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Are the Dodgers Ruining Baseball?
Because I live in Los Angeles, many of the conversations I have about baseball involve, in some way, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
I almost never blog about other teams here, but I feel compelled to write a bit about the Dodgers' offseason.
The Dodgers used to be owned by a man named Frank McCourt, who by all accounts horribly mismanaged the team and put a disappointing product on the field. In 2012, however, the team was bought by Guggenheim Partners.
Entering the 2013 season, Guggenheim has already changed the landscape of baseball in the Southland. Far from stingy, they are now being accused of throwing money at free agents. With the Yankees looking to reduce payroll to get under the luxury tax threshold by 2014, the Dodgers are quickly taking their place as the free spenders of merit.
(Incidentally, it's extremely interesting to watch people get mad at the Dodgers for spending money, while simultaneously getting mad at the Yankees for not spending money.)
With the recent signings of Zack Greinke ($147mm) and Korean left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu ($36mm), the blogosphere is alive with talk of the 2013 Dodgers and their free-spending ways.
The 2013 Dodgers could have the highest payroll in history. The 2013 Dodgers could have a luxury tax penalty higher than most teams' entire payrolls.
These sorts of enormous signings, usually done by east coast junior circuit teams, always seem to raise a lot of questions. Namely: Do free-spending teams ruin baseball, and Can you buy a championship?
The short answer for both is: No. Teams from different-sized markets make the playoffs every year. The Yankees, historically the biggest spenders in baseball, haven't won it all since 2009. Before that, they hadn't won since 2000.
So the door is open. Let's get that out of the way.
The next question I have to wonder is: What's wrong with building a team this way? If a team had traded for or developed a roster like the Dodgers have, they would no doubt be praised by every blogger, every baseball fan in America. The basic problem with this, of course, is that no team in the modern era has ever fielded a team made entirely of their own draft picks, or players received in trades.
But the question goes even deeper than that. What, in essence, is the problem with building a team via free agency, instead of through drafts and trades? It's a mere matter of money, and if the Dodgers have money to spend, what exactly is wrong with them building their team by using it? They've been mishandled far too long to rely solely on their farm system, and there is a definite sense of needing to be relevant right now.
Astros fans may shudder to remember trading away prospects to receive players on the decline. When paired with bad drafts and poor development, the Houston front office ran the cupboards dry until there was no present, no future, and no money. The current Astros roster is proof that, when not properly handled, this is a method that doesn't always work.
But I do say it is a legitimate way to build a roster, particularly when there aren't a ton of bright spots in the minors.
So, then, the real question is: Are the 2013 Dodgers going to be any good? The problem with throwing a lot of money at players in free agency is that it really puts the spotlight on a team. So I decided to try a little comparative exercise.
Using MLB Depth Charts, I isolated the Opening Day rosters of nine teams from 2012, spanning both leagues and several tax brackets:
1. New York Yankees (highest payroll in baseball)
2. Philadelphia Phillies (highest payroll in the NL, 2nd-highest in baseball)
3. Boston Red Sox (3rd-highest payroll in baseball)
4. Detroit Tigers (5th-highest payroll in baseball, AL champs)
5. San Francisco Giants (8th-highest payroll in baseball, world champs)
6. St. Louis Cardinals (9th-highest payroll in baseball, defending champions going into the season)
7. Cincinnati Reds (largely home-grown team, 17th-highest payroll in baseball)
8. Tampa Bay Rays (6th-lowest payroll in baseball and considered to be a great developmental organization)
9. Oakland Athletics (2nd-lowest payroll in baseball, also considered a great developmental organization)
I used a 5/3/2 analysis of their 25-man roster's fWAR from 2009-2011 to get a rough idea of what they should have been expecting heading into the season: ((5*2011fWAR)+(3*2010fWAR)+(2*2009fWAR))/10. This is obviously a crude way to determine expected value, as WAR is not only imperfect, but it's a counting stat, and changes dramatically with increased or reduced playing time. For instance, Ryu will be counted as a replacement-level pitcher for the purposes of this exercise.
Given the ability to look at the actual 2012 results, this generally puts us somewhere in the ballpark. Close enough, at least, to satisfy me. I'm no great statistician, so it'll do for the purposes of my evaluation.
I then used MLB Depth Charts' projected roster for the 2013 Dodgers and applied the same methodology to see where they fit in. The only difference, of course, is that I used fWAR data from 2010-2012.
The results:
All but three of these teams – Boston, Tampa Bay, and Philadelphia – made the playoffs in 2013. Interestingly, all three of those teams finished in the top half of this list. Simply put, the Phillies, Rays, and Red Sox were disappointments in 2012. The 2013 Dodgers' projected roster fits squarely in the middle of the group, just one win from being tied for third on the list.


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My naive mental picture of Nigeria - the second largest economy in Africa - is as follows:
- A Muslim North scratching out a living in the Sahara desert
- A nominally Christian South making money on the Internet (and seemingly offering an unending supply of unattended million dollars!)
- A bunch of oil workers in the Niger Delta.
Each of these regions seems highly antagonistic to the others (witness Muslim killing of Christians in the North, or Goodluck Jonathan's uneasy rise to power). Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be much of a synergistic effect amongst these different regions. In contrast, even empires as vast as the United States or the Soviet Union seem to be able to cohere a "national purpose" or at least trading partnerships that enrich most of the country.
What is that thing for Nigeria? What keeps it together as a single states rather than three separate nations under one rotating leader?

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Bill Keller in a New York Times op-ed this week sets out to debunk "Five Obamacare Myths", but fails miserably in his effort to correct supposed falsehoods about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). He ironically writes that "a number of fallacies seem to be congealing into accepted wisdom" about the law, calls for "a reality-based discussion", and then proceeds to "unpack a few of the most persistent myths."
The first "myth" he sets out to "unpack" is that "OBAMACARE IS A JOB-KILLER". Some of the "scare stories", Keller writes, "are based on a deliberate misreading of a Congressional Budget Office report". One needn't delve too much further into his attempts to deny that the ACA would kill jobs. One may simply follow his suggestion to "read what the CBO actually wrote"—good advice that he apparently did not follow himself. Turning to the report itself, one finds that the CBO stated explicitly that "the legislation, on net, will reduce the amount of labor used in the economy by a small amount". Had Keller argued that the label "job-killer" was exaggerated and overly sensationalist would have been one thing, but his attempt to deny the fact that the CBO did estimate that the ACA would, on the whole, kill jobs is quite another.
