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Caesars Atlantic City
Top Beach Hotel
2100 Pacific Avenue Atlantic City, NJ, Atlantic City, NJ
0.4 mi from
The room was nice but you need to be at the rite tower. Staff was rood at registration,we booked 2 rooms but they only showed one, also they wanted to give us double beds although we booked one king size bed.
Room faced lobby, was bright all night long, tons of noise coming into room, room was not ready when we arrived as offered online for 3pm check in, waste of 200 dollars, didn't sleep all night due to light coming in and noise from lobby traffic, would NEVER stay if here if had a choice elsewhere
I got a great deal on a room in the Centurion Tower (about $125 a night even after the resort fee, which was about $26 a day that they charge you at the end) and wasn't expecting a lot, though the room had a great view and was quite beautiful. Maid service was proficient in keeping it clean for the two days my girlfriend and I stayed there and I was overall very satisfied with the value I got while staying here, despite the bad Yelp reviews. The TV in the mirror (which I think is an item only available in the premium rooms) was broken, and when I called maintenance about it, they said most of those mirror TVs throughout the hotel were broken. It wasn't an essential feature of the room, though it was unfortunate that it didn't work.
It's as if a pipe was vibrating between the walls, but it would happen every 15 minutes. Very annoying while trying to sleep.
One of the best places to stay in AC
The room I asked for, I did not get.
The overall hotel experience was fine. kayak experience was not fine. Registration was a mess and the 45 plus minutes I spent on the phone with Kayak was terrble. Kayak and Caesar's did not work well together. The coupons were poorly handled as well.
The view N/a
Every thing was goog Every thing was good except the smell of smoking butchers us although our room was non smoking
It was located right in the middle of everything. You can walk to anywhere. The pool was for use by those 21 years old or older only. We had to go to ballys to use the pool. I didnt know that when booking the hotel.
While AC seems to be running down, this resort seem to be getting better. Unlike may stays in AC at other hotels, with the exception of Revel (closed) and Borgata, most place have become dirty and old, Caesar's room were spotless, nothing seemed old or run down (and I stayed at the old tower). The restaurants in the center lobby was pleasant to have dinner and a drink , connection to the mall was convenient, and the third floor restaurant in the Mall where very impressive and Manhattan like. I would recommend a couples weekend here, even for those who stay out of the Casino, as I did.
I just came back from Europe that was a month long, this hotel is totally a replication of the hotels in Europe! High quality rooms that are extremely clean! I won't stay anywhere else now!
Great staff and the prefect location
Very outstanding valet..its allway good to see them
Great price, Close to all the action.
Perfect location for shopping, casinos, beach and restaurants! There wasn't a refrigerator and microwave in all the rooms. But we made do with our cooler.
I love to be there, everything was clean, excelent view, good costumer services
History of miss America displayed in lobby, and prints of previous winners. Also complimentary Starbucks coffee was nice. The staff was very friendly too! It was a hike to the beach & Boardwalk !
I have stayed in a lot of different hotels and I have to say that the staff that waited on my husband and I where absolutely PHENOMENAL! From the minute we got to the parking garage to the minute we pack up our car they were nothing but courteous and friendly. Especially the concierge woman Chrissy that I dealt with upon arrival. I think she could tell that we had already had a long day and she just absolutely took care of us with any questions that I had. She always had a smile on her face and she was very easy to talk to to and did not make me feel like I was a burden when staying there. She would be a main reason as to why we would stay at the Sheraton in AC again. Thank you!
All the staff were very nice and accommodating. Very nice room, spacious, comfortable and clean. Breakfast was average but nice. Bed was comfortable but pillows very flat. Overall great experience and very close to Tangier outlet. Had a great time. Would definitely stay here again Pillows
My wife and I went there January 1st to January 3rd to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. The staff was professional, polite, and friendly. The room was beautiful, with nice pillows and sheets. We were walking distance from restaurants and shopping, and had a wonderful time while staying at this hotel. I hope others go there too. It's a great place. I wish the room had a refrigerator in it. But that was no big deal compared to all the other things the hotel had to offer.
The room and hallway were all permeated with smoke. It was unbearable. AVOID at ALL COST!
View was fantastic and the rooms were great Self parking was full when we checked in, tried to call the front desk and they weren't very helpful
Location! Convenient to shops, parking, roads & highways/expressways, & (most especially for my purposes) right across the street from the NJ Transit train station. (I ride the ACS Bike-a-thon every year that I can. Now that the Bike-a-thon is back to ending in AC, I drive down with family ahead of the event, stay & park at the Sheraton, take the train back to Phil. the night before, then bike back to AC with the ACS. Meanwhile the family has a full-feature shore weekend - without disruption from my participation in the Bike-a-thon. A win-win!) Usually nothing: You get what you pay for & usually that's roomier, quieter, cleaner & more comfortable than a lot of hotels & motels in AC. Since the Sheraton does not have direct beach access or a casino, the price is usually less expensive - even for a June weekend. This year however, competition from an ANIME" convention (who knew), appears to have driven the cost up a bit. Still, cost/value ratio wasn't too bad, & the ANIME" attendees were entertaining - sort of like a colorful carnival in the lobby.


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Mesa Dunes Mobile Home Park Conversion Halted
SLO Co. Supervisors uphold claim conversion survey was unlawful.
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. - A proposed mobile home park conversion on the mesa in Arroyo Grande has been stopped in its tracks.
The controversial plan split the quiet Mesa Dunes Park community pitting neighbor against neighbor.
Last year Mesa Dunes owners of the surveyed park residents about converting the park from tenant-leased lots to owner-occupied lots.
99 of the 166 residents who responded to the survey said they thought conversion was a good thing.
"As soon as the results were known the HOA Board didn't like the survey anymore", says park resident Joyce Wycoff who supported conversion, "apparently what they want is to do a resident-led conversion where they basically are in charge of everything and its more of a co-op kind of shared park."
Wycoff said she favored conversion because she felt it was a fair offer from the park owners to those who want to buy their lots.
"The way that the conversion was structured was that it would allow people who wanted to buy the lot their units sat on they could, and anyone else could just continue renting", Wycoff says.
"The ballot survey form was not lawful", says fellow Mesa Dunes park resident Dan Daniel pointing out the original conversion survey reached only 166 of the nearly 300 residents in the park.
Daniel was among park residents who got the Home Owners Association (HOA) Board to convince San Luis Obispo County the original survey was flawed and unfair.
"It was just not cut and dry it was very confusing", Daniel says, "all we asked for from the very beginning was a new survey and that's what this fight has been about."
On Tuesday San Luis Obispo County Supervisors unanimously agreed the original survey was illegal and for now at least the Mesa Dunes Park conversion is on hold.
Its unclear if the park owner plans to launch another tenant survey and continue to pursue conversion.

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The Rampage is a super crazy overstable driver from Legacy Discs. Founded by power bombers Steve and Bamba Rico, this first release from Legacy has turned heads with its degree of overstability and speed. Nearly the fastest disc on the market, AND willing to fade out for even the strongest throwers. This is a rare feat in distance drivers, and players are already recognizing the potential in Legacy.
The Pinnacle plastic is a durable tacky blend that brings to mind a slew of premium plastics by other companies, but is distinctly all its own plastic.


