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From OLED to Tegra: Five Myths of the Zune HDJust when you thought Microsoft had given up on the Zune as a product and had retreated to referring to it as a nebulous cloud of conceptual features, the company comes out with a new device supporting a mobile-optimized OLED screen, a wildly powerful yet super efficient new multi-core Tegra graphics processor and support for high definition radio. The problem is that none of those things are actually true.
With the Zune HD, Microsoft has dusted off its failed brand and applied it to a new device aimed at the iPod touch. To distinguish it, the company has added several new features. Unfortunately, as was the case with previous models, what Microsoft has added is all sizzle and no steak. Here's why.
Myth 1: OLED is a great display technology for mobile devices
First off, Microsoft gave the Zune HD a new OLED display. OLED is an interesting new technology that uses a layer of electroluminescent organic compounds, rather than the inorganic materials used in traditional LCDs, to produce an image. OLED panels don't require a backlight, so they can render true blacks and provide a higher contrast ratio.
However, today's OLED panels are much dimmer than standard issue LCDs: a typical maximum output of 200cd/m^2 compared to around 4-500 for mid-range LCDs. OLED also performs considerably worse in bright light because OLED is 100% emissive rather than being partially transflective.
A good quality LCD actually uses ambient light to make its image brighter and more vibrant; OLED does not. This means when you take it outside, the OLED's screen is completely washed out by sunlight. Unless you only plan to use your mobile device in your dark basement, you don't want one of today's OLED screens, particularly on a mobile media player that you might expect to use on the go in various environments.
A shot in the dark
Microsoft knows this, which is why it only demonstrates the Zune HD in dark rooms. Engadget filmed a full demonstration, including the device's incapacity to pull up a web page, in a suspiciously dark room without even noting this. There are actually candles visibly flickering in the video behind the device.
Microsoft sets up its demos in the dark because the Zune HD looks terrible outside, where its contrast ratio advantage observed in ideal conditions completely falls apart. Engadget's other pictures of an OLED-using Sony Walkman show that without the candle-lit smoke and mirrors, OLED blacks are not black at all.
There are other problems with OLED. They don't last long, because the electroluminescence layer degrades far more rapidly than regular LCDs. Component colors within OLED also die at different times, with the blue pixels fading first. This results in a rapid shift of the color balance as the device ages. Additionally, the original color reproduction gamut of brand new OLED displays is already worse than standard LCD, resulting in less natural-looking colors from the start that only get worse.
More power to ya
And despite the power savings attributed to OLED's backlight-free design, OLEDs still use more power than LCD displays most of the time because the OLED technology consumes power based on how bright the image it is displaying is. Essentially, OLED is the backlight.
Sony and Microsoft try to compensate by giving their OLED devices a dark, mostly black user interface. Unless you will exclusively be using your Zune HD to watch gothic movies in the dark, the screen will be gobbling up more power than an LCD. This is particularly the case if you want to browse the web, which involves a lot of white space. Showing a white background, OLED consumes as much as 300% of the power of an LCD. Any colors that rely upon those those fragile blue pixels are particularly power inefficient.
And again, because OLED doesn't use any ambient light to brighten its picture, as LCD does, 100% of the image comes from emitted light output, which requires a bigger drain on the battery. For this reason, reviewers of other OLED products have expressed puzzlement about why the supposedly efficient OLED technology didn't translate into better battery life in actual use, as did the Register when looking at a Samsung s8000 Jet:
"Considering it's got an energy-saving OLED screen, we were disappointed with the battery life of the Jet. Perhaps the powerful processor puts some extra drain on the juice, but the promised 180 minutes of talk time and 250 hours' standby translated into a barely a day of moderate use."
If you're wondering why Apple, which sells tens of millions of mobile devices per year and has a component appetite that literally sways RAM markets, didn't beat Microsoft, a company that barely sold a couple million Zunes in two years, to the OLED trough, it's not because Microsoft is on the cutting edge, but because Microsoft is desperately looking for a marketable feature, whether or not that feature makes any sense for consumers.
On page 2 of 3: NVIDIA's Tegra processor inside the Zune HD.


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This video will show you how to change the mower wheel on an MTD walk-behind unit. Lawn mower tires and wheels sometimes need to be replaced because of worn bushings, low tread, or broken hubs. Before you being this project, make sure you have the correct size replacement mower wheel. Check your operator's manual to find out which lawn mower wheel is right for your machine. Keep in mind that the instructions for changing a mower wheel may vary slightly for your model.
Before you change a mower wheel, remove the spark plug wire.
If your MTD lawn mower has a height adjuster, place it in a position that allows easy access to the wheel bolts.
Using a socket, unbolt the lawn mower wheel and remove it from the unit.
Lubricate your lawn mower wheel bushings with a dry lubricant, such as graphite, to maximize their lifespan..
Tighten the lawn mower wheel nut, and adjust the height of the wheel to match the other three.
After you replace the mower wheel, reconnect the spark plug wire.

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The goal of treatment is to reduce your weight to a point where it is no longer a risk to your health. The initial goal is to lose approximately 10% of the baseline body weight or 1-2 pounds a week in the first 6 months of treatment. This may be less weight than you would like to lose, but it may be a more realistic goal. This is done with lifestyle changes, including how you shop, how you prepare food, and changing eating and exercise habits. Once the weight is lost, it is essential to maintain and prevent the regain of weight through better eating habits and regular exercise.
Treatment will:
- Improve quality of life
- Allow you do participate in activities
- Reduce the risk of physical and psychological complications associated with obesity
Be aware that obesity is difficult to treat and success rates are not high. Cultural factors, personal habits, lifestyle, and genetics all affect the treatment process. Medications play only a small supplementary role and surgery is limited to people with morbid obesity or those who have complications. Many benefit from counseling and support groups.
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As always, it is a pleasure to hear from the Admin of the Manawatu Christian Apologetics Society. In response to my last post and comment, Admin replies:
Professor, Apologetics breaks into at least two streams: evidentialism and presuppositionalism. No evidence is interpreted in a vacuum; it always comes thru a filter of some type.
Apparently this was intended to address my question about the goal of his apologetic if he truly feels that evidence is "somewhat of an excuse." What he overlooks here is that there is more you can do with the evidence after it "comes through a filter of some type."
The most fundamental principle of science is that truth is consistent with itself (i.e. does not contradict itself). People who aren't used to scientific thinking may not realize the tremendous power that resides in this principle. For one thing, the self-consistency of truth makes it possible to tell whether or not our conclusions have "filtered" the evidence to the point that they no longer reflect the truth accurately.
The realm of objective reality is truth, and does not contradict itself. It's also the source of the evidence we work with in science and apologetics. Thus, the evidence, at its source, is consistent with itself and with the real world. As we study the evidence, and try to understand the evidence, it may be the case that we arrive at a distorted interpretation that no longer reflects real-world truth. But is that the end of the story? Are we helpless, and unable to escape the perceptual prison of our own biases?
No, because truth is consistent with itself. Once we look at the evidence and draw our conclusions, we can go back to the real world and see if our conclusions are consistent with themselves and with objective reality. We can, in other words, give our conclusions a reality check. If we have inadvertently distorted the truth in seeking to interpret the evidence, the result will be something that is inconsistent somewhere, either with itself (internal inconsistency) or with reality (external inconsistency). Thus, while we cannot always know that a given answer is right (since we might find some new evidence, with a new inconsistency, tomorrow), we can know when our conclusions are not consistent with the truth.
What if we find that something is internally or externally inconsistent? This is where the science comes in. We consider different alternatives, different hypotheses. If we suppose that X is true, but X turns out to be inconsistent with something that we can observe and verify in the real world, then it's time to look at Y and Z, to see if they would produce results that are more consistent with what we see in the real world. What's more, we can look at exactly how X is inconsistent with reality, and the nature of the inconsistency itself can often give us some hints as to which direction we should look for the true answer.
