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Ed's take: Chevrolet got everything right on the inside of the Sail NB. It has space' sober styling and large boot. However' it missed it out on the quality front which could have been a tad better.
The Sail NB has been introduced after the Sail U-VA and its biggest USP is its space. The Sail NB being based on the same platform; gets the same interior space. The space in the Sail NB good is the first and the second row. The front row seats aren't very large' but the seating positioning is good enough for decent thigh support' though the side support could have been a tad better. The knee room for the rear passengers is good enough however' the headroom could be a bit tight. The features on the Sail NB are decent however' we would have been happier if the quality of the plastics was a tad better. It is more of the feel of the materials that doesn't make it look up market. The design and placement of controls has been done ergonomically' except for the centrally location of power window switches. Base: The base version of the Sail NB gets body coloured bumpers' AC' front power windows and engine immobiliser as the features on it.
LS is the next variant above the base and it comes with body coloured door handles' full wheel cover' leather wrapped steering wheel' rear power windows' central locking and driver airbag.
LS ABS is the version with all the bells and whistles of LS and ABS.
LT ABS is the top of the line variant available on Sail NB and it gets features like dual airbags' ABS' alloy wheels' integrated music system with Bluetooth connectivity.
The interiors of the Polo are well designed and even the bells and whistles now on offer are good in the segment. It is only the rear seat space that is a bit of an issue.
The Polo might be the smallest of all Volkswagens, but the German manufacturer has ensured their current smallest hatch also has high quality interiors. The fit and finish of the plastic is amazing and even the look and feel of the materials of the good too. The Polo now even offers most of the features that other B+ segment hatchbacks offer. It has a new music system with SD card reader, Bluetooth connectivity, USB and aux connection too. The Polo also has steering-mounted audio controls too.
The front row seats are large and feel comfortable just like any other big German car. These seats are good enough for a long drives and one won't feel tired either. The second row of interiors isn't that spacious as the first row as the knee room is a bit too tight for tall occupants. The boot isn't that large also.
Ed's take: The 1.3-litre multijet here comes out as a clear winner as it doesn't just have better power delivery' but also is more economical.
The Sail NB is available with 1.2-litre petrol engine and a 1.3-litre oil burner. The petrol engine produces 84bhp of power at 6000rpm and a maximum torque of 113Nm at 5000rpm' while the diesel produces 76bhp at 4000rpm and 205Nm at 1750rpm.
The 1.2-litre petrol mill is the same one that also powers the Sail U-VA. This engine has low NVH levels and is highly refined. The power delivery is decent and one needs to rev this engine to extract maximum performance from it. The power produced by this engine is decent' however one does needs to downshift to make those quick overtaking moves. The engine has strong mid-range just like most of the petrol mills. This engine comes mated to a five-speed manual transmission. As the gearknob is short' the shifts are good and the throws are short. Though the only downside is the shifts are a bit rubbery in nature.
The Sail NB is powered by India's largest selling diesel engine' the 1.3-litre multijet that also powers about 10 other cars in India. We are smitten with this engine and this has low levels of NVH. The power delivery is fairly linear and the oil burner has a strong mid range. The oil burner pulls cleanly once the engine spins above 2000rpm and also there is good enough power to make those overtaking moves. This engine also power the front wheels through a five-speed manual transmission. The shifts are positive' but still are a bit notchy.
The power produced by the Polo engines is good, but the petrol and diesel have some drivability issues, especially when you consider the gearing that seem to be designed for European market.
1.5-litre diesel:
A new Volkswagen engine has been used on the Polo. It has the new 1.5-litre diesel engine that replaces the 1.2-litre and even produces 90bhp instead of 75bhp. This mill has a strong mid-range and high end. There is a lot of turbo lag and the engine needs to be revved above 2000rpm to reach the power band. The power produced by most of the competition including the Swift is a lot more linear than the Polo. Volkswagen has upgraded the engine for more power and soon the GT TDI will be available with the same engine but 103bhp of power.
The five-speed manual transmission has short throws and the box is slick. It doesn't feel even a bit rubbery. The ratios are good for highway driving, while in the city one has to work out his way to extract some good performance. The fuel efficiency of this mill is good as the 1.5-litre mill from Volkswagen is extremely frugal.
1.2-litre turbo petrol:
This is the new 1.2-litre four-cylinder engine and it is different from the regular 1.2-litre petrol as that is a three-pot mill. This engine produces 104bhp of power, which is equivalent to the 1.6-litre petrol engine that once powered the Polo. The NVH levels are fairly low, except for cold starts when the engine is noisy. The engine screams as it revs above 4000rpm. Blip the throttle, and the transmission responds immediately, and at the time it shifts smoothly while cruising. This is an all-aluminium engine and it has been turbocharged as well. Even though the power produced by this engine as same as the 1.6-litre, it is the torque spread that is much better on this new engine. As even the engine is lighter and has a lower displacement, it is more fuel-efficient. With this engine, Volkswagen gets the duty-cut as the displacement is under 1.2-litre.
Another segment first is that it is a seven-speed direct-Shift Gearbox (DSG). The gear ratios on this box are tailored as per the Indian driving cycle for maximum utilisation of power. There is also tiptronic transmission, if you like to make those manual shifts. We sorely missed the paddles shifts. From what we learn, Volkswagen could introduce the paddle shifts at a later stage.
1.2-litre petrol engine:
The 1.2-litre petrol engine on the Polo has the same displacement like the diesel engine. This is also a three-pot mill that produces about 75bhp of power. This engine has good power and even the low-end torque is good. The mid range is strong and the power increases with the rise in engine speed. We aren't impressed with the NVH levels as the engine is louder than one would have liked.
The five-speed manual transmission has short throws and the box is slick. It doesn't feel even a bit rubbery. The ratios are good for highway driving, while in the city one has to work out his way to extract some good performance. But it is the fuel efficiency that hasn't impressed us, as it returns about 9-10km/l in normal city driving.
Ed's take: Chevrolet has done a good job on the ride and handling characteristics of the Sail NB and we are impressed with it.
The ride on the Sail NB is decent and it doesn't feel unsettled on bad roads. The suspension does a good job of absorbing the bumps and shocks from the road. The ride doesn't feel jittery even at high speeds and the comfort at the rear is better as the rear suspension has been softened for better ride.
The handling of the Sail NB is decent and the engineers have fond the perfect strike between ride and handling. The car doesn't feel nervous at high speeds and even the feedback from the steering wheel is good.
The ride and handling of the Polo has been tweaked for a perfect combination of both. The handling of the Polo is very nimble and even the ride is sorted, though it is wee bit stiff.
The Polo chassis has been designed for Polo Cup Racing and hence this design can take a lot more engine power and torque than what it is currently being sold with. The Polo chassis is extremely agile and the hatchback does handle well. The Polo is as good as any other Volkswagen vehicle when it comes to handling.
The ride of the Volkswagen Polo is also well sorted. The McPherson struts on the Polo are well sorted and ride is supple. The springs absorb most of the jolts and undulations the ride a lot more comfortable for occupants. The light steering wheel ensures convenient driving in the city and also tire-free long trips.


