User interface: 4/5. It has a clear layout and smooth transitions. It has a varied usage of colors and animations. There aren't very many menus and no instructions are needed in order to understand the app. It's easy to understand how to move through the app.
User experience: 3/5. One part of the app is dialogs, where you hear a conversation. After the conversation, you are asked to fill in the blanks from the conversation using vocabulary words. It's great to hear these words used in context, but the dialogs are too fast. The app doesn't give you enough exercises and time to learn new content. It feels rushed because you are quizzed on words you've only seen once or twice. The ability to have your writing graded adds a personal element, since you get feedback from a native speaker. There are some annoying full screen ads.
Learning: 3/5. Exercises are separated into four levels: beginner A1, elementary A2, intermediate B1 and upper intermediate B2. This structure helps you move from simple to advanced topics. In each lesson you learn vocabulary through reading and listening, then you are quizzed. There is too little practice for new vocabulary because you only see the meanings a few times before the quizzes. The dialogs are helpful for seeing new vocabulary and grammar in use, but the quizzes are not helpful because they mostly test how well you memorized the dialog. The writing exercises could be very helpful. You write a few sentences in response to a question. A native speaker can grade this, but there is no guarantee that someone will look at it.
Motivation: 4/5. You get busuu-berries for completing activities. They could encourage you to keep going. Positive feedback from reviewers can also be encouraging.
Feedback: 4/5. When you get questions right or wrong there is visual and audio feedback. Answers are green if they're right and red if they're wrong. The audio ping is different if the answer is right or wrong. You can't review topics with which you had difficulty.
I'm a student at Northwestern University majoring in computer engineering and minoring in German. I'm interested in studying the usage of mobile applications for learning.


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One of the problem with going digital is that something you get stuck with a need to jot down notes or drawing but you do not carry a pen anymore. In fact, carrying pen seems even less likely than wearing a watch nowadays.
If you travel once a in while, getting stuck with custom forms but no pen is also another a common situation that you either saw or lived.
So I decided sometimes ago to search for a dependable, robust, portable but also conformable writing tool that would fit a wallet without adding to its "thickness".
In fact, before this search for a "micro" writing tool, I went looking for the perfect wallet! First, I got tired of these cheap and bulky wallets that were already quick thick without even adding a card or money in it. Most of these also have trouble lasting more than 12 to 18 months. After doing an extensive searching, I decided to go for a Bellroy wallet, in particular this Note Sleeve model. The pictures below show my old and new wallets (relative to the thickness of the Rugged LaCie portable drive), with the exact same numbers of cards and dollar bills. The Bellboy wallet as a few interesting perks, including a special travel sim card slot (my iPhone sim card removal tool fits also, yeah!).
I have since slim down my wallet even more (with moving from physical membership cards to digital versions!). I must say, that this Bellroy wallet is extremely nice looking and made excellent quality leather. I love the smoothness and color of the wallet (I picked "cocoa", I like the contrast of the external and internal colors). I have it for over 4 months now and it still look like so good.
Back to the pen business. I got the offering down to following three pens, which I bought for testing: The Ohto Petit-B and the Zebra SL-F1 from Amazon and a pen with the name "Nano" on it from one of the major pen store in my area. All three pens are shown below both in their "storage" state (minimal size) and full extension dimension beside my Bellroy wallet. The Ohto Petit-B pen is a two pieces pen, the Zebra is a telescopic pen while the "Nano" is a push/press pen.
On the writing side of things, the Ohto pen has an OK diameter and once assemble together, it length makes it almost a full size pen. However, its "o-ring" fixation mechanisms (see picture below) make this pen not very stable. It also need a special recharge (as far as I can make it).
The "Nano" and Zebra pens both use standard 4C refills, which make its easy to ensure long-term viability. The "Nano" has the smallest diameter and also the longest "storage" length. The fact that it is a push pen makes it less desirable for my wallet (easy to press open while in your pocket).
The Zebra SL-F1 feels very good in hand. Its diameter is small enough to fit in the wallet without adding to its thickness (see the pictures above), while at the same time large enough so that you could actually use it to write long stretch without any problem. Its length is perfect for the wallet. In full extension, it is very stable and its 0.7 mm ballpoint 4C refill makes for smooth writing.
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Mosul (AINA) -- ISIS removed the cross on top of the dome of St. Ephrem Cathedral in the Shoorta neighborhood in Mosul, one week after the church was seized by ISIS members on July 1.
St. Ephrem Cathedral is the seat of Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese in Mosul.
ISIS quickly began imposing Islamic rule (sharia) in Mosul soon after it took over the city. It imposed a poll tax on Christians (AINA 2014-06-21), ordered all women to veil themselves (AINA 2014-06-14), closed beauty salons and barber shops (AINA 2014-07-10) and occupied churches.


Plovdiv - Sports Hall "Olympiada".
The events will be held on 15 December in the city of Plovdiv, "Olimpiad" sports hall .
For more information and registration, please contact us at tel .: +359 886 317 987.
WELCOME! FCE ITALY - A.I.C.D.P.
FCE SERBIA - KYNOLOGICAL SOCIETY "SOUTH BACHKA"
on the 03-th of November 2018, at the "SALAS DREVNA" in the city of NOVI SAD, Serbia.
The prizes is provided by doners.
Participation will be allowed dogs with pedigree and without pedigree.
on the 20th of October 2018 Alma Ata.
WELCOME TO ITALY! FCE ITALY - A.I.C.D.P.
kindly invites all its members and supporters to the Rome.
FCE CACIB Sofia - INTER EXPO CENTER.
unique charming and friendly GIRLS and BOYS!
Charge positivism and good mood. WE ARE EXPECTING YOU!
For every lovers the breed of German Shepherd dog!
Visit a mono-breed show of FCE Kyrgyzstan.
ALL LOVERS OF BREEDS "BULL"
on the 28-29th of Jule 2018, at the "Sea garden" park in the city of Varna.
on the 01st of July 2018, at the City Park, North District in the city of Plovdiv.
The prizes is provided by private doners.
Rilascio certificazioni Di razza (pedigree ) Rilascio Attestati di partecipazione.
on the 30th of June 2018, at the "Ivan Vazov" square in the city of Sopot.
on the 26th of May 2018, at the "Sveta gora" park in the city of Veliko Tarnovo.
The BIG PRIZE for the show winner is a THE CUP BULGARIA!!!!!
on the 06th of May 2018, in the Bogdanov dol village.
on the 21th of April 2018, at the "Stationary garden" park in the city of Stara Zagora.
on the 23-24th of June 2018, at the "Gaj stolarski" resort in the city of 62-620 Brdow, POLAND.
on the 31th of March 2018, /SATURDAY/ in the city of Slivo pole, Ruse district.
UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY - Corps "D".
on the 18/19-th of August 2018, at the CZECH REPUBLIC, in the city of Kroměříž.
on the 24th of February 2018, at the "Olympiad" sports hall in the city of Plovdiv.
invites you to the exhibition on the 22-th April 2018.
on the 09th of December 2017, at the "Olympiad" sports hall in the city of Plovdiv.
The big prize for the show winner is a TV set.
on the 28-th of October 2017, at the Stadium "LOKOMOTIV" in the city of Ruse.
on the 21-th of October 2017, at the "SALAS DREVNA" in the city of NOVI SAD, Serbia.
on the 16th of September 2017, at the INTER EXPO CENTER in the city of SOFIA.
on the 29th of Jule 2017, at the "Sea garden" park in the city of Varna.
on the 24-th of September 2017, in the city Zaporozhie, Ukraine.
on the 17th of June 2017, at the "Sveta gora" park in the city of Veliko Tarnovo.
Third place - 200lv and Fourth place - 100lv!!!!!
invites you to the exhibition on the 11-th June 2017.
on the 11th of June 2017, in the city Krivoy rog, Ukraine.
on the 10-11th of June 2017, at the "Gaj stolarski" resort in the city of 62-620 Brdow, Poland.
on the 29th of April 2017, at the "Stationary garden" park in the city of Stara Zagora.
ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ПО КИНОЛОГИЯ ЗА ЕВРОПА най-учтиво кани всички свои членове и симпатизанти на Международна киноложка изложба, която ще се проведе на 03.12.2016 година/СЪБОТА/, в СК "ФЕХТОВКА - ТРАКИЯ" гр.ПЛОВДИВ/бул."Пещерско шосе"№133/.
ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ПО КИНОЛОГИЯ ЗА ЕВРОПА най-учтиво кани всички свои членове и симпатизанти на Международна киноложка изложба, която ще се проведе на 17.09.2016 година/СЪБОТА/, в INTER EXPO CENTER - гр.СОФИЯ. Съдия: ЭЛЕКТРОН Э. ДЕМЕНТЬЕВ - Русия.
В рамките на изложбата ще се проведе Специализирана киноложка изложба за породите СРЕДНОАЗИАТСКА ОВЧАРКА и КАВКАЗКА ОВЧАРКА. Съдия: БОГДАН ПАТыНСКИЙ - Украйна.
ГОЛЯМАТА НАГРАДА ЗА ПОБЕДИТЕЛЯ НА ИЗЛОЖБАТА - ЛЕК АВТОМОБИЛ SEAT AROSA!!!!!


