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In between all the networking and course instruction, you'll need to find some time to relax and enjoy Las Vegas a little! The city is much more than just casinos and great food, so we want to share some must-see Las Vegas attractions you should be sure to visit while you're in town.
1. You won't get a more breathtaking view of the city than on the High Roller Ferris Wheel. The tallest observation wheel in the world, the High Roller is a great place to take your sweetheart for an unforgettable view and a romantic ride.
2. The Bellagio Fountains are some of the most eye-catching and extravagant fountains you'll ever see. Every half hour from 3-8PM and then every 15 minutes after until midnight, the fountains shoot water up to 460 feet in the air from over 1,200 separate streams, and the streams of water are perfectly choreographed to classic show tunes. You have to stop and admire it at least once while you're in town! They are just across the street from the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, our conference location.
3. Head over to the Atomic Testing Museum for a one-of-a-kind museum experience. The exhibits highlight Nevada's history as America's nuclear guinea pig. Learn more about the culture surrounding atomic testing and nuclear research of decades past, as well as the always thought-provoking discussion on extraterrestrials! The museum features over 12,000 unique artifacts for you and friends or family to explore. Enjoy group tours or audio tours to move at your own pace.
4. Keeping in the museum vein, the Mob Museum is a must-see. Las Vegas' early days were heavily influenced by mob activity, making it a checkered but truly unique and fascinating chapter of the city's history. Learn more about famous mobsters who had a hand in goings-on around the city, explore exhibits that share the history of mob business and corruption, and learn more about the federal agents who brought down the biggest names in the mafia. Group and private events are available.
5. One more museum! The Neon Museum (pictured at top) is an amazing way to experience a piece of history that is truly unique to Las Vegas. An outdoor walkthrough, the museum boasts dozens and dozens of vintage neon signage from old Las Vegas hotels and casinos. Learn more about how Las Vegas became Las Vegas with this fun and vibrant collection of relics.
What do you think are some of the best attractions in Las Vegas? Do you plan to visit any others we didn't highlight while you're in town for our CME conference later this month? Let us know in the comments below!


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"Out there," pointed the seasoned old mystic. "Where the air is thin."
That was the second place I had visited where the air was thin, where lights sometimes danced across the lake.
"They don't come like they used to, not since the government began draining the waters. But sometimes you can still see them."
Back in my home state of Texas, people called them the Marfa lights. I had heard that in various states, countries, and continents each region had a different name for them. Musicians had written songs about them; famous authors had written them into their stories. But this old man seemed like he knew something the stories didn't tell, like maybe...
"What I have to tell you, no atheist on Earth would believe," the old mystic continued. "Out there, I have travelled among the spirits, out there: I knew God."
As a missionary man, as a man of faith, I found it difficult to believe. Here was this old Native American, this elderly mystic of the swamps, who had seen more in his lifetime that I had read in mine, telling me about knowing God on a personal level that I had not attained. But I have to admit something to you now that I could not have admitted then: I was inclined to believe him.
"How do you know it was God? I mean the stories say the lights are there to tempt us off our path. Some say they are lost spirits in limbo between heaven and hell."
"We are the ones in limbo," the mystic answered. "We are the ones who can be in hell or heaven by our choices right here on Earth. Out there though...," he stopped talking and just stared, his soul seemed removed from his body for a few seconds.
When he came to, we stepped into a hand-made canoe that had been carved from a tree, the old way. I pushed us off and paddled out into the lake, careful not to make too much noise, just as the old mystic instructed me.
"Here," he whispered.
I had to admit the air did seem different here. I don't know if statically charged was the right description, but the stars didn't look the same and the water didn't quite move the same.
The old mystic began chanting something that I didn't understand, so I sat in silence, simply listening. I don't know what I expected: maybe the skies to open up or the boat to fall into a void. I pulled out my notebook and began writing down the experience.
We sat there for hours. I grew weary of writing, something that never happens to me. In waves he would chant and then become silent. He motioned his hand to be quiet when I became impatient and started to speak or to yawn. It reminded me a bit of hunting with my father when I was young when he tried to call game within reach. But we weren't hunting; we were seeking. I just wasn't sure for what.
It was about an hour before dawn, perhaps an hour and a half, when the lights began to appear -- dancing at a distance, darting this way, then that.
The old man looked back and said, "We must go to the shore."
"But why?" Were my hopes to be dashed!
"Now," he demanded, and I paddled as quickly as I could. Behind the lights moved toward us.
"Hurry," he said in a stern voice.
When we reached the shore, I looked back and saw the lights had moved to where we had been.
"Fantastic!" I exclaimed.
"Not so good," said the old mystic.
"Why? I mean why did we have to return?"
"If you don't know that...," he replied. But he never finished his words. The old mystic had had a heart attack and died right there on the banks of the partially drained lake. Try as I did, I could not revive him.
I've never come as close to the afterlife as I thought I did on that night. I've done mission work throughout the world and, when the opportunity found me, visited every location where the lights were said to have existed. I've seen various colors and never knew ultimately what to attribute their meaning to.
The old man knew something, of that I was and still am sure. He had knowledge of something I only have faith in, and I use the word "only" carefully.
I've studied those lights and the many explanations, but I don't think anyone, other than the old mystic, knows what they are for sure. Perhaps there are places where worlds cross into each other. Places, where the air is thin. Maybe they are better off being left to the experienced old mystics.

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We met with him and talked for only about 2 hours before Jamie arrived from San Francisco and we took off to go get the boat and start the swim.
We were able to get the boat put in about half way down on the eastern side and it took about an hour to get to the south end. Goody read his instructions to us which we already were very familiar with, and Jamie reviewed the very basic rules.
Only one suit, goggles, grease, camp. Don't tough the boat or anyone. Support swimmer up to one hour. Start on dry land, finish on dry land.
We arrived where Goody greased up and got in for his swim.
When we began there was a pretty crazy boat presence so we made sure to stay close to him and since the boat didn't have a swimmer flag onboard, we improvised and used my red jacket as a flag dangling from a pole which we held up.
It was fairly choppy and windy near the start, but going in the northerly direction. I got in for an hour after a couple hours of him already swimming. The water was so blue! I've swam in Tahoe before, but only about 100 yards from shore. Never in the deep like this. It was awesome! I'm so excited to do this swim myself next year.
The wind calmed down, and changed directions half way into the night to a nearly easterly direction. But nothing major. Goody appeared tired and his stroke was degrading. He requested a pace swimmer, so I got in for him even though it was dark and I could barely see him through my somewhat foggy goggles.
After an hour of night swimming with him, I got out and piloted for about a half hour while Jamie tried to get some sleep. It was a long night for everyone.
When the sun came up it seemed to cheer him up. He really liked the feeds when they were warmed up, so we did our best to heat up some water using body heat since we didn't have any warm water on board.
As we neared the finish we were concerned about his pace, it was abnormally slow for him, however he was still making progress, and didn't appear to be hypothermic, so on we went.
When we got within about 300 yard or so from shore I jumped in with the Go Pro, but it's a new goPro so I wasn't as familiar with the display and screwed up the recording, but Joelle did capture some video on my camera from the boat.
I was so proud of him for sticking with it and not giving up even though he felt like crap most of the swim. He broke down at the finish and said he would have touched the boat and given in to his temptation to give up had I not supported him in the water. Man, I'm glad I came. What a stud for making it from start to finish!
|Getting ready to start
|All greased up, and putting ear plugs in.
|At Camp Richardson beach. We took great caution to watch
him the first mile out where there was significant boat traffic.
|Pace swimming with Goody about 2 hours into it.
|Joelle pace swims for half an hour the next morning.
|Notice that it calmed down pretty good near the end. Almost
glasslike conditions.
|Just beautiful
|The crew with the man himself.
Here's the video highlights I put together for him:
Total yards that I swam (estimated):
1.5 miles for 2 hours


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FBI Vacates Apple Court Date, Says They May Be Able to Crack Terrorist's Phone
After threatening and trying to strongarm Apple into writing special code that would let them unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, today the FBI suddenly announced they may be able to unlock it without Apple's help.
The FBI says that on Sunday, an "outside party" demonstrated to the FBI a "possible method for unlocking" Syed Rizwan Farook's iPhone.
The court filing adds, "Testing is required to determine whether this is a viable method that will not compromise data on Farook's iPhone. If the method is viable, it should eliminate the need for the assistance from Apple Inc."
The court date set for tomorrow has now been vacated.
This is an interesting development; I'm not sure it's good news that the FBI may be able to crack Apple's security technology.


