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4 bedroom town house for sale
Spain - Alozaina, Málaga, Andalusia
like this property?Call: 03339 395983
Key features:
- Good Quality New Build
- Loads of space
- Open views
Full description:
. Spacious Property
. Studio Apartment
. Garage
. Centre of pretty Artesanal Village
This spacious town house in the centre of Alozaina is ready to move in. It is very rare to find such a town house, spacious, light and airy, loads of outdoor space, garage AND a studio apartment.
Entering into the hallway, downstairs you find two bedrooms with the family bathroom. The Master Bedroom is extremely spacious and windows to two aspects. The first floor is the living accommodation with open plan kitchen lounge/diner. This room feels light and airy with Juliet Balcony to front of the lounge and direct access to an elevated terrace from the kitchen with lovely open views. The utility room is also located on this level.
From the breakfast terrace the views are far reaching, with Malaga Bay in the distance. A staircase leads to the third bedrooms (currently used as an artist studio). This again has a spacious terrace with fantastic open views.
Accessed by a separate entrance is the studio apartment. The owners have rented this out occasionally but have not been pro-active, it would be possible to achieve a rental income from this holiday accommodation. There is also a 20m2 garage and parking to front of the garage.
Located along the A366 Málaga to Ronda road, Alozaina is on of the eight ¨pueblos blancos¨ guarding the Sierra de las Nieves (Natural Park). Charming whitewashed houses adorned with potted plants and an imposing church mark the pretty town, which was once recognized as one of the most beautiful villages in Spain. Many old architectural features are still shown this day, like the big Moorish archway, which leads you into the village. The mountains and natural scenery of the great outdoors, provide a tranquil and relaxing environment. An ideal spot for a rural getaway or a family home! The name Alozaina comes from Arabic "Alhosaina" or "Altazaina", which means small castle. Other studies divide the word in "Alto" or "Alho", which is translated in to Small Mountain. And "Zaina", which means airy, healthy for the body. Which is not surprising gathering that the whole of the countryside is covered with olive groves, avocados, mangos, and lots of other citrus trees and crop. Alozaina is a classic Andalusian village, full of pretty streets and lovely neighbors. The village has plenty of tapas bars and bodegas with local products to enjoy. And then there are the beautiful mountain views ... The ideal place to enjoy a true Spanish lifestyle. Alozaina is located 50 minutes (50 km.) from the city of Málaga and the airport. The beaches of the Costa del Sol (Torremolinos) are a 45 minutes (34 km.) drive away.
Welcome to the Grapevine Family ¿¿
Selling and listing properties with honesty, integrity and energy
And making you feel at home in inland Málaga
We pride ourselves on offering a personal bespoke services.
We are a small family run company, offering a friendly and professional service to all our clients, we are dedicated to working on a 1 to 1 basis with our clients.
Ever since 2002.
One dad, one mum, one daughter, one son-in-law¿¿ - And today a whole team passionate about our region.
Our reputation has been built, not on selling properties, but by helping people achieve their goals by giving advice where needed and appropriate and by allowing time and space for our clients to make the right decision for themselves.
We love inland Málaga and so will you.
See you in our beautiful inland Málaga! ¿¿
What our clients say -
The words honesty and integrity are not generally synonymous with estate agents; Grapevine is an exception. During our lengthy search for a holiday home, Graham spent many hours with us on many viewings giving helpful and professional advice. He was always courteous and informative and a very good timekeeper, something of a rarity in Spain! His knowledge and know-how enabled us to purchase our apartment with confidence and ease and the on-going service that Grapevine offers will ensure our future holidays spent in Los Arqueros will be stress free. Thank you Graham. Pat Newman
We can confirm wholeheartedly that the service and help you gave us in buying our villa was exceptional. You had no hesitation in ferrying us to banks, lawyers, notaries etc, also showing us round the local area and shops. Your assistance was way above what we would normally expect. Alan Roberts
I have known and worked with Jo Wood for nearly a year now. Primarily Jo was on hand to show me a property my sister and her husband were interested in. As they live in Australia, I took over the inspections with Jo until they could arrive and confirm purchase.
As a family unit we have been delighted with Jo's manner and work ethic. She is always prompt, courteous and efficient. Her input has proved to be professionally helpful and we do find Jo will go the extra mile when it is needed.
We feel we can recommend her services without reservation and in fact have already done so on several occasions. On all levels that Jo works, be it sales promotion, legal definitions and requirements, after sales supervision and possible subsequent rental services, we are perfectly satisfied and confident in her abilities both to deal with tasks herself and to designate where necessary.
We wish Jo all the very best in her future intentions and confirm that we hope to work with her again. Gilliam Scott Gribler
Hi Jo and Graham, Just to let you know we are settled in the UK now and to thank you for all the hard work you did to sell our villa. We have seen the video of 'A Place In the Sun' and I must say your video of our place was LOADS better. Have a GREAT Christmas and new year and thank you again for everything. Judy and Ed Searle.
Thanks to Grapevine we achieved a sale this Summer! We have no hesitation in recommending Grapevine, always efficient, they were there when needed, holding our hands all the way! Can't recommend them enough. Many thanks to Jo and Graham.! Andrea and Robert Weaks.
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As a company we realise that it can be very stressful owning a property abroad, when you have clients visiting, owners need to feel confident that their property is being looked after by someone trustworthy, especially when you are living thousands of miles away. They also appreciate regular feedback, which we give them, via email. We provide a full management service to include.
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*Key Holding/Meet and Greet Service
*Full Maintenance Service
Nearest Airports*
- Málaga (INTERNATIONAL), 19.6 miles
- Gibraltar (North Front) (INTERNATIONAL), 48.4 miles
- Jerez (INTERNATIONAL), 67.3 miles
- Sevilla (San Pablo) (INTERNATIONAL), 75.1 miles
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HTC Touch Pro (CDMA)
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iPhone Users Now Have "Phone Envy"
Cold Realities:
- Your Service Provider Could CARE LESS if you have a descent device. As long as you commit to a 24 month agreement and pay your bill.
- Your monthly invoice will be the SAME with little variance weather or not you buy the phone you want or settle for a lesser one.
= A MOBILE DEVICE IS NOT AN IMPULSE BUY that you thoughtlessly give into a telesales represenative or a 19 year old kid that that assaults you with the "FREE PHONE" gimmick at a mall kiosk while you're engorging yourself in a CINNABON! IT is your own responisibility to research and get the device and service that will meet your needs.
- Outside of your initial outlay at point of sale and your reoccurring monthly service charges You have made a commitment to carry this device on you for the next 24 months Make sure the device can justify the space that it takes up on your body and is worth keeping up with.
The PRO made me sit up and take notice
PRO -I refuse to do a copy and past of the Manufacturers feature list its your job to do the research
- Cheap to operate (Sprint) only requires a $15 data pack in addition to a minute plan. NO SPECIAL PLANS REQUIRED. Even with a "Simply Everything $99.99 its still $30-$50 less a month than other service providers.
- Way More Phone Than Anyone Needs Or Deserves.Give in to your GREED and buy one anyway.I didn't need to upgrade from my Mogul,just wanted to.
- Battery Life. Be Real you don't buy a Suburban for its freaking "fuel economy". You buy it for what it can do. Its a battery hog and thats a trade off you make with this type of device.
- FINGER PRINT MAGNET.. OMG this is almost as irritating as the lack of battery life. But what you don't know is hat the case that it comes with is specially designed to clean the device each time you take it in and out.
Little impresses me in this industry anymore but the Touch Pro got my attention and it was worth the upgrade to make an iPhone user feel inadequate
HTC PRO Lives Up to Name (if you're a PRO)
I read about this phone, tried it out at the Sprint store and finally committed to purchasing the most expensive phone in my long history of cell usage. After years of fumbling my way through the world of PC's, I was sure I could fairly easily manage learn to use the HTC.
Wrong!! Too many features and complexities for this semi pro user. It well may live up to all of the hype if I could find it but if you are not a dedicated user, skip the Pro. Blackberries and Palms are breeze compared to this baby!
Great graphics, poor battery life, heavy.
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Such a hot phone, such a lame battery
I love and hate this phone. It is a little like a manic girlfriend. You know the girl everyone of your friends fantasizes about. Only thing is you go home with her. Sure there are great times and some not so great times.
What I love.
-The screen. So clear, so bright.
-The input options, various on-screen keyboards and a great pull out keyboard.
-TouchFlo. The more I use it to cooler it is. For example switching between emails accounts, simply slide your finger across the screen.
-I like the Windows 6.1 operating system compared with Garnet from Palm.
What I don't.
-Battery life. This is likely going to be the deal killer for me. I know it is like complaining about your super cars gas mileage. But all these features need enough power to use. I got about 5 hours of use out of my phone today. I spent the rest of the day out of the office with a brick in my pocket. I can't work with a phone that needs to be plugged in all day, we came up with cordless phones like 20 years ago. Make the thing thicker or something put a decent battery in it. The published "talk" times are total rubbish.
-Pull out keyboard is just a little to large and I've got larger hands. You have to move your hands around to much it slows down your typing to a hunt a peck speed. I'm used to the width of a Treo.
