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Las Vegas - Apr 16, 2007 - NDS has debuted NDS Radioguard, the first conditional access system for HD Radio. With the announcement of the product comes the news that NDS Radioguard has been chosen by Ibiquity to protect digital content transmitted over HD Radio. Ibiquity will embed the NDS technology into its chipsets moving forward.
NDS Radioguard in the HD Radio chipsets will allow broadcasters to offer pay-per-listen options for live concerts and events, opt-in events sponsored by advertisers and private channels for specific needs.
The conditional access system is used to scramble the signal and then entitle specific receivers to decode that signal. To do this, all HD Radio receivers will need to be addressable, which is a step that it now being implemented for future receivers. The decoding capability is being introduced in two steps. By September 2007, NDS will have a security chip available that will add the access capability to the existing HD Radio chipset. By April 2008, NDS and Ibiquity expect to have the capability imbedded within the HD Radio chipset.
The system has undergone field trials that were transmitted via WUSF-FM, Tampa, FL. The tests began on March 18 and were a cooperative effort between the station, the International Association of Audio Information Services, Ibiquity, Harris and NPR Labs. According to NDS, the tests went well and showed that receivers could be entitled to receive the reading service for the blind programming.
NDS technology is currently in use in more than 70 million TV set-top boxes around the world. This technology has been adapted into Radioguard.
NDS is exhibiting in booth N7137 at NAB2007, and the system will also be shown in the Broadcast Electronics and Harris booths.
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Seeking Appalachia's Strangest Flower
After searching for weeks, I finally found Appalachia's
strangest wildflower.
It was my dog that led me to the maroon, green and yellow skunk cabbage bloom. Just like the flies that pollinate it, he was drawn to the flower's putrid rotting meat smell.
What did I do upon finding it? A little dance. What did my dog do? He rolled on top of it and then ate it.
Luckily for him, skunk cabbage grows in colonies, and, after a scolding, he knew to leave the rest of the odd flowers for the flies.
These plants stumped a Dear Naturalist reader this week and rightfully so.
Every year around this time, a bunch of unusual plants grow in our backyard woods. They actually grow up through the snow… seem to actually melt it. It is green and red, but if you open the petals, there is a yellow ball inside. I think it could be related to a Venus Fly Trap. What is this plant? – Bob V., Deep Gap
You are right in your observations, Bob. The eastern skunk cabbage in your backyard does actually melt the snow as it grows. Because of this unique adaptation, it is one of the earliest blooming wildflowers in our mountains.
The plant blooms perennially in colonies near streams in cold regions. The large auburn and green hood-like section is called the "spathe." The flower is actually the large yellow spherical object inside the spathe.
As the spathe grows up through the snow, it can generate its own heat. The heat is produced when the plant oxidizes starches that it has stored in its rhizome over the winter.
The temperature inside the spathe, where the flower is developing, is self-regulated by the plant. Typically, the temperature inside will be at least 30 degrees warmer than the outside air.
When the spathe is fully grown, it opens to reveal the odiferous flower. Why does it smell so bad? All potential pollinators need to be awakened from their own winter's rest. Let's just say the best part of wakin' up for these flies is not the smell of Folger's coffee.
Skunk cabbage is also unusual in that the first part of the plant to appear is the bloom. It isn't until early May that the leafy part of the plant will emerge.
A crushed leaf exudes a skunk-like odor, and ingested leaf juice calls forth a strong inflammatory reaction in the mouth and esophagus of human beings. Few creatures eat the leaves. For this and many other reasons, an individual plant can survive for hundreds of years (as long as the ground where it lives stays moist).
It is not closely related to the Venus Fly Trap. Instead, skunk cabbage is in the Arum family, along with jack-in-the-pulpit and the tropical calla lily.
If you have a question concerning flora and fauna, please email (firstname.lastname@example.com) All of your questions will be answered. One or two will be featured next week. See you on the trails!
Amy Renfranz is an interpretive park guide on the Blue Ridge Parkway. She is a certified naturalist through the Yellowstone Institute and a certified environmental educator in the state of North Carolina. Her comments are made independently and do not reflect the views of the National Park Service.

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text: High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 13. Traveling Arizona Highways, in your dreams and on the ground http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/traveling-arizona-highways-in-your-dreams-and-on-the-ground In 1960, an Illinois mailman falls in love with the desert through the pages of Arizona Highways and hands on his dream -- and a piece of Mohave County --to his son and grandson. No publisher Tony Fitzpatrick autobiography Arizona Old Route 66 Mohave County family life Arizona Highways magazine road trips Arizona desert 2012-03-30T11:58:21Z News Article A deadly fastball in Denver: A review of The Ringer http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/a-deadly-fastball-in-denver-a-review-of-the-ringer In her debut novel, The Ringer, Jenny Shank brings to life two troubled families haunted by violence in Denver. No publisher Matthew Irwin novels Jenny Shank family life The Ringer fiction Latino culture police officers 2011-04-13T22:24:01Z News Article Wait until darkness http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.16/wait-until-darkness In his debut novel, The Wilding, Benjamin Percy captures our ambiguous attitudes toward the natural world. No publisher Jodi Peterson Benjamin Percy The Wilding hunting, novels family life fiction reviews 2010-09-15T15:02:28Z News Article Books for lonely times http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.16/books-for-lonely-times When you're camped all alone in the wilderness, there is nothing like a book to bring you comfort. No publisher Emma Brown reading books family life hiking camping 2010-02-05T08:59:00Z News Article Township 13 South, Range 92 West, Section 35 http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.16/township-13-south-rage-92-west-section-35 A writer looks into the history of the people who lived on the Colorado mesa she now calls home. 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With blue eyes works fine. I thought when I bought it that it would only be for nights out, with all the metallic thing in it, but I wasn't right, it's quite versatile. You can wear it for work everyday as it doesn't show the glitter it seems to have in the pan. It's easy to apply and to blend, very nice and silky (not as silky as the Bobbi Brown velvet eyeshadows, but soft enough). Really pricey, but worthy if the colour really suits you, as it will last a long time (the pan is quite big).
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This shade is one of my favorites for work. I use it in the crease with BB Woodrose as a base and Navajo on the browbone to highlight. If you are looking for a plummy-bronze twist to the smoky eye, it will work well on the lid also. Use a light hand, however, as this shadow is especially well pigmented. It doesn't settle into my fine lines as some might expect, but then again I only use this as a crease shadow.
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I haven't found a way to make this work. BB metallic shadows are awful quality compared to the wonderful BB regular e/s. They're chalky and gritty, don't blend well and the color intensity sucks. This shade should be called 'Shiner' - you know when a bruise is a few days old and looks like a dirty mauvish purple? Maybe if you're very cool toned this might work for you, otherwise - skip it.
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I bought this product because BB consultant applied it to my eyes together with an eyeliner and I liked the result. The texture is really nice and not too powdery, but I find that I can't wear it straight on the lids as it doesn't blend very well and looks blotchy. I need to have a base colour first to wear this eyeshadow, which then dilutes the colour and makes it look like any bland grey. Like other people here have noted, it's subtle and strong at the same time. To be honest, I'm still trying to figure out the best way to wear this.
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This is a beautiful DARK mixture of (mostly) brown, and some plum. This is too dark by itself. But it looks gorgeous as a secondary color. Love to shade it in with my main; all over color. Looks so beautiful. Fades off a few times during the day, even with primer. That's the only thing I don't like about it.
