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This seven tiered stand was perfect for this wedding – taking place on 7.7.07 at the Ritz Carlton in Battery Park. The two tier top cake featured a Swavorski crystal monogram, flowers and butterflies, all by Very Different Cakes – as well as a whole 'garden' of hand-made sugar roses and orchids. Each cupcake was adorned with a sugar rosebud.
We built the stand to resemble a tiered wedding cake – rather than our regular cupcake stands whose tiers are proportionally sloped. The bottom of the stand was finished with an Ivory satin bow and crystal flower center. The cupcakes were an assortment of vanilla and chocolate with vanilla and chocolate buttercream icing.
This separate two tier cake was created to replicate the top cake for the couple to cut, since the stand was a little too tall for any real cutting potential 🙂 !
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Microsoft has finally unveiled Microsoft Office 2013. CNET's already had a chance to do an in-depth review of Office 365, the subscription version of Office 2013. Have more questions? Check out our answers below.
How many different versions are there?
Office 2013 will come in a variety of versions for home and business users, and you can get the current pricing and version breakdown here. Office 365's subscription-based cloud service comes in tiers: Home Premium (20GB of SkyDrive storage and 60 minutes of Skype world minutes a month included), Small Business Premium (shared calendars, business-class mail, HD conferencing), and ProPlus (enterprise). Buying the standalone versions of Office 2013 will get you maintenance updates only, but staying subscribed to Office 365 will give you big updates coming down the pike in the future as well. Sound confusing? Well, it is.
There's also the Microsoft RT version of Office for ARM-based tablets, included for free on RT devices such as the Surface RT tablet. Office Home and Student 2013 RT includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
How many devices will it support?
With a purchase of any of the Office 2013 standalone versions you will only be able to install it on one PC. The Office 365 subscription versions can be installed on up to five computers. You can deactivate versions and install them on other devices after that. You'll need to sign up for a free Microsoft account to use cloud-based document sharing via SkyDrive.
How much has changed?
Jason Parker's review and video of Office 2013 has a full rundown in this regard, but essentially Office has been streamlined in its visual style in its quest to be more touch- and stylus-friendly for Windows 8 tablets. Newer social features and Skype integration add some new collaborative wrinkles, but replicate what's already available on PCs via other services and software. OneNote and Lync add collaborative note-taking and video-connected communications to the Office suite.
The addition of stylus support in tablet mode ("inking") opens up opportunities for casual pen-based markups of documents, or freehand note-taking.
Is there any free online component like Google Docs?
Microsoft already offers a free series of Google Docs-like Web apps via SkyDrive. Cloud connectivity is offered through your Web browser with no software purchase and no monthly fees. The Web apps are not as rich as the full versions, but will definitely be useful for more-casual Office users or for quick edits to documents in a pinch. The apps available are Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. You will need to sign up for a Microsoft account to use the Web apps.
Will there be iOS compatibility?
Office 365 supports some Web browser access, which will work on an iPad or iPhone. Other than that, there's no version of Office announced for iOS. However, OneNote is available not just on iOS but Android and Symbian phones, too.
Is there a Mac version?
No Mac version of Office 2013 has been announced, but Microsoft says the Mac version is on a different track than the Windows version, and will be upgraded in 12 to 18 months. However, the Office 365 subscription plan is compatible with Office for Mac. If you sign up for a subscription, you can install Office 2011 on five Macs and receive free updates when they become available.
What are the system requirements?
You'll need a Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC, or a Windows RT tablet.
How does it work on tablets?
Office 2013 is specifically optimized for tablet use, and even smartphone use. The layout has been simplified and more touch-friendly button-icons have been added. While the Ribbon still remains in Word, you can opt to remove interface clutter for a cleaner view. Other additions focus on media use and consumption; Read mode optimizes a document for tablet reading with booklike page-flipping, and videos can be viewed within documents. Images can be captured from a tablet's onboard camera and resized right into the doc; finger gestures can enable layout changes. A clever radial thumb-controlled button scheme in OneNote provides a quick way to adjust fonts, colors, and sizes.
Will it work on phones?
Yes, Windows phones will support Office via SkyDrive, seamlessly updating saved changes. It's still unclear how robust Office on phones will be.
What about Skype?
Skype is supported in Microsoft Lync for multiparty video chat, and within Office for collaboration on documents. The biggest impact could be in office meetings: a demonstration on an 80-inch Perceptive Pixel screen created a giant interactive whiteboard and collaborative meetup.
So, which version should I get?
Another good question. Which version of Microsoft Office you choose depends on how much you use each of the tools in the suite. The standalone versions might be the right choice for people who only use a couple of the programs and are not worried about future upgrades. For $139, you can get Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013, the low-end standalone option that comes with Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. If you want to add Outlook to that, you can get Office Home and Business for $219. If you want all the tools, you can spend $399 on Office Professional, which comprises Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access. It's important to note that if you take this route and avoid the subscription, the standalone versions only let you install the software on one computer and won't give you future upgrades to the software beyond bug fixes.
The other option is to sign up for an Office 365 subscription, which gives you the same downloadable Office apps that live on your hard drive; all future upgrades to the software while you keep the subscription; Office on Demand; 20GB of space on SkyDrive (in addition to the free 7GB you get now); and the right to install the suite on five computers. With this setup, you can choose Office 365 Home Premium for $99 per year, which bundles Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access. To add a couple of business tools, you can sign up for Office 365 Small Business Premium (available February 27) at $150 per year for five computers, which gives you all the software of the home version plus Lync and InfoPath. With the small-business version, you also get added extras like mail protection (against viruses), shared calenders, high-definition videoconferencing, and the ability to create company Web sites and share documents online.
There will also be packages with more business features for larger companies, but the full details on those won't be announced until February 27.
Is Clippy back?
No. But there is some loose and casual help information that pops up from time to time.
Update, January 29, 2013: Updated to include information about which version you should get.

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Prelude: 1803 to May 1804[1]
If the sources of the rivers were near one another, Jefferson reasoned that American traders could use that route to compete with British fur companies pressing southward from Canada.
On February 28, 1803, Congress appropriated funds for a small U.S. Army unit to explore the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. The explorers were to make detailed reports on the land's geography, climate, plants, animals, as well as to study the customs and languages of the Indians. Plans for the Expedition were almost complete when the President learned that France had offered to sell all of Louisiana Territory to the United States. This transfer, which was completed within a year, doubled the area of the United States. It meant that Jefferson's army Expedition could travel to the crest of the Rockies on American soil, no longer needing permission from the former French owners.Meriwether Lewis, as the Expedition's leader. The Jeffersons and Lewises had been neighbors near Charlottesville, Virginia, where Lewis was born August 18, 1774. As a boy, he had spent time in the woods acquiring a remarkable knowledge of native plants and animals. In 1794, he served in the Virginia Militia when President Washington called it out to quell the Whiskey Rebellion. Lewis had a successful army career when, in 1801, the newly elected Jefferson summoned him to work as his private secretary in the "President's House."
In preparing for the Expedition, Lewis visited President Jefferson's scientific associates in Philadelphia for instruction in natural sciences, astronomical navigation and field medicine. He also was given a list of questions about their daily lives to ask the American Indians that they would meet. During these preparations Lewis, for "20$" purchased Seaman, his "dogg of the newfoundland breed" to accompany him to the Pacific.
Lewis and Clark reached their staging point at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers near St. Louis in December 1803. They camped for the winter at the mouth of Wood River, on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, opposite the entrance to the Missouri River. The two captains recruited young woodsmen and enlisted soldiers who volunteered from nearby army outposts. Over the winter final selections were made of proven men. In the spring, the Expedition's roster comprised of approximately 45 people, including some military personnel and local boatmen who would go part way up the Missouri with the Expedition. Lewis recorded that the mouth of Wood River was "to be considered the point of departure" for the westward journey.
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Hoboken-based filmmaker Frank Gigante is set to begin working on a new short film, "Broken Silence," about the dangers of bullying. The film, written by Gigante, is one of many new projects in the works for Gigante's company, My Way Produzioni.
Inspired by the growing number of bullying-related suicides making headlines, Gigante conveys the film's strong anti-bullying message through "Fran," a quiet teen frequently targeted by her peers. After staged photos of her circulate through picture messaging and social media sites, Fran must weigh the consequences of a ruined reputation against her diminishing will to live.
