Archive for May, 2008

Golf And The Four Horses

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

In the “Shime” chapter of the Shobogenzo, Zen Master Dogen Zenj discusses the “four horses,” which is a metaphor used by the Buddha in the Samyuta-Agama sutra. This metaphor of the four horses speaks about how we are when we strong practice the game of golf- four, one could say, classes of students.

The first horse, the superior class, is like a horse that runs fastest by merely feeling the whip’s shadow. The second horse, the good class, runs fastest when the whip brushes its hair, the hair of its mane. The third horse, the poor class, runs fastest where the whip has actually touched its flesh. And the fourth, the lowest kind of horse, is the one who runs fastest only when the whip can be felt to the marrow of its bones.

At first glance we all want to be like the first horse in the superior class. These are the fast learners…the ones who seem to be a natural. Dogen Zenji says this may not be so desirable. A study of master golfers has shown that it is not the students with innate natural abilities who have achieved golf mastery. The golfers who have achieved mastery are mostly the students with average to below average natural abilities…the ones who have practiced their craft diligently. This is very interesting…why is this so?

The road to mastery for all students has many plateaus in skill levels interrupted by brief spikes in improvements. When the first class of student takes up golf they see an immediate spike in improvement in their skill level and are very motivated. When they reach that ultimate first plateau where they do not improve despite hard practice, most gifted students get discouraged.

Gifted students are used to seeing fast progress, so they may blame the instructor or something else just so they don’t have to put in the hard work that is needed to attain mastery. Many superior students will then give up the game due to frustration.

Superior athletes who never make it big are seen in ALL sports. We all have heard countless stories about gifted athletes who never made it big because they weren’t willing to put the time in needed to reach their innate potential.

The fourth class of student will see slow improvements, much time spent on plateaus in their skill level. If the fourth class of golf student stays with it and practices hard they will learn the golf to the marrow of their bones, like the fourth horse.

Before you can master ANY skill, you need to learn the skill to the marrow of your bones. To learn golf to the marrow of your bones you need to stay at each skill level for however long it takes. Most first class students never learn the skill to the marrow of their bones because it comes easy to them. The time spent on plateaus for students who learn fast are shorter than the ones who learn slower.

The paradox of the four horses parable is we must practice like the fourth class of horse to become like the first class of horse.

Hit ‘em Long and Straight!

John Lynch

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About The Author

John Lynch is owner of http://no1golfbookreviews.blogspot.com and has published hundreds of golf articles. To read more golf articles like this and get instant access to FREE Golf Tips Reports, John recommends you visit: http://no1golfbookreviews.blogspot.com

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Samsung G800 - Mobile Phones

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

The sleek Samsung G800 is a high-fashion smart camera phone. The device’s front fascia and lens cover have metal framing and its back is made of plastic. The underside of the device has a leather-like textured plastic with distinctive patterns. The handset’s top has two loudspeakers which are slightly recessed into the casing and are covered by a metal grill.

The Samsung G800 has a 2.4 inch 262 K colours TFT monitor that has a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. Its display can accommodate up to 8 text and 3 service lines. The mobile phone utilizes a standard 960 mAh Li-Ion battery. Its battery has a talktime of upto 2.5 hours and a standby time of upto 250 hours. The device weighs 146 GMS and measures 101 x 51.1 x 18 mm. The G800 comes with 160 MB of onboard memory that can be expanded further by using a swappable 4GB microSD memory card.

The device supports various profiles like Hands free, Headset, Dial-Up Networking, File Transfer and Object Push. The handset features three modes - Media, Samsung PC Studio and Mass Storage. The phone shows up on your desktop in Mass Storage mode and does not require any additional installations. So, it is ready to work right after the installation. The device charges itself automatically when connected to a PC via USB. Its HSDPA compatibility allows the device to achieve very fast (up to 3.6 MB/s) data transfer speed. The device also supports EDGE and GSM networks.

