![]() TX-Morse downloadable Software TX-Morse is a Morse code training tool to help you to improve your Morse code proficiency. It is aimed primarily at Ham radio operators but may be used to help pilots or anyone else to learn the code. Features include: - Multiple text sources, including user supplied text, random text groups, random callsigns, random abbreviations, and random QSOs. - Complete control of code rate, volume and frequency. - Three learning modes; display during output, single character testing, and full speed code entry. - Test scoring to quickly compare output to your input. (Registration required.) Registration gives you: - Almost 3 billion generated QSOs. - Test scoring. The basic version has plenty of functionality however. ![]() Anne of Green Gables - The Continuing Story $19.99 In a departure from L.M. Montgomery's book series, this third TV movie jumps ahead to World War I and puts Anne and her beloved Gilbert smack in the middle of it. Instead of marrying Gilbert after her teaching days--as she does in the books--Anne spends a disillusioning year with him in New York City, and then the couple quickly marries before the good doctor ships out to France. (In the book Rilla of Ingleside, Anne's sons go to war and her youngest daughter is separated from her sweetheart.) Impetuous as ever, Anne joins the Red Cross and crosses the pond to track down her husband when his letters are returned unread. What follows is an adventure that takes her through battle zones--where the bodies pile up faster than you can say Saving Private Ryan--and on to London with a half-orphaned baby, her best friend's injured husband, and a tangle of international intrigue. Fans of the 10-book series may balk at the divergences and the fact that very little time is spent on Prince Edward Island. But the book's unrestrained romanticism and unapologetic sentimentality remain intact, as well as the surviving cast of the prior two movies, most notably Megan Follows as Anne and Jonathan Crombie as Gilbert. This movie, produced in 2000, clocks in at 185 minutes and is suitable for ages 9 and older. --Kimberly Heinrichs ![]() Contact $14.98 The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these day--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact traces the journey between those two visual epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel, Contact is exceptionally thoughtful and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction picture, with elements that recall everything from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster's solid performance (and some really incredible alien hardware) keep viewers interested, even when the story skips and meanders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest) reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is all of these things and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation, but whatever conclusions one eventually draws, Contact deserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio filmmaking on a personal scale. --Jim Emerson ![]() Essential Equations for the Civil PE Exam Using the Hp 33s $41.25 Time is of the essence during the civil PE exam. Make the most of your time by storing commonly used equations in your HP 33s calculator prior to the exam. Essential Equations for the Civil PE Exam Using the HP 33s gives you all the tools you need to input important equations for the exam in your calculator. Save precious time on the civil PE exam by storing equations in your HP 33s calculator Store 50 frequently used equations covering the 5 disciplines of civil engineering Keystroke-by-keystroke instructions quickly walk you through the necessary steps Images of the corresponding calculator display screens to ensure accuracy 20 specially-selected practice problems with step-by-step solutions show you how to use each of the equations Gain a greater understanding of important equations |
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