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Family-friendly hotel with restaurant and outdoor pool

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This family-friendly Side hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Agora, Side Theater, and Side Museum. Temple of Apollo and Athena and Side Harbor are also within 2 mi (3 km).

Hotel Features

Along with a restaurant, this hotel has an outdoor pool and a bar/lounge. Additionally, a 24-hour front desk, tour/ticket assistance, and a garden are onsite.

Room Amenities

All 24 rooms offer TVs, room service, and hair dryers. Other amenities available to guests include safes, showers, and desks.

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Hotel Amenities

Hotel Amenities

The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. This family-friendly hotel also offers an outdoor pool, tour/ticket assistance, and a garden.

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Total number of rooms - 24
  • Bar/lounge
  • Number of outdoor pools -
  • Airport transportation
  • Tours/ticket assistance
  • Garden
  • Restaurant
  • Area shuttle (surcharge)
  • Outdoor pool
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Family Friendly Amenities

  • Family Hotel
  • Outdoor pools
  • Outdoor pool
  • Rollaway/extra beds available

Room Amenities

  • Climate control
  • Air conditioning
  • Shower only
  • Hair dryer (on request)
  • Hair dryer
  • In-room safe
  • Television
  • Desk
  • Iron/ironing board (on request)
  • Rollaway/extra beds available
  • Room service (limited hours)

Where to Eat

Hotel Policies

Check-in time starts at 1:30 PM

Check-out time is 10 AM

Payment types

Pets allowed

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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.

Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.

Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.

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Deluxe Room

Max Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)

Grand Deluxe

Max Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)

Executive Suite

Max Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)

Riverfront hotel with restaurant and indoor pool

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Situated near the airport, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Plaza de Toros, Plaza del Castillo, and Pamplona Cathedral. Pamplona City Hall and Auditorio Baluarte are also within 1 mi (2 km).

Hotel Features

A restaurant, an indoor pool, and a fitness center are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a bar/lounge, a sauna, and 24-hour room service.

Room Amenities

All 59 soundproofed rooms feature free WiFi and 24-hour room service. For a bit of entertainment, plasma TVs come with digital channels, and guests will also appreciate thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers.

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Hotel Amenities

In addition to an indoor pool, AlmaPamplona - Muga de Beloso provides a sauna and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.

Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of limo/town car service and meeting rooms. Event facilities measure 2948 square feet (274 square meters). This Edwardian hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and a garden. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site.

AlmaPamplona - Muga de Beloso is a smoke-free property.

  • Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
  • Airport transportation (surcharge)
  • Total number of rooms - 59
  • Number of floors - 5
  • Bar/lounge
  • Breakfast available (surcharge)
  • Free newspapers in lobby
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Elevator/lift
  • Fitness facilities
  • Tours/ticket assistance
  • Free WiFi
  • Computer station
  • 24-hour front desk
  • Indoor pool
  • Laundry facilities
  • Limo or Town Car service available
  • Meeting rooms
  • Multilingual staff
  • Restaurant
  • Safe-deposit box at front desk
  • Number of meeting rooms - 4
  • Free self parking
  • Conference space size (meters) - 274
  • Year Built 2010
  • Conference space size (feet) - 2948
  • Sauna
  • Smoke-free property
  • Garden
  • Number of buildings/towers - 2
  • Television in lobby
  • Wedding services
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Family Friendly Amenities

  • Indoor pool
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Rollaway/extra beds available
  • Soundproofed rooms
  • Laundry facilities
  • Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
  • In-room childcare (surcharge)
  • Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)

Available in all rooms: Free WiFi

Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Free self parking

Room Amenities

  • Premium bedding
  • Minibar
  • Private bathroom
  • Designer toiletries
  • Bathrobes
  • Hair dryer
  • Separate bathtub and shower
  • Slippers
  • In-room childcare (surcharge)
  • Rollaway/extra beds available
  • Digital TV service
  • HDTV
  • Free WiFi
  • Climate control
  • Soundproofed rooms
  • In-room safe
  • Room service (24 hours)
  • Plasma TV
  • Free cribs/infant beds
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Where to Eat

Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge.

Restaurante Alma - This restaurant specializes in Spanish cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Bar-Cafeteria - This café serves brunch and light fare.

24-hour room service is available.

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Nearby Things to Do

Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.

  • Golfing nearby
  • Golf lessons available nearby
  • Bicycle rentals on site
  • Hiking/biking trails nearby
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To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the “Special or Accessibility Requests" section of “Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.

  • Accessible bathroom
  • Accessible path of travel
  • In-room accessibility
  • Roll-in shower

Hotel Policies

Minimum check-in age is 18

Check-in time starts at 2 PM

Special check-in instructions:

Guests planning to arrive after 8 PM must contact this property in advance to arrange check-in. Please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.

Check-out time is noon

Payment types

Pets allowed, Only dogs are allowed

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.

Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.

Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.

  • Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 18 years old.

Hotel Registry Number - UH000880

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The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
  • Fee for continental breakfast: EUR 16 per person (approximately)
  • Airport shuttle fee: EUR 20 per person (one way)
  • Rollaway bed fee: EUR 40 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

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Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 72 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.

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Suite, 1 Bedroom

Max Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 3 infants)

Suite, 1 Bedroom

Max Occupancy: 6 guests (up to 5 children, 5 infants)

Suite, 2 Bedrooms

Max Occupancy: 8 guests (up to 7 children, 7 infants)

Villa, 1 Bedroom

Max Occupancy: 6 guests (up to 5 children, 5 infants)

Suite, 2 Bedrooms

Max Occupancy: 6 guests (up to 5 children, 5 infants)

Villa, 2 Bedrooms

Max Occupancy: 8 guests (up to 7 children, 7 infants)

Family-friendly resort with full-service spa and restaurant

This family-friendly Osoyoos resort is located on a lake, within a 5-minute walk of Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Sonora Dunes Golf Club, and Nk'Mip Cellars. Rattlesnake Canyon and Pioneer Walkway are also within 2 mi (3 km).

Resort Features

Along with a full-service spa, this smoke-free resort has a restaurant and a health club. Free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free beach shuttle are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a beach bar, and a poolside bar are onsite.

Room Amenities

All 226 rooms boast fireplaces and offer free WiFi and kitchens. Other amenities available to guests include free wired Internet, sofa beds, and sitting areas.

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Hotel Amenities

In addition to a full-service spa, Spirit Ridge Vineyard Resort & Spa features a waterslide and a health club. Dining options at the resort include a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include a beach bar, a poolside bar, and a bar/lounge. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.

Event facilities include conference space and meeting rooms. This family-friendly resort also offers a children's pool, a seasonal outdoor pool, and a spa tub. Onsite self parking is complimentary.

Spirit Ridge Vineyard Resort & Spa is a smoke-free property.

