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IRAN with an area of more than (1.6 million square kilometers) is seventeenth countries in terms of area and is located in the southern half of the northern temperate zone and south west of Asia in Middle East. Iran is limited to Turkmenistan, Caspian sea, republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia from north, Turkey and Iraq from west, Pakistan and Afghanistan from east and Oman Sea and Persian Gulf from south.
Iran's highest point is Damavand's peak with 5610 meters height. Its longest river and the only navigable river is Karun with 890 km long. The largest lake in Iran is Urmia with 4868 square kilometers extent, and its largest island is Qeshm with 1491 square kilometers extent.
Iranian government is Islamic Republic and its national day is Bahman twenty-second. Capital of Iran is Tehran, the official language of people is Persian, currency is Rial, the official religion is Islam, and it's population is 70, 472,846 people according to census in 2006.
Iran's exports is including oil, carpets, fruits, nuts (pistachios, raisins, dates), Skin and Pickled, caviar, Petrochemical products, textiles, clothing, products of food industries.
Iran's Industries is including petroleum, petrochemical, textile, cement and other building materials, food products processing (particularly refined sugar and drawing oil), metal.
Iran's agricultural industry is including wheat, rice, cereals, suger beet, fruits, oil seeds (pistachios, almonds, walnuts), cotton, Dairy products, wool, caviar.


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Oh my it's been a while since I last sat down to write a blog post. To be honest I was starting to feel a little burnt out so whenever I feel like that I always take a step back from the blog and my YouTube channel however I am back with a recap of the Spring Awakening Yoga Retreat in Devon. Can you believe that this was my 5th yoga retreat? I can't it really does seem like yesterday that I took the leap and organised my first one.
We returned once more to the beautiful rolling hills of Devon at East Down. This place really does feel like home now, myself and Tracy let ourselves in and got organised on the arrival. I always try to arrive with lots of time to spare as it allows me to get into the right head space and know where I am with everything before the students arrive.
We held morning and evening yoga classes and a yoga nidra meditation on the Saturday evening. I like to keep some of the time free for people to relax, go out exploring or indluge in an angelic reiki treatment. Tracy (our chef and my good friend) hosted a raw food workshop on the Saturday morning after breakfast. I always find these workshops so interesting as I love to learn!
I was, as always, blown away by the great energy of this group, the positive attitudes, the willingness to try new things, to learn, to play and to have fun! We had some fabulous conversations over the dinner table.
For the yoga I wanted to keep things playful but build upon our practices over the weekend. We had a few breakthroughs and 'oh yes' moments which always makes my heart happy as a yoga instructor. This is why I host these retreats - so everyone can learn and grow, including me.
The food was created by my amazing friend Tracy - you can check out her website here. She served us a perfect mix between raw vegan dishes, salads, sweet treats and delicious, wholesome curries and soups. The jack fruit curry with red rice was my absolute favourite - I had two helpings!
Of course I made sure that we were well stocked with tea for the weekend - a big thank you goes out to my friends over at Bluebird Tea Co for gifting my yogis with gingerbread chai in their gift bags and Pip and Nut for the squeeze packs.
I always leave these weekends feeling exhausted but so happy and inspired. I am so grateful to everyone who came for being open, warm and inspiring! I always feel that we grow during these retreats, friendships are forged, minds are rested and bodies are nourished.
If you want to check out more photos from the retreat check out the #JBYRetreat hashtag on Instagram.
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If you wish to join me on retreat in 2017 I have two weekend retreats coming up this year.
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On December 7, the Federal Trade Commission will host the first in a series of day-long roundtable discussions "to explore the privacy challenges posed by the vast array of 21st century technology and business practices that collect and use consumer data." The goal of the sessions, according to the Commission, "is to determine how best to protect consumer privacy while supporting beneficial uses of the information and technological innovation."
As part of the ramp-up to the roundtables, the Commission invited public comments about how best to address consumer privacy in emerging technologies. Our comments focus on Health IT, online advertising, and cloud computing. These three evolving fields have a lot in common: each promises significant potential benefits for both consumers and innovators, but widespread adoption depends on ensuring users' privacy at every step.
Microsoft has a long-standing commitment to privacy, based on our belief that for consumers to take full advantage of new technologies and contribute to the online ecosystem, consumers must trust that their data will be subject to consistent, predictable and robust privacy protections. Among the protections we focus on in our comments are transparency, consumer control and security. For example, consumers should have a choice about whether information on their online activities is used to create behavioral profiles for targeted advertising. In the context of cloud computing, consumers and enterprises should be given flexibility and choice about whether their data, software, and applications are kept locally or delivered as a service over the Internet. And in healthcare, patients should have control over where their health data is, who is looking at it, and for what purpose.
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The ECB's Mario Draghi says there are unlimited funds available to the Eurozone nations, but it is upto the individual governments if they wish to borrow from the ESVF funds. This programme has only been announced by Dr Draghi today, and no doubt the various governments will weigh up their options. Such funds may provide the stimulus for growth.
There is a small town in Spain that specialised in making doors, called Vallancana. When the construction boom was in full force, it provided full employment to 8,000 people. Today, with the construction slumber, it employs 4,000 persons. The unemployment demographics reflect the national averages for Spain, nearly 25 percent of the adult population, nearly 50 percent of the school and college leavers. What else should they be manufacturing? If the construction boom has come to a stop in Spain, could they possibly find export markets? Would they be competitive? Or should they perhaps examine some new industries, and see the viability of those to create employment? Isn't there a market for doors in the Eurozone? Brainstorming such ideas might get some results.
Houses and offices are being repossessed in Vallancana, people unable to service their mortgages. Perhaps the newly organised banks could provide short-term reductions and allow people to hang on to their houses? Houses when occupied and heated and receiving tender loving care remain valueable assets; once foreclosed, lying cold and empty and uncared for, they become toxic assets. It is in the banks' interests to ensure they remain valueable assets, while helping the hard-pressed owners also keep their investment and pride. Such a solution in the long term will prove a blessing to heal the housing market, everywhere.
The Eurozone nations must examine the specialities produced in different areas, and see if they could be marketed elsewhere. With a pan-European approach of co-operation and increased trade, maybe a growth plan can emerge.
