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A Note on R. Bezalel Alexandrov's משכן בצלאל and its Prenumeranten
By Shnayer Z. Leiman
Not much appears to be known about R. Bezalel Alexandrov (circa 1850-1930). Born in Grodno, he would ultimately come under the influence of the teachings of R. Yisrael Salanter (1809-1883), largely through the efforts of R. Yitzchak Blazer, i.e., R. Itzel Peterburger (1837-1907). R. Bezalel considered R. Itzel to be his primary teacher, especially during the period they both resided in Kovno. R. Bezalel was a close associate of R. Yosef Yozel Horowitz (1847-1919) of Nevarodok, perhaps the last of the disciples of R. Yisrael Salanter. A musar enthusiast, R. Bezalel served as a moreh zedek (i.e., a dayyan) in Minsk, where he also founded a kibbutz (a kind of kollel for advanced – and mostly married -- students) in the Minsk suburb of Kamerovka.[1]
R. Bezalel published two books in his lifetime, משכן בצלאל (Vilna, 1923) and ילקוט בצלאל (Piotrkow, 1927-9). Both are significant, rarely seen, and often miscatalogued by the few bibliographers who managed to hold copies in their hands. Here, we shall focus primarily on משכן בצלאל.
מפעל הביבליוגרפיה lists only part 1 of משכן בצלאל, with 40 pages. Doubtless, מפעל הביבליוגרפיה's bibliographer recorded exactly what he saw, a bound volume with 40 pages. But, in fact, aside from the 40 page edition, an edition including parts 1 and 2, and totaling 136 pages, was published in a bound volume, also in Vilna, 1923.[2] The book is largely a polemic against young Jewish men who insist on postponing marriage beyond the age of 20.[3] R. Bezalel's second book, ילקוט בצלאל expands the polemic to other public manifestations of disregard for the rules of the Shulhan Arukh , such as the disregard of the mitzvot of ציצית, תפילין, מזוזה, and Sabbath observance.[4] In brief, R. Bezalel was a musarnik who was addressing the Jewish confrontation with modernity in Lita. At one point in his writings, he summarizes the confrontation as follows:[5]
Even aside from their general content, משכן בצלאל and its companion volume ילקוט בצלאל are of special interest for three reasons:
1. They were accorded a letter of approbation from R. Yisrael Meir Ha-Kohen, the חפץ חיים.[6]
For the most part, the חפץ חיים wrote הסכמות with the greatest of reluctance. Generally, he refrained from writing הסכמות, offering a wide range of excuses why he could not do so. These included: he was not worthy to do so; he had not the time to do so; his failing eyesight and old age made it difficult to do so; he feared that by acquiescing to one request, he would be inundated with requests from others; and – most importantly – he had resolved long ago not to write הסכמות. After offering one or the other of these excuses, he would invariably close his letter with words of blessing and encouragement for the author – without a word said about the quality of the book. Nonetheless, it cannot be denied that the חפץ חיים did write a handful of genuinely enthusiastic הסכמות where he praised the books themselves.[7]
It is difficult to categorize the הסכמה written by the חפץ חיים for R. Bezalel Alexandrov's משכן בצלאל. Not a word is said about the content of the book, but much is said about the author. Moreover, the חפץ חיים offers his blessing to all who come to the aid of the author. In context, this clearly means a blessing to all who buy a copy of his book.[8] Indeed, the חפץ חיים himself is listed as the first subscriber to the book (see below, item 3)! Nevertheless, the sense one has from reading the הסכמה is that it was an act of חסד by the חפץ חיים, rallying to the aid of a colleague in need.
2. They record teachings of R. Itzel Peterburger (and other musarniks, such as R. Yisrael Horodner, the Maggid of Minsk[9]) not recorded elsewhere.
Here, one sample will suffice. Although we have many accounts of R. Itzel Peterburger's "vow of silence" during the 40 day period from Rosh Hodesh Elul through Yom Kippur,[10] R. Bezalel's account offers details not recorded elsewhere:[11]
3. A lengthy list of subscribers is appended to משכן בצלאל that sheds light on the history of Vilna's kloyzen.[12]
Lists of subscribers, known as prenumeranten,[13] are significant for a variety of reasons. Often, they tell us how far and wide authors traveled in order to raise the funds necessary for the publication of their books. They tell us who bought the books, and when and where they were purchased. Our list is particularly significant because it is mostly kloyzen driven, i.e., the books were acquired for the libraries of the various synagogues, בתי מדרשים, and kloyzen in Vilna. Indeed, our list includes several kloyzen not listed in the most recent and most comprehensive list of Vilna kloyzen published in 2012![14] Our list also lists key members of the various kloyzen in 1923. There are more such lists of Vilna subscribers and their kloyzen, and they all need to be examined.[15]
Notice that our list includes among the subscribers the חפץ חיים, R. Chaim Ozer Grodzenski, R. Menachem Krakowski (maggid mesharim of Vilna), and R. Boruch Ber Leibowitz (then serving as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Kneses Beis Yitzchak in Vilna, and as a moreh zedek in Vilna). Each is accorded the title הגאון הגדול. Also among the subscribers (fourth on the list) is R. Isaac Rubinstein, listed is the רב מטעם, i.e., "the crown rabbi." It is surely no accident that he is listed as הגאון, but not as הגאון הגדול. He was a distinguished – and tragic – rabbinic figure,[16] and it seems quite clear that R. Bezalel Alexandrov wanted to make a distinction between the various rabbis listed as subscribers.
In sum, the list reproduced here serves as a reminder to scholars that it is not enough to examine archival lists and history books. One often needs to examine other kinds of evidence – such as prenumeranten – that shed much light on Jewish social and intellectual history.[17]
[1] See S. Even-Shoshan, ed., מינסק עיר ואם (Tel-Aviv, 1975), vol. 1, pp. 99-100. Cf. S. Weintraub, נובהרדוק (Bnei Brak, 2014), vol. 1, pp. 255- 257.
[2] A copy of the 136-page edition is available at the Mendel Gottesman Library of Yeshiva University. Neither the 40-page edition nor the 136 page edition is available online on HebrewBooks.org, אוצר החכמה, and אוצרות התורה.
[3] In general, see the sources cited in S. Stampfer, "Marital Patterns in Interwar Poland," in Y. Gutman, ed., The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars (Hanover, 1989), pp. 173-197. Cf. his "The Social Implications of Very Early Marriage," in S. Stampfer, Families, Rabbis and Education (Oxford, 2010), pp. 7-25. None of the social historians seem to have been aware of משכן בצלאל.
[4] ילקוט בצלאל consists of two parts, the first contains 86 pages, and the second contains 102 pages. Part 1 is available online on Hebrew Books and אוצר החכמה, but not on אוצרות התורה. Part 2 is not available online. A copy with parts 1 and 2 is available at the National Library in Jerusalem.
[5] ילקוט בצלאל, part 1, p. 71.
[6] The letter of approbation was designated for משכן בצלאל, where it first appeared. The author took the liberty of reprinting it (together with two other letters of approbation that first appeared in משכן בצלאל) in his ילקוט בצלאל.
[7] See מאיר עיני ישראל (Bnei Brak, 2003), vol. 6, pp. 782-801.
[8] So, apparently, it was understood by R. Bezalel Alexandrov himself. See משכן בצלאל, p. 2.
[9] See, e.g., משכן בצלאל, p. 66. On R. Yisrael, see M. Heilprin,הגדול ממינסק (Jerusalem, 1994), pp. 96, 121-122, and 201.