Keller focuses on the fact that the CBO said some provisions of the ACA would encourage people to work more, but chooses to ignore the fact that it nevertheless also stated that "on net" more jobs would be lost than gained, since other provisions would encourage them to work less, and still others would result in businesses employing fewer full-time workers. As the CBO explained, since employers with 50 or more employees would be required to either insure their workers or pay a penalty, they would be likely to either (a) reduce wages; or (b), if they couldn't reduce wages enough to pass their increased business costs on to their employees due to minimum wage laws, hire fewer workers; or (c), hire more part-time rather than full-time employees.
Keller attempts to put a positive spin on this by saying that such workers "may choose to retire earlier or work part time". Of course, if workers rather desired to actually work full-time to make a living, this would not be so much a choice as an uncomfortable reality they would be forced to accept as a consequence of the ACA. In a further attempt to spin the CBO's conclusions, Keller adds the nonsensical remark that "Those jobs would then be open for others who need them." It is difficult to imagine what he could possibly have been thinking in making this assertion, given the actual reasons for why such workers would be forced into early retirement or part-time work in the first place (of course, this statement could be easily explained if he never actually read the CBO report).
Having thus dismissed the CBO's estimate that the ACA would result in a net job loss, Keller opines that it "could be a tonic for the economy." To support his opinion, he says that the ACA "aims to slow the raging growth of health care costs". He thus tacitly admits that the law does not aim to actually reduce health care costs, such as by actually addressing the root causes of the rising costs. On the contrary, it rather merely attempts to shift the costs from one party to another.
The Supreme Court, for example, in its fatally flawed ruling that the ACA's individual mandate to purchase insurance is constitutional, rightly pointed out that "The mandate primarily affects healthy, often young adults who are less likely to need significant health care and have other priorities for spending their money. It is precisely because these individuals, as an actuarial class, incur relatively low health care costs that the mandate helps counter the effect of forcing insurance companies to cover others who impose greater costs than their premiums are allowed to reflect." In other words, the purpose of the mandate is to force healthy individuals to subsidize the costs of insurance for unhealthy individuals.
And the reason this cost-shifting provision was required in the first place, as the Court also observed, was because, even though the ACA aimed "to increase the number of Americans covered by health insurance and decrease the cost of health care", the actual reforms of the ACA—forcing insurance providers to accept people with pre-existing conditions and to charge equal rates for those who require a lot of health care as those who require little to none—would in fact "sharply exacerbate" these problems "by providing an incentive for individuals to delay purchasing health insurance until they become sick", which would in turn "lead insurers to significantly increase premiums on everyone." As the Court noted, "The individual mandate was Congress's solution to these problems" that Congress created in the first place.
Returning to Keller's opinion that the ACA "could be a tonic for the economy" by slowing "the raging growth of health care costs", he cites a study from the Commonwealth Fund, where one may find an instructive example of what he means. The study offered a 2010 baseline estimate of $13,305 for annual family premiums, which would increase to $21,458 by 2019 without the ACA reforms. With the reforms, the study estimated, the costs would increase to $19,490—a 46% compared to 61% increase in the cost of providing insurance for one's family by the end of the decade. This is, of course, assuming the study's assumptions are correct. As the authors point out, their forecast differs from the CBO and other estimates, and "for every study that shows savings from baseline, there is another study that does not."
The one thing every study seems to agree on, therefore, is that the ACA will do nothing to actually reduce the costs of health care.
We come to Keller's second "myth": "OBAMACARE IS A FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF HEALTH INSURANCE". This, he says, is a "lie". "The main thing the law does", he observes, "is deliver 30 million new customers to the private insurance industry." Indeed. The trouble with this debunking is that it appears to be a strawman argument. He provides not a single example of anyone who has claimed that the ACA is a federal "takeover" of health insurance in the sense that it would nationalize the industry.
His third "myth" is that "THE UNFETTERED MARKETPLACE IS A BETTER SOLUTION". In other words, according to Keller, it is a "myth" that the free market could offer a better solution to the problems with the existing health care system than the government can. But what if the problems that currently exist are largely because of government attempts to manage the system and lack of a free market? If this were so, would it make sense to say that the solution is even more government interference? Isn't it an odd coincidence that in industries where a free market exists, even though the quality of goods continually increases, prices tend to decline over time (e.g., computers and other electronic goods), while in those where the government steps in and tries to manage things, costs just get more and more expensive (e.g., health care, college educations, housing, etc.)?
The crux of Keller's argument is that he is "deeply suspicious of the claim that a health care system dominated by powerful vested interests and mystifying in its complexity can be tamed by consumers who are strapped for time, often poor, sometimes uneducated, confused and afraid." In other words, Americans aren't capable of taking care of themselves or making wise choices for their own benefit, and thus need the government to step in and tell them what is best for them and protect them from the "powerful vested interests" that seek to take advantage of them.
One would think that any claim of having debunked a "myth" should rest in proving that that a claim is false. Keller, of course, is here doing nothing of the sort, but merely asserting his own ideological point of view. One could just as well contrarily express a deep suspicion of the claim that a health care system forced on the public by a government in bed with these same "powerful vested interests" could possibly be better than allowing a free market to function. Big Pharma heavily lobbied to ensure that its interests were protected in the ACA, for example, and the financial incentive of the insurance companies whose services people will be forced to buy under the law is to see that people are provided with the least amount of care.
How is this better than a system in which the incentive of health care providers would be to compete to provide the best possible care for the lowest possible cost? How is it better for a health care provider's client to be a third-party payer whose financial incentive is opposed to the interests of the patient, rather than for the client to be patients themselves? How is it better to further eliminate this doctor-patient relationship? How is it better to tell individuals what options are available and to limit those options, rather than to allow individuals to shop around for themselves and choose from a wider variety of possibilities? How is it better to keep individuals out of the business of their own health, rather than to have a system where the incentive is for individuals to actually educate themselves to make their own informed choices on such matters as the health consequences of their lifestyle choices, preventive care, available treatments, insurance options, etc.?
Keller rejects outright the idea that if individuals were able to interact in a free market for health care that "they will do a better job than government at finding the services … that fit their needs." The underlying assumptions are that legislators who have only a pretense of knowledge about a complex system and who are easily corrupted under the influence of corporate lobbies know better than individuals how those individuals' money should best be spent, and that government bureaucrats know better than the free market pricing system how to most efficiently direct scarce resources to the most productive ends. He ironically supports government interference that attempts to eliminate any semblance of a free market in health care, despite professing in this same op-ed to be "a pretty devout capitalist".
To show that Keller here has not debunked any "myth" at all, it is enough to point out that there are plenty of reasons to be "deeply suspicious", to borrow his way of putting it, of the assumptions underlying his claim that the health care system as it exists and will exist under the ACA is and will be a better system than the free market could provide if only the bureaucrats would get out of the way.
