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Castlevania Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate is the latest in Konami's presumed trilogy of the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow franchise. More importantly, it's the first Castlevania game we've had on a Nintendo handheld in nearly five years! After a long wait, should this journey through Dracula's castle been uncovered after all, or should it have slumbered in darkness forever?
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate (that's a mouthful) continues the tale from 2010's Lords of Shadow on Xbox 360/PS3, making it a sequel to prequel – that's in itself a reboot – of the entire Castlevania saga. If it sounds confusing, it can be: the Castlevania series spans a twenty-plus year history and variety of characters. Mirror of Fate tells three separate acts of three individuals (Simon Belmont, Trevor Belmont, and Alucard) who have been intertwined in Dracula's macabre life.
Over all three acts, you'll explore Dracula's castle at different periods of time, sometimes while another character's act is taking place, sometimes having a direct effect on their story. In your 10-15 hour time with Mirror of Fate, you'll explore a variety of areas pre- and post character involvement, all the while learning more of Gabriel Belmont's descendants and building the Castlevania lineage more and more. Unfortunately, it looks as though more focus was on the story and Castlevania history than the gameplay the series is known for. This is more God of War than ever before, and it's several steps back from what we've come to expect from the series on a handheld.
Mirror of Fate's development was a bit tumultuous, even being delayed due to developer MercurySteam "not being pleased with certain elements of it." (although it looks like it was a smart move to do so if you've read our Castlevania – Mirror of Fate preview). It was sluggish, ugly, and underwhelming; it was not what we've come to expect from a portable Castlevania game. Luckily, the frame rate and look of the game have been treated with that extra development time, but the soul of the series seems to have been sucked out.
At its core, Mirror of Fate is a side-scrolling platformer like its older brethren, but if the characters didn't have the surname "Belmont," this would be just another Metroid-vania clone. Don't misconstrue that: it does that style of gameplay well, but not to the level the series is known for. It's more quick-time events and button-mashing for combat, than stylus input or unique ideas. The only time you're interacting with the bottom screen is when you want to place a reminder on the map. Everything else is tied to the D-pad, leaving the second screen practically useless as far as interactivity goes.
Though the combat's not up to snuff compared to past games in the series, it's still competent. You gain experience battling a (tiny) list of monsters, and learn newer, more powerful moves that will assist you. Despite all this, you never seem as though you've gained power. Going back to older areas to treasure hunt meant making mincemeat out of baddies that you once struggled with, showing off your new power(s) and feeling like a true vampire killer. Speaking of treasure hunting, don't expect too much replay value here; it's a "one-and-done" affair. Most treasures can be found with little retracing of steps, and there are no multiple endings to be found – another staple of the series left out. With an antiquated gameplay style, Mirror of Fate looks to not reignite the series with any new ideas for future handheld games, but it's presentation can make a return, save for a few portions.
In-game, it's ditched the sprite work for a more cel-shaded look, but with a filter that looks a lot more muddy and jaggy than it should. I've always been a big supporter of cel-shaded graphics, but whatever MercurySteam tried to do here will not set itself apart nor stay memorable years down the line. Not all is bad in the presentation camp though. The cinematics, what with their hand-drawn manga-inspired style, really fit the series well, and don't detract at all in the looks. I wish the entire game shared the style; it could have been a new staple for the series (though sprites are always my preferred Castlevania art style). As for music and ambiance, the series takes another risk that's not for the better. Going for orchestral/choral tracks rather than chip tunes, Mirror of Fate follows Lords of Shadow's lead and tries more haunting vocals that do set the mood, but once again fail to impress. Of course, being a 3DS game, some sort of 3D element had to be featured, and it's as forgettable as the 3D is in general. Adding nothing but minor depth here and there, and throwing things at the screen as to be expected, the 3D is as useless as it is in the theater. You'll more than likely turn it off after 10 minutes and feel better about doing so.
It really feels as though MercurySteam was having an identity disorder during development, trying to put too many other games into a genre this series practically perfected 15 years ago, and somehow failing at that. It's got a working game design, a nice story to tell, and characters pivotal to the franchise, but nothing more: nothing to stand out, nothing to urge players to come back to the world, just a bare-bones shell of a game in a franchise that once reminded us how fun hunting Dracula once was. Castlevania's big return to the small, portable screen is a huge misstep for the series, and quite frankly, the development reigns should return to Konami and Koji Igarashi's team as soon as possible. Were this any other Metroid-vania game, it would be more passable, but having the Castlevania name attached means it's to be held to a higher standard. This is a competent title, but certainly not a competent Castlevania game.