It has a slight shine to it. It isn't really metallicy though. It cost $21
The MA used this in the crease of my eye with Heather cream shadow from BB and it looked fabulous. Too bad I couldn't duplicate this myself at home without my eyes looking bruised. I also found it difficult to blend. I don't want to knock lippies off an item for my in-expertise at application - it is another wonderful complex color that BB knows how produce so well (an other reviewers have described so well...). I find it DOES work great as an eyeliner!! Just wet your brush slightly and apply... I am BB sand or beige (depending on formulation and time of year) for reference.
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This shade looked absolutely horrible with my brown eyes, brunette hair and fair-medium skintone. It made my eyes look sunken and sore. The color is just far too dark and ashy overall making it a pain to blend. Both times I tried applying it I had to take it off immediately. I can see this working more for women with darker skintones or someone with light colored eyes and hair.
Velvet Plum is a mixture of plum and neutral. Others here have called it taupe, and I guess that's an ok evaluation, but it seems to have quite a bit of plum to me. I think it's simply beautiful. It isn't too light or too dark, and even though it is a metallic, it isn't too glittery. I can wear it all by itself and it looks great. Thanks, Bobbi.
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I really wanted to love this eye shadow, but I can't. I find it very hard to blend with other shades, so I can only wear it on it's own. I don't think that the formula is the problem, because the metallic e/s in "Forest" blends just fine. "Velvet Plum" is a pretty color, but I'm more of a mix and match person.
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Great color. I am fair-skinned and blue-eyed, and this in the best lid color I have found for achieving a soft, smokey eye. (I use Velvet Plum on the lid and place a darker brown or charcoal shadow in the outer corners and line with very dark eyeliner.) I use Bone or Flesh as a highlight color.)
Velvet Plum manages somehow to be soft and deep at the same time. I've felt very comfortable wearing it to work, but it's sexy enough for a date. It looks sophisticated and the color is surprisingly neutral. I usually go with a beige or plum lip, and pink/browns look good, too. Some frost shadows look crepey even on young women's lids, but the shimmer in this is subtle and flattering, and not too glittery.
The new BB flip-top shadow packaging is far superior to the old shadow containers with the screw-on lids. Nobody misses those, right? Also, the option of popping the shadow into a palette is a wonderful convenience.
However, I will probably not re-purchase since this doesn't have as much pigmentation as the BB Shimmer Wash shadows - I will probably try one of the plum shades in that.
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By KPMG LLP | Nov. 29, 2012
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In current economic times, "doing more with less" in government is the new normal.
For many government IT entities, the essence of the new normal is trying to deliver services from a mix of locations and organizations, balancing distributed and decentralized models, and trying to mitigate the inherent inefficiencies, redundancies and expenses that these models can create.
In response, public sector organizations have increasingly begun adopting and expanding their use of shared services for horizontal functions. Learning from their colleagues in the private sector, IT shared services in the public sector have risen through maturity levels faster than their commercial predecessors by leveraging many of the best practices and methodologies, while avoiding the mistakes of early adopters.
The question now is, "what's next?"
In early 2012, KPMG conducted a series of in-depth interviews with IT executives across a mix of public sector organizations that included the states of Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia and Virginia; the Inter-American Development Bank; a major Midwestern city; and the California State University System.
The objective of the research was to analyze leading public sector organizations' use of shared services and to assess the impact shared services brings to IT optimization and service delivery. In this report, IT Optimization in the Public Sector, developed by the KPMG Shared Services and Outsourcing Institute, we present those findings, and identify and evaluate options for delivering business support services in the most effective and efficient means possible.Read IT Optimization in the Public Sector
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U.S. officials thought about deploying Special Forces to recapture or demolish components of an RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone that went down in eastern Iran last week. "No one warmed up to the option of recovering it or destroying it because of the potential it could become a larger incident," an official told The Wall Street Journal on condition of anonymity. If detected, the commando raid might have been considered an "act of war" by Tehran, the official added.
The circumstances of the bat-shaped CIA-operated RQ-170's tumble are slowly becoming clearer. Iran's state media claimed that an "electronic-warfare" unit, possibly a Russian-supplied "Avtobaza" signal-jammer, interrupted the stealthy drone's command signal and caused it to crash "with little damage."
U.S. sources countered that claim, saying the RQ-170 likely suffered some kind of serious breakdown while cruising at high altitude. There's no evidence the crash can be attributed to "hostile activity of any kind," according to Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman.


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Vince Vaughn and fiance, Kyla Webber, tied the knot this past Saturday in a historic mansion outside of Chicago. Vaughn who is 39 married Webber, a 31 year old commercial real estate agent. Vince had proposed to Kyla last Valentine's day (cliche but still cute).
The hilarious actor is finally ready to settle down, have kids, and be a real grown up. Yes ladies, this is what we have to look forward to; 39 year old men finally realizing they are ready to grow up and start a family. Poor Jennifer Anniston is probably sitting at her house wondering why he didn't figure this out while they were dating. Best of luck to Vince and Kyla. We can't wait to see your super cute, and most likely hilarious kids.


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An East Nashville voter balked at showing a photo ID at his polling place today, then protested the law requiring one. The former Marine contends making voters produce IDs doesn't line up with what he tried to do during his military service.
Tim Thompson is a tall, skinny guy in his mid-50s. He was wearing a baseball cap with the logo of the United States Marine Corps.
A couple of hours after he was turned away from his polling place on McGavock Pike for failing to show a photo ID, Thompson was at Legislative Plaza to vent to lawmakers. And he was still upset.
"The thing that sticks in my craw is, I took the oath. I took the oath to prevent these kinds of law from being in effect, that discriminate against certain people that they're supposed to protect."
Thompson served as a military policeman in Hawaii in the early 1970s. Today he is the head chef at Belmont Retirement Center, serving people he says are targeted by the photo ID law.
"Because it definitely discriminates against people who are less fortunate. The students, the poor people, the 88-year-old woman that didn't…couldn't vote because she can't afford, she couldn't get, a birth certificate."
Thompson spent most of the rest of the day arguing to lawmakers that the photo voter ID law should be overturned.
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Thompson says he's voted at Dalewood Baptist Church for eight years, and his voter registration card was always enough.
"Today they informed me, by this new law …that I need to show a legal ID. Here's my ID, but I refuse to show it, on the basis that this law is unconstitutional. And it defies everything that I stand for as a Marine."
He says the law makes it more difficult for poor and old people to vote.
"I'm not prejudiced against Democrat or Republican. They're all Americans to me. That's who I fought for. That's who I protect their rights, right now. And that's why I demonstrated today, against this law."
Reporter's Note:
Anybody can wear a cap with a USMC Globe, Anchor and Eagle on it. We hit Thompson with a couple of quick questions to establish his bonafides.
Question: You were in the Marines, I take it as an infantryman?
Thompson: Oh-three-eleven, yessir, I was a grunt. But my duty station was Honolulu, Hawaii. I was a military police, an MP.
Question: What's the name of the base at Honolulu that the Marines are assigned to?
Thompson: Barber's Point…oh, at Kaneohe.
He was pretty quick.
Orders are drafted to go to the Marine facility at Kaneohoe Bay – but Thompson was stationed at Barber's Point, he says.


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Seven thefts reported in Petaluma
Published: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 9:37 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 9:37 a.m.
The Grinch is out in Petaluma's northeast neighborhoods. Police have gotten three reports of packages being stolen right off the front porch of homes. Additionally, four vehicles were broken into in the same area over the weekend.
The package thefts occurred at homes on Tahola Drive, Princeville Court and Rainier Drive. Neighbors said they didn't notice anything suspicious. Police advise residents to keep an eye out of suspicious people on their street, or watch for people who may be following delivery drivers.
Items reportedly stolen in the car break-ins included packages and electronic equipment. All seven of the thefts occurred at night.