Keller's fourth "myth" is the belief that we should "LEAVE IT TO THE STATES. THEY'LL FIX IT". His argument here is similar to the one he employed for "myth" number three. It depends upon the assumption that the federal government knows better than the state governments what is best for the residents of those individual states.
He offers as an example the health care reform enacted in Massachusetts under governor Mitt Romney, which served largely as the model for the ACA. "You've heard a lot about the Massachusetts law", he writes. "You may not have heard about the seven other states that passed laws requiring insurers to offer coverage to all. They were dismal failures because they failed to mandate that everyone, including the young and healthy, buy in." Notice that Keller's criticism is that these states failed to force everyone to buy insurance, not that these states' legislatures got into their heads the foolish idea that they should force insurance providers to provide coverage to everyone in the first place. How about the 42 other states that didn't act so foolishly in the first place? Keller doesn't mention them.
As already noted, the obvious consequence of such legislation would be to provide people with an incentive not to buy insurance until they actually needed it, which would force insurance companies to increase premiums on everybody. Imagine the effect on companies offering fire insurance if they were forced by law to provide insurance to people after their homes had burned down. This would obviously defeat the whole purpose of insurance and either immediately put providers out of business or force them to raise premiums on anyone foolish enough to actually purchase a policy before such an unexpected catastrophe occurred. Keller's criticism is essentially that these state legislatures were not wise enough to see that the solution to this problem they themselves created would be to force healthy individuals, such as those who eat a healthful diet and exercise, to subsidize the health care costs of unhealthy individuals, including those who eat a Standard American Diet (SAD), smoke, sit around watching TV in their free time, etc., etc.
State legislatures make mistakes, Keller rightly argues. But does not also the federal government? It is enough to counter that if mistakes are to be made, it would be better to have them made more locally, thus limiting the damage, rather than forcing the same mistakes on every state in the Union regardless of the greater wisdom of their own legislators, who otherwise might not so err in their ways, and regardless of the wishes of their constituents, who might otherwise choose to be at liberty to decide for themselves what is in their own best interests, thank you very much.
Keller's final myth is that "OBAMA IS A LOSER. RUN AGAINST IT, RUN FROM IT, BUT FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE DON'T RUN ON IT", which doesn't really address any real issue regarding the ACA at all, but merely criticizes Mitt Romney for opposing Obamacare while having implemented Romneycare in Massachusetts. Well, certainly, he might have a legitimate criticism of Romney as being a hypocrite, but given that Keller doesn't actually attempt to debunk any "myth" here at all, we may wrap up and point out, in conclusion, that, despite his op-ed's title, Bill Keller doesn't leave his readers any more well informed about the facts of the matter after reading it than they were beforehand; but rather, arguably, quite less so.


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Recent clashes at Al-Aqsa mosque come one week after two civilian Muslim groups were banned from entering the mosque compound.
The Mourabitat is an all-female group of worshippers whose mission is to protect the mosque from Jewish extremists. The group was labelled an illegal organisation by Israeli authorities on Sept. 8 and barred from entering the site.
Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since 1967, however, Jordanian King Abdullah II has maintained authority over Al-Aqsa through the Islamic Waqf which administers the site.
The area is holy to both Islam and Judaism. For years, the status quo has allowed for Muslims pray at Al-Aqsa mosque and Jews at the Western Wall, which runs along the side of Al-Aqsa compound.
Many Jewish Israelis advocate for this status quo to be changed to allow them to pray within Al-Aqsa. Some groups, such as The Temple Institute, wish to see the site partitioned and a Jewish temple erected within the compound.
Israeli forces entered Al-Aqsa compound on Sunday, claiming they were there to "prevent riots", and have maintained a high security presence in the Old City since. They have also reportedly been allowing Jewish groups to tour the site in addition to preventing many Muslims, such as the Mourabitat, from entering.
A group of 27 Jewish settlers entered the compound Monday, accompanied by Israeli soldiers.
Yousef Hamdan, who works in a shop in the Old City, spoke to Palestine Monitor about what he has witnessed this week. He described hundreds of soldiers entering the compound, beating people, damaging the mosque, and preventing many Muslims from entering.
He went on to say that Al-Aqsa is a place for Muslims, and by entering the compound, "it's clear that Israel is not looking for solutions." He stated that many people are expecting an escalation of violence, or even a third intifada, as entering Al-Aqsa is a "red line" for many Palestinians.
Another nearby shopkeeper told Palestine Monitor that he has witnessed the Israeli soldiers allowing Jewish groups into the compound to pray, but preventing many Muslims from entering. He believes this will continue for a some time.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces were seen in large numbers at many of the entrances to Al-Aqsa compound. The security forces were checking the identification of those trying to enter, and preventing many Muslim worshippers from going inside.
At one entrance, a group of women were placed within police barriers by the Israeli officers to separate them from Jewish groups who were on their way to enter the site. As the groups passed by, the women chanted "allahu akhbar."
One woman, whose name has been withheld to protect her identity, spoke to Palestine Monitor outside Al-Aqsa compound. She described arriving at the mosque one month ago and being told she was not allowed to enter the mosque to pray. She was surprised to find her name on this blacklist along with 15 other women; she now believes there are over 100 on this list.
She explained that this is not the first time this has happened to her and the other women she was with, but usually they are given papers outlining the timeframe of their ban. This time, however, they have simply been shown a list by the police, and are unaware how long the ban will last for.
The bans usually take place during Jewish holidays, when these groups' access is restricted in order to prevent them from from disrupting the visits of Jewish groups, but this time she fears the ban may be extended.
Though unable to cross the blockade of the mosque imposed by the Israeli army, the Mourabitat, along with their male counterparts, the Mourabitoun, have maintained a presence in the surrounding area. Some members of the Mourabitat have been wearing vests displaying the words "I'm banned from Al-Aqsa mosque."
Al Jazeera reports that Yousef Mukhaimar, the head of the Mourabitoun committee, has described the groups' presence in the area by saying "our resistance is really about our existence here. We show the Israelis that we are here, we belong to this land, and we are just not going anywhere, period."
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Junior right hander Tom Coughlin picked up his first win of the season and led the Central Connecticut baseball team to a 5-4 non-conference victory over Holy Cross on Tuesday afternoon. With the victory Central is now 14-12 overall on the season. The Crusaders are 14-17. The win is the third straight and the fifth in seven games for the Blue Devils.
Central scored a pair of runs in the third inning to take the early lead. Junior Anthony Turgeon reached on an error to lead off the inning and then scored from second on a single from senior Chris Renzoni. Junior J.P. Sportman drove in the second run with a single to left, making it 2-0.