Scream Stream is your weekly spoiler-free guide to digital horror entertainment. Blindly picking a horror movie can be frustrating and time consuming so, let me do the work for you. Each week I review a streaming horror movie, spoiler free, and let you know if it's worth watching. I also cover news and new streaming releases. So, join me every Monday as I separate the best from the worst of streaming horror so you don't have to.
The show originally ran from March 31st, 2014 through December of 2015 and produced 54 episodes. At that time, I needed to take break from podcasting and focus on new changes in my life. This year I've brought it back to life because I just can't let it go.
Hello! I'm James Gass, host and creator of Scream Stream.
I've been a horror fanatic since early childhood. The first horror movie I saw was Creature from the Black Lagoon. I remember they showed it on TV in 3D but you had to get the glasses from 7Eleven. My brother invited his friends over and they were nice enough to bring me a pair so I could watch with them; I must have about 4 at the time. And while I don't remember much much about that day, I do remember being facinated by the film and the 3D effects. I think the film that really ignited my love for horror, however, was A Nightmare on Elm Street. My parents rented it on Pay Per View, and I snuck downstairs and hid behind my dad's big recliner so I could watch it unnoticed. I remember telling myself, if it was real, the cameraman would be dead too. And that was how I quickly got over my fear of horror.


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Adapting stories from some of the finest writers in the literary science fiction field, including such greats as Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Ray Bradbury and Frederick Pohl, Out of the Unknown premiered on BBC 2 in December 1965 and ran for four seasons, the first two being broadcast in black and white with the latter two in colour. The series became a focus for some of the most creative talent working in the industry at the time, due in no small part to the inspirational driving force of gifted original producer Irene Shubik, who had joined ABC television in 1960 working on the anthology series Armchair Theatre' under prolific TV producer Sydney Newman.
In 1961 Shubik approached Newman with an idea to do a science fiction version of Armchair Theatre. Newman, a big science fiction fan himself, agreed and the result was Out of this World (see review below), a sixty minute anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff. When Newman joined the BBC in 1962 he took a number of individuals with him. Shubik was among the first of these talents, and was quickly put to work as story editor of another anthology series Story Parade. One particular episode, broadcast in 1964, was an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's novel 'The Caves of Steel,' starring Peter Cushing. Shubik then turned to Newman once more with an idea to do yet another science fiction anthology series. Once again he agreed and Shubik set about developing the series that would become Out of the Unknown.
"I had to read hundreds of stories to pick a dozen." She later recalled. "You have no idea how difficult some of these authors are to deal with, and it seems a special thing among SF writers to hedge themselves behind almost impossible copyright barriers, even when they have got a story that is possible to do on television. So many you can't. Either the conception is so way out you would need a fantastic budget to produce it, or the story is too short, too tight to be padded out to make an hour's television."
Nontheless, she overcame these barriers and a number of top flight dramatists contributed to the first season including the likes of Dalek co- creator, Terry Nation, Leon Griffiths and Bruce Stewart (later to go on to script the first Timeslip stories for ATV), all of whom had worked with Shubik on Out of This World. Directors included Philip Saville (Boys from the Blackstuff), and Peter Sasdy, and as one of the production series designers, future major motion picture director/producer, Ridley Scott. The acting talent attracted to the series was equally as impressive, attracting such high-calibre performers as David Hemmings, Milo O'Shea, Warren Mitchell, Donald Houston, Rachel Roberts, George Cole, Ed Begley and Marius Goring to name but a few.
As an anthology series, one of Out of the Unknown's greatest strengths was the sheer diversity of styles it could offer up to the audience. Wisely opting to bypass the 'bug-eyed monster' aspect of genre, it instead opted to highlight the more sophisticated, adult areas of the source literature. During the course of the first two seasons, the eclectic range and consistent quality of the single plays presented up to the viewing audience offered an enviably high standard of intellectually thought provoking drama.
However, the final two seasons under the stewardship of newly appointed replacement producer, Alan Bromly, saw an unexpected shift in style away from the more overtly science fictional and more towards what Bromly termed at the time, 'plays of psychological suspense'. Gradually at first, season three began the inexorable shift towards all out supernatural thrills, a transition which became total in the fourth and final season.
In an interview for the Radio Times Bromly explained his decision to ease the series away from pure science fiction thus: 'To do these things really successfully must involve you in spending an enormous amount of money on special effects . . . which is beyond the reach of television.' He continued: 'When everybody has seen men walking on the moon and sat through a cliff-hanger about getting them back alive, then just setting a story somewhere in space is not, you can see, the automatic thrill it was.' Although Bromly's tenure did see some notable contributions by the likes of Michael J. Bird and the prolifically talented creator of the legendary Quatermass, Nigel Kneale, Out of the Unknown had effectively ceased to be the series that had once drawn such popular acclaim. It's passing at the end of the fourth season, sadly, effectively heralded the end of the classic, home-produced, science fiction anthology series.
At its peak, Out of the Unknown was a quality high water mark series, artfully produced, skillfully scripted and acted, it consistently treated both viewer and source material with an implicit intelligence and respect that few drama strands in any genre could equal, much less hope to match.
Out of the Unknown: Stranger in the Family
Out of the Unknown: Some Lapse of Time
Out of the Unknown: The Dead Past
Published on January 17th, 2019. Written by A Humar (2008) for Television Heaven.
Planet of the Apes (1974)
Two astronauts are thrown into a future Earth where the apes are the dominant species and mankind is treated as dangerous beasts.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
A space station near a wormhole quickly becomes a centre for exploration, interstellar trade and open conflict.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
In the 24th Century, the Federation star ship USS Voyager is lost in the Delta Quadrant - 75,000 light-years from home.
The Time Machine (1949)
Earliest television outing for H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi tale about a time traveller

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Have you ever get poison by small kid? Me? Yeah… I kena poison liao! 1st, I kena poison by Azrin to get the Fisheye Lens that cost me 1K++. Now I kena poison by small kid Jon to be fan of Korean POP (KPOP). How much it will cost me? Maybe my time or my mind.
Good things or bad things?
OMG they look so HOT! >_<" where can get body like them U___U"


The Church of All Nations, officially named the Basilica of the Agony, is located at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem next to the Garden of Gethsemane. The Catholic church enshrines a section of stone in the Garden of Gethsemane that is believed to be where Jesus prayed on the night of his arrest (Matthew 26:36).
Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and pray." He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
The modern church stands on the foundations of two ancient churches: a 4th-century Byzantine basilica, destroyed by an earthquake in 746 and a 12th-century Crusader chapel, which was abandoned in 1345.
The Basilica of the Agony was built from 1919-24 with funding from 12 different countries, which gave it its nickname: "the Church of All Nations."
The domed roof, thick pillars, and floor mosaic give the church a Byzantine appearance. The architect of the building was Antonio Barluzzi, who also designed the nearby Dominus Flevit Church. The front of the church features a colorful façade supported by a row of pillars. The mosaic above the entrance depicts Christ as the link between God and humanity.
Inside, the symbols of each country that contributed to the church are incorporated into the inlaid gold ceilings of each of 12 cupolas. The 12 cupolas rest on six monolithic pillars.
The basilica's three aisles culminate in three apses at the east end, which are decorated with mosaics depicting biblical events in the Garden of Gethsemane. In the center, the high altar overlooks a large slab of rock, which is said to be the very rock on which Jesus prayed in agony on the night of his betrayal.
The Church of All Nations is run by the Franciscans, but an open altar in the garden is used by the Anglican community on Maundy Thursday (the day before Good Friday).
The Church of All Nations from above.
Olive tree in the Garden of Gethsemane.
High altar and sacred rock.


