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Ford Fusion/Mercury Milan Maintenance & Repair
Occasionally I need more space to carry a large item, or one I don't want to put in the trunk. I am considering purchasing a small utility trailer with a 500# capacity and using that hitched to my 2010 Milan I4. The items would weigh only 200-350 pounds max so the added weight isn't an issue. These would be short trips at moderate speeds. My question is whether the plastic skirt and rear bumper enclosure makes installation of a standard trailer hitch difficult without making a cut out on the bumper enclosure which I would prefer not to do. I know some hitches have a bend in them and then come back up to the ball hitch. Does anyone have experience with putting a hitch on a fusion/milan? Any advice or product endorsements? Thanks.0
I have a 2010 Milan with the electrochromo-whatever, self dimming mirror. I'm not sure it works. When I cover the two sensors at the base of the mirror if a set of lights behind me is very bright, no change. I would expect it to get brighter. I shone a small flashlight into it the other night while driving, no apparent change. On the other hand headlights in the rear view mirror do seem less intense than in the side mirrors.
Does anyone know how long it takes for the mirror to change reflectance after a bright light appears. It may be designed to have a relatively long response time to avoid short cycling with every reflection.
One very unusual idea which I read in one of these forums is to rotate the mirror 180 degrees. This is done easily and puts the light sensors at the top of the mirror and the microphone at the bottom. I wonder which is the intended way. The side taper seems more correct in the microphone up sensors down position.
Does anyone have a recommendation as to how I could test the mirror to see if it is working as intended. I hate bright headlights. Recently Audi brightened thier taillights to a nuclear level which is a new problem: they are too bright to begin with but when the brakes come on they are blinding. What is this trend to get brighter and brighter lights? The national highway safety did a research project and concluded that highways are so well lit these days that headlight intensity could be reduced 40% with no issues (and this was before the HID, LED nuclear intensity fad appeared). I actually wear lightly tinted sunglasses when driving at night to reduce some of the retina-searing moments.0
I was able to read some and speak to a service manager at my local ford shop. The autodimming mirror (in the 2010 models) works with three sensors. The one which faces forward (toward the dashboard) senses whether it is day or night. If it is bright the mirror defaults to a standard mirror with no dimming. If it is dark enough to simulate night, then the front two sensors determine how much dimming should be provided. To test whether the mirror is working (the effect is subtle on a well light highway) put a piece of black electricians tape over the front-facing sensor during the day, the mirror should obviously darken. The car has to running, not just on for this effect. If it doesn't darken it is broken.
I prefer extreme dimming so I have fashioned a little pull down blind over the front sensor which I pull down at night. The mirror works remarkably better at night this way.
I was unable to determine why there are two sensors facing the rear.
It turns out my mirror was operating and not broken but the subtle dimming was hard to see. Now with the opaque baffle over the forward facing sensor, it is dramatic and very helpful.
For reasons puzzling, putting your finger over the sensor does not work to "blind" it. The black electricians tape is specifically recommended by Ford or the manufacturer.0
I am not too bright. When I have heard about people going to wider tires I always assumed the difference was considerable. Then I thought about it. The width difference between a 215/17 tire and a 225/17 tire is 10 mm! That is one centimeter. That is approximately 1/3 of an inch.
In retrospect I now realize that adding 10 mm to the base of 215mm isn't even increasing the width by 5%. I did not appreciate the very small steps that tire width increments provide.
Yet, presumably, the gain in grip is considerable. Surprising.0
If you consider that only a tiny portion of the tire itself is actually in contact with the road at any given point in time, an increase of 10 mm is a bigger increase in contact patch percentage wise.0
Whatever the area of the contact patch, increasing it's width by 5% would result in a 5% areal change (Area=L xW). In any case, I find it remarkable that the increase in width is so small from one size to the next. I guess my notion stems from my long history of cars with 16" wheels and narrow tires where 225s wouldn't fit in the wheel well or they would chide against the sheet metal on extreme turns. I always pictured them as being very much wider than my "little, thin" tires. I guess not so.-----0
I was thinking there would be a larger percentage increase in the contact patch since it's way smaller than the circumference of the tire but you're correct - a 5% change in one dimension is a 5% difference in area regardless of the overall area. Although in terms of cornering ability I bet a 10 mm increase in width is more effictive than a 10 mm increase in length of the contact patch. Won't matter for acceleration though.0
I feel like I should know this but I don't. At what times does the AC come on and mix dry cool air with the heater air. Does it come on every time you turn on the heat? Or does it come on only when you are in the windshield defrost mode and have selected the windshield defrost button. I have a 2010 Milan/Fusion I4.
I assume that when you select heat you get warmed air from the fan without AC activation but I wonder if my assumption is correct.0
bdyment Posts: 573You are right. It comes on in the defrost mode, not in the heat mode.0
If you have auto climate control the A/C will come on most of the time until temp goes below 40 or so. It helps dehumidify the air whether it's warm or cool.0
I should have specified that my car does NOT have automatic climate control and I understand that this feature assumes control of the AC and heater when active. Thanks.0
That's what I assumed but wanted to let others know in case they did have EATC.0
As mentioned earlier I have located a class one trailer hitch (200# tongue load/2000# overall) that is custom drilled for attachment to the 2010 Fusion/Milan. It is an easy installation that requires only a ratchet set and a strap for the exhaust (which is temporarily lowered from the rear hangers). The receiver sits nicely under the bumper with no need to cut or modify anything.
Then I read and discovered that Ford "does not recomment towing with the vehicle". I discovered that many 4 cylinder cars have similar disclaimers.
Speculation is that liability concerns make it prudent for the manufacturer to be very conservative in endorsing trailer load since driving at too high a speed could outrun the braking capacity or, with too big a load, over heat the transmission. And so on.
I understand that caution by Ford.
However I doubt that a small trailer (4' x4') with a small load (e.g. a recently purchased generator which weights 230# would pose a problem. There are folding platforms that attach to the hitch receiver and extend outward from the rear of the car which are rated at <300# load (and weigh 50# themselves).
What do people think. Is towing a llight load (total<500#) a likely source of strain or damage to the I4 Fusion?0
No takers on the original question so I will elaborate. Many manufacturers of 4 cylinder cars advise against towing without citing any specific reason. I think it is obvious that a small engine is not able to move a huge load without overheating the transmission and straining other parts. I am talking about towing small loads (total weight of trailer and goods less than 500 pounds). There are trailer hitches that bolt into the chassis holes in the Fusion without need to drill or reroute anything. The receiver sits just under the bumper cover and is nearly out of sight. I maintain that a small trailer and load should be no problem provided the car is not also hauling four adults. That is my point: the car is designed to accomodate five adult passengers. Assuming that none are obese that load may weigh 5 x 160#=800#. A single driver and a 500# load on the hitch should represent a lesser load and strain.
I suspect that Ford and other manufacturers are concerned that if they give advisories on trailer loads, etc. that they may be liable for issues that arise from overloading. My concern is that if I put a hitch on then subsequent warranty issues may be incorrectly attributed to the fact that I occasionally put a trailer on the car.