-I've had some complaints about call quality. I've got an Airave at home so I'm not sure about the source. Without it I have crummy service at home, and the Airave cured that on my Palm.
Great looking phone, great features, and if you talk no more than maybe 60 minutes a day you can probably live the with the battery life.
Good Phone With Some Quirks
Good Smartphone, The Speaker And Ear Piece Volume Is Too Low, Especially when talking to another person, it sounds muffled when they talk.
3-D Touch Interface Has Some Delay And
Lag Issues.
I Keep Getting Connection Error Messages
When Updating The Weather, Even When
Sprint's EVDO Service Is Clearly Turned On.
If You Have Too Many Programs Running At
The Same Time The Phone Will Lock Up,
Which Will Require A "Soft" Reset.
There Is A Delay When Using The Slide Out Keyboard When You First Start Typing.
Battery Life Could Also Become An Issue Since The Phone Uses A Lot Of Juice To Run.
The 3-D Touch Interface Can Become Overly Sensitive To Even Light Touches.
I Had Two Defective HTC Touch Diamond Phones Before I Got This One, I thought
I Would Try This One Out Before I Gave Up And Went To A BlackBerry.
I have been behind the times when it comes to cell phones. I spend exorbitant amounts of money on Computers, but I always thought phones should be phones. That being said, I picked up the HTC Touch Pro and fell in love with it. The possibilities are limitless. EVERYONE at work (I work in the industry) was telling me to go with Blackberry, but, I have to admit that I just wasn't into the look/feel of the blackberry OS.
The ease of the phone.
The look.
The limitless possibilities of having a windows os. This is a MUST for any self respecting Computer Nerd!
Battery life needs a little work, but I have 3 extra batteries that i keep charged with me so it's not an issue.
HTC Shipped the phone with the power management features all turned off. I downloaded and installed the Advanced Config Utility and changed the way power management is used and the overall response to TF3d.
Verizon HTC Touch Pro Review
Here are my thoughts and video on the HTC Touch Pro
(Videos plus write-up here)
Youtube links for HQ Options
Part 1
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Part 3
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I need to give this some more time but after a week i give it a solid 4. I've been waiting for this phone to come out for months now so the anticipation may have surpassed the actually results. i have owned this series from the 6700 to the Mogul and now to the Touch Pro, all along the way waiting for the bugs to be worked out and the footprint to be more streamlined. With the exception of a very touchy Sprint interface this phone does what i want it to and as promished. The Home page on the UI does not respond well to touch, it is sluggish and jerky whereas the rest of the scrolling throughout the interface is just uncontrollably fast. This is the most sleek version of the HTC's but i just hope they get the kinks worked out on the touch sensitivity
While waiting for this phone I tried out the Blackberry Curve which had a better keyboard and the UI is much smoother than WM6. But I could not get the Sync to work and had to use Google Calendaring which is quite handy but it's still an Outlook sync workaround. Another drawback was the notes in the contacts were not transferred over.
Consider me impressed
After watching the PDA-phone market for years and being disappointed, I couldn't resist picking up the Touch Pro. Finally, we can enjoy a worthy combination of a phone and a PDA. I'll include some Pros and Cons (which will most likely be more of the same), and follow up with my own thoughts.
- This phone has it all... GPS, EV-DO rev. A, Wi-Fi, etc.
- A crisp, clear, and responsive touch screen paired with the slide-out, well-designed keyboard makes input in any application enjoyable.
- Customize TF, WinMo, et all to your liking. It's very easy to take the stock phone and turn it into your own customized powerhouse. Brave souls can load customized ROMs and even try loading Linux/Android.
- Windows Mobile, while also a Con, has a tremendous amount of support from 3rd party application developers.
- Reception is very good and the sound is crystal clear
- Battery life with the stock battery and default settings can be extremely short. Customize brightness and other settings to increase battery life. Also look at extended battery options if so desired - I will be picking up at least a 2000mAh battery as soon as possible.
- Windows Mobile. It's somewhat slow and not as stable as I would like, but it does the trick most of the time.
- I really wish the keyboard had a | on it so I didn't have to dig in the Symbols when using PocketPUTTY.
I've had this phone for a couple of weeks now, and I am very happy with this purchase. There are some minor problems, such as the standard problems with WinMo or the stock battery life. With some creativity, though, you can extend this phone to do all kinds of things. I am enjoying PocketPUTTY, PocketIRC, Google Maps, and more on my shiny new phone. If you want a feature-packed phone or a PDA with abundant connectivity, you won't be disappointed with the Touch Pro.
too many issues
I got this phone because i wanted something with windows moblie. It has the remote desktop which i use all the time for work.
The first issue, phone #1, it stopped vibrating so when it was on vibrate i missed all calls and texts.
Phone #2 didnt even last a week and the screen went out, totally black!
Phone #3 didnt even last 2 weeks, another issue with the screen. this time it all went jibberish and crossed up and should not make out what was being displayed.
Phone #4 this one really pissed me off as i lost EVERYTHING! This POS just randomly shut off and would not power back on. replaced battery, plugged in, did factory reset nothing.
Phone #5 now this one i am currently using the slide out keyboard quit working. lights up but will not type. I called the Alltel and will be swapping it out for the Palm Treo Pro to give that a try as it is the only one comparable in price.
A Touch Of Pro
I had the touch diamond first just to try it out for 30 days or until this touch pro came out. Now I work for sprint so I am on top of phones as soon as they come out. This phone snuck up and came out early on me. I got this phone friday oct 31, 2008. I had the mogul before I tried the touch diamond and then this touch pro. I love the phone so far, now here are my pros and cons:
5 row qwerty keyboard
3. 2mp camera w/flash and auto focus
memorycard slot (heard it supports up to 16gbs)
video out
good reception (better than the touch diamond I had)
text messaging keyboard shortcut
picture messaging (finally on windows mobile sprint device as seen on touch diamond)
instant messaning (as seen on touch diamond)
titan (java application for windows mobile devices)
stylus is hard to take out with keyboard slide out (previously stated in reviews, thanks)
screen flips even when you don't flip phone (telenav, opera mobile and etc)
no more soft keys at top of screen
laggy at times (even when no other programs are running)
gets hot (not as hot as my touch diamond)
havent used wifi yet on the touch pro and for the life of me I cannot find infared port to beam (it is an option in phone) but its a solid phone that might just need an update to fix minor bugginess.

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There is a reason the saying, "Location, location, location" has persisted in the real estate business.
Take, for example, CIO Thom Davis, of Omega Environmental Technologies, and his wife Grace, founder and CEO. In 2009, they moved their Dallas-based company 10 miles down the road to where they were living in Irving, Texas. They found that relocating to the new ZIP code brought a number of advantages.
"When you have your business in one city and live in another, it's hard to be as involved as you'd like and still have your full work day," says Davis.
In addition to improving the personal amenities surrounding them, the couple also tapped in to a host of business perks with the help of the Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce.
Smart Business spoke with Davis about what Irving has to offer, why they made the change and how other businesses may benefit from making the move, as well.
What led to the decision to move, and why Irving?
The business needed to double its space, as we've been pretty fortunate in our growth over the years. When we looked at where we should move, Irving was our first choice.
There were a number of reasons we picked Irving and one was to get closer to an airport. We manufacture and distribute mobile air conditioning parts for a range of vehicles to 87 countries, so we're doing a lot of international business, shipping some 25 percent of our products through airlines.
We wanted to improve access in and out of the facility and be easily reached by customers and suppliers. The company is now about six minutes from the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
It also was a good fit culturally. My wife and I had been living in Irving for 12 years and wanted to be more involved in the city's civic life. Irving is a very diverse city — some 53 languages from 96 countries are taught in the school system — which fits in well with Omega because our 66 employees represent 13 nationalities.
Irving has two paid symphonies, one volunteer symphony, an award-winning musical theatre and many activities that are convenient and inexpensive. And that's not even looking at the cultural benefits of both nearby Dallas and Fort Worth. Since relocating, 15 of Omega's 66 employees and their families have moved into Irving.
What aspects of the city have helped your business?
Transportation and location are definitely big assets. There are major north/south highways and east/west thoroughfares that either run right through Irving or are on the edges of the city. One new addition is the light rail, which will be very convenient for foreign guests who are used to train travel, allowing them to visit companies in the area. The leg from downtown Dallas to Irving opened in July; the section that runs from Irving to the airport is under construction and scheduled to open in 2014.
There are plenty of comfortable hotels scattered throughout the city and there's no price point visitors can't find. Our customers typically stay for a week and many bring their families because when you're leaving Brazil or Italy to come to the U.S., you're not coming for an overnight stay. With Irving's central location, visitors' families are easily entertained in downtown Dallas, which is only 15 minutes away, and downtown Fort Worth, which is only 20 minutes away.
Are there any other factors about Irving that makes it a good fit for businesses?
There's a willingness to help on behalf of the city, aided by the Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce, because there's an understanding of how important business is to Irving. Dallas didn't offer any incentives when we looked at space still within the city but closer to the airport. With a smaller city — Irving consists of more than 216,000 people — there's more support from city leaders and staff, and it involves people who are higher on the administrative chain.
