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Collinson FX market Commentary: March 21, 2013
The Fed extended the QE Infinity Policy with little changed, as employment improves and the economic recovery remains moderate. Inflation remains under control although GDP growth has been reviewed lower. Threats include Global Eco-Political issues (such as Cyprus) and the Fiscal situation domestically. The upshot is that the Fed will continue to print more money and add $85 Billion every month to pump, by default, ever increasing amounts into the Equity markets.
This bubble continues as the once mighty Dollar is slowly being destroyed. Inflation remains controlled, as growth exerts little upward pressure but real import costs rise with the flagging dollar. Downward pressures from labour and capital returns counter the rise in commodity inflation which keeps 'measured' inflation steady. The unprecedented extension of QE will have far reaching longterm effects on growth and inflation. The warning over fiscal rectitude is hard to believe as the QE pumps the same amount of the sequester every month!
Economic progress is slow and it is hard to see the end game as any rise in interest rates will threaten the US and its ability to service the massive debt racked up. The EUR recovered with the news, to 1.2950, as European leaders struggle to alleviate the latest suicide attempt. Cypriot Banks will remain closed until next week while they sort out the mess in an effort to avoid the inevitable run on banks. The problem is avoiding the run spreading to other Southern Med nations. The limitless cheap money must find a home and equities are easy and liquid, providing one of the only sources of reasonable return. Risk confidence remains the only threat to the avalanche of cash.
The NZD pushed north towards 0.8250, but since come off to .8200 as the Dollar remains embattled despite deteriorating Current Account numbers released yesterday. GDP growth will be today's challenge and expectations should remain low. The AUD also felt the effects of the Fed, improving to 1.0360 with Political turmoil internally marginalising any domestic data releases!
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Collinson FX market Commentary: March 20, 2013
The panic emanating from Cyprus is spreading across Europe and the global markets. Cypriot Parliamentarians saw the writing on the wall and hurriedly voted against the hugely unpopular 'Bail-In'. Uncertainty now reigns with no plan B.
They will need to head back to the ECB and IMF and negotiate new terms. The extreme outcomes are a collapse in the local banks and an exit from the EU. This seems unlikely as they have steadfastly avoided this, at great cost, across Southern Europe. The Germans will be compelled to pay, as the consequences of social upheaval or repercussions from upset Russians are far more daunting. The EUR continued to crash dropping below 1.2900 while safety plays were attracted to the USD.
In the US, Equity markets were looking for an excuse for a correction but had hoped it would not be triggered by a full blown EU crises! House Building was up slightly and Building Permits had sustained growth contradicting yesterdays news. Economic news was overshadowed by the pandamonium in Europe and looks likely to continue until a resolution is found. Leadership has been constantly tested in Europe and failed miserably!
The FOMC is meeting and is not expected to change their current dovish monetary policy. The AUD slipped back, with rising risk, to 1.0350 still undergoing their own political insecurity.
The KIWI has been soft of late but holds 0.8220 in the lead up to today's all important trade data. This may not be as bad as expected as it is historical and the worst may be yet to come. All eyes remain on Cyprus and the EU!
Collinson FX market Commentary: March 19, 2013
Markets were spooked as they opened for the week with the Cyprus crises triggering fears across the Euro-Zone. The problem revolves around the EU bailout of Cypriot Banks (which is not unusual!) but the fact that the Government would confiscate depositors funds. ECB had guaranteed depositors and forced bondholders to take the haircut.
This sets a new precedence and the worry is that it could occur in Italy, Spain etc, thus shaking what little confidence citizens have in their banks. This could trigger a run on banks and ultimately lead to another crises which could threaten the Euro-Zone itself. The EUR plunged below 1.2900 as Asian equity markets collapsed by more than 2%. EU Finance Ministers held an emergency meeting and a compromise will be forthcoming. Cooler heads prevailed by the time US markets opened and much of the earlier losses were regained. The EU remains critical and this situation demonstrates the tentative vulnerability of of the single market and the currency.
The impact this has on the global economy cannot be underestimated. In the US, NAHB Home Builder Index fell below expectations adding doubts to the accepted recovery in this sector. The AUD remains mired in political turmoil with many expecting a change in PM this week. The Government lurches from one self imposed disaster to the next and appear to be on the verge of collapse. The AUD may be susceptible to sharp moves as political developments evolve.
The AUD fell to 1.0345 with the Cypriot crises moving flows to the safety of the USD,but has recovered a little to be around 1.0370.The KIWI will be impacted by the turmoil across the Tasman and by EU events, but trades around 0.8230 in the meanwhile!
Collinson FX market Commentary: March 18, 2013
Consumer sentiment brought the market back to earth as the unprecedented rally came to a close. It appears traders on Wall Street are far more confident than the US Consumer. Sentiment fell to 71.8 from 77.6 with the impact of rising payroll taxes and increasing discovery on Obamacare costs.
The almighty consumer is the major driver of the US domestic markets and thus the economy.The Dollar suffered accordingly pushing the EUR to 1.3050 and the GBP approaching 1.5100. The massive Bull run may continue to unfold in the coming week sailing into uncharted waters with only technical chart levels to target. This week will focus on the Fed and the plethora of economic releases lead by the Housing Statistics. The RBA will meet, but expectations for any action are low with the currency flying high testing above 1.0350.
The KIWI also regained 0.8245 after a week of hits emanating from the RBNZ releases earlier in the week. We have seen some earlier downward movement in the NZD & AUD rates this am with the Euro being sold off as the news of the Cyprus banks' bailouts surface.
A look at NZ GDP will be a good guide to the state of the economy but expectations should not be high.
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Forum:Huff the Game Namespace
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Before you all groan "oh no, not this again", I've already read up on the issues surrounding the Game namespace and, more importantly, the arguments for keeping it around. I don't intend for this to be another forum where extreme solutions are thrown back and forth. Instead, this is going to be an analysis of what the Game namespace is good for, where it fails, and where it adds needless complications to the wiki.
The Game namespace has its good points
Take a look at Game:Zork. It totally belongs here - a parody of text-based games in the style of a text-based game. If that's not Uncyclopedian to you, you haven't looked at Category:Pages that look like the things they're about (or its partner in crime, Category:Pages that look like the things they're about (hidden)). No, it's not a good actual game, but it also doesn't need to be - it's a goddamn parody.
We have similar articles in the Game namespace that I feel belong here, e.g. Game:Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, another reference to an actual game taken to ridiculous extremes. I'm sure some of you Game namespace fanatics can think of more. But these all share one fact in common...
"Games" don't need their own namespace
These aren't "games". You can't have proper "games" on a MediaWiki wiki (more on that later). They are articles that look like the things they're about, which we already have a category for. These "games" could easily exist in mainspace without any complaint. There are few enough of them (that is, properly executed games) that they don't need their own namespace, less their own Main Page.