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By Richard Corliss
It is 1997. Manhattan Island is a maximum-security prison, surrounded by a 50 ft. high wall and containing every scurvy convict in the land. When Air Force One crashes on the island and the President (Donald Pleasence) is taken hostage, only one man has the smarts and guts to get him out alive: War Hero and Master Criminal Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell). He has 24 hours to accomplish his mission before the President misses a summit conference and the microscopic explosives implanted in Snake's arteries are automatically detonated.
On its face - and a stubbly, scarred, scowling visage it is - ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK functions smoothly as another of the new action-adventure films. John Carpenter, who hit it big with a pair of graceful, scary horror movies (HALLOWEEN, THE FOG), here returns to the tones and textures of his earlier garrison melodrama ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13: an apocolyptic shootout between the good-bad guys and the forces of maleficence. With his runty muscularity and a voice whispered through sandpaper, Kurt Russell is a sawed-off, charmless Clint Eastwood. Rather than involving the viewer with the characters, Carpenter seems content to put them on elegant display. Take it or leave it, love 'em or hate 'em, this is the face of America's future.
Maybe. But it makes more sense to see ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK as a ferocious parody of popular notions about Manhattan today - the mugger's playground and pervert's paradise made notorious in comedy monologues and movies like DEATH WISH and TAXI DRIVER. In ESCAPE, parking meters are piked with gaping corpse heads, bridges are mined to kill, the New York Public Library houses an evil genius named Brain, and Penn Station is littered with train carcasses out of a brobdingnagian's toy chest. John Carpenter is offering this summer's moviegoers a rare opportunity: to escape from the air-conditioned torpor of ordinary entertainment into the hothouse humidity of their own paranoia. It's a trip worth taking.


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|Student projects in medicine: a lesson in science and ethics.
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|Regulation of biomedical research is the subject of considerable debate in the bioethics and health policy worlds. The ethics and governance of medical student projects is becoming an increasingly important topic in its own right, especially in the U.K., where there are periodic calls to change it. My main claim is that there seems to be no good reason for treating student projects differently from projects led by qualified and more experienced scientists and hence no good grounds for changing the current system of ethics review. I first suggest that the educational objectives cannot be met without laying down standards of good science, whatever they may be. Weak science is unnecessary for educational purposes, and it is, in any case, unlikely to produce good researchers in the future. Furthermore, it is curious to want to change the system of ethics review specifically for students when it is the science that is at stake, and when the science now falls largely outside the ethics remit. I further show that ethics review is nevertheless important since students carry a new potential conflict of interests that warrants independent oversight which supervisory support does not offer. This potential conflict may become more morally troublesome the greater the risks to the subjects of the research, and students may impose greater risks on their subjects (relative to professional researchers) by virtue of being inexperienced, whatever the nature of the project. Pragmatic concerns may finally be allayed by organizing the current system more efficiently at critical times of the university calendar.
|Sarah J L Edwards
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Clean, good breakfast, nice staff
No dislikes
Hotel employee was more than accommodating and gracious. I've already recommended this hotel to others! Thank you!
There's always an element of youth and noise at any hotel... I would hardly day that's unexpected though.
Hampton Inn has always been reliable for us, but this experience was not a positive one.
Heating/Air unit kept cycling all night - very loud. Stem to pull up to activate shower broken so could not take shower in the morning.
We arriveed late(2:00 a.m.)The door to our room would not close due to a carpet/bent hinge problem. If I had not been able to jury rig the door, we would not have had a room. I have also been billed by Hampton Inn. Awaiting a credit....
The owners were great and the home was so pretty
The breasfast was awesome !
The bed was really hard !
Not much, check in lady was nice.
Great hotel
I don't know why people give this motel/hotel such bad reviews. I checked in around 10pm. The staff greeted me well. The location is perfect, right off the interstate. Room was clean. I only paid $---- for 1 night. I'm going to stay there again omw back.
For the price I think it's a steal of a deal.
Clean hotel, wonderful staff.
the elevator is very hot (no a/c)
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Apartments in Barcelona – The best type of accommodation
When we talk about complete tourist destinations, Barcelona would be top of that list. The Catalan capital is pure beauty, not only thanks to its excellent weather all year long but also to its architecture, beaches, streets, squares… Renting apartments in Barcelona is a perfect way to discover the city as you would be doing so just like the locals do.
