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Evil Dead (2013) Review
I can't help but wonder what Fede Alverez was thinking when he got the call to do evil dead. Not just any evil dead; a remake. A parallel continuity or continuation or a rebirth, or however their spinning it is arguable. What is not arguable is that evil dead is a franchise coveted by horror fans. Yes, their have been bigger franchises that made more money and spawned more sequels and been far more critically acclaimed but one important thing to remember is evil dead is one of those franchises that hasn't been touched in film since the early 90's. There have been comics, games, and people tattooing that shit on their fucking bodies but no features. It has (putting it mildly) a ravenously loyal fanbase and starred an actor that is one of the biggest if not the biggest cult icon of modern times, Bruce Campbell. So when Fede Alverez got that call that told him that for his first big studio movie he was doing is evil dead, and that it would be a remake and it wouldn't have Bruce Campbell I'm sure he realized if not then but soon that he was going to have to do better than any horror remake in the last 10 years.
A group of young friends gather together in an old cabin that belonged to the siblings Mia (Jane Levy) and David (Shiloh Fernandez) The idea is to help Mia get off drugs. So while her friends try to detox her and spit out some (awkward exposition dialogue) they discover a bloody mess in the basement of the cabin along with a mysterious book. Not content to leave well enough alone the words are spoken and what follows is a bloodbath to end all bloodbaths. Or maybe a blood shower?
The strongest points of this movie are the dedication spent to the gore effects. Even though they do use a lot of CGI in some shots it's not too distracting and seems to be melded well with practical effects. A lot of the damage the characters take is absolutely unreal. In particular, the character of Eric played by Lou Taylor Pucci, that guy just takes a beating throughout the entire film.
There are countless moments throughout the movie that are nods back to the original trilogy. Be it camera angles, lines of dialogue or the pacing of the film but at the same time it isn't an hour and thirty minute inside joke that new comers to the series will be left out of.
There is a fine balancing act that Alverez performs by doing justice to the franchise but also making it his own. The third act is entirely new and feels unique and fresh, while the first two acts seem like a glowing tribute to the source material.
A few things I didn't like was the stiff dialogue between a lot of the characters. Beyond the previously mentioned exposition scenes there is a point in the movie where I just don't feel like these characters are really freaked out enough. It might have been a way to further desensitize the violence for the audience but I think it's more of a case of the movie relying too much on its namesake and special effects while its actors are generic. Nobody stands out, and in a lot of cases aren't even given much of a chance too. This is about the point where I was missing Bruce Campbell. His character of Ash stole the show and he as an actor oozed charisma that made the series what it was. It's not as though anyone did a bad job it's just that I felt nobody elevated the movie by being in it.
Another thing which was probably the biggest sin was showing what was chasing Levy's character. They played tribute to the classic and extremely distinct POV chase scenes that dotted the original franchise but instead of leaving it to your imagination they decided we needed to see it. Also, every time somebody did something weird (weird means violent and gross) they felt the need to show us a page in the book that related to what was happening. It seemed unnecessary and I felt that it took away from those scenes. Then again I love when things aren't explained.
It's an insanely bold move of the studios to back a movie and push its production while at the same time taking their strongest muscles (Rami and Campbell) and regulating them to producers. (One with an extremely uneventful cameo after the credits.)
As I've said many times; remakes, sequels and prequels have been around for awhile but the internet hasn't. These days it takes about two minutes to find someone online and send them a message, or publicly bash them or their product. The things I read coming from fans of the original while this movie was being made was ridiculous enough but I honestly believe they did something evil dead fans and the mainstream will be happy with.
This is easily the best horror remake (rebirth/sequel/whatever) I've ever seen but I can't help but wonder how amazing if would be if Bruce had returned to play ash. Given the early buzz that this movie will well exceed its modest budget I guess we only need wait for the inevitable Evil Dead 2.


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Experiencing strong emotions synchronizes brain activity across individuals, a research team at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre in Finland has revealed.
Human emotions are highly contagious. Seeing others' emotional expressions such as smiles triggers often the corresponding emotional response in the observer. Such synchronization of emotional states across individuals may support social interaction: When all group members share a common emotional state, their brains and bodies process the environment in a similar fashion.
Researchers at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre have now found that feeling strong emotions makes different individuals' brain activity literally synchronous.
The results revealed that especially feeling strong unpleasant emotions synchronized brain's emotion processing networks in the frontal and midline regions. On the contrary, experiencing highly arousing events synchronized activity in the networks supporting vision, attention and sense of touch.
"Sharing others' emotional states provides the observers a somatosensory and neural framework that facilitates understanding others' intentions and actions and allows to 'tune in' or 'sync' with them. Such automatic tuning facilitates social interaction and group processes," says Adjunct Professor Lauri Nummenmaa from the Aalto University, Finland.
"The results have major implications for current neural models of human emotions and group behavior. It also deepens our understanding of mental disorders involving abnormal socioemotional processing," Nummenmaa says.
Participants' brain activity was measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging while they were viewing short pleasant, neutral and unpleasant movies.
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For the Haverstraw Marina, take Route 9W to West Haverstraw. Turn onto Railroad Avenue and follow to the marina.DIRECTIONS TO COLD SPRINGS: Route 9D or 301 to the village. The towns main road goes directly to the river, follow the road north to the grassy area, this area is state property and parking is free. The grassy area is for rigging. Launching is only a few feet away over a few protective rocks to the water.


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9.6.14 - NB Lions vs. Ellwood City Wolverines
These are the images captured during a Class AA Midwestern Conference (MAC) match up between the Lions of New Brighton and the Wolverines of Ellwood Cityl High School held on 9.6.14 at Helling Stadium in Ellwood City. New Brighton came out swinging as Darrion Gilmore returned the opening kick-off 85 yards for the first of many Lions touchdowns this evening. A stingy New Brighton defense shutdown the Wolverines and on the very next Lions possession, Scott Florence broke loose on a 64 yards TD run for the first of his 3 TD's on the night. Ellwood City responded with a short touchdown run of their own, but before you knew it, New Brighton went into halftime with a comfortable 27-7 lead. The second half did not see the same offensive output, but did see two long TD runs by both squads in the 3rd Quarter. Ellwood's Nick Ioanilli got through a seam and went untouched on a 70 yard TD run. NB's Payton Fath found an open lane as he scampered down the left side for a 55 yard TD run in the 3rd Quarter. After a scoreless 4th Quarter, New Brighton went on for the 38-13 victory. Next up for the Lions is Conference match up with Summit Academy HS to be held at Oak Hill Field in New Brighton, PA. Good Luck Lions! PLEASE NOTE: Images are posted online with minimal post production processing. Please remember that every image is professionally adjusted for color and contrast prior to printing to ensure you get the best results possible!Read More


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'X Factor' Hopeful Melanie Amaro Blows Everyone Away With Adele, Whitney Houston Performances
Tonight on 'X Factor,' the remaining five contestants performed not one, but two songs for a spot in the semi-finals. The show started off with a bang courtesy of vocal powerhouse Melanie Amaro. For her first performance, the contestant, who is one of two left on Simon Cowell's team, was challenged to perform a dance song, and she chose to tackle a remixed version of Adele's 'Someone Like You.'
Amaro's first performance of 'Someone Like You' was strong, as the songstress belted out the lyrics and strutted down an illuminated catwalk to the heavy techno beat. As Simon said, Amaro embodies the word 'diva' and she rocks nearly every performance with that huge voice and wonderful stage presence. "What I love about that [performance] is that it wasn't karaoke. It was taking a track and doing something different with it," Cowell told his pupil. "You've got confidence … You would have a hit record with that version [of the song]."
For her second performance, Amaro kept up the diva persona as she blew the roof off with a rendition of Whitney Houston's 'When You Believe.' There were some issues with the song scheduling for the competition, and the contestants were informed the night before the show that they would have to choose their own song for their second performance. Amaro made a wise choice when she chose the exhilarating Houston track.
Amaro's strong, beautiful vocals gave us goosebumps as she showed off the pipes that she was gifted with during her version of 'When You Believe.' Paula Abdul summed up Amaro's second performance as she said, "It's when I close my eyes … I can hear Whitney and I can hear Mariah. I can hear those greats … Less is more totally works for you. It was [a beautiful performance]." Simon Cowell added a more-than-interesting tidbit when he said, "Actually, a very good friend of mine is in the audience tonight. The man who signed Whitney, Clive Davis." How's that for some added pressure, Mel?
Do you think Melanie Amaro has secured herself a spot in the semi-finals? We'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out! In the meantime, let us know if you are rooting for Amaro by leaving a comment below.
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German King and Roman Emperor, son of Henry VI and Constance of Sicily; born 26 Dec., 1194; died at Fiorentina, in Apulia, 13 Dec., 1250.
