This workbook will guide your first steps in learning Chinese characters. Read a FREE Book Preview: Chapter One here.Billions of people worldwide speak Chinese-and now you can learn to write 100 characters in the world’s most-spoken language! Whether you’re taking a course, looking to get ahead at work, or just want to up the ante when you’re communicating with Chinese-speaking family and friends, Chinese Character Writing For Dummies gets you up to speed fast. I am very interested in discussing with you the following topics: It’s becoming a beautiful mansion with a leaking foundation - tens of thousands of eighteen-year-olds have been “graduated” every year, for decades now, as semi illiterate, their math level at the second-grade level, and their reading skills at the fifth-grade level. I can’t help but worry about America’s future. I’d like to help because I’m very grateful to my beloved new home country, beautiful America, as a proud American citizen since 1999. That’s why I also wrote 400-page of Basic Mental Math for Kids, aiming to teach America’s young kids to do math in their heads and calculate everyday money without using an electronic calculator. Despite my disheartening experiences of teaching in the chaotic inner city San Francisco’s public schools, my heart is in classroom teaching. I’m dearly loved dearly by two species: kids and dogs.īy trade, and by heart, I’m a classroom teacher with passion for teaching and compassion for kids of all ages. Something else I’d like you to know about me: While waiting for my book to be published soon, I’ll post some sample chapters for you ( Chapter 1 Book Preview.) How did I miraculously make it this far in life? I tell it all in my book. Second Place in Jack London Writers Contest of CWC on March 24, 2007. True Grit Award Mt Hermon Christian Writers Conference, April 2014. The Grand Prize in 2017 San Francisco Writing Contest sponsored by San Francisco Writers Conference.įirst Place in Redwood Writers Memoir Contest in October 2015 by California Writers Club. At age of eight, I was sent to the faraway city of Taiyuan to live as a Chinese Cinderella, waiting on my abusive parents and two younger brothers. I endured family neglect and abuse, brushed with multiple death and lived through near-fatal diseases, and Mao’s atrocious Cultural Revolution. Watery millet soup was my staple baby food as an infant after my mother left me when I was two months old. When, twenty-five years later, my own daughter was born, my father-in-law pressured me to have my infant daughter lethally injected and killed so I could try for a boy to carry his family tree.Īs a small child, I survived the world’s worst manmade famine, when over 35 million peasants died of starvation after no more grass, tree leaves or bark left to eat. I was raised by my peasant grandmother with a pair of three-inch bound feet, who had once thrown her own newborn daughter into urine pot to drown because she wanted a gold-valued boy. My mother pushed a heavy pinewood washboard against her pregnant belly trying to abort me. My story is also about four generations of unwanted girls in my family surviving China’s female genocidal culture: My book was “snatched up” by the first publisher I pitched to, sparing me the daunting task of writing a 60-page “pledging my allegiance” book proposal to a literary agent! Yes.įrom a born-unwanted peasant girl in China’s deep mountains to winning the Grand Prize in San Francisco Writing Contest, my life is about resilience, survival and never-give-up. But my memoir is time- and audience-approved - people LOVED my stories over the years during my public readings, Open-Mic’s, writers’ critique groups, workshops and conferences. You will probably notice my unique writing style, some nickname as “Chinglish”. I did not have a co-author, let alone a ghost writer, as most Chinese new immigrant memoir authors did with their English writer spouse.Įvery single word in my book is by my own hand and from my own mind. The idea came to me in 1999 when I was a full-time public high school teacher of ESL and Mandarin Chinese in San Francisco. 20+ yr in America.Īnd I’ve just accomplished my goal of writing my book in English my second language, The Red Sandals, a memoir (120,000 words). I taught high school English in China and Mandarin Chinese in America.