The lead reached 4-0 in the fourth inning. With one out and men on first and second, junior Dylan DelaCruz doubled to deep right field to score both runs. It was his third hit of the day.
The Crusaders got a run back in the top of the sixth inning, making it 4-1.
An RBI two-out single from senior Mike Washburn pushed the Central lead to 5-1 in the bottom of the seventh.
Holy Cross scored twice in the top of the eighth to cut the lead to 5-3. They added another run in the ninth.
Coughlin earned his first win of the season pitching 7.2 innings and allowing eight hits and three runs while striking out four Holy Cross batters. Junior Nick Boyd picked up his first save of the season, pitching the final 1.1 innings.
DelaCruz had three hits and his two RBI. Renzoni, senior Tyler McIntyre and Washburn each had two hits in the victory.
The Blue Devils return home this weekend beginning on Friday afternoon, hosting a weekend series with Sacred Heart at 3 p.m. The two teams will also play a doubleheader on Saturday and a single game on Sunday.


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New 2020 NissanVersa 1.6 SV Sedan
- Stock: 16888
- Fuel Economy
- 31.0/39.0 mpg City/Hwy
- Exterior Color
- Brilliant Silver Metallic
- Interior Color
- Graphite
- Body/Seating
- Sedan/5 seats
- Transmission
- continuously variable automatic
- Drivetrain
- front-wheel
- Engine
- 1.6L I-4 cyl
Highlighted Features
- Lane departure
- Wireless phone connectivity
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Auto high-beam headlights
- Split folding rear seat
- Remote keyless entry
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Fully automatic headlights
Detailed Specifications
- 1-touch down
- 1-touch up
- Air conditioning
- Driver door bin
- Driver vanity mirror
- Front beverage holders
- Illuminated entry
- Passenger door bin
- Passenger vanity mirror
- Power windows
- Proximity key: push button start only
- Rear beverage holders
- Remote keyless entry
- Speed control
- Telescoping steering wheel
- Tilt steering wheel
- Alloy wheels
- Front anti-roll bar
- Front tires: 205/55HR16.0
- Front wheel independent suspension
- Power steering
- Rear tires: 205/55HR16.0
- Wheel size: 16"
- 1st row LCD monitors: 2
- AM/FM radio: SiriusXM
- Primary LCD size: 7.0"
- Radio data system
- Satellite radio trial duration with new vehicle purchase (months): 3
- Smart device integration: NissanConnect featuring Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
- Speakers: 4
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Wireless phone connectivity: Bluetooth
- Basic warranty: 36 months/36,000miles
- Corrosion perforation warranty: 60 months/ unlimited distance
- Powertrain warranty: 60 months/60,000miles
- Roadside assistance coverage: 36 months/36,000miles
- Front seats: bucket
- Max seating capacity: 5
- Rear seats: bench
- Rear seats Folding position: fold forward seatback
- Split folding rear seat
- Cylinder configuration: I-4
- Drive type: front-wheel
- Engine liters: 1.6
- Engine location: front
- Fuel economy city: 32mpg
- Fuel economy combined: 35mpg
- Fuel economy highway: 40mpg
- Fuel tank capacity: 10.8gal.
- Horsepower: 122hp @ 6,000RPM
- Mode select transmission
- Number of valves: 16
- Recommended fuel: Regular Unleaded
- Sequential multi-point fuel injection
- Torque: 114 lb.-ft. @ 4,400RPM
- Transmission: continuously variable automatic
- Variable valve control
- Bumpers: body-color
- Door mirrors: body-color
- Heated door mirrors
- Power door mirrors
- Rear cargo: trunk
- Turn signal indicator mirrors
- Compression ratio: 10.40 to 1
- Curb weight: 1,205kg (2,657lbs)
- Engine bore x stroke: 78.0mm x 83.6mm (3.07" x 3.29")
- Engine displacement: 1.6 L
- Engine horsepower: 122hp @ 6,000RPM
- Engine torque: 114 lb.-ft. @ 4,400RPM
- Exterior body width: 1,740mm (68.5")
- Exterior height: 1,455mm (57.3")
- Exterior length: 4,496mm (177.0")
- Front headroom: 1,003mm (39.5")
- Front hiproom: 1,293mm (50.9")
- Front legroom: 1,130mm (44.5")
- Front shoulder room: 1,349mm (53.1")
- GVWR: 1,635kg (3,605lbs)
- Interior cargo volume: 425 L (15 cu.ft.)
- Interior maximum cargo volume: 425 L (15 cu.ft.)
- Passenger volume: 2,517L (88.9 cu.ft.)
- Payload: 385kg (849lbs)
- Rear headroom: 922mm (36.3")
- Rear hiproom: 1,273mm (50.1")
- Rear legroom: 787mm (31.0")
- Rear shoulder room: 1,361mm (53.6")
- Turning radius: 5.3m (17.4')
- Wheelbase: 2,619mm (103.1")
- Auto high-beam headlights
- Blind spot: Blind Spot Warning (BSW) warning
- Delay-off headlights
- Display: digital/analog
- Exterior parking camera rear: RearView Monitor yes
- Front reading lights
- Fully automatic headlights
- Lane departure: Lane Departure Warning (LDW) warning
- Low tire pressure warning
- Outside temperature display
- Rear window defroster
- Tachometer
- Trip computer
- Variably intermittent wipers
- ABS brakes
- Brake assist
- Dual front impact airbags
- Dual front side impact airbags
- Electronic stability
- Forward collision: Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) mitigation
- Ignition disable
- Knee airbag
- Occupant sensing airbag
- Overhead airbag
- Panic alarm
- Rear collision: Rear Automatic Braking (RAB) mitigation
- Rear side impact airbag
- Traction control
Dealer Notes
KBB.com Consumer Reviews
- 5.0
Fun, zippy, gas saver!
By MistaT on Thursday, December 05, 2019As a car guy, I love this car! I got the 5-speed manual transmission with the 1.6 liter (HR16DE). The interior is spacious (especially the trunk, it's HUGE), and the exterior is a cool design too. It accelerates fast (contrary to what others say), and gets great gas mileage (I'm at 45mpg, empty car, highway miles). The only complaint I have is it should have come with a 6-speed. The engine screams at 3,500RPM @ 70mph. Too early to tell with reliability, but so far, so good!
- 5.0
Love my car.
By Jake on Sunday, August 16, 2020I have no complaints! Rides very smoothly love the new design and its a perfect size Nissan did awesome job redoing the versa. Love this car.