The best of Barcelona
If there is one name that is synonymous to Barcelona that is the one of the modernist architect Antoni Gaudí, a visionary and a genius that changed the appearance of Barcelona and its buildings, with landmarks such as the Sagrada Familia, Parc Güell, Casa Batlló or Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera. The two last ones are located on the famous Passeig de Gràcia avenue, an avenue escorted by trees and modernist buildings on either side, not only by Gaudí but also by other architects of his time, definitely a must-see. Passeig de Gràcia ends where the most famous avenue in Barcelona starts; the Ramblas, where you can also find the world-famous market of La Boquería. Gastronomy is a huge part of Barcelona thanks to its great Mediterranean cuisine and tapas restaurants that you can find all over the city.
The best districts in Barcelona
The Ramblas is located in the old town, a district divided into three parts: Raval, Gothic Quarter and Born. Raval stands out for its cosy cafes and bars as well as for its famous contemporary art museum MACBA; the Gothic Quarter for its old medieval streets and the city's Cathedral whilst Born is famous for being Barcelona's bohemian corner, one of the best places to find cheap apartments in Barcelona where you can also visit the Picasso Museum. Also, the district of Gràcia in the northern part of the city is also a place to enjoy the true essence of the city outside of the tourist hustle, also the location of the famous Gràcia Festival in the summer.
When to come to Barcelona
Barcelona is great to visit all year long but it stands out especially in spring and autumn, when there are less tourists and the weather is milder. Although rain appears spontaneously, it's still the best time to visit..
Getting in and around Barcelona
You can fly directly to Barcelona-El Prat airport, just a few miles away from the city, or to the nearby Girona and Reus airports, where low-cost airlines fly. The city has a fantastic public transport network, one of the best in Europe, cheap and efficient, with metros, buses and taxis as well as an excellent tourist bus that will take you to all the important landmarks. Buy the combined transport tickets and you'll save a lot of money during your holidays in Barcelona.
Festivals in Barcelona
The city is perfect to visit during its festivals, such as La Mercè in September, the aforementioned Gràcia Festival in August or Sant Jordi on April 23rd, as well as important music festivals such as Sonar and Primavera Sound.


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Shortly after doing my first video blog post in werewolf form, I came up with a guide to the GOP primary field, expressed in terms of the Buffy villains they most resemble.
Fred Thompson
The Judge
His backers got all excited and made a big effort to assemble him. When they finally put him together, he turned out to be a lethargic mess and didn't accomplish very much.
Mitt Romney
The Mayor
They're both clever and generically slick politicians, programmed to appeal to middle America. I can't watch Mitt without thinking of the Demon Mayor of Sunnydale, and that's what inspired this whole list.
John McCain
The Master
The oldest vampire. Got killed early, but there's some talk about how he might rise again.
He's been around a long time, but he only recently absorbed himself into the internet, where he now has a bunch of overexcited followers who spend too much time online.
Duncan Hunter
Property of the military-industrial complex.
Tom Tancredo
Lyle Gorch
Giles: "They, uh, they made their reputation by massacring an entire Mexican village in 1886... but the good news is that they're not amongst the great thinkers of our times. I doubt if they're up to much.
Rudy Giuliani
A genuine threat to destroy the world, with a string of broken hearts behind him.
Mike Huckabee
Southern preacher-man. Bad on women's rights. Came on really strong at the end.
Tommy Thompson
The Anointed One
Dude, there's no way you're going to win. You're completely incompetent, and you don't belong here. Go home.


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As part of our Best Books of 2013 coverage, our editors weigh in on some of their personal favorites from the list. Think J.R. Ewing and "Dallas." Think Lonesome Dove. Think Faulkner. This stunning second novel from Philipp Meyer (following his critically praised debut, American Rust) combines epic storytelling, Texas tragedy and raw, powerful writing. Tracing the rise to power of the McCullough clan—from the birth of patriarch Eli in 1836 to the 20th-century struggles of great-granddaughter Jeannie—Meyer reveals more about Texas and its violent past than any history book ever could. Read our review or interview, or check out an excerpt. To see the full list of our best books of 2013, click here.