He adopted his father's policy of making Italy the centre of his power, and was interested in Germany only because it guaranteed to him his title to Upper and Central Italy. On the other hand, he could not arrest the dissolution of the empire hastened by the failure of his predecessor Otto IV. The possessions of the empire and those of his own Hohenstaufen family, by means of which Frederick I had sought to build up his power, were plundered. Frederick's sole desire was for peace in Germany, even if to secure this he had to make the greatest sacrifices; and for this reason, he granted to the ecclesiastical and temporal lords a series of privileges, which subsequently developed into the independent sovereignty of these princes. This emperor's policy was entirely dominated by the idea that without Sicily the possession of Italy would always be insecure, and that a king of Italy could not maintain himself without being at the same time emperor. This policy was naturally antagonistic to the papacy. The popes, isolated as they were in Central Italy, felt themselves compelled to prevent the union of Southern Italy with the empire. Frederick recognized this fact, and for several years strove to maintain peace by extreme concessions. Innocent III had chosen Frederick to be his instrument for the destruction of the Guelph, Otto IV. In return for Innocent's support, Frederick had been obliged to make promises to the pope at Eger (12 July, 1215), which would put an end to the undue influence of the civil power over the German bishops. The emancipation of the Church from the royal power dates from this time. The cause of Frederick's concessions to the Church lay not in his religious convictions but in his political aims.
Frederick had also been obliged to acknowledge the pope as his overlord in Sicily, thus abandoning his father's cherished hopes of uniting Sicily with the imperial crown of Germany, though the attempts of the pope to entirely nullify this "personal union" were far from successful. Italian affairs continued to be the hinge on which turned the papal policy towards the emperor, for the popes in their efforts to sustain their traditional supremacy could not allow the emperor a controlling influence in Italy. The conflict between the two powers strangely influenced the Crusades. Frederick had been forced to pledge himself to take part in a new crusade, for which inadequate preparations had been made by the pope, and the Council of Lateran (1215) fixed 1 June, 1216, as the time for beginning the crusade.
The condition of Germany, however, did not permit the absence of the emperor. At Frankfort in April, 1220, the Germany diet passed regulations concerning the Roman expedition and the crusade. After Frederick's young son Henry had been chosen king, and Engelbert, the powerful Archbishop of Cologne, named vice-regent, Frederick set out for Italy. He was crowned emperor at Rome (22 Nov., 1220), and renewed his vow to take the cross, promising to begin the campaign in the following year. By a severe edict against heretics, he placed the secular power at the service of the Church, and thus appeared to have arrived at a complete understanding with the pope. Even when he failed to keep his promise to start the crusade in the following year, the friendly relations of pope and emperor remained unaltered. For this the peace-loving pope deserved the chief credit, though Frederick also strove to avoid a breach by his loyal policy towards the Holy See. Both Pope and emperor, however, saw that this peace was maintained only by skilful diplomacy, and that it was constantly imperilled by their conflicting interests.
Frederick at this time was chiefly solicitous about Sicily, towards which he was drawn by his Norman parentage on the mother's side, while the character of his own German people did not attract his sympathies. He had grown up in Sicily where Norman, Greek, and Mohammedan civilization had intermingled, at once strengthening and repelling one another. The king, endowed with great natural ability, had acquired a wonderful fund of learning which made him appear a prodigy to his contemporaries, but, although he was intimately acquainted with the greatest productions of eastern and western genius, his soaring spirit never lost itself in romantic dreams. He eagerly studied both the more and the less important interests of the political and economical life of Southern Italy. The funding of the University of Naples sufficiently attests his interest in education. He was an intelligent admirer of the beauties of nature, his love for which was intensified by his natural powers of observation. The unlimited resources of the physical world and its constantly multiplying problems increased the inclination of this sceptical spirit towards a thorough empiricism. In none of his contemporaries does intellectual subjectivism show itself so strongly and at the same time so one-sidedly. This desire to penetrate into the secrets of the universe, as well as his scandalous sensual indulgence, brought on Frederick the reputation of an atheist. In spite, however, of his sceptical tendencies, he was not an atheist. An epigrammatic utterance about "the three impostors, Moses, Christ and Mohammed" has been unjustly ascribed to him in later times, and he remained true to the Church. Perhaps his rationalistic mind took pleasure in the strictly logical character of Catholic dogma. He was not, however, a champion of rationalism, nor had he any sympathy with the mystico-heretical movements of the time; in fact he joined in suppressing them. It was not the Church of the Middle Ages that he antagonized, but its representatives. It is in his conflict with the pope that his colossal character becomes manifest. At the same time, it becomes apparent how he combined force and ability with cunning and the spirit of revenge. His most prominent characteristic was his self-conceit. In Germany this megalomania was kept in check, but not so in Sicily. Here he could build up a modern state, the foundation of which it is true had already been laid by the great Norman kings.
The organization of his Sicilian hereditary states was completed by the "Constitutiones imperiales", published at Amalfi, 1231. In these laws Frederick appears as sole possessor of every right and privilege, an absolute monarch, or rather an enlightened despot standing at the head of a well-ordered civil hierarchy. His subjects in this system had duties only, but they were well defined. After practically completing the reorganization of Sicily (1235), the emperor attempted, like his powerful grandfather, to re-establish the imperial power in Upper Italy, but with insufficient resources. The result was a new hostile league of the Italian cities. Through the mediation of the pope, however, peace was maintained. During this time Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne, supported by several princes of the empire who had been efficiently assisted by the royal power in their struggle with the cities, preserved the peace in Germany. After the archbishop's death, however, a new order set in—a time of savage feuds and widespread disorder followed by the first open quarrel between the papacy and the emperor. Frederick had completed extensive preparations for a crusade in 1227. Four years previously, he had espoused Isabella (or Iolanthe), heiress of Jerusalem, and now styled himself "Romanorum imperator semper Augustus; Jerusalem et Siciliæ rex". It was his serious intention to carry out his promise to begin his crusade in August, 1227 (under pain of excommunication), but a malignant fever destroyed a great part of his army and prostrated the king himself. Nevertheless Gregory IX declared Frederick excommunicated (29 Sept., 1227), showing by this step that he considered the time had come to break the illusive peace and to clear up the situation.
Although the radical antagonism between empire and papacy did not appear on the surface, it was at the root of the ensuing conflict between Church and State. At the beginning of this struggle the excommunicated emperor started on his crusade against the express wish of the pope, wishing no doubt to justify his attitude by success. On 17 March, 1229, he crowned himself King of Jerusalem. On 10 June, 1229, he landed at Brindisi on his return. During the emperor's absence the curia had taken vigorous measures against him. Frederick's energetic action after his return forced the pope to recognize the emperor's success in the East and to release him from excommunication. The treaty of San Germano (20 July, 1230), in spite of many concessions made by the Emperor, was in reality an evidence of papal defeat. The pope had been unable to break the power of his dangerous adversary. Frederick forthwith resumed his North Italian policy. Again his attempts were frustrated, on this occasion by the threatening attitude of his son Henry, who now appeared as independent ruler of Germany, thereby becoming his father's enemy and unfurling the banner of rebellion (1234). After a long absence, Frederick now returned to Germany, where he took prisoner his rebel son (1235). Henry died in 1242.
About this time Frederick married Elizabeth of England (at Worms), and in 1235 held a brilliant diet at Mainz, where he promulgated the famous Laws of the Empire, a landmark in the development of the empire and its constitutions. New measures for the maintenance of peace were enacted, the right of private feuds was greatly restricted, and an imperial court with its own seal was constituted, thereby establishing a base for the future national law. As soon as the emperor had established order in Germany, he again marched against the Lombards, which conflict soon brought on another with the pope. The latter had several times mediated between the Lombards and the emperor, and now reasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending parties. In the numerous manifestos of the pope and the emperor the antagonism of Church and State becomes daily more evident. The pope claimed for himself the "imperium animarum" and the "principatus rerum et corporum in universo mundo". The emperor on the other hand wished to restore the "imperium mundi"; Rome was again to be the capital of the world and Frederick was to become the real emperor of the Romans. He published an energetic manifesto protesting against the world-empire of the pope. The emperor's successes, especially his victory over the Lombards at the battle of Cortenuova (1237), only embittered the opposition between Church and State. The pope, who had allied himself with Venice, again excommunicated the "self-confessed heretic", the "blasphemous beast of the Apocalypse" (20 March, 1239). Frederick now attempted to conquer the rest of Italy, i.e. the papal states. His son Enrico captured in a sea-fight all the prelates who by the command of Gregory were coming from Genoa to Rome to assist at a general council. Gregory's position was now desperate, and, after his death (22 Aug., 1241), the Holy See remained vacant for almost two years save for the short reign of Celestine IV.