The Samsung G800 is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera with a 3x optical zoom and xenon flash. You can quickly call up various features of the device with the help of a number pad. Menu, Options, Single Shot Mode and Gallery - all these features are just a click away from you. The Samsung G800 records videos in an MPEG4 format. The device remembers your last menu function and automatically highlights it the next time to you enter the same menu item. Its phone book can hold information of up to 1000 contacts. Thanks to the tough competition in mobile phone markets, it can also be acquired through the attractive contract mobile phone deals announced by the retailers across the UK.

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The History of Computers

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

The early computers

The history of computer dates back a lot longer than the 1900s, in fact computers have been around for over 5000 years.

In ancient time a “computer”, (or “computor”) was a person who performed numerical calculations under the direction of a mathematician.

Some of the better known devices used are the Abacus or the Antikythera mechanism.

Around 1725 Basile Bouchon used perforated paper in a loom to establish the pattern to be reproduced on cloth. This ensured that the pattern was always the same and hardly had any human errors.

Later, in 1801, Joseph Jacquard (1752 - 1834), used the punch card idea to automate more devices with great success.

The First computers?

Charles Babbage’s. (1792-1871), was ahead of his time, and using the punch card idea he developed the first computing devices that would be used for scientific purposes. He invented the Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine, which he begun in 1823 but never completed. Later he started work on the Analytical Engine, it was designed in 1842.

Babbage was also credited with inventing computing concepts such as conditional branches, iterative loops and index variables.

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), was a colleague of Babbage and founder of scientific computing.

Many people improved on the Babbage inventions, George Scheutz along with his son, Edvard Scheutz, began work on a smaller version and by 1853 they had constructed a machine that could process 15-digit numbers and calculate fourth-order differences.

On of the first notable commercial use, (and success), of computers was the US Census Bureau, which used punch-card equipment designed by Herman Hollerith to tabulate data for the 1890 census.

To compensate for the cyclical nature of the Census Bureau’s demand for his machines, Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company (1896), which was one of three companies that merged to form IBM in 1911.

Later, Claude Shannon (1916- 2001) first suggested the use of digital electronics in computers and in 1937 and J.V.Atanasoff built the first electronic computer that could solve 29 simultaneous equations with 29 unknowns. But this device was not programmable

During those trouble times, computers evolved at a rapid rate. But because of restrictions many projects remained secret until much later and notable example is the British military “Colossus” developed in 1943 by Alan Turing and his team.

In the late 1940 the US army commissioned John V. Mauchly to develop a device to compute ballistics during World War II. As it turned out the machine was only ready in 1945, but the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, proved to be a turning point in computer history.

ENIAC proved to be a very efficient machine but not a very easy one to operate. Any changes would sometime require the device itself to be re-programmed. The engineers were all too aware of this obvious problem and they developed “stored program architecture”.

John von Neumann, (a consultant to the ENIAC), Mauchly and his team developed EDVAC, this new project used stored program.

Eckert and Mauchly later developed what was arguably the first commercially successful computer, the UNIVAC.

Software technology during this period was very primitive. The first programs were written out in machine code. By the 1950s programmers were using a symbolic notation, known as assembly language, then hand-translating the symbolic notation into machine code. Later programs known as assemblers performed the translation task.

The Transistor era, the end of the inventor.

Late 1950 saw the end of valve driven computers. Transistor based computers were used because they were smaller, cheaper, faster and a lot more reliable.

Corporations, rather than inventors, were now producing the new computers.

Some of the better known ones are:

  • TRADIC at Bell Laboratories in 1954,
  • TX-0 at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory
  • IBM 704 and its successors, the 709 and 7094. The latter introduced I/O processors for better throughput between I/O devices and main memory
  • First supper computers, The Livermore Atomic Research Computer (LARC) and the IBM 7030 (aka Stretch)
  • The Texas Instrument Advanced Scientific Computer (TI-ASC)

Now the basis of computers was in place, with transistors the computers were faster and with Stored program architecture you could use the computer for almost anything.