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With each iteration of Ursula's life, the reader becomes more and more invested in her fate—even as we are led to ponder the nature of fate and reality itself. It's fascinating to see the small variations in the lives of characters we have come to know and love, and Atkinson portrays British country life on the eve of World War I and the horrors of the London Blitz with equal skill. Life After Life is remarkable achievement from one of today's best storytellers.
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Helene Wecker's first novel announces the arrival of a formidable imagination. The Golem and the Jinni expertly blends Jewish and Arabic folklore against the vivid backdrop of 1899 New York City, where her title characters—golem Chava and jinni Ahmed—meet. Chava and Ahmed at first clash due to their opposite natures, but are drawn to one another by their shared experience as supernatural beings in a city of humans—not to mention their shared experience of being at the beck and call of various "masters." It soon becomes clear that combining their powers is the only chance for freedom . . . and perhaps even for survival.
Suspenseful, creative and entertaining, this book should delight fans of both fantasy and historical fiction. (And one of the best debuts of 2013!) Don't miss it.
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Sure, it's news when a million-dollar Ferrari Enzo, one of only 400 made, gets torn in half during an illegal speed contest on city streets. But that does seem to happen periodically—muchly to the dismay of Ferrari geeks, who are shocked—shocked—to find that someone was actually racing an exotic car capable of high subsonic speeds.
In Orange County, we don't care that some Swedish millionaire with a .09 blood-alcohol level hit a pole in Malibu at 120 miles per hour. Or that he informed authorities that he wasn't the driver—it was a German guy named Dieter—sorry, that's Dietrich—who'd been at the wheel and subsequently bolted, leaving same millionaire holding the bag: with two cars instead of one. Except that neither runs.
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The critical question in the development of effective screen-based user interfaces is how to understand and support only those aspects of the user interaction that require training support and help. This problem is often overlooked by development teams until very late in the development cycle, often leading to poor acceptance of beta releases and cost overruns. A complex user interface that does not properly support user training needs can place high demands on call center volume resulting in increased costs and complexity. We offer clients extensive support in training needs definition used for the development of complete online tutorials and help systems.
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The centerpiece of all successful AGILE software development projects is rapid development of critical user needs followed by reliable feedback from users during each sprint. Based on your project needs, we combine our research methodologies (described above) to create a specialized AGILE user testing program to provide development teams with critical expertise and feedback during even the most aggressive sprints. These services have proven highly effective in dramatically reducing the risk present in AGILE development projects.
Over the past 20 years, we have executed trading system UI design programs for several of the world's primary markets and market makers, including major projects for The New York Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, Trading Technologies, Inc., WitCapital/Soundview, and other leading financial institutions. We have financial trading systems experience covering all phases of high performance UI development including, usability research, business objectives development, needs analysis, task analysis, trading floor ethnography, and cognitive modeling of high-risk decision making. We have developed high performance UI trading solutions for a wide range of profiles including hedge funds, equity trade desks, futures and numerous other asset classes. In addition to our experience creating solutions for professional traders we have extensive experience analyzing and developing consumer online FSI systems including home banking, trading, and financial planning. Our trading solutions are running at the heart of the world economy.
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A primary business problem all large media companies face today is how to successfully migrate their traditional media properties to the 4 interconnected and increasingly transparent delivery platforms of TV, Web, Mobile, and Virtual. We have worked with the world's most successful media companies to design and execute cross-platform usability and user experience studies that address this difficult customer "engagement" problem. Our research methods have proven effective in helping major media companies understand and optimize their migration to successful new media business models.
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Online gaming and virtual reality are two of the primary forces of the "NEW" new media. Avatar-based interfaces allow customers to play in synthetic environments, creating a staggering opportunity for those who understand the psychological impact and the primary customer experience design challenges. Effective and reliable research in the virtual reality and gaming arena drives success. At MauroNewMedia, we have pioneered research programs for some of the largest gaming and virtual world commercial projects in recent history. Using these new methods for conducting research in gaming and virtual worlds, we have developed a deep understanding of user and avatar behaviors and the related functions that drive deep immersion and expand in-world social networking participation. Our research services have been used extensively to answer critical user experience questions related to how customers respond to gaming and virtual world interfaces.
Understanding your user profiles (personas) is critical to understanding how to create and support a successful product or service. For more than 25 years, we have created complex user profiles for a wide range of products and services, ranging from personas for cancer patients, to brokers executing trades on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. In all of these projects, we employ a combination of professional user testing, observational research, and interview methodologies to develop interactive persona solutions that combine the latest data with the most appropriate and reliable research methods.


