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You don't just fix vehicles. You ensure the safety of thousands of drivers in your community. So why not do your best work for America's largest automotive retailer? In 300 store locations from coast to coast, AutoNation Service Technicians work on 36 vehicle brands — from Ford to Chevrolet and Toyota to Mercedes Benz. No matter your specialty, you'll have advancement opportunities at every level of your career. Join us and find your personal road to satisfaction and success.
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"We build pathways to help you accelerate as fast as you can and want to go or take as long as you need. I've been with the company for 16 years. I started with AutoNation as a foreman at a very small store and now I manage more than half the stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and have personally trained up four Service Directors." - Service Technician
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Job DetailsJob ID 2018-104349 Date posted 11/14/2018 Job Location Tucson, Arizona Job Type Regular Full-Time
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The Service Technician performs vehicle repair and maintenance as assigned in accordance with dealer and factory standards and builds Customer loyalty by developing trust and ensuring confidence in AutoNation as a care-giver for their vehicle safety and reliability.
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What are the day-to-day responsibilities?
- Performing vehicle repair and/or maintenance work as outlined on repair order with efficiency and accuracy, in accordance with dealership and factory standards to drive Customer loyalty.
- Communicating with Parts Department and Service Advisors regularly to effectively manage production and Customer communication.
- Diagnosing the cause of any malfunction and perform repair, if authorized by the Customer.
- Conducting multi-point inspections to make appropriate recommendations to ensure safety and reliability of Customer vehicles.
- Documenting work performed on each vehicle on the repair order.
- Maintaining an inventory of normal Technician's tools not normally inventoried by the Service department as "special tools."
- Keeping abreast of factory technical bulletins and participating in factory-sponsored training classes as appropriate.
- Providing an exceptional customer experience to drive loyalty
How will I know if I am successful?
The performance of a Service Technician is measured by achieving:
- Targeted production
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- High School diploma or equivalent
- 2+ years experience as an automotive technician
- Automotive technical training (varies based on store needs)
- Attention to detail
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- Valid in-state driver's license and have and maintain an acceptable, safe driving record
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Our Associates have many choices for career growth and development after success in a Service Technician role. Opportunities may include:
- Master-Certified Technician
- Service Advisor
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Dec. 4, 2009) - In a game full of emotion for ETSU head coach Murry Bartow and his father, Gene, the Buccaneers' men's basketball team was unable to overcome UAB's strong inside game and fell 74-52 Friday evening in the inaugural UAB Health System Gene Bartow Classic Friday night at Bartow Arena.
The Blazers outrebounded the Bucs 52-28 on the night and held a 22-5 advantage in second chance points to hand ETSU its most lop-sided loss of the early season. Besides the nice moments for his father, there was not much to smile about for ETSU's head coach.
"We just did not play well," said Bartow, who followed his father as head coach at UAB from 1996-2002. "That was our worst performance of the year. We just did not play well defensively and they really hurt us on the boards. That's not the way we have performed so far this year and not indicative of the way this team can play."
The Bucs got double figure scoring from senior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) with 14 points, while junior guard Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) added 11. However, UAB got a double-double from Elijah Millsap with 11 points and 15 rebounds, while Jamarr Sanders scored a game high 17 points. In addition, George Drake scored a season high 16 points and Kenneth Copper pitched in 11.
ETSU got out of the gate with a strong start and led early when a Tubbs 3-pointer found the mark, making it 11-10 with 13:25 left in the first half. However, with the score 16-15 in favor of UAB at the 9:48 mark, the Blazers went on a 12-0 run to garner their largest lead of the half at 28-15 and later led 37-25 at the halftime break.
In the first half, ETSU shot just 37 percent from the floor and was unable to stop the Blazers on the glass, as UAB held a 22-14 advantage on the glass. Those numbers in the paint led to an 11-2 edge for the Blazers in second chance points and the main reason for UAB's lead at the break.
After the break, Smith came ready to play and scored nine quick points to power an ETSU rally that pulled the Bucs to within five points at 45-40 with 12:03 left in the game. Unfortunately for the Bucs, UAB responded to the run with a 9-0 spurt that pushed the lead to 14 at 44-50 with 9:43 left.
The ETSU offense continued to struggle over the next five minutes and UAB ultimately led by as many as 20 points at 64-44 with 4:43 left in the game, and never looked back from that point on.
For the game, UAB shot 41 percent from the floor and 70 percent from the foul line. Meanwhile, the Bucs hit on just 35 percent of their shots from the floor and could not force enough UAB turnovers.
After a tough stretch of road games, the Bucs will return home for a pair on contests next week, taking on North Georgia on Dec. 10 inside Brooks Gym as part of the special "Back to Brooks" game. The team will then host Ohio Valley Conference foe Murray State on Dec. 12.
For more on ETSU men's basketball during the 2009-10 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's basketball link.

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Just after midnight on Friday, September 7, 2012 Josh Carter walked out of the Frenchtown Club bar, got in to his truck alone and drove away. He has not been seen since.
The Missoula County Sheriff's office and Josh's family is calling on the media and the Missoula community to help them find him. Josh's mother reported that, "It's not like her son to just take off without telling anyone". The family is unaware of any issues of depression or thoughts of suicide.
Calls to Josh's cell phone simply go unanswered and search efforts made so far by deputies, family and friends has offered no new information.
~Josh was last seen wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt and a yellow and black "CAT" ball cap.
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Water project for East Lyme, New London to begin soon
After years of planning, construction is nearing on a project that will transport water between East Lyme and New London.
Officials from the two communities are slated to hold a ground-breaking ceremony today for the project that will carry water from the Lake Konomoc Water Treatment Plant, New London's reservoir, along Routes 85 and 161 to East Lyme.
Under the plan expected to be completed in May 2014, East Lyme will send water to the reservoir from fall to mid-May and then New London will send the stored water back to the town for the summer months when the town's population and water demand increases.
The proposal calls for constructing a pump at Lake Konomoc to send water in a transmission main along Route 85 to Sachatello Industrial Drive in Montville where it will reach a 425,000-gallon holding tank, according to a map. Then the water will travel along a road to where it meets Route 161. From Route 161, it will connect to East Lyme's current transmission main. A new pump station in East Lyme will then send the water back to the reservoir.
As in past years, East Lyme has implemented summer water conservation measures, that are in effect weekly from Friday until Monday. They ban watering lawns, washing cars and sidewalks, filling or cleaning swimming pools and serving water at restaurants unless a customer requests a glass.
"It will solve a longstanding problem for the town and East Lyme utility customers in terms of satisfying the shortfall," said East Lyme First Selectman Paul Formica about the interconnection.
He added the project will both guarantee water for regular supply and add a pipeline to bring water to town in an emergency.
From a regional perspective, he said the pipeline - as well as other pipelines in the region that could come to fruition - would enable area towns to transfer water to each other if needed and solve a water shortfall anticipated over the next 20 years.
East Lyme residents had approved $10.9 million for the project in 2011. There is funding available from the state's drinking water revolving fund and the project received $300,000 in federal funds. The low bid for the project came in less than expected $9.9 million.
Barry Weiner, the chairman of the New London Water and Water Pollution Control Authority, said the project will boost regionalization and assist a nearby town with its water needs.
