- I use my own personal version control system from time to time called MVS. Sometimes I have to convert these repositories to other systems for compatibility reasons. This is a conversion script to facilitate this:
- description is as follows:
# I obviously created my own personal version control system (called
# MVS) for a particular set of circumstances. The problem with MVS is
# it obviously isn't compatible with standard version control systems
# such as CVS, SVN, GIT, etc... That's the purpose of this script. Fill in
# the correct fields and run it to create a repository that is compatible
# with 'standard version control systems'.
#
# As this is the very first version of the program (and I didn't have
# access to the original server while I was cleaning this up it may
# be VERY buggy). Please test prior to deployment in a production
# environment.
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- While assisted reproductive technology (ART), commonly referred to as IVF, revolutionized treatment of infertility from the late seventies, in Africa the services are limited to a few countries like Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. The continent lacks specialists like embryologists, who know how to extract eggs and fertilize them outside the womb.
It has been estimated that for a population to have adequate IVF services, there should be about 1,500 IVF cycles to one million people. An IVF cycle typically consists of four steps: ovarian stimulation, egg collection, insemination and finally embryo transfer. Africa needs about 1.5 million cycles to meet its current population demand for such services. It is nowhere near reaching that goal.
- "Continually maximising profits becomes a zero sum game. If you truly partner with suppliers, you'll develop long term prosperity for both parties to the benefit of customers. If you look after your employees they will enjoy turning up to work and they'll enjoy looking after customers.
"We proudly support an Australian first buying policy and have shared our growth with hundreds of Australian manufacturers and thousands of staff who have been direct benefactors of our business growth.
"We are not a business trying to artificially accelerate market share and we're not looking to match the store count of our competitors. We do not cut corners, we do not abuse our market power, we do not mislead our customers. We do not avoid tax payments, we do not squeeze our suppliers. We keep things simple and we focus our attention on what matters most to consumers."
A Woolworths spokesperson told Fairfax Media: "Dick Smith Foods is an iconic Aussie brand that many of our customers love and support, so we're sad to hear this news.
"More and more of our customers tell us that a one-size-fits-all approach to supermarket ranging doesn't deliver what they want or need.
"It's why our long-term vision is to broaden the range of products we carry across our network, so we can deliver more tailored and locally relevant ranges for our customers in their local store."
Dick Smith Food was established in 1999 as part of an effort by Mr Smith to support Australian farmers and employees. Since then it has had sales of about $480 million. Mr Smith said he had never taken a cent from the business, but had donated about $10 million in profits to various causes, most recently a $1 million donation to the Country Women's Association for drought relief.
Despite his own fortune Mr Smith has long called upon Australia's wealthiest citizens to pay higher taxes and give away more in philanthropy.
- He wrote, “Know that it is not by force that we will win spiritual struggles, rather with spirit. It will not be determined by secular Knesset members, not the money of the destructive New Israel Fund, not the support of the Reform movement in America. All will evaporate in the wind.
“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails,” wrote Aviner, quoting from Proverbs 19:21.
- A report in the U.K.’s Financial Times newspaper has claimed Russian “meddling” in northern Greece is what lead to the expulsion of two Moscow diplomatic staff this week.
Saturday’s story focused on Alexandroupoli in northern Greece where it is claimed the two Russians engaged in paid lobbying in the region, particularly against the ‘North Macedonia‘ deal.
The deal has paved the way for NATO to make an offer of membership talks to Skopje this week.
The FT reported: “The Russian diplomats are believed to have made payments to far-right groups through a local Greek businessman. ‘You can buy a lot of support for €20,000-€30,000 in places like Alexandroupolis where unemployment is high and young people are fed up with all the existing political parties,’ one person said.”
One Western diplomat was quoted as saying: “It’s quite a sophisticated operation that takes place under the cover of promoting longstanding cultural ties between Greece and Russia and their shared Orthodox religious heritage.”
The FT also quotes political analyst Costas Iordanides who says the region’s population of Pontian Greeks — ethnic Greeks and Russian-speakers who once lived in the Soviet Union before migrating to Greece — were a “natural target Russian activism”.
The expelling of Russian diplomats is unprecedented in Greece which, even during the Cold War, did not remove Kremlin staff from the country.
Alexis Tsipras’ left-wing SYRIZA party has also tried to maintain cordial relations with the Kremlin.
However, this week’s incident has seen a new deterioration in relations between Athens and Moscow.
- I'm a proud member of the rabble.
I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.
We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
- At the time there were four main factions in the ruling Workers' Party - the partisans who had fought alongside Kim Il Sung, domestic Communists, those who had been exiled in China, and Soviet Koreans.
A series of purges left Kim's trusted comrades-in-arms as the unquestioned top flight.
"Then the function of the school changed," said Lankov, attributing its prominence to "the militarisation of North Korean society in the 1960s and emergence of the quasi-religious cults of the guerrillas who are essentially presented as apostles to Kim the Great".
Even so its appeal may be waning for the next generation, he added.
"The great-grandchildren of tough and rustic guerrillas have grown spoiled and do not appreciate the tough and simple values of their forebears," he said.
"They would prefer study foreign languages and computer programming, rather than handguns and ways of killing a human with only a short knife."
But Senior Colonel Kim has no doubts.
"We have to educate our schoolboys as the hard core of the Korean People's Army," he said