  • 24-hour front desk
  • ATM/banking
  • Babysitting or childcare
  • Bar/lounge
  • Barbecue grill(s)
  • Beach bar
  • Free beach shuttle
  • Beach/pool umbrellas
  • Breakfast available (surcharge)
  • Children's pool
  • Concierge services
  • Conference space
  • Elevator/lift
  • Free self parking
  • Free WiFi
  • Free wired high-speed Internet
  • Full-service spa
  • Health club
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Meeting rooms
  • Number of floors - 4
  • Number of meeting rooms - 5
  • Outdoor seasonal pool
  • Pool cabanas (surcharge)
  • Poolside bar
  • Restaurant
  • Rooftop terrace
  • RV, bus, truck parking
  • Smoke-free property
  • Snack bar/deli
  • Spa services on site
  • Spa treatment room(s)
  • Spa tub
  • Total number of rooms - 226
  • Waterslide
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Family Friendly Amenities

  • Babysitting or childcare
  • Children's pool
  • DVD player
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
  • Kitchen
  • Laundry facilities
  • Microwave
  • Snack bar/deli
  • Sofa bed
  • Waterslide
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Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet

Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet

Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking

Room Amenities

  • Air conditioning
  • Bathrobes
  • Cable TV service
  • Ceiling fan
  • Climate control
  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Cookware, dishware, and utensils
  • Cribs/infant beds available
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Designer toiletries
  • Desk
  • Dishwasher
  • DVD player
  • Fireplace
  • Free local calls
  • Free WiFi
  • Free wired high-speed Internet
  • Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
  • Hair dryer
  • Kitchen
  • Microwave
  • Phone
  • Private bathroom
  • Room service (limited hours)
  • Separate sitting area
  • Shower/tub combination
  • Sofa bed
  • Stovetop
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Where to Eat

Talon Restaurant - This restaurant specializes in regional cuisine. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).

Beachside Bar and Grill - This beachfront bar serves lunch, dinner, and light fare. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).

Room service (during limited hours) is available.

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Nearby Things to Do

A health club and complimentary bicycles are featured at the resort. A children's pool, a seasonal outdoor pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a waterslide.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.

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Spa Services

The onsite spa has massage/treatment rooms and couples treatment room(s). Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, Swedish massages, and massages. The spa is equipped with a spa tub. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including hydrotherapy.

Hotel Policies

Check-in time starts at 4 PM

Check-out time is 11 AM

Payment types

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Cribs (infant beds) are available.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.

Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.

Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.

No pets or service animals allowed

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The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
  • Breakfast fee: CAD 12 per person (approximately)
  • Pet fee: CAD 25 per day (maximum CAD 125 per stay)
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

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No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.

Awards & Affiliations

Green / Sustainable Property
This property participates in Green Key Eco-Rating Program, a program that measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy.
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City Room, 2 Queen Beds

Max Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 3 infants)

City Room, 1 King Bed

Max Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)

Boardwalk hotel with 5 restaurants and marina

Expedia Insiders' Select Winner 2014

Situated on the boardwalk, this spa hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Richmond Night Market and Aberdeen Centre. Richmond Centre Mall and Richmond Olympic Oval are also within 3 mi (5 km).

Hotel Features

This hotel features 5 restaurants, a marina, and a full-service spa. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, a casino, an indoor pool, and a 24-hour fitness center are onsite.

Room Amenities

All 193 rooms offer free WiFi, iPod docks, and LCD TVs with cable channels. 24-hour room service, coffee makers, and safes are among the other amenities available to guests.

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Hotel Amenities

Dining is available at one of the hotel's 5 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. In addition to a full-service spa, The Hotel at River Rock features a marina and an indoor pool. Event facilities measuring 13000 square feet (1170 square meters) include a conference center, conference space, and meeting rooms. This business-friendly hotel also offers a casino, a spa tub, and a 24-hour fitness center. Concierge services and tour/ticket assistance can be provided. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.

  • Coffee shop or café
  • Full-service spa
  • Marina on site
  • Spa treatment room(s)
  • Meeting rooms
  • Number of buildings/towers - 1
  • Conference space size (meters) - 1170
  • Number of meeting rooms - 11
  • Conference space
  • Valet parking (surcharge)
  • Conference center
  • Conference space size (feet) - 13000
  • Total number of rooms - 193
  • Number of floors - 5
  • Casino
  • Concierge services
  • 24-hour fitness facilities
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Talk:1271: Highlighting

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I used to think I was crazy, but this webcomic tells me I'm not alone. It has nothing to do with marking your place as your reading, its more or less just something to keep your hands busy while reading an article. It does drive other people crazy. HardKase (talk) 02:11, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

I first started highlighting while reading stuff online when I should have been working, in order to keep my 'click frequency' from dropping to zero. Quiet mouse = Obviously not working (In the software we use anyway) --Pudder (talk) 15:52, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Personally, I dislike it when the highlighted area includes either the beginning indent/tab or the ending indent/tab, so according to my standards, I'm satisfied with the highlighting in paragraphs 1-3, but not with 4-6. Saibot84 04:33, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

There is nothing marked in paragraph 6, is there? --Chtz (talk) 07:07, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
@Chtz, no there's nothing highlighted in paragraph 6, I meant "mark" as the score it was given. And while I'm here, I just noticed Randall corrected the spelling of "highlighted" in the text below the image. Should someone re-upload the image here? Saibot84 13:21, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Why does he spell highlight like "hilight"? 06:47, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Good question. Wiktionary allows hilite as informal, but says that hilight is a "common misspelling". --Chtz (talk) 07:07, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
I assumed the poor spelling was a subtle way of poking fun at a site that would do something as stupid as trying to prohibit highlighting. —Scs (talk) 03:20, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
It seems the comic has now changed to spelling it "highlight" 21:56, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
But the name of the png file is still misspelt (I didn't know if the title was also misspelt or not, that's why I came here :D) 15:32, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm so used to doing this that I know a few tricks and tiny strips of areas to click on in order to achieve symmetry in some tricky situations. 07:53, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

On some pages, I spent more time getting the highlights right than actually reading it -- 08:06, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
You will all certainly hate Confluence's new editing of code. One micrometer and your h/l is undone (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

The most frustrating thing when it comes to highlighting: willing to select text on a long line (such as source code with no word wrap) only to have the mouse cursor move out of line, sabotaging your selection and location in the text. When pages are wider than the visible area, it should not jump to the left side when there are empty lines above/below a long line and you drag the selection up/down, instead, it should scroll left only as you drag the selection to the left. 08:11, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