Some of the vehicles were left unlocked, and police are urging residents to make sure their cars are locked and that valuables aren't left in plain sight.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Petaluma Police Department at 778-4372.
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Growing business is on the agenda for the Wapello County Board of Supervisors next week.
Jim Lindenmayer, president of Indian Hills Community College, will update the supervisors on the jobs incubator project.
Supervisor Jerry Parker said Friday the reason Lindenmayer is on the agenda is because Wapello County is a financial partner in the incubator project.
Parker hopes Lindenmayer will update the board on where the project stands, when will it start and when will it be completed.
"We have to have a public meeting so people will know," he added.
The incubator project is in a building on the north campus of IHCC, and Parker said the building will provide space for potential businesses.
"The reason for the incubator is to give them a chance to start a business," he said. "There are people who have good ideas but no money for utilities."
The building has space for three to four businesses, depending on the square footage needed. Parker also said the incubator will be funded by a federal grant and also include funding from Indian Hills, Rotary Club and the county.
The board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the third-floor boardroom in the Wapello County Courthouse.


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Treasures and Traps
Treasures and Traps™ is a complete card game that puts you in the role of the hero. Your quest is to collect three treasures before anyone else. Sounds simple enough, right? Now throw in a two-headed troll, a maze of dangerous doors, and a few cunning thieves. You never know what might happen next. With 100 different cards, each game is a unique journey of wild adventure never to be repeated again!
Each Deck has 100 unique cards. They are:
- 21 Treasures
- (7 bronze, 7 silver, 7 gold)
- 21 Creatures
- 18 Non-treasure Items
- 14 Places
- 9 Traps and Doors
- 7 Events
- 6 Surprises
- 4 Companions
Treasures and Traps™ is a game for 2-6 players ages 10 and up
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Officials say all lanes of Interstate 84 in Southeast should be reopened by 3 p.m. Friday, about five and a half hours after a tractor-trailer flipped.
The accident happened in eastbound lanes, near Exit 20, at about 8:45 a.m. Initially, both lanes were closed. At about noon, state transportation officials said only the left lane was closed.
Traffic in both directions was moving well as of about 2:30 p.m. Friday, according to Google Maps.
For information on past accidents on Interstate 84, check out these stories:
- I-84 Westbound to Remain Closed For Hours
- Officials Clear Scene of Multi-Car Crash
- Officials Reopen Ramp From 684 Northbound to 84 Westbound Until 7
- Overturned Tractor-Trailer Slows Traffic on I-84
- No Injuries in Accident Involving Tractor Trailer
- Police: Crash on Interstate Ramp Leads to DWI


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5 Tips to Prepare for Bikini Season
Summer is just around the corner and the urge to get bikini and swimsuit ready is becoming extremely prevalent. We've all had a long winter and probably didn't commit as well as we would have liked to with our NYE resolutions. Although we are still making our way out of winter, it's never too early to get into the summer swing of things – and busting out those bikini bods. After doing some serious research, we came up of a list of 5 tips we thought were the BEST for getting bikini ready. Check them out below:
Pick up some form of physical activity: We hate to admit this, but we know it's probably the most important tip (and hardest to accomplish) when preparing for the bikini season. Adding some cardio to your day will not only help you shape up for the season, but will increase your mood, too. Since the weather is getting nicer, it will be easier to find fun activities you can do outside. Grab some friends, get out in the sun and work it!
Rest and drink PLENTY of water: Getting an appropriate amount of sleep is incredibly beneficial to your overall health and will play a very active role in helping revitalize your body for spring and summer. Aim to get around 7-8 hours of sleep each night. Also, drink plenty of water throughout the day. Most people do not drink nearly enough water each day and this can result in overeating and low energy levels. So if you want to both look and feel better this season, hydrate, hydrate, and hydrate!
Find a flattering suit: This goes without saying but finding a great suit for your body will make ALL the difference! Sure, it sucks going to the dressing room only to find that you hate every single option, but keep trying. Eventually you will find one you love and that fits you well. We could give you all the advice in the world for how to choose the best bathing suit, but ultimately you are the one who knows your body the best and what looks good. While you're at it, why not pick out a flattering cover-up to go along with your newfound suit?
Wax and Exfoliate: Those long winter months have done nothing but wreck havoc on your skin. Winter brings dried, dead skin and exfoliating can help ease your skin back into its luscious, pre-winter state. Waxing is a perfect exfoliate and will help eliminate dry skin and can give you just the boost your skin needs. Besides you're basically killing two birds with one stone when waxing: exfoliating and getting rid of that unwanted hair. Starting your waxing routine early in the season will help make sure you skin is ready in time for summer and will help curb your hair growth down the line. We would by lying as well if we didn't suggest a good assortment of body scrubs and loofahs. These are also helpful when exfoliating and they can make you wax last longer.
Consider a spray tan: Finally, after you've completed all the above four steps and you're still not feeling beach ready, why not try a spray tan? Having a little extra color coming into the season will definitely boost your confidence. Just make sure to steer clear of that overly orange spray tan color and stay closer to your natural tone.
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I had a blast at Boston, but I probably should have worn my cheetah shorts.
Once you have a marathon that amounts to a grand slam (like in baseball, not Denny's), you do everything you can to mimic the conditions under which it happened. I think that if I'd happened to have retiled my bathroom the day before Berlin last September, I probably would've been doing it again this past Sunday. Athletics will make superstitious quacks from very sensible people, which is why I didn't run in my sexy new cheetah shorts. From a performance standpoint, that's how I went into Boston this year: do everything the same as Berlin to run as well as Berlin.
The problem, of course, is that you can turn to superstitions or cheetah shorts, but some conditions are out of your control. In fact, that's sorta the point of running these stupid things over and over. Always different, hopefully better. The route, the weather, a body that rebels, a .5-millimeter difference in how much Body Glide you apply that results in debilitating blisters (e.g., Pinto, 2010). You never know what will happen.
As marathon week moved forward, I–like most–checked the forecast online with increasing delusions that if I just kept clicking Refresh, I could actually control the outcome on the screen. I watched the predicted tailwind speed increase and thought maybe I was willing the currents. Then I watched the temperature increase and knew I wasn't. For many people, the conditions for the race seemed perfect, but I know I perform best when it's raining and 45 degrees. A 60-degree day–even with a tailwind–was not going to be auspicious for my wintery New England blood.
I got up at 5 a.m. to start my race day rituals. Peanut butter & honey on a power bagel with a banana? Check. Praying prostrate to my poster of Paula? Check. Dry heaving? Check. Eighth marathon, and I still kinda want to curl in the fetal position and whimper on race morning. Why do I do this to myself? I always ask that question on marathon morning. Like they teach you to say in mom-school, my answer is always the same:
Because I said so.
The sky was bright and blue, and the chill in the air was temporary–the sun had a mission. I kitted myself up, and we drove to the Dana-Farber refuge in Hopkinton, where Brian was going to drop me off with a client before the roads closed at 7:30. My house is 26 miles from the starting line, and like a beacon, the lights of police cars on the shoulder of the highway marked our arrival to Marathon Hoopla 2011. As soon as we exited 495, it was clear that other people had the same idea to get to Hopkinton as late as possible before the roads shut down. While we sat in traffic, the elite buses drove by. It was like a metaphor for the day. They go fast enough to set a marathon "record," effectively making the rest of us look like we're idling.
It took us 30 minutes to go 4 miles from the exit to the church where the 550-person DFMC group convenes to generate the kind of pre-race jitters that could power the Citgo sign. We made it to the church before the streets closed, and in true "hurry up and wait" fashion, we bolted from the car so Brian could get the heck out of Hopkinton.
And then we waited for 3 hours.
At least I ran longer than I waited.