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What about Fiora shes so weak compared to other top lane champs and her passive becomes useless late game . Her w doesn't feel rewarding to you or punishing either to the opponent , it does horrible damage and doesn't block on hit effects. Her E is good but its so easy to make her waste it just by ccing her if you were to just remove some of the MS and give her cc reduction with her E it'd be good. Her Ultimate is good and bad in many ways, but the most annoying one is I walk into a bush and its canceled is extremely annoying and the CD is longer then it should be . Morello please stop neglecting the grand duelist she aint grand right now.
Morello, a while back you touched on the topic of mobility creep when Fiora was released, and I was wondering if you could elaborate on it more since then. Now a days it seems that every champion release has some mobility built into their kit in some form (the last 3 that i think don't have any built in are Syndria, Zyra, and Varus) and I'm wondering if this is one (of possibly many) important issues of why many of the older champions who haven't been reworked yet receive little love in terms of play. Is the mobility creep at its current stage good for the game or did you guys work yourselves into a bit of a trap? Does mobility need to be toned down?
If newer champions were weaker and had less cc then powercreep wouldn't be much of a problem right?

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OWENS CROSS ROADS, AL -- Two days after the biopsy, LaNelle Patrick got a call from her family doctor.
"I thought, 'This is it,'" said Patrick, whose mother had successfully fought breast cancer. "I had always thought, one of these days, it's going to catch up to me."
The diagnosis was invasive ductal carcinoma, and Patrick was scared.
But the pathology report showed that the cancer hadn't spread to the lymph system. And the tumor was tiny. "It was less than one centimeter, like a pinhead," said Patrick, 66, who lives with her husband, W.D. Patrick, in Owens Cross Roads.
"I was very grateful," said Patrick, who has a son and two grandsons. "It was caught so quickly."
Patrick never misses her annual mammogram and on April 6 she was scheduled for her regular exam. Afterward, still wearing a gown from her exam, she was called back for an ultrasound.
Microcalcifications, tiny specks of calcium that showed up as white flecks, were a red flag for the radiologist. The biopsy was scheduled for the next day.
Patrick retired several years ago after teaching 32 years, most of that time in business education. She taught at Huntsville and Lee high schools and the last 10 years at Madison County High School.
She tackled her cancer battle with the same focus that she put into teaching and working with Future Business Leaders of America students.
"I've always been goal-oriented," Patrick said. And her first goal was getting the information she needed to make treatment decisions.
Patrick decided to have a double mastectomy, to avoid the possibility of a recurrence in the second breast.
"I didn't want that fear hanging over me," she said.
Patrick was referred to Dr. Richard Gualtieri, who told her about the Oncotype DX test, a diagnostic test performed on tumor samples. It estimates the likelihood that invasive breast cancer will return and helps patients and their doctors make a decision on chemotherapy.
Patrick, who had a low-risk score, didn't have chemo treatments after her surgery, and she's taking the breast cancer drug Arimidex.
One of the worst parts of her breast cancer experience was the shock of that first look in the mirror after the surgery.
"It really shakes you up," said Patrick, who had reconstruction just last week.
Patrick said she relied on prayer and her faith to help her cope this year.
"The support I received was such a blessing." she said. It came from her husband of 40 years and other family members, her church family at Weatherly Heights Church of Christ and her "buddies" at the Owens Cross Roads Homemakers Club and other friends. Patrick, who's on Facebook, also had well-wishes from "tons" of former students.
The experience actually had "a positive impact on my life," Patrick said, "because I have tremendous empathy for people with this disease who are going through the same trauma and shock that I did."


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I own a 2006 Ford Focus 1.8 TDCI Titanium with dual climate control.
The display is currently in farenheight for both displays. Ive searched everywhere including in the handbook but cannot find a method to switch the displays to celsius. This is driving me nuts as im pretty sure there will be a simple way of doing it if I could only find out what it was!
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POSTED: Monday, December 27, 2010 - 5:05pm
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 8:14am
Elsa, flaring flames ripping through a brush area behind John F. Kennedy School, bringing police and fire crews to Austin Street and Eleventh street Monday afternoon.
" i just came out right now--i just stepped out of my door when it begins i saw it started," said Michael Carnell. "It's scary because i have kids," said Mary Helen Carnell.
Police told neighbors to water their lawns in case the fire spread. News Center 23 spoke to a few neighbors and said someone playing with fireworks started the blaze.
"Somebody set off a firework and look what it has done, a little firework and look what it starting already," said Carnell.
The fire burned an area of dry grass behind the school and firefighters were able to contain the blaze preventing the fire from spreading any further. Michael Carnell says that if the brush was maintained it would of prevented the fire.
"Send a couple guys out here with lawn mowers and cut this down and re-cut over it and try to chop this stuff down," said Carnell.
News Center 23 called over to Elsa Fire Department, fire investigators would not comment on the official cause of the blaze, they told us it's still under investigation.


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Tiger women's soccer moves to 1-1
By The Hays Daily News
The Fort Hays State University women's soccer team moved to 1-1 with a 3-0 victory against University of Sioux Falls (S.D.) on Sunday at FHSU Soccer Stadium.
The Tigers built a 2-0 lead by intermission. Sabrina Van Horn scored in the 21st minute and Jordan Hester tallied a goal for the first time this season in the 40th minute. Abby Cinotto tallied a goal in the second half. Kelsey Gray picked up the win.


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Dallas All-Nike Camp team
Torrodney Prevot stands out among more than 300 top prospects
IRVING, Texas -- Nearly 350 top prospects from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and beyond competed at the Dallas Nike Football Training Camp at the Dallas Cowboys practice field.
And while there were more than 100 recruits holding offers in attendance who delivered top performances, only 24 could be named to the first All-Nike Camp team of the spring.
Note: Selections are based upon camp performance as well as past and projected on-field performance. Athletes are in the Class of 2013 unless otherwise noted.
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DE Torrodney Prevot, 6-3, 206, Alief Taylor (Houston)
Prevot, who already earned an invite to The Opening three weeks prior at the Houston Nike Combine, still made the four-hour trip north on Sunday to compete. The explosive edge-rusher looked as agile as a wide receiver moving through drills and then proceeded to blow by all he faced in 1-on-1s to earn MVP of a tremendously deep and talented defensive line group.
DL Solomon Thomas ('14), 6-3, 259, Coppell (Texas)
The sky is the limit for Thomas, who has a big frame and showed super feet on Sunday in drills. He has the ability to redirect and won with a couple of good inside moves during 1-on-1s. Thomas had 70 tackles and 10 sacks as a sophomore last fall and should be a major prospect at this time next year.
QB: J.T. Barrett, 6-1, 220, Rider (Wichita Falls, Texas)
Breakdown: Athletic prospect really improved in passing drills, and his confidence allowed him to flash big-time arm strength and accuracy and a quick release.
QB: DeVante Kincade, 5-11.5, 174, Skyline (Dallas)
Breakdown: Kincade was the top performer at Saturday's Elite 11 and showed the same stellar consistency Sunday.
QB: Tyrone Swoopes, 6-4.5, 224, Whitewright (Texas)
Breakdown: The Texas commit continued to show marked improvement taking drops and throwing from the pocket and earned an Elite 11 invite in the process.
