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Guns Pistols Beretta Pistols Model Series Beretta mm model S Italian Brunitron Oxide Refinish Military Police JS F M type ancestor c Round Pre Ban Magazine SOR | 77 | 106 | Lc | 78.1387ms View Category Beretta 9mm model 92S Italian Brunitron & Oxide Refinish Military Police JS92F300M type / ancestor c1978 16 Round 1 Pre-Ban Magazine 92SOR For Sale from Robertson Trading Post | Positive feedback: 99% View | Verified Seller | 25230 Completed Sales View Sellers Items /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639544.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639545.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639546.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639547.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639548.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639549.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639550.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639551.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639552.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639553.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639554.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639555.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639556.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639557.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639558.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639559.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639560.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639561.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639562.jpg /UserImages/87270/999124434 13639563.jpg Description: This listing is for the exact pistol in the photos. Here is one of the first 92 series Berettas with slide mounted safety. It comes to us from its career with the Carbinieri, the Military Police, in Beretta's Home State of Brescia, Italy. Manufacturer was Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta, S.p.A. of Gardone. Type is traditional double and single action, hammer fired, locked breech semi automatic pistol. Construction is steel barrel, slide, and working parts fitted into a 7075 lightweight alloy frame. Barrel is 5 inch Government size, .580 outside diameter. Bore is six groove right hand rifling with 1:9.84 twist rate, no chrome. See pic for specs and dimensions. Chambering is 9mm Luger, 9mm Parabellum, 9x19, 9mm NATO, call it what you will, THE 9mm. The 92S was Not designed for +P ammunition, it will feed anything from steel case Russian all the way up to Federal Premium hollowpoints. Magazine is original issue factory Beretta 15 rounder, 15 + 1 Fully loaded capacity. With its European style magazine release, this 92S will still accept most factory magazines because they still have the right side release cut. The two best aftermarket magazines, Mec-Gar and Act-Mag, must have a slot installed like the ones we've had made. Safety is slide mounted, serrated tab, right hand shooter, and serves as a decocker. Finish is Oxide Process slide refinish with semi gloss Brunitron refinish frame. Grips are factory black polymer with Beretta logo and checkered panels. Left side slide is importer stamped. Surface detractions are moderate, principally natural toning to the slide and edge and butt wear on the frame and levers. We rate it as Very Good Refinish, 75 percent vicinity by our estimate. Photos, at any rate, ought to suffice for our distinguished shoppers to judge finish grade for themselves. From its serial number range, this pistol was manufactured between 1977 and 1979. The run was not date coded. Bore, chamber, and mechanism are all bright and clean. From the moderate amount of frame contact whitening to the barrel surface, we estimate this Beretta has been fired fewer than 2000 times, no rounds at all for a 92. Replacement pricing on a new JS92F300M Beretta, this one's descendant, is $699 on berettausa com. People even ask $400 or more for used PT92 Taurus copies. We're offering the Italian Beretta in the photos, however, for only $ 319.00. Not transferable to civilian residents of California or Massachusetts. Search term c1978 will bring up all our 92S Berettas on this venue. For any civilian buyers in Connecticut, District of Colombia, Hawaii, Maryland, or New York, deduct $8 with no magazine, or add $20 for a modified new Mec-Gar 10 rounder. Add any number of new modified 15 or 17 round Italian ACT-Mag Magazines only $23 per; or 10 round Italian Mec-Gars same way $29 per for civilians in restrictive jurisdictions. 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Using a simple and enjoyable teaching style, this course introduces the novice listener to the wonders of classical music, from Bach fugues to Mozart symphonies to Puccini operas.
Using a simple and enjoyable teaching style, this course introduces the novice listener to the wonders of classical music, from Bach fugues to Mozart symphonies to Puccini operas.
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Excellent overview that enhanced my knowledge and understanding about classical music. I enjoyed it very much and highly recommended to anyone interested and passionate about this type of music.
If you could put a soundtrack to the French Revolution, it would surely contain music from Beethoven's "Heroic" period, during which, he "brought sound to symphonies." We'll see how Beethoven's incorporation of new instruments, as well as, his creation of a large orchestra, made his symphonies much louder and "sonically vivid" than those of his predecessors. The point of focus here will be a comparison of the music of Beethoven's "Heroic" period, represented by his Symphony No. 5, with that of his "Late" period, epitomized by his famous Ode to Joy. We'll also consider Beethoven the man, as revealed through primary source accounts of his life at that time. They paint a picture of a disheveled, wild-looking Beethoven, who lived among filth and clutter and was consumed by his work. The ultimate question: in what ways might his life of isolation and his hearing disability affected the nature (style) of the great music he created?As we bid aufwiedersehen to Beethoven, we move on to full-blown musical Romanticism. Romantic music, and indeed all romantic art, was known for its idealistic views on love and nature. Occurring roughly from 1820 to 1900, musical Romanticism saw an evolution of musical style as well as a change of venue (place) for musical performance. In addition to the aristocracy and their royal palaces, a strong middle class arose in Europe during this period. With the music of the ever-lyrical Franz Schubert, we'll step into the parlor of an upper-middle class home, to experience his domestic chamber music and songs. We'll finish off the module by asking the question: How do we use musical sound to communicate? A look at program music (instrumental music that uses musical gestures to tell a story) will help us figure this out. After a quick auditory review of the workings of program music (we'll follow Vivaldi on a spring day), we'll watch Hector Berlioz go to hell. More accurately, we'll follow the sequence of musical gestures he employs to re-create a fantastical tale of pursuit, destruction, damnation. Having learned our lesson, we'll end with a little fun as we try to match themes extracted from various symphonies to the mental images that the composer had in mind. Do you speak the language of program music fluently? Join us and find out!

