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Automaker makes major strides in reliability survey over last four years.
Updated 6:12 pm, Friday, November 25, 2011
Nissan is riding high in the U.S. vehicle-quality rankings, ninth place among all automakers in the latest Consumer Reports annual reliability survey — a massive turnaround for the company after sinking to the 24th spot among the 30 brands just four years ago.
The company has moved up five places since last year in the Consumer Reports study, but there are other surveys that further confirm Nissan's quality gains. For instance, Nissan ranked fifth among all automakers in the fall 2011 Perceived Quality Study by the Automotive Leasing Guide, or ALG, which is used by lenders to predict resale values for vehicles at the end of lease terms.
In that gauge, Nissan has been in the Top 5 since 2008. It has held its score while its two main Japanese competitors, Toyota and Honda, have fallen by 10.1 and 5.3 points, respectively, said Eric Lyman, vice president for residual-value solutions at ALG.
Nissan still ranks behind Honda, which is in first place, and Toyota, Ford trucks and Subaru in the Top 5, although the gaps between the leaders are closing, he said.
"But fifth place is a great place to be," Lyman said. The higher the rankings, the better a brand's resale values will be, which leads to better lease terms for consumers, he added.
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One of Nissan's biggest victories has been the success of its midsize Altima sedan, which now has led the Consumer Reports list of best family sedans for three years in a row. Beginning in 2008, it took the top spot away from the Honda Accord, and has beaten the Toyota Camry as well.
That ranking is paying off now. The Altima is outselling the Accord this year for the first time ever, although it still has a way to go to unseat the Camry, which has held the top sales spot among cars in the U.S. market for more than a decade.
For the calendar year so far, through October, Nissan had sold 222,392 of the Altima, up 18.4 percent from last year. That compares with sales of 203,603 of the Accord, down 13.8 percent, and 251,564 of the Camry, down 10.8 percent.
Quality drives auto sales; and for Nissan, a concentrated effort since falling behind in the Consumer Reports reliability survey in 2007 has led to improvements in the products and the brand's reputation among consumers. That has helped push the company's U.S. sales up 15.2 percent this year and put the automaker on track to deliver more than 1 million vehicles in 2011.
That's the best performance for Nissan North America since 2007, the year before the economic meltdown began, when it sold 1.07 million vehicles. It also represents a huge recovery from 2009, when just 770,103 were sold.
"We have seen a marked increase in quality from Nissan," said Jack Nerad, executive market analyst for Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com, whose own market studies have shown gains in how U.S. consumers view the automaker's products. "They have put significant emphasis on quality improvements, and it has paid off."
The current sales boom, which has been keeping Nissan's U.S. plants working overtime, has as much to do with the company's quality initiatives as with the general improvement in auto sales overall, company officials and industry analysts say.
A variety of moves designed to raise both the perception and reality of quality in Nissan's cars and trucks have boosted consumer confidence in the brand, analysts say, helping Nissan and its Infiniti luxury brand to make gains on key competitors such as Toyota and Honda.
"We look back to 2007 as a baseline; that was a low point for our performance," said Brad Thacker, vice president for customer satisfaction at Nissan North America. "We focused on the elimination of initial quality problems, those that show up in the first 90 days of ownership, and what we found is we have a very good correlation between warranty reports and defects reported to Consumer Reports."
Besides design and engineering changes to make products better, Nissan also concentrates heavily on ensuring quality on the assembly line, said Shawn Williams, the company's director of product quality assurance.
At the company's Tennessee assembly plant, where new vehicles roll off the line every few seconds, white-gloved inspectors check each one under a bank of bright lights before sending it to the test track outside.
There, each vehicle is driven through a variety of conditions to check all aspects, including whether there are any squeaks or rattles — pesky defects that can result in numerous trips to a dealer service department if they're left for the customer to discover.
"We start the quality process at the beginning with the raw materials," Williams said. "There are quality gauges along the assembly line, all the way through paint to final inspection.
"Each vehicle has a final inspection; every one goes through a test-track drive, on different road surfaces and at high speed to identify concerns before they get to the customer."
In the final-inspection area during a recent shift at the plant, a technician pulled an Xterra sport utility vehicle off the line and sent it to the repair area after finding that a door switch for the dome light wasn't working. But over about a 20-minute period, most of the vehicles passed their inspections and were moved on out.
If a problem develops anywhere along an assembly line, the technicians working on the vehicle at that point have the power to stop the line until the issue is resolved, Williams said.
"These people are experts at building the vehicles, and we listen to them," he said. "We let the technicians know they can stop the line, and ... they don't get in trouble for that."
Nissan also has a system in place to get instant feedback from dealers, not only from customer complaints in the service department, but even on problems with vehicles that haven't been sold yet, Williams said.
Changes made throughout the company have resulted in "more than a 50 percent improvement from 2007 to now in things that can be fixed by a dealer," Thacker said.
Some consumer complaints often can't be eliminated completely until the next generation of a vehicle is designed, but others can be addressed more quickly, Thacker said.
Interior and technology upgrades often can be made without a major redesign of a vehicle, and a lot of it has more to do with perception than reality, he said, adding that what consumers see, touch and feel while inside the vehicle go a long way toward their overall impression of the product.
Some of Nissan's interiors had been criticized for the use of hard plastics, which led the automaker to switch to "more expensive, soft, molded materials" when interior upgrades were scheduled, Thacker said.
Contact Express-News automotive columnist G. Chambers Williams III at 210-250-3236 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Andre Villas-Boas's men have won all five of their Europa League ties thus far this term without conceding a single goal and it is of little surprise to see Spurs installed as red-hot favourites with the odds compilers to claim all three points again here.