"New London is very happy and proud to take the forefront in doing that," he said. "If one area does well, we all do."
Under the plan, New London will also receive water fees from East Lyme, he said. The project will also benefit the region by supporting tourism and ensuring security against potential droughts, he added.
George Kansas, a project manager at Tighe & Bond, the project engineer, said permits are being obtained from the state Department of Transportation and he anticipates construction will begin later this month. Construction on Routes 85 and 161 that impacts traffic will happen incrementally and will be announced, he said.
The project will proceed from the water tank in the Montville industrial park to Butlertown Road and then to Route 161. This avoids the intersection of the two routes, explained Formica.


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AUSTIN — Once thought resigned to the approach of running the ball by committee, the Texas Longhorns have a No. 1 tailback after all.
Junior Vondrell McGee was listed as the first-string running back on UT's opening-week depth chart, released by coach Mack Brown on Thursday. McGee beat out sophomores Cody Johnson and Fozzy Whittaker, who are officially co-backups.
Whittaker had been competing for the starting job but missed a week of practice, including Wednesday's scrimmage. A team source said Whittaker is still bothered by the same knee problems that have plagued him for much of his college career.
In shared duties with Whittaker, Johnson and departed senior Chris Ogbannaya last season, McGee rushed 88 times for 376 yards, a 4.3 yards-per-carry average. His 31.3 yards per game were second on the team to quarterback Colt McCoy.
But Brown said McGee not only has control of the starting job, but also the third-down duties as well. Whittaker was once thought to be the front runner for that role.
"If Vondrell's making yards, he'll get a bunch of (carries)," Brown said. "If he's not, we'll change it up."
In other noteworthy tidbits from the depth chart:
Sophomores Christian Scott and Blake Gideon are listed as co-starters at right safety, but Brown said that with those two and Earl Thomas, UT really has three starting safeties. The starting cornerbacks are Aaron Williams and Chykie Brown. When UT plays five defensive backs, Williams would play the nickel and Curtis Brown would play left cornerback. Deon Beasley, Ben Wells and Nolan Brewster are also listed in the secondary two-deep.
Greg Smith is the starting tight end, backed up by Ahmard Howard or freshman Barrett Matthews. Wide receiver Dan Buckner is the top option at the flex tight end position, followed by Matthews.
Jordan Shipley, as expected, is the starting split end. At the other two wide receiver spots, James Kirkendoll, Brandon Collins, Malcolm Williams and John Chiles are listed as co-starters.
Freshman Alex Okafor is the second-string buck defensive end, behind Sergio Kindle. Sam Acho is the other starting end, backed up by Eddie Jones.
Kheeston Randall and Ben Alexander are co-starters at the defensive tackle spot opposite Lamar Houston. Calvin Howell, Tyrell Higgins and Tray Allen are backups.
On the offensive line, sophomore David Snow is the top backup at center and at both guard positions. If UT needs a replacement tackle, center Chris Hall — who Brown said has been the best lineman in camp — would move to that spot, and Snow would start at center.
There is no clear-cut starting placekicker (Hunter Lawrence and Ryan Bailey will rotate) nor punter (John Gold and Justin Tucker will split time).
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I like standards too, and this is why these guys made a standard for the PCIe protocol: http://www.nvmexpress.org/ I'm going to make a bold statement here, and you can take it or leave it, but I truly believe SATA is on it's way out for NVM devices. [I believe] We have to stop thinking about these things as "disks" and start thinking about them as slow, huge memory. Just another step in that hierarchy (reg, L1, L2, DRAM, NVM). Obviously we have some hurdles to overcome before it's totally usable as plain-ol' OS-managed memory, but we're getting there. I think PCIe is a step in the right direction, and does a service to these devices in that it allows them to really perform (NVM memories are out-pacing SATA by a lot, at least right now). But ultimately, these things need to either be on-board or in DIMMs. Just my opinion of course. >> fine, but the problem arises because the volume for NAND flash packages >> are for SATA based drives. This results in most of the NAND packages >> within to export a SATA protocol. > > that confuses me. flash chips have a generic interface which I can't > really see as being at all specific to a particular blockdev interface. I'm obviously doing a horrible job explaining this -- my apologies! Please see page 4 of this whitepaper and the diagram at the top of page 5 for what I think must be clear enough for me to convey this overhead: http://www.marvell.com/storage/system-solutions/native-pcie-ssd-controller/assets/Marvell-Native-PCIe-SSD-Controllers-WP.pdf Getting more technical than I was willing to earlier to summarize this: there's a conversion going on between protocol encoding between the SATA controller and the HBA controller in bridge-oriented PCIe-based SSDs that can incur as high as 25% overheads in the bandwidth. Is this a game-ender for the end-user? No. Is this something to keep in mind? Sure. That's all I was angling at. It was just a suggestion for Prentice to research up on prior to committing to a bunch of PCIe drives. I don't work for Micron, Samsung, Intel, or any other company in this space. No tomfoolery going on here :D. > no, it doesn't. Micron has simply invented their own > flash-to-disk-interface. if you're saying "skipping SATA is important", > well, maybe. it looks from Micron's whitepapers that they are focused > almost entirely on small random reads (not unreasonable). but that's a > workload that doesn't stress the oddity of flash (managing pre-erased > blocks and wear levelling). maybe I'm being picking at semantics, but Small random reads are actually the toughest things to deal with for properly burnt-in SSDs. Sure, the underlying NAND prefers reads to writes, but ultimately, load-leveling across channels, packages, dies, and planes is much tougher for reads that are destined for specific data that already "lives" somewhere. This is particularly true for the tiny queues available for SATA drives, where request reordering is extremely limited. OTOH, small writes can easily be spread out over all of the internal storage in parallel because the device can "choose" where they go. Anyhow, I think we are running into overly detailed, semantics issues here though. The take-away is that, because of very different encoding between PCIe and SATA, it's inane to have SATA-controllered NAND in a PCIe-based flash device and transcode all the time. Just fix the damn bug. That's my story and I'm sticking to it ;). >> Managing the raw flash at the filesystem or driver level is an option, >> but not what I was talking about (nor what is currently in vogue right >> now, to my knowledge). > > well, it's interesting that some people are talking about adding flash > to dram dimms - very unclear to me how that would work. but maybe they're > merely using the dimm form-factor and proposing a new interface. Who are these folks? I'd love to read what they are saying -- this is where my next research is geared, so this is exciting to hear! > I guess I have more respect for SATA than you do. the Micron thing is Oh, don't get me wrong, I love SATA...for disks. I just am increasingly seeing these devices less as disks than giant, slow memory. I just worry if we force SATA to keep up with these things as they rapidly improve we may hurt things for magnetic storage, which still has a very real and valuable place in the storage hierarchy. This is a new tier, and we've treated it so far like a tier in storage. Maybe now that it's so dang fast, it's time to rethink that. > still just a disk interface - block shuffling. it arguably removes one > level of protocol reformatting, but I'm not sure how much difference > that would make to the consumer. a raid0 across SATA channels does a > pretty good job of piling up IOPs... This encoding issue takes a bigger hit on bandwidth than IOPs, fwiw. You're probably correct about SATA working (in the short-term at least) for IOPs. > OTOH, a PCIe card that really did map flash blocks directly into the > memory space would be quite interesting. it just sounds tricky to get I agree completely. Obviously from my previous ramblings, I'm hoping we see more in this direction in the near future. Sure there are hurdles, but I do not believe they are any harder than those we've surmounted with making it a disk-like device. Best, ellis


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This past week was the celebration for Xbox Live's 10 year anniversary. While this is the PlayStation University, congratulations are in store for the service that brought online gaming to the forefront of the console experience first off. Before Xbox Live's inception on the original Xbox, online interactions were mostly limited to the PC community. PlayStation Network is still much younger than its Microsoft counterpart, but Xbox Live could learn a thing or two from how Sony has been running its online portal.
ive seen so much of these damn reason articles.... take your reasons and shove them!
