![]() ![]() ![]() The duo of Hamilton and Rosberg worked well together, although the team will miss the presence of Ross Brawn on the pit wall in 2014. Mercedes also discovered a chassis problem on Hamilton’s car, which accounted for some of his late season pace deficit. Hamilton took a victory in sweltering conditions in Hungary and the tyre issues were somewhat alleviated (no doubt assisted by the ‘private’ test) but the Brit struggled with feeling the car properly under braking, hindering one of Hamilton’s strongest areas. But the car was harsh on its tyres on race day, especially the rears, and this sent Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg tumbling down the order in Bahrain and Spain. The rear of the car wasn’t as extreme as the Red Bull but the Mercedes was very good at getting its tyres up to temperature, hence the run of pole positions. There were also significant personnel changes, as Norbert Haug departed in place of Toto Wolff and Niki Lauda, while Paddy Lowe joined the team from McLaren. Mercedes leapt from fifth to second, aided by increasing the windtunnel to 60% and boosting the team’s budget at the end of 2011. Mercedes AMG Petronas | Championship: 2nd, 360 points ![]() Now heavily linked with Renault - via title sponsors Infiniti - Red Bull branding now features less prominently on the car. The mechanics remained the best in the pits, although their desire for a sub two second stop – eventually achieved in Austin – meant there were a few errors, of which Mark Webber bore the brunt. The strategy team frequently bested their rivals, with Japan a key example, although the senior management did not deal well with the situation in Malaysia. The finite aspects of Red Bull’s domination of the era remained a mystery, although damp conditions in Austin briefly showed the air flow to the watching world. Webber didn’t gel with that style, which often left him playing catch-up both in qualifying and the race, with one limitation spiralling into another. Very few drivers feel comfortable with the car sliding on corner entry and correcting it by stamping on the throttle, but it’s an aspect which suits Vettel to a tee. Renault’s engine mapping enabled Sebastian Vettel to feel comfortable in turning into corners extremely early, which raised questions about traction control, although these were desperate comments rather than justifiable concerns. The car was limited early on in the season due to the lack of understanding with the tyres, but once Red Bull got their head around them – combined with the modified compounds – they stole a march on their rivals. The Red Bull RB9 – still an evolution of the 2009 RB5 – was beaten to the chequered flag just six times in 19 races and its primary strength was that it could clearly run more downforce than its rivals. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The jog wheels are behind the buttons! I love this feature.If you are a turntablist, you may find the resistance of the volume sliders to be a little extreme, but as an IDM DJ, it fits me fine. The knobs and buttons on the S4 are well built and feel good.Also it would be nice to have some XLR outputs and a more user friendly (and better sounding) MIC input. Also, after coming from an American Audio VMS4 I wish this controller was a little bit more durable and not just made of plastic.The software has grown to be a very full-featured dj performance suite and rightly holds a duopoly at the top of the market with Serato. ![]() Native Instruments has been making incremental improvements to their Traktor DJ software, every year or so, ever since Traktor was first introduced in 2000.The versatility of this controller is dope I would say get the S8 now thats its out but at the time when I bought the controller only the s4 was out. They work seamlessly with the S4 and the response time is wonderful. Traktor S4 Pro (and the free upgrade to Traktor 2) are incredible. I bought this because I use TRAKTOR and wanted to try the controller that was made for the software assuming it would have the best integration. I've been DJ for a while and have used several different controllers.It's a bit of a learning curve for me as I'm crossing over from traditional analog tables with a 2 channel mixer. This includes the 2 decks and mix plus two digital/ FX decks. Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol S4 MK1 DJ Controller Highly responsive to the touch, TRAKTOR KONTROL S4 is incredibly smooth to use. The intuitive and ergonomic controller layout and its robust rotary knobs provide precise visual and tactile status feedbackperfect for any DJ situation. 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Once you experience it, you'll immediately feel how simple, yet powerful and fluid a professional DJ system can be. TRAKTOR KONTROL S4 was designed from its conception as a fully integrated system where software and hardware are fused in perfect harmony. The New Performance DJ System Forget what you know about DJ controllers and DJ software. See Native Instrument's website for latest software and firmware updates. Note:Free update to the new TRAKTOR PRO 2 software for registered S4 users. Now they're back at it again with TRAKTOR KONTROL S4, a DJ performance system designed from the ground up from the team behind TRAKTOR. ALL-IN-ONE DJ SYSTEMSNative Instruments revolutionized the DJ world nearly a decade ago with the introduction of TRAKTOR, the world's first professional DJ software. 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If you export an authentication key from rekordbox to a USB storage device, you can plug it into an internet-connected DJ hardware unit that supports CloudDirectPlay to browse and play all the tracks in your cloud-based rekordbox library. ![]() ![]() (UNO later decided to remain in Division I, and joined the Southland Conference in 2013.) On April 20, 2011, UNO officially received transition approval from the NCAA Division II Membership Committee. In order to maintain athletic scholarships, UNO instead opted for entry into Division II. ![]() On November 11, 2009, New Orleans announced it was investigating a move from Division I to the NCAA's Division III. Longtime Sun Belt member Western Kentucky joined the Sun Belt's football conference in 2009 after its board of regents voted to upgrade the school's football program to Division I FBS. In 2006, Louisiana–Monroe joined the conference as an all-sports full member when the Warhawks left their former home, the Southland Conference. In 2005, Florida Atlantic became a