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Even the Girls Want Her: In the Danette ending, she displays feelings for Revya regardless if Revya is a guy or girl.It can be used on repeat plays during the whole game, however. Fallen Hero: Doesn't even begin to describe the Demon Path.Evil Counterpart: To Levin in the Demon Path.Although she acts more flustered in the male version and treats her like a BFF threatening to 'tickle' her in the female one. She was Lord Median's son in her past life, and reincarnated as a female. Heroes Prefer Swords: The choice in weaponry was already decided for him/her though.Of course, it's averted if you chose male. Hidden Elf Village: Grew up in one for ten years.I Am Who?: Revya is revealed to be a World Eater and reincarnation of Median's child by the real Layna in the world of Drazil. Interspecies Romance: Depends on the ending.Kryptonite Factor: Revya's most notable bad match ups is the Gypsies and the Gideons.Jack of All Stats: Bordering on Lightning Bruiser Revya is one of the most balanced and easy to use of the characters in the game, he/she has very few poor match ups, and his/her ground Techs are all around useful.Laughing Mad: In the Bad End of the Demon Path.Gig remarks after Endorph destroys Raksha with Psycho Burgundy that despite being the closest to the explosion, s/he was unscathed by the blast. May–December Romance: With Juno in the Male Revya's ending.Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Doesn't get any worse than The Devourlord.However, being with Danette and Gig for so long has some effects. Power At a Price: Could easily destroy the World Eaters on a caprice should he/she choose to use Gig's powers.If you are interested in contributing to code, feel free to check out our GitHub repository.Reincarnation: Of Median's son and Layna's older brother.The Quiet One: All of Revya's responses are short and to the point.Purely Aesthetic Gender: The choice of gender only affects the multiple endings in the slightest of ways.However, the more Revya uses, the more likely Gig will devour his/her soul. We are always open to collaboration! Beyond submitting reports, please email us if you are interested in furtherĬollaboration. We are working on further documenting the API. 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Additional processes such as Dynamips will also be running on your PC: If for example you are using a Windows PC, both the GNS3 GUI and the local GNS3 server are running as processes in Windows. The local GNS3 server runs locally on the same PC where you installed the GNS3 all-in-one software. You have a few options for the server part of the software: When you create topologies in GNS3 using the all-in-one software GUI client, the devices created need to be hosted and run by a server process. This is what you usually see show in screenshots such as the following: You install the all-in-one software on your local PC (Windows, MAC, Linux) and create your topologies using this software. This is the client part of GNS3 and is graphical user interface (GUI). GNS3 consists of two software components: Recommendation: If you are using an older version of GNS3, it is recommended that you upgrade to the current stable release of GNS3. You are now able to test interoperability between many vendors and even try out esoteric setups using network technologies with SDN, NFV, Linux and Docker. However, many other commercial and open source vendors are supported today in GNS3. Cisco is often discussed because that is what most network engineers are interested in learning about. GNS3 does not only support Cisco devices. Go here to see a list of appliances available: Originally only emulating Cisco devices using software called Dynamips, GNS3 has now evolved and supports many devices from multiple network vendors including Cisco virtual switches, Cisco ASAs, Brocade vRouters, Cumulus Linux switches, Docker instances, HPE VSRs, multiple Linux appliances and many others. GNS3 has allowed network engineers to virtualize real hardware devices for over 10 years. Because of that original work, you can today use to help you do the same without paying for expensive hardware. Jeremy Grossman, the original developer of GNS3 originally created the software to help him study for his CCNP certifications. GNS3 can help you prepare for certification exams such as the Cisco CCNA, but also help you test and verify real world deployments. GNS3 is used in companies all over the world including Fortune 500 companies. By joining the GNS3 community you will be joining fellow students, network engineers, architects and others that have downloaded GNS3 over 10 million times to date. It is actively developed and supported and has a growing community of over 800,000 members. GNS3 is open source, free software that you can download from GNS3 allows you to run a small topology consisting of only a few devices on your laptop, to those that have many devices hosted on multiple servers or even hosted in the cloud. GNS3 is used by hundreds of thousands of network engineers worldwide to emulate, configure, test and troubleshoot virtual and real networks. Britt says they both owe their lives to Dex, and she guesses they should call the cops. Dex helps Joss up, and she thanks Britt for saving her life. The hook goes down but gets back up and runs off. Britt blocks the hook’s attacks with her purse, and they struggle when suddenly Dex appears and shoots at the hook. Drew produces some champagne, and they toast to celebrating last year, this year, and many more to come.