Irving has more than 8,500 companies, including the headquarters of five on the Fortune 500 list and a presence of almost 50 more on the Fortune list. It also has more U.S. Chamber Small Business Blue Ribbon Award Winners than any other city in the U.S. It's a city that spends a lot of time and energy trying to recruit and help the small and large businesses already there.
How has the city helped your business since the move?
There were some incentives that came from the chamber of commerce and the city itself. Since most of our goods are shipped offshore and purchased in the U.S., the city granted us a tax abatement. Irving also designated us as a free trade zone, which means as long as we move products in and out of the city in 90 days, we don't have to pay personal property tax on those products.
What is your advice to other companies that are considering relocating?
The first thing you need to do is contact the chamber of commerce. Many chambers, such as the Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce, are the economic development arms for cities. These chambers have put together programs to help make it a one-stop shop for new businesses coming in.
So instead of having of run all over trying to find this person and that person, the chamber will give you the guidance and help you address any issues, such as obtaining permits.
Thom Davis is chief information officer at Omega Environmental Technologies. Reach him at (972) 812-7099 or [email protected] Visit Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce at www.irvingchamber.com.
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Giving kids information about the risks of smoking and chewing tobacco, and establishing clear rules and your reasons for them, can help protect them from these unhealthy habits.
You also should know the warning signs of tobacco use and constructive ways to help someone kick the habit.
One of the major problems with smoking and chewing tobacco has to do with the chemical nicotine. Someone can get addicted to nicotine within days of first using it. In fact, the nicotine in tobacco can be as addictive as cocaine or heroine. Nicotine affects mood as well as the heart, lungs, stomach, and nervous system.
Other health risks include short-term effects of smoking such as coughing and throat irritation. Over time, more serious conditions may develop, including increases in heart rate and blood pressure, bronchitis, and emphysema.
Finally, numerous studies indicate that young smokers are more likely to experiment with marijuana, cocaine, heroin, or other illicit drugs.
Kids might be drawn to smoking and chewing tobacco for any number of reasons — to look cool, act older, lose weight, win cool merchandise, seem tough, or feel independent.
But parents can combat those draws and keep kids from trying — and getting addicted to — tobacco. Establish a good foundation of communication with your kids early on to make it easier to work through tricky issues like tobacco use.
To help prevent your kids from using tobacco, keep these guidelines in mind:
If you smell smoke on your child's clothing, try not to overreact. Ask about it first — maybe he or she has been hanging around with friends who smoke or just tried one cigarette. Many kids do try a cigarette at one time or another but don't go on to become regular smokers.
Additional signs of tobacco use include:
Sometimes even the best foundation isn't enough to stop kids from experimenting with tobacco. It may be tempting to get angry, but it's more productive to focus on communicating with your child.
Here are some tips that may help:
Kids are quick to observe any contradiction between what their parents say and what they do. Despite what you might think, most kids say that the adult whom they most want to be like when they grow up is a parent.
If you're a smoker:
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Remember how Z-Bo had a great year, and Memphis decided to lock him up for four years and $71 million, and everyone yelled You fools! It was a contract year! He's going to suck again for the next three years now! and Memphis didn't listen and did it anyway?
And remember how, even though he's made bazillions of dollars playing basketball, he's still rumored to be one of Indianapolis's biggest marijuana suppliers? So yeah, maybe this budding Grizzlies dynasty isn't built on the most solid of foundations.
Friday night, Randolph hosted a charter cruise on the Willamette River. There he met James Beasley, and invited him back to his Portland-area mansion for the afterparty. To sell weed, Beasley says.
Things went bad around four in the morning, which is usually around the time that things tend to go bad at mansion parties hosted by NBA players with their own in-house drug dealer. Apparently there was a "disagreement over price", and four to seven men assaulted Beasley, beating him with a pool cue. For the cherry on top of this shit sundae, Randolph then allegedly took the product.
"He (Randolph) snatched it like basically saying, 'I'm taking your weed," Beasley said.
Beasley told police that Randolph wasn't involved in the beating, which is confusing in the light of his other statements but makes more sense when you remember that Randolph now has $71 million to throw around in order to keep people quiet. If need be. So he's not a suspect, and the league can't discipline him because of the lockout, and if Zach Randolph invites you back to his mansion to race ATVs and shoot guns and party with his "Hoops Family," just don't.


text: Joachim Schöpfel is associate professor in information and communication sciences at the University of Lille and consultant in the field of scientific and technical information. Director of the departement "Information and Document Sciences" from 2009 to 2012, he was head of the National Centre on the Reproduction of Theses from 2012 to 2018. He is a researcher of the GERiiCO laboratory and in charge of the first year of the Master Information-Document. Holder of a thesis in psychology from the University of Hamburg, he worked from 1991 to 2008 at the CNRS Institute of Scientific and Technical Information. His research projects and publications focus on the evolution of scientific communication and the services and devices of the STI.


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The Crimson won its third straight home opener and improved to 31-6 at Lavietes Pavilion since 2008-09 with its win over Rhode Island on Tuesday (Gil Talbot).
The Storyline
The Harvard women's basketball team picked up its first win of the season Tuesday over Rhode Island, 69-57, and will look to make it two in a row when it hosts Holy Cross Sunday, Nov. 27 at 2 p.m. Holy Cross holds a 5-6 advantage in the all-time series with Harvard, including a 72-53 triumph last season in Worcester, Mass. which snapped a three-game winning streak for the Crimson over the Crusaders. Sunday's game will mark the sixth straight year the regional rivals have met.
Fans can watch a live video stream of Sunday's game on GoCrimson.com with play-by-play man Greg Kadetsky on the call by clicking here.
Last Time Out
Christine Clark led a trio of double-digit scorers as the Crimson picked up its first win of the year against Rhode Island, 69-57, Tuesday night at Lavietes Pavilion.
Clark scored a game-high 18 points and grabbed nine rebounds, falling one board short of recording her second career double-double. Elle Hagedorn and Elise Gordon each notched a new career high, with Hagedorn netting 14 points and Gordon 10. All nine Crimson (1-3) players who saw action on Tuesday scored at least one point.
Click here to watch highlights from Tuesday's game.
Shoot for the Cure
The Crimson will be participating in a nationwide fundraiser from the National Foundation for Cancer Research entitled "Shoot for the Cure" on Sunday.
To raise funds, the team will be collecting donations for NFCR at Sunday's game as well as online. All proceeds from the "Bounce for Bucks" halftime promotion will also be donated to NFCR. Participants can enter by purchasing mini basketballs for $1 each, and winners will receive a prize courtesy of Harvard Athletics. Cancer survivors will also be recognized during the game in support of the cause.
For more information, click here.
Lavietes Love
Harvard has enjoyed a distinct home-court advantage since the 2008-09 season, posting a 31-6 record in that time including three-straight wins in home openers. Harvard was 10-2 at Lavietes last season and averaged 77.4 ppg.
They're on Fire
Harvard currently leads the Ivy League in field-goal percentage and free-throw percentage, connecting on 42.1 percent of its attempts from the floor and 77.8 percent at the line. The Crimson has led the league in free-throw percentage each of the last two seasons while finishing second in field-goal percentage over that same span.
Triple Threat
Returning All-Ivy selections Christine Clark, Brogan Berry and Victoria Lippert are each averaging over 10 ppg and are among the Ivy League's leading scorers. Clark has netted 18.3 ppg, which is good for third in the conference, while Berry ranks ninth with 13.0 ppg and Lippert 10th with 11.0 ppg.
You Can Count on Clark
Christine Clark has scored in double-digits each game this season and in six straight dating back to last year. In 32 career games, Clark has scored at least 10 points 25 times and has been limited to under five points only once.
Career Day
Both Elle Hagedorn and Elise Gordon recorded a career high in points in Harvard's win over Rhode Island, with Hagedorn notching 14 points and Gordon 10. Missy Mullins pulled down a career-best five rebounds against the Rams and Emma Golen notched a career-high two steals.
Sharing the Wealth
All nine Crimson who saw action against Rhode Island scored at least one point. Harvard had at least nine student-athletes score at least one point 12 times last year, including a 96-63 win over New Hampshire when 13 Crimson put points on the board.
Player to Watch
Senior co-captain Brogan Berry, who has posted 15.0 ppg and 4.7 apg season, was featured on Graham Hays' list of mid-major players to watch on ESPN.com.
Now Starting for Harvard...
Junior Emma Golen made her first career start at Iowa while senior Brogan Berry made her 87th. Harvard has used the same starting lineup for each game this season, which includes Berry (90 career starts), Christine Clark (32), Victoria Lippert (50), Golen (4) and Miriam Rutzen (16).
Milestone Moments
Senior co-captain Brogan Berry became the 15th member of Harvard women's basketball's 1,000 point club last season. Berry is currently ranked 12th in program history with 1,123 points, needing 105 points to break into the school's top 10 and 257 points to enter the Ivy League's top 30.