During this interval the bitterness existing between the rival parties seemed to moderate somewhat, and about this time the emperor was threatened by a new and dangerous movement in Germany. The German episcopate could ill bear the prospect of being henceforth at the mercy of the reckless tyrant of Italy. Frederick sought to weaken the hostile bishops by favouring the secular princes and granting privileges to the cities. The energetic Innocent IV ascended the papal throne on 25 June, 1243. To secure peace with the newly elected pontiff, the emperor was inclined to make concessions. The main issue at stake however was not settled, i.e., the jurisdiction of the emperor in North Italy. In order to nullify Frederick's military superiority in the future phases of the struggle, Innocent left Rome secretly and went by way of Genoa to Lyons. Here he summoned a general council (21 June, 1245) by which Frederick was again excommunicated. Immediately there appeared several pretenders in Germany, i.e., Henry Raspe of Thuringia and William of Holland. It was only with the greatest difficulty that Frederick's son Conrad could hold his own in Germany, since the greater part of the clergy supported the pope. Most of the lay lords, however, remained faithful to the emperor and exhibited an attitude of hostility to the clergy. A contemporary writer describes as follows the situation in 1246: "Injustice reigned supreme. The people were without leaders and Rome was troubled. Clerical dignity was lost sight of and the laity were split into various factions. Some were loyal to the Church and took the cross, others adhered to Frederick and became the enemies of God's religion."
For some time fortune alternately smiled and frowned on Frederick in Italy, but after completing all his preparations for a decisive battle, he died at Florentina in Apulia, and was buried at Palermo. In German legend he continued to live as the emperor fated to return and reform both Church and State. In more recent times, however, he has had to yield his place in popular legend to Frederick Barbarossa, a figure more in harmony with German sentiment.
SCHIRRMACHER, Kaiser Friedrich II. (Göttingen, 1859-65); HUILLARD-BRÉHOLLES, Historia diplomatica Frederici secundi (Paris, 1852); FREEMAN, Historical Essays (London, 1886); WINKELMANN, Reichsannalen, Kaiser Friedrich II., 1218-1225; 1228-1233 (Leipzig, 1889); ZELLER, L'emperor Fred. II. et la chute de l'empire germanique du moyen âge, Conrad IV et Conradin (1885); HAMPE, Kaiser Friedrich II, in Historische Zeitschrift, LXXXIII. Among the Catholic writers see BALAN, Storia di Gregorio IX e suoi tempi (Modena, 1872-73); FELTEN, Papst Gregor IX. (Freiburg, 1886); HERGENRÖTHER-KIRSCH, Kirchengeschichte, 4th ed. (Freiburg, 1904).
APA citation. (1909). Frederick II. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06255a.htm
MLA citation. "Frederick II." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06255a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by WGKofron. In memory of Fr. John Hilkert, Akron, Ohio Fidelis servus et prudens, quem constituit Dominus super familiam suam.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. September 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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If there's anything that could make me forgive the general dorkiness of Comcast's "Xfinity" rebranding, it's this incredibly awesome demo of a prototype web app for controlling Xfinity cable and On Demand. Guys, release this and we'll call it even.
Flicking through an interactive channel guide without taking up precious TV real estate? That's cool. But the real game changer here is liberating On Demand content from the hierarchical text-based misery of most current systems. Instead of using your current remote's dumb, unresponsive rubber buttons to drill down through Premium Content > HBO > HBO Series > Treme; finding that they haven't updated the folder with the latest episode; and starting the whole maddening process over again, you could sift through all those shows and movies with full cover art, while still watching something else on your TV all the while.
Not to mention the ability to search across all of On Demand's expansive offerings. Xfinity CEO Brian Roberts says it himself: an external keyboard like the iPad's is the "missing link" for taking the cable TV experience to the next level. Future anthropologists will look back and pinpoint this web app as the tool that transformed us from TV-watching monkeys into enlightened TV consumers (just without that whole erectus bit?)
Roberts demoed the prototype app on an iPad, though since it's a web app it'll work on laptops and smartphones too, and social features like chat and the ability to invite friends to watch what you're watching on their TVs only sweeten the deal. You've done well, Xfinity. Now let us play with it. [Xfinity]


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Israel widened its air assault against the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers on Saturday, hitting a mosque, Hamas-affiliated charities and an Islamic home for the disabled, as Palestinians said the death toll from the five-day offensive rose to 135.
While Israel vowed to press forward with its five-day-old campaign, it found itself facing growing international calls to stop. In New York, the UN security council unanimously called for a ceasefire, while Britain's foreign minister, William Hague, said he would be discussing ceasefire efforts with his American, French and German counterparts on Sunday.
The 15-member security council issued a press statement calling for a de-escalation, restoration of calm and a resumption of the Middle East peace talks. The press statement, which is not legally binding but reflects international opinion, was the first response by the UN's most powerful body.
An Israeli official said the goal of the operation is to restore quiet to Israel for a continuous period. "This goal will be achieved whether it is done militarily or diplomatically. Israel will consider any suggestion that will bring the accomplishment of this goal," the official said.
The military said it has struck more than 1,100 targets, including Hamas rocket launchers, command centres and weapon manufacturing and storage facilities, in a bid to stop relentless rocket fire coming Gaza. Officials in the territory said that two women were killed in the attack on the disabled centre.
The central Gaza mosque was being used to conceal rockets like those militants have fired nearly 700 times toward Israel over the past five days, the military said. However, the strikes in the densely populated Gaza Strip show the challenge Israel faces as it considers a ground operation that could potentially pose further dangers to civilians.
Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra said Israeli strikes raised the death toll there to 135, with more than 920 wounded. Among the dead was a nephew of Ismail Haniyeh, a top Hamas leader, who was killed in an airstrike near his home, Hamas officials said.
Hamas militants have been hit hard. Though the exact breakdown of casualties remains unclear, dozens of the dead also have been civilians. Israel has also demolished dozens of homes it says are used by Hamas for military purposes.
"Am I a terrorist? Do I make rockets and artillery?" screamed Umm Omar, a woman in the southern town of Rafah whose home was destroyed in an airstrike. It was not immediately known why the building was targeted.
The offensive showed no signs of slowing down Saturday as Israeli defence minister. Moshe Yaalon, said his country should ready itself for several more days of fighting.
"We have accumulated achievements as far as the price Hamas is paying and we are continuing to destroy significant targets of it and other terror organisations," Yaalon said after a meeting with top security officials. "We will continue to punish it until quiet and security returns to southern Israel and the rest of the country."
Hamas said it hoped the mosque attack would galvanise support for it in the Muslim world.
"(It) shows how barbaric this enemy is and how much it is hostile to Islam," said Husam Badran, a Hamas spokesman in Doha, Qatar. "This terrorism gives us the right to broaden our response to deter this occupier."
The Israeli military released an aerial photo of the mosque it hit, saying Hamas hid rockets in it right next to another religious site and civilian homes. It said Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Gaza militant groups use religious sites to conceal weapons and establish underground tunnel networks, deliberately endangering civilians.
Critics say such allegations are too sweeping, and that Israel's heavy bombardment of one of the densely populated territories is itself the main factor putting civilians at risk.
Sarit Michaeli of the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said that while using human shields violates international humanitarian law, "this does not give Israel the excuse to violate international humanitarian law as well."
Israel issues early warnings before attacking many Gaza targets and the military says it uses other means to do its utmost to avoid harming bystanders. But Michaeli said civilians have been killed when Israel bombed family homes of Hamas militants or when residents were unable to leave their homes quickly enough following the Israeli warnings.
The "Iron Dome," a US-funded, Israel-developed rocket defence system, has intercepted more than 130 incoming rockets, preventing any Israeli fatalities so far. A handful of Israelis have been wounded by rockets that slipped through.
Militant rockets have reached further into Israel than ever before, with air raid sirens sounding even in the northern city of Haifa, 100 miles (160 kilometers) away.
In London, Hague said he had spoken to his Israeli counterpart and called for an "immediate de-escalation" and expressed his "deep concern" about civilian casualties.
He called for "urgent, concerted international action to secure a ceasefire" and said he would discuss that goal with his American, French and German counterparts in Vienna on Sunday.
The Arab League said foreign ministers from member states will hold an emergency meeting in Cairo on Monday evening to discuss the continued Israeli offensive and measures to urge the international community to pressure Israel.
Egypt, which historically has served as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, appears less eager to help out this time. Hamas was particularly close to the Muslim Brotherhood, who the current leadership banned after driving it from power last year.
Still, it has tried to show support for Palestinians by opening its crossing with Gaza, allowing deliveries of food and medical supplies and evacuation of some wounded.


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We are not working just on code and gameplay improvements (and the map DLC), the core game will also get very cool new content. Iveco Stralis Hi-Way is among the first major additions, but there is even more to come...