football-only member before joining for all sports in the 2006-07 academic year. In 2004, Troy University became a football-only member before joining for all sports in the 2005–06 academic year. Another Big West school, Utah State University, was added as a football-only member in 2003, then departed in 2005 with Idaho and New Mexico State for the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). ![]() These new members gave the Sun Belt seven football playing members in their first season, as Arkansas State and Louisiana were already full members which sponsored football. The conference did not sponsor football until 2001, when the league added former Big West Conference members New Mexico State University and the University of North Texas and former Ohio Valley Conference member (an FBS Independent on football) Middle Tennessee State University as full members (all three of them joined a year earlier for all sports in the 2000-01 school year) and added FBS Independent University of Louisiana at Monroe and Big West member University of Idaho as football-only members. The Sun Belt Conference headquarters are currently housed at the Caesars Superdome. Louisiana Tech departed after the 2000–01 academic year. Florida International University joined the Sun Belt in 1998, and the University of Denver was added in 1999. Lamar, Texas–Pan American, and Jacksonville departed at the end of the 1997–98 academic year. Ĭentral Florida left the league following the 1991–92 academic year due to a dispute over television rights, among other reasons. ![]() In 1991, the league first began to explore the idea of sponsoring football. Although the American South was the larger conference, the merged league retained the Sun Belt name. The Sun Belt, including incoming member in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, then merged with the American South Conference, made up of Arkansas State University, Louisiana Tech University, the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette), the University of Texas–Pan American (now merged into the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), New Orleans (re-joined), Lamar University, and the University of Central Florida. New Orleans competed as an independent before joining the newly formed American South Conference in 1987.Īfter the 1990–91 basketball season, all members of the Sun Belt, except Western Kentucky, South Alabama, and Jacksonville, departed for other conferences. New Orleans was forced out of the league in 1980 due to its small on-campus gymnasium that the conference did not deem suitable for conference competition. ![]() Over the next ten years the conference would add Western Kentucky University, Old Dominion University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Virginia Commonwealth University. The Sun Belt Conference was founded on August 4, 1976, with the University of New Orleans, the University of South Alabama, Georgia State University, Jacksonville University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the University of South Florida. ![]() ![]() So that’s usually going to be a big advantage for me. It’s something that involves paying attention and memory, two things that I’m good at when it comes to games. Or it could mean they’re collecting red cards in which case it doesn’t matter whether or not you throw any more 8s! The whole concept of playing defense is pretty much out the window.įor me I really don’t like losing the ability to play defense. Or it could mean they’ve got the 8 they need for their run, in which case you can safely throw them all the 8s you want. If they pick up say, a red 8, it could mean that they’re collecting 8s to make a set, in which case you shouldn’t throw them any more. ![]() The color one is the easiest to figure out and play defense against, but it’s pretty easy to do with the other phases as well.īut when you don’t know what phase the other player is on looking at his or her discards doesn’t help. You can get a lot of info after just one turn that way (“Well, he didn’t take a blue and he discarded a red, so I know he’s collecting yellow or green”). You just watch that player’s discards and you quickly figure out exactly what they’re doing. The easiest example is when someone is trying to collect 7 of one color. If you pay attention you can use that to your advantage. In regular Phase 10 everyone knows what phase everyone else is on, so you know what they’re trying to collect. The change we didn’t think about beforehand but saw immediately when we started was the ability to play “defense”. ![]() We ended up playing several games like that so I got a pretty good feel for how the game played. That worked out pretty well and was really fun. That way the order was randomized and there was some variety to the gameplay, but each player also had some direction and knew what they should be trying to collect each hand. My friend then suggested a different idea: write down the 10 phases on cards, shuffle them up, and then draw one at the beginning of the round. I like having all those choices but it does involve a lot of computation and organizing. I admit that when you pick up your hand in the early rounds it is a little overwhelming trying to figure out what you have, which phase you can readily make, and what cards to keep. ![]() I liked it, but my friend thought there were just too many options and that a little more direction was needed. A friend and I tried playing that way recently. ![]() So instead of having to do 2 sets of 3 on the first round you could go for a run of 9, 7 of one color, or whatever other phase you thought you could make with the cards you have. The thing I wanted to try was to let players complete the 10 phases in any order they want. It’s pretty fun but I always thought it would be interesting to mix it up a bit and recently I got a chance to experiment with the game. There are 10 phases in all that have to be done in order and the first one to finish all 10 phases wins. You try to make certain combos of cards, like 2 sets of 3, a run of 8, 2 sets of 4, etc. Each round you get 10 cards and every turn you draw a card and then discard one. If you’ve never played it, the deck consists of essentially two decks of playing cards. The card-based is by far the more established game, so it’s the one most people have played. Ever played Phase 10? The original is card-based but there is also a dice-based one that’s pretty fun. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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