There's been a lot of discussion about how a game ought to be judged, and I'm here to say they ought to be judged as articles. Does a game serve a satirical purpose? Great! It's an article (that looks like the thing it's about). Otherwise, it's VFD fodder, or a personal project that needs to be kept in userspace. Most games we have now are not funny and/or do not need to be written in the game format. People assume the Game namespace is a free pass to make a game. It's not; an unfunny game is no different than an unfunny article. If we move games to mainspace I think it'll be clearer just how many games are conceptless bunches of text. And furthermore...
MediaWiki is not a game engine
Is your game a standard text-based game? No? Then it's based on a fucking hack.
Specifically, the hack in question stems from - of all things - how our forums work. I actually investigated this junk and managed to create a few new templates to set variables. But the important thing is our more complicated games are based entirely on our forum extension. If that forum extension ever changes how it works, all the advanced games are totally screwed.
Think about that for a minute. If the forum extension manages to fix itself up, our Game namespace is toast. That includes at least one featured Game. That is not a gamble I want to see us taking. No other namespace - heck, no article - is dependent on a MediaWiki extension hack to operate. CSS hacks, yes, JS hacks, yes, but something server-side, something dependent on Wikia, something that might be declared a "bug" and expunged later? Certainly not.
At this point you might be tempted to suggest that, should this ever happen, we'll tell Wikia to keep the outdated forum extension indefinitely. This is an incredibly stupid idea. Refusing an update to an extension just because it has a bug you like to exploit isn't a good enough reason.
So what do we do?
There aren't any reasons to keep games under their own namespace. It confuses things. Because it's its own namespace, we have the impression it ought to be big. And because it's relatively isolated from the rest of the wiki, we (for some reason) imagine that it has different quality rules than everything else. Instead, there are only a few games that have a reason to be presented as games, just as there are only a few articles that have a reason to be presented as something they aren't. There isn't any need for new quality standards. Something should only be in the game format if it has a reason to be presented as a game.
The solution is simple. Kill the namespace, move everything into mainspace, VFD the things that aren't funny - just like everything else. I know everyone might not agree with this, but I haven't seen a single valid argument for keeping the namespace. So please, if there's a good reason to keep it separate, tell me. But all I see are reasons it's harming the wiki and making things more complicated than they ought to be. – Sir Skullthumper, MD (criticize • writings • SU&W) 17:51 Apr 04, 2011
- The game hack uses DPL forum? Nevermind how completely idiotic that is, it should be possible to swap that out for regular old DPL, which is a lot more... not likely to change so much, since it's not for forums, but for general things... like that. Hells, though, if we lose either of those altogether, a good chunk of the Uncyclopedia namespace will be kind of completely screwed, anyhow, as well as some actual projects that also use DPL and forum functionality, and don't think there wouldn't be more indirect impacts from losing maintenance, review, votes, etc, on the rest of Uncyclopedia. So... eh.
- That said, the hacks are in templates, so it should be simple enough to change them to something less stupid when it breaks.
- More of an issue would be the sheer number of subpages the non-compressed ones have... and how many of those tend to be completely pointless. I suspect that why the Game namespace was established may have had something to do with that, though, keep all the subpages out of Special:Random and whatnot... this would, however, be solved by compressing them, killing most of them, and/or adding some magic word to the subpages to hide them, assuming one exists, which one probably does, since that'd be a little too useful to have gone unconsidered. Anyone know it? ~ 18:53, 4 April 2011
- Ok, here are the games I think should be kept:
- Zork (1 - 3)
- Grueslayer (A lot of effort clearly went into this)
- Abyss (Same as Above)
- Oliver Twist (featured)
- Game:Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle (featured)
- Game:Alone in the dark (featured, Top 10 10)
- Game:TheBlueScreenOfDeath (Is actually Funny)
- Game:Pixel Hunt (Flash, kept on VFD)
- Game:Oregon Trail (Has it's own article)
- Game:2012 II (Work in progress, I've been working on it nearly none-stop.)
What do you think?? - LOL vandalz 18:01, April 4, 2011 (UTC)
- Just because effort went into something doesn't mean it belongs here or is even any good. I could point to a few things in particular, but my lawyers have advised against that. ~ 18:53, 4 April 2011
Sometimes I just wish that people would stop caring about things that shouldn't really be cared About. - LOL vandalz 18:55, April 4, 2011 (UTC)
Not doing much of anything right now
Hi, my name is Something "Socky" Sockadelic. You might remember me as being an "editor" of the "wiki," or you might not. Despite what you may think I've been an excellent doer of things lately. I'm going to break my streak though, as I always do when I see something so impossibly stupid I can't help but comment.
Now, while this forum contains a great deal of stuff I could be commenting on, I'm gonna be lazy and concentrate on this:
|But the important thing is our more complicated games are based entirely on our forum extension. If that forum extension ever changes how it works, all the advanced games are totally screwed.
Sorry to break this to the world, but if that forum extension changes how it works, or stops working altogether, the important thing to me would be how all the forums will be screwed. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 21:30, 4 April 2011
- We could always get rid of the forum namespace. It's pretty useless. MegaPleb • Dexter111344 • Complain here 21:36, April 4, 2011 (UTC)
Let's but this:
- LOL vandalz 21:47, April 4, 2011 (UTC)
I like the game namespace
Even though it really isn't as popular as it was a while ago, I think it still has promises. I like it. -- Lollipop - CONTRIBS - WRITINGS - SHOP - Now adopting! 21:49, April 4, 2011 (UTC)
I have to agree with Lollipop. - LOL vandalz 20:03, April 5, 2011 (UTC)
- Me too. But I have my schoolwork and part-time job to do, so I can't contribute in here. I even have no time for zh-tw.
- (We find out a way to play dependent background music continuously)--Sunny周 18:21, April 8, 2011 (UTC)
"A lot of effort clearly went into [Grueslayer]"
Thank you for deciding to NOT huff Grueslayer in the event the entire Game namespace gets snorted up ChiefjusticeDS' nose. You're right about the effort thing except for the past year and a half. I REALLY want to start working on it again and I have outlined several plans on the game's talk page, but I don't have the Internet at my house and coordinating the revival of Grueslayer with all the other shit I do during WiFi visits would be...not very hard, actually. What I need to do is delete most of the actual game, re-do everything that's left, then get a team of Implementors and start again. I could start looking through the game tomorrow or on Friday, it depends on my schedule and my amount of laziness. If anyone wants to help, i'm usually on the #uncycloepdia IRC channel a whole lot, contact me there or something.