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Orcaella brevirostris (Mekong River subpopulation)
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|Scientific Name:
|Orcaella brevirostris (Mekong River subpopulation)
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|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered C2a(i,ii); D ver 3.1
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|Smith, B.D. & Beasley, I.
|Reeves, R. & Taylor, B.L. (Cetacean Red List Authority)
The best estimate of abundance for the Kratie to Khone Falls river segment is 69 individuals, based on the pool-count survey in May 2003. This number is probably close to the actual size of the Mekong subpopulation because of:
1) the low probability that dolphins occur below Kratie and in the Sekong River during the low-water season, and in Tonle Sap (Great Lake) and its connecting channel at any time, as indicated by interview surveys and the observations by researchers conducting water-bird surveys and hydrological investigations;
2) the nearly comprehensive search coverage of navigable channels during vessel-based surveys; and
3) the 100% match in concurrent detections of dolphin groups and close agreement in group size estimates by land-based and boat-based observers.
Guidelines for considering measurement error (Annex 1: Uncertainty, in IUCN 2001) suggest using plausible lower bounds, rather than best estimates, to determine population size. In the case of Mekong dolphins, this implies that it would be appropriate to use 57, the sum of minimum estimates of group size from the May 2003 pool-count survey, as the estimate of abundance for this subpopulation. The threshold of 50 mature individuals for listing a species or population as CR according to Criterion D (and C2a(i)) refers to the number of individuals known, estimated or inferred to be capable of reproduction. Although the proportion of mature individuals typical for this species is unknown, it is reasonable (and certainly precautionary) to infer that the number of mature individuals in the Mekong River is less than 50. Therefore, the subpopulation qualifies for listing as CR based on Criterion D. The subpopulation also qualifies as CR on the basis of Criterion C2a (i,ii) as it certainly has fewer than 250 mature individuals, a continuing decline in the number of mature individuals is projected or inferred based on the continuing known threat of gillnet entanglement and potential threats from water development and navigation improvement projects, and both subcriteria of subcriterion 2a apply (no subpopulation contains more than 50 mature individuals and more than 90% of the total mature individuals are in one subpopulation).
|Range Description:
|The Irrawaddy dolphin is patchily distributed in shallow, near-shore tropical and subtropical marine waters of the Indo-Pacific, from northeastern Australia in the south, north to the Philippines (Dolar et al. 2002) and west to northeastern India (Stacey and Leatherwood 1997; Stacey and Arnold 1999). Its marine distribution is concentrated in estuaries and semi-enclosed water bodies (i.e., bays and sounds), generally adjacent to mangrove forests. Freshwater populations occur in three river systems - the Mahakam of Indonesia, the Ayeyarwady (formerly Irrawaddy) of Myanmar (formerly Burma) and the Mekong of southern Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. Irrawaddy dolphins also occur in partially isolated brackish or fresh-water bodies, including Chilka Lake in India and Songkhla Lake in Thailand. The first published record of the species in the Mekong was from the diary of a 19th century explorer (Mouhout 1966).
The effective range of Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mekong River is a 190 km segment from Kratie (about 500 km upstream of the river mouth in Viet Nam) to slightly upstream of the Laos/Cambodia border at Khone Falls (or Lee Pee), which physically obstructs further upstream movement. During the high water season (June-October), anecdotal reports suggested that the dolphins ascended the Sekong River and its tributaries, the Houay Khaliang, Xepian (to Xepha Falls about 50 km above the Sekong confluence), Xenamnoi (to Tatkhek Falls about 8 km above the Sekong confluence), and Xekaman (to about 50 km above the Sekong confluence and including the Houay Twai tributary and possibly the Xepian). In the Sekong, the dolphins were reported to range as far upstream as Kalaum Town, Laos, about 280 km above the Mekong confluence near Stung Treng, Cambodia (Baird and Mounsouphom, 1997). Based on interviews conducted by Baird (1997) and Beasley et al. (2003), dolphins probably now only rarely, if ever, ascend these rivers. During interview surveys downstream from Kratie to Phnom Penh, children were unaware of the existence of dolphins, whereas adults reported that before 1975, dolphins were observed every day during both low and high water seasons (Isabel Beasley, pers. comm.).
Based on visual surveys conducted by Beasley et al. (2003), dolphins are frequently found during the low-water season in nine deep areas in the Kratie to Khone Falls segment. Approximately 2 km below the falls, dolphins regularly occur in a small (ca. 600 m diameter), deep (> 50 m during the high-water season) pool, known locally in Laos as Boong Pa Gooang and in Cambodia as Anlong Chiteal. Dolphins were observed daily in the pool during the dry seasons of 1992-93, generally in groups of 2-10; 17 were seen at least once (Baird et al. 1994). Using visual and acoustic methods, Borsani (1999) estimated that there were 8-10 dolphins present in Boong Pa Gooang in late March/early April 1998. Other pools occupied by dolphins in the Kratie to Khone Falls segment are at Koh Suntuk, Kang Kohn Sat and Tbong Klar in the Stung Treng Province, and Sampan, Khasak Makak, Gopidau, Chroy Bantey and Kampi in the Kratie Province. Kampi pool, located 15 km north of Kratie, is currently considered the most important dolphin habitat in the Mekong, due to the 100% reliability of sightings, as recorded during 165 visits to the pool over three years, and the relatively large number of animals observed during each visit (mean group size = 7, range = 1-19) (Beasley et al. 2003, Beasley, unpublished).
Dolphins previously inhabited Tonle Sap (Great Lake) (Lloze 1973) but apparently have been extirpated there. Fishing is extremely intensive within the lake and in the channel connecting it to the Mekong. Researchers conducting extensive water-bird surveys in the lake from 1999-2003 have not observed any dolphins (Federic Goes, pers. comm.). Moreover, researchers from the Water Utilization Program - Finnish International Development Aid (WUP-FIN) Tonle Sap Modeling Project visited sampling stations throughout the lake every month from 2001-2003 and never observed dolphins (Juha Sarkkula, pers. comm.).
The only documentation of Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mekong of Viet Nam consists of a few records reported by Lloze (1973), skulls housed in whale temples near the delta and in the mouth of the nearby Dong River (Smith et al. 1997, Beasley et al. 2003) and a single carcass found in a fishing net in the Tien distributary near the Cambodian border in March 2002 (Chung and Ho 2002). During a survey of almost the entire length (224 km) of the two main distributaries of the Mekong, Tien and Hau Giang, in April 1996, Smith et al. (1997) were unable to find a single dolphin.
During March and May 1997, Baird (1997) observed 40 dolphins in the segment of the Mekong from Kratie to the Laos/Cambodia border. He estimated, on the basis of surveys and interviews, that the total population in the Mekong was roughly 100 individuals. Beasley et al. (2003) conducted 11 boat-based direct-count surveys, traveling upstream from Jum Neight (about 30 km downstream of Kratie) to the Laos/Cambodia border during January-May from 2001 to 2003. All navigable channels were surveyed (zigzagging when widths were greater than one km and transiting through the center when less than 1 km). Unsurveyed channels were either too shallow or unsafe to survey due to high-velocity currents, which also meant a low probability of dolphins occurring there; interview surveys of local people living along these channels supported this assumption. The largest number of dolphins observed during an upstream survey conducted at the height of the low-water season in April 2003 was 64. This number was based on the sum of best estimates of group size, with a range of 55-82, according to the sum of low and high estimates of group size, respectively. A slightly different method was used during 2002-2003, traveling downstream in the same river segment but stopping for 10-30 minutes in the nine deep pool areas where dolphins had been observed during previous surveys. The maximum number of animals recorded using the pool-count method was 69 individuals based on the sum of best estimates of group size, with a range of 57-84 individuals based on low and high estimates, during a survey in May 2003. Paired observation experiments, using land-based survey teams and concurrent boat-based observations, were conducted during each of the pool-count surveys in an attempt to assess the proportion of dolphins missed by the boat-based team. This resulted in a 100% match between the two methods in terms of the number of dolphin groups detected in each of the nine pools and very similar group size estimates when experienced observers were present on both teams (Beasley et al. 2003).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Cambodia; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Viet Nam
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|No quantitative estimates of population trends are available, but significant range declines in Tonle Sap (Great Lake) and the Mekong mainstem below Kratie imply that the number of dolphins in the Mekong River has declined substantially over the past several decades. Also, for small cetaceans generally, it is recommended that yearly removals should not exceed 1-2% of the population size (Wade 1998) - the lower bound being more applicable to very small populations that are already vulnerable because of demographic and genetic factors. Four deaths per year (the mean number of carcasses recovered and determined to have died from gillnet entanglement in 2001-2003; Beasley et al. [2002] and Beasley [unpublished]) would represent 5.8% of the population, assuming a best estimate of abundance of 69, based on pool count surveys. Considering that the small size of the Mekong population already makes it vulnerable from demographic stochasticity, inbreeding depression and catastrophic environmental and epizootic events, the current rate of incidental mortality in gillnets will almost certainly lead to extirpation.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Irrawaddy dolphins inhabit deep pools of large rivers, sheltered inshore marine environments with substantial freshwater inputs, and partially isolated brackish or freshwater bodies (Stacey and Leatherwood 1997, Stacey and Arnold 1999, Smith and Jefferson 2002).