This would be better titled, "Why PS Plus > XBL"
Thats all it is really. In the end, people will continue to enjoy both.
What is it with you and kissing butts?
Why bother with PS Plus when you can get PSN for free?
I am aware of the constant stream of free games but honestly I'd rather have a free online service. It is robust enough to stand against XBL.
How the hell is it considered butt kissing when someone actually stated fact?
Cuz he is a stealth troll and he has a mod as a friend so if u speak against him, the mod will bubble him up and bubble u down.
In other words...he is a loser who thinks he's important because his mod friend wont let him get debubbled.
On Topic:
PS+ is amazing.
It seems I'm the only one happy with xboxlive, I jus don't like psnetwork but I haven't try the plus one.
This is true. The model is growing old and needs refreshing.
That's what the title should be. Instead, Playstation University inappropriately uses the term "fail", a popular term for today's fanboy.
Microsoft, with the help of Xbox Live, is making billions of dollars whereas SONY and PSN are either losing money or struggling to make ends meet.
Great article, PSU
Yes,because you are a technician working with Sony so you know how much they may or may not be making.
Sorry, but I don't care how much money they're making off it.
I care about what I get out of it. Live is giving me... oh, they're giving me nothing. Hmm...
Plus, on the other hand... well, I don't need to go over that again. By now, you're well aware of what Plus offers for the same price as Live. You know there's no real comparison as far as value is concerned.
"struggling to make ends meet."
You got a source for that? Or are you just another of those people talking out of their asses?
Yeah, I thought so.
Edit: @homer
I haven't stuck my head in the sand. That's stupid. Of course I want Sony to do well. But them making money doesn't mean anything to me if they're not providing the games and services I want.
Sony is in a tough spot, but they're not "failing." They're laying people off as part of a restructure, something people that keep harping on their condition seem to forget.
I'm in gaming, though, for the GAMES. As long as Sony's making the games, they'll be getting my money.(In any case, it's not as if it's the Playstation division that's killing them; it's elsewhere. With that in mind, why does it seem like people take every opportunity to make it seem the opposite is true? That's odd, isn't it?)
If my desire for good gaming and gaming features considered "fantasy land," then I think there aren't enough gamers who are with me.
I wish I could stick my head in the sand and ignore Sony's financial woes much like you have. Sony corp is failing. They are laying off employess left and right and their stocks are still falling. Their credit rating is one above crap. I wish I could live in your fantasy land.
A lot of disagrees for homer, but he is right. Sonys stock is only rated 1 above being trusted at the moment.
Actually the gaming devision of sony is making a profit. Its all their other brands that are tanking. And I doubt ms makes all its money from gaming.
@Never Ending...
How do you get any disagrees for what you said? N4G, that's how. What you said is right. Xbox Live and MS are laughing all the way to the bank. That's why Sony came out with PSN+ They want to make some of that cash from a monthly subscription.
That's the ONLY reason they made that. SDF crack me up on here. Probably because it's mostly like 15-17 year olds.
And great article.... 7 years later, and now xbox live is starting to fail to the playstation site.
Cool Story Brah.
EDIT.. LMAO at the faithful claiming that Live has ever been hacked. :D Ha ha ha ha ha ha... People getting their accounts phished is far FAR from a service getting hacked like PSN was. Brought down to it's knees and crippled.
B-b-b-but xJohnny134X had his account phished that affected nobody but himself... THAT MEANS XBOX LIVE WAS HACKED!!!
Oh brother.
I feel bad for these children that dont know the value of the dollar...
Yes...Xbox Live is amazing and a better service than all others. Keep telling yourselves this...
And Midnight right above me ^^^ dont know if you read what you post...but your school system has definitely failed you ... as well as your parenting and anything else that was a factor in developing that pea brain you have.
I am really starting to believe that people are missing parts of their brain. In an article that talks about Sony and Ms respective services, people are bring up the fact that Sony is in a financial woe. Do you people really want Sony fail? What does tha have to do with the article? Do you know what that could seriously mean for gaming? Let Sony worry about Sony because they will be alright.
When asked to list features that makes live online vastly superior to the pen online, a person on this site wrote:
Custom Music
Smart Glass
Party Chat
Skyrim Dlc
Better graphics in multi plats.
Oh brother! One person also stopped using psn entirely because it got hacked once by people who justed wanted to prove something with the hacking rather than steal. Again, oh brother!
I will say it again: when it comes to strictly gaming online, live is in no way superior to pen and that is the truth. That is no fanboy BS. For instance, say Halo 4 came out on both consoles. Would I buy it for the Xbox? No. Because I know that all I have to do is pop it in the PS3 and play. I actually wanted to play Halo 4 online, so I opted to get live for three months. It would have set me back $24. Its not a lot of money, I know. But I just payed $60 for Halo 4 which only lasted me 6 hours on heroic.
Sony's financial issues are completely relevant when discussing who is failing.
And Halo 4 would be horrible on PS3. Why? The same reasons why Live is better than PSN. Party chat allows you to speak with your friends (no 14yr old kids chatting away like on Killzone 3) and every Xbox owner has a microphone. You wouldn't talk to people on Halo 4 and people couldn't talk to you. You wouldn't enjoy multiplayer because of it. Personally, I've put about 30 hours in the Halo 4 campaign, but I plan on spending 95% of my total Halo 4 on multiplayer. Starting to get the picture?
Let's hope SONY leans from past mistakes this gen and gives Live a run for its money next gen which will force M$ to up their game. All gamers benefit.
A service that continues to outshine and outgrow it's competitors is failing? Wake me when PSN gets party chat and doesn't need 100 patches for everything.
PSN = hacked
Live = hack free
The PSV has party chat. ;) No PSN update needed for party chat, it's all in the software on the device.
I agree that Live isn't "failing," but wake me when I don't I have to pay to play mp online on Live.
Live= Fee
PSN= Fee-Free
Live has been hacked a few times, just not in the proportion PSN has been because the hackers didn't put their heart into it, therefore M$ never had to release a statement, stop the service, etc...
All 3 console's networks have been hacked in this generation.
Yea but after they were hacked i quit using PSN like i used too. a lot of my friends moved on and it was never the same. their free stuff does not matter if no one is on line or talking, the fact they do not even have proper custom music this long into the cycle just shows how much PlayStation sucks. I just bought a PC and I am loving it over my PlayStation. My PlayStation has become my Blue ray player, i still play the occasional game on it, but the fact that they can not give the consumer basic functionality is just plain sad. PSN and PlayStation sucks get over it.
