws made per game (16.4). Green Bay has made more free throws than any team ranked in the top-30 in free-throw percentage.
Single-game tickets for Phoenix home games are on sale with the Green Bay Athletics Ticket Office. For more information and to order tickets, please call 920.465.2625, visit the athletics department offices in the Kress Events Center or access GreenBayPhoenix.com/tickets.
For the latest and most up-to-date information on Green Bay Athletics, please visit GreenBayPhoenix.com.
Follow us on Twitter: @GBPhoenix, @GBPhoenixMBB and @GBGavin.
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There is no difference for the .40/.357 magazines. The 23/32 Glock barrels are drop in and require no modification. You can use a 19 9MM barrel in the 23/32 but not 40/357 barrel in 19 because the ejector could cause an AD when clearing a live round from the weapon.
All small frame Glock magazines are interchangable as long as they are long enough. The 23 will accept the 17/19/31/32/22/23 magazine. The only problem is you must pay attention when changing barrels on Glocks. A .357 SIG round in a .40 barrel will ruin your day. Safety is paramount. The best thing is to purchase another pistol. That being said, I have a G31 barrel for my G22 and a .400 CorBon barrel for my G21.
Happy shooting, be safe.


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Brett Domino Performs Nelly Furtado Medley Using Household Objects
And instruments. But mostly, I'm pretty infatuated with Brett Domino's "hither come nerdish genius" interpretation of a number of top of the pop chart toppers. He's done Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Ellie Goulding, and now he's graced us with a medley of Nelly Furtado tunes that span her entire career. Check out the video now, which features the songs: Maneater, Promiscuous, Say It Right, Turn Off The Lights, I'm Like A Bird and Night Is Young; all whilst using objects like kazoos, iPhone xylos, keytars, shower heads, bucket tops and more. More amazing than you can imagine.
mp3: Nelly Furtado - Night Is Young (BURNS Vocal Remix)
mp3: Nelly Furtado - Night Is Young