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Soap Dispenser, 5000mL, Gray
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- Item Soap Dispenser
- Soap/Lotion Type Liquid
- Operation Mode Push
- Refill Type Bag in Box
- Refill Size 5000mL
- Material High Impact ABS Plastic
- Finish Diamond Plate Etching
- Color Gray
- Height 20"
- Width 9"
- Depth 6-3/4"
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we are having a problem with installing the bag of soap in the dispenser. How is the bag supposed to mount in there. We believe we are missing some hardware. What should all be on the inside of the dispenser?
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how many mills per push
That's a great question. The output on the GOJO PRO TDX 5000 Dispenser is adjustable to 1.5 mL, 2.0 mL, and 3.0 mL by turning the orange adjustment screw with a flat-head screwdriver either clockwise or counter-clockwise.
Thanks for posting your question. The GOJO PRO TDX 5000 Dispenser is 20.72" tall, 9.14" wide, and 6.94" deep.
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Is there an automatic version that dispenses the pumice hand cleaner? Or something with a remote actuator that can either pressed with your knee or foot?
Thanks for your question. There is not an automatic, or hands-free, version of the GOJO PRO TDX 5000 Dispenser. None of our hand-free dispenser are able to dispense a gritted or pumice product as of now.
I have this dispenser (TDX 5000) in my shop and it is great. This is the first time I have needed to change the bag of soap. I thought I was to push up and pull the top out. That does not work for m. How am a supposed to open the unit?
Thanks for your question. To open the unit, by pulling down on the latch tab behind the push bar and pusing up on the cabinet. We suggest using your index finger to pull down on the latch tab (behind the push bar and just above the hinge) while pressing up with your thumb on the bottom of the gray area in a pinching motion. Use your second hand to ease the cabinet open.
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By Jason Bailey
January 11, 2013
"As Kentucky legislators consider changes that could cut pension benefits for nurses, social workers, police officers and other public sector workers, they should keep in mind four important facts.
Kentucky legislators consider changes that could cut pension benefits for nurses, social workers, police officers and other public sector workers, they should keep in mind four important facts.
1. Public sector workers in Kentucky are undercompensated compared to their private sector counterparts.
Before making more cuts to public employee benefits, lawmakers should take into account the already modest compensation levels of public workers in the state. A report we published shows that public workers in Kentucky receive 12.8 percent less in total compensation (wages + benefits) on an annual basis and 9.2 percent less on an hourly basis than comparable workers in the private sector.[1] The report makes an apples-to-apples comparison that controls for differences—such as levels of education and experience—between the two workforces.
While public employees' benefits tend to be better than those in the private sector, their wages are far worse, resulting in somewhat lower overall compensation. Most public employees also haven't received raises in recent years, and the legislature has already cut their retirement and health benefits. Further cuts that widen the gap between the public and private sectors will threaten Kentucky's ability to attract the qualified public workforce needed to carry out critical public services.
2. A shift to a defined contribution or hybrid plan for new workers wouldn't reduce the unfunded liability.
Past bills have proposed moving new workers to a 401k-type defined contribution plan, and the legislature's Task Force on Kentucky Public Pensions recommended a cash balance option that is a hybrid between a defined contribution and defined benefit plan. Such proposals shift more risk to workers and are usually designed in ways that will reduce final benefit levels, especially for long-term employees.
However, they don't save the state money or do anything to lessen the major problem Kentucky faces—the unfunded liability in the existing pension system. According to materials presented to the task force, the normal employer pension cost for new employees under the existing defined benefit pension plan (after cuts were made in 2008) is only four percent of payroll.[2] That is exactly the same employer cost as the cash balance plan proposed by the consultants and recommended by the task force.[3] If the state does its part in making required contributions and paying for any cost of living adjustments—and if the state's investment return assumptions are met, which historically is the case over the long term—a cash balance plan is no cheaper than the existing plan.
What's more, consultants told the task force that even completely eliminating retirement benefits for new workers would barely make a dent in the existing unfunded liability. The liability is a debt the state legally owes existing workers and retirees, who made their contributions on time to the system every year as required by law. The state avoided its responsibility to pay the full required contribution to the system in 13 of the last 20 years. It also approved cost of living adjustments without allocating the resources to pay for them and created retirement incentives to move experienced workers off the public payroll. While those decisions helped to balance the budget at the time, they merely shifted costs forward to future years. The legislature should focus the conversation on revenue options that allow the state to make the full required contribution every year, which will limit the impact of the liability on other parts of the budget.