Coral offer odds of just 1/7 (1.14) for a home victory on Thursday night while the visitors can be backed at a chunky 16/1 (17.0) with the same firm to claim a famous win in north London. The draw is rated as a 13/2 (7.50) chance with Coral.
Defensive stability has been a key element of Tottenham's play under Villas-Boas this season, with Spurs having kept a clean sheet in 13 of their 17 games already this term and, therefore, the 8/11 (1.73) quote from Coral for Spurs to win to nil carries plenty of appeal.
However, punters should note that Tottenham have won both halves in no fewer than four of their five Europa League games so far this season and, with home advantage, Spurs are certainly more than capable of doing so again here.
Therefore, the even money (2.0) quote from Coral for the hosts to win both halves is outstanding value and should be eagerly snapped up, especially as their forwards have been scoring much more freely in Europe than domestically.
Furthermore, it should be noted that Spurs have struck twice in the first half of four of their five Europa League victories this season and, should that pattern be repeated once again here, there may be value in backing the 8/5 (2.60) quote from Coral for Spurs (-1) in the half-time handicap betting.
With Spurs chalked up at just 1/25 (1.04) with Coral to win either half, the even money (2.0) quote from the same firm for the home side to win both halves is supremely generous and is well worth backing as Andre Villas-Boas' side look to get back to goalscoring form after drawing a blank in thier last Premier League outing.
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So, the ACA is still being written, long after it was passed. That is an abomination unto itself, that the House and Senate of the USA passed a bill that was not in any way complete. I'm not up on the rules of Congress, but that certainly it seems as if passing laws that are not even written yet should not be legal. Not that it's ever stopped this bunch before.
Pelosi told the truth (for once) and it served as a warning, when she said it would have to be passed so we could see what was in it.
For decades now, Congress has written "laws" that consist of a vague goal and authorization for federal agencies to write regulations to implement that goal.


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Conversation is the way that most people will determine if that person is for them, and if they would like to go out again. But some people are amazing, and conversation is not there strong point. You may have to see how they react in certain situations or be with others to see there interaction to know that they are who they are.
See about compatibility, traits that you know the person is strong in, or that you made of heard about. Some people are really terrible "first dates" give them an oppportunity and go out again.
Look for other signs in this person. Speak to others who may know them. Don't just presume that things won't work out because you can't have a flowing conversation, or if you find yourself being the one to initiate the way it goes.
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Many years ago when I was teaching fourth grade at Lincoln Elementary in Appleton, the Department of Natural Resources provided each student with a tree seedling on Arbor Day. [Ed. note: We still do.] I brought my little spruce seedling home and planted it in our front yard. I nurtured that tiny tree for years – guarding it from the lawn mower and keeping the critters on our acre from nibbling it. I even talked to the tree as I mowed the lawn each summer. Well, that "Baby" grew to be 15-17 feet tall. In the last few years, I even strung lights on it all winter because it was a truly beautiful specimen.
Four years ago, when Outagamie County started widening County Highway S from Highway 47 to the Village of Freedom, I worried that our spruce would be in the path of the new route. After careful checking, I was assured the tree would be spared as it was wide of the roadway... then the electric company relocated the power lines right over our tree. I envisioned the trim job the tree would get as it reached the lines, and I started feeling sick. Fortunately, my husband, Dan, convinced the county to move our spruce before that would happen.
We need not have worried.
The first snowfall in early December brought very slippery roads. That evening, a young man in a pickup skidded off the road into our front yard. My husband helped him push his truck back onto our driveway, we checked that he was okay, and we sent him on his way. Then Dan went outside with a spotlight to see if the recently seeded ditch had been damaged. His head hung low as he came through the door. "Our spruce tree is tipped over and looks badly damaged."
I cried.
The next day we contacted the driver and his insurance company. The tree was appraised. A landscaping company told us it was severed at the taproot and could not be saved.
Then I got an idea. I asked the insurance company if I could cut off the top part of the tree for the holidays. They said sure, but I would have to wait until the claim was settled.
That took almost two weeks, until the Thursday before Christmas. That day, my father, daughter Holly and I went "tree hunting" in the front yard.
We chopped off a good-sized piece and then tried to get it in the house. TOO BIG. We took a little more off the top. By the time we got it into the tree stand, that tree took up a third of our living room. It had never looked quite that big in the front yard.
Holly and I set about decorating it and we took lots of pictures. It was beautiful and was the clear topic of conversation with each new visitor. Telling its story over and over again helped a little, but I sure hated to take it out in the back yard after the holidays.
On December 27th, we got a call from the county asking when they could move our spruce and where we wanted it. Hmmm!
It took me a while to "graduate" from teaching fourth grade, so over the years we received five or six other Arbor Day seedlings that are now in various stages of growth in the yard. I guess I'll have to adopt them, but none will be as special as that first spruce and the holiday joy it provided.
Patricia Bacon teaches third grade in Appleton and writes from Freedom, Wis.


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day of reckoning, Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification has denied Valve's appeal to sell the unedited Left 4 Dead 2 down under. The three-member board determined unanimously that the game "could not be accommodated within the MA 15+ classification," which is the highest rating allowed for video games in the region.
The board believes that there is "insufficient delineation between the depiction of general zombie figures and the human figures." The inability to clearly distinguish the humans from the "clearly fictional 'infected'" was a "major consideration" of the board.