I wish to have the traileer for the 3 or 4 times a year when I want to haul a large item or a messy item or one that just won't fit in the car or the trunk. A generator comes to mind as a good example. Typically portble generators weigh in the 200-300# range and should present not overload problems. Agree?0
I recently visited a Ford official site regarding maintenance intervals for the various fluids and filters in their vehicles. I was good with all the information except the recommended 15,000 mile change recommended for the fuel filter. My experience suggests that this is a ridiculously short interval and it raises questions about the credibility of the site. My extreme example is my prior 2000 Mercury Sable in which I did not change the filter until over 150,000 miles (through ignorance). The car ran well throughout my ownership and the change, even at this extremely long interval, did not result in any discernable change in dynamics or power. Obviously one swallow does not a summer make but 15,000 miles! This has to be driven by profit motive or a desire to get them into the shop (most folks won't try this filter change by themselves). Can anyone defend this citation? I think Ford are very well engineered cars and can't help but think that the engineers are embarassed by this suggested interval.0
Not sure what you were looking at but the 2013 Fusion does not list any required replacement interval for the fuel filter - it's a lifetime filter. Maybe you were looking at the diesel truck recommendations.0
No, it wasn't in reference to the Fusion or any particular model or year. It made the general statement that the Ford Motor Copmapny recommends replacement of the fuel filter every fifteen thousand miles and at a shorter interval for heavy duty service
It was in a Ford Motor Cop. owners site with this link
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under a section called "care and maintenance tips"
It seems an official Ford site and asks for sign in and password and/or VIN. Seems legit thats why I was so puzzled. It has to be a misprint. I agree with a very long service interval (half way to never).0
The three dashes (---) before the http:// donot belong there. Sorry for the bad copy and paste. Leave them out and you will get to the Ford site which is currently down for maintenance but will open again.0
That's just a generic recommendation and probably an old one that hasn't been updated. The actual maintenance schedules for each vehicle are correct.0
Agreed. I can't imagine any time in the past thirty years when it would be a proper reference. Gremlins in the site I guess. Maybe they should edit the site each spring and clean out the archaic references. I am pleased that Ford has simpified the recommended maintenance schedule. I am almost three years and 30,000 miles into my warranty and except for oil changes. tire rotations and multipoint inspections every 5-6 thousand miles and a change of air filter, I have done nothing because nothing needs be done. That good design. I smile when the good folks at XYZ motors say that they will provide all necessary maintenance for free for the first year. I guess that translates into about $50 dollars worth of "free".0
talontsidude Posts: 1I just purchased a 2011 Milan V6 with 12,000 miles and have also noticed the low pitched "moan". I am also noise sensitive on vehicles as well and my fiance can't hear the low moan but then again she's not very observant : ). To me it sounds like a minor wheel bearing howl/ groan or differential/ gear moan. Did you ever track down the "moan"?0
variable22 Posts: 1Hi. I have a 2012 Fusion and have the same vibration noise at idle 900rpm. I've taken it to the dealer and they said it's just the car's normal frequency and nothing can be done, which is ridiculous. Did you ever determine the cause of the noise?0
sandyriver Posts: 16Hello, I have a 2012 Ford Fusion SE (2.5L, Automatic, FWD). i was very happy with the car until today. I dropped the car off to fix a seemingly minor issue - the air conditioner was making a rattling noise. The shop at the dealership changed a motor assembly in the AC/Heater unit (YH-1886). That seemed to have fixed the noise. On my way back home the car started behaving as if I was downshifting the gear. The RPMs increased and the car slowed down. I pulled over to the shoulder, tried to stop and start the car. The engine started, but the gear would not shift. It also flashed "Service AdvanceTrac". I called the tow truck. When it arrived, the operator was able to shift from park, and have it roll onto the towing arm. Although he could shift, he said it didn't drive right.
At the dealership, the car drove ok. The service technicicans were unable to diagnose it immediately as it was the end of the day. From the symptoms, it seems unlikely that the transmission and/or stability control issues were unrelated to the issue they fixed, although I can't be sure. Has anyone seen a similar problem?


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Are your employees helpless when trying to mitigate the bad feelings created by poor customer support? The New York Times reported recently on a story that got me thinking about what it feels like to be stuck. While you may think that the only people trapped in the situation were those on that plane, I say that type of thinking is symptomatic of more companies that just airlines.
When communication is not two-way everybody loses. Employees feel powerless and begin to resent not only customers, but also their company. Customers begin to imagine the ways in which they can wage a war against an organization. In other words, everyone is stuck in a position. And positions are very dangerous — ask negotiators; when people assume a rigid stance, you might as well forget any sort of progress.
I can see your face next time you read the ad that says: "Fly (insert airline here) for free". Yes, you might think to yourself, but at what cost?
What we need to realize is that it is as easy to get stuck, as it is to get unstuck. This is terminology I am borrowing from Keith Yamashita, who I met a few years ago at Fast Company Real Time live event in Miami. Let's use the example in the NYT article to see how we get ourselves out of a rut.
First we need to acknowledge that we're stuck. So following the advice of Yamashita, we can then empathize with the passengers on that flight with emotional manifestations. Yes, we know you are feeling:
Do you think that these would also apply to the airline staff? Yes, and by learning to get through the empathy process for the sake of passengers, they can regain control of the situation. The first mantra should be of course to determine what the problem is and what the airline/airport/company is doing or going to do about it.
Meanwhile, on the plane (and situation), we need to acknowledge that we're still stuck. Thinking about and communicating that "we'll take care of you, and here's exactly how", with action attached to it is a good step in the right direction. It's important to manage expectations, and to meet those expectations with a sense of urgency.
In the scenario of a plane stranded for hours, for example, the pilot gets on the horn and orders food and beverages for everyone to be brought to the plane. Stations are organized from the ground to service the plane, and so on. Whatever it takes to make people comfortable and unstuck.
What's that? You're saying that it would cost too much? What's the value to you of goodwill and conversation on the front end vs. attempts at reparation on the back end with vouchers at the tune of $500 each? Oh, maybe the vouchers are less trouble. Think again. Your employees, and customers, need to see what you're doing to help them get unstuck. Why leave them to fend for themselves? All ready to go, and no place to go to.
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Resident Evil: Extinction (UK - BD)
Chris Gould takes a look at Sony's first profile 1.1 Blu-ray disc. Oh wait, he can't
The events of the film take place approximately five years after those of Resident Evil: Apocalypse. The T-Virus has virtually eradicated all life on Earth, be it plant, animal or human, and the planet is now a little more than a desert wasteland. Hoards of flesh-hungry zombies roam the land seeking out the last few survivors, who themselves are engaged in a never-ending search for food, water and other essential supplies.
Enter our heroine, Alice (Milla Jovovich), who has been genetically altered by the nefarious Umbrella Corporation and imbued with super-human strength, reflexes and psionic powers. Alice joins forces with a rag-tag group of survivors led by Claire Redfield (Ali Larter)—including old friends Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps), and new acquaintances K-Mart (Spencer Locke) and Nurse Betty (Ashanti)—to find a cure for the T-Virus and bring Umbrella to its knees.
What follows owes more than a little to Mad Max and George Romero's zombie flicks, but never manages to reach the standards set by the best films in those franchises. Key characters from the previous film are conspicuous by their absence, with only a single throwaway line devoted to the intervening years between Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Extinction. Spunky sidekicks like Jill Valentine and Rain Ocampo give way to the decidedly dull Claire Redfield, leaving Alice as the only strong female presence in the film (actually, the only strong presence of either gender).