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Check out this great video from the Michigan Engineering Zone (MEZ) in the University of Michigan's Detroit Center: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=461865103895347&set=vb.127114000703794&type=3&theater
I understand a version of this video was shown at least three times on the Big 10 Network during the first University of Michigan football game of the season last Saturday! That's a Win!
Beta Testing
The deadline for submitting your applications for being a 2014 season beta tester is fast approaching – this Friday - and we still have fewer applicants that we have slots! See the details here: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/email-blast-08-22-13 The application itself is very brief. Give it a shot! You may be doing yourself and other teams a great favor by helping develop the control system for the upcoming season.
Frank Answer Friday
Unfortunately, I'm once again running out of week for the Frank Answers Friday feature. I'll try to get one posted next week.
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Jul 08 2007
Sunday Roundup: Brazilian Starlet, Tevez's Word, Owen, Rossi
A very good morning to you all. Enjoy the Sunday while you can.
Let's get down to today's (and some of yesterday's) stories quickly.
Jul 08 2007
A very good morning to you all. Enjoy the Sunday while you can.
Let's get down to today's (and some of yesterday's) stories quickly.
Jul 07 2007
Of all the signings Fergie has made this summer. The one likely to prove the most crucial was his securing of long term target Owen Hargreaves. The much marginalised and underrated, Canadian born English man is actually the one Roy Keane replacement Fergie has been looking for since Keane started losing his powers back in 2004.
Though it is clear that the one thing United would probably never replace about Keane in the team is his leadership and influence, his playing game was completely replaceable.
Jul 06 2007
Update 3: The Beeb's got this report. According to that Kia Joorabchian's lawyers say, the deal has progressed with the "knowledge and permission" of West Ham United. Wonder what will happen now. Expect the deal to take a while.
Update 2: Eggert Magnussen has now opened his mouth. Wants Tevez to spend his next three years with the Hammers. Pah!
Update: Sky Sports seem to have confirmed it. It's a two year loan!
We were talking about not believing the Tevez rumours until they came from the horse's mouth. Now we think that the horse has indeed spoken (or umm… neighed?).
Anyway, we found this link [via UnitedRant forums] which has the headline saying Reds Announce Tevez Capture, but no content.
Jul 05 2007
More reports are pouring in. They are all over the place. And now, it's the BBC's turn..
BBC's Radio Five Live Sport thinks a deal could be done by the weekend. Nice. Really, nice. For those living under a rock (or sleeping, or plain stoned), for the past few hours, please read this.
Jul 05 2007
Reports are just coming in and looks like Manchester United have signed Carlos Tevez.
The Times carries this report.
Happiness, overflows as I write this, but how certain are we about this deal? Read on.
Jul 04 2007
Michael Carrick wasn't quite the goal scorer at Tottenham, although we now know he is capable of scoring a scorcher or two, don't we?
Owen Hargreaves wasn't particularly prolific at Bayern. In fact, his goal return was pathetic. But he wasn't meant to score goals anyway, was he? But he has scored some, more than decent, goals. And my, my… some of them are actually pretty well taken efforts.
I would be really happy if he gets even a couple of those next season. Video after the jump.
Jul 04 2007
Quite a few things to report today. Of course, we'll spare the Scousers this time! Apparently they don't take criticism too lightly. I know, certain things can really hurt. So let's move on to worthwhile things.
Jul 03 2007
The answer is very simple really.
Manutd.com carries a report where Heinze says that he would deliberate about a move to another club. But the club needs to really, really convince him that the move would be right for him.


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I am looking for .22 semi auto for target shooting. I had a Ruger .22/45 mk III and found that it was a pain to clean. Any ideas on a .22 that is enjoyable to shoot and not too difficult to break down would be appreciated.
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I am looking for .22 semi auto for target shooting. I had a Ruger .22/45 mk III and found that it was a pain to clean. Any ideas on a .22 that is enjoyable to shoot and not too difficult to break down would be appreciated.
Beretta Neos. Great gun and easy to clean.
Kerbouchard has a great thread about it.
An older S&W Model 41 would be an ultimate .22 target gun for you.
The downside is magazines are a bit expensive.
What a high quality tack driver.
Without a doubt it's the most accurate handgun that I own.
Easy to field strip and clean the barrel and slide.
Just pull down on the trigger guard and the entire barrel lifts off.
Then removing the slide is a breeze.
Not too easy to do a full/complete disassembly on but I never take mine all the way down anyway.
I just remove the grips and solvent soak the frame (a solvent mix of mineral spirits and Hoppes #9) - It's reusable BTW & I just keep a tight lid on the can...slosh the frame fully assembled around in there...NEXT..power spray it out internally with spray degreaser contact cleaner...and then spray lube it internally and let the excess lubrication drain out onto paper towels overnight and it's ready to go.
The frame internals never get really dirty or caked with good quality rimfire ammo ammunition.
I clean my barrel/bore after shooting and the frame internals maybe every dozen or so times that I have it out.
I just wipe the exterior of the pistol with a lightly oiled cloth.
Mine has been running flawlessly for 20+ years and never gets fully taken apart.
It's just not necessary.
As has also been mentioned, the Beretta Neos is a great gun (even though it looks like it's from a Star Wars movie); the Browning Buckmark is also great, but they're tough to find and I'm not sure they are any easier to clean than the Rugers.
I'll second the S&W 41 or a High Standard. I have a "The Victor" that I love.
I would say go with the Neos...breeze to take down, very accurate, reliable with bulk ammo, and the price was very reasonable.
I'm happy with my Browning Buckmark, I paid $185 for it and it's a champ, pending on what model you get, they can be hard to take apart, mine is, but that's OK, I like the gun.
It may not be the prettiest thing, but it sure does shoot. :yup:
S&W 22A: reliable, accurate, easy to clean & won't break the bank.
S&W 22a run about 219.00 at academy sports ,you might find them a little cheaper
I just got myself an old S&W 422. Great gun, and fun.
If you are looking for something that operates the same way as your carry pistol, look into a Walther P22 or Sig Mosquito.
The P22 had a little bit of a rocky start, but if you buy a new one, they are pretty solid. I've had no troubles with mine at all. My only complaint is that I need a cleaning rod to keep the recoil spring from buckling during re-assembly.
If you still have the Ruger, I would stick with it and learn to master the take down procedure. It is a little tough when you first start to learn it.
There is a GREAT article on how to do this, here:
And, here's a photo of my Mark II (50th Anniversary Edition)
I'll second the Buckmark. It is a great inexpensive way to practice
Obviously not mine but I have one just like it.
Buck Mark Standard URX,
I like the Rugers the best, and they really are not hard to take down and get back together once you learn how. They are a total PIA though at first.
The Brownings are great too, just not as much aftermarket support.
I'd stick with the Rugers, after you break it down a couple of dozen times it isn't that hard.