But they did get hacked. Both consoles have had their share of hacks. Do you not remember when XBoX accounts got hacked?
Indeed Live has been hacked a few times this generation aswell. No service is hack free even the Pentagon gets hacked.
Xbox Live has never been hacked. There have been PC phishing scams where people give up passwords, but never hacked. Where do you people come up with this crap? How about you provide some proof to back up your claims? Just one link, thats all Im asking.
" Wake me when PSN gets party chat and doesn't need 100 patches for everything."
PS Vita = party chat. As for the patches, can't confirm that, but I haven't heard much about that on Vita.
So yeah.. a handheld is offering that. PS4 is around the corner, and by then, purposefully ignorant fanboys like yourself will have to be the ones doing the waking up - or not, and keep paying for a service that is offering you stuff that other services do for free and with similar efforts.
The reason PS3's network doesn't have certain features of XBL is because of RAM and OS footprint limitations, it's not because Sony are inadequate, and the Vita proves it. Do you think Sony are just being lazy or not listening to the HUGE percentage of people who want some of these features?
I honestly hope people like you are ready to take in what you will see when PS4 hits as far as PSN goes, because I think some of you are just hell bent on dragging down Sony because of PS3's system RAM limitations.
And you'd have to be the one to prove to me that you're the closed off fanboy by telling me Xbox Live is hack free? Yep, again, ignoring the evidence and pretending like Xbox's security is so much finer, when if Anonymous wanted to, they could EASILY hack Live. If they've been there, done that with Government(!), I don't think big old Microsoft could stop them. I don't even have to ask you if you think they couldn't, because I know you do already.
Anyway, Xbox Live is bloody great as an overall service, but my main gripe with Microsoft is that they charge you for the basic right to access online games. They hold for ransom your right to access a VERY simple feature such as connecting to other players to play games, something which has been a free standard for god knows how long.
Forget all the other features, they might be worth it for a lot of people, but charging for basic access is unacceptable in my opinion. Charge for the ADVANCED features, and leave the basics for free. In fact you people need to do what PC gamers did and say "NO!" because otherwise they'll keep charging for things they don't need to and disrespect you as consumers i.e. Netflix subscription within subscription.
Besides, when you can see a service like Steam does everything XBL does and for free with MORE flexibility and MORE value, and the fact that PS+ exists, it's not hard to see who's getting short changed here.
Ha Ha! Lemme see for less than $4.99 a month we get the very best online experience hands down on Xbox Live.
MS/XBOX continues to proctect and improve our experience all the time and is currently miles ahead of anything sony has to offer. Sony video game division lost hundreds of millions if not over a billion since the ps3.
They have learned a lesson and have adopted the psn plus and soon that will be their norm otherwise they will keep falling farther and farther behind.
Nobody is going to go to psn from XBL. why would they want to go backwards to something less than.
I love my Xbox XBL and the weight of a butt hurt sony website wont change that.
PSN tries to copy and never leads. Thats reality.
Xbl is miles ahead of psn? Please elaborate and list all the features that psn doesn't also do. I had an Xbox and sold it because I was tired of being raped for cash by m$. Other than party chat which is a system limitation I can connect with friends and play online the same way. Please explain you're reason for wasting money to just play online when ps3, pc and Nintendo do not charge.
Feature list-
Custom Music
Party Chat
Smart Glass
Better Graphics in Multy platforms
Skyrim DLC
Just a few things you should have on ps3 but do not. Like i said my PC is my Favorite now. I had now idea how great playing your own music in a FPS could be, till now. Sony sucks, my pc even does 3D better.
what? half of those things have nothing to do with live service but the console's hardware. xbox live offers ability to play online and cross chat, thats about it.
ps offers online play standard, some games have custome soundtracks, and a few games being marginally better on 360 doesnt change the fact they r multiplat titles who r largely the same. ps3 gets exclusive content too u kno, ala aciii. ps3 also has more exclusive games that blow most of what is available multiplat or on 360 out the water...period.
plus offers instant games collections, auto update features, 1st beta entries, free addon deals, discounts galore on popular games, cloud service.
You are seriously a deluded sad little boy. Only reason Live is an inch better than PSN is because of party chat, which, by the way, is exaggerated as the best thing ever, when in fact, it's not. I've gotten about 6-7 free games for $50.00, and you just got party chat for the same price and th ability to actually play online....Yes, Live is way beyond PSN....-_-
Why is an article from "Playstation university" approved. They even write "Micro$oft" or "M$". This is not better than a random forum-post on N4G and N4G is known for the most retarded community in the web.
Playstation university...no bias here -_-
Trust me, if Sony could charge for to PSN they would but the truth is Sony can NOT and had no option but to make it fre. Sony loss a large amount of fan base to MS and Nintendo becuase of the ridiculus price of $600 for a PS3, the fact that were acting all arogant with statements like Nexr Gen does not start until we say so and get two jobs to afford a PS3 did not help either.
Sony has put there self in a hard place becuse they marketed the PS3 as free online and if they start chargeing for the PS4 the fans will revolt, also PSN is playing catchup to XBL so if Sony starts chargeing for PSN they will have to offer something better than XBL.
Again, Ridiculous!
$10Million, 10,000,000! Is what it cost M$ to make Forward Unto Dawn. We saw it for FREE! Those that purchased Halo 4 Collectors received another version as part of the package.
That is one of the added amenities among many you get from XBOX Live, a great film that follows the #1 exclusive on the console!
There are several comments on this thread that state many factual reasons for Live's Dominance. I need not reiterate such obvious facts, Live needs no patches for new games 99% of the damn time.
"You get what you pay for".
I watched forward unto dawn for free as well but it didn't cost me anything and i didn't need an xbox to see it. and if what i hear is true its coming out on disk, which means ill be able to watch it on my playstation.
Failing = losing money.
Are the falling behind with Xbox Live, or are they still making too much money from it?
My problem with Xbox Live is that they charge you to play online. I hate it, they suck for making everyone pay to use their own internet connection.
Does that mean the service is failing?
(Note the source, Playstation University)
Because more people are adopting PCs and PSN is FREE!!!! That, and the paid PSN service is actually really great in the value it provides to the consumer.
Even though it won't happen, this is why I would like the PS4 to come out before the 720. In 2005, the 360 came out, and misinformed consumers were led to believe that paying to play online was the norm. If the PS4 comes out first, consumers will flock to it and slowly understand that when you buy a gaming platform, the ability to play online should come with it.
I agree completely. The issue now is that so many people are on XBOX Live that they have a community that is hard to break away from. I've been trying to talk more people into joining PSN instead. Once people come to expect free as the norm, then Microsoft might be forced to lower or eliminate mandatory costs for online play in order to become competitive. Since I've been a PC gamer for years, the idea of actually paying for something like multiplayer is just a completely foreign idea.
I said the same thing about when XBL was new, but I never looked at PS4/PSN in the way you just put it. That would be interesting, if not pathetic, in seeing how easy it is for the average person to be led down a path. I wouldn't be surprised if a percentage of people saw PS4 come out first, boasting free online connectivity, and were blown away by the money saved.