- 2.0
Styling has impacted interior space negatively
By I don't fit on Tuesday, March 03, 2020Ok. I know the old versa looked a lil cartoonish but it had a great amount of space inside. I'm 6 feet tall and 180 pounds and I felt great in front and back seats. I was looking at new 2020 model Versa and I felt very squished in the front seat. Rear seat is adequate. The main issue is the middle shifter housing that should be elimated and replaced with buttons or column shifter. Then there's the window switch pad. It sticks out too far resulting in not be able to rest legs to the side. Please make the changes so I can buy a versa in future. I want a base stick shift to avoid the JATCO tranny
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July 25, 2013
Looking to Mexico for Retirement, Resort, and Second-Home Choices
During the next two decades, as many as four million people from outside of Mexico are expected to purchase and own real estate in Mexico. And the number of foreigners who currently own property in Mexico is expected to triple.
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July 22, 2013
360modern™ and Windermere Join Forces
Posted in Windermere by Rick Ward, CEO, 360modern™
Modern design means many different things to many different people. For some it's all about open spaces, clean lines, and minimalist design. For me, Heidi, and our team, it's about this and more. With the support of Windermere, our goal is to become the ultimate source for modern lifestyles by serving the unique needs of those who are passionate about all things modern.
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July 19, 2013
How to Choose the Right Home
Posted in Buying by Marguerite Giguere
As the market starts heating up and real estate becomes a popular dinner party topic again, it's easy to get so caught up in the fever of searching and offers that we forget why we were buying a home in the first place. When you're hearing about "inventory shortages" and "bidding wars" it's important not to fall into the trap of settling, buying for the wrong reasons, or even overspending.
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July 10, 2013
Community Service Day Facebook Photo Challenge
Posted in Community by Tara Sharp
On June 21, Windermere offices in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Hawaii, and Utah all took a day off from selling homes to help make a difference in their local communities. Our offices were challenged to share photos and videos from their community service day event on the Windermere Real Estate Facebook page in turn for a $100 donation to the Windermere Foundation charity of their choice.
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July 02, 2013
Home Inspection: a Reality Check from a Pro
Posted in Buying by Tara Sharp
For many people, a home inspection is a hurdle that has to be overcome during the process of buying or selling a home. But, in fact, it can be a useful tool for buyers, sellers or anyone who plans to get the greatest possible value from their home.
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Yes, far too hot. Glad your on the mend.Here's another encrypted message for the MDI marathon:YOU ARE GONNA SMASH 3:20
Oh, you're too kind! I don't know about smashing 3:20 but if I can get close to it, cool. The real goal is just to have fun out there. :-)
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In Whistler
What:Art Walk
When: Tuesdays, 11 a.m.
Where: Meet in the lobby of the Delta Whistler Resort for this free tour. A knowledgeable guide will introduce you to the many galleries in Whistler Village.
What: The adele-campbell Fine Art Gallery
Where: Lobby level of the Delta Whistler Resort
This gallery represents may outstanding British Columbia artists, featuring the most comprehensive collection of Whistler landscapes and soapstone sculpture.
What: The Whistler Art Gallery
Where: Lobby level of the Delta Whistler Resort
Featuring fine Canadian and international paintings and exquisite sculpture in jade, marble and bronze.
What: The Whistler Inuit Gallery
Where: In the Westin Resort
A showcase of traditional and contemporary Inuit sculpture and Canadian art.
What: Vincent Massey Pottery Gallery
Where: Alpine Meadows, 4 km north of Whistler Village
Vincent's decorative stoneware is sought out by art collectors, hotels and those wishing to enhance their cuisine. The gallery also features
baskets made with cedar bark, bull kelp and tule rush,
handcrafted by Vincent's wife Cheryl. Call for appointment and directions
What: Black Tusk Gallery
Where: Village North on Main Street, in the Summit Lodge
Black Tusk specializes in Northwest Coast art by leading traditional artists. Featuring original contemporary art in the form of totem poles, masks, rattles, paddles, bowls, jewelry and limited edition silk screen prints. Introductory lecture every Monday at 2 p.m. and Thursday at 6 p.m.
What: Art Junction@Function
Where: Millar Creek Road, Function Junction, 7 km south of Whistler Village
Showcasing works from 13 contemporary B.C. artists. This gallery seems to be ahead of the pack, exhibiting many artists which other prestigious businesses are just starting to take note of. This is also one of the very few local galleries to exhibit the talents of Whistler artists.
What: The Plaza Galleries
Where: Village North, next to the Brewhouse Pub
This contemporary fine art gallery specializes in paintings and sculptures from more than 50 renowned Canadian and international artists. Works by such critically acclaimed artists as Anthony Quinn, Red Skelton, Frederick Hart and more. Also features B.C. stone carvings, masks, totems and jewelry.
What: Mountain Craft Gallery
Where: Whistler Village Fountain Square, near Starbucks
Unique contemporary Canadian art. Enjoy new oil paintings by such artists as Downe Burns and Michel Le Roux and glass bead work by Joy Jubenvill.
What: Northwest Connection Native Art Gallery
Where: Whistler Village, behind La Brasserie Restaurant
Catch a glimpse into the history of the native peoples of the Northwest with this gallerys collection of art and handmade gold and silver jewelry. Learn more about native culture through books, prints, carvings and masks.
What: Cori Ross Originals and Prints
Where: Cross Designs Studio, Whistler Cay
Come see why local artist Cori Ross is being recognized for her bold and dynamic use of watercolour. Funky Whistler Village scenes, mountain wildflowers and B.C. landscapes. Studio viewing by appointment only. Please call 604-932-3473.
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What: Brackendale Art Gallery
Where: Six miles north of Squamish, just off Highway 99
This unique setting incorporates a gallery, theatre, teahouse and chapel. Their artists in residence program has been an ongoing exercise since the inception of this collective project. Starting Aug. 12, visit with artist/carver/sculptor, Toby Nilsson. His work is visionary and surrealistic, imbued with personal meaning and wry humour.
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Where: Cleveland Ave., Squamish
Canadiana/Native gallery displaying works from many artists, including Tony Onley, Brian Scott, Andrea Padovani, Michael Tickner and Tia Scott. Specializing in masks, jewelry and carvings.
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Where: Second Avenue, Squamish
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Tiny robots that swim through our blood vessels attacking invaders have not quite crossed the line that separates science fiction from science—but there might be a way to jump-start their development.
Rather than designing such minuscule machines from scratch, some scientists have been experimenting with the idea of enlisting the thousands of species of bacteria swarming inside our bodies. In recent years researchers have saddled microorganisms with useful nanoparticles and bits of DNA. Although the research is preliminary, some engineers and microbiologists see potential. This past March, at the American Chemical Society's biannual National Meeting & Exposition in San Diego, biomolecular engineer David H. Gracias of Johns Hopkins University explained how he and his colleagues have decorated nonpathogenic Escherichia coli with tiny beads, rods and crescents made from nickel and tin coated in gold.