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This, our fine IGNPSX readers, is what we call 'Off the Record.' It's our outlet for outrageous, outlandish, or just plain out-there rumors that we hear in our day-to-day dealings in the game industry. While most have a ring of truth to them, these are rumors -- so don't castrate us if the following tidbits don't pan out exactly as we report six months later.
And guess what's on our plate today? You guessed it...the amazing, the incredible, the non-existing PlayStation 2.
The date? The date!
We've been fitting tiny rumors together like a jigsaw puzzle to form an even bigger, stronger rumor -- but it's still not official until Sony itself bellows down from its cloud and says "yes, thy coveted PlayStation II shall be released..."
Anyway, here's the deal we have so far: many large and small US and European developers will be receiving PlayStation 2 development kits in the next few weeks (less than a month, to be more precise). Key Japanese developers have had their hands on the kits for the past month or so, cranking out incredible graphic demos that would make Industrial Light and Magic weep -- and it's all in real-time.
Software development on the original PlayStation (the one that's currently under your television) is slowing down to a trickle in anticipation of the new Ubersystem...which is why you don't see as many "big-name" games after Final Fantasy VIII.
All right, enough gabbing. The date we've got so far isn't confirmed by any means, but it does make sense. The PlayStation 2 will debut in Japan on December 3, 1999. 12/3/99. A Friday. Seems perfectly logical to us.
But Sony has a huge problem. The US market. How the heck is the company going to ween the PlayStation 2 into a gaming market where sales of the original system is still going stronger than its ever been? Even with the Dreamcast looming on the horizon, SCEA isn't flinching. The PlayStation 2 is a Year 2000 system in the US. But in Japan, they're power hungry. They want it now. They'll get it in 1999.
So what about a sneak peak of the technology? Read on to the next rumor.
Ken Kutaragi, the creator and designer of the PlayStation chipset, will be in San Francisco this February to unveil his next processor at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. Here's what has been submitted to the conference schedule:
250MHz microprocessor consists of a CPU core with 128b multimedia extensions, 10 floating-point multiplier accumulators, four floating-point dividers, an MPEG2 decoder, a 10-channel DMA controller, and other peripherals with 128b internal buses on one die. It contains 10.5M transistors in 17x14.1mm2 and dissipates 15W at 1.8V.
128 bit bus? MPEG2 decoder? Sounds like its console bound to me.Can you say "PlayStation 2," boys and girls? I thought you could.
Chances are good that this is the first peek at what the processor is and what it can do, but don't expect to see Metal Gear Solid 2 running at the convention -- this is strictly a technical conference. And guess who's going to be there to find out if this is truly the PlayStation 2's chipset? You guessed it...we are.
It's no secret that talented programmers are trying to make it so that Windows 95-compatible PCs can play PlayStation games. It's called "emulation," just in case you haven't been following the scene for the past 5 years or so.
Bleem is the most anticipated PlayStation emulator, simply because a beta (early version) slipped out on the net -- people tried it out, and saw that most of the games were running close to perfectly on their PCs.
So, what's the rumor? Well, the intention of Bleem isn't just to have the most powerful emulator on the market -- it's also to sell to developers, so they can include the tiny executable on their PlayStation CD's. When you put a Bleem-enabled PlayStation disc in a PC CD drive -- BOOM! Up it comes as if the game was programmed specifically for the PC computer.
We can't say for sure if Sony will allow such a thing on a PlayStation game -- after all, Sony's already up against Connectix's Virtual Game Station emulator for the Mac. If Sony sees a Bleem executable while the company's giving final approval before initial production on the game, chances are they won't approve it for release.
But hey, that's just a guess. Bleem, we're on your side. Can't wait to see the final product.
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Mark Wilson had a two-stroke lead when the Phoenix Open was suspended Sunday because of darkness.
Wearing a yellow visor and green shirt in support of his beloved Green Bay Packers, the Wisconsin native broke a tie with Tommy Gainey with a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-3 12th. Gainey three-putted the hole for a bogey.
"I birdied some tough holes," Wilson said.
Wilson and Gainey were facing 20-foot birdie putts on the par-5 13th when they decided it was too dark to finish the hole.
Wilson was 18 under. Gainey was tied for second with Vijay Singh and Jason Dufner. Singh shot a 5-under 66, while Dufner had four holes to play.
The start Sunday was delayed a half-hour because of frost. About nine hours of playing time was lost to frost and frozen turf during the week, forcing today's finish.
Wilson completed a 68 in the third round Sunday and was 2 under through 12 holes in the final round.
Gainey was 1 over in the final round after shooting a 68 in the third round to take a one-stroke lead over Wilson.
Thomas Bjorn of Denmark won the Qatar Masters, shooting a bogey-free 3-under 69 to beat Alvaro Quiros of Spain by four shots. Bjorn, the third-round leader, finished at 14-under 279 for his first win since the Estoril Open in Portugal last year. World No. 2 Martin Kaymer shot a 1-under 71 to tie for 28th. He needed to finish at least second to overtake Lee Westwood for the top ranking.
Taiwan's Yani Tseng successfully defended her Women's Australian Open title, shooting a final-round 2-under 71 in Melbourne to win by seven strokes. Tseng completed four rounds of the par-73 Commonwealth Golf Club course in 16-under 276.


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Throughout the summer, when someone asked when I was free, it almost became my mantra to respond with, "This month is crazy, but next is wide open!" Invariably, the next month, I'd be saying the exact some thing.
And now? I've been grateful for the busyness of my life, the wonderful people who want to spend time with me, the tasks that require my attention. But one of the leaders at my church gently reminded me a couple weeks ago that I'm allowed to say no to things, that it's better to say no than to burn out.
Which is why, two weeks ago, I entered an event into my calendar for this Saturday, even though no one had asked me to do anything, even though I had no meetings, and no coffee dates lined up. I scheduled myself a 'Me' Day, a day in which I answer to no one but myself, a day in which I do what I want to do, a day to put my feet up, read a book, have a cup of tea, take an afternoon nap, paint an Ikea dresser, bake something tasty, and go to bed early.
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I'm going to sleep in, likely until around 8:00 or so.
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I might paint, whether it be a canvas or the previously-mentioned Ikea dresser.
I might watch a silly chick flick.