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We took advantage of some perfect calm sunny weather to sneak out and do a little fishing today and it was awesome! Captain Moore and I trolled for a couple of hours and ended up with this dandy little halibut, a smaller legal King Salmon and we lost another much larger King Salmon (I dont know how big but it was definitely a larger fish than the one i caught). Overall it was a fantastic day, we got some much needed sun-time and managed to burn through a pack of herring (always a good day in the winter when you can use 12 herring).Nice little Halibut we found while trolling Always good to see this on your deck Nice legal March King Salmon
End of March Trip
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Politics & Government
Obama: Not just Republicans support the status quo
RALEIGH, N.C. — For the first time in the North Carolina primary, Barack Obama drew sharp contrasts between himself and Hillary Clinton. as he addressed a raucous crowd of 5,000 chanting party activists at the Nort Carolina Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.
Clinton also addressed the dinner, but didn't attack Obama.
"Real changes have never been easy," Obama told a raucous crowd. "The status quo doesn't give up without a fight. The status quo in this country are not just Republicans."
He used the tax holiday — an idea that Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, also supports — to illustrate the Democratic Party's need to set itself apart. "When we're offering the same things that John McCain is offering on the cheap, that means we are not presenting a truthful response to the challenges we face in America," Obama said. "We can do better than that this time."
Clinton pledged to work for Obama, should he win the nomination. "If Senator Obama is the nominee, you better believe I will work my heart out for him," Clinton said. Obama offered a similar promise: "If Hillary Clinton were the nominee, I would support her in a heartbeat."
The crowd was pro-Obama. Gov. Mike Easley, who had endorsed Clinton earlier in the week, was jeered when he was introduced, and had to speak over scattered boos.
Read the full story at newsobserver.com.


text: In a sheer act of exemplary courage, a US-based Indian woman has stood up against cyber-stalking. At a time when many women give in to the demands of the blackmailer, fearing insult and humiliation, Taruna Aswani decided to pack a powerful punch. One Kevin John threatened Aswani that he would leak her private photos on social media after he gained access to her cloud backup. He sent Aswani two mails, listing his demands and threatened her of dire consequences. In the mail he added, that she would have to 'excite him' in order to keep this as secret. But Aswani did not bother about the threats and made the entire matter public via Facebook. She also added screenshots of the email sent by the man. In her post, Aswani, clearly stated that her cloud backup has been compromised by a hacker. She also mentioned that she chose to come out in public 'so that other women may take a lesson to stand up to bullies'. Here is her Facebook post Dear Friends and Family, I am posting this and emailing you individually as my online identity has been compromised. I have in the last 24 hours received 2 emails from someone that claims to know me that has hacked into my google cloud back up. He has been threatening to release some private pictures and videos of me to my friends family and colleagues. As embarrassing as the videos may be ( they were sent to my boyfriend at the time ) I choose to stand up to this man. Instead of cowering down to his requests. I do this so that other women may take a lesson to stand up to bullies and low life's like this and may get the confidence to stand up as well in case he is known to us and is targeting all of us, but we're either too scared, ashamed or clueless in how to manage or handle such situations. I implore you to share this post with as many people as you know to get the word out. Perhaps someone may be able to locate this person through his digital footprint. Please help me in nabbing this sick pervert. If you find any information on this, please inbox me so I can report it to the Detective working on the case or you may contact him directly on +1 301 699 2601 and mention my name for reference. Grateful for your help in this, I have enclosed along with this screen shots of his emails- I have deleted the photos\/videos he had attached. Thanks for all your help and support in this. Yours truly, Taruna Here is a screenshot of the email


text: Sponsored: A Quick Fashion Week Recap with Microsoft Office 365 Even though this post is brought to you as part of my role as a Microsoft Office 365 Office Champion, the opinions within are strictly my own. Fashion Week is over, and what a week it was! Posts from each show are coming up, but I wanted to post the final video with Microsoft Office ... Read on


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Every month, Club Penguin releases a new Furniture catalog with new items for your igloo, but did you know that they also release new furniture catalog cheats in every catalog? There are sometimes as many as 15-20 hidden rare furniture items in a catalog!
Every time new Furniture Catalog Cheats are released, we publish a video in our Club Penguin: Furniture Catalog Cheats playlist on Youtube, which automatically updates this article with the most recent cheats. The current catalog cheats are for [php]echo date("F, Y"); [/php]. Please let us know what you think of our cheats or if we missed any in our cheats video!
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I arrived in Varanasi at ten am on the morning of the 12th. Unlike the last time, my train journey went exactly as planned; it left Gaya on time and it sidled into Varanasi Junction station on time. Unfortunately, I hadn't slept (due to the aftermath of a very dodgy lassi two days before) and … Continue reading 19/5/17: India Part 2: Varanasi and Agra
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I'm sure most of you remember colour days from Kindergarten last year. When students dressed in a different colour every day as they learned about that colour in French. This year, like past years, the kindergarten students have invited the whole school to join them. This is a schedule for the colours. We will also write reminders in our agendas closer to the time.
Monday, September 19 - rouge (red)
Tuesday, September 20 - bleu (blue)
Wednesday, September 21 - jaune (yellow)
Thursday, September 22 - vert (green)
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Monday, September 26 - brun (brown) **picture day** YOUR CHILD DOES NOT NEED TO DRESS IN BROWN :)
Tuesday, September 27 - rose & violet (pink & purple)
Wednesday, September 28 - gris (grey)
Thursday, September 29 - noir & blanc (black & white)
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Hi,vhfuhf wrote:hi there,
no one's really answered my question though.
how much does a typical license cost? is it an annual thing?
Is there a price difference licenses for a Sencore then a Tandberg/Erricson?
Price for typical license is about the same as a brand new "standard" ericsson reciever.license is one time payment only.
to apply for a license you will be required by ericsson to send your "IRD's dallas number" to them. Ericsson will just send you an activation code to enable the feature you require. Reboot your device and you are done.
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The senseless killing of Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa has placed the spotlight firmly on violent crime in South Africa. What kind of a nation are we, where rampant criminals have equated human life with the price of a cellphone? If indeed Meyiwa's killers wanted cellphones when they committed their dastardly act then this country is in trouble indeed.
Because Meyiwa is a national celebrity his untimely death at the hands of marauding thugs, the matter of violent crime is hogging all the headlines in the entire national media. Thousands of unknown South Africans have perished at the hands of these wild animals masquerading as human beings. They die violently with little or no fanfare. They are the unknown victims and heroes of our country.
It is time that all South Africans stood up against this outrage. We cannot allow a situation whereby the entire country is held hostage by a few criminals and malcontents. It is time to fight back against these monsters. We congratulate the police for the excellent work they have done in apprehending the suspects in the Meyiwa case and hope that they will answer to our courts and that justice will be done.
The weakest link in our judicial system has always been the prosecution and detective work.After the police have apprehended suspects quite often the detective work required to strengthen the prosecution is sloppy and leads to guilty criminals not spending their time in jail. It is the underbelly of the system. The reason why most criminals take their chances is because they believe they won't be caught and when they are caught they expect not to be jailed. This is unfortunate and encourages crime in our beloved country.
Now that we agree that the state has limited capacity to deal with violent crime what is it that we as ordinary people can do to combat crime? During the time of apartheid the majority of our people resisted the evil policy and took responsibility for their lives. Communities were organized and easily mobilized for issues affecting the community.
In the final assault against the apartheid regime in the mid 1980s, communities de-legitimised organs of the apartheid state like police stations and courts and established organs of people's power. People's courts, street committees and village committees sprung up throughout the country in replacement of apartheid institutions. Criminal activities in the townships and villages were considerably reduced as the people took control of their lives.
Criminals were virtually defeated as they acknowledged and subjected themselves to the power and authority of the "Comrades" as the people asserted their hegemony. It was common to see a criminal tried by a court consisting of elected representatives of people and dealt with sometimes too harshly while apartheid courts remained empty. Any criminal harassing the people was delivered to the street committees for instant justice. Although later on criminals infiltrated organs of people's power to give them a bad name, the people had created their own crime-combating structures that were more effective than apartheid police and courts. It was a real experience of people's power.
Today the people are helpless and defenseless against marauding criminals, rapists, murderers, robbers and child molesters. It is time for our communities to reclaim their streets in the battle against crime. Now that we live in a democratic state it is only appropriate for these organs of people's power to be revived in support of the work of the police and the courts. A mechanism must be worked in communities to ensure that these structures are not hi-jacked by criminals for their nefarious ends. We can't afford to be helpless prisoners in our homes as we live in mortal fear of criminals. The people cannot be defeated by a devious minority.
This piece is a call to arms. We all know that criminals do not live in space. They live with us in the villages, townships, squatter camps and towns. Criminals were born into our homes by our mothers, aunts and sisters. Criminals went to school with us some of them work with us. Criminals live with us on the same street, in the same house and play football with us in the same clubs. We cannot pretend that as a community we do not know who the criminals are. It is the height of cowardice and hypocrisy when we pretend that we do not know the people killing, maiming, raping and harassing us. It is time to ACT in unity. A united community can never be defeated.
As I wrap up I would like to quote Alan Paton when he declared in his seminal novel that "Cry the Beloved Country."
Sello Lediga is a journalist and author based in Polokwane