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Blake helped me see that my business had potential that I hadn't imagined; she pushes me to think beyond the conventional boundaries which for me meant opportunities beyond my current contacts and local-based services. Her program is full of elements I wouldn't have thought of on my own, and now I have the building blocks for success in place!
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Grrrrrr, I thought I would save myself the madness of the 5am sales today by shopping online at Walmart.com. My boys both need some blue jeans and they had the Levi's on sale for $12/pr. I logged in at 5am, coffee in hand, curled up on the sofa with comforter, thinking what a wonderful way to snag those Black Friday Doorbusters. Apparently, a lot of other folks felt the same way (which is good thing, right?), but...Walmart was not prepared to handle the online barrage any more than they are ever prepared to handle it at the stores. I have been trying to checkout for more than 7 hours now.
Then, to make my day even better, I got a note from the college this morning saying they had miscalculated my credits, and that I will be two shy of graduating in Dcember. Unbelievable! But ya' know what, the class I really want to take isn't even being offered next semester- ASL IV. So I will not likely go back until it is. I a just so disgusted that they dissolved the courses in the program in which I was enrolled, that this is just the cherry on top.
Crab session over. Leftovers to look forward to tonight! And I do mean that! Thanksgiving dinner is even more wonderful the next day. And it was all the sweeter for me to cook it yesterday as I haven't really had the time to cook in a long time, the way I used to. And Levi helped me. He peeled potatoes and made an oreo cheesecake, and while he was only in the kitchen about 20-25 minutes with me, it ws nice to make that brief connection. And he seemed to really enjoy cooking! My boy is growing up too fast, so I'll relish each and every one of these moments!
Grrrrrrrr about that dern school. Want me to yell at 'em? Sheesh.
Love the cooking story. I got pics of dh and henry working in the kitchen for turkey day. It didn't last long, but it was sweet!
Maybe the problem was that you didn't wait to order online until Cyber Monday as I found out today is called (because it's the biggest online rush to order what people didn't get on Black Friday, apparently).


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Five things you should know about T-shirt company Surfeur
Susan Morse
YORK, Maine — Jeff Beaudoin of York is a surfer who launched his company, Surfeur LLC, this spring when he began screen printing T-shirts in his Woodside Meadows basement.
1. Hey dude
Surfeur is surfer wear with a distinctive logo. So far, it's men's and women's T-shirts in red, blue, light blue and green, and pink is available in women's wear. Prices range from $21 to $29, which is less expensive than many standard brands, Beaudoin said.
He is slowly expanding the product line, and in the future plans to offer hats, beach bags, towels, shorts, sunglasses and children's clothing.
"It's all beach focused," he said. "As the company builds, so will the product."
2. A little help from his friends
A mechanical engineer by day, Beaudoin said, "I've been surfing for about 10 years. I have an artistic side to me. I used to make T-shirts growing up and I thought it would be a fun thing to do."
He gets help from family, including his wife, Bree Beaudoin, who does marketing; his sister, Kristin Burke of North Hampton, N.H., who aided him in coming up with the design; and his friend and screen printer, Greg Tully of Boston, who made the screen.
3. Getting better all the time
Beaudoin uses recycled and organic materials. Even the screen press was made out of scrap wood, he said.
"The whole thing is, everything we make is either organic or from recycled materials," he said. "When they're buying from us, they're doing something environmentally conscious."
Beaudoin is former chairman of the York Energy Steering Committee, a post now held by Wayne Boardman.
Surfeur donates 5 percent of profits to End 68 Hours of Hunger.
4. Baby you can drive your car
There are two Surfeur locations: In Mocean Surf Shop in Old Orchard Beach and Aquaholics Surf Shop in Kennebunkport. You can also shop online at www.surfeurwear.com.
5. Help
For information, call (207) 332-3632.
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Keyboard Warriors: Bundeswehr Set to Graduate Masters in Cybersecurity
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Having taken into account the new realities of the world, the German armed forces have intensified their cyber defense efforts and introduced a new IT master's degree course for elite hackers at the Bundeswehr University.
Gabi Dreo, a professor of IT security and the executive director of Germany's Code research institute, has announced the start of training talented cyber security experts who will be able to deter hackers from breaking into systems. The professor has emphasized that they are seeking to get some 120 students in the course, and they will be able to live in accommodations being built on the campus. While noting that they need a "nerdy type," Dreo stressed that the soldiers also have to be fit for real-life combat.
READ MORE: Moscow Concerned by UK's Pledge to Use Cyber Capabilities Against Russia
It's been a year since everything related to IT in the Bundeswehr has been concentrated in the KdoCIR, or cyber- and information space headquarters, which envisages hiring 13,500 soldiers and 1,500 civilians within few years. Cyberspace is being viewed as a division of the armed forces on par with the army, the navy and the air force.
"We're having construction work done here together with ZITiS, the Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sphere, and we'll be sitting in the same building [in Munich]," Deutsche Welle (DW) cited Dreo as saying, who also added that it would be a "very productive space for cyber defense."
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The Bundeswehr has consistently stated that the idea of cyber-weapons is to protect networked systems in tanks, planes, frigates, etc., thus highlighting the program's defensive character.
"That's not our subject, but of course we have to know how an attacker thinks if we want to defend ourselves effectively," Dreo replied to DW's question on developing attack tools.
In the meantime, it is still unknown what the armed forces' cyber capabilities are, albeit some reports suggest that very talented hackers have managed to hack into a telephone company in Afghanistan with an eye to spying on the Taliban.
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Amidst teens, Latinas had the more birth rate in 2000 which was 94 per 1000 women of the ages from 15 to 19.
Research that was comprehensive of Asian-American girls made a report that frequently they are concerned or more concerned than white girls about their figure. (Field, Colditz, & Peterson, 1997). In an analysis of more than 900 middle school girls in northern California, Asian-American girls made a report that there was higher body displeasing than White girls. Amidst the remote 25% of girls, Asian girls made a report prominently more disinclination than white girls. (Robinson; Killen; Litt; Hammer; Wilson; Haydel; Hayward & Taylor, 1996, p.387) Current research on Asian-Americans give a suggestion that body displeasing is shooting up due to the inculcation of the Western beauty ideal. (Hall, 1995, p.11). One analysis, for instance, made a report on the tussle in a Western culture that accolades freedom and individualism (Hall, 1995, p.11). For Asian-American girls, acculturation can give rise to sentiments of being cut off, low self-esteem and low assessment of native cultural label which can boost their proneness to eating disorders. (Hall 1995, p.12). Highly acculturated Chinese females bear a more semblance to report abominable behaviors and instigate for thinness than those who associate closer to their family credentials. One particular report discovered that the more numbers of acculturated Asian-American girls were placed at highest danger levels for adjusting the dysfunctional attitudes of white American society, comprehensive of poor eating habits and being open to media messages associated with standards of beauty. (Hall, 1995, p.12).
The adaptation of youth who are betwixt nine and fifteen during the duration of arrival will be included by the label dilemma of adolescence. Tussles about being Southeast Asian or American - cheating one for the other - are frequently portrayed by limit testing. "I am Vietnamese. These are American rules" (Carlin, 1979, p.3) Adolescents who made migration in course of time of age 11 have had suffrage of predominant stress. This is due to the fact that they correspondingly had to clear the evolutionary crisis of label formation, feature of adolescence, and the historical crisis of turning a refugee (Nidorf, 1985, p.4). Southeast Asian students have had acknowledgement for having promotional behavior toward education and performing really well literarily. Actually, though, even not every student is prominent, frequently due to the fact that school inculcated difficulties such as indiscriminate age grade matching, badly portrayed and staffed English as a second language (ESL) programs, unfruitful mainstreaming (frequently into low attaining classes) and overall indifference of the school system to their particular requirements (Goldstein, 1985, p.14; Peters, 1988). Arising from more ruling education systems, Southeast Asian students can frequently observe their American counterparts as possessing no behavioral constraints, and so turn out discipline problems (Wehrly & Nelson, 1986, p.6).
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Anne Gehman's Contemporary/Modern classes are structured around her unique approach to practice based research and task oriented movements, emphasizing released-based technique. Anne's class offers a balance between Classical Modern Technique ( whole body movements/shapes, classical terminology, fall and recovery, floor-work, dynamic shifting through space) and Contemporary Concepts ( sequential movements, shifting awarenesses, Forsythe's Improvisational Technologies, Laban's Analysis of Effort & Intention). Anne's intention as a teacher is to provide the tools and environment which help people seek/identify their own creative potential.
"I absolutely love teaching. Magic happens when we come together to share experiences and sensations that are unique to our bodies. The studio is a temple of sorts whereby we are given the opportunity to grow through observation, problem solving and practice. I love providing tools and watching how they morph into each person's body, there maybe nothing more satisfying!"
Anne's choreographic research, "The Triadic Perspective Through Chance Fragmentation During Live Performance" was accepted into the National Conference of Undergraduate Research, Ashville, NC. Anne's work has been recognized and awarded "Outstanding Achievement" for "Composition and Choreography" from Jacksonville University. Since then, Anne has had the honor of performing and choreographing works for exhibitions throughout the state of Florida, Providence, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pontlevoy, France, and now San Diego, CA. She was chosen as one of the "New Voices" Choreographers of San Diego Dance Theater in 2011.
Her new work "She Runs Interference" which premiered in "youTurn Contemporary Arts Exhibition" (April 2011), was described as "…especially memorable… multi-layered dance offered a view into lives of multi-tasking women… Gehman didn't lose sight of the serious juggling that women really do… darkly funny and overall quite mysterious." –Kris Eitland.