Jovovich is certainly pretty to look at and makes a convincing enough female action hero, but unfortunately her turn isn't enough to save the film from mediocrity. Don't get me wrong, I like action films, but I expect them to have at least a tiny bit of character development. Why should I care if a bunch of people I know nothing about get chomped to death by the undead? Resident Evil: Extinction is nothing more than a series of set-pieces strung together by a paper-thin plot, which just doesn't do it for me I'm afraid. Still, it's reassuring to know that even the apocalypse won't be enough to stem the flow of Sony Ericsson mobiles and Vaio laptops (yes, there's plenty of product placement).
Resident Evil: Extinction is presented in its theatrical aspect ratio of 2.40:1 and encoded at 1080p. Of the three or four high-definition titles I've reviewed so far this film is the most recent theatrical release, so I was expecting nothing short of greatness from the transfer. I actually had the dubious pleasure of watching the film at the cinema, so I can be fairly certain that this Blu-ray release retains the original look of the picture, which means a bleached out appearance with pumped-up contrast and a muted, earthy colour palette that intensifies the look of the harsh desert environments.
Things remain impressive even when the action switches to the dark confines of a subterranean facility, with solid black levels and nicely defined shadow detail. Some light film grain is evident, but no more than it should be, and the transfer remains sharp and detailed throughout. To be honest there really isn't much to criticise here, apart from some slight shimmering in a couple of exterior shots and the rather strange 'digital airbrushing' of Milla Jovovich's face (she looks like a waxwork). However, these things are so minor they're hardly worth mentioning and certainly don't detract from what is a very impressive Blu-ray presentation.
This is also a good time to mention the visual effects, which are a step up from previous instalments (if memory serves). The zombie make-up is suitably disgusting, especially because the creatures in this film are in an advanced state of decomposition compared to those in parts one and two. The zombie dogs are also back, looking as gross as ever. CGI is competent for the most part, although it does go a bit wobbly when a mutated Dr. Isaacs makes an appearance as Tyrant. Still, it's generally of a higher quality than previously seen in the franchise, so I've no real complaints.
The primary audio track on the disc is an English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 affair, which continues Sony's shift from space-hungry uncompressed PCM audio to compressed, lossless audio. I'm glad that the studio seems to have opted for TrueHD rather than DTS-HD Master Audio on the majority of their titles, for the simple fact that more players can internally decode the Dolby variant. Both formats are lossless, so there shouldn't be any reason to stir up the old Dolby vs. DTS debate on this occasion.
The track itself is very impressive, with clear, focussed dialogue and some excellent use of the discrete channels. There are plenty of ambient effects used to build tension during some of the scarier moments (if scary is the right word), but it's during the heavier action that it really delivers. There's plenty of 'oomph' from the sub as guns are fired and things blow up, but my favourite moment has to be when the heroes' convoy is surround by a flock of zombie crows that fly around the soundstage, squawking and pecking at anything that moves—I really felt like I was in the middle of an all-enveloping attack. What really struck me was the crystal clarity of the audio, which is a definite step up from the other discs I've reviewed so far (on either format).
Before I forget, I should probably mention the dissonant industrial score by Nine Inch Nails collaborator Charlie Clouser, which compliments the post-apocalyptic look of the film nicely. Interestingly enough, Anderson mentions something about the original composer leaving the project shortly before completion. A bit of Googling reveals that composer to be none other than Tyler Bates, but the reasons for his departure are not explored. Perhaps he couldn't steal any suitable music.
The bonus material on the disc utilises some BD-J (Blu-ray Java) content, which tends to give current standalone players some trouble. Resident Evil: Extinction takes around a minute-and-a-half to load, which is fairly respectable given that my other BD-J titles take between two and three minutes, but the load times are much longer than I'm used to with HD DVD. Whether things will improve with later players using the new Blu-ray profiles (Bonus View and BD Live) remains to be seen.
First up is an audio commentary from director Russell Mulcahy, writer/producer Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt. The track actually exceeded my expectations, with few periods of dead air and some genuinely interesting comments from the participants. Mulcahy was obviously recorded separately from Anderson and Bolt, but the editing is done in such a way that it's not too distracting. The track isn't as energetic as the one found on the original Resident Evil disc, but Milla Jovovich's absence does keep things more focussed.
The press release advertises a PiP commentary, but my disc had no such option. That could be because the software intelligently hid the option on account of my player 'only' being profile 1.0 compatible, which means PS3 owners will be able to enjoy the added content (due to the recent profile 1.1 update). However, as far as I'm concerned it's not available, so it won't be factored into the overall score. Of course this isn't an ideal situation, but perhaps next time Sony will standardise their format before releasing it to the masses so this sort of thing doesn't happen to people two months after buying an expensive piece of hardware...
The featurettes kick off with 'Alice Vision: Preproduction', which details the story behind the inception of the movie, including Paul Anderson's original idea, the hiring of director Russell Mulcahy and the planning stages. There is plenty of talking head interview footage with all the major players, including Anderson, Mulcahy, Jovovich, Iain Glen and Ali Larter. At one point Anderson alludes to the fact that he's making The Road Warrior for a new generation...
'The Big Bang: Shooting Resident Evil: Extinction' focuses on the actual making of the film and features interview footage with the usual suspects, along with Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Ashanti and Linden Ashby. The actors all talk about the difficult filming conditions in the desert before the focus shifts to the studio in Mexico City, where the interior sets were constructed. We're also shown a few conceptual drawings by production designer Eugenio Caballero, before Anderson discusses the visual style of the film, specifically the overhead angles. The piece closes with shots of the actors performing various action sequences, including Milla Jovovich slicing and dicing with a pair of kukri knives.
The last two featurettes are so short there's not much point writing about them separately. 'Bigger, Faster, Stronger: The Undead Evolve' takes a look at the evolution of the series' zombies, from the lumbering undead in the first picture to the speedy 'super-zombies' in the third. There are a few behind the scenes sequences in which we see make-up being applied, along with some discussion of the various types of zombie featured in the movie. 'Vegas Visual Effects/Miniatures' takes us on a short trip through the visual effects featured in the Las Vegas scenes, specifically the miniature Vegas Strip and the destruction of a model fuel tanker.
Unfortunately the combined running time of all four featurettes is only thirty-one minutes, so we're hardly talking an 'exhaustive' exploration of the creative process. Everything looks as though it's been shot and cut together to appeal to those with a short attention span, which I guess it probably has. The trouble is, recent documentaries like 'Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner' have set the bar incredibly high for this sort of content, so this fluffy EPK stuff just doesn't measure up.
Eleven deleted scenes come next, with a combined running time of just over eight minutes. The scenes are in various states of completion, with some lacking post-processing and others missing any form of audio. A few trailers are also included, but none of them are actually for Resident Evil: Extinction itself. Instead we get trailers for Resident Evil 5, Devil May Cry 4 and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Finally, there's a short promotional trailer for the CGI animated movie Resident Evil: Degeneration.
The only Blu-ray exclusive feature I was able to access was the 'Blu-ray Wizard', a sort of index that allows you to create your own custom play-lists for the various featurettes and deleted scenes on the disc. I's a neat idea, but in practise it's actually just easier to select the required feature manually, rather than mess about with the wizard.