Camped out on the floor of a parish hall, I dragged out my prep to a glacial pace. I put my hair up at 7:45. I stretched at 8:00. I put on some socks at 8:15. Bathroom at 8:30. Bib pinned at 8:45. A shoe at 9:00. Bathroom at 9:30. The other shoe at 10:00. You get the idea.
By the time they called Wave 2 runners to the corrals, I felt like my day had been going forever. I jogged over to the Start and entered Corral 7 with 500 women aged 18-34 and about a dozen men with a decade of gray hair behind them. It was like a male midlife-crisis fantasy.
It felt warm, so I chucked my throwaway gear long before the gun. It was too warm already. If I'm not shivering, it's too warm. I had a feeling this wasn't going to be my fastest race. But you never know. That's where my certainty was. Probably not the best race mantra to devise 5 minutes before the gun: "You never know…" I didn't feel defeated; this was actually my take on optimism.
With a "you never know" degree of confidence, you pretty much have to sink your faith in the numbers. My plan was to run 8:20s until the half, 8:15s until mile 22, then faster from there, if possible. An ambitious negative split, but everyone says my "numbers are there" from prior runs this Spring. A half-marathon of 1:38, and a 22-miler at 8:17s evidently means your "numbers are there." I had my rituals and my numbers, but the conditions of your body in relation to the conditions on that particular day mean your numbers and rituals are, ultimately, suggestions.
Also, with the trigger pulled on Wave 2 and the Midlife Crisis Corral moving forward, I decided I really had to pee.
We started to run, and with a seeded start, the pack was open enough to get going. The route was lined the entire way with spectators. It was a beautiful day to watch a race, which means it was sub-optimal for me to run one. But you never know.
Working my plan for a negative split, my first mile downhill was a conservative 8:37. That was fine. The building pressure at the base of my bladder was not. I knew it was psychosomatic incontinence–I'd just hit the porta potty on my way to the Start–but Freud or no, I had to go. Men pulled off to "use" the woods, and I glared at them and their exterior plumbing. I suppose you could call it a modern sportsgirl's penis envy.
The last time I stopped during a race to pee, I lost 2 minutes and my mojo. After that stop, I blew off the race and ran for–gasp–fun. I didn't want to pee out my mojo before the 5k mark in the Boston Marathon–one has some street cred to maintain when running an Ivy League-type marathon–so I decided to keep going. If I was going to pee in my pants, so be it. My shorts were both micro and wicking, and frankly, that option seemed more hygienic than using a porta potty already christened by one wave of wicked fast, majorly competitive, and probably very rushed marathoners.
With my name printed on my shirt, I heard personalized cheering perhaps every 15 seconds. That's the beauty of running a Major. Thousands of people are determined to be your #1 fan. I decided that if I peed myself, it couldn't be in front of someone who called my name. Ultimately, that meant I couldn't pee–there were just so many enthused people yelling "Kristina!"
By mile 5, my bladder stopped messing with my head, and I forgot about having to go. I tried to settle into a pace. I couldn't feel the tailwind, but I knew it was there because every time we hit a water stop, we'd chase the cups on the ground for about 200 meters. Maybe because of the wind, or maybe because of the hills, but I struggled to secure a steady pace for myself. It was starting to get frustrating.
Somewhere after mile 5 but before mile 10, a woman came running up next to me and said, "Hi! How are you?!" I turned my head and nearly tripped over my own feet.
When I ran the Tucson Marathon in 2009, I ran alongside a woman for about 8 miles, and we chatted about writing and running for a good while. Crazy as it was, she ran up to me at last year's Boston around mile 22, but I was walking so she ran on. When I mustered enough steam to run the last mile, I caught up with her on Boylston, and we actually finished the race together. In the early miles of this year's race, Meagan ran up to me again. It was completely surreal. "How was your year?" she joked. "Great!" I told my totally, 100% Twilight Zoney, fated marathon friend. "You?" I don't know her last name, but I guess we're destined to run together. We split up shortly after our reunion, promising to see each other in another marathon next year.
After my cosmic meeting with Meagan, I tried to settle my pace down a little again. Running through the early miles of Boston feels easy because it's downhill, but unlike a lot of other marathons, the spectators line the entire course and cheer like you're in the home stretch. Berlin had that, too, but it feels different when you're close to home. Throw in a Dana-Farber singlet, and people treat you like a rockstar. The people vary by neighborhood–Framingham cheers differ from Wellesley cheers–but yelling is yelling, and there's no feeling like being the recipient of vigorous encouragement for almost four hours. It's positive psychology on crack.
Framingham, Natick, then Wellesley, we approached the half, which falls at my favorite place on the course. The Wellesley scream tunnel isn't just college girls. Because you run between the campus on the right and some forest on the left, it really does feel like a tunnel, a gift of shade. Men stopped for Wellesley love, but the women kept going, starting the downhill through the swanky town of Wellesley.
I knew my aunt would be waiting in Wellesley center, and she'd promised to hold a sign for me. When I saw Jean standing on the right with my huge sign, my usual race frown broke and I smiled and hugged her. She was the first family member I'd passed, and it gave me such a charge, I briefly took my pace to a 7:50. She made my favorite part of the course that much better. When I saw my watch, I yanked my pace back to 8:15, where I tried to hold it for the next 7 miles. I felt good, right where I should at the half of this course–ready to throw in another half-marathon. Ready to satisfy my plan.
And I didn't even have my cheetah shorts. You never know, maybe this day would work. To win your own snazzy shorts, stay tuned for the exciting conclusion to my race report.
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I share insights on how to succeed in business partnership.
Do you remember Baz Luhrman's Everybody's Free? There's a line early in the song that says: "The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday."
I wrote last week about some of the tough moments my business partner and I experienced as we were working towards the opening of our new wine store in Brooklyn. This week, I'll share some of the "real troubles" that came our way.
There are zillions of articles about what can go wrong when you're starting a business. But the real troubles that life throws you are the ones that can actually derail your plans because they demand time, attention and money that you'd otherwise be giving to your business. They will happen between missed deadlines, broken contracts, disappointing negotiations, upset customers. They will hit on those Tuesdays when everything seems to finally be falling into place.
Some will be more important than your business, much more. Some will be easy to fix, just a matter of going through the motions and taking a few deep breaths. Others will require many deep breaths just to realize that there is no fix.
And they don't just affect you. When you're working side-by-side, and your finances are enmeshed, and your hopes and dreams are tied together, any event that touches one of you will impact the other. The ways in which you each cope with those external events and support each other—or not, as the case may be—directly affects your business and your partnership.
For my business partner and I, it wasn't a single threat. It was a series of tests that escalated in seriousness as time went on:
Looking back, I'm struck by how easily we dealt with each of these events. In fact, we managed them much better than the arguments that we had complete control over—maybe because we didn't have control, and we didn't really have a choice but to give ourselves over to the tidal wave of unfortunate events and do what had to be done, one moment at a time. In every instance, my business partner immediately grasped the import and went into crisis mangagement mode: prioritizing, delegating, resetting our expectations.
I had to admit when I couldn't do something and when I needed help. He had to take on extra work. We both adjusted to the daily changes that life demanded, accepting new limitations and dealing with the resulting delays.
I'm writing this because it's important to realize that your business and partnership are just as vulnerable to external threats as to any other business problem. Make sure you share the same basic values so that you don't have to worry about conflict when the threat arrives. Your partner can do one of two things in these times: Focus on the business and hold you to the same standard; or tell you to focus on the crisis and come back when you can.
There is no wrong way to do this. I'm just glad I'm in it with someone who knows that dogs are family, that surgery sucks, and that cancer doesn't care about money or time or anything at all, really.