|Major Threat(s):
Anecdotal reports suggest high dolphin mortality from deliberate killing for oil (reportedly for use in the motors of fishing boats and lamps) during the rule of the Khmer Rouge in 1970-1975 and then from target practice and the effects of explosives used for blast fishing during the Viet Namese occupation in 1975-1980. Dedicated studies on the dolphin population in 1990-1996 (Baird and Mounsouphom 1997) and 2000-2003 (Beasley et al. 2002, Beasley, unpublished) also recorded high mortality with a large proportion of the deaths caused by gillnet entanglement.
Smith et al. (1997) noted the presence of several dozen 200-400 m long stow nets in the Mekong River mouth, followed upstream by more than 10 rows of nylon gillnets stretched across the entire channel, with only small openings to permit vessel traffic. Those authors suggested that dolphin bycatch and displacement caused by the nets could explain the lack of cetacean sightings during their survey of the lower Mekong in Viet Nam during April 1996.
Potential additional threats
Numerous dams have been proposed for the Mekong River system. If built, these would degrade essential habitat features and interrupt the movements of dolphins and their prey. Of greatest concern are the large run-of-the-river dams proposed for the Mekong mainstem at Stung Treng and Sambor (Perrin et al. 1996). In the Sekong River system, at least two dams have been proposed tens of kilometers below the reported upstream limit of the dolphins. Dolphins are also threatened in the Sekong system by the proposed Xakaman and Xepian/Xenamnoi dam projects. This last project would divert almost all of the flow from the Xepian River to a reservoir behind another dam in the Xenamnoi River (Baird and Mounsouphom 1997).
Proposed navigation improvement schemes, which entail blasting the pool-riffle sequences that compose dolphin habitat, would probably lead to a dramatic decline, if not extinction, of the Mekong dolphin population due to the direct effects of the explosions and the indirect effects from eliminating or severely degrading their deep pool habitat. Prey declines from overfishing (particularly from the use of explosives and electricity) and unregulated dolphin-watching tourism may also be affecting the population.
|Conservation Actions:
Dolphins in the Mekong River receive some degree of protection from the traditional respect afforded by local fishermen (Baird et al. 1994, Beasley et al. 2003). Fishermen in Viet Nam worship whales and dolphins because they believe that the animals will aid them if they are in distress (Smith et al. 1997). Most Cambodians and Laotians say that they do not hunt dolphins and believe that bad luck will result from killing them (Baird et al. 1994). The Lao Community Fisheries and Dolphin Protection Project was working with local fishermen at Chiteal Pool to reduce incidental catches of dolphins in gillnets, stop explosive fishing and manage aquatic resources in a sustainable manner (Perrin et al. 1996). One practical measure was the establishment of a fund so that fishermen who found dolphins entangled in their nets and cut them free would be compensated for damages (Baird et al. 1994). However, this project has now stopped. Small-scale dolphin watching operations were established at Chiteal Pool (Laos/Cambodia border) in 1997, and this provided substantial income to a few local boat owners. However, due to the decline in dolphin numbers at this pool, the tour operations are now on the verge of collapse. Dolphin-watching also occurs at Kampi Pool and a project partially funded by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, UK, is planned for 2004 to manage the operations so that they provide maximum benefits to the local community (and thereby increase the value of the dolphins as living resources) while not adversely affecting the animals.
In Laos, dolphins are legally protected from hunting, capture and trade, with fines of US$ 65-650 and imprisonment for three months to one year. In Viet Nam, all cetaceans are protected by a decree of the national assembly but this is not generally enforced. During the last three years, the Viet Namese government has been drafting a new law that will give authorities greater power to enforce fishery regulations (Perrin et al., in press). Approval by the national assembly is expected in the near future. No legal protection for cetaceans currently exists in Cambodia. However, a fisheries law is being drafted that includes specific regulations pertaining to marine mammals and the Cambodian Department of Fisheries has proposed to formulate a Royal Decree for protecting the Mekong River dolphin population.
The Mekong Dolphin Conservation Project (currently supported by the Mekong River Commission and Ocean Park Conservation Foundation) was initiated in January 2001. The aims of the project are to assess the Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin population, initiate conservation and management efforts, and build capacity among local government officials. The project works in cooperation with the Cambodian Department of Fisheries, the Wildlife Conservation Society - Cambodia Program and Community Aid Abroad.
|Smith, B.D. & Beasley, I. 2004. Orcaella brevirostris (Mekong River subpopulation). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T44555A10919444. . Downloaded on 24 September 2018.
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Since leaving office, Bill Clinton has been increasingly over-the-top in his public pronouncements, so it's hard to be surprised by anything he says. But his speech on Tuesday before Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Conference in Chicago was beyond parody.
Clinton began by enjoining his listeners not to stoop to the tactics of right-wing talk show hosts: "Let us never demonize or give up on those who disagree with us. We don't want to become like the right-wing talk-show hosts, hammering our adversaries into cartoon characters and denying their humanity." Having gotten that out of the way, he lauched into his denunciations of Republicans: "extreme conservatives," he said, are in now in control of the White House, Congress, much of the federal judiciary system, and a growing share of the media. As a result, children are being thrown out onto the street.
Yes, that's right: "We are going to put half-a-million [children] out on the street, so I can get my $80,000 [tax cut]," Clinton said. Huh? What half-a-million children are those? If you say without adequate proof that there are 150 Communists in the State Department, you are reviled for a century after your death. But if you say that 500,000 children are being thrown out onto the street by your opponents' policies, no evidence is required. Or even an explanation of what in the hell you are talking about.
That got Clinton going on the subject of taxes: "I must be the only person in America that every time — I pay the maximum tax rates — every time I sign that tax form, I smile. I thank God I live in a country that gave me a chance to make the money I do." Oddly, though, notwithstanding his attacks on the President's tax cuts and his professed fondness for paying taxes, Clinton does not intend to forgo his $80,000 refund. Someone should tell him that the IRS takes donations, and there is no obstacle to his giving the money back. But somehow liberals, no matter how fervently they denounce tax cuts, never seem to do that.
And, by the way, math was never Clinton's strong point. But if he made $9.5 million last year as has been widely reported, the reduction in marginal tax rates alone would save him well over $300,000, not $80,000. Surely he must know that. Apparently he didn't want his listeners to realize 1) how much money he is making, or 2) how much money the Administration's tax cuts are putting back in the hands of taxpayers.
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|2010-10-12, 02:36
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Nozoki Ana
Spoiler for Chapters 7 and 8 (You might get turned off):
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|2010-10-30, 11:37
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oh, I have been kinda interested in this title for a while, so I'm really glad that some chapters have been scanlated into English.
what interests me the most about this series is the Girl Next Door. she is the reason why I'm enjoying this work so much; she is cunning, scheming, evil... and has such nice smile on her face---like someone who is about to plot something very fun for her own amusement. Her character design is also very pleasing to the eye, and it's really nice to see her wear different clothing every chapter. oh and her interaction with the male is one of the most interesting/entertaining aspects of the manga. don't really care about the other girls, though. I think Emiru is simply great; and she is probably one of the most interesting females I have come across.
anyway, I'm not sure where the story is going, so I can't comment on that. Liking the artwork so far, I think it captures well the erotic aspect. I'm fine with nipple exposure, but not very fond of the sex. (Emiru masturbating is ok<-- very erotic methinks).