Berry also ranks fifth at Harvard with 416 career assists and is 19th in Ancient Eight history. This season she could join Emily Tay '09 (1,263 pts., 514 ast.) as one of only two student-athletes in program history to score 1,200 points and dish out 500 assists.
Her career free-throw percentage of 81.5 is good for ninth in the Ivy League record book.
Click here to visit the Media Center on GoCrimson.com to access Harvard's most up-to-date career records.
Career Scoring (Harvard)
1. Allison Feaster '98 2,312
13. Brogan Berry '12 1,123
Career Assists (Harvard)
1. Jennifer Monti '02 558
5. Brogan Berry '12 416
Career Assists (Ivy)
1. Jennifer Monti '02, Harvard 558
19. Brogan Berry '12, Harvard 416
Career Free-Throw Percentage (Ivy)
1. Angela Soriaga '06, Dartmouth 89.9
9. Brogan Berry '12, Harvard 81.5
Mid-Major Top 25
Harvard was listed as receiving votes in the CollegeInsider.com Preseason Mid-Major Top 25, but has since dropped out of the poll. Two of the Crimson's opponents in 2011-12 are currently in the rankings, including Princeton (3) and Hartford (RV).
CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25
Preseason RV
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Preseason Poll
With three returning All-Ivy selections and coming off an 18-10 season, the Harvard women's basketball team was picked second in the 2011-12 Ivy League Preseason Poll. The Crimson, which has finished second in the conference in each of the past three seasons, received 117 points and garnered three of the poll's first-place votes. Two-time defending Ivy League Champion Princeton was tabbed first, receiving 133 points and 14 first-place votes, while Yale (103) and Penn (68) rounded out the top four. Brown (66), Columbia (52), Dartmouth (52) and Cornell (21) ranked fifth through eighth, respectively.
2011-12 Ivy League Preseason Poll
1. Princeton (14) 133
2. Harvard (3) 117
3. Yale 103
4. Penn 68
5. Brown 66
6. Columbia 52
Dartmouth 52
8. Cornell 21
Captaining the Ship
Seniors Brogan Berry and Lindsay Louie were chosen by their teammates as captains for the 2011-12 season. Berry is a three-year starter and two-time team MVP, while Louie earned the Harvard Pride Award following the 2009-10 season.
A League of Their Own
Four Crimson were named to the All-Ivy teams in 2010-11, the most of any school in the conference. Brogan Berry was a unanimous first team selection while Victoria Lippert and Emma Markley '11 were named to the second team. Christine Clark was unanimously voted to the All-Rookie squad.
Light Up the Scoreboard
Harvard's 71.4 ppg led the Ivy League in 2010-11 and ranked 39th in the NCAA. The Crimson returned 64 percent of its scoring from a year ago, including three of the conference's top 10 scorers. Brogran Berry ranked second in the league with 13.9 ppg while Victoria Lippert was fourth with 13.5 ppg. Christine Clark was the eighth leading scorer in the Ivy League at 12.1 ppg.
Catch the Crimson in 2011-12
Harvard fans can watch each of the team's 12 home games in 2011-12 live online through GoCrimson.com. A women's basketball pass costs just $59.95 and this year also includes audio broadcasts for the team's games at Providence, New Hampshire and Brown. Click here to sign up today.
Inside Ivy League Basketball
"Inside Ivy League Basketball," an online radio show dedicated to talking basketball in the Ancient Eight, launched Thursday, Nov. 10 on BlogTalkRadio.com. "Inside Ivy League Basketball" takes an in-depth look at all the news and notes surrounding Ivy men's and women's basketball on and off the courts. Click here to listen now.


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Versatility + Sailing Performance = European Boat of the Year
The prize of "IRC Boat of the Year" in France is awarded to the builder of a series production boat that has distinguished itself in international IRC competitions throughout Europe. It is presented annually during the "Evening of Ocean Racing" held in conjunction with the Salon Nautique de Paris (Paris Sailboat Show). The 2012 winner was the J/97E's sistership, the J/97, built by JB Composites in Les Sables d'Olonne, France.
Didier LeMoal, CEO of JB Composites commented, "The J/97 ultimately demonstrated its pedigree and potential performance in 2011 with several strong campaigns in France and England. J/97 was winner of the Trophy Atlantic UNCL IRC 4 with victories in Spi Ouest France-Intermarché and Grand Prix Crouesty, and a second place in Brest and the Course of Three Islands. Internationally, the J/97 won 2010 Cowes Week in IRC Class and won the 2011 Garmin Hamble Winter Series by a huge margin in IRC 3 Class against stiff competition."
The jury presiding over the election of the IRC boat of the year was made up of four elected members of the UNCL: its President, Marc de Saint Denis; Edouard Baetz its general secretary; Jean Michel Carpentier (Racing Commission); and Jean Claude Merlivat ( Commission IRC). They were assisted by four prominent yachting journalists: Olivier Le Carré (BATEAUX), Pierre-Marie Bourguinat (VOILES & VOILIER), Bernard Rubinstein (VOILE Magazine) and Patrice Carpentier (SEAHORSE INTERNATIONAL Racing).
The selection criteria were: 1) sailing results in France and in Europe; 2) the boat-handling and sailing qualities; 3) the ability to both race and cruise; 4) overall aesthetics; 5) a minimum of 10 boats built in the last year; and 6) have sailed at least 5 races in the IRC in the past year.
The boats selected by the UNCL were an impressive line-up of many winners in IRC events this past year in European waters. The competitive sailboats included: Elan 350, Beneteau First 30, Beneteau First 40, Grand Soleil 43 B&C, J/97, Jeanneau Sun Fast 1010 and Jeanneau Sun Fast 3200.
As a versatile cruising boat with a racing pedigree that is so dear to the IRC, the J/97, with 45 boats built to date, is a boat that is well-designed and well-built, benefiting from the professionalism and experience of JB Composites. Whether sailing nationally (France) or internationally, the winning record of the J/97 is eloquent and prophetic:


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I was working on a bot for a game i use to play. All it has to do is check a screen pixel at (218, 60) and if its black press a few key.
So i used the Robot class to make the keyPress and getScreenPixle. If the pixel is black then press 1 in a loop untill the pixel is a different color.
Now this works when i run the program and have a notepad up, if the pixel is black i goet "11111111111...." in the notepad but soon as i swap to the game window press1() is executed once and then stops.
However if i press enter ingame it opens the ingame chat and i get 111111 in the gamechat but soon as i get out of chat nothing is happening although skill with hotkey 1 be pressed in a loop.
Here is the code:
import java.awt.AWTException; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Robot; import java.awt.Window; public class KayListener { static Robot r ; public static void main(String[] args) throws AWTException{ r = new Robot(); Color c1; Color c2; c1 = r.getPixelColor(20, 20); c2 = new Color(0,0,0); while(true){ c1 = r.getPixelColor(218, 60); if(c1.equals(c2)){ press1(); } } } public static void press1(){ r.keyPress(49); } }


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Add carrier calculated shipping method
Use carrier calculated shipping to get more accurate shipping rates by providing your address information, the customer's shipping address, and the product's weight. (You also can use basic shipping methods.)
Note: You'll need to add the weight of every product you ship. See Add product shipping weight.
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- In your Products list, click Online Store, and then click Manage next to the account you want to use.
- In the Settings tab, click Shipping.
- Click Add Shipping.
- Click Add for United States Postal Service (USPS).
- Enter your ZIP Code for the most accurate shipping rate, then click OK. (This is only available if your shipping address is in the United States.)
- Select the Domestic and International USPS shipping methods you want to offer. (By default, all Domestic choices are selected.)
Note: If you select an International method, it will default to All Countries. Click Edit to limit shipping to particular countries/regions, then type the name in the search bar and select it as it appears below.
- When you're done click Save.
Note: To edit your ZIP Code return to the shipping page in step 3 and click Edit next to You are shipping from...


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|Event information
Two consenting adults pledging to spend the rest of their lives together
- "Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today to celebrate the union of two faithful souls..."
- —Ceremony official[src]
Marriage is a legally binding contract that says two people stay together until their death. Many people have a celebration at the start of their marriage known as a wedding. The end of a marriage is known as divorce. Two people planning to be married in the near future are known as engaged.
Often the female takes on the surname of the male during marriage, however this is not always the case (such as when Minerva McGonagall married Elphinstone Urquart in the 1980s).
In the wizarding world, many couples have been married, such as Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett and James Potter and Lily Evans.