Thursday, March 21, 2013
The third pillar
We are not working just on code and gameplay improvements (and the map DLC), the core game will also get very cool new content. Iveco Stralis Hi-Way is among the first major additions, but there is even more to come...
235 comments:
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2013 at 11:57 PM
Nice job!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 12:14 AM
bus mod for ets 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1I6_FrcjGIDelete
Only just found this and 50% off on Steam so bought it and having great fun, would like to see a drawbar unit (got the licence but never driven one) like these Dutch flower companies zoom around the uk in.Delete
Not managed to make much money and sacked my two useless drivers... and flogged the trucks to pay back the bank loan but only been playing for three days
- AnonymousMarch 28, 2013 at 5:54 PM
Yep! But can you put in some oldschool trucks to? Like the Scania Vabis L76 och Volvo Titan etc?Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:02 AM
Awesome as usual, keep the good work guys, euro truck 2 is just amazing!ReplyDelete
- Josh ThomsonMarch 22, 2013 at 12:04 AM
That looks incredibleReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:07 AM
Very nice SCS, very nice! Currently using the 'standard' Stralis as my preferred truck model for my company fleet but may have to change that to the Hi-Way once the patch is out, such a beautiful truck!ReplyDelete
Can't wait and any chance of a release date/period for the Eastern Euro DLC?
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:08 AM
Good lord that thing is ugly... Not Renault Magnum ugly but still...ReplyDelete
Anyway, nice moddeling though.
And stunning graphics, is that due to some patching or something? I got my graphics on high and it doesn't even come close to this.
Oh and I am not sure if I fully understood this, will this be in the next patch or will it be paid DLC? (I hate paid DLC, but I wouldn't even mind to pay for it, not too much though, but not more than €5. :-) )Replies
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:35 AM
and you my frend are uglier than magnum :)Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 9:36 AM
Ugh, uglier than Magnum? :-o Thanks a lot, I will not get to sleep tonight...Delete
- AnonymousMarch 29, 2013 at 9:46 PM
Well... I thought there was nothing in the known universe that is uglier than a Renault Magnum.Delete
Until I saw what the Frenchies made to replace the current generation of Magnum; the new Magnum.
And I thought it couldn't get uglier...
- AnonymousMarch 31, 2013 at 12:35 AM
I hope in your next patch you annouce it on steam. 1.3.1 currently has a jitter bug with the higher end of things, are you going to put in roads that change ?. And WE NEED more country's to drive around on. please ????..Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:08 AM
Hello SCS. Can you optimize game for Nvidia Optimus users?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:22 AM
Front bumper is wrong...simply with you SCS every truck need to have something that isn't right...ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:40 AM
Model it yourself then miserable c*nt.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:48 AM
I don't understand what's wrong..Delete
There is nothing wrong whatsoever. Please, explain why you feel it's not right instead of making a statement with no evidence.Delete
Only thing not there is the license plate.
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2013 at 8:18 PM
I thought that sort of twattery was reserved for the rivet counters on Train Simulator forums...Delete
- AnonymousMarch 29, 2013 at 10:18 PM
You're filling up my screen with crap. That's two lines of extra space I'll never get back. I prefer to see stuff other than shit on my desktop.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:27 AM
Model is bad.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:32 AM
I hope you improve AI, it tends to seriously break immersion at intersections and merging lanes, invariably slow backroads traffic sucks too.
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:37 AM
...and please add the "Double"-function for other Trailers.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 9:13 AM
yep, i want that too. just a tandem trailer behind the semitrailer and up to 40t carrying weight (or standard weight x1,6), i don't even expect a BDF/Dolly/semitrailer-combination.Delete
i bought the game because i expected the Eurocombis to be in the game... to all those wo are saying they are unrealistic, 1. they are widely tested/used not only in scandinavia, but in the netherlands, germany, france, denmark and i believe in belgium too; 2. there are far more unrealistic things ingame.
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2013 at 11:38 PM
It sure is stunning looking set of wheels. But Like mentioned, for DLC I wait something more new experiences. Driving just a around new car won't feel new for long period.Delete
So please address some main issues like AI traffic and European module trucks would bring some nice challenge for veteran drivers.
And how about north European map, I hope that DLC maps are not resided just by sales of that region??
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:41 AM
sssiiiccckkk cant waitReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:42 AM
Very nice job!ReplyDelete
But as said before, the AI does need a little tweaking, especially on merging lanes as said before, and also in the roundabouts, the incoming traffic should stop and give preference to the traffic that's already in the roundabout, but cars just enter right in front of me, occasionally causing a collision. Some of the traffic could also act randomly more aggressive, like not stopping for yellow lights, or driving just at the speed limit or even above it (they usually go at 40-45kmph when the limit is 50, for example).
Last but not least, it would be interesting if we had a system where we could punish our hired drivers if they can't find a job many times consecutively, or do anything wrong in general.
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:44 AM
So lets see. The new Iveco is here. Next; new Volvo, new Actros, new Daf, new Magnum (still to come) and new Scania Streamline (unveiled today)?ReplyDelete
Still some work to do haha
nice trucks and great graphicsReplyDelete
Please make the LED daytimelight working in the headlights!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:48 AM
Please Mercedes-Benz antos, Actros MP4 and a new Volvo FH ))ReplyDeleteReplies
Yea! The new FH.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 1:02 AM
And the new Man TGXDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 6:50 AM
And new Daf XFDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 8:30 AM
New XF for ETS 2 ? Here , convert by me ( D o m i n i k )Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 3:48 PM
Forget what the folks ahead of me said. Please add some historical trucks for us old drivers :)Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 5:01 PM
Something like Liaz Turbo :) http://www.motorstown.com/images/liaz-turbo-02.jpgDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 6:10 PM
You mean the F** series (Volvo) like F12 1984,right?Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 1:10 AM
Need more pedestrians.... Real people not ghosts reliving their deaths every time using the crossing when cars pass through them.... Oh yeah don't like iveco either.. because of the pink button near steering wheel.. drive a magnumReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah more pedestrians lots of them. They should jump with the sounding of the massive horns!Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 3:49 PM
Yeah, more pedestrians!! And add optional crosshairs to the HUD !!!Delete
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2013 at 10:58 PM
If they added more pedestrians you guys would complain that the game is lagging even more because the more pedestrians thats added it means more work for your CPU (I dont mean your entire computer just the CPU)Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 1:11 AM
Need more pedestrians.... Real people not ghosts reliving their deaths every time using the crossing when cars pass through them.... Oh yeah don't like iveco either.. because of the pink button near steering wheel.. drive a magnumReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 1:20 AM
A short wishlist:ReplyDelete
1.) Activate "special jobs" featuring
2.) Increase unloading points in companys.
3.) More variety of prefabs
- two lanes turning, one straight
- Y-junction for highways
- 4-way junctions for one- and twolanes roads
- small roundabouts
I love this game! :)
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 1:25 AM
Nice work and thanks for the news SCS :)ReplyDelete
beautiful, and please give us a little more about the ATS, hey and i'm still waiting to see the new DAF, VOLVO and SCANIA, keep it up guys, you're doing great!ReplyDelete
Liking this very much, I shall have to mention this on my next Youtube video :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 2:07 AM
another American truck game please no more ETS2 ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:12 PM
America is boring. If you want news about ATS why you post comment in news about ETS?Delete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 8:35 PM
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 2:12 AM
Not a big Iveco fan but that is a great looking truck. Keep up the good work.ReplyDelete
Nossa ....lindãoReplyDelete
Wow, this looks great SCS! I am, as a result of this post, really looking forward to Spring!ReplyDelete
How about some strobe lights as an add on to the assesories! Would surely look sediment during dusk and dawn!ReplyDelete
WOW iveco looks awesome ;)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 3:09 AM
I sometimes drive a stralis irl. Well, they suck. It's all plain old hollow plastic, very low quality interior, and frequent breakdowns. They also guzzle oil like a 8-9 year old truck. Not very comfortable aswell.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 4:36 AM
Next don't forget with DAF XF 105 OK! :DReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 6:48 AM
ETS-2 BEST GAME NO ONE CAN COMPETE. PLEASE DON'T STOP updating newer versions we are waiting.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 7:15 AM
Eurotrucksimulator 2 is the best Simulator ever!ReplyDelete
Hope for the new map dlc is big. Please dont stop the work.
And show next time time screens from the new coming map dlc.