New high level programs soon arrived, FORTRAN (1956), ALGOL (1958), and COBOL (1959), Cambridge and the University of London cooperated in the development of CPL (Combined Programming Language, 1963). Martin Richards of Cambridge developed a subset of CPL called BCPL (Basic Computer Programming Language, 1967).

In 1969, the CDC 7600 was released, it could perform 10 million floating point operations per second (10 Mflops).

The network years.

From 1985 onward the race was on to put as many transistors as possible on one computer. Each one of them could do a simple operation. But apart from been faster and been able to perform more operations the computer has not evolved much.

The concept of parallel processing is more widely used from the 1990s.

In the area of computer networking, both wide area network (WAN) and local area network (LAN) technology developed at a rapid pace

Get a more detailed history of computer.

Ever wanted to learn more about your computer? http://www.myoddpc.com gives you information from the history of computer to what computer memory to get. Computer software as well as everything you need to know about computer hardware. All in simple terms for the non-technical amongst us.

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Married Couple Automobile Insurance

Monday, May 19th, 2008

If you are married and you need automobile insurance, you can expect to see some discounts depending on your driving and credit record. The thinking behind this theory is, most married couples are suppose to be more responsible and settled down. The potential to drive carelessly has been eliminated.

If the driving records of one or both drivers is bad, your car insurance rate will be higher than someone that has a clean driving record and is single. Whether one or both have a bad driving record, you still have a high-risk attached to your automobile insurance policy.

For the most part, car insurance covers all drivers in a household whether married or not. If you live with someone who has a poor driving record and tell the car insurance company this person is able to drive your car, you will pay a higher automobile insurance premium. It may be wise for the spouse with the bad driving record to take a safely drivers course to help lower the cost of the insurance premium.

When two people decide to get married, they usually have two cars and separate insurance policies. You need to determine which automobile insurance company will provide you with the cheapest car insurance and then decide to keep one or try an entirely different insurance company. Keep in mind, married couples receive discount for their age, marital status, education, driving record and credit history.

If all the information supplied to the car insurance company is positive, you should receive discounts allowing for lower insurance premiums. If you become divorced or widowed your automobile insurance reverts to a single premium resulting in a higher car insurance rate. Most people do not find this to important when considering their impending divorce, but widower’s sometimes find this to cause a financial burden.

Some interesting facts about car insurance and married couples are that no matter what your age, if you are married you receive a discount for being married. If you combine all your insurance needs into one package after you are married, you receive a better deal on insurance rates. The way of the world today offers more incentives to marry then to stay single, even though some single people actually may be a better driver than a married couple may. The car insurance company recognizes your marital status as a determining factor, but it should not be included.

A married couple can obtain quotes from various automobile insurance companies and receive discounts that allow you to choose from many different companies. Always remember the cheapest insurance might offer the same coverage you have been used to as a single person, so adding more coverage may be required.

You can also find more information at Family Auto Insurance and Online Car Insurance. Autocarinsurancehelp.org is a comprehensive resource to get help about car insurance.

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Book Design - Images and Resolution For Print

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

As far as publishing goes this is perhaps the least understood aspect. At one time what you needed was a photograph which you sent to the printer or publisher who did their magic and voila; the picture appeared in your book. Now in the computer era the picture can be in a variety of digital formats.

An original photograph is referred to as a continuous tone image. The tones move seamlessly from white through grey to black and through the colour spectrum. A photograph does have a grain structure but it is microscopic and contains orders of magnitude more information than a digital image. Digital images also have a grain structure called pixels. Each pixel can have many values (in the millions for a colour image) but the entire pixel has the same value. When we take a picture with a digital camera (or scan a photograph) we do it at a particular resolution. This refers to the number of pixels in the image and is usually given as number of pixels width and pixels height. This is referred to as a raster image due to the way it is imaged on screen — from left to right and top to bottom. This is also the order in which the pixels values are given in the image file.