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3 Simple Steps To Styling Your Blog Posts (that'll have peeps drooling over every single word.) – Kimberly Gosney
Have you ever wanted more peeps to hang on your every word?
Today, I'm sharing my favorite steps to styling your blog posts. Each one is guaranteed to have your readers drooling over every word you write.
Remember this one thing …
It's not what you say, but how you say it. Or in this case …
How you style it.
Want drooling readers? Or – at the very least really excited to read your stuff – readers …
It's up to you to go for it and connect with people through your words, videos and any other way humanly possible. You are really ready to change lives here + in order for you to do that – you need to start with your blog posts. Then, the rest will follow. And, before you know it.
You'll have your very own tribe of Purple Unicorns. Which means more heart in your business and more fun in your life. All because you took the time to share a beautifully styled message with the people in your life that needed you the most. Which makes you very awesome in my book.
You're going to have so much fun with this tutorial, I can feel it.
When that moment strikes you when you're feeling like breaking out your laptop and getting started on your next drool worthy blog post – click to tweet this for me, I'll {heart} you for it.
"Want drool worthy blog post styling? I'll have some of that." Click to tweet this.
Oh, and don't forget to share this with your friends too. Because you never know who really needs to see it the most today.
Hugs and here's to you and your words making greater connections + being fully read and LOVED.


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Our work spans health and wellbeing services, education and training, workforce development and research, information services and software development, employment and navigation services and business support services.
Together we are one of the largest providers of mental health and wellbeing services in New Zealand.
Being big isn't what matters to us
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We believe little things
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After three years of working with the community to end rough sleeping in Hamilton so that it is rare, brief and non-recurring, The People's Project has been selected by the Ministry of Social Development to provide a Housing First service in Tauranga.
Read more about the announcement and what the Tauranga community had to say.Find out more


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Faculty Handbook
Center for the Study of Culture and Values
Article I – NAME
The name of this organization shall be the Center for the Study of Culture and Values at Western Connecticut State University.
Article II – Purpose
Article III – OPperations
Article IV – Governance And Rules of Order
Article V – Quorum
Article VI – The Coordinator
Article VII - Meetings
Article VIII – Amendments
Senate Approval: R-03-02-01
Admin. Approval: 4/22/03
Rev. Senate Approval: R11-10-02
Admin. Approval: 11/7/11


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This week we've covered what you should do before, during and after a power outage. You know what to expect and what to do to keep your family safe from spoiled food, tainted water and more. But if your emergency preparedness plan doesn't include the security of your home, you're not doing everything you should.
Criminals and burglars view power outages and severe weather as opportunities. Without power, they believe even homes with home security signs in the yard are vulnerable and with law enforcement helping people during the emergency, there may be fewer resources available to respond to an alarm call. There are things you can do to prevent becoming the victim of crime during a power outage and other emergencies.
1. The Right Stuff
Many of today's home security systems from trusted companies like Frontpoint Security and Guardian come equipped with a back-up battery so your system can remain operational even if you lose power for up to 24 hours. You can read our home security company reviews to learn more and make sure your system will have battery back-up.
2. Backup Your Backup
Additional backup batteries offer a relatively inexpensive means of maintaining your security system past the first day of an extended power outage. You can purchase additional batteries from your home security provider or other online sources. Don't wait until an emergency is imminent. Find additional system batteries now and have them charged and on hand. (And remember to check their charge BEFORE you lose power.)
3. Generate It
For many, power generators are an essential component of their home. Smaller generators typically power 1 – 3 circuits in the home. Others are powerful enough to keep the entire home running. Depending on the size and power of your generator, make sure your home security system is attached to a circuit that will be powered by your generator.
4. Keep a Light On
As you should already know, burglars prefer the welcoming look of an darkened and unoccupied home. Make sure you have plenty of flashlights and lanterns to keep your home awash in light so there's no question in anyone's mind that your home is occupied.
5. Lock it Up
If you don't have a built-in safe, consider getting one. In addition to keeping your valuables and important documents safe during normal circumstances, they will protect them from fire and water damage as well. If you don't have a safe, you may wish to store valuables at another location while the power is out.
You've already got enough to deal with during a power outage. Don't add additional worry to the already stressful situation. Take the time now to get your home security in order so you'll be ready when emergency strikes and can focus on what matters most, your family.


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Here is a selection of some of the stock we have held in the past which we hope shows the breadth of pieces we are able to source. Please get in touch if you would like us to help find something special for you.
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Chronological Order
Grading Standards for Medals
As Struck – As Issued – Mint StateAll three of these terms are self explanatory and describe medals which have scarcely been handled at all.
E.F Extremely FineMedals in this grade have been handled but do not show any obvious sings of wear.
Apart form a few minor scratched, their condition appears to be more or less as it was when they were made.
V.F Very FineMedals in this grade would still be acceptable to a collector. The wear on the medals would be limited to the high spots and the details of the rest of the medal would all be clear.
E – FineNoticeable sings of wear would be evident over the entire surface of these medals. On the high spots, fine details such as hair, lace etc. Might be entirely worn away.
Sometimes the terms "about" Or "nearly" used to show that the condition of a medal is almost up to the next fixed grade but not quite. So, for example, a medal might be described as being "nearly extremely fine".
Toning is believed to improve a medal and so toned medal should be described as such. This is why medals should never be cleaned, only washed. On the other hand edge knocks, discoloration, corrosion, dents, scratches and any other disfiguration should all be mentioned. Also, if a pierced or if the piercing has been plugged, this should also be mentioned.