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What did Logan Lerman do when he learned about the near-impossible swordplay he'd be required to pull off for Paul W.S. Anderson's high-octane take on "The Three Musketeers"? What any actor would do: smile, nod and quietly freak out inside.
"I remember sitting down for the first time with Paul, the director, and Nick Powell, my stuntman and teacher, at Paul's house and we were going through the first discussions about what they were expecting from me physically," says Lerman, who plays D'Artagnan in the adrenaline-fueled adaptaion of Dumas' classic. "They were talking about everything that they wanted me to do, how they wanted me to be ambidextrous and do all this stuff and all these crazy sequences."
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It wasn't long before Lerman began forcing himself to master his Musketeer rapier, "working out, like, six hours a day, every day, in L.A. for, like, two months before we got to Germany, where we trained for a month and a half," he recalls. "Then the whole time – for four or five months – I was training every day. We made it work, and I ended up becoming comfortable with the sword and I really wasn't expecting to even to even pull through and I did. It ended up working out very well."
Lerman adds that after a small legion of diverse actors have played the dashing D'Artagnan on film – Douglas Fairbanks, Don Ameche, Michael York, Maximillian Schell, Chris O'Donnell and Gabriel Byrne among them – he took inspiration from the most lightfooted interpretation.
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S.1987 - Lead Exposure Reduction Amendments Act of 2015114th Congress (2015-2016)
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Lead Exposure Reduction Amendments Act of 2015
This bill amends the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to exclude from the definition of "abatement" any activity: (1) the primary purpose of which is to repair, restore, or remodel target housing, public buildings constructed before 1978, or commercial buildings; and (2) that incidentally results in a reduction or elimination of lead-based paint hazards.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), no later than one year prior to proposing any renovation and remodeling regulation, must study the extent to which persons engaged in such activities: (1) are exposed to lead, and (2) disturb lead and create a lead-based paint hazard. Exempted from such a regulation is an emergency renovation carried out in response to an event that is an act of God as defined by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, that presents a risk to the public health or safety, or that threatens to cause significant damage to equipment or property if not attended to immediately. A regulation may not require post-abatement clearance testing.
The EPA must promulgate regulations to permit a resident owner of a dwelling that is target housing to authorize a contractor to forego compliance with such a regulation if the owner certifies that: (1) the renovation or remodeling project is to be carried out at such dwelling, (2) no pregnant woman or child under the age of six resides or will reside in such housing, and (3) the owner acknowledges that the contractor will be exempt from the requirements of such regulation. The EPA may not hold a contractor responsible for a misrepresentation made by the owner of such dwelling unless the contractor has actual knowledge of such a misrepresentation.
The EPA must: (1) recognize a qualifying test kit for use under TSCA, and (2) suspend enforcement of any regulation relating to renovation and remodeling of target housing and commercial buildings constructed after January 1, 1960, and public buildings constructed between January 1, 1960, and January 1, 1978, until a specified period after the EPA recognizes such a test kit.


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LONDON (AP) — A biography of Italian fascist Gabriele D'Annunzio has won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize.
"The Pike," by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, was awarded the 20,000 pound ($32,000) Samuel Johnson Prize on Monday. The book tells the story of D'Annunzio, a debauched Italian artist who became a national hero.
Martin Rees, who chaired the judging panel, praised Hughes-Hallett's "intricate crafting" of the narrative and said readers will be transfixed by her portrayal of "repellent egotist" D'Annunzio.
"Her original experimentation with form transcends the conventions of biography," Rees said.
Hughes-Hallett has written two other books: "Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions" and "Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen."
For the Samuel Johnson Prize, she beat out other finalists including Charles Moore's "Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography;" Charlotte Higgins' portrait of ancient Britain, "Under Another Sky;" and "A Sting in the Tale" by bee conservationist Dave Goulson. "Empires of the Dead," a history of World War I cemeteries by David Crane, and William Dalrymple's 19th-century Afghan saga "Return of the King" also were on the shortlist.
Rees noted that the strength and variety of the other shortlisted works had given the judges a difficult task.
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alright i got a book from the library and it is c programming because the C++ programming books were out. how much different is c from c++ do you think i could use this book?
alright i got a book from the library and it is c programming because the C++ programming books were out. how much different is c from c++ do you think i could use this book?
c and c++ are exactly the same
all c programs should work in c++
c++ is an extension of c
c++ programs may not work in c, though.
C and C++ are not exactly the same. But they are very similar.
They share the same general programming contructs. The way I/O is handled and dynamic memory allocation is different. C++ also has classes which are similar to structs. If you learn C it's a quick move to C++ and people that learn C++ first can quickly pick up the way C does things.
You should be just fine learning C first and then picking up the additional C++ concepts later.
they are pretty much the same except for polymorphism(at least thats what I think) and use different functions that do the same thing.
and the dynamic memory is different
do u mean the calls (new instead of malloc) or the actual way it is handled?
(I never learned C)
The dynamic memory of C++ allows you to control the life time of the variables, whatever its global or auto.On the counter of C , where you cant control the life time (e.g. global variable ll be in the memory as long as your program is running)
these features are allowed by using (new, delete)
you can use -delete- also to delete an array which you should do in C using memset
Another difference is the fact that many words are preserved in C++ as keywords , while it was available as identifier in C (e.g. friend, this )
However , I think you can begin with C++ then C ll look almost the same for you.
How hard would it be to go the other way? I already know C and I'm trying to learn C++(through tuts cuase Im cheap and dont want to buy books) but I am having some problems with the threory behingd classes which as far as I know are like structures except they can also have functions ad part of them where as structures cant(am I correct?). Anyway I'm rambling and but to get to the point how hard should I expect C++ to be to learn if I already know C?