The troubles are not over, and they never will be. Yet the show goes on with blood, sweat, tears—and understanding and grit and love. Thanks, partner.
Tell me about how you've gotten through a tough time in the comments or tweet me @furiouslymandy with the hash tag #committed. If you're willing to share more details for a survey I'm conducting, please fill out my questionnaire.
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Life is either very easy or very complex. Easy , if listening to soul and complex when distorting the basic values of life and integrity. External environment is either controllable or manageable (if fortunate) or uncontrollable but what we have to practice self-control.
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It's an unimaginable thing, the kind of tragedy that leaves a hole in the middle of a community.
When the Oswego School District community heard that 4-year-old Kylie Arnold of Montgomery had succumbed to brain cancer and pneumonia on Feb. 26, there was sadness, and there was shock. But then, there was action.
Both Brokaw Early Learning Center in Oswego, where Kylie Arnold attended, and , home to her brother Devin, launched their own fundraising efforts to help the Arnold family. And those efforts will culminate on Wednesday with a Culver's day in Oswego dedicated to the Arnolds.
Long Beach's assistant principal, Dawn Marmo, said she got the call about Kylie's death on Sunday, and on Monday started talking with the school's Character Counts! committee, its PAWS booster club, and its Home and School group to pull together fundraiser ideas.
Marmo said the students in Devin Arnold's third grade class chose the three in-house fundraisers at Long Beach. Last Wednesday, teachers and students each paid $1 to wear pajamas during the school day, and Marmo said they collected more than $700, between that and straight donations.
On Friday, teachers and students similarly paid $1 to wear a "crazy hat" to school, and everywhere you looked at Long Beach during that school day, there were big, colorful hats. (See the photos attached to this story.) And today, students and teachers can pay $1 to enjoy an ice cream treat after lunch.
Marmo explained that today's ice cream fundraiser was originally intended to raise money for a Character Counts! assembly in May, but once students heard about Kylie, they asked for the money to go to the Arnolds.
Marmo said both Principal Kevin Lipke and the school's social worker, Brenda Gullickson, talked to students about what had happened, and help them with questions they may have. Devin's classmates, she said, will likely have more questions when he returns to school – his family kept him home last week – and she said the staff is as prepared as can be for those queries.
The Arnolds, she said, moved to Montgomery from Yorkville last year, and transferred to Oswego schools.
"They're a fantastic family," she said.
Principal Jeff Modaff of Brokaw Early Learning Center said the school was already in the midst of a fundraiser to help the Arnolds with medical expenses when Kylie died. Once they heard, his staff put up posters seeking donations, and raised $250 to help with funeral expenses.
Modaff said that only Kylie's immediate classmates were told that she had died—parents were also informed with a letter, he said—and those students made signs and posters for the visitation on Thursday, "to show their love for her," he said.
The Brokaw faculty, he said, have come together like a family. They have reached out to the Arnolds, and, with Long Beach staff, offered to help bring them meals. And the Brokaw staff held a moment of silence in Kylie's honor last week.
"It's a tremendous loss, and we will miss her," Modaff said.
Both schools have teamed up for Wednesday's Culver's benefit in Oswego. From the moment the doors open at 10:30 a.m. to the moment they close at 10 p.m., will donate 10 percent of all the money they take in to the Arnold family.
Wednesday was already scheduled as Long Beach Night at Culver's, Marmo said, with proceeds ordinarily going to the Home and School group. But that group decided to donate everything to the Arnolds.
Marmo said Kylie's death made her realize how blessed she is to have her own young children, and said she could not imagine what the Arnold family is going through.
"It hit close to home," she said.
Culver's Day begins at 10:30 a.m. at Culver's, at 2781 Rt. 34 in Oswego. If you would like to donate directly to the Arnold family, you can send checks to Earthmover Credit Union, 1008 N. Bridge St., Yorkville, IL 60560. Make checks payable to Kylie Arnold.
An obituary for Kylie Arnold can be found here.


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MOVIE REVIEW: Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher would entertain with spills, thrills, intrigue, action and humor. The Lee Child book series fans should get enough from Cruise's characterization of the titular anti-hero. "Remember, you wanted this!"
Posted by Chuck Ingersoll ,
Rated: PG-13 - Violence, some drug material and language.
Release Date: December 21, 2012Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie, based on the novel 'One Shot' by Lee Child
Cast: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo, Jai Courtney, Robert Duvall, Michael Raymond-James, Alexia Fast
SYNOPSIS: An ex-Army drifter who served as a military investigator in the service is drafted into service again as a civilian when a defense attorney asks him to look into the evidence against a sniper Reacher dealt with before.
REVIEW: Christopher McQuarrie, screenwriter of The Tourist and director of the 2000The Way of the Gun, writes and directs the first Lee Child novel adaptation of his popular loner anti-hero Jack Reacher, based on the novel 'One Shot'.
A man sets up in a parking garage across the river from the major league ballpark. He selects several targets and fires. In the aftermath, all evidence points to an ex-Army sniper with a classified history of unstable violence. When James Barr (Joseph Sikora,Safe) is arrested, instead of a confession he writes 'Get Jack Reacher'. While the district attorney Alex Rodin (Richard Jenkins, Killing Them Softly) and the top Pittsburgh police detective Emerson (David Oyelowo, Lincoln) can not find the ghost named Reacher, Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise, Rock of Ages) appears in Pittsburgh after seeing Barr's face on the news. The daughter of the district attorney, Helen Rodin (Rosamund Pike, Wrath of the Titans), is set to get Barr a fair trial and enlists Reacher to be her lead investigator to prove why Barr was so eager to kill so many innocent people. But as Reacher digs deeper and finds the evidence too perfect, he is targeted by seen and unseen menaces with their own hidden agenda.
Lee Child has written several stories centered around his loner drifter anti-hero who wants to be left alone but seems to always find himself in trouble. In Jack Reacher, based on Lee Child's 'One Shot', the writer/director Christopher McQuarrie introduces Jack Reacher through quick narrative to get us caught up with the titular character. While Child's 'The Killing Floor' is Jack Reacher's first appearance, 'One Shot' does introduce Reacher well enough. Lovers of the books may be disappointed in the choice of story, but it serves as a well-suited suspense action and suspense tale.
Another issue that has come to light is the choice of Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. While not the prototypical look and physique that the readers had expected, Child put enough faith in Cruise's star power, box-office draw, and talent to give him the go-ahead. And, in my opinion, Cruise delivers. His stoic, squared-jawed, ripped abs, driven performance should be enough to sway most fans of the books. Also, I think Cruise's more handsome, more diminutive stature allows him to seem the underdog in every situation instead of the obvious victor.
Joining Cruise are Richard Jenkins as the secretive and stern district attorney. Rosamund Pike served as the DA's daughter and opposing council who wants to provide Barr a fair trial while thinking that she cannot win. David Oyelowo joins as the lead Pittsburgh police detective, pulling off his best Sydney Poitier, sympathizing with Rodin and Reacher but keeping his eye in all of the evidence against Barr. Partially hidden in shadows, Reacher may not be capable enough to handle the digit-less man only known as The Zec (Werner Herzog, Invincible), his grim ruthless unnamed buzz-cut lieutenant (Jai Courtney,Spartacus: Vengeance), and some local Pittsburgh thuggery led by a man named Linsky (Michael Raymond-James, True Blood).
From the intense shooting gallery scene at the beginning of the film to the climatic showdown in a rainy quarry, Jack Reacher should appeal to the staunchest of action fans. Lovers of the intrigue genre will also be satisfied. there are familiar vignettes as reminders of Lethal Weapon, A Few Good Men, Bullitt, and even The Blues Brothers, letting you know there is action, suspense, and laughs. Yes, laughs! There is great stoic humor in the dialogue and physicality and situations. One particular bathroom brawl is so absurd that it should bring out a tear of laughter.