Once inside the body, such nanoparticles can be heated from afar with infrared light, thus destroying diseased tissue. Ultimately Gracias dreams of coaxing bacteria to ferry spongy nanoparticles soaked in drugs and outfitting bacteria with mini tools to perform surgery on a single cell.
Similar research by other scientists confirms that engineered bacteria can deliver medical packages directly into diseased or cancerous cells. In earlier work Demir Akin, now at Stanford University, and his colleagues attached the luciferase gene that makes fireflies glow to Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium responsible for many cases of food poisoning. Three days after Akin injected the germs into living mice, the rodents glowed under a specialized camera, which confirmed not only that the bacteria had entered the mice's cells but that the cell nuclei had expressed the gene. Akin designed the living micro bots to release their DNA packages inside mammalian cells and replicated these results in human cancer cells in petri dishes.
The advantage of L. monocytogenes is that it has evolved ways to get inside animal cells—but it is not harmless. In contrast, many strains of E. coli are harmless but do not have specific adaptations for entering cells. The key, says Douglas Weibel of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is working with a harmless microorganism that is a strong swimmer and has no problem butting its way into mammalian cells. In one study, Weibel yoked nanosize polystyrene beads to single-cell green algae and steered the "micro oxen" (algae move toward light)—an early experiment that inspired later work.
Weibel remains fascinated by ongoing research. "Bacteria have evolved amazing motility," he says. "They can sense changes in their environment and adapt not only on a short timescale but genetically, too. Even if we can't get them to deliver things in the human body, they could be useful for transporting nanoparticles in the lab. Who knows what advances we'll have 50 years from now?"
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Bruce B
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Posted: Sun 29 May 2005, 01:44
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Uploaded to Puppy forum by Bruce B on May 28, 2005
gtkfind is a graphical file finding program, written by Matt Grossman
and distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It requires X and the
freely distributable (GPL) gtk toolkit to run which Puppy already has.
It makes an excellent addition to Puppy's 'Find' utilities.
The current release is 1.1. This release adds the ability to match
files that are not owned by a known user or group.
I've attached gtkfind.zip to this post which includes:
1) gtkfind (binary)
2) gtkfind.txt (a copy of this post)
This gtkfind binary was extracted from:
To install:
copy gtkfind in your path - perhaps /root/my-applications/bin
is a good place
edit the menu for your window manager and put it in the 'Find'
section. I'm using icewm and here is an example from my menu
prog "Gtkcat find file" mini-zoom gtkcat
# added the line below
prog "Gtkfind find file" mini-zoom gtkfind
prog "Turma find text" mini-zoom turma
prog "reXgrep find text" mini-zoom rexgrep
Of course you run it many other ways, including a desktop
short cut.
Hopefully, someday I will learn how to make dotpup packages
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Puppy Master
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 4078
Posted: Sun 29 May 2005, 01:57
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i was just looking at gtkfind, thinking it might make a good dotpup
i already converted the man pages to text
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Bruce B
Joined: 18 May 2005
Posts: 11488
Location: The Peoples Republic of California
Posted: Sun 29 May 2005, 05:08
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I'm glad you liked it. I really enjoy gktfind.
If you make a pup file can you announce it here also?
What I'm really curious about is will the dotpup be able to add gktfind to the various window managers?
Also, I had a question for you I hope you can answer about running Monkey web server on 127.0.0.1:80, maybe you missed it.
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Official Crustacean
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 15588
Location: Paradox Realm
Posted: Sun 29 May 2005, 06:36
Post subject: Finders Keepers
Nice Bruce - Nice G2,
I found the existing Puppy "find a file" - completely unintuitive so I even resorted to using the command line (but have already forgotten it, something like
find ./ filename
I will try your offering Bruce (thanks again) as soon as I am in Puppy. Where am I? downloading VectorLinux in Windows. Tsk tsk - BurnCDCC is so good . . . Hey maybe that would be a good shell/tcl program for someone to write.
Name of ISO?
Burn ISO
Now that would be neat. M m m . . .
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Bruce B
Joined: 18 May 2005
Posts: 11488
Location: The Peoples Republic of California
Posted: Sun 29 May 2005, 09:14
Post subject: gtkcat howto
Lobster, gtkcat doesn't have help or man page or --help switch I guess.
It works by making databases of CD-ROMs, hard disk or other devices. It is really a neat tool once one understands how to use it. Here is a brief how-to:
1) open gtkcat
2) click on catalog then add path
3) for path put in /
4) make the name what you wish to call the catalog of all files on /
5) click OK
6) it will say 'scanning' in the status bar
7) after it says 'ready' save it to disk
After you have built the catalog you will discover it is intituive and fairly powerful for a small utility.You can even catalog all your CD-ROMS and search them to find what files you need in just a few seconds.
It is however a different utility than the gtkfind I uploaded. gtkfind is small enough Barry might want to include it as standard software in Puppy?
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Puppy Master
Joined: 09 May 2005
Posts: 9400
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Sun 29 May 2005, 11:19
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Bruce B,
Good on ya! Yes, I think Gtkcat is great too!
Lots of people have found the user interface unintuitive, not just Lobster
-- but, as you have commented, it okay when you get to know it.
yes, I'm just about to download gtkfind -- as it is small, it might be a nice "easier" complement to Gtkcat.
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Puppy Master
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 4078
Posted: Sun 29 May 2005, 16:19
Post subject:
gktfind (and command line find) seem to be able to find files in unionfs dirs now
i haven't tried to intergrate Icewm or Fluxbox menus with Puppy's Unleashed system, yet
a dotpup could add menu items ... it would make the dotpup a lot more complicated ... you would need to check if a menu had the item already, if it wasn't there, to backup the old menu file, use sed to add the item to the menu, hope it didn't damage the menu file ... icewm and fluxbox have seperate menu files, but in jwm and fvwm95, the menu is built into the config file
i usually put a rox appdir wrapper in my-roxapps, which is a lot easier that trying to edit the menus of all the wm's ... if you have a desktop shortcut or menu item to my-roxapp, you can open the my-roxapps folder and click the icon with the middle mouse button, and it will run the app and automatically close the my-roxapps window ... so you can use a rox folder as a convenient "menu" ... and it's a lot easier to manage the items in the folder ... and you can make a convenient shortcut to the app on the desktop too
i setup a "quick launch" menu on the Icewm toolbar that you could easily add menu items to (/root/.icewm/toolbar)
there are config gui's for icewm, but most are written in python
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Bruce B
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Posts: 11488
Location: The Peoples Republic of California
Posted: Sun 29 May 2005, 17:36
Post subject:
Thanks for answering my question GuestToo. I think it would be more work than it is worth to write to all the menus. Also I think Barry will put it in a future release. If so your pup file might become obsolete sooner that it is worth to take the time to make a complex script.