RB: Bryan Driskell, 5-7.5, 175, Boyd (McKinney, Texas)
Breakdown: Sturdy, shifty back excelled all day in drills; ran for 2,072 yards and 28 touchdowns as a junior.
WR: Eldridge Massington, 6-2.5, 195, West Mesquite (Mesquite, Texas)
Breakdown: Can go up and get it like very few and catches the ball very naturally. Has close to 20 scholarship offers.
WR: Brian O'Bannon, 5-8, 146, Horn (Mesquite, Texas)
Breakdown: Quick and speedy slot receiver made plays all day to earn MVP at a stacked position.
WR: Jake Oliver, 6-3.5, 206, Jesuit (Dallas)
Breakdown: Texas pledge is a great route runner for his size; snagged 108 passes for 1,637 yards and 24 touchdowns as a junior.
WR: Ra'Shaad Samples, 5-11, 170, Skyline (Dallas)
Breakdown: Samples was having an MVP type of day before suffering an ankle injury late in the camp. Has 33 scholarship offers after catching 65 passes for 1,369 yards and 19 touchdowns as a junior.
OL: Brad North, 6-2.5, 285, Allen (Texas)
Breakdown: Sturdy guard prospect was a brick wall in pass-pro 1-on-1s to earn OL MVP honors. Was all-district as a junior and still waiting for first offer.
OL: Maurice Porter, 6-5, 285, Marshall (Missouri City, Texas)
Breakdown: Big tackle didn't stand out much until 1-on-1s, when he came alive and more than held his own, showing a good punch. Baylor, West Virginia, Colorado and Houston have offered.
OL: Jake Raulerson, 6-4.5, 249, Celina (Texas)
Breakdown: Texas-bound tackle narrowly missed out on OL MVP for second straight year; was only OL to slow down Torrodney Prevot.
DL: Christian LaCouture, 6-5, 260, A&M Consolidated (College Station, Texas)
Breakdown: Possesses a great combination of size and athletic ability. Delivered a spin move during pass rush 1-on-1s that should be illegal for a player his size.
DL: Scott Pagano, 6-3.5, 281, Moanalua (Honolulu)
Breakdown: Has a great first step and is built like a tank. Great competitor who is rapidly approaching 20 offers.
DL: A'Shawn Robinson, 6-5, 316, Arlington Heights (Fort Worth, Texas)
Breakdown: An absolute man-child and hard to imagine there is a more physically imposing prospect in the Class of 2013. Texas commit could end up on either side of line but prefers defense.
DL: Hardreck Walker, 6-1.5, 273, Westfield (Houston)
Breakdown: A stout, physical defensive tackle prospect with an impressive first step for his size. Uses leverage well.
LB: Deon Hollins, 6-0, 220, Marshall (Missouri City, Texas)
Breakdown: Excelled in pass rush drills as one would expect from UCLA commit, who plays DE for Marshall. But he also looked great in space.
LB: Mike Mitchell, 6-3.5, 211, Prestonwood Christian (Plano, Texas)
Breakdown: Small-school talent has big-time upside. Great frame with athletic ability and is also very coachable. USC, Ohio State and Oklahoma are among his early offers.
DB: Tony Brown ('14), 5-11.5, 176, Ozen (Beaumont, Texas)
Breakdown: Underclassman stood out in deep group of DBs. Has terrific speed and feet and should be among the nation's top safeties in next year's class. LSU has offered.
DB: Anthony Canady, 5-8.5, 165, Mesquite (Texas)
Breakdown: Perhaps no player helped their stock more on Sunday than Canady, who was an all-district pick last fall but is still waiting for his first offer.
DB: Laurence Jones ('14), 6-1.5, 208, Neville (Monroe, La.)
Breakdown: A jumbo-sized safety already and only heading into his junior season, Jones has outstanding change-of-direction ability for his size.
DB: Maurice Smith, 5-11.5, 178, Dulles (Sugar Land, Texas)
Breakdown: May have answered some questions of whether he's a corner or safety. He showed great feet and hips throughout and earned an invite to The Opening.
ATH: John Diarse, 5-11.5, 213, Neville (Monroe, La.)
Breakdown: This LSU commit played mostly safety in camp and showed well. Primarily a QB and free safety at Neville, his future college position could very well end up being outside linebacker.
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One of Queens' own has just won, for the third year in a row, a cluster of national karate titles in both freestyle and traditional forms, or routines.
For 7-year-old Howard Beach resident Aidan Lok, that's simply how he wanted to spend the first two weeks after the end of second grade.
"There isn't just one reason I like karate," Aidan said. Naming just one, he said, "It's a lot of exercise."
Aidan, who attends the STEM Citywide Gifted Academy at PS 85 in Astoria, recently told his dad Simon Lok that he likes that he gets to travel when attending competitions.
"He also very clearly likes winning as well," Simon Lok said.
And win he does. Aidan spent Fourth of July week taking six gold medals out of the six contests he entered in his age group at the National Sports Karate Association's (NSKA) US Open World Martial Arts Championships at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Florida. He won for weapons use in each of three divisions, Traditional, Creative and Extreme. He also won for kata, which is an all-out fight against imaginary opponents, again in the Traditional, Creative and Extreme divisions.
NSKA competitions are a departure from traditional karate, encouraging use of multiple styles of martial arts and requiring some acrobatic maneuvers. It yields forms similar to fight scenes found in Hollywood movies, Simon Lok said.
Yet six championships in extreme karate events didn't quite start the summer for this self-motivated brown belt. The following week, Aidan also won first place in four out of five events in the more traditional style of karate at the 2013 USA National Karate-do Foundation's National Karate Championships in Greenville, SC. He won for Short Weapons, Long Weapons, Okinawan Kata and Open Kata. The one event in which he didn't place was kumite, or sparring, a fast but controlled demonstration of technique against one live opponent.
Training and competing in both the traditional and free-style types of karate is an unusual, if not rare, path for any karate enthusiast to take.
"What we're doing is pushing the boundaries of what karate can be," said Simon Lok. "To my knowledge, nobody actually competes in both," except Aidan.
To compete this way, Aidan trains with a variety of instructors. Sensei Kai Leung, founder of the Shotojuku Karate Dojo in Astoria, and his staff are Lok's primary teachers. He also studies Peking Opera Acrobatics with Sensei James Luk to enrich his performance in the Creative and Extreme divisions and goes outside the dojo to study weapons with Sensei Cleveland Baxter at the Baxter Karate Dojo in Westchester.
Aidan's interest in karate began with a viewing of the original 1984 movie, "The Karate Kid," starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita, because it was available for home viewing around the time that the 2010 Jaden Smith version was only available in theaters. Aidan also had a pre-kindergarten friend starting recreational karate lessons in Forest Hills, and his mom, Lai Cheung, thought it would be fun for the two boys to participate in an activity together.
After a few months, the parents realized Aidan was "pretty serious" about it, and they began looking for a new dojo so their son could study in a serious environment, Cheung said.
The child's enthusiasm has spread throughout the family. Both parents signed up for karate classes when they realized the intensity of Aidan's interest. "It's just that we're not nearly as good as he is," Cheung said. Now, the whole family wears brown belts earned at the Shotojuku Dojo and spends an average of 10 hours per week on karate, including some private classes for Aidan.