Note that it is important to work forwards and not backwards in evaluating our conclusions. That is, if we decide that X looks like it's true, we need to consider what specific, predictable consequences ought to arise if X actually exists/occurs in the real world, and then check to see whether or not these consequences are there. For example, if Santa lands a reindeer-drawn sleigh on a snowy rooftop, slides down the chimney, and leaves presents under the tree, then this series of events ought to produce some predictable consequences. For example, we should find sleigh tracks in the snow on the roof, and reindeer tracks (and possibly dung) as well. There ought to be places in the chimney where the soot has been brushed up against. Here and there, we ought to find hairs that have dropped off the fur lining around Santa's cuffs and hood. And so on.
Forward thinking takes the Santa conjecture, and looks at what the consequences would be if Santa really did fly in and drop down the chimney, and then checks to see whether or not the real world evidence is consistent with these expected consequences. Backwards thinking is when we have a purported cause (Santa), and a set of real-world evidence (undisturbed roofs and chimneys) and simply invent whatever scenario we can think of that would reconcile the purported cause with the actual evidence. This is mere rationalization, and we can do it no matter what the evidence is or what cause we are attempting to defend. In other words, it's essentially useless, since it has no relationship to the question of whether or not our conclusion is actually true.
Backwards thinking is ok if we are looking for ideas as to what the truth might be. It's a form of speculation, and speculation is a good way to come up with ideas that we can test to see whether or not they're true. Once we've enumerated our ideas, however, it's time to turn from speculation to verification, and to do that, we use forwards thinking. We look at the evidence, draw our (possibly biased) conclusions, and then go back and review the evidence to see whether or not our conclusions fit the facts. This is how science works, and it performs so well that today there are entire books and ministries and web sites dedicated to convincing people that Christianity is scientific. No matter what some may say about the authority of Scripture, the authority of science is what people–including Christians–actually respect.
So the problem is not that there is no possible way to escape our subjective biases. The problem is that some people want to look at the evidence, draw a (possibly biased) conclusion, and then stop. But that's not how you get to the real truth. If you want to learn the real-world truth, you need to keep going even after you've drawn your conclusions. It's more work, and sometimes leads to answers that do not please our personal biases, but it's worth it. Truth does not contradict itself, and therefore we can successfully reconstruct the truth even when our conclusions have been distorted by our subjective biases.


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ICSD now contains 150,042 crystal structures
20. April 2012
The ICSD database now contains 150,042 crystal structures, including 129,210 fully determined crystal structures with atom coordinates obtained from experimental data and 20,832 crystal structures with atom coordinates derived from the corresponding structure types. These data are part of the legacy crystal structure data on metallic and intermetallic compounds added since 2008.
During the update procedure 7,962 new entries were added, 4,399 entries were modified and 99 entries were removed. The work on structure types has been expanded to the newly added and modified data. More than 113,000 ICSD entries have now been assigned to more than 6,300 distinct structure types.


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Sloan Center News
Working In Retirement: A 21st Century Phenomenon
by Melissa Brown, Kerstin Aumann, Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ellen Galinsky and James T. Bond
6 October 2010—Working in retirement may still sound like an oxymoron, but not for long. Just as people in their twenties are now creating a new life stage of transitioning into the workforce, the generation of workers currently in their fifties and sixties is redefining the notion of "retirement." Already today, one in five workers aged 50 and older has fully retired from his or her former career job but currently is working for pay in a new role, which we define as a "retirement job." And this will soon become the "new normal" — fully 75% of workers aged 50 and older expect to have retirement jobs in the future, according to a groundbreaking new study by Families and Work Institute and the Sloan Center on Aging & Work.
"Working in retirement" is quickly becoming a new stage in career progression. Following the traditional path of early-, mid-, late-career employment, but prior to total withdrawal from work, this new stage is a bridge that tends to emphasize working by choice and for enjoyment.
Using data from the FWI's National Study of the Changing Workforce (2008), this analysis of adults working in retirement reveals some surprising insights. For example, a typical assumption is that retirees work primarily for money. Although maintaining a comfortable lifestyle is an important motivation for more than half, it is not the only reason: 31% report that they are working to stay active, and 18% say they want to contribute and be productive. Less than one in five report working in retirement due to insufficient income, though they do earn less money than those who have never retired—the typical median yearly income among those working in retirement is $21,000 less than those who have never retired.
Most "working retirees" really enjoy their work. Furthermore, these workers aren't coasting. The majority of working retirees report working full time and wanting to work the same or more hours. Over half say they have no plans to leave their current employment situation for at least another five years. And nearly 10% of those working in retirement state that they will continue doing the same work until they die.
"Working retirees have great depth of experience and talent and, contrary to stereotypes, they are highly motivated," says Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Director of the Sloan Center on Aging & Work and co-author on the study. "But keeping them engaged is the key. Providing better supervisor support, opportunities for growth and development, and flexible work schedules are just three examples of ways employees can improve quality of employment and make more effective workplaces. If employers don't recognize what working retirees want, these valuable employees may move on to jobs with other organizations that do fit their needs."
Interestingly, in a number of ways, working retirees have better jobs than those who haven't retired. And having a good job matters. For example, working retirees:
- more positively rate their workplaces with respect to work-life fit, supervisor task support, and climate of respect and trust; and
- are most likely to be engaged in their jobs when their jobs are challenging and provide learning opportunities.
Ellen Galinsky, president of Families and Work Institute says, "Traditionally, we have conceived of the life cycle as a ladder where we move from education to employment to retirement. That is not the reality today. We need to understand that the employees of today and tomorrow will cycle in and out of education, employment, and retirement. The better we understand this new paradigm, the better we will be able to plan for and manage it."
Listen to Sloan Center Director Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes comment on the study on NPR's Morning Edition »
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The best place to ask questions about Moria is the Usenet group rec.games.roguelike.moria. General questions about game play, discussion of suggested enhancements, and compilation problems on non-UNIX systems should be discussed there. Again, please include the version.
Here is the list of Frequently Asked Questions about Moria. This list is also posted twice monthly as a single file; you can get the latest version here.
PC executables, Linux sources fpr 5.6, and PalmOS executables for Umoria 5.5.2 are available.
Linux sources for Imoria are now available.
You can get the source or executables from the Moria Archive. Netscape has problems with this link, so you may need to go manually to ftp://ftp.greyhelm.com/pub/Games/Moria to get the files. The files you are most likely to want are the following:
Another page which contains links to many spoiler files is Beej's Moria Page. For information on other, similar games, particularly if you are interested in programming them, go to The Roguelike News Page.
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Fridays are always good days for mismatches. Most of you have probably skipped out to do holiday shopping anyway — do they still sell the Tickle Me Elmo? — so it makes voting anomalies less likely.
Voting will remain open until the end of the first round ... nice and easy. 1-16. It's No. 1 seed Buzz Bissinger vs. No. 16 Mike Singletary. A look at the nominees' 2008 resumes:
No. 1 Buzz Bissinger
Made up.
Entered the Hall of Fame.
No. 16 Mike Singletary
Flipped out.
Dropped pants.
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I have had a crazy couple of weeks at work, and told the wife I had to have some fishing time this week for sanity sake. So, Thursday evening I contacted Buzz about doing a little smallie fishing on Little River, and he was game. I haven't been smallie fishing in probably two years, and was anxious to give it a go again. I had to work in the morning, so we didn't meet up until around 2:00. When we got to the river, the sun was high and the temperature felt even higher. Additionally, the water level and flow was much higher than I anticipated.