The unedited version of Left 4 Dead 2 is classified RC (refused classification) and "cannot be sold, hired, advertised or demonstrated in Australia." Sorry, mates. An edited version of the game has been approved by the OFLC for consumption in Australia -- censoring "decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment."
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Bandai Namco Games America Inc. this week released the Paramount War Pt. 3 Trailer for One Piece: Burning Blood to Sony Corp.'s Playstation 4, PS Vita and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox One.
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Recently in my class with Ali Momeni, we had an exercise surrounding the idea of a networked ensemble of computers. It turns out to be a fairly easy and effective technique. In a couple of hours we had fifteen computers all talking to each other by sending OSC messages over a wireless network. The messages could trigger a sinusoid at a specified volume and frequency, noise at a specified volume and duration, or one of five samples played at a specified volume and rate. The samples were selected and loaded locally, so only the OSC messages were being transmitted over the network.
By the end of the experiment all fifteen computers were producing chaotic mash-ups of randomly pitched sine waves, random white noise, and an eclectic collection of pitch shifted and/or reversed sampled sounds. Unfortunately I didn't have a portable recorder on hand, but what I did do was capture the audio that was being generated from the messages that were being received on my laptop. Here's an excerpt of what that sounded like. Now try to imagine that times fifteen. I'm also attaching the patch in case anyone would like have have a look. Just be aware that it was made quickly (I did clean it up a bit before uploading) and there's a dependency on an external called ali.samplor that can be found here.
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Reviews Comments: An ugly duckling of the series Dragon Age II game review by mightymoose 101
I was one of those people who was both impressed and disappointed with Dragon Age: Origins, the combat was intuitive and deep but the story and levels got incredibly boring and at times annoying (I still dream of the slog through the Circle Tower and cringe), but I was invested enough in it to be interested in the sequel, Dragon Age 2, I played it, and overall found it made SOME improvements over the first game, but overall it's blunders outweighed it's successes. Combat has overall been simplified, with specializations being limited to the player character and each other party member being restricted to one type of weapon (Varric can only use crossbows, Aveline can only use sword/shield, etc) and the option to equip/change armor on them being removed. While this simplifies item-management and avoids extensive micro-management, it also seems to remove a degree of personification from the first game which made the stradegizing so fun. At the same time, battle animations have been thoroughly revised with much more extravagant and fluid movements, which help to make combat look and feel far more fast-paced. The level design, however, is to put it bluntly, embarrassing. The first dungeon you'll find yourself running into is this generic underground cavern/mine, which is visually and atmospherically unremarkable. 'But things will surely improve from here!' you may think as you run out to eagerly dive into the next dungeon...only to find it's the exact same one. Sure they've blocked off a few entrances and exits, and there's new loot in the nooks and crannys, but it is still the exact same damn dungeon. This repeats for nearly *every* damn area in the game outside of major areas in Kirkwall and the ONE village outside it. It's bloody ridiculous. Now I know that Bioware was rushed by EA in order to release this game, so they had to cut a few corners to meet expectations, but this is still bloody jarring enough to severely detract from the game experience. You'll constantly be running through the same entrance in the lower-city to go through the same bloody sewer systems to get to the same damn beach all the bloody time. cont.
The point where the game REALLY falls flat, however, is the story. The plot is divided into three acts all spanning 10 years in which the player character, Hawke, rises to power in the city of Kirkwall. Despite this, however, the plot feels incredibly disjointed, with each act being more of a self-contained episode as opposed to a part of an overarching story. The first act is more of a giant prologue, the second act is a well thought out and executed story concerning racial prejudice and religious dogma culminating in an attempted Quanari uprising, and the third act is an incredibly rushed piece where we introduce characters intended to be the villains who we've known about for barely two hours, a few lackluster fetch quests and side-quests, and a finale which seems desperate to show off morale ambiguity, but more or less falls flat on it's ass due to plot-induced stupidity concerning a civil war between the mages and the templars. What really bugs me about the plot was just how inconsequential it makes all my decisions feel rather pointless, the whole 'every decision has a consequence' schtick Bioware's been following really falls short here. Killed Leliana in the Origins? SO WHAT, SHE'S ALIVE NOW! Cullen turn into a mass-murdering lunatic in Origins? DON'T CARE, HE'S SANE NOW! The endgame tries so hard to make one of it's decisions seem truly critical in how it'll affect the future, when it really does nothing in the grand scheme of things; the same characters will still turn on you, and the same characters will still make their stupid decisions.
Another thing which puts me off is just how static the world feels. The game's supposed to take place over a ten year period, but in-game nothing changes at all. This may seem minor, but in a story-driven RPG this flaw really broke my immersion, as characters will talk of events which supposedly happened years ago, but the game is designed in such a way that it barely feels as though a few days have passed. The same group of people are always standing in that one corner, that one vendor is still at that same spot, Merril still looks and acts like a naive schoolgirl even after several years of living in the alienage, Varric remains a young-dashing rogue ten years down the line, Kirkwall will look spic and spam in the third act despite being wrecked in a major Quanari invasion only a year or two before. Nothing ever changes.
The level design in DAII is worse then in Origins?