Next up for Aidan is an August NSKA competition in Washington, DC, a weapons seminar that same day, and working on a new kata called Kururunfa.
For a karate outsider watching Aidan's very first lesson in Kururunfa with Sensei Kai Leung, it would appear to be a perfectly polished and impressive display by a seven-year-old. He displays the same relaxed happiness and good humor as a peer about to enjoy a Good Humor bar, concealing the amount of work it will take to get the kata just right.
"It will take three to six months to get there," Simon Lok said.
Leung told Aidan during the lesson that the kata will take time because he has not yet "found his opponent." But he does appear to have found his passion.


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Cleantech growth journey: third annual CEO retreat
Time to grow mature business
Now in its third year, the retreat convened a group of more than 100 cleantech entrepreneurs, corporate executives, government leaders and business advisors to discuss the most important growth challenges in cleantech today — securing financing, establishing partnerships, selling to large corporations and reaching new markets.
A summary of these perspectives follows.
The capital agenda
Institutional venture capital (VC) continues to be difficult for cleantech companies to secure. One approach to compensate for the lack of VC availability is to establish joint ventures and partnerships with strategic partners.
There is also a cleantech funding gap that needs to be bridged through the cleantech community doing a better job of standardizing, rating and communicating cleantech risk.
Action points
- Innovate in structured finance. Pension funds, insurance companies and infrastructure funds have plenty of capital, but they need to reduce their transaction costs related to the renewable energy asset class.
- Tighten your belt. Successful cleantech firms are responding to the dearth of capital by seeking faster paths to revenue and shorter decision cycles, reducing costs and doing more with less while remaining nimble enough to pivot to more profitable markets.
- Maintain alignment and focus. CEOs must work hard to maintain alignment with their board members and customers.
Competing for growth in a global environment
The old notion that developed countries are safe and well-organized while emerging markets are risky is no longer valid – emerging markets may actually offer more opportunity for business.
Action points
- Be prepared. Have a strategy to protect your IP, and know which parts of your operation you want to develop in each country. Have a plan to recruit and retain local talent and key business partners.
- Don't be too paranoid. Disruptive technology and entrepreneurship are unavoidable. Don't be afraid of letting your technology out into the global business world.
- Look for public-private partnerships. They can give you better access to talent, capital, facilities, land and protection against IP theft.
Government as market
Government is a tempting market because government agencies often have huge purchasing power and, in some cases, are able to offer various incentives. But doing business with government can often be a cumbersome, slow process with long lead times, extensive screening and large but sporadic purchases.
Action points
- Don't go it alone. Business with the US Government is best done through partnership with an established prime contractor who has already been approved.
- Consider grants instead of contracts. Grants are often easier to get and a better way to access capital at both the state and federal government level.
- Federal business is not for start-ups. Doing business with the federal government is not something for smaller enterprises to tackle alone.
Working with large corporations as your customers
To court a large corporate customer, it's imperative to show that you have done your research and understand exactly where you fit into the company's supply chain. Showing that you have thought carefully about your value proposition will distinguish you from your competitors in the eyes of the buyer.
Action points
- Do your research. Know your corporate buyers almost better than they know themselves. Be able to talk to them in their own language and communicate clearly how much money you can save or earn for them.
- Show maturity. You must have demonstrable revenue and a good customer track record and be able to show that you can execute.
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As the company evolved, its leaders made some tough businesses decisions. On April 28, 2005, Boeing delivered its 1,050th and last 757, concluding a 23-year production run. The same year, Boeing sold its Commercial Airplanes operations in Kansas and Oklahoma to Onex Corp.
During 2005, the company also sold its Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power business to United Technologies Corp. and its operations in Arnprior, Canada, to Arnprior Aerospace Inc. In August 2006, Boeing announced it was leaving high-speed broadband communications connectivity markets and was phasing out the Connexion by Boeing service.
The last two 717 jetliners were delivered May 23, 2006, ending the commercial airplane production in Southern California that began in the 1920s with the Douglas Aircraft Co. Based on the Douglas DC-9 and launched as the MD-95, the 100-seater was renamed the Boeing 717 after McDonnell Douglas and Boeing merged in 1997 and 156 were produced.
Because there were not enough orders to continue production of C-17s past 2009, on Aug. 18, 2006, Boeing told its program suppliers to stop work on uncommitted airplanes in the C-17 program. On March 2, 2007, the company stopped buying parts for any new C-17s not under contract or firmly committed. These moves were part of an orderly shutdown of the production supply chain. Without further aircraft orders, the production line was headed toward complete shutdown in mid-2009.
Boeing also restructured Wichita, Kan., operations, resulting in 900 layoffs during 2006 and announced plans to consolidate company facilities in Southern California by 2010. The Boeing facility in Anaheim, with about 3,700 employees, would relocate to the Huntington Beach facility. In addition, due to expiration of the E-6 Navy contract, the company closed its facility in Melbourne, Ark.
New acquisitions included the 2006 purchases of Aviall Inc., the largest independent provider of new aviation parts and services in the aerospace industry; Carmen Systems, management software provider; and C-map, provider of digital maritime cartography, data services and other navigational information. Carmen Systems and C-map became part of Jeppesen, the Boeing subsidiary.
The company also opened a new Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Technology Center in Oklahoma City, Okla., to provide readiness capabilities and upgrades to the U.S. Air Force E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet, as well as another new facility in Warner Robins, Ga., to support U.S. Air Force Special Operations Forces.