Įlsewhere on the docks, Britt yells at Joss to run. She also gets to do now what she couldn’t last year, and they kiss. She reflects on Sonny breaking her heart, and almost breaking her, and he was a large part of helping her find her way back.Ĭarly says she wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Drew. He remembers that she helped him to stop being angry and look forward to the future. They recall being together a year ago tonight on the footbridge. Maxie asks Obrecht to stop beating herself up over Britt because Britt is awesome and loves her mom.Ĭarly gets Drew’s text and meets him at Pier 27. Obrecht is so glad they are still in one another’s lives. Maxie will never forget about Nathan, even if she does find another great love. Talk turns to Nathan, and Obrecht is so glad he was able to find Maxie, and that he lives on in James. Maxie tells her that’s in the past, and the love they share now is what is important. She feels she should have given Britt a better childhood. Obrecht opens up about the choices she’s made, especially regarding her children. Maxie insists Britt did it herself, she and Brad just helped. Once alone again, Obrecht thanks Maxie for giving her daughter this party. Drew really wanted to celebrate with Britt and tells Obrecht her daughter is brave and strong and she played a crucial role in their escaping Cassadine Island. Shortly after Carly departs, Drew arrives and learns he wasn’t alone in arriving late, and that he just missed Carly. More: Lydia Look expresses thanks to many Carly enters and says, “I knew I was late, but not that late!” Maxie and Obrecht are alone in The Haunted Star as everyone else has left. A chase ensues, when Britt suddenly appears and clobbers the hook with her purse yelling, “Back off, bitch!” Joss scrambles and begins screaming for help. Joss trips and falls while trying to escape, and the killer lunges toward her with their hook held high. Soon she hears the horn of her boat and sees it approaching.Įlsewhere on the docks, the hook killer rushes towards Joss. She watches the fireworks overhead and looks at photos of her and her mother together. Sam feels he’s done his duty, and he’s not disrespecting his badge by loving his father.īritt arrives at Pier 27 with her luggage and waits for her boat. Dante hasn’t, but he has made sure not to ask certain questions and bowed out of cases when there was a conflict of interest. Sam asks if he’s ever covered up a crime of Sonny’s. However, selectively applying justice is the very definition of injustice. Dante understands where Michael is coming from, and he hates the idea of having to build a case against his father one day. Sam asks Dante if he’s trying to build a case against his father.ĭante tells Sam that he is wrestling with the idea of justice, striving to uphold it, and what it means when it is applied to his father. Dex has nothing new to say and walks out. He asks if Dex wants to change his story about what really happened. Dex appears, and Dante comments he must have the day off. More: Laura has questions for regarding NikolasĪt Kelly’s, Dante and Sam enjoy some cocoa. Nikolas promises her that nobody will ever know about this. Liz laments this is all their fault for pushing Esme to this extreme measure and begins listing all the crimes that they could be charged with. Move Over, Magic Milo! Watch General Hospital's Chad Duell Bust a Move This jack attaches to a much longer wire which runs outside to either a nearby telephone pole or an underground telecommunication system, where all of the individual wires have been bundled into a network. The cordless phone's docking station (i.e., its " transceiver") is connected to a telephone wire, which is, in turn, connected to a phone jack in the wall. As a result, you get a more versatile piece of hardware that comes with some pretty cool little extras, as well.īeyond the use of radio waves, a cordless telephone transmits an analog or digital signal in much the same way an old-school telephone does. Unlike the wire, these waves can travel over and through any objects in their path. The easiest way to explain how a cordless phone operates is by pointing out that the curly wire (attached to a traditional phone) is essentially being replaced via radio waves. But it does come in three colors, if that sort of thing is important to you. Some dislike the buttons on the VTech model, though, since they can feel clunky or unresponsive. Each offers several handsets for a low investment, and they have features that make them simple and usable, rather than flashy and tech-heavy. If such high-tech options will strain the budget, or be too complicated for the intended user, there's also the VTech CS6719-2 and the AT&T EL52313. This option is somewhat expensive, however, when you consider that the base comes with one handset. For instance, you can ask for your notifications or have Alexa find a contact and dial for you, so you don't have to remember numbers or speed dial positions. Another option we like for its connectivity is the Motorola AXH01, which has Alexa integration. Plus, it will store a whopping 3,000 numbers in its phonebook and block 250 numbers to get rid of unwanted calls. Currently, we like the Panasonic Link2Cell for its Bluetooth connectivity, which allows you to sync it to your smartphone not only for calls but also for Siri and S Voice. You can find additional options good for those with impairments of various kinds on our list of phones for seniors, however they won't all be cordless.