I will enjoy a quiet, relaxed day to myself.
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Oil and gas services exchange traded funds have soared 30% or more the past three months and a recent bullish note from Goldman Sachs is helping to drive the rally. Companies are simply flush with cash, which is raising prospects for higher dividend payouts.
"Following four quarters of sequential declines in North American drilling activity and oil service profitability, January is marking a turnaround in activity," Goldman's equity analysts wrote in a report. "Revenues/margins for North American service companies either bottomed in fourth-quarter 2012 or are expected to bottom in first-quarter 2013, marking a major inflection for the group."
Some of the major oil and gas services and equipment ETFs reached 52-week highs last Thursday after the bullish report was released by Goldman Sachs, reports Trang Ho for Investor's Business Daily. The following ETFs ticked up about 3% each: PowerShares Dyanmic Oil and Gas Service ETF (NYSE:PXJ), Market Vectors Oil Services (NYSEARCA:OIH) and the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Oil Equipment Index (NYSEARCA:IEZ).
Furthermore, the SPDR Energy Select Sector (NYSEARCA:XLE) is just a hair off its 2011 high of $80.90 a share. A period of outperformance potential is expected after the downtrend seen at the start of 2013, reports Tarquin Coe for Investors Intelligence. XLE has gained about 15% over the past three months.
J.C. Parets at All Star Charts notes that energy ETFs are breaking out after lagging the broader market for two years.
Heavy cash flows reported at some major oil and gas service companies equal share buybacks and the possibility of higher dividend payouts. Rising horizontal rig counts are a potential plus, with about 3% more counted now than in the fourth quarter. Leveraged buyouts, asset restructuring, and expansion of margin are all possible catalysts for further growth, due to the increased cash flow.
Companies of this nature are sensitive to the capital spending cycle of this industry because most of the new capital is derived from companies drilling new wells. This area of the oil market is highly cyclical and sensitive to the supply and demand relationship, similar to other commodities, reports John Gabriel for Morningstar.
The Wall Street Journal reports that some energy companies are paying fat dividend yields despite low growth prospects.
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Tisha Guerrero contributed to this article.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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The adult social care sector Social care is the term given to a wide range of care and support for people with assessed need. Social care services are administered through local authorities working with voluntary, private and independent social care organisations. Councils may also provide services themselves or commission others to do so. In social care this framework provides a suitable way to meet the development and qualification needs of a variety of roles and job titles, including care workers, community, support and outreach workers, personal assistance, domiciliary care workers, supervisors and senior care workers.The apprenticeship framework is inclusive of emerging roles in adult social care. As well as being suitable for existing staff, this framework gives apprentices extensive opportunities to gain employment in the social care sector as well as in some health care roles.
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This is the sole apprenticeship framework for people employed in delivering adult social care in England.This framework is also suitable for some workers in the health sector. This framework covers the health and social care sectors which include:The National Health Service, Private Providers, Local Authorities and voluntary Organisations.
The framework contributes towards addressing the skills gaps identified in State of the Adult Social Care Workforce 2010. In social care 27 roles have been identified to undertake the variety of tasks needed to meet the requirements, needs and choices of people who use social care services. The Health and Social Care Act 2008 sets the regulatory framework for staff working in social care and provides the base for minimum qualification requirements.
On completion of the apprenticeship the apprentice must be able to undertake the full range of duties, in the range of circumstances appropriate to the job, confidently and competently to the standard set by the industry.
What is included in this Apprenticeship?
All apprenticeships work towards a framework with a specified number of credits.The framework includes a balance of content in technical, business and interpersonal areas designed to ensure apprentices have an appropriate set of skills to operate within the sector, which includes competence and knowledge qualifications.Total minimum credit value for this pathway is: 79: 46 for competence, 20 for knowledge based, 10 for Functional Skills maths and English, 3 for ERR.
Pearson Edexcel Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for England (QCF) – 46 credits Competence Element
Competence-based qualifications are work-based qualifications that give learners the opportunity to develop and demonstrate their competence in the area of work or job role to which the qualification relates.They are outcomes-based with no fixed learning programme - allowing flexible delivery that meets the individual learner's needs.They are suitable for those in employment so that they are able to demonstrate the competencies that are required for work.
Most learners will work towards their qualification in the workplace or in settings that replicate the working environment as specified in the assessment requirements/strategy for the sector. It gives learners the opportunity to:
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- Develop technical skills and knowledge and understanding related to the specified job roles in the Health and Social Care sector
- Have existing skills recognised
- Develop their own personal growth and engagement in learning
Pearson Edexcel Certificate in Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care (QCF) – 20 credits the knowledge element
This qualification providers the learners with the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to prepare for employment. They also provide career development opportunities for those already in work.The aim is to introduce knowledge around the following areas relating to working in adult social care:
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- Personal development
- Role of the social care worker
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Apprentices must complete or have completed English and mathematics at Level 1 and ICT at Level 2 or equivalent in order to successfully complete the Apprenticeship and each of these this will carry the five credit values . If they do not have these qualifications, they can be delivered as part of the apprenticeship framework.
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An apprenticeship programme is designed to be a work-based programme whereby instructor-led learning can be immediately applied by apprentices in a real work context. The mandatory units must be assessed in the workplace, and wherever possible, it is recommended that optional units should also be assessed in this context or through on line testing. CableCom tutor assessors will carry out a minimum of 4 on-site assessments at the work place.
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World Premiere, Washington State History Museum, September 2006
Donors, Foss family members, and other guests were treated to refreshments and live music by Hale Bill & The Bopps before the screening of Finding Thea at a special reception hosted by Foss Waterway Seaport home to Working Waterfront Maritime Museum. Local historian Michael Sullivan shared stories on the naming of the waterway and Foss Waterway Seaport's Director Tom Cashman presented roses to the two directors, Nancy and Lucy, before the discussion with the filmmakers, which included Cinematographer / Editor Don Sellers.
Port Townsend Film Festival
The official public premiere of Finding Thea took place on September 16 at the seventh annual Port Townsend Film Festival. The Rose Theatre filled to capacity with many more viewers hoping to attend the screening. Tugboat Annie screened after the documentary as an opportunity to compare and contrast reality and legend. Five films from PTFF traveled to the historic Lynwood Theatre on Bainbridge Island the following week, where another 160 viewers enjoyed the double bill.