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 9:03 AM
Wow Nice Model and nice job ;)ReplyDelete
praise the lord!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 8:55 PM
I always thought truckers are on a Highway to hell...Delete
lol, why would u think that !Delete
yeyyy new truck, i hope you bring the new volvo, daf and "majestic" too, I never like the mods for those trucks since no one got around to making the interior for them. Also could you add police in some way or another? I always seemed odd to me, that you get caught by the grace of god for infractions. I'm not saying police chases, that would be silly, if amusing, in an articulated lorry. Just so the police will stop you for speeding, not having your lights on, and all the other such stuff, and if you refuse to stop it just makes matters worse.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 8:34 PM
I agree. Older truck simulators like ETS 1 and GTS had almost random crime detection system (I don't speak English good enough to use correct words). ETS 2 had speed cameras and often looks like other drivers report about me to police. Please replace last feature with police, that measures speed and maybe, closes roads for raid (massive traffic stops series across specific area to detect something (speeders, tired truckers, etc.)).Delete
Police should be also moving, like part of AI traffic.
Another recommendation: if you make patch, that adds/replaces some kind of part of map, then add that to changes log (example: Recolored building in Northern Berlin, roadworks between Wien and Linz).
Little Hi and thanks from french community, here we are more and more to be found of this game !!ReplyDelete
On our forum, there has been proposed some nice ideas like some autogen variations on docks, it is too often you arrive at exactly the same "place" that you started off, visually...
We are also SOOO MUCH hoping to have P2P online gaming with our friends !! I for my part await for the ability to embodies one of the driver from a friend's society, or do some dual-drivers missions : one in the truck with the "exceptionnal convoy" and the other with the signalling car,or other such scenarii :)
We also very much agree ont the need to enhance AI for bots, continuity would be nice in their behavior so that they are not so hard on brakes when there is nothing in front of them (like when some overtake...)
Last but not least, it would be cool to make like Bethesda with 3rd-party modding : make some votes somewhere to ask about some addon integration !!! TSMap and some other modding packs are just awesome...
Once again great job, even if this is one of the more demanding sim to my PC (??) ;-P
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 10:09 AM
please purchase trailers and low cabReplyDelete
Please make original MAN- SOundmod!!ReplyDelete
Oh I forgot : PLEASE make the GPS more pertinent !!!! It's still impossible to use it seriously !! Like if I have a LOT of time for a mission I want to be able to choose my route, I need to know the distance ON THE MAP too ! The actualisation is sometimes very odd too...ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 8:41 PM
I agree with part I understood.Delete
GPS estimate time arrival depends on 60 km/h moving speed. You should make GPS to calculate ETA according to current speed and road types.
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 9:19 AM
second that! just like google maps, simply pull the planned route towards the route you want to drive. or select waypoints (like the fuel station in luxemburg).Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 10:21 AM
Gimme gimme that Iveco! :)ReplyDelete
- Swedish Timber Truck DriverMarch 22, 2013 at 11:15 AM
SCS! Where is the new Volvo FH! As you have got the licens for the Volvo Trucks now, its time to implant the New FH! Thanks For a good game! Greetings From Sweden!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 11:22 AM
You guys are awesome! Will the next patch include Linux support?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 11:22 AM
ETS2 is easily programmed shit.ReplyDelete
Hardware utilization but it stutters.
SCS will never understand what is important.
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 11:29 AM
no hardware utilization but it jerky.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 11:49 AM
Im waiting for DLC packs for rest of the Europe :PReplyDelete
ouu yeah this is beautiful.... i like this :)ReplyDelete
Looks amazing , but it would be great if you add also the Mercede MP4 , the new Scania and also the VolvoReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:13 PM
France, Spain and Portugal, Please...ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 2:25 PM
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 6:24 AM
Scandinavia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and FinlandDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Looks Awesome..... Containers being lifed of trailers would be cool at docks also driving onto ferrys at all ports instead of just dover........ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:22 PM
SCS,going to be a version of the middle-class truck STRALIS HI ROADReplyDelete
which is also a good truck and higher class
whether will be STRALIS HI ROAD
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:24 PM
But what about the damn Mercedes license and the new Actros?
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Oh Yeah, and United Kingdom Motorway junctions as they should be not like the ones in Europe...ReplyDelete
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nice trucks, good jobReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 1:49 PM
Oh wow, looks gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Keep it up guys! ETS2 is awesome and I'm awaiting the weekend to have some time to play it.
So good to hear ETS2 news. I appreciate you're busy SCS but ETS2 news is always good news xDReplyDelete
Look forward to Spring !!
Wipers look bad :(ReplyDelete
It looks cool! Keep up the good work :)ReplyDelete
i like this truck, but we want to see the interior!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 4:22 PM
Nice work, but please reedit the back of the cab and mirrors of the stralisReplyDelete
Waiting for the update.......... :)
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 4:44 PM
testing testingReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 5:19 PM
when i'm going to see the new trucks for ETS 2 spring 2013 or spring 2200. Thanks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 5:56 PM
hey SCSSOFT, the peterbilt 587 and the stralis hi-way do this for all the ets2 gamers:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 6:01 PM
SCS GOT CRAZYReplyDelete
So many info in a row! So many great news!
Unfortunately, we don´t know how much time we have to wait untill we can grab it...
At least, we know they are working hard.
That american truck is great. Should create a truck dealer in ETS2 for that one :)Replies
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 6:28 PM
If you have read the post properly, you'd know SCS is working on an American truck simulator, not just a Peterbilt. And you'd know that the Pete WON'T show up in ETS2. Literally copied from what SCS said:Delete
''This truck tractor is not going to appear in Euro Truck Simulator 2 though, it is created with the plan to use it in a different game ;-).''
LOL you got a bit distracted of the image I'm sure lol :D Hope you got it now mate :) No hard feelings!
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM
lol, i was not distracted mate, i was just dreaming :)Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 6:11 PM
Well,the Iveco Hi-Way is fucking awesome,now,just waiting for New FH and New ActrosReplyDelete
- Ares_60March 22, 2013 at 6:16 PM
very good thank
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 6:48 PM
SCS please make new trailers, harvester on lowbed etc. and remake cisternsReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 5:48 AM
Yes, there is, it's a mod at this link:Delete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 5:49 AM
Did you mean:Delete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 7:29 PM
After going through all the comments, it made me laugh how demanding we can be when something we desire can be seen as achievable. #SCS Team, our desperation in wanting all these above mentioned models simply outlines the quality of work you guys produce.ReplyDelete
I applaud your commitment to perfection and its ok if we are kept waiting a tad longer, as these beauties and some core game developments would only enhance our driving pleasure.
The Iveco looks magmatic and a heart deep appreciation to you guys for keeping your fans and followers updated with news and gifts to arrive shortly :D
An ardent follower from India :D
Yes! you have reached our shores. :P
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 7:40 PM
And also add new buses with new interior and taking cargo too!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2013 at 10:05 PM
Euro Truck Simulator 2 £12.49 (half price) on Steam (PC)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 7:22 AM
Fine and now pay for DLC then 15-20 euro. heh heh. Somehow get to keep the difference. HEH HEEDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 12:09 PM
it's actually valve's discount. scs will get all the money.Delete
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Very good job SCS SoftReplyDelete
Look at this vídeo!!:
SCS I have a question.Could you make please that new volvo fh 2013?Thanks for answer.ReplyDelete
SCS good work!ReplyDelete
I do not know if you read this message, I hope :-)
I have a question: When will you right the real challenges on the road?
As scania truck driving simulator dangerous driving
For it is always the same on the highway ...
Careers are perfect in ets 2! :-)
Have really sawmill in the forest, farms difficult to access because of road tractor or machinery and make the access to the ferry much more complicated :-)
Examples: ;-)
thank youReplies
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 3:05 PM
indeed, thats a good idea.. +1 to thatDelete
after driving 189,664kms and spending total game time of 300days 13 hours & playing time of 240h 55min, me want tougher challenges, possibly driving on dangerous mountain roads, negotiating very tight corners, instances of land slides blocking traffic, etc.,.
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 3:43 PM
That would be a great idea to integrate these suggestions into ETS2, that way it would be much more challenging :-)Delete
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 3:45 PM
totally agree. we should make sure SCS will hear about this, and hopefully do it ;)Delete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Wonderful news!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 2:16 PM
MAGIC WORD OF THE WEEK - Map DLCReplyDelete
some news about the map dlc, please
MAN, volvo, daf, mercedes and Renault goes t-il to have there newReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 8:32 PM
Please, add Belarus, Ukraine and Russia!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 12:31 AM
put repaire centre on the servic stationReplyDelete
lorry wash
more freight lorry
sea port
more depot uk
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 5:18 AM
I hope you are going to make Norway, Sweden and Denmark map???
It would have been Briliant :D
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 8:16 AM
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 11:55 AM
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2013 at 12:00 PM
You're right.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Great work scs cant wait to see the new volvo fh and mercedes actros.It would be very nice to put with the EEE the Balkans too.ReplyDelete
Best wishes for upcoming projects from Serbia.