To get the illusion of continuous tone when a photograph is printed we use ink dots. Don’t confuse ink dots with pixels, they are not the same. These dots are usually printed in a rectangular grid called a screen, measured in ink dots per inch and the dots themselves vary in size. (Screens are often described as lines, of ink dots, per inch.) So as the tone in an image gets darker the ink dots get larger but the screen, dots (lines) per inch, remain the same. You would think that the higher the number of dots per inch the better the resulting picture and you would be mostly correct, but this is dependent on the printing press, the type of paper and the chemistry of the ink. It turns out that we need about 300 pixels per inch to give a good quality image at 130 line screen (130 ink dots per inch).

We talked earlier about laser printers not being able to deliver as good an image as offset. Printing houses today also use laser technology but they call them image setters not laser printers and they produce much higher resolution images. To produce the 130 line screen, the image setter needs to be capable of over 2000 pixels per inch where your laser printer is only capable of 600. A very thorough explanation of this can be found in the book Real World Scanning and Halftones.

So the digital image you sent was perhaps 3,456 pixels x 2,304 pixels. This is the top resolution you might get from an 8 megapixel camera. This image could print a cover about 12 inches across. The salesman may have told you that you could print a poster with these images but he is talking about printing on an ink jet printer not a printing press — different technologies with different requirements. The 12 inches sounds good as far as printing your cover but you only want a small crop of the image. It turns out that the crop you want is only 1,000 pixels wide and 1,600 pixels high. The minimum you need for your cover is 1,800 pixels wide by 2700 high (6 inches multiplied by 300 pixels per inch, and 9 inches multiplied by 300 pixels per inch). So the designer tells you the image is too small or more correctly, isn’t high enough resolution.

If you provide original photographs or negatives the designer or printer will scan them at the required resolution (providing of course that the pictures are of reasonable size, don’t have to be cropped too much and are in focus). If you provide digital images they must be of a high enough resolution.

Just a quick word about original photographs: They do need to be reasonably good quality. I have tried to scan 8″ x 10″ portraits that were so poorly done that it was almost impossible to get a good image. I have also scanned an 1880 era carte-de-visite photo that is only about 2.5″ x 3.5″ that has fabulous detail.

At the risk of confusing you, lets discus a different technology: stochastic screening. Stochastic is simply a fancy word meaning random. (If you are a mathematician you are now jumping up and down, incensed that I would use such a simplistic definition. It’s a little like a fashion designer telling you that aubergine isn’t purple. If this doesn’t mean anything to you believe me when I say that it doesn’t matter, so please don’t loose any sleep over it. ;-) Conventional printing uses lines of varying sizes of ink dots, stochastic printing uses random patterns of small ink dots that don’t change in size but vary in number or density. This is roughly the technology your ink jet printer uses. The benefit is that you might be able to get away with a smaller (lower resolution) image using stochastic printing. Don’t take this as a licence to crop your digital images to death, there is still a great benefit to using high resolution images and stochastic printing will benefit more from very high resolution than conventional printing will.

Although this technology isn’t really new its adoption has been slow in the print industry. If your printer happens to use this type of screening it can be a plus and your designer will make any necessary adjustments to take advantage of it.

I hope this has made the concept of resolution a little clearer as far as the print industry is concerned.

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Periodization Training For Golf

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

The idea of periodization has been around a very long time for athletes at all levels. The concept is simple. If you started with the goal in mind, let’s say it was to win the Club Championship or place in the top 3 in your next Amateur event, then you would plan accordingly.

Generally, an annual plan is used, although it is not uncommon to use longer periods of time especially when working with a younger developing athlete.