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Class = Structure + Private Data
A struct can hold function definitions also, although it usually doesn't.
Classes are just encapsulations of your functions and variables into logical objects. Structs and Classes are very similar except Classes can be inherited, derived from and the security levels can be set. A struct is completly public so you can call a variable inside it from any function, but a Class can have it's variables and functions set to private so only the class can have access to them and no outside functions can gain access to them.
Syntax wise C and C++ are almost exactly the same but C++ is all about the Classes so you are gonna need a book on it to learn about that, once you know classes you know C++. The rest is API calls, logic, and proficiency.
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The difference between C and C++ is that C++ is the better C.
to my knowledge structs in C can only hold variables, but not functions. Also the keyword struct needs to be used when declaring instance of the struct, unless the instance is declared immediately after the struct declaration.
structs in C++ are the same as classes except that all members (variables or functions) are public by default whereas in classes all members are private by default. By convention, most people use structs in C++ similar to what structs in C are--usually they don't have structs contain functions, usually they don't inherit from structs, usually they don't have structs contain private or protected members--- but it is convention, not requirements. When using structs in C++ you don't need to use the keyword struct except in the initial declarations.
classes are not available in C which means data tends to be more exposed and there is no inheritance, so code tends to be more redundant. There is also better type checking in C++ than in C (one of the weaknesses or benefits, depending on your point of view, with printf()). Given availability of classes, you can get a better modeling of the unvierse you are trying to recreate in code using C++ vs C (although even then it's not perfect).
As previously mentioned there are more keywords in C++, the method of I/0 differs between C and C++, and (just about)everything you do in C you can do in C++, but not visa versa.


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France's new Women's Rights Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem's stated mission is to start the eradication of prostitution in France by pushing tough legislation against their clients. Some sex workers and police officers see things differently.
French prostitutes' organisations on Sunday heaped scorn on the new minister for women's rights after she said she wanted to eradicate the sex trade in France.
In an interview with the weekly Journal de Dimanche, 34-year-old minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (pictured) said: "My objective, like that of the [newly-elected] Socialist Party, is to see prostitution disappear."
In December 2011, a cross-party initiative in the French lower house of parliament came up with a proposed law that would criminalise paying for sex.
Getting the proposal onto the statute books would be her immediate priority – but for Vallaud-Belkacem, who says she has the support of Interior Minister Manuel Valls, prosecuting clients is just the first step.
"This abolitionist stance is borne of the fact that there are insufficient means at our disposal ... to protect the vast majority of prostitutes, who are victims of violence from organised crime networks and from their pimps," she said.
"The question is not whether we want to abolish prostitution – the answer is yes – but rather how we can have the means to do so."
According to Guy Goffroy, one of the authors of the proposed bill and a member of the former ruling conservative UMP party, 90 percent of prostitutes working in France are victims of international traffickers.
'Zero legitimacy'
But sex workers contacted by FRANCE 24 said the measure, if passed, would penalise what they insist is a perfectly legitimate way of making a living and endanger the already precarious lives of prostitutes.
"What right does Vallaud-Belkacem or anyone else have to tell me what I can or can't do with my body," said Chloé Navarro, representative of the STRASS prostitutes' trade union, at her stall at the "Solidays" AIDS awareness music festival in Paris on Sunday.
"Will they check every bedroom in France to make sure there hasn't been a financial transaction for sex?"
"We are a trade union representing sex workers' rights, but she won't even speak to us or hear our point of view," she said. "She has zero legitimacy."
Her view was echoed by France Arnould, head of the Amis du Bus des Femmes, an association created by former sex workers that offers medical and social support to working prostitutes.
Arnould argued that Vallaud-Belkacem's campaign was "misplaced" and that prostitutes working "out of choice" could not be considered victims in the same way as women trafficked into France from Eastern Europe and Africa by violent and exploitative gangs.
Driving prostitution 'further underground'
"If we can win the fight against the pimps and traffickers and their criminal networks, what possible problem could there be with prostitution?" she asked. "These women – and men – mostly don't have pimps [pimping is illegal in France]. They are a part of civil life. They pay their taxes. They are citizens."
"Toughening laws against the sex trade will only drive prostitution further underground. It will be bad for the prostitutes and it will be bad for society at large."
In a companion piece to the Journal de Dimanche interview, an unnamed senior policeman said penalising clients would be difficult to enforce, and wanting to abolish prostitution completely was "pious wishful thinking".
"The only difference penalising clients would make is that what currently happens on the streets would just take place in clubs, hotels and massage parlours," he said
Asked about the possibility of totally eradicating prostitution, he said: "Do we really need to punish these poor women more?"
"We couldn't ask policemen to enforce a ban, and I can't see any judge sentencing a woman for selling her body. Trying to abolish prostitution would be a disaster."
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Some of them are closer than other but they all struggle with the unbelievable detail that's put into high quality animation movies from the likes of Pixar and Dreamworks. I sort of wish they had a whole movie with bootleg 30-minute version of Shrek and such though.


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Fable 2 tactic and spoiler
I've been playing my daughter's copy of Fable 2. I was watching, and spotted what I thought to be a.. I'm not going to call it a flaw, just a tactic that's almost overwhelming.
Basically, how to get rich. (sigh). I want to note that if you've lots of money you can purchase statistic-enhancing potions, becoming significantly overpowered against most of the foes you're facing. Instead of having to choose which to emphasize and hope it's enough, it's possible to be… well, it's possible to be an all-around god if you go long enough. But it takes money – lots and lots and lots of money. (Note, you can also use all this money to become King/Queen of the realm. If you own a largish proportion of the land – and yes, you can buy property here – you get the reward. )
So how do you get money – or rather, what's the tactic/flaw? It's in trade.
