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Senior Vice President, Chief Investment Officer — Small-Cap Value / Mid-Cap Value Equity
Start date on the Fund: May 1997
Years of industry experience: 34
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Christopher S. Beck leads the firm's Small-Cap Value / Mid-Cap Value Equity team. Prior to joining Delaware Investments in 1997 as a vice president and senior portfolio manager, he was vice president at Pitcairn Trust from 1995 to 1997, where he managed small-capitalization stocks and analyzed equity sectors. Before that he was chief investment officer of the University of Delaware from 1992 to 1995 and held management positions during his seven years at Cypress Capital Management and four years at Wilmington Trust. Beck earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Delaware and an MBA from Lehigh University, and he is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia and past president of the Wilmington Society of Securities Analysts.
Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Equity Analyst
Start date on the Fund: July 2012
Years of industry experience: 16
Steven G. Catricks is a portfolio manager for the Small-Cap Value / Mid-Cap Value Equity team. He joined the team in October 2010 as a senior equity analyst. He is responsible for the analysis, purchase, and sale recommendations of technology and business services securities for the firm's Small-Cap Value / Mid-Cap Value portfolios. Prior to joining the Small-Cap Value / Mid-Cap Value Equity team, he was a portfolio manager for the firm's Strategic Small-Cap Value team, focusing on the technology, healthcare, and telecommunication services sectors. He joined Delaware Investments in 2001 as an equity analyst, performing research and analysis for the firm's Emerging Growth Equity team. Previously, Catricks was an equity analyst at BlackRock Financial from 1999 to 2001, where he specialized in small-capitalization growth stocks. He also worked as a systems engineer at Dow Jones/Factiva, and as a senior systems engineer at GE Aerospace/Lockheed Martin. He started his career as a systems engineer at the Naval Air Development Center, where he spent 15 years. Catricks holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University and a master's degree in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and has nearly 20 years of experience in the technology industry. Catricks is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Equity Analyst
Years of industry experience: 19
Kent P. Madden is a portfolio manager for the Small-Cap Value / Mid-Cap Value Equity team. He joined the team in December 2004 as an equity analyst and was promoted to senior equity analyst in October 2010. He is responsible for the analysis, purchase, and sale recommendations of consumer services, consumer cyclicals, consumer staples, healthcare, and transportation stocks for the firm's Small-Cap Value / Mid-Cap Value portfolios. Prior to joining Delaware Investments, he was an equity analyst at Gartmore Global Investments, where he specialized in technology and telecommunications. He has also worked as an equity analyst for Federated Investors, where he gained experience covering small-capitalization consumer stocks, and Lehman Brothers as a corporate finance analyst. Madden holds a bachelor's degree in economics from DePauw University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Equity Analyst
Years of industry experience: 13
Kelley A. McKee is a portfolio manager for the Small-Cap Value / Mid-Cap Value Equity team; she joined the team in July 2005 as an equity analyst. She is responsible for the analysis, purchase, and sale recommendations of basic industry, capital spending, and utilities securities for the firm's Small-Cap Value / Mid-Cap Value portfolios. Prior to joining Delaware Investments, she participated in Lincoln Financial Group's rotational Professional Development Program for three years. McKee earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Georgetown University, and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Delaware Small Cap Value Fund (Institutional Class shares and Class A shares at net asset value) posted a negative return but outperformed its benchmark, the Russell 2000® Value Index, for the second quarter of 2015. Stock selection in the technology and basic industry sectors contributed the most to the Fund's outperformance. The portfolio's underweight allocation to real estate investment trusts (REITs) and utilities provided a positive benefit to relative performance as these were two of the weakest-performing sectors in the Index during the quarter. On a relative basis, stock selection led the Fund to underperform in the energy, transportation, and healthcare sectors.
Several stocks contributed to outperformance during the second quarter. Shares of funeral home operator, Service Corporation International, rose 13% during the quarter as the stock benefited from a stronger-than-anticipated earnings report. In addition, pre-need sales of funeral services and cemetery plots remained strong. We maintained the Fund's position during the quarter as we continue to favor the company's intermediate-term fundamental outlook and free cash flow profile. The company continues to be active in returning cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.
Primoris Services is a specialty engineering and construction company serving the industrial, energy, power, and water markets. Its shares appreciated 16% during the quarter after the company reported an increased backlog and healthy book-to-bill ratio above 1. In addition, the company increased its dividend rate despite a weak fourth quarter 2014 earnings report that was primarily due to weather-related issues. We maintained the Fund's position as we believe the company should benefit from higher utilization rates and strengthening end markets.
PTC is a software and services company focused on product and service lifecycle management. The company's technology is used to design, operate, and maintain complex products. PTC's offerings are also used to connect products to the internet for the purpose of capturing and analyzing data, also referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT). Shares of PTC appreciated 13% during the quarter — the company reported earnings that exceeded consensus estimates and the IoT business continued to grow as the company added 62 new customers during the quarter. We slightly decreased the Fund's position during the quarter in order to take advantage of the stock's appreciation; however we remain positive on the longer-term opportunity for PTC.
Detractors from the Fund's performance included shares of H&E Equipment Services. H&E is an equipment rental company with operations concentrated around the Gulf Coast and Intermountain regions. The company's shares declined 19% after weak demand from the oil & gas market caused the company to report a decline in rental revenue. We maintained the Fund's position in the company as we believe the stock has an attractive valuation and may be in a good market position to capitalize on increasing nonresidential construction demand.