I will agree about the level design. I didn't care much for the combat in DAO and, because of that, I liked the streamlining and added spectacle in DA 2. I don't agree about the story. I like that DA 2 didn't have the same generic overarching evil all throughout the game and that each act had it's own culmination. The city of Kirkwall may not seem to change much, but a city is not an easy thing to change. Hawke, however, undergoes various experiences on a more personal level throughout the story, as do the other characters. The plot consisted of various personal stories that were all brought together around Hawke and his greatest victories. Varric and the expedition and his brother's madness, Isabela and the stolen tome, Anders/Justice and his absolute refusal to compromise, Fenris's slavery, Merril's obsession with the mirror, Aveline's career and personal life, Hawke's family, all these stories led somewhere. These are the parts of the plot that could be influenced by choice. Aveline didn't have to get married to guardsman Donnic, Merril's clan didn't have to die, Fenris didn't have to stay free, Isabela didn't have to run or stay free, Hawke's brother/sister could either live or die. That's where the choices are, in the lives of the characters. That's the appeal of the story.
Kirkwall will look spic and spam in the third act despite being wrecked in a major Quanari invasion only a year or two before. Truth In Television. City works' projects tend to move pretty quickly to repair large-scale damage, and the qunari didn't really do that much damage to the city; they were a few hundred infantry whose heaviest weapons were grenades, that attacked from within the city with surprise, not a siege force with cannons and tens of thousands of men that had to break through the outer walls. Damage would be limited.
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The policeman in charge of the search to find missing April Jones will brief the media later today.
Superintendent Ian John will meet reporters this afternoon to give an update on the investigation.
Today is the 11th day specialist searchers will spend looking for the five-year-old who went missing last Monday as she played outside her Machynlleth home.
Supt John issued a statement yesterday but has not spoken to jounalists personally since last weekend.
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It emerged last night that April's parents, Paul and Coral, had met with the teams looking for their daughter.
Supt John said: "April's parents visited the base of the search teams [on Wednesday] and met some of the people who are involved in the search for their daughter.
"They are extremely grateful for all of the work that is being undertaken."
The search operation is expected to continue for at least another two weeks.
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Photographs of at least four armed French policemen standing around a woman on the beach and forcing her to take off her burkini has incensed people all over the world.
Is this laïcité? Is this what being liberal looks like? Men forcing women to take clothes off? https://t.co/NOT4IcvuF5— Aisha S Gani (@aishagani) August 23, 2016
Dear #France, forcing women to undress is tantamount to rape. Congratulations on legalizing rape. u scum. #Burkini pic.twitter.com/BQYU4Y4Go5— JugMug (@anthonypermal) August 24, 2016
I'm still not clear how the Burkini is a terrorism threat. Did the French confuse "portmanteau" with "terrorist"?— Sami Shah (@samishah) August 24, 2016
Now France has its own Mutaween, parading around and deciding what women can and cannot wear in public. https://t.co/ijYNeJxCrF— Patrick French (@PatrickFrench) August 24, 2016
What Liberté and Egalité mean in France: police officers force a Muslim woman on a beach in Cannes to bare her skin: https://t.co/gSXH2UwdcI— Laila Lalami (@LailaLalami) August 23, 2016
A gang of armed men force women to remove her clothing. In broad day light. This is assault.#burkini #nice pic.twitter.com/EwPv2cUYOF— Dr. Spits (@CallMeSpits) August 23, 2016
Not sure how a group of armed men demanding a woman to undress in public is somehow 'progressive,' France. https://t.co/nlg9RWiWvG— Mehreen Kasana (@mehreenkasana) August 23, 2016
Authorities in several French towns have implemented bans on the garment, which covers the body and head, over concerns about religious clothing in the wake of recent terrorist killings in the country.
She was given a ticket, which, according to the French news agency AFP, cited she was not wearing "an outfit respecting good morals and secularism."
"I was sitting on a beach with my family," said the 34-year-old who gave only her first name, Siam. "I was wearing a classic headscarf. I had no intention of swimming."
Mathilde Cousin, who was also present on the beach and witnessed the whole incident, said, "The saddest thing was that people were shouting 'go home,' some were applauding the police."
"Her daughter was crying," she added.
The ban on the burkini — a full-body swimsuit designed for Muslim women — was initiated by a number of French beach resorts earlier this month. Authorities who issued the ban provided a list of reasons including security, hygiene and, most of all, coercion of Muslim women.
Muslim women, however, have disapproved of the ban, saying it's discriminatory since it robs them of the choice as to how to cover their bodies.
Those still daring to wear the burkini have had to pay fines.
The ban, however strict it may be, is backfiring massively.
Izzeddin Elzir, an imam in Florence, Italy, posted the following photo on his Facebook page:
The photo shows a group of Catholic nuns fully dressed in traditional habits and veils joyfully bathing in the sea.
"I just wanted get people to stop and think. That's why I posted the photo alone, without writing a single word. I didn't want to take sides but rather to spur a healthy debate," he said.
Aheda Zanetti, the designer of the garment, claims sales for it were up by 200 percent as more and more women are buying it to make a point.
Zanetti believes the swimsuits represented freedom and healthy living — not oppression. The dress was created to allow Muslim women to participate in the beach lifestyle.
"I wanted my girls to grow up to have that freedom of choice," she said.
"I don't care if they want to have a bikini. It's their choice," she added. "No man in this entire world can tell us what to wear or what not to wear."


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The artist Yoskay Yamamoto, in his first all-sculpture exhibition titled 'Joke's On Me…', blends urban pop art with traditional Japanese elements. A series of figures, the show features references to iconic personalities from childhood and pop cultures.
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What is interesting is how clearly the sculptures are of both East and West. Western iconography with Eastern execution. Made from a variety of materials including resin, plastic, vinyl, and hand-sculpted wood, the collection features such references as the Stay Puft Man, Bart Simpson, the Moomins and Hello Kitty, to the Kewpie Doll and Pikachu among others.