Molly Weasley claimed that during the First Wizarding War many people were "rushing into" marriage in the worry that they may not be able to do it in the near future lest they were killed.[1]
Known marriagesEdit
Magical marriagesEdit
The marriage between a wizard and a witch & a wizard or a witch and a non-human, in rough chronological order.
|Bride and groom
|Wedding date
|Between summer 1968 and November 1970[2]
|The Weasleys settled on a large Tudor pigpen located on the outskirts of Ottery St. Catchpole, in Devon. As the family grew over the birth of their children, the couple started building upward with add-on bits of architectural salvage they picked up wherever they could find, thus building The Burrow.[3]
|Between summer 1978 and autumn 1979[4]
|Lily and her sister Petunia were not on good terms, so neither Petunia nor her husband Vernon Dursley attended the ceremony. The best man was Sirius Black.
|Elphinstone had been Minerva's boss at the Ministry of Magic in the 1950s. When they married, they were both in or close to their fifties and it was ultimately childless. The marriage was a very happy one, and a period of great fulfillment for Minerva, although she did keep her maiden name, as she had always been something of a feminist. They lived in a small cottage in Hogsmeade, where they frequently received Minerva's nephews and nieces (children of her brothers). The marriage was cut short in 1985 after Elphinstone's accidental death from a Venomous Tentacula bite.
|July, 1997
|The ceremony was quiet and hurried as it took place during the height of the Second Wizarding War and because the Ministry of Magic had just passed legislation that was not favourable to werewolves. The couple had one child, Teddy Lupin (God-son of Harry ), who was born shortly before both of his parents' deaths.
|1 August, 1997
|The bride and groom's younger sisters, Gabrielle Delacour and Ginny Weasley, served as bridesmaids, and Bill's younger brother Charlie Weasley served as the best man. The reception was interrupted by the news that Lord Voldemort had taken over the Ministry of Magic, and guests fled as Death Eaters arrived to try and capture Harry Potter.
The couple went to live at Shell Cottage, a house that belonged to an aunt of Bill's, in the outskirts of Tinworth, Cornwall, which was presumably also where they raised their children: Victoire, Dominique, and Louis.
|Late 1990s or early 2000s
|The couple goes on to have three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus and Lily Luna.
|Late 1990s or early 2000s
|The couple goes on to have two children: Rose and Hugo.
|Late 1990s or early 2000s
|The couple lives in the ancient Malfoy Manor in Wiltshire,[5] and have a single child: Scorpius Malfoy.
|Late 1990s-2010s
|As Hannah becomes the landlady of the Leaky Cauldron, the couple lives above the pub, a fact that Neville's students consider to be "cool".[6]
|Late 1990s-2010s
|The couple goes on to have two children: Fred Weasley II and Roxanne Weasley.
|Late 2000s or early 2010s
|The wedding takes place "rather later" than her friends' marriages.[7] The famous Magizoologists have two twin children: Lorcan and Lysander.
- Mr. Potter and a woman
- Percy Weasley and Audrey
- Mr. Prewett and a woman
- Septimus Weasley and Cedrella Black
- Orion Black and Walburga Black
- Rodolphus Lestrange and Bellatrix Black
- Ted Tonks and Andromeda Black
- Phineas Nigellus Black and Ursula Flint
- Licorus Black and Magenta Tripe
- Bob Hitchens and Isla Black
- Jimbo Blishwick and Misapinoa Black
- Sirius Black I and Hesper Gamp
- Cygnus Black I and Ella Max
- Cygnus Black II and Violetta Bulstrode
- Cygnus Black III and Druella Rosier
- Herbert Burke and Belvina Black
- Arcturus Black II and Lysandra Yaxley
- Arcturus Black III and Melania Macmillan
- Pollux Black and Irma Crabbe
- Charlus Potter and Dorea Black
- Harfang Longbottom and Callidora Black
- Caspar Crouch and Charis Black
- Ignatius Prewett and Lucretia Black
- Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Black
- Reginald Cattermole and Mary
- Percival Dumbledore and Kendra[8]
- Cornelius Fudge and a woman
- Bartemius Crouch Sr. and a woman[9]
- Hagrid Sr. and Fridwulfa
- Monsieur Delacour and Apolline
- Tilden Toots and Daisy Hookum
Muggle marriagesEdit
The marriages between two Muggles.
|Bride and groom
|Wedding date
|Sometime before 1959
|They settled at Cokeworth, and lived in walking distance from Spinner's End, where the Snapes lived. The couple had two daughters: Petunia (born in or before 1959) and Lily (born 30 January, 1960).
|Late 1977[10]
|Fearing that she would be overshadowed, Petunia refused to have her sister Lily as a bridesmaid, which upset Lily. At the reception, Vernon would not talk to James Potter, but described him as "some magician" within his earshot. Petunia had little contact with her sister thereafter.[11] Vernon and Petunia settled at 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, shortly after their wedding. They had a son, Dudley, on 21 June, 1980.
|Sometime before 1979
|The couple had one child, Hermione, a witch. She was raised in the Grangers' house, on an unspecified location in England.
|"When [Dean] was a kid"; between 1980 and 1991
|Dean Thomas's biological father was a wizard who abandoned his Muggle wife and infant son in a courageous effort to protect them from the Death Eaters. He was soon after killed by the Death Eaters when he refused to join their cause. He never told his wife that we was a wizard and, shortly after his death, his wife married Dean's stepfather, a Muggle, who raised Dean as his son.
|c. 2000s
|The marriage produced two Muggle children[12]. While Dudley and Harry Potter (who married Ginevra Weasley) were "on Christmas-card terms", the two couples would visit each other out of duty, and sit in silence so that their children could see their cousins.[13]
Mixed MarriagesEdit
The marriage between a wizard or a witch and a Muggle.
- Cho Chang and a Muggle
- Robert McGonagall Sr. and Isobel Ross[5]
- Tobias Snape and Eileen Prince
- Tom Riddle Sr. and Merope Gaunt
- Mr. Finnigan and Mrs. Finnigan
- Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Thomas
Marriage laws in the wizarding worldEdit
There is no note of any divorce in the wizarding world, so its legal status is unknown.
J. K. Rowling stated that homosexual relationships do not suffer as much discrimination in the wizarding world as in the Muggle world[14], so it is possible that same-sex marriage is legal, however this has not been confirmed.
Respectable marriages and Marriages of Low StatusEdit
Even though there is no discrimination for homosexuals in the wizarding world, there has existed notorious discrimination toward "morganatic" marriages. Many Pure-blood families have disowned their own relatives for their marriage to Half-bloods, Muggle-borns and Blood traitors, and such outcasts are seen as "second-class" wizards and witches, e.g. Andromeda Tonks, Cedrella Black, James Potter, Merope Gaunt and Eileen Prince.
Nonetheless, some wizards and witches have made their families proud by making "respectable pure-blood marriages" like Narcissa Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange, Orion Black, and Irma Crabbe. Apparently, in some cases the contractors are not in love, but still married to maintain purity within their families, making it sort of an "arranged marriage". For example, Bellatrix Lestrange's true love was Lord Voldemort rather than her husband Rodolphus.[15] The House of Gaunt had a tendency of marrying their own cousins to remain pure, which led to severe genetic problems in the later generations.
Many marriages would have been looked down upon, such as James Potter's marriage to Muggle-born Lily Evans, or Ron Weasley's marriage to Muggle-born Hermione Granger. Harry Potter's marriage to Ginny Weasley would have been looked down upon as Harry was a half-blood and, although a pure-blood, Ginny was a blood traitor.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- ↑ Arthur Weasley was born in February 1950 and Molly Weasley was born in October 1949. They both attended Hogwarts from 1961 to 1968, and they had their first child together, Bill, on November 1970. They must have married sometime between their graduation from Hogwarts and the birth of their first child.
- ↑ Harry Potter Film Wizardry - see this image
- ↑ In Deathly Hallows, Chapter 33, Dumbledore refers to James as Lily's "husband" in the scene where Snape asks him to protect Lily. This scene can be determined as having occurred in autumn 1979, based on the description of the setting ("...the sound of the wind in the branches" and "Though leaves and branches still flew through the night air around them..."), and J. K. Rowling's statement during her 2007 Carnegie Hall appearance that the Potters went into hiding when Lily was pregnant. James and Lily must have thus married sometime between leaving Hogwarts in June 1978 and autumn 1979.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Pottermore - "The Malfoy Family"
- ↑ JK Rowling comments at Carnegie Hall
- ↑ 30 July 2007 Web Chat with J.K. Rowling
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- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ↑ In a deleted scene on disc two of the Blu-ray edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Petunia tells Harry, "I have lived in this house for twenty years", indicating she settled at 4 Privet Drive in 1977, since the scene is set in 1997. Since the Pottermore backstory for Petunia mentions Lily was still in her final year at Hogwarts during Vernon and Petunia's engagement, and Lily's final year was 1977-1978, the engagement must have thus occurred on or after 1 September, 1977 and the wedding and moving in together by 31 December, 1977.
- ↑ Pottermore - [http://www.pottermore.com/en/book1/chapter2/moment1/vernon-petunia-dursley New from J.K. Rowling: "Vernon & Petunia Dursley"
- ↑ After "Harry Potter", J. K. Rowling's First Novel for Adults at The New Yorker
- ↑ 19 October 2007 J.K. Rowling at Carnegie Hall
- ↑ Pottercast Interview "So I think you could be gay, pure-blood, and totally without any kind of criticism from the Lucius Malfoys of the world. I don't think that would be something that would interest him in the slightest."
- ↑ Bloomsbury.com web chat


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You have arrived at the development site.
