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CHARLOTTE, N.C. ( TheStreet) -- The Teamsters union said it has abandoned its effort to unionize mechanics and related workers at American (AAMRQ).
"The recent announcement that the federal government will fight the proposed merger between US Airways (LCC)and American Airlines places the workers at American Airlines in significant turmoil," said Union spokesman Bret Caldwell, in a prepared statement.
"American Airlines' emergence from bankruptcy has been cast into doubt and the union has determined that the continued conflict between labor organizations is not in the best interest of the workers," Caldwell said. "This is not a time for workers to fight among themselves."
On Monday, the Teamsters lost a bid to unionize mechanics and related workers at US Airways. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice said it will file suit to block the planned merger of US Airways and American. The Teamsters had hoped to represent mechanics and related workers at the combined carriers."More than 6,000 American Airlines mechanics and related personnel signed cards to make the Teamsters their bargaining representative," the Teamsters said Friday, announcing for the first time the number of American workers who had signed cards. Recently the Transport Workers Union, which represents mechanics and related workers at American, had filed documents with the National Mediation Board alleging that some of those signatures were forged. Follow @tedreednc -- Written by Ted Reed in Charlotte, N.C. >To contact the writer of this article, click here: Ted Reed
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First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced financial results for the quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2012. Net sales were a record $1.1 billion in the quarter, an increase of $236 million from the third quarter of 2012 and $415 million from the fourth quarter of 2011. The increase in net sales from the third quarter of 2012 was primarily due to increased revenue recognition for the Topaz project, and an increase in third-party module sales. Net sales for 2012 were $3.4 billion, up 22% from 2011.
The Company reported fourth quarter GAAP net income per fully diluted share of $1.74, compared to $1.00 in the third quarter of 2012 and a loss of $4.78 in the fourth quarter of 2011, which included $454 million in pre-tax goodwill impairment and restructuring charges. The fourth quarter of 2012 was impacted by pre-tax charges of $25 million (reducing EPS by $0.30), relating to previously announced restructuring actions. The Company reported a full-year GAAP loss of $1.11 per share for 2012, including the impact of pre-tax charges of $529 million (reducing EPS by $5.99), relating to previously announced restructuring actions and costs in excess of normal warranty. Non-GAAP net income per fully diluted share was $2.04 for the fourth quarter and $4.90 for full-year 2012.
Cash and Marketable Securities at the end of 2012 were $1 billion, up from $717 million at the end of the third quarter of 2012. Cash flows from operations were $328 million in the fourth quarter, and $762 million for the full-year 2012.
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World class skills in a jiffy. busting a gut and an actor explores life's great mysteries are what's dropping in books.
First up author Timothy Ferriss tells Jimmy Fallon about his new book the "4 Hour Chef," which oddly is not a cook book... and not really about cooking.
"It's a bit of a slight of hand, so it's actually a book about how to become world class in any skill in six months or less. I spent a year and a half going around the world finding the fastest learners for languages, for sports, for chess, for anything, gathering al their tips and tricks. Then I wanted to learn to cook so I'm explaining a lot of the principals through cooking," said Ferriss.
Next, on the Wendy Williams show actress Kristen Johnson opens up about her new memoir "Guts."
"It's a memoir and I actually wrote it myself which is already like whooaa who does that? But it's about what happened too me," said Johnson. "My stomach...uh..my guts, burst which is why its called 'Guts,' in London, due to prolific Vicadin over usage."
Wendy asked Johnson how long she's been clean and sober. It's been 6 years.
Finally actor Steven Tobolowsky, you know, that annoying insurance sales man from "Groundhog Day told "The List" why you need to buy his memoir called "The Dangerous Animals Club."
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Hi, ladies,
So the short story is that I am stopping my prog. suppositories on Monday at 12w6d.
My last pregnancy was lost at 9.5 weeks owing to low prog. that was caught late. After that, it was discovered that I do not produce enough prog. through my ovaries to sustain an early pregnancy. For that reason, I was placed on prog. supps. for this pregnancy, and as of this point, the baby is doing perfectly well.
My doc wants me to stop the supps. now, but I am a bit nervous to, and he doesn't seem keen on testing my levels after I stop -- says it's unnecessary.
Has anyone else with prog. production problems in the first trimester stopped taking her prog. and then experienced low levels of prog. produced by the placenta during the second tri?
Hi there...I am also taking progesterone- I am 5 weeks pregnant. I took it with my first daughter, now 4, for my entire first trimester. I stopped at 13 weeks, as directed, and everything turned out fine. I guess that is just the point in pregnancy when progesterone is not essential to the pregnancy success. I was nervous too, but all was well, and I am confident the same will happen for you, and for me again!
Good luck!
Just a quick question... how did you guys know you had low progesterone? Is it a blood test?
Sorry I don't have an answer to your question.
If women have a history of loss or IF, the docs usually run progesterone or have their patients on suppliments after treatments. I was put on them after we triggered.
OP - my doc just started weaning me from twice a day to once a day, and then it will be down to e/o/d and then off. By week ten, the placenta has taken over, and the suppliments don't really do much any more.
OK. Yeah, I read something that basically said that the levels that the placenta needs to produce to keep a pregnancy healthy by this point and into the second tri and beyond are higher than the supplements could ever help you attain, so if there aren't problems right now, then your placenta is doing its job well and the supplements aren't doing much anymore anyway -- I guess the small boost the supplements give you is enough for the early stages of pregnancy, but beyond that, they are like dropping a drop of water into a pool, as someone else said.
I suppose that makes me feel a little better...but I just cannot help but be nervous.


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Pope Francis, whose comments and actions have produced apoplexy among the US religious right, "reminds me of Jesus", says a leading evangelical.
New York Times bestselling author and commentator on faith and politics Jim Wallis is currently visiting Britain and Ireland for a range of speaking events following the launch of his book, On God's Side (Lion Hudson) - which discusses what religion forgets and politics hasn't learned about 'serving the common good'.