As for the actual topic: deleting the namespace would free up a whole lot of space and create less cruft, but it would also close the doors on people who could make potentially awesome games. Me and Emmzee created Grueslayer on early 2007. The game consisted of a shitty fucking ONE-LINER until April, when someone reminded us about it and the rest is history. If that had happened in early 2010, instant huff. I personally think we should keep the game namespace open, but with stricter moderation. PuoppyOnTheRadio has the right idea. --Trar (talk|contribs|grueslayer) 21:44, April 6, 2011 (UTC)
- Exactly, whqat POTR said. Games like "Alone in the Dark" and "Pixel Hunt"...this isn't an online gaming website...it should just be text games, and even then, guidelines. -- Lollipop - CONTRIBS - WRITINGS - SHOP - Now adopting! 21:53, April 6, 2011 (UTC)
- Why limit youself to only make text games?--Sunny周 18:18, April 8, 2011 (UTC)
I'm, sorry to say, But we can't use Flash. The website which owns us (Wikia) Strictly forbids it. Also, the majority I've seen on English and Korean Uncyclopedia range from Average to Broken, and maybe even Unplayable. Sorry about that, But Flash SERIOUSLY Doesn't work. - LOL vandalz 18:28, April 8, 2011 (UTC)
- Basically, the majority is done by me. I sometimes hear that the uncyclopedians in here can't play my games. Recently, I think I know the reason.
- There are at least 3 of my games are based on fullwidth forms Chinese characters. Therefore foreign computer probably can't display my games so well. (Maybe Korean doesn't have this problem. I have rent computer there when traveling and it seems okay.)
- My UnTunes Hero is unplayable for some keyboards and computer. I don't know. I can't control that game with my new computer either. But I have no time to remake it.
- So, maybe it's my games giving you a feeling that Flash Games are not suitable for Uncycloepdia. It's my mistake but Flash Game IS a one of good directions for Game Project to develop.--Sunny周 18:47, April 8, 2011 (UTC)
- I just played grueslayer for the first time, made me laugh so hard my roomy's ran in to see if I'd finally gone mad! How do I edit? What can I do to contribute ? :) Lock'd And Loaded ~CUN ~ (Shoot!) 22:24, April 6, 2011 (UTC)
- Support. Mister Victim (talk) 07:13, April 9, 2011 (UTC)
- You? ~ 11:46, 9 April 2011
For inspiration's sake
I think there's actually a pretty good reason for keeping the game namespace. Sure, a lot of the crappiest stuff goes into that space, but there is an advantage of keeping the namespace- inspiration!
As Mr Skullthumper himself said, games like Zork are actually parodies of real-life games which are written in the style of their subject. Indeed, most of the acceptable content in the namespace has to have a similar idea behind it.
And that's where the inspiration comes in. Everybody knows that the Game namespace is still part of Uncyclopedia, which is a parody website. So I think it could be an excellent breeding ground for some bright minds to present some of their work in such a manner. Maybe making fun of things by making a funny game about them is precisely the kind of work where they will shine.
I know a lot of the Game stuff has ended up on VFD. But the namespace could inspire a lot of people to come up with innovative ways of making us laugh, couldn't it? --Scofield 18:16, April 9, 2011 (UTC)
- Correct. We simply need a way to keep shitty cruft from popping up less often than it does now, and ensure quality control throughout the namespace. --Trar (talk|contribs|grueslayer) 18:38, April 9, 2011 (UTC)
- I Agree with Trar. I Even made an Article about it. (・A・) - LOL vandalz 18:51, April 9, 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I remember something like this
And Skullthumper, twit that he is, has put it far better that I ever could. Remove this worthless namespace post haste and replace it with something better. Like pictures of kittens. Or video of dudes getting hit in the nuts. Or a video of Skullthumper getting hit in the nuts with a kitten. -OptyC Sucks! CUN15:30, 10 Apr
My Opinion
Of the text games on Uncyclopedia, very few are any good. Most are just stupid IP creations that go around in circles. I notice this pattern with most games:
1) Some anonymous user gets bored and decides to make a game
2) Several days of irritating users with the constant creation of subpages
3) People play it and realise that it isn't really any good
4) Goes to VFD
5) Gets votes for deletion with a huge consensus
6) Zombiebaron deletes all the pages and subpages which also clogges up the recent changes log
7) Back to step 1
I admit SOME games are reasonable, and should be kept and protected. But largely the games are all stupid, not fun and a waste of time. If a user is really desparate to make a game, thats what their userspace is for. - Frosty dah snowguy contribs KUN PLEB 10:33, April 11, 2011 (UTC)
- This is mostly accurate for modern games, created in this day and age. Back in MY day we had shit like this EVERYWHERE. It wasn't ALL bad, really, just...mostly bad. Mind you that was the age of Famine and Nintendorulez. I think. --Trar (talk|contribs|grueslayer) 13:14, April 11, 2011 (UTC)
Let's get back to the important stuff
Like this. That's kind of important. MegaPleb • Dexter111344 • Complain here 08:30, April 12, 2011 (UTC)
- It's only a matter of time before the Empire changes the forum extension on us. The forums, the advanced games lauded by so many - destroyed within seconds. We need to either have a backup plan or make our games simpler like Zork. --Trar (talk|contribs|grueslayer) 17:45, April 12, 2011 (UTC)
Lyrithya had some suggestion on that, I think.... --Scofield 21:05, April 12, 2011 (UTC)
Fresh, New Idea!
Stop worrying about how to delete half the website, and figure out a way to make this site Fresh. And possibly New. (See what I did there?) Or am I the only one who thinks we spend too much time worrying about worthless, idle drivel? Be funny, you dicks! Woody On Fire! Talking Woody Stalking Woody 21:33, April 12, 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, we need lots of buzzwords and buzzphrases!
- Uncyclopedia: Now with less faggotry!
- Uncyclopedia: Fresh and Newer than your disabled granny's diaper!
- Uncyclopedia: Keeping things funky and fresh for centuries.
- &c. Mister Victim (talk) 16:45, April 13, 2011 (UTC)


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A truly original, silly, funny, and downright cool picture book about a girl named Chloe, a loose-change finder who ends up lost in the woods after a dizzyingly long merry-go-round ride... where she meets a huge lion. (The lion is really a dragon, not a lion. Illustrator Adam Rex has been fired for replacing the lion with a "cooler" dragon. Sorry. The remainder of the book will be handled by a true illustrator who can follow directions. Apologies for this interruption.)
So Chloe, in the woods, suddenly comes upon a li-
(Sorry again. The new illustrator seems to have drawn a lion who has eaten the author of the book.)
-on, who lets out a ferocious roar.
(You know what? That roar didn't look very ferocious... how about a scarier lion?)
And so on, and so forth.
Check availability of this book.