We made our way into the river, and found it slow going with the fast
current. After about an hour of wading difficulty, no takes, and about a
gallon of sweat we chose to try our luck on trout in the park.
Time was not necessarily on our side, so we had to pick somewhere that
was more convenient instead of less populated or better chances at a
good day. It had been a while since either of us had fished MPLR, so we
figured it would be worth a shot.
On the hike in we saw this interesting snail about 3' off the ground on this tree.
Buzz was the first to hop in the water, and he found success in his first run.
I went upstream a little way, and shortly thereafter brought my first bow to hand.
He came out of this nice little run:
The fishing was sporadically intermittent, and a couple of times I found
wet bootprints. So, I think we were going in and out of "used" water
and that is where the fishing was slow. Regardless, the bows were
looking up and taking dries quite readily.
Here is Buzz working another run.
Eventually, my best dry pattern got water logged, and I switched over to
a pink weenie (barbie bug). This is of interest to me, because I have
never caught a trout in the park on a green or pink weenie. However,
all the posts showing people using them made me figure I would give it
another try. Not long after the switch, I brought one to hand.
Unfortunately, he didn't cooperate with the photo shoot, but thankfully I
had another willing model in the next run.
As we came around the corner into a clearing we noticed the ominous
clouds in the sky, and chose to call it a day. We didn't catch tons of
fish, but considering where and when we were fishing it was a successful
outing. It was good to get out again, and maybe I should make more of
an effort to get out before the stress level gets so high again.
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Writing a Depth-Limited Search Java Class in an Artificial Intelligence course. I have included the code for my class below and attached a flow diagram I came up with. This project is based on the "Vacuum World" problem in 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach'.
The class compiles and runs correctly with all the other classes and packages. Those files are instructor provided and work with a Breadth-First Search Class he included. The program successfully finds the goal state and returns the goal state to the user if the program starts in the goal state. Additionally, the program successfully transverses through the search space using DLS and finds a goal state. I used the println in the recursive method to show that it finds a goal state.
What I am having problem with is the recursion. When I use the recursion backtracking to find a "goal state", the program finds the goal state, however, it keeps searching the searchspace. What I need help with is when it finds a "goal state", I need the program and all previously threaded recursion calls to stop and return the first found "goal state".
If needed I can upload all of the files when I get off of work. But I hope it's an easy answer.
package ai.searches; import ai.Problem; import ai.Solution; import ai.Successor; import dataStructures.Iterator; import dataStructures.List; public class DepthLimitedSearch extends AbstractSearch { int depthLimit; public DepthLimitedSearch(Problem p, int maxDepth) { super(p); this.depthLimit = maxDepth; } public Solution search() { // stores the solution to return Solution solution = null; Successor solutionNode = null; solutionNode = recursiveExpandNode( (Successor)problem.getInitialState() ); if( solutionNode != null ) solution = new Solution( solutionNode, solutionNode.getDepth() ); return solution; } private Successor recursiveExpandNode( Successor node ) { Successor output = null; // check for goal state if( problem.isGoalState( node.getState() ) ) { System.out.println( "Yes"); return node; } // check for depth if( node.getDepth() > ( this.depthLimit - 1 ) ) return null; List successorsList = problem.getSuccessorFunction().getSuccessors(node); if( !successorsList.isEmpty() ) { for( Iterator itr = successorsList.iterator(); itr.hasNext(); itr.next() ) { // get current Successor Successor current = (Successor)itr.getCurrent(); // set parent current.setParent( node ); // set depth current.setDepth(node.getDepth() + 1); System.out.println( current.toString() ); // recursively expands search space output = recursiveExpandNode( current ); if( problem.isGoalState( current.getState() ) ) break; } } return output; } }


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Welcome to my little corner of the world. I will attempt to share my thoughts and passions about painting. I always welcome comments and hope you enjoy the view.
1. "Webb on Watercolor" by Frank Webb ISBN: 0-89134-346-6
2. "Oil Painting - Develop Your Natural Ability" by Charles Sovek ISBN: 0-89134-360-1
3."First Impressions" by Edward Norton Ward ISBN: 0-8230-1820-2
4. "Conversations In Paint" by Charles Dunn ISBN: 1-56305-664-X
5. "How To See Color and Paint It" by Arthur Stern ISBN: 0-8230-2468-7
6. "Painting with a Fresh Eye" by Alfred "Chip" Chadbourn ISBN: 0-8230-3888-2
7. "Landscape Painting Inside and Out" by Kevin D. Macpherson ISBN: 1-58180-755-4
9. "Watercolor Workshop" by Robert E. Wood and Mary Carroll Nelson ISBN: 0-8230-5682-1
8. "Interpreting the Landscape in Watercolor" by Don Andrews ISBN: 0-9655559-2-5
Another out of print gem. Printed in 1974, this is a wonderful teaching manual. I consider this and Frank Webb's book to be two "mother of all watercolor" volumes. Everything a budding watercolorist could want is provided here: laying washes, painting middle values, planning, spacial concepts, calligraphy, etc. If you go through this book and follow the step-by-step lessons Bob Wood produces, you will be well on your way to understanding the art of a great watercolor painting. This one is highly recommended and another must have for your art library!


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I did research in Physics while working at 3M (while still attending IT).
I decided to go into computers. I joined IBM in 1968 and worked there for 30 years. At the end of my time at IBM I was a computer architect and specialist in computer storage. Since leaving IBM, I have my own consulting company called TrueFocus, Inc (www.truestedt.org). TrueFocus specializes in consulting in storage and training in Fibre Channel, SAS, and SATA. I have provided Fibre Channel training around the world. I also help my daughter with an art promotion business (www.
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Panthers look to sweep Falcons, clinch home-field advantage
ATLANTA (AP) - Home-field advantage is within reach for Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers.
For Newton, that incentive overshadows any talk that he may be similarly close to wrapping up the MVP award. Or that the Panthers are closing in on an undefeated regular season.
The Panthers (14-0) will try to clinch the right to play their playoff games at home when they face the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday for the second time in three weeks.
A loss or tie by Arizona, or a Panthers win, would clinch home-field advantage. It also would give Carolina coach Ron Rivera the option of resting such key starters as Newton in next week's final regular-season game against Tampa Bay.
Then again, that unbeaten regular season could be on the line.
''I don't know if it's become bigger than what our goal is,'' Newton said Wednesday when asked about the pressure of carrying a perfect record this deep into the season.
The goal, of course, is the Super Bowl.
Newton is regarded by many as the MVP favorite. He has thrown for 3,402 yards and a career-high 33 touchdown passes, 18 in his last five games. He has three games with five TD passes.
Newton dismissed the MVP discussion as ''irrelevant.''
''I'm ignoring the MVP talk because it's a team sport,'' he said.
Carolina never looked more dominant in its run than on Dec. 13, when it raced to a 21-0 first-quarter lead and beat the Falcons 38-0. Atlanta's first shutout loss in 11 years left a mark on the Falcons' players and coaches.
''Anytime you get whipped, it for sure leaves a scar in you,'' said Falcons coach Dan Quinn this week. ''I don't spend all my time thinking about it, but by the same token I didn't forget it.''
Falcons running back Devonta Freeman said this week the loss will ''stick with me probably forever.''
The Falcons (7-7) looked like a definite playoff contender when they opened the season with five straight wins. The reality check was demoralizing. A streak of seven losses in eight games, including six straight, all but ended Atlanta's playoff hopes.
This is a rare chance for Atlanta to atone for the ugly loss to the Panthers after waiting only two weeks.
''We're in a unique spot that we don't have to (wait),'' Quinn said. '' ... Having it come so quickly, with another opportunity to go do it, we're thrilled to death.''


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marc71178 - President and founding member of AAAS - we don't only appreciate when he does well, but also when he's not quite so good!