Tacoma Film Festival, October 2006
It was an exciting week for Finding Thea's public debut in her hometown of Tacoma, Washington. Between October 6 and 12, Tacoma's inaugural film festival based at The Grand Cinema drew huge crowds and more than 50 films from around the world. Finding Thea screened FOUR times to sold–out crowds and won the "Grandie" for Best Local Film. See article in The News Tribune
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Artist: Sloan
Genre: Power Pop
Title: Twice Removed
Label: Geffen
Format: CD
Musicians: Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland, Jay Ferguson
Andrew Scott
Sloan is a Toronto-based rock/power pop quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Throughout their over twenty-five-year career, Sloan has released 11 LPs, two EPs, a live album, a Greatest hits album and more than thirty singles. The band is known for their sharing of songwriting from each member of the group and their unaltered line-up throughout their career. All four members of Sloan write their own songs, and when they play live they switch instruments accordingly. Usually the band performs as follows: Murphy is on lead vocals and plays bass, Pentland is also on lead vocals and plays lead guitar, Ferguson plays rhythm guitar, and Scott plays drums. The most notable exception is when Scott picks up the guitar to play his songs; Ferguson and Murphy switch to bass and drums, respectively. Prior to 2006's Never Hear the End of It, Ferguson and Scott would also play electric piano on songs that called for it; since joining in 2006 multi-instrumentalist Gregory Macdonald has handled all keyboard duties live and in the studio. While Murphy has written more of the band's songs than any of the other members, Pentland is nonetheless responsible for having written many of Sloan's most recognizable hits. Perhaps more noteworthy, however, is the fact that every member of the group has contributed at least two songs per album, with only the following exceptions:
The band was formed in 1991 when Chris Murphy and Andrew Scott met at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax; Patrick Pentland and Jay Ferguson joined soon after. The band is named after the nickname of their friend, Jason Larsen. Larsen was originally called Slow One by his French-speaking boss which, with the French accent, sounded more like "Sloan". The original agreement was that they could name the band after Larsen as long as he was on the cover of their first album. As a result, it is Larsen who appears on the cover of the Peppermint EP, which was released on the band's own label, Murderecords.
Official website: http://sloanmusic.com/
Twice Removed is the second album by Canadian rock band Sloan, released on Geffen Records in 1994. The album took seven weeks and cost $120,000 to record. It is considered to be one of the band's best albums, as well as one of the greatest Canadian albums of all time. More melodic than their previous album, Smeared, Geffen gave the record little promotion because it defied the label's commercially dominant grunge rock style of the time. Furthermore, the band was dropped from Geffen after Twice Removed's release. After the band's trouble with the label, they took time off from touring and writing, and were rumoured to have broken up. Inside are hand-drawn pictures of a drum kit and two men. Other images include a lady talking on the phone, a motorbike, and two dogs. On the back of the liner notes are drawings of cars and a binder with the title "Sloan" on it. On the back of the case, a snare drum with all the tracks' names on Twice Removed engraved into its side is displayed.
Overall the album has good lyrics in all the songs and is well done power pop. There is a vinyl version, but I don't know if it is good or not as the provenance is not known. It is also difficult to find.
1. "Penpals"– This is a great song and I can relate to it since I too have had and do have a few friends from around the world. The idea and lyrics came from when the band signed to Geffen and were looking through broken english fan letters to Kurt Cobain.
2. "I Hate My Generation"- This is a quintessential power pop song
3. "People of the Sky"- This song starts by sounding like it was recorded on a little portable tape recorder from the 70s on purpose, then it goes into sounding like the style of bands such as The Association. A really good job done on this one.
4. "Coax Me"– Solid power pop
5. "Bells On"– This is just an ok song.
6. "Loosens"- One of my least favorite tracks as the vocals are not that good, but the music is not bad.
7. "Worried Now"– This is a solid power pop song with a similar feel of bands like The Posies
8. "Shame Shame"– This is one of my favorite tracks on the album. It is strong power pop and reminds me of what it might sound like if The Doors and Red Kross had a power pop kid, this is what it would sound like.
9. "Deeper Than Beauty"- This song is not one of my favorites either as it is similar to track six
10. "Snowsuit Sound"- Well, this song is interesting, if nothing else with the fuzz bass, hand clap and straight beat snare drum.
11. "Before I Do" – This song clocks in at around 7 minutes. It starts as a poorly done ballad in my opinion with a microphone effect on the vocals. About one and half minutes in it starts to show signs of slight improvement, but never quite reaches that. This pattern continues through the song which also has terrible vocals in my opinion.
12. "I Can Feel It"– This last song has a regular pop feel and is a good song with some female backing vocals.


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- Golden Goddess Designs said...
very pretty card! I feel ya about the stamping versus die cutting. I feel like I haven't stamped in a while. I also have and acquired some new Great Impressions stamps that are very old. I need to pull them out! Have a great day!
- February 6, 2017 at 10:41 AM
- Sherrie K. said...
Wow! What a GORGEOUS card! The color scheme is beautiful~great design!
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- February 6, 2017 at 7:16 PM
- Diane said...
Beautifully created and yes it is good to see you using your stamps, so very pretty Dar!
- February 7, 2017 at 6:10 AM
- Donna Phelan said...
Oh you definitely should stamp more, this is fabulous! Your colors are amazing, I really love them! The split background is wonderful, perfect stamp choices. I really....like REALLY love this! And of course we watched that game! OMG!!! You couldn't have written a more perfect (and unbelievable) script! And to be honest I never lost hope, even as I was biting my nails through the 1st three quarters--along with the rest of New England. NEVER ever give up.....on anything! xo~
- February 7, 2017 at 7:31 AM
- Leslie Miller said...
Wow! All that with stamps... way to go, Darlene, and sooo pretty! I'm sure I still have some Great Impressions stamps. This is awesome! We don't watch football, but I heard about the game and it sounds amazing. I know how exciting it can be to a sports fan as I remember when our son was playing sports in school. I screamed myself silly!
- February 7, 2017 at 1:59 PM
- Conniecrafter said...
Just love what you have done with these stamps and they work beautifully together, like the faux stitching, great design for the sketch!