Bonanza Creek Energy is an independent exploration and production company with primary operations in the Wattenberg Field in Colorado. Shares of Bonanza Creek declined 26% during the quarter as production growth estimates remained modest due to the company's reduction in capital spending. The company reduced capital spending in order to concentrate on its core areas of drilling and maximize efficiencies. We added to the Fund's position throughout the quarter — the company has been disciplined with its cash flow and capital spending projections. In addition, we believe the company could be a beneficiary of the low valuation that the market is assigning to its assets.
Brandywine Realty Trust is an office REIT with primary operations in the Mid-Atlantic. The rise in longer-term interest rates negatively affected the overall valuation of Brandywine and other companies in the REIT sector; consequently, the company's stock declined 16% during the quarter. We maintained the Fund's position in Brandywine as we view the company's relative valuation to be attractive compared to other REITs. We believe that the company should be able to substantially increase its dividend during the next year as a result of improvements in its funds from operations and funds available for distribution.
Halfway through the year, we continue to believe that the outlook for the economy and equities is favorable. Despite first quarter data indicating sluggish growth, we feel the economy could strengthen into 2015 and continue to grow at a moderate pace. We expect solid earnings growth for small-cap companies in 2015, which should help to support equities. Additionally, the merger and acquisition (M&A) environment remains favorable for equities, as M&A deal value is on track for a strong year. While we have not yet had any acquisitions in the small-cap portfolio this year, we believe that the strong M&A environment is supportive of equity valuations.
We have recently seen an uptick in market volatility resulting from events in Europe. During periods of greater uncertainty in the market, higher-quality equities may outperform their lower-quality peers. Additionally, if volatility remains, we believe that stocks with strong free cash flow and solid balance sheets have the potential to outperform more speculative areas of the market.
Our view of the economy has remained relatively consistent over the past several years: We believe that the economy should continue to grow at a moderate pace. As a result of our positive economic outlook and the relatively attractive valuations in some of the more cyclical sectors, we are generally overweight those cyclical sectors. The Fund's largest overweights remain in basic industries and capital spending followed by healthcare and technology. In general, defensive sectors — which have been bid up partly due to investors searching for yields in REITs and utilities — remain unattractive to us on a valuation basis. As a result, we remain underweight these sectors. We would look to add to the Fund's weight in these defensive sectors if we see valuations contract; this would most likely come as a result of an increase in interest rates, which could cause interest rate sensitive stocks to decline.
Our team's philosophy remains unchanged. We will continue to focus on finding what we view as attractively valued stocks that generate robust free cash flow, have strong balance sheets, and are likely to deploy their cash in shareholder-friendly ways such as share repurchases or increasing dividends.
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We just concluded the 7th annual University of Virginia Investing Conference (UVIC). For the first time in seven years, I (and many veteran participants) emerged from the conference rather buoyant. Professional investors tend not to be wild-and-crazy personalities: phrases like "prudent fiduciary" and "careful analyst" appear with some regularity at our conference. Therefore, the optimism among keynoters, panelists, and the audience arrested me. Let me tell you why…and what caught my attention.
The Context
We chose the conference theme of "Investing in Innovation" to recognize that the only real economic recovery for America would come from the creation of new value. And ultimately, innovation in products and services is what creates new value. Thus, we asked the range of speakers to brief us on some themes that represent promising investment opportunities.
For the past six years, investors have struggled with the Global Financial Crisis, Great Recession, gridlock in Washington, and sequestration. And just in the past few months, the news has not been the happiest: market volatility, plunging commodity prices, deflation in Europe, geopolitical uncertainties, ISIS, and ebola. Some pundits have been forecasting that this decade would echo the "lost decade" of 2000-2009. I was rather prepared for another dour narrative.
Instead, what we heard was simply tonic.
The Themes
Energy renaissance. Bob Craine, an independent producer, and Barnes Hauptfuhrer, a private equity investor, argued that horizontal drilling techniques are revolutionizing the production of gas and oil in the U.S. Energy independence and the export of hydrocarbons, will strengthen America's trade balance, increase the Federal budget, and permit America to reduce its dependence on nation-states in the Middle East and elsewhere. Low prices and the location of gas fields near industrial centers will stimulate a manufacturing renaissance in America. The impact of these developments will have a long duration. However, recent declines in the price of oil will have an asymmetric impact on the energy producers and will affect M&A activity in that field. Investors should focus on the most efficient producers, who can make a profit even if oil drops to $70/barrel.
Digital healthcare. The high cost of health care will be ameliorated by digital technology—this isn't just digitization of medical records. Digitization entails making biology predictable through the collection of data, the subsequent analysis of each patient's health, and the delivery of therapies to treat the specific needs of patients. Medicine will become "personalized." The sense of panelists Bob Hugin, Sam Isaly, Bryan Johnson, and Bob Hariri was that Obamacare is here to stay, though we are likely to see significant amendments to the healthcare legislation. Bryan Johnson said that "the returns in programmable biology will be astronomical," as if the operating system of the medical system were completely rewritten.
Cybersecurity. Kathy Warden asserted that one of the biggest issues in technology is how to defend against cyberattacks. Everyone is at risk for these attacks, launched by both individuals and nation-states. Therefore, investment in "predictive threat detection" will be needed and well-rewarded. CEOs will find the budget to cover such investments because the consequences of failing to defend against such risks are huge.
Abundance. Peter Diamandis, the founder of the X-Prize, told us that the news media overemphasize negative news, when in fact human existence is getting better and better at an exponential rate. He offered a host of metrics in areas such as digitization of information, dematerialization, democratization, and demonetization. "100 years old will become the new 60." Healthcare and education will experience "massive disruption." In the process of realizing this new abundance, whole industries will be disrupted: "linear thinking companies will be disrupted by exponential-thinking" innovators. Diamandis plugged his new book, Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, which elaborates on the thesis. A question from the audience prompted Diamandis to say that his two favorite investment areas are human longevity and planetary exploration—he is actively exploring the possibility of mining asteroids.