Resident Evil: Extinction is never going to win any awards, but I found it to be marginally more entertaining than the previous film, if not as good as the original Resident Evil. Milla Jovovich comes across as slightly insane in most of her interviews, but she is undeniably pleasing to the eye and looks very nice cutting a slow-motion swathe through dozens of zombies in her tight little short-shorts. There are just too many problems with the script to address here, but fans of the series would seem to be more interested in the gore, action and aforementioned short-shorts than coherent storylines. If that sort of thing is your bag this film is for you, but I expect a little more from my action movies.
The audio-visual quality of the Blu-ray presentation makes for great demo material, but unfortunately the bonus features let the package down somewhat. Most of them are too fluffy to be of any real interest and the only genuine 'next-generation' feature (the PiP experience) isn't available unless you have a profile 1.1 machine. That's all well and good for PS3 owners, but what about those of us who have standalone players? I'm still waiting for my free Blu-ray player upgrade here, Sony.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Chris Gould
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 18th February 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Czech Dolby Digital 5.1, Hindi Dolby Digital 5.1, Hungarian Dolby Digital 5.1, Polish Dolby Digital 5.1, English Audio Description Service
Subtitles: English, English SDH, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Hindi, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish
Extras: Audio Commentary with Producer/Writer Paul W.S. Anderson, Director Russell Mulcahy and Producer Jeremy Bolt, Beyond Raccoon City: Unearthing Resident Evil: Extinction Featurette, Alice Vision: Preproduction, The Big Bang: Shooting Resident Evil: Extinction, Bigger, Faster, Stronger: The Undead Evolve, Vegas Visual Effects/Miniatures, 11 Deleted Scenes, Trailers, Resident Evil: Degeneration Sneak Peek, Trailers, Blu-ray Wizard
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Ashanti, Mike Epps, Spencer Locke
Genre: Horror
Length: 95 minutes
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HARTSVILLE, SC - Senior defender Mike Greenaway scored off a corner kick in the 75th minute to give Francis Marion University a 2-1 win over local-rival Coker College, Tuesday evening (Sept. 27) in non-conference men's soccer action.
FMU snaps a two-match slide and ups it record to 6-4-0, while Coker drops to 2-6-0. It is the Patriots' ninth straight victory over the Cobras.
Greenaway tallied the match-winning score off a Jonathan Bartomioli corner kick with 15 minutes remaining.
Sophomore Shondell Busby gave FMU an early 1-0 lead in the ninth minute, when he scored on a Bartomioli assist. Bartomioli leads FMU with five assists. Coker tied the match 20 minutes into the second half with a goal by sophomore midfielder Olivier Harper.
FMU senior Jonathan Runion got the win in goal for the Patriots. He survived a Coker penalty kick early in the second half.
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Online application portal: http://grants.fieldmuseum.org/. Please refer to the tutorial at the bottom of the page to help you through the online application process. The submission deadline is December 1.
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Financed by the America for Bulgaria Foundation, this program promotes international collaboration between scholars from Bulgaria and the United States of America. The intent of ICAB is to fund archaeological and/or bioarchaeological research, including fieldwork, museum, and/or laboratory research, including archaeometry. The program strongly encourages proposals from researchers interested in employing and developing innovative analytical techniques that will advance the scientific study of the human past. Projects which promise to provide opportunities for training undergraduate and graduate students are especially welcome. The program requires that Bulgarian and American researchers serve as co-Primary Investigators (PIs) on the grant. It is expected that there will be substantial collaboration on the part of each team member. The American co-PI must apply through an accredited US institution, to which the award will be granted. That institution will be responsible for the financial oversight of the grant.
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Buckwild took over the Jersey Shore spot tonight on MTV, and talk about a different world. From Seaside Heights to Sissonville, West Virginia, the two are miles apart ... yet the stars' lives are strikingly similar.
Let's see, there was sex, drunk kids doing stupid things, a fight, and cringe-worthy moments aplenty. Heck, there was even a crotch shot from one of the girls and boobs bared by another. The only real differences were the accents -- so thick they made about 33 percent of the show completely incomprehensible without subtitles -- and the added adrenaline of some physical Jackass-style stunts. Other than that, it seems Thursday nights will remain largely the same. Which may or may not be a good thing depending on your appetite for watching young people engage in a bunch of lewd and crude debauchery.
Personally, I'll be tuning in for awhile at least. I had my doubts, but it was actually quite entertaining. And if nothing else, I want to see if these kids make it out of this season alive. While Snooki's stilettos and the tanning bed rays were Jersey Shore's biggest physical threats, the kids of Buckwild are just asking for an emergency room visit at every turn.
The show started off with one of them rolling down a long hill in an old tire (thankfully wearing a helmet) and then moved to "muddin'" in which I swear someone was going to fly off that truck and die. Then they jumped into what was surely toxic water near the power plant from a bridge way too many feet above the water.
There was also riding on a dump truck way too close to power lines, and then diving into said dump truck from their roof after filling it with water and constructing a makeshift swimming pool. Seriously, does MTV have enough insurance to pay for this sh*t, or did these kids sign their lives away?
There was a bit of romantic drama too between Cara (who has a propensity for belly shirts) and Tyler (who has muscles but not a whole lot else). They had a secret tryst in Anna's bed (why not in Cara's I have no idea), and Anna (who showed her temper on more than one occasion tonight) didn't like it one bit.
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SQL Source Control and Custom Change Scripts
In part 2 of my previous series regarding Red-Gate's tool, SQL Source Control, I warned about an aspect of the tool that could cause you to lose data if you were not careful. A few days ago I was allowed a sneak peak* at the upcoming fix which Red-Gate has termed SQL Migrations.
To recap, because SQL Source Control does a point-in-time comparison of your database with the current version in your source control system, there are some types of changes that you can perform which SQL Source Control will interpret differently and which could result in loss of data if their script is used for deployment. The easiest example of this type of change is the renaming of a column or table. For example, suppose you read my rant from several years ago about separating your singular from your plurals, and you have bought into the idea that all table names should be singular, but you have in your database a table named in the plural form of bacon and you want to rename it in its singular form of bacon. No, wait a minute, that doesn't work. Okay, how about this one, you have a table named People, and now you want to rename it to Person. So, you go ahead and use whatever is your favorite method to rename the table; whether that is using the right-click menu in the object explorer or simply issuing an sp_rename command, and voila it is done. You switch over to the Commit Changes tab and discover that SQL Source Control does not know that you simply renamed an existing table. Instead, all it can tell is that the table People is no longer there, and the table Person now is there, so it sets up the changeset as DROP TABLE People, and CREATE TABLE Person… The problem with that is if you run that in a database that had data in the People table, you just lost all of that data, even though the change that you actually made in development, simply a rename, did not lose any data at all. That would be bad.
But the good news is that the folks at Red-Gate have been working on a way to address that issue, and it is scheduled for an upcoming release (version 3.0, I believe). The solution is an ingenious technique that allows you to override their generated script for the changeset with your own custom script. Now, you still have to be smart enough to realize you need to do this yourself (and the tool reminds you that this might be a good idea) and when you do, the functionality to support you will be there. This is a manual process because there is no way for the tool to know whether you really wanted to drop one table and create a new one, or whether it was this rename issue. So, on the Commit Changes window, there will be an option to mark the changes that SQL Source Control has identified, and tell it that you want to use your own conversion script (or as Red-Gate is calling it, a migration script) in place of their generated scripts (see figure 1 below for example).