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Pastor David & Sally Goudy
David and Sally Goudy founded Moira Pentecostal Church in 1979, their daughter Claire now serves as a missionary in the Philippines. Pastor David Goudy is well known for his teaching ministry, communicating the truths of Scripture in a practical, powerful way.
His down to earth, honest style bring forth the hidden truths of the Word of God in a way that encourages people to be grounded, steadfast and sure of God's intent and purpose for their life and the life of the wider church. Sally has stood by David's side for 44 years and together they conduct a weekly cell group in their home.
Board of Trustees
David Goudy
Sally Goudy
Clifford Bloomfield
Kenneth Rollins
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CHICAGO, December 05, 2017 - During his brief amateur boxing career, that included a memorable fight against the eventual champion of the lightweight division in the Chicago Golden Gloves, many said that Frank Lamphere (LAM-fear) hit more like a heavyweight.
Today, with the "Sweet Science" an old but pleasant memory, Lamphere is a professional singer in the highly specialized genre known as traditional pop (Sinatra, Bennett, Dino, Crosby). Vast portions of his performances and repertoire are presented in big band and straight ahead jazz and Lamphere is proudly considered a vocal "heavyweight".
An analogy can easily be made of a boxer working his way through the ranks to a title bout, to Lamphere's prominent rise in music. His musical journey began with hundreds of rounds of karaoke, mini sets with Italian wedding bands and eventually, beneficial sit-ins with such local (Chicago) musical luminaries as: pianists Buddy Charles and Billy Pierce to popular bands like those of Tony Smith and Jim Beebe. These early proving grounds helped lead to steady vocal work with the Johnny Gabor Trio, at the Flame of Countryside, which cemented Frank's musical future. On off-nights hanging out at jam sessions, cocktails aside, Frank would soak up bigger than life stories, wisdom and methods of top jazz musicians. These experiences, along with his over-the-top repertoire (thousands of songs), and newly acquired PA system, gave Frank the confidence to seek out (where many had gone before) work of his own. And did he find it! A steady stream of club and hotel work (lasting about five years) ensued; all the while learning, improving, forming. It's worth noting that Lamphere has a day job. Deck carpenter-contractor and owner of A-Affordable Decks, which will celebrate 26 years in business in 2018.
In time though, Frank outgrew the club scene. He wanted to take his performance to the next level and believed this could best happen while working with a larger band. Frank built a website: ratpackjazz.com, recorded a full length album (attracting national attention), sang with other prominent bands, advertised his services in wedding magazines, bought charts from other band leaders and began bringing in work from non club sources, from all over the country. Instead of singing to 45 listeners in a little jazz club, Frank now had his own powerhouse band performing to 300-500 attendees of a gala or fundraiser.
Though music is a tough business to succeed in, Frank never had the desire or temptation to perform solo. That is, using background tracks (like many singers) in order to secure more work. He has insisted on performing with a live band which consequently eliminated some opportunities, eagerly filled by others. But if success can be measured, not just in terms of quality of jobs and income, but by the admiration and respect from both fans and colleagues alike, then his, is a story of success.
It took some time, but Lamphere has climbed high up the "musical ladder". From this enviable position, Frank can survey with pride his many accomplishments. He has sung for radio and television commercials, performed in numerous shows (including headlining) across the Midwest, New York and Milan, Italy. Frank's EP of original songs Frank Swings, is still being heard on radio stations around the world. One of the songs from the EP (I Never Forgot), was featured prominently in the award-winning independent film Theresa Is a Mother. He has been hired across the U.S, to sing for special occasions, birthday parties, wedding receptions and much corporate work. His entertaining services are more in-demand than ever.
What is it about Frank Lamphere's singing that sets him apart from many of his contemporaries? At his core, he is a pop singer. The type that made their mark on popular music after the Second World War and who had a largely uncontested popularity for twenty years. He thoroughly enjoys what he does. He sings with passion and gusto, in a very masculine, yet believable way. Not Broadway! Not cute! Like the boxer he was, he has many "offensive" options at his disposal. His specialty swing feel could be likened to a left jab; rhythmically moving into the pocket, probing the audience with various degrees of tempo; waiting for the right moment to deliver "the haymaker", the ballad. And rather than make them ring, Frank's crooning is filled with rich, flowing vowels that caress and are readily welcomed into the listeners' ears. Throw in some blues, old time rock, Latin dance and Italian music (in real Italian) and it adds up to a well rounded singer that offers a tremendous variety. Unlike a tried and true jazz singer, Lamphere doesn't try to completely reinvent a song, for the sake of being different. It's not his thing. He will frequently make a time signature, tempo or subtle harmonic change and all the while, swing wildly. Make no mistake, his version of a tune will bear his stamp. Frank works with some of the strongest rhythm players on the scene; they lay down the groove while Frank "bobs and weaves" around them and "lands" the lyrics in all the right spots. This not only gives potency to his phrasing, but also adds a finger-snapping element, that is a force to reckon with. Combine superlative timing with a warm and effective baritone, intonation that with time has gotten even smoother, near laser-like pitch, showmanship in droves and vocal range that can nail a Bb; well then, that will probably help to explain what separates the men from the boys and what has put Frank Lamphere at the top of the division.
It's a different ring that Frank climbs into today. It's one where he can really land some "shots" but unlike boxing, leave the target begging for more. Frank has headlined at the Chicago Taylor Street Festa Italiana, performed before 22,000 at the United Center and had shows at the Palms and Cosmopolitan Casinos in Las Vegas. Concert & other booking inquiries may be pursued at the Rat Pack Jazz website. Lamphere plans to enter the studio in the near future to record his third CD, probably a Dean Martin project. Needless to say, he'll be going for a knockout!
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We received an e mail earlier this week from Cheow in Singapore who was horrified to find something nasty in her baby's diaper.
His poo seemed to be full of little black threads. She told us "… they look like worms, but they are not moving. And there are LOTS of them!"
Of course, we are not doctors – and it is ALWAYS important to seek medical advice when you have any concerns about your baby.
However, one thing that immediately sprang to mind when Cheow mentioned black worms were – believe it or not – bananas!
Yes, strange though it may seem, eating bananas can lead to the appearance of black, fibrous threads in baby's poop and – from personal experience – we agree that they do look alarmingly like worms!
This is a harmless and perfectly normal phenomenon – although the black bits may sometimes look more like specks than threads or worms.
We suggested to Cheow that bananas might be the cause and asked if her little boy (Kang) had eaten any recently.
Well, we received another message from Cheow today, telling us…
Kang loves bananas and recently has been eating them up to twice a day. We took him to see the doctor anyway and she agreed that bananas were the cause – in fact, the staff at the hospital thought it was funny that we thought they were worms! Kang hasn't had any more bananas since we received your reply… and there are no more 'worms' in his diaper!
We're glad you've identified the cause, Cheow – although, of course, it's fine to continue to include bananas in little Kang's diet.
NOTE: A parent similarly concerned about these 'worms' – which turned out to be banana fibres – kindly sent us a photo to help other parents identify them.
Click here to see a photo of black 'worms' in baby poo
After introducing solid foods to baby, there are very noticeable changes in his poop – and they CAN be a little worrying, particularly when you've become accustomed to the yellow, almost sweet-smelling poop of the breast fed baby!
Sometimes you may find little bits of undigested food – and some foods may have an extreme effect on the appearance on your baby's poo – beets, for example, can give it a positively red colour and may even give a pink hue to his pee!
As we mentioned, you should always see your doctor if you are worried – but most of the strange sights you'll see will be a perfectly normal part of your baby's transition to solid foods!
Poop talk…
Well, the topics of conversation certainly change when you're a Mum, don't they?
But if YOU have ever noticed that a certain food has had an unexpected affect on your baby's poo, we'd love you to tell us about it by leaving your comments below! That way, other Mums on the verge of introducing a new food to their babies may have a better idea of what they may find in their little one's diaper as a result!