WPP shares have more than halved in 18 months, slashing the company's value from £24bn to about £11.5bn, according to Campaign estimates.
The stock price slumped from above £10.50 to £9 today on worse-than-expected third-quarter results that showed a 1.5% slide in revenues.
At one point in early trading this morning, shares nosedived as much as 22% to around £8.20, before settling down about 15% to just below £9.
WPP's shares have crashed from a peak of £19 at the start of March 2017 on a series of revenue warnings.
WPP is no longer the world's biggest advertising group by stock market value, because it has been overtaken by Omnicom, which is worth more than $16.5bn (£13bn).
Half-year results in August 2017 were a pivotal moment, when WPP's share price plunged to £14 on a surprise drop in revenues.
Sir Martin Sorrell's abrupt exit as chief executive in April was another low, when the stock fell below £11.
Since Mark Read took charge on an interim basis in April and then permanently in September, the shares have been trading in the region of between £10.50 and £13.
The group has suffered a string of big account losses, including Ford's creative business.
At least two hedge funds are shorting the shares, according to the Financial Conduct Authority's latest disclosures.


Tanya is a born and raised Minnesotan, and has experienced the best the state has to offer, from growing up on a farm, to living in downtown Minneapolis. Tanya recently moved back to Rochester, and is ecstatic to be part of the Fusion Fitness family! She graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor's Degree in Business and Management, and earned a Master's Degree in Health and Human Services in 2013. Tanya's passion is fitness, and she continually seeks educational opportunities to better herself and help others achieve their goals. She will earn her Level 1 CrossFit Certification in March of 2016. When Tanya isn't at the gym (which is rare), you can find her lounging with her bulldog, Avery, donating money to Lululemon, pretending to be a wine sommelier, and spending time with friends and family.


Let's face it: the famous How to Win Friends and Influence People is helpful in figuring out workplace relations, but helpful how the 1954 version of the DMV written test is helpful to driving in 2015. You need practical, updated, and relevant help.
No blog post, no 500 words will cure all your workplace woes, but they can make you feel more comfortable with your career identity.
But what does that phrase even mean? First, it assumes you think that the other person thinks that you think it is a problem. There's some nifty mental game theory. Second, it comes across as flippant or casual.
Realistically, you helping was not a problem, but it did require you sacrificing time or doing a task (even if the task is within your job description). A pleasant "you're welcome" is more appropriate and sounds more professional.
What to say instead: "No thank you," when it is a response to an offer. Or nothing if you are the one bringing up the conversation.
Maybe it comes across as militant to unilaterally say that people should stop talking about diets at work, but people really need to stop talking about diets at work. It's a 9am meeting and the person in front of you offers a donut. Saying "no thank you" or "thanks, I appreciate it but I already ate" is perfectly acceptable. There is no reason to explain that you aren't eating carbs, are trying to lose 8 pounds before September, that you think gluten affects your digestive tract or that your pants are too tight.
Discussing diets is an insidious habit because it keeps you from discussing topics that really matter: current events, that great TED talk you listened to, what that latest industry news means to your company. Even if you are preoccupied with your diet, don't let everyone in the office know. You don't need to be known as Kate who doesn't eat carbs and loves Diet Coke. Be known as Kate who can do awesome cost-benefit analysis.
One word difference, one syllable strain in your speech, one massive difference.
Please and thank you are enormous game-changers. Believe me that the receptionist in your office responds differently to "photocopy this now" and "please photocopy this now." Being on the lowest ring of the company ladder is difficult enough without common courtesy being extended.
Make it your goal to include please in all your requests, questions, and interactions. Being polite is underrated.
What to say: I'm frustrated that this project wasn't finished on time.
That's right, you do get your work done. But if you work at a bank, and an elderly very conservative client walks in and you are known for sprinkling F bombs, you won't get assigned to her. Whether your work place is conservative or not, or even if your boss cusses or not, you do not want to be considered the "office loose cannon".
Cuss all you want after 5pm and on weekends. But cuss too much at work, and you won't have an [insert expletive] chance of being selected on certain projects.
You want a pay raise. Money is good. But knocking on the door and saying, "hey boss, I want a raise" or even worse "I need a raise" is ridiculous from the employer's perspective. Wants and needs are your feelings disconnected from your work.
Your portfolio the past 6 months, your history of being an overachiever, delivering outstanding results and pleasing clients is your evidence in your case to earn a raise.
Don't make all pay negotiations about your wants and needs. Understand that entitlement is one word that repulses every supervisor in America.
Getting told what NOT to say isn't about waggling a finger. I wish sometime had told me not to wear 3 colors (pink, yellow and green, for your information) of eyes shadow on one eye in 7th grade. But no one did. Learn from what not to say, focus on advancing in your current position, and by honing in on your job skills, you will find yourself more satisfied with your position.
But hey, if you don't like this article? No problem. Someone did.


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Summary: Canadian airmen of RCAF 435 Squadron deliver rice to Burmese civilians via the Civil Affairs Service (CAS).
Description: A Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Douglas Dakota transport aircraft in flight; the aircraft is named 'My Best Bet'. Aerial view of airfield at Imphal Valley (Tulihal?). Sacks of rice loaded into a lorry from a Dakota. Aircrew standing under the wing of their aircraft and talking with a bearded local man. A truck tips sand onto the airfield and it is levelled by a scraper and then a roller. Bullocks draw covered wagons through a local village. Rice is distributed to villagers. A sign reads 'The Relief Office - CAS Hsipaw'. Local Burmese civilians queue for rice. Two villagers collect spilt rice. Civilians walk away carrying their rice on their backs in large baskets. A local official at a window. A woman picks through a basket of rice while something steams on a small stove next to her. Chevrolet CMP lorries marked 'CAS' drive along a road. A jeep with locals gathered around. A railway locomotive puffs across shot. Local people at a window marked 'Ration Cards Registration Centre'. A man carries a sack of rice. Three aircrew officers leave a tent at Tulihal airstrip marked '435 Squadron Instrument and Radio Section'. The same three leave a tent marked 'Parachute Section' carrying their parachutes. Three other airmen climb a slope before looking out over a broad plain with paddy fields. Aerial footage of cloudscape.
Notes: This film an identical copy of ABY 124. Hsipaw is a town in Shan State, Burma, also known as Thibaw, and situated 40 miles south west of Lashio. Road convoy seen apparently driving on the famous 'Burma Road' to China, which was at first closed by the Japanese advance. This subject also dealt with ABY 122 and 134. No dates on slates. Date from dopesheet.