At the simplest level, purchase weapons from either the Bowerstone blacksmith or the Oakfield weapons dealer, take them to Fairfax, and sell them to one of the wandering Weapons/Rifle/Melee/Pistol traders. If you do absolutely nothing to earn a discount, Bowerstone will cost you 1.07% (approx) base cost, and Oakfield will cost you approximately 96%. You can modify that by making them like you at which point you get to purchase the Bowerstone stuff at an additional 19% discount – that's about 89% and the Oakfield stuff for about 77%. The sale price at Fairfax is around 125% (132 if you are buying). You can do this purchase and sale every other "day", though if you're using Oakfield as the far end (and walking instead of using the carriage) you're using up one day just to travel. Using Oakfield and the "we love you" numbers, every 77 gold you spend will return approximately 125 in return — just over a 58 gold (or 75% profit). And it's possible to be worse. Or to be more accurate, get even larger returns.
First, there are sales. (and, sometimes, shortages). Sales and shortages modify the amount by 25 or 50%. Yes, that means you're purchasing your stuff at a 55 or 69% discount. Those are great, but there is another action. As I said, you can purchase buildings. And if you own the shop you get a 39% owner's discount. Now the owner discount overrides the "we love you" discount. Big deal – you're getting 39 instead of 19 percent off; and the sales prices still modify. Catch the 50% and you are paying 11% of the base price, modified by the economy. The game won't allow the shop to give the items to you for free, but it's darn close.
And if you own the shops the sales are just gravy. In a few hours of play I raised my wealth to over 100,000 while not yet getting deep in the game. (I just saw Garth captured, if that helps – i was at 125,000 gold on hand.) Let me run the detail, again.
Take your first job – blacksmith – and earn a thousand gold or so. Sweet talk the blacksmith, then buy as many weapons as you can afford. Run to Fairfax, find a trader who'll take them, sweet talk them, and sell the weapons. Go run the story line and quests to get through two days, and come back and buy, then sell. As soon as the quests take you to Oakfield, do this with the Weapon's trader as well. At this time you can stop quests for a bit – till you get bored making money anyway – and start the following.
Go to Oakfield. Buy weapons. Go to Bowerstone Blacksmith. Buy weapons. Go to Fairfax. Sell weapons. Go back to Oakfield. At the earliest opportunity buy the Oakfield stall. As soon after that as you can manage buy the Blacksmith store.
One last curlicue. As you get enough, start purchasing other stores in Bowerstone. You get the discounts. You can pull things off the shelves and as owner it's not stealing. And most important, every store generates more income. That 125000 I'm at right now is after purchasing all but one of the Bowerstone Big Stores (haven't purchased the furniture shop or the tailor yet – hmmm, need the stylist too.) I also picked up the Oakfield tavern. I get about 3,600 gold every 5 minutes while I'm playing – it's almost to the point where being a gunrunner doesn't pay enough to make it worth my while (grin). That's a lie, of course. I purchase all the weapons at the two stores for about 30,000 these days, and sell them for about 60,000. That's ~30,000 per 15-20 minutes of play.
I'd be a lot richer but I keep buying stat enhancing potions. shrug.
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Or….you can just unplug the Ethernet cable (if you have xbox live) and set forward the Xbox's clock to whenever and accumulate all that income in how ever much forward you set the clock ahead.
Actually it's easy to become a millionaire. All stock is replaced every 24 hours. So when there is a sale at the bowerstone blacksmith purchase the high cost items first (larger margin) and work your way to the less, until you can buy all…sleep in the inn for 24 hours…repeat…and repeat until the sale is over or you have no more cash. Then head to fairfax, sell all. DO NOT TRAVEL BACK AND FORTH FROM CITY TO CITY…waste of our time.
oh…also…once you reach a certain point it doesn't make sense buying everything so just stick to the high cost weapons with a base cost over 10k. but if you're at that point there's no sense in trading unless you enjoy it. I'm up to 5,000,000 or so.
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Going Forward
I want to take this opportunity to thank the citizens of Vermont for allowing me to continue representing them in the U.S. Senate. These are tough times for our country, and I promise to continue working as hard as I can to address the very serious crises that we face.
Let me provide a brief overview of just a few of the areas that I will be focusing on.
THE ECONOMY: The U.S. economy today is working very well – for millionaires and billionaires. Not so well for the disappearing middle class. While we have come a long way in the last four years since Wall Street greed drove us to the verge of a worldwide depression, much more has to be done to create the millions of jobs that we need.
In America today we have the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on earth. The top 1 percent owns 42 percent of the nation's wealth, while the bottom 60 percent owns 2.3 percent. In the last study done on income distribution we learned that 93 percent of all new income generated between 2009 and 2010 went to the top 1 percent while the bottom 99 percent split the remaining 7 percent. This extraordinary unfairness is not only morally reprehensible, it is bad economics. It will be very difficult to create the jobs that our people need when so many Americans have little or no money to spend.
As Vermont's senator, I will be pushing for a major jobs program to put millions of people back to work rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. In Vermont and around the country we need a massive effort to improve our roads, bridges, water and wastewater systems, airports, rail system, broadband and cell phone service. Rebuilding our infrastructure makes us more productive and internationally competitive — and creates a whole lot of jobs.
DEFICIT REDUCTION: In 2001, when Bill Clinton left office, this country had a $236 billion surplus. As a result of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that were unpaid for, huge tax breaks for the rich, a Medicare prescription drug program put on the credit card and a significant decline in federal revenues because of the recession, we now have a $1 trillion deficit and a $16 trillion national debt.