Please visit the main site at britgo.org
There are many tournaments and other events held around the UK. Often these are run by
clubs and are coordinated by us. We run the national British Go Championship,
Pair Go Championship, Junior events such as the UK Go Challenge and some other tournaments. In addition
there are team tournaments, teaching events and associated activities, and promotional events. Sometimes we host top events such as a European Go Championship
or a game in a professional title match.
There are more than 30 open tournaments each year in the UK. They have different formats, styles
and locations. Date and tournament information is published on our Events Calendar. We also publish here a list of all our current tournaments.
We list the full results, plus news reports
on each one. We also publish a list of
Current Title Holders, which links to a listing of all past winners.
The top players in each event compete for points in the Stacey Grand Prix, Double Digit Kyu players (10 kyu and weaker) in their own DDK Grand Prix. and junior players in their own Junior Grand Prix.
If you're thinking of entering your very first face-to-face tournament then we have some advice for you.
If you'd like to organise you own tournament then visit our Organisers Material page (some information may be for members only).
As well as the individual tournaments some team events are also held; sometimes an individual tournament
will award a prize for the team or club with the best results. We have a list of
team and Grand Prix winners.
We run the British Go Association League Tournament as an online tournament.
We also field a UK team in the Pandanet Go European Team Championship run by the European Go Federation.
We also run a number of teaching sessions online.
We organise an annual multi-stage British Championship. This ends
with a best of three or five games title match between the top two players that is usually broadcast live online, often
with professional commentary.
We award trophies for this and several other Championships including the
British Open, British Lightning, British Small Board, British Pair Go, British Pair Go Handicap,
British Open Team, Online League and Stacey Grand Prix.
Pair Go is the mixed doubles of the Go world. We hold an annual championship every year;
a unique and highly social event held within the spirit of Pair Go.
There is an active Junior Go program of events including the annual British Youth Go Championship
and the UK GO Challenge for schools.
From time to time we get Oriental professional players visiting the UK.
They perform teaching at a tournament or at a variety of clubs.
Sometimes these visits are part of a top professional title game.
In addition there is an online teaching presence
by various professionals.
We are asked to nominate official representatives for various
international tournaments, such as the World Amateur Go Championship and the International
Amateur Pair Go Championship, and also for some top European events.
The 1st World Mind Sports Games
were held in Beijing, China from 3rd to 18th October 2008. The event was instigated by
the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) and received great support
from the Chinese government and sports bodies. We sent a team
of 18 players to take part.
The 2nd WMSG was held in Lille in 2012, with a UK team of 17 players.
From time to time we are involved in hosting a top event such as the
1992 European Go Congress,
the 2005 European Pair Go Championship, the 2014 European Youth Go Championship
and the 2002 Kisei Title Match game.
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Here is the last character from 'Epic' that I will be submitting because he is the last of the main ones. Here is "how to draw Bomba,/strong>", step by step. From the image of this character you would that that he is the quirky, brain that is also the inventor and scientist. Actor Jason Sudeikis provides his voice talents for Bomba, and I wish I could tell you what he will actually be like in the movie but there is none that I can find. All I can say is that drawing Bomba will make a great conclusion to the Epic character line. Adios people.
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Whether you fancy an Aussie music festival, a literary break in England or sake and sakura in Japan, March is an excellent month to travel. Spring breathes new life into the northern hemisphere, while riotous festivals take place everywhere from Ireland to Brazil. Here are our tips on the best places to visit in March.
See the start of the cherry blossom season on Honshu, Japan
Japan blushes at the start of each year when its cherry trees blossom. The subtropical province of Okinawa takes the lead, turning pinkish-white like candyfloss at some point in early January. But it usually takes until the end of March for cities like Tokyo and Kyoto to follow suit. Take your camera with you for some seriously kawaii ("cute") photos, and make the most of the sweet-smelling air; within a few short weeks, the blossoms will have disappeared altogether.
Learn the ropes on quiet slopes in Åre, Sweden
For downhill thrills, there's nowhere in Europe that can compete with the Alps. But if you're just getting to grips with skiing or snowboarding and want to avoid the crowds, why not try Sweden? Åre, a top-class resort tucked away near Norway on the edge of an ice-white lake, has had a chance to warm up slightly by March – and there's a good mix of short runs to get you progressing quickly. Even if you end up too bruised to keep skiing after the first few days, there are off-piste activities like ice fishing and dogsledding to keep you entertained.
Meet the Pacific in Auckland, New Zealand
Each March, in a flurry of hula skirts and floral garlands, islanders from across the Pacific converge on Auckland for Pasifika Festival. At the huge two-day cultural extravaganza, held in Western Springs, you can wander through markets full of intricate carvings, watch live bands, or eat pork that's been roasted over hot rocks, Samoan style. Islanders wanting a lasting reminder of the event aren't disappointed, either; traditional Polynesian tattoos are also available.
Beat the rush in Recife, Brazil
Everyone knows about Rio, but Recife, more than 1,000 miles to the northeast, remains a relative unknown – for now, at least. This coastal city, once controlled by Dutch sugar traders, will be one of the places hosting games during the 2014 World Cup, attracting international attention to its sweeping tropical beaches and gleaming glass towers. Our tip is to go before the rush. Early March is the perfect time of year to visit; it's the tail end of the region's dry season and the city's carnival – a sweaty four-day cacophony of dancing, drums and whistles – will just be kicking off.
Bathe yourself in books in Bath, England
Writers have long been drawn to the city of Bath. Jane Austen needed no persuasion to set a couple of her books in the spa city, and Charles Dickens picked it for parts of his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. The Bath Literature Festival, which began in 1995, marks a new chapter in the city's bookish history. Held annually at the beginning of March, the event has attracted some of modern Britain's most successful poets and authors, including JK Rowling, Andrew Motion and Terry Pratchett. Join them for a couple of live debates and readings, and then hear stories from days gone by on a literary tour of the city.
Head south (by southwest) to Austin, USA
If you've never been to the Texan capital then SXSW – a ten-day celebration of music, film and interactive arts – provides the perfect excuse to give it a try. Buying a pass for the mid-March festival won't leave you with much money for beer and tacos (even the cheapest music pass costs more than $600). But there are literally hundreds of unofficial events taking part on the festival's periphery, from impromptu gigs in bars to free parties run by rebellious local record labels. The only difficult part is choosing which ones to go to.
Celebrate St Patrick's Day in Dublin, Ireland
New York does St Patrick's Day bigger, but Dublin will always be the festival's spiritual home. And apart from swilling Guinness and wearing silly leprechaun hats (both considered noble pursuits in these parts), there's plenty to get involved with. On guided walking tours of the city you can learn more about the life and legacy of the fifth-century bishop called Patrick who, legend has it, banished all of the serpents from Ireland. Dozens of historic landmarks are bathed in green light for the party that's held in his honour, and as with New York, a musical parade snakes its way through the city.
For more ideas on where to go, check out the Inspire Me page. Book hostels for your trip, and don't forget to purchase travel insurance before you go.


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Former Irish professional boxer, Barry McGuigan, has called for authorities within the sport to help fighters battling mental illness by paying for a mental health fund.
McGuigan, who manages Belfast born boxing champion, Carl Frampton, made the comments after it came to light that world heavy weight champion, Tyson Fury is suffering with mental health problems.
"It should happen sooner rather than later because we don't want a fatality on our hands," McGuigan told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"The health of the boxers is really important to me," he said. "There is no help available to boxers for depression and mental health issues which is something I really want to concentrate on.
"There are colossal sums in some of the fights and there is plenty of money available, of which some should be set aside for mental health issues. We definitely need to address it."
"Maybe it is time for all the sporting governing bodies to sit down and start thinking about a clinic of some kind which is available. We need to do it for a cheap rate for guys who don't earn a fortune."
McGuigan accused the sport of being "blind" to fighters suffering with mental health problems and expressed "genuine concern" about Fury.
Twenty eight year-old Fury admitted to an American magazine that he had used cocaine to deal with depression and on Monday he announced his retirement on Twitter only for it to be retracted soon after.


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RBI to use unclaimed money on depositors education
As per the proposal, the banking sector deposits which have not been claimed for 10 years or more will be transfered to 'Depositor Education and Awareness Fund Scheme'.
"The Fund will be created by taking over inoperative deposit accounts which have not been claimed or operated for a period of ten years or more or any deposit or any amount remaining unclaimed for more than 10 years...," said the draft proposal on which comments have been sought by RBI.
As per an estimate, banks have as much as Rs 3,652 crore of unclaimed deposits lying with them, with the State Bank of India alone accounting for about 15 per cent of that.
The draft further said that there would be a provision for reclaiming the amount so appropriated by the Fund.
"The bank would be liable to pay the deposit amount to the depositor and claim refund of such amount from the Fund," it added.The Fund, the draft said, would be utilised for promotion of depositors' interest and for such other purposes which may be necessary for the promotion of depositors' interests as specified by the RBI.
The Fund will be managed by a Committee of 11 members under an RBI deputy governor, who will be the ex-officio chairperson of the Committee.
Members of public, banks, academia, industry and other stakeholders can give comments on the scheme to the RBI by February 5.