The US Presidential election was a disaster for the religious right, which had again tied its faith to the partisan political agenda of the Republican Party, says Jim Wallis, CEO of the progressive evangelical Sojourners magazine and movement. Research into shifting populations and voting patterns shows why the religious right's leaders will no longer be able to control or easily co-opt the meaning of the term "evangelical," he argues. There is a new, diverse coalition for a new America emerging, and a changing evangelical demographic is a central part of that.
Most people in America, whether they are religious or not, prefer consistency in the faith community to hypocrisy, says Jim Wallis. One of the reasons the fastest growing demographic in religious affiliation surveys is now "none of the above" is that too many people see more religious hypocrisy than consistency. In this reflection, the CEO of of Sojourners in the USA argues that evangelicals, in particular, are apt to get their values in a muddle in the political arena, not least by ignoring or sidelining the huge biblical emphasis on concern for the poor and vulnerable as a criterion for looking at the impact of human endeavour.
The hunger fast for a moral US budget has gone spiritually viral, says Jim Wallis. It has brought together Christian, secular, community and service organisations around a clear message: there are clear economic choices to be made, and the moral ones recognise the priority of the poorest and most vulnerable.
Thousands of Christians across the USA are fasting in solidarity and protest against a budget process which is punishing the poorest.
A high-profile conservative media pundit is being challenged to debate social justice issues properly, instead of launching hit-and-run verbal assaults.
In the past, US social and political commentators overlooked revivalism as a source of radical critique of society, says Martin Marty. Now we need to notice that it is the radical evangelicalism of Jim Wallis and Sojourners which is offering a moral and values-based challenge to 'capitalist economics as usual'.
Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis has just tweeted some excellent advice to Wall Street bankers wondering how to put their massive bonuses and their consciences together while they watch the news.
With the ongoing conflicts raging during each passing year, the remarkable story of the World War I Christmas truce remains tragically relevant, says Jim Wallis. Particularly as we think about Afghanistan.


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(archive of online issues) Welcome to the first online edition of the UNC Linguistics Newsletter.
In This Issue
- Departmental News
- Undergraduate Student News
- Graduate Student News
- Faculty News
- Alumni News
- Theses/Dissertations 2007-08
- How to Make a Gift to the Linguistics Department
Departmental News
❖ Two long-time faculty members have moved on to other institutions. Craig Melchert is now the A. Richard Diebold Professor of Indo-European Studies and Professor of Linguistics at UCLA. Laura Janda, formerly of Slavic Languages and Literatures as well as Linguistics, is now Professor of Russian Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway. We thank Craig and Laura for all they have done for Linguistics at UNC, wish them all the best in their new positions -- and hope they will come back to visit from time to time.
❖ We look forward to welcoming a new faculty member to the department in January 2009. Katya Pertsova, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Cognitive studies at Tufts University, specializes in morphology, phonology, lexical knowledge, and the computational modeling of language acquisition.
❖ In a different kind of transition, the department has moved! We are now located in Smith Building, not too far from the Old Well. Although we miss our neighbors in Dey Hall, we like having more space. Also, Smith was built in 1901, so it has old-fashioned charm.
❖ Linguistics Colloquium news:
The 2007 Linguistics Colloquium was held March 24. The keynote speaker, James McCloskey of the University of California at Santa Cruz, was unfortunately not able to attend, but his paper "A Language on the Edge: Irish and the Theory of Grammar" was presented by Randy Hendrick. Stanley Dubinsky of the University of South Carolina was the Underling guest speaker; he spoke on "Mediating the Syntax and Semantics of Control." Other speakers at the Colloquium were Marc Pierce (U. Michigan) with "On the resilience of Edgerton's Law," Daniel J. Smith (Clemson U.) and Manuel Morales (Bethel College) on "Second language acquisition of Spanish by morpheme type," Melissa Frazier and Eduardo Hugo Gil (both of UNC-CH) on "Language game evidence for prosodic principles and Output-Output Faithfulness," Charles B. Chang (Berkeley) on "Analyzing the Korean laryngeal contrast: Evidence from cross-linguistic perception," Alona Soschen (MIT) on "The third factor and properties of syntactic Merge," Tyler Kendall (Duke U.) on "Toward a variationist analysis of pause," and Kiyomi Kusumoto (Hirosaki Gakuin U.) on "A unified analysis of temporal and non-temporal made 'until' in Japanese."
The 2008 Linguistics Colloquium took place April 5. The keynote speaker was Joe Pater of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who gave a talk on "Harmonic Grammar." The Underling guest speaker, Naomi Nagy of the University of New Hampshire, spoke on "A sociolinguistic grammar of Faetar." Other presenters were Carlos Molina-Vital (Duke U.) on "Generic singular definite nominal phrases in Spanish: a notional account," Jaeshil Kim (Liberty U.) on "Plural markings in classifier languages," Chunmei Yu (U. Virginia) on "The use of the Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle in Chinese," and UNC's own Peter Sherwood (Slavic Languages and Literatures) on "Nascent futures in Hungarian," Jen Smith on "[+wh] complementizers drive phonological phrasing in Fukuoka Japanese," and Lisa Domby on "Variations in sonority rankings: Gliding of fricatives."
The 2009 colloquium is in the planning stages. For more information please see http://www.unc.edu/linguistics/colloquium.html.
❖ A mini-conference on Mesoamerican linguistics and epigraphy was organized by David Mora-Marín in April of 2008, supported by funds from the Linguistics Department, the Center for Global Initiatives, and the Cognitive Science program. The speakers, other than David himself, were Melissa Frazier, John Justeson, Nicholas Hopkins, and Erich Foxtree.
Undergraduate Student News
❖ A number of students have graduated with Honors in Linguistics since the last newsletter.
December 2006: Colby Day, "The Sociolinguistics of Physician-Patient Interactions: Factors Affecting Communication and Access to Healthcare."
May 2007: Agnes Gucwa, "A Comparison of Narrative Abilities of Boys with Fragile X Syndrome and Boys with Down Syndrome," Kellin McKinney, "Expressive Morphosyntax in Boys with Fragile X Syndrome and Down Syndrome," and Eliot Raynor, "Spanish Borrowings and Code-mixing in Ch'orti' Discourse."