Figure 1: Create a Migrations Script from the Commit Changes window.
This will lead to a new editor window (figure 2) where you can write your own T-SQL to make the changes (or presumably paste in a copy of the script you originally wrote for the change in development). There is no significant difference in what you could put in here as compared to what you could put in any query editor window, so if you have a truly complex set of data conversion and migration commands that need to be implemented, just go for it.
Figure 2: Migration Script Editor
One of the keys to using this migration script is that you are custom writing all of the commands that have to take place to convert from one version of your source controlled system to another. That is, if you look at the history of changes checked-in to your source control repository, you will see each check-in has incremented an internal version number. The custom migration script must contain ALL of the commands that need to execute in order to get from one version to another. Therefore, I strongly encourage you to be conservative in the scope of your check-ins, and only include the items that require custom changes. Then any other changes can be checked-in normally, and you have limited the scope that the custom script must cover.
Figure 3: Commit Changes list with Migration Script. Notice the changes that were highlighted when you chose
to create the migration script are now indented underneath it to show that the one overrides the others.
There are two additional really cool attributes of these migration scripts which Red-Gate is implementing. The first, is that you can make changes to the change script after you have checked it in, and your changes to the migration script retain a history of their own. The second really cool attribute is that you can tell the system which versions (from and to) of source control that your script overrides (see figure 4). So, if you have changes that span multiple check-ins, as long as they are consecutive, you can tell SQL Source Control that your migration script actually covers all the changes represented by the changesets from version A to version E, not just A to B, then a separate one for B to C, and so on.
Figure 4: Migration Scripts and Source Control Versions Covered by each
The value of this is immediately apparent to anyone who has ever made a mistake. Suppose the change you were making was to drop the Employees and Managers tables, in order to replace them with a single Person table, and furthermore suppose that when you did the Commit of your change script, you had only marked the DROP of Employees and CREATE of Person for the changeset. Then, you realize that Managers is still in your pending changes display and you need to commit it. Go ahead and commit it, and then go back and edit the migration script settings, telling the system that your migration script actually spans those two check-ins.
I am really looking forward to this new functionality. We have fully embraced SQL Source Control for all of our SQL Server development, and we have one large system in particular where we are performing some significant refactoring of the database. For now, we have to do some coordinated management of manually produced and tracked custom change scripts. But when SQL Migrations make their appearance in the next major version, that will eliminate one more headache for me and simplify the development efforts of the whole team.
Before I wrap this all up, I would like to thank the folks at Red-Gate for authorizing me to talk about an upcoming feature like this, and for providing the screen shots. This is a refreshing difference compared to the handful of experiences I have had with Microsoft where I was sworn to secrecy over usability studies. It shows once again that Red-Gate understands the value of the community, and of being a good partner within the community. Yet another reason that I am happy to continue to mention them and their products in this blog. I make no money from doing so, but their products do make my job easier. A nice little win-win, if you ask me.
*If you would like to see it and try it for yourself, sign up for the SQL Source Control Early Access Program.
EDIT: Fixed layout errors and image sizing.
EDIT: Updated with screen images from the Early Access release which is now available for download.
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Johnny Wild
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Why can't Red-Gate detect that the newly named table has the same object ID as the one that was deleted and create their own script to migrate the data?
I created a test table and then renamed it. The Object ID remains the same...! So if they find that the new table ID exists in the old version, wahla, it has been renamed...
Ajarn Mark Caldwell
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For that specific scenario, that's a really good idea, Johnny. I have passed it along to my contacts at Red-Gate for them to consider.
Of course, there are a lot of other scenarios where the SQL Migrations functionality will be important. One example that I have run into is having to refactor a table with redundant columns into a normalized parent-child structure, WITH data conversion. In that case, SQL Migrations will be very handy to keep that all together.
David Atkinson
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@Johnny - you're right, this is something we could detect and this is indeed on our backlog. We could not only detect the rename and add an "sp_rename" custom script on your behalf, but also ensure that the history chain remains in source control. As there's a manual workaround, this won't make our upcoming release, but hopefully not too long afterwards. The next SQL Compare will have a manual object mapping mechanism.
Johnny Wild
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I definitely see the advantage to the SQL Migration functionality, we could use that too. Also thanks David for the response, you guys have an awesome product! Can't wait for the next release...


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text: Turukhtan Tinet is a cartoonist, illustrator, letterer, graphic designer, editor, translator and pig-keeper.Other parts of Tinet's internet presence are, for instance:The main websiteAnother blogThe Blog of SwineChirayliq and some photos on Flickr Message << August 2005 >>Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Favourite entriesPhotography:¤ Mum and Ainur were visiting¤ Sunny Saturday¤ Cheap thrills¤ Labour Day¤ Definitely no Sergei Elmgren III¤ Mum was here¤ Nordens ark¤ Cool weather today¤ Piggies in my bed¤ Black & white¤ Two collages¤ Bankhar mä!¤ Lilac skies¤ Kickass industrial sites¤ Mayday¤ Views from Pankow and a backyard¤ Kugelblitz & cuddly 'street art'¤ Shameless exploitation of workers and communists¤ Berlin, Berlin¤ Cuteness¤ More Berlin¤ Ouch, my feet ...¤ Frosty collage¤ Another fine old house hits the dust¤ Horror and pigeons¤ The smooth sides of houses¤ Streets of Lund 2006¤ Hungry for Hills¤ Skärhamn¤ Foggy sun¤ Furry puppies¤ Snow and a sleeping little baby¤ Around the railway tracks in Lund¤ The moon¤ Lund in October¤ The steaming sea¤ Misc. scenes from Orust¤ Territorial disputes¤ Road Trippin'¤ Sergei's tail¤ Yellow¤ The sleepy kingdom of Princess Mitsu¤ A house, graffiti and a rook¤ Green¤ Feather canyons everywhere¤ Sky and earth¤ Misc. perspectives on Orust¤ Mushrooms¤ Fauna¤ Flora¤ A window¤ Green landscapes¤ My babies¤ Dead house¤ Dead elk¤ Views on our home¤ Pictures from a spontaneous cycling tour¤ A parking lot in Malmö¤ Twilight sky¤ A once nice house¤ Serpieri, the flying pig¤ Yukata madness¤ Rundown allotment garden¤ Bristly!