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Balneology is used at the spa as a means of treating injured muscles.
"Fortunately, our collection contains a large number of items relating to balneology, the science of baths and bathing, including pamphlets from hot spring resorts across the United States from the late 1800s and early 1900s." — From an article posted February 12, 2013 at nyamcenterforhistory.org
"Sure, the hot water feels good. Sure, the massage is nice. But it goes beyond that, advocates say." So wrote Ellen Creager in an article published on February 18, 2001 in the Detroit Free Press. The healing powers of mineral baths have long been touted by advocates like those mentioned by Creager. Though we've had the word "balneology" for just over 130 years, this method of treating aching muscles, joint pain, and skin ailments goes back to ancient times. Proponents of the science of bath therapy created the name "balneology" from the Latin word "balneum" ("bath") and the combining form "-logy" ("science"). Today, some medical institutes in Europe have departments of balneology. Modern "balneologists" impart their knowledge to, or themselves serve as, "balneotherapists," who apply their "balneotherapy" to clients.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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Rob checks every ledger entry twice to obviate any problems when it comes time for an audit.
"Some TVs come equipped with … technology that manufacturers incorporated to obviate the need for supplementary cable boxes." — From an article by Mike Rogoway in The Oregonian, January 13, 2013
"Obviate" derives from Late Latin "obviare" (meaning "to meet or withstand") and Latin "obviam," which means "in the way" and is also an ancestor of our adjective "obvious." "Obviate" has a number of synonyms in English, including "prevent," "preclude," and "avert"; all of these words can mean to hinder or stop something. When you prevent or preclude something, you put up an insurmountable obstacle. In addition, "preclude" often implies that a degree of chance was involved in stopping an event. "Obviate" generally suggests the use of intelligence or forethought to ward off trouble. "Avert" always implies that a bad situation has been anticipated and prevented or deflected by the application of immediate and effective means.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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From the Spokesman-Review: Spokane police Chief Frank Straub said Friday that the disbanding of the department's property crimes unit in 2011 is an "urban legend" perpetrated by former administrators looking to boost funding for the department. The story goes on to state as fact that "The unit exists, he said, but it also focuses on fraud and computer crimes."
Oh? In our little neighborhood, we seem to have a vision of crimes against property that suggests otherwise. A series of property crimes have gone largely unreported because no one in the neighborhood has any faith whatsoever in the property crimes unit. Car prowling has seen a steady increase in our neighborhood, despite the fact that most of our residents have car alarms installed. Wise residents do not leave valuables in their cars, or else windows get smashed and property gets stolen.
Nearly everyone has backyard lighting that gives them some sense of security, but to what end? If you are fortunate enough to catch sight of someone breaking into a garage or outbuilding, by the time the police arrive the burglars are long gone.
Pardon me for speaking out of class, but I simply do not see any alternatives to plain old-fashioned vigilantism. When I was a young if I was stupid or incompetent enough to get caught pilfering one of the neighbor's prized pumpkins or late-summer watermelons, I certainly could expect an occasional blast of rock salt from a double-barrel shotgun once in awhile. I can still remember bawling like a motherless calf when the doctor started removing the rock salt (and even some bird shot) from my delicate backside. Eventually I learned to always ask nicely or else do without.
A double-barrel shotgun loaded with rock salt and bird shot is a better alternative than cops who won't or cannot investigate petty burglaries. Of course, your thoughts may differ.
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Theo's journalism professor encouraged him to eschew fuliginous prose in favor of simple, straightforward language.
"For two weeks he continued his surveying in a fuliginous atmosphere of almost continual fog but then, on 5 August, the mists suddenly cleared, allowing him to make a detailed observation of a solar eclipse (on the appropriately named Eclipse Island, one of the tiny Burgeo Islands)." — From Frank McLynn's 2011 book Captain Cook: Master of the Seas
"Fuliginous" is a word with a dark and dirty past—it derives from "fuligo," the Latin word for "soot." In an early sense (now obsolete), "fuliginous" was used to describe noxious bodily vapors once thought to be produced by organic processes. The "sooty" sense, which English speakers have been using since the early 1620s, can be used to describe everything from dense fogs and malevolent clouds to overworked chimney sweeps. "Fuliginous" can also be used to refer to something dark or dusky, as in Henry James' novel The Ambassadors, in which the character Waymarsh is described as having "dark fuliginous eyes."
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
First, we have issues in Spokane with overuse of power; then the mayor says that police are not going to respond to personal property crimes; then we have to protect ourselves; then nutso people run rampage with guns and kill several children; then we start campaigning about the right to own firearms; then someone comes into our yard and steals our car (albeit, we enabled them by having the key in it and having it running); and finally, we shoot that person and kill them.