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|2011-01-02, 22:31
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Spoiler talk? *lalalala*
So, I just read chapter 14 and I have to say, I really hate when an author does that strange foreshadow, past tense talk, to tell you what's going to happen. I find it ruins things more, especially since it confirms what we may be speculating and predicting.
|2011-01-06, 13:43
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Location: Philippines
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I tend to agree and disagree. I agree that it's a poor foreshadowing. But it's a great way to invite readers in how it will happen. And sometimes I think "physical" can be define in any other way like (sex, struggle) as long it's about body. But to add relationship, it's like you're having fetishes like S and M. (Maybe the translator defined the text too much).
|2011-01-23, 00:32
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Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 29
Not aiming at you or anything mind, I just need a place to express my rage after reading more than one seinen manga where the mangaka decides it's "mature" to fuck over the readers like that.
Which leads to the question, since I didn't dare to open all the spoilers: is this one taking the same path?
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EclipseLink JPA Employee Examples
This set of examples uses a common employee domain model and relational schema with various configuration approaches.
- Model: JPA using standard and extended annotations along with eclipselink-orm.xml mapping file.
- Model Web: JPA using standard and extended annotations along with eclipselink-orm.xml mapping file with a web interface.
- Model Web JS: JPA using standard and extended annotations along with eclipselink-orm.xml mapping file with a web interface.
Try them Out
To try out these examples using GIT, Maven, and the Eclipse Java EE IDE. These example projects can be adapted for other development environments.
Check out the code
You can check the latest versions of all the example projects out of GIT from:
- Eclipse.org: git.eclipse.org/gitroot/eclipselink/examples.git or browse the source here.
- GitHub: [1]
Build and Test
Setup your Container
- Requires a data source named 'java:global/employeeDS' User required to set this up. a WLST example included.
Deploy and Try
- add intro screen shot
- highlight key operations
- Admin to reset database and populate
- Search and pagination options
- Create
- Delete
(very basic details only)
Understanding the Example
Employee Model
The employee model has existed in TopLink and EclipseLink since the mid 90's. The model has evolved a little over the years based on enhancements made available in the mappings.
JPA 2.0 and Extended Features
When updated for EclipseLink 2.1 several JPA 2.0 features were introduced to the model and its mappings. These include:
- PhoneNumber now mapped using derived identifiers so its primary key of EMP_ID and PTYPE are mapped with PhoneNumber.owner and PhoneNumber.type. The previous redundant mapping of PhoneNumber.id has been removed.
While the majority of the Employee examples use pure JPA mappings several extensions offered by EclipseLink are highlgted including:
Employee.gendermapped to the enum Gender using a converter to store a single char code in the database instead of the full enum's name or oridinal position.


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Ernest Bippert says the yield difference between conventional and conservation till cotton may be a wash in wet years, but during dry growing seasons, which are more common than not in south Texas, con-till makes more cotton.
His commitment to conservation tillage, moisture management and technology help Bippert save soil, water, time and money on his 2,000-acre cotton and milo farm near Kingsville. That formula also earned him the 2004 Southwest Farm Press High Cotton Award.
"I had heard that conservation tillage in fields with mixed soil types would be a disaster," Bippert said. "But I talked with a farmer who had used conservation tillage for years and he convinced me that following a prescription for reducing tillage would work."
That prescription includes maintaining the same seedbed and following the same traffic pattern to prevent compaction in the furrow. He's planted on the same stale seedbed for three years. "I pull stalks and have found that cotton plants develop a deep root system in con-till systems. I reshape the beds in the fall and run a v-ripper in the furrow to loosen up the soil."
Bippert plans to analyze the effect of the ripper. "I'll do a soil compaction trial with a meter, but I think we need that ripper. It lifts the whole bed, and sets it right back down."
He runs a rolling basket and a spiked wheel along with fertilizer application just ahead of the planter.
Weeds minimized
Bippert said weeds are no more trouble in conservation tillage than with conventional.
"I take care of winter weeds with Roundup and Aim, usually in late December. I plant in March and like to be finished by early April."
In season, Roundup takes care of most weeds. "All my cotton is Roundup Ready," he said. "That technology makes conservation tillage so much easier. I can go over the top early and then I use a hooded sprayer to clean up middles."
He's also found the hooded sprayer and Roundup helpful in his rotation crop, grain sorghum, "to clean up the middles. But I can't get underneath the sorghum plant."
He's looking at paraquat, labeled for grain sorghum use. "I tried it on 20 acres and within two days the weeds were burned down. That's really an advantage with milo. I might burn the bottom foliage a little but I haven't seen enough damage to affect yields."
He said Texas panicum is the chief weed pest. Early control helps. "During the early stages of growth, one-half pint of paraquat is probably adequate."
Bippert said Texas panicum is the reason farmers in his area cultivate. "But with conservation tillage, we clean the middles with the hooded sprayer."
He uses a wind drift curtain on the sprayer to prevent non-target hits. "And we keep ground speed to five miles per hour."
Cost comparisons for conventional and conservation tillage systems "used to be a wash," Bippert said, "with labor savings and chemical expenses balancing out."
Will save money
But long-term, he's convinced conservation tillage will save him money. "Consider equipment. I put 300 hours a year on a big tractor in conservation tillage. I'd put 1,000 hours on that same tractor with conventional production. When I trade that tractor, it will be worth more money.
"Also, I'm not buying sweeps and not buying as much diesel. I don't run a field cultivator. I can use labor for other chores. I have more leisure time to spend with my family. I don't have wind erosion and if I'm not cutting production, I'm ahead. Conservation tillage is definitely an advantage."
He's using furrow dikes to conserve water. "Those dikes can be inconvenient at harvest."
He said the Texas Extension Service got him interested in furrow dikes several years ago. "I did a yield test five years ago, comparing furrow dikes to level middles. Depending on rainfall amounts, the furrow dikes averaged from 50 pounds to 200 pounds more cotton per acre. Other years the increase ranged from 50 to 75 pounds."
He builds the dikes as he reshapes beds. "They stay in all year. With conventional tillage, furrow dikes required an extra trip."
He needed all the moisture he could save in 2003.
Moisture reserves
"We went 80 days without rain," he said. "We got about eight-tenths of an inch after the crop was made and that put some weight in the bolls. Some cotton didn't get any rain in May or June."
But the soil had moisture reserves. "Our subsoil moisture was as good as I've ever had," he said. "We had good fall (2002) rains and good rains into March."
Furrow dikes, he said, helped hold that moisture in the fields.
Rotation also helps. "I rotate with grain sorghum every year," he said. "The best system is cotton every three years but the price of milo is too low, break even at best, to justify planting that much. Even with every other year milo, I pick up a lot of organic matter."
He said rotation pays, even with cheap grain. "I have to rotate. Cotton takes too much moisture out of the soil."
Bippert plants half his acreage in minimum tillage grain sorghum every year. He averaged about 3,000 pounds of milo per acre in 2003.
"It did pretty well, considering some of it never saw rain. Late planted milo did not do as well as early. Heat stress worked it over."
Bippert believes skip-row planting helps save moisture in cotton.
"I started planting skip row mainly to save on technology fees," he said. "But skip row also improved grade and provided a little more moisture for the plants."
He said skip row reduces seed costs and lowers chemical expenses by one-third. He plants all his cotton on a two-in-one skip with 36-inch rows.
"I broadcast Roundup because we have to keep the skips clean. I don't want to plow it and lose moisture."
He's pulled cotton stalks and found feeder roots running at a 90-degree angle to the skip. "The skip allows cotton to hold on an extra 10 days before drought stress," he said.
Bippert said technology also makes life a bit easier on a cotton farm. Roundup Ready varieties make minimum-tillage systems feasible and he believes BollGard technology may be important as well. "BollGard was a good buy this year (2003)," he said. "It did a good job on worms. We had a lot of worm pressure in the spring."
He said the Boll Weevil Eradication Program also puts more cotton in his modules. "We're close to functionally eradicated in this zone," he said. "And we're making more cotton. We actually put on a top crop and if we still had weevils, we wouldn't get that cotton."