[10] See, e.g., D. Katz, תנועת המוסר (Tel-Aviv, 1954), vol. 2, pp. 232-235; Ch. E. Zaichyk, המאורות הגדולים (Brooklyn, 1953), pp. 149-165; and M. Blazer, רבי איצלה (Bnei Brak, 2014), pp.475-540. None stresses the fact that R. Itzel, aside from his frequent hortatory Musar talks throughout Yom Kippur eve and day, also led the Kol Nidrei, Musaf, and Nei'lah services! It may well be that R. Itzel didn't do this ordinarily on Yom Kippur (or in his old age), but R. Bezalel offers eyewitness testimony to what he experienced as a youth in Kovno.
[11] ילקוט בצלאל, pp. 31-32. A lengthy דבר תורה by R. Itzel follows the passage excerpted here.
[12] On Vilna's kloyzen, see in general Khaykl Lunski, מהגיטו הוילנאי (Vilna, 1921), pp. 48-65, and the much fuller and more comprehensive listing of 135 (and more) kloyzen in A. Cohen-Mushlin et al, eds., Synagogues in Lithuania N-Z (Vilnius, 2012), pp. 281-353.
[13] On prenumeranten, see Berl Kagan, ספר הפרענומעראנטן [Hebrew Subscription Lists], New York, 1975; Shlomo Katzav, ספר החותמים (Petah Tikvah, 1984), vol. 2; and idem, ספר החותמים (Petah Tikvah, 1992), vol. 3. [See the late Tovia Preschel's review of Berl Kagan's ספר הפרענומעראנטן in the Jewish Press, May 30, 1975, p. 40; I am indebted to Menachem Butler for bringing the review to my attention. More importantly, see the recently published מאמרי טוביה, vol. 1 (Jerusalem, 2016) for a treasure trove of reviews and essays by Tovia Preschel, bibliophile and bibliographer par excellence. No Judaica library – public or private – should be without this volume, and without the full set when brought to completion.] These volumes provide indices to all Hebrew books that include prenumeranten by listing alphabetically all the towns and cities where the authors solicited subscriptions. Under each place listed, appear the titles of all Hebrew books that include subscribers from that place. Thus, if your great-grandfather was from Jaroslaw in southeastern Poland, you would locate the entry "Jaroslaw" in the Kagan or Katzav volumes, and immediately see the appended list of Hebrew books that include prenumeranten from Jaroslaw. You would then have to examine (online or at the library of your choice) each of the titles listed to see if your great-grandfather's name appears on its list of prenumeranten. Cf. below, note 17.
[14] Cf. above, note 12. Thus, for example, בהמ"ד חורשי עצים, בהמ"ד קו"ק, and בהמ"ד פועלי צדק are either not mentioned or not properly identified in Synagogues in Lithuania. בהמ"ד שומר אמונים is mentioned in Synagogues in Lithuania (p. 340) but not identified.
[15] See, e.g., the highly informative list of prenumeranten and kloyzen in Vilna in R. Ch. S. Gluskin, רחשי לב (Bilgoray, 1934), pp. 271-272.
[16] On Rabbi Rubinstein, see G. Bacon, "Rubinstein vs. Grodzinski: The Dispute Over the Vilnius Rabbinate and the Religious Realignment of Vilnius Jewry 1928-1932," in I. Lempertas and L. Lempertiene, eds., The Gaon of Vilnius and the Annals of Jewish Culture (Vilnius, 1998), pp. 295-304, and the references cited in Bacon's note 4.
[17] It is with great joy and much anticipation that we welcome the recent publication of the first volume of קונטרס שמות החותמים (Brooklyn, 2016).
Unlike the indices listed above in note 12, it reproduces the full lists of prenumeranten exactly as they appeared when first printed. The volume contains 670 pages of prenumeranten from lists that appeared in books printed between 1790 and 1840. Presumably, the volumes to follow will print all lists from 1840 through the mid 20th century, when such lists mostly fell into desuetude. If brought to fruition, the entire set will probably consist of four volumes. The advantage of the קונטרס שמות החותמים volumes, of course, is that here we have the names of all the subscribers before our very eyes. The first volume is surely a gold mine of information, but questions remain. Lacking an introduction, we are not informed who is really responsible for the volume; what are its goals; whether or not there will be a full index of titles, names, and places; which libraries are providing the material that is being scanned; and which books are being included and which are being excluded. It seems obvious that either all or most of the books scanned by קונטרס שמות החותמים are from the Lubavitch Library in Brooklyn, certainly one of the world's greatest collections of Judaica. But no single Judaica collection (not even the National Library in Israel) has copies of every Hebrew (and Yiddish) book. Any project attempting to gather all lists of prenumeranten will, by definition, have to be a universal project, involving the great Judaica libraries the world over. It is, for example, unclear, why the first list of prenumeranten in קונטרס שמות החותמים is from 1790, when such lists were quite common throughout much of the last quarter of the 18th century (e.g., יסוד עולם, Berlin, 1777; שבילי דרקיע, Prague, 1784). Despite these misgivings, קונטרס שמות החותמים is certainly a welcome addition to every Jewish bibliophile's bookshelf. What ultimately needs to be done is to have all the lists of prenumeranten gathered together in one place, digitized and OCRed, so that the information contained in them (especially names of persons, names of towns and cities, and dates and places of publication) becomes searchable and retrievable. The yield for תלמידי חכמים, social historians, genealogists, and linguists (spelling of Hebrew and Yiddish names and places, history of surnames) is inestimable.
As a sample of some of the treasures that one can find in the new volume, we reproduce the title page of R. David Friesenhausen's מוסדות תבל (Vienna, 1820), and two of its 14 pages of prenumeranten. These appear on pp. 331, 332, and 345-346 in קונטרס שמות החותמים. [ We have reproduced the pages from the original Vienna, 1820 edition, since the editor of קונטרס שמות החותמים sometimes divides a single page into two parts, presenting them as two pages.]
It will be noticed that the opening page of the prenumeranten lists the
ישמח משה, R. Moshe Teitelbaum (d. 1841) of Ujhely as one of the subscribers to מוסדות תבל. A later page of the prenumeranten lists the חתם סופר, R. Moshe Sofer (d. 1839) of Pressburg as a subscriber to מוסדות תבל. The appearance of these two distinguished names (and there are more) – arguably the two greatest rabbinic leaders of Hungarian Jewry – on the same list of prenumeranten surely attests to the reputation of the author of מוסדות תבל in 1820. On R. David Friesenhausen, an early advocate of the Copernican theory, see my introductory note to the late Chaim Reich's reissue of מוסדות תבל (Brooklyn, 1997), and the fuller discussion, with references, entitled "R. David Friesenhausen: Precursor of Torah and Derekh Eretz," in Jacob J. Schacter, ed., Judaism's Encounter with Other Cultures (Northvale, 1997), pp. 158-164. See also the bibliographical note in Eliezer Brodt, "יחסה של הספרות היהודית לקופרניקוס במשך הדורות," Hakirah 13 (Spring 2012), Hebrew section, p. 17, n. 33; and Jeremy Brown, "Rabbi David Friesenhausen's Zemirah for the Solar System," Hakirah 14 (Winter 2012), pp. 249-271. I am deeply grateful to Eliezer Brodt for bringing these references to my attention. The haunting account in David Schoen's שוחרי השם בהרי הקרפטים (Jerusalem, 2005), pp. 43-50, is embedded in a historical novel, and cannot be accorded more esteem and historicity than the esteem and historicity accorded to the best of historical novels. They remain novels.