Anyone want to join the Society?
Beware the evils of Kit-Kats - they're immoral apparently.
Interested to see what Dernbach's RR in the last five overs is compared to tournament average.
If we're playing 3 seamers then Bresnan, Broad, Finn is a far better combination - the only game England won against non-minnows, and look who wasn't playing?
Look into his T20I career with any detail and it's extremely noticeable that there's a strong correlation between him getting good figures and the opposition being into the lower order at the death. In fact I'd say he's only once performed when that hasn't been the situation.
TBF, we don't scout County cricket for bowlers. If Dernbach is kept on being picked then other's aren't going to get a chance. It maybe someone like Liddle, who is a specialist and crap at first class. Topley, Ashraf, Roland-Jones, Saxleby or Pyrah all had decent seasons last year in t20.
May all be rubbish, but we know Jade is, so won't be costing us.
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
Teams need positive, aggresive, combative personalities. Anybody can prosper when they're in form. The real test of players is when they're not. Bopara, Harmison seemed to have mental brakedowns when out of form. Mentally resillient players like Cook or Broad battled through and broke out the other end better players.
Yes it's a judgement i've made and it may be wrong but I think Dernbach has the correct personality traits to prosper. He also has the basic physical characteristics. It's not like he's 5'9'' and bowling 80mph with a few decent slower balls but tries hard.
Yes he's not the finished article and he does stupid stuff but you compare him to Bresnan or Woakes. There's no chance these guys are going to be world class international ODI/T20 bowlers. Their potential career peaks are sufficiently less than that of Dernbach and even at the moment they are worse bowlers than Dernbach
For the record, went through and looked at all games between non-minnows, and looked at all the run-rates for innings where the batsmen were likely still going hell to leather all the way through.
Matches where a team won with more than two overs to spare I discounted.
The average run rate throughout the tournament so far in the last 5 overs has been 8.96. Dernbach's economy rate in this same time of the game (to be fair, each time he's bowled in this period, he's bowled overs 18 and 20, which may be attacked a bit more than 16 or 17, but still) is 12.33.
For the record, when Bresnan came in and bowled those same two overs, he went for 21 from his two.
T20: Dernbach E/R 8.34 (8.66 in domestic only), Woakes E/R 8.08 (7.99 in domestic), Bresnan E/R 7.36 (7.32 in domestic)
List A: Dernbach E/R 6.03 (6.08 in domestic), Woakes E/R 5.39 (5.40 in domestic), Bresnan E/R 5.13 (5.00 in domestic)
In addition, 2 of the 3 can bat...
zzz not as relevant as international stats. All 3 came in to first class cricket at a very young age but dernbach has bowled at the death nearly his whole career. He didn't really ever have a bedding in period like Woakes or Bresnan who would have been third or fourth bowlers. Also he plays at the high scoring Oval as compared to Edgbaston or Headingly. He didn't play for England U-19, his improvement has come later in the career.
You also conveniently leave out strike rate and average. you can make statistics look what you like. some need context.
Oh, and since you asked:
S/R: Dernbach 20.3 (21.3 in domestic), Woakes 19.9 (19.4 in domestic), Bresnan 22.3 (20.5 in domestic)
Average: Dernbach 28.27 (30.68 in domestic), Woakes 26.77 (25.87 in domestic), Bresnan 27.31 (24.96 in domestic)
So in all 3 he's worse and he can't bat for toffee.
Those from outside of India / Pakistan - sorry guys, you will probably not understand the language or the context.
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Global high yield bond yields continued to churn out modest total return gains in November amid improving prospects for a phase 1 China trade deal, continuing performance dispersion between ratings and the heaviest primary activity since late 2017. Credit spreads tightening drove this month's performance, as underlying treasury yields widened slightly on the back of a potential phase 1 China trade deal and thus a positive global growth outlook. Notably, BBs outperformed CCCs for the seventh consecutive month. This is an indication that investors are still concerned about fundamentals, despite the strong central bank technical. Primary market activity ramped up in November, as issuers are benefiting from low yields. There was a wave of both refinancing and acquisition-related funding, extending year-to-date supply to USD 251 billion, just slightly behind 2017's largest year-to-date volume over the past five years. Meanwhile, HY fund flows decelerated, with USD 1.5 billion in inflows, but they were positive for all but two months this year. The Global High Yield Index spread and yields tightened by as many as 26 bps throughout the month to end at 373 bps with a yield of 5.17%.
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The fund does not distribute dividend.
Our analysis of issuers goes beyond the traditional financial factors and includes the issuers' performance on ESG factors. We deem it essential for a well-informed investment decision to take into account those ESG factors that have the potential to materially impact the financial performance of the issuer. This perfectly matches the basic need to avoid the losers in credit management, as many credit events in the past can be attributed to issues such as poorly designed governance frameworks, environmental issues, or weak health & safety standards. The aim of ESG integration is to improve the risk/return profile of the investments and does not have an impact goal. ESG analysis is fully integrated in the bottom-up security analysis. We have defined key ESG factors per industry, and for every company we analyze how the firm is positioned versus these key ESG factors, and how this impacts the fundamental credit quality.
This Fund is a feeder Fund ( the "Feeder Fund") and as such invests at least 85% of its assets in class Z2H shares of Robeco Capital Growth Funds SICAV – Robeco High Yield Bonds ("the Master"). The Master is a sub-fund of Robeco Capital Growth Funds SICAV, a Luxembourg open-ended investment company with variable capital. The Master invests in corporate bonds with a sub-investment grade rating, issued primarily by US and European issuers. The portfolio is broadly diversified across circa 250 issuers, with a structural bias to the higher rated part in high yield (BB/B). Performance drivers are the top-down beta positioning as well as bottom-up issuer selection. The Master aims to outperform the benchmark by taking positions that deviate from the benchmark. The benchmark of the Master is Barclays US Corporate High Yield & Pan European High Yield ex Financials 2.5% Issuer Cap. The Feeder Fund uses derivatives to hedge the duration of the Master. The duration hedge will lead to intended performance differences between the Feeder Fund and the Master. Interest rate movements will have a different effect on the Master and the Feeder Fund.
Risk management is fully embedded in the investment process to ensure that positions always meet predefined guidelines.
We are still convinced that we are approaching the end of the credit cycle. It is difficult to time the precise turn of the market but, given the risks, we continue to advocate a defensive positioning with an underweight in the higher-risk segments of the high yield market. Ominously, more segments of the US yield curve have inverted this year: historically, on five out of six occasions, a recession followed within two years. More optimistically, money supply is increasing and recent corporate bond supply volumes are setting new records. But global fundamental developments suggest more caution: the US economy used to lead the global economy but, since 2015, it now seems the other way around, with China being the driver. Overall, our view is cautious as the cycle is late and valuations are tight. We know it is wise not to fight the Fed or the ECB, but any further strength could be seen as an opportunity to reduce risk. Companies with a high debt burden immediately feel the deceleration in economic growth and we expect their underperformance to continue. We focus on avoiding defaults and we continue to favor high-quality high yield bonds.
Mr. Bus is Head of the Credit team and manages our high yield portfolios. Prior to joining Robeco in 1998, Mr. Bus worked for Rabobank as a fixed income analyst for two years. Mr. Bus holds a Master's degree in Financial Economics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He became a CFA charter holder in 2003 and is registered with the Dutch Securities Institute. Mr. Bus has been active in the industry since 1996. Mr. Roeland Moraal, Vice President, CEFA, Portfolio Manager. Roeland is a Senior Portfolio Manager High Yield within Robeco's Credit team since January 2004. Before assuming this role, he was portfolio manager in our Rates team for two years and worked as an analyst with the Institute for Research and Investment Services for three years. Roeland started his career in the investment industry in 1997 at Robeco. He holds a Master's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Twente and a Master's degree in Law from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Roeland became a CEFA charter holder in 2000 and he is registered with the Dutch Securities Institute.