Bippert said conservation tillage is a good match for other technologies designed to improve on-farm management. "I've often thought that I can buy a lot of Roundup for what a new field cultivator would cost," he said. "And I'm still saving labor, diesel and time.
"But mostly I'm saving soil. It doesn't wash or blow away. I'm making the soil better."
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Attorneys told conflicting stories about the role that personal relationships and favors play in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau during opening arguments Wednesday in a dispute between the Las Vegas Sands casino and a Hong Kong businessman.
Richard Suen claims he was hired by Sands to help build relationships with the Chinese government. The case turns on whether meetings Suen set up between Sands executives and Beijing officials in 2001 helped the company get a foothold in Macau, a special administrative region of China.
Attorneys for Richard Suen argued in a Las Vegas court that he should be compensated $328 million for his success. "This is about not paying your debts even when you have the means to," Suen attorney John O'Malley said.
But the Sands team told jurors that Suen is owed nothing because officials in Macau, not Beijing, decide which companies to license. The former Portuguese colony, which is about an hour boat ride west of Hong Kong, is connected to mainland China by a narrow strip of land.
"There is an old saying: 'Success has a thousand fathers but failure is an orphan.' That is the story of this case," said Sands attorney Richard Sauber as Suen removed his glasses and wiped his face with a tissue.
Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson was expected to testify Thursday, and members of the jury will be allowed to ask him questions. Attorneys also argued outside the presence of the jury about how Adelson would approach the stand.
O'Malley acknowledged that the 79-year-old casino mogul has difficulty walking, but asked that he not enter the room on the arm of a family member, as it could evoke undue sympathy with the jury. During the previous trial, the billionaire was escorted to the stand by his wife.
It's the second time this fight has played out in a Clark County court. A jury in 2008 awarded $58.6 million to Suen, but the Nevada Supreme Court overturned the verdict in 2010.
Among other things, the Supreme Court said the district judge shouldn't have allowed hearsay statements during the trial.
Suen filed the lawsuit in 2004 after failing to reach a compensation agreement with Sands. He said he and his company were promised a $5 million success fee and 2 percent of net casino profits in exchange for helping Sands open its first casino in Macau, now the world's biggest gambling market.
Suen is now asking for more than three times the amount of compensation he requested during the 2008 trial because of Sands' explosive success in Macau. The trial is expected to last about a month.
Suen, a former business partner of Adelson's brother, Leonard Adelson, claims he arranged for the mogul to meet high-ranking Chinese officials, including Vice Premier Qian Qichen and Beijing Mayor Liu Qi. He also says he helped Sands curry favor by stopping Congress from voting on a nonbinding resolution in 2001 that would have asked the U.S. Olympic Committee to vote against China's bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Gaming in Beijing.
O'Malley told jurors on Wednesday that Macau could be susceptible to influence from the mainland.
"You can see it as one very tiny piece of China," he said, pointing to a map of that country.
Both sides sought to educate the jury on the Chinese concept of "guanxi" or personal relationships.
Suen's team argued that his friendships helped Sands gain favor in the gambling enclave. Sauber, the Sands attorney, told jurors that "guanxi" is nothing more than an abstract concept.
"This word does not mean evidence, it does not mean documentation," he said.
Sauber also suggested that Adelson may have had his own "guanxi," noting that Adelson used his connection to the Republican party to arrange a 2001 meeting with former president George W. Bush's ambassador to China. Adelson made headlines last year with his hefty political contributions.
Both sides will call expert witnesses to support their view of the relationship between Macau and Beijing officials. In the previous trial, only Suen's side called such a witness.
Sands' witness will be the former "No. 2" to the U.S. ambassador in China, Sauber said.
The company partnered with Hong Kong-based Galaxy Entertainment in February 2002 and was awarded one of three gambling licenses by the Macau government. The companies could not reach an agreement, however, and the partnership was dissolved.
Macau then awarded Las Vegas Sands a subconcession, a decision that Suen's lawyers said was a result of their client's earlier lobbying.
Sands now operates four resorts in Macau, as well as the Venetian and the Palazzo casinos on the Las Vegas Strip.
The company is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department in connection with a lawsuit filed by the former chief executive officer of Sands China.
The former executive, Steven Jacobs, attended opening statements and shook Suen's hand. He was fired in 2010 and filed a wrongful termination lawsuit claiming he was let go for opposing company demands that he engage in improper conduct.
Hannah Dreier can be reached at http://twitter.com/hannahdreier


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I am having an issue only on my laptop, it seems that all of my libraries are missing from Visual Studio 2010 Premium.
I only have 3 libraries in the following directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include
This is the directory that somebody else was told to look in, by an MVP, on MS technet website.
So, I can see my programs, but of course I have lots of red underlines. VS2010 express was working fine on my laptop, but I was told that my school has an MSDN account, so I should upgrade to the premium version. And of course I now how this issue.
Any advice on how to uninstall/reinstall [which I have now tried several times], or how I can add the libraries back into my system??
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‧Operating voltage range VM(DC)=3.5V to 48V
‧No plastic or epoxy packaging assures better than UL94V-0 flammability rating
‧Standard low capacitance types available
‧AEC-Q200 compliant
‧RoHS compliant
【产品应用】‧24V thermostat wiring terminal
‧ESD protection for IEC 61000-4-2, MIL-STD-883c method 3015.7, and other industry specifications
‧Suppression of inductive switching or other transient events such as EFT and surge voltage at the circuit board level
‧Provides on-board transient voltage protection for ICS and transistors
‧Used to help achieve electromagnetic compliance of end products
‧Replaces larger surface mount TVS Zeners in many applications
【文字介绍】The MLA Series family of Transient Voltage Surge Suppression devices is based on the Littelfuse Multilayer fabrication technology. These components are designed to suppress a variety of transient events, including those specified in IEC 6100-4-2 or other standards used for Electromagnetic Compliance (EMC). The MLA Series is typically applied to protect integrated circuits and other components at the circuit board level. The wide operating voltage and energy range make the MLA Series suitable for numerous applications on power supply, control and signal lines. The MLA Series is manufactured from semiconducting ceramics, and is supplied in a leadless, surface mount package. The MLA Series is compatible with modern reflow and wave soldering procedures. It can operate over a wider temperature range than zener diodes, and has a much smaller footprint than plastic-housed components.


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Outdoor Lantern
Call me dull, but I've never been a Tiki torch kind of guy. And the last time we lit an outdoor party we used oil lamps – which, because of the flammable nature of oil, almost ended in disaster. So my task before our next party was to build a lantern that's low-key and electric (to ensure that only ribs were barbecued and not the neighbor's dog).
This lamp can be used in a variety of ways. It looks great on a patio table, or you could glue 6″-long dowels into the feet and stake it in your garden. Either way, it's going to stand up to the elements.
The lantern's body is made from quartersawn white-oak scraps. The "rice paper" behind the slats is actually acrylic ($4 for an 18″ x 24″ sheet) that I sanded on both sides with a random-orbit sander and installed in the lantern using waterproof silicone.
The light fixture itself ($3 from my nearby home center) is vinyl clad and is intended for outdoor use. It's also installed in the base of the lamp using silicone.
There's no complicated joinery in this project, but it does require more precision and care than most outdoor furniture. Essentially, the four panels are glued at the edges to the four posts. This is a long-grain-to-long-grain joint, so no real joinery is required. However, to keep all the parts aligned during glue-up, I used a single No. 10 biscuit in each joint. This saved me some real headaches when clamping.
The lamp base, which holds the light fixture, rests on two cleats nailed to the inside of the panels. The removable top is held in position by four cleats nailed to the underside of the top.
Begin construction by cutting out all your parts. Cutting the five 3/8″-wide slots in the panels – the first task – is the trickiest part of the whole project. Once you do that, you can breathe easier.
There are several ways to cut these slots. A plunge router with an edge guide is an obvious way to go about it. I chose to use a dado stack in my table saw. Place a dado stack measuring 3/8″ wide into your table saw and get out your miter gauge or table saw sled, which will hold the work during the cut. You'll make a plunge cut into the panel for each slot.
First pencil a line on both long edges of the panel that shows where the slot should start and end. Position your panel slightly back of the blade's center, then raise the blade until it emerges from the panel and has nibbled to the far line. Move the piece forward until the dado stack nibbles to the near line. Lower the dado stack back under the saw's table, move the workpiece over 3/4″ and repeat the same process.