- February 7, 2017 at 10:45 PM
- glendabrooks.blogspot.com said...
Oh my, this is so beautiful! You are quite the stamper!
- February 8, 2017 at 5:12 AM
- CHRISTINA HOR said...
Oh the design of this card is beautiful Darlene! Really like how you lay out your stamp. Great use of it! I've asked me what part of Ohio, I'm in Columbus area. So we're just about 2 hours away from each other :) Take care.
- February 8, 2017 at 11:55 PM
- Ruza Rebel said...
Darlene your card is absolutely stunning! I absolutely loved how you used the stamps to create your focal point and background! Awesome job on the sketch! 5:58 PM
Thank you for joining our Great Impressions Sketch Challenge this month.
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The side effects that we see associated with daratumumab tend to be fatigue and some blood count drops. I think we're using it in combination with other therapies, so that plays a role as well. Education for our patient is very important to let them know that they might experience some flu-like symptoms over the next few days. They're definitely more tired, especially as they're adjusting to the medication. Otherwise, it has been very well tolerated. Our patients are really disappointed when they have to come off of infusion with daratumumab.
The other side effects that we typically see are some of those GI toxicities, like nausea and diarrhea, which are well managed with antidiarrheals or anti-emetics, as needed, for patients. I think it's important just to let them know to have these expectations, that they're going to have some of these side effects with that. Count check is very important, especially early on in therapy, to make sure that they're not becoming neutropenic and to add on prophylactic antibiotics as needed.
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The primary side effects that we see from a drug like elotuzumab would be fatigue. Absolutely there is fatigue from everything we give, and sometimes fatigue can be very difficult, too, and one of the hardest things that nurses have to deal with in any cancer therapy. So, fatigue is a big one. We want to manage that with making sure the patients, first of all, are not anemic or it's not an underlying cause that we can treat. We talk about time management, energy management, having an energy bank, and when to draw out of that bank and when to put into that bank.
Another side effect that we might see is neutropenia and thrombocytopenia. We'll be monitoring blood counts throughout their therapy and managing that appropriately. Sometimes side effects come from the backbone of therapy, as well from the drugs that we are using in addition to our monoclonal antibodies, so those are managed according to whatever drug that we're giving per their prescribing information. We might see diarrhea or mild GI side effects. Those are usually not really bad with these therapies though.
I find that the toxicities that were reported in the clinical trials have been very consistent with what I see in my patient population, and perhaps even better. Some of our patients have commented that the therapy that they're receiving with the monoclonal antibodies is like a breath of fresh air compared to some of the previous therapies that they've had.
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Besides the side effect profiles that every clinician should be readily able to manage, there are other warnings and precautions that should be noted for patients receiving daratumumab therapy. One of these that's very important is the interference of serological testing, which is blood testing. Daratumumab binds to CD38, which is on red cells, and this may alter blood typing. So, it's very important, for prior to the first dose of daratumumab, that every patient should have blood typing done. And also, blood banks need to be aware that a patient is receiving daratumumab or CD38 monoclonal antibody because what happens is that the CD38 that's on the red cells can be interfered with and may result in a positive indirect Coombs test.
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Anti-American protesters in Amman, Jordan on Friday (Al-Monitor)
Last week, we reported that theU.S. announced the formal deployment of 200 troops to Jordan. Thetroops will be "ready for military action" if President Barack Obamawere to order it. On Friday, Jordanians rallied against thedeployment of the U.S. forces in Jordan. Demonstrators alsoburned a mock American flag. At the end of the demonstration, theygathered in a circle and danced, chanting about Ali Baba and the fortythieves. Al-Monitor
Jordan's King Abdullah and Obama meet to discuss Syria
The question of the use of chemical weapons by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad continued to draw worldwide attention onFriday. President Barack Obama met with Jordan's King Abdullah II inthe White House and said that "a line has been crossed" in Syria.
He said, "To use weapons of mass destruction on civilian populationscrosses another line in terms of international norms andlaws… That's going to be a game changer." However, he declinedto intervene militarily until a "vigorous investigation" had beencompleted to find more "direct evidence."
However, Debka, which sometimes gets things wrong, is quoting itsmilitary intelligence sources as saying that the purpose of Obama'smeeting with Abdullah is to firm up an agreement for the U.S. todeploy a 20,000 troop "surge" into Jordan. The 200 troops announcedlast week are to lay the groundwork for the main body to take upquarters in the King Hussein Air Base Mafraq, near the borders of Iraqand Syria.
The purpose of the "surge" is to protect Jordan's royalfamily both from jihadists from Syria and from an "Arab Spring" typerevolt — a step that the Obama administration did not take withTunisia, Libya, Egypt, or Yemen. The "surge" will be heavilycoordinated with Israeli forces, and buffer zones will be set up onSyria's borders to prevent attacks on both Jordan and Israel.
ThisShia militias from Iraq and Hizbollah are aiding the al-Assad regimeforces and are threatening to defeat the opposition rebels. The Hill and Debka
Sunni Jihadists pour into Syria
With thousands of fighters from Iran-backed Shia militias arriving inSyria to support al-Assad's regime, it's not surprising that thousandsof Sunni jihadists are also arriving in Syria to fight the Shiamilitias. In particular, disaffected Muslims from Germany andelsewhere in Europe have been heading for Syria to receive training inweapons and terrorist techniques. German analysts are concerned thatthese fighters are gaining experience in Syria, making contacts,and will return to Germany and conduct terrorist attacks there.Spiegel
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Jordan, King Abdullah II, Syria,Bashar al-Assad
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Of course 60,000 psi is high, although many of us think it is not Danger High. The barrel does not have any problems at these pressures. The .284 specs are 63,000 psi and that includes mountain barrels that have the same chamber dia as does the 450b and then gets smaller than the 450b out to the muzzle. Also consider the 460 S&W's pressures which are in the 60,000 arena. Which do you think is more durable the S&W or an AR? However, having said all this, I would not try to load for 60,000, until you become much more experienced. The only real consideration is bolt thrust. The .223 psi. spec. is for 52,000 psi and if one were to load the 450b for this spec, the bolt thrust will be way lower than the .223's, as per the copper crusher studies as sited by Wayne State University and re-quoted in the gun rags. These were studies done with a special copper crusher placed on the bolt face and then firing the cartridges, so as to compare the 223 to the 45Pro. This was done after they realized that the standard bolt thrust formulas did not apply. I suppose they had to re-learn the principal that bottle necked cartridges have much more thrust. So, maybe this will be over simplified, but in the example of the 450b, not any other AR cartridges, if you have enough wall thickness in the chamber and have a straight case, one can indeed pump up the pressures and stay in the safety margins. That's the trick, safety margins. The arm chair warriors will do all the nay-saying and because they cannot do it, then neither can you, but I tell you this, it takes guys like you, with the guts, to find out that there are paradigms' out here and were all along, that are being broken and will yet be broken.