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We offer observations on the human condition from a 21 year old mind trapped in an 81 year old body.
I saw a couple eating donuts with knife and fork. Bronx born they are not.
In life, if you are poor what boss gives is what you get.
Some stride with hesitation.
Physical wounds heal quicker than mental ones.
Human emotion of "shame" has become a human disaster.
Mom gazes at Ipad, child gazes at mom.
Is a smile when on c ell phone equal to smile when with people?
I'm down to half a bagel a day.
A baby must pound on something.
I await arrival of wrinkles.
Some shake head while reading, I don't.
I pride self on remembering appointments without writing them down.
These days more workers clean streets than build them.
Children gaze at strangers, it is in their genes.
I always marvel at the power of a bruise which heals itself.
Today, the choice is between who you have versus who you might get.
"Socialism" to Republicans means not being social to wealthy folk.
I have never witnessed such disrespect for the presidency.
She leans forward as he talks, he leans back when she does. Married couple for many years.
I never got into physical racing, only mental racing.
Some enter shop, place sunglasses on top of head, I do.
Some sit with half body off seat, I do not.
At age 81, options are limited for-anything!
Some firm bodies lead to firm minds, most do not.
"Conservative" Supreme Court justices are anything but, "conservative."


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Before ringing in the new year, we'd like to thank you, our members and friends, for your loyalty and trust. And let's not forget all the friendly smiles – we're extremely thankful for those too. It's been a pleasure serving all of you, and we look forward to doing more in 2012. Below are a few words from some members of our management team. They share why 2011 was a great one for them and the ILWU Credit Union.
2011 was a phenomenal year. We saw the return of lower mortgage rates; low auto rates and special VIP Longshoreman auto pricing; and the introduction of social media. The Facebook commitments illustrate the close relationship we have formed with our members. We are family.
– Guillermo J., Director of Marketing
Bank Transfer Day was the little bow on the end-of-year package. The event allowed us to showcase the ILWU Credit Union philosophy, which revolves around a 'no fee' environment. We always have the members' best interests in mind and the event reminded our membership of this. Anytime a movement allows someone new to see what we have to offer, the feeling is rewarding especially after it leads to new great members and relationships.
– Kim T., Vice President of Member Services
This year was really exciting because we were able to help so many members with their financial needs, especially in the mortgage area where so many members took advantage of our historically low interest rates. Good loans + great rates = happy faces.
– Pete K., Vice President of Lending
Our blog will be back in action next year (and week). Happy New Year everyone! See you all in 2012.


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The purse cake is covered in fondant and the Louis V insignia was handpainted on. The purse bag's handles and accents were done in gumpaste. The VS shopping bag is cake and cereal rice treats covered in gumpaste with handpainted highlights and gumpaste tissue paper. The highheel shoe is also all gumpaste. This cake was made for my mother-in-law's 50th Birthday.
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Washington Post Metro reporter Aaron Davis has an excellent story in today's paper about ethically-deficient D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) attending a reelection campaign fundraiser at the home of an "incarcerated real estate mogul" who is guilty of having "prey[ed] on homeowners facing foreclosure." Said home, by the way, is $36,000 in arrears on D.C. property taxes. Last year some of Davis's colleagues reported on how the Gray administration had moved to evict elderly residents from their houses for paltry sums of backpaid taxes, many times in cases where they had not been properly notified that they owed the District any money.
Unfortunately for Davis, and more importantly, for Post readers, his editors decided to shuffle his story off to page C5 in the Sunday paper. By contrast, they plastered the front page of Metro with an above-the-fold headline scolding the Virginia state legislature -- the lower house of which is dominated by Republicans -- for not going far enough in its ethics reforms: "Va. moves to tighten ethics rules -- but not too much."
"Loopholes remain in proposed bills," added the first subheader. A second subhead quoted the state senate's majority leader, a Democrat, "Saslaw: 'Either you're dishonest or you're not.'"
The story itself by Post staffer Michael Laris is about twice as long as Davis's and attempts to color the ethics debate with the fortunes of an indicted former Republican governor. Here's how it opens (emphasis mine):
RICHMOND — While attorneys for former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell wrangle in court over felony charges that he and his wife, Maureen, illegally accepted luxury gifts and large loans, state lawmakers are wrapping up a session in which they have left open key loopholes that could allow a similar scandal to unfold.
With just a week to go before its scheduled adjournment, the General Assembly has not passed the kind of sweeping reforms of Virginia's lax ethics rules that Republicans and Democrats both said they wanted after the McDonnell revelations began, and they did little to address a host of other problems cited by advocates of deeper reform.
They left untouched the state's no-limit campaign finance culture, in which officials can take checks of any size as long as they're disclosed. They let themselves and other state and local officials continue taking unlimited and undisclosed loans through companies they own. And although they passed bills banning some individual gifts greater than $250, they put no caps on the cumulative dollar value of gifts officials can receive from people with business before them.
Top Republican and Democratic leaders also saw little benefit in publicly sparring over laws governing their own conduct and that of other statewide and local officials. They made a strategic decision to prioritize their own bipartisan unity over the ambition of their shared ethics package, which tamped down debate and undercut bolder initiatives.
Another key hurdle is philosophy. Despite the desire to be seen as doing something post-McDonnell, some of the powerful legislators who could have pushed for more comprehensive changes — but haven't — remained intensely skeptical of the entire reform exercise.
"The absurdity is, you can't legislate ethics," said Senate Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw (D-Fairfax). "Either you're dishonest or you're not, okay? It's more window dressing. It's an attempt to deal with stuff, maybe tighten up a few things here or there."
Saslaw said that states with strict laws on the flow of money in politics are still vulnerable to human nature, just as laws against murder and embezzlement don't stop bad acts. And despite the McDonnell scandal, and the nine-year prison sentence given to a former ranking member of the House of Delegates in 2011 on bribery and extortion charges, he said Virginia's record remains strong.
"Look at all the laws that Maryland has. Every three years, one of them goes off to prison," Saslaw said. "That doesn't happen here. Do you know what it is? When you're born, you've got a chip in your head, and it tells you what's right and what's wrong. And somewhere along the line, some of these chips go bad. That's the problem."
That's not, of course, the philosophy of the Washington Post editorially, which has long bemoaned Virginia's lack of campaign contribution limits and which rarely sees a "good government" proposal which it doesn't support. The paper has ridden these hobby horses repeatedly, and it's hard for the news pages to not notice what the editorial board fixates on.
But Saslaw does have a point: political culture matters a lot more than laws. You can legislate until you're blue in the face, but the underlying political culture will still govern, which brings us back to Vincent Gray and the morally bankrupt one-party political culture of the District of Columbia. Corruption reigns supreme in the District in no small measure because of a one-party monopoly and a culture of pay-to-play politics. It's aided and abetted by a newspaper which doesn't take seriously its responsibility to combat that corruption in its own backyard.
Gray is up for reelection and commands a lead in the polls, despite ethical lapses and incompetence within his administration. That the Post chooses to bury a story which paints him in a negative light speaks volumes, even if you can say, "well, at least they ran the story."