Regarding the icewm quick launch, I'm addicted. Here are a few items you might like:
prog "ICE Configuration" groundhog16 beaver /root/.icewm/toolbar /root/.icewm/menu
prog "Rxvt - large" xterm_16x16 rxvt -rv -fn 10x20 -sl 999
prog "Rxvt - small" xterm_16x16 rxvt -rv -sl 999
# note that rxvt has black background and white text, also I have a big rxvt window.
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Hi there,
I'm trying to enable double precision through my kernels however I get an error thrown when I include the extension enabling pragma:
#pragma OPENCL EXTENSION cl_khr_fp64 : enable
I'm also using the C++ bindings, the error thrown is -45 during the kernel jit compilation but I have no idea what that error number actually refers to.
Without this pragma the kernel code compiles/runs without any issues,
What needs to be done to enable double precision?
Thanks in advance.


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text: roscomagic01 0 Posted February 26, 2012 Hi, This is my first post so i'd like to thank everyone in advance for any feedback. We have recently had a problem on our c-max whilst we were driving. All of a sudden the temperature gauge went from reading the correct temperature to blank lines and the red snowflake came on to signal freezing or below even though it was about 10 degrees. The indicators do not make any clicking sounds when they are on and the full beam light doesn't come on when used. The indicators and the full beam work on the outside. We thought it could be the stalk which has broken as they are on the same one but the toggle works to scroll through the tripometer and the menu. The hand brake warning sign is permanently on along with the red snowflake. The warning noises for when the lights are left on when you open a door don't work. The door warning signs do not work. The central locking will open but will not lock the car. The boot has to be opened by the button on the key as the button on the car will not work. The internal lights remain on even when doors are closed and have to be switched off manually. The hazard light doesn't make any noise. The clock and the date reset at the time but now they are correct as we reset them. Our car mechanic thinks that we may need to take the car to a Ford garage to reset the computer as he thinks that there is a problem with the dashboard. Just wondered if anyone has had the same problem or if someone has any advice. Much appreciated. Thanks. 2008, 1.6, Zetec Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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PRISONS — those bastions of routine and tradition — are finally ripe for disruption. Such is the rosy conclusion of "Beyond the Bars," a provocative report from management consultants at Deloitte published earlier this month.
"Imagine a virtual incarceration system," the report's authors write, "that uses advanced risk modeling, geospatial analytics, smartphone technology and principles from the study of human behavior to achieve superior outcomes."
Such gizmos are meant to reduce overcrowding and help manage the spiraling costs of incarceration by allowing offenders to serve their sentences at home. Thanks to the almighty smartphone, offenders can be under the constant gaze of case managers, who will monitor their activities in real time. Welcome to the Panopticon for couch potatoes.
Deloitte's proposal also taps a favorite Silicon Valley trick — a tactic known as "gamification" — to award the participating offenders with points for not being late for their appointments or never leaving their assigned zone. "A sufficient number of points," the authors say, "would earn the offender tangible benefits such as additional freedom or extended curfews."
That smartphones allow us to imprison twice the number of people at half the cost is the kind of cutting-edge innovation that only management consultants and tech entrepreneurs would be excited about. Such breakthroughs would be worth celebrating if they didn't distract us from the more radical (and simpler) solution to the problem of overcrowded prisons: incarcerating fewer people.
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.
Take the recent obsession with self-tracking. From what we eat to how much energy we consume: everything is trackable, not least because our gadgets come equipped with clever sensors. Right now, most of such self-tracking efforts come from the grass-roots enthusiasts. But it won't take long for governments to start exploring self-tracking as a solution to problems that could, and probably should, be tackled differently.
Are you not eating enough vegetables? Well, your smartphone will tell you so — never mind that there are none for sale in your neighborhood, and you can't afford to buy them anyway.
By offloading the responsibility for problem solving from governments to citizens, self-tracking can get us to optimize our behavior within the constraints of an existing system. What we need is a chance to reform the system itself — perhaps by dismantling those constraints. Ambitious reforms like regulating the food industry and building the infrastructure needed to get good food to hungry people shouldn't lose their relevance in the era of universal self-tracking.
That we now have the means to make the most miserable experiences more tolerable should not be an excuse not to reduce the misery of those experiences.
Take Chromaroma, a game that uses London's smart public transportation card to make commutes more fun by awarding points for "checking in" at stations. According to The Guardian, the game is "the makeover London commuting has been waiting for." But is it, really? As the writer Steven Poole put it, "Actually, the makeover London commuting has been waiting for is a more reliable service, with Tube lines that don't close every weekend and trains that can hold more than 17 people."
Many trendy technologies can not only hinder needed reforms but actually also entrench social iniquities. Consider the current enthusiasm for Big Data, with its ability to yield powerful insights based on correlations alone. According to one recent tome on the subject, once we fully embrace Big Data, "society will need to shed some of its obsession for causality in exchange for simple correlations: not knowing why but only what."
But a problem tackled through correlations alone lends itself to a very different set of solutions than a problem mapped out in all its causal complexity.
It may help to know that most crimes in a given neighborhood are committed by people who share certain "likes" on Facebook. But to stop there and become suspicious of everyone else who shares the same "likes" would be irresponsible, especially when those "likes" are themselves just proxies for class, race or gender. If criminal behavior does stem from economic inequality or racial discrimination, we need to fix those root causes, not just prevent the damage likely to be caused by people who fit a profile.
Smart technology, thanks to its ubiquity and affordability, offers us the cheapest — and trendiest — fix. But the gleaming aura of disruption-talk that often accompanies such fixes masks their underlying conservatism. Technological innovation does not guarantee political innovation; at times, it might even impede it. The task ahead is to prevent our imagination from being incarcerated by smart technologies. Or should we settle for gamifying ourselves to death?


text: Everyone loves garlic, but if you don't handle it properly, it can take you to the culinary dark side-whether undercooked or overcooked. On this episode of SIMPLY MING, Ming zeros in on prepping garlic the right way. Joined by Boston chef Dante De Magistris, Ming uses garlic and some mystery ingredients to create two new dishes on the spot, Beef and Broccolini Stir Fry with Mango Puree and Basil Ricotta Gnocchi with Shrimp and Asparagus.


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There may be love blossoming at Seattle Grace.
Ringer alum Justin Bruening has landed a recurring role on Grey's Anatomy, TVGuide.com has learned.