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M&A deals: What tech firms need to know
Staff writer -
With over $5tn in deals signed in 2015, it was a record breaking year for M&A deals. However, 2016 does not appear to be following suit. Over the first eight months of this year global M&A dropped to $2.2tn with 28,720 deals compared to $2.9tn with 30,894 deals at the same time last year.
In fact, 2016 appears to be a record year for broken M&A deals instead. Between Brexit concerns and antitrust regulations in the US, an increasing number of deals are breaking down before they become official.
M&A deals are complex events that require overcoming a hefty number of obstacles, including corporate governance, form of payment, legal concerns, contractual issues, regulatory approval and tax issues. It is very challenging to fully assess and understand the kinds of contractual risks, restrictions, obligations, and exposure companies will take on after the deal is closed.
Uncovering this information requires many hours of manual contract review work from either a law firm or lower-cost legal service provider. Before reviewing the documents can begin, organisations must find and centralise all the relevant contracts. This may sound simple, but tracking down thousands of contracts, which have been created in varying formats, across different departments, and stored in various locations over the years is an arduous and sometimes overwhelming undertaking.
Once all contractual documents are collected, the real work begins of extracting contract data, and having that data be useful before closing a deal. Legal teams must review a host of provisions, and not fully understanding assignment or change of control provisions can be especially detrimental to the dynamic of M&A deals. If your contracts cannot be assigned or if change of control triggers automatic termination for cause, the strategic value of the acquisition may be called into question, leading to many hours of renegotiation.
In addition to assignment and change of control, here are a few more to consider:
Be aware: Auto-renewal
Many sales organisations work to negotiate auto-renewals and every procurement department dreads tracking auto-renewal provisions. If the goal is to terminate a contract within the specific notification period, you must know which contracts contain the provision and the window for cancellation. A missed auto-renewal can result in hidden costs that most companies will not have considered. One of our customers, a large energy company, discovered they were auto-renewing a lease costing $400,000 per year on property not in use, three years after a takeover.
No nonsense: Non-competes and non-solicits
Monetary damages can also occur if a company breaks a non-compete or non-solicit clause. It's important to know whether contracts include these provisions, as a non-compete is a promise from both the buyer and seller to refrain from engaging in activities with competitors. A non-solicit clause prohibits a company from trying to lure or hire the other company's customers or employees, and this is particularly relevant when two companies in the same industry merge, as many of each company's existing customers or partners are likely competitors.
For more considerations keep on reading.
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Performance Comparison of Micro-Frameworks in Python
Posted: 2010-04-16 21:05 | More posts about Python micro-framework performance web
Micro-frameworks are all the rage lately. Though they've doubtless existed for as long as Python web development has been taking place, the recent release of bubble, juno, and now Flask have more people talking about them.
I've been fighting with the complexities of the major frameworks for a while now, lately getting fed up with the shocking list of dependencies brought in by TurboGears2, and fighting with Pylons and its view of how I should do unit testing and many other things.
I wanted to try something lighter weight in setting up this new site, which was initially running on a 64MB VPS running Ubuntu 9.04. Pylons was incapable of running in this environment, as merely launching it with the default demo site consumed all available memory! (Note that this VPS allows a reasonable amount of "burst" RAM to be temporarily used, but provides no swap space. Using up memory leads to a hard failure and kills the app.) So I was curious how well the micro-frameworks would do, and how they would stack up against each other.
What follows is a very simple comparison of memory usage and performance of three recent micro-frameworks. The test program was basically "Hello world", taken directly off each framework's web site and adjusted only to ensure the Content-Length was the same. (Note that the header lengths were slightly different: flask sent 15 bytes more because it included the charset (utf-8) in the Content-Type header.)
Performance shows transactions per second (tps) as measured using openload running on the same host.
Memory (K)
Performance (tps)
Bottle 0.6.4 8900 1680
Flask 0.1 14300 1220
Juno 0.1.2 16350 1570
All three frameworks loaded the CPU to about the same degree.
I don't think it's right to offer benchmark results without some comment on qualitative aspects.
Bottle comes in a single file (39K) and has no dependencies outside the standard library for basic operation. It can integrate with WSGI, CherryPy, Flup, Paste, and Fapws. It features auto-reload and supports several popular templating engines. The source is clean but has no tests included. It clocks in at 844 lines of code plus 181 doc/comment lines.
Flask itself is a single file (25K) but requires Werkzeug (which isn't tiny) and installs Jinja2 (also not small) even if you don't plan to use it. Of the code in that file, over half is comments: only 215 lines of code, 376 doc/comment lines! As it builds on Werkzeug, you can likely make use of most of the functionality included in that package.
Juno is also a single file (31K) with no non-stdlib dependencies for basic operation. You can also run behind WSGI, SCGI or FCGI (with Flup), or Google appengine. The code appears clean, reasonably commented and organized, with no automated tests included. It manages what it does in only 536 lines of code, with 168 doc/comment lines.


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International Maritime and Commercial Law
The Official Blog of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law
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Singapore Court orders sale of liened cargo
On March 14, 2016 March 15, 2016 By Professor Simon BaughenIn Arbitration, Carriage of Goods, Sea CarriageLeave a comment
In Five Ocean Corporation v Cingler Ship Pte Ltd [2015] SGHC 311 the High Court of Singapore has ordered the sale of cargo subject to a lien exercised by the shipowner on behalf of the head charterer pursuant to a bill of lading incorporating the terms of the sub-charter, which was subject to Singapore arbitration and English law. The order was made pursuant to the powers of the court under s12 A (4) of the International Arbitration Act, which is in similar terms to s 44(3) of the English Arbitration Act 1996. Section 12 A (4) provides "If the case is one of urgency, the High Court or a Judge thereof may, on the application of a party or proposed party to the arbitral proceedings, make such orders under subsection (2) as the High Court or Judge thinks necessary for the purpose of preserving evidence or assets." All parties were before the court and subject to its in personam jurisdiction.
The court held that an order for sale was "necessary" in order to preserve the "asset", the disponent owner's right to detain possession of the Cargo. The vessel was in international waters in the Bay of Bengal and the crew had been on board the vessel for almost four months, and some were falling ill. There was a lack of fresh food, water and medical supplies and overheating of the cargo of coal had been detected, with the risk of self-ignition should it continue to remain in the Vessel's holds, a dire situation exacerbated by the monsoon season. The shipowners had been willing to exercise their lien under the bill of lading but the court noted that they would have been obliged to do so by reason of the employment clause in the time charter.
Disponent owners' liens on cargo
On February 25, 2016 March 4, 2016 By Professor Simon BaughenIn Carriage of Goods, Charterparties6 Comments
Can disponent owners lien cargo for sums due under their sub-charter? Dicta in The Clipper Monarch [2015] EWHC 2584 (Comm); [2016] 1 Lloyds' Law Rep 1, suggests that they can. The sub-charterers, Silver Rock, had failed to pay freight, deadfreight, and demurrage to disponent owners, CCS, and the vessel waited outside Chinese territorial waters. CCS obtained and order to sell the cargo under CPR Part 25.1(1)(c)(v), which provided for the gross proceeds of sale to be held by the claimant's solicitors to the order of the court and "treated as if subject to the same rights (if any) as [CCS] had in respect of the goods prior to their sale".
The cargo had been purchased by Silver Rock from Max Coal and sold on to Grupo Minero, the original consignee. Silver Rock found a new purchaser and the vessel berthed to discharge the cargo. The cargo was sold and its proceeds held by CCS's solicitors pursuant to the High Court's order. CCS obtained arbitration awards against Silver Rock for sums due under the voyage charter, and against Grupo Minero, claiming as assignee of the head owner's right to claim an almost identical amount as carrier under the bill of lading. The awards were converted into judgements. His Honour Judge Waksman QC held that the sale proceeds representing the cargo clearly belonged to one of the two judgment debtors and CCS was entitled to the monies as judgment creditor against whichever of them was the appropriate owner.
His Honour Judge Waksman QC then considered, obiter, a second ground on which CCS would be entitled to the proceeds of the sale – by way of its rights on a lien on the cargo which arose prior to the sale. If the cargo was owned prior to sale by Grupo Minero, CCS relied on the voyage charter "lien" clause as incorporated into the bills of lading, CCS having taken an assignment of the carrier's rights. If the cargo was owned by Silver Rock, CCS relied on the voyage charter "lien" clause as giving it a right with similar effect to a possessory lien, namely a right to procure that the cargo be withheld from Silver Rock by directing the employment of the vessel in its capacity as time charterer.
This second ground assumes that the time charterer has the right, under the employment clause, to direct the shipowner to lien the cargo by not unloading it. Such an order would only be lawful if the shipowner had the right to lien the cargo under the bill of lading, as was the case in The Clipper Monarch. It is worth noting that a similar argument was rejected in The Mathew [1990] 2 Lloyd's Law. Rep 323 where Steyn J held that there was no implied term that the time charterers could direct the shipowners to lien cargo.
More unwanted cargo.
On December 4, 2015 March 24, 2016 By Professor Simon BaughenIn Delivery of Goods, Sale of Goods, Trade LawLeave a comment
The Bao Yue [2015] EWHC 2288 (Comm), is another case of nobody wanting to take delivery of the cargo when it gets to its destination. What's a shipowner to do?
The case involved a shipment of iron ore from Iran to China under a bearer bill of lading. Due to a dispute between the seller and the buyer nobody came forward to take delivery in China and the shipowner arranged for the cargo to be discharged into a warehouse under a contract which gave the warehousekeeper a lien for unpaid storage charges. The shipper, who had retained the original bill of lading, sued the shipowner for conversion, in allowing the creation of a lien over the cargo in favour of a third party, the warehousekeeper, alternatively for denying it access to the cargo.
Both claims failed. The bill of lading expressly provided for the discharge and storage of the cargo and in any event there would have been an implied right on the part of the shipowner to do so if delivery was not taken by the bill of lading holder. It was a foreseeable incident of the right to store the cargo that a lien would be created in favour of the warehousekeeper. The shipper had therefore impliedly authorised the creation of the lien. The Commercial Court also held that there was no denial of access as the shipper could still obtain the cargo by presenting the bill of lading and by paying the storage charges which by now amounted to US$2m.
The shipowner successfully counterclaimed the cost of the storage charges and obtained an order that the shipper deliver an original bill of lading to it to enable it to sell the cargo.
A small footnote. The summary on Westlaw is inaccurate in that it refers to the defendant being the shipper, rather than the shipowner.
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By the looks of it Hartman, Colorado seems like a common town, but when the dark shadows of the nighttime roll in the undeceased take over. Couches move about, screams out of the night. Some local residents argue there are no ghosts, but frightening things unquestionably take place here in Hartman in the moonlight hours.