And at the same time, a former mayoral candidate of Tuscon, Arizona has launched a prifately funded program to provide residents of crime-prone areas with free shotguns to protect themselves. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/mar/28/program-would-provide-free-shotguns/
I have mixed emotions on this. We should never lose our right to protect ourselves nor lose the right to bear arms. Somehow, judgment needs to come into play.
My heart goes out to all the families impacted by the event here in Spokane.
What is the solution?
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Parents, faculty, and members of the community commended the students for their laudable efforts at cleaning up the park and renovating its play structures.
"This revision of the school funding formula would align with and enable those laudable reforms to come to full fruition." — From an editorial in the Denver Post, February 23, 2013
Both "laudable" and "laudatory" derive ultimately from Latin "laud-" or "laus," meaning "praise." "Laudable" and "laudatory" differ in meaning, however, and usage commentators warn against using them interchangeably. "Laudable" means "deserving praise" or "praiseworthy," as in "laudable efforts to help the disadvantaged." "Laudatory" means "giving praise" or "expressing praise," as in "a laudatory book review." People occasionally use "laudatory" in place of "laudable," but this use is not considered standard.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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The vet explained to the children that what appeared to be a display of anger in the cat was actually a behavior called flehmen.
"One of the behavioural components of male sexual display in all hoofed stock except the pig is the 'olfactory reflex' known as flehmen. In this reflex, [the] animal fully extends the head and neck, contracts the nares and raises the upper lip while taking shallow respiration." — From an article by S. Gul in the Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences, September 30, 2012
"Flehmen" comes to English by way of German, in which language the word applies to animals and means "to curl the upper lip." The German source of the English word is a verb, and the English word is also used—albeit rarely—as a verb, as in "the horse flehmened." More often, though, the verbal form is actually a gerund: "the horse's flehmening." "Flehmen" is sometimes capitalized in English, as nouns are in German, but more often it is lowercase.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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The entertainer's new book features the same kind of wry humor that is the hallmark of his radio show.
"His usually sympathetic, sometimes overgenerous interpretation of others' motives has been a hallmark of his character at least since his student days." — From an article by Hendrik Hertzberg in The New Yorker, February 4, 2013
Centuries ago, King Edward I of England decreed that gold and silver had to be tested and approved by master craftsmen before being sold. Later, London artisans were required to bring finished metal goods to Goldsmith's Hall to be checked, and if those items met the quality standards of the craft-masters there, they would be marked with a special stamp of approval. (The process is much the same today.) At first, people used "hallmark" to name that mark of excellence from Goldsmith's Hall, but over the years the word came to refer to any mark guaranteeing purity or genuineness, and eventually to name any sign of outstanding talent, creativity, or excellence.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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Brent began working at the company when it was in its nascent stage, with just a single one-room office and four employees.
"Both Enterprise and Hertz have small car-sharing units. Zipcar is estimated to have the largest share of the nascent industry, which has about $400 million in annual sales among all companies." — From an article by Jerry Hirsch in the Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2013
"Nascent" comes from "nascens," the present participle of the Latin verb "nasci," which means "to be born." It is a relative newcomer to the collection of English words that derive from that Latin verb. In fact, when the word "nascent" was itself a newborn, in the first quarter of the 17th century, other "nasci" offspring were already respectably mature. "Nation," "native," and "nature" had been around since the 1300s; "innate" and "natal," since the 1400s. More recently, we picked up some French descendants of "nasci": "née" in the 1700s and "Renaissance" in the 1800s. Our newest "nasci" word? It may well be "perinatology," which was first used in the late 1960s to name the specialized branch of medicine concerned with childbirth.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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A canorous chorus of birdsong filled the morning air.
"The album features fast and brooding melodies … and standout canorous piano and clean guitar moments…." — From a post by Caroline Jensen at Rock Edition, February 6, 2013
In Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), the essayist Thomas de Quincey describes a manservant who, after accidentally letting a loaded trunk fall down a flight of stairs, "sang out a long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter." "Canorous" typically describes things, such as church choirs or birds in the spring, that are a pleasure to listen to. It derives from the Latin verb "canere" ("to sing"), a root it shares with a number of words that evoke what is sweet to the ear, such as "chant," "canticle," "cantor" (a leader of a choir), "carmen" (a song, poem, or incantation) and even "accent."
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The lifelong friends always greeted each other the same way: John would point out Gary's thinning hair, then Gary would come back with a riposte about John's golf game.
"Modernism, with its strong Gothic influences recalling the glories of medieval Barcelona, was very much a riposte to the conservative architecture that flourished in Madrid at the time." — From an article by Andrew Allen in The New York Times, February 8, 2013
In the sport of fencing, a riposte is a counterattack made after successfully fending off one's opponent. English speakers borrowed the name for this particular maneuver from French in the early 1700s, but the French had simply modified Italian "risposta," which literally means "answer." Ultimately these words come from the Latin verb "respondēre" meaning "to respond." It seems fitting that "riposte" has since come full circle to now refer to a quick and witty response performed as a form of retaliation.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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John grifted much of his income by carrying out elaborate cons against unsuspecting tourists.