May 2008: Kellen Carpenter, "Tracking Idiolectal Change Using Corpora: Tracing Style Changes in Newspaper Editorials," Karen Feagin, "Creation and Perpetuation of Linguistic Stereotypes as Presented in Disney Films," Brice Russ, "The Register of Facebook: Linguistic Features of a Prominent Social-Networking Site," and Katherine Studwell, "A Used in German Modifier: The Syntactic Position of the German Extended Modifier." Katherine also presented a version of her thesis at the 14th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
❖ Underling, the undergraduate linguistics club, had an active year in 2007-08. In addition to bringing Professor Naomi Nagy to the spring colloquium, Underling hosted a talk by Noah Savage, part of the undergraduate speaker series, about some advantages that constructed languages can afford their speakers. The club also held social dinners, with a large turnout of undergraduates and faculty, and two game nights that resulted in the drawing of some bizarre playing cards. Underling is always interested in hosting language-related talks from students (or alumni). To join the club or arrange hosting for your talk, contact the club officers.
❖ The recipients of the Marc Adam Eisdorfer Award for Outstanding Graduating Senior in Linguistics were Agnes Gucwa (now in the graduate program in Speech and Hearing Science at UNC-CH) for 2007 and Karen Feagin for 2008.
Graduate Student News
❖ Ian Clayton has spent the last few months preparing the early stages of his dissertation, which will focus on isolating potential phonetic and cognitive explanations for the crosslinguistic typology of preaspiration. He spent much of the last summer in Scotland collecting data from Gaelic speakers and conducting preliminary experiments. In November, he'll be presenting a poster at NELS 39, which assesses both phonetic and phonological explanations for the typology of Scottish Gaelic preaspiration. In other news, Ian and his wife Tobie had a baby girl in June '07. Zoa May is now 14 months old and toddling about with great facility and enthusiasm. While her MLU is still quite low, her every utterance confirms a number of theoretical proposals about the acquisition of L1 phonology.
❖ Melissa Frazier presented a paper at the SSILA annual meeting in January 2008 in Chicago ("Acoustic Analysis of Pitch in Yucatec Maya and Implications for Dialect Differentiation") and another paper at the Symposium on Mayan Languages and Linguistics in April 2008 in Chapel Hill ("The Phonetics, Phonology, and Phonologization of Glottalization in Yucatec Maya"). She has been awarded the UNC dissertation completion fellowship for this upcoming academic year.
❖ Susannah Kirby spent a semester as a visitor at UCLA. She will be finishing her dissertation in May, so she is going on the job market this fall.
❖ Jenn Renn received a 2008 Impact Award from UNC's Graduate Education Advancement Board, recognizing research by graduate students that makes a contribution to the state of North Carolina, for her project "Measuring Style Shift: A Quantitative Analysis of African American English." Jenn also presented "Operationalizing the measurement of style in language variation," co-authored with Mike Terry, at NWAV 36; presented an invited talk, "Style Shifting, Vernacular Variation, and Literacy in African American Middle School Students," with Joanne Roberts at the Minority Research Forum at UNC; was a co-author on a project at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute that was presented at ASHA (the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association); and received the 2007 Marc Eisdorfer Award for the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Fellow.
Faculty News
❖ Misha Becker presented collaborative work with W. Garrett Mitchener (College of Charleston, SC) in August 2007 at the Workshop on Psychocomputational Models of Language, part of the annual Cognitive Science Society meeting. Their work concerns the development of a computational learning algorithm that models children's learning of the raising verb-control verb distinction. In January 2008 she gave birth to her very own data generator, named Olivia, and in February learned that she had been awarded tenure. So it was good news all around! Misha is very grateful for the generous maternity leave and is looking forward to coming back to the department this fall.
❖ Randy Hendrick was awarded a three-year NSF research award in January, along with Peter Gordon in the Psychology Department. The title of the project is Relational Memory and Language Comprehension. It studies how anaphoric expressions of various types interact with frequency of use and syntactic structure to promote or inhibit certain kinds of inferences. He traveled to Palau (a group of islands in the Philippine Sea) this past summer, building on his earlier fieldwork in Samoan two years ago trying to find syntactic evidence from distributive expressions that some languages lack generalized quantifiers. On the social front, during the spring semester he hosted a reading group with faculty and students from Philosophy on tough-movement adjectives, and he has a draft of a paper on constructions like "This Bud is for you".
❖ David Mora-Marín attended a conference on the indigenous languages of the Americas in October of 2007 at UT-Austin, where he presented a paper on the identification of an inchoative morphological marker and an inverse voice construction in ancient Mayan writing. The following month he was invited to present a paper on pre-Columbian historical connections between the Mayan and Costa Rican peoples at the Denver Art Museum. In May of 2008 he was invited to present a paper, which dealt with the social and political information that can be gleaned from the study of the earliest Mayan texts (ca. 400 BC-AD 200), at a conference on anthropological studies of ancient and contemporary Mesoamerica at the State University of New York at Albany. Lastly, he organized the mini-conference on Mesoamerican linguistics and epigraphy described under "Departmental News" above. With regard to his writing activities, several of David's papers were accepted for publication: one dealing with the analysis of the reading format and direction of the recently discovered Olmec script, dating to ca. 900 BC, in Latin American Antiquity; one on the definition of two classes of hieroglyphic sign that have not been thoroughly discussed in the past with regard to ancient Mayan writing, namely, semantograms (semantic classifiers and semantic determinatives), in Ancient Mesoamerica; one on the sociolinguistic geography of the Maya lowlands during the Classic period (A.D. 200-900), in the International Journal of American Linguistics; and one on the historical reconstruction of the demonstrative/independent pronouns of Proto-Ch'olan-Tzeltalan and Proto-Ch'olan, in the Transactions of the Philological Society of America. During the fall of 2008, David will enjoy his research leave, during which he hopes to complete a couple of works in progress, one pertaining to the history of ancient Mayan writing, and the other to the reconstruction of nominal and verbal morphology of Proto-Ch'olan-Tzeltalan, the hypothetical language that was probably spoken by the innovators of the script during the first century of the Late Preclassic period, ca. 400-300 B.C.