If you're feeling like these slots are more work then they're worth, consider other patterns. You can drill a series of holes with a drill press, or you can use a scroll saw to create a design that suits your brand of outdoor parties.
After all of your panels are cut, sand them to their finished grit or take a hand plane to them before turning your attention to milling the four posts.


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King Baker
September 1995 - September 2012
In loving memory and with blessings of peace for his family Debbie, Brian & Horatio. King is an Old Soul that was a senior dog adopted from the Wisconsin Humane Society. His Royal Star now shines brightly for us all! With love, Jen & Michele - The Baker Family


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans' opposition to a U.S. military strike against Syria is increasing as they learn more about the Arab nation's alleged use of chemical weapons, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that shows the challenge President Barack Obama faces in seeking congressional approval for military action.
The poll, conducted September 5 to 9, indicated that 63 percent of Americans opposed intervening in Syria, up from 53 percent in a survey that ended August 30. That was a week after the August 21 chemical attack in a Damascus suburb that U.S. officials say killed more than 1,400 adults and children.
Meanwhile, support for a U.S. intervention in Syria has declined, the poll found. About 16 percent of Americans surveyed said the United States should get involved - down from 20 percent on August 30.
And even if it's proven that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops used chemical weapons against fellow Syrians, only 26 percent of Americans said the United States should intervene. About 52 percent said the U.S. military should not get involved in such a circumstance, up from 44 percent on August 30.
The poll's findings represent the latest evidence of Americans' reluctance to get involved in another military action after more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ipsos pollster Julia Clark said the poll suggests that "the American public has very little appetite for intervention of any kind, anywhere."
The poll's release came as the Obama administration continued to press its case for military action in Syria - and as a potential diplomatic solution appeared to emerge in a crisis that has vexed the White House.
The president planned to sit for six network television interviews on Monday as he stepped up an intense - but decidedly uphill - fight for a skeptical Congress' authorization of military force. Obama also planned to give a nationally televised speech to Americans on Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, an offer from Russia to help put Syria's stock of chemical weapons under international control raised the prospect of an agreement that could help Obama avoid an unpopular military action - and perhaps save him from an embarrassing rejection by Congress.
Even if Obama were to give a very well-received speech on Tuesday about the need for military action, Clark said, "there is never going to be a majority shift for intervention. ... The margin (opposing involvement in Syria) is just too large."
She added that as Americans learn more about the ongoing conflict in Syria and Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons, "they become increasingly opposed" to U.S. intervention.
Clark said Americans' taste for intervention in Syria also likely has been dampened by the ongoing political debate in Washington sparked by Obama's call for congressional authorization and the generally negative view Americans have of politicians.
"When we do policy polling on any issue, when you begin to introduce the politicians and legislators - everybody becomes more negative," she said.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll surveyed 1,450 Americans. Its credibility interval, similar to a margin of error, was 2.9 percentage points for each answer.
(Reporting by Mark Felsenthal; Editing by David Lindsey and Eric Beech)


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He received his bachelor's and master's degree from Cambridge University, and his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. After completing an internship in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, he returned to Columbia University for his residency in Neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York. He subsequently completed a research fellowship in motor control in the Center of Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia and a clinical fellowship in stroke at the Neurological Institute at Columbia University Medical Center.
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- Tracking long-term motor skill learning and its relation to higher cognitive processes such as decision making.
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"I Am Dolphin": where dolphins, gaming and neuroscience meet, Washington Post (10/10/2014)
I Am Dolphin proves your mother wrong, Technology Tell (10/05/2014)
John Krakauer's Stroke of Genius, National Geographic (09/30/2014)
Could a video game be the key to stroke recovery? National Geographic (9/30/2014)
Becoming the Dolphin, Health Canal (08/10/2014)
I Am Dolphin Physics Game May Help Stroke Victims, The Escapist (08/08/2014)
Virtual Dolphin on a Mission: Can a cyber-dolphin influence neuroscience, game design, and wildlife conservation? National Geographic (06/15/2014)
Research On Video Games And Mental Health, NPR's Diane Rehm Show (11/27/2013)


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text: Beretta 92FS 9mm - New in Box EASY PAY $53 DOWN LAYAWAY 12 MONTHLY PAY... Guns Pistols Benelli Pistols Bernardelli mm model PO S Compact Matte Blue Shot CZ Magazine VG Israeli Police mfg Bernadelli sic PO S | 69 | 106 | Lc | 187.5032ms View Category Bernardelli 9mm model PO 18S Compact Matte Blue 16 Shot 1 CZ-75 Magazine VG Israeli Police mfg 1994 Bernadelli [sic] PO18 S For Sale from Robertson Trading Post | Positive feedback: 99% View | Verified Seller | 21954 Completed Sales View Sellers Items /UserImages/87270/929544909 3675928.jpg /UserImages/87270/929544909 3675929.jpg /UserImages/87270/929544909 3675930.jpg /UserImages/87270/929544909 3675931.jpg /UserImages/87270/929544909 3675932.jpg /UserImages/87270/929544909 3675933.jpg /UserImages/87270/929544909 3675934.jpg Description: No category for Bernardelli on GA. So few of these fine pistols came into the United States, there's just not much written about them. We'll write what we know about this one, including its measurements, and maybe someone will cough us up a good Wiki or High Road article on them. Manufacturer, is Vincenzo Bernardelli, Gardone, VT, Italy; and that company folded its equipment and moved to Turkey beginning around 2002. This specimen of the PO 18S has an Italian B D date code, manufactured 1994. The PO 18 was briefly imported into the US in severely limited quantities from 1985 until 1995, all the last ones being 10 shot. Type is a traditional double action automatic; it will fire double action safety off only from a resting hammer position. It will also engage on safe carry single action, cocked and locked. Every shot after the first shot is single action from a cocked hammer; the only truly safe way to decock is to remove the magazine, eject the chamber round, and let the hammer down with the trigger. The cocked-and-locked position is appealing to many of us, and that is the main reason, apart from Israeli familiarity with Bernardelli quality, that this pistol served and protected our Israeli friends from its issue date until fairly recently with the Mishteret Y'Israel, the Israeli Civilian Police in the Jerusalem District. Surface detractions are only moderate, edge whitening and a small amount of light freckling on the slide and rear sight. Otherwise, the matte blue and anodized finish is strong throughout with a few small scours on the grip frame and faint amounts of darkening, but no peeling whatsoever. Anodized rear sight and safety lever edge displayfaint amounts of whitening. The never-blued barrel surface displays some dark toning as well. We rate this P One as Very Good, 80 to 85 percent vicinity by our estimate; photos, at any rate, ought to suffice for our distinguished shoppers to judge finish grade for themselves. It is Excellent mechanically. Bore, chamber and mechanism are all bright, clean, and excellent. Magazine is, interestingly, CZ factory 15 round pre-ban, manufactured in 1992. Note that the CZ-75 Magazines work just fine; only, they protrude just a bit at the bottom. They lock into place correctly, free-fall eject, and lock the slide back on the last shot. An inventive soul could readily utilize a magazine bumper pad kit and improve the aesthetics of the CZ to Bernardelli fit. Construction is all steel including the grip frame that is serrated fore and aft. Note also that the slide is XSE style serrated fore and aft as well. Weight empty is 32.2 ounces with magazine in battery. Barrel length is 4 inches; overall length is 7 9/16 inches from muzzle to rear frame strut; height measures 5 inches from the butt of the grip frame to the top of the rear sight; slide thickness is .957 at its widest; and frame thickness measures .721 at the wide flats above the trigger guard next to the slide. We're offering the genuine Bernardelli PO18 S in the photo for only $ 339.00. Not transferable to civilians in California, District of Colombia, or Massachusetts. For civilian buyers in jurisdictions where 15 round magazines are restricted to law enforcement, $10 off and freight paid; affected jurisdictions include Chicago, New York, and Puerto Rico. Ten round CZ Magazines are readily available from CZ USA com. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> $10 lower 48; $30 Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico, USPS Priority Mail, insured with Delivery Confirmation. Offers to buy must be for the registered user with his/her own money. Don't let your buddies use your account, that smells like felony straw purchase. MC/Visa/Discover/USPS MO paid orders shipped same day. 7 day hold on checks. FFL transmissions ok by fax, e-mail or mail, please ask your dealer to put your name on there. We offer 7 day money back on used guns and items, but No Returns on New in Box guns or on Lay-aways or ammo. We do not pay transfer fees or return shipping. Read More Condition: Used, Minor Wear Caliber: 9mm Luger Location: TN Trades Accepted: We Buy, Sell, or Trade; we always have. Read More Don't let your buddies use your account. Registered user must be the buyer, with his or her own money. Buying firearms and related items for other people can result in felony charges. Don't try, either, to circumvent any law; for example, a California civilian may not buy a high capacity magazine and have it shipped to his brother-in-law in Nevada. That is a felony. GA Pay buyers are NOT charged until we confirm we have the item and are ready to ship it. The same thing is true for phone-in, fax-in, and mail-in payments. In this respect, and in several others, Guns America outshines all its competitors. This is the best firearms website there is, hands down. Shipping Notes: $10 lower 48; $30 AK, HI, PR, USPS Priority. 7 day money back on used items, but No Returns on NIB, Lay-away, or Ammo. 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The Rodeway Inn Gloucester City
Rodeway Inn located in Gloucester City, New Jersey hotel located minutes from downtown Philadelphia area.