¤ Furry!¤ Home¤ Dead animals¤ Ängavallens gĺrd¤ Gothenburg¤ One of the 2-3 pictures that actually came out perfect¤ Where animals travel to their death¤ Winter in Kävlinge¤ Orient and Occident - blurry concepts!¤ My baby is such a tease¤ Eggs are interesting¤ Here's the wuffie!¤ The Carpathians¤ Anti-kitsch¤ Sunset over Kävlinge¤ My cuddlymunchkins¤ Streets of Lund¤ FoodDreams:¤ Elephant digging up old bones + a burglary¤ MSU in my subconscious¤ Bad puppy¤ The mansion¤ A dream of menstruation in Sin City¤ My dreams are so nice sometimes (aka Russian Policewoman)¤ Desperately trying to reach MGU¤ Blood, devastation, death, war and horror dream #6¤ Family life¤ Dreams, bloody dreams¤ I need a sword¤ Tony Blair & Lenin haunt meStuff:¤ My thoughts on the presidential elections in France¤ Just google it! - Nana version¤ Meat has it all¤ The amazing world of Swedish copyright laws¤ Anna Politkovskaya¤ It's about time we all get out and vote for love!¤ Bilal's Nikopol vs. Moore's Promethea: Being possessed by gods and forced to have sex in comics¤ Tinet's kitchen of pain¤ The hymen is an evil MYTH!!!¤ Gouache¤ Pigasso paintings¤ The Light comes from the Right¤ Some kind of Valentine¤ 2006 - a card and a snow Mitsu¤ Serilda¤ Standing on eggshells¤ Mmm ... surströmming¤ Rudolfo from the rapeseed fields¤ The freedom to not choose¤ Red China Comics¤ Till alla svenskjävlar som inte klarar av att sätta komma i ert eget sprĺk¤ The Kostroma Elk farm¤ The boob diaries part 4 - conclusion¤ The boob diaries part 3¤ The boob diaries part 2¤ Breast cancer can be fun¤ Why can't I wear a skirt and still be one of the guys?¤ Garlic update #2¤ Garlic update¤ EU garlic is no good against vampires.¤ I want to learn Maltese!¤ Dirty men in the public library¤ The marvels of life #4637¤ My new life as a one-armed bandit¤ Severiina exposed¤ Severiina - a tale of an obsession¤ On drawing techniques¤ TschöRmen¤ I might be going insane.¤ 15 reasons Some favourite blogs: artifex Baci dalla provincia Кладовка Saunahoney Yellow Peril Nyt on yö.Minä kuljen yksintyhjiä katuja.En tiedä, mihin olen menossa,hyvä kun tiedän mistäolen tulossa,ja ruumiissanisoi tuhat kaunista javoimakasta sävelmää,minun koko menneisyyteni,ja silmissäni loistavattuhannen ihmisen silmät,silmien takana tuntemattomuus,tätä naista ei tunne kukaan,se ei ole vielä täysin syntynytkään,ei kukaan tiedämitä se on tulevaisuudessa.- Mirka LattunenNecuvintele El a întins spre mine o frunză ca o mână cu degete.Eu am întins spre el o mână ca o frunză cu dinţi.El a întins spre mine o ramură ca un braţ.Eu am întins spre el braţul ca o ramură.El schi-a înclinat spre mine trunchiulca un umăr.Eu mi-am înclinat spre el umărulca un trunchi noduros.Auzeam cum se încetineşte sângele meu suind ca seva.Eu am trecut prin el.El a trecut prin mine.Eu am rămas un pom singur.Elun om singur- Nichita Stănescu Kunst ist nicht ein Spiegel, den man der Wirklichkeit vorhält, sondern ein Hammer, mit dem man sie gestaltet.- Karl MarxThe Hermit's SongA hiding tuft, a green-barked yew tree Is my roof,While nearby a great oak tree keeps me Tempest-proof.I can pick my fruit from an apple Like an Inn,Or can fill my fist where hazels Shut me in.A clear well beside me offers Best of drink,And there glows a bed of cresses Near its brink.Pigs and Goats, the friendliest neighbours, Nestle near,Wild swine come, or broods of badgers, Grazing deer.All the gentry of the county Come to call!And the foxes come behind them, Best of all.To what meals the woods invite me All about!There are water, herbs and cresses, Salmon, trout.A clutch of eggs, sweet mast and honey Are my meat,Heathberries and Whortleberries For a sweet.All that one could ask for comfort Round me grows,There are hips and haws and strawberries, Nuts and sloes.And when summer spreads its mantle What a sight!Marjoram and leeks and pignuts, Juicy, bright.Dainty redbreasts briskly forage Every bushRound and round my hut there flutter Shallow, thrush.Bees and beetles, music-makers, Croon and strum;Geese pass over, duck in autumn, Dark streams hum.Angry wren, officious linnet And black-cap,All industrious, and the woodpecker's Sturdy tap.From the sea the gulls and herons Flutter in,While in upland heather rises The grey hen.In the year's most brilliant weather Heifers lowThrough green fields, not driven nor beaten, Tranquil, slow.In wreathed boughs the wind is whispering, Skies are blue,Swans call, river water falling Is calling too.- Unknown old Irish poet Contact Me If you want to be updated on this weblog Enter your email here: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 Sweet revenge Since Mihai said bad things about Tetsuo The Iron Man although he had only seen some parts of the film, I'll get my revenge by posting this photograph here. Posted at 5:24 pm by turukhtan Comments (1) Sky and earth Posted at 5:13 pm by turukhtan Make a comment Miscellaneous perspectives on Orust Posted at 3:55 pm by turukhtan Make a comment Mushrooms Of course, none of the mushrooms above are too edible. I didn't get any pictures of the really tasty ones, at least not in their native habitat, because mum had picked them all long before I could get my camera in gear. Here, mum is proudly holding a gigantic orange birch bolete ('punikkitatti' in Finnish), while Mitsu is *very* disinterested (she had PMS). Posted at 3:48 pm by turukhtan Comments (3) Fauna This bumblebee was too fast for my exposure time ...I had to take this picture as quickly as possible before the deer walked away, thence the bad quality. Posted at 3:37 pm by turukhtan Make a comment Flora Sergei has only eaten one of mum's sunflowers so far.Lilac fruits.Raspberry bushes grow in through the fence, and Sergei likes to eat both the berries and the plant itself. These are the apples that an elk usually eats just before mum was going to pick them. The elk simply steps over the fence (which is 1.20 m high, I think, not counting the rosehip bushes surrounding it) and starts chewing away. Posted at 3:37 pm by turukhtan Make a comment A window It belongs to a house that the area's big landowner rents out now and then. Last winter, we found a killed fox behind it. It's gone now. Posted at 1:24 pm by turukhtan Make a comment Green landscapes Posted at 12:41 pm by turukhtan Make a comment My babies Ms. FuzzinessThe afternoon slumber of a eunuch Posted at 12:40 pm by turukhtan Make a comment Sunday, August 28, 2005 Dead house (Never leave the house without your tripod. Or at least, never *enter* a house without your tripod. I did, and now look ...)Some people are into urban exploring. As for me, I recently did some "rural exploring".This is an old uninhabited and dilapidating house on the road where mum lives. That's how it looks from the road.This is from the overgrown yard on the inside. An old shirt is lying by the stairs. On the first floor, there used to be a henhouse for a while.On the second floor, old rusty bikes and washed-out bottles are stored.The makeshift table could be evidence of this house having served as shelter for some hobo ... ¤ ¤ ¤Two of my favourite urban explorers: Shaun O'Boyle and Henk van Rensbergen. Posted at 10:15 pm by turukhtan Make a comment Next Page


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Pulsations (12.07.12)
Here are the latest Pulsations, links to fresh stories and visuals about Japan, shout-outs to fellow bloggers, and highly clickable stuff that we think you might enjoy.
In no particular order, they are . . .
- Yabusame: The Japanese Art of Horseback Archery (from A Modern Girl): Horses trotting along the streets of Tokyo? Read all about a yabusame event that took place at Takadanobaba recently and about the history of this ancient sport.