įor a land line you can count on for your home or business, AT&T and Panasonic models are still the ones to beat for most, with VTech not far behind. Those with hearing impairments can look to the Motorola CD5014, which not only provides visual ring notifications, but also has a dedicated amplification button and is hearing aid compatible. You'll also get intercom functionality, ambient noise suppression, and smart call blockers with both, and visual ring notifications with the VTech IS8151. The VTech IS8151 and Panasonic Link2Cell also boast some high-tech features, perhaps most notably the ability to be paired with cell phones via Bluetooth, allowing you to take calls on your landline instead of your mobile device when within range. This means it can do many of the things your Echo or Dot device can do, including accept voice commands for making calls directly to someone else's Alexa-equipped device, provide you with news and weather reports, and set reminders. Perhaps no model proves this more so than the Motorola AXH01, which features Amazon's Alexa. While there may not be the level of innovation going on in cordless phones for landlines these days as we see in cell phones, that doesn't mean you can't get one with some high-tech features. That table is supported by a heavy-duty steel stand that has a wide stance for extra support, plus thick rubber feet to dampen vibration. The table offers the same durable Easy-Slide skin as Kreg's full-size router tables and has a miter gauge slot. To make routing even easier, the Precision Bench top Router Table has a large 16" x 24" table that's made from thick MDF to dampen vibration. Like before, the fence is made from anodized aluminum, has adjustable sliding faces and works as a vertical jointer. It features all-new cam clamps that allow you to adjust the fence quickly and easily and lock it in place securely. The redesigned Precision Bench top Router Table also features Kreg's upgraded industrial-quality fence. The plate also has laser-engraved markings on the underside that make it easy to mount any router and it comes with a set of Kreg's Precision Insert Levelers. More Level-Loc ring sizes are available in a set of 5 (sold separately). Three Level-Loc rings are included: 1", 1-3/16" (for use with Porter-Cable style guide bushings) and 2-5/8". These rings simply twist into place and lock in flush with the plate surface every time. It measures 9-1/4" x 11-3/4" x 3/8" to support even the biggest routers and it features Kreg's new Level-Loc Reducing Rings. You will notice the all-new router insert plate right away. More than ever before, this makes the Precision Bench top Router Table a perfect routing solution, whether they want a router table to use on a job site or compact router table to use in the shop. Kreg's freshly redesigned Precision Bench top Router Table (new item# PRS2100) now offers even more features that give it the capability of a full-size, industrial router table in a portable package. The seller will arrange the return pick up for these items.įor seller-fulfilled items from Sports collectibles and Entertainment collectibles categories, the sellers need to be informed of the damage / defect within 10 days of delivery. These items are not eligible for self-return. 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This item is eligible for free replacement, within 7 days of delivery, in an unlikely event of damaged or different item delivered to you. Tablets (new and certified refurbished) 7 Days Replacement Reopened gradually, while others maintain restrictions. “We saw up to a 50% decrease in worldwide traffic when lockdowns started in early 2020, wrote Johann Lau, product manager at Google Maps. What makes this project even more interesting is that worldwide have changedĭramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Our traffic prediction capabilities, measuring predictions accuracy for more than 97% of trips. Recently, Google partnered with DeepMind, an Alphabet AI research lab, to improve the accuracy of To predict future patterns, Google’s algorithms combines its database of historical traffic patterns with live trafficĬonditions, using machine learning to generate predictions based on both sets of data. and 7 am,īut at speeds of between 15 mph and 20 mph in the late afternoon. For example, one pattern may show that the 405 freeway in Southern California typically has vehicles traveling at a speed of 65 mph between 6 a.m. Roads to predict future traffic patterns. Google Maps analyzes historical traffic patterns for Locate current traffic estimates, it doesn’t account for what traffic will look like 10, 20, or even 50 minutes into the route. Machine-learning models to predict traffic flows.