And don't underestimate the power of the gamer score. There are plenty of people that are unwilling to move because they will be starting at 0 on another platform.
Yes I know that is totally lame but unfortunately such people exist.
If Ms would just stop charging for online, all this fanboy BS would stop. If people would just stop paying to play their games online, all this fanbou BS would stop. I just don't understand the logic behind paying for the service. For instance: I can access YouTube freely on the psn but cant on live unless I pay for it. What?
Exactly. What have we got after paying to play online for 10 years? Barely anything that would give the money's worth. Only thing people are saying to prove it's worth paying is; the system is "secure" and never hacked (which is not true of course and it also had its share of serious problems). XBL never deserved the money people've been paying for it and still doesn't. Especially when playing online on PC and PS3 is free and when you get free games each month when you decide to pay the same amount in PSN's case. But of course, that never stopped people from claiming that PSN is an inferior service due to being free.
Don't know about hack proof or secure, it just comes down to the system i mostly game on,where my friends , peers & family game while socializing with one another. it come down to preference.
But This title makes no sense? How has Live failed 10 years later what does that mean? If Live was "failing" 10 years now 5 years ago MS would of pulled the plug on it? If Live is "failing" then why has the service gotten better year after year?
If Live was "failing" why have they provided AAA Arcade games and releasing F2P games. If Live was "failing" why do they continue patch, update, improve, secure, moderate its service?
Now the biggest one. If Live is failing then why do people continue to pay for the subscriptions and new users boom every holiday?
Yeah who ever submitted this needs to take this down its fanboy feeder. Btw those reasons hold no wait and are subjective.
In terms of value for money, that is completely true. I can only see fanboys disagree in that statement.
YUP, unless social media features like X-game chat take priority over a steady stream of great games each month for only $50 a year. If thats the case, your not a gamer.
So by having no issue with paying for live & looking forward to doing so , would that be considered a diagree or a prefernce in choice.
If PS Plus gains mass popularity, people will eventually see that they are getting ripped off by Microsoft. Thus Microsoft will be forced to make XBL free and/or offer more value to the service...thereby directly benefiting YOU.
Assuming your a rational/prudent human being, wouldn't u rather spend $0 on XBL than $50?
Your probably the only person I know that looks forward to paying a bill. I mean I love PS+ and find it worth the money, but still don't look forward to renewing it just because I have to spend money.
Other than that, yeah if you find value in paying for live it doesn't matter what someone else says. It's your money and your free to spend it the way you like.
Live is a wonderful service, but Steam has every Live feature and then some...yet, it's free. I'd say the PSN is on-par with Live, at this point. That doesn't even include Plus, which sometimes makes me feel like I'm getting away with murder!
once again ill say it, people are only UPSET with live costing because its where they really want to be. i never see any xbox live lovers (fanboys) or whatever you chose to call them bringing up the psn network, because they simply coud care less, but i constantly hear about how live cost...why does it worry people, if you did t want it, it should be an after thought, but the truth is if xbox live were free...thats where all the crying people would be...ON XBOX LIVE...HAHAHAHAHAHA
well for instance if the practice is backed over and over it will be come the norm thus affecting the entire industry of consumers.
I see plenty of xbox fanboys bring up the PSN network. The whole "renting games" argument and such. It's their justification as to why PS+ isn't worth it and xbox is. Some insecurity on both sides of the fence, and truly outside the vocal fanboy base, most people couldn't care less.
i don't know why they say that stuff i get to keep the games that i get from ps+ even after the subscripton has expired.
The free games you can't play after your subscription ends unless you renew. The ones you purchase you get to keep though. I believe there were one or two free ones that continued to work, but I don't recall what they were.
READY. Psn fan boys, and Live fan boys. FIGHT!
Lol Don't forget live fanboys have to pay just to get in the ring for their own fight.
Except that it's not. Also, giving away free consoles has absolutely nothing to do with Xbox Live itself. Automatic updates are not essential at all, there are rarely updates to Xbox Live to begin with.
Advertisements are not even a problem. I don't even spend time on the dashboard. It may seem odd to some, but I actually use my console to play games instead of staring at the dashboard and fuming about ads. Most of them aren't even ads, they're just showing stuff that is new to Xbox Live. I agree with trials v. demos though.
And, I'm sorry, I like PS+ but the argument that you get free games is completely invalid. First, you're paying for the service. Paying in no way equals free. Second, it's only yours if you keep subscribing. So it's a paid rental, not a free game you can keep.
Well said. Guess a biased article is to be expected from PlayStation University.
" I like PS+ but the argument that you get free games is completely invalid. First, you're paying for the service. Paying in no way equals free. Second, it's only yours if you keep subscribing. So it's a paid rental, not a free game you can keep. "
How is it invalid... That's the main drawing point of PSN+ is the free games and discounts... If you make that invalid than what is there to compare it with Live? Yes you keep that game as long as you subscribe... but I will pay $50 a year to get up to 7-8 free games a year to play versus $50 a year just to access multiplayer and no free games. More often than not, i will finish each games in less then 2 months and get new ones to play.
It's invalid because they aren't free. Do you pay for them? Yes. Then they aren't free. I agree, I would pay for PS+ and get a nice instant game library to play, as well as discounts, any day. That doesn't make it free.
I know you dont have more bubbles so im going use one to reply to you. You are right its not free, but Its a better offering and better incentives than xbox live. Dont get me wrong I have Live right now to play Halo 4, however the problem here is that im not into multiplayer gaming but I still have my netflix and Hulu account. Why do i need to have live to play single player and to access other media apps that I've already paid for? Why do i have to pay double to access Netflix? for me i have two console so i can use my PS3 for those but those who only have the xbox they are pretty much getting cheated.
@ Edonus
That's probably the most sensible and unbiased comment I've read on here today - agree mate.


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Irish researcher and biochemistry professor Martin Tangney has found a new and highly potential use for one of Ireland's favorite products - whiskey. Tangney has discovered that biofuel can be created from the by-products of whiskey.
The Irish Examiner reports that Tangney, a UCC graduate who now works in Scotland at Edinburgh Napier University as a professor of biochemistry, discovered that the by-products draff and pot-ale are suitable as biofuels if they are "harnessed before being converted into energy" during the whiskey making process.
Scotland has a vast resource of these whiskey by-products, most notably at Glemorangie and Glenfiddich. After a number of years of research in the area, Tangney yesterday launched a company for the newly discovered product.
In 2007, Tangney established Britain's first ever research centre dedicated to biofuel research at Edinburgh Napier University. After years of research, the researcher and professor has branched out to launch the company Celtic Renewables Ltd.
The new company will first focus on working within Scotland's "€4.8bn malt whisky industry to develop a next-generation biofuel known as bio-butanol, and other renewable chemicals."
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Bio-butanol, unlike other biofuels, has huge global potential according to researchers. The new biofuel can be used as a direct replacement for petrol, or can be used as a blend and wouldn't require any engine modification.
"The process we developed can convert the by-products of whisky production [pot ale, the liquid from the copper stills, and draff, the spent grains] into sustainable biofuel — no need for engine modification and no drop off in performance," say Tangney of the process he helped develop.