"Both victims lost substantial amounts of money, with one being grifted out of an astonishing $35,000.…" — From an article in SFist, September 6, 2012
"Grift" was born in the argot of the underworld, a realm in which a "grifter" might be a pickpocket, a crooked gambler, or a confidence man—any criminal who relied on skill and wits rather than physical violence—and to be "on the grift" was to make a living by stings and clever thefts. "Grift" may have evolved from "graft," a slightly older word meaning "to acquire dishonestly," but its exact origins are uncertain. We do know that the verb "grift" first finagled its way into print in 1915 in George Bronson-Howard's God's Man: "Grifting ain't what it used to be. Fourteenth Street's got protection down to a system—a regular underworld tariff on larceny."
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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The style of her art work is intentionally demotic, aimed at ordinary people rather than the elite of the art world.
"The demotic dictionary gives researchers definitions, shows word uses and helps with translating texts. But it also serves as a reference guide for reconstructing and understanding ancient Egyptian culture, whether it's the nuances of government, commerce, politics, religion or male-female relationships." — From an article by Dawn Turner Trice in the Chicago Tribune, October 22, 2012
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The latest installment in the movie series earned plaudits from critics and fans alike.
"Just a year and a half after graduating from Los Angeles' private Harvard-Westlake School, Platt has … scored the show-stealing 'Mormon' role and won plaudits for offering an interpretation decidedly different from Josh Gad's Tony-nominated performance." — From a review by Kerry Reid in the Chicago Tribune, January 3, 2013
Give yourself a round of applause if you recognize the similarity between today's featured word and a pair of familiar words. (There's a hint in the first half of the previous sentence, as well as in the first sense of the definition.) "Plaudit" was borrowed into English in the early 17th century from a form of the Latin verb "plaudere," meaning "to applaud." "Plaudere" is, of course, also the ancestor of "applaud" and "applause," as well as of "explode," "plausible," and the now archaic "displode" (a synonym of "explode").
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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Our family traditions may seem silly to outsiders, but to us they are sacrosanct.
"'Is college a lousy investment?' This was the question posed in a Newsweek cover story in the fall, a blunt challenge to America's long-standing, nearly sacrosanct belief in the value of a college education." — From an article by Bob King in Business Lexington (Kentucky), February 14, 2013
That which is sacrosanct is doubly sacred: the two Latin components underlying the word, "sacro" and "sanctus," were combined long ago to form a phrase meaning "hallowed by a sacred rite." "Sacro" means "by a sacred rite" and comes from "sacrum," a Latin noun that lives on in English anatomy as the name for our pelvic vertebrae—a shortening of "os sacrum," which literally means "holy bone." "Sanctus" means "sacred" and gave us "saint" and obvious words like "sanctimony," "sanctify," a
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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I listen to very few radio stations in Spokane, primarily because I have an allergic reaction to radio advertising of all kinds and very specific tastes in musical fare. All I have to do is hear one smarmy advertisement and I either turn off the station within seconds or simply switch over to either KPBX or KAGU, two of my favorite non-commercial FM radio stations. In the case of KPBX, although they do not technically have advertisements, they do occasionally toss in a few good words for their sponsors. However, by comparison KAGU radio has no sponsors, save the typical things one hears around a Jesuit University, it is solely a classical music venue, one of my personal favorite genres.
Generally speaking, if there is a radio turned on anywhere across the vast wasteland of our home, the chances are it is one of our two radio favorite stations. That was until yesterday when KAGU disappeared from the airwaves, leaving chatter and hiss in its place. It was as if it simply wasn't there any more. Even worse than that, none of the other radio or television stations seemed to know it was silent. A radio station being off the air apparently isn't news, as evidenced by past weather anomalies where several of Spokane stations left the air due to high wind, lightning storms and who could forget Ice Storm?
I spoke with KAGU station manager Phil Taylor in the aftermath to find out what caused KAGU to leave the air, thinking perhaps the high winds had taken their toll on the transmitter tower, as has happened to KPBX in the past.
Instead it was a piece of transmitter electronics referred to as an exciter, which had failed for some unexplained reason. The transmitter exciter, which converts analog radio signals to RF signals suitable for transmission, costs about $15,000 according to Taylor, and one was procured and air-freighted in the next morning.
So my imperfect world is at once again set to rights,
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John keeps his smartphone with him when he goes hiking, but Linda leaves hers at home, preferring to free herself momentarily of the fetters of technology.