3. Public pension benefits are an unnoticed but important contributor to the Kentucky economy.
Public pension benefits are not generous—the average state non-hazardous retiree receives only $20,508 a year.[4] Yet the benefits help not just those workers, but the entire Kentucky economy. Currently, 88,041 retirees of the Kentucky Retirement System (KRS) live in Kentucky and receive $1.5 billion annually in benefits.[5] 94 percent of KRS retirees live in the state, and they reside across all 120 counties. The local impact is substantial—for example, KRS injects $269 million annually into the Jefferson County economy, $30 million into Pulaski County and $10 million into Graves County.
A good portion of that money is spent locally in stores, restaurants and doctors' offices. The National Institute on Retirement Security estimates that each dollar in pension benefits supports $1.24 in additional economic activity. They estimate a total annual economic impact in Kentucky from state and local public pension funds of $3.5 billion.[6]
4. Traditional defined benefit plans are highly efficient and effective retirement vehicles if political leaders manage them responsibly.
Defined benefit pension plans, if managed properly, are very efficient and effective methods of generating adequate retirement benefits at little cost. In Kentucky, 68 percent of the money that goes into an employee's retirement check comes from investment returns that the system generates. 12 percent comes from employee contributions and only 20 percent—or one in five dollars—comes from what the employer pays in.[7]
Defined benefit plans work well because they create large investment pools, which limit administrative costs for an individual by spreading them over many employees. By using professional investment managers, they are able to generate much higher returns than individuals can realize in 401k-type defined contribution accounts. And by spreading risk among many workers they address the problems those relying on 401ks face of potentially running out of money before they die or oversaving for retirement. For these reasons, as the National Institute on Retirement Security reports, the cost to provide the same level of retirement income is 46 percent less in a defined benefit plan than in a 401k-style defined contribution plan.[8]
Defined benefit plans also increase retention of skilled and experienced employees and reduce turnover costs compared to plans that encourage more mobility.
Despite two recessions in the past decade, most defined benefit pension systems around the country are doing fine financially and will be adequately funded once the economy returns to full strength. Only a few states, like Kentucky and Illinois, face more substantial gaps in the funding levels of their pension systems. Overwhelmingly, these states did not make the annual required contributions and observe good fiscal management of their systems.
With proper financial discipline, traditional pension plans are a highly successful way to generate adequate and secure retirement. In fact, some states are looking a ways to expand access to their state retirement systems to workers in the private sector—such as those working at small businesses. Those plans would allow workers to gain access to more secure retirement options and take advantage of professional investment management and the pooling of some risk and administrative costs.[9]
Discussion of pension reform should take into account the growing problem of retirement security in Kentucky and the nation. We face an emerging crisis due to the erosion of traditional retirement plans, the move to inferior 401ks and the inadequacy of relying on Social Security benefits alone. The legislature's decisions should protect the modest pension benefits of public workers as the first step of a broader strategy to increase retirement security for all Kentuckians.
The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan initiative that conducts research, analysis and education on important policy issues facing the Commonwealth. Launched in 2011, the Center is a project of the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED). For more information, please visit KCEP's website at www.kypolicy.org."


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President Obama was in Boston yesterday to raise more Democrat campaign money and screw up fan travel to the final World Series game by closing the Massachusetts Turnpike. He tacked on another empty, but official ObamaCare speech to save his party half the trip cost for Air Force One, $182,000 per flight hour.
Employing his characteristic combative approach, the Chicagoan called on Republicans to stop fighting him and work to implement the crippled law to help Americans. And then to ensure that they don't, the one-time great uniter called them "so locked in to the politics of this thing that they won't lift a finger to help their own people."
Obama chose one of the country's most reliably liberal areas to utter some 4,000 partisan words defending his signature, but increasingly unpopular, legislation.
Given the overwhelming negative media all month on ObamaCare, the president has reverted to calling it the Affordable Care Act. Passed three years ago by a Democrat Congress with no GOP votes, the act is so affordable it include hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies for select policyholders.