- Breastfeeding doublespeak in Japan (from StarryBrooke): A new mother discusses Japan's seeming inclination towards formula milk and its take on a healthy infant's recommended weekly weight gain.
- Dead Sensei Society (from Little Japan): Need to let out a few sniggers at work? This web comic features a "bumbling ex-pat who loves Japan, and reluctantly and inexpertly teaches English in order to stay." Art imitating life, it seems.
- The frustration of fruit (Japan As I Find It): Blogger Ciara airs her frustration with the cut-throat prices of fruit in Japan. Has your intake of natural vitamins taken a dip since moving here, too?
Visual Pulse
Good news, Doraemon fans. You'll soon be able to relive your childhood, for the tubby and resourceful blue cat will be back on the big screen this coming March. Keep your fingers tightly crossed that the world doesn't end on the 21st of this month…


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Google unveiled its cloud-dependent Chromebook notebooks almost two years ago … and things haven't been going very well since. The company routinely trumpets numbers about Android device activations, but it has been remarkably silent about Chromebooks (sales figures reported a year ago were shockingly low). Sony was apparently working on a Chromebook, but we've yet to see it, leaving Acer and Samsung as the only manufacturers who've bothered to make the devices. Both companies launched new Chromebooks for the 2012 end-of-year season. While the Samsung Chromebook is seeing some success, few expect the new models to rocket Chromebooks to new heights of popularity. After all, mainstream consumers are focused on tablets.
However, a report from Taiwan's China Times says that Google may be planning to launch its own line of Chromebooks. What's more, these Chromebooks will apparently feature a touchscreen. Since Google placed the order itself, the devices might signal a direct move from Google into the Chromebook business.
We can't help but notice a few things, though. An inexpensive, highly portable, touch-capable, cloud-based device with a real keyboard sounds a lot like Microsoft's new Surface tablet with Windows RT. Have Chromebooks been ahead of the game all along, or is the fundamental problem with Chromebooks that users are just not willing to be so dependent on cloud services?
Get in touch
The idea of touch-enabled Chrome OS devices isn't exactly new. Google was talking about Chrome-based tablets almost a year before it seeded developers with the first Chromebooks, and Google engineers have regularly acknowledged that touchscreens could be coming to Chromebooks in the future. Google's open-source Chromium OS project (the basis of Chrome OS) has also been looking at interface variations for touchscreens, and Chromium has been laying foundations for touch-based functionality for some time.
Google already makes its own tablets in the form of the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 (and their likely follow-ups), so it seems unlikely that the company will push forward immediately with a Chrome OS-powered tablet. That would just muddy the waters and confuse Google's platform message, which basically boils down to Android for smartphones and tablets, and Chrome OS for more-traditional notebooks (and even small form-factor desktops like the Chromebox).
Future touch-enabled Chrome OS devices are likely to take a form similar to touch-enabled Windows 8 notebooks or Microsoft's Surface devices. At a minimum, that means a touchscreen with a touch-enabled user interface, and it may also mean a traditional clamshell notebook form factor or some sort of convertible design enabling more tablet-like operation. Either way, if Google makes a Chromebook, it seems pretty likely the device will have a traditional keyboard (even if it's basically a detachable peripheral or cover for a tablet).
The potential similarities with Microsoft's Surface don't stop there. Chromebooks have been criticized for essentially being just a platform for Google's Chrome browser. Almost everything a user does – e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets, even image editing – happens via cloud-based Web applications. Most of the time, Chromebook users are just running the Chrome browser (albeit usually with lots of tabs). Recent versions of Chrome OS have beefed up local storage and added a desktop-esque launcher and Chromeless windows so that Web apps feel a bit more like native apps. This approach is very similar to the one-full-screen-app-at-a-time model employed by Windows RT, Android, and iOS. Users can switch between tasks (really browser windows), and the Chrome Web Store offers a way to pick up utilities and bookmarks for Chrome-savvy Web apps. The overall feel of the Chromebook isn't much different from Microsoft's Modern UI as exemplified in Windows RT.
ARMed and dangerous
With the addition of a touch screen, and perhaps a convertible tablet design, Chromebooks might find they're not competing with tablets or Intel's Ultrabooks in the same way they're competing with Microsoft's Surface with Windows RT. With Surface, Microsoft is trying to wed the tablet world with the traditional PC. Touch-enabled Chromebooks would likely be trying the same thing: offering a touch interface, but also letting folks have a traditional keyboard and pointer when they need it.
With the Samsung Chromebook, Google also brought the Chrome OS to ARM-based devices. Rather than relying on an Intel processor, Samsung's latest Chromebook sports a Samsung Exynos 5 Dual processor, based on ARM's Cortex A15 design. Although Chrome OS doesn't run Windows applications, the ability to run on both Intel and ARM architectures lets potential Chromebooks tap both the battery-sipping technology of the tablet, as well as the more powerful x86 world – most likely as represented by Intel's forthcoming "Clover Trail" update to its Atom processor line.
Hardware isn't the only place Google might choose to compete with Surface. In Google Play, Google has a content ecosystem that's easily competitive with what Microsoft can offer via its Xbox services (and Microsoft's deal with Barnes & Noble is shoring up Microsoft's e-book offerings). While Microsoft's Surface ships with a native version of Office, one of the major points of Google's cloud-based apps approach is to compete with Microsoft Office via Google Apps. Right now, every Chromebook comes with 100GB of cloud-based storage free for two years.
Google can also compete on price. Microsoft alienated many of its hardware partners, particularly Acer, when it decided to start making its own Windows hardware. After all, Microsoft pays nothing for Windows software licenses but it collects a fee from OEMs for every Windows RT license they need, which means Microsoft competes against other would-be Windows RT device makers at a distinct cost advantage.
Microsoft's Surface with Windows RT starts at $499; Surface Pro with the full Windows 8 will cost even more. However, Samsung's Chromebook – the most expensive Chromebook on the market – currently starts at $249, which is essentially half the price of the least expensive Surface; and other Chromebooks, like Acer's C7, are even cheaper. In terms of hardware specs, Samsung's Chromebook compares very favorably with the Surface.
If Google were to enter the Chromebook market, it could easily follow the pattern it has set with the Nexus 4 smartphone and its Nexus tablets and sell them at cost or near cost. With tablets and smartphones, Google is banking in app and media sales to generate profit in the long term. Being browser-driven and cloud-dependent, Chromebooks will never have the same app market as smartphones. Google is unlikely to see the same app and content revenues from Chromebooks that it does from smartphones and tablets.
However, Google still has potential long-term revenue streams from Chromebooks from Google Drive, Google Apps, and other cloud-based services. With current Chromebooks, that 100GB on Google Drive is only free for two years; after that, people need to pay for it, meaning, with the prospect of revenue down the road, Google might be able to justify selling Chromebooks at or near cost as users adopt Google Apps and Google Drive.
This chain of reasoning is a long series of "ifs," but it could mean that Google-branded Chromebooks would not only undercut the small existing Chromebooks market (just as Google's tablet offerings undercut Android tablets), but also that the price gap between Chromebooks and Surface could become even more glaring.
Simply adding touchscreens to Chromebooks isn't a guaranteed path to commercial success. Chromebooks would still face many challenges in the marketplace.