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Solia Tourmaline Ceramic Ion Flat Iron (...KhFloridaHairMedium BrownColor Treated HairThick or Coarse HairRelaxed HairPicture PerfectReceived my new Solia flat iron! I got the color red since it was a Christmas gift and it's exactly how it looks in the picture! Warmed up in 30 seconds and it straighten my hair very smoothly and quickly. I've had straighteners where I've had to go over my hair multiple times just to get every strand straight but the way the ridges curves to your hair works great and I honestly went over my hair twice! I was shocked how straight and silky my hair was without any product. I was also surprised that my hair stayed straight when straightening it...everyone who lives in FL knows what I mean with the humidity + heat (; I wanted to invest in a good straightner and one that would last me more than a few weeks to a few months. I believe I made the right choice and it looks exactly as it does in the box from the picture. I will probably be buying more hair tools from this brand in the future!! Thanks folica.com, you're awesome!posted Jan 10, 2015Link to this post
Solia Tourmaline Ceramic Ion Flat Iron (...Lanie M.Clovis, CaHairBlondeDry HairCurly HairColor Treated HairThick or Coarse HairJust Purchased Another OneI absolutely love this straightener. I bought one in 2009, and it still works- no issues! I love how you can change the temperature whilst the controls are on the inside. It's nice not to hit the buttons while doing my hair. My hair is semi frizzy, thick, dry (colored), and wavy. I put it on 250 degrees.This product works amazing to straighten and I also use it often to curl my hair. It's the perfeft size and even works well on my bangs. I use it about 5/7 days of the week, I've had friends use it and love it. Recently I visited my mother and forgot it at her house (I was super sad about this!). But, I decided on letting her have it and purchasing a new one. In addition to loving this straightener.....know that in 2009 when I purchased the exact same one, it was $94!!!!! So this is a great deal. :)posted Jan 8, 2015Link to this post
Solia Tourmaline Ceramic Ion Flat Iron (...KrystleHairLight BrownNormal HairLove It!Learned about this brand from a friend and so I ordered one for myself last week. It arrived in great condition and it works great. Keeps my hair straight for long periods of time. I don't have to straighten my hair over and over in order for it to stay straight. Very happy with it.posted Jan 6, 2015Link to this post
Solia Tourmaline Ceramic Ion Flat Iron (...T E.HairDark BrownGreat At First Then Bad...My first Solia lasted me 5 years and it was great! When I had to buy a new one I chose to stick with the same brand but was disappointed shortly after getting it. I could tell a difference between the one I had and the new one. After a year, the iron got so hot that it burned my hair and melted and warped the sides of the plates. Since it was under warranty I returned it and got a new one. Well, a year later the replacement iron is doing the same exact thing! It overheated and my entire bedroom smelled like something was on fire. I just don't think it's safe and it'll end up being more of a hassle in the end. I'm sad to part ways with this iron because I loved my first one so much but now I have a sour taste in my mouth and don't want to waste my money or time on this brand anymore. Other users have written similar reviews so I think it's more than a coincidence.posted Dec 22, 2014Link to this post
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See why Rune Raiders reached #1 RPG and #1 free game in MANY countries! Now, our new version is even better with the addition of the Ice Lands level pack and the Rocketeer!The concept is very simple, you move your guys around with your finger. And when you do, they COME ALIVE AND FIGHT the bad guys. Rune Raiders a simple adventure game that takes SECONDS TO LEARN, but provides hilarious action for all!
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-Ultra simple game play. No complicated tutorials or reading!
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David is one of South Beach's best-known nightclub party promoters, a creator of alternative realities, fond of decorating clubs with flowers, of sneaking Gregorian chants under the techno rhythms of disco music, of spouting stream-of-consciousness poetry and spontaneously breaking into dance. He has themed this special evening around a particularly bleak reality: his addiction to heroin.
He was clean of heroin for two and a half months, though cocaine had taken its place. Then four days ago he returned to "chasing the dragon" -- sucking up the smoky curlicues produced by heating heroin on a bit of aluminum foil. If David continues to smoke, he knows he'll be consumed, fried to a crisp by the dragon's searing but seductive breath. He's not yet 25 years old, but to many people on the Beach who have noted his progressive dissipation, he has already self-destructed. David has heard them whispering behind his back, has seen them avert their eyes. Sylvester Stallone was the kindest. "Get some new role models, kid," the actor told him.
But tonight will be the end of it. He says he's going to quit once and for all, going to leave town and simply stop. Cold turkey. Ever the publicist, he's even invited a reporter to observe his narcotic version of the Last Supper. But not to reveal his true name. (David is a pseudonym. The names of some other individuals in this article have also been changed.)
"Everyone thinks the heroin high is so incredible, but it's nothing like that," he says. "It's like falling asleep and being dead. You just become numb. You don't feel anything and you just fade away." During the past few months, six of his friends and acquaintances have permanently faded away as a result of heroin overdoses. Among the dead: the owner of a popular nightclub, two young models, and the granddaughter of Victor Posner, one of Florida's richest men.
According to the Dade County Medical Examiner's Office, 30 people died of heroin-related overdoses in 1994, a startling jump over 1990, when only one such death was reported. And in the first two months of this year, at least nine people have died of overdoses involving heroin. During the past four years, the number of emergency room patients reporting personal heroin use increased about 300 percent. Jim Hall, executive director of the Miami-based Up Front Drug Information Center, says those figures, while small in comparison to New York and Los Angeles, reflect heroin's rise in Dade County.
Long known as a reliable marketplace for high-grade cocaine, Miami has never seen much in the way of top-quality heroin. What local smack could be found was usually dirty and weak, its purity levels hovering around four percent. Until recently, that is. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration and other law enforcement agencies, the Colombian cocaine cartels have diversified their product line and are now marketing an extremely potent brand of heroin. They're employing the same recession-proof strategy they used to sell cocaine in the early Eighties: Pitch heroin as a glamour product and target young, sophisticated drug-users. With the right mystique surrounding the substance, the suburban market will sell itself. "This is almost a drug for the cognoscenti," remarks Hall, adding that most young people trying the new, deluxe Colombian heroin have already dabbled with cocaine.
"I'm seeing it all over and I can't believe it," notes Brian Antoni, author of the novel Paradise Overdose and a well-known South Beach social host. "It's become part of the scene as far as I'm concerned." Antoni, who does not use heroin, says those who are experimenting with it are generally well read and highly educated. "The people I'm seeing it hit most are people who consider themselves to be living on the edge. They want to go back to the whole Paul Bowles romantic thing, which is really stupid, considering what happened then."
Another nightclub promoter, Sam Zaoui, concurs: "A few years ago heroin was very difficult to get on the Beach, but now it's all over." While Zaoui himself has never tried the drug, he says he has seen plenty of people chasing the dragon, the telltale flash of a cigarette lighter under foil briefly illuminating a club's dim corner.
For long-time junkies who ridicule the notion of "heroin chic," the increased availability has eased much of the hassle associated with scoring dope. Three Miami Beach friends -- Debbie, Mike, and Jack -- all shoot heroin rather than smoke or snort it. And they've done so for years. "In the old days, it was really dangerous copping in the city," recalls Jack, an artist. "I've been stabbed like six times. I've been shot at once. Ten years ago, before heroin started hitting the Beach, before it was fashionable like it supposedly is now, I was one of the few people who was getting high. I used to go to Overtown. I used to ride my bicycle to Liberty City. There was no dope in Miami Beach. Now, in the last two years, there has started to be dope. So it has become a lot safer to cop."


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No, that is the naming scheme Comcast uses. You could create a secondary account with the name you want to use and copy all your stuff to the other account. But is it really worth it? it will still have the home.comcast.net.
One way would be to create a comcast account with a friendly name but you'd still have home.comcast.net, as bethkatz pointed out.
The other way is to get a domain name from someplace like GoDaddy. Unfortunately Comcast is lame when it comes to some things and this is one of them. You can't assign the domain name to your comcast PWP but you can get GoDaddy to redirect to your account. There are two ways to do that, neither is ideal.
One way is where GoDaddy uses frames to include your web page into an empty frame of a page hosted by GoDaddy. It works, but the downside is the URL never changes so if you Refresh your browser you are sent back to your home page.
The other way is to have GoDaddy redirect your fancy domain name to your Comcast PWP. Everything works OK except that the address bar shows the Comcast URL. You can refresh and people can bookmark a page. If you decide to move your web site someplace else, you can do that and retrain your fancy domain name but peoples' bookmarks will fail. That is the method I use and I'm happy with my trade off with the devil. I use my fancy domain name when I give people my web site address, and that's good enough for me.
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From Green Right Now Reports
A group of Ohio business leaders released a new economic analysis that says a strong federal clean energy policy could create up to 61,000 jobs in Ohio, while increasing annual incomes by $992 and growing the state economy by $3.7 billion.