❖ Elliott Moreton taught a graduate seminar on first-language acquisition in the fall, and the undergraduate "Human Language and Animal Communication Systems" course in the spring, in addition to the undergraduate phonology and graduate phonetics core courses. His past year's research has focused on comparing the learning difficulty of different phonotactic patterns by adult learners in the lab as a way of testing hypotheses about the origins of typological asymmetries in natural language. He presented some of the results at the Symposium on Phonologization at the University of Chicago in May -- his fifth conference trip to Illinois since coming to UNC in 2003, which just goes to show the value of central location. Elliott is also the advisor for a dissertation project by Ian Clayton on the phonetics and phonology of preaspiration in Scottish Gaelic.
❖ Paul Roberge was appointed Professor Extraordinary of General Linguistics at the University of Stellenbosch in 2007. He was there for two weeks this summer to give a lecture series on language genesis and to do research on the history of Afrikaans. He has written two articles on pidgins and creoles as a possible window on the origin and evolution of human language and is also investigating the reconstruction of language contact in prehistoric Germanic.
❖ Jen Smith began the summer of 2007 with the happy news that she would receive tenure. She has been working on an analysis of question intonation in the Fukuoka dialect of Japanese, and was invited to speak on this topic at the Workshop on Prosody, Syntax and Information Structure III at Indiana University last fall and at the College of William and Mary in the spring. She has also been investigating how phonological processes traditionally known as lenition (weakening) and fortition (strengthening) can be analyzed in the phonological framework of Optimality Theory; this project has led to a paper in a forthcoming book called Lenition and Fortition and a poster presentation at the 2008 LSA. Jen enjoyed having the chance to teach a course on morphology in Spring '07, and has been able to make "Structure of Japanese" a permanent course that will be offered about once every two years.
❖ Mike Terry has spent most of the year pursuing a number of projects in the area of African-American English (AAE), among them continuing work with Randy Hendrick on the influence of AAE on mathematical reasoning tasks. He taught a short course on AAE at the UMass Center for the Study of African American English's 2007 Summer Dialect Research Project, and recently presented a paper at the Workshop on Locating Variability held there as well. In addition to the papers coming out of these projects, he is happy to be working with Jennifer Renn on a paper that looks at how linguists can operationalize the notion of style. This semester he is teaching "Introduction to Semantics" and "Language Deficits," and enjoying both.
Alumni News
❖ Jeff Adams-Davis (MA '82) reports that after 24 years at UNC Charlotte, 17 of which have been spent as Director of the English Language Training Institute (the University's intensive English program), he is retiring and moving to Orange County, California, hopefully to teach ESL and related subjects -- or maybe just learn to surf.
❖ Hans Boas (PhD '00) is organizing the Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5), to be held at UT Austin in September 2008. More information is available at http://gmc.utexas.edu/iccg5/.
❖ Amanda Byrd (BA '07) has been managing two research labs in the Psychology department at Duke University since graduation -- the Language Development Lab headed by Dr. Reiko Mazuka and the Reading Lab headed by Dr. Gary Feng. These labs run studies with subjects ranging from 4 months to 22 yrs old, looking at things such as infant and adult speech perception (e.g. infants' ability to distinguish between Japanese syllables with different pitch accents), adults' reading eye movements (e.g. ability to compensate when regressions (backtracking) cause the screen to flash), prereading children's understanding of the units of language, and prereading children's theory of mind. This was great experience with linguistics research! In the Fall '08 semester, Amanda will begin the master's program in Speech-Language Pathology at UNC-CH. She hopes to continue to the PhD level so she can get back to her true passion, research.
❖ Mary Dresser Taffet (BA '81) lost her mother to Alzheimer's in October of last year, and her mother-in-law, also to Alzheimer's, in March of this year. She and her husband celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a Caribbean cruise, traveling to Key West, Grand Cayman and Jamaica. Their son will start his senior year at Stony Brook University on Long Island in September. Mary reports that she has lost probably 60 pounds in the last year and a half; she takes a variety of fitness classes and has gotten back into biking, riding her Trek 7.3 FX as often as possible -- and she is trying to incorporate her brand new Wii Fit into her fitness routine as well. Mary still works at TextWise, LLC in Syracuse, NY, and has been very busy recently working with semantic dictionaries and relevance testing. She was a member of the team behind the production and recent release of Gyzork.
❖ Kirk Hazen (PhD '97) is now (full) professor in the Department of English at West Virginia University. He has been in Morgantown, WV, for ten years now, where he can still bike or walk to work. He has recently received an NSF grant to figure out some of the sociolinguistic basics for English in Appalachia. He has also recently published in some collections, American Speech, and The Journal of English Linguistics. Besides playing soccer, Kirk and Kate now have three children to occupy their free time.
❖ Emily (Keys) Innes (BA '91) and her husband still live in the Boston area. Emily started her own interior design firm in 2005, and she began teaching classes in design and decoration this spring in affiliation with a local museum. She has just started a blog called DesignConversation covering practical aspects of good design and intends to add a little analysis of the industry (nothing like a degree in Linguistics to teach you how to analyze!). She and her husband are both active in their local community.
❖ Linda McIntyre (MA '86, PhD '92) and her husband, Chris Culy, moved in July 2008 from Vancouver, BC to Italy, where Chris is the Language Technologies Technical Officer at the Institute for Specialized Communication and Multilingualism at the European Academy in Bolzano, Italy. While Chris works on linguistic software for multilingual research, Linda will be working on studying Italian, as well as researching the finer points of the Italian cafe lifestyle.
❖ Brice Russ (BA '08) is taking a year off before grad school -- he plans to apply to several schools, notably Penn, for sociolinguistics -- and is trying to simultaneously relax and make money during that time. He continues to pursue various positions related to the private space industry. He will be working as the Public Relations/Marketing intern for 4Frontiers Corp. this fall (via telecommute), and working with an aerospace company next spring at a location TBD, most likely in Philadelphia. In the meanwhile, he will be staying in Chapel Hill, exploring some job opportunities (the 4Frontiers internship is unpaid) and writing quizbowl questions for NAQT (National Academic Quiz Tournaments). Brice concedes, "I'm not sure how well I'm going to do on the 'relaxing' part, but at least it'll be easier than writing my honors thesis."