In conjunction with Scottish Enterprise, Celtic Renewables Ltd is hoping to get into industrial sized production of bio-butanol. "Each year the industry produces 1,600 million litres of pot ale and 500,000 tons of draff," reports the Irish Examiner.
Tangey said of the potential for production, "The Scottish malt whisky industry is a ripe resource for developing bio-butanol. The pot ale and draff could be converted into biofuel as a direct substitute for fossil-derived fuel, which would reduce oil consumption and C02 emissions while also providing energy security — particularly in the rural and remote homelands of the whisky industry."
While Celtic Renewables Ltd is already backed by Scottish programs, Tangney hopes to include Ireland for the manufacturing end of business. "We can tie into large distilleries in Ireland and provide local employment," he says.


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Human Resources Subcommittee Marks Up H.R. 631, the SSI Fraud Prevention Act of 1999
On February 10, the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources marked up and approved by voice vote H.R. 631, the SSI Fraud Prevention Act of 1999. The full Ways and Means Committee has not yet announced when it will consider the bill.
Below are descriptions of the provisions in H.R. 631 as reported by the Subcommittee.
Primary Liability of Representative Payees for Overpayment to Deceased Recipients
Would make a representative payee primarily liable for an SSI or OASDI overpayment caused by a payment made to a beneficiary who has died. Also would require SSA to establish an overpayment control record under the representative payee's Social Security number. Would be effective upon enactment.
Requirement To Provide State Prisoner Information to Federal and Federally Assisted Benefit Programs
Would require the Commissioner to provide, on a reimbursable basis, information obtained under agreements with institutions for reporting prisoners to Federal or federally assisted cash, food, or medical assistance program. Would be effective upon enactment.
Recovery of Overpayments of SSI Benefits from Lump Sum SSI Benefit Payments
Would require the Commissioner to recover SSI overpayments from SSI lump-sum amounts by withholding 50 percent of the lump-sum or the amount of the overpayment, whichever is less. Would apply to amounts of overpayments that are outstanding on or after the date of enactment.
Rules Relating to Collection of Overpayments from Individuals Convicted of Crimes
Would prohibit SSI/DI eligibility based on disability for 10 years if ex-fugitive or ex-prisoner knowingly fails to notify SSA at time of (re)application that he or she had received benefits erroneously while in prison or knowingly fails to comply with scheduled repayment of overpayment. The Commissioner would determine whether individual "knowingly failed" to notify or comply and would take into account the individual's mental or linguistic limitations if any. Also would eliminate waivers of recovery of overpayments caused by imprisonment and require SSA to continue collection efforts while prisoners are in jail. Would be effective upon enactment.
Additional Debt Collection Practices
Would extend to the SSI program all of the debt collection authorities currently available for the collection of overpayments under the Social Security program, such as referring debtors to credit bureaus, using private collection agencies and charging interest on outstanding debts. Would apply to amounts of overpayments that are outstanding on or after the date of enactment.
Treatment of Assets Held in Trust Under the SSI Program
Would include in the countable resources of an individual for SSI purposes, the assets of any trust containing property transferred from the individual or spouse to the extent that the assets could be used for the benefit of either. Would exclude certain trusts (e.g., those established by will, or certain trusts that would repay the State the cost of services provided the beneficiary upon his or her death). Would apply to trusts established on or after January 1, 2000.
Disposal of Resources for Less Than Fair Market Value Under the SSI Program
Would provide a penalty under the SSI program for the transfer of assets at less than fair market value. The penalty would be a loss of benefits for a number of months equal to the number of months obtained by dividing the uncompensated value of disposed-of resources by the Federal benefit rate. Would apply to transfers of resources made on or after the date of enactment
Loss of Benefits As Penalty for Fraud
Would add a new penalty of nonpayment of SSI and OASDI benefits for individuals found to have made a statement or representation of material fact for use in determining eligibility to disability benefits that the individual knew, or should have known, was false or misleading or omitted a material fact, or made such a statement with knowing disregard for the truth. The period of nonpayment would be 6 months for the first violation, 12 months for the second, and 24 months for the third violation. Would require the Commissioner to consult with OIG before imposing penalty. Also would require SSA to publish regulations prescribing process for imposing penalties. Would be effective upon enactment.
Exclusion of Attorneys and Physicians Convicted of Violations from Participation in Social Security Disability Programs
Would bar doctors and attorneys from SSI/DI disability programs if they are found to have helped commit fraud. Bar would be for 5 years, 10 years, and permanent exclusion for the first, second, and third offenses respectively. Would be effective with respect to violations and convictions occurring on or after the date of enactment.
Annual Reviews by State Disability Determination Services of Professionals Conducting Consultative Examinations
Would require annual evaluation of doctors who conduct consultative exams for analysis of the thoroughness of the examinations and patterns of abuse. The findings would be required to be reported to the SSA OIG. First annual evaluations would be required to be completed by 12/31/99.
Computer Matches With Medicare and Medicaid Institutionalization Data
Would require the Commissioner to conduct periodic matches with Medicare and Medicaid data held by the Secretary of HHS, and would permit the Commissioner to substitute information from the matches for the physician's certification otherwise required in order to maintain the full benefit level of an individual whose institutionalization is expected to last fewer than 3 months. Would be effective upon enactment.
Access to Information Held by Financial Institutions
Would provide that the Commissioner may require SSI applicants and beneficiaries to provide authorization for SSA to obtain any and all financial records from any and all financial institutions. These authorizations would remain in effect, unless revoked in writing. Commissioner need not furnish to the financial institution copies of the authorizations or written certification of compliance with the provisions of the Right to Financial Privacy Act. Would be effective upon enactment.
State Data Exchanges
Would deem the SSA's data privacy standards to meet all State standards for purposes of sharing data. Would be effective upon enactment.
Study on Possible Measures To Improve Fraud Prevention
Would require the Commissioner in consultation with OIG and the Attorney General to undertake study to identify possible measures to reduce fraud and improve processing of beneficiaries' reported changes of income. Also requires a report to Congress on legislative and administrative recommendations in these areas. Report would be due 1 year after date of enactment.
Annual Report on Amounts Necessary To Combat Fraud
Would require SSA to include in its annual budget an itemization of the amount of funds required to support efforts to combat fraud by applicants and beneficiaries. Would apply with respect to budgets for fiscal years after FY 1999. Would be first included in annual budget prepared for fiscal years after fiscal year 1999.
Provision of Reduced SSI Benefits to Certain Individuals Who Provided Service to the Armed Forces of the United States in the Philippines During World War II After They Move Back to the Philippines
Would continue SSI benefits for certain individuals residing in the Philippines at 75 percent of the amount that they otherwise would receive in the United States if they are in the United States and eligible for SSI on both January 1, 1990, and the date of enactment. Individuals who would be eligible for benefits while they reside in the Philippines are individuals who, before August 15, 1945, served in the military forces of the Philippine Commonwealth or


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Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad (VAMP) and SANGRAM, two sex workers' rights organasations and NSWP members based in Sangli, India have praised the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women's report calling on the Indian Government to review the legislation that criminalises sex work. The report also called for the Indian Government to protect the human rights of sex workers.