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Personal Monitoring Software Charts The Science Of You [PSFK SEATTLE]
Andy Hickl discusses how his new life logging app SAGA can help you better understand yourself.
At the recent PSFK SEATTLE event, we had an opportunity to hear Andy Hickl of A.R.O. present is the idea behind his recently launched app SAGA. The Paul Allen backed Seattle-area startup has developed an innovative ambient location tracking smartphone application. A.R.O.'s recently launched SAGA app (available for both iOS and Android) uses smartphone sensors to enable a new kind of automatic lifelogging, and offer users key insights about their behavior. We caught up with Andy to get a few more in-depth insights into why he believes this will be an app that people will depend on.
What are the key features of Saga?
Saga's a lifelogging app.
It records your real life story, as told by the places and people you visited, and what you did there — and compiles it all into a beautiful diary, called a lifelog. We try to make it easy and fun to look back on where you've been, what you've done, what you've said and seen. And we do this all with little to no manual input required from a user. That's it.
In the near future, you'll see us start surfacing more context and relevant information about you, based on our analysis of your lifelog. The longer you lifelog, the richer every interaction with Saga will get. That additional data and context can and hopefully will unlock a bunch of very interesting possibilities for smart notifications, and potentially fix the spammy recommendation problem we see in many apps today.
You'll also see us get more social, as well. We believe lifelogging is powerful when it's a solitary endeavor — but it's even better when you're able to catch a glimpse of how other people are living their lives. This has been a dream of ours for a long time. We think Social lifelogging will be a fundamental new medium and a completely new way to share. You have your online social life, and then you have your Saga. I want to be able to share with you pieces of my Saga that are meaningful to me, and I want to be able to follow when you achieve great things down the road.
Click here to try out SAGA for yourself and check out Andy's full PSFK SEATTLE presentation below:
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Does It Make Sense To Buy A Plug-In Hybrid Car?
Many of the world's car manufacturers have at least one plug-in hybrid model to offer their customers. In some countries, it is a legal requirement that carmakers have one or more models that are powered by alternative fuel technologies to follow environmental legislation.
Plug-in hybrid cars are essentially vehicles that have small petrol or diesel engines that work together with electric motors and batteries. Such vehicles are promoted on the proviso that they will save car owners money whilst helping the environment. But does it make sense to buy a plug-in hybrid for your next car?
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In the United States, around 435,000 plug-in hybrid cars were sold back in 2012. And "across the pond" in the United Kingdom, 32,715 plug-in hybrids were bought by consumers in 2013.
If you are considering buying a plug-in hybrid car, here are some of the pros and cons that you should check out before making your purchasing decision!
Pro: you will become a greener motorist
Are you concerned about how the human race is damaging Mother Earth? Cars with petrol and diesel engines have been around for several decades now. It was only recently that car manufacturers have taken more steps to reducing carbon emissions.
Part of that reason will obviously have come from various governments around the world, and the changing needs of today's motorists. But if you purchase a plug-in hybrid, you can drive around safe in the knowledge that you are an eco-friendly driver!
Con: you will be a poorer motorist
One of the biggest downsides to owning an eco-friendly vehicle such as a plug-in hybrid is that you will end up paying several grand more for your motor!
The technology associated with automotive batteries and electric motors is still quite expensive to produce. Therefore, car manufacturers have no choice, but to pass on those costs to you. The shocking truth about plug-in hybrid cars is that it could take up to 20 years to recoup the costs associated with such an eco-friendly car.
Pro: you can sneak up on people
OK, so you wouldn't ordinarily go around sneaking up on people in your car unless you are a weirdo of some description!
If your plug-in hybrid car is only running on electric power at the time, your car will sound as loud as an electric train, for example. According to Jim from motorlinedirect.co.uk, the noise made by a car's electric motor is significantly less than that made by a petrol or diesel engine.
Con: some plug-in hybrid cars look awful
I'm not sure why, but some plug-in hybrid cars look ridiculous! I guess car manufacturers are trying to introduce the concept of futuristic-looking vehicles with futuristic technology, but this doesn't work a lot of the time.
Many people have complained about the styling of the Toyota Prius, for instance. Let's face it; you can't look cool driving a Prius! Some car manufacturers take the sensible approach and merely create plug-in hybrid versions of existing models.


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Janet Stacey, MBA, has joined Fairview Health Services as the President of Fairview Foundation.
Stacey will lead a 20-person foundation that builds philanthropic partnerships to support Fairview's mission to heal, discover and educate for longer, healthier lives.
"Stacey is an authentic, collaborative leader who has deep philanthropic experience and an impressive track record of building, leading and mentoring high-performance teams," says Fairview chief operating officer Carolyn Wilson, RN. "She is a valuable addition to the Fairview team as we partner with the community to advance our mission."


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I finally made it to Smorgusburg this past Sunday. With the original Brooklyn Flea three and a half blocks west of our apartment in the Winter, and three and a half blocks east in the Summer, I have never felt much need to trek up to Williamsburg for the Flea relocated there, and have never held much desire to see its food-centric offshoot, Smorgusburg, which opened last year in May, 2011. On a lazy Sunday, however, when it was a little too cloudy for the beach, Alex and I decided to venture north to the 'Burg for a gluttonous morning at what has become the quintessential, open-air, artisanal Brooklyn food market.
The highlight from Smorgusburg was the Spicy Tuna Taco from Takumi Taco. Japanese-Mexican fusion: an epic combo in my book. And no wonder I liked it so much. Founder Mark Spitzer is the executive chef atBond Street, one of my favorite Asian-fusian restaurants in the city, home to the Wasabi Bloody Mary (with Citrus Vodka, Wasabi, Shichimi Cucumber, shaken and served in a martini glass), the Spicy Crispy Shrimp (with Yuzu Calamanci Vinaigrette and Chipotle Aioli) and the swanky ambiance that has kept my girlfriends and me coming back for years. Takumi Taco packs the same punch of flavors into fusian street food, and it works perfectly in the Spicy Tuna Taco: Sashimi grade big eye tuna with jicama, avocado, cucumber and spicy mayo in a crispy gyoza shell. It took a lot of willpower not to go back for a second. Luckily, there were plenty of other tempting items to try.