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Twyla Hankins knows what it takes to be an elite woman in this industry. "I believe in providing all the right education, tools, and training to set the company and its people up for success," Hankins explained. "This is a crucial tenet for anyone who wants to succeed."
As an expert in operations, including loan processing, underwriting, document preparation, funding, shipping, post-closing and insuring, Hankins has provided excellence in operations leadership for American mortgage lenders for more than 40 years. In 2010, she joined the executive team at American Financial Network (AFN). In almost every month of 2020, AFN funded more than $1bn in loans.
"In my role, my clients are our branch managers and their sales teams," she said. "I attribute open communication and proactive outreach to my success. I don't only want to hear from them when they have an issue that needs to be resolved, I also like to know what they like and what is working well for them."
Hankins has been instrumental in directing the customization of AFN's LOS, building a compliance team, a post-closing team, underwriting teams, and operations centers in the corporate office and offices across the country. She has received accolades such as NAWRB Finance Leader, Housing Wire Woman of Influence, and one of National Mortgage Professional Magazine's Most Powerful Women in Mortgage Banking.


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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday November 20th 2005
Morgan O'Regan (EI0REI) - Silent Key
It is with regret that we inform you of the death of Morgan O'Regan- EI0REI who died unexpectedly at the Mercy University Hospital in Cork. Morgan ran the Radio and Electronics School, originally founded by his father, in "Carrig House", Tivoli, Cork, for many years. The School was involved in training students in radio and electronics. Many of these students went on to become Marine Radio Operators, with companies like Marconi etc.
Morgan was very well know in Limerick Radio Club and took part in many NFD CW contests and DX-peditions to islands, run by the club in the mid sixties and early seventies. He was a brilliant CW operator and made a huge contribution to the successful running of many of these events.
He will be sadly missed by his friends in Amateur Radio, but particularly by the more senior members of Limerick Radio Club, who would have known him and who would have enjoyed his company on many club outings in the past.
Morgan was predeceased by his wife Marie. To his son and daughters and his extended family we extend our deepest sympathy. May he rest in peace. Ar dheis De go raibh a anam dilis.
80 metre Counties Contest
Following the continuing success of the 2 metre Counties Contest, it has been decided to have an 80-metre event, broadly along the same lines.
The first contest will be held on Monday the 2nd of January 2006 from 1200 to 1500 hours local time. This is the Bank Holiday following New Year's Day and there will be the usual Fixed and Portable Sections. Full rules will be carried in the December issue of Echo Ireland and will shortly be available on the IRTS web site.
Radio Theory Examination
As already announced the next Radio Theory Examination will take place on Wednesday January the 18th at 2 p.m. in the Comreg offices. Irish Life Centre, Lower Abbey St., Dublin 1. Those interested in sitting this examination should contact Sean Nolan EI7CD by email to "ei7cd at gofree dot indigo dot ie", telephone 01 2851599 or by letter at QTHR. The entry fee is 50 Euro with a reduction for full-time students. The closing date for entries is January the 6th 2006.
A sample question paper is available for downloading from the IRTS website www.irts.ie or by post from Sean Donelan EI4GK at QTHR. Information about the examination is available in the September/October edition of Echo Ireland.
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The LogView post-contest log-visualisation tool is available on the web site of EI8IC. The application is used to analyse contest performance and plots the position of each QSO to one of 8 different maps. For more information visit www.mapability.com/ei8ic/new.html
Tipperary Amateur Radio Group would like to welcome Andrew EI5JF to the position of newsreader and wish him well in his new post.
The Group held their AGM on the 10th of November last. The committee is unchanged from last year: Chairman, John Ronan - EI7IG. Vice Chairman, Eamonn Kavanagh - EI3FFB. Secretary, John Burke - EI2JB. Treasurer, Tommy Hallinan - EI2IT and P.R.O., Paul Norris - EI3ENB The new committee hoped they would be able to effect a resurgence of the club, in relation to new members, and greater involvement in club outings.
The Tipperary Amateur Radio Group would like to thank the owners and staff of Raheen House Hotel in Clonmel, for affording the use of their premises for club meetings.
On Thursday last, the club was visited by Practical Wireless editor Rob Mannion G3XFD / EI5IW. The meeting took place in the Waterford Crystal Sports Centre and was enjoyed by all in attendance.
The group also welcomes Gareth EI7FZB to the position of newsreader and wishes him well in this position.
Although compulsory Morse tests are now a thing of the past, the Morse Test Proficiency Team (Northern Ireland), offer proficiency assessments at 5, 12 and 20 words per minute. Other speeds may be offered on request. These assessments are purely voluntary and open to anyone with an interest in Morse.
The next assessment will be held on Saturday the 3rd of December 2005 at the Greystone Community Centre, Antrim, commencing at 1:30 p.m. If you are interested in taking an assessment you should contact Jim Henry, GI0DVU by telephone on 048 9266 2270 or by e-mail to "jim dot henry at ntlworld dot com" no later than 23rd of November 2005. A small fee of £10 sterling is payable to cover expenses and certificates are awarded to those who successfully achieve the required standard.
The "Holyland DX Group" will operate from the middle of the Dead Sea at the lowest dry point on the Globe, 411 meters below the sea level. The HDX Group will be active on Dec 23rd and 24th 2005 starting 0700 UTC and received special permission from the Dead Sea Works factory positioned in a very rare Holyland squares M25BS and M26BS.
The call sign will be 4X411 A indicating this special point. The team of 4Z4BS, 4Z4KX, 4Z5LA, 4Z5FI, 4Z1UF and 4X1VF will run two complete stations with power amplifier on 80-10M, CW and SSB. The QSL manager will be Shalom 4Z4BS. www.4z5la.net/4x411a
Items for inclusion in next weeks Radio News should be forwarded to Mark Wall, EI7IS at QTHR or by phone to 051 853806 or 087 6302026. Items for the radio news can also be faxed to 087 5 6302026. News should be submitted via e-mail to "news at irts dot ie" for automatic forwarding to both the radio and printed news services. Please note that items for the radio news should reach the editor no later than midday on Fridays.