The Rodeway Inn hotel is conveniently located off II-295, I-76 and Route 130. This Gloucester City, NJ hotel is just minutes away from Philadelphia, Penn's Landing and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, and 15 minutes from the Philadelphia International Airport. Sugar House Casino in Philadelphia and Harrah's Chester Casino & Racetrack in Chester, Pennsylvania are nearby. Atlantic City casinos and beautiful South Jersey beaches are less than one hour away.
Guests of the Rodeway Inn hotel will enjoy many amenities, including a free hot deluxe continental breakfast, free local calls, and free Wireless Internet
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Check in - 3:00 pm
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Hotel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- Air Conditioning
- Free Breakfast
- Business Centre
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Telephone/Fax Facilities
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Fitness Centre
- Hair Dryers
- House Keeping
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- Luggage Storage
- No Curfew
- Outdoor Swimming Pool
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- Taxes not included
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Wheelchair Friendly
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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**Rates do not includes taxes of 15.00% and will be added to the balance upon arrival**
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From the North: Take New Jersey Turnpike South to exit 3, right after toll towards Route 168 North to I-295 South and stay in the left lane, take exit 26 to I-76 West, immediately take exit 1C (Brooklawn/Westville), left on the ramp. Hotel on the right. From the South: Take I-295 North to exit 23 to Route 130 North, pass 2 traffic circles following Route 130 North. Hotel on the left. From the East: Take I-295 South to exit 26 to I-76 West to exit 1C, left on ramp. Hotel on the right.
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From the airport: Take I-95 North to Walt Whitman Bridge, cross bridge to I-76 East, follow to Route 130 South to exit 1C. Hotel on the left.
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What Are They Saying Locally!?
Injury Bug Hits The Hawks– See who was held out of Wednesdays practice . – Danny O'Neil Seattletimes.com
Carroll Wants Hawks To Start Faster – Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll loves to say that it's not how you start, it's how you finish. – John Boyle Everett Herald
Silent Counts– Brock Huard explains how silent counts work. – Mynorthwest.com
Giants Won't Recognize Seattles Run Defense – To say times have changed for Seattle's defense — or offense, for that matter — would be an understatement heading into the Week 5 Seahawks-Giants matchup. Mike Sando ESPN NFC West Blog
Doug Baldwin's Secret to Success– The secret to Doug Baldwin's sudden and surprising success has been revealed. Clare Farnsworth Seahawks.com
What Are The National Guys Saying!?
Week Five Preview– Eli Manning and the New York Giants are surging, and they have beaten the Seattle Seahawks by a combined 72 points over the teams' last two meetings. cbssportsline.com
Hawks Offensive Woes Continue – The Seattle Seahawks aren't the worst rushing team in the NFL, but the team has sure made it close.. Ryan Christopher DeVault Yahoo! Sports
Week 5 ESPN Power Rankings – Outscored 67-13 in first halves, the Seahawks seek a quick start at the Giants in Week 5. – Sando (ESPN)
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KNOX COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - It was supposed to be closed at the end of January, but a decision to shutdown a southern Kentucky railroad crossing has been reversed.
Kara Ball's cousin, Jeffery Campbell, died when a train hit his truck at the Knox County crossing in 2006.
Since then, Ball has fought tirelessly to get crossing gates installed.
County leaders voted in December to to close the road. They reversed the decision after receiving letters and a petition against closing it.
"I understand how those 141 people feel, but at the same time, I would like for them to walk in my shoes and see how it feels for us not to have a family member anymore," says Ball.
Officials say something will still be done to make the crossing safer. The plan is to put up a gate at the crossing in about a year.


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Lower taxes may be the economic elixir for many candidates in Tuesday's election. But it's worth noting that among those with the closest vantage point to the economy, lower taxes aren't the top priority. Deficit reduction is.
Late last month, CEOs from dozens of well-known firms — Microsoft, Weyerhaeuser, Delta Airlines, Cisco, Honeywell, UPS, Motorola Solutions, Dow Chemical, General Electric, Bank of America, Aetna, Time Warner, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and more — released a statement calling for a deficit-reduction package that includes not just more budget cuts but more revenue.
The statement was done under the auspices of Fix the Debt, founded by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairmen of the Simpson-Bowles Commission. Thus, it's not surprising that the business leaders favor a framework like the one the commission proposed. Along with cuts in projected spending, they call for lower tax rates on a broader tax base — but with a rate/base combination that will bring in more tax dollars, as President Obama has proposed, rather than the revenue-neutral approach promised by Mitt Romney.
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E-Lit @ Amoeba Berkeley with new Hip-Hop for week ending June 28, 2013
Amoeba Music Berkeley Hip-Hop Top Five: Week Ending 06:28:13
Amoeba Music Berkeley Hip-Hop Top Five: Week Ending 06:28:13
1) Kanye West Yeezus (Def Jam)
2) Dessa The Parts of Speech (Doomtree)
3) Wale The Gifted (Atlantic)
4) The White Mandingos The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me (Ingrooves/Fat Beats)
5) Quasimoto Yessir, Whatever (Stones Throw)
Thanks again this week go out to my man E-Lit at Amoeba Berkeley for both providing the new Top Five Hip-Hop chart for Amoeba Berkeley and the video breakdown (also above) of the latest hip-hop releases (CD and vinyl) to arrive into Amoeba over the past week. Scroll down to see accompanying/corresponding videos for many of these new chart entries and new releases referenced by E-Lit including Dessa ("Call Off Your Ghost" from The Parts of Speech on Doomtree), Quasimoto ("Youngblood" off of Yessir, Whatever on Stones Throw), Wale's "Bad" featuring Tiara Thomas from The Gifted on Atlantic), and The White Mandingos' "Mandingo Rally" off The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me on Ingrooves/Fat Beats. Also below is brand new video from Skrip for the new song "Stop It" of which the artist said, "Music was made for more than perpetuating negativity, and if you've got the gift you don't need to try to copy anyone else; give people a breath of fresh air," adding that, "Music with a meaning is what lacks in popular Hip Hop, and "Stop It" is bound to step on some toes-deservedly." Yes indeedy! Scroll down to see this and the other new music videos - plus the EPK (electronic press kit) for the classic from De La Soul taken off their (recently reissued on double vinyl) Prince Paul produced golden era hip-hop album 3 Feet High & Rising. (also re-reissued on CD)
In Oakland tonight there's a lot of shows and parties happening including the premiere East Bay presentation of (Arizona founded) Blunt Club Oakland at hot new Oakland spot The Legionnaire Saloon (Telegraph near 22nd) with DJs Saurus, Max Kane, Platurn, Teeko, Pickster plus Pep Love (Hieros) and Foreign Legion both performing (FL's Prozack Turner is one of the new club owners). There will also be art on display by Dump La Rock and Griffin and the new East Bay monthly party will be hosted by The Night Clubber Lang. 21+ more info here. Meanwhile about 18 blocks down towards Oakland's Jack London Square on Broadway near 3rd/4th Streets at The Night Light will be Aztlan Nation alum DJ Delgado spinning party music with friends from early evening late into the night. Starting at 5pm and going non-stop until 2am there is no cover for this night of an eclectic mix of hip-hop, various schools of reggae, funk, breaks and beats - all billed as the Fresh Jamz Friday party. 21+ More info here.