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Earlier this month, the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases published some very exciting news – Togo is about to become the first sub-Saharan African country to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF), a painful and disabling neglected tropical disease (NTD) also known as elephantiasis.
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"The importance of the paper stems from the fact that it provides further proof of principle that sub-Saharan African nations are building on their previous successes in elimination or eradication of selected neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) including dracunculiasis (guinea worm) in most of the region, onchocerciasis (river blindness) in two countries, and human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in more than a dozen countries."
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No consensus on No. 1 pick as NHL Draft approachesby Adam Kimelman
Scouts who have spent the last year evaluating the prospects for the 2014 NHL Draft can agree on one thing: This year's class is one of the most difficult in recent memory to evaluate.
That difficulty starts at the top, where with less than 48 hours to go before the start of the draft Friday (7 p.m. ET; NBCSN, TSN, RDS), there's no consensus as to who will be the first player picked.
"I think there's more guys that are similar to each other than a lot of years," Tampa Bay Lightning director of amateur scouting Al Murray told NHL.com. "It's a little bit difficult. It tends to come down to team preferences."Unlike previous years, where Sidney Crosby (2005), Steven Stamkos (2008), John Tavares (2009) and Taylor Hall (2010) were clear-cut top choices, this year's No. 1 selection won't be known until Florida Panthers general manager Dale Tallon steps to the podium at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia -- assuming he hasn't traded the pick.
The choice likely will be one of four players who have moved to the head of the class -- Kingston Frontenacs center Samuel Bennett, Barrie Colts defenseman Aaron Ekblad, Kootenay Ice center Sam Reinhart and Prince Albert Raiders center Leon Draisaitl.
That's the order NHL Central Scouting ranked them in their final list of the top North American skaters. However Dan Marr, NHL Director of Central Scouting, told NHL.com he can make a good case for any of those players to be picked No. 1.
"These players are all going to be long-time, big-minute impact National Hockey League players," he said. "And to try and get the correct order, that's an exercise in futility. ... We're telling everyone the top five players [Oshawa Generals left wing Michael Dal Colle is No. 5], any of them could go No. 1."
Bennett has been No. 1 on Central Scouting's list all season, ahead of the more-hyped Ekblad and Reinhart. The 6-foot, 178-pound center finished ninth in the Ontario Hockey League with 91 points and led his team in goals (36), assists (55), plus/minus rating (plus-34) and power-play goals (10). He also had a 25-game point streak, the longest in the league since the 2010-11 season; Bennett had 17 goals and 29 assists during his streak.
He's also highly regarded for his speed, smarts and two-way play.
"When we look at Sam Bennett we see a guy who could potentially have a Jonathan Toews-type of career," Marr said.
Bennett said going first would be nice but that it's not something he's putting a lot of energy into worrying about.
"It would be pretty special [but] at the end of the day it is just a number and everyone will be in the same spot come training camp trying to make the team," he said. "Obviously it's every kid's dream to go as high as they can into the NHL and [getting picked No. 1] would be pretty special."
Ekblad, the highest-ranked defenseman, is no stranger to hearing his name called first. In March 2011 he was granted exceptional player status from Hockey Canada and allowed to enter the 2011 OHL draft at age 15, where was the first player picked, by Barrie. Three seasons later, the 6-foot-3, 213-pound Ekblad is still exceptional.
He led all OHL defensemen with 23 goals, was sixth with 53 points and was named the league's top defenseman. He also played on a top defense pairing for Canada at the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship.
"I am always hesitant to label as a sure thing any young athlete as they have enough pressure on them as it is, but I would describe Ekblad as one of the most solid NHL prospects you will find in this year's draft class," Marr said. "He is the best defenseman available and would be projected to vie for an NHL job a lot sooner than most."
Making the NHL next season is Ekblad's top goal, but if he can be the first player picked, that's a pretty good status symbol. If he goes No. 1 he would be the first defenseman picked at the top of his draft class since Erik Johnson by the St. Louis Blues in 2006, and the first Canadian defenseman to go No. 1 since Chris Phillips of the Ottawa Senators in 1996.
"[Going No. 1] would mean a lot," he said. "Lifelong dream for sure. Something I've been working toward all last season and most of my life. It would mean a lot. Does it matter? Not so much. I think wherever you go you just have to embrace that and have a lot of fun with it."
Going No. 1 would make Reinhart the highest-drafted member of his family. That's saying something considering his father, Paul Reinhart, was the 12th pick of the 1979 draft, and one of his brothers, Griffin Reinhart, was the fourth pick in 2012.
Reinhart, who's 6-1, 186 pounds, tied for fourth in the Western Hockey League with 105 points in 60 games and was second on his team with 36 goals. He also had two goals and three assists for Canada at the 2014 World Junior Championship and got professional experience in May when he attended Canada's training camp for the World Championship and played in an exhibition game.
"I would compare Reinhart to Adam Oates; he's a very cerebral player who takes what's given to him," Central Scouting's B.J. MacDonald said. "He probably has the highest hockey IQ of any player in this draft and he knows where to go with the puck, even before he even gets it."
Reinhart said being the first player picked is something he would consider very special.
"It would be a huge honor," he said. "I don't know too many kids that would stand up here and say they don't want to go first overall."
Draisaitl, a 6-foot-1, 208-pound forward, would be the first German-born player to be drafted No. 1, a distinction he'd certainly have earned after an outstanding 2013-14. He had 38 goals and 105 points in 64 games for Prince Albert, as well as six points in six games for Germany at the WJC and one goal and three assists in seven games for Germany at the World Championship.
"He's the best prospect I've seen from this draft class at protecting and handling the puck," MacDonald said. "He's very Jaromir Jagr-esque. He protects the puck, makes those button hooks and hits guys coming in late. He'll hold onto that puck until he sees the right play to make. He has a great wrist shot and good snap shot, and can surprise a lot of goalies with it."
Draisaitl has said he would like to be a role model for young German hockey players, so going No. 1 would certainly be a nice example.
"I'd be extremely proud and honored," he said "We've had some high picks. To be considered as maybe the highest drafted German player ever would be a huge honor. ... I'm proud to be German. It's important to have the German hockey have a guy like Christian [Ehrhoff] and other guys like [Marcel] Goc, so little kids have guys to look up to. I want to be the same type of guy. I want to be a guy that maybe makes younger guys in Germany play hockey. I'm proud to be German and I want to make the country proud and make as many kids play hockey as possible."
However Draisaitl, like the other top prospects, knows the draft is just the starting point, and a lot of work remains.
"It's just a draft," he said. "It's something special but it doesn't mean you're going to be an NHL player one day. You still have a lot of work in front of you. You're going to have to prove you're a good player."


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A 33-year-old man had to be rescued by firefighters early Monday after he became stuck in the brick chimney of his home in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood, authorities said.
The man, whose name was not released, got stuck around 11:30 p.m. Sunday, said Fire Department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge.
It remained unclear Monday what he was doing there.
Police first reported to the house in the 3300 block of Clay Street and called firefighters, who had to break away some bricks to get the man out. He was stuck inside for an very un-merry hour and was taken to the San Francisco General Hospital for treatment of cuts and scrapes, said police spokesman Officer Gordon Shyy.
Police and fire accounts on the incident differ.
Talmadge said the man was being pursued by police and climbed up into the chimney to try to hide. She said she didn't not know why police were trying to get to the man.
Shyy said police officers responded to the scene only because neighbors heard the man yelling for help and called police.