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|Isaiah Chapter 40
Chapter 1
Chapters 2 to 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapters 7 to 9
Chapters 9:8 to 12
Chapters 13 and 14
Chapters 15 to 18
Chapters 19 to 23
Chapter 24
Chapters 25 and 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapters 33 and 34
Chapter 35
Chapters 36 to 39
Chapter 40
Chapters 41 to 43
Chapters 44 and 45
Chapters 46 to 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapters 51 and 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapters 55 to 57
Chapters 58 and 59
Chapter 60
Chapters 61 and 62
Chapter 63
Chapters 64 and 65
Chapter 66
Comfort beginning with knowledge of helplessness: God's omnipotence in grace
The first part of that which might be called the second book of Isaiah extends from chapter 40 to the end of chapter 48. The Messiah is, comparatively speaking, but little introduced here. It is rather the great question between Jehovah and idols, answered first by the success of Cyrus and the capture of Babylon. For, though their glory cannot be separated, there is Jehovah and His anointed. This is evidently connected in grace with the deliverance of Israel, God's witness on the earth, unworthy, as the nation was, to be so. At the same time these ways of God shewed that there was no peace at all for the wicked in Israel. This great truth is repeated twice over, being applied to the two great controversies which God had with Israel. We will point out some details to make all this evident. The first eight verses of chapter 40 express in a very remarkable manner the principles on which God acts: the grace flowing from His own heart, when His chastisements had been fully inflicted. God would comfort His people; and He speaks to the heart of Jerusalem, by telling her that her warfare is accomplished. The herald proclaims the coming of Jehovah. And here it is the fact, as deliverance: His rejection is not mentioned. It is spoken of later in chapters 51, 53. But with respect to the people, what must the prophet say? "All flesh is grass." If all flesh is to see the glory of Jehovah, if He pleads in vengeance with all flesh, this is where the testimony must begin. All flesh is grass: Jehovah bloweth upon it. Is it thus with the Gentiles only? No; "the people is grass." Comfort must begin with this. The grass withereth; who, then, can be trusted in? God has spoken. "The word of our God" (says the faith of the remnant -- says the Spirit of prophecy) "shall stand for ever." Then comes the prophetic testimony to the blessedness of ransomed Zion, who proclaims to the cities of Judah the presence of Jehovah -- the Saviour, whose tender care is then described in a touching manner. The glory of His divine Majesty is contrasted with idols to verse 26. He then challenges Israel for their unbelief. He who is Jehovah fainteth not, neither is weary. The depths of His wisdom are unsearchable; but they that wait on Him renew their strength, and shall not grow weary.Synopsis by John Darby


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* Sun Sep 18 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Apply packaging guidelines (remove redundant/obsolete tags/sections from specfile, etc.) * Tue May 25 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - fix bnc#607043 - fastjar directory traversal * Mon Mar 01 2010 email@example.com - Update to 0.98 - added support for -J and @file options. - fixed file name extraction, so that it can now be used during OpenJDK build. - Fix unterminated filenames on archive update. * Wed Aug 13 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to 0.95 - included an fix of a directory traversal to parents of the extraction root. - some fixes in build system - Makefile.{am,in}, configure.ac, ... - enable fastjar to update an existing .jar with an META-INF/INDEX.LIST aka - i support. Still, it doesn't process the MANIFEST.MF to index files coming from dependant archives. - use '\n' instead of '\0' before adding the index to the jar file to avoid having a zero byte at the end of the index file. - Fallback on the method used for non-seekable files when reading the central-header-end section does not work, i.e. in archives with a zipfile comment at the end. - Added support for native libraries for libfastjar. - jartool.c: Include regex.h, as recommended by gnulib-tool for the gnulib getopt functionality * Thu Mar 29 2007 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add zlib-devel BuildRequires. * Mon Aug 07 2006 email@example.com - Update fix for 191845 to upstream version. * Wed Jul 12 2006 email@example.com - Fix 191845, directory traversal on unpacking. * Mon May 29 2006 email@example.com - New fastjar package from savannah sources.
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Lanner Electronics has announced the FW-8910, a new 2U rackmount dual-CPU appliance built around two Intel Xeon C5500 processors and supporting up to 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports.
The Lanner FW-8910 targets the performance segment of the network security, NAC, WAN Acceleration and ADC markets, and offers the features of Intel's new C5500 processor, such as integrated memory controller, integrated PCI Express 2.0 controller and Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) technology.
"As a member of the Intel Embedded Alliance, Lanner strives to lead the industry in developing the most advanced hardware platforms on the latest Intel technologies such as the Intel Xeon processor C5500-series and Intel 3420 chipset," said Jesse Chiang, Product Planner, Lanner Network Communications. "Network security and acceleration solutions demand the highest levels of performance for enterprise-class networks, and performance is what the Lanner FW-8910 delivers."
"The new Xeon C5500-series feature multi-core and multi-threaded processing, allowing for vast improvements in network packet processing efficiency," said Frank Schapfel, director of marketing, Intel Performance Products Division. "Directly connecting GbE and 10GbE MACs to the integrated PCI Express controller allows network appliance manufacturers such as Lanner, to easily add sophisticated network connectivity."
A 2U rack mount platform, the FW-8910 includes up to five customized Ethernet modules for a combination of up to 40 LAN ports combining GbE copper, fiber and bypass port options. Furthermore, the FW-8910 supports multiple 10Gbps cards, either fiber or 10G Base-T copper, Lanner highlighted. Twelve DIMM sockets support up to 96GB DDR3 memory, and four 2.5-inch hard drives allow for RAID based data protection. High availability features include
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BBB: Watch For Typhoon Relief Scams
In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, email scams which solicit the wiring of money to stranded victims in the Philippines are surfacing. Better Business Bureau warns willing donors to give cautiously over the next few weeks.
"Our hearts go out to the families who have lost loved ones in this devastating storm," says Tyler Andrew, CEO of BBB serving Alaska, Oregon and Western Washington. "However, it's important for donors to understand that not all pleas for help are legitimate."
Andrew advises donors to take proactive steps to avoid being ripped-off by questionable solicitors or wasting money on poorly-managed relief efforts.
- Don't donate based on names.
Avoid organizations that include the name of the storm or disaster-as they may have just been founded and have little experience or are simply trying to take advantage of highly-visible news coverage.
- Avoid donating the wrong goods or products.
Sending non-essential items could be a wasted effort and slow down the relief process; be sure to verify which items are needed and the specific distribution plans that are in place. Some organizations may only accept clothing and goods from locations close to the disaster zone to avoid freight costs.
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Inexperienced charities will likely hamper assistance and divert funds from other helpful organizations.
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It seems to catch people off guard every year: An early autumn heat wave. But they come more often than not.
In Long Beach, highs today are expected to be in the upper 80s and are forecast to hit 93 Monday, according to the National Weather Service. The temperature is expected to steadily drop after that, however, with the predicted high falling by 20 degrees to 73 degrees Thursday.
"We're entering the Santa Ana season," said David Gomberg, a meterologist with the National Weather Service. "We're transitioning to that time of year."
Santa Anas are warm desert winds that arrive in the fall. They replace the cooler coastal flow that brings cooler air from the ocean.