Information technology. Ned Hooper said that some pundits had decried the decline in R&D by corporations. Yet he showed data that the rate of innovation in information technology had in fact never declined and instead had been growing exponentially. Microprocessors, solid-state storage, cloud computing, mobility and wireless ("everything connected everywhere wirelessly"), cloud software platforms, and data gathering and analytics—all of these areas show breakout rates of growth. A panel including Hooper, Charles Cory, John Siegel, and Michael Sola identified some specific sectors of information technology for special attention: the cloud (such as Amazon Web Services), software as a service (SaaS), and security. In response to a question from the audience, John Siegel said that he expected four firms to emerge as significant players from the current tech environment: Google, Microsoft (yes, a turnaround under the new CEO), Amazon, and IBM. Memorable quotes: "One thing you get in tech is a very short memory" (Ned Hooper); "Find a seam in a large growth market and work it hard" (Hooper), "Strategy is for amateurs; operations is for professionals" (Hooper quoting General George S. Patton), "we've seen a dramatic decline in the risk premium for investing in growth" (Hooper), "as costs of computing and storage go to zero, security becomes more important" (Cory), " CEOs will find funds for security because being vulnerable to hacking is a risk for which CEOs can get fired" (Cory), "Amazon has great staying power; it's not about generating earnings but about disrupting markets" (Sola), "Amazon is really the most advanced distribution company in the world, an interesting merchant enabled by technology rather than a tech company" (Cory). In response to a question from the audience, the panel asked for a show of hands: "are you more concerned about cybersecurity or privacy?" The audience voted heavily for cybersecurity.
Big pivot. Nancy Lazar urged us to close the book on everything we know. We are paying too much attention to the bad conditions of the past few years. Instead, the fundamentals point to the fact that America is at a turning point toward prosperity, much as it was in the early 1980s. She said, "I am exceptionally bullish on the U.S." These fundamentals include the plunge in the price of hydrocarbons, the decline in global short-term interest rates, deleveraging of the U.S. economy, growth in U.S. bank loans, growth in U.S. government spending, growth in real private GDP and capital spending, a "smarter" U.S. consumer, a moderate housing recovery, the manufacturing renaissance, and the "huge strengthening" of the dollar. I cannot remember having heard a more buoyant economist.
Argentina. Kyle Bass lent a surprising close to the conference with a presentation on the attractiveness of investing in Argentina's sovereign debt. He is an event-driven investor who looks for outsized returns based on an assessment of probabilities—in the case of Argentina, these assessments consider the resolution of court cases, the actions of "hold-out" investors, and the outcome of a forthcoming Presidential election there. Bass said that he, too, is "bullish on the U.S." and believes that we will see a massively strong dollar. He also quoted a statement by Ben Bernanke in a private meeting that "interest rates will not normalize in our lifetime."
Advice to students.
1. Learn to code—not to be professional software coders, but to be able to talk to those who are. (Cory)
2. Develop an ability to think creatively (differently and faster). (Johnson)
3. Think hard about risk: evaluate it, assess your appetite for it. And be careful of the obvious: to be in a "low risk" job in a firm and industry that are "low risk" may mean that you are ripe for disruption and therefore in an extremely risky place. (Hooper)
My take
Are happy times here again? Maybe. All this talk about disruption means that we may face a rather volatile era: winners winning a lot; losers losing a lot. Some folks are likely to wind up worse off. As automation and artificial intelligence displace workers in the middle of corporate organizations, we're likely to see some arresting developments—I've blogged earlier about this point and referenced a book by Brynjolfson and McAfee who provide a longer discussion. During a break, one participant said that the vaulting tech forecasts seemed a bit arrogant in the face of the possible human cost.
All of the forecasts at this conference suggest to me that America may be where it was in, say the mid-1930s or late 1870s: times of enormous technological, political, and social change. In such times it is better to be relatively young, well-educated, with a strong social network, and relatively risk-tolerant. These are interesting times—which reminds me of the apocryphal Chinese curse, "May you be born in interesting times."
We'll convene the University of Virginia Investing Conference again next year. Watch the website of the Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management for forthcoming details. And if you find these notes interesting, join us next year!

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Thank you and yes I did. :3 The paint horse is the most recent and the black one was the first. The horses and the wings are all my own patterns as well.
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By LARRY ROHTER
Published: August 23, 2002
TRAIRÃO, Brazil, Aug. 19— By decree, the official burning season here in the Amazon is supposed to be severely limited in scope and not to start until Sept. 15. Yet the skies south of here are already thick with smoke as big landowners set the jungle ablaze to clear the way for cattle pasture and lucrative crops like soybeans.
The Amazon basin, which is larger than all of Europe and extends over nine countries, accounts for more than half of what remains of the world's tropical forests. But in spite of heightened efforts in recent years to limit deforestation and encourage ''sustainable development,'' the assault on its resources continues, with Brazil in the lead.
On Monday, the United Nations' World Summit on Sustainable Development is scheduled to begin in Johannesburg. That conference comes 10 years after an Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which was attended by more than 100 nations. The participants signed a series of ambitious agreements that were aimed at protecting forests, oceans, the atmosphere and wildlife.
As the host country, Brazil was one of the sponsors of those accords. Within three years, however, the annual deforestation rate in the Amazon, which accounts for nearly 60 percent of Brazil's territory, had doubled, to nearly 12,000 square miles, an area about the size of Maryland.
Since then, the rate of destruction has slowed and the government has begun numerous initiatives aimed at further curbing the cutting and burning of the forest. Just this week, the government announced the creation of the world's largest tropical national park, in the northern state of Amapá near the border with French Guyana.