❖ Hayden (Stack) Lindsey (MA '04) and her husband Mark welcomed their first child, a son named Oren Silas Lindsey, on November 19, 2007. Oren is now 8 months old; he is crawling and keeping his parents very busy! He's working on mastering English, Spanish, and ASL. So far, his only utterances are "hey" and the ASL sign for milk. Other than that, Hayden continues to teach part-time at The College at Southeastern in Wake Forest, NC, and will be teaching History of the English Language this fall.
❖ James Saunders (PhD '77) has recently returned from six months in Baghdad as an advisor to the US Embassy and Multi-National Forces on various security issues. Personal highlights included frequent interaction with top-level Iraqi government officials and, especially, serving as a member of the US delegation to last August's Trilateral Security talks with Iran and Iraq. This was his sixth tour in Iraq and presumably the last. Previously, he had worked with US and Iraqi officials setting up the Iraqi Higher Tribunal (IHT) and the war crimes trials of former regime officials. He spent much time sharing prison food with former Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and others at Camp Cropper.
❖ Jorge Valdes (BA '01) has completed an M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics at Penn State University and will continue on with the PhD program starting this fall. One of his co-advisers is Chip Gerfen, who was a linguistics professor at UNC until 2001. Jorge has received an honorable mention for the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship. Finally, he is truly honored to share that he has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in the discipline of linguistics, one of 5 which were awarded this past year.
❖ Kara VanDam (PhD '07) and Patrick Obregon (MA '01) recently celebrated their second wedding anniversary. Kara serves as the Dean of Faculty for Kaplan University's College of Arts & Sciences, but has kept up her linguistics research, and won the President's Prize at the 2008 LACUS conference held in Quebec City. Patrick has completed the first year in his doctoral program at Ohio State's School of Education in the field of Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement in Education, and is the recipient of the Director's Award for the 2008-2009 school year.
❖ Justin Watt (BA '02 Ling, MS '04 Information Science) reports that in the more than two years since his last update, a lot has happened: "I met a girl, I started a new job, and I moved to San Francisco." Stephanie Soleil is a dual French and American citizen raised in France, and "she's bilingual, so lots of fun linguisticky goodness there." In June 2006, Justin started a new job working as a web application developer for a blog advertising company called Federated Media. That meant an hour plus commute to Sausalito, so he and Stephanie moved down to San Francisco from Santa Rosa. Eventually Justin sold his unused car and bought a Vespa, because he can park it anywhere. He used to ride it over the Golden Gate Bridge to work every day, but in mid-August, Federated Media, the little Sausalito startup that had less than 15 employees when he joined and now has over 70, relocated to shiny new office space in San Francisco. Justin still chronicles his adventures on his blog, justinsomnia.org, and invites everyone to check it out.
❖ Rosemarie (Whitney) Ostler (MA '80) reports that her book, Let's Talk Turkey: The Stories Behind America's Favorite Expressions, came out in June with Prometheus. She also got her website www.vintage-vocabulary.com up and running. She is still living in Eugene, Oregon.
Theses/Dissertations 2007-08
❖ Jeff Conn (MA). "The Greek prothetic vowel and the Sanskrit long-reduplicant perfect: A statistical evaluation of the Indo-European laryngeal theory" (directed by C. Melchert).
❖ Eduardo Gil (MA). "The Turkish partitive as simple nominal phrases: Evidence from incorporation and specificity" (directed by R. Hendrick).
❖ Jenna Mory (MA). "Verbal Acquisition in L2 Spanish" (directed by M. Becker).
❖ Jenn Renn (MA). "Measuring style shift: A quantitative analysis of African American English" (directed by M. Terry).
❖ Hang Zhang (MA). "A phonological study of second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese tones" (directed by J. Smith).
❖ Eunsuk Lee (PhD). Types of scrambling in Korean syntax (directed by R. Hendrick).
❖ Yu Li (PhD). Differential acquisition of phonemic contrasts by infant word-learners: Does production recapitulate perception? (directed by E. Moreton).
❖ Kara Van Dam (PhD). A study of language identity and shift: The Calvinist Dutch of West Michigan (directed by C. Eble).
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As CTO of TrialNetworks, Ezra is responsible for development and operation of the TrialNetworks platform. Years of work on clinical trial and other pharma applications have embedded a deep respect for bio-pharma requirements around security, auditability, reliability, and intuitive user interfaces.
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i have a simple question on why it is a sin for a muslim girl to marry a catholic man.... dont matter how in love she is, dont matter how happpy she is..... nothing seems to matter, all that matters is that he is not muslim so its a sin... why is that?
why cant everyone just marry who ever they want no matter what relgion they believe in. muslim men can marry who they want, well most anyways, but the women are resticted to muslim men and muslim men only otherwise they get disowned or its a sin...
whats the go i would just like some answers to his question thats all??
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29-Nov-2008 01:22 AM
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29-Nov-2008 03:47 AM
I will post two separate answers taken from Islam Question & Answer website for you. I hope they are of benefit to you.
A Christian woman is saying: Why is it not permissible for a Muslim woman to marry a kitaabi man when the opposite is permitted?
Praise be to Allaah.