While the winds haven't kicked in yet, the weak offshore patters are pushing up temperatures.
"Since it's still late September, we're dealing with hot conditions," he said.
No records are expected to be set during the heat wave - which is expected to last through Tuesday, but it'll be close, Gomberg said.
The record for Oct. 1 in Long Beach is 101.
"Monday will be the hottest, he said. "Tuesday it will still be very warm, with cooling along the coastal areas."
For Tuesday, subtract 3 to 5 degrees, Gomberg said.
But things should return to the low to mid-70s by Thursday.
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Bob Levy to Serve as Public Address Announcer at Lakewood BlueClaws Game
The Lakewood BlueClaws are always a fun experience. Besides the baseball game, they always have a ton of activities, giveaways and entertainment to keep every fan satisfied. If you attend tonight's game, you not only get to see the 'Claws take on the Kannapolis Intimidators and the very popular ZOOperstar characters in between innings, but you get to hear the one and only Bob Levy serve as Public Address announcer!


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Is the Press Afraid Of Climate Change?
Blog ››› ››› ERIC BOEHLERT
For decades, conservative media activists have been working the refs, as it's called. By constantly harping on the press' supposed liberal bias, critics hope to influence and tilt future news coverage for their partisan gain.
But perhaps the ultimate victory in a media intimidation campaign is when the press is so worried about right-wing barbs that it consciously sidesteps newsworthy topics, or simply walks away from controversies because journalists are afraid of the heated debate that the topics might spark; they're scared that cries of "liberal media" will fly.
According to a weekend report in the New York Times, that's precisely what happened with the Discovery Channel's acclaimed, seven-hour series, "Frozen Planet," which documents the earth's dramatic warming trend and the havoc it's creating for the polar caps. Missing from the series? Any explanation for why the polar caps are melting and why huge chunks of ice are falling off Antartica and Greenland, as well as any acknowledgement that most scientists agree that humans are causing the warming trend.
Coming on the heels of the recent Media Matters report that shows network news divisions have drastically cut back on the amount of time they devote to the topic of climate change over the last three years, we begin to see the effects of the right-wing's endless campaign to simultaneously dismiss and politicize global warming: a growing media silence.
From The New York Times [emphasis added]:
The vast majority of scientists agree that human activities are influencing changes to the climate -- especially at the poles -- and believe that the situation requires serious attention. That scientific consensus is absent from "Frozen Planet," for reasons that shed light on the dilemma of commercial television, where the pursuit of ratings can sometimes clash with the quest for environmental and scientific education, particularly in issues, like global warming, that involve vociferous debate.
Including the scientific theories "would have undermined the strength of an objective documentary, and would then have become utilized by people with political agendas," Vanessa Berlowitz, the series producer, said in an interview.
Even "On Thin Ice," the series finale devoted to climate change, failed to note that a "vast majority of scientists believe that human activities are contributing to the warming trends evident there," according to the newspaper.
The Times cites a Yale professor who says his research shows that just ten percent of the American population is dismissive of the human effects on global warming. Yet because that tiny percentage enjoys such a loud and boisterous megaphone via the right-wing media, the Discovery Channel and the BBC (which co-produced the series) apparently chose to avoid the central discussion about the causes of global warming for fear of sparking a Fox News or Rush Limbaugh-led backlash against "Frozen Planet."
That, despite the fact the approach left a gaping hole in the series:
"It's kind of like doing a powerful documentary about lung cancer and leaving out the part about the cigarettes," said Bill McKibben, a scholar and climate change activist. "There's no scientific mystery here: the poles are changing because we're burning so much carbon."
And that's the key here about the media bullying in play- it surrounds a topic in which there is virtually no scientific debate. Imagine if in the past conservatives had been able to scare the press off topics that were more hotly debated, like as McKibben noted, the dangers of cigarette smoking.
As for the Media Matters findings regarding dramatic drop-off in climate change network news coverage between 2009 and 2011, there's no explicit evidence the new timidity is a result of right-wing intimidation or the cries from climate deniers. But we do know that when the topic was discussed on the Sunday news programs over the last three years it was addressed in a purely political setting.
Meaning, conservatives have succeeded in taking a virtual scientific consensus and now have the press treating it as a political "debate." And it's a debate led most often by Republican politicians, no less.
Working the refs, indeed.
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Kid Cudi's 'Cud Life' tour dates announced
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Kid Cudi is getting ready to hit the road. The rapper has announced the dates for his upcoming "Cud Life" tour, which also features appearances from Odd Future rapper "Tyler, The Creator" and Big Sean at select stops.
The North American trek kicks off on September 5th in Tucson, Arizona. The 24-date tour will make stops in San Diego, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Atlanta before wrapping up in Cedar Park, Texas October 18th.
Kid Cudi is also set to take the stage at the upcoming Rock The Bells music festival. The two-day fest will begin on September 7th and 8th in San Bernadino, California. It will also make stops in Mountain View, California on September 14th and 15th; Washington, D.C. on September 28th and 29th; and Rutherford, New Jersey on October 4th and 5th.
Check out the dates for the upcoming "Cud Life" tour:
Sept. 5 - Tucson, AZ - Ava Ampitheater
Sept. 6 - San Diego, CA - Valley View Casino Center
Sept. 10 - Vancouver, Canada - Thunderbird Sports Centre
Sept. 11 - Seattle, WA - WaMu Theater
Sept. 13 - Nampa, ID - Idaho Center Amphitheater
Sept. 16 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Sept. 18 - Milwuakee, WI - Eagles Ballroom
Sept. 19 - Madison, WI - Alliant Energy Center Expo
Sept. 20 - Chicago, IL - UIC Pavilion
Sept. 21 - Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
Sept. 24 - Columbus, OH - Lifestyle Communities Pavilion
Sept. 26 - Philadelphia, PA - Festival Pier
Sept. 27 - Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion
Sept. 29 - Mashantucket, CT - The MGM Grand Theater
Oct. 2 - Syracuse, NY - The Oncenter
Oct. 3 - Toronto, Canada - Air Canada Centre
Oct. 4 - Montreal, Canada - Bell Centre
Oct. 8 - Miami, FL - American Airlines Arena
Oct. 11 - Clemson, SC - Little John Coliseum
Oct. 12 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade Music Park
Oct. 13 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
Oct. 16 - Grand Prairie, TX - Verizon Theatre
Oct. 17 - Laredo, TX - Laredo Energy Arena
Oct. 18 - Cedar Park, TX - Cedar Park Center
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Brevard, N.C. - Bree McMahon and Chantel Azevedo both saw their first action of the season, and Azevedo and Bailey Varley each recorded shots on goal, but visiting Anderson took advantage of Brevard defensive miscues to record three goals in a span of 10 minutes as the Tornados fell on Wednesday afternoon, 3-0.