If you have source code extensively above your horizontal screen size, you either have a very small screen or you should rethink your coding style. ;) --Chtz (talk) 08:35, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
The most frustrating thing for me is mouse-selection (though thankfully not keyboard-selection) tends in my experience to assume that a mid-selected word means "the start of the word as well", at least in a browser context. Especially in forum conversations, when you get '[quote="oneperson"][quote="ofanotherperson"]Blah[/quote]Replyblah[/quote]' to reply to, and you want to highlight and excise the inner quote, for brevity, it often adjusts to include the "] after the "oneperson". Which is annoying and breaks your BBCode if you don't notice what you also accidentally deleted, and correct for it.
Outside of such forum specifics, example 4 looks like a successfully chosen entire DIV-block. Which is a handy thing to be able to do, sometimes, but as long as you aren't forced to do so (beyond the "reading guide" purpose for the highlighting, with optional OCD, when it's probably not of concern). And watch out (as a variant of the title text) that the entire text block hasn't been A HREFed or similar (popular, these days, seemingly to cater for messy touchscreen tablet navigation, sometimes even without a navigate-to cursor change). This is why I have a Perl application that will politely scrape regularly-viewed pages, regexp and reformat as necessary and give a better/pre-processed interface to such information. Which is nice. 16:27, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

I do this all the time too... my wife HATES it! --Jeff (talk) 12:13, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

I thought I was the only one. Although, I do a variation where I try to get the beginning of the selection directly over the end of the selection so that they vertically align and cause a glide reflection of sorts. 14:06, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

New file name

The picture hilighting.png should be moved to highlighting.png. BTW: There is still a typo at the click... statement.--Dgbrt (talk) 14:56, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

is that necessary? Imho it should follow the misspelling of the article itself 16:10, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
It is done by an admin here and necessary because this list List_of_all_comics did render a wrong image link. Even when the original file name is in fact still "hilighting.png". --Dgbrt (talk) 19:52, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
Maybe he fears a trojan?

About Randall panicking about the clicking-a-word-triggers-a-search-script, there are certain trojan-ish programs that tamper with the user's browser and install such a script in them. In that case, various words on any webpage would become clickable links that lead to advertisement and potentially other unsavory things. I had to clean a family member's computer from one such infection; I'm no expert but sleuthing a bit led me to believe he might've got it from a seemingly innocuous video-to-gif freeware. If I saw that word-popping behavior on a webpage again, my immediate thought would probably be that it's from a malignant script and I'd probably drop everything like Randall and start scanning my machine. 16:17, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Can't select the text in the image either

Ironically, when text is displayed using an image like in the comic itself, it is also impossible to highlight text. Tom0000 (talk) 18:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

While double-clicking on a paragraph, chromium gives the patter of (5); firefox, on the other hand, selects text only, meaning no whitespaces (indent or margin) on either side of the text (not shown in comic). Running linux, I didn't try safari or i-ex. (On a last side-note, konqueror doesn't select the paragraph at all, but only the current line...) 09:06, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

In Firefox (in Gnome 3 on Ubuntu, in case this is desktop environment specific or operating system specific), I have to triple-click to select a paragraph. Double-clicking would select a single word. --Das-g (talk) 14:09, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Also in Firefox, you can't select like Randall has selected, as it doesn't select any non-space/tab whitespace.
And yes, you have to (or should have to) triple click to select a paragraph.GBGamer117 > /dev/null (talk) 06:12, 5 October 2013 (UTC)GBGamer117
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Family of four leap from blazing flat

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Fire crews were called to Premier Apartments in Upper Dean Street, Digbeth, at around 6.30pm.

Around 130 people were evacuated from the apartment block, which includes shops and restaurants.

Two adults and two children had to jump out of the window of a first-floor flat and were helped by passers-by.

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Windows 8 Marketshare Overtakes Mac OS 10.8

While market growth for Windows 8 might be a little slow, there is no denying that it is moving forward. According to new information from Net Application’s web site, the week of January 20th now sees Windows 8 installed on 2.45 percent of PCs worldwide.

Sure, this isn’t a huge amount, but that’s not bad for a new OS that is a radical departure from the familiar. It is also worth noting that that’s equal to Mac OS 10.8’s market share. For those that don’t follow the Apple world, 10.8 is the most recent version of Mac’s OS. It’s also worth noting that Windows RT (or as they call Windows 8 touch?) has .08% of the market, bringing total Windows 8 market share to 2.53%.

This is encouraging news for many reasons. First, like I mentioned Windows 8 is a big change that some will avoid at first. The second is simply that we live in an age where PCs last longer and upgrades are less important.

I know many people who wouldn’t mind eventually buying a new PC, but their 4+ year-old Core 2 machines are still holding up OK and with the economy the way it is– there are other things that are at the top of the “purchasing” list long before a new PC.

In a few years, Windows 8 will probably see a dramatic jump up as users finally ditch their aging XP, Vista and even Windows 7 machines. For the time being, Windows 7 will continue to be King. For now that means 45.77% of PCs run on the OS, 5.01% run Vista, and 38.18% run Windows XP.

Windows 8 continues to jump up in installed share with each of these releases, so that means not everyone feels Windows 8 is such a bad choice I’d wager. What do you think of Windows 8, will it eventually catch on when it comes to mainstream success or will most users not move to the new Start UI until Windows 9?

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    OK, but how many of these sales are OEM ‘sales’ that are for PCs still sitting in warehouses. We’ll get a clearer picture in another 3 months or so…

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    The only comparisons that mean anything are the adoption rates, over the same timespan after their release, for Vista and Windows 7. Unfortunately for the credibility of your analysis, those are about the only comparisons you didn’t offer. If Windows 8 is closer to Vista than to Windows 7, then your optimism is misplaced. It it compares favorably with Windows 7 then it can be said to be a success. You try to take the sting out of potential bad news by pointing out how different Windows 8 is. But that difference could as easily be the source of Win 8’s difficulties as of its eventual success. To borrow a popular political metaphor, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig for all that.

    The most striking evidence that Windows 8 faces an uphill battle is the market share that Windows XP still enjoys. Over 38% for a twelve year old operating system is remarkable by any measure. Anyone who remembers the Vista disaster is likely to resist Windows 8. If they want a reliable, easy to use Windows experience, they will go no further than Windows 7.

    You can get an idea how concerned Microsoft is about Windows 8 by the unprecedented amounts they are spending on advertising and product placement. Microsoft may still be a hugely profitable business, but little of that comes from Windows 8 sales. Fortunately for Microsoft their product portfolio is diversified so that poor results for a version of Windows won’t sink the company. Certainly Vista didn’t. So Windows 8 may “do no harm” to Microsoft’s bottom line. Yet it may do no good, either. It’s worth noting that Microsoft is already promoting the next version of Windows, Blue, about which little is actually known – except that it may be worth waiting for, as was Windows 7.


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Live blog: Waratahs v Reds

Welcome to tonight's coverage of Super Rugby's Australian Conference grudge match between the NSW Waratahs and reigning champions the Queensland Reds. RugbyHeaven's editor Stephen Samuelson is in the chair.

It was a bit like a game of one-day cricket. The match had its doldrums, the first half was dire, but a thrilling finish has capped a great night.