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Sheridan Mayor Dave Kinskey's been conducting strategic interviews with business owners around town to learn how the role of government can be improved in order to strengthen the economy. Mayor Kinskey explains.
He says with school enrollment growing in the span of five years from 197 kids to 350 kids, local government must think long-term to provide these children jobs in Sheridan when they grow up.
Kinskey says a common thread in his interviews with local business owners was that the City needs to further improve its development processes.
Additionally, Kinskey says business owners have suggested the City focus on the infrastructure - working on streets and sidewalks, keeping parks clean, building pathways and creating more open spaces.


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Photographing Candle flames with cellphone mini digital cameras. Just a few snaps i got from the camera eyes of a SE W810i cellphone. It's a 2 megapixel camera integrated into the phone. The photos of the Candle flames are snapped with all the lights off inside the room. Keeping the candles in well lit environment during photographing them can make the flame photograph lifeless.
All the candle flames captured here are either taken in closeups or macro modes of the small 2mp digital camera. The windows aside were kept closed to keep the flames steady for the camera lenses. Eventhough small breeze made them sway a little in some of the photos. Personally i felt the swaying flames little more interesting than the steady sharp candle glows.
Obviously a photographer will always need some life in his snaps. For a candle flame it will be a failure if we ended up unable to capture the feeling of warmth, felt through those amazing colors formed around the glow. The photos were not taken keeping any of photography rocket science and theories in mind, but just following the instincts.
Just tried to focus the camera lens right into the flame and waited to give the click when the flame settles down from the swaying done by the sneaking wind. The task in photographing flames is succeeding to get the warm divine colors naturally as it is for our eyes. Sometimes the auto white-balance of the camera may adjust itself and make the flames far away from the real beauty they have.
Starts from the darkness and dissolves into the darkness. The candle flame edges were unsharp at this point of shooting, exactly like they are dissolving away. The flame glowing and swaying in the mild breeze. The candle flame snapped in macro mode of the digital cellphone camera.
The source of fuel and burning thread. Got the top of wax candle here. Now feeling the warmth of the flame in ma fingers wrapping the camera now. Can't be closer, for it may endup burning he camera and ma fingers. It will be really nice to experiment on photographing flames with a Digital camera which has got some optical zoom.
The glowing wax candles. Melting and burning away to darkness. Got sharp yellow flames of the candles here. You can see a small blue flame color at the flame source and it gradually turning into yellow flames. What i noticed a little special in this flame picture is those small glowing rings by the centre part of the yellow flames. A red circular glow is formed around the flames.
As i moved the camera a little away from the flames a little messy subjects around the flames also got inside the CCD. Was not intending to publish these while taking the pics, so i haven't cared to get some interesting subjects around. Arranging the candles and the subjects we want to properly may get photos with indepth thoughts and feelings. Thinks, emotions are more beautiful and deeply expressed in candle lights.
Wanted to get the photo of the flame alone skipping the candle top. The camera is held closer and focused right onto the flame. The darkness around the glow helped the camera to lock the focus right in the flame.
While photographing flames we may like to get the warmth and brilliant colors along with the cute long oval shape. Advisable to take the snaps in a dark environment, with little breeze and ofcourse keep your camera flash off, unless you want a lifeless ordinary candle with all its surroundings exposed. Have done photographing these candles in Cloudy white-balance settings. It can be nice to change the white-balance into cloudy or warm(in some digital cameras) to capture the warm colors. Sometimes a little shake of the wrist in a controlled manner may give you a little blurry but more interesting flame shots. Just need the experimenting mind of a photographer huh!.
Just some amateur leisurely shots done with 2mp cellphone camera of Sony. Surely will like to hear your ideas and photography tips in candle, flame and fire photography.


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From Fedora Project Wiki
- Posted by Bruno: What is your take on the granting exceptions to Fedora packaging rules for Mozilla products in order to use their trademarks? For context, see the recent Thunderbird discussion on the devel list.
- Posted by Bruno: What is your take on guidelines for packagers with respect to adding new features into supported releases? I expect there will be exceptions, but there should be some guidance for what is generally expected.
- Posted by Paul: What are three things you intend to work on and complete during your time on {the Board,FESCo} -- in other words, personal goals for your term?
- Posted by Paul: (FESCo nominees) Name a new technical capability that you feel the Fedora distribution does not include now, but should have by the release of Fedora 15.
- Posted by Paul: (Board nominees) Other than the general idea of better communication, name a specific improvement you think would help one or more Fedora teams work more efficiently, either individually or together.
- Posted by Michael: How are you going to represent the Fedora community (the voters) on {the Board,FESCo}: They vote once, you decide for the period of your appointment - or you ask for input and base your decisions on that?
- Posted by Michael: What is your hidden agenda behind running for {the Board,FESCo}? (Asked with a wink, may be answered with one ;) )
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KFC Sued for Fouling Chicken with Partially Hydrogenated Oil
Lawsuit Aimed at Eliminating, or Disclosing Use of Artery-Clogging Frying Oil
See you in court, Colonel Sanders.
That's the message delivered today to KFC, a unit of Louisville, KY-based Yum! Brands, by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Today that group and the Washington, DC, law firm of Heideman Nudelman & Kalik, P.C., filed suit against the fast-food giant over its use of partially hydrogenated oil--the chemically altered, trans-fat-laden oil that kills roughly 50,000 Americans per year. The class action suit, filed in Superior Court of the District of Columbia, asks that the court prohibit KFC from using partially hydrogenated oil, or that at the very least, signs be posted in KFC outlets notifying customers that many KFC foods are high in trans fat.
"Grilled, baked, or roasted chicken is a healthy food-and even fried chicken can be trans-fat-free," said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson. "But coated in breading and fried in partially hydrogenated oil, this otherwise healthy food becomes something that can quite literally take years off your life. KFC knows this, yet it recklessly puts its customers at risk of a Kentucky Fried Coronary."
Meals at KFC can be startlingly high in trans fat. Besides chicken, KFC's biscuits, potato wedges, pot pie, and several desserts all contain hefty amounts of trans fat from partially hydrogenated oil. Just one Extra Crispy breast has 4.5 grams of trans fat. A large order of Popcorn Chicken has 7 grams of trans fat, and KFC's Pot Pie contains 14 grams of trans. A typical 3-piece Extra Crispy combo meal, with a drumstick, two thighs, potato wedges, and a biscuit has a staggering 15 grams of trans fat-more trans fat than an individual should consume in a week.
The plaintiff in the case is retired physician Arthur Hoyte, of Rockville, Maryland. He had purchased fried chicken at KFC outlets in Washington, DC, and elsewhere, not knowing that KFC fries in partially hydrogenated oil.
"If I had known that KFC uses an unnatural frying oil, and that their food was so high in trans fat, I would have reconsidered my choices," said Dr. Hoyte. "I am bringing this suit because I want KFC to change the way it does business. And I'm doing it for my son and others' kids-so that they may have a healthier, happier, trans-fat-free future."
Once thought to be innocuous, trans fat is now known to be more harmful than saturated fat, since it simultaneously raises one's LDL cholesterol, which promotes heart disease, and lowers one's HDL cholesterol, which protects against it. Small amounts of trans fat occur naturally in beef and milk, but almost 80 percent of Americans' trans fat comes from partially hydrogenated oils. The new trans-fat labeling requirement for packaged foods, has encouraged numerous manufacturers to switch to non-hydrogenated vegetable oil.
