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halo 3 was recently released amidst great fanfare as an exclusive title to the latest microsoft gaming console: the Xbox 360. The halo games have been the flagship titles on the Xbox consoles since the first Xbox was released with the first halo back in 2001. halo: Combat Evolved quickly became a popular culture phenomenon, being hailed by many industry authorities as the best first person shooter available on a console. It quickly spiraled into an industry of its own, spawning original novels, comic books, toys and more.

halo is the evolution of a genre that goes back to the earliest 3D game graphics. Once it became possible to put a game character in a maze and then show that maze from the character's perspective - the first person perspective - rather than the overhead view previous video games had used, it opened up the door for the development of the "first person shooter", or FPS. The original FPS, Wolfenstein 3D, looks crude by today's standards, but it was cutting edge in both graphics and sound quality on its release in 1992. Certainly it was unlike anything that anyone had seen at the time. While the concept was simple - you walk through a maze and shoot bad guys - its execution allowed gamers to feel like they were inside the game in a way that hadn't been experienced before.

Prior to halo, the most well-known FPS was the second major FPS to hit the market: doom. doom gained notoriety beyond the gaming world for its violent content and rampant popularity. It was the first FPS to allow multiplayer gaming over a modem or network, an updated version of which is one of Halo's main selling points. doom became popular enough that a major Hollywood movie was made, starring The Rock and Karl Urban. Following in Doom's footsteps, halo is also slated to be made into a motion picture, though - as of writing this article - that project is still in development.

Each installment of the halo series has only increased the frenzy around these games as Bungie and microsoft come up with new features to add to increase replayability and multiplayer functionality. While halo 2 sold eight million copies worldwide and was the most played game on Xbox live for two years, halo 3 is expected to eventually blow those figures out of the water. 4.2 million copies were shipped to retail outlets for the release date and its release has nearly tripled sales of Xbox360 compared to pre-halo 3 sales of the console. There's no denying that the halo series of video games has become a major force in popular culture, and will likely remain so for years to come.

The order in which you swing the golf club has a major effect on the distance that you can hit the golf ball. If you have the incorrect sequencing of the golf swing it can cost you a lot of distance. So if you're like most golfers who want to hit the golf ball as far as you possibly can -- you've got to understand the correct sequence of the golf swing.

To get started let's look at what should happen in the sequencing of the backswing.

When you start your backswing you should do so with the big muscles e.g. your back and shoulders. You should not start your backswing with your hands e.g. picking the club up.

Now as you're starting the backswing by turning your shoulders and back you also need to shift your weight to your right foot. You need to continue to shift your weight to your right foot as you're turning your shoulders and back on the backswing. And keep doing this so that at the top of your backswing position you have about 85 - 90% of your weight on your right foot.

So you can sum up the backswing as a shift and turn.

Now at what part of the golf swing does the most power come from?

It's the transition. And the transition in the golf swing is when you change directions from the backswing to downswing.

Just think, if this wasn't true you'd have golfers setting themselves into a perfect top of the backswing position and then swinging from there. But that doesn't happen and never will because it's the change of directions from moving the club back to bringing it down where the real power in the golf swing comes from. And that's the key place in the golf swing where most amateur golfers lose a heck of a lot of distance. This is through a lack of the correct golf swing sequencing. Let me explain.

Imagine you've reached the top of your backswing position. What do you think should start the downswing?

The correct answers is: The weight shift should!

To start the downswing you need to first move your weight back to your left foot. Then you need to move your left knee towards the target, then the left hip needs to move towards the target, followed by the left shoulder and finally your hands should move.

The sad thing is that most golfers start their downswing with their hands and that's a killer as far as creating distance is concerned. You've got to start the downswing with the weight shift and then the left knee.

So go out and try this now.

To do this I want you to swing slowly back to the very top of your backswing. Then when you've almost reached the top of your backswing position I then want you to move your weight back to your left foot and then move your left knee towards the target. Once you've got the feeling of doing this then speed up the swing.

Now personally I just like thinking about moving my left knee towards the target to start the downswing. And I suggest you try that golf swing trigger as well.

If you get this sequencing correct from the backswing to downswing you'll gain a lot of distance and the golf swing will be a lot easier for you. Try it you'll love the results!

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Seeing 3 Red Lights on your xbox 360 is like buying a car and having the wheels fall off. microsoft is now receiving 1,500 to 2,500 broken 360s per day in UK alone. UK repair centers are now redistributing faulty consoles to foreign repair centers in order to clear an overwhelming backlog and keep up with the 1,500 to 2,500 xbox 360s arriving at its doors on a daily basis, according to customer reports. The numbers are steadily rising like gas prices.

The main reason so many of these consoles are giving up the ghost is because of heat. The xbox 360 mother board is similar to that of a regular Desktop PC with a powerful graphics chip. The only problem is that they can't dissipate the heat that the graphics chip is producing like a Desktop PC can.

Those after market Intercoolers can do more good than bad to your console. They have been reported to scorch the power AC input. microsoft also stated that some intercoolers drains too much power from the console and can cause the errors to occur.

You should move your console if it sits inside of an entertainment center or is enclosed in a tight space. It has to be able pull in air and get rid of heat freely. Although this is not the cause of the 3 xbox 360 red light error, it can't hurt to try.

Another problem the xbox 360 has with heat is that it causes the motherboard to flex. When this happens it stresses the solder joints causing micro cracks. This results in poor connections to the tiny resistors under the graphics chip.

There are two clamps called X clamps that hold down the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit -aka- graphics chip) and the CPU (Central Processing Unit -aka- the brain). They don't do such a good job of holding the heat sinks that are suppose to cool these chips down.

These heat sinks get so hot that they melt the thermal compound between them and the two chips. This causes the two chips to com in direct contact with the heat sinks that get so hot that you can literally fry an egg on them.

If you don't feel comfortable opening your xbox 360 console then you should send it back to microsoft and let them fix it. Let me warn you that you will have to wait 4 to 6 weeks to get it back because you number 1 million and something in line. The Fix can be done yourself. With all those billions, why microsoft designed the xbox 360 the way they did is a mystery.