Periodization occurs when you break down all of the segments into actual manageable parts, always keeping the long term goal in mind. Your master plan may be broken down into which phase you are in, for example, are you in your competitive stage or pre-competitive stage? This information is then used to determine which strategies offer the most benefit at any given point in time.

If you use a holistic approach to golf improvement, then you also periodize each important component as in the physical, mental, technical and strategic side.

While this many sound like a lot of information to track, this is the very point of periodization. Breaking down all of the important parts into simple tasks you can complete daily and/or weekly which fit comfortably and naturally into achieving your long term goal.

What is the real payoff for you? Well, just like the pros, when you prepare in this manner you leave nothing to chance. You have less margin for error and a higher probability of meeting or succeeding your goals.

To give you an idea of how to periodize a program for golf, first consider your competitive season, then employ the following ideas.

Phase 1 - Restoring optimal flexibility or range of motion in hips, spine and shoulders.

Phase 2 - Choose adaptation exercises where the main objective is to involve many muscle groups while preparing joints, tendons and ligaments for the work ahead. Build a solid base of support through stabilization exercises.

Phase 3 - Build strength. Consider increasing your loads, time under tension and create an opportunity for increased force production.

Phase 4 - Power production. Not you can convert all of your previous efforts to completion of the process where all energy is stored and transferred in efficient movement patterns for the benefit of your golf swing.

Phase 5 - Active recovery and rest. Don’t forget that every body needs a recovery period so it can maintain gains made throughout the year while protecting the body from injury.

Susan Hill is a CHEK Golf Biomechanic, golf fitness columnist to Golf Illustrated and President of Fitness for Golf. For exercises targeted to lower your handicap and give you a competitive edge every time you play, then visit http://www.fitnessforgolf.com

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Printer Barrier Tape Can Convey High Visibility Messages to Prospective Customers

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Among barrier tapes, printed barrier tape is the rule. Barrier tapes are typically there to tell people not to enter restricted areas. And it helps if the tape clearly specifies the reason for this prohibition, such as ‘Police Line’.

Barrier tapes mark out areas where certain kinds of activities, such as a crime scene investigation or firefighting, are going on. If people enter these areas in an unrestricted fashion they can hinder these activities. So printed barrier tapes are erected indicating the restriction and the reason for it.

Barrier tapes, however, are used not only by police and fire departments but also by business organizations.

Businesses and Printed Barrier Tapes

Barrier tape is an excellent publicity media because of a number of factors. Firstly, the tapes are put up in public places, and are seen by large numbers of people. Secondly, they are highly visible to ensure that they do not go unnoticed by the public. Finally, they are wide tapes that can accommodate larger message displays.

All these make them attractive to publicity seeking businesses. If the barrier tape is erected at worksites, there is the additional advantage that the business can also demonstrate that it is executing (major) projects. This tends to enhance the credibility of the promotional message.

Businesses have begun to use printed barrier tapes at outdoor events and publicity campaigns that they organize. Quality printed company logos, names, contact details, and sales promotional messages, are featured on the wide and long barrier tapes. The tapes themselves are attention catching with their bright colors and arresting patterns.

Printed Barrier Tape for Business Promotion

Select a barrier tape that stands out among its surroundings. Put it up in a highly visible manner, say, facing the traffic. Use high quality printing to display your company logo, name, contact details, and a strong product promotional message. Use text colors that contrast with the background color, and design the layout for instant comprehension of the message.

You now have a wonderful brand building media. People will come to associate the logo with the name, and the product with both the logo and your company name. And the heavy traffic will ensure that many people become aware of you and your product. And the quality of the message and its presentation will also come to be associated with you.

That is brand building.

And the product promotional message, if it is strong and convincing, will percolate down into the viewers’ consciousness.

Printed Barrier Tapes

Barrier tapes are typically made from strong materials like vinyl, polyethylene and woven cotton or woven plastic. They usually range in width from 50 to 150 mm. You can buy them in standard length rolls or you can specify a custom length for each roll.