Restaurants have been much slower to act. McDonald's famously promised to reduce trans fat in cooking oil in 2002, though it quietly reneged on that promise in 2003. In 2004, California trial attorney Stephen Joseph filed a lawsuit against McDonald's over its broken promise, which the company settled in 2005 by agreeing to pay $7 million to the American Heart Association. McDonald's still has not changed its oil.
Just last week, the Wendy's fast-food chain announced it was switching to a non-hydrogenated mixture of corn and soybean oil in its deep-fryers, making its fried foods virtually trans-fat-free. Among major table-service chain restaurants, the 700-outlet Ruby Tuesday chain has dumped partially hydrogenated oil (in favor of canola oil). While many fast-food chains have added more healthful items to their menus, KFC's highest profile nutrition gambit was an ill-conceived and widely ridiculed ad campaign designed to portray KFC fried chicken as a weight-loss aid and health food. Those ads-which Jacobson said "took the truth, dipped it in batter, and deep-fried it"--were pulled after CSPI filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.
"District of Columbia law allows consumers to seek relief from the courts when companies fail to disclose essential facts about their products," said CSPI litigation director Stephen Gardner. "That KFC uses the worst frying oil imaginable to prepare its chicken is something that KFC should absolutely be required to disclose at the point of purchase."
The lawsuit asks the court to require KFC to switch to a less harmful frying oil. If the court declines to do that, it could require signs in restaurants that say "KFC's fried chicken and certain other foods contain trans fat, which promotes heart disease." Although a decision against KFC in the lawsuit would only be binding in the District of Columbia, CSPI hopes it would encourage the chain to change its practices nationwide. "
This lawsuit is meant to serve as wake-up call to the food industry that changes must be made to protect the consumer from known dangers to his or her health," said Richard D. Heideman, senior counsel of Heideman Nudelman & Kalik, P.C.
Trans-fat levels at KFC vary widely around the world. According to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, KFC chicken and potato products in Spain, Portugal, and Denmark have far less trans fat than they do in the United States, Peru, or Poland, for instance. (Hungary had the most). Denmark restricts the use of trans fat from hydrogenated oils to 2 percent of the fat in foods.
In recent months, CSPI has turned to litigation to get food companies to market their products more honestly. It has negotiated out-of-court settlements with Tropicana, Quaker, Frito-Lay, and Pinnacle Foods and was credited (along with Heideman Nudelman & Kalik) with being the catalyst for an agreement to get soda out of schools that the industry reached with former President Clinton and others. CSPI will likely soon sue Cadbury-Schweppes for rebranding 7UP as "all-natural" (it's not) and is currently suing the maker of a fungus-based meat substitute called Quorn. for failing to inform consumers that the product can cause severe vomiting, diarrhea, and breathing difficulties. Also, CSPI and the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood are having discussions with Kellogg about marketing junk food to young children and may ultimately sue that company and Viacom/Nickelodeon.
"It's harder to avoid trans fat at KFC than at any other fast-food chain in America," Jacobson said. "You can't tell by tasting or by looking at the food, but trans fat is almost everywhere on this menu. By frying in such a dangerous oil, KFC is making its unsuspecting consumers' arteries Extra Crispy. CSPI would far prefer the trans-fat problem be solved through voluntary action by restaurants or regulatory action by the FDA, but neither industry nor government has acted. Hence this litigation."
Contact Jeff Cronin (jcronin[at]cspinet.org) or Ariana Stone (astone[at]cspinet.org).


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You can use paraffin wax (may be called either paraffin or wax) to apply moist heat to your hands or feet to ease the pain and stiffness of osteoarthritis. Paraffin especially helps to reduce pain and loosen up your hand and finger joints before exercise.
You should talk with your doctor before trying paraffin at home. And it's a good idea to have a physical therapist show you how to do it before you try it yourself.
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Versatile, roomy and easy on the budget.
Compact Cars
Editor: New Car Test Drive
$10,990 Base Price MSRP
$18,230 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: Nissan Versa base Sedan, five-speed manual ($10,990); base Sedan, four-speed automatic ($11,990); S Sedan, six-speed manual ($13,100); S Sedan, automatic ($14,100); S Hatchback, manual ($13,150); S Hatchback, automatic ($14,150); SL Sedan ($16,100); SL Hatchback ($16,530)
Standard Engine: 1.8-liter DOHC 16-valve inline-4
Engine Options: 107-hp 1.6-liter DOHC 16-valve inline-4; 122-hp 1.8-liter DOHC 16-valve inline-4
Standard Transmission: CVT
Transmission Options: 5-speed manual; 6-speed manual; 4-speed automatic; CVT
Basic Warranty: 3 years/36,000 miles
Assembled In: Aguascalientes, Mexico
Model Tested MSRP: Nissan Versa SL hatchback ($16,530)
Standard Equipment: cloth upholstery, air conditioning with micro filter, 180-watt AM/FM/CD stereo, power windows, power door locks, remote keyless entry, door armrest pads, glove compartment light,15-inch alloy wheels, tilt steering column, metal pedals, 60/40 split folding rear seats with cargo cover
Options As Tested: Premium Package ($980) includes Intelligent Key system, Bluetooth hands-free phone system, steering wheel audio switches, leather-wrapped steering wheel, 16-inch alloy wheels
Standard Safety Equipment: advanced frontal airbags, front seat side-impact airbags, full-coverage side-impact curtain airbags, front seat active head restraints, tire pressure monitoring system
Optional Safety Equipment: ABS with EBD and Brake AssistDestination Charge: $720
The Versa is a big and roomy inside with decent head room and leg room and lots of hip room, making it a good choice for larger drivers. Its big, cushy seats are comfortable. Back-seat passengers will find rear-seat leg room as good as that in larger cars and SUVs. The cabin is nicely finished and offers all the modern conveniences.
Yet the Versa offers the small-car virtues of nimble handling, easy parking, and lively yet efficient performance with excellent fuel economy.
The Versa is slightly bigger than the lower priced Toyota Yaris and the more expensive Honda Fit. All three are subcompacts designed with tall rooflines for increased interior comfort and visibility. The Versa is the smallest car you'll find in Nissan showrooms: Smaller and less expensive than the compact Nissan Sentra, but offering greater interior space and more versatility.
For 2010, Versa gets changes outside, inside, and functionally. All models have a new grille and wheels, and revised interior fabrics and finishes. The SL Hatchback model gets sport front and rear fascias, body side sills, fog lights, and rear spoiler as standard equipment. An optional navigation system is being offered. Other changes for 2010 include auxiliary input added to the base audio system; Interface System for iPod added to the upgraded radio.
Most models come with a 1.8-liter engine, though the stripper sedan model comes with a 1.6-liter engine.
Fuel economy for the Nissan Versa depends on the powertrain. Best is the Versa SL with CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) with an EPA-estimated 28/34 mpg City/Highway. Versa S gets 26/31 mpg with six-speed manual, 24/32 with four-speed automatic. The base sedan with 1.6-liter engine gets 26/34 mpg with five-speed manual, 26/33 with automatic.
The 2010 Nissan Versa is available as a four-door Sedan or five-door Hatchback.
The base Versa ($10,990) is in the Sedan body style only and powered by a 1.6-liter engine of 107 horsepower. It comes with air conditioning (which can be deleted for a savings of $1,000), pre-wiring for audio. Anti-lock brakes are optional ($250). The five-speed manual is standard, but the base Versa is available with a four-speed automatic ($11,990).
All other Versa models come with a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine of 122 horsepower.
Versa S Sedan ($13,100) with six-speed manual or four-speed automatic ($14,100) and Versa S Hatchback ($13,150) with manual or automatic ($14,150) come standard with cloth upholstery; air conditioning with micro filter; four-speaker, 90-watt AM/FM/CD stereo; tilt steering column; anti-lock brakes (ABS), and 185/65R15 tires on 15-inch steel wheels. The Hatchback features a 60/40 split folding rear seat. Options include a Power Plus Package ($930) with power windows, power door locks, remote keyless entry, cruise control, door armrest pads, rear-door map pockets, and automatic door locks; and Vehicle Dynamic Control with Traction Control ($370).