McMahon, seeing her first collegiate action in her career since suffering a devastating injury in high school in which she lost her left leg and had her right leg severely injured, was in the starting lineup for Coach Shigeyoshi Shinohara, while Azevedo saw her first action since suffering a knee injury last year during the preseason in coming in relief for the Tornados.
Anderson (7-6, 4-2 SAC) attacked first, recording two shots in the first 3:30 of the game, while the Tornados fired away with a pair in the first 10 minutes. However, neither team was able to find the back of the net until Krystal Goss intercepted a Brevard clearance attempt at the top of the box and drilled the shot into the top left corner of the net at the 23:25 mark to put the Trojans up 1-0.
Another clearance attempt on an Anderson corner kick led to the second Trojans' goal as Allie Waters collected the pass and lofted the shot up and over the outstretched hands of BC goalkeeper Brittany Webster at the 27:47 mark to put Anderson up 2-0.
Waters collected her second goal of the game a minute and a half later as she took the pass of Goss' free kick, drilling the ball in from 20 yards out to give the Trojans the commanding 3-0 advantage.
The Tornados had one final attempt in the second half as Azevedo launched a shot at Genevieve Hamilton at the 80:19 mark, but the Anderson goalkeeper corralled the attempt to preserve the shutout.
Brevard remains at home as they step out of conference play on Wednesday, October 19th as they welcome Young Harris College to the BC Soccer Field. Kickoff between the Tornados and the Mountain Lions is set for 4 p.m.


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in p.55 inJUMP STARTRESPONSIVE WEBDESIGNBY CRAIG SHARKIE& ANDREW FISHERin the second time 980px appears mean 1200px, correct, so is errata?
Could you check the page number again? I don't see either of those values on p55 or on pages either side of that. :-/
not near book now but look for "980px" in paragraph text (the second time it appears must be "1200px")....
check p55 in both situations of count: physical count cover=1 or book count reading page=1 cover=i...
Neither worked. Just give the actual printed page number, as the PDF also shows those.
top left reading: Fluid Grids 55the RED should be 1200px...errata is?
We've used a max-width of 1200px. It's a fairly arbitrary figure, but that's whatBootstrap considers the width of a large desktop device, and it allows us to showus what happens when the browser window is wider than our max-width. Bootstrapuses a 980px breakpoint as its "desktop" width, and 1200px as its "large desktop"breakpoint. Anything larger than 980px will stop Bootstrap from behaving fluidly;we want our content to flow, but we also want to stop that flow when the application'sviewport is too wide to be easily read. And the 96% width ensures that there'sa gutter around all the content, and allows for the original design having theSpeaker content all the way out to the edges of their blocks.
Oops, I was looking at the wrong book. Sorry.
Yeah, it's a little hard to tell what's being referred to there. The text doesn't seem to match the code examples to me, but the grid example does seem to stop resizing well before it reaches 1200px width. It's a pity that they've confused the whole RWD issue by introducing that silly BootsTrap.
14 Jump Start Responsive Web Design
p.14 "CSS lean" must be "CSS clean", 3rd line , 1st P
No, that's not a mistake. Keeping code "lean" means having nothing unnecessary in it.
the <link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/base.css"> must be <link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/sheet.css"> to work the code in ch.4, RWD BOOK, the base.css no exist?
also the media queries in query.css mustn't be like>>>@media only screen and (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 960px) { // instead of 480
@media only screen and (min-width: 961px) { // instead of 960
What page(s) are you looking at?
code files - download ch4 query.css
480 or 481, I don't think it matters, TBH.
Not sure of your reference for post #9, but I think they were just mentioning base.css as a general example, anyway, rather than referring to a specific file.
btw, no work with base.css...


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Our family was at the Martin County Fair in Stuart where country star John Anderson was playing that night.
While waiting in line for the concert, a young lady said to come with her and took us to a tent behind the stage and said Mr. Anderson would be out momentarily.
There was a large table of food and we were told to help ourselves, which our four-year-old son John promptly did.
When Mr. Anderson walked up, our son's face was smeared with strawberries and Anderson laughed, stooped down and asked his name.
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Expanded Partnership Enables Customer Choice and Lower TCO on a Common Platform for Deploying SAP Solutions in VMware Cloud
PALO ALTO, Calif. and WALLDORF, Germany - VMware and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced a new model to deliver core SAP solutions and SAP HANA® in the newly announced VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™. The joint offering is designed to allow customers to consume SAP solutions on VMware vCloud Hybrid Service in a true OpEx model with subscription pricing for both software and infrastructure services. The joint offering is expected to deliver a fully managed subscription service offered by VMware on-premise, in the cloud or within hybrid deployments.
Additionally, the premium edition of SAP HANA® One, a new subscription-based 64GB instance of the leading SAP HANA platform for productive use and with enterprise support, will be available on VMware vCloud® Suite and the new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service. This expanded relationship between VMware and SAP is expected to accelerate cloud adoption for customers deploying SAP solutions by enabling choice and lower TCO, delivered through a common platform built on VMware cloud infrastructure.
"The SAP ecosystem plays a vital role in helping our customers be best-run businesses," said Bill McDermott, Co-CEO and Executive Board Member, SAP AG. "Today's announcement with VMware is yet another example of how our collaboration with partners provides additional options for customers to deploy SAP solutions."
Operated by VMware, vCloud Hybrid Service enables onsite and offsite IT environments to be not only connected and integrated with common management, but to run existing and new applications in the same way with enterprise scale without changes to the application. The new model is intended to allow customers to get the agility of running SAP solutions in a public cloud while using existing management tools and extending existing network and security infrastructure. This is expected to make the premium edition of SAP HANA One behave like a part of a customer's existing data center by enabling customers to integrate on-premise ERP data with SAP HANA on VMware vCloud Hybrid Service.
"VMware's mission is to radically simplify IT and enable customers to run any application where they choose without compromise," said Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware. "We are pleased to expand our partnership with SAP to offer customers added choice for deploying core SAP solutions and SAP HANA in production cloud environments with the support of SAP and VMware behind them. VMware virtualization uniquely can provide consistency between private and public cloud environments, and together with SAP we can deliver enterprise-class solutions that help customers operate in the hybrid cloud world."
SAP solutions running on VMware vCloud Hybrid Service are expected to be available in the United States in Q3 2013. SAP HANA running on VMware vCloud Suite for development and testing use is available now. In addition, SAP will provide production support for 64GB instances of SAP HANA with VMware Cloud Suite deployed in vCloud Hybrid Service. SAP and VMware intend to continue their strong collaboration and will work together to provide more virtual SAP HANA usage choices for customers.
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Having a dilema. We are loooong time BMW drivers, first one was a 1978 530i, and have owned a couple MB's along the way. Currently have '08 Carrera S, 08 Tacoma and '10 528i.