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John 'Cooka' Campbell and his mates with the UFO that adorned their backyard in 1974.'It was definitely a conversation starter," recalls John "Cooka" Campbell about his post-high school days when a spaceship took pride of place in the backyard of his Canberra share house.
"The white flying saucer was there when I moved into 14 Currie Crescent, Kingston, in the early 1970s and still there when I left some six years or so later," the long-time Canberra resident explains.
"You'd go to parties and people would ask where you lived, and you'd reply 'oh in the house with a white UFO in the backyard', and everyone would want to come and see it," Cooka chuckles.
Regular readers of this column will identify the UFO as a futuro – a prefabricated Finnish-designed building of the late 1960s-early 1970s. The polyester plastic and fibreglass domed structures were initially intended for use as ski lodges in remote locations but due to their quirky appearance ended up being transformed for all sorts of uses, from cafes to brothels. "Just before I moved in it was used as a real estate office to help sell new developments in the area," recalls Cooka, who during his six years at Currie Crescent, embraced the striking structure for anything but business. "It was party central – we had many an all-nighter in the spaceship blaring some Jimi Hendrix and the Doors on our stereo while putting away a few cases of long necks."
"Those times back in the '70s were wild, it was party after party – it was the era of living free and easy."
Although the futuro didn't belong to them, Cooka and his housemates became quite protective of their out-of-this-world backyard feature. "One day I came home from work at lunch to find the hatch lowered and a bunch of boys from St Eddies (Edmund's) drinking and smoking inside," says Cooka, who promptly told the truant students that if it wasn't clean in an hour, he'd be "letting their teachers know". "They left it absolutely spotless," Cooka smirks, adding, "it was probably the best clean it ever had while it was in our yard."
Cooka and fellow housemate Walter Shafron believe "their" flying saucer is the very same futuro that ended up at the Dickson Planetarium and ultimately on the University of Canberra campus near Zierholz Brewery, where this column recently reported (Beam Me Up, UC, September 8) that a number of researchers are trying to determine its pedigree. "Given its history in Currie Crescent, I guess it's quite apt that it's ended up 'landing' outside a pub," Cooka muses.
Leo Vredenbregt, formerly of Perth and now of Ngunnawal, recalls in the 1970s a similarly glossy white futuro located beside the Leach Highway in the Perth suburb of Willetton.
"It disappeared, but I just discovered that it's been rotting in a backyard somewhere in the hills of Perth for the last 20 years or so," Vredenbregt laments.
"Apparently its now for sale for about $10,000."
During the week, this column's bushwalking correspondent, Pastor John Evans, did his best job at impersonating Mr Claus while attempting to scale 16 of Kosciuszko National Park's highest peaks in just two days. Unfortunately bad weather kept the red suit-clad Evans from accomplishing his feat.
"We got blown, rained and whited-out off the Main Range – got 10, but missed Kosciuszko and the Rams Head Range," reports a disappointed Evans, who adds, "the Santa pants ended down around me knees while pounding back the Summit Road to Charlotte Pass."
Oh dear, I can imagine Mrs Claus blushing at such a sight and more importantly, let's hope the real Santa doesn't baulk at delivering the goodies if a bit of bad weather sets in this Monday evening.
Even more common than sightings of the jolly old fella from the North Pole at this time of year are cicadas whose voluminous song this season seems to be more vociferous than in recent years. In fact, Sharyn Payne of Kambah reckons the loudest cicadas hang out in the old trees of Curtin. "We [my husband and I] were born and bred in Canberra and in our travels, we have not heard such loud cicadas as the ones in Curtin," Sharyn claims.
During the week, I headed out to Cotter Avenue to check-out the latest summer craze. Just near the new pedestrian bridge across the Cotter River adjacent to the playground in Cotter Avenue is an old weir.
For the ultimate heat-wave cool-off, if you lie on your back in the water just upstream of here, the river will slowly carry you downstream before increasing pace and eventually jettisoning you over the weir and then under the footbridge (duck, or you'll hit your head)! Soon after the footbridge, the river flow decreases and it's easy to get out.
During the week, I tracked down one of the few remaining wooden muzzles in the area – belonging to Phyl McKey of Garran.
McKey who fetched the wooden muzzle from a dusty box of family farm memorabilia under her home says, "My dad first used it on the Monaro in the 1920s but it had been passed onto him, so my best guess is that it dates back to the 1880s."
So how does the contraption work? "It was attached to the calf's nose and its simple design allowed the calf to graze, but when it put its head up to try and suckle from its mother the wooden flap would block the calf's mouth, thereby preventing it from drinking milk," McKey explains.
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An address based data packet network capable of high speeds (10/100/1,000Mbs) originally developed for the computer industry that is seeing adoption in the marine industry. Ethernet networks are designed as a star topology. Systems of three or more nodes require a hub, router or switch to facilitate all point to point connections. An NMEA standard for the transfer of NMEA 2000 messages using an Ethernet protocol is being developed that will be called OneNet.
There are numerous cabling systems for Ethernet but the ones applicable to Raymarine installations include:
Cat5 w/ RJ45
The standard cable/connector of the computer industry that is very low cost but alternatives such as SeaTalkHS and RayNet are preferred connectors in the marine environment.
Raymarine's first generation Ethernet connector which consisted of putting a waterproof collar around an RJ45 connector.
Raymarine's current generation system that replaces the RJ45 connector with a waterproof vibration tolerant twist pin connector that is designed for the marine environment.
A wireless system that doesn't use any wires that provides for low cost flexible installations but are not as robust as wired systems. WiFi is ideal for non-mission critical accessory connections.
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Some of the most beloved comics creators are putting out work this week — Darwyn Cooke and Paul Pope are both unloading some creator-owned goodness, Frank Cho is putting Wolverine in the Savage Land, and there's a new issue of Brian K. Vaughan's Saga. And meanwhile, Batman is still facing massive destruction in "Death of the Family," and the Martians are attacking the Ghostbusters. Plus John Byrne is doing space opera!
Check out everything you need to know about this week's haul of comics, below!
Top image: Saga #9
New Issues
Dark Horse has the first issue of Black Beetle: No Way Out, in which the Beetle is investigating Colt City's mob bosses, until a mysteroius explosion takes them all out. And there's also a new issue of BPRD 1948.
And from Dynamite, there's Bionic Man Vs. Bionic Woman #1, which is just what it sounds like.
DC Comics brings us Threshold #1, following up on the Green Lantern: New Guardians annual. Keith Giffen is reinventing the DC Universe cosmic characters, and bringing the same kind of mania that he brought to Lobo and Justice League International. Basically, a bunch of space-faring characters are stuck on a hostile planet where they're being hunted to death by the planet's citizens in a televised game. Among the people being hunted: rogue Green Lantern Jediah Caul. It's pretty much exactly what "Keith Giffen does The Most Dangerous Game on an alien planet" sounds like.
DC also has the first issue of Insurgent (pictured at left), in which the U.S. government creates a sleeper army of ordinary citizens using nanotechnology — and then someone starts activating these unknowing soldiers for nefarious purposes. A new American Civil War looms on the horizon, unless a former bounty hunter can be convinced to stop it.
Also from DC: tons of Batman titles. "Death of the Family" continues with Batman #16 and Batgirl #16, plus there's Batman: Arkham Unhinged #10. And meanwhile, Superman's new Super-family is facing off against the Kryptonian monster H'el in Superboy #16. There's also Demon Knights #16, which we had a preview of the other day. Plus Frankenstein Agent of SHADE, Legion Lost, Grifter, Ravagers, and a few other things.
And Image has issue #9 of Brian K. Vaughan's Saga, in which "the Will finally has a good day." There's also the first issue of Todd, The Ugliest Kid on Earth, "a collision of comedy, sex, and violence, [which] follows the misadventures of America's most dysfunctional family as they go head-to-severed head with an Oprah-loving ax murderer, a cult-crazy soap opera star, and a neo-Nazi prison gang." There's also a new issue of Creator-Owned Heroes with work from Darwyn Cooke. And the final issue of Howard Chaykin's new Black Kiss mini.
The big news from Marvel is the first issue of Savage Wolverine, a new series by Frank Cho, in which "Wolverine awakes to find himself transported to the Savage Land and labeled public enemy number one!" Check out a preview here. There's also a curiously late comics adaptation of the Thor movie. Plus new issues of Avenging Spider-Man, Dark Avengers and Avengers Assemble, in which we see how the Avengers like the new and improved Spidey. This week's X-titles: X-Factor and X-Men. Also there's a new Captain Marvel, a new Indestructible Hulk, a new Ultimate Iron Man, a new Wolverine Max, and a new Venom, plus a few other things.
From IDW, there's the first issue of The High Ways, in which 1980s comics superstar John Byrne does space opera in the vein of Dan Dare, focusing on the crew of a rock-hopping freighter, during the early days of interstellar travel. Says Byrne:
I liked the idea of playing in that "old time sci-fi" kind of milieu, where all the adventures took place within the Solar System, and where life - even intelligent, humanoid life - was to be found everywhere. I decided this takes place in the Next Men "universe" — though in the altered timeline our heroes created when they wiped out Project Next Men. The time is eighty or ninety years in the Future, roughly, and a central character of the first arc is Eddie Wallace, who appeared briefly in the previous series.