"At the moment, legally speaking, Internet cafes operate in Ohio without fetter or review." — From an editorial by Thomas Suddes in The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, December 2, 2012
While now used as a more general term for something that confines or restrains, "fetter" was originally applied specifically to a chain or shackle for the feet. Not surprisingly, the word's Old English ancestor, "feter," is etymologically shackled to "fōt," the Old English ancestor of "foot." Both words have a long history in the English language, dating back to the early 9th century, and are chained to Sanskrit "pad," Latin "ped-" and "pes," Greek "pod-" and "pous," Gothic "fotus," Norse "fōtr," and Old High German "fuoz."
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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The morning after the wedding, Pamela woke up with a blinding katzenjammer.
"Combating your attack of the katzenjammers with more liquor may seem absurd, but desperate times demand desperate measures." — From an article by Lissa Townsend Rodgers in the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise (Oklahoma), August 16, 2012
Have you ever heard a cat wailing and felt that you could relate? Apparently some hungover German speakers once did. "Katzenjammer" comes from German "Katze" (meaning "cat") and "Jammer" (meaning "distress"). English speakers borrowed the word for their hangovers (and other distressful inner states) in the 19th century and eventually applied it to outer commotion as well. The word isn't as popular in English today as it was around the mid-20th century, but it's well-known to many because of the "Katzenjammer Kids," a long-running comic strip featuring the incorrigibly mischievous twins Hans and Fritz.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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Fennel is a carminative herb that helps alleviate gas after a spicy meal.
"Cumin seeds contain numerous phyto-chemicals that are known to have antioxidant, carminative and anti-flatulent properties, and are also an excellent source of dietary fibre." — From an article in Facts For You, May 5, 2012
In times gone by, human personalities were believed to be controlled by four humors: blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black vile). Though this belief was long ago discredited, its influence lingers on in the English language. When "carminative" came into use in the 15th-century medical field, carminative agents were thought to be effective because they influenced the humors. The word comes from Latin "carrere," meaning "to card," referring to the act of cleansing or disentangling. This history reflects the theory that certain humors could be "combed out" like knots in wool.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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Cemal is a voracious reader who whips through three or four books each week.
"Hundreds of Humboldt squid washed up on Santa Cruz County beaches Sunday in a mass stranding that is not uncommon but remains somewhat of a mystery to marine scientists. The even more intriguing question, they say, is why the voracious feeders, also called jumbo flying squid, began venturing up to the Central Coast in 2000 from the Sea of Cortez and other warmer spots—and what their effect is on the ocean environment." — From an article by Cathy Kelly in Contra Costa Times, December 11, 2012
"Voracious" is one of several English words that derive from the Latin verb "vorare," which means "to eat greedily" or "to devour." "Vorare" is also an ancestor of "devour" and of the "-ivorous" words that describe the diets of various animals. These include "carnivorous" ("meat-eating"), "herbivorous" ("plant-eating"), "omnivorous" ("feeding on both animals and plants"), "frugivorous" ("fruit-eating"), "graminivorous" ("feeding on grass"), and "piscivorous" ("fish-eating").
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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In my generation, vacations consisted of pouring members of the family into the family transportation, complete with various snacks, books and other entertainments and facing the long drive to wherever the family collective was heading. This itinerary was, of course, subject to kids getting sick, car breakdowns and other unplanned events, such as losing your transmission midway across the state of Idaho and spending an entire day sitting in a repair shop's musty-smelling waiting room getting frustrated.
Of course occasionally breakdowns had unexpected benefits, such as that tiny city park where we frolicked among the trees next to a quietly mumbling creek bed and eating makeshift picnic fare. Or the time later in life during a latter-day van breakdown, we met a traveling salesman and his wife who were simply taking a break from the road, and kept us both in stitches with some of their ribald tales of life along the road.
However, despite all the purported wonderful benefits of an ocean-going cruise, nothing would tempt me to climb aboard one of Carnival Cruise Line's monstrous ships for a cruise to the great unknown. They keep breaking down! As you may recall an engine fire last month crippled another Carnival ship, the Carnival Triumph, leaving 4,200 people stranded for five days without working toilets or power in the middle of the ocean. People were pissed, and perhaps rightfully so, since most of the toilets on board the Triumph had stopped working for five days, resulting in people being forced to use ad hoc porta-potties. Carnival's offer of ticket refunds (with a complimentary ticket for additional cruises) simply would not do.
Now we have two more broken-down Carnival Cruise Line ships hitting the news waves.
However, in searching the airwaves for potential cures to their onboard woes, I think I just heard the cure. Someone in London, England has discovered the violin once played onboard the Titanic in a closet. Dancing with the Stars Host Tom Bergeran is quoted as saying they should save that violin and play it on all Carnival Cruise Line ships. The alternative would be to provide all Carnival passengers with personal rowboats with oars and a five day supply of Depends and a bucket.
I think I'll stick with the cross-country trip with somewhat predictable breakdowns in roadside parks.
Of course, your thoughts and wishes may differ.