The 528 is coming off lease in a couple weeks and really want to replace it with a 535. However, the BMW dealers just aren't dealing. After grinding away I can only seem to get about 5% off msrp. So I went to look at a E350 Sport sedan just for comparison. MB dealer gave me $5000 off within 5 minutes and another $2000 before I left the dealership. And I really hadn't started to grind.
So we are at about $59K for the 535 and $51K for a similarly equiped E350 (probably still more room on the Benz). I really want the Bimmer but $8 to $10 grand is a big spread. MB financing was 2.9% vs 3.9 at BMW.
Jon Shafer or the Pacific/Steve Thomas Guys.
RE-finance Penfed 1.79% a month or two later.
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Since you are in SoCal, you have a lot of BMW dealers around to shop. Try Henry Suh at New Century BMW.
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Last edited by Decboy; 09-28-2012 at 11:20 PM.
Yikes.. dont get an E Class, they're probably pretty darned solid/reliable at this point, but (at least to me) they're really bland looking, like Camry-level of vanilla.
I liked the previous-gen E Class too, had great lines
If you're going to buy vs lease, why not look for a good CPO?
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When comparing you have to factor in maintenance cost. I just got out of an e550 for my '13 550. Over that 3 years/50k miles i probably spent on the order of 2500 in maintenance. I know it doesnt close the gap completely (ok or even half in your case) but something not to ignore, unless mb is throwing in their maintenance package too ( which you might also get them to do)
Which car do you really want? Assuming you can just as easily afford both which does not sound like an issue- think about whether getting into the e350 every morning is going to feel like a compromise?
The only other thing i would say, just coming out of an E, is that the transmission shifts are very, very slow compared to the 5 series (at least my '10 e550 vs '13 550xi sport trans). If you test drive again, go simulate a three point turn somewhere that there is no risk of traffic, and you will see what i mean. Other negative is the comand software (even the updated one) is on a small screen and not as intuitive as bmw in my opinion.
Otherwise the benz was a very solid, very reliable and overall great car to drive. I also think it is discounted so much because it is due for a significant refresh next year (i think c&d has an article).
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Are you just going to one dealer? There are tons in LA/OC so this shouldn't be a problem for you.
I haven't priced either car in a while so I don't know what their invoices are; I do believe the 5 is generally priced higher?
Keep in mind that if a piece of bubble gum is 25 cents and a bucket of [doo-doo] is a penny, you could certainly pay less for the bucket but look what you have.
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The samething happened to me 6 months ago at the Mercedes dealer. As soon as I finished my test drive of the E350, the salemans offer me $5000 off right off the bat. I think if I were interested in the E350, I would have easily gotten at least $10000 off.
I just leased a 2013 535. Deal was $800 over invoice less $750 loyalty and $500 Ultimate Drive. Dealer didn't want to lose me again. They did on my last lease of 2010 X5. I think I still left 2-300 on the table but I was ok with that. They were really great to deal with.
Goto shelly BMW and work with Dave their Internet sales manager. You can do most of the negotiation via emails to save time. You can tell him Mr. irani referred you the one with the AW Msport 550i. Good luck.
Or you can reach out to Mark D at Nick Alexander, he is the sales manager there and will give you a proper deal if you tell him Chris D sent you. All the people I refer don't get jerked around.
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look closely at the option packages on the E350. to get a "decent" car, you'll need to get the P2 package just to get xenons. leather is optional, and most cars come to the states unless custom ordered with MB Tex vinyl.
there is no comparison in materials and build quality between the F10 and the E350. i've had two W212 E350's. if you want a sea of plastic, get the MB. you should be able to get invoice + some bucks for the dealer. i can't think that dealer's aren't willing to come down. the economy ain't that great.
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MBTex is pretty durable stuff, but isn't very breathable. Get the leather (if you are going the Benz route)
Mercedes is having some sort of problem with their HID vendor, when I was last at the dealer, there were very very few E350 with HIDs. To find one with both HID and leather is ever harder. I didnt have the heart to the tell the MB salesman that all their competition comes with HID and leather standard.
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For example, most of the GLKs and MLs out there don't have Bi-Xenons because you have to spec the lighting package. Most dealers just open P1/P2 and not the lighting package. Same with the E. Most dealers spec them with P1, not P2 (which includes Bi-Xenons)
It's pretty sad because the X5 and the F10 seem to come standard with Bi-Xenons these days.
Agree. Nuts that a $50k car wouldn't come with xenon lights. Admittedly i used to feel same way that you had to get a package with bmw to get auto dimming mirrors... But i dont think that is the case anymore. Either way i always end up going berzerk when selecting options like a kid in the andy store. I think i watched too much Knight Rider as a kid.
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You want to hear something bad about ML xenons...? I had a xenon-equipped 2011 ML350 4matic. The lights did not get hot enough to keep snow and ice from developing. I was driving back in a short distance in a lake-effect snow storm (wasn't that bad) and in 8 miles, my visibility dropped significantly. I've had at least 10 cars with xenons and didn't have this problem. The ML's headlight washers were ineffective. I buy VW/Audi concentrate which is good to -40 and it didn't help.
I think my 550 will be fine. Never had a problem with any of my BMW's and ice build-up on xenons. The 550 puts out so much heat I'm sure it'll melt just about anything that lands on the front end.
My two E's had MSRP's around 62K. Neither had leather but that inside air-quality was pretty bad. They have no wheres the cabin filtration of what BMW's offer.
The ride is horrible with the "AMG" package. I think the E is built solid. I think the tollerances are too tight, which makes the damn thing rattle like there's no tomorrow. I had no rattles in my F10 11 535 and none in my 12.
Also be aware, MB resale is horrible. I've broken a lot of leases to trade for cars. BMW has cost the least to get out of for a dealer trade while MB is murder.
Don't let the Benz fanbois talk you into MBTex. It isn't leather, and doesn't smell like leather. MB dealers like to not mention that their cars are vinyl. I think most buyers think it's leather. Well it sure the hell is not. A hot day will show you how bad the E class off-gasses. You'll need to clean the windows every 3 days from the build up. You don't see this in BMW.
And if you have any allergies or sensativites to plastics, this car can be your hell. My last E triggered some very serious reactions. Shortness of breath, watering eyes, extremely irritated sinuses. I told the allergy doc about the lack of cabin filtration and my reaction. He's a BMW driver and he asked me what I replaced the car with--it was an F10. Last check-up he was driving an F10 535xi.
If the Benz is cheap, there's a reason why. I've had 5 MB products since 2006 and I'm done.
Auf Wiedersehen 12 550xi
i have a theory of why the ML & GL models don't have an off-gas build-up like the E...more cabin volume. My ML didn't smell like a plastic factory, unlike the W212. I test drove a GL450 a few months ago, and it didn't have the plastic smell of the W212 either. The ML and GL do not have the same plastics as the W212.