One of the names of Allaah in which we believe and we do not think that anyone who believes that he has a Lord will doubt that is al-Hakeem (the All-Wise). In this manner the noble angels praised Him, because they understood His wisdom in His command to them to prostrate to Adam:
They (angels) said: Glory is to You, we have no knowledge except what you have taught us. Verily, it is You, the All-Knower, the All-Wise
[al-Baqarah 2:32]
He has also testified to this, as have His angels and the people of knowledge:
Allaah bears witness that Laa ilaaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), and the angels, and those having knowledge (also give this witness); (He always) maintains His creation in justice. Laa ilaaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), the All‑Mighty, the All-Wise
[Aal Imraan 3:18]
Thus He has established proof against His creation, as He says (interpretation of the meaning):
Say: With Allaah is the perfect proof and argument, (i.e. the Oneness of Allaah, the sending of His Messengers and His Holy Books, to mankind); had He so willed, He would indeed have guided you all
[al-Anaam 6:149]
Thus it is known that the All-Wise does not do anything in vain, and He does not do anything that is inappropriate. He does not issue any command but that which is better for His creation than any other, as Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
Allaah has sent down the Best Statement, a Book (this Quraan), its parts resembling each other (in goodness and truth) (and) oft‑repeated. The skins of those who fear their Lord shiver from it (when they recite it or hear it). Then their skin and their heart soften to the remembrance of Allaah. That is the Guidance of Allaah. He guides therewith whom He wills; and whomever Allaah sends astray, for him there is no guide
[al-Zumar 39:23]
Just as this is implied by His being All-Wise, it is also implied by His being the only Creator. The one who makes a thing knows best what is suited for it, so how about the All-Knowing Creator?
Should not He Who has created know? And He is the Most Kind and Courteous (to His slaves), All‑Aware (of everything)
[al-Mulk 67:14]
With regard to the wisdom behind the matter that you are asking about, perhaps you know that Islam is the last religion that was revealed from Allaah, hence it abrogates all other religions, as Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it superior over all religions even though the Mushrikoon (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allaah) hate (it)
[al-Tawbah 9:33]
And never will Allaah grant to the disbelievers a way (to triumph) over the believers
[al-Nisa 4:141]
The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said; Islam prevails and is not prevailed over. Narrated by al-Daaraqutni and others; classed as hasan by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami (2778).
It is well known that the husband is in charge of his wife (qawaamah) and his status within the family is higher than that of his wife. Perhaps this higher position may make him force his wife to leave her religion and follow his, or it may influence her to do that, and this is something that Islam cannot accept.
The higher status held by the husband may also cause the children of this woman to follow their fathers religion, which is a great error, if these offspring grow up and do not follow the final religion of Allaah.
This is the important reason which Allaah mentioned when He forbade Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
And give not (your daughters) in marriage to Al‑Mushrikoon till they believe (in Allaah Alone) and verily, a believing slave is better than a (free) Mushrik (idolater), even though he pleases you. Those (Al-Mushrikoon) invite you to the Fire, but Allaah invites (you) to Paradise and forgiveness by His Leave, and makes His Ayaat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) clear to mankind that they may remember
[al-Baqarah 2:221]
Moreover, if a kitaabi woman (a Jewish or Christian woman) marries a Muslim man, she is marrying someone who believes in her Prophet and all the Prophets of Allaah, because he cannot be a Muslim otherwise, and it is not permissible for him to differentiate between them. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
The Messenger (Muhammad) believes in what has been sent down to him from his Lord, and (so do) the believers. Each one believes in Allaah, His Angels, His Books, and His Messengers. (They say,) We make no distinction between one another of His Messengers
[al-Baqarah 2:285]
Whereas the kitaabi whether Jewish or Christian does not believe in Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) or that he is the Seal of the Prophets, so how can the two matters be equal, and how can Muslim women marry men who do not believe in their Prophet?
But we should point out here that although it is permissible for a Muslim man to marry a kitaabi woman, because of the interests that it is hoped may be served by that, and to avoid burdening people with too many restrictions, it is blameworthy, as Imam Maalik (may Allaah have mercy on him) said. (Tafseer al-Qurtubi, 3/67).
This permission serves as a hint to the people of the Book, so that they might realize that Islam has made exceptions for the people of the Book in some rulings that it has not made for other kuffaar. Allaah has permitted us to eat meat slaughtered by the people of the Book, and He has permitted us to marry their women out of respect for the origin of their religions which were based on Tawheed, and out of respect for the Messengers of those religions in whom we are commanded to believe and respect, and to demonstrate the difference between the attitude of the followers of Judaism and Christianity towards our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and the attitude of our religion towards their Prophets.
Finally, this ruling should not be strange for other religions, and it is not something odd that is applied by Islam alone. Why should some of those who attack our religion find it strange that Islam forbids our women to marry non-Muslim men, when they do not marry one another even though they are followers of one religion? A Catholic cannot marry a Protestant woman and if he does so he is punished by the church, and vice versa.
According to the canon of the Egyptian Orthodox Coptic Church published in 1938 CE, article 6 states that difference in religion is an impediment to marriage.
And Allaah knows best.
Islam Q&AWhen Allah tests you, it is never intended to destroy you.
When He removes something in your possession,
it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift."
Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah
29-Nov-2008 03:48 AM
I am a muslim women who want's to marry a christain man I am not a relgious person but, my family is and I am having a very hard time this matter. I've known this person for ten years. My parents are not really religious but my father is afraid of his mother and what they are going to say about his daughter marrying a christian man. my husband to be has converted to the islamic religion but according to my partents and family this is not good enough. please help what should i do. my husband to be is aware of childeren and also is aware that they will be taught the islamic religion.
Praise be to Allaah.
It is regrettable indeed that anyone would fail to adhere to the religion which Allaah has commanded us to adhere to. What is even more distressing is the fact that a Muslim woman would have a relationship (of any kind) with a non-related Christian man for ten years, when she knows that this is something which angers Allaah, Who has forbidden believing women to do such things in the Quran (interpretation of the meaning): they should be chaste, not adulterous, nor taking boyfriends [al-Nisaa 4:25]. Equally upsetting is the fact that what this Muslim girls father fears most with regard to the marriage described is not Allaah, but what his mother will say and how his reputation among his relatives will be affected.
In any case, there is no way out of this problem now except one: this man must become Muslim in a real sense, and start to practise Islam, and he and this girl should repent for what they have done. Then marrying him will be permissible, and what people may say does not matter, so long as everything is done in accordance with Islam and in a way that will not earn the anger of Allaah; the matter can also be explained to close relatives. If this is not possible, then the relationship with this man should be cut completely, and all thought of him should be dismissed from ones mind. If, my sister, you feel that there is some harshness in this answer, then by Allaah it is only in your best interests and out of concern for you. We ask Allaah to accept our repentance and have mercy on us, for He is the One Who accepts repentance and is All-Merciful.