PS. Try sizing the Hornady 350gr. 458 bullet to 452. You are only shrinking them down .003″ per side (less than half the size of a human hair) and doing this with other similar bullets has not shown jacket problems in flesh. I don't think this will work with copper/brass solids; of course this trick is only if you just have to have heavy bullets and want to fully realize the full potential of the 450b. Good luck.


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Dayton's Rip Rap Roadhouse delivers biker and family fun
By Paula Johnson
Photo: Broasted Wings at Dayton's Rip Rap Roadhouse; photos: Paula Johnson
For the drive out to Rip Rap Roadhouse, I put together a playlist to prep for the experience—my first visit to a biker bar(!). Selections included Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild," "The Weight" by The Band, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" from Procol Harum, and, of course, Joe Cocker's "With A Little Help From My Friends." The fact that I've never actually been on a bike doesn't mean I don't admire the style, so I donned my leather biker boots and leather jacket in an attempt to maybe fool the regulars. There wasn't time to watch "Easy Rider" since I was meeting Jurgen Durstler, my frequent dining buddy, early on a Monday night. Turns out I really didn't need to have gone to all that trouble—Rip Rap Roadhouse was a real biker bar back when it was called Jackass Flats. The space was purchased by owner Jason Wadzinski and extensively remodeled to turn it into a family-friendly bar and restaurant with a bike theme.
Open since the spring of last year, the historic structure built in 1853 underwent massive changes to morph into what it is now. Though alterations were made, everything was done with an eye toward preserving the integrity of the original building: there's a significantly expanded kitchen, plus a bar area seating 70, and a separate dining room accommodating 84. (Oh, and there's parking. Acres of it. And a heck of a lot of bikes can be found outside on the weekly Wednesday Bike Night. Riders are encouraged to display their rides and meet other fans of the road.) Hand hewn wood posts, antique light fixtures, vintage Coca-Cola and Pepsi posters, and some motorcycle items (including a beautiful antique Indian) make for a pleasant thematic atmosphere. Plus, a clean, well-appointed ladies' room. Yep, clean. My expectations for what a bike joint would look like were shattered.
Jurgen and I settled in to a bar table and were ready to see if we would be as surprised by the food as we were by the space. Jurgen is a fan of a good Old Fashioned ($6), and wanted to see if this bar could make one. A standard old-school cocktail to be sure, it was just fine according to JD (despite our server telling us they had to look up how to make it). Rip Rap is definitely a haven for the beer lover with a fairly extensive tap wall.
Smoke (or Broast) 'Em if You've Got 'Em
For appetizers, our capable and friendly server, Angie, steered us to one of the things Rip Rap is known for: Wings. Rip Rap does them two ways: Applewood Smoked, which they do in house, and Broasted (each $5.75). I've written before about the joys of broasting, a 1970s technology, which is sort of a cross between deep frying and pressure cooking, resulting in a great crunch and juicy meat. If I see broasted items on a menu I cannot be persuaded to look elsewhere—and these wings proved my obsession correct. The others were a close second, with a great smoky flavor. Another thing we loved is that these wings were not the teeny drumette and wing sections, but the whole big meaty wing together. As for the sauces, Rip Rap offers five. We ordered Parmesan Garlic and Sweet Thai Chili and found both to be good. Angie suggested we try the house-made BBQ, the standout of the sauces we sampled. Not overly sweet, it had a great depth of flavor and tanginess. "Now this is some barbecue sauce," Jurgen exclaimed. The menu also offers ribs, something we wished we had chosen after sampling the sauce.
I Double Dog Dare You
The menu covers a lot of bar standards like chili fries, fried pickles, and Rip Rap's version of potato skins, which they call Hog Wheels. There are also burgers and sandwiches, plus broasted chicken dinners. Jurgen chose Stogey's Meat Loaf Sandwich ($6, dinner $7). What caught my eye as I looked at the sandwich selection were two of my favorite words—Chili Dog. The Roadhouse Cornbread Chili Dog was described as an extra long dog with award winning Joe's Smokin' Roadhouse Chili and topped with cheese ($6) in a small loaf of corn bread. My excitement over a chili dog nestled in corn bread was tempered upon presentation, however. The corn bread was of the cakey and sweet variety. I would have preferred a more textured, savory corn bread with the chili, as it was on the sweet side as well (and extremely cinnamony). Additionally, the ratio of meat to bread was way off. I would love to see them use a plumper dog, or perhaps add a second one. I ordered a side of sauerkraut and happily discovered Rip Rap doesn't just open a can. Robust and flavorful, with caraway seeds and a really nice tartness and crunch, it made a great counterpoint when eaten along with the hotdog and chili.
Bread was also an issue with Jurgen's meatloaf. We both felt a crustier, more substantial roll would really enhance what could be a really good sandwich. Jurgen also noted that the taste of the meatloaf wasn't exactly fresh—his sense was that it might have picked up refrigerator flavors. I would be willing to try the meatloaf again, thinking that this might have been the case. On the side were tasty cheesy potatoes and a cup of gumbo that, while chunky and peppery, seemed a little watery and lacking of other flavor notes to balance the pepper. All in all a worthy effort, with enough highlights to make Rip Rap a place to recommend for a casual, affordable meal in an interesting space.
Even though Rip Rap Roadhouse didn't fit my vision of a typical biker bar, I still played my soundtrack on the way home as I reflected on the experience—family and biker friendly, with some tasty highlights. I rolled down my window to get the wind in my face as I sang along with The Band. It's probably the closest I will get to that kind of hog.