The second-half was a lot better, but perhaps NSW coach Michael Foley erred. He pretty much cleared his bench and maybe those changes led to the final try. Certinaly McKibbin could have demanded a couple of pick-and-drives from his forwards with 27 seconds left before booted the ball out. Instead he kicked it - and to be fair found space - but the Reds had the ball and they scored a couple of phases later.

After the siren: Harris kicks the conversion. REDS 25 TAHS 21.

80th min: One minute to go and the Reds have gone through 11 phases running it out from their tryline. But thy lose it and McKibbin box kicks. The Reds start again and it is a TRY and the Reds have stolen the game with a runaway try after the siren. Dom Shipperley breaks away and the cover of Bernard Foley cannot stop him. REDS WINS 23-21 with a meaningless kick to come.

77th min: Bernard Foley has Tahs fans twitching as he kicks for the sideline. Will go out on the full. NO! The Tahs win the lineout and they are eight metres out. But they concede the penalyt while in possesion.

75th min: McKibbin shows he has some spark too. He snipes from the ruck and a run around movement puts Horne away. He kicks down field and the reds are forced to kick it out. The Reds win the lineout and Ben Lucase unleashes a huge kick but it goes too far. Touch in-goal and the srum will be set 48 metres out from the Reds's line. Four minutes to go.

73rd min: They were off the hook for all of one minute. A scrum penalty gifts an easy three points to the Reds. Harris lines it up and kicks it. TAHS 21 REDS 18.

72nd min: A forward pass by Genia -no, really - lets the Tahs of the hook - for now.

70th min: Can the Tahs close the game out. The Reds have not got too close to their tryline and one thinks it will take five-pointer for the Queenslanders to win this game. The Tahs concede a penalty on halfway and the Reds will go on the attack. The quality of the play has been a lot better in the second-half although both teams have lots of room for improvement.

66th min: TRY! Pretorius snipes from the ruck base is tackled but his first play of the ball is to plant it over the line. Pretorius put the Tahs on the attack in the first place by unleashing Halangahu through a gap. Pretorius is replaced by McKibbin and Halangahu converts. TAHS 21 REDS 15.

62nd min: The Tahs immedately apply pressure to themselves from the restart. Peyper misses a blatant knock-on as Harris sneaks through an opening. The Tahs shut up shop and eventually force the error. They have the scrum feed in their own 22.

60th min: The Tahs pile on the pressure with Halangahu and Mumm both stopped just shy of the line. The Reds have constantly infringed and Peyper has no choice but to give the penalty. Halangahu grabs the three points. Polota-Nau is off, Fitzpatrick on. REDS 15 TAHS 14.

58th min: Digby Ioane has unleashed and almighty hit on Rob Horne but it looks like the Reds winger is worse off. Ioane hit stopped a promising counter-attack by the Tahs after Genia's attempted box kixk landed ontop of the ruck that he was on the base off. The Tahs get the penalty because the Reds were all offside. Pretty hard to retreat 10 metres from the bottom of a ruck.

56th min: Palu and Kepu are replaced.

55th min: But there is another penalty and at the scrum. Halangahu opts for the lineout rather than the kick. Robinson, Schatz and Daley off for the Reds. Samo, Gill and Holmes on. The Tahs lose the lineout.

54th min: It looks like a runaway Polota-Nau try but it aint. Tom Kingston and Digby Ioane go up for a high ball and the ball skews to the side and TPN charges onto to the ball. Peyper rules that it went forward. An arguable decision.

52nd min: This game may well be decided by penalties. Dom Shipperley concedes the penalty at the breakdown and Halangahu steps up from 42 metres out. He misses.

50th min: A bit of innovation by the Reds. A crossfield kick for Horwill and it's Polota-Nau who tries to stop it. Some messy play before the Tahs breathe easy with the ball out.

48th min: Nervous moments for the Reds. A Harris kick is charged down and the Reds just hold on to the ball. Harris's second clearance attempt is touched and the ball goes into touch. But the Tahs concede their 10th penalty from the lineout and now the Reds are on in the attack.

46th min: Harris just nails that kick and the margin is back out again to four. REDS 15 TAHS 11.

45th min: The Reds are enjoying their first prolonged stay in the Waratahs quarter. Sloppy handling in the backline thwarts any attempt of a try but Jaco Peyper finds a penalty and Harris will step up to the tee.

42nd min: Bright start for the Waratahs. From the restart they secure the ball after a Reds kick through but a penalty is give and Halangahu does the rest. REDS 12 TAHS 11.

40th min: There's not much time left in the first half but there is enough for the Tahs to concede a penalty in front of the posts. Harris has not problem scoring his 12th point of the half. REDS 12 TAHS 8.

38th min: TRY! Wycliff Palu and what a comedy of errors. The Tahs apply the push in the scrum and the ball squirts out for Genia. Pretorius nabs him and strips the ball from his grasp and at the ensuing breakdown the ball pops out for Palu who strolls five metres to crash over wide out. Halangahu just misses with the conversion. REDS 9 TAHS 8. This really is an awful game.

36th min: No mucking around from Peyper. It's a penalty to the Tahs immediately. The Tahs opt for a reset. Is this Suncorp 2011 all over again.

35th min: Oh dear! What were the Reds thinking. Adam Ashley-Cooper places a beautiful kick downfield and the Reds spread it along the goalline but the pass to Genia goes loose and Shipperley is forced to ground it under the pressure of Rob Horne's tackle. 5 metre scrum, Tahs feed.

33rd min: The Tahs concede another breakdown penalty and Harris makes no mistake. Reds 9 Waratahs 3.

30th min: The Reds are eeking themselves on top in this game. Slowly, but surely. They are beginning to find space in the midfield with Harris and Tapaui. The handling is loppy and the Tahs' kicking is now aimless. They are feeling the pressure.

25th min: Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Ioane makes up for his error with a superb take of the high ball. He beats five players before losing the ball. The Tahs counterattack and Rob Horne is almost through but the ball inexplicably slips from his grasp.

24th min: At last a bust from the mid field. It's Harris that sparks it. A great inside ball to Hanson and the Reds are away until Digby Ioane drops the ball 40 metres upfield.

22nd min: The Reds kick the penalty. Mike Harris 6 Daniel Halangahu 3.

20th min: There's no penetration midfield for either side so the Tahs try the flanks except Halangahu's cutout pass finds the assistant referee. But the Tahs concede a penalty in possession.

17th min: Chris Alcock forces a turnover in the 22 and the Tahs are off the hook ... for now. Reds win the lineout but some slopy handling gives the Tahs the scrum feed on halfway.

15th min: The Reds's best winger Scott Higginbotham does some brilliant work on the right flank. How he stayed in I will never know, but the Tahs give away yet another penalty and the Reds are on the attack with the lineout throe 25 metres out.

14th min: Palu falls for a Beau Robinson sucker punch and gives away a silly penalty.