But the Brazilian jungle is still disappearing at a rate of more than 6,000 square miles a year, an area the size of Connecticut. What is more, the deforestation is likely to accelerate, environmentalists warn, as the government moves ahead with an ambitious $43 billion eight-year infrastructure program known as Brazil Advances, aimed at improving the livelihoods of the 17 million people in the Amazon.
Over the last 30 years, most destruction in the Amazon has been in a 2,000-mile-long ''arc of deforestation'' along the southern and eastern fringe of the jungle. But now the government is moving to turn the Cuiabá-Santarém road, which slices through the heart of the forest, into a paved, all-weather highway so that farmers to the south can more easily transport soybeans and other products to the Amazon River and then to Europe.
Soybean production has begun to play a big role in the destruction of the jungle. Both the deforestation here and the growing pressure to finish paving the highway are to a large extent driven by economic developments half a world away, in China. Rising incomes there have created a huge and expanding middle class whose appetite for soybeans is growing rapidly.
As recently as 1993, the year after the Rio conference, China was still a soybean exporter. Now it is the world's biggest importer of soy oil, meal and beans. Brazil, the largest exporter of soy products after the United States, is rushing to meet that demand.
The potential environmental impact of covering the 1,100-mile-long road with asphalt is enormous. About 80 percent of deforestation in the Amazon occurs in a 31-mile corridor on either side of highways and roads, and when these are paved ''deforestation goes up tremendously,'' said Philip Fearnside, a researcher at the National Institute for Amazon Research in Manaus, known as INPA.
A paved section of the highway ends barely 12 miles from here, putting this remote and dusty town of 14,000 on the front line of the agricultural frontier.
Dozens of sawmills now operate along the road where just a handful existed five years ago, and at night, after government inspectors have gone home, trucks carrying illegal loads of valuable hardwoods rattle down side roads that lead deep into the jungle.
''The sensation is that of being on a battlefield and not having the weapons to defend ourselves,'' said the Rev. Anselmo Ferreira Melo, the parish priest here.
Trairão, founded in 1993, is named for a game fish that has traditionally been plentiful throughout the Amazon. But the new lumber yards here are dumping so much sawdust into local streams that the fish population has dropped sharply.
No one knows exactly the quantity of greenhouse gases Brazil is already pumping into the atmosphere as a result of such efforts to tame its vast jungle. Though a national inventory of carbon emissions was supposed to have been announced three years ago, it still has not been made public.
But scientists at INPA estimate that Brazil's carbon emissions may have risen as much as 50 percent since 1990. They calculate that ''land use changes,'' most of which occur in the Amazon, now pour about 400 million tons of greenhouse gases into the air each year, dwarfing the 90 million tons annually from fossil fuel use in Brazil and making it one of the 10 top polluters in the world.
Part of the recent decline in deforestation rates is attributable to the Brazilian economy, whose rapid growth was responsible for the spike of the mid-1990's but has since cooled. Weather patterns have also been implicated in the drop. But scientists also credit specific Brazilian government steps for the improved performance.


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The Chicago Wolves are set to hold their annual Get Fed by the Wolves fundraiser on Sunday, Dec. 6, at Adobe Gila's in Rosemont.
Fans can again join in as players trade their skates for aprons and serve up delicious food to raise money for Chicago Wolves Charities. The players and coaches turn in their tips, auction their T-shirts, and host raffles and auctions with great prizes — all to support a great cause, Chicago Wolves Charities.
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A Comparative Empirical Examination of Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Four Asian Economies: People's Republic of China; Japan; Republic of Korea; and Taipei,China
Fung, K. C., Garcia-Herrero, Alicia, Siu, Alan, Asian Development Review
This paper compares and contrasts the determinants of outward foreign direct investment from the People's Republic of China (PRC) with those of outward foreign direct investment from Japan, Republic of Korea, and Taipei,China. The paper examines descriptively and econometrically the motives and factors behind the investment abroad from these four Asian economies. The hypotheses being tested include the market-seeking hypothesis, the natural resource-seeking hypothesis, the technology acquisition hypothesis, and the human capital hypothesis. The paper examines outward foreign direct investment by the PRC for the years 1991-2006, Japan for 1983-2007, the Republic of Korea for 1980-2007, and Taipei,China for 1968-2007. Results using the full set of determinants yield uniform support for the market-seeking hypothesis. The natural resource-seeking motive holds for Japan and the Republic of Korea, while the technology acquisition hypothesis seems relevant for Taipei,China. The PRC's investments tend to go to destinations with poorer labor quality. In addition, openness is important for Japanese investment abroad, while distance deters investment from the PRC and Republic of Korea.
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In recent years, the spectacular growth of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has attracted increasing attention from scholars and policymakers. Measured by market exchange rates and using the official government figures, the PRCs gross domestic product (GDP) reached $4.4 trillion in 2008. The PRC has surpassed Germany as the third largest economy in the world. Facing the ongoing global financial and credit crisis, it is expected that the pace of this economic growth will slow down. However, to combat slower economic growth, the government of the PRC has been implementing a stimulus package worth more than $580 billion. Forecasts of the current growth rate of the PRC vary, but most expect that the PRC will still meet its target 8 percent growth in 2009.1
As the PRC has grown, its inward direct investment has also increased substantially. According to UNCTAD (2008), foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows reached $83.5 billion in 2007. A large literature has emerged on studying various aspects of FDI flowing into the PRC (see, e.g., Fung et al. 2005). But a more interesting trend has caught the attention of scholars and policymakers in the last few years: the surge of FDI outflows from emerging economies like the PRC. Again according to UNCTAD (2008), the PRCs outward FDI flows increased from $21 .2 billion in 2006 to $22.5 billion in 2007. There are indications that the outflows will continue in the near future. From January to mid- July of 2008, the PRC already announced more than 130 foreign merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. In 2008, the PRCs outward M&As exceeded $26 billion (Wall Street Journal 2008).