Jack Reacher would entertain with spills, thrills, intrigue, action and humor. The Lee Child book series fans should get enough from Cruise's characterization of the titular anti-hero to have them clamoring for more of the series to be adapted. "Remember, you wanted this!"
Chuck Ingersoll is the editor and movie reviewing contributor for Hot Butter Reviews. You can find hundreds of reviews at www.HotButterReviews.com.
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Today's profile comes from Juliet, who contacted me while she was still cycling at 39 weeks. You can follow Juliet's adventures on her blog, Twisting Vines, and read about her cycling while pregnant below.
Name: Juliet
Age: 34
Location: London, UK
Cycling for how many years: Regularly as an adult for about 15 years (learnt to ride as a child).
Favorite part about cycling: The freedom and flexibility of moving yourself around under your own power. And the fact that it's just *fun*!
Bike(s) you ride: Around town I mostly ride my self-built fixie; it's an old (70s/80s) road-bike-style skinny steel frame with mudguards and rack. I also have a Hewitt Cheviot light tourer with gears which I use for longer rides, Audaxing (though I haven't ridden an Audax for a couple of years), and touring. We now have a Christiania trike, too,
bought very recently for carrying the small-person around in once he arrives!
What three words sum up your cycling experience while being pregnant: Slower, still great!
How did being pregnant affect your approach to cycling or your daily commute:
I work from home so no longer have a daily commute, but use my bike for transport wherever I do happen to be going. During my first trimester I felt really ill for several weeks so although if I did need to go anywhere I'd cycle just as usual, I wasn't leaving the house that much so I rode less. Happily that wore off at 12 weeks, after which it was fine again. Over the last couple of weeks (I'm 39 weeks pregnant now) I've started getting the tube for distances longer than 3-4 miles as I'm getting much more tired more easily. In general, though, I've cycled in pretty much exactly the same way. Just more slowly, especially uphill…
What (if anything) surprised you about cycling while pregnant?
Don't think anything did. I was expecting that I might get the odd comment on the street (as other pregnant cycling friends have), but as it's been winter (so lots of layers) & my bump has never actually gotten that huge, I don't think it's been at all obvious & no one has said anything.
How did your family and friends react to you cycling while pregnant?
Complete lack of surprise — I don't think anyone would have expected me to do anything other than keep cycling!
What (if any) special accommodations did you require to continue cycling throughout your pregnancy?
I raised the handlebars on both bikes a few months in, which made it much comfier. Since about 6-7 months I've been riding the fixie exclusively as the bars on that went significantly higher, and the geared bike just isn't comfortable (I knee myself in the bump). The only other 'accommodation' is more of a mental one — accepting that (especially as of about the last 2 months) I'm just a lot slower than 'usual', and I need to allow more time and take things a bit more
What would you say to another woman interested in cycling while pregnant? What have you taken away from the experience?
Do it! Absolutely no reason why you shouldn't, and it's just as much the best way to get around when you're pregnant as it is when you're not pregnant. For me I think it was simply not an option that I wouldn't cycle — just wouldn't have occurred to me. That's how I get around the place! (And public transport doesn't become free when you get pregnant…) So I'm not sure I've taken much away from it, as it just seems like a normal thing to have done.
In addition to cycling, what other activities helped you stay fit and active during your pregnancy?
Walking the dog; climbing (which I seem to have finally stopped at about 36 weeks though will not rule out another little go on the wall before the baby gets here…), going out dancing.
Thanks, Juliet, and we hope you and your new family are doing well and adjusting well to life with a new baby! Want to hear from more women who cycled through their pregnancies? Check out additional reader profiles here! Happy cycling!


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- Measuring nominal descriptivity (1976)
- Using Ultan's theory of descriptivity grading as a starting point, I will attempt to capture this differential utility in terms of [...] criteria of literalness, explicitness and syntactic complexity. I will first briefly present his System and investigate some generalizations which he has proposed on the basis of his study of body part terminologies in numerous languages. I will apply his theory to nouns in this and four other semantic domains, in three North American Indian languages. I will test his generalizations and propose some new ones. I will then present an alternative system of descriptivity grading and compare the results of its application with those of Ultan's system. In the final section I will suggest another methodology for quantification. An appendix at the end of the paper lists all of the descriptive lexical items mentioned, graded according to both systems.
- Typology and complexity (2005)
- For the Workshop I was asked to talk about complexity in language from a typological perspective. My way of approaching this topic was to ask myself some questions, and then see where the answers led. The first one was of course, "What sort of system are we looking at complexity in - what kind of system is language?"
- What is typology? - a short note (2001)
- It is often assumed that the goal of typology is to define the notion 'possible human language'. This view, which I call the Universalist Typology view is shared, for example, by virtually all contributors to Bynon & Shibatani's 1995 volume Approaches to Language Typology, and by Moravscik in her review of this volume in Linguistic Typology 1 (p.105). In the following I claim that this assumption is fundamentally mistaken. To clarify the theoretical status of what is meant by 'possible human language', I argue here for a distinction between typological theory (theoretical typology) and grammatical theory (theoretical syntax and theoretical morphology) as distinct subdisciplines of linguistics.
- Issues on Topics (2000)
- The present volume contains papers that bear mainly on issues concerning the topic concept. This concept is of course very broad and diverse. Also, different views are expressed in this volume. Some authors concentrate on the status of topics and non-topics in so-called topic prominent languages (i.e. Chinese), others focus on the syntactic behavior of topical constituents in specific European languages (German, Greek, Romance languages). The last contribution tries to bring together the concept of discourse topic (a non-syntactic notion) and the concept of sentence topic, i.e. that type of topic that all the preceding papers are concerned with.
- Descriptivity in the domain of body-part terms (1976)
- In an earlier paper, I proposed a system for evaluating the relative descriptivity of lexical items in a consistent manner in terms of the interrelations of three metrics. The first of these, including five possible degrees of descriptivity, is based on the premise that the sum of the meaningful parts of a given form is or is not equal to the meaning of the whole. The second, also composed of five degrees, is based on paraphrase-term relations in which the logical quantifiers: all, some and no, are applied to the terms of the paraphrase in one test and to the meaningful parts of the term (linguistic form) in the reversibility test. Both tests are applied in the form of logical propositions. The third metric, with three degrees, deals with the relative explicitness of the meaningful parts of a given form: explicit, implicit or neither. […] This system was then tested in a pilot study involving the fairly limited and semantically homogeneous lexical domain of body-part terms in a specific language, Finnish. The purpose of the present paper is to subject comparable data from other languages to the same kind of analysis and compare the results in order to ascertain whether the generalizations arrived at with the Finnish data also hold for the other languages or, more specifically, which of these generalizations are more or less universal and which language or language-type specific? The additional languages to be examined here are: French, German, Ewe, Maasai and Swahili.
- Editorial Preface (2000)
- The present issue grew out of two sources. The main one was the workshop on Adding and Omitting (A & 0) held during the DGfS Conference organized in Konstanz at the beginning of 1999 by our ZAS project on Syntax der Fokusbildung. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together people working on topicalization (addition of expressions, in a sense) and ellipsis (omission, i.e. deletion of linguistic material) and their relations and interaction. Since the workshop was very successful and met with a great deal of interest on the part of both participants and outsiders, we decided to collect and publish the papers that were presented. Towards the end of 1999, a follow-up workshop on Ellipsis and Information Structure was organized by Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler (Tübingen). The papers given at this second meeting were supposed to be an integral part of the publication as well. More and more people got involved, further developing our common understanding of the topic phenomenon, so that there was too much material for a single volume. We therefore decided to split the enterprise into two volumes. The ellipsis papers are to be published by 'Benjamins' this year in Interpreting Omitted Structures.