Islam Q&A
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-MunajjidWhen Allah tests you, it is never intended to destroy you.
When He removes something in your possession,
it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift."
Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah
29-Nov-2008 09:50 AM
No God-fearing, righteous woman would want to marry a non-Muslim man anyway. I could personally never love or respect a man who did not love Allah. I won't even get started on the family conflict and confusion of children that this would cause, if each parent were strongly devoted to each of their beliefs.
My step-father who raised me was born and raised as a Catholic. He met my mother and wanted to persue a relationship with her, but she refused because he was not a Muslim. He went to the Imam to convert to Islam but the Imaam did not allow it until he learned about Islam and accepted it truthfully with his heart. After a few years he did just that and alhamdulilah he and my mother have been married for 15 years.
When you speak about Muslim men being allowed to marry ahl al-Kittab, there are conditions and while it is permitted, it certainly isn't recommended.Verily, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find satisfaction (13:28)
29-Nov-2008 10:44 AM
Since when did the amount of happiness derived from an act determine whether it should be allowed? I'm sure there are heaps of people out there rather happy doing all kinds of inappropriate things."Have they not travelled in the land so that they should have hearts with which to understand, or ears with which to hear? For surely it is not the eyes that are blind, but blind are the hearts which are in the breasts."
[al-Hajj, ayah 46]
29-Nov-2008 08:26 PM
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Catholics allow the drinking of alcohol, who would want a husband who will come home drunk?
Catholics allow sexual acts which we as Muslims do not, no Muslim woman would want herself to be subject to such wicked things.
But above all, Catholics believe that God became a man, and then had himself killed so that he could forgive humankind for their sins... When the head of the house has problems understanding who God truly is, then there will be major problems for any Muslim living in that household.
If the man changes, and believes that God is 1, and that He is not and has never been a man, and is everlasting and does not die nor rest, and he accepts the True religion of God (Islam) and follows it, then he may marry a Muslim woman if the 2 of them wish to.
However, I must mention, a Catholic man according to Catholic canon (law) is not allowed to marry a non-Christian, so before asking us, ask the Catholic about his own faith.
29-Nov-2008 11:31 PM"Have they not travelled in the land so that they should have hearts with which to understand, or ears with which to hear? For surely it is not the eyes that are blind, but blind are the hearts which are in the breasts."
[al-Hajj, ayah 46]
29-Nov-2008 11:35 PM
I guess it depends which ones actually follow their religion or not. According to Catholicism, divorce isn't permitted under any circumstance, but there are still many who will go against their religion and get a divorce.Verily, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find satisfaction (13:28)
29-Nov-2008 11:41 PM
It's hard to find true practicing Christians. I don't think they fear God as much as we do, and they don't believe in His mercy like we do - so it's easier to sin.....anyway, didn't Jesus die so that God would forgive their sins? It's like they have permission to sin!When Allah tests you, it is never intended to destroy you.
When He removes something in your possession,
it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift."
Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah


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A week in review: Cashman, Galvez, Heredia, Moncada, Rule 5, Robertson and Wheeler
If you thought last week was quiet, then you haven't met this week. The biggest news of the day came on Thursday when the Yankees announced who they were going to protect from the Rule 5 Draft. The Yankees also sold the rights to a contract, David Robertson's value in the market is only going ...
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Yankees must make Rule 5 decision today
Today is the deadline for the Yankees to put some of their 10 eligible players on the 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 Draft. Last season some notable names (Chase Whitley, Jose Pirela) were left off the roster before the draft but weren't selected; instead they made a splash in the Major Leagues ...
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Joe Torre is slated to have his number retired by the Yankees on August 23, but he spoke to the media about it today while in Milwaukee for the Milwaukee Braves Historical Association. "It would always be special when you get honored by a particular team," Torre said. "But when it's the Yankees, you realize what ...
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The Yankees don't have much depth at first base but that is beginning to change. First base is also one of those positions where players end up if they can't field anywhere else. You often won't see good players at first base in an organization until they have failed at other positions. There aren't too ...
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HIroki Kuroda will miss a start on Friday with a sore hip flexor
Hiroki Kuroda has quietly been the ace of this Yankees' pitching staff, but he's going to miss a start on Friday with a sore hip flexor with Ivan Nova taking his place at least once through the lineup. Kuroda wasn't in attendance for Tuesday night's game in Minnesota. Instead he flew back to New York where ...
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Tiered regulation, one-size-does-not-fit-all regulation, call it what you will, but top federal regulators are talking about it more frequently after hearing about it more and more from community bankers and their lobbying groups. The concept was prominently featured last month at Community Banking in the 21st Century, a conference hosted by the Federal Reserve and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors at the St. Louis Fed.
Welcoming remarks from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke set the tone. As battle-scarred survivors of a financial crisis and deep recession, community bankers today confront a frustratingly slow recovery, stiff competition from larger banks and other financial institutions, and the responsibility of complying with new and existing regulations, he said. My colleagues at the Federal Reserve and I understand these concerns, and we are committed to crafting supervisory policies and regulations that are appropriately scaled to banks size and complexity.
Federal Reserve Gov. Jerome H. Powell followed that up by noting that the Dodd-Frank Act has spawned a variety of new regulatory initiatives that add to the already-substantial regulatory burden faced by community banks. Which regulations whether new or existing impose the greatest regulatory burden compared to their benefits? he wondered. Can regulatory agencies modify or provide exemptions to these regulations so as to make life a bit easier and more profitable for community banks, without adversely affecting bank safety and soundness or financial stability?
A community banker on the program, Dorothy A. Savarese, president and CEO of The Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank in Massachusetts, offered some suggestions. The challenge to policymakers and regulators, she advised, is to step back and ask:
This welcome discussion may be arriving just in the proverbial nick of time, for data compiled by compliance and technology professionals at Continuity Control for its Q3 Banking Compliance lndex shows no sign of regulatory relief for the remainder of 2013 and a substantial increase in enforcement actions since last quarter, up 31 percent.