The "Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its causes and consequences, Mission to India" was submitted by the Human Rights Council for consideration to the UN General Assembly on 1 April 2014 and was based on the India mission undertaken by the Special Rapporteur in April 2013. The report is not yet available publically. The Rapporteur will publish her global report after June 2015 once all country visits have been completed.
The Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Ms. Rashida Manjoo had received written submissions and listened to depositions from women's organisations, networks, affected individuals, care givers across the length and breadth of India during her visit. The report highlights the violence and rights violations faced by women in the private and public sphere through state and non-state actors. The report underscores that the discrimination and violence impedes the enjoyment of rights in every aspect of life from civil and political, to economic, social and cultural rights.
The report highlights four areas where rights of sex workers are being constantly violated i.e. violence faced within sex work and as a consequence of being a sex worker with family, community and law enforcement; absence of redress and access to justice for violations; forced detention and rehabilitation of sex workers.
Perhaps for the first time ever, the Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, has underscored the need to address the violence faced within sex work from state and non-state actors and the lack of avenues for legal redress. It notes that sex workers in India are "exposed to a range of abuse including physical attacks, and harassment by clients, family members, the community and State authorities". It further states that "sex workers are forcibly detained and rehabilitated and consistently lack legal protection"; and that they "face challenges in gaining access to essential health services, including for treatment for HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases".
Calling for the separation of efforts to combat trafficking from sex work the report reiterates that conflating sex work with trafficking has led to assistance that is not targeted for their specific needs. It has also led to coercive rehabilitation measures by the State.
"In her discussions with interlocutors, the Special Rapporteur noted a tendency to conflate sex work with trafficking in persons and when sex workers are identified as victims of trafficking, the assistance that is provided to them is not targeted to their specific needs."
The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government review the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 that de facto criminalises sex work and to ensure that measures to address trafficking in persons do not overshadow the need for effective measures to protect the human rights of sex workers.
The observations in the report emerge from a sustained effort by VAMP (Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad), the collective of sex workers in Sangli and the National Network of Sex Workers, India to draw attention to the violence faced by sex workers in India. The Network members submitted detailed case studies of violence and rights violations occurring in all spheres prior to the Special Rapporteur's visit. During the India visit, VAMP members and SANGRAM deposed in Delhi and Mumbai and gave recommendations including review of laws and policies that criminalised sex work, shutting down detention centres for sex workers, separating adult and child trafficking amongst others.
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'Girls' Star Zosia Mamet Flaunts Major Cleavage & Sideboob
The star may play the prudish Shoshanna but she looked nothing like her character, putting her own 'girls' on full display and showing off her sexiest look ever! Do you like this new side of the star
Girls star Zosia Mamet appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Feb. 2, where the 25-year-old shed her character's conservative image in a red velvet keyhole dress, giving the audience quite an eyeful! The strategic keyhole cutout put her cleavage, (and sideboob), on full display while she chatted with the talk show host.
Sideboob was a hot red carpet trend in 2012 — and it looks like the chest cutout may be taking it's place! Zosia paired her red hot cap-sleeve dress with simple studs, black booties and a ponytail. Wearing her hair back definitely didn't distract from her very revealing ensemble — a smart choice since she apparently wanted to flaunt her assets! Statement rings completed the outfit. Feb. 2 just so happened to be Zosia's birthday — and what better way to standout than in a revealing dress?
While I commend the Girls star for taking a risk and stepping out of her comfort zone, I didn't really love the way she styled the whole ensemble. I thought her tight ponytail looked a bit messy — and with a dress that sexy you need to commit to full-on glamour! I would have liked it better if the star added a little edge to her ponytail or swept her hair to one side in retro waves. I also thought the black booties were way too clunky — a simple pair of pumps or sexy sandals would have looked way better.
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Alex Rodriguez is having a bang up year in 2009. The latest calamity? A bone cyst that may force him to bail on Team D.R. at the World Baseball Classic.
A-Rod will travel to Colorado to see a hip specialist and may miss this very important international exhibition. If that wasn't terrible enough, his manager Joe Girardi says that Alex had hip problems last season, but selfishly ignored that pain so that he could stay on the field. (Ok, I added the "selfishly" part.) Why can't he even get hurt properly?
Even worse than the stupid injury, however, was that A-Rod had the temerity to compliment his Dominican Republic teammate Jose Reyes—a shortstop and a Met—by saying, "I wish he was leading off on our team, playing on our team." Geez, why don't you just take out your cock and piss all over Derek Jeter's grave while you're at it? He also called David Ortiz—a Red Sox! (or is it Sock?)—a "true friend." Who does this a-hole think he is? Lou Gehrig did not get a disease named after him and then bravely die from it so that some roid rage freak could blatantly violate the chastity of New York Yankees baseball.
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Last night after performing at the Governors Ball, Nas held court at the Hennessy V.S after party for the concert at trendy NYC hotspot, SL. The rapper arrived to the venue shortly after 1AM after making a quick stop at Kanye West's private birthday dinner at Ms. Lily's. Nas was joined at the Hennessy event by NY Giants star Victor Cruz, rapper Lil' Cease, reality star Scott Disick and radio personality Steph Lover.


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His answer is satisfying . :D
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They have not satisfactorily answered my questions. :D
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Rajkot/Ahmedabad: A record 68 percent voter turnout was registered in the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections on Thursday in the biggest electoral test for BJP stalwart and Chief Minister Narendra Modi who is seeking a third straight term.
The fate of state`s top political leaders including the the fledgling Gujarat Parivartan Party(GPP) president Keshubhai Patel, a former Chief Minister and Modi`s bete noire, BJP`s R C Faldu and Congress` Arjun Modhwadia were sealed in the polling in 87 of the 182 Assembly constituencies.
The voting amid tight security was peaceful barring a couple of incidents of violence and a few complaints of technical glitches in Electronic Voting Machines(EVM).
"67.65 percent voting has taken place in the phase one of the state elections," Chief Electoral Officer Anita Karval said in Ahmedabad tonight.
The second phase will be held on December 17 while the counting of votes will be taken up on December 20.
Today`s polling covered 48 in seven districts of Saurashtra region, 35 seats in seven districts of south Gujarat and four seats in Ahmedabad district.
The high voter turnout in Saurashtra and South Gujarat is being considered significant by the political observers.
The Saurashtra region, which is home to the powerful Patel community, could pose a tough challenge to Modi with Keshubhai Patel, who quit the BJP to form GPP, leading the charge. Modi succeeded Patel in 2001 as Chief Minister before he led BJP to thumping victories in 2002 and 2007.
Today`s voter turnout is the highest in the elections held so far in Gujarat.
The highest polling recorded earlier was 63.70 per in 1967 elections. In 2007, the voter turnout was 59.77 per cent.
Even in 2002, when Gujarat was riding on the pro-BJP wave, 61.55 per cent voting was recorded.
"Just as Gujarat broke the record by registering 68 per cent record voter turnout, the BJP will break all records in winning the state assembly elections," Modi said, addressing an election rally in Vadodara.
The assembly constituencies of Jasdan and Morbi registered 79 per cent polling, the highest in Rajkot district, collector and chief election officer Rajendra Kumar said.
"The voting was peaceful and three was no major incident of violence registered," he said.