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BMWCC Autocross this Sunday!! (Apr 18th)
Guys, this is the first autocross for the season... if you want to come try it out, this is the time to not be embarrased since everyone will be rusty. $57.00 yearly BMWCC membership required (insurance reasons)... every autocross event afterwards is $15.00 ea.
CAUTION: very addictive
Location: MDS Sciex Parking lot located at 71 Four Valley Drive, Concord (NE corner Hwy 400 & Langstaff).
8:30AM Sharp!
hmmmmmmm.... I want to do it soo bad,.....
OK, I say Im coming everytime, this time I mean it damn it.
I might show up for the hell of it. M5's still under the knife. Maybe Randy will let me drive his car...
I'd Love to try it Randy , But I think it's a fine line between using and abusing your car ! And like you say it's likly very adictive ...
Mayby I'll stop in and check it out , on the way to Yorkdale .
Its not abuse, perhaps might be on older cars.
Damn, it's my exam week :(
Oh well, maybe in May then.
Hey I "abuse" my stock Volvo at the auto-x and it's still running. I'm not braggging, but the auto-x that we do with the BMWCC doesn't seem as dangerous as the Ontario Solo II or other big divisions else which invovle higher operating speeds and mandatory requirement of helment. You're pretty much only driving around with 1st and 2nd gear. I personally think in the bigger divisions you abuse your car more than in the BMWCC that we do.
Flame away!
sorry but i wont show up at all this time guys
first off all i dont got cash for registration....
and the handeling is realy realy sloppy on my audi
next run i guess !
I wouldn't really call it abuse, it's just using the car for what it was designed for. Plus what is the point of making your car accelerate and stop faster, and handle better if you can't reap the benefits on the street.
Plus auto-x can show you your limits, the limits of your car, which will make you a better driver on the street.
It can be competitive if you let it, but above all it's fun. I love it.
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text: Sometimes I feel that Blizzard don't really look into Priests and just slap on a couple of changes without really looking into it. Of course this is absurd and I'm more than likely wrong. T13 was released today and unlike the majority of the other classes, there wasn't really an explanation to why certain decisions were made about how it looks. Don't get me wrong, I do really like the set. But I'm really interested in why it looks like it does. It's 9am and I really cba to make my own interpretation. I just feel overlooked again idk. I need coffee. And, a bagel.


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Examination of Witnesses (Questions 40-47)
Tony Worthington
40. One of the issues which greatly annoyed us when we were in Malawi to the extent that we wrote to the Secretary of State about this was that the NGOs and others, the donors, had set up what seemed to us to be a very efficient allocation system for grain within the country which was distributing to about a third of the population, but then the World Bank and the government of Malawi negotiated a new deal for undifferentiated subsidised grain to go into the country and to be distributed by ADMARC. ADMARC had been the agency which had lost the previous grain. What is the Government's attitude to that?
(Mr Winter) As you will have discussed with the team, we were disappointed that the Bank had chosen to go ahead with this without widespread consultation and without taking cognisance of the work that had been done, and this point has been made very firmly to the Bank. As we understand it the World Bank took the view that in the circumstances and the need, as they saw it, to get affordable food out into the market that they had to accept a second best solution which was a general subsidy and using, as they saw it, the only organisation which was capable of it. As you know, we have reservations about both those judgments, reservations which we are taking up with the Bank now. That was one of the things I had in mind when I said earlier that we needed a much closer understanding with the World Bank and the IMF about their roles in promoting long-term food security rather than the kind of ad hoc decisions which people had felt rushed into because it is an emergency.
41. Here we have a situation where the general manager of ADMARC, which managed to lose the grain, became promoted to become the Minister of Finance. In any normal situation you could expect him to be at least suspended rather than promoted.
(Mr Winter) As you know, we have serious concerns about governance in Malawi.
42. If we are looking at these issues we have got to be quite open about it and there we have a negotiation of subsidised grain from the World Bank which is to be then administered by ADMARC on a very large scale. Might I just ask you to confirm that is the situation.
(Mr Winter) I believe that is the situation, yes.
43. We were very concerned about the relationship with the World Bank in Malawi, that here we had a situation where the World Bank programme had declined to the extent that if there had not been this grain coming in, Malawi would have been the net contributor to the World Bank. That is true, is it not?
(Mr Winter) I do not have the figures.
44. Can you assure us that the British Government is making strong representations to the World Bank about what has been happening with the World Bank's programme in Malawi?
(Mr Winter) I can assure you that we are taking it up at a senior level in the World Bank and that we have asked for a board discussion on this particular credit.
45. There is one other point concerning the IMF which does disturb me. The relationship, I think quite correctly, with the IMF had broken down because of the governance issues in Malawi but now we have a situation where the person who was in charge of Africa for the IMF, a Malawian, has now returned to become the President's Economic Advisor in Malawi. I do not see how you go from one side of the table to the other without questions being asked.
(Mr Winter) It is not a situation of which I have the details but we can certainly follow it up.
46. I think it is very important that as far as this Committee is concerned that we put these items on the agenda.
(Mr Winter) Thank you.