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A recent media publication about New Zealand's foreign trust makes it sound like a tax haven. However, the OECD maintains that New Zealand is not a tax haven. A tax haven lacks tax transparency, imposes nominal taxes, and foreign trust procedures inhibits the flow of information to other governments. Based on the grounds above, New Zealand does not qualify to be a tax haven. Furthermore, New Zealand's private banking industry is not as complicated as is alleged.
New Zealand was involved in the establishment of 2002 gold standard for transparency, a foreign trust model that supports the exchange of information with other governments to enforce domestic tax laws. New Zealand featured on OECD's white list for having implemented the agreed global tax standards. Furthermore, New Zealand demonstrates tax transparency by implementing the agreed tax standards to facilitate the exchange of relevant tax information. In 2006, Michael Cullen led in the formulation of new tax rules in New Zealand. Under the new regulations, trustees of a foreign trust must provide their financial records and submit the IR607 form.
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Aeronautics company Lockheed Martin has been given $20 million by Nasa to build a new Concorde.
The experimental aircraft will be part of a series called "X-planes" and if successful will become the first supersonic commercial airliner since the Anglo-French Concorde was retired after nearly 30 years of service in 2003.
The legendary aircraft used to fly faster than the speed of sound and cut journey times for transatlantic flights between London and New York journey to around three and a half hours. The design remains an icon for many Brits, even those who never got the chance to take the expensive trip.
Concorde was also famous for its supersonic boom (the noise made when the sound barrier is broken) but the new research aims to make sure that this will be far less intense than before. The noise was one of the reasons Concorde was refused permission to fly faster than sound in US airspace over land limiting potential destinations for it to service.
Quiet supersonic technology
Charles Bolden, Nasa Administrator, revealed the preliminary design phase of what is being called the quiet supersonic technology (QueSST) programme in Washington, where he linked it to previous Nasa initiatives such as the rocket-powered Bell X-1 which first broke the sound barrier in 1947.
Bolden said: "Now we're continuing that supersonic X-plane legacy with this preliminary design award for a quieter supersonic jet with an aim toward passenger flight."
General Manager of Lockheed's Skunk Works, Rob Weiss, said the famous experimental projects company had been working with Nasa for more than ten years to develop the tech for a brand new era of commercial supersonic air travel.
The 'new aviation horizons' initiative from Nasa is expected to last ten years and aims to reduce fuel use, emissions and noise. This will be achieved by innovations in design which could mean that the aircraft of tomorrow will look very different from those we know today.
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text: LINGUIST List: Vol-14-912. Fri Mar 28 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 14.912, Review: General Linguistics: Akatsuka & Strauss (2002) Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org> Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org> Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org): Simin Karimi, U. of Arizona Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomi at linguistlist.org> ========================================================================== FUND DRIVE 2003 To give you an incentive to donate, many of our Supporting Publishers have generously donated some amazing linguistic prizes. As a donor you are automatically entered into this prize draw. To find out what's on offer and the rules etc., visit: http://linguistlist.org/prizedraw.html We still have a long way to go, however, to reach our target of $50,000. Please make a donation at: http://linguistlist.org/donation.html The LINGUIST List depends on the generous contributions from subscribers like you; we would not be able to operate without your help. The moderators, staff, and student editors at LINGUIST would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continuous support. What follows is a review or discussion note contributed to our Book Discussion Forum. We expect discussions to be informal and interactive; and the author of the book discussed is cordially invited to join in. If you are interested in leading a book discussion, look for books announced on LINGUIST as "available for review." Then contact Simin Karimi at simin at linguistlist.org. =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:02:02 +0000 From: Spas Rangelov <116008 at soas.ac.uk> Subject: Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 10 -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:02:02 +0000 From: Spas Rangelov <116008 at soas.ac.uk> Subject: Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 10 Akatsuka, Noriko M. and Susan Strauss, ed. (2002) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 10. CSLI Publications. Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1647.html Spas Rangelov, University of London SYNOPSIS Japanese/Korean Linguistic Volume 10 is the newest addition to the Japanese/Korean Linguistics series. In Volume 10 Noriko Akatsuka and Susan Strauss return as editors of the long-running series (previously Akatsuka has edited or co-edited Volumes 4, 5 and 7, and Strauss has co-edited Volumes 5 and 7). Like the previous volumes in this series it presents papers from the Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, an annual forum for linguists who work in these fields, mainly in the USA but also in other countries. The papers in the volume have been delivered at the Tenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference that was held in October 2000. The number of the papers included in the volume is 45. Twelve of them are by the specially invited speakers and the rest have been competitively selected. They are divided into five parts that reflects the conference's ''unique division into five panels'' (from the back cover). The book is dedicated to the memory of the distinguished linguist James D. McCawley (1938-1999) who has contributed greatly to the development of both Japanese and Korean linguistics and was, as the editors write, ''one of the giants of 20th century general linguistics.'' The invited speakers are all his friends and former students. The name of Jim McCawley gets mentioned in some of the papers with warmth and admiration. On the second page of the book there is a reproduction of a photograph of McCawley. After the preface there is a an account by McCawley that he contributed to the family newsletter which adds a deeply felt personal touch to the volume. Part I, Cognition and Grammar, consists of eight papers that deal from different angles with the interactions of syntax, semantics and cognition. The first paper is ''On the Interaction of Temporal and Modal Meaning in Japanese Conditionals'' by Wesley M. Jacobsen, one of the invited speakers. The paper addresses a topic that is related to Japanese conditionals that have already been examined by the author elsewhere (Jacobsen 1999). In this further study an account is proposed for the tendency for aspectually stative conditional clauses to be given a hypothetical interpretation. The study is in the framework of establishing correlations between semantic parameters and certain meanings, e.g. hypothetical meaning. ''Processing Japanese and Korean: Full Attachment versus Efficiency'' by William O'Grady, Michiko Nakamura and Miseon Lee examines the problems of parsing languages of the type of Japanese and Korean in a formalist framework. The formalist analyses and processing schemes for SOV languages and SVO languages are contrasted in the context of machine processing of texts. A special attention is paid to quantifier structures and their treatment is based on earlier analyses (O'Grady 1991, Sells 1995). The theoretical and practical implications of this type of studies are very important for contemporary science. ''Japanese and Korean Causatives Revisited'' by Masayoshi Shibatani and Sung Yeo Chung is an important contribution to the debate on Japanese and Korean causatives. Despite the similarities, the morphology and semantics of the causatives in the two languages demonstrate differences. A contrastive approach actually proves fruitful in clarifying the morphological and semantic irregularities and mismatches within each language. Sung-Chool Im's ''Characteristic Lexicalization Patterns of Motion Events in Korean'' uses the conflation patterns of semantic elements in cognitive semantics to account for three characteristic lexicalization patterns of motion verbs in Korean in a typological-functional framework. The paper is clearly written and comprehensively accounts for the different groups of monomorphemic and polymorphemic motion verbs. ''The Processing of Wh-phrases and Interrogative Complementizers in Japanese'' by Edson T. Miyamoto and Shoichi Takahashi argues that the processing of in-situ wh-phrases in Japanese can be explained by the same procedure that underlies the processing of fronted wh-phrases in English. Combining the achievements of the generative and the psycholinguistic traditions, the authors support the proposed model with the results of a reading time experiment. ''On Sound Symbolism in Japanese and Korean'' by Reijirou Shibasaki is based on two experiments, a psychological one and a phonological one. The author starts with a working hypothesis about the sound symbolic words (SSWs) which is reformulated at the end due to the findings. The study reaches the conclusion that SSWs are rich in quantity, systematically organized and highly motivated. Mitsuaki Shimojo's ''A Cognitive Account of Extraction Asymmetry in Japanese Relative Clauses'' investigates the similarities and the differences between the so-called externally-headed relative clauses (EHRCs) and internally-headed relative clauses (IHRCs) (the latter are studied in other papers in this book). The author finds that the two types are analogous in relativization and topicalization but wh- questions in IHRCs are more restricted than in EHRCs. The study is from a cognitive perspective. ''Grammar, Cognition and Procedure as Reflected in Route Directions in Japanese, Korean and American English'' by Susan Strauss, Hanae Katayama and Jong Oh Eun is based on a corpus of 75 spontaneously produced route directions elicited from people on a university campus in three different languages: Japanese, Korean and American English. The cross- linguistic analysis uncovers tendencies in the grammar of each language which reflect deeper levels of human cognition. Part II, Discourse and Conversation, consists of eight papers. The first paper in this part, ''When Does Communication Turn Mentally Inward?: A Case Study of Japanese Formal-to-Informal Switching'' by Seiichi Makino from Princeton University, one of the invited speakers, addresses the interesting phenomenon of formal-to-informal switching in the context of Japanese discourse studies. The author discusses the choice between informal and formal forms at the sentence level and then investigates the more complex discourse phenomena from a variety of viewpoints. It is found that formal-to-informal switching signals that the speaker turns the communicative direction inwardly. ''Markers of Epistemic vs. Affective Stances: Desyoo vs. Zyanai'' by Naomi Hanaoka McGloin examines closely and compares two Japanese sentence-final expressions, desyoo and zyanai, in the framework of text analysis. The author shows that desyoo can be considered as a marker of epistemic stance while zyanai can be viewed as a marker of affected stance. Haruko Minegishi Cook's ''The Social Meanings of the Japanese Plain Form'' examines the use of the so-called plain form in Japanese in the framework of discourse modality. It is concluded that the plain form foregrounds an affect key if there is one; otherwise it foregrounds the informational content. The author also finds that ''occurrence of the naked plain form in speech is not random in at least institutional settings.'' It is also noted that intonation plays an important role in interpreting social meaning. The fourth paper in this part, ''Listener Responses in Telephone and Face-to-face Conversations: How do Non-verbal Behaviors Affect Japanese and English Interactions?'' by Hiroko Furo, investigates how nonverbal cues, like gestures and head nods, affect social interaction by exploring how frequently and at what points listener responses are verbalized in telephone and face-to-face conversations. It also studies how culture affects verbal and nonverbal listening behaviours by comparing conversation in Japanese and American English. The author finds that nonverbal cues affect Japanese and English conversations to a similar degree. Kaoru Horie and Kaori Taira's ''Where Korean and Japanese Differ: Modality vs. Discourse Modality'' finds that modality systems in Korean and Japanese are similar only superficially; at closer inspection they exhibit remarkable difference. The authors sum up that modality meaning related to propositional content is elaborately encoded in Korean, whereas discourse modality is systematically manifested in Japanese. ''Demonstratives as Prospective Indexicals: ku and ce in Korean Conversation'' by Kyu-hyun Kim and Kyung-Hee Suh is a thorough study of the functions of two demonstrative attributive words, ku and ce, which are part of the demonstrative triad i/ku/ce. The paper explicates the uses of the two forms when they are used as prospective indexicals and highlights the differences between the two in an illuminating way that both researchers and learners of Korean will find satisfying. Maeri Megumi's ''The Switching Between desu/masu Form and Plain Form: >>From Perspective of Turn Construction'' uses the methodology of conversation analysis to examine a peculiar phenomenon in Japanese, the switching from the so-called desu/masu forms to plain forms, in the framework of the theory of politeness. The author explores the empirical material and reaches interesting conclusions about the situations in which speakers choose to switch from one register to another and the importance of the social factors and implications, like social status and sex of the speaker, whether they are speaking to a specific person or giving a presentation to an audience, etc. The last paper in this part, Emi Morita's ''Stance Marking in the Collaborative Completion of Sentences: Final Particles as Epistemic Markers in Japanese,'' studies cases in which utterance completion includes attitudinal markers in the shape of final particles, e.g. yo, ne, yone. The author finds that speakers employ them to position themselves as candidates for collaboration to various degrees. Regarding final particles as markers of epistemic stance, the author shows how using them in conversation a second speaker can claim different degrees of authority. Part III, Historical Linguistics and Grammaticalization, has the fewest number of papers, seven. They are a welcome and refreshing addition to a somewhat neglected subfield of Japanese and Korean linguistics. The first paper in this part is Sang-Cheol Ahn's ''A Dispersion Account on Middle Korean Vowel Shifts.'' The author accounts for the processes, usually referred to as ''the Vowel Shift in Middle Korean'' from the perspectives of the Dispersion Theory in conjunction with the postulates of the Optimality Theory (OT). The arguments are supported by a body of correspondences between Middle Mongolian words and 15th century Korean loanwords from Mongolian. The next papers is ''Genitive tu in OJ and Historical Changes of Genitive Particles'' by Yu Hirata. Using the methods of historical linguistics the author charts the history of a specific linguistic form, tu in Old Japanese (OJ), from Genitive marker (GEN) to Pronominal Genitive (Pro-GEN) to Bound Pronominal (Bd-Pro) and then to Nominalizer (NMZ) and Sentence Final Particle (SFP). The relationship with Korean and its likely cognate, s, is also addressed. In Minju Kim's ''On the Emergence of Korean Concessive myense: Focusing on the Grammaticalization of se'' the history of the Korean clausal connective myense is thoroughly explored. Examining the evidence from phonology and linguistic change the author traces back the origin of the linguistic form to the forms mye and se and also addresses the issue of the status of se generally. The different forms in which the element se is contained are accounted for in the grammaticalization framework. Kyoko Hirose Ohara's ''From Relativization to Clause-linkage: A Constructional Account of Japanese Internally Headed Relativization'' discusses the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of the so- called ''concessive clause-linking constructions.'' She also proposes that the Internally Headed Relativization (IHR) constructions (also discussed in Matsuda's paper in Part V) may be reanalysed in Modern Japanese as concessive clause-linking constructions. The evidence points to the necessity to consider the diachronic data and the grammaticalization processes when analysing and explaining Modern Japanese grammar. Kaoru Ohta's ''Kakarimusubi and Focus Structure'' is a paper that deals with the so-called Kakarimusibi (KM) constructions in Old Japanese (OJ). An analysis of the Focus interpretation of these and the Middle Japanese (MJ) pseudocleft constructions is proposed in a general formalist framework. The work uses synchronic rather than diachronic approaches towards the language phenomena. ''Discourse, Grammaticalization, & Intonation: An Analysis of -ketun in Korean'' by Mee-Jeong Park and Sung-Ock S. Sohn is a study of the Korean verbal suffix -ketun from a historical and grammaticalizational perspective, as well as in a pragmatic context. Studying the interplay of discourse and intonation in the usages of -ketun, the authors reach insights about the discourse-based grammaticalization and the role of intonation and tone features in language change. ''Kakari Musubi, Noda-constructions, and How Grammaticalization Theory Meets Formal Grammar'' by Wolfram Schaffar also looks at the so-called Kakari Musubi constructions in Classical Japanese, like Ohta's paper from this part. The author clarifies the notion of morphological 'focus' and 'background.' For the theoretical discussion data from a variety of languages (including Tibeto-Burman and African) is brought forward. In order to account for the Kakari Musubi constructions and the origin and development of Modern Japanese Noda-constructions a cyclic grammaticalization process with four steps is put forward. Part IV, Phonetics and Phonology, unites eight papers covering a range of topics in Japanese and Korean sound systems and prosody. The part opens with a paper by one of the invited speakers, S.-Y. Kuroda, ''Rendaku.'' The author acknowledges the significance of McCawley 1968 in establishing the foundations of generative phonology of Japanese. Then the author summarizes the facts and the interpretations of the Japanese linguistic phenomenon rendaku, the voicing of voiceless obstruents at the beginning of an internal component of a compound word, and gives an elegant and comprehensive formal account of the relevant part of Japanese phonology. The next paper in this part is ''Supporting Korean and Japanese on the Internet: Web Standards, Unicode and National Character Encodings'' by Katsuhiko Momoi from Netscape Communications Corp. This paper is more about writing systems and text processing rather than about phonetics or phonology. It is very informative and gives answers to an awful lot of questions about Korean, Japanese and Chinese IT support that often appear on various dedicated mailing lists and discussion groups in Japanese and Korean studies. It provides the reader with a lot of useful information on encoding methods, fonts, character set standards, input method editors, etc. It is good reference for the current situation. The third paper in this part is Timothy J. Vance's ''Semantic Bifurcation in Japanese Compound Verbs'' investigates an interesting phenomenon: the coexistence of compound verbs in Japanese with alternation of the final mora of the first element with a mora obstruent in parallel with the source form and the bifurcation of meaning that accompanies this phenomenon. Insightful observations about expressiveness and semantic diversification are made. ''Moraic Structure and Segment Duration in Korean'' by Emily Curtis is an elegant and comprehensive exposition of a production experiment that tests the effects on vowel duration of various syllable and moraic configurations. Korean is chosen as an appropriate language for such an experiment and the findings are insightful about the interaction of the moraic and the syllabic articulation of Korean. Stuart Davis and Isao Ueda's ''Mora Augmentation in Shizuoka Japanese'' is of great interest because it presents a not very well known feature of the Shizuoka dialect of Japanese, mora augmentation in adjectival emphasis. The very complex patterns of mora augmentation are accounted for in a unified manner in the formal framework of Optimality Theory. ''Phonetic Duration of English /s/ and its borrowing in Korean'' by Soohee Kim and Emily Curtis deals with the issues of phonemic adaptation of loanwords; in this case the focus is on the accommodation in Korean of the English consonant /s/. The theoretical elaborations are accompanied by two experiments, a production one and a perception one, and the conclusions point to possible paths of future research in that vein. Byung-Jin Lim's ''Local and Global Patterns of Temporal Compensations in Korean'' concentrates on the temporal compensatory interaction between vowel length, aspiration, tension and voicing of consonants and syllable structure in Korean. The study also finds that the interval from consonant release to consonant release ''shows relatively constant values'' and that is compared to the peculiarities of Korean traditional orthography. The results confirm previous studies and also lead to some new conclusions. ''Prosody and Information Structure in Japanese: A Case Study of Topic Marker wa'' by Kimiko Nakanishi is a study of the interface of prosody and information structure. The author explores to what extent phonological means express information structure. Two experiments and a corpus study are conducted with the aim to examine the prosodic patterns of the topic marker wa in two functions, thematic and contrastive. The exposition is richly illustrated with charts that visualize the findings. Part V, Syntax and Semantics, contains fourteen papers that examine questions of syntax. The first paper in this part is ''Information Unpackaging: A Constraint- based Unified Grammar Approach to Topic-Focus Articulation'' by Suk-Jin Chang from Seoul National University. The approached subject is the ''topic-focus articulation'' (TFA) of the sentence, a notion that comes from the tradition of the Prague Linguistic Circle. This short but very interesting paper concentrates on two subtopics: the interaction of the stress (as a prosodic feature) with the TFA, and dialogue analysis from the perspective of TFA. A special emphasis is put on the prosody- pragmatics interface and its implications for the information analysis. The framework is formalist, stemming from Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and is called Constraint-based Unified Grammar of Korean (CUG/K). It has been developed by the same author in previous publications (e.g. Chang 1994). The potential applications of this innovative framework for the study of Korean, as well as Japanese, are also mentioned. Susumu Kuno's ''NPI Licensing, O/Ga Alternation, Verb Raising and Scrambling'' revisits some widely discussed topics in the literature on Japanese linguistics in the generative tradition, like the bracketing of the potential and experiential constructions, the alternation of the case markers O and Ga, case assignment, verb raising, Negative Polarity Items (NPI). The proposed new insights are illuminating and convincing. ''Negative Polarity in Korean and Japanese'' by Chungmin Lee is a profound study of the distribution and development of NPIs and Free Choice Items (FPI) in Japanese and Korean in an advanced generative framework. A ''unified solution of concession'' is proposed that will certainly be useful in examining similar phenomena in other languages that share typological features with Japanese and Korean in this respect. Yoko Sugioka's ''Incorporation vs. Modification in Deverbal Compounds'' examines the syntax of an interesting feature of Japanese morphology, the deverbal compounds (VC) in the framework of the tradition of Sugioka 1984. The paper illuminates the properties of the argument VCs and adjunct VCs from different angles: semantic, syntactic, phonological (especially interesting sections on accent patterns and rendaku). ''Syntactic and Pragmatic Properties of the NPI Yekan in Korean'' by Sae- Youn Cho and Han-Gyu Lee is a thorough analysis of the syntactic properties (in a generative framework) and the pragmatics of a specific Negative Polarity Item in Korean. As the authors point out it is essential to study such items individually and ''more empirical research is required.'' In this respect this is a pioneering paper. ''The Interpretation of Wh-elements in Conjoined Wh-questions'' by Sungeun Cho and Xuan Zhou is a short paper that examines in detail a curious issue: while some conjoined wh-questions in languages like English can be ambiguous, the conjoined wh-questions in languages like Korean or Japanese are not. The phenomena are approached in a minimalist framework. In ''Complex Predicate Formation and Argument Structure of Japanese V-V Compounds'' Thomas Gamerschlag gives an account of the grammar of a subclass of Japanese verb compounds, namely the ''lexical compound verbs,'' characterized by the absence of complement-functor relation between the two verbs in the compound. The proposed innovative analysis is in the theoretical framework of Lexical Decomposition Grammar (LDG). In ''Nominative-Genitive Conversion Revisited'' Ken Hiraiwa from Massachusetts Institute of Technology re-examines the traditional analysis (in the generative tradition) of Nominative-Genitive Conversion (NGC) in Japanese and supplies a lot of evidence to show that it is not very adequate and convincing. The author proposes a new descriptive generalization of NGC in a minimalist framework that is of higher adequacy. ''A 'Removal' Type of Negative Predicates'' by Jieun Joe and Chungmin Lee is yet another paper on negation in this book. This one is highly theoretical. It establishes a new class of negative predicates, removal predicates, and discusses in depth the kinds of removal predicates, as well as their semantics, syntax and morphological characteristics. Jong Sup Jun's ''Semantic Co-Composition of the Korean Substantival Nouns-ha(ta) Construction: Evidence for the Generative Lexicon'' explains the semantics of the verbal constructions with the ''light verb'' hata in Korean. Using co-composition a device in the Generative Lexicon (GL) theoretical framework, the author adequately describes the corresponding facts in Korean and proposes a correlate in English. Ae-Ryung Kim's ''Two Positions of Korean Negation'' is a profound study of the two types of Korean verbal negative constructions, commonly known as short-form negation and long-form negation. The author reviews the existing analyses and proposes a new analysis of the constructions and the status of the negation marker ani. The advantages of the suggested hypothesis are convincingly demonstrated. ''Opacity in Japanese and Korean'' by Ae-Ryung Kim and Yoshihisa Kitagawa is a theoretical development of the notion of opacity (that is part of the generative tradition since the 1970s) in a minimalist framework. The authors introduce the notion of 'relativized opacity' and explore its implications for Japanese and Korean, as well as some phenomena in English. ''Intervention Effects are Focus Effects'' by Shin-Sook Kim is an interesting cross-linguistic study of interrogative and negative constructions in a minimalist framework. Analysing NPIs in Korean as focus phrases, the author argues that an Intervention Effect is produced by focus phrases. Material from other languages, including Hindi and German, is brought into consideration too. Yuki Matsuda's '' Event Sensitivity of Head-Internal Relatives in Japanese'' proposes an interesting semantic account of the Japanese constructions known as Head-Internal Relative (HIR) clauses (they are also discussed in Ohara's paper from Part II as Internally Headed Relativization clauses (IHRC)). The novel analysis accounts for a lot of problematic data. The advantage of this analysis is that it takes into consideration the semantic properties of the HIR clauses and is not purely syntactic. There is a very carefully designed and useful index of topics at the end of the book. EVALUATION It is very difficult for a single reviewer to evaluate forty-five different papers who are written in different frameworks, follow different traditions and refer to numerous publications. Inevitably, a single person will be attracted to the ones that are close to their research interests while other papers will be harder to follow and understand. It will be almost impossible to evaluate them even- handedly. Nevertheless, it can be definitely said that this volume's papers are clearly written and are accessible to readers with general specialist knowledge. The book is an excellently edited and good-looking volume combining a large number of papers that approach different issues in Japanese and Korean linguistics from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The book is a forum that presents the work and latest achievements of the linguists who work in these fields at the universities in North America with international contributions, especially from Japan and South Korea. In the tradition of the Japanese/Korean Linguistics series different papers often appear typographically different (different fonts, sizes, alignment). Although they make the book look somewhat uneven, these feature actually contribute to the perception that the reader receives visual correspondences to the distinct voices of the individual contributors. This is an accessible and readable book that is highly recommendable for students and researchers, especially from other regions of the world, who want to keep up with the newest developments and enquiries in the scientific study of two important East Asian languages, Japanese and Korean. REFERENCES Chang Suk-Jin. 1994. Thonghap Mwunqpeplon [Unified Grammar Theory]. Seoul: Seoul National University Press. Jacobsen, Wesley M. 1999. Aspects of hypothetical meaning in Japanese conditionals. Function and Structure, ed. A. Kamio and T. Takami, 83- 122. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. McCawley, James D. 1968. The Phonological Component of a Grammar of Japanese. The Hague: Mouton. O'Grady, William. 1991. Categories and Case: The Sentence Structure of Korean. Philadelphia: Benjamins. Sells, Peter. 1995. Korean and Japanese Morphology from a Lexical Perspective. Linguistic Inquiry 26, 277-325. Sugioka, Yoko. 1984. Interaction of Derivational Morphology and Syntax in Japanese and English. PhD dissertation, U. Chicago. (Reprinted: Garland, 1986). ABOUT THE REVIEWER Spas Rangelov is a postgraduate research student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research interests include Korean and Japanese linguistics, general linguistics, morphological theory, foreign-language teaching. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you buy this book please tell the publisher or author that you saw it reviewed on the LINGUIST list. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-14-912