Of the 2,582 EVMs deployed for voting, only six had to be replaced, he said, adding there were 64 complaints, mainly pertaining to missing of names from the voters` list.
The average voting in the district was little over 69 per cent with Jasdan and Morbi topping the list at 79 per cent each followed by Dhoraji (75 per cent), Jetpur (72), Wankaner (70) Rajkot East (67), Rajkot Rural (67), Rajkot West (65), Rajkot South (64) and Tankara (60 per cent), he said.
Elsewhere in Saurashtra region, Amreli recorded 66 per cent voting followed by Bhavnagar (65), Jamnagar (65), Porbandar (65), Surendra Nagar (62) Junagadh (59), an official said.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 28th Jun 2008 22:09 UTC, submitted by diegocg
"Maybe I'm just naive, but designing a graphics API such that all image data had to be sent over a socket to another process every time the image needed to be drawn seems like complete idiocy. Unfortunately, that is precisely what the X Window System forces a program to do, and exactly what Cairo does when drawing images in Linux - a full copy of the image data, send to another process, no less, every time it is drawn. One would think there would be some room for improvement. Unsurprisingly, others felt the same way about X, and decided to write an extension, Xlib Shm or XShm for short, that allows images to placed in a shared memory segment from which the X server reads which allows the program to avoid the memory copy. GTK already makes use of the XShm extension, and it seems like a good idea to see if Gecko couldn't do the same."
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RE[3]: Overstated conclusion
by sbergman27 on Sun 29th Jun 2008 17:19 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Overstated conclusion"
True but we're in 2008 now, not 1990,
Actually, I did not directly address this issue in my previous response to tyrione. X works about as well under 10baseT as 100baseT. People have a tendency to think in terms of bandwidth. X actually does quite well over limited bandwidth. It is latency which kills the standard (non-NX) X protocols. 10baseT has essentially the same latency as 100baseT. The most dramatic way to demonstrate standard X's sensitivity latency is to set up a ppp connection over an external modem. Start an application like Firefox and watch the lights. According to, I believe, Keith Packard some years ago (who had worked on LBX previously), approximately 90% of the round trips were actually unnecessary and an artifact of the then current implementation, and not inherent in the protocol itself. He was working on eliminating those unnecessary round trips. Not sure where we stand today.
However, it does not really matter, because for any sort of WAN connection we have NX.
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RE[4]: Overstated conclusion
by Soulbender on Sun 29th Jun 2008 17:42 in reply to "RE[3]: Overstated conclusion"
RE[5]: Overstated conclusion
by sbergman27 on Sun 29th Jun 2008 18:15 in reply to "RE[4]: Overstated conclusion"
I thought his point was the 10baseX saturates quicker, given X being more bandwidth hungry, thus causing higher latency.
It takes a lot to saturate 10mbit. Watching a movie or playing software rendered Quake will do it. But browsing the web with Firefox/Cairo? Not even close. Many of my users started out on 10baseT some years back and the difference is not even detectable when doing normal business desktop things.
Yes, if what you are doing is inherently high bandwidth the extra bandwidth of 100baseT will help. Otherwise, latency is the determining factor.
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Yes you are right Mr. latino. I knew you had a video and was able to catch me falling in the water. Well no body is perfect. Any way I took the risk to post this video just to show you the performance of the INFINITY V3 that day. But you have to understand that once I was far away from the shore, the next thing was to turn around so I can get back to the beach. So I was trying to turn on the 12 foot SUP board that you let me borrow and for the life of me could not turn that big board at all. So suddenly the SUP board start moving side ways towards the kite with no pressure on the lines so I fell in the water and the wing tip of the kite slowly went and touched the water. So I got back on the SUP and was trying to relaunch it. This is what you see on the video you just post. But as you can see I was way up wind and was able to prove once again the stability and performance of the INFINITY V3.
Kiting on an SUP is very different especially when you are trying to turn while both of your hands are on the kite with a camera in your mouth and you have nothing to steer the SUP board so it can turn. Actually I was using my right foot to turn the SUP board while pushing it into the water as a paddle so the SUP board can turn. Big boards like that are very hard to move or turn. It's like a Ferry Boat and every thing is so slow.
On the other hand my friend Damien is well know for his talent in racing and everything else he does, and having a big Race board that is wider then the SUP I was using + very big fins and an 18 meter kite helps a lot since you are creating apparent wind and using resistance on these big fins. Using an SUP board is totally different. You cannot go fast and your single fin is so small that you will start to go side ways if you try to turn (especially on an SUP board that you are not used to). This is what happened in that video. The SUP board that I borrowed from you start going side ways while I was trying to turn and I fell in the water. I wish I had a wide RACE board that day with very long 50 cm (x3) fins.
A race board is more manageable especially when it's wider then the SUP board I was using and turns faster and of course planes faster and is way more stable because of its wide surface. If I had a Race board I would easily be able to turn the board and come back.
It was a pilot mistake and yes I do fall in the water. Very hard to turn that 12 foot SUP board especially when their is minimum wind out there.


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Edinburgh Fringe reports record ticket sales, but average attendance down
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has closed its most successful year with a record 1,943,493 tickets issued, up 4.6% on 2012 – and 3.5% up on the previous record in 2011.
The figures do not include attendance at unticketed free fringe events, but do include free tickets for ticketed shows. There were a record 45,464 performances of 2,871 productions.
Kath Mainland, chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society said: "Our loyal and enthusiastic audience has once again been treated to the most amazing cultural experience and has been both challenged and entertained by a programme of spectacular work across all artforms from all around the world."
Ticket sales appear to have been strong around much of the event, although not all venues have yet posted their results. However, the average number of tickets issued per performance has fallen from 44 in 2012 to 42.75 this year.
Charlie Wood co-director of Underbelly told The Stage: "We've had a record-breaking year with a series of crescendo weekends and constant weekday business. We haven't seen the slowing in sales that we've traditionally expected in the final week."
Wood warned against comparison with anomalous sales for 2012, because of the uniqueness of the Olympics and its negative impact on ticket sales. He said that, under a seat-for-seat comparison, Underbelly's tickets sales were 18.9% up on the five-year average.
In the New Town, the Assembly Rooms reported 121,569 attendance, a 25% increase in total ticket sales on increased capacity of 10%. The Stand comedy club, also run by Salt 'n' Sauce promotions, revealed ticket sales just short of 60,000 – an increase of 30% on 2012 and 20% on the previous record year of 2011.
At C Venues, spokeswoman Sheridan Humphreys told The Stage: "We have a similar number of tickets sold as last year, but with four theatres less. The phenomenal amount of tickets sold on the last Saturday of the fringe was noticeably higher than throughout the rest of the festival. That last Saturday was almost triple what we sold on other days."
Peter Buckley Hill of the PBH Free Fringe told The Stage that attendance at the free fringe venues appeared to have increased on last year.
He said: "It's been very positive in most venues, it seems to be up. we don't monitor numbers and I always refuse to estimate them, but certainly many of our venues have been much busier than they were last year."
The increase does not appear to have been across the board however. The Pleasance venues posted ticket sales of 420,000 in 2013, static on the previous year. However, they also reported a 7% increase in performances from 6,000 in 2012 to 6,400.