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Educational content ideas/language learning
From OLPC
See other ideas on the educational content ideas
- There are Linux User Groups in many countries, in addition to a number of governtments, working on full Linux distributions in many languages. It would not be difficult to do this for any language where there are any reasonable number of computer students. link to guides --Mokurai 05:17, 16 October 2006 (EDT)
The way to become fluent in a language is to speak it frequently. For people who can't go and live where the language is spoken, I suggest voice chat with Webcams on computer. We should get classes in the US teamed up with classes in Africa, or any other combination, and let them practice with each other. At the elementary school level, children can become fluent, without accent, in a few months.--Mokurai 05:17, 16 October 2006 (EDT)
- Computer assisted language learning
- http://www.schoolswithoutbooks.org Over One-Hundred books on-line; Automated Reading; claims grammar polish from M.I.T?
www.livemocha.com Livemocha is a free online language-learning website.
commercial linux software
- from The Learning Company
- from RXL Pulitzer
From the 'sharing your content with olpc' page
I am the autor of a specialized "manual" for the 1. year of studies of French as Second Foreign language. It has only 7.5 Mb, is written in HTML, with some 60 photos. I would like to join that to the OLPC. The manual is divided in 4 modules, each modules is made of 4 lessons, each lesson divided in 6 parts: lecture, foreign expressions, questions, grammar, exercices and documents. There should be 4 manuals (one for each year) - I am now working on the second one. The modules are for this first book: 1/ L'aérotrain, 2/ Les scanners, 3/ La photographie numérique, 4/ L'électricité (with a last part named: "Paris, Ville Lumiere")
Sincerily yours:
Horváth-Militicsi Attila, prof. agrégé Narodnog fronta 77/III 21000 NOVI SAD Serbia Email: email@example.com
Software for learning vocabulary and scheduling activities
- Mnemosyne : an open-source vocabulary program (see Mnemosyne),
- The Software for scheduling activities section mentions a program called Supermemo (Super Memorization), which is normally used for learning and revising vocabulary, grammar, key-facts, etc. It uses Question and Answers and a self-assessment and revision-scheduling system to optimize learning/revision-intervals and stop knowledge fading from memory. Supermemo or a similar program could be ported to the OLPC laptop for learning first/second-language vocabulary and also to schedule/re-schedule Constructionist activities.
Language-learning games
A project called MILLEE (Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies) teaches English as a Second Language using Games on Mobile Phone Handsets. This provides an enjoyable way of learning a second language in an out-of-school environment and addresses the needs of children in rural areas with non-regular attendance in schools, who have to work in the fields and do chores.
Co-operating with this project would provide benefits to both OLPC and MILLEE :-
- OLPC laptops could use some of the games they have developed or develop some new ones based on theirs.
- OLPC could learn from their experience of teaching languages.
- OLPC laptops could be used to obtain games from the internet or CD/DVD-ROM and distribute them to Mobile Phone Handsets via a cable, allowing children and adults without an OLPC laptop to use old handsets for language learning without the expense of a subscription to a mobile-phone service. This would allow the OLPC project to benefit more people.
FOSS software for LL: http://www.coralquest.com/anagramarama/ (really fun and simple) http://edu.kde.org/languages/ -- many activities, developed primary for KDE, but can be used independantly) http://www.asymptopia.org/index.php?topic=TWS (interesting crossword like ideas, but seems to occupy all CPU -- needs optimization) http://web.mit.edu/jasonkb/www/quackle/ (crossword analyzer and solver) more crossword generators http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/crosswords.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/tanooshka (some basic russian language sounds/prnounciation flashcard )
--Ricardo 03:14, 13 August 2007 (EDT)
Acquisition of language
We will need
- Reading, spelling, writing materials
- Reading comprehension, from alphabets to serious text analysis
- Sounds and images -- pronunciations, songs with lyrics, fonts
- Literature and poetry
Second language acquisition in general
Have a look at Wikipedia's substantial article on the subject.
They cite interesting facts about the student's external influence on language teaching:
- how does his community view learning a second language ?
- has he been exposed to the language early ?
- has he got access to conversation in the learned language ?
- how is his teacher ?
And his own influence:
- age, gender
- is he anxious or shy when learning ?
- does he view the learned language and its culture in a good light ?
- is he motivated ?
They talk about language learning aptitude, ie that some students are 'naturally' better language learners than others. They talk about strategies for language learning (more on this later). All of these factors could be tested and reported to the teacher or compensated for by the software.
Choice of second language
I would prefer to see people fluent in 2 of the main languages (lets say, UN "official languages"). These are English, Spanish, French, Russian and Chinese.
- My grandfather was fluent in Russian, Polish, Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. I have met Swiss and Indians who think nothing of speaking three or four local languages plus English. I am told that this is the attitude in much of Africa, as well. --Mokurai 05:17, 16 October 2006 (EDT)
The main goal must be to enable the children to read and write the language(s) spoken in their own country. The boot prompt of the laptop should be in the language the children speak. For many children the language they use at school isn't the same as they speak at home. We should help them to be proud to have their own language.
Since this is an international project, perhaps we could make it easy to learn Esperanto, which is supposed to be an international language and is very easy to learn. That would make it possible for all of these children to talk to one another through IM or some other medium.
- Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?
- Esperanto is very easy for Europeans to learn, since the vocabulary is almost all taken from European languages. It has a somewhat simplified grammar. However, if linguists wanted to design a language for global ease of learning, they could do a much better job now.
- The problem with any artifical international language is that people have to learn it in addition to, rather than instead of, the key international language of their field (science, business, diplomacy--currently English for all). The reason is that the literature isn't in Esperanto, and you aren't going to get the publishers to pay for the translations.
- I would like to point one thing out about that: you are right that more languages learned means more effort. However, I'm pretty sure several studies have been done, for example with American university students learning French, where half of the students learned Esperanto for one semester, then learned the goal foreign language for one year, and ended up with more proficiency than those who simply took the foreign language two full years. This is not irrational because Esperanto teaches the concepts of foreign language-learning very easily and in a straightforward manner, with no exceptions and phonetic spelling, acting as a "stepping stone" to other languages, like English. Not to mention Esperanto's value in and of itself; feel free to look at the articles Talk:Esperanto and OEPC Esperanto.
Strategies for Language learning
In order to survey the strategies used to make language learning more efficient, a typology of language learning strategies has been created (Rebecca Oxford, 1990). This typology regroups every strategy in one of 6 categories:
- Cognitive
- rational analysis and comprehension of the language
- also, being alert and thinking while learning gives far greater retention than rote learning
- Meta-cognitive, analysis of how to best study the language
- planning and setting one's own goals
- choosing materials appropriate for one's own learning style
- Memory: using techniques to better remember vocabulary and grammar, for example:
- categorization (learn in blocks of meaning, level of speech, etc...)
- keyword mnemonics (create an image in your language that links to the word in target language example
- visualization
- rhyme/rhythm
- flashcards, or more generally spaced repetition - See Drill and test software
- TPR, or memorization by acting out
- Compensation, ie compensating for the lack of competence in the language. This gives more opportunities to communicate and learn, and as such is considered a strategy
- talking with one's hands
- describing words with long phrases
- guessing words from context
- Affective
- managing one's anxiety
- rewarding and encouraging oneself
- Social
- asking questions
- getting involved with the people speaking the language, asking them to correct you
- getting to know the culture of the language
- practicing with other students
Please have a look at Dr. Oxford's website.
What is needed
- probably some 'scaffolding' that will take the various contributions, content, exercises, etc ... and bring them together, by making everything a plugin of a main CALL activity.
- Content, with some way of indicating its level (for beginners, for advanced ...) and concepts used (grammar and vocabulary).