MB was offering a fantastic deal on GL's, however I decided to end my relationship with MB, thus the 550.
Auf Wiedersehen 12 550xi
What does a typical GL cost? $79K+? and it comes with vinyl seats, its almost a crime. I guess one have to step up to the $80K+ GL550 to get real leather.
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Not sure why MB would make leather an option for the E350. We had to order our 2011 E350 because we wanted leather. That's a joke. But we ended up selling it recently to move back to a BMW.
I used to love MBs. But the current MB designs just lost me as a customer. They still have that vault-like feel but the material and design went south. That's just my opinion in comparing the current models with their previous generation. Just compare the W211 and the W212. The former had much more MB qualities. The rear folding headrest was a hallmark in my opinion for the E and why they got rid of it for the W212 is beyond me. They replaced the golf tee-like door pins which were also a MB hallmark and replaced it with some cheap ones. Also, I cannot stand the column shifter. Am I driving a Buick? Do I need all that center console space so I can set up for a picnic on my drive? I can go on and on but any one who owned a previous generation MB understand my point. Look at the C Class and compare the W203 with the current W204. The CLK was much better looking than the current E coupe. The current E coupe looks like a roach. I have faith in MB, I hope they will revamp their models some time in the near future to win back some of their lost customers.
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Last edited by Decboy; 09-30-2012 at 10:26 PM.
A lot of friends of mine who used to work at BMW have left and gone to work at a really great Mercedes dealer nearby. Although Ive never been a MB fan these guys and this dealer are fantastic so my wife and I drove over there to let them try to talk me into an E350. I forced myself to have as open a mind as is possible after having at the time eight previous BMWs.
They had a pretty well equipped E350 ready for me to drive and they sent us out with a very well qualified salesman. It drove OK but felt kind of boring and just wasnt anything special at all. I found myself trying to talk myself into it for the reasons I went out there in the first place but I couldnt get past that stupid gear shift up on the column. My wife reminded me how I talked myself into a Lexus back in the late 90s and how I decided I hated that car before I made it completely off of the dealers property.
My friends tried to get me to take one home for the weekend and reminded me they would of course make the dollars right as I know they would have but I just couldnt get past that ridiculous column gear shift so I declined.
So maybe I paid a little more for the 535 but everytime I see an E350 Im actually happy that it had the column shifter or I might have talked myself into it and felt like I did about that Lexus. That is counting the days until I could get rid of it and get back into a BMW. As it turns out this 535 is the very best driving BMW Ive ever had and after 4-1/2 months I look for reasons to go drive it somewhere.
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There are several forms affected by the late legislation that require more extensive programming and testing of IRS systems. The IRS hopes to begin accepting tax returns including these tax forms between late February and into March; a specific date will be announced in the near future.
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As the housing market entered its steep decline during the latter part of the past decade, it took home sizes with it. While there was much to bemoan about the state of the industry, among designers and architects it seemed the one bright spot was what appeared to be the demise of the McMansion and an increased focus on efficient functionality. Between 2007 and 2010, the average size of a new, single-family home in the U.S. fell from 2,504 square feet to 2,381 square feet, according to U.S. Census data. It was the rise of smaller and smarter.
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"For all these years, the trend was going [down], and then in 2011 it got reversed," says Rose Quint, assistant vice president of survey research at the National Association of Home Builders. "Everything we had heard from builders, from architects, from consumers … was all pointing to a smaller home. But then in 2011 that all seemed to go under the bus."
In an effort to find the answer, Builder analyzed data from 12 metro areas around the country—including Boise, Idaho; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Houston; Orlando, Fla.; Philadelphia; Phoenix; Raleigh, N.C.; Salt Lake City; Seattle; and Washington, D.C.—looking at a range of data from home sizes to financing to unemployment and others, between 2005 and 2011. (Most regional data was provided by Hanley Wood Market Intelligence, a division of Hanley Wood, Builder's parent company.)
Among the 12 MSAs analyzed, all but one saw average home sizes fall over the six-year period, and all saw a decline in price per square foot.
The one metro that bucked the trend for shrinking sizes was Philadelphia, which saw a small uptick in home sizes between the years, moving up 0.61% to an average of 1,829 square feet among all housing types. The market also saw the smallest decline in price per square foot, which dropped only 1.4%. Much of that trend has to do with who is buying the homes, says Greg Lingo, president at Media, Pa.–based Cornell Homesweaetxdyvaydzcwq. "We're generally seeing over the last year that people buying single-family homes are much more qualified in the ability to get a mortgage. It's truly a move-up buyer."
But even at the other end of the market, Lingo says Philadelphia buyers are turning to attached townhomes in order to get more space at a price they can afford. "It's not a preference for the long term, but with family changes and economic changes, it's a better value for the square footage," he says. "Nobody wants a smaller home, necessarily. It's really what they need. In this economy, people are weighing wants versus needs."
As things get better for the less-expensive end of the market, Lingo expects to see the reverse of the trend he saw going into the downturn. "On the way down, we were delivering the same size house with fewer features and then reducing the size of the home." Now, he says, "we're seeing people put more custom features in their homes, and I think that will be the first step back. They'll make the same home nicer, and then start going up."
Indeed, the average percent financed among new-home sales in the area fell from 81% in 2005 to 73% in 2011. Mortgage financing fell by 88% over the same period, a trend likely related to the metro areas' unemployment rate, which stood at 9.5 at the end of 2011—the highest of the 13 areas studied, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the same six-year period, average price per square foot costs fell by 34.6%.
"I do think there's still a big market for a big house, but it's just a problem of getting the loan," Lightman says.
Boise saw the group's second-largest decline in home sizes, which Lars Hansen, president at Boise-based Brighton Homes, partially attributes to the now-expired home buyer tax credit, which he says incentivized builders to build smaller homes in an attempt to lure tax-credit buyers.
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However, just as tight credit contributed to the precipitous fall in home sizes during the housing market's decline, it may once again be lack of credit driving the trend—this time skewing sizes by keeping first-time buyers out of the market. "We see a trend emerging now where lower price points are coming back," Hansen says. People are calling and asking about new construction under $200,000. … I do anticipate that smaller homes and lower price points will become more a part of our mix at the end of the year."
That top-heavy recovery is also what Quint says is behind the national numbers. "The people who were able to buy a home last year had super good credit, super good savings, super good employment—otherwise you would not be able to get a loan. New single-family home starts were 75% lower [in 2011 compared to 2005], so it's such a tiny market now that this small group of buyers' preferences are dominating the market."
But like Hansen, she is betting things will adjust as the pool of buyers becomes more diverse. "The moment first-time buyers are able to come back into the market, and both buyers and builders regain access to credit, we expect sizes to ease again," she says. "That's very odd for those jumps to have taken place in one year."
Claire Easley is a senior editor at Builder.


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