12th min: The Tahs were treading water for a while but a clever cut out pass lets Tom Kingston loose on the left flank. The Reds are offside but the Tahs spin it. Too many front rowers in the backline and the ball ends up being knocked on by Palu. Advantage over. Reds scrum holds up.

9th min: The Tahs are dominant in the scrum and they are on the attack on Queensland's 22. A sloppy knock-on lets the Reds off the hook far too easily.

7th min: Harris makes no mistake and it's 3-3. Simmons coughs up possession from the restart, first scrum of the game.

5th min: The Reds force a turnover and they are recylcing possession 40 metres out from NSW's line. Trouble brewing for the Tahs. Referee Jaco Peyper intervenes and gives a penalty. Harris has a chance to equalise. The game has yet to hit any great heights. They are feeling each other out.

4th min: Nervous start by the Reds. Pretorius is piling on the pressure with clever kicking.

2nd min: The Tahs get an early penalty and skipper Daniel Halangahu steps up for shot from 48 metres out and he kicks it. NSW 3 Qld 0.

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7.32pm: The players are out on the field. The key for NSW tonight is Sarel Pretorius. If the South African can fire, they are in with a chance.

Curtain-raiser: Balmain has beaten Petersham 19-5 with the Caveman, Sebastian Chabal, scoring a try with six minutes to go.

Preamble (read pre-match filler): The Reds may be missing Quade Cooper but it's the Tahs who have the real injury concerns with Wallabies' Lachie Turner, Drew Mitchell, Berrick Barnes, Rocky Elsom, Dan Vickerman all missing while Sitaleki Timani has yet to return from Japan.

Mike Harris should prove to be an excellent replacement for Cooper.

Greg Growden writes: The Waratahs are without Berrick Barnes, Drew Mitchell, Dan Vickerman, Rocky Elsom, Lachie Turner and Sitaleki Timani, and Tah Man was even limping at last Friday's trial, and they remain favourites. Madness. The Reds are specials.

AAP writes: The Waratahs went into the Super Rugby season as equal favourites with defending premiers Queensland for the title. However, their depleted line-up for round one is a far cry from the side they would have been anticipating. Backline stars like Berrick Barnes, Drew Mitchell and Lachie Turner are sidelined and it's up to back-up No.10 Daniel Halangahu to run the show. However, this match will be a forward battle, and the Waratahs have certainly proven in the past they can match the Reds physically in the engine room. Queensland have Mike Harris filling Quade Cooper's shoes at five-eighth and have indicated they'll tone down their flamboyant style and attempt to win 'ugly'. The Waratahs are depleted, but it's a massive opportunity for new recruits Adam Ashley-Cooper and Sarel Pretorius to shine.

Waratahs: Adam Ashley-Cooper, Tom Kingston, Rob Horne, Tom Carter, Brackin Karauria-Henry, Daniel Halangahu (c), Sarel Pretorius, Wycliff Palu, Chris Alcock, Dave Dennis, Dean Mumm, Kane Douglas, Sekope Kepu, Tatafu Polota-Nau, Benn Robinson. Reserves: Damien Fitzpatrick, Paddy Ryan, Lopeti Timani, Jono Jenkins, Brendan McKibbin, Bernard Foley, Nathan Trist.

Reds: Luke Morahan, Dom Shipperley, Anthony Faingaa, Ben Tapuai, Digby Ioane, Mike Harris, Will Genia, Jake Schatz, Beau Robinson, Scott Higginbotham, James Horwill (c), Rob Simmons, James Slipper, James Hanson, Ben Daley. Reserves: Albert Anae, Greg Holmes, Van Humphries, Radike Samo, Liam Gill, Ben Lucas, Jono Lance

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Magnussen should have backed off, says Massa

2014 German Grand Prix

Felipe Massa, Williams, Hockenheimring, 2014Felipe Massa said Kevin Magnussen could have avoided their collision on the first lap if the McLaren driver had backed off.

The Williams driver was tipped into a dramatic roll at the first corner after the pair made contact.

“Going into the first corner I was near to Valtteri but had to back off to stop an accident, sadly some others didn’t do the same,” said Massa. “I am obviously very disappointed.”

“Luckily I am ok but I am not happy,” he added. “I was in front going into the corner, and so to have another race ended by another driver is not easy.”

“I am doing my best, the team are doing their best, and we just aren’t getting the chances we need.”

Magnussen insisted he did everything he could to avoid the contact.

“I need to see a replay of the accident, but I feel that, if I’d had somewhere to go, then there wouldn’t have been contact with Felipe,” he said. “I did my best to try and avoid the accident, but there wasn’t much else I could do.”

No penalties were issued for the collision after the stewards ruled Massa had been keeping an eye on team mate Valtteri Bottas before the clash with the McLaren.

“The stewards took into account that this was the first turn of the first lap, cars 77 [Bottas], 19 [Massa] and 20 [Magnussen] were entering turn one and it appears [Massa] was concentrating on [Bottas],” they said in a statement.

“There was no intentional turning in by [Massa] on [Magnussen],” they added. “[Massa’s] rear right wheels impacted with the left front of [Magnussen].”

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  1. Rigi (@rigi) said on 20th July 2014, 19:00

    I think Magnussen did incredibly well off the start. A driver with GP2 mentality would’ve dived down the inside of bottas, but he backed out of it and slotted in behind bottas and on the inside of massa, who simply didn’t pay attention to that. Some would call it a racing incident, but i believe Massa should’ve got a penalty for causing a collision. He’s just wasting so much of Wliliams’ potential it’s unreal. I’m starting to feel that he’s just not up to the driving standarts of f1 anymore. Consider that Bottas only has one and a half season of F1 experience, you’d think Massas experience would help him to be in front of Bottas, but so far Bottas has outperformed Massa most of the time. Just shows that he’s simply an average driver, who has become a pay-driver now.

    It’s interesting to see that Magnussen still ended up P9, one wonders what he could’ve done if it wasn’t for that first corner incident.

    • Klaas (@klaas) said on 20th July 2014, 19:06

      If I were Claire Williams, I would ditch Massa and take Hulkenberg back.

    • Corrado (@corrado-dub) said on 20th July 2014, 21:58

      Agree… but I think this is how Massa was all the time. The way this season develops for him I think it’s proof enough that all the talking about Ferrari “destroying” him mentaly, psychologically etc with the no.2 status… was just BS ! Now he’s with a new team, with a team that recovered from a long time of mediocre results and that offered equal treatment to their drivers… yet again Massa racecraft is quite poor. Look at Austrian GP again, he started from pole, but finished 4th, behind his team mate. Kinda pathetic given his opinion about himself as a driver.

  2. BasCB (@bascb) said on 20th July 2014, 19:01

    “Going into the first corner I was near to Valtteri but had to back off to stop an accident,” – certainly didn’t look like he was backing off there IMO. I thought he just hadn’t seen Magnussen inside.