Bruening will play Matt, a paramedic at Seattle Grace. Rumor has it he's a love interest for one of the Seattle Grace docs, but who he's romancing is being kept under wraps. You'll have to hit the comments with your guesses, but remember that April (Sarah Drew) and Jackson (Jesse Williams), and Cristina (Sandra Oh) and Owen (Kevin McKidd) did just break up.
First Look: Scream's Never Campbell checks into Grey's Anatomy
Bruening's casting follows that of Neve Campbell, who will play Derek's sister Lizzie Shepherd, and Constance Zimmer as a new doctor at Seattle Grace. Bruening, whose credits also include the short-lived Knight Rider remake and All My Children, will first appear in an episode slated for late January or early February.
Grey's Anatomy airs Thursdays at 9/8c on ABC.


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A box with Boxee is a box with Boxee, right? Not really. Despite the identical software running on D-Link's Boxee Box and the brand new Iomega TV with Boxee, a handful of seemingly small but collectively significant features divide the two. We went hands on with the Iomega TV at CES 2011, and we're convinced it's the superior box. Here's why.
It's not trying to be furniture.
The Boxee Box whole chrome cube design with certainly caught eyes at CES last year, and earns some deserved points for originality, but it's just not practical. Unless you live in a college dorm, it doesn't fit in with any home decor, and when you go to stuff it in a AV cabinet, the awkward shape takes up way more room than it needs to. Iomega TV adopts a much lower key design that looks modest situation below a TV, or stuffs cleanly away in a shallow drawer – it's even thin enough to put on top of other equipment, depending on your situation.
It comes with storage.
We've already established that buying an Iomega TV with built-in storage isn't a particularly good deal on price-per-GB level, but at least Iomega gives you the option. We would rather string up a portable USB drive (which is still possible), but for someone who wants one tidy package, adding 1TB or 2TB or storage inside just makes sense.
Iomega is waiting out Boxee's awkward adolescence.
D-Link delivered the Boxee Box later than expected and missing a critical feature – Netflix – then promised it by the end of the year and failed to deliver. Iomega TV will arrive in February when Netflix will already be available, giving consumers the experience they expect out of the box rather than putting them through upgrade after upgrade fix a half-baked product.
It's a versatile media server.
Iomega TV ships with Iomega's new Personal Cloud software, which basically means you can access it easily from anywhere. Shooting off an e-mail invite to family and friends gives them access to whatever you decide to share on the device, seamlessly. After they install a small client, it just appears as another drive letter. But forget about family and friends, we just want access to our treasure trove of movies from anywhere.
It has a trackpad.
Navigating the Web with D-Link's Boxee Box is hell on earth thanks to the four directional keys, which make placing a cursor harder than snagging a teddy bear with a claw machine at the arcade. Iomega made the same directional keys double as a capacitive touchpad when the browser is open, for a much smoother, more natural mousing experience. The demo we tried lagged significantly, but Iomega claims it will improve by the time it ships, and even in its current state, it's miles better than D-Link's.
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Empirical Study on the Coordinated Development of Energy-Economy-Environment in Henan Province
This article establishes a comprehensive development index system of energy-economy-environment, and studies the 18 cities' 3E system in Henan province through principal component analysis. The results show that 3E system of each city in Henan province exists in lager discordance, which has become the bottleneck to restrain economic development. Based on the analysis results, this paper puts forward countermeasures and suggestions to promote energy, economy and environment systems' coordinated development.
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Gu, G. F., & Wang, S. L. (2009). The study on grey relation analysis of energy consumption, environmental pollution and economic development: Based on Jilin province. Ecological Economy, (9), 54-56.
Hanley, N. D., McGregor, P. G., Swales, J. K., & Turner, K. R. (2006). The impact of a stimulus to energy efficiency on the economy and the environment: A regional computable general equilibrium analysis. Renewable Energy, 31(2), 161-171.
Lü, L. H., & Luo, H. (2009). Coordination degree analysis of the energy-environment-economy compound system in China. Journal of Beijing Forestry University (Social Sciences Edition), 8(2), 80-83.
Ma, L. P. (2011). Statistics application. Beijing: Capital University of Economics and Business Press.
Ren, B., & Li, S. Y. (2007). Grey Incidence analysis of energy consumption, environmental pollution and economic development of China. Statistics & Information Forum, 22(1), 46-49.
Wang, S. J., Liu, J., & Ren, L. J., et al. (2009). The development and practices of strategic environmental assessment in Shandong province. China Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 29(6), 408-420.
Wang, Y. J., & Zong, Y. G. (2010). An empirical study on the relationship among energy, environment and economy in Shaanxi province. Henan Science, 28(7), 880-884.
Zhao, F. (2009). Empirical study on the coordinated development of China's energy -economy-environment (3E). Economist, (12), 35-41.
Zhao, T., & Li, X. Y. (2008). On the coordinating evaluation model for energy-economy-environment system. Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology (Social Sciences Edition), 10(2).
Zhou, R. M., Liu, L. J., & Wang, G. Z. (2011). Research on the countermeasures of promoting energy-economic-environment system to coordinating development in Hebei province. Hebei Academic Journal, 31(1), 231-234.
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Bob Parsons Alberta. wrote:WTN: `05 Muscadet Grand Fief de la Cormeraie, Chereau-Gunther.
Yup, even more hooked on Muscadet!! This wine was consumed with herbed garlic shrimp in lemon parsley butter. $26 Cdn, good natural cork, 12% alc.
It is hard to keep track of the Chereau-Carre family out there in the Loire, who has a family tree?!!
Color. Pale hue, light straw, oh so clear.
Nose. This was pretty closed up, but managed to find some citrus lime fruit, minerals, "wet stones" from across the table". Apple on day 2.
Palate. Initial mouthfeel entry was dryish, not too austere a style, good weight, creamy. There was a nice structure to this wine, fresh and vibrant. Fellow tasters wondered about "enough acidity?" and I wonder too. I am generally used to more saline character.
Tad riper on day 2, best to serve at cellar temperature I think. Nice wine here.
Only too happy to post on another C-C`05 I just tasted......>
WTN: `05 Chateau du Coing de Saint Fiacre Muscadet de Sevre-et-Maine Chereau-Gunther.
Pale medium lemon yellow. Leesy nose still, citrus, wet stones, still fresh with apple and floral notes. Initial entry is off-dry, minerally very good fruit expression. Hint of honeysuckle is nice as this shows some age eh. Great acidity still, white stone-fruit. Lively finish here, quite complex and terrific mouthfeel. Envious of those on east coast who seem to have good access to aged Muscadet!


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