This paper aims to examine the pattern and motives of the PRCs outward FDI and to compare the PRCs outward FDI with the past experiences of its richer neighbors such as Japan; Taipei,China; and Republic of Korea (henceforth Korea).2 One of the motivations of such comparisons is to ascertain whether the current wave of the PRCs FDI outflows follows the pattern of previous East Asian experiences. In other words, are outflows from the PRC different or do they follow a fairly typical East Asian pattern?
The organization of the paper is as follows: Section II provides a survey of the relevant literature on FDI outflows. Section III gives an overview of outward FDI from PRC; Japan; Korea; and Taipei,China. Section IV empirically analyzes the determinants of outward FDI for these four Asian economies. First, regressions are run for each economy to determine which of a full set of home and host economy variables influences outward FDI. Due to a fair amount of missing data that differs for each economy, the results of these regressions are not entirely satisfactory. …


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Within the past 18 months, researchers have increased the number of independent genetic "hotspots," or loci, confidently associated with psoriasis from oneHLA-Cw6, previously identified by Elder, et al., in 2006to 10. Four of these have been identified for the first time by this study, and two more have since been confirmed by these researchers.
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The team looked for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), or DNA changes, at 438,670 sites in 1,359 psoriasis cases and 1,400 healthy controls. Initial scans signaled differences in at least three previously identified DNA sites, with HLA-Cw6 producing the strongest genetic signal. They then expanded the study to look at 18 of the most interesting loci in an additional 5,048 cases and 5,051 controls.
In all, seven of the 18 loci showed consistently strong association with psoriasis. As a result, four proteins produced from the altered DNA code now can be targeted for further study.
This study is the first to identify changes in the IL23A gene in psoriasis patients. Notably, two of the previously identified psoriasis genes (IL12B and IL23R) encode proteins that bind to IL23A protein. Variations in the structure any of these three genes may predispose people to chronic immune responses that ultimately result in psoriasis.
The team also found that genetic signals for proteins activated by TNF-, a key signaling molecule involved in inflammation, are distinct from the patterns in healthy controls. Two genes activated by TNF-TNFAIP3 and TNIP1show strong association with psoriasis. Together, these genes limit immune responses. Genetic alterations in this "brake" may allow the immune system to work overtime within the skin. Variants of TNFAIP3 also have been associated with rheum
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Have anyone successfully transfers files from 1 Xbox to another one thru FTP?
I conected 2 boxes to my router and opened a session on each box. Tried to transfer files but i was unable to to so. It says something like "port 2, passive mode not implemented..blablabla"
Tried to turn off pasv mode and also check "Alternitive upload/download method". But with no luck.
It does create directories. But not files.
I had to install webdrive and copy thru there. But it seems that it caches the files on the HD anyway, coz it trasnfered the files twice. I want to FXP så that it goes straight to the other box.
Can someone spread some light on this?
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evo-x ftpd wasn't setup for fxp, won't work no matter your settings.
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Why the rapper-slash-pop-star shut down a New York Times Magazine writer who suggested she loves to squabble
''Why would a grown-ass woman thrive off drama?''
That's the question Nicki Minaj posed to the writer Vanessa Grigoriadis shortly before she threw her out of the hotel room where they'd been chatting for a New York Times Magazine profile. Grigoriadis had asked about public feuds between Minaj's boyfriend Meek Mill and her labelmate Drake, and between her mentor Lil Wayne and their label boss Birdman—and proposed, tentatively, that Minaj might enjoy the squabbling between the guys around her.
"What do the four men you just named have to do with me thriving off drama?" Minaj continued. "Why would you even say that? That's so peculiar. Four grown-ass men are having issues between themselves, and you're asking me do I thrive off drama?"
What will happen to digital collections of books, movies, and music when the tech giants fall?
When you purchase a movie from Amazon Instant Video, you're not buying it, exactly. It's more like renting indefinitely.
This distinction matters if your notion of "buying" is that you pay for something once and then you get to keep that thing for as long as you want. Increasingly, in the world of digital goods, a purchasing transaction isn't that simple.
There are two key differences between buying media in a physical format versus a digital one. First, there's the technical aspect: Maintaining long-term access to a file requires a hard copy of it—that means, for example, downloading a film, not just streaming from a third party's server. The second distinction is a bit more complicated, and it has to do with how the law has shaped digital rights in the past 15 years. It helps to think about the experience of a person giving up CDs and using iTunes for music purchases instead.
American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that's left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they've failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report "The Negro Family" tragically helped create this system, it's time to reclaim his original intent.
By his own lights, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, ambassador, senator, sociologist, and itinerant American intellectual, was the product of a broken home and a pathological family. He was born in 1927 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but raised mostly in New York City. When Moynihan was 10 years old, his father, John, left the family, plunging it into poverty. Moynihan's mother, Margaret, remarried, had another child, divorced, moved to Indiana to stay with relatives, then returned to New York, where she worked as a nurse. Moynihan's childhood—a tangle of poverty, remarriage, relocation, and single motherhood—contrasted starkly with the idyllic American family life he would later extol.
If conservatives deny Kevin McCarthy the 218 votes he needs to win, just about anything's possible.
Jason Chaffetz's long-shot candidacy for House speaker is predicated on chaos.