Congress must address the deficit situation, but we must do it in a way that is fair. At a time when the wealthiest people in this country are doing extremely well and their effective tax rates are extremely low (think Mitt Romney), the people on top must pay their fair share of taxes to help us deal with the deficit. The idea that Republicans are united in wanting to extend Bush's tax breaks for the top 2 percent is beyond comprehension. We must also end the outrageous loopholes that allow one out of four large profitable corporations to pay nothing in federal corporate taxes. We must also end the absurdity of allowing the wealthy and large corporations to avoid paying over $100 billion a year in federal taxes because they are able to stash their money in tax havens in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and elsewhere.
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Aggregates are just what they sound like: aggregations of data from multiple instances. Combined with object filtering and grouping, aggregates are powerful tools for summarizing your persistent data.
JDOQL includes the following aggregate functions:
min(expression): Returns the minimum
value of the given expression among matching instances.
max(expression): Returns the maximum
value of the given expression among matching instances.
sum(expression): Returns the sum
of the given expression over all matching instances.
avg(expression): Returns the average
of the given expression over all matching instances.
count(expression): Returns the number
of matching instances for which the given expression is
not null.
Kodo allows you to define your own aggregate functions. See Section 9.6, "Query Language Extensions" in the Reference Guide for details.
The following example counts the number of magazines that cost under 5 dollars:
Example 11.17. Count
Query query = pm.newQuery (Magazine.class, "price < 5"); query.setResult ("count(this)"); Long count = (Long) query.execute ();
You may be thinking that we could have gotten the count just
as easily by executing a standard query and calling
Collection.size () on the result, and you'd be right.
But not all aggregates are so easy to replace. Our next example
retrieves the minimum, maximum, and average magazine prices in the
database. These values would be a little more difficult to calculate
manually. More importantly, iterating over every single persistent
magazine in order to factor its price into our calculations would be
woefully inefficient.
Example 11.18. Min, Max, Avg
Query query = pm.newQuery (Magazine.class); query.setResult ("min(price), max(price), avg(price)"); Object[] prices = (Object[]) query.execute (); Double min = (Double) prices[0]; Double max = (Double) prices[1]; Double avg = (Double) prices[2];
The functionality described above is useful, but aggregates only really shine when you combine them with object grouping.
public void setGrouping (String grouping);
Query interface's
method allows you to group query results on field values.
The grouping string consists of one or more comma-separated clauses
to group on, optionally followed by the
keyword and a boolean expression. The
expression pares down the candidate groups just as the query's
filter pares down the candidate objects.
Now your aggregates apply to each group, rather than to all matching objects. Let's see this in action:
Example 11.19. Grouping
The following query returns each publisher and the average price of its magazines, for all publishers that publish no more than 10 magazines.
Query query = pm.newQuery (Magazine.class); query.setResult ("publisher, avg(price)"); query.setGrouping ("publisher having count(this) <= 10"); List results = (List) query.execute (); for (Iterator itr = results.iterator (); itr.hasNext ();) { Object[] data = (Object[]) itr.next (); processData ((Company) data[0], (Double) data[1]); } query.close (results);
You probably noticed that in our initial aggregate examples, the
queries all returned a single result object, while the query above
returned a
List. Before you get too
confused, let's take a brief detour to examine query return types.
If you have called
setUnique(true), the
query returns a single result object (or null).
Else if you have called
the query returns a
Else if the query result is an aggregate and you have not specified any grouping, the query returns a single result object.
Else the query returns a
In addition to how many results are returned, query configuration can affect the type of each result:
If you have specified a result class, the query returns instances of that class. We cover result classes in the next section.
Else if you have not set a result string, the query returns instances of the candidate class.
Else if you have specified a single projection or aggregate result:
A projection returns instances of the projected field type. When mathematical expressions are involved, the less precise operand is always promoted to the type of the more precise operand.
sum(expression) returns a
long for integral types other
BigInteger, and the
expression type for all other types.
Else if you have specified multiple projections or aggregates
in your result string, the query returns instances of
Object[], where the class of each array
index value follows the typing rules above.
Casting a projection or aggregate expression in the result string converts that result element to the type specified in the cast.
Don't worry about trying to memorize all of these rules. In practice,
they amount to a much simpler rule: queries return what you expect them
to. A query for all the magazines that match a filter returns a
list of
Magazines. But an aggregate query
for the count of all magazines that match a filter just returns a
Long. A projection query for the title of all
magazines returns a list of
Strings. But
a projection for both the title and price of each magazine returns a
list of
Object[]s, each consisting of a
String and a
So although you can always explicitly set the
flag and result class to obtain a specific result shape, the
defaults are usually exactly what you want.


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Does Ephesians 2:8-9 teach that faith is a gift from God?
"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."
"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."
For centuries, various Bible commentators have differed on the precise reference of the pronoun "that" in Ephesians 2:8. Does "that" (touto) refer to faith, as many have stated (e.g., Augustine, Chrysostom, Lenski, et al.), or, does "that" refer to salvation from sin? Is faith the "gift of God," or is this gift salvation by grace through faith?
Admittedly, from a cursory reading of the passage in Ephesians 2:8, it may appear that the relative pronoun that has faith as its grammatical antecedent. Those who advocate the view that faith itself is a gift (i.e., a miraculous imposition) from God, often point out that in this verse, "faith" is the nearest antecedent of "that" ("For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God").
However, when one examines Ephesians 2:8 in the language in which it was originally written (Greek), he learns that the pronoun that (touto) is neuter in gender, while the word faith (pistis) is feminine. Since the general rule in Greek grammar is for the gender and number of a relative pronoun to be the same as its antecedent (Mounce, 1993, p. 111), then some extenuating linguistic circumstance, special idiomatic use, or other similarly mitigating factor would need to be demonstrated to justify linking "that" to "faith." If such reasonable justification cannot be made, then one is compelled to continue studying the passage in order to know assuredly what "that" gift of God is.