Welcome to The new home for the SGmod!
SG-Mod is available for Joint operations , Deltaforce Xtreme & Deltaforce Xtreme 2!
SG-mod is a Modification of the basic novalogic games (named above) ; Starting its life as a small stargate themed weapons mod , it then evolved into a full blown "SG" mod containing themed buildings,terrains,sounds,AI,Vehicles and more. Ever ongoing the mod developed way beyond the original plan and vision, Evolving yet further, expanding its library of mapping objects to the bursting point.
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"Mappers can do things in this mod that they simply can't do in ANY other mod for Joint Operations. I like it's versality - you can make great sci-fi maps but also you can make awesome urban combat maps, it's not all about 'sci-fi crap' as some people seem to think"
Awesome job on the mod guys! The a.i., the vehicles, the stargates etc., etc. have just blown me away. Been enjoying it since the very day it was released,...Damn good job guys, I'm amazed.
Hi. I have been playing Joint Ops for about a month or two now, and just found this mod about a week ago. I have always loved Stargate, and to find a Stargate mod for one of the coolest games out there was so exciting!! I have played a couple times and this is one of the coolest things out there for this game. Great work guys!!
From a Map-Makers point of view, the SG-MOD beats out all the other Mod's, hands down. It quite simply provides the Map-Maker with an innovative pallet of objects not available anywhere else, allowing Him or Her to build things into the map that could not easily be done with the other Mod's. Hat's off to Luke Nadewalker for doing an outstanding job and listening to the needs of the Map-Makers during the design of this Mod.
SG-Mod has been approved by NOVALOGIC for play on novaworld!


Review of Deep Trouble (A Kim Claypoole Mystery) by Jean Erhardt w/a rafflecopter giveaway!
The Fourth of July isn't going at all as Kim Claypoole expected. It starts with a bang, including a run-in with a dead body, and ends with her juvenile delinquent nephew, Little Bucky, disappearing from her double-wide trailer on a souped up Suzuki.
When Little Bucky fails to return and no one seems concerned but Claypoole, she sets out to find her wayward nephew. Nothing ever goes easy for Claypoole, and her investigation soon involves several trips to Krispy Kreme, a visit to Jesus Our Savior Bible Camp and some nasty encounters with a series of backwoods characters, including hillbilly counterfeiters and a major league Smoky Mountain dope dealer. In the midst of this chaos and while Claypoole is desperately trying to keep a rocky romance on track, her kooky mother and redneck cousin Alonzo show up for a surprise visit. Relatives, murder and love—all ingredients in a recipe for Deep Trouble.
Who doesn't like a mystery with some humor thrown in the mix? I love it. Plus, this one had all the makings of a great whodunit. But what kept me in the book was Ms. Erhardt and her characterizations.
Oh yes, her characters. Richly written and real in content, some where just down right funny to me. I know, I shouldn't laugh during a mystery but I did. 🙂 Not to mention that Kim was a hoot, too. From watching her, listening to her and seeing her react to the situations that she was put in. Made for a character that I can't wait to follow in all of her adventures.
I highly recommend this story for everyone. Especially if you are looking for characters that you can actually care about in a mystery book and want more.
I was raised in the small rural town of Amelia, Ohio, about twenty five miles out of Cincinnati. My younger brother and sister and I had a pony, a horse, many great dogs and a couple of motorcycles. We raised a lot of hell. My father served in The Big One at 17 and, after riding a motorcycle around Europe, became a lawyer and later a judge. My mother worked as a homemaker and nurse, a skill she had to use a lot with all of the injuries my siblings and I subjected ourselves and one another to.
I wrote my first mystery story when I was in fourth grade. It was about a kid a lot like me who heard strange noises coming from the attic and became convinced that the attic was haunted. Eventually, the mystery was solved when she investigated and found a squirrel eating nuts in a dark corner. It wasn't a terribly exciting conclusion, but my teacher gave me an A anyway.
As a teenager I worked at a lot of different jobs. I worked at a gift shop in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, which is a frequent locale in my books. I was a swimming instructor and a lifeguard where my primary goal was to never get wet. I did a stint in a stuffed animal gift shop at the Kings Island amusement park where I actually sort of met the Partridge Family when they shot an episode there. After graduating from high school, I went on to attend Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, a stone's throw from the Great Smoky Mountains. There was some more hell raising at college and I made some very good friends and occasionally we have our own private reunions.
In high school and college I played basketball and I graduated from Maryville College with a degree in Phys Ed. I went on to teach at Amelia Junior High, the same junior high that I had attended. There was something a little weird about passing by my old school locker every day when I walked down the hall as a teacher. Plus, some of the teachers I'd had back when I was in junior high were still working when I started to teach. Some of them had been none too fond of me as a student and I don't think they were much fonder of me as a teacher! I coached the girls' basketball and volleyball teams which was the best part of my job.
In my late 20's I moved to the West Coast to get a broader perspective on life or something like that. I ended up working in retail security, or loss prevention, as it is now known, at an upscale Northwest retailer. I kept getting promoted and with each promotion, the job became less and less fun. It was a lot more fun catching shoplifters than sitting in endless meetings and crunching budgets. After ten years of that, I quit to try my hand at some serious writing. I wrote two books of fiction (not mysteries), Benny's World and Kippo's World, as well as a book of not-especially-reverent poetry called A Girl's Guide to God and numerous short stories, articles and poems which have appeared in The Sonora Review, The Quarterly, Word of Mouth, Blue Stocking and 8-Track Mind.
After that, it was time to go back to work. I got my private investigator's license and hung out my shingle. At first, I took a lot of the cheaters cases. It seemed to me that if a guy thought his woman was cheating, he was usually wrong. On the other hand, if a woman thought her guy was cheating, she was almost always right. Eventually, I moved on to take mostly criminal defense investigation work which often involved trying to figure out what the client did and didn't do and then minimize the damage of what they usually did do. There were so many crazy ways that people could get themselves in trouble. In one case, the attorney I was working for represented a wife who had gotten so enraged about all of the time and affection her husband lavished on his pet iguana that she shot the poor iguana and killed it. The husband was furious and wanted the district attorney to press charges. The wife was eventually charged with reckless endangerment and took a pretty sweet deal because even the DA felt sorry for the fact that she was married to such a schmuck.
It was an interesting ten years. Somewhere in this time period I began to write the Kim Claypoole Mystery Series, which was a great distraction and a lot of fun. I liked the idea of having many of the same characters appear in each book. So here I am now, working on the fifth book in the series.
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Q: Oracle sqldeveloper Database Diff - not seeing indexes/sequences I am using Oracle SQL Developer's database diff tool to compare schemas.  (SQL developer version : 3.2.09)  It works great on some environments, but in one, I can only see differences in tables - the sequences and indexes are all treated as if they are new and not compared against existing ones.
I've confirmed the indexes exist in the target environment, and that my user account should have permission to see them - I have both "select any dictionary" system privilege and the "select_catalog_role" role.  Further, I do see the indexes if I explicitly query "all_indexes" and "all_ind_columns" tables.
Any ideas what permissions I might be missing?  Again, this works on another environment.

A: This may not be an answer but worth to check up. Some indexes may have been set to invisible as an alternative to being dropped. These are still maintained by the database but ignored by the optimizer. You'll be able to see them by querying the dictionary, but the compare tool may ignore them.
SELECT INDEX_NAME, INDEX_TYPE, VISIBILITY
FROM ALL_INDEXES
WHERE INDEX_NAME LIKE 'EMP%';

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If my life had gone according to the plan I made as a frivolous teenager, I would have a husband and several children by now. I used to rummage in junk shops and store on the top shelf of my wardrobe tiny cardigans and other nice items that I expected to need in my future maternal life. Over time, however, I have handed them down to my nieces and nephews as clothing for their dolls and teddy bears.
I light a candle and look into the distance. Everything has actually gone the other way round.
Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus! Let us rejoice while we are young! This is a line from the Latin song traditionally sung by Finnish high school kids on their graduation day. And there is a lot of other poetry about youth. Some people look back to the time when they were younger, but I don't. It is good to be a more sensible adult – at least I hope I am more sensible now.
I attended a meeting of our Wild Club a few days ago. The members of Wild Club are mostly single people aged 30 – 50 years from all over Finland. We share an interest in physical exercise. If you are a member, you can each week enter into Facebook the number of kilometers you have walked, jogged, skied, etc., and the kilometers of all members are then added up. Our aim is to re-name the group Mile Club as soon as we reach our goal of a million kilometers. Through this club I have got to know new people that I would certainly not have met otherwise. It is not so easy for a working adult to get to know new people as it was for a young student with a large circle of friends and acquaintances of roughly the same age and in a similar life situation. We meet annually somewhere in Finland to celebrate the birthday of Wild Club and occasionally also at other times.
The huge amount of energy that I planned to dedicate to my imaginary large family has been invested in hobbies, studies and work. I am happy with exactly the kind of life I am living.
Why is it that each person has his or her specific kind of life? This is a question that I cannot answer, no matter how hard I try. Life is an enormous question mark without an answer. Until the very end. The important thing is that I can be happy now, in candlelight.