The Utah Republican is making no claims that he—or anyone else—can defeat Kevin McCarthy when the 247-member House Republican conference gathers behind closed doors on Thursday to elect their next leader. But Chaffetz's theory of the case is that no matter what happens in that meeting, McCarthy can't get the 218 votes he'll need to formally win election by the full House as speaker. At least 30 arch-conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus will oppose McCarthy during the floor vote on October 29, and then the House will be deadlocked.
That scenario is precisely what frightens rank-and-file Republicans.
The House could become institutionally paralyzed until it found a candidate that a majority of its voting members supported as speaker. And if the Republican leader fell short on the first ballot, there's no guarantee the party would quickly settle on someone else. "We've got to figure out how to get to 218 before we get to the floor. Because otherwise we could be literally doing this through the fall," said Representative Tom Rooney, a McCarthy ally from Florida.
In an NPR interview, the Pretenders singer compared comments about her book—and its description of her sexual assault—to a "lynch mob."
In maybe one of the most uncomfortable NPR interviews since Joaquin Phoenix went on Fresh Air, the Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde spoke with Morning Edition's David Greene on Tuesday about her book, Reckless. Or, more specifically, about the mass outrage sparked by the section in which she writes about being sexually assaulted at the age of 21 by a group of bikers, and of taking "full responsibility" for it.
GREENE: I'll just read a little bit here: "The hairy horde looked at each other. It was their lucky day. 'How bout yous come to our place for a party.'" And you ended up with them, and then you proceeded to describe what they were asking you to do. "'Get your bleeping clothes off, shut the bleep up, hurry up, we got bleep to do, hit her in the back of the head so it don't leave no marks.'" This certainly sounds like an awful, awful experience with these men.
HYNDE: Uh, yeah. I suppose, if that's how you read it, then that, yeah. You know, I was having fun, because I was so stoned. I didn't even care. That's what I was talking about, I was talking about the drugs more than anything, and how f***** up we were. And how it impaired our judgment to the point where it just had gotten off the scale.
Forget the Common Core, Finland's youngsters are in charge of determining what happens in the classroom.
"The changes to kindergarten make me sick," a veteran teacher in Arkansas recently admitted to me. "Think about what you did in first grade—that's what my 5-year-old babies are expected to do."
The difference between first grade and kindergarten may not seem like much, but what I remember about my first-grade experience in the mid-90s doesn't match the kindergarten she described in her email: three and a half hours of daily literacy instruction, an hour and a half of daily math instruction, 20 minutes of daily "physical activity time" (officially banned from being called "recess") and two 56-question standardized tests in literacy and math—on the fourth week of school.
That American friend—who teaches 20 students without an aide—has fought to integrate 30 minutes of "station time" into the literacy block, which includes "blocks, science, magnetic letters, play dough with letter stamps to practice words, books, and storytelling." But the most controversial area of her classroom isn't the blocks nor the stamps: Rather, it's the "house station with dolls and toy food"—items her district tried to remove last year. The implication was clear: There's no time for play in kindergarten anymore.
African American employees tend to receive more scrutiny from their bosses than their white colleagues, meaning that small mistakes are more likely to be caught, which over time leads to worse performance reviews and lower wages.
For decades, black parents have told their children that in order to succeed despite racial discrimination, they need to be "twice as good": twice as smart, twice as dependable, twice as talented. This advice can be found in everything from literature to television shows, to day-to-day conversation. Now, a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that when it comes to getting and keeping jobs, that notion might be more than just a platitude.
There's data that demonstrates the unfortunate reality: Black workers receive extra scrutiny from bosses, which can lead to worse performance reviews, lower wages, and even job loss. The NBER paper, authored by Costas Cavounidis and Kevin Lang, of Boston University, attempts to demonstrate how discrimination factors into company decisions, and creates a feedback loop, resulting in racial gaps in the labor force.
The IRS may have a 'blind spot' when it comes to regulating postsecondary institutions.
A new report suggests that the former for-profit owners of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education, Everglades College, Herzing University, and Remington Colleges are still reaping millions.
The psychologist Sherry Turkle argues that replacing face-to-face communication with smartphones is diminishing people's capacity for empathy.
Many of my daily conversations don't involve eye contact. My roommate texts me from a neighboring bedroom. My boss sends me an instant message from a few feet away. Sometimes, the substitution of face-to-face talk for words on a screen makes me uneasy. Yet other days, it slips past unnoticed, and I too reach for a keyboard instead of finding someone's gaze.
Sherry Turkle, a clinical psychologist and sociologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has spent the past 30 years observing how people react and adapt to new technologies that change the way we communicate. In her latest book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Turkle argues that texts, tweets, Facebook posts, emails, instant messages, and snapchats—simultaneous, rapid-fire "sips" of online communication—have replaced face-to-face conversation, and that people are noticing the consequences. Over-reliance on devices, she argues, is harming our ability to have valuable face-to-face conversations, "the most human thing we do," by splitting our attention and diminishing our capacity for empathy.
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like. Here's why that's disastrous for education—and mental health.
Something strange is happening at America's colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in "that violates the law") lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she'd sent filed Title IX complaints against her. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. "I'm a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me," the headline said. A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses (see Caitlin Flanagan's article in this month's issue). Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can't take a joke.
Rehabilitation and reform in America's largest maximum security prison
In his October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how mass incarceration has affected African American families.
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Great family fun. The interactive children's part before the actual show was a highlight. The circus was good times, though obviously not at be level of Cirque du Soleil. Of course it's a quarter of the price, so no complaints here.
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A nickname given to me by my clients. Also can be used to describe someone who is gay. Most of the time it refers to a transexual, transvestite, gay man.