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"She was surprised by the humor that quirked his fine straight lips." — From Elizabeth George Speare's 1958 book The Witch of Blackbird Pond
"Refusing to relinquish his own control in Jacksonville, Elvis created the familiar hysteria by surprise moves—standing stock-still and quirking his index finger to mimic the Elvis gyration." — From Bobbie Ann Mason's 2007 book Elvis Presley: A Life
Did you expect "quirk" to be a noun meaning "a peculiarity of action or behavior"? If so, you're probably not alone; the "peculiarity" sense of the noun "quirk" is commonly known and has been a part of our language since the 17th century. But "quirk" has long worn other hats in English, too. The sense meaning "a curve, turn, or twist" has named everything from curving pen marks on paper (i.e., flourishes) to witty turns of phrase to the vagaries or twists of fate. In contemporary English, the verb "quirk" is most often used in referring to facial expressions, especially those that involve crooked smiles or furrowed eyebrows.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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The town has voted against letting the retail behemoth build a store on the proposed site.
"Interviews with an array of industry veterans … outline how Fairchild and the companies it spawned both developed the technologies and established the business and financial cultures that would eventually produce behemoths like Apple and Google." — From a television review by Mike Hale in The New York Times, February 5, 2013
The original "behemoth" was biblical; it designated a mysterious river-dwelling beast in the Book of Job. Based on that description, scholars have concluded that the biblical behemoth was probably inspired by a hippopotamus, but details about the creature's exact nature were vague. The word first passed from the Hebrew into Late Latin, where, according to English poet and monk John Lydgate, writing in 1430, it "playne expresse[d] a beast rude full of cursednesse." In English, "behemoth" was eventually applied more generally to anything large and powerful.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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The youngest of the hikers had the advantage of riding piggyback through the muddy fields.
"Unfortunately, his footing wasn't as steady as he'd hoped, and he fell from the log.… He wasn't able to get himself up and had to be carried piggyback from the scene." — From a television show review by on HuffingtonPost.com, January 28, 2013
Have you ever wondered where the porcine part of "piggyback" comes from? Well, it's not from the pigs themselves. The adverb "piggyback" likely began as "a pick pack." Another early form of the word is "pickback," evidence of which can be found in the still-extant variant "pickaback." The adverb "piggyback" dates to the mid-16th century, and the noun—referring to an act of carrying piggyback—was in use by the end of that same century. The adjective "piggyback," as in "piggyback ride," didn't enter the language until the 18th century, and the now-common verb "piggyback" didn't piggyback on the others until the late 19th century.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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Brianna was able to cajole some money from her father before leaving for the movies.
"Walking across Niagara Falls on a high wire is supposed to be hard; that's the point of doing it. But after nearly a year of cajoling, pressuring and outright begging for legal permission to cross the scenic gorge between Canada and the United States, Wallenda is coming face to face with the practical challenges of fulfilling his lifelong dream." — From an article by Charlie Gillis at Macleans.ca, May 25, 2012
"Cajole" comes from a French verb, "cajoler," which has the same meaning as the English word. You might not think to associate "cajole" with "cage," but some etymologists theorize that "cajoler" is connected to not one but two words for "cage." One of them is the Anglo-French word "cage," from which we borrowed our own "cage." It comes from Latin "cavea," meaning "cage." The other is the Anglo-French word for "birdcage," which is "gaiole." It's an ancestor of our word "jail," and it derives from Late Latin "caveola," which means "little cage." Anglo-French speakers had a related verb, "gaioler," which meant "to chatter like a jay in a cage." It's possible that "cajoler" is a combination of "gaioler" and "cage."
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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This rare plant is a relict of a once abundant genus.
"Northern flying squirrels still remain in the highest elevations of Virginia and are known as ice age relicts." From an article by Judy Molnar, Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia), June 6, 2010
The oldest English sense of "relict" is extinct—or at least obsolete. In the 16th century, "relict" meant "an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr," but that meaning is now covered by "relic," a related word that can also refer to something left behind after decay or disappearance. "Relict" was also used to refer to a widow at one time, but now that sense is more or less limited to legal uses. It seems fitting that "relict" has outdated senses; after all, it derives ultimately from the Latin verb "relinquere," meaning "to leave behind."
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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Although the teen was wearing a dinner jacket and a tie, his jeans and sneakers were hardly de rigueur for the formal occasion.
"'Wait, wait, wait! Put on my eyeglasses,' I insisted, substituting my mom's lightweight frames for the thick, big black ones that are de rigueur right now for many a bespectacled 20-something." — From an article by Anthonia Akitunde in The Huffington Post, January 30, 2013
If you're invited to a ball or other social function and the invitation includes the French phrase "costume de rigueur," you are expected to adhere to a very strict dress code—typically, a white tie and tails if you're a man and a floor-length evening gown if you're a woman. In French, "de rigueur" means "out of strictness" or "according to strict etiquette"; one definition of our word "rigor," to which "rigueur" is related, is "the quality of being strict, unyielding, or inflexible." In English, we tend to use "de rigueur" to describe a fashion or custom that is so commonplace within a context that it seems a prescribed, mandatory part of it.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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New hires were indoctrinated with the company's philosophy during a two-day orientation.