Dessa "Call Off Your Ghost" (2013)
The White Mandingos "Mandingo Rally" (2013)
Quasimoto "Youngblood" (2013)
Wale "Bad (feat. Tiara Thomas)" (2013)
Skrip "Stop It" (2013)
De La Soul EPK (Electronic Press Kit) for 3 Feet High& Rising


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What kind of phones you guys have?
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I got a blackberry but i'm wanting to switch to the new galaxy s 3 (i'm with tmobile).. anyway if im due for a 2yr upgrade in december-ish how much would they charge for the galaxy s 3? anyone know?
Should be 200 for 16gb model and 250 for 32 gb model with your upgrade.
All I want for Christmas is a Laker girl
Posted July 30, 2012 - 07:11 PM
oh forreal that doesnt sound bad at all. i hear those phones are badass.
Should be 200 for 16gb model and 250 for 32 gb model with your upgrade.
Posted July 30, 2012 - 07:13 PM
oh forreal that doesnt sound bad at all. i hear those phones are badass.
Yea my friend just got it he said its amazing. Im getting mine within the week when my upgrade comes. Before you decide on any phone though make sure you go into the store and mess around with it for a bit just to get a feel of it.
All I want for Christmas is a Laker girl
Posted July 30, 2012 - 07:13 PM
My 2-yr T-Mobile contract ends next month, and I have no idea what phone to get. I just can't afford data plans right now, and I don't really need or want internet literally everywhere I go anyway. I guess whatever phones the T-Mobile location we go to provides, I'll take the cheapest one cuz at this point, all I need is texts, calls, and camera lol
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I want to upgrade but I do not want to lose my unlimited data with Verizon
I'm in the same situation.
I've been eligible for an upgrade for like 3 weeks now, but haven't upgraded because I don't want to lose my unlimited data either. Also, kinda waiting for a new phone to come out that really impresses me.
A friend of mine who's on AT&T was able to keep his unlimited data plan by threatening to leave, he basically said he's been a customer since the late 90's and that it's BS he's getting treated like that, so they let him keep it.
I might try the same thing. I've been a customer since about 2004, still have the same number i've had since sophomore year in HS when I finally got a cell. It might work.
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Anyone else get the SGS3? If so, how you like it so far?
Two my homies have it, it's nice and fast but I prefer my HTC One X over it. Can't go wrong either way though.
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TUSCALOOSA | Former University of Alabama president Guy Bailey has been given about 10 months to prepare for a potential transition to teaching in the classroom, University of Alabama System spokeswoman Kellee Reinhart said Friday.
TUSCALOOSA | Former University of Alabama president Guy Bailey has been given about 10 months to prepare for a potential transition to teaching in the classroom, University of Alabama System spokeswoman Kellee Reinhart said Friday.
Bailey resigned as president on Oct. 31 after less than two months on the job, citing his wife's poor health, but was classified as being on leave through August 2013 and will continue to draw his $535,000 salary.
Two of Bailey's aides are losing their jobs but will continue to draw their salaries, which were a combined $246,000, for several months, Reinhart said.
With Bailey having tenure as an English professor, however, which was granted when he was hired as president, he can return to the university in a teaching position once his leave expires. If Bailey joins the English department, he will receive a salary equal to that of the highest-paid professor in that department, Reinhart said. She could not confirm what that amount would be, but according to a database of UA salaries compiled by The Tuscaloosa News in December 2011, the highest paid professor in the department made about $160,000 and the average salary in the department was about $110,000.
If he does not return to the classroom, his leave will end, she said.
It is not uncommon for a resigning chancellor or president to be given time to prepare for a transition, �Reinhart said. Several sections in UA's faculty handbook focus on the different types of leave available for faculty members, as well as administrators returning to a faculty position.
The faculty handbook discusses generally how long a faculty member must be employed by the university before being granted leave. It also provides a general framework for compensation while on leave. Bailey's salary while on leave and his employment time of less than two months does not fall under either category. Reinhart said those details were at the discretion of UA System Chancellor Robert Witt.
According to an Associated Press story last week, Witt praised Bailey's expertise in the field of linguistics and said he would be a "tremendous asset" to the university if he decided to make the transition to the classroom. Because of this, Witt decided it was the "right thing for the university to do" to provide a developmental leave appointment that others in his position who had been here longer would have received, according to the AP report. Witt made the decision in consultation with the system's board of trustees, Reinhart said.
Bailey's two aides — presidential assistant Mary Larson Diaz and presidential chief of staff Justin Clark — also were provided administrative leave for four months, during which they will be paid based on their salaries, Reinhart said. Diaz had a $148,000 annual salary, while Clark's yearly salary was $98,000.
When Bailey was hired, he informed Witt that he would be bringing two staff members from Texas Tech University with him, a decision that the board of trustees did not have to approve, Reinhart said. Both positions were eliminated when Bailey resigned as president.
Diaz and Clark will continue to receive medical benefits during their administrative leave.
Bailey, who has two degrees from UA, was hired in July to replace Witt, who became the university system's chancellor earlier this year, and began his duties on Sept. 4.
Judy Bonner, a former provost, replaced Bailey and became the university's first permanent female president. Reinhart has said her compensation package is identical to Bailey's.
Bonner, who served as interim president before Bailey was hired, is the sister of U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile.
Material from the Associated Press was included in this report.
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Nashua's proposed school budget up about 2 percentBY SIMON RIOS
Union Leader Correspondent
Union Leader Correspondent
January 30. 2013 10:19PM
NASHUA - The city can expect a 2014 school budget of around $97 million - a nearly 2 percent increase over the current budget - according to numbers presented by Superintendent Mark Conrad.
"The dilemma we have," Conrad said at Wednesday night's school board meeting, "is that we've been cutting over time to the point where there are no longer areas that we can make further reductions, at least in our view, without really cutting into the bone."
The administration presented budget notebooks to the school board at Wednesday night's meeting.
Though the official dollar amount of the budget will be released at a budget meeting Saturday, Conrad said the budget will be a shade shy of 2 percent higher than the current budget, which stands at $95,564,737. That would represent an increase of nearly $2 million.
The 2014 budget is marked by the addition of five teaching positions and an increase in technology spending for software, computers and other equipment. Costs passed down by the federal and state governments are expected to place additional fiscal pressure.
Conrad said the proposed baseline budget reduces secondary-level teachers, reapportioning those positions into other areas.
But due to high class sizes at the elementary level and the expectation of an influx in students at Bicentennial Elementary - where new housing developments are expected to open in the coming school year - five elementary level positions are added.
Conrad said he left the district in 2006 and returned two years later. Upon returning he found "fewer paraprofessionals tied to our libraries, there were fewer custodians in our schools, we had reductions in our tech by $160,000, our school allocations had been frozen. . We really had been eroding ourselves for a while."
Conrad said though some programs have been eliminated over the years, the cuts have mainly resulted in staff reductions and larger class sizes. He added that the district is down 69 teachers since 2010.
"Some reductions in enrollments account for this but nothing approaching the reduction of 69 positions," he said.
The technology budget is increased by $170,000 to nearly $1.2 million. That budget accounts for added wages, computers and other equipment and $466,000 in software.
Conrad said increasing the amount of technology in classrooms signifies the move into the 21st century.
"On the end this is a modest reflection of our needs, and it really didn't reflect all of our needs, just our most pressing ones."
"We're crashing and burning before we get new computers," Conrad said.
Fifty-four percent of the district's computers are between 6 and 10 years old, while just 15 percent are less than a year old.
The administration wants to increase the number of computers in the district from 2,846 to 3,315 in next year's budget.
The added computers are projected to maintain a steady level for the next three school years.
A $70,000 net increase for curriculum is also included in the budget.
Textbooks for social studies in the middle schools, as well as Algebra II books at the high school are scheduled to be replaced.
The budget committee has six more meetings scheduled, leading up to a vote on March 6. A public hearing will take place Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.
Following the school board's approval, the budget goes to the mayor and then to the board of aldermen for final approval.