The new study was released the day before US Senate deliberations begin on clean energy and climate legislation. The research — co-released with E2, the national investor coalition Ceres and the Clean Economy Network — was conducted by the University of California in collaboration with the University of Illinois and Yale University. It examined of the impacts of three pillars of federal legislation: energy efficiency, renewable energy and limits on carbon pollution.
"This report shows that the stronger the federal energy and climate policies, the more Ohio stands to gain economically," Eric Zimmer, CEO & founder of Tipping Point Renewable Energy, said in a statement. "Those who say we cannot afford to take action now do not understand the opportunity we stand to lose by not acting. There is an emerging multi-billion dollar global clean energy market and Ohio is poised to capture its leading edge."
Nationally, the analysis concluded that full adoption of the American Clean Energy and Security Act's package of pollution reduction and energy efficiency measures would create between 918,000 and 1.9 million new jobs, increase annual household income by $487-$1,175 per year, and boost GDP by $39 billion-$111 billion. These economic gains are over and above the growth the U.S. would see in the absence of such a bill.
Using a new forecasting model called the Environmental Assessment in General Equilibrium (EAGLE), the study conducted detailed economic assessments of climate and energy policies currently under consideration in Congress. The study modeled both moderate and aggressive implementation of policies that create a market-based program to reduce carbon emissions, as well as set strong standards for and investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency.
The Ohio findings include:
- Aggressive policy implementation results in greater economic and job growth in Ohio by 2020 than moderate or no implementation.
- The strongest policies could generate up to 61,000 additional jobs in Ohio, increase Ohio real Gross Domestic Product by $3.7 billion and real household income by $992 per year (as measured in 2008 dollars) by 2020.
- Even moderate implementation drives economic growth in Ohio, generating $1.6 billion in GDP, and $452 in annual household income growth.
- More carbon dependent state economies have more to gain from climate action, assuming they adopt balanced policies that combine all three pillars (energy efficiency, renewable energy and carbon pollution limits).
The Ohio Business Council for a Clean Economy, which released the report, said results from the EAGLE study are consistent with projections by agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, Congressional Budget Office, and the Department of Energy – all of which show substantial economic benefits from more efficient energy use.
"Improving energy efficiency cuts costs for transportation, heating, cooling and other energy demands," David Roland-Holst, the study's author, said in a statement. "Money saved on energy puts dollars back in household bank accounts, and gives consumers the freedom to spend on things they want. This spending represents 70 percent of Gross State Product, so it represents potent growth and job stimulus for the Ohio economy."


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If a planet takes 100 years to revolve around the sun, how long is their day? Is there information missing?
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The time taken by a planet to revolve around the Sun is how long a year on the planet is. In this case one year on the planet has the same duration as 100 Earth years. It is not possible to determine how long a day on the planet is given only the time it takes to revolve around the Sun as the two are not correlated. For example, a year on Venus is equal to 224.68 Earth days but a day on Venus is equal to 243 Earth days; on the other hand a year on Neptune is equal to 164.81 Earth years but a day is only 19.1 Earth hours.
It is not possible to determine how long a day on the planet is with the information provided.
The missing information is the time taken by the planet to rotate on its axis.
I think so, you'd know how this planet is great and find his angular speed.
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Zero no Tsukaima light novel author, Noboru Yamaguchi, revealed in an official announcement on Media Factory's website that he's suffering from terminal cancer.
Yamaguchi was diagnosed in February, unfortunately the cancer was advancing rapidly and surgery wasn't a feasible option. Instead he was put on a course of anti-cancer medication.
Fortunately it would appear the medication has been quite effective, during surgery to remove gallstones (which Yamaguchi had later been diagnosed with around May, unrelated to the cancer) it was confirmed that the cancer had shrunk. The anti-cancer treatment was continued, and recently it was determined that surgery to remove the cancer is now possible. An operation has been scheduled for early August.
The author has apologized to his fans regarding volume 21 of Zero no Tsukaima, explaining that because of his illness the August release of the volume has become difficult to sustain. He has stated however that the structure for volumes 21 and 22 (the final volumes in the series) has already been planned out and he will finish them both as soon as he's back to full health.
His fans have been sending their best wishes to Yamaguchi's twitter and by post to an address provided with the announcement. Hopefully the operation will be a complete success and the creator of tsundere princess Louise will be back to full strength in no time.
For those interested, the original Japanese announcement can be found here.
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Comments: I don't understand why this racquet was given low scores by Tennis Warehouse. I actually like this stick
very much. I hit better forehands and serves with this racquet than with any of the Blades. I guess I have to say that all reviews are
to be taken with a grain of salt. To each his own. I string it with Dunlop Black Widow 17G (mains) at 47-52 lbs and Wilson
Synthetic Gut 17G (cross) at 51-56lbs. I am a 4.5 player.
Comments: I tried this racquet yesterday. My current stick is the white/orange BLX Tour. There is a big difference
between the two racquets. The Steam 96 swings more heavily. It is also stiffer than the Tour BLX. If you want a stiffer, more
powerful version of the BLX Tour, then buy the Steam 96. I did not notice any difference in the spin production though.
Comments: There is nothing really special about this racquet. Everything, from groundies to serves, it is just so-so.
Maybe one really needs ti be Petra-ish in order to play well with this stick.
Comments: I agree with Chaz. I am 4.5 player and tried this racquet for a few times but it was not up to the
Davenport/Henin model standards. Don't know why Wilson decided to drop the most popular racquet in the women's pro game
from a few years ago. I hope Wilson should come back to the Davenport/Henin model standards.
Comments: I'm a 4.5 player and tried this racquet for 2 months at 2-3 times per week. I am putting both racquets I
just bought up for sale because of the small sweet spot and poor feel.
Comments: I demod this thinking it would be an update to the BLX Tour, but it was not up to the Davenport/Henin
model standards. Don't know why Wilson decided to drop the most popular racquet in the women's pro game from a few years
Comments: This racquet is sick! I've never played with a stick that made me feel like I had to write a review, but
this one deserved it. I've played with the old KFactor 6.1 and the Prince EXO Graphite 93 and I wanted something slightly lighter
and a little more forgiving and this is the one. Plenty of plow through from the baseline, serves big, and volleys like a mid size.
I'm a club pro in his early 30's, and this will be my racquet of choice for the time being. Nice job Wilson!
Comments: This is not a good racquet for players with arm problems. Players of the tour series may find this
to be very stiff. I think Wilson should have made this more flexible.
Comments: Wilson should have made this racquet more flexible. It feels similar to the BLX Tour. But this is too stiff
and it hurt my arm after only one hour of play. Wilson shouldn't have messed around with the specs of a very good racquet. I'm
gonna be using the BLX Tour. I'm a 4.5 player who hits flat off both wings much like Lindsay Davenport, only shorter.
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Engineering Keb' Mo's upcoming release. I also mixed this record. Love my job!
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Greetings John, it's December 2011 and I'm in Nashville to pitch songs. I have one called Women of Memphis that I'd love seen done by Keb Mo. Can you recommend how I might get this song to him (or maybe to you first)?