    But if he did see him then he should have backed off instead of trying to go to the inside there.

  3. Uzair Syed (@ultimateuzair) said on 20th July 2014, 20:16

    It’s 99% Massa’s fault and maybe 1% Magnussen’s fault. Magnussen was much faster off the line and had the inside line, he even backed off a little. Massa just turned in on him and ruined his and Magnussen’s race! Just shut up and drive Massa you careless Maldonadoist. Well that’s a new word xD

    • Edvaldo said on 20th July 2014, 21:10

      He should have backed of even more.
      He was behind.
      What you’re saying is that on that crash with Hamilton and Maldonado a few years ago, nearly identical to this one, Maldonado was to blame. Wrongo.

  4. Yoshisune (@yobo01) said on 20th July 2014, 20:31

    I think it was a racing incident. Massa tried to leave a bit of space, he didn’t go straight for the apex, but it wasn’t enough. Turn one is a difficult corner, everyone is so close at the start, I think that accidents like that can happen, no need to blame people.

    Having said that, it’s the second time this year that a car has flipped due to wheel to wheel contact. I expect that there will be discussions about improving the safety in these situations.

  5. spoutnik (@spoutnik) said on 20th July 2014, 20:56

    I like and support Massa, but it’s entirely his fault. A racing incident, quite scary though. If anything had to stand in the path of his car, any debris, it would go straight on the helmet.

  6. Edvaldo said on 20th July 2014, 21:07

    This is racing and sometimes a driver need to be rough.
    If Massa leaves room for MAG there and looses the position, he would be to blame anyway. This is still a fighting for position.
    Magnussen should have backed off. He was clearly behind on the approach to the corner.
    You can’t go expecting everyone to leave space to you in a RACE.
    A driver must know when to keep going or not.

    • Hemz Shaw (@hemzshaw) said on 20th July 2014, 22:04

      I guess you will never say this line for the Perez-Massa collision in CA. Fan or not, accept it and move on…

      “This is still a fighting for position.”

      • Edvaldo said on 21st July 2014, 5:36

        Why instead of telling me your point you keep talking about this childish thing of being a fan?
        I’m not Massa’s fan, this is my opinion.

        You could give yours or start talking crap about fans. You made your choice.

    • Hemz Shaw (@hemzshaw) said on 20th July 2014, 22:06

      And backing off, as some already said, would mean collision with cars from behind.. So, well MAG hardly a choice.

      • Edvaldo said on 21st July 2014, 5:33

        Yeah, and the guys behind MAG don’t have brakes themselves?
        Think about what you write friend.

        • Kent said on 22nd July 2014, 11:22

          You clearly are a Massa fan Edvaldo :) And that is only fair, but don´t say that FM and KM weren´t in the corner at the same time… Look at the helicoptershots… FM just doesn´t leave room and drives as if he is alone in the 1 corner of the race… Clearly a stupid mistake…. Like he made a ton of times in his own first season…

  7. Jane said on 20th July 2014, 21:23

    When Massa can say things like this, he most be living in his own world.
    It makes Massa a joke and any team as well that hire such an crashguy….

  8. tmax (@tmax) said on 20th July 2014, 22:21

    I didn’t like the way Massa was complaining that these young drivers come in from GP2 and do stuff. He should learn to start accepting his mistakes. I have never seen him admit even once . it is always somebody else’s fault. With a field growing lush with young talent, he should better watch out. Sir Williams won’t be patient for a long time.

  9. Juan Pablo Valverde (@jpvalverde85) said on 20th July 2014, 22:35

    Massa as been often on the eye of the storm but (he sais) never is his fault… i’m starting to see a pattern there, always playing victim and never assuming resposability. I would like to see Susie doing some racing on that car!

  10. Dan said on 20th July 2014, 22:47

    I am shocked at people blaming Massa. Just wow, im the first to have pops at him like of youre to slow Massa but look at Massa’s onboard. KMag nose was not even in shot, you either blame no one or you blame Mag it is that simple. Was Mag alongside? No he was not.

    • Justin said on 21st July 2014, 2:09

      Please, Mag was on racing line! Race start is not queuing up to see whose nose is ahead of whom so that they can line up going into a corner.

    • mike-e (@mike-e) said on 21st July 2014, 3:04

      in a first corner if you are on the outside line, you leave a cars width on the inside just incase… its called self preservation and you learn it in karting. you cant win the race at the first corner, but you can deffinately lose it.

  11. Bobby (@f1bobby) said on 20th July 2014, 23:34

    Massa is the biggest cry baby F1 has ever seen! Every time it’s someone else. It’s never even a ‘racing incident’ with Massa, it’s ‘so and so is dangerous’, ‘so and so should have backed down’. Put him out to pasture, Frank.

  12. Irejag (@irejag) said on 21st July 2014, 2:44

    It was a racing incident. That is all.

  13. Marky2112 said on 21st July 2014, 3:55

    If you are on the outside of the first corner and you cut in to clip the apex on the first turn there will be a car there every time. Massa it’s time to retire before someone gets hurt. What is worse is if they don’t punish him he will go on believing that it’s never his fault.

  14. RyanDixon (@ryandixon) said on 21st July 2014, 12:41

    If Mag backed out he would of lost so many positions that it would be dangerous due to him having to slow to make the corner due to the angle of approach, he takes it either early and gets a penalty or does what he does and gets hit.

    Massa now needs to think about what is happening with his racing. Whilst he team mate is gaining plaudits and becoming a hero with racing fans, he has been in a many number of crashes which the large proportion of which are avoidable. Take Canada for example, he could of avoided that accident, saved him and Perez a trip to the hospital and gained some points.

    That being said, this little incident can either be seen as his fault or K-Mag’s fault. Massa was taking the normal line, all be it a little aggressive, so he is in the right. K-Mag had a great start which caused him problems and proved he wasn’t to blame because there was nothing he could do.

  15. Robbie (@robbie) said on 21st July 2014, 14:09

    What struck me was FM’s remark when they interviewed him about mid-race, presumably after he had been checked out by the medics. I’m paraphrasing and he said something to the effect that it is the responsibility of the guy behind to check up to avoid an incident. I’ve always thought that was the case in general, most of the time, as it is the guy behind who has the clearer vision of circumstances and has to assume the guy in front has the racing line or whatever line he has chosen, whatever real estate he has chosen, and it is up to the guy behind to adapt. The guy in front has only his mirrors and shouldn’t be expected to have as good a judgement on the whole interaction. He’s usually going to use the racing line or something close, and may also do his one move to defend, and then back to the racing line, and they are also to leave a car width for the guy behind.

    So what struck me immediately about Massa’s in-race interview was that if he expected KM to back off, then why didn’t he, FM, back off in Canada. Yeah I know umpteen stewards looked at it and still blamed Perez, but that doesn’t mean FM couldn’t have or shouldn’t have backed off to avoid a collision based on the same principal he would used to have KM back off in Germany.