Also from IDW: a new G.I. Joe, a Transformers one-shot focusing on Thundercracker, and the latest Mars Attacks crossover — this time Mars is attacking the Ghostbusters!
Trade Paperbacks and Hardcovers
DC Comics has the first volume of the new Batwoman series, Hydrology — and it looks just as gorgeous as you'd expect. Just amazing art by J.H. Williams III. There's also volume 18 of Fables: Cubs in Toyland.
Image has the hardcover edition of Paul Pope's One Trick Rip Off: Deep Cuts, a 288-page collection of Pope comics featuring 150 pages of previously unseen comics and art. Pictured at left. And a new volume of Invincible, Vol. 17, What's Happening.
From Dark Horse, there's volume 12 of Conan The Barbarian: Throne of Aquilonia.
Marvel is putting out a ton of trades, including Generation X Classic Volume 2, Fear Itself, and Dark Tower: Gunslinger: Little Sisters of Eluria. New hardcovers include Avengers Academy, Avengers Assemble by Bendis, Mighty Thor: Everything Burns, and Captain America by Ed Brubaker.
As usual, here's the list of everything being released to comic stores tomorrow, and you can find your nearest comic retailer here.


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First, I am going to apologize for the lack of pictures in this post. I would love to show you a beautiful shot of this amazing dish, but my laptop is being persnickety and shuts down anytime I "ask" it to do too much. Under the umbrella of "do too much" are things like uploading pictures, burn a CD or DVD, download music, watch a video clip or open too many windows. Basically, it (my laptop) is putting the kibosh on my multi-tasking. Not a good thing for a Type A personality like myself. 😉 Well, I fixed that, or I should say Aaron did….I am getting a new laptop (early Christmas gift) that should be here any day! So, take that, old laptop!
When I have uncooked shrimp I normaly make Shrimp Scampi with it. Aaron came up with a new idea and added some alfredo sauce to the mix. What we now have is a delightful mix of flavors. The kids love this dish. They can't get enough of it and there are never any leftovers. They (the kids and Aaron) will fight each other for the last piece of shrimp. What I find interesting about the whole thing, especially with the kids, is that they normally don't like their food mixed or to touch, but adore this creation. I am not going to mess with it. They eat it, that is the ultimate goal. Usually we put the shrimp sauce over fettucine, but didn't have any, so I used spiral shaped brown rice pasta instead for them and I had spaghetti squash, my new favorite that I can't get enough of! Here is a rough estimate of the proportions for this dish:
Shrimp Scampi Alfredo
1 pound uncooked, peeled & de-veined shrimp (we used 26-30 count)
1/4 cup butter (give or take a TBSP or 2)
basil (a few shakes)
oregano (a few shakes)
garlic powder or fresh garlic (the equivalent to 2-3 cloves)
salt & pepper (a few shakes)
lemon juice (a few squirts)
alfredo sauce (We use Classico)
Fresh shredded parmesan
pasta, rice or spaghetti squash
**You could also cook with some white wine. Aaron doesn't like the flavor when I cook with wine (silly man!), so I don't use it when he is eating.
1. Melt butter in pan; add shrimp and season with ingredients up to lemon juice (wait until shrimp is cooked to add the lemon juice). Cook until pink throughout, but be careful not to overcook or they will be tough.
2. While you are cooking your shrmip, place alfredo in a separate pan and heat your alfredo sauce…about 3/4 jar or so, depending on how creamy you want it.
3. Add alfredo to the shrimp pan and mix well. Add in fresh shredded parm. Pour on top of pasta and add more parm and some fresh basil if you have some.
4. Enjoy!
Well, hopefully my new laptop is here sooner than later. It was shipped Monday from Shanghai, China, so we shall see. I am tired of my computer deciding when I have spent too much time surfing the net! How dare it shut off and not let me get my fill of Perez Hilton!
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|USCF Affairs
|October 23, 2009
Membership Options
With the goal of providing our members maximum choice, the USCF has been offering new membership options for the past year. These categories will enhance your membership benefits.
Premium or Regular?You are now able to join the USCF as either a "Premium" or "Regular" member. Premium membership provides all of the benefits of Regular membership, but you will also receive a printed copy of Chess Life (or Chess Life for Kids), just like current members always have received. Regular membership provides all the benefits you are used to: playing rated events, receiving a USCF rating, and access to members-only content on uschess.org. However, it also allows you to receive online access rather than a printed copy of Chess Life magazine (or Chess Life for Kids magazine for Regular scholastic members).
Chess Life has been available online since 2006 and Chess Life for Kids for the last year. In addition to the online version you are used to, we have begun to offer an online viewer that allows you to "flip" through the pages of the magazines in a "virtual" manner. From the viewer, you can continue to download .pdf versions of the magazines to keep for yourself. These .pdf files will include all pages in the magazine, including advertisements, that are not currently available in the html (web) versions. Adobe Acrobat offers a free download of a reader that will allow you to read .pdf files at: adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
To see all of your membership options, please see the ad on page 5 of this issue or visit our uschess.org webstore by clicking on the "Join/Renew" link at the top right of the home page. To view the online versions of Chess Life, click on the "Chess Life Magazine" link on the left side of the home page.
To view the online version of Chess Life for Kids, click on the "Scholastic/College" link on the left side of the home page, then the "Chess Life for Kids" link on the left side of the page.
The USCF is committed to keeping up with evolving technological changes and enhancing your membership by providing the new Regular and Premium memberships as a key component of this commitment.
Special Election For Two USCF Executive Board Seats
Due to the revocation of the memberships of Susan Polgar and Paul Truong which took place at the USCF delegates' meeting this past August, there will be a special election in June to elect two board members to one-year terms. Deadline for receipt of nominating petitions is midnight, January 11, and they should be sent to Cheryle Bruce at the USCF office, P.O. Box 3967, Crossville, TN 38557. Petitions must include 30 signatures of USCF voting members, and the filing fee is $250.
You can read more about the membership revocation on Chess Life Online at uschess.org, August archives.
The USCF Mission
USCF is a not-for-profit membership organization devoted to extending the role of chess in American society. USCF promotes the study and knowledge of the game of chess, for its own sake as an art and enjoyment, but also as a means for the improvement of society. It informs, educates, and fosters the development of players (professional and amateur) and potential players. It encourages the development of a network of institutions devoted to enhancing the growth of chess, from local clubs to state and regional associations, and it promotes chess in American society. To these ends, USCF offers a monthly magazine, as well as targeted publications to its members and others. It supervises the organization of the U.S. Chess Championship, an open tournament held every summer, and other national events. It offers a wide range of books and services to its members and others at prices consistent with the benefits of its members. USCF serves as the governing body for chess in the United States and as a participant in international chess organizations and projects. It is structured to ensure effective democratic procedures in accord with its bylaws and laws of the state of Illinois.


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City Times
A Place for the reference of International city, date and time.
Select the city from the list to find out the location, date and timings for all cities.
The information of current time and date of a country helps you to identify the time and date of all the countries across the world.


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This chapter provides general information about Oracle JDeveloper TopLink Editor, as well as detailed information on using and customizing it.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Using Oracle JDeveloper's TopLink editor, you can quickly and easily configure and map your Java classes, EJB, JPA entities to different data sources, including relational databases, enterprise information systems (EIS), and XML schemas without using code. The TopLink editor supports multiple standards, including JPA and EJB 3.0.
For more information, see the "Developing TopLink Mappings" section of the Oracle JDeveloper online help.
For more information, see "Configuring TopLink Preferences" in the "Developing TopLink Mappings" section of the Oracle JDeveloper online help.
Figure 4-1 shows the primary parts of the TopLink editor:
For more information, see "About the TopLink Editor" in the "Developing TopLink Mappings" section of the Oracle JDeveloper online help.
The Application Navigator displays each element of with your TopLink mappings including the mapping project, deployment descriptor, and sessions information.
Figure 4-2 shows sample TopLink project elements in the Application Navigator.
Figure 4-2 identifies the following user interface components:
TopLink folder
Sessions configuration file (
TopLink map
The TopLink Editor displays your TopLink mapping information. The information in the editor will vary, depending on the TopLink element you selected in the Application Navigator or Structure window.
Figure 4-3 shows the TopLink Editor tabs for a TopLink map.
The Structure window displays detailed information about the TopLink element selected in Application Navigator or TopLink Editor.
When working with an EJB or Java class, the Structure window displays the related TopLink descriptor and its mapping attributes.
When working with a TopLink sessions configuration file, the Structure window displays your sessions and session brokers.
When working with a persistence configuration, the Structure window displays your JPA descriptors and persistence units.
When you select an item in the Structure window, its properties appear in the TopLink Editor.
Figure 4-4 identifies the following user interface components:
TopLink map
Mapped Java attribute (one-to-one mapping)
Unmapped attribute
You can perform specific functions for an item by selecting the item in the Navigator and doing the following:
Right-clicking the object and selecting the function from the pop-up menu.
Selecting the object by clicking a button in the Structure toolbar.