47. A very final question from me. Going back to the government of Malawi, and I think there have been a number of expressions of concern about their ability to deliver, I suspect that is as much a problem of capacity as suggestions of corruption. In other words, one of the impacts of HIV/AIDS is that it is no respecter of who you are and if one looks at government departments in Malawi a lot of civil servants are dying. I think I am right in saying that a quarter of Malawi's education budget is being spent on paying for the funerals of teachers who have died. In Kenya I noticed the other day they are losing something like 6,000 teachers a year to HIV/AIDS. I suspect that is the equivalent of all the teachers in Oxfordshire and not even a country like the UK could afford to do that. I just wonder to what extent you think in the future we and other Commonwealth countries, if HIV/AIDS continues to have the impact on countries like Malawi, the attrition rate, countries such as ourselves, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, other countries throughout the Commonwealth, are going to have to support Malawi in terms of people, people in ministries, people undertaking active roles again in management of projects rather than just having a DFID programme which tries to interact with the government of Malawi, that the international community with the support of the Malawi people and the government, maybe elsewhere in southern Africa, will have to have a proactive role in reinforcing the capacity of government?
(Mr Winter) It is a problem that is particularly stark in Malawi and you may well have had Malawians saying to you, as they do to us, that this is something we need to consider. We phased out all this 20 years ago and here we are back in the position of having to think about white faces in ministries. It is something we are looking at. Clearly continuing to provide technical advice to an overstretched institution is not going to produce results in the long run. The solutions that are being thought about in Malawi revolve around firstly trying to entice educated Malawians back into the country, because that is an enormous untapped resource, but also, if necessary, some flexible technical assistance funding to enable them to hire in expertise at whatever seems to them to be good value for money, whether or not it is people coming from Britain or other parts of Africa or other parts of the developing world.
Chairman: Thank you very much. Thank you for your evidence. I think there are some substantial issues here that we will be grappling with for some time to come. Thank you.


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text: HOT SAUCE 101 Torrid Times Heat & Health How Hot Is Hot? The Big Chill Hall of Flame Global Warming Chile Peppers How Hot Is Hot? Ask Wilbur Scoville. Back in early 20th century, Wilbur Scoville contemplated a question that has plagued all seekers of hot food: how do you measure heat? He developed a scale based on the Scoville heat unit, which allows you to compare the heat factor in peppers and hot peper sauces. Because of Scoville, we can now scientifically measure how "hot" hot is instead of dealing with subjective opinions. After all, one man's "hot" may be another man's "not so hot." With the Scoville scale, you have a much more precise form of heat measurement and can compare pepper to pepper instead of comparing apples to oranges (see What's Hot Is Hot!). Scoville developed the Scoville Organoleptic Test in 1912. Originally it did start out as a more subjective test than what we have today. Taste testers would partake of ground-up chiles that were increasingly diluted (and neutralized) by sugar water. The hotter the pepper, the more sugar water it took to quash the heat. So, the amount of sugar-water necessary to entirely cancel the heat in the pepper is the modern-day Scoville heat unit. For example, the hottest pepper recorded scored 577,000 Scoville heat units. This means it would take 577,000 cups of sugar water to neutralize the heat in 1 cup of that pepper. The original test was limited by human subjectivity since different people have different heat tolerances (see Feeling the Heat). The heat for the same kind of pepper can also vary tremendously depending on how it's grown and when it is harvested. Today, the Scoville heat unit is still the unit of measurement for heat and through advancing technology, it's much more scientific than what Wilbur originally devised. (Don't blame Wilbur, he did the best he could with what was available at the time.) Today, instead of relying on the human palate, Scoville testing uses High Performance Liquid Chromatography or HPLC. During process, the capsaicinoids, which pack a pepper with heat, are extracted. They are then placed in the HPLC device and analyzed. The HPLC can read the amount of capsaicinoids in the pepper, as well as differentiate between individual varieties (see How Hot Is That Pepper?). This analysis is then converted into the better-known Scoville unit. Home | Fiery Food Facts | Terminology | Articles A division of Sparky Boy Enterprises Copyright © 2006. All rights reserved.


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For the first time in recorded history (which is why it' news) an actor from an upcoming movie, Dave Bautista / Guardians Of The Galaxy, praised said movie to the press in such a way that might inspire others to see the movie. "This is a monumental moment," stated president of Marvel Studios and former Mr. Brittney Spears, Kevin Fiege, "to have someone from the film actually tell people, in public, that they liked it and that others should see it will revolutionize the whole concept of film marketing."
Reported by lehighvalleylive.com, Dave Bautista went on to say that:
[he is] beyond excited for "Guardians" and praises the film's director, James Gunn. "James made it so easy," he says. "Now the pressure's on. Now it has to live up the hype ... It's a scary thing when people's expectations are so high."
"Did you read that?!" exclaimed Fiege, "He not only praised the movie, but also the director! This is gold!"
In a completely different and exclusive interview that totally happened in real life, "The Animal" told the Outhouse that he "would watch a solo movie starring Drax; I could see it as a trilogy, you know. They'd probably want to pay the actor a lot of money."
Unfortunately, as with most things regarding Bautista, it only got worse as he kept talking. From LVL:
Bautista credits [Vin] Diesel for helping him by offering tips and pointers while filming "Riddick." Bautista is hoping to have more opportunities to stretch his acting range — he says he is a fan of dialogue-driven movies — and would love to be cast in a smaller, "grittier" independent film.
Luckily the exchange ended there with a small postscript added to the Outhouse Exclusive:
"I'm just saying, Drax was the highlight of the film. I really enjoyed his performance."
Guardians Of The Galaxy starring Dave Bautista will be in theaters on August 1st, but if you want to see Bautista before then, you can head over to Wizard World Philadelphia on June 21 where you will have the opportunity to be gouged even more than you are at the theaters for an off chance that the four time World Heavyweight Champion can spell his name correctly on an autograph.


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The model, 35, was filmed storming out of the London event after being offended by a joke host James Nesbitt, 44, reportedly made about her.