Eye catching colors like alternating red and white, or yellow and black, are typical. So are strong single colors like yellow and white. The colors chosen must stand out in the surroundings where the tape is put up.

The barrier tapes can come as shrink-wrapped rolls or in special dispensers. A standard number of rolls will be packed in each carton.

Conclusion

The printed barrier tape is an excellent medium for business publicity. They are put up at public places, employ eye-catching colors and patterns, and if put up at worksites, add credibility to your promotional message (indicating that you are doing what you claim to be doing).

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“No Fee Balance Transfer” 0% Intro APR Credit Cards Still Exist

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Ever since zero percent introductory annual percentage rate (intro APR) credit cards were introduced to the American market several years ago, they’ve been very popular. All types of consumers have been taking advantage of 0% offers. Most consumers use 0% deals to save money by avoiding interest charges on their credit card debt, while other money-savvy consumers use 0% offers to make money by playing the 0% credit card arbitrage game (also known as “stoozing.”) Many 0% credit card offers come with a catch: you have to pay a fee for transferring a balance. There are, however, a few select credit card products out there where you don’t have to pay a fee for the first or initial balance transfer.

Feeless, 0% intro APR balance transfer deals — perhaps the most sought-after 0% deals on the Internet — are a dying breed. Dying, but not dead. The pool of banks that offer feeless 0% deals has been shrinking. Why? Because the banks and credit card companies know that by eliminating the balance transfer transaction fee, a balance transfer “surfer” can transfer a credit card balance to a card, sit out the interest-free period, then transfer the balance out to a new 0% deal — thus denying the bank any opportunity to make money off the surfer. The balance transfer transaction fee gives a bank the opportunity to get at least something out of the deal.

The Discover More family of credit cards, offered by Discover Financial Services (DFS), has been exceedingly popular for transferring credit card balances. Why? Because, heretofore, with any Discover More card, you could transfer a credit card balance and pay no interest on the transferred funds for 12 months, with no balance transfer transaction fee. But that’s not all: with Discover More, you could (and still can) get a 0% rate on new credit card purchases for 12 months to boot. Its no wonder that the Discover More family of credit cards has been a top-ranked collection of credit cards at many top-rated websites.

But DFS recently made a change to the terms and conditions associated with the Discover More family of credit cards: you now have to pay a fee for transferring a balance; the minimum transfer fee is $10. The Discover More group of cards still offers great value, with a 0% intro APR rate on both balance transfers and new purchases for one year, but the nascent balance transfer transaction fee may turn off some folks out there in the market for a hot, 0% credit card deal.

OK, now for the good news: Citi®, American Express® and Pulaski Bank still offer consumer credit cards where you can transfer a balance at zero percent for 6 or 12 months (depending on the card) and pay no balance transfer fee. Furthermore, Citi® and CitiBusiness® have business credit cards that provide an option to transfer balances at 0% without charging a transaction fee.

If you plan on hunting (or continuing your hunt) for an attractive 0% credit card deal after reading this article, remember two things:

  • In your search for “no fee balance transfer” 0% deals, you may find articles, blog posts or other website content with claims that feeless 0% deals no longer exist. Don’t buy it. Feeless 0% balance transfer offers can still be found today — even with certain business credit cards — if you know where to look.
  • Credit card deals are constantly evolving, so if you’re planning on signing up for a specific 0% offer that you’ve had your eye on for a while, try not to drag your heels. The sexy, feeless balance transfer offer you find today may be gone tomorrow. Thankfully, the selection of “no fee” 0% deals is still quite healthy, so you don’t have to panic if the offer you wanted disappears.

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Nike SasQuatch Clone Golf Clubs

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

This is your guide to find Nike SasQuatch clone golf clubs to save you money, suit your game, and utilize technology used by the best golfer in the world, Tiger Woods, in addition to professional golfers K.J. Choi, Rory Sabbatini, Stewart Cink and many other touring professionals.