įor starters, aggregate location data can be used to understand traffic conditions on roads worldwide, but while this information helps Redfin will use the Google Maps Distance Matrix API to help make better predictions for drive time between homes.For those who want to know how Google Maps determines massive traffic jams and the best route to take, Google and DeepMind researchers explain how they use data and feed it into We worked with the real estate website Redfin to show developers what’s possible with predictive travel times.
The audience also acts as Watchers and can vote for one of the players before each episode to allow the player to win a special benefit of being able to cast two votes instead of only one vote for the final voting. Contestants, as stated above, will then be divided into two teams of six and compete in various investigation mission games in order to obtain clues about the Master Key owners, while each trying to individually win the votes from other players by claiming himself/herself as the Angel Master Key owner. Among the keys, one of them is the Angel Master Key and another one is the Devil Master Key, the rest being the regular keys. The contestants proceed directly to the Room of Fate, where each of them picks one among the 12 keys placed inside the room. If neither criterion occurs, no winners are declared. The two Master Key Owners will have to avoid getting voted the most and must find each other in order to win the top prize. Those who correctly vote for both Master Key owners will win the prize of 12 gold keys. At the end of the episode, the contestants have to vote for two opponents that they believe are the Master Key owners. The audience also acts as Watchers and can vote for one of the players before each episode to allow the player to win a special benefit of obtaining additional clues about the Ms. Contestants will then be divided into two teams of six and compete in various Investigation mission games in order to obtain clues about the Master Key owners. The game starts with 12 contestants trying to find 12 keys scattered around Master Village, one for each player, before proceeding to the Room of Fate and check if their respective key is one of the two Master Keys or not. Master Key ( Korean: 마스터 키) is a South Korean variety show that aired on SBS every Saturday at 6:10 p.m. Topped with graham cracker dust and finished with a cream cheese icing drizzle. 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Night owl cookies pembroke pines Nightowl Cookies - 1 tip from 4 visitors - WebNight Owl Cookies Pembroke Pines, LLC is a Florida limited. Of the top 25 by each school type, a majority were in Orange and Seminole counties. Click on the red buttons to search through high schools, middle schools or elementary schools. The top 25 high schools, middle schools and elementary schools in the Orlando area are in the table below, which also provides enrollment and the student-teacher ratio. Only six public schools in the Orlando area received the highest grade of an A-plus. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Niche ranked schools through their letter grade system, which is created by using public data sets and student and parent reviews. Orlando Business JournalĪ public magnet school and two charter schools - NeoCity Academy, Orlando Science Middle/High Charter School and Choices in Learning - are among the top K-12 public schools in metro Orlando, according to national ranking and review site Niche's newest 2024 rankings. Miami-based Night Owl Cookies opens Orlando shop. We can't wait to share the Night Owl experience with this incredible city." "It's a full circle moment for us to have started at FIU and keep the tradition going at UCF. "We're ecstatic to bring our signature cookie experience to the vibrant UCF community," said Andrew Gonzalez, founder and owner of Night Owl Cookies, in a prepared statement. Night Owl Cookies has stores in Miami, North Miami, University Park at Florida International University and Pembroke Pines.