'He's so f***ing rude,' said Kate. 'Do you know what? I'm never coming back to these f***ing awards.'
Boyfriend Jamie Hince and pal Lily Allen, 24, were seen trying to calm her down.
Kate also clashed with Dizzee Rascal, 24, as she returned to try to find her lost lipstick.
The rapper, who scooped the Best Solo Artist prize, wasn't impressed that she walked in front of the camera during his TV interview.
'You keep stealing my light, go away,' said Dizzee. 'Kate Moss has lost her lipstick son, it's a f***ing disaster.'
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With the 2014 NFL Draft just days away, the good folks at 49ers.com bring to you some of the most notable analysis from esteemed football voices Mike Mayock, Jon Gruden, Daniel Jeremiah and Charles Davis.
Mayock, Jeremiah and Davis of NFL Media offered their unique takes on many of the hot topics leading up to the draft set to begin on Thursday.
Gruden, the former Super Bowl-winning coach and analyst of ESPN's "Monday Night Football", shared his thoughts on the quarterbacks he met during his "Gruden QB Camp" series and also gave his opinions on other popular position groups.
Take a hard look at the most intriguing comments from the respected football voices and get ready for the upcoming draft.
1. What was said about the San Francisco 49ers?
"If they're sitting at (30), and you're talking about (TCU cornerback Jason) Verrett on the board, I think he's by far the best value you can talk about at that point."
Mayock on 49ers finding another elite pass rusher: "
2. What will happen with the No. 1 overall draft pick?
Jeremiah on a QB going No. 1 overall: "You have this Seattle effect of them winning a Super Bowl with a third-round quarterback. You got San Francisco, most people would agree it's the second best team in the league, winning football games with a quarterback that wasn't selected in the first round… So I think there's the theory going around, 'Let's build up our roster with as many talented players as we can and then we can insert the quarterback at that point in time.'"
Davis on a QB going No. 1 overall: "We'll see how it plays out, but there are just so many (quarterbacks) where you're really having a hard time separating them, but you know you can win with them if you build your team up around them."
Gruden on Houston's options: "You're dealing with more underclassmen than I can ever remember… It's a crapshoot. This is not a complete body of work to evaluate. You have to use your imagination, be able to see down the road a bit."
Mayock on South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney's potential: "There are times when he just kind of disappears… Sometimes he gets blocked and he stays blocked. What I'd like to see is a little bit more of an edge about him."
3. What was said about top wide receiver prospects Sammy Watkins of Clemson and Mike Evans of Texas A&M?
Gruden on Evans: "He plays on the right every play. They don't switch sides (at Texas A&M). He doesn't go in motion. He's not in the slot. He's a big X receiver that is a prototype split end.
He's a threat to run it after the catch. When he wants to, he can be a dominant blocker."
4. What was said about the top quarterback prospects of '14?
Davis on this year's QB class: "We're not quite sure where they're going to go off of the board because of the rankings. A lot of times the rankings aren't quite as high as you would think with quarterbacks."
Jeremiah on this year's QB class: "I don't have any of these guys in my top 10 players, but I think there's a lot of depth in the draft class, and I think we're getting more and more buzz building on this second-tier group as we get closer to the draft."
Mayock on the quarterback depth in this year's draft: "The average number of quarterbacks that go in the first three rounds over the last five years has been five. Yet, I have 10 with those kinds of grades."
Gruden on Manziel's on-field play: "I don't have any concerns… I want Manziel."
Mayock on Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater: "I don't feel an 'it' factor. I see a really good kid. But I don't know if he's ready to be the guy. Because of that, I think he's going to need at least a year to get used to that environment… I'd be surprised at this point if he goes in the first round."
5. What was said about the teams in the NFC West?
Mayock on Seattle's draft targets: "I don't think (Florida State wide receiver) Kelvin Benjamin will be there. I think he'll be off the board in the 20s. He's 6-foot-5, 230 (pounds). I think (wide receiver) Davante Adams from Fresno (State) is a possibility."
Gruden on Arizona's interests in drafting a quarterback: "Seems to me that Carson Palmer had one of the best years of his career. Arizona is on the cusp of closing in on a lot of people in this NFC… If one of these quarterbacks that Arizona likes were to slide to them, I could see them pulling the trigger certainly."
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Kindred spirit Jimmy Buffett and guitar virtuoso Tony Rice will join Alan Jackson as special guests on the new Zac Brown Band album, "You Get What You Give," which is due out Sept. 21.
They're all part of what bassist John Driskell Hopkins tells Billboard.com are "some more interesting musical choices on this record," the follow-up to 2008's double-platinum "The Foundation." Jackson is already being heard on the album's first single, "As She's Walking Away," while Buffett appears on "Knee Deep," which came from a chance meeting in 2009.
"We met him on a camping trip last year," Hopkins reports, "and just sat around the fire with him for awhile. That was a quick friendship. He's a real cat, really down to earth and doesn't have a whole lot of ego and just a super nice guy...We did a lot of vocals down at his place in Key West and he happened to come through, so we got him to sit in and it sounded great. It sounds like a Buffett song when he sings it. Whatever he sings sounds like a Buffett song, y'know?"
The Jackson connection, meanwhile, came from sharing a producer (Keith Stegall) and also having opened for the country star. "When it was written," Hopkins recalls, "one of the first things we thought was, 'Wouldn't it be great to have Alan Jackson come in and be a part of this tune? It's kind of an extended family hookup, and certainly a very welcome one. He's got over 50 million records [sold] himself. We just knew if we could get him involved, it would get a great, different kind of fan base for us."