- Language typology in the UNITYP model : paper presented for the XIV. International Congress of Linguists, August 1987, Berlin, DDR, Plenary Session on Typology (1987)
- The aim of this contribution is to embed the question of an antinomy between "integral" vs. "partial typology", inscribed as the topic of this plenary session, into the comprehensive framework of the dimensional model of the research group on language universals and typology (UNITYP). In this introductory section I shall evoke some cardinal points in the theory of linguistic typology, as viewed "from outside", viz. on the basis of striking parallelisms with psychological typology. Section 2 will permit a brief look on the dimensional model of UNITYP. In section 3 I shall present an illustration of a typological treatment on the basis of one particular dimension. In section 4 I shall draw some conclusions with special reference to the "integral vs. partial" antinomy.
- Qualities, objects, sorts, and other treasures : gold digging in English and Arabic (1999)
- In the present monograph, we will deal with questions of lexical typology in the nominal domain. By the term "lexical typology in the nominal domain", we refer to crosslinguistic regularities in the interaction between (a) those areas of the lexicon whose elements are capable of being used in the construction of "referring phrases" or "terms" and (b) the grammatical patterns in which these elements are involved. In the traditional analyses of a language such as English, such phrases are called "nominal phrases". In the study of the lexical aspects of the relevant domain, however, we will not confine ourselves to the investigation of "nouns" and "pronouns" but intend to take into consideration all those parts of speech which systematically alternate with nouns, either as heads or as modifiers of nominal phrases. In particular, this holds true for adjectives both in English and in other Standard European Languages. It is well known that adjectives are often difficult to distinguish from nouns, or that elements with an overt adjectival marker are used interchangeably with nouns, especially in particular semantic fields such as those denoting MATERIALS or NATlONALlTIES. That is, throughout this work the expression "lexical typology in the nominal domain" should not be interpreted as "a typology of nouns", but, rather, as the cross-linguistic investigation of lexical areas constitutive for "referring phrases" irrespective of how the parts-of-speech system in a specific language is defined.
- The Dual Analysis of Adjuncts/Complements in Categorial Grammar (2000)
- The distinction between COMPLEMENTS and ADJUNCTS has a long tradition in grammatical theory, and it is also included in some way or other in most current formal linguistic theories. But it is a highly vexed distinction, for several reasons, one of which is that no diagnostic criteria have emerged that will reliably distinguish adjuncts from complements in all cases – too many examples seem to "fall into the crack" between the two categories, no matter how theorists wrestle with them. In this paper, I will argue that this empirical diagnostic "problem" is, in fact, precisely what we should expect to find in natural language, when a proper understanding of the adjunct/complement distinction is achieved: the key hypothesis is that a complete grammar should provide a DUAL ANALYSIS of every complement as an adjunct, and potentially, an analysis of any adjunct as a complement. What this means and why it is motivated by linguistic evidence will be discussed in detail.


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Empty Chairs
As a national workforce shortage strikes child welfare, CWLA responds
By Floyd J. Alwon and Andrew L. Reitz
The headlines read:
Child Welfare Agency Unable to Staff Programs
Day Care Center Closing Highlights Staff Shortage
Tight Labor Market Adds to Instability of Stock Markets
Nursing Homes Close Due to Unsafe Staff Ratios
Anyone who reads the newspapers knows a workforce crisis is tearing through all segments of the U.S. economy. But those in the child welfare field don't need the papers to tell them the crisis is real and widespread, or to understand the problems it is causing. They know firsthand what it means to have a 12% vacancy rate for child and youth workers; to ask people to do demanding, difficult work for less money than a convenience store cashier makes; to require overtime from overworked, exhausted employees; to have only two people to interview for seven openings; and to conduct exit interviews with child protection workers who are burned out and just can't do it anymore.
All this occurs at the same time the needs of children and families and demands from funding sources require child welfare agencies to do more and better work with ever-shrinking resources.
The frustrations are real, and they are felt at all levels of child welfare agencies, from frontline workers all the way up to CEOs. Commenting on the potential for danger that child welfare workers face, one supervisor recently said, "Every day, we send caseworkers out by themselves, dealing with a potentially explosive issue [the possible removal of a child], into the same homes a police officer wouldn't enter without backup."
Staff turnover is a problem for any employer. Federal labor statistics show the average employee works nine different jobs by the time he or she is 32. But turnover in the child welfare field may be nearing crisis proportions. According to the CWLA 1999 Salary Study, staff turnover rates in state public agencies increased from 6% of full-time employees in 1991 to 15% in 1999. In local public agencies, the turnover rate doubled from 5% in 1991 to 10% in 1995, where it seems to be holding steady. The problem appears most acute, however, in private voluntary agencies, which started with a 16% turnover rate in 1991 and saw that skyrocket to more than 27% in 1999.
Every indication is the pool of available workers is shrinking and that the problem will only worsen. The U.S. Labor Department estimates the number of candidates ages 25 to 40 will decline 12% by 2005. The baby boomer generation accounts for 47% of the current workforce, and they are fast-approaching retirement age.
For child welfare, this means case overload, workers stretched beyond the limit, and frustration, fear, and burnout. Says one caseworker, "Every night I pray something horrible doesn't happen to one of the kids on my caseload."
CWLA's Response
In December 1999, CWLA hosted a national symposium, Confronting the Workforce Crisis. Professionals from public and private child welfare agencies nationwide met in Washington, DC, to examine the many facets of the workforce crisis and its impact on child- and family-serving agencies, share promising staff recruitment and retention strategies, and plan a comprehensive course of action to address the range of workforce issues.
From that gathering, a National Advisory Committee on the Workforce Crisis in Child Welfare was formed; it has become the centerpiece of CWLA's efforts to address the workforce crisis. Charged with developing and implementing strategies for recruitment, retention, public policy, and public education, this group has formed subcommittees in each of these four areas.
The subcommittees on recruitment and retention are focusing on identifying and disseminating best practices in these areas in both the child welfare and business arenas. The public policy subcommittee is analyzing federal and state policies relevant to workforce issues, pinpointing promising regulatory and legislative initiatives, advocating for adequate fiscal resources to enhance salaries and training programs for child welfare staff, and briefing state and federal legislators about the field's workforce needs and potential remedies. Finally, the public education subcommittee is developing a national media campaign to promote the value and rewards of work in the child welfare field.
Finding the Best and Keeping Them
The recruitment and retention subcommittees have begun searching for best practices in these areas, examining major writings on human resources and organizational development from professional journals, government publications, conference and other public presentations, and the Internet. The initial emphasis has been on retention issues for several reasons.
No amount of recruitment success will solve the field's workforce issues if agencies can't retain the workers they hire. Further, many of the factors that impact an agency's ability to retain employees are related to the agency's organizational climate and the way it operates, issues the agency can target directly. This contrasts somewhat with recruitment issues, which can be influenced by many economic factors outside the agency's control. Finally, agencies that create positive, productive working environments develop reputations that greatly enhance their ability to recruit new employees.
Although the subcommittees' search for best practices is far from complete, five interrelated themes consistently appear in the literature as characteristic of organizations that have been successful in recruiting and retaining a skilled, motivated workforce:
Employees are connected and powerfully committed to the unifying mission of the organization. To retain employees over the long term, especially when the work is as demanding as it is in the field of child welfare, employers must capture the hearts of their staff so that they view their work as much more than just a job or a paycheck.