Versa SL Sedan ($16,100) and SL Hatchback ($16,530) are fitted with the Xtronic Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT). Versa SL models are upgraded with premium woven seat fabric, a more adjustable driver's seat, split folding rear seats, center armrests front and rear, the Power Plus Package, a 180-watt stereo with an in-dash six-CD changer and MP3 capability, and 15-inch machined alloy wheels.
A Convenience Package for the Versa SL Sedan ($650) includes an Intelligent Key system, Bluetooth hands-free phone connectivity, leather-wrapped steering wheel, and steering wheel-mounted audio controls. A Premium Package for the SL Hatchback ($980) includes everything from the Convenience Package plus 16-inch alloy wheels. A Moonroof Package ($600) for the SL Hatchback adds a power glass sunroof and illuminated visor vanity mirrors. Both SL models are also available with the Nav/SAT Radio ($610), which includes a navigation system with five-inch screen and XM Satellite Radio.
Accessories include splash guards ($110), floor mats ($155), auto-dimming inside mirror ($125), and aluminum kick plates ($130). A rear roof spoiler ($250) and a new cargo organizer ($160) can be added to the Hatchback.
Safety features include frontal airbags, side-impact airbags, roof-mounted curtain airbags, front-seat active head restraints, and a tire pressure monitoring system. Anti-lock brakes (ABS) with Brake Assist and Electronic Brake-force Distribution (EBD) are standard on the S and SL trim levels and an option ($250) on the base model.
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The Nissan Versa looks bigger than it is. One reason for that is an exceptionally short rear overhang: Very little of the car extends past the rear wheels.
Coming at you, the Versa has a broad, somewhat V-shaped grille flanked by triangular headlights. The SL Hatchback, with its front spoiler below the bumper, has a more aggressive and sporty look.
At the rear ends of the Sedan and Hatchback things are, expectedly, much different. With the Hatchback, the side edges of the tailgate angle sharply inward to clear the cat's-eye taillights. With the Sedan, the taillights are different but the trunk lid still angles inward. We like the Hatchback a little better, especially the SL version with its roof-mounted spoiler.
The Sedan is nearly seven inches longer than the Hatchback and has a more conventional rear end, with a trunk. The Sedan is handsome enough, with its long, tapering sail panels.
We find the Hatchback more appealing. We like its distinctive styling and it's more versatile than the Sedan.
The huge front seats in the Nissan Versa are roomy and comfortable. As with the other cars in this class, the Versa driver gets lots of legroom and headroom. In terms of hip room, however, the Versa is a real standout. The width and the substantial structure of the front seats may make the Versa a great choice among subcompacts for big drivers. The cloth-covered seats are comfortable without being too soft and offer plenty of side support.
The back seat is particularly impressive. As you get in you'll be pleasantly surprised by the size of the rear door and how the front edge of the rear wheel well does not intrude as you step in. There are many larger four-door sedans and even many large SUVs that have smaller rear door openings. Even a six-footer shouldn't feel cramped as the rear seat legroom is at or near the top of the class. The Versa Sedan gives up about half an inch of rear-seat headroom to the Hatchback, but that's not all that much.
Nissan has made sure that most of the surfaces you touch, such as the armrests and door handles, have a soft feel to them. No hard plastics here.
The instrument pod contains three large, well-recessed gauges that are easy to read. The speedometer takes pride of place in the center and almost seems as if it is floating over the other two gauges.
Controls for the dash mounted radio and CD changer are well integrated into the center stack, and although they are not very large they are easy to see and comprehend. There is a large volume knob in the center with a very visible power button. Three functional, conventional knobs operate the climate control system. All in all there's nothing fancy about any of the controls, although everything looks well finished. Two large cupholders are conveniently located under the center stack.
The optional Intelligent Key allows for keyless starting of the engine, something that up until now has only been available in luxury cars. We don't recommend it. Tow truck operators tell us they get a lot of calls dealing with keyless starting systems. And we don't find them a big benefit.
Cargo versatility is a strong point for the Hatchback. There's a generous 17.8 cubic feet of cargo space with the rear seats in place. Fold them down and you've got 50.4 cubic feet, which is almost as much space as you'll find in a small SUV. Part of the reason for the spacious rear cargo bay is the careful design of the rear suspension so that no strut towers intrude into the interior.
The Sedan offers a 13.8 cubic-foot trunk, which is good for the class.
Driving Impressions
Fuel economy for the Nissan Versa depends on the powertrain. Versa SL with CVT, or Continuously Variable Transmission, gets an EPA-estimated 28/34 mpg City/Highway. Nissan has been a standout in CVT technology. In addition to delivering exceptional fuel economy, it's very smooth and most drivers probably won't notice it's anything other than a regular automatic.
A CVT doesn't shift gears like an automatic transmission. Instead, a segmented belt rides up and down on cone-shaped pulleys to vary the speed ratio between the engine and the drivetrain. It works more efficiently than a traditional automatic, which is why the Versa equipped with a CVT delivers such good highway mileage. Around town it has the same economy as a manual transmission, better than an automatic, in other words.
We've been pleased with the Versa. It has plenty of zip and there's no problem merging into traffic on a fast free-flowing freeway. When you stomp on the gas pedal the sound of the engine revving instantly before the car accelerates, a phenomenon of the CVT, can be a bit disconcerting at first. We found it not unpleasant. In regular stop-and-go traffic under slow acceleration there is no sensation other than the car moving forward smoothly with no sound or feel of shifting gears. It's certainly a far cry from the clumsy gear shifting once common on small four-cylinder cars with three- and four-speed automatics.
On winding roads in Tennessee, near where Nissan is building its new U.S. headquarters, we found the car's handling to be perfectly adequate. It's not sporty like a Mini Cooper, nor is it sloppy like budget cars of a few years ago. Sporty drivers might wish for more feedback from the steering and more power, but there's no reason for others to complain.
The Versa is one of the first cars in this price category to feature electric power steering. In the past we have been disappointed in the poor feel of electric steering, but Nissan seems to have designed this system so it feels just as good as any hydraulically powered steering. No complaints here.
Thanks to the long wheelbase, with the wheels pushed out toward the four corners, the ride is better than one usually expects from a small car.
The brakes are fine. If you decide on the base model we strongly recommend ordering the anti-lock brakes (ABS) with electronic brake-force distribution (EBD) and Brake Assist for their ability to help you possibly avoid an accident.
The Nissan Versa delivers decent performance and has a surprising amount of interior space. It feels bigger than it actually is, which is a good thing. There's lots of room for back-seat riders. The Hatchback offers big cargo space. The Versa gets excellent fuel economy, particularly on the highway. The CVT works well, though it will feel a bit different at first.
New Car Test Drive contributor John Rettie filed this report from Nashville, Tennessee. John F. Katz added some commentary.
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Individuals and institutions can take three important steps to improve retirement security prospects, according to a paper issued by Christine C. Marcks, president of Prudential Retirement.
First, the bad news:
The Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College reported that the percentage of U.S. working-age households at risk of being unable to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living once retired rose from 30% in 1989 to 51% by 2009. The cost of retirement is rising, life spans are getting longer and healthcare costs are getting higher while interest rates are anemic, among other enormous societal and economic factors, Prudential and many others have pointed out.