Right now, Chromebooks suffer on some performance fronts. Samsung's latest battery-sipping ARM-based Chromebook boasts 6.5 hours of battery life – a number that would've been jaw-dropping a few years ago but now lags well behind mainstream tablets and even some mainstream notebooks. Intel-based Chromebooks are even less impressive, though perhaps Intel's forthcoming Clover Trail CPU's will change that.
Another downside for Chromebooks is that they lack native apps. Although almost everyone agrees that HTML5 and related technology are the future of both the Web and mobile computing (with mobile Flash being the highest-profile casualty), the success of the Apple App Store – as well as competitive efforts like Google Play, Amazon's App Store, and even the nascent Windows Store – indicate native apps still rule the day. Given a choice, most people would rather play Angry Birds or watch a movie using a native application rather than a Web-based app. HTML5 may be the future, but native apps still offer features, capabilities, and (most importantly) performance that can't be matched by Web technologies.
And there's another big if: Microsoft has yet to prove that either consumers or businesses are willing to embrace touch-enabled notebooks, let alone devices like the Microsoft Surface that are essentially hybrids of tablets and notebooks. Microsoft hasn't released any numbers for Surface sales yet, and we don't expect to see them until after the holiday season – although Piper Jaffray had the iPad solidly outselling the Surface on Black Friday.
Bottom line
If Google decides to bring touch capabilities to its Chromebook line, it could add some much-needed energy to the brand and make Google's bet on the Chrome desktop operating system seem like it was ahead of its time. However, right now, Web-based, cloud-dependent apps do not offer the features or performance of native apps running on tablets, devices like the Microsoft Surface, or on traditional notebooks. Until cloud computing and Web-based apps are truly ready for the mainstream, Chromebooks may find they remain little more than a curiosity.


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Ash's Charizard is back. That's right, because tonight on Pokémon: Best Wishes!, Pocket Monster trainer Ash once again got his Charizard.
Fans of the anime will know that this Charizard is the fifth Pokémon Ash nabbed, and tonight's episode, told partly in flashbacks, gave the Pocket Monster's backstory.
The Charizard became Ash's most powerful, but the monster grew distant, and they finally parted ways, with Ash leaving his Charizard in a valley filled with other powerful Charizards. (Though, to be honest, Charizard did pop up a few times after that!)
In this latest episode, Ash's Charizard is returning as a regular character on Pokémon: Best Wishes!. So you can see the character on a weekly basis starting next week!
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When Pope Francis flies back to his native continent later this month, the iconic outstretched arms of Christ the Redeemer statue on Corcovado Mountain will welcome him to World Youth Day 2013 (WYD) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"While Pope Francis is indeed coming 'home' to South America at WYD, he has truly become pastor of Catholics in every country," said Paul Jarzembowski, coordinator of youth and young adult ministries for the Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
"Our hope is that the Holy Father will make a crowded landscape of 2.5 million people seem like a close-knit family gathering, with the pope as our pastor and father figure."
WYD is a global celebration for teens and young adults typically (but not always) celebrated every three years in a different country. The multicultural event, which debuted in 1986 and was made popular by the charismatic and perpetually young-at-heart Blessed Pope John Paul II, brings youths into a melting pot of traditions, languages and backgrounds.
The events in Rio span six days (July 23-28), and include a plethora of catechetical, social and spiritual activities to cultivate the mind, heart and soul. Such activities include multiple Masses with Pope Francis, workshops on the Faith and numerous festive gatherings. Pre-events on both the local and regional levels, as well as in Rio, are scheduled. Veterans of WYD know that plenty of flags, dancing and good music is on the menu, too.
Logistical difficulties
Dioceses across the United States typically coordinate trips to WYD, but some common denominators have dioceses struggling to send the amount of pilgrims they've had in the past.
Starting in the Midwest, two factors are cost and scheduling conflicts. Mark Graveline, director of youth outreach at the Diocese of Saginaw, Mich., says a combination of rising travel costs and the diocese's 75th anniversary celebration in August kept them from coordinating a group this year.
"It would have been difficult to pull off those two things together," Graveline said.
However, he noted that for Michigan dioceses, a popular option for youths who cannot travel to Rio is to participate in a regional event in the Archdiocese of Chicago. A list of their events, which are similar in scope to the actual WYD, can be found at www.catechesis-chicago.org.
In the past, the diocese sent 75 pilgrims each to Madrid in 2011 and to Sydney, Australia, in 2008.
Pilgrimage of the heart
Heading to the East Coast and the District of Columbia, Rio plans suffered a setback after the travel agency managing the trip for the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., declared bankruptcy.
Despite the unfortunate circumstances, the archdiocese's Office of Young Adult Ministry is planning to celebrate WYD with their global peers via a Rio-in-D.C. event at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America.
"The local WYD delegation being canceled was disappointing," said Jonathan Lewis, coordinator of evangelization and young adult initiatives. "But in a challenging way, (it) offers each of us the opportunity to enter into the experience of pilgrimage in a different way and allows all young adults in the D.C. area to make a pilgrimage of the heart."
The event will take place July 27. The day includes a live-feed of the vigil with Pope Francis, adoration and confession, talk and reflections by local Catholic leaders and a candlelit Mass in a grotto, followed by food and entertainment. More information can be found at adw.org/rio.
Growing enthusiasm
Much farther south, the Archdiocese of San Antonio is combining both the local and international in its plans.
Joan Martinez, youth ministry director at the archdiocese, said she's taking 40 pilgrims, including Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, with her to Rio, even though the participation is only half the usual amount. She said the numbers have decreased because, in her experience, the cost is $1,000 more than WYDs in Europe. But increased costs have not dampened the archdiocese's enthusiasm.
"Pilgrims traveling to Rio, in addition to much meeting and fundraising on the parish level, have been meeting and preparing spiritually for pilgrimage with the archdiocesan group," said Martinez. "There was a retreat for pilgrims last weekend where we actually walked around a local park with our luggage, praying the Rosary along the journey, keeping in mind the reason for this trip. In fact, we specifically call ourselves pilgrims, not tourists."
Locally, the archdiocesan offices of youth ministry, campus/young adult ministry, and vocations planned an event July 27-28, so pilgrims can be in solidarity with those in Rio during the vigil and closing Mass, said Martinez. More information can be found at wydsa.com.
Global event
Can't go to Rio or even to a regional event? No worries.
"World Youth Day is bigger than the gathering taking place this summer in Brazil," said Jarzembowski. "Especially in our digital world, WYD is something that can be experienced by all young people — whether that be in person with hundreds of thousands of others in Rio de Janeiro or back home in the United States through social media."
Martinez agrees that WYD is bigger than just what's happening in Rio.
"For those who are celebrating locally, I pray they, too, meet Christ in the youth and adults gathered for the same purpose — to hear the Word of God and be able to integrate it into their lives," she said.
Mariann Hughes writes from Maryland.
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once again I managed to write the initial question about the Toro without being logged in. Yes it was me who wrote the initial message and me who wrote the 'i've just started kitesurfing with my 12.2 black tip' message the other day. having read through the various replies about the Toro, i noticed that someone has pretended to be me and act anonymously and reply to all the comments. So 'mission man', thank you for your comments and rest assured that the banter you've got going on with that 'anonymous' retard is not me.
Your comments on the Toro are much appreciated along with everyone who helped me with my 'i've just started kitesurfing' questions.