- In the learners' language
- Alphabet lessons (for Cyrillic, Arabic, ideograms, kana and other non roman alphabets)
- Grammar lessons
- In the acquired language
- Dialogs
- Comic strips
- Video
- Literature and poetry
- Newspaper articles (and other 'authentic' materials)
- Images
- Sounds
- In the learners' language
- Exercises
CALL in the literature
Computer assisted language learning has received some attention in scientific literature. There is also a Wikipedia article and a wikibook.
The wikipedia article also points to the ICT for Language Teaching site, which has very interesting online modules to learn about CALL, and a list of articles.
Project ideas
Show and tell
A child brings an object from home, stands up at the front of the class and talks about it, to practice first or second language skills and build confidence. See Show and tell.
--Ricardo 05:54, 13 August 2007 (EDT)
Banging on the keyboard
Young child bangs on keyboard "knsooha[hivbj-a", and the XO
- reads the result aloud (eg, "kaa nn soo ha hi vv ba ja aa"). See Speech synthesis.
- highlights any letter sequences which are simple words (eg, "cat"). Shows an associated picture to provide reinforcement. For more advanced use, perhaps only shows pictures for sequences which are words (ie, bracketed by whitespace), so the story would be "a subword is highlighted, providing notification and some reinforcement, and if spaces are then added around it, even more reward".
MitchellNCharity 13:35, 28 August 2007 (EDT)
Iconic generation of text
The XO rewards writing. But this can be frustrating for children who which can't write yet. Perhaps the barrier to entry for writing text can be reduced, making it less frustrating, and more rapidly learned.
One idea might be to generate text from an iconic dictionary. So the text "I go home" might be created by selecting icons in pulldowns or icon galleries of people, actions, places, etc. The icons show a picture, and the associated word. And when the mouse is over the icon, the associated word is spoken. I'm not sure how to deal with endings, variants, etc. A grammar checker/fixer might take a pass at the resulting text. A language aware editor could allow choosing or cycling through variations. If the result is spoken, one might then easily "tune the text by ear". MitchellNCharity 13:51, 28 August 2007 (EDT) The above could be linked to a dictionary-building activity; see Words.
Iconic dictionary-building game
An idea related to iconic generation of text and dictionary-building: encouraging students to participate in building such an iconic dictionary could be done by a Draw-and-Guess-like activity. The student reads or hears a word and draws a simple illustration. When the illustration is finished, other students guess the word. The activity could record the time needed for a correct guess. The time needed and the number of players could be used to calculate which drawing to use in the iconic dictionary. Player age could also be taken into account.
For words that are easy to guess, a very quick reaction type game mode could be used. For instance, the drawn image and four words might be shown and the player tries to press a key corresponding to the direction of the correct word. This could aid in learning to read, and might be suitable for young children. For words that are harder to guess, it would probably be better if the player has to type the word, to provide a better measure of representation value. The more difficult words would likely be used by older students who are better at spelling and have a larger vocabulary.
International comprehension of local drawings may vary. A possibility is to use translation dictionaries coupled with the Draw-and-Guess-like activity with players all over the world. There might be some way that this could help in selecting the most neutral and representative illustration for international use. Any ideas? This seems difficult. It would perhaps also give students an idea of different perspectives and interpretations in different cultures. Such differences should be taken into account if translating between iconic dictionaries, and if using the activity in an international setting. Is use of an international iconic dictionary offensive for some?
Could this be coupled with Wiktionary? Would such a game and iconic dictionary be of interest outside the XO environment?
Additional note: could the XO camera be used to capture video illustrations of words in a similar manner? Would it be possible to build a video based iconic dictionary through a charade type game with similar design? Could a most representative photo contest game be constructed around these principles?
Is a video based iconic dictionary possible, given the limited storage space on the XO? Could it be streamed from the School Server? Would a vector graphics animation approach be better, used in a game similar to the one mentioned above?
--Sense Albatross 13:08, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
Exploring other writing systems
- Script explorer - explore fascinating writing systems of the world. See [1] for some ideas. E.g. nonlinear ordering, different directions, ligatures, interesting forms and histories, ...
- Phonetics toy - sort of like TamTam (Mini) but with IPA symbols and sounds. Select (or type?) IPA characters and hear them pronounced; optionally in context. Bonus: sequence them and try to make words from mother tongue.
- include example words and phrases in both IPA and in the vernacular script of the relevant language
- would be nice to have script-to-speech synthesis as in Speak, but probably very hard to do in general.
- could link to Words?
Peer Editing
I think it would be fun and educational to encourage kids to edit each others' writing. Editing really gets across the message that language is for communication. So I put together a site to mediate the editing process, Peer Editing Exchange. Check it out.
-- Jpritikin 07:50, 10 September 2007 (EDT)


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Can be seen feeding at flowers, such as Bugle, louseworts and Marsh Thistle. Can be confused with the Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth (H. fuciformis), although that species has broader bands on the outer edges of the wings, in particular on the hindwing.
Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth has two blackish bands on the abdomen, obscured by golden hairs, although these can wear off with time making the bands appear more extensive. The large bee fly (Bombylius major) is smaller than either of the bee hawk-moths and has the proboscis (tongue) forward-pointing.
Overwinters as a pupa, the larva feeding from late April until mid August, depending on season and location.
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- Family – Hawk-moths (Sphingidae)
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Caterpillar Food Plants
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- Southern and south-western England, very local in the West Midlands, East Anglia and parts of Wales. More widely distributed in Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland.
- Distribution Trend Since 1970's = Britain: Suspected stable
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Diane Kruger & Joshua Jackson: East Village Shopping Couple!
Diane Kruger is casual chic while doing some shopping with boyfriend Joshua Jackson on Sunday (May 5) in New York City's East Village.
Earlier in the week, the 36-year-old German actress was seen eating lunch with her close pal Micah Schifman in L.A.
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In case you forgot, Joshua's hit show Fringe will be releasing it's final season on DVD on Tuesday (May 7). We can't wait!
Fringe: The Complete Fifth And Final Season will include some extra content, such as interviews with series co-creator J.J. Abrams, show runner/exec producer J.H. Wyman, and actor John Noble.
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MIDDLEBURY — Despite plenty of effort in Thursday's home game vs. traditional rival Woodstock, the Middlebury Union High School boys' lacrosse team came up just short, 7-6.
The 10-4 Wasps scored the only two goals of the fourth quarter to erase an MUHS lead, while the Tigers committed a few too many mistakes and Wasp goalie Ben Orr made three of his seven saves.
BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Union High School boys' lacrosse team dominated most of Saturday's second half, but had to hold on at the end to earn a 9-8 home win over Vergennes.
The Eagles trailed at the break, 5-4, but earned an 11-1 edge in shots on goal in the third period to take an 8-5 lead into the fourth. VUHS goalie Erik Averill made seven of his 21 saves in the quarter to keep his team close.
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After VUHS sophomore attacker J.T. O'Brien knotted the score at 4-4 at 55 seconds after halftime, the Eagles went on a 4-1 run over the next seven minutes, including both of freshman middie Gus Catlin's goals in the game, a goal and an assist from senior attacker Conor McDonough, and one of sophomore Travis Bachand's team-high four goals.
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A Content Analysis: International News Coverage Fits Public's Ameri-Centric Mood
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A new study suggests that the way the media covers international news may be doing little to change the American public's indifference to concerns about world events and foreign policy. A four-month analysis of over 7,000 international news stories now finds that newspapers and network television focus most often on world news that have a distinct American orientation, while local television (from which one-fourth of Americans get most of their news) may be all but ignoring the world. The study also concluded that the U.S. media carry few international articles that would broaden and educate Americans about the world beyond those hot spots where "breaking" news, usually about conflict, is occurring.