I am anarhi's lady boy.
od uživatele Michae Rehmeyer 06. Listopad 2007
a transvestite - a boy acting lilke a bitch, ie wearing bitch clothes and make-up
Jack is a lady-boy for wearing a mini-skirt
od uživatele rickstar 05. Březen 2003
A female IMVU user with a male avatar which she dresses in traditionally female clothing. Common in the IMVU yaoi fandoms.
"At first I thought that was a guy in drag, but it turns out it was a ladyboy."
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Thai family tradition that one male son become a Lady-Boy
Oh shit this club is full of boxing Thai Lady-Boys
od uživatele chrus 31. Květen 2003
See Sessshomaru for details. >_<;
od uživatele MedievalKenieval 31. Srpen 2003
Drink consisting of a Baileys, a gin and tonic and a pint of lager.
A drink one might order at a travel tavern.
od uživatele LoopyL 04. Květen 2005
A hermaphrodite who is half lady, half boy, and all gay. They tend to drive around in big pedophile vans and trick children inside with promises of cakes and cookies.
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This is a great recipe anytime of the year because it is not too heavy. I like to use one can each of garbanzo beans, kidney beans and black beans. I rinse the black beans so it doesn't discolor the broth. In addition to using avocados and cilantro at the end, I also like finely chopped red onions too.flag if inappropriate
Simple and delicious. I used Alaska moose instead, with two cans of garbanzos and added fresh tomatoes.flag if inappropriate
This is a great, hearty, winter-time soup. I used Italian turkey sausage, so it was spicy enough without the jalapeño. Two cans of beans is plenty. I also added sautéed onions, which were a good touch. It was even great without the cilantro and avocado!flag if inappropriate
This was okay, but the recipe on this site for Pasta Sausage Bean Ragout was better (using only Italian turkey sausage).flag if inappropriate
Super easy, I've been making this recipe for years! If the butcher doesn't have turkey sausage, sweet Italian sausage makes a great substitute. If you don't feel like dicing a pepper, just get a can of diced tomatoes with green chilis.flag if inappropriate
Fantastic!!! I love this soup. Easy and insanely good. I add a few julienned Thai chilies for some extra heat.flag if inappropriate
Very easy and delicious. I only used 2 cans of beans and added escarole at the end. I will mention that you don't need to season much as the spicy turkey sausage and the chicken broth add plenty of flavor.flag if inappropriate
SPICY! Partially depends on what sausage one uses. Definitely needs the avocado to cool it off.flag if inappropriate
Great flavor. Used spicy Italian turkey sausage and definitely recommend it if you want a bit more spice. Freezes well too.flag if inappropriate
Very good. I went with two cans of chickpeas and beef broth. I'll add a bit more jalapeño next time since it was a little mild for our taste. Served it with cornbread and veggie crudités.flag if inappropriate


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She looks so awkward in a dress, come here baby, let me take that off for you.
You can dress her up but she's still gonna be drunk, shoeless, with smeared mascara, and smelling like puke hair by the end of the night.
exactly why i love her.
face of DOG. seriously. enough with this ugly bitch.
She is just a party girl.
They must have caught her mid-sneeze…this is the closest to a smile I've ever seen on her face.
She learned from Reese Witherspoon how to maintain her center of gravity in awkward positions by using her chin.
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Looks like someone threw their back out trying to get work.
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It is hard to believe that this is a prototype. This really shows that gameplay is key, and is usually better than visuals. Great work, recently bought Super Meat Boy and am going to play it soon, hope it improves upon the already superb gameplay in this prototype.
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Wonderful story John, I spent at least an 1/2 hour reading of your exploits. Outstanding. You must have quite a system to keep track of all the things you do. How do you do it? You have inspired me to get on the air some more. Worked VE2DHS tonight on 40 CW and chatted for quite a while. My "streak" is now 1 day Hihi! I should say I haven't gone to 5 w (using K3 at about 90 watts) but will give that a try tomorrow. Bands are not great now. Been licensed since 1967. Thanks again!
- Harris K9RJ - Alamo, CA - Oct 3
hope to get back on air soon.Qrp sounds greatNeed rig.When w9zwjwas 20mtr fone ran a gallon many moons ago. 73s Frank
- Frank Yaffe k6dfa ex w9zwj - Apple Valley, CA - Sep 28
Looking forward to CW after many years of phone. QRP will get me back on the air.
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Enjoyed our 40 meter QSO and sorry I had to rush off so quickly! Looking forward to our next chat.
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Enjoyed working you this evening and came up to check out your web page.
- Terry K0IEO - Columbus, OH - Sep 5
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John, You have a great web site. Tnx for keeping the interest in cw going. I use the Icom 703 with a horizontal loop at 25feet, works great. Hope to work you on down the log. 73,Richard,K0RDS
- Richard Swanson, K0RDS - San Antonio, TX - Aug 22
Former brass pounder, Southern Pacific RR, Portland. Ore., sparks, Texaco Tanker, submarine SS475, Argonaut crew.
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I love ur web site. Lots of gud info for a CW op. Tnx for ur hard work es devotion to the Hobby. 73 Elmer W6ERL
- Elmer W6ERL <
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I've been a ham radio for over 35 years now but rediscovered CW last year and fell in love with QRP. 73, Luciano Gasparini PT9KK
- Luciano Gasparini Nachif PT9KK - Campo Grande, Brazil - Aug 8
Would like to try QRP on CW.
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You have an awesome site.
> - Columbus, IN - Jul 27
CW is the language of radio!
- Gary Striker KB4K <
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QRP with wire antennas only. I run the KX3, LD-5, and HB-1A transceivers depending on what I am doing. KX3 is main rig. Was QRT for several years and came back big time this year going for DXCC with 5 watts. Well on my way. You have a very nice website.