Įach of the restaurant operate late into the evening, with closing time at 2 a.m. 15 and will offer its signature cookies with flavors that have included the Dark Chocolate S'Mores, Cookies & Cream, and the Ave Maria - a guava cookie dough mixed with white chocolate chips, topped with Maria cookie crumbles, guava chunks and cream cheese frosting drizzle. This is the first of three new locations to be outside of the brand's South Florida roots - the location of the other two stores was not included. The signature cookie chain's sixth location companywide will be at 1325 University Blvd., Suite 101, near State Road 417. Miami-based Night Owl Cookies is set to debut its first Orlando store near the University of Central Florida. Whatever you think of the new conclusion to this living nightmare in which a strange mist envelopes a town and brings some very odd creatures with it, it's an ending you definitely won't see coming and that you won't forget easily. Some fans didn't warm to it but others, including King himself, thought it gave an extra dimension the original didn't have. The ending to this monster horror was changed from that in Stephen King's original story. But the part of this film that really stays with you is the conclusion to a story of a man who's locked away for years with no idea why, then sent on a nightmare journey that makes those years of incarceration seem like paradise. If you haven't seen Park Chan-Wook's iconic mystery thriller then the parts you are probably already aware of are the moment the lead actor, Cho Min-sik, eats a live octopus or the extraordinary scene in which he fights a corridor full of bad guys using just a hammer and a lot of determination. Or are they her only company? Strange noises and the arrival of some very spooky servants suggest that there is something else living in the house with them and that it wants to be known. _ The OthersĪ classic ghost story, The Others has Nicole Kidman as a war widow trapped in a remote stately home with just her two light-sensitive children for company. To say why he's so great in the movie would almost ruin it, but suffice to say that this is a movie in which guilt and innocence switch places repeatedly, building to a genuinely shocking conclusion. _ Primal FearĮdward Norton made his name with this movie, playing an alter boy accused of the murder of a respected Archbishop. As Kyle determines to find her girl and prove she's not mad it becomes evident that some people on the plane know a little more than they're letting on. But halfway through the flight Kyle wakes up to find her daughter missing and no way to prove that she was actually ever on the flight, so that everyone on the plane thinks she's gone completely doolally with grief. _ Flight Planįollowing the death of her husband, Kyle (Jodie Foster) boards a plane to New England with her daughter for the funeral. It's the curious relationship between the old man and the emotionless lump of machinery that makes the movie work, but it's the surprise ending that will probably have you weeping discretely into your popcorn. _ Robot & FrankĪn elderly jewel thief (Frank Langella) is given a robot servant to help him live alone. The plagiarism rivalry escalates into murder and terror, until it becomes clear that a copied book is the least of Mort's concerns. One of his prime oddities is the author Mort Rainy in Secret Window, who is confronted by a furious stranger (John Turturro) who insists that Mort copied his novel and means to take his revenge. But his plan turns out to be far more tragic than it first appears, because fixing seven lives means breaking another. _ Seven PoundsĪfter his carelessness causes the deaths of seven people, including his girlfriend, Tim Thomas (Will Smith) vows to help another seven people find new joy in their lives and thereby atone for his sins. Martin Scorsese has a ball with the tension the location offers and expertly untangles a very knotty mystery. When a huge storm blows in Daniels is trapped on the island, stuck in the middle of a case that gets bigger and bigger and odder and odder. Marshal who heads to the psychiatric facility Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of a female patient. Leonardo DiCaprio is Teddy Daniels, a U.S. But will he meet the same fate as Diane? Will he? WILL HE? Eventually he's approached by her kidnapper (Jeff Bridges), who promises to tell him what became of Diane, but only if Jeff will go through everything Diane suffered. When Jeff's (Kiefer Sutherland) girlfriend Diane (Sandra Bullock) goes missing he becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her. Then everybody - really, everybody - turns out to have very different motives. It starts as a story about two girls (Neve Campbell and Denise Richards) accusing their teacher (Matt Dillon) of rape. Not so much a story with a twist ending as a series of twists knotted together into a story of double-crosses, triple-crosses and crosses of such high multiple that we completely lost count. Oh and don't worry, there are no spoilers. These 13 films, all watchable on Netflix, feature very memorable unexpected turns. One of the best ways for a movie to make sure you remember it is to pull the rug out from under you just when you think you've got everything figured out. |
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