  16. Jason (@jason12) said on 21st July 2014, 17:06

    You can’t just assume there’s noone on your racing line.

  17. Angus Podgorney said on 21st July 2014, 22:38

    Massa’s a whiner and a crash magnet.

  18. Kent said on 22nd July 2014, 11:06

    Kevin Magnussen clearly was in the corner when Massa chose to turn into it, as if no one else could be there. It is a typical Massa blunder one of many through out his career. Please resign now Massa, before you create more danger for yourself and others.

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    After months of speculation, Volkswagen recently announced that they will not enter Formula 1. However, I have done some digging, and I have found some rather interesting points that line up and suggest that Hyundai might be interested in entering Formula 1:

    First of all, the Korean Grand Prix was announced in 2006 with a start date of 2010. This is very unusual because it would be four years – almost to the day – between the announcement and the race. Compare that to other recent additions to the calendar, like Austin, New York, India and Abu Dhabi: all of them had about two years between the announcement and their projected start dates. The only other country that has been given so long to prepare is Russia, and that is because they are building their circuit at the Sochi Olympic Precinct.

    Around the same time, news reports began circulating that Hyundai was considering an entry for 2010, when the sport would be accepting three new teams to the grid. Unfortuantely, the global recession hit, and Hyundai suffered; the grid entry never came to fruition and the dieas appeared to be dead in the water.

    But here’s where things get interesting: Bernie cut a new deal with the Koreans, to slow down their losses. I recall he specifically said that he didn’t want to do it because it was difficult enough negotiating with them the first time. If the circuit and the race were really such a drain on finances, it would be better to end the race now before even more debt builds up. Nevertheless, Bernie came up with a new deal to keep Korea on the calendar. And as near as I can tell, he has never done this for a circuit after just two years of the contract. The terms of the new deal are very good for South Korea, slashing costs by $20 million a year, cutting out FOM’s additonal commission fee (where they get 10% of any profits the circuit makes) and reducing the notorious 7% multiplier. That’s an unprecedented move on his part, despite his comments that he didn’t want to do it.

    The question is, why is Bernie bending over backwards like this? He never does it.

    I think he knows that there might be something in the future that will ultiamtely benefit the sport – something big enough to make him want to pass on the usual fees, but keep the Korean Grand Prix on the calendar. Meanwhile, the new Concorde Agreement appears to offer a share in the sport to teams that win World Championship, while 2014 will see the introduction of new engine regulations. All of this will make the sport far more attractive to manufacturers. And as the world’s fastest-growing car manufacturer and the eighth-largest in the world (fourth if you cound subsidiary Kia), Hyundai would be a prime candidate for entry.

    If Hyundai want in, there are several avenues that they can follow. Firstly, should Mercedes want to withdraw from the championship, the team at Brackley will need a new owner. As a race-winning team with a pedigree, they will be very attractive to companies like Hyundai. the downside is that they would have to compete in 2013 with someone else’s engine(s).

    Secondly, Lola Cars have said that they want to enter the sport when the new engine regulations come in, provided that they can find a supplier. Those comments were made as recently as November 2011, so they’re probably still working on it if they want to enter in 2014. The downside is that an entry depends on the availablity of the thirteenth grid spot, and the FIA rejected all the potential entries for 2012 on the basis that they didn’t have the money or the engineering know-how to compete. But if they got money from a manufacturer like Hyundai, they would almost certainly get in. And they could potentially rebrand PURE’s engines as Hyundai if they wanted to. They would still be starting from scratch, though, and after two years, Caterham, Marussia and HRT have scored no points. I think that this is probably the best (and most likely) way to go about it.

    Thirdly, there is always HRT. Luis Perez-Sala has said that the team is open to a name change, and more money will always help. But it would be a huge risk for someone like Hyundai to invest in them, and would probably take some time for them to start getting results. And if they did invest, they would likely want to move the team, which could be very disruptive.

    Still, I think the idea of Hyundai entering has merit. In think that circumstances surrounding the Korean Grand Prix and the expansion of the grid were an attempt to get them into the sport, and I can see the new deal for the race, the new engine regulations and the new Concorde Agreement making the sport look very promising for any aspiring new entries. So I think Hyundai could enter Formula 1 in 2014.

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    Expert sleuthing! Whilst Hyundai F1 sounds incredibly cheap and tacky, I’d love to see another big company join F1 and actually do OK like Toyota. I like having the new teams in F1, but I don’t enjoy seeing the drivers getting nothing out of it. I was glad to learn Petrov had a seat in 2012, but Petrov in a Caterham isn’t nearly as fun as Petrov in a Renault. And rookies cannot possibly shine in those cars. d’Ambrosio put in a few good qualifying performances last year, but seriously, who remembers that? I fear the same will come of Pic’s “impressive” showings.

    Anyway, a new team with a good backing and the right resources (Korea must be getting close to Japan now in terms of exporting cars to the world) would improve F1, so I’m all for it. I just can’t help but get upset whenever I think of the missed opportunity that is the Korean Grand Prix. It’s in the middle of no-where and the closest city is Mokpo, which is, let’s be honest, a giant industrial suburb and in no way attractive for tourists. There’s nothing fun about the Korean Grand Prix at all. It’s very new, and it’s very wasteful, but I wish I could forget about it!

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    Hyundai F1 sounds incredibly cheap and tacky

    That was very much in the 1990s. They had the same reputation that Kia and Daewoo and Daihatsu do now: cheap, throwaway cars. But they’ve recently given their entire line-up an overhaul, and they’ve actually got a really sporty approach to some of their models. The Veloster and Genesis Coupe in particular look really good.

    I like having the new teams in F1, but I don’t enjoy seeing the drivers getting nothing out of it.

    That’s why joining with Lola would be a good idea. Lola’s approach was to design a car for 2011, put in plenty of time on the windtunnel, and then upgrade it for 2012. Then they start running it through the windtunnel, and redesign for 2013. They’ll keep going until they get a car ready for 2014. But this is a very expensive long-term project, and I don’t think that the company on its own could fund it. So I think they have a backer.

    There’s nothing fun about the Korean Grand Prix at all. It’s very new, and it’s very wasteful

    And that’s precisely why I think Bernie is trying to lure Hyundai in. Ever since the project was first announced, the Korean Grand Prix has made zero sense. It’s almost as if they have made the worst decisions possible at every opportunity. But it makes a hell of a lot more sense of you think of it as trying to accomodate Hyundai.

    It’s in the middle of no-where and the closest city is Mokpo, which is, let’s be honest, a giant industrial suburb and in no way attractive for tourists.

    And one of the biggest employers in the region is Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, the fourth-largest shipbuilder in the world and a subsidiary of the Hyundai Group. I’m also willing to bet that a lot of cars exported from Korea leave the country via Mokpo.