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The LSU AgCenter will host the 2009 Agricultural Outlook Conference Feb. 26 in Baton Rouge, La. Designed to continue addressing the current issues facing the state's farmers, agribusinesses and others, the theme of the conference is "Keeping Louisiana's Agriculture Competitive."
The program, which will be held at the Lod Cook Conference Center on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, will feature national and regional experts discussing topics such as biofuels, commodity outlooks, economic trends, agricultural policy and the farm bill.
The conference originated as an Agricultural Crisis Summit in 2003 in response to problems the state's agricultural industry faced that year. It then evolved into an annual event focused on the future of agriculture.
"Although we started off looking at how farmers would get past the 2002 storms that had caused them to have one of their worst years ever, we found many people in the industry were interested in coming together to plan for the future," LSU AgCenter Chancellor William B. "Bill" Richardson said.
"Since then, we've seen relatively good years and years like last year when farmers were trying to recover from storms again," he continued. "The common thread is that those who are involved in Louisiana agriculture want to take an active part in ensuring that it remains viable and competitive."
The conference registration and continental breakfast begin at 7:30 a.m. in the Lod Cook Center on the LSU campus. The conference starts at 8 a.m. with informative presentations and discussions and adjourns at 3 p.m.
The event is sponsored by the LSU AgCenter, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, USDA-Rural Development and the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
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Since 1992, the Bonner Scholars Program has supported a growing spirit of service at Rhodes, helping us move from a strong history of volunteerism towards campus-wide service based learning, civic engagement, and community based advocacy.
Rhodes is part of a national consortium of Bonner Scholars, an innovative and pioneering program for scholarship and community service, initiated at Rhodes in 1992 by the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation of Princeton, NJ. The Bonner Scholarship is for entering students who have a passion for service and social justice, and who require financial assistance in order to attend Rhodes. An application for the Bonner Scholarship is available through the Office of Admissions.
Along with Bonner Scholar Programs at Berea, Morehouse, Spelman, Davidson, Antioch, Oberlin, DePauw, Warren Wilson, Earlham, Wofford, Maryville, University of Richmond and other colleges, Rhodes offers up to 15 four-year service scholarships to entering students who have financial need and an exceptional commitment to serving in the community.
The Bonner Scholarship at Rhodes includes an educational stipend of $2,500/year paid directly to the student, along with an annual fellowship of $10,000. Bonner Scholars also receive a $5,000 fund to carry out two summer service projects in Memphis or anywhere in the world, and a $2,000 loan-reduction award is available upon graduation. With Bonner support, students who have high financial need can pursue their passions for service and civic engagement without being obligated to part-time jobs. The Bonner Scholarship is currently awarded to more than 1,500 students at 25 colleges and universities nationwide.
As part of their commitment to change-based service, Bonner Scholars often emerge as leaders on campus and in the Memphis community, especially through the Kinney Program, Rhodes Student Government and Honor Council, the Black Student Association, Habitat for Humanity, Earth Justice, local hunger programs and urban ministries, and in peace and justice initiatives.
Common Commitments of the Bonner Program:
The Bonner Program has identified six common commitments in service. These common commitments serve as a guide for helping us deepen our service experiences and become more effective agents of change.
- Social Justice: Advocating for fairness, impartiality and equality while addressing systemic social and environmental issues.
- Civic Engagement: Participating intentionally as a citizen in the democratic process, actively engaging in public policy and direct services.
- Community-Building: Establishing and sustaining a vibrant community of place, personal relationships and common interests.
- Spiritual Exploration: Exploring personal beliefs, values and spirituality encountered in service and leadership while respecting the practices of others.
- International Understanding: Developing international understanding that enables individuals to participate successfully and sensitively in a global society.
- Diversity: Respecting and engaging the many different dimensions of diversity in our public lives.
In addition to its fellowship support, the Bonner Program has strengthened many outreach efforts at Rhodes and in Memphis, including the Kinney Program, our campus-wide service initiative. In ′96-99, the Bonner Program provided the initial support for Rhodes faculty and students to develop service-learning courses and community-based research as part of the Rhodes curriculum. Additional grants from the Bonner Foundation have supported a number of our Memphis service connections, including Souper Contact soup kitchen, the Memphis Food Bank, MIFA, Memphis City Schools, VECA, Servant Leadership programs and our Micah 6 Ministries.


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In Kenya, drylands make up 84 percent of the country's total land surface and support about 9.9 million Kenyans, or approximately 34 percent of the country's population.
They account for more than 80 percent of the country's eco-tourism interests and up to 75 percent of its wildlife population.
The drylands nonetheless receive insufficient investment – both in terms of financing and policy incentives, and are under-recognized for their potential value in national development and poverty reduction.
On average the people of the drylands are poorer, with proportionally fewer social services and less infrastructure than their counterparts in high potential areas. Many pastoralists have had their critical dry season grazing areas expropriated for other land uses, thereby undermining one of the few integrated land use systems capable of supporting life in such harsh lands.
Yet the potential, especially in the livestock sector, is now increasingly being recognized. The national livestock herd has been estimated at 33.4 million head, with 46 percent of this herd (or 15.2 million livestock) kept by pastoralists.
Pastoral livestock holdings have a capital value of approximately USD860 million with an annual off-take for meat and hides worth about USD69.3 million for both subsistence and sale.
As pastoralists in Kenya generally manage livestock for milk not meat, the total value of the milk production from the drylands (approximately USD134.6 million per annum) is nearly twice that of the value of slaughter off-take.
"The Kenya study shows the need to better accommodate pastoralist economies in national development planning," says Edmund Barrow, Forest and Dryland Conservation and Social Policy Coordinator for IUCN Eastern Africa.
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On Thursday, December 20th, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a final rule establishing general regulations for improving the traceability of U.S. livestock moving interstate.
"With the final rule announced today, the United States now has a flexible, effective animal disease traceability system for livestock moving interstate, without undue burdens for ranchers and U.S. livestock businesses," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "The final rule meets the diverse needs of the countryside where states and tribes can develop systems for tracking animals that work best for them and their producers, while addressing gaps in our overall disease response efforts. Over the past several years, USDA has listened carefully to America's farmers and ranchers, working collaboratively to establish a system of tools and safeguards that will help us target when and where animal diseases occur, and help us respond quickly."
Under the final rule, unless specifically exempted, livestock moved interstate would have to be officially identified and accompanied by an interstate certificate of veterinary inspection or other documentation, such as owner-shipper statements or brand certificates.
After considering the public comments received, the final rule has several differences from the proposed rule issued in August 2011. These include:
Beef cattle under 18 months of age, unless they are moved interstate for shows, exhibitions, rodeos, or recreational events, are exempt from the official identification requirement in this rule. These specific traceability requirements for this group will be addressed in separate rulemaking, allowing APHIS to work closely with industry to ensure the effective implementation of the identification requirements.
Animal disease traceability, or knowing where diseased and at-risk animals are, where they've been, and when, is very important to ensure a rapid response when animal disease events take place. An efficient and accurate animal disease traceability system helps reduce the number of animals involved in an investigation, reduces the time needed to respond, and decreases the cost to producers and the government.
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Pre Show Talk with Her Deepness, Dr Sylvia Earle
Where: Aquarium of the Bay
Okeanos Intimate is a dance/cirque portrait of the ocean as body, environment, resource, metaphor, and force. It is a performance to inspire and educate audiences about the ocean and connect them deeply to ocean conservation.