"You Get What You Give's" 15 tracks -- "I've heard Zac say we're in the over-serve business," Hopkins cracks -- will also include "Colder Weather," which the group first demoed at Kid Rock's studio outside Detroit on Memorial Day weekend of 2009 and included on its recent live album, "Pass the Jar." Hopkins wrote one track, "I Play the Road," while a 10-minute version of another track, "Who Knows," appeared on the 2009 "Live From Bonnaroo" EP. "It's one we've done live for a long time," Hopkins says, "and finally we got a recording of it." He adds that it's the first group-written song in the band's catalog.
The Atlanta-based sextet, which won this year's Grammy Award for Best New Artist, is on tour through Sept. 26, including its five-day Sailing Southern Ground Cruise over Labor Day weekend. But with Brown and fiddler Jimmy De Martini both expecting babies, Hopkins says the group, which is also building a new studio in Atlanta, is planning an extended stretch off tour -- but will still aggressively promote "You Get What You Give" when it comes out.
"We are planning some TV and possibly some other shows," Hopkins says. "We hope that the original release is going to be a big splash, so I'm not sure how much touring we will get done in support of it directly, but we are planning some good stuff coming up."


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SDN doesn't make cloud applications, it makes them work better
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SDN has progressed so far over the last couple of years that customers are no longer asking 'what?' but 'how?', says Sunil Khandekar, CEO and founder of Nuage Networks. He tells Martyn Warwick that there's a big disruption coming - for vendors especially - and that the best way to cope is to embrace Openflow and open source generally. Trying to build lock-in on top of open source technology would be self-defeating.


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"Snow is just trouble," scoffs Aunt Vicky.
"Small animals like us," Mum says, "don't like snow."
But Robert, the smallest mouse, knows he likes snow, even though he's never touched it. When he finally gets his wish to go outside and play in it, Robert is overjoyed. Snow is wonderful! That is, until he can't find his way home. Is there anyone who can help him? There is, and even though little Robert doesn't recognize his rescuer, readers will--because it's . . . Santa!
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United - Rooney`s Looking Good!
His form may have been how you might say patchy this season and his troubled domestic life has made more newspaper headlines than his footballing exploits but, could Wayne Rooney be on the way back?
Safely in the bosom of the England camp, Rooney, if reports coming out of the camp are correct, is looking more like his old self, something both Fabio Capello and Rio Ferdinand have spoken to the media about.
Capello, speaking at the pre-match press conference, remarked,
"I spoke with Sir Alex who told me, when I decided the squad, he`d be fit because the ankle problem was not so big."
"I spoke with Rooney too about different things and I monitored him during training when he trained perfectly, really well without any pain. He`s focused on the game."
"He is happy and in a good moment."
Whereas the newly restored national captain added,
"Wayne has been under immense pressure because of the reasons we know."
"He has been fantastic in training, the same old Wazza around the training ground, which we all love."
"If we are going to win anything, we need him playing at tip-top form."
And a Wayne Rooney in tip-top form can only beneficial to Manchester United as well as England, especially as we`re playing catch up in the Premier League!
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UNITED NATIONS – U.N. diplomats say veteran Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura has been chosen by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to replace Lakhdar Brahimi as the international peace envoy for Syria.
The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of an expected announcement from Ban later Wednesday, said de Mistura will solely be a United Nations envoy — not the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy as Brahimi was — and will have an Arab deputy.
De Mistura recently served as deputy foreign minister in the Italian government headed by Mario Monti after a 40-year career with the United Nations.
The Swedish-born De Mistura worked for various U.N. agencies and served as the top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan in 2010-11 and in Iraq from 2007-09, and as the secretary-general's personal representative for southern Lebanon from 2001-04.


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A. Rashid, Ahmad Safuan and Kassim, Khairul Anuar and Katimon, Ayob and Md. Noor, Norhazilan (2008) Determination of plastic limit of soil using modified method. Malaysian Journal of Civil Engineering, 20 (2). pp. 295-305. ISSN 1823-7843
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Plastic limit is an important property of fine-grained soils. The standard thread-rolling method for determining the plastic limit has long been criticized for requiring considerable judgments from the operator. This study was conducted to seek for a new method on the determination of the plastic limit in a way to overcome the inconsistence result produce by using the standard thread-rolling method. Four different methods were tested. The first method was the modified fall cone method, a method commonly used to obtain a liquid limit. The second method was the rolling device method which is previously proposed by Bobrowski and Griekspoor (1992). The third method was proposed by Wood and Wroth (1978) using a heavier cone. The fourth method was the one proposed by Tao-Wei Feng (2004) which made use of a small soil container. Eight soil samples representing plasticity index (PI) ranging from 15 to 42% were tested. The results indicated that the correlation factor between the standard methods and the suggested methods were in the range 0.72 and 0.99. Regarding to the regression analysis result, the first method is more comparable to the standard thread method
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While the Colorado Rockies were seriously concerned by their star prospect's lack of success on the field last season, the trouble 23-year-old pitcher Alex White got himself in off the field is a far bigger issue now.
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US Senator Bill Nelson, who met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last week in Damascus, "came away with the impression that Assad is finding it difficult to rule Syria and is under the heavy influence of the old guard in the Ba'ath regime", according to HaAretz Thursday.
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In response to questions about Palestinian factions in Damascus, Assad answered, "There are thousands of them in the territories and only a handful in Damascus. It's not the problem." (Albawaba.com)
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