Over the last two years, Nike Golf has introduced its SasQuatch line of golf clubs including the following: SasQuatch Sumo Squared Driver, SasQuatch Sumo Driver and SasQuatch Fairway Woods. This is no surprise as all golf manufacturers must keep inventing new golf club styles and technology advancements to stay competitive. Below you will find great choices of Nike SasQuatch clone golf clubs.

The Nike SasQuatch Sumo Squared Driver offers a unique shape and extremely high moment of inertia. This results in superior forgiveness and long, straight results on off-center hits. The deep beta titanium face combined with a titanium body and composite crown to create weight savings that are distributed into the square design. All this generates a driver that is longer and more responsive. This driver is the current choice of professional golfer KJ Choi.

The following driver golf clones offer you great alternatives to the Nike SasQuatch Sumo Squared Driver at a fraction of the price:

  • Integra SV3 Driver — With the latest design geometry in the golf industry, the Integra SV3 Driver produces a shot with maximum forgiveness. The square design places more weight behind the face at the heel and toe positions. Along with the scalloped crown, this produces a very low center of gravity creating a higher launch angle with a low spin rate. The square head also increased the club head’s ability to resist twisting during off-center hits.
  • Tour Plus Tubby Square Driver — The Tour Plus Tubby Square Driver utilizes square technology which is designed to increase driving accuracy. This technology works by moving the weight further back on the driver and closer to the heel and toe, thus the square shape.
  • Turbo Power Kumo Square Titanium Driver — The Turbo Power Kumo Square Driver has square design technology that moves the weight further back on the driver and more towards the heel and toe. Testing has shown this square design will improve your accuracy on mis-hit shots.

The Nike SasQuatch Sumo Driver features an all-titanium head and an extremely high moment of inertia. This design has created the ideal ratio between the width of the clubface and the depth of the club head. The Nike SasQuatch Sumo geometry pushes the breadth-to-face length ratio up, resulting in a larger sweet spot.

Two other great choices to harness this technology and can save you money are:

  • Tour Plus Tubby Inertia Driver — With its center of gravity set low and deep, this driver is a highly engineered titanium driver that brings together size, power, forgiveness and workability. Forgiveness is achieved by increasing the club head’s resistance to twisting during off-center hits. Power comes from a taller and wider sweet spot. Workability is achieved with a more traditional shape allowing players to control their trajectory and ball path. All of the benefits create a higher launch angle, lower spin and longer distances with excellent control.
  • Integra SV2 Plus Driver — The Integra SV2 Plus Driver is very hard not to hit straight. A key to this driver is how it maximizes moment of inertia, the ability to push weight as far away from the center of gravity as possible. This, along with the scalloped crown, produces a very low center of gravity creating a higher launch angle with a low spin rate.

The Nike SasQuatch Fairway Woods have a powerful new geometry in which the breadth of the head has been expanded with PowerBow technology to move the center of gravity farther back, resulting in maximum distance and higher launch.

Some of the great Nike SasQuatch Fairway Wood clones include the following:

  • Tour Plus Nessie Fairway Woods — The Tour Plus Nessie Fairway Woods are designed with a high launch angle and optimum spin rates. To help improve initial launch and velocity, the internal weighting has been moved to the rear. The wider sole print allows for greater forgiveness on mis-hit shots. It has a midsized head design makes the club very forgiving and also a low center of gravity helps to get ball airborne.
  • Dynacraft Avatar Fairway Woods — The Dynacraft Avatar Fairway Woods are available in a variety of lofts from a traditional 3-wood to a 15-wood for those who find fairway woods easier to hit than irons. They have a triple internal weighting located in the rear of the sole to produce both straighter shots and a higher launch angle.

These are a few of the many Nike clone golf clubs on the market today. With so many alternatives to choosing higher priced brand name clubs, considering clone golf clubs makes a lot of sense for many golfers.