"This is why sworn peace officers are indoctrinated not just in firearm use but in restraint." — From an editorial in the San Antonio Express-News, January 23, 2013
"Indoctrinate" simply means "brainwash" to many people. But its meaning isn't always so negative. When this verb first appeared in English in the 17th century, it simply meant "to teach"—a meaning that followed logically from its Latin root. The "doc" in the middle of "indoctrinate" derives from the Latin verb "docēre," which also means "to teach." Other offspring of "docēre" include "docent" (referring to a college professor or a museum guide), "docile," "doctor," "doctrine," and "document." It was not until the 19th century that "indoctrinate" began to see regular use in the sense of causing someone to absorb and take on certain opinions or principles.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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Some critics have praised the young artist's gnomic utterances, while others argue that her sayings are simply pretentious rubbish.
"The film is grand but complex, canny and sincere.… If Spielberg were more intellectual or more gnomic in discussing his films, he might be regarded not as a mass-market wizard but as a cult director." — From a film review by Francine Stock in Prospect, January 24, 2013
A gnome is an aphorism—that is, an observation or sentiment reduced to the form of a saying. Gnomes are sometimes couched in metaphorical or figurative language, they are often quite clever, and they are always concise. We borrowed the word "gnome" in the 16th century from the Greeks, who based their "gnōmē" on the verb "gignōskein," meaning "to know." (That other "gnome"—the dwarf of folklore—comes from New Latin and is unrelated to today's word.) We began using "gnomic," the adjective form of "gnome," in the early 19th century. It describes a style of writing (or sometimes speech) characterized by pithy phrases, which are often terse to the point of mysteriousness.
From Merriam-Webster Online at www.Merriam-Webster.com.
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Mrs. Goodman received the town's Meritorious Service Award for her untiring efforts to keep the library open.
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People who demonstrate meritorious behavior certainly "earn" our respect, and you can use that fact to remember that "meritorious" ultimately traces to the Latin verb "merēre," which means "to earn." Nowadays, the rewards earned for meritorious acts are likely to be of an immaterial nature: gratitude, admiration, praise, etc. But that wasn't always so. The history of "meritorious" recalls a reward more concrete in nature: money. The Latin word "meritorius," an ancestor of the English "meritorious," literally means "bringing in money."
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The book's frequent literary allusions and high-flown turns of phrase made its narrative difficult to follow.
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"Allusion" was borrowed into English in the middle of the 16th century. It derives from the Latin verb "alludere," meaning "to refer to, to play with, or to jest," as does its cousin "allude," meaning "to make indirect reference" or "to refer." "Alludere," in turn, derives from a combination of the prefix "ad-" and "ludere" ("to play"). "Ludere" is a Latin word that English speakers have enjoyed playing with over the years; we've used it to create "collude," "delude," "elude," and "prelude," just to name a few.
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Anna told us she was tired of engaging in paltry work and longed to do something meaningful with her life.
"Monday, I tried to cheer up snow fans who have been frowning at Seattle's paltry 0.6" of snowfall this winter by stating that February has had its share of snowfall over the years." — From a post by meteorologist Scott Sistek on KOMONews.com's weather blog, January 29, 2013
Before "paltry" was an adjective, it was a noun meaning "trash." That now obsolete noun in turn came from "palt" or "pelt," dialect terms meaning "a piece of coarse cloth," or broadly, "trash." The adjective "paltry" first meant "trashy," but it currently has a number of senses, all generally meaning "no good." A "paltry house" might be run-down and unfit for occupancy; a "paltry trick" is a trick that is low-down and dirty; a "paltry excuse" is a trivial one; and a "paltry sum" is small and insufficient.
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We chased one another through the snow, hurling snowballs with complete abandon.
"He slid head first, dived for balls, threw runners out, stole home against the Phillies, played with the sort of reckless abandon that endeared him to fans in Washington." — From an article by Ed Graney in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, December 30, 2012
The sense of "abandon" defined above is a relative newcomer to the English language, dating from the early 1800s, but the noun itself is about 200 years older, having been first used in the 1600s in the sense of "the act of abandoning." The earlier sense was influenced by the verb "abandon," which was borrowed by Middle English in the 1300s from Anglo-French "abandoner." The Anglo-French term in turn came from the phrase "(mettre) a bandun," meaning "to hand over" or "put in someone's control." The newer sense has been more directly influenced by French "abandon," which means not only "abandonment or surrender," but also "freedom from constraint."