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Roswell Police Chief Alfonso Solis announced [auth] his selection for position of deputy chief on Tuesday, Philip A. Smith Jr., 47, of Atkinson, N.H.
The city received seven applications in-house and five applications from outside of Roswell, two of which were from New Mexico. Solis said he chose Smith because of his credentials and his educational background.
"He's retired from the police in Salem, N.H. He was police chief in Alton," said Solis.
Smith has 25 years of experience with law enforcement. He started as a patrol officer in Salem, N.H., and worked his way up from police lieutenant to patrol shift commander. In 2007, Smith became chief of police in Alton, N.H., where he stayed for two years.
Currently, Smith is the town administrator, or chief administrative officer, for the town of Atkinson, which entails assisting the board of selectmen, or elected city officials, in managing town affairs. In addition he has worked as an educator or adjunct instructor in criminal justice and administration at Hesser (Kaplan) College in Manchester, N.H.
Smith's education includes a bachelor's degree in social science from Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, N.J., and a Master of Science in criminal justice from Boston University. He is currently working on a doctorate in executive leadership at Mountain State University in Virginia, after having received a certificate in executive leadership from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Solis said, "He shares the same philosophy as I do. He cares about his people, and I felt we'd make a good team."
Solis noted that he received good references from the current chief in Alton, who had previously competed for the position of chief against Smith. "When you can win over the competition that speaks well of you," he said.
The new deputy chief will start in 30 days. "He's got a house he has to sell and he wanted to give adequate notice to Atkinson, the city where he's administrator."
Solis also liked Smith's involvement in the community where he lives. He coaches amateur wrestling, softball and baseball.
Former RPD Deputy Police Chief Jody L. Scifres left the department in mid-July to be the police chief for Lubbock, Texas, Independent School District.
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Climate Change
On the broadest scale, the rate at which energy is received from the sun and the rate at which it is lost to space determine the equilibrium temperature and climate of Earth. This energy is distributed around the globe by winds, ocean currents, and other mechanisms to affect the climates of different regions.
Factors that can shape climate are called climate forcings or "forcing mechanisms".[5] These include processes such as variations in solar radiation, variations in the Earth's orbit, mountain-building and continental drift and changes in greenhouse gas concentrations. There are a variety of climate change feedbacks that can either amplify or diminish the initial forcing. Some parts of the climate system, such as the oceans and ice caps, respond slowly in reaction to climate forcings, while others respond more quickly.
Forcing mechanisms can be either "internal" or "external". Internal forcing mechanisms are natural processes within the climate system itself (e.g., the thermohaline circulation). External forcing mechanisms can be either natural (e.g., changes in solar output) or anthropogenic (e.g., increased emissions of greenhouse gases).
Whether the initial forcing mechanism is internal or external, the response of the climate system might be fast (e.g., a sudden cooling due to airborne volcanic ash reflecting sunlight), slow (e.g. thermal expansion of warming ocean water), or a combination (e.g., sudden loss of albedo in the arctic ocean as sea ice melts, followed by more gradual thermal expansion of the water). Therefore, the climate system can respond abruptly, but the full response to forcing mechanisms might not be fully developed for centuries or even longer.
Internal forcing mechanisms
Natural changes in the components of Earth's climate system and their interactions are the cause of internal climate variability, or "internal forcings." Scientists generally define the five components of earth's climate system to include atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere (restricted to the surface soils, rocks, and sediments), and biosphere.[6] Ocean variability
Main article: Thermohaline circulation
Pacific Decadal Oscillation 1925 to 2010
The ocean is a fundamental part of the climate system, some changes in it occurring at longer timescales than in the atmosphere, massing hundreds of times more and having very high thermal inertia (such as the ocean depths still lagging today in temperature adjustment from the Little Ice Age).[clarification needed][7] Short-term fluctuations (years to a few decades) such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the Pacific decadal oscillation, the North Atlantic oscillation, and the Arctic oscillation, represent climate variability rather than climate change. On longer time scales, alterations to ocean processes such as thermohaline circulation play a key role in redistributing heat by carrying out a very slow and extremely deep movement of water and the long-term redistribution of heat in the world's oceans.
A schematic of modern thermohaline circulation. Tens of millions of years ago, continental plate movement formed a land-free gap around Antarctica, allowing formation of the ACC which keeps warm waters away from Antarctica.
Life affects climate through its role in the carbon and water cycles and such mechanisms as albedo, evapotranspiration, cloud formation, and weathering.[8][9][10] Examples of how life may have affected past climate include: glaciation 2.3 billion years ago triggered by the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis,[11][12] glaciation 300 million years ago ushered in by long-term burial of decomposition-resistant detritus of vascular land plants (forming coal),[13][14] termination of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 55 million years ago by flourishing marine phytoplankton,[15][16] reversal of global warming 49 million years ago by 800,000 years of arctic azolla blooms,[17][18] and global cooling over the past 40 million years driven by the expansion of grass-grazer ecosystems.[19][20] External forcing mechanisms
Increase in atmospheric CO2 levels
Milankovitch cycles from 800,000 years ago in the past to 800,000 years in the future.
Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 450,000 years
Orbital variations
Main article: Milankovitch cycles
Slight variations in Earth's orbit lead to changes in the seasonal distribution of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface and how it is distributed across the globe. There is very little change to the area-averaged annually averaged sunshine; but there can be strong changes in the geographical and seasonal distribution. The three types of orbital variations are variations in Earth's eccentricity, changes in the tilt angle of Earth's axis of rotation, and precession of Earth's axis. Combined together, these produce Milankovitch cycles which have a large impact on climate and are notable for their correlation to glacial and interglacial periods,[21] their correlation with the advance and retreat of the Sahara,[21] and for their appearance in the stratigraphic record.[22] The IPCC notes that Milankovitch cycles drove the ice age cycles, CO2 followed temperature change "with a lag of some hundreds of years," and that as a feedback amplified temperature change.[23] The depths of the ocean have a lag time in changing temperature (thermal inertia on such scale). Upon seawater temperature change, the solubility of CO2 in the oceans changed, as well as other factors impacting air-sea CO2 exchange.[24] Solar output