Rip Rap Roadhouse is located at 6024 Rip Rap Rd. in Dayton. For more information, please call 937.236.4329 or visit RipRapRoadhouse.com.


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Self Help Tips That Are Sure To Work
Pursuing your personal development may be a great experience that helps you feel more in control of your own life. To get started on all the hard work you need to reach your goals, it is helpful to find some tips to keep your energy high. Read on for some such ideas to help you on your way.
Many times, stress is the thing that robs people of happiness. Stress causes both physical and mental damage that increases in severity the longer we experience it. Eliminating stress is essential for thinking clearly and achieving goals. Each day, take time to quiet your mind and relax. Eventually, you will learn to look forward to this peaceful time every day.
Humility is a very important trait to have when working on your personal development. Realizing how tiny you are in the grand scheme of things will help you to admit your ignorance. Once you have fully accepted this realization, you'll seek to better yourself by learning and understanding as much as you can about the vast world in which you live.
Building a better you starts with building leadership tendencies. While there are multiple ways to define leadership, most people regard it as influence. Examine how far you have grown as a leader. Are there events that have had major impacts on your life? What changes did those events bring forth in you? What do you feel makes you a good team player? When you examine these thoughts, you will become more of a team player and leader.
Know which values and characteristics are important to you before designing a program for personal development. It wouldn't make sense to work on areas in your life that contradict your values. Focus on positive aspects to improve. These aspects should mesh with your values. This allows you to implement personal and professional changes that will last forever.
Determine the things that you value so that you can better come up with an excellent personal development strategy for your needs. It doesn't make any sense to focus on things that your value set does not include. Try and improve areas that coincide with your values. By doing so, you can make changes in your professional and personal life that will stick with you.
Establish a rainy day fund. Too often, unexpected expenses are put on credit cards, which only adds interest to the debt and increases your burden. If you save a couple of dollars each week, before long you will have an emergency fund. This money can help out in the short and long term because debt continues decreasing.
In your personal development journey, there is one thing that you must do. You must live life to the fullest, and avoid being a spectator who watches the world go by. You can always improve yourself as long as you have made the decision to live instead of simply observe.
Head to a movie with your best friend if anxiety is a problem in your life. This is a good way to push yourself out of your comfort zone. You can be social with your friend before and after the movie and will have to be around strangers, but you won't have to be overly social and can recharge during the movie. This also allows you to be around a large group of people in a stress-free environment.
Eliminate any disorganization in your life. The process of cleaning up and organizing provides a massive boost to your self-esteem. Furthermore, you will feel accomplished after you finish this undertaking. Disorganization is a big stress inducer, so organization will help with that, too. Having everything organized and in place can really calm you down.
Demonstrating selfless behavior shows remarkable progress in any personal development program. It might be hard at first, but do your best to make sacrifices and help others. Making sacrifices for others can help you to transcend feelings of selfishness and jealousy.
Figure out what you want your life to be and do what it takes to accomplish it. If you spend all your time dreaming about what you want to happen in your life, yet do little to create that life, that life will never happen. It is time to take action toward realizing your dreams.
Make an honest effort to become more organized. Getting organized is an accomplishment, and continually staying organized boosts your confidence. The stress of living in disorganization will also disappear. Organizing your environment can be a calming and centralizing influence.
A fundamental basic of personal development includes improvements to your health. When you are healthy, you feel better and have more energy. A healthy body also means that your mind will be sharper, and you may not have to spend as much money on heath care. Make it your goal to improve your health.
Remove the disorder and chaos from your life. The process of cleaning up and organizing provides a massive boost to your self-esteem. Furthermore, you will feel accomplished after you finish this undertaking. Disorganization is a big stress inducer, so organization will help with that, too. Organizing your environment can be a calming and centralizing influence.
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Salesforce CRM Software Implementation
Salesforce, widely regarded as the best CRM Solution in the world, is a cloud-based software solution helping organizations generate leads faster and closing them faster, connect with customers across different platforms and social media, predict customer behaviour based on past history, offer personalized experiences and boost customer satisfaction, monitor and manage business through a mobile device.
Salesforce consulting:
- Identifying the Salesforce CRM vision for the organisation
- Establishing a Salesforce implementation roadmap
- Developing project success metrics
- Best practices for processes, design, architecture strategy and adoption
- Undertake a readiness assessment for determining the process maturity
- Change management assistance and user training
- Roll-out and round the clock support
- Custom solution development based on Force.com platform
Salesforce Implementation services include:
Understanding existing business process, and devise the Salesforce needs of the organization
To leverage multi-channel relationships for lead generation and staying connected to every client with relevant information anywhere with Opportunity Management, Lead Management, Territory Management, Wave App for Sales, Inside Sales Console and Partner Management.
For customer service and case management through omni-channel presence and routing with LiveAgent, Live Message, Communities and Social Customer Service.
Choosing individual models or bundling together modules from sales and marketing with features like Contact Management, Sales Data and Intelligence, Lead Management, Reports and Dashboards
Custom development when required for developing custom features for standard Salesforce applications to realize its fullest potential for your organization needs.
Data migration services identifying data needs – analysis, cleansing, mapping, updating, standardization and validation and data migration.
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Business benefits for Salesforce Implementation:
NetSuite, Microsoft dynamics and other customer-focused platforms can be integrated with Salesforce to leverage up-to-date customer usage of their products and services.
It is possible to maintain present and past order subscriptions and also order the required products with precision. This is possible by integrating Salesforce with your SAP ERP.
Several traditional brick and mortar companies have launched an e-commerce site. By integrating Salesforce companies can witness a steady response for online sales revenue.
Integration between Salesforce, e-commerce solutions, third–party logistics and other business critical systems, has enabled customers to easily return a product or get service.
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Getting Around in Bremen
- Public transport in Bremen:
Public transport in Bremen is convenient, safe, and clean. Tickets for trams are normally bought inside the car at ticket machines. There are two kinds of such ticket machines inside a tram: one is for electronic travel cards and one is for cash. Only the latter is relevant for you. Some stations have ticket machines where you can buy tickets before you enter the tram (e.g., at the airport). In buses, you buy the ticket from the driver. One ticket in the Bremen city area costs 2,60 EUR. It is valid for rides in all buses, trams, and trains within Bremen towards your destination for at most three hours. You can change your means of public transportation arbitrarily with the same ticket as long as you stay within the three-hour limit towards your destination (you cannot travel back).