Inspired by the Coral Triangle and California's Kelp forest, this dance/cirque performance incorporates choreography, apparatus, and set design by Capacitor Artistic Director Jodi Lomask and the voices of oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle and marine biologist Dr. Tierney Thys.
Each night we are presenting one ocean scientist who will give a 15 minute talk prior to the performance.
"If I was to sum up the phrase 'creativity for change' I would use one word - Okeanos" David de Rothschild
If you thought science class was boring, perhaps this insane spectacle of dance, acrobatics, and video will be more to your liking. In their latest performance, science-based dance troupe Capacitor takes on the ocean. Ariel Schwartz - Co.Exist (Fast Company)
We love watching dance inspired by science, but often the science is left to a few lines in the program. Capacitor never makes that mistake. The dance-circus performance group not only consults with scientists, it workshops with them. Michael Leaverton - SF Weekly


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This interview is the first of a planned series of interviews of professionals — lawyers naturally among them — that are avid, earnest, unabashed gamers. I conducted this interview back in September, but a number of issues kept it from appearing on A.O. Without further ado, here's my interview with a remarkable attorney from Florida who happens to also be a very skilled competitive gamer. Enjoy. Lime
AO: Hot Chief, thanks for doing this interview. Just by way of introduction, I met you via a comment you left on my blog… I Googled your name, and discovered that lo, you were not only Dianne Bonfiglio, Esq., but also "Hot Chief PMS," of the online all-female gaming clan "PMS Clan." Since Halo is one of your forte's and I'm a Halo addict–and an attorney–I was immediately smitten. You agreed to do an interview, and so here are a few questions: how do being an attorney and a hard-core gamer jive. First off, for the law: what type of law do you practice?
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Recycled aggregates are a cheaper option compared to quarried aggregates. Our recycled aggregates originated from demolition projects and have been crushed and screened in order to be the correct grading.
Our range of aggregates in Byfleet all comply with strict building regulations and come from a sustained source. By recycling concrete and brick, the need for natural resources is less which is good for the environment overall.
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Across the state, county Republicans and Democrats gather today
It's county assembly season and some big ones are happening today, including El Paso County Republicans Jeffco Dems and Republicans, Boulder County Republicans, Arapahoe County Democrats and on and on.
The big news in El Paso is the bitter showdown between Republican lawmakers Amy Stephens and Marsha Looper in House District 19, with tweets from the Gazette's John Schroyer and the Statesman's Ernest Luning. In Jeffco, Sen. Evie Hudak, D-Westminster, is tweeting away.
Here's some tweets from today so far:
@BlahaCO: At El Paso County GOP Assembly at Liberty High School. This place is packed and buzzing! #copolitics twitpic.com/90osme
@eluning: HD19 GOP polls are closed, counters are starting the count. Predictions I'm hearing are Stephens 55 – Looper 45 but no ones sure #copolitics
@Johnschroyer: Wait, there's Karl Rove! Oh, no, that's just a bald guy…. #copolitics
@Johnschroyer: Sen. Keith King: "I've never seen a turnout like this. People are energized. This is incredible." #copolitics
@Lynn_Bartels: Home w/ a sick nephew. :) RT @Johnschroyer: I'm surprised that @lynn_bartels isn't here. She loves this stuff. #coleg #copolitics
@SenHudak: Udall: "As goes Jeffco, so goes Colo; that's why you're here….When you want your car to go forward, you put it in D – same w/ US!" #coleg
@katiewitt: #copolitics Weissmann is the Republican that will fire Jared Polis
@Benianconarck: Rep. Gardner at BoulderCo GOP Assembly, "They say the road to the White House goes through CO, I hope it comes through here." #copolitics
For a look at which counties are holding assemblies today, go to the Colorado Republican Party or the Colorado Democratic Party website. Boulder, Weld, Arapahoe also are meeting today.


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Featuring a wide range of activities and events—including reunions, panel discussions, social mixers, campus tours, excursions around Salem, celebratory meals, exciting entertainment and awards ceremonies—Alumni Weekend truly has something for everyone.
More than 800 total guests and 500 Bearcats returned to campus this past September, making it one of the most successful and highest attended Alumni Weekend gatherings in school history. Get a glimpse of the fun from that was had by checking out the Alumni Weekend 2016 Recap and Photo Galley. And save the date for Alumni Weekend 2017, Sept. 15-17!
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Good error messages make for more productive developers. This page is a place to collect error messages that could stand improvement, or which are misleading or confusing in certain contexts. Most of us have had the experience of getting a "weird" message, puzzling it out (perhaps with help from django-users or #django) and then moving on.
Some of these may seem like quick patches but others will take a bit of consideration -- that's why the wiki page rather than individual tickets. Some are more along the lines of "Django Lint" than simple changes to error output.
For now, let's try dividing them into sections by major module. Within those sections suggested format is: error message, explanatory context (often important -- a message that is very helpful in one context can be confusing in another), suggested improvements/changes.
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OperationalError: Unable to close due to unfinalised statements
Context: SQLite file permissions are incorrect (directory or DB file lack write permission)
Suggestion: Check file permissions when running with SQLite backend and warn user if they seem incorrect
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_field_sets'
Context: One or more models that are referenced by ForeignKey from another model are missing their inner
Admin class. Possible other causes as well. See ticket #1808.
Suggestion: Check relevant Admin settings during model validation?
- Ticket #3219 -- suggestion for better error messages for invalid Admin attributes
TypeError at ... string indices must be integers
Context: A FileUploadField is being validated but the form did not have enctype="multipart/form-data" set.
Suggestion: Check form enctype during validation? Show FILES in addition to GET and POST on error pages?
- See this thread on the django-developers list for discussion of error suppression in the template engine
- Ticket #1732 -- a problem that elicits no error message, but should.


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Studfold Community Nature Project
Welcome to the Studfold Community Nature Project, an unique investigation attempting to record all the flora and fauna on a hill farm in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire whilst also analysing the affect of farming and industry on the site since pre-historic times.
"This is a hill farm context with a truly exceptional level of historic/archaeological interest. The existence, across much of the area, of a system of 'Celtic' or presumably prehistoric fields is, on its own, justification for this claim. The existence within this system, of what appears to be a contemporary farmstead/hamlet further underlines the importance of the locality."
Dr Richard Muir – Leading Landscape Historian / Archaeologist, Author (over 50 books) and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen
Studfold HeritageWe have found evidence of human activity on site from probably Mesolithic times to the current day. This includes:
Iron Age:
No direct evidence yet but it is probable that these folk processed iron here.
Romano British:
Celtic fields, Romano-British farmstead.
Possible Building.
Monastic :
Owned by Byland Abbey, who exploited the lead and iron.
Agriculture :
The area has been farmed by seventeen generations of the Walker family.
A polished limestone (Nidderdale Marble) used at Fountains Abbey may have been sourced from this area.
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Exploited here both for land enrichment and for commercial reasons.
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We have already discovered over 700 different species on this small hill farm in Upper Nidderdale including a number of regionally rare species.
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"A Real Privilege"
Twenty-nine ILR sophomores. Twenty-nine raw, untested research ideas. One Professor Robert Smith.
Three months and much gnashing of young teeth later, 29 reader-friendly papers on labor economics evolve from students who create new knowledge under Smith's tutelage.
"I talk to them a lot. They're here a lot. I get to know them pretty well," said Smith, named this year as a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow for contributions to undergraduate teaching.