Obama's hope Wednesday was to draw public attention away from Washington where his HHS Secy. Kathleen Sebelius was admitting to a congressional committee serious flaws in the complex plan's roll-out this month.
She's been a useful political lightning rod for Obama, even claiming last week that the president of the United States knew nothing about ObamaCare's troubles for days after its launch.
And wouldn't you know, on the same afternoon out pops a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll showing a precipitous plunge in Obama's job approval rating.
The new survey found Obama's current job approval (42%) is the lowest he's ever experienced, down five points or 10% since earlier this month. And it's down 11 points, or 20%, in the past 10 months.
On his inauguration, Obama's approval was 69%. At this same point in Ronald Reagan's second term, his job approval was 62%.
Likewise the Democrat's job disapproval now stands at 51%, another all-time record high.
Those results are similar to Gallup's recent findings, which give Obama 43% approval and 50% disapproval.
Obama's personal ratings have turned upside-down for the first time,
with 45% of his countrymen viewing him negatively and only 41%
positively. Obama would need to kill Osama bin Laden again to turn this tide.
The new findings eclipse earlier polls touted by the media showing Republicans took the largest hit from the government shutdown.
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Whose blinds were down today?
Matthew Hancock, the youngish and profoundly ambitious Tory business minister who once drew a modest comparison between himself, William Pitt, Benjamin Disraeli and Winston Churchill, is in a spot of bother. Hancock is the ally and former special adviser of the Chancellor George Osborne. It was Osborne who set the tone of the government's current campaign on the cost of welfare when he talked about "the shift-worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the early morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next-door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits."
Hancock reinforced the point with a tweet saying how "shocking" it was that an unemployed man interviewed on LBC radio had said that he turned down a job offer because it would have meant starting work at 8.00 am.
Hancock was invited onto Daybreak television this morning to debate the government policy with Ian Pattison, from the pressure group Youth Fight for Jobs. It was an early start – too early for the minister, who arrived too late to take part.
"If the Minister was a jobseeker, he could lose his benefits for up to three months for such an offence. Luckily, the Tory MP doesn't have to worry about things like that," an outraged Mr Pattison said afterwards.
Mr Hancock pleaded guilty. "I was 30 seconds late for my interview at 6.40 this morning, so they wouldn't let me into the studio to make my case," he said. "It proves the point: you've got to be on time for work or there are consequences. I'll learn from my own example."
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The Dallas, Texas-based company posted second quarter net income of $37.2 million, or 50 cents per share, up +4% from $35.7 million, or 44 cents per share, earned in the same period in the same period a year earlier. Adjusted earnings for the quarter was $37.3 million, or 50 cents per share. According to analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, the company as expected to earn 50 cents per share for the quarter.
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Storing album metadata
Storing album metadata
Jan 9 2010, 09:53
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It seems to me that the only tags relevant to the track specifically are track artist, title and number. The rest of the information is usually about the album and copied into every track with the same value.
Most of my music folders have an nfo, a cue and a log all with different information about the album, and I hate having to open windows explorer to go find something.
One solution would be to write large amounts of metadata into each track in the album. This seems to have a high redundancy, especially considering that most of the information is not very useful if the tracks are separated from each other.
How should we deal with this problem? Are there any strategies designed to store album information separately? Will a new metadata system in the future solve this problem?
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It seems to me that the only tags relevant to the track specifically are track artist, title and number. The rest of the information is usually about the album and copied into every track with the same value.Not necessarily - there are loads of other track-specific tags. What about composer, and genre/mood/style, and BPM, and original artist, and track replay gain, and track ratings, and play count statistics, and (for singles included as tracks on albums) the single catalogue number, and highest chart position, and release year? For greatest hits and VA compilation CDs it's often only the album name and album artist that are consistent for all tracks, and everything else is track specific, and hence better left in the track tag. It all depends on what sort of CDs you collect, and how detailed you want your tagging to be.
Putting the metadata in the track tag makes it easy to read on multiple players (all of which support some form of tag reading). In your example of the tracks being separated from each other, putting the metadata in track tags is also by far the simplest and most portable solution. If you had the metadata in cue or log files, or some similar new external "per album" tag repository, then you'd lose that information as soon as you separated the files from their tag source (or you'd need to create a whole new set of tools for extracting the metadata from the external tag source so that it could be moved with the track.....).