- Dave Edger N3CI - Choctaw, OK - Jul 15
I came to see a list of operations signals in Morse code. Still hope to find it, if it is still here. [See http://k3wwp.com/cw_ss_list_abbr.html (CW Section, Lists page)] But, I have really enjoyed looking around and getting your take operating on Low power and promotion of HAM radio. Thanks for your effort and passion.
- Paul Wolf (NON- HAM) - Newport News, VA - Jul 14
Lots of great work on promoting Morse code and QRP. Love your Web site. Keep up the great work John
- John, GI4EBS - Limavady, Northern Ireland - Jun 26
CW and home brewing forever! I worked 30 states on 7053 CW between 1962 and 1971 using a home brew 1-watt (2N696 finals) transmitter along with a home brew receiver utilizing a 7-transistor AM radio as the I.F. stage.
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Vlado,Z35M - Skopje, Macedonia - Jun 12
I love CW and I'm discovering just how much fun QRP can be.
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Had the pleasure of meeting you at the breeze shooters hamfest. I visit your page often for inspiration.
- Matt. KB3CT - Beaver Falls, PA - Jun 11
Thanks for keeping this site up. I use it for many different reasons. One is to promote ham radio.
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Thanks for the update on the pre field day test. 73
- Mal N2QFD - Elmira, NY - May 18
Thanks for a great informational web site. A one stop site. It is now my first,to go to, site. Keep up the great work. 73 kcdzra
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Great article
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Nice site great info thanks....
- Ve7jis - Sayward, BC - Apr 22
Nice site great info thanks....
- Ve7bbg - Sayward, BC - Apr 22
Very nice site, John. Great job. Hope to work you with my KX3 from Florida. Will be listening for you. Best 73, Bill
- Bill - N4VHR - Palatka, FL - Apr 20
Have enjoyed the info on your site.
- Dave, KB8XG - Muskegon, MI - Apr 14
someday I will be communicating in Morse
- Bob Hoey KI4RSE - Alexandria, VA - Apr 14
Great site. Tnx fer your efforts. 73/don/k0kuz
- Don k0kuz - Landers, CA - Apr 13
K3WWP, Thank you for this site and for your long standing promotion of qrp and morse code. K6ZQ
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Hi Guys I am just getting back on the air after a break of 15 years. I have always had an interest in QRP, in so much that even with my QRO Rigs I used to turn the power down to QRP levels. I did build and still possess a Lake DTR 7 40M CW Only Kit, and can still remember the thrill of working stations who gave me the same signal report as I'd given them using this little rig whilst they were using rigs costing in the thousands of $$$$$. I have just aquired a very nice fully loaded Elecraft K2 and so am looking forward at getting active again in our wonderful hobby. Hope to work some of you soon! 73's Nick G0HFL
- Nick Major G0HFL - Earl Shilton, England - Mar 26
Hi John, saw your site referenced and dropped by, remembering your call and us having had several qso's over the years. Your log says we had 11 qso's between 1993-2008, on 160-80-40 & 30 M. I became inactive in 2009 for about 3-1/2 years due to work but I'm retired now. I'm going to keep my ears open for you and we can pick up where we left off last.COMMENTS
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Gearing up for my first CW contact ever - and I want it to be QRP. Just getting the courage and learning the ropes - this site houses a wealth of knowledge to encourage me and point me in the correct direction. Thanks
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73 es good DX
- John KC9YAZ - Frankfort, IL - Mar 16
Morse Beginner's and QRP'ers Welcome to Email me & sked a QSO. QRP or QRO. VY 72/73 lane
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Nice site!
- Dan VE7MRP - Port Moody, BC - Mar 9
I'm a novice ham just got my license.Look forward to learnig and using CW. Keep up the good work. Thanks, G. Evans
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Hello from QRP station WA5SAT
- WA5SAT - San Antonio, TX - Feb 25
Hi John, I find your website informative and interesting. I like seeing pictures of your station as well as some of the diagrams and CW operating procedures.
- Matt W6YNS - Crestline, CA - Feb 23
No working HF antenna's at the moment. Since it is currently about 0 degrees F & there is about 2 feet of snow in the back yard and on the roof, I will use the time between now and snow melt to brush up on my CW skills.
- Dave Deitrick KB8XG - Norton Shores, MI - Feb 23
Nice site.Great info.Thanks
- Dennis Reagin W7KB - Vail, AZ - Feb 21
Hello John, a great, well sorted URL. I think i've stuff to read the next evenings. 73 Juergen
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Thanks or your website! I recently purchased a KX3 and am getting back up to speed on CW. Finally active again after 25 years!
- John Stanton - Rush, NY - Feb 19
John Thanks for your inspiring web site. I'm returning ham caught by the cw and especially qrp. Hope to catch you on the air again and again. Val Atlanta WD4EXI
- Val WD4EXI - Atlanta, GA - Feb 16
Nice site..I have an easy mod for early knwd xcvrs like TS-520 for what I call Qrpp op. Lets u run from abt 5mW to abt 700mW.. Its fun and inexpensive way for muti band ops.. 73,s Joe
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Nicely done! Look forward to seeing you on the cw bands!
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I am getting back into radio after a long break, and looking forward to what is to come
- Mike K8HA - New Lebanon, OH - Feb 7
Love the challenge of qrp better than contesting
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Thank you for continuing to promote CW.
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Interesting page, Station development like mine since 1958. These years QRP and CW is more and more interesting. There the gentlemen still are! Since 2012 worked 230 countries and WAS in 5w. See my QRZ.com. HNY Benny OH9NB
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You learn something new everyday, especially coming across your tried and trusted website. Many thanks. Mark.
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