Community banks are facing increased regulatory demands while, at the same time, regulators are demonstrating a new focus on beefing up enforcement, creating one of toughest regulatory environments weve seen in 25 years, said Pam Perdue, chief compliance strategist at Continuity Control and a former federal examiner.
If the regulators walk the walk after talking the talk, maybe the trend can be slowed or reversed. It would be heartening if we didnt hear this lament so often from community bankers: It isnt fun anymore.
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Preparation Time: 20 minutes
- 2 tablespoons cocoa
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- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons instant coffee
- 1/4 cup carob chips (or chocolate chips of choice)
- 1/4 cup melted coconut oil
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Mix all ingredients completely and scoop onto a cookie sheet. Refrigerate until solid enough to hold together. ENJOY!! Keep extras refrigerated.
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Yikes! I was reading about this delicious recipe and "bumped" my mouse and accidently clicked two stars on the rating scale. I haven't even tried them yet, but I'll bet there worth more than two stars!! How can I delete this? :-/
# Posted By Kristi C | 8/14/13 5:22 PM
I made these today and they are delicious. One problem though. they won't stay together. Fell apart and had to pat them flat and let them harden, then broke into pieces. Love them, just can't get them into balls. Any suggestions?
# Posted By Nancy A | 8/21/13 2:06 PM
Just had a thought, is the instant coffee supposed to be liquid or do you put in the granules? That might make a difference.
# Posted By Nancy A | 8/21/13 2:07 PM
I need to know why mine didn't stay together. They taste great, but I couldn't get them to stay in a ball shape for anything. Collapsed as soon as I put them on the cookie sheet. Must be some way to get them to stick together. Thanks for any suggestions!!!
# Posted By Nancy A | 8/22/13 3:36 PM
I think the issue is with the coconut flour. There is no liquid to work with this. I tried adding canned coconut milk to heat on the stove but it just makes a "roux". There must be a typo in this recipe.
# Posted By Sara | 8/23/13 5:46 PM
Mine did not stick together either! I added more coconut oil and that worked but I'm sure there is a typo.
# Posted By Sandra | 8/28/13 2:39 PM
I'm thinking that this would of worked out better if I had melted the chocolate.
Mine is more like granola. Its not possible to spoon out onto a baking sheet.
***I agreed that there has to be a typo or a few minor things left out. But it sure does taste good. *I used organic sugar as a substitute for regular white sugar.
Mine is more like granola. Its not possible to spoon out onto a baking sheet.
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HOUSTON -- Chevron said a deal with YPF to develop Argentina' s shale natural gas deposits is threatened by a $19 billion embargo of the California oil company' s assets in the country.
For the first time, Chevron said an Argentine court decision--involving the oil giant' s decades-long environmental dispute with Ecuador--could imperil the near-$1 billion deal with Argentina' s recently nationalized oil company.
The YPF agreement could be completed only "if we can get the right conditions in place around that embargo," Chevron Chief Executive John Watson said at an investor conference Tuesday. "We have to be able to access that cash."
In December, Chevron and YPF agreed to a preliminary plan to explore the Vaca Muerta shale formation in Neuquen province.
However in February, an Argentine appeals court upheld the freeze on the assets of Chevron' s local subsidiary because of a treaty with Ecuador that allows claims in one country to be enforced in the other. Chevron has been fighting a $19 billion judgment in Ecuadorean courts over claims of environmental contamination.
Chevron now says before it can finalize the YPF joint venture--originally expected to happen in mid-April --the embargo must be lifted.
Enrique Bruchou, lead attorney for the Ecuadoreans in Argentina, has valued Chevron' s assets in Argentina at $2 billion. The proceeds from Chevron Argentina' s oil production, valued at $600 million in 2010, are also subject to the embargo until the legal claim is settled, according to Mr. Bruchou.
The February court order freezes up to 100% of Chevron' s capital and dividends in Argentina, all of its stake in a local pipeline operator, 40% of oil sales and 40% of the cash Chevron has or may eventually have in local banks.
Argentina has 774 Tcf of gas and 23 Bboed in Neuquen province, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But oil and gas production in the nation has plummeted due to a lack of investment, leaving the country dependent on expensive imports.
If the initial exploration joint venture is successful, Chevron and YPF could then invest $15 billion in coming years, according to the two companies.
A YPF spokesman wasn' t available to comment.
Monday, YPF Chief Executive Miguel Galuccio said "the commitment exists and if we have to find an economic model different than what was originally planned, the commitment is there," referring to the Chevron deal.
An Ecuadorean court convicted Texaco, which Chevron bought in 2001, of contaminating parts of Ecuador' s Amazon region. Chevron denies the accusations, says it is the victim of fraud and continues to fight the charges.
Chevron doesn' t have significant assets in Ecuador, so the plaintiffs are trying to freeze the company' s assets in other countries to enforce settlement on the judgment. The plaintiffs are pursuing Chevron in Brazil, Canada and Colombia, and have plans to file suits in other countries as well.
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But to this progressivist and cheerful British view, there appeared one salient objection: the Irish. Richard Rathbone Greg, a Scotts political theorist who was an advocate of the new Darwinian theory, pointed out in an article published 3 years before The Descent, that natural selection had been thrown out of gear. He mounted an argument that Darwin took extremely seriously. Greg, the dour Scotsman, wrote:
The careless, squalid, unaspiring Irishman multiples like rabbits: the frugal, foreseeing, self-respecting, ambitious Scott, stern in his morality, spiritual in his faith, sagacious and disciplined in his intelligence, passes his best years in struggle and in celibacy, marries late, and leave few behind him. Given a land originally peopled by a thousand Saxons and a thousand Celts—and in a dozen generations five-sixths of the population would be Celts, but five-sixths of the property, of the power, of the intellect, would belong to the one-sixth of Saxons that remained. In the eternal "struggle for existence," it would be the inferior and less favoured race that had prevailed—and prevailed by virtue not of its good qualities but of its faults.
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