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I just finished my yearly evaluation run of new techniques to quickly build web applications in Java. And while doing that I also tried the two mainstream solutions for accessing the database: Hibernate and JPA. And I am starting to dislike them both. A huge problem with these frameworks is that they abstract things that cannot be properly abstracted. And when using the framework lots of problems occur that have to do with the real world leaking thru the abstraction, leaving it useless. In many cases the frameworks work only if the database is designed having the limitations of the framework in mind. But those limitations are often only learned thru experience.
One example of bad or leaking abstractions is the whole inheritance thing. Take the classes Figure, Circle and Rectangle where Circle and Rectangle are specializations of Figure. Now put these classes in the database using an arc: the base class Figure and it's data goes in the FIGURES table; the Circle class goes to CIRCLES and the Rectangle class goes to RECTANGLES.
Now we add another class Ref which has a reference to a Figure (which can be a Circle or a Rectangle). When we load an instance (or a list of instances) of this class from the database these frameworks are in trouble. To have at lest reasonable performance they can often only read the actual class you're loading, i.e. the engine does a select on the REFS table and initializes an instance for each row read.
When the "figure" property of the instance is to be filled we have a problem. To fill it we would have to do another database access (a select on Figure) to retrieve the value before we can (1) determine the actual type and (2) create the proper instance of Circle or Rectangle. However this extra database access gets very expensive rendering the framework unusable very quickly, so they code around it by using lazy proxies. A lazy proxy is a class which gets "augmented" by the framework (usually by bytecode manipulation or by using a Dynamic Proxy) to intercept all access to it's properties. This proxy would be the "same" as the Figure class but would only have the ID field filled in (that field was known from the FK relation). As long as we don't need the value, or as long as we only need the id of the Figure we're OK. But as soon as we access a property from the proxy the call will be intercepted by the proxy and it will do a lazy load: it will issue a select on the Circle table to retrieve the info, and from that point on the proxy will have all data.
This is all fine and dandy for a normal relation. But it goes horribly wrong when inheritance of the above kind is used. The reason is the proxy. When it is created the actual type of the Figure is unknown and cannot be read (that is the whole point of having the proxy in the first place). So what type should the proxy be? A Circle? A Rectangle?? It turns out that Hibernate always creates a proxy which is a "xxx extends Figure" which is clearly no Circle nor a Rectangle. And once the proxy is created it cannot be replaced anymore so when data is read the resulting field behaves as a "Figure" and not as a Circle even if it is one. It has no Circle fields, nor is instanceof Circle true (of course).
The horrible thing is that this is not mentioned in the docs. What's even worse is that Hibernate lets you specify this atrocity without even warning you ("This won't work"). And working this out is quite disastrous for many people.
Problems, problems..
Another problem with Hibernate is the level of abstraction. Lots of things happen below in the engine, and when something goes wrong you enter Hibernate Hell. Often when something goes wrong you get some arcane Exception. Because of the Java Checked Exception idiocy you first have to decypher what actually went wrong and where it went wrong. This can be hard because the helpful JDK of course often hides details of nested exceptions showing only the details of the last place where the thing was wrapped for the nth time.
Once you have such an exception you're often forced to debug the Hibernate source. Luckily there is source for it; I would have given up on it way earlier if no source was available. For your own piece of mind I would advise to only use frameworks that come with source.
These frameworks work exceptionally bad when the database you access uses suck things as triggers. Of course no one in it's right mind would use triggers in a database but many legacy databases do. When they fire they often change fields in records. Hibernate at least has some stuff in place where you can handle the case when a trigger changes fields in the record just stored (although it is buggy as hell and the cause of many debugging sessions). But when a trigger changes a related record which happens to be in the Hibernate session you're in deep trouble. The only way to fix things then is to really know how Hibernate will write your changes and adding arcane invocations of stuff like session.flush() and session.refresh() in a carefully orchestrated order.
Lousy support for long transaction or dialogue
What continues to amaze me is the utter craving for pain in large parts of the Java Standards world. One of the most prevalent ways to use a database is:
You would imagine that this simple access pattern would be the easiest to implement because it is used to often. You would maintain the state of the data in memory until either the save or the cancel; only at that point would changes be saved to the database in a single transaction (or would memory be discarded on a cancel). This would use optimistic locking or field change detection at commit time to prevent or at least detect concurrent changes.
The only way this works with these frameworks is if you are able to maintain a Transaction over the whole conversation. This is usually undesirable from a database standpoint: it requires lots of connections and may cause lock and other trouble in your database. Utter stupidity. It should be possible to force the data access layer to keep it's state in memory while you are working with it and without it having a Transaction current. Only at commit time would this state be saved. If the data is rolled back the state should be invalidated causing either a reread of the data subsequently used or even better: just use the "old" values already saved in the session cache.
It almost seems Hibernate has such a mode: flushmode=manual. But here again there's trouble: as soon as a query is done against a table that is in the cache all records are flushed to the database before the query is executed. This is needed because Hibernate does not allow querying it's own cache but it silently forgets about the flushmode=manual, again causing a long and frustrating debugging session because records are being inserted/updated while I dont want them to be.
Also frustrating is Hibernate's insistence on having a class be valid wrt the database checks (nullity) when a record is persisted. If you start a new record in the above pattern you must add dummy values to the record before persisting it or you'll get an exception because not-null fields are null. But you *must* persist the record before it can be used in any collection of sorts or you'll get an exception because you use a transient entity. This is probably due to a bad implementation of Hibernate's persist() call.
These problems are only the tip of the iceberg. It seems like easy database access is still far from being solved. I will start to look for more bare-bones data access frameworks; the heavyweights suck.
The easiest way is just to keep all objects in transient state, and persist them when they need to be, and not any earlier.
You can easily do this with Hibernate: you just use Hibernate to load whatever data you need to present to the user.
I never use long conversations, I find it easier to just reload what's needed after user think time: I don't have to care about merging or reattaching objects, I just use the id of the detached object and reload it, in a fresh Session with one transaction, using a servlet filter around the http request.
I tend to avoid inheritance of data, in the end, your database doesn't support it, and when your application is very data oriented, I see little added value.
The heavyweights don't suck, just use them in a way you can handle, and fits your needs.


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Armand Duka has been re-elected as president of the Football Association of Albania (FShF) for a third successive term.
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Any of the 28 species of ancient fishes constituting the subclass Holocephali (class Chondrichthyes), found in temperate to cold waters of all oceans. Like sharks and rays, chimeras have a skeleton of cartilage rather than bone, and the males possess external reproductive organs (claspers). They have a single external gill opening, covered by a flap as in the bony fishes, on each side of the body. Males have a supplemental clasping organ that is unique among fishes. Chimeras have large pectoral and pelvic fins and two dorsal fins, the first preceded by a sharp spine. They range in length from 24 to 80 in. (60 to 200 cm) and in colour from silvery to blackish. They inhabit rivers, estuaries, coastal waters, and open ocean to depths of 8,000 ft (2,500 m) or more. They eat small fishes and invertebrates.
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In Greek mythology, a fire-breathing female monster. Its foreparts resembled a lion, its middle a goat, and its hindquarters a dragon. It devastated the land around Caria and Lycia until it was killed by Bellerophon. The word is now often used to denote a fantasy or a figment of the imagination.