When no clear antecedent is found within a text, Greek scholar William Mounce wisely recommends that the Bible student study the context of the passage in question in order to help determine to what the relative pronoun (like "that") is referring (1993, p. 111). The overall context of the first three chapters of Ephesians is man's salvation found in Christ. Examine, for example, the following passages from the remainder of the book.
Not only is the theme of salvation the overall context of the first three chapters of the book of Ephesians, but the immediate context of Ephesians 2:8-9 is salvation, not faith. These two verses thoroughly document how a person is saved, not how a person believes.
Paul was not providing an exposition on faith in his epistle to the Ephesians. Rather salvation was his focus. Faith is mentioned as the mode by which salvation is accepted. Salvation is through faith. Just as water is received into a house in twenty-first-century America through a pipeline, a sinner receives salvation through obedient faith (cf. Romans 1:5; 16:26). The main focus of Paul's message in Ephesians 2:8-9 was salvation (i.e., the living "water that springs up into everlasting life"—cf. John 4:14), not the mode of salvation.
Admittedly, faith might be categorized as a gift from God in the broad sense in which all things come from God (e.g., the bread for which we work is an indirect gift from God—cf. Matthew 6:9-13), but faith is not a direct gift from God given to some and not to others. As Paul wrote in his letter to the church at Rome, "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). Faith in Christ as the Son of God is found only in those who have first heard the Word of God, and then believed (cf. John 20:31).
Mounce, William D. (1993), Basics of Biblical Greek (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan).


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Cook the Book: 'How to Cook Everything, Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition'
I happen to think that Mr. Bittman sells himself short. I'll admit, the title of this week's Cook the Book pick initially struck me as a little grandiose. But, having thoroughly combed the volume, I've come to understand that How to Cook Everything doesn't purport to contain every recipe in the world. What it does contain are the starting points, the techniques, and, crucially, the coaching in kitchen improv that will enable you to piece together almost any dish you can think of. It's the most splattered, dog-eared volume in Mario Batali's kitchen, which should tell you something about its resonance.
Each day this week, we'll be posting an appetizer recipe from the revised, tenth anniversary edition of this important cookbook. Just in time for party season, you'll be armed with 14 ways to prepare deviled eggs, have easily scaled recipes for satay and skordalia, and see crudités in a whole new light.
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Thanks to the fine folks at Wiley, we are giving away five (5) copies of How to Cook Everything. In the comments below, just tell us your favorite Mark Bittman tip or trick.
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Into a wall at 350 kmph
Or: How do you actually test CFRP materials in a Lamborghini?
Get EDAG employee Lukasz Lasek from Neckarsulm to talk about his favourite subject, and his enthusiasm for high-end sports cars is unmistakable. As is his enthusiasm for driving them into walls at 350 kmph. In this borderline area of automotive engineering, at the point where unchartered technological territory and maximum requirements come together, intensive testing is the only way of gaining any real insight into the materials used. It is all about clever designs that differ completely from any of the cars we see on the road, high-performance materials bonded together with adhesives, and not just a top class sports car but also a top class team that already knows what will come after CFRP.
Nearly € 200,000 for a spaceframe with a difference
In the present time, with unlimited cloud computing capacity, endless memory capacity and algorithms that can create complete worlds on the smartphone, it comes as no surprise that great importance is attached to virtual crash tests in automotive testing. Standardised and extremely reliable, virtual simulations nowadays reflect reality. Nevertheless, we enter unknown territory with every new high-tech material. All the more so if it is put to use in a vehicle that challenges the limits of ph
sical feasibility. We are, of course, talking about the use of CFRP in the new Lamborghini Huracán.
For just under € 200,000, the buyer gets a vehicle that, compared to the cars typically seen on our roads, does not have a self-supporting body. Instead, it has a so-called spaceframe. Various profiles are joined together with cast nodes to give a sophisticated structure designed with one particular advantage in mind: reduced weight combined with stiffness. For the calculation, or virtual testing, of such high-performance structures consisting of aluminium and CFRP, there is no possibility of anyone being able to draw on a decade's experience in series production. It is not possible to pull a perfect calculation method out of the hat just like that. It will always need to be adapted. Individually, to the material and the vehicle. All the better then, if you can rely on a team that has already mastered this challenge in earlier projects, and so knows how to solve the problem.
CFRP - what it boils down to is "direction"
The nature of the great challenge that Lukasz Lasek and his team had to solve lay in the special properties of CFRP compared to materials such as steel or aluminium. Conventional materials have what are known as isotropic properties. This means that, regardless of the direction from which a load is applied to the component, the material will always behave in the same way. To put it simply, a force from the front can bend a steel plate in exactly the same way as a force from behind. With CFRP, the very opposite applies. In this case, whether a component breaks or is able to withstand a force depends on the direction from which it is applied. The reason for this can be seen with the naked eye: the differently aligned fibres in CFRP. For each component, the individual fibres must be correctly positioned (e.g. rotated through 90 degrees relative to one another) to ensure the necessary properties. If the fibre arrangement diverges by even just a few degrees, this will considerably reduce stiffness and therefore the stability of the component. Bearing in mind that CFRP components of this type are still hand-made, this is especially critical.
And simulation and the virtual crash test must provide early answers to precisely these weak spots, be they small or large, not just for driving the racing machines, but also for their production. What makes things more difficult is the fact that aluminium bonded with CFRP in the Huracán presents further possible weak spots that need to be tested.