You guys should make an iOS app! That would be so cool! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 6:19 PM
You have to use half of keyboard when playing SCS games, that app should have totally different and simplified controls... and I believe ETS/ECS type of game would not have success on these devices. I can imagine that something like Extreme Trucker, but this time really extreme, could be interesting game for tablet or PS Vita users.Delete
I heard, they are working on a hardcore-simulation (realistic work of the air brake system, so the air pressure has to be observed often, and depends on the revs, and the brake-use.)ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 29, 2013 at 9:57 PM
I hope they are making a "hardcore version", it's a bit stupid that the trailer "clicks" on the truck if you press T.Delete
Trying to get the truck exactly under the pin would be awesome.
I also hope -just like you already said- that they make it worth it to look at the gauges, just as in 18 wos.
Hardcore mode; I bet a lot of people will hate it and lot of people will love it.
I love the game inside and out but I happen to keep getting the same problem. I want my game in "fullscrean" not "widescrean" where it has the 2 black bars. I have tried all of the resolutions to try and resolve this, But nothing has worked. If this is a bug. please can it be fixed as it is driving me bonkers. Thanks :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2013 at 7:48 AM
next updateReplyDelete
when dlc out
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2013 at 1:20 AM
See, "core fans", how decently you can write critism if you believe there's anything wrong with the game (or with new content presented on pics)? This guy knows something about good manners, learn from him.ReplyDelete
It's not just you. its a standard problem, a lot of people complain about. Thankfully though, their's a lot of mods for the game, including ones to increase the interior volume. Here's a link to one such mod http://www.simgamemod.com/?p=49ReplyDelete
I HOPE we will can buy trailer and Truck like 18 wheels of steel haulin & ALHReplyDelete
you have 2 renault trucks so why not with the other brandsReplyDelete
renault ( magnum / premium )
mercedes ( actros / axor )
volvo ( FH / FM )
scania ( G series / R series )
and one question, by introducing the new models in the game, the old models will be replaced or will they remain in the game?
Here... since everybody record videos I have decided to do something else...ReplyDelete
how did not know to take my saved game after that fateful Patch for me...
I started all over again .. there I had about 97,000 kilometers, now around 15k
True Love Volvo FH16 750 is the name of the story...
This is a story about the career of one truck driver in Euro Truck Simulator 2 ..in screenshots....here we will try to upgrade the truck as many possible combinations with parts for tuning...
NO MODS in game!So no cheating!!!
you can follow the story here
I hope you'll like it....
It would be nice of you to Share ;)Replies
i love itDelete
thanks a lot, I'll try up to the end :)Delete
P.S. its Volvo 700hp not 750hp... sorry :)Delete
- Vesku-KMarch 29, 2013 at 9:21 AM
Sorry Dino! Volvo to make 750 hp engine.Type is D16G750Delete
did you ever sit in truck? these things are made to be quiet inside. no driver wants to listen engine roar all the time ...ReplyDelete
so umm.. is this DLC? do I have buy it or can I just download it like update? :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2013 at 7:27 PM
I've sat in a few trucks when my father used to drive them and it was never as quiet as they are in ETS2. There was road noise and wind noise which is absent from ETS2. The engine sound wasnt any louder than ETS2 but the external sounds were definately louder.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 at 5:21 AM
You should put this game on xbox 360!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 at 4:29 PM
Their games are niche for PCs and Macs. ETS2 has good sales on something which is simulator and we all are happy for SCS, but even these numbers are not astronomical. And would be much, much smaller on XBox or PS. Console players are different league. It does not makes economical sense to port ETS2 on these devices. Maybe another truck game, fast, adrenaline, unrealistic arcade, that could work on consoles. (And nothing against arcades, they are entertaining and they are good business.)Delete
- AnonymousMarch 28, 2013 at 6:03 AM
Aggread.... WE WANT XBOX GAMEPLAY..Delete
Guyz, new countries, new trucks, dual trailers, graphic engine improvements....ReplyDelete
One thing by time! :)
Wind noise is present in ETS2, if you listen closely (maybe with headphones) you will hear much better the engine rumble and the wind (above +- 60km/h).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 at 3:39 PM
I see that is blog page adapted for mobile users, nice .ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 28, 2013 at 7:18 PM
Is there any chance to see new Volvo in ETS2? We have new Scania, new Iveco but still looking forward for Volvo FH, Actros MP4 including new MAN TGX.ReplyDelete
Newly,interior wishing lighting? Scania R toplineReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 29, 2013 at 8:06 AM
eastern european expansion (map dlc) finish for eastern now?ReplyDelete
New Map COOMING SOON FOR ALL !ReplyDelete
Click to next LINK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ZQE92AW0g
- AnonymousMarch 29, 2013 at 3:36 PM
Get out with your promotion. And by the way, SEO is not working bullshit and waste of money. All you need for success is original and interesting content.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 29, 2013 at 11:41 PM
PLEASE new ACTROS!!!!!ReplyDelete
well , we are waiting JUST like the other times...ReplyDelete
why SCS doesn't say anything about this patch,we want to know more!
SCS fans from IRAN.
come and see us,
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2013 at 10:42 PM
They arent saying anything because the last few times tiy guys bitched and cried like children not getting their own way. Its you peoples fault and you have nobody else to blame but yourselves.Delete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2013 at 1:07 AM
+1 Anonymous @10:42Delete
That crying is really annoying. I would love to read some news too, but will I help myself or anybody else or even force SCS to write news with some complaining and crying? No, it will make absolutely opposite effect.
Be patient. Be appreciative. Be mature.
pls solve the bugs with volvo trucks becouse I hit invisible stuff all over the place with them and that blowsReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2013 at 12:44 AM
Hey people come and whatch my video of some of my trucks i dont use mods or cheats....ReplyDelete
seach on blahh1615 on youtube and leave a commet and tell me what u think
See u on the road 10-4 over and out
- AnonymousApril 1, 2013 at 2:25 AM
NEED REPAIRE CENTRE ON THE MOTORWAY SERVICEReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2013 at 10:24 AM
Oh my god!!! Something new please!!! We like your game but it is getting really boring now! Every time I visit this page I see the same things and I am so mad :)ReplyDelete
make for volvo fh 2013've done for Iveco Stralis Hi-WayReplyDelete
way insert and transport of animals such as pigs sheep etc. vagueReplyDelete
- PaulskiApril 1, 2013 at 2:19 PM
To everyone complaining at SCS or the game, I tell you this:ReplyDelete
No game is 100% perfect, but I haven't encountered any game breaking bugs in 1.3.1 yet (haven't played previous versions), wich I can't say about major games like FIFA 13 or F1 2012.
SCS have already released 4 updates, and are still working on more! Companies like EA or Codemasters release maybe 1 or 2 patches for their games, that don't even fix the worst bugs. They have their money, and don't care about the customers anymore. While SCS do keep working at improving their game.
SCS are even giving us a new truck FOR FREE, while other companies would have made it a DLC that you'd have to pay for.
So please people, compare SCS to the major game companies and see that SCS is more passionate about their games, and much more supportive, even though they are a small company.
So SCS, keep up the good work, and I'll definitely buy the Eastern Europe DLC when it comes out, and probably any other map DLC too.
Happy easter to everyone!
- AnonymousApril 1, 2013 at 5:02 PM
The New Stralis Hi-Way Looks BeastReplyDelete
MAKE IT TO MAC APP STORE AS WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!ReplyDelete
What we need is:ReplyDelete
- smoke from exhaust pipes
- water cloud from trucks's wheel when raining
- remove the wrong lane offence
- police patrols on roads
- more selections on gearboxes
- an option to remove the speed limiter
- Some service areas on highways, near gas stations
- more sideroads (please remove those invisible walls with arrows on them, it's just ridiculous - we have Hard drice space - more roads and definetly more small villages with names on the map) and more interactive map (constructions, traffic jams from time to time etc.)
- cargo planner for drivers
- i hate to go back to pttm, but the economy system was perfect: all jobs were accounted for. You really had to plan the routes. Now it's just too easy, always pick the most rewarding cargo, so on boring). Really need another companies too - to get competition - would'nt it be cool!
- make a separate key binding for auxiliary lights on the keyboard
- braking system - the cargo wheels need to block when driving downhill on lighter cargo.
- map expansion to Poland - I miss them tight Polish roads.
- make gas the prices differ
Thats's all for now, i think! Good luck & thanks for the game - a success!