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Chimaeras are cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes. They are related to the sharks and rays, and are sometimes called ghost sharks, ratfish (not to be confused with the "rattails"), or rabbitfishes.
Chimaeras live in temperate ocean floors and grow up to two meters long. Like other members of the class Chondrichthyes, chimaeras have a skeleton constructed of cartilage. Their skin is smooth and lacks scales, and their color can range from black to brownish gray.
For defense, most chimaeras have a venomous spine located in front of the dorsal fin.
Chimaeras resemble sharks in some ways: they employ claspers for internal fertilization of females and they lay eggs with leathery cases. They differ from sharks in that their upper jaws are fused with their skulls; they have separate anal and urogenital openings; and they lack the many sharp and replaceable teeth of sharks, having instead a few large permanent grinding tooth plates.
A rare albino Puget Sound ratfish was discovered near Whidbey Island, Washington. It is the only pure albino among the 7.2 million specimens in the University of Washington's fish collection.
In some classifications the chimaeras are included (as subclass Holocephali) in the class Chondrichthyes of cartilaginous fishes; in other systems this distinction may be raised to the level of class. Chimaeras also have some characteristics of bony fishes.
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During the week of April 22 – 24, CSU East Bay will be celebrating the scholarship of its faculty and students. Each afternoon an event will showcase the disciplinary research and creative activities of faculty and students as well as the scholarship of teaching and learning occurring on campus.
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The physical lab environment in the Kokio building has been renovated to incorporate the requirements of an open lab. The physical science open lab will be available at the beginning of the Spring 2007 semester.
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Le Bezu is the name of a ruined Cathar castle in the Aude - more properly called Les Templiers. It is sited on a hill top near to the vilage of Le Bezu, in the Commune of St Just & Le Bezu, in the Aude département withing the Languedoc-Roussillon.
In the popular imagination (and books about Rennes-le-Château) Le Bézu is an old Templar fortress, from where the Templars treasure was rescued when they were persecuted by the French King Philip le Bel in 1307. You will find it marked on maps as "Les Templiers".
It is open to the public - a decent walk from the village of Le Bezu. Not much to see. Entrance is free.A chapel has recently been excavated here - rectangular, not round as the Templar fans would have preferred.


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Pick People Up, Don't Put Them Down
Below is a new video where I share my thoughts about the importance of encouraging inactive individuals to exercise, as opposed to arguing with those who already do.
Time is precious. It is not infinite. Why not use it in a positive and productive way?
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. – John Holmes
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Dave729 November 6th, 2013 12:30 pm
Thanks Ross. I greatly appreciate your positive, practical,common sense approach. Too often fitness professionals, web sites and magazines treat their programs or approaches as religious dogma. Hopefully, some members here will take your words to heart. It is discouraging and disappointing when discussions devolve into the fitness equivalent of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin rather than simply encouraging the person to be consistent and persistent with the program he chooses.
john November 6th, 2013 12:35 pm
Thank you for the real talk Ross.. it is so true. We are all in this world and life together but a lot of energy is wasted in the wrong places.
When you think about it, we might not be training the way we are and be as advanced if we just followed the man in the beginning who may have proclaimed a single "best" way to train, instead of testing, challenging, and refining the principles that we know produce results today.
Just as I say in science, we should celebrate challenge no matter what stance we have (logic vs emotional attachment/arrogance) on because it is just further knowledge and data that can be used.
However, it requires a sense of humility and admittance that your program might not be the "BEST" way to train, if such a thing even exists, for your case or the next man's.
Fred November 6th, 2013 4:02 pm
Your nickname should be "The Hammer", because you always seem to hit nail right on the head!
It's too bad that so many people have to create division in order to feel good about what they do. Do your thing and enjoy it! And enjoy seeing others do their thing. Don't reject them because they do it a bit differently. They can inspire you, give you new ideas, show you a new way of looking at what you do.
My favorite martial arts metaphor is that we're all climbing the same mountain, trying to reach the same peak. We're just on different paths that all lead to the top.
Keep up the great work, Ross. You are an inspiration!
Jaime Rodriguez November 6th, 2013 7:13 pm
Hey Ross that was a great video with a message you passed I rarely ever comment on your videos not for any reason at all. But great message
phil handey November 7th, 2013 5:24 am
Ross your approach really is like a breath of fresh air, at 41 i cant count the amount of times i've been told how wrong my training is. The thing is there my goals, its my body and my effort being spent in the gym or where ever else i happen to be training. These days i just smile then focus on the workout because at my age with 25yr training under my belt i'm 5ft 6inchs, 170lbs with an average bodyfat of 8%, so it does'nt matter who says i'm wrong it works for me
Eric November 7th, 2013 3:10 pm
A lot of varying opinions has to do with money and nothing else. It has now become popular to preach the wonders of bodyweight exercise and kettlebells over more conventional forms of resistance training like barbells and dumbbells. As recently as the early 1990′s something like bodyweight exercise and kettlebells were seen as antiquated or useless forms of exercise for serious exercise enthusiasts. Now we've come full circle and it is the barbells and dumbbells being pushed aside for bodyweight training or kettlebell training. If you even owned a kettlebell chances are it was were hid away collecting dust until fairly recently, unless of course you lived in Russia. Personally I think dumbbells are superior to kettlebells and that is why they neary pushed kettlebells and other "old school" apparatus like Indian/Persian clubs to near extinction in all but a few obscure places around the globe until recently. NOW these "new" pieces of equipment can do miracles. Agree with Ross that any training is better than nothing at all regardless of what you do. With all the options of exercise programs and/or exercises, there has got to be something that might tweak even a committed couch potato's interest.
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David Moxness November 8th, 2013 7:07 pm
Good stuff as usual Ross. I try to lead by example with my family hoping to encourage more of them to adopt a fitness lifestyle but most of them are part of "the eighty percent" you mentioned that are hard to motivate. But I will not give up trying. I hope you never quit doing what you do here because I know you are motivating people who are at a minimum at least willing to get off of the couch and put some of the training you suggest into practice. Keep up the good fight Ross.
adam December 29th, 2013 10:15 pm
Ross score for you . Your a great guy and you haven't given up your passion. You also seem to care a great deal about other people. You my good friend are a notch above others.
Michele Lian April 6th, 2014 8:31 pm
Thank you for keeping it real, Ross. I've been reading your posts for quite a while now, and I really appreciate your down-to-earth, no-nonsense approach to fitness. This video reminded me of what's important not only as a fitness coach, but advocate.
rossano September 10th, 2014 12:12 pm
yo ross you are an example for a lot of people all over the world also for me. I live in the Netherlands and i love your site and i want to motivate and train people in the samne way as you do, give theme selveconfedince en give theme positive vibration greetings from the Netherlands
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Paul Cornejo January 27th, 2015 7:18 am
Completely agree with you, too many people get stuck on trying to argue that their way of training is the best way and waste too much time and energy trying to argue with one another. I strive to embrace all training methodologies and use what works for me from each style. I've been a big fan of Rosstraining for a while now and will continue to be even more so now since I appreciate the humility you display time and time again despite your success as an athlete.
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