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Yesterday I hit 10,000 tunes on my last.fm profile. last.fm, in case you're wondering, keeps track of all the music that you listen to and then aggregates it into a useful format. Anything I play at work gets automatically catalogged, as does anything I listen to on my home PC. Of course, anything played in my car or home stereo isn't counted.
I signed up with last.fm/Audioscrobbler on June 18, 2003, so it took a little under 2 1/2 years to hit the 10,000 song mark. And now, for some meaningless statistics.
The top ten artists I've listened to:
- Wes Montgomery – One week, I listened to his full 12-disc set, which is where this huge number comes from.
- Archie Shepp – No surprise here.
- Half Pint – Nor here.
- DJ Krush
- Sly & Robbie
- Dr. Octagon – Combined with #10 (same person, different persona), Kool Keith actually bumps up to #2.
- Made Out of Babies – Impressive since their album just came out this year. I rarely replay an album so frequently in such a short time span.
- Masta Ace (tie)
- 7L & Esoteric (tie) – Very surprising as I didn't think I listened to them that much.
- Kool Keith
I listen to my own tracks somewhat frequently, but not too much. I ranked tied for #50 with Del, Saafir, and Ranee Lee, three artists I can't believe aren't ranked higher.
A list of other favorite artists I thought would be ranked in the top 10 and where they're actually ranked:
- Magic Sam (14)
- Yat-Kha (42)
- Chino XL (188)
- Spearhead (86)
- Raheem (75)
- Robotobibok (27)
I wish it had an export function (well, an explicit one, at least) so that I could chart the number of tracks I've listened to per day. Alas, you'll have to do without.