Darren Finger is a golf enthusiast who owns http://www.clone-golf-club-advisor.com, a comprehensive website that is the ultimate online guide about clone golf clubs. For more information about Nike clone golf clubs, visit the site today!

Leasing and Business Computer Rentals - Acquiring ‘Smart Weapons’ for the Market-Share Wars

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Whether you are a start-up, growing or established company, and whether a large or small player, consider the advantages computer equipment leasing or long-term rentals can give you in your fight to get ahead, and stay ahead, in the ever-continuing battle for market share.

Can renting or leasing computers, servers and other peripherals give your company an advantage? To answer this, consider not just how leasing vs. purchasing will affect your balance sheet, but also how leasing can empower your people to out-maneuver, out-think and out-perform their competition.

Most often…. It is the side that arrives first on the field…. with the most…. that wins the day….

OUT-MANEUVER THE COMPETITION

On your balance sheet, leasing arrangements or long-term business computer rentals can give your company the ability to out-maneuver competitors by marshaling its corporate resources most effectively - particularly if your computing needs are front-end heavy in a start-up or new initiative.

Conserve Your Capital: Leasing vs. Purchasing allows you to use your capital where it is most needed (e.g. training, office space, or advertising costs etc.) at the front-end of a new project or start-up.

Preserve Your Credit Line: Leasing can defer cash outlays until revenue streams come online or increase, allowing you more flexibility to operate within the constraints of your credit facility. Leasing or long-term rentals are also, in their effect, an additional source of equity financing.

Outsource Your IT Needs: Reputable leasing and rental companies will not only fill your hardware needs, but will also provide service and tech support so you do not have to build and maintain those functions in-house.

OUT-THINK THE COMPETITION

To succeed, confront your competition with “smart weapons” rather than older, conventional weapons and tactics. Leasing or long-term computer rentals allow you to put the newest, most effective, and even the hardest to obtain “smart weapon” technologies in the right place, in the right quantities, and at exactly the right time.

Securing The Newest Technologies: Leasing or long-term rentals give your people access to state-of-the-art equipment, allowing them to compete head-to-head regardless of your competitors’ moves.

Managing Technology Turnover: Particularly in sectors with heavy R&D, product development and marketing costs, leasing or renting allows you to compete advantageously by keeping you abreast of technology changes and quickly obtaining and applying the latest technologies to initiatives that may be time-sensitive.

OUT-PERFORM THE COMPETITION

Performance is the bottom-line. Leasing can allow you to adapt to changing business conditions, to react rapidly when sudden opportunities present themselves, and so add to corporate profitability.

Being First on the Field: Leasing allows companies to ramp up faster and more effectively by bringing in equipment and new technologies rapidly, when and where they are needed.

Bringing the Most to the Field: Selecting the right business computer leasing or rental company allows you to bring all the computer hardware, servers, peripherals and support that you will need on-stream as soon as possible, while you pay over time as revenue streams build up. Competitors may miss the opportunities you seize by waiting to purchase equipment outright and building up their service and support structures in-house.

Bringing the Spoils of Victory Home: Long-term business computer rentals or leases constitute business expenses rather than capital costs. There can be significant tax advantages to filling your computer hardware needs through long-term rental or leasing arrangements. Business expenses are deducted up front, while capital cost depreciations will normally be deferred over the life of the equipment.

Most computer leasing or business computer rental companies will also arrange for the resale, return or disposal of rented or leased equipment when it is no longer needed or outdated. That way, your technology arsenal will remain up-to-date, and obsolete or redundant technological weaponry will not impede your company’s next foray onto the battlefield for market share.

For more information on business computer rentals, corporate computer leasing, information on renting servers or peripherals, and/or for pricing details please visit http://www.vernoncomputersource.com or call1-800-827-0352 to let us help you determine your needs and to get a quick and accurate quote.


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