This means agencies have to attend to several matters:
Vision and mission statements must be compelling, focused, understandable, and directly linked to employees' work.
Organizations must consistently communicate the importance of the mission as a guide in directing day-to-day activities.
Policies and decisions must conform with the mission. Agencies can't just "talk the talk," they have to "walk the walk."
Agencies must celebrate performance that exemplifies the mission and actively engage employees at all levels in those celebrations. This area should be a strength for child welfare organizations, as their primary missions-assisting needy children and families-should be much easier to sell to employees than the missions of their corporate counterparts.
Open and honest communication takes place among all levels of the organization. When employees feel connected to an organization, they are more productive and less likely to leave for other jobs. The most obvious method to ensure such connection is open, honest two-way communication. This means agencies must communicate information to employees, as well as get information, ideas, and opinions from employees.
Methods to disseminate information might include extensive orientation and training programs, newsletters, open meetings, e-mails, bulletin boards, teleconferences, and topical forums. Getting information from employees requires agencies to commit to not just listening but also acting on employees' ideas and suggestions.
Listening well requires a commitment from top executives and can be accomplished in a variety of ways, including open-agenda meetings; informal talks, such as lunchtime discussions; surveys; and ongoing recognition of employee suggestions and ideas. It's hard to over-communicate with employees.
At all levels, the organization emphasizes relationships, partnerships, and teamwork. Employees come and go. Partners, on the other hand, tend to be much more connected to the organization and stay for the long term. The first steps in building partnerships, commitment to the mission and communication, we've already discussed. Other steps include systematically involving staff in agency decision-making; eliminating unnecessary layers of management and status barriers like preferred parking, time clocks, and special benefits; opening the agency's books and sharing fiscal information with staff; implementing pay-for-performance programs; doing direct training in teamwork and partnering skills, establishing multi-department problem-solving teams, and committing the agency to an inverted pyramid model, where managers serve frontline workers.
The agency places strong emphasis on learning, innovation, and development at both the individual and organizational levels. Not surprisingly, agencies that promote ongoing professional development and life-long learning tend to produce better results and retain a committed, innovative, highly skilled work force.
The most visible way to demonstrate an emphasis on learning is for agencies to commit both time and money to develop and implement comprehensive, high-quality training programs for staff at all levels. Learning organizations also encourage staff (and support their efforts financially) to extend their formal education through college and graduate-level courses and external workshops and training programs. As well, staff in learning organizations continuously train each other by sharing new information, concepts, and ideas.
The organization frees employees to make decisions and take action without numbing levels of policy, procedure, and bureaucracy. Nothing is more debilitating to employee morale than to be forced into ineffective actions, over and over again, simply because procedure requires it. This is particularly true when better options are clearly available. Employees who are trusted to act, on the other hand, become increasingly committed to the agency and its mission.
No organization, especially a child welfare agency, can operate without clear guidelines for certain areas of employee performance. The goal is to achieve a balance. Effective organizations constantly review policies and procedures to ensure they don't unnecessarily limit freedom of action and they do encourage challenges to the status quo and allow employees the freedom to fail, learn from their mistakes, and try again.
Missing the Obvious?
Readers may be asking an obvious question at this point: "What about pay?" None of these five themes relate directly to increased pay for agency workers. Clearly, money matters, but it's also clear that significant funding increases aren't likely in the near future. Although the Advisory Committee's public policy subcommittee will address the funding issues that relate to increased pay, the workforce crisis is too serious for us to wait for success in that arena. We need to act now.
Public awareness and perception of the scope and seriousness of the problem will be key, and that will be the responsibility of the public education subcommittee. Advisory Committee Co-chair Richard P. Dina, CEO of Family and Children's Association, Mineola, New York, emphasizes the stake the public has in recruiting and retaining a skilled child welfare workforce. "You wouldn't entrust your new BMW to a mechanic with no experience or training in the make or model," he says. "So, too, our kids. Their complicated, damaged lives need the best hearts and minds we can find so they have the best shot at being healed. They're too valuable to be entrusted to rookies; they need and deserve the finest pros we have. If they don't get it, we all pay down the road, because a kid's unsolved problems become entrenched adult problems, which are more difficult and costly to solve." �
CWLA is working with its member agencies to identify and spread the word about promising, proven practices that exemplify these themes within child welfare agencies. Are you aware of an agency that has implemented such practices? Contact Floyd Alwon, Director, Walker Trieschman Center, in CWLA's North Atlantic Office, 300 Congress Street, Suite 305, Quincy, MA 02169, or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Floyd J. Alwon, Ed.D., is director of, and Andrew L. Reitz, Ph.D., senior consultant for, CWLA's Walker Trieschman Center, Quincy, Massachusetts. Steve Boehm is editor of Children's Voice. Through regional training academies, national and regional conferences, professional development institutes, and consultation and technical assistance, the Walker Trieschman Center works to enhance the professional development of practitioners who care for, treat, and educate vulnerable children, youth, and their families. This article is a result of the activities of the Retention Subcommittee of the National Advisory Committee on the Workforce Crisis.
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Vanetta Mewbourn, 88, of Anderson died Saturday, May 4, 2013, at Limestone Health Facility.
Mrs. Mewbourn was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Nellie Posey; husband, G.W. Mewbourn; brothers, Hooper, J.C., Otis and Doll Posey; and son, J.W. "Button" Mewbourn.
Survivors include her daughters, Deborah Nesmith and husband Tommy, and Nell Green and husband Leamuel; grandchildren, Kristie Toone and husband Tim, Korey Bates, Jill Carlton and husband Scott, and Rodney Mewbourn; great-grandchildren, Jacob Toone, Zoe Bates and Jessi Bates; and sister, Marie McGill.
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SOUTHAMPTON City Council's environment and transport boss has stepped down.
Asa Thorpe has resigned with immediate effect as a cabinet member due to "increased work pressures" in his job at Hampshire Constabulary.
The 32-year-old, who has been in the cabinet since Labour won power last May, will remain as a councillor for Millbrook.
His departure has sparked a reshuffle of leader Simon Letts' cabinet, with Jacqui Rayment taking on Cllr Thorpe's portfolio.
Her communities and change post will now be divided among two newly-promoted councillors.
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You may be following up after submitting resumes and ask yourself, "How do I stay in touch with people without becoming a pest?" This is a great question and like most subjective things in life and work, there isn't just one right answer.
Generally, we figure that the magic number for a one-time exchange is three calls. Calling is a more effective way of reaching out to somewhere where you know there is a specific job. Email is more passive and more easily ignored than a phone call. (It's interesting to see that a phone call in today's world carries more weight than it used to. When you call now, it means something.)
First time you call, if you don't get through, leave a message on the voice mail or with the assistant. Be sure they know exactly why you are calling – i.e. "I'm calling to respond to the ad in the paper and request an interview", "I'm calling to schedule a lunch/informational meeting" etc. and the best place to reach you back.
Wait three days. If you get no call back, call again. If it is about a job interview, by this point, if I was really interested I would also have written a letter and sent a resume to the contact person in the ad. Now you can say that you are following up on the previous call/letter regarding the ad.
If you are calling to schedule a lunch, say that again.
If you get no call back after another three days, if it's about a job, call one more time. You won't seem like a pest, you just wanted to make sure the messages were delivered. If it is about lunch, if it is a friend or you are playing phone tag, keep it up until you get the date. if you are looking to set up an informational meeting with someone you don't know, send a letter explaining who you are and why, let it get there and have some time to sink in, and then resume the calls.
It's a fine line. Not enough contact and you will be forgotten. Too much and they will want to forget you! Trust your instincts but when in doubt, ask us or a friend with more experience for their opinion on how to handle the situation.