Main article: Solar variation
Variations in solar activity during the last several centuries based on observations of sunspots and beryllium isotopes. The period of extraordinarily few sunspots in the late 17th century was the Maunder minimum.
The Sun is the predominant source for energy input to the Earth. Both long- and short-term variations in solar intensity are known to affect global climate.
Three to four billion years ago the sun emitted only 70% as much power as it does today. If the atmospheric composition had been the same as today, liquid water should not have existed on Earth. However, there is evidence for the presence of water on the early Earth, in the Hadean[25][26] and Archean[27][25] eons, leading to what is known as the faint young Sun paradox.[28] Hypothesized solutions to this paradox include a vastly different atmosphere, with much higher concentrations of greenhouse gases than currently exist.[29] Over the following approximately 4 billion years, the energy output of the sun increased and atmospheric composition changed. The Great Oxygenation Event – oxygenation of the atmosphere around 2.4 billion years ago – was the most notable alteration. Over the next five billion years the sun's ultimate death as it becomes a red giant and then a white dwarf will have large effects on climate, with the red giant phase possibly ending any life on Earth that survives until that time.
Solar output also varies on shorter time scales, including the 11-year solar cycle[30] and longer-term modulations.[31] Solar intensity variations are considered to have been influential in triggering the Little Ice Age,[32] and some of the warming observed from 1900 to 1950. The cyclical nature of the sun's energy output is not yet fully understood; it differs from the very slow change that is happening within the sun as it ages and evolves. Research indicates that solar variability has had effects including the Maunder minimum from 1645 to 1715 A.D., part of the Little Ice Age from 1550 to 1850 A.D. that was marked by relative cooling and greater glacier extent than the centuries before and afterward.[33][34] Some studies point toward solar radiation increases from cyclical sunspot activity affecting global warming, and climate may be influenced by the sum of all effects (solar variation, anthropogenic radiative forcings, etc.).[35][36] Interestingly, a 2010 study[37] suggests, "that the effects of solar variability on temperature throughout the atmosphere may be contrary to current expectations."
In an Aug 2011 Press Release,[38] CERN announced the publication in the Nature journal the initial results from its CLOUD experiment. The results indicate that ionisation from cosmic rays significantly enhances aerosol formation in the presence of sulphuric acid and water, but in the lower atmosphere where ammonia is also required, this is insufficient to account for aerosol formation and additional trace vapours must be involved. The next step is to find more about these trace vapours, including whether they are of natural or human origin.
Further information: Cosmic ray#Role in climate change
Magnetic field strength
Some recent (2006+) analysis suggests that global climate is correlated with the strength of Earth's magnetic field.[39][40] Volcanism
In atmospheric temperature from 1979 to 2010, determined by MSU NASA satellites, effects appear from aerosols released by major volcanic eruptions (El Chichón and Pinatubo). El Niño is a separate event, from ocean variability.
Volcanic eruptions release gases and particulates into the atmosphere. Eruptions large enough to affect climate occur on average several times per century, and cause cooling (by partially blocking the transmission of solar radiation to the Earth's surface) for a period of a few years. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century[41] (after the 1912 eruption of Novarupta[42]) affected the climate substantially. Global temperatures decreased by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F). The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 caused the Year Without a Summer.[43] Much larger eruptions, known as large igneous provinces, occur only a few times every hundred million years, but may cause global warming and mass extinctions.[44] Volcanoes are also part of the extended carbon cycle. Over very long (geological) time periods, they release carbon dioxide from the Earth's crust and mantle, counteracting the uptake by sedimentary rocks and other geological carbon dioxide sinks. The US Geological Survey estimates are that volcanic emissions are at a much lower level than the effects of current human activities, which generate 100–300 times the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by volcanoes.[45] A review of published studies indicates that annual volcanic emissions of carbon dioxide, including amounts released from mid-ocean ridges, volcanic arcs, and hot spot volcanoes, are only the equivalent of 3 to 5 days of human caused output. The annual amount put out by human activities may be greater than the amount released by supererruptions, the most recent of which was the Toba eruption in Indonesia 74,000 years ago.[46] Although volcanoes are technically part of the lithosphere, which itself is part of the climate system, the IPCC explicitly defines volcanism as an external forcing agent.[47] Plate tectonics
Over the course of millions of years, the motion of tectonic plates reconfigures global land and ocean areas and generates topography. This can affect both global and local patterns of climate and atmosphere-ocean circulation.[48] The position of the continents determines the geometry of the oceans and therefore influences patterns of ocean circulation. The locations of the seas are important in controlling the transfer of heat and moisture across the globe, and therefore, in determining global climate. A recent example of tectonic control on ocean circulation is the formation of the Isthmus of Panama about 5 million years ago, which shut off direct mixing between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This strongly affected the ocean dynamics of what is now the Gulf Stream and may have led to Northern Hemisphere ice cover.[49][50] During the Carboniferous period, about 300 to 360 million years ago, plate tectonics may have triggered large-scale storage of carbon and increased glaciation.[51] Geologic evidence points to a "megamonsoonal" circulation pattern during the time of the supercontinent Pangaea, and climate modeling suggests that the existence of the supercontinent was conducive to the establishment of monsoons.[52] The size of continents is also important. Because of the stabilizing effect of the oceans on temperature, yearly temperature variations are generally lower in coastal areas than they are inland. A larger supercontinent will therefore have more area in which climate is strongly seasonal than will several smaller continents or islands.