I think they should add supermarkets and have multi drop load for example leave Carlisle then Deliver to Glasgow, Edinburgh,Aberdeen all with the same trailer then take the trailer (empty) back to Carlisle. Also add more realistic loading bays as it's starting to get a boring reversing in the same bay in every town :)ReplyDelete
new patch please!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
When is the new patch out???ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 2, 2013 at 10:21 PM
multi drop off supermarketReplyDelete
repaire centre in service station
when is next update
when dlc out
- AnonymousApril 2, 2013 at 10:26 PM
SCS hello, it's April, give us some news please.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 3, 2013 at 12:29 AM
more trailer for supermarkReplyDelete
petrol station town
deliver airport and seaport
cab light in lorry
- AnonymousApril 3, 2013 at 10:58 AM
The new patch not before SPRING 2200 or after we die or they are waiting us to die. Thanks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 3, 2013 at 11:10 AM
Hii SCS,ReplyDelete
I am from India........Love all ur games...Pls make indian truck game also
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Field review: Canon EOS 6D, NA-6D housing and Zen DP-100 port
To begin this review, I have a confession. It is simple: I am a Nikon shooter. This is not due to any assumed superiority of the brand's products but simply a historical quirk that has meant that I invested in Nikon first. I am currently shooting a Nikon D800 in a Nauticam NA-D800 housing and am continually amazed at how good a camera system it is. So then how might I review a Canon product objectively or thoroughly?
I was fortunate enough to be loaned a Canon EOS 6D in a Nauticam NA-6D housing, with a Canon 8-15mm lens and a Zen 4" dome with a removable shade. I took the whole lot away with me as my only SLR camera on the Wetpixel Ultimate Whale Shark expedition in late July, and must confess that I had some serious misgivings. Trips like this are (for me) events where I want to be happy with my camera's performance and not be fighting with unfamiliar controls, settings and performance. I normally spend a great deal of time getting familiar with my cameras but time and equipment availability constraints meant that the first picture I would take with the rig would be in the water with the whale sharks. If I am honest, I downloaded the instruction manual onto my iPad and read it during the plane journey to Mexico so I would at least be able to control basics like aperture, shutter speed, ISO and autofocus (AF).
I am also always loath to dive a new housing (even with someone else's camera and lens in it!) unless I am sure that it will not leak. I would normally do this by diving the housing without the camera at home prior to setting off on assignment However, the time limitations that I alluded to above meant that this was not a possibility. To cover this I fitted a Backscatter Airlock to the housing's accessory port and relied on using it to show that the housing was holding a vacuum and hence unlikely to be leaking.
Whilst the camera and housing did get a "real world review", being used for 6-7 hours a day in the sea, shooting images of marine life, it was not a comprehensive one. I shot the camera and housing without strobes, and with only one lens. If you are considering this combination, I have no experience of its suitability for macro photography, or for more conventional wide-angle photography.
Canon EOS 6D camera
Canon released the EOS 6D one week after the fanfare that surrounded the release of the Nikon D600. Perhaps due to this, it was not a camera that seems to have attracted much attention. Its specifications are good: It is equipped with a new full-frame 20.2 megapixel sensor and the same DIGIC 5+ image processor as that used on the EOS 5D Mk III and EOS 1D X cameras. The sensor features a native ISO range of 100-25600 and 1080 video at 29.97, 25 and 23.976 fps. It only has 11 focus points and although only the central one is cross-type (can detect vertical and horizontal detail), the AF works at very low light levels with a claimed sensitivity down to -3EV.
The 6D features integrated wi-fi and GPS, although neither are of much use inside a housing or underwater. I found that switching these off significantly extended the battery life, a more important factor considering I only had one battery! The battery is the ubiquitous LP-E6, as used in both 5D models as well the 7D and 60D. It gives a comfortable day's shooting.
Canon users familiar with the EOS 60D will find the control placement on the 6D very similar. It offers the ability to move the autofocus actuation control from the shutter release to the AF-ON button on the camera's rear.
A common feature missing is a built in-flash. Many pro level camera bodies are not equipped with flashes as it is assumed that pro photographers will chose to use external flashes which are more powerful and controllable. In recent years, there has been a strong trend towards using fiber optic strobe triggering via a camera's own flash. The lack of a built in flash forces underwater photographers to either use electronic strobe triggering or some form of flash trigger that can convert the camera's hot shoe signal into a optical one.
The 6D has a comparatively slow maximum frame rate of 4.5 fps. Ordinarily, I would not see this as being too critical for underwater photography, but as I will discuss later, breath hold diving while shooting is perhaps one of the times when it is good to be able to shoot quickly.
Canon list the viewfinder area as 97% (0.71x), identical to that of the 5D Mark III. The Nikon D600/800 is very similar at 0.7x. Viewfinder specifications are notoriously difficult to interpret in lists of camera specifications as there is no universal standard. Suffice to say that the 6D's is large, light and allows for very precise framing. The AF points seem quite clustered in the center of the frame, which gives AF coverage similar to that of the older 5D Mark II.
Perhaps in an attempt to differentiate this camera from its more expensive brethren, it only has a single SD card slot. It produces RAW files at around 20MB, and there are plenty of high capacity cards available, so there is no issue of capacity, but if you are planning to shoot both video and stills, I find the workflow easier if you can record to different cards. I used a 64GB Sandisk Extreme card and found that this gave more than enough capacity for a day's shooting.
For a full synopsis of the camera from a surface photography standpoint, DPReview has published an excellent and comprehensive review.
Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM lens
This lens is perhaps the best reason for Nikon underwater shooters to switch to Canon! It is a truly versatile lens that can be used with both full frame and cropped sensor cameras, is a part of Canon's L series lenses and is robust and quick to focus. On the 6D, it goes from a full circular fisheye at the 8mm end, to a moderately rectilinear one at the 15mm. It is easy to draw comparison to the Tokina AT-X 10-17mm F3.5-4.5 DX. The latter is a DX (cropped sensor) lens which, whilst very useful underwater in terms of its focal length and zoom range, suffers with build and optical quality. My experience is that the Canon lens is optically superior and much better made. It should also be noted in terms of image quality that I used the 8-15mm on a full frame camera, and one would perhaps expect it to be higher.
- Introduction, EOS 6D and EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM lens.
- Nauticam NA-6D housing and Zen DP-100 port.
- In use, conclusions and acknowledgments.


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Tin Can Tools was founded to respond to a need in the marketplace for high performance embedded processors and support boards. We design leading edge products but give you the ability to add features for your specific application.
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1. We design and manufacture our own products. We control the quality and therefore maximize the flexibility and reliability of our products. 2. We design our products with connectors that simplify prototyping, soldering and testing. For example, instead of using high-density surface mount connectors, we intentionally design in headers and connectors with 0.1" lead spacing. This allows our customers to use standard prototyping boards and soldering tools. 3. Our designs are modular so that they are easy to integrate into our customer's products and designs. You have the ability to use a "building block" design approach with our products. You can take the core functionality and add features to make it unique to your needs. 4. We take out the complexity of designing high end products by giving you a simple clean interface. This design approach maximizes the customer's ability to configure our products. 5. Our designs are open. We furnish schematics and source code with each product. 6. 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. If for any reason you are not satisfied with our products, we offer a 30-day money back guarantee.
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17-year-old November Lonergan spent her whole life feeling like an outsider. She was right. She's a reaper like her mother; like her two cousins, Kai and Tristin. The supernatural world believes they are part of a prophecy to save them from an evil known as the Grove. Ember just wants to survive high school and fix the fallout from bringing back her friend.
Old enemies are lurking; waiting for their opportunity to strike but the pack has a new problem. A group of legendary hunters has resurfaced, threatening the reapers and anybody who stands with them. They are making good on their threats too; attacking those closest to the pack.
Their only hope of defeating the Legionaries involves trusting a stranger to perform a dangerous spell to advance Ember and her cousin's powers. But Ember has a secret; a secret she can't tell the pack. One that leaves the pack vulnerable.
An attack on pack allies, leaves one member of the group injured and another missing, along with a mysterious girl named Evangeline who may play a bigger part in this than any of them realize. As the Legionaries are closing in, the pack must trust their enemies, enter hostile territories, and play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a psychopath. Their entire plan lynches on a dangerous bargain, but rescuing one member of the pack could mean losing another in their place…possibly forever.
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Further boosting its presence in the field of product marketing, Adobe is acquiring campaign management software provider Neolane for approximately $600 million in cash.
Based in Paris, privately held Neolane specializes in orchestrating marketing campaigns across multiple channels, including Web, email, social media sites, mobile, call center outreach, direct mail and point-of-sale locations. Its flagship product is called Conversational Marketing Platform.
Neolane, founded in 2001, reports having about 400 corporate customers, including many that also use Adobe products. The customers cover a wide range of industries and include Ikea, EMI Music, Barnes & Noble, DHL International, Wells Fargo Center and others. The company reported $58 million in revenue for 2012.
It's Neolane's cross-channel campaign management capabilities that caught the attention of Adobe, said Brad Rencher, an Adobe senior vice president and general manager of Adobe's digital marketing business, in a statement. These capabilities extend Adobe's own Marketing Cloud portfolio of products and services, joining the existing Analytics, Target, Social, Experience Manager and Media Optimizer lines.