Where might a joint break? How stiff is the car overall? Where do unpleasant vibrations and noises occur when the car is being driven? Can the Huracán survive a head-on, side or rear collision? Through to the question of how the tools for producing the Huracán will need to be designed in order to meet quality requirements – the 41-year-old mechanical engineer's team have accomplished a great deal. Using their own calculation methods and processes.
The next step after CFRP
CFRP is hip. No doubt about it, it is a current trend. More than any other material, it stands for brand values such as "innovative" or "sustainable" on account of the possible weight savings it can generate. However, if a list is made of all its advantages and disadvantages, then the question as to whether there might not be something better is definitely justified. A solution that would also work in high-volume production.
SMC is currently being treated as a possible successor to CFRP. A dough-like moulding compound with much shorter fibres. This is attended by almost isotropic properties and simple formability - everything needed for high-volume production. As yet, there is no way of knowing whether SMC will in the future be used in the mid-range segment as well as in high-end sports cars. Lukasz Lasek and his team, who are already putting their money on this "trend after the trend", are already regarded as SMC experts. With the work on the Huracán, EDAG have not only proved that the company is in a position to master highly complex vehicle demands on the very edge of what is technically feasible, but also that we think ahead. Beyond current trends. To technologies and processes that could well be moving people tomorrow.
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Pumpkins: Not Just for Jack O' Lanterns
By Susan K Wilkerson, RD, LD at Lexington Medical Center
As I see it, there are three kinds of pumpkins: one type is good for carving, another for baking and the other is grown to win the largest pumpkin at the State Fair. The Atlantic Giant Pumpkin is the type you see at the fairs and festivals. The world record is 2,009 pounds set in 2012. It would be a little tough to eat or carve.
The word, pumpkin is derived from the Greek word "pepon" which means "large melon". Melons and pumpkins have very similar health benefits. Pumpkins are a good source of Lutein for eye health and Beta Carotene which generates Vitamin A in the body. The phytochemicals found in pumpkins – trigonelline and nicotinic acid – may have a favorable affect on insulin and glucose levels in diabetes. The seeds are a good source of protein, magnesium, copper and zinc.
Baking pumpkins are much smaller and have smooth lighter skin. Pumpkins are very versatile in cooking. Most parts of the pumpkin plant are edible; the fleshy shell, the seeds, the leaves and even the flowers. Pumpkins can be baked, boiled, steamed, and roasted. They are mostly eaten mashed in soups, casseroles and pies.
Here are tips on how to prepare a pumpkin for cooking—
•First scrub the outside of the pumpkin with a vegetable brush.
•Cut the pumpkin in half and use a spoon to scrape out the fibers and the seeds. A serrated grapefruit spoon works great for this. Save the seeds for roasting with a little sea salt.
•Cut the pumpkin halves into smaller pieces and place them skin side up in a shallow baking dish.
•Add water to just cover the bottom of the dish and cover tightly with aluminum foil.
•Bake in a 325ºF oven until the pumpkin is fork tender. The time will vary depending on the size of your pieces.
•Cool and either cut off the peel or scoop out the flesh.
Here's a recipe to start your day off with a good nutritional kick:
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1 1/2 cups milk
1 cup pumpkin puree
1 egg
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
In a bowl, mix together the milk, pumpkin, egg, oil and vinegar. Combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, allspice, cinnamon, ginger and salt in a separate bowl. Stir into the pumpkin mixture just enough to combine.
Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Nightmare on Nanny Street
Tempeh, who has been through multiple deployments, and who is quite possibly The most supportive friend in the history of supportive friends and who has made offers weekly to help in some tangible way, joked a couple of months ago that I was overdue for a major appliance failing, a fate that befalls almost every newly-alone spouse of a deployed servicemember.
My appliances, thankfully, are all in good working order (I am furiously knocking on wood right now), but my once-rock-solid nanny situation disintegrated before my eyes.
I will save you all the gory details, but even before the sordid events that unfolded over the course of a couple of months, we had certain reservations about her as a childcare provider. Namely, that while she was perfect for an infant: loving, warm, patient, calm, she was highly ineffective with a toddler and a kindergartener: entirely passive, indulgent, and without a limit-setting bone in her body. Yet, we were willing to ride it out until the new baby came in a few months and her primary focus would be, again, a newborn. The older two kids would be at school all day.
But, then, the sordid events happened, involving a quite-possibly mentally unstable boyfriend to nanny who would not stay away from our house or our children despite our many requests, and to top it all off, reports from the school that she and said boyfriend picked up our two-year-old son from half-day pre-school and put him in boyfriend's car, without a car seat and sitting on her lap in the front passenger seat.
Stress? Yes, hello, it's me again. This all went down on my birthday, of all days, and right before a month for me that included 3 work conferences, including 5 presentations and being attending on wards.
We fired her immediately. My parents moved in temporarily. It was all very sad since she had been with us for over 2 years and was very much a part of our family. She had taken care of my son since he was 9 months old and he was/is very attached to her. When she moved out, she cried and hugged me for at least 10 minutes straight, telling me how very sorry she was and how I was like a daughter to her.
This has all highlighted for me how tenuous having a nanny can be. Great one minute. Disastrous the next. I can't tell you how many times my husband and I have told each other how lucky we were to have had our nanny over the past 2 years. Up until recently, it was truly great and made our lives many times over easier. And now, we're/I'm starting all over again. No one is going to be perfect, I know. But, it's scary how far from perfect they can be.