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Published: 19:55, November 22, 2022 | Updated: 08:58, November 23, 2022
Saudi Arabia shock Messi's Argentina with comeback victory
Published:19:55, November 22, 2022 Updated:08:58, November 23, 2022 By Reuters
Saudi Arabia's midfielder #10 Salem Al-Dawsari (right) celebrates scoring his team's second goal during the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group C football match between Argentina and Saudi Arabia at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, north of Doha on Nov 22, 2022. (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)
LUSAIL, Qatar- Unheralded Saudi Arabia notched one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history on Tuesday with a 2-1 win over Lionel Messi's Argentina thanks to a scintillating second half comeback.
On his fifth and final quest for the only major trophy to elude him, the 35-year-old Messi scored a 10th minute penalty in a dominant first half display where he and Lautaro Martinez also had three goals disallowed for offside.
On his fifth and final quest for the only major trophy to elude him, the 35-year-old Messi scored a 10th minute penalty in a dominant first half display where he and Lautaro Martinez also had three goals disallowed for offside
ALSO READ: Messi laments 'five minutes of mistakes' against Saudis
But Saudi Arabia, the second-lowest ranked team in the tournament after Ghana, threw caution to the wind at the start of the second half, charging at Argentina's defence in front of a frenzied 88,012 crowd.
ALSO READ: Saudi Arabia win is statistically biggest World Cup shock, say Gracenote
First, Saleh Al-Shehri squeezed in a low shot in the 48th minute. Then, to the disbelief of even the Saudi fans, Salem Al-Dawsari curled in a scorching strike from the edge of the penalty area in the 53rd minute to leave Argentina and Messi looking utterly shell-shocked in the Group C opener.
ALSO READ: Messi feeling fit ahead of 'special' last World Cup
Despite plenty of possession after that, Argentina could not penetrate the Green Falcons, who were competing in their sixth World Cup but had never previously won an opening game.
The entire game was played in an extraordinary atmosphere at the Lusail Stadium, with Argentina's traditionally massive and raucous following matched by the thousands of Saudis who had come over the border to cheer on their team.
READ MORE: Messi does light training away from Argentina team
"Our team fulfils our dreams!" and "Where is Messi? We beat him!", the green-clad Saudis chanted over and over in the Lusail Stadium, on their feet and greeting every clearance - including one headed off the goal line - with a deafening roar.
Messi's dream in doubt
Both teams have Mexico and Poland to come, with Argentina needing an immediate reaction if Messi is to have a realistic chance of matching Diego Maradona's immortality in his homeland by bringing home the World Cup.
The result revived old question marks over Argentina's defence and broke their amazing 36-match undefeated run. That stopped them from matching the previous international record of 37 games unbeaten held by Italy.
This AFP graphic dated Nov 18, 2022 shows the details of Saudi Arabia's football team participating in the 2022 World Cup in Doha
It also marred Messi's achievement on Tuesday of becoming the first Argentinian to score in four World Cups on his 20th appearance in the tournament. Only Maradona has played more games for Argentina at the World Cup, 21 in all.
"This hurts a lot. We were dreaming of starting the World Cup with a win," said Messi's strike partner Martinez. "But it's happened and now we have to train and think forward.
"We lost this game because of our own mistakes, most of all in the second half. There are details that make a difference and we need to correct our mistakes."
It had all looked so different at the start when the marauding Messi nearly scored in the opening seconds, celebrated joyfully after sending Saudi goalkeeper Mohammed Al-Owais the wrong way with his penalty, then had another goal disallowed.
For the Saudis, the result buried their dismal history at the start of tournaments, including a 5-0 thrashing by hosts Russia in 2018 and an 8-0 pummelling by Germany in 2002.
Saudi Arabia's defender #12 Saud Abdulhamid (left) fights for the ball with Argentina's midfielder #17 Alejandro Gomez during the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group C football match between Argentina and Saudi Arabia at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, north of Doha on Nov 22, 2022. (KHALED DESOUKI / AFP)
Argentina's Lionel Messi (left) and Angel Di Maria look dejected after the match in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group C , Argentina versus Saudi Arabia at Lusail Stadium, in Lusail, Qatar on Nov 22, 2022. (MARKO DJURICA / REUTERS)
Their feat against the twice World Cup-winners and current South American champions was all the more remarkable given the departure of their influential captain and midfielder Salman Al Faraj just after halftime, clutching a hamstring.
Midfielder Abdulelah Al-Malki said the Saudis were fired up like never before by their coach Herve Renard.
"Renard made us cry with the motivation before the match and stoked us up during halftime," he said, affectionately calling the Frenchman "crazy".
Argentina's last defeat was by Brazil in the semi-finals of the Copa America in July 2019. They are ranked third, 48 places above Saudi Arabia, by world football's governing body FIFA.
Argentina's last defeat in their opening match at a World Cup was against Cameroon in 1990. In potentially a good omen for Messi and his team mates, they still made it to the final then.
The Saudis could hardly contain themselves after their giant-killing act, falling to the floor in prayers and tears before running to celebrate with their fans as the Argentinians trudged off downcast, their supporters shaking heads in silence.


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Moving to a new state to break the cycle of heart failure
February 25, 2016 Shannon
A recent transplant from Detroit, Shirley has spent much of her working life taking care of others.
So when she was diagnosed with congest ive heart failure, she learned the hard way it was time to take care of herself.
Shirley's story begins in adolescence, when her life long weight loss challenges began. "I was always a heavy person, but I'd always been able to do just about anything. I had enough energy to do whatever I wanted." Not true come November of 2008, when her breathing became compromised. Her condition grew worse after her 40th birthday, and she visited two hospitals in Detroit, her hometown.
"Pneumonia" was the prevailing diagnosis; one dosed her with antibiotics and sent her from the ER, and another landed her in another hospital for a week. Released, her breathing did not improve. And that's when a friend observed Shirley didn't look well, and insisted on visiting a third hospital.
The third time was the charm. "We arrived on Monday, and they told me I'd have open heart surgery on Monday. It was a shock."
A camera scope discovered congestive heart failure and identified two malfunctioning heart valves. The Mitral valve was completely non operational, and the tricuspid was partially non operational. Surgeons replaced her mitral valve and installed an acrylic ring in the tricuspid.
Shirley recovered well from the surgery, and resolved to start walking and losing weight. "I got my groove back pretty quickly, but I wasn't focused enough on a weight loss plan," she says. Considering bariatric surgery, she consulted a cardiologist. "He looked at my history and said at 42, I was so young, and I was literally killing myself. That was an eye opener."
At that point, her life took a big turn. She decided to move to South Carolina, where relatives and her cardiologist were convinced a fresh start and loving support (family lived here already) would heal her.
"I didn't want to come," she says. "But when a stranger tells you it's time to get out – and he's been trained in cardiology – you need to listen."
One hundred and six lost pounds later, Shirley reports the move has been positive for both health and spiritual reasons. But it hasn't been an easy road. Shirley notes the initial joy of connecting with family – and of surviving her health scare – gave way to a sense that lingering health problems "were a bummer."
She has lost 106 pounds since the day she left Detroit on an airplane, transported there by wheelchair and strapped in with an extender belt. She rises daily at 5 a.m. to meditate and pray. "God has dropped things in my lap that motivate me. Things have fallen into place that keep me on this path, and encouraged me to bring others along."
Her continued to health issues – high blood pressure, epilepsy and other conditions – have made recovery slower than she would like. But she perseveres.
She knows now that her mother died of congestive heart failure. That was something she'd been unaware of before, admitting that she "shut down" when her mother died. It's only recently, upon reviewing her death certificate, that Shirley realized her genetic predisposition.
And yet, despite genetics and ongoing challenges – which she attributes to her lifelong weight struggle – she remains optimistic and focused on a goal. She has started ALOFT (A Leap of Faith Today), a non-profit designed to raise awareness about obesity and lead people to combine spiritual and physical fitness for success.
She has a growing band of followers who seek guidance, encouragement, and practical tips. Her ultimate goal is to provide spiritual and economic support to help others "launch their journeys to divine health."
"I really believe in eating yourself to divine health," she says. "There are no quick fixes. But getting healthier, and helping others, is a calling. No matter where you are today, you can take steps to improve tomorrow, and then again the next day."
When your career, friends, family comes before health
Mark and Brenda Moore and Family Foundation