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The appraiser looked closely at the painting and then reluctantly told us that we had been thimblerigged into buying a worthless copy.
"Thimblerigging the market was such an accepted practice some traders were even taunted for not stealing enough." — From Leah McGrath Goodman's 2011 book The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market
The game of thimblerig seems innocent enough. The thimblerigger places a little ball, pea, or other small object under one of three thimbles or cups. He or she deftly scoots the cups around on a table, then asks the player to bet on which one hides the object. But thimbleriggers are masters of sleight of hand and can move and manipulate the object unfairly—so the guileless player doesn't stand a chance of winning. (The poor bettor is probably unaware that "rig" has meant "to manipulate or control usually by deceptive or dishonest means" since the 1800s.) When the same sham is played with nutshells, it's called a "shell game," and there's a related game played with cards known as "three-card monte."
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The ancient Greeks were known to time political speeches with a clepsydra; when the water was gone, the oration was over.
"One of the earliest mechanisms to measure time … was a clepsydra or water clock … in which a vessel either filled or emptied at some slow, regular rate…." — From an article by David W. Ball in Spectroscopy, December 2006
In ancient times the sun was used to measure time during the day, but sundials weren't much help after dark, so peoples around the world invented clocks that used dripping water to mark the hours. In one kind of water clock, possibly invented by the Chaldeans, a vessel was filled with water that was allowed to escape through a hole. The vessel's inside was marked with graduated lines, and the time was read by measuring the level of the remaining water. The ancient Greeks called their water clocks "klepsydra" ("water thief"), which comes from "kleptein" ("to steal") and "hydōr" ("water"). English speakers stole "clepsydra" from the Greeks in the 16th century. Actual water clocks have become increasingly rare and we now use the word primarily in historical references.
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Screenshot of the default MySQL command line
|Original author(s)
|MySQL AB
|Oracle Corporation
|Initial release
|23 May 1995
|Stable release
|5.6.16[1] / 31 January 2014
|Preview release
|5.7.3[2] / 3 December 2013
|Development status
|Written in
|Operating system
|Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS X, FreeBSD
|Available in
|GPL (version 2) or commercial[4]
Screenshot of the default MySQL command line
|Original author(s)
|MySQL AB
|Oracle Corporation
|Initial release
|23 May 1995
|Stable release
|5.6.16[1] / 31 January 2014
|Preview release
|5.7.3[2] / 3 December 2013
|Development status
|Written in
|Operating system
|Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS X, FreeBSD
|Available in
|GPL (version 2) or commercial[4]
MySQL (/maɪ ˌɛskjuːˈɛl/ "My S-Q-L",[5] officially, but also called /maɪ ˈsiːkwəl/ "My Sequel") is (as of July 2013) the world's second most[nb 1] widely used[8][9] open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).[10] It is named after co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter, My.[11] The SQL phrase stands for Structured Query Language.[5]
The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. MySQL was owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now owned by Oracle Corporation.[12]
MySQL is a popular choice of database for use in web applications, and is a central component of the widely used LAMP open source web application software stack (and other 'AMP' stacks). LAMP is an acronym for "Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python." Free-software-open source projects that require a full-featured database management system often use MySQL.
For commercial use, several paid editions are available, and offer additional functionality. Applications which use MySQL databases include: TYPO3, MODx, Joomla, WordPress, phpBB, MyBB, Drupal and other software. MySQL is also used in many high-profile, large-scale websites, including Wikipedia,[13] Google[14][15] (though not for searches), Facebook,[16][17][18] Twitter,[19] Flickr,[20] and YouTube.[21]
MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS), and ships with no GUI tools to administer MySQL databases or manage data contained within the databases. Users may use the included command line tools,[22][23] or use MySQL "front-ends", desktop software and web applications that create and manage MySQL databases, build database structures, back up data, inspect status, and work with data records.[24][25][26][27] The official set of MySQL front-end tools, MySQL Workbench is actively developed by Oracle, and is freely available for use.[28]
The official MySQL Workbench is a free integrated environment developed by MySQL AB, that enables users to graphically administer MySQL databases and visually design database structures. MySQL Workbench replaces the previous package of software, MySQL GUI Tools. Similar to other third-party packages, but still considered the authoritative MySQL front end, MySQL Workbench lets users manage database design & modeling, SQL development (replacing MySQL Query Browser) and Database administration (replacing MySQL Administrator).
MySQL Workbench is available in two editions, the regular free and open source Community Edition which may be downloaded from the MySQL website, and the proprietary Standard Edition which extends and improves the feature set of the Community Edition.
Third-party proprietary and free graphical administration applications (or "front ends") are available that integrate with MySQL and enable users to work with database structure and data visually. Some well-known front ends, in alphabetical order, are:
Other available proprietary MySQL front ends include dbForge Studio for MySQL, DBStudio, Epictetus, Microsoft Access, Oracle SQL Developer, SchemaBank, SQLPro SQL Client, Toad Data Modeler.