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Aberrant gene expression patterns in placentomes are associated with phenotypically normal and abnormal cattle cloned by somatic cell nuclear transfer. Everts R.E., P. Chavatte-Palmer, A. Razzak, I. Hue, C.A. Green, R. Oliveira, X. Vignon, S.L. Rodriguez-Zas, X.C. Tian, X. Yang, J.P. Renard and H.A. Lewin. 2008. Physiological Genomics 33:65-77.
Nutrition-induced ketosis alters metabolic and signaling gene networks in liver of periparturient dairy cows. Loor J.J., R.E. Everts, M. Bionaz, H.M. Dann, D.E. Morin, R. Oliveira, S.L. Rodriguez-Zas, J.K. Drackley and H.A. Lewin. 2007. Physiological Genomics 32:105-16.
Plane of nutrition prepartum alters hepatic gene expression and function in dairy cows as assessed by longitudinal transcript and metabolic profiling. Loor J.J., H.M. Dann, N.A. Janovick-Guretzky, R.E. Everts, R. Oliveira, C.A. Green, N.B. Litherland, S.L. Rodriguez-Zas, H.A. Lewin and J.K. Drackley. 2006. Physiological Genomics 27: 29-41.
Temporal gene expression profiling of liver from periparturient dairy cows reveals complex adaptive mechanisms in hepatic function. Loor J.J., H.M. Dann, R.E. Everts, R. Oliveira, C.A. Green, N.A. Janovick-Guretzky, S.L. Rodriguez-Zas, H.A. Lewin and J.K. Drackley. 2005. Physiological Genomics 23: 217-226.
A 7872 cDNA microarray and its use in bovine functional genomics. Everts R.E., M.R., Band, Z.L. Liu, C.G. Kumar, L. Liu, J.J. Loor, R. Oliveira and H.A. Lewin. 2005. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 105:235-45.
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Oct 2000, I was sitting at my computer doing my eBay thing and I put my hands on my thighs to push off and get up when I noticed a lump on the top of my left thigh. I was surprised to say the least because it was so large. It was soft when my leg was relaxed and it got hard when I flexed, so I was confused as to what it could be. I told my husband about it and then called my mother to get some advice. Good ol' mom, she always knows. I just kept flexing and relaxing trying to figure out something, like it if hurt when I did a certain thing, but it was totally painless. I also hadn't been straining or exercising because I had just had a baby 4 months earlier and I hadn't gotten my regular "super mom" strength back yet. I finally called "ask-a-nurse" which is run by a local hospital and staffed with nurses who takes calls from people who have medical questions. I talked to a nurse who asked if I had hit my leg in that location and I answered no, and I finally got her opinion of "put ice on it and see if the swelling goes away". Well I knew better because I hadn't done anything but sit at my computer or at the most walk up and down my stairs.
I decided to call my GP the next day and I got right in to see him. He was baffled. He and his assistant told me, after an examination, that I had a muscle tear that caused my muscle to ball up. I thought to myself, that can't be right, I didn't do anything that could have torn a muscle. He asked me if I would like to get another opinion and I said, "I will go home and think about it". I talked to my husband when I returned home and said that I didn't feel right about the diagnosis and he agreed that if I didn't feel comfortable that I should see another doctor. I called my GP back and asked to be referred to an Ortho and I had an appt within the week to see him. He ordered an MRI for me and I went to the hospital one week later. I waited for what seemed like forever for the results and finally the phone call from Dr. Yeakly came in. He said that the radiologist looked at my MRI and thought that it could be Schwannoma. Since Dr. Yeakly didn't deal with things of this nature, he said that he would refer me to a Doctor up at the Medical Center in Omaha. I asked if this was cancer and he said, 'It could be, we just can't tell."
I went up to my referred doctor, Dr. Neff, he is one of the Sarcoma specialist as I would learn later at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He did a biopsy of my leg and I waited TEN excruciating days for my results and when I went back for the visit on November 10th, I was told that I had Liposarcoma. I guess I didn't realize at the time how serious this disease is, but I immediately started to surf the web for answers to all of my questions when I returned home. I called all of my family and told them the news, and tried to answer as many questions as I could.
I was scheduled to start radiation in January and I went through five weeks of driving 100 miles a day for my treatments, boy was I glad when those were over. I finally had my surgery on March 2nd and all went well, or so I was told when I woke up from La-La land. I was in the hospital for 5 days and then walked with crutches for another 2 weeks, then a cane for a while until my leg got strong enough to move on it's own. Therapy also helped me a lot on my way to recovery. I had a low – intermediate staged tumor which was the size of a smushed grapefruit pre-rad and then shrunk considerably post-rad. Dr Neff said that the margins looked good and the next step would be a check up in 3 months, and that is the story.
I am going to my regular check ups every four months. A full day of Lab, X-ray, CT, MRI and I also get a bone scan once a year. I do have one spot on my left lung that they think is scar tissue from a bad cold, it hasn't grown since my last tests,(thank God) and I also have a spot on my right lung that they can't tell what it is, just showed up this set of tests. They say it's non-calcified, so it could be anything, including mets, but right now it's too small to tell. I go for my next set of tests in March and we will know (hopefully) by then if I am at "war" again. You never think at such a young age (29) that something like this wicked disease will happen to you, but when it does, you deal with it the best you can. It profoundly changes your outlook on life, on people, on religion, on the world, and you NEVER look at anything the same again.
I am a mother of 3. Micheala – 9, Jameson – 2 1/2, Aaron -16 months. I was married only 3 years ago this last October to a wonderful man who has been my rock through this whole thing.
This cancer might be an unknown to a lot of people, but I know it all too well, and I will not let it beat me! I cling to the fact that I have tomorrow, for now, and I cherish that more than anyone will know.
One of my classmates in college wrote this for me to use in one of my design projects and I still, 5 years later, have it hanging on my computer. It says,
"The life you have led need not be the life you have…….. Dream."
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Publication Acceptance Date: 5/14/2009
Publication Date: 1/1/2011
Citation: Zhang, Barbosa-Canovas, Balusbramaniam, Dunne, Farkas and Yuan.2011. Nonthermal Processing Technologies for Food. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 359-365 Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Chlorine dioxide (ClO2) gas is registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a sterilant for use in manufacturing, laboratory equipment, medical devices, environmental surfaces, tools and clean rooms. Aqueous ClO2 is registered by the EPA as a surface disinfectant and sanitizer for use in livestock barns, bottling and food processing plants, and other manufacturing and storage facilities. The gaseous form is considered highly unstable and explosive at concentrations exceeding 10% in air, therefore it is not allowed to be stored or shipped in the U.S. and must be generated on site. While ClO2 gas dissolves readily in water, it does not hydrolyze and maintains integrity in a wide range of pH. Unlike chlorine, ClO2 does not participate in chlorination reactions leading to the formation of chlorinated compounds which are considered to be potentially carcinogenic. Also, unlike ozone, ClO2 does not oxidize bromide ion to bromate ion, which are also considered carcinogenic. Gaseous ClO2 is more efficacious in decontaminating food and food preparation surfaces than the aqueous form due to good penetration distribution of hard to reach inaccessible sites of the treated surfaces.