    I wish I could forget about it!

    I think the circuit is actually secretly brilliant. Each of the three sectors tests a very different aspect of racing. The first sector is all long straights and heavy braking, demanding top speed and good brakes. The second sector is all about the driver being able to follow a very tight racing line through fast corners. And the final sector is all about getting the right setup for the car. When Tilke designed it, I think he was trying to give the teams a choice: either set the car up to be okay in all three sectors, or concentrate on the car’s strengths and make an excellent car in two sectors, but a weak one in the third. We saw this in qualifying last year – the cars were all setting remarkably similar lap times, but they were getting their speed in very different ways, and so set vastly different sector times. McLaren and Ferrari were strong in the first sector. Red Bull and McLaren were strong in the second. Ferrari and Red Bull were strong in the third.

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    Hyundai isn’t cheap and tacky anymore, we have MG for that now.

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    In my mind Kia and Hyundai are equally cheap sounding, but actually both seem on the up with some surprisingly okay cars.

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    I worked for Hyundai in retail sales from 2001 to 2005. The evolution of this car makers quality is unbelievable! From the Pony in 1986 to the 1990 Stellar and then to the Accent and Sonata in 1997-2000 was another major leap! From 2001 to 2005 also saw massive improvements with these cars. Since then these cars have continued to improve emmensely! Now Hyundai is making a 429 hp engine and it is also a long way from the Pony I knew!

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    Hyundai are not cheap and tacky. Even if they do pay peanuts to their test engineers.
    Nice sleuthing though PM.

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    I made peanut never got one… lol!

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    If anyone thinks Kia is cheap check out my baby at [link removed by moderator]

    I’d put my 2011 Kia Optima EX Luxury up against any vehicle under $40,000.

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    PM, I was going to respond to your post on Bahrain and Korea being potential non starters but I got distracted. That’s pretty much what I was getting at, Korea was renegotiated down and it would be hard to believe that they would persue a second contract at the status quo or that Bernie would sign them up for a second bite if he thought they were going to stiff him in a couple of years. Korea would only saved if Hyundai underwrote the entire event in my mind. That said, I’d like to see a new team and I’m keen to keep Korea on the schedule because I don’t have to stay up until midnight to watch the race.

    And as to cheap and tacky…since when did Renault build quality cars? I had a really crap Mercedes back in the 90’s, and don’t start me on my 1988 Jag. (Que outraged posts from Renault drivers).

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    Interesting. I can well see Hyundai entering some form of motorsport, as it’s a major step towards acceptance should you win. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be F1, and the possible link-up with Lola sounds plausible and a worthwhile endeavour for both parties (assuming it’s not like the MasterCard Lola debacle of 1997).

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    Hyundais are not cheap and tacky anymore. Some friends of us owned a horrible Hyundai Atos back in the 90’s and it was hideous in every way. Terrible ride, too loud, engine power was enough to light a 5W bulb and it was horrible to look at.

    Now I see the Genesis, the i30, the i10, the Velostar and all those cars and it seems unbelievable that it’s the same company that used to build that hideous Atos or the Accent. Recent Hyundais have been great looking things, and the other day I got in a i30 and I was amaized with the quality inside!

    It’s the same with KIAs. They are now cool looking things. Korea’s catching up quickly in that matter…

    And if they do come back to the World of Motorsports (Hyundai Accent WRC anyone?), it’d be a great addition to the world championship.

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    (assuming it’s not like the MasterCard Lola debacle of 1997)

    I’d say that’s incredibly unlikely, for several reasons. First, Lola went bust over that farce, and was bought out by new management. Secondly, the entire episode serves as a cautionary tale for anyone wanting to enter into Formula 1 before they’re actually ready to. If ever a sponsor says “we need you to be ready sooner”, the team simply has to point to 1997, and that should silence any dissent. And finally, if a manufacturer were to enter the sport, it makes no sense to do it before 2014, when they can supply their own engines.

    Of course, for all my detective work, all of this is still circumstantial evidence. There’s no hard proof that they will join in 2014 – but if they do, remember that you heard it here first.

    Personally, I’m tipping them to enter with a Lola chassis and PURE engine (again with the circumstantial evidence: PURE are developing an engine without anyone to buy it, which is probably more expensive than Lola’s chassis development programme). I’m not sure who would run it, though. As far as I know, Lola is mostly just a constructor. They would need an actual team to run the chassis, though. Jacques Villeneuve was interested in being a team principal a while ago …

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    Heh, that’s quite an interesting thought.

    On the engine side of things, Hyundai do know what they’re doing. Their Theta engine is after all the basis of what powers the Mitsubishi Evo X. See near the bottom of this (admittedly) Wikipedia article.

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    Hyundai F1 was being talked about for a 2008 F1 entry and it did not even came close to materialise, so this time around it won’t be different. If we have Hyundai F1 on the grid within the next five years, I will publicly shave my head.

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This event is destined to provide excellent international publicity for PG Accuracy, demonstrating its unique appeal as a media/spectator friendly sport.  It is interesting to note that the host nation, Colombia, has made a significant effort to ensure its PG Accuracy pilots have risen in the rankings.  No less than 10 Cat 2 competitions were held in 2012, plus a team competed in the pre-Worlds in Sarajevo last summer.  Three Colombian pilots have been selected to compete in the World Games in Cali at the end of July.

Accuracy Records introduced

A discussion on the introduction of new PG Accuracy records, was led by Igor Erzen (SLO), CIVL Records & Badges Officer.  This had been the subject of some debate for several years, with no true concensus.  But this time, agreement was reached.  There will be two record categories initially:  Number of consecutive DCs (dead centre = 0.00cm); and Number of consecutive sub-5cm scores.  Anecdotal evidence was heard that one Bulgarian pilot, during 2012, achieved 11 consecutive scores less than or equal to 5cm.  These new records could provide some tough challenges for PG Accuracy pilots in the coming years!

New chair

The CIVL Paragliding Accuracy Committee has a new chair.  Violeta Masteikiene (LIT) takes over from Nikki Spence (GBR).  Nikki commented: “Violeta has some innovative new ideas, and I am looking forward to supporting her in this role.”  As an FAI Steward, Cat 1 organiser, and pilot, Violeta is well qualified to ensure PG Accuracy continues to develop into an internationally recognised airsports discipline.

Paragliding Accuracy continues to grow, with more than 1500 pilots from 50 nations now registered in the WPRS.  There were 50 Cat 2 PG Accuracy competitions on the 2012 calendar.  Category 1 events have expanded from the first World Championships held in 2000, to include both European and Asian Championships.  Another noteworthy factor, is that PG Accuracy is not seasonal.  Competitions can be held year round, as Lithuania’s annual event on frozen lake in February, demonstrates!

(Our picture: the new Committee Chair, Violeta Masteikiene)


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