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- AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 7:34 AM
A page from my own nightmare... We lost a semi adequate nanny last spring due to a conflict with my MIL who lives with us half the year. We hired someone new in a hurry. She is wonderful with my little one but has a personality clash with my oldest. This came to a head last week when oldest DD complained to guidance counselor about the nanny. This would be amusing except I am on service, of course and due to travel a lot over the next few weeks. I am with you, totally.ReplyDelete
KC, I'm so sorry to hear about this! Hang in there, and hopefully things will turn around very quickly....ReplyDelete
Anon: Hiring someone in a hurry is so stressful. There was a piece on NPR recently about finding good childcare providers and how usually a single provider does not excel at providing care to children at different developmental needs. It's so hard.ReplyDelete
And these things always happen at the worst times, it seems.
Kelly: thanks for the support. At least my crazy work commitments have petered out for awhile. I want to write a future post about how it shouldn't be called work-life balance but keeping your work-life product to a non-toxic level, like calcium phos products.
I never had live-in help, but I did have someone stay with my kids until they were three - then I sent them to Montessori (briefly - now we are in a more conventional school). Well, I had two someones. Number two is still with me in a babysitting capacity, and Number one came to a dramatic halt when C was 2 and J was almost born. It was very traumatic for me, but I like you saw that someone who was great with infants wasn't very stimulating or energetic enough for toddlers. I still give her job recommendations.ReplyDelete
Good luck! Sometimes things happen for a reason.
KC - You are just an amazing person and keep it all together with such style and grace, doing the right thing when it was hard (firing her), and I simply don't know how you do it all and all so well. I'm so glad you have family weekends together and supportive parents plus functionning appliances! By the way, readers, KC's work-related presentations were pulled off expertly.ReplyDelete
KC, I think you made exactly the right decision. A nanny who is passive and unable to take a stand plus a mentally-unstable boyfriend who doesn't appear to have your kids' best interests in mind is a catastophe waiting to happen. Her lapse of judgment in putting a 2 yr old on her lap in the front passenger seat and driving off is proof of it! We have everything crossed for you that your new nanny will be a great fit for the family. Regardless, you know that we are here for you, come what may.ReplyDelete
My parents had to fire my first nanny because she was indebted to a loan shark. She cried, and my mother felt horrible about it. It was really too bad, since she was great with infants. Bad boyfriend seems to fit into a similar category. My parents found someone else, and you will too. Good luck and hang in there!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2010 at 2:39 PM
I'm sorry ):ReplyDelete
Giz- think it's great that you have had such good relationships with your 2 someones: still babysitting for you + still giving recommendations. Our 2 former nannies ended so poorly, with so many fatal flaws visible, that we are no longer good references for them. (If I could only say the positive, glowing comments like I do for trainee LORs, I would, but there are some serious flaws that omission would be irresponsible)ReplyDelete
T- you are too kind and a good friend. 2 qualities that I find most endearing in people. Thanks for listening and always being such a support.
Tempeh- Need to catch you up on current nanny events...
OldMDGirl- Thanks,childcare stress is a special kind of stress. Wish I had a better way to screen out all of those loan-shark-or-similar-dating, emotionally unstable types. Those usually don't come out in interviews or references.
Anon- thanks. I like thinking Gizabeth's suggestion that this could be happening for a reason and that Mary Poppins is about to float down from the skies with an umbrella.
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2010 at 3:07 PM
My sister, who is also an MD (FP) had to bail her nanny out of jail. In the middle of the night. It was some kind of domestic dispute, (bad boyfriend again). Jailbird nanny eventually left (not because of the jail thing) and by that time her oldest was old enough to mind the younger two for a few hours after school. Maybe you should look for an orphan who has taken a vow of celibacy?ReplyDelete
Yikes! Sounds crazy stressful. I think you made the right call and I hope you find someone more suitable soon.ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you have family weekends together and supportive parents plus functionning appliances!ReplyDelete


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County looking for Breastfeeding friendly businesses
March 11, 2008
The Allegheny County Health Department, in cooperation with its Breastfeeding Promotion Steering Committee, is taking nominations for its 13th annual Breastfeeding Friendly Place Awards.
The awards are presented to workplaces, public places and other sites away from home that make an extra effort to accommodate the special needs of breastfeeding mothers by offering a positive attitude and supportive environment.
Employers can help by offering flex time or extended paid maternity leave; a health plan with breast pump coverage; work site day care; and making provisions for breastfeeding at work, such as a place and time for pumping milk and a refrigerator in which to store the milk.
Public places and other areas away from home — restaurants, malls, libraries, theaters, parks, places of worship as well as sports and entertainment facilities — can be supportive by providing an attractive, clean, private area and comfortable seating for mothers to use when nursing a child, and by displaying a sign to welcome breastfeeding mothers and let them know special accommodations are available.
"Making places outside the home more breastfeeding friendly will encourage women to breastfeed longer," said County Health Director Dr. Bruce W. Dixon.
Studies show babies derive greater health benefits when they are breastfed for six months or longer. Yet while 67 percent of new moms breastfeed at birth, only 35 percent are still nursing six months later, due in part to a lack of support in the workplace and other areas outside the home.
Breastfeeding friendly workplaces are also good for business, because breastfed babies are less likely to get sick throughout childhood and that means lower absentee rates for working moms and dads due to a child's illness.
To nominate an employer, public place or other site outside the home for the awards, call the Allegheny County Health Department at 412-687-ACHD or visit http://www.achd.net. Nominations will be accepted until May 31, and the awards will be announced during World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7.
The award winners last year were The Children's Home and Lemieux Family Center in Friendship in the workplace category and Babies "R" Us in Monroeville in the public place category.
In previous years, the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, The Mall at Robinson and Shaare Torah Congregation in Squirrel Hill were winners in the public place category. Workplace winners included Bayer Corp., FedEx Ground, NOVA Chemicals, Development Dimensions International, PNC Financial Services Group, Crouse & Company, Magee Womens Hospital, Sewickley Valley Hospital, Deloitte Consulting Group, and Price and Associates.