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My DCR-VX2100 purchased in 2005 has started producing pixellated video in random patterns enough to make the video unusable. I've blown out the tape deck with canned air but no change. Is the problem dirty heads or bad tapes or what?
Have the heads ever been cleaned? How many hours are logged on them? Have you recently switched tape types/brands? Most likely they're dirty and just need to be cleaned. To determine if its a tape or not, try a different tape in the camera, and try the tapes in a different source whether it be a deck or another camera.


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Written in a witty, insightful, and readable voice, Passionista can increase confidence and inspire exploration between partners.
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Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) lawmaker Eva Kusuma Sundari called on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to come up with a strong case against Anggoro Widjojo, the suspect of a bribery case relating to the 2007 tender of the Integrated Radio Communication System (SKRT) project.
Eva said on Sunday that Anggoro should not be shown leniency, given that he had already escaped prosecution for more than four years. She added that Anggoro, the owner of PT Masaro Radiocom, should be charged with additional articles, on top on the anti-graft articles, after his actions to obstruct the prosecution of the case.
After arresting Anggoro in China last month with the help of Interpol, the KPK should deal with the unfinished case by starting to indict other people related to the dispute, according to Eva.
'We believe that KPK investigators can find the facts and evidence [needed] to bring this case to court,' she said.
Following the arrest of Anggoro, the KPK stepped up its prosecution of the case.
On Friday, KPK spokesperson Johan Budi announced in a press conference that Muhamad Yusuf, the personal chauffeur of former forestry minister MS Kaban, was summoned as a witness in the case against Anggoro. The SKRT project was underway when Kaban was forestry minister.
Anggoro is accused of bribing four lawmakers from Commission IV to ensure his company won the tender in 2006 and 2007.
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Updated: May 2015
A nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) is a specified region in which countries commit themselves not to manufacture, acquire, test, or possess nuclear weapons. Five such zones exist today, with four of them spanning the entire Southern Hemisphere. The regions currently covered under NWFZ agreements include: Latin America (the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco), the South Pacific (the 1985 Treaty of Rarotonga), Southeast Asia (the 1995 Treaty of Bangkok) Africa (the 1996 Treaty of Pelindaba) and Central Asia (the 2006 Treaty of Semipalatinsk).
Article VII of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which entered into force in 1970, affirms the right of countries to establish specified zones free of nuclear weapons. The UN General Assembly reaffirmed that right in 1975 and outlined the criteria for such zones. Within these nuclear-weapon-free zones, countries may use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Each treaty establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone includes a protocol for the five nuclear-weapon states recognized under the NPT-China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States-to sign and ratify. These protocols, which are legally binding, call upon the nuclear-weapon states to respect the status of the zones and not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against treaty states-parties. Such declarations of non-use of nuclear weapons are referred to as negative security assurances. However, the five nuclear-armed countries have at times signed and ratified a NWFZ protocol and declared conditions reserving the right to use nuclear weapons in certain scenarios against parties to a nuclear-weapon-free zone. For instance, the United States signed the protocol for the African nuclear-weapon-free zone in April 1996 with a declaration that it would reserve the right to respond with all options, implying possible use of nuclear weapons, to a chemical or biological weapons attack by a member of the zone. None of the nuclear-weapon states have signed the relevant protocol for the treaty creating a zone in Southeast Asia because of concerns that it conflicts with the right of their ships and aircraft to have freedom of movement in international waters and airspace. The other three zones do not explicitly rule out the transit of nuclear weapons by nuclear-weapon states through the zones, and the general practice of nuclear-weapon states is not to declare whether nuclear weapons are aboard their vessels.
In addition to nuclear-weapon-free zones, there are treaties and declarations, which are not covered by this fact sheet, banning the deployment of nuclear weapons in Antarctica, Mongolia, on the seabed, and in outer space.
Basic Elements of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaties
Duration: The treaties are to remain in force indefinitely. Yet, each treaty includes a withdrawal option for states-parties. With the exception of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, which simply requires three months' advance notice before a withdrawal can take effect, all the NWFZ treaties require 12 months' advance notice for a state-party to end its treaty obligations.
Conditions: None of the treaties can be subjected to conditions by its non-nuclear-weapon states-parties.
Verification: Each state-party adopts comprehensive safeguards administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which verifies that states-parties are not pursuing nuclear weapons illicitly. The Central Asian NWFZ goes a step further in requiring that states in the region adopt the IAEA's Additional Protocol, which provides for expanded monitoring.
Territory Covered: Each zone applies to the entire territories of all of its states-parties. Territory is understood to include all land holdings, internal waters, territorial seas, and archipelagic waters. The Latin American treaty also extends hundreds of kilometers from the states-parties' territories into the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, but the nuclear-weapon states, citing their freedom at sea, assert that this does not apply to their ships and aircraft that might be carrying nuclear weapons. A dispute also exists over the inclusion of the Chagos Archipelago, which includes the U.S. military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, as part of the proposed African nuclear-weapon-free zone. Neither the United States nor the United Kingdom recognizes Diego Garcia as being subject to the Pelindaba Treaty.
Initial efforts to create an area free of nuclear weapons began in the late 1950s with several proposals to establish such a zone in Central and Eastern Europe. Poland offered the first proposal-named the Rapacki Plan after the Polish foreign minister-in 1958. The Rapacki Plan sought to initially keep nuclear weapons from being deployed in Poland, Czechoslovakia, West Germany, and East Germany, while reserving the right for other European countries to follow suit. The Soviet Union, Sweden, Finland, Romania, and Bulgaria also floated similar proposals. All these early efforts, however, floundered amidst the U.S.-Soviet superpower conflict, although the Rapacki Plan would serve as a model to the nuclear-weapon-free zones that were eventually set up in other regions of the globe.
The Treaty of Tlatelolco (Latin America and the Caribbean)
Opened for signature: February 14, 1967
Entered into force: October 23, 2002[1]
States-parties: 33 total; Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Protocol ratification by nuclear-weapon states: Protocol II (negative security assurances) ratified by China, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union.[2]
The Treaty of Rarotonga (South Pacific)
Opened for signature: August 6, 1985
Entered into force: December 11, 1986
States-parties: 13 total; Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
Protocol ratification by nuclear-weapon states: Protocol I (prohibition on the manufacture, stationing and testing of any nuclear explosive device - open only to France, the United Kingdom and the United States) ratified by France, and the United Kingdom. Protocol II (negative security assurances) ratified by China, France, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union.[2] Protocol III (ban on nuclear testing in the nuclear-weapon-free zone) ratified by China, France, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union.[2]
The Treaty of Bangkok (Southeast Asia)
Opened for signature: December 15, 1995
Entered into force: March 27, 1997
State-parties: 10 total; Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Protocol ratification by nuclear-weapon states: None. Five nuclear weapons states and ASEAN members met in July 2012 to sign the treaty protocol. The treaty commission, however, postponed the signing of the protocol until November, requesting more time to review reservations that several of the NWS indicated that they would attach during ratification.
The Treaty of Pelindaba (Africa)
Opened for signature: April 11, 1996
Entered into force: July 15, 2009
States-parties: 28 total; Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Togo, United Republic of Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Signatories that have not ratified the treaty are: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Niger, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sao Tome & Principe, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia, as well as the area known as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
Protocol ratification by nuclear-weapon states: Protocol I (negative security assurances) ratified by China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Protocol II (ban on nuclear testing in the nuclear-weapon-free zone) ratified by China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty
Opened for signature: September 8, 2006
Entered into force: March 21, 2009
States-parties: 5 total; Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Protocol ratification by nuclear-weapon states: Protocol I ratified by France and the United Kingdom. At the 2015 NPT Review Conference, the United States and Russia announced that they submitted the protocols for ratification.
1. The treaty specified that the full zone would not enter into force until it was ratified by all states within the zones. That did not occur until Cuba ratified the treaty in 2002. However, the treaty permitted individual states to waive that provision and declare themselves bound by the treaty, which many did beginning in 1968.
2.Russia is recognized as inheriting the Soviet Union's treaty commitments.


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Fishing on Oahu
The rugged coasts along Oahu make for some lay-up (as Tom calls them) photos. Everything is quite rugged and dramatic. But, even if it was not for the drama of the scene, I think this fisherman is extra-dramatic! I didn't see anything actually caught, but I would think it would be some giant dramatic fish.
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If you really want a nice little RPM loving package try a 4.125 bore with a 3.25 stroke. It yields 348 cu. in
From waaay back, but I dig that deal. I have a 3.26 stroke billet piece with intentions for a 400 based mill, +.040 for 355 CI. You know, grab a gear and wring it through some RPM on the way to church.
Buddy shop owner down the road runs a 377 in his camaro. No joke. It flat out rips with 1/4 mi times high 9's all motor. RPM KILLS, so keep that in mind. I personally like the 3.875 combo, always made plenty of TQ/HP for me, no matter. You can get a 3.48 stroke crank with the 400 main size and LJ or SJ rod, whatever you want. You need to come up with a specific goal for this motor, figure out how much track time and how much street time and go from there. Gears tire size trans weight heads cam intake etc etc etc. I'm looking at 10 400 mained 4340 cranks with strokes from 3.3, 3.35, 3.4, 3.48, 3.5, 3.562, 3.625 and 3.875 available for 5.7 or 6.0 rods. You can build your 400 beast into a variety of c.i. with more head options than you'll care to look at too. It's all in the COMBO, and it all works together... when you get it right. JMO One more thing you might consider, that being how much HP you make in the stock block. I've seen them over 700HP on motor but that's a crap shoot not to grenade. I've run them with 500+ and hit 'em with a 150-200 shot without trouble. All I'm going to add is to run it with a solid flat cam so it makes some noise.
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Connectivity is pretty strong, too. Along with the HDMI output you get a D-SUB output as an analogue video output, good for PC monitors and TVs as well if you have no spare HDMI ports. Four USB ports matches what you'd demand on a notebook this size, while you also get all the staples such as headphone and microphone jacks, Ethernet and modem ports, a 54mm Express Card slot and a 1.3 Megapixel camera.
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And, when you do begin to use the R700, you'll come to appreciate one of the greatest aspects of the R700: its keyboard. Now, before I go on to explain why it's so good, it's worth remembering that Samsung is still committing one of the cardinal sins of keyboard design by placing the Fn key to the left of the Ctrl key, but despite this the R700's keyboard is truly excellent.
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