Unfortunately, it is very impractical for international guests to get a 7-day transport pass. You would need to fill in a German form and send it via regular mail. You can buy stocks of tickets (stocks of four - "4er-Ticket" for 9.40 EUR - or ten - "10er-Ticket" for 23.50 EUR - at a time) at the BSAG service centers at the stations "Domsheide" or "Hauptbahnhof (main station)". Day tickets (German: Tagesticket) can be purchased at the ticket machines within trams or at the bus driver. We will provide tickets on Sunday for the transport from the conference site to the SCAM and VISSOFT dinners and on Wednesday from the conference site to the guided ICSME tours in downtown.
A map of the different lines can be found here. An even more detailed map can be found here. An interactive web version of the map is here.
If you are traveling late on a line marked by N (for night, German: Nacht), you need to pay an extra charge of 1 EUR. The marking N is the decisive factor, not the time; but generally after 11 pm, you should expect buses and trams marked by N. The lines operating at night, can be found here. More information about public transport can be found here.
- Arrival at the airport: The airport (German: Flughafen) at Bremen is very close to the city. To get to your hotel, you can simply use a tram line 6 towards "Universität". It stops at various places in downtown including the main station. The ride from the airport to downtown takes only 15 minutes. The tram stations is immediately in front of the airport exit. The route and stops of tram line 6 can be found here. The tram runs very frequently. The schedule can be found here. Alternatively, you could take a taxi from the airport to downtown for about 20 EUR.
- Arrival at the main station: When you leave the main station towards the city center (the station has two main exits), you will find the tram and bus station in front of the building. If you chose to take a taxi, you can find taxis at both exits.
- Getting to the conference site: The hotels for which we had reservations, are mostly along tram line 6. Line 6 takes you directly to the university where the conference takes place. Take line 6 towards "Universität" and exit at the stop "Universität/Zentralbereich"). Alternatively, you may use bus lines 22, 21, 28, or 31, which all stop at this station, too. Another option is bus lines 630 and 670 using the "Universität/NW1", stop at "Universität/NW1", which is at the border of the campus. The conference site can be reached from there within a 5-minute walk. A larger map of the campus can be found here. A somewhat more detailed map can be found here.
- From bus/tram station "Universität/Zentralbereich" to the registration: This map shows you the path from the station to GW2, where the registration is located. When you leave the bus or tram at station "Universität/Zentralbereich", you will be in front of the Glashalle, a building with a very large glass front. Walk to the end of that building in North direction (if you came from downtown, it is the direction in which the bus/tram continues). The direction is indicated here. Walk underneath the pedestrian overpass (called Boulevard) and turn right to the iron staircase. Climb the staircase to reach the Boulevard. Follow the Boulevard toward the direction in which you leave the staircase (straight on) until the end of the Boulevard where you hit the grey wall of concrete of a lecture building (HS 1010/1020). Then turn right and walk to the entrance of building GW2. The registration desk is located directly in the lobby of GW2.


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|Everything HP200LX: Knowledge, Products, Service
Who Needs Those !%#*&@ Characters?For most people the HP 95LX has an adequate collection of characters in addition to the alphabet and numbers. The yellow shifted characters above the second row of keys and on the numeric keypad provide a wide variety of additional characters, including ` ~ ! # $ | \ [ ] { } ; : ' " < > ? ^ and %.
But there are less common special characters that occasionally come in handy: the numbers 1/2, 1/4, and 3/4 or ; the plus-over-minus or cents sign; the copyright, registered trademark symbols, for example. If you do business in different countries, you'll occasionally need to use an , , or . Fortunately these and other special characters are easy to produce on your HP 95LX.
Generate special characters on your HP 95LX by pressing <CHAR> and any of the keys you see shown in Figure #1 or by holding <ALT> down and entering a 3-digit character code from the Character Code Set in Figure #2.
The only qualifying statement here is that your printer or the software on the PC to which you will transfer a 95LX-created file also must be able to generate special characters. Otherwise, you'll get strange looking characters (or nothing) in place of where you wanted the special characters.
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OLD SAYBROOK — Growing up on a Massachusetts farm during lean times, Frank Burton swore the family business wasn't for him.
He headed south to Connecticut and started his own building company instead. Then fate caught up with him. One of the historic Hart houses on Old Boston Post Road in Saybrook caught fire, and Burton's company did the repair work.


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Four point oh!
Exciting news!!
That 4.0 from last session at DeVry? Still there!!
I was a bit worried.. why you ask? I had the worst professor EVER. I mean this is only my second session at DeVry but this guy was like halfway there but kind of not really. As a result he never posted in discussion threads, never provided feedback on homework and never answered questions in a timely manner. Well by week seven of eight I had pretty much had it with this dude. I was still missing about half a dozen grades in the gradebook. Luckily I was not the only one getting fed up with homeboy over there. There were tons of e-mails going back and forth between classmates as everyone was scrambling and freaking out and discussing what to do. Well anyway... I completed my final test and then basically washed my hands of it all..
Until I got one of those grades that was missing back. He has taken 10 points off of a 60 point assignment and he told me four things when providing me with feedback.. "sketchy, ill developed and lacking color... more like a highly developed thumbnail." Seriously dude? I followed the directions word for word. Did what I was supposed to do and now you are just going to take random points off? So I may or may not have fired back and said that it would have been nice if he would have helped and then suggested that he reconsider next session considering how this one went.
Ooopss... in retrospect, probably not the smartest move.
So then I spent 3 full days stressing about what could make or break my session. And regretting posting so hastily (ever have one of those moments?) Thank goodness he decided to not be a total prick and passed me with an A.
Carry on 4.0.. carry on.
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Congrats on the 4.0!! That's impressive!!ReplyDelete
Great job girl! You will have professors, customers, and managers like that throughout your life. The best advice I can give is type the email and save it as a draft and let it sit for an hour or overnight. I have found most times after reflection I modify it drastically before hitting send or don't send it at all. ;-)ReplyDelete
Thanks Jenn!ReplyDelete
Yeah I should have but I was just so heated.. oh well. I passed, so I'm lucky. =) Thanks Dad!
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