Smith's accessibility to students surfaced again and again in Weiss nomination letters.
"Every time I need to make a tough decision, work through a difficult issue, or just need a trusted advisor to confide in, he is always there," wrote Patricia Moscoso '11.
In Labor Economics 2400, Smith encourages students "to write about complex concepts in the way a layperson can understand."
As ideas turn to outlines, Smith schedules two-day stretches of 30-minute meetings with students.
"I like teaching. I like the students. They're serious. They're smart. They're thoughtful."
"I never dreamed at all that I would be at a place like this. It's a real privilege. I can't imagine a better job than this."
Smith, who is ILR's associate dean for academic affairs, typically teaches three classes a year. Enrollment for each class is usually 15 or 16.
"Colleagues who teach large classes enable me to teach small classes," said Smith, whose low-profile personal style defies eight pages of professional credentials.
Colleague Professor Kevin Hallock said Smith's intellectual contributions have influenced labor economics in many areas, including safety and health, the minimum wage, pensions and unions.
"What is more difficult to see and is so important is his extraordinary commitment to teaching, advising and mentoring. He has reasoned and balanced judgment. It isn't just students who benefit from Bob's mentoring and advice – the faculty do, too," Hallock said.
At Claremont McKenna College, Smith was an accounting major and ROTC cadet. After graduating, he worked for a year at a "Big Eight" accounting firm, then joined the Army.
"I just lucked into a job" teaching accounting to non-commissioned officers at Fort Lee, Va. "I discovered I like to teach."
"I really loved the challenge of teaching subject matter students found fairly frightening. I was stunned they liked the course and liked me."
After the Army, Smith completed a master's degree at Harvard University and taught social studies for a year at his alma mater, Lakewood High School, in a suburb of Long Beach, Calif.
"I got tired of checking the bathrooms and of discipline issues," he said.
"Economics popped to mind," so Smith started looking at doctoral programs.
"I applied to four and got into two. One gave me money."
After graduating from Stanford University, he taught at the University of Connecticut, then worked at the U.S. Department of Labor.
In 1974, Smith heard about a faculty job at ILR "and I've been here ever since."
He and his wife, Alice, raised five children. Many semesters, they invite students to their home for dinner or dessert.
The eleventh edition of the labor economics textbook Smith continues to author with Professor Ronald Ehrenberg was published last week.
For fun, Smith plays tennis and fantasy baseball in a "rotisserie" league.
Humbled by the Weiss fellowship, Smith said there are other ILR faculty members who deserve the award. "I had the good fortune to have students willing to take the time" to write nomination letters.
The university's top award for undergraduate teaching and 37 years of ILR teaching doesn't change what it takes to help 29 sophomores turn 29 ideas on labor economics into research you want to read about.
"Every time I start a semester, the challenge is there."
"It's like a baseball player getting up in the morning and trying to have the best game he can."


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Nanostructure Engineered Sensors for Gas Detection in Space and Terrestrial Applications
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A nanosensor technology has been developed using single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) on a pair of interdigitated electrodes (IDE) processed with a silicon-based microfabrication and micromachining technique. These sensors have been exposed to nitrogen dioxide, methane, acetone, benzene, nitrotoluene, ammonia, and chlorine in the concentration range of ppm to ppb at room temperature. Due to the large surface area, low surface energy barrier and high thermal and mechanical stability, carbon nanotube based chemical sensors potentially can offer higher sensitivity, lower power consumption and better robustness than the state-of-the-art systems, which make them more attractive for space and defense applications. Combined with MEMS technology, light weight and compact size sensors can be made in wafer scale with low cost. Additionally, a wireless capability of such a sensor chip can be used for networked mobile and fixed-site detection and warning systems for space and home security applications.
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Dean Phillips Honored in Pittsburgh• April 28, 2010 Share:
Dean of the College Gary Phillips was honored by the Western Pennsylvania Association of Wabash Men as the 2010 "Man of the Year." The association's leader, Eriks Janelsins, introduced Dean Phillips at the dinner that celebrated his achievements. Read Janelsins' remarks here.
Western Pennsylvania Association of Wabash Men
Man of the Year 2010
Gary A. Phillips, Dean of the College
It is both my honor and privilege to introduce the 2010 Western Pennsylvania Association of Wabash Men Man of the Year award to Dean of the College Gary A. Phillips.
Phillips was born in Elkins, West Virginia. He earned his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Lynchburg College as an English, philosophy, and religion major. He received his master's of divinity, also magna cum laude, from the Vanderbilt Divinity School and returned to Vanderbilt to earn his Ph.D. with highest distinction in New Testament Studies with a focus on linguistics in 1982. Dean Phillips spent the next 19 years at the College of Holy Cross and in 1998, became Professor of Religion and Chair of the Religion Department at The University of the South. On July 1, 2006, Gary Phillips became Dean of Wabash College.
Dean Phillips is a scholar with an incredible depth and breadth to his work. He has written or edited eight books primarily on the topic of linguistics and the ethical reading of the Bible. In addition, Dr. Phillips has written over 57 book chapters, journal articles, translations, and book reviews.
Dean Phillips and his wife, Alice, have three grown children.
The Dean of the College is Wabash's chief academic officer responsible for leading the faculty, as well as supervision of information technology, international studies, Lilly Library, Wabash's Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, and the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
Since his arrival on campus, Dean Phillips' passion for faculty and student relationships has been evident. He describes the need for really good students and really good faculty and explains, "Because when those two things get together — a faculty person who is an expert and a student who has a hunger — sparks fly and magic happens."
During the last three-plus years, under incredibly challenging circumstances and times, Dean Phillips has effectively led the faculty and brought new recognition to Wabash from the academic community. Grants from the Teagle Foundation, Lilly Endowment, and the National Science Foundation have recently been awarded to the College. During a time of incredibly limited funding, Wabash currently has major National Science Foundation funding in all Division I departments — an incredible achievement for a small liberal arts college.
As I searched for more biographical information on Dean Phillips, I realized that his own words were probably the best way to communicate his passion for the Wabash education. And, I think there is much that we, as Wabash men, can continue to learn from these passionate words.
At his 2009 Dean's Breakfast address to graduating seniors, Dean Phillips stated:
"At the heart of the liberal arts is the question, the act of learning to question, of living with the question as unfinished business, of framing and loving the question. Your Wabash science, social science, humanities and fine arts courses have been about developing the arts of the question. It takes practice, mentoring, and willingness to abide with uncertainty, disequilibrium and lack of closure. This is what close engagement with faculty inside and outside the classroom makes possible. In human terms, excellent liberal arts teaching is about teachers who stand as a question to you, thus demonstrating how for the rest of your life you can become a question to yourselves. The question is the great liberal arts act. It allows us to live the truth."
In his 2008 Dean's Breakfast address, Dean Phillips reframed the college's mission statement in his words (not as assertions, but as imperatives):
"Wabash has prepared you to read, so now let your life be read by others. Wabash has taught you quantitative reasoning, so now to let your life add up to something more than yourself. Wabash has proudly taught you how to be articulate, so let your life speak. Let your liberal arts living speak."
And lastly, I'd like to close with Dean Phillips' words when discussing a grant awarded from the Lilly Endowment. He stated:
"The liberal arts are the artes liberalis, the arts of freedom, the arts that make for free persons, that educate for life. Our engagement with these young men is to shape them for a life lived freely to choose a path and a place and a community in which to make a difference. The Endowment grant is recognition of Wabash's effectiveness in preparing and enabling such engagement, one that lasts a lifetime."
I think all of us gathered here tonight hope that we serve as living examples of your words.