The acquisition is the latest in a series of company purchases Adobe has made in the field of marketing software and services. In 2009, Adobe purchased marketing analytics software provider Omniture for $1.8 billion. In 2010, the company purchased customer interaction specialist Day Software for $240 million.
In this field, Adobe also purchased Demdex and Auditude in 2011 and Efficient Frontier in 2012.
Neolane has about 300 employees and has offices in the U.S. and the Asia-Pacific region as well as in Europe. Its North American headquarters is in Newton, Massachusetts.
The deal is expected to close in July, pending completion of the usual closing conditions.


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It's a little known fact that the earliest night matches were women's games. Amazing how far we've moved in the wrong direction. In 1920 enough people were excited by the idea of watching women play that they packed the terraces. The media thought the match was important enough to cover it in print and as a cinematic news reel. Even if press from this period approached the women's game as a novelty, it broadcast information about teams and events and made celebrities of its amateur players.
Today, fans of the women's game are so sick and tired of having to cajole, beg, whine, yell and snipe about the lack of coverage - we've become bored with the whole situation. When it comes to the media blackout on coverage of women's sports, most of us have just thrown up our hands with a "whatever."
Of course we need the media to support nascent leagues. We need media to pay enough attention to league organization and team management so that those running the women's game are celebrated for their successes and held accountable for their failures. We need coverage of actual matches, week in, week out. It's ludicrous that people in the US have only ever heard of Abby Wambach and Hope Solo - and most who know these names haven't actually watched them play and and they certainly don't follow their club careers.
We need a media from another era - a media that takes an interest in new things, in things that aren't guaranteed successes. We need a media interested in a sport that is professional in the ways that working people are professional. Why not take an interest in a sport that is not making a few people rich, but that is just trying to sustain itself?
What happened to make media interest so synonymous with "profitable" that we can't imagine wanting to watch something unless there is an abstract sum of money in play between a handful of people - none of whom are on the field?
We have one clue in the 1920 ban on the women's game - The English Football Association only killed the women's game when its success in modeling a sustainable game played for the benefit of all began to suggest a different future for the game than the one we've been stuck with. Barbara Jacobs writes:
From their formation until the FA announcement [of the ban against the women's game], Dick, Kerr's Ladies [the most celebrated club] had raised over £60,000 for charity, and the same amount had been raised by all the other women's clubs combined. That's, in a total for the years 1918 to 1921, £120,000, or, in today's reckoning, 24 million pounds. And the FA? I think we can safely call the scoreline 24 million to nil. [Jacobs, The Dick, Kerr's Ladies, p. 164]Jacobs quite reasonably points out that given the identification of women's football with highly successful community support, it was inevitable that working people filling the stands for men's matches would begin to ask where their hard-earned money was going.
The FA's 1920 decision to kill interest in the women's game left us with the "common sense" dished out as an explanation for why the women's game isn't worth watching: "There's no money in it." If working people living in the desolation of post WWI Europe could raise £120,000 from women's matches, then surely the problem has never been money itself, but rather where the money in the women's game went.
People complain all the time that you can't market the women's game as a "charity" - that there is nothing that will kill a sports-buzz quicker than the spirit of "good works." I've felt this myself.
Meanwhile corporate speculation has sucked the soul from the men's game. Who believes that the season championship is something that a team earns? What honor is there in a trophy that's been bought? Or in watching a play-off between two or three teams that have sold their economic souls in order to have the right to be in the running?
Sure, as a spectator I won't turn my back on a big match - but the pleasures of the game feel no more and no less thrilling than the pleasures of a great product, designed for easy consumption. If it feels good, this is because it asks so very little of me.
Most of us actually want more than this. Few of us, however, are old enough to remember what that "more" might actually be. We live with a vague sense that our desire for something different is impractical, unrealizable. "There's no money in that."
And so we turn to history not out of nostalgia but out of curiosity: the past doesn't teach us that "yes, there is money in that." It shows us an entirely different relationship to money. The women's game allowed those with a little to give to those with even less. The team's management and players took only what they needed to keep playing. No one was set to get rich off of it. And this made the fans love the enterprise even more. Imagine!


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Let's say you make a video game that involves driving illegal immigrants across protected borders, a game that's deemed "disgraceful" and in "poor taste" before it's even been released. That game, Smuggle Truck, is then submitted to the iTunes App Store. It is, unsurprisingly, rejected. What do you do? Make Snuggle Truck—swapping the "m" for an "n"—a cuter, cuddlier and less controversial game.
What was once Smuggle Truck, a parody game involving the over-the-top, physics-based, Flash game-style transport of illegal immigrants, has seen its humans replaced with stuffed animals, brightly colored bears, ponies and bunnies. Instead of human beings seeking asylum in another country, the stuffed and oppressed animals of Snuggle Truck want to reach the safety of a zoo.
Owlchemy Labs released Snuggle Truck on the iTunes App Store today for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It's a simple affair: touch the right side of the touchscreen to accelerate, touch the left side to decelerate. Tilt your iOS device to balance the truck for safe landings and shake it to engage power-ups, like a high-speed rocket boost.
As your Snuggle Truck speeds over rocky and pitted terrain, the stuffed animals will bounce to and fro in the bed of your rickety, rusty truck. Tread carefully, avoiding pits, moose and TNT-filled crates, lest you lose your living cargo. And watch out for the Fuzzies that launch onto your path, for if you catch them, you'll receive a bonus.
There are more than 40 levels in Snuggle Truck, each with medal-based challenges that will ensure plenty of replayability as things ramp up from easy to hard to extreme. This is a game where beating your best time and transporting your cargo safely is the goal.
And while Owlchemy modified Smuggle Truck to be more iTunes friendly, less potentially offensive, it also released a Mac and PC version of the game today. That release lets you play both the adorable Snuggle Truck version or the original, ire-raising Smuggle Truck, which sees you transporting humans over dangerous terrain. Smuggle Truck also launches swaddled babies instead of Fuzzies, which might not sit right with some people.
But the PC and Mac release of Smuggle Truck has a unique feature that the snugglier version doesn't. Legal Immigration mode lets you emigrate the official way. It just takes 19 years worth of waiting to "beat."
(The Mac/Windows release also lets you use your iPhone as a wireless remote control, by the way, if tilting your iDevice feels more natural.)
For simple arcade-style fun with a fair amount of challenge and value, Snuggle Truck is a solid little investment, an amusing inside joke that you can while away the minutes with. It's beautifully rendered, with bright, cartoonish graphics that separate it from the graphically simple Flash games to which it might draw comparisons. The iPhone and iPod touch version runs $1.99 USD. Snuggle Truck HD for iPad costs $2.99 USD.
The Smuggle Truck PC and Mac bundle will set you back $4.99 USD. Grab it at SmuggleTruck.com.
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This is a pair of Switch 693mm XF (Extreme Flight Edition) Flybarless Premium Carbon Fiber Rotor Blades. Switch Rotorblades are based on a well proven NACA airfoil which has been subjected to extensive testing and development. The blades employ no gimmicks or tricks; they are high performance rotor blades with the stability and agility required for today's most demanding pilots. They perform exceptionally well for all flight styles including 3D, sport and speed pilots alike, all while being reasonably priced.
Switch Rotorblades are manufactured by Fun-Key Aeroplane Models in Hong Kong, the leading manufacturer of carbon fiber rotor blades for R/C helicopters.
Extreme Flight Series
Unlike the "standard" switch blades, the Extreme Flight series of blades tailors to pilots who require a more aggressive performing blade. In order to increase response and crispness, the weight of the blades have been reduced on average 10 grams per blade, and the CG of the blade moved inward slightly. If you're looking for an ultimate set of blades in regards to response, quickness, and agility, the Extreme Flight versions will suit you well. Due to the loss of weight, auto-rotation performance will suffer slightly, so it is a balance of preference in this category.
Switch Rotorblade sets are specifically matched and go through the most strict quality control guidelines. Easing the minds of their customers, Switch makes safety one of their top priorities. Go ahead and fly them as hard as you like - they will take whatever you can dish out.
The Switch Rotorblade gel coat was designed to flow beautifully with any RC Heli paint scheme while remaing highly visable in the sky.
What the pro's have to say:
"I am very impressed with how responsive Switch Blades are, and how much more "pop" they have, even at lower head speeds! They tracked perfectly right out of the package – just bolt on and fly. I also love the aesthetics: Two-tone carbon weave, with white & metallic silver accents making the rotor disc very visible in flight. Switch blades will most definitely be on all of my helis!"
-Cris Trebbi; Rotor Craft RC Team Pilot
"The #1 blades for every style! Switch blades cater to almost every flying style or aspect of 3D, so they're the best all-around blade in my opinion. And they track fantastically in 3D!"
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Length: 693mm
Width: 60mm
Root: 12mm
Bolt Hole: 5mm
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This product was added to our catalog on May 29, 2015