Even where the bulk of the information is common between tracks, the size of this "redundant" information is negligible in comparison to the size of the file. A 3 minute 128k MP3 file is typically around 3MB in size, and if you don't embed the album art the tags will typically take up around 1-2 KB - that's 0.066% of the total file size, and likely to be smaller than the cluster size on most storage devices.....
Consequently it seems to me that the current system of putting the information in per-track tags is by far the most flexible (it allows coexistence of lots of different personal tagging strategies using one relatively simple scheme) and portable (the tags move with the track with no extra work required), and that the "redundant information" overhead is negligible.
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Most of my music folders have an nfo
That's probably not the type of thing to publicise here.
Anyway, Ouroboros covered it. Using another hundred or so bytes per track makes a lot more sense than fragmenting the metadata and thus risking loss, confusion, etc.
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Most of my music folders have an nfo
That's probably not the type of thing to publicise here.
Most if not all of my folders have an info file too. (nfo). Either with my downloaded or my selfripped cd images. I'm a listing-, report-, info- type of person.
If that's what the OP means, that is.
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As the events in Boston unfolded on Monday, four names, three familiar, one not, kept popping up.
With any terror event, the first one is, of course, Osama bin Laden - or more accurately, the individuals still among us who share his views that attacks inflicting mass casualties on innocents somehow furthers their twisted agenda.
The second name was Eric Rudolph. Rudolph's attack at the 1996 Olympics didn't create such horrific casualties, but it was hard not to see the parallels in the nature of the attack - a blast throwing deadly shrapnel in all directions.
The third was Richard Jewell, a name that provides a cautionary tale as this investigation unfolds. Jewell discovered a pipe bomb and helped evacuate the area around it in Atlanta's Olympic Park before it exploded, saving countless bystanders from injury or death. But in the rush to report events, Jewell became the poster child for the phrase "trial by media.'' He suffered immense damage in his professional and personal life before being exonerated as the trail of evidence led to Rudolph.
Traditional media outlets seem largely to have learned the lesson of Richard Jewell. Social media, on the other hand, was almost immediately busying itself with, as blogger Duncan Black put it, "arguing about whether the perp was a right-wing nut, a left-wing nut or an international nut.''
As of this writing, such arguments are nothing but speculation. We just don't know.
And to a certain degree, it's a moot point. Whoever was behind this has to be brought to justice. Period.
What we do know is that the perpetrator or perpetrators were diabolical. The explosive devices were packed with ball bearings to inflict maximum damage.
Three people, including an 8-year-old, were killed in the initial attack, with more than a dozen in critical condition and scores more being treated for injuries. There were reports of numerous amputations performed at area hospitals.
What we do know is that this is another incident in which we set aside whatever political or philosophical labels set us apart and all take up the simple label "American.''
In that vein we turn to the fourth name: Bill Iffrig.
At age 78, Iffrig was running his third Boston Marathon. Nearing the finish line, fate intervened to make Iffrig one of the searing images from the Patriot Day attack. The second blast knocked Iffrig to the ground. Footage of Iffrig, clad in a bright orange shirt, shown hitting the street was looped repeatedly on network and cable news coverage.
Although he was only a few yards from the explosion, Iffrig suffered only a scraped knee. Recovering from the initial shock, he gathered himself, got to his feet and with assistance from emergency responders performed the task at hand:
He crossed the finish line.
Americans now have a task at hand: to stand together.
Job one is to mourn the victims and to do the things Americans always do in these times, simple acts ranging from donating blood to donating time or money to offering words of comfort, the small acts that make a big difference in binding us together.
Close on the heels of that job is delivering justice, as swiftly as possible.
The long-term job, one that the citizens of Boston are setting a fine example at, is not succumbing to terror. They've run the marathon in Boston since 1897. The event will be different, but we can't imagine that it won't be run again in 2014.
Unifying communal events are the lifeblood of a free nation, a free people. Monday's bombings were an attack on that unity. It was an attack on the ties that bind us.
The elite runners had long finished their marathon when the bombs went off in Boston. The runners still on the course were amateurs, a mix of running enthusiasts and civic-minded individuals running to raise funds for a variety of worthwhile causes. They were in many ways the face of our commitment to one another. Immediately in the initial shock of the attack the streets were flooded by first responders and people seeking to help their fellow citizens.
In that regard, Boston spoke well of itself. And of the character of this nation.
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Live Search cashback was built on the technology Microsoft aquired with last year's purchase of comparison shopping site Jellyfish.


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