In fact, Federal Insurance Office (FIO) Director Michael McRaith, identified the interest rate environment and the demographic realities as the first epic focus of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance (FACI) work recently. See: http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2012/04/02/mcraith-steers-faci-discussion-away-from-pet-issue
Prudential is marking National Retirement Planning Week beginning April 9 by encouraging American workers who are not currently saving for retirement to begin investing at least 1% of their income in a 401(k) plan with the hope of increasing those savings over time.
Now the solutions, as seen by Prudential:
The first step is most critical in combating this risk, and goes straight to a worker's and an employer's behavior via improving overall saving and investing–only about half the U.S. workforce is offered a pension or retirement plan at their place of employment, the paper noted.
Marcks highlighted as a potential partial solution a proposal calling for the widespread creation of Multiple Small Employer Plans (MSEPs).
"MSEPs would allow employers with fewer than 100 employees to pool resources under a single defined contribution (DC) plan, resulting in lower costs and simplified administrative requirements," the paper noted.
Second, Prudential Retirement is suggesting the return of guaranteed income–however, it can no longer be in the defined benefit plans that were the hallmark of the past century. Instead, it promoted new variable annuity products with guaranteed income streams and flexible payment and withdrawal schedules.
Some of these popular products offer a guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit (GMWB) that would assure that participants continue to receive income for life even if their retirement assets were exhausted due to longer-than-average lifespans and/or poor investment performance. See: http://www.tiaa-cref.org/public/support/help/ask-tiaa-cref/annuities/index.html
These products are usually riders on variable annuities that come with a cost for added protection for these guarantees, but in an uncertain retirement world, many are flocking toward guarantees where they can get them.
Guaranteed lifetime income products may also help by raising the risk tolerance of investors. In a recent Prudential survey, 84% of investors indicated that if they had an investment product with guarantees, they would likely stay in the stock market even if they experienced short-term losses.
These products with guaranteed features have been very popular in the past 10 years and Prudential has been focused on devising more annuity products to meet market needs.
In 2010 alone, sales of variable annuity products with guaranteed lifetime income features totaled $81 billion.
Thirdly, Prudential suggests optimizing Social Security benefits. In particular, the report noted, married couples should plan their claiming decisions together to take full advantage of the worker and spousal benefits available to them. Many valuable planning options become available once a spouse reaches his or her full retirement age, which is now 66.
Married couples also should consider how delaying the claiming of Social Security can provide higher lifetime income to a widow or widower in the form of a future survivor benefit, the paper noted.
Moreover, creating larger streams of income in the form of Social Security may also lower lifetime taxes paid in retirement. As a result, retirees may be able to stretch their retirement resources over a greater number of years, the report concluded.


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This chapter describes how to create TopLink descriptors.
This chapter includes the following sections:
For information on creating different types of descriptors, see the following:
After you create a descriptor, you must configure its various options (see Chapter 119, "Configuring a Descriptor") and use it to define mappings.
For complete information on the various types of mapping that TopLink supports, see Chapter 17, "Introduction to Mappings" and Chapter 120, "Creating a Mapping".
For complete information on the various types of descriptor that TopLink supports, see Section 16.1, "Descriptor Types".
You can validate descriptors in the following ways:
Run the project in a test environment and watch for and interpret any exceptions that occur.
Run the TopLink integrity checker. For more information, see Section 87.2.8, "Integrity Checker".
Review the project status report. For more information, see Section 116.2.3, "How to Generate the Project Status Report".
Typically, you capture descriptor configuration in the
project.xml file and the TopLink runtime reads this information, and then creates and configures all necessary descriptor objects.
Alternatively, for relational projects only, you can export a TopLink project as a Java class (
oracle.toplink.sessions.Project) that contains all descriptor configuration in Java. This lets you use TopLink Workbench to quickly create and configure descriptors, and then, manually code features that TopLink Workbench does not support. This gives you the best of both TopLink Workbench and Java access to your descriptors. After configuring your Java project class, compile it and include it in your application's JAR file.
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My previous question was closed for the same reason.
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How to set up a LAMP stack
A Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) stack is a model for a web server software solution. Linux is an operating system, Apache is an HTTP server, MySQL is a database and PHP is a programming language. LAMP is available for most Linux distributions, and is commonly used in web servers to build web applications and dynamic websites. Assuming your server is already running a Linux-based operating system such as CentOS, setting up a LAMP stack primarily consists of installing Apache, MySQL and PHP, if those components are not already in place.
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Set up Apache
Install Apache by executing the following yum command from a terminal window:
Start the Apache service with the following command:
Configure the Apache service to start automatically when you boot your server by using the following command:
Verify the Apache server is running by pointing your web browser to localhost.
Set up MySQL
Install MySQL with the following command:
Start the MySQL service with this command:
Configure the MySQL service to start automatically when you boot your server by using the following command:
Secure your installation of MySQL with the following command:
You will be prompted for MySQL's root password. This account doesn't have a password since you've just installed MySQL, so just press Enter. Answer Y when prompted to set the root password, and follow the instructions. Choose the default value of Y for the remaining questions. The installation process will reload MySQL to implement your changes.
Set up PHP
Install php with the following command:
Create the file /var/www/html/info.php with the following line:
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You can view all the photo's of the conference here: ILERA Conference Amsterdam.
Welcome to the website of the 10th European Conference of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) which will take place in Amsterdam, 20-22 June 2013 at the historic Oudemanhuispoort building of the University of Amsterdam, located in the city centre. Under the general theme 'Imagining new employment relations and new solidarities', the organizing committee invites scholars, students and practitioners from across Europe and beyond to come to Amsterdam to discuss the past, present and future of employment and labour relations. This conference will offer a prestigious academic programme plus an attractive social programme.
What to expect in Amsterdam at the ILERA Europe conference 2013 from AIAS on Vimeo.*
Organising Committee
The 10th European ILERA Conference is organized by a consortium of universities in the Netherlands which are home to research groups studying labour and employment relations, in collaboration with the Dutch Labour and Employment Relations Association (DLERA). The organizing committee consists of:
- Maarten Keune (chair) (AIAS, University of Amsterdam)
- Sonja Bekker (Reflect, Tilburg University)
- Nicolette van Gestel (Tilburg University)
- Peter Leisink (School of Governance, University of Utrecht)
- Jan Kees Looise (School of Management and Governance, University of Twente)
- Marc van der Meer (ECBO)
- Erik Poutsma (Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Ton Wilthagen (Reflect, Tilburg University)
Over the last two decades employment and labour relations in Europe have undergone important changes. Manufacturing employment is decreasing and various types of service employment are rising, together with female participation levels. The standard employment relationship is losing its dominant position with the growing use of flexible and part-time contracts, temporary agency work and (dependent) self-employment. Segmentation between stronger and weaker groups is increasing. Social solidarity is under pressure in many countries as a consequence of the increasing diversity of populations and of the labour force. Collective bargaining is decentralizing but there are also attempts to transnationalise bargaining within multinationals or within certain sectors. Trade unions are slowly losing membership and power but worker involvement in social innovation is wanted more than ever. The role of the EU is getting more important and new forms of governance are being experimented with. Change is accelerating as a result of the crisis and austerity is leading to profound restructuring of the public sector, affecting employment conditions and service provision.
Within this context, we want to foster a reflection and debate on the future of employment relations and new forms of solidarity. Such question include: What can or should employment relations look like in the future? What is the future of the public sector? Can or should growing segmentation and polarization be countered? What new types of governance support collaborative efforts to tackle today's collective problems? What new types of solidarity can we foresee between group of workers or workers in different countries? What new types of cooperation or conflict can we foresee between workers and employers? The programme will be organized around 5 track themes (click here for the full description of the tracks):
Track 1:
Industrial relations actors in a changing labour market
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Europeanisation of social and employment policies
Track 3:
Public sector restructuring: consequences for employment relations and public services
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New forms of regulation and governance
Track 5:
HRM and Social Innovation
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