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House panel accuses IRS' Werfel of stonewalling probe
The House's chief investigative committee on Tuesday accused the IRS of stonewalling its probe into the agency's unfair targeting of Tea Party groups and other politically-affiliated organizations, saying Congress has received only a fraction of the documents it requested and many of those are useless.
The House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee letter directly blames acting Commissioner Danny Werfel for the "systematic manner" in which his agency has "attempted to delay, frustrate, impede and obstruct" the committee's investigation, despite his promising just weeks earlier to fully cooperate.
"The actions of the IRS under your leadership have made clear to the committee that the agency has no intention of complying completely or promptly with the committee's oversight efforts," wrote committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
The letter also states that obstructing a congressional investigation "is a crime" and that the committee will be forced to use a "compulsory process" should the IRS continue to use its tactics.
A high-ranking committee staffer told FoxNews.com that process could include subpoenas.
"We are doing everything we can to fully cooperate with the committees, and we strongly disagree with any suggestions to the contrary," an IRS spokesman said in response to the letter. "Given that all documents must be carefully reviewed to protect taxpayer privacy, this continues to be a time and labor intensive review process."
The spokesman also said 70 IRS attorneys are working full-time reviewing documents, the agency continues to update committee staffers as the requests are being processed and that the number or related documents is closer to 460,000.
The letter by the Republican-led committee was sent as Congress tries to learn more about the targeting, including who at the agency's Washington headquarters might have known about, led or coordinated the activity and whether it was politically motivated.
It cites at least three instances in which the IRS has failed to comply, since revelations in May that the IRS unfairly targeted the groups from 2010 through 2012 when they were applying for tax-exempt status.
The agency has turned over just 12,000 pages of the roughly 64 million pages it deemed potentially relevant to the investigation, Issa said.
Furthermore, many of the documents are duplicates and so excessively redacted that they are "completely unintelligible and useless," according to the letter.
Additionally, Republicans on another House committee released a report Tuesday that claims conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status were more closely scrutinized by the IRS than their progressive counterparts.
Tea party and other conservative groups were, on average, asked three times as many questions as progressive groups, said the report by Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee. Conservative groups were less likely to be approved for tax-exempt status and more likely to have their applications delayed, the report said.
The Oversight and Government Affairs Committee's other concerns are that the IRS blocked employee Cindy Thomas -- a manager in the agency's Exempt Organizations Determinations office -- from turning over key documents and that the agency in late July released a 30-day review to the media before giving it to the committee.
The letter was sent one day after the committee asked for an inspector general investigation into allegations the IRS also politically targeted groups that already had tax-exempt status, including the Washington-area based Leadership Institute, which trains conservatives.
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From sleeve to elbow it's rotten plaster and rusty iron.
The other figures were worse. Bird is bondo or something.
We have always welcomed statue repair jobs. We specialize in plaster, concrete, marble and terra cotta. Almost all the architectural reproduction jobs we do start with a fair amount of repair, after all. The first big one was a 1-ton marble Chinese lion caught in a fire. Local tree-trimming crews know to come here when they damage a backyard treasure.
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I thought the bird belonged in her hand.
2008: They came back! Years of mistreatment - they had lifted them by their arms- and they needed repairing and repainting.
Missing arm was recast from another angel, fitted and glued in place.
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I get many inquiries from poor souls who have bought things over the net that arrive broken.
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2) The break/s: clean, or rough: see ground material, smoothed-over stumps?
If clean, do it yourself with Superglue or 10-min epoxy.
If rough, consider repairing with Bondo.
You need me for bigger jobs and when the broken part is gone.
Oddly enough, 10-minute epoxy is not inferior to 2-hour formula! Just faster.
Adding dust (fine or coarse to match your surface) can help hide the seam.
Architectural repair/renovation has been plagued
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that move through stone. This has led to the patch being pushed back out
by this pressure.
So Jahn mortars
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at least as porous as the stone they patch. Cathedral Stone makes a limestone/sandstone,
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are not large.
If you own statues:
Go out and take a bunch of good photos of them. Put in a safe place. Too often there are no pictures of what the piece looked like when perfect, so we're guessing when we repair.
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The stones that have aggregate, including concrete and granite, are done by mixing a base color, and pressing pebbles and sand of the right color and size into the surface.
A consideration is, it's meant to repair aged stone. It does not seem to come close to shiny surfaces.
Their tools are moderately priced. The workshop is a steep $900, considering they have made us into salesmen as well as installers.
In the training, they had 3 or 4 teachers for 12 students, a very hands-on bunch. By certifying installers, they can be sure only their recommended techniques are used, and then they guarantee the results.
Take a look also at the Terra Cotta repair page.
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Extract: Children abuse probably not new phenomena but sever reflection of treble stories in press due to that this issue viewed as a problem which need to special nursing and medical attention.
Each person who read new articles may to conclude that children abuse is a phenomenon relevant to twenty century but unfortunately children were abused for centuries. In 16th century a surgeon called Felix Wurtz documented clear aspects of children abuse. New cognition of medical aspects of children abuse indebted to Henry Kempe works who mention to some manifestations that caused by Brutality with children.


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Informal, Unscientific Poll on Geocaching Age February 2, 2010Posted by kinzuakid in Forums, Geocaching, Geocaching.com, In the News/Blogosphere.
Tags: age, Average, Forums, Geocacher, poll, Statistics
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This one is from a thread in the Forums. I got a bug in my ear and decided to start keeping the running statistics. The original question was, essentially: "I'm 23 years old. Are most Geocachers older or younger than 23?"
See for yourself:
As of 13:40 on 2/2/10
Average (Mean): 34.33
Median: 29 years
Mode (Most Common): 21 years
Total entries: 73
0-17: 15 entries
18-34: 26 entries
35-52: 15 entries
55-85: 17 entries
Youngest: 3mo
Youngest able to sign the log: 5 years
Oldest: 85
So yes, most Geocachers are older than 23, at least according to this highly biased poll of self selected forum-reading Geocachers on Groundspeak. The only way this could be more unscientific and less meaningful is if PZ Myers were to send his Pharyngula hordes down upon it to prove the point. Since this is a forum discussion that seems unlikely to happen.
Still, it's fun and somewhat surprising if the data are representative of the larger Geocaching populace. And yes, that is me replying in the Forum thread.
17 Down – 33 to Go! May 2, 2009Posted by kinzuakid in Geocaching, My Finds, Statistics.
Tags: Geocaching, pocket query, PQ, query, Statistics
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I know, this is probably obsessive-compulsive, but I had a whopping half hour to myself on business in Maryland and just had to check that Geocaching box…
I have a personal goal of caching every US state in the next few years. This map marks my progress nicely. I do like the cool color coded state maps you can get from Itsnotaboutthenumbers, but this one will do in a pinch. I generated this one using LogicWeave's Cache Stats. INATN (short form) actually has my favorite statistic right there on the front page when you upload your PQ:
Approximate cache-to-cache distance: 67623.42 miles (108829.34 kilometres)
That's just over 54 miles travelled per Geocache logged. I knew I got around for work a bit but these numbers just blew me away! I love looking at maps like these. If you have a blog or profile with your map posted, drop a link to it in the comments for all to see, especially if you have a map looking better (more complete) than mine. And if you have a nearly complete county map for your home state, drop a link to that, too!
I'm happy to live vicariously through the caching exploits of others. 😉


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Washington, D.C. — Eagle Forum PAC, a conservative public policy organization founded by pro-family leader Phyllis Schlafly, is proud to endorse Mark Walker in the race to represent North Carolina's 6th District to be held on July 15th.
"Mark Walker is a vital voice for North Carolina," said Schlafly. "He is a common-sense, Constitutional conservative who will champion pro-family issues as a citizen legislator and not a career politician."
"He is committed to conservative, free-market policies and will certainly work to reclaim the unique foundation of the United States of America and the great state of North Carolina," Schlafly noted.
"Throughout his campaign, Mark has demonstrated his strong commitment to the people of North Carolina's 6th district, not Washington and special interests," Schlafly declared. "We need leaders like Mark in Washington to stand against the tyranny of the Obama Administration in an effort to return power to the people and the states."
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Eagle Forum PAC supports candidates who are committed to a conservative philosophy of limited government, national sovereignty and traditional values.


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Sunday, August 7, 2011
the 4th of july Katie, and I took the little girls out side, they were having so much fun playing together.
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