MySQL ships with many command line tools, from which the main interface is 'mysql' client.[22][23] Third-parties have also developed tools to manage, optimize, monitor and backup a MySQL server, some listed below. All these tools work on *NIX type operating systems, and some of them also on Windows.
MySQL works on many system platforms, including AIX, BSDi, FreeBSD, HP-UX, eComStation, i5/OS, IRIX, Linux, OS X, Microsoft Windows, NetBSD, Novell NetWare, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, OS/2 Warp, QNX, Solaris, Symbian, SunOS, SCO OpenServer, SCO UnixWare, Sanos and Tru64. A port of MySQL to OpenVMS also exists.[35]
MySQL is written in C and C++. Its SQL parser is written in yacc, but it uses a home-brewed lexical analyzer.[36] Many programming languages with language-specific APIs include libraries for accessing MySQL databases. These include MySQL Connector/Net for integration with Microsoft's Visual Studio (languages such as C# and VB are most commonly used) and the JDBC driver for Java. In addition, an ODBC interface called MyODBC allows additional programming languages that support the ODBC interface to communicate with a MySQL database, such as ASP or ColdFusion. The HTSQL - URL-based query method also ships with a MySQL adapter, allowing direct interaction between a MySQL database and any web client via structured URLs.
As of April 2009[update], MySQL offered MySQL 5.1 in two different variants: the open source MySQL Community Server and the commercial Enterprise Server. MySQL 5.5 is offered under the same licenses.[37] They have a common code base and include the following features:
The developers release monthly versions of the MySQL Server. The sources can be obtained from MySQL's website or from MySQL's Bazaar repository, both under the GPL license.
Like other SQL databases, MySQL does not currently comply with the full SQL standard for some of the implemented functionality, including foreign key references when using some storage engines other than the 'standard' InnoDB (or third-party engines which supports foreign keys).[46]
Triggers are currently limited to one per action / timing, i.e. maximum one after insert and one before insert on the same table.[47] There are no triggers on views.[47]
MySQL, like most other transactional relational databases, is strongly limited by hard disk performance. This is especially true in terms of write latency.[48] Given the recent appearance of very affordable consumer grade SATA interface Solid-state drives that offer zero mechanical latency, a fivefold speedup over even an eight drive RAID array can be had for a smaller investment.[49][50]
MySQL database's inbuilt functions like UNIX_TIMESTAMP() will return 0 after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.[51]
MySQL can be built and installed manually from source code, but this can be tedious so it is more commonly installed from a binary package unless special customizations are required. On most Linux distributions the package management system can download and install MySQL with minimal effort, though further configuration is often required to adjust security and optimization settings.
Though MySQL began as a low-end alternative to more powerful proprietary databases, it has gradually evolved to support higher-scale needs as well. It is still most commonly used in small to medium scale single-server deployments, either as a component in a LAMP-based web application or as a standalone database server. Much of MySQL's appeal originates in its relative simplicity and ease of use, which is enabled by an ecosystem of open source tools such as phpMyAdmin. In the medium range, MySQL can be scaled by deploying it on more powerful hardware, such as a multi-processor server with gigabytes of memory.
There are however limits to how far performance can scale on a single server ('scaling up'), so on larger scales, multi-server MySQL ('scaling out') deployments are required to provide improved performance and reliability. A typical high-end configuration can include a powerful master database which handles data write operations and is replicated to multiple slaves that handle all read operations.[52] The master server synchronizes continually with its slaves so in the event of failure a slave can be promoted to become the new master, minimizing downtime. Further improvements in performance can be achieved by caching the results from database queries in memory using memcached, or breaking down a database into smaller chunks called shards which can be spread across a number of distributed server clusters.[53]
Ensuring high availability requires a certain amount of redundancy in the system. For database systems, the redundancy traditionally takes the form of having a primary server acting as a master, and using replication to keep secondaries available to take over in case the primary fails. This means that the "server" that the application connects to is in reality a collection of servers, not a single server. In a similar manner, if the application is using a sharded database, it is in reality working with a collection of servers, not a single server. In this case, a collection of servers is usually referred to as a farm.[54]
One of the projects aiming to provide high availability for MySQL is MySQL Fabric, an integrated system for managing a collection of MySQL servers, and a framework on top of which high availability and database sharding is built. MySQL Fabric is open-source and is intended to be extensible, easy to use, and to support procedure execution even in the presence of failure, providing an execution model usually called resilient execution. MySQL client libraries are extended so they are hiding the complexities of handling failover in the event of a server failure, as well as correctly dispatching transactions to the shards. As of September 2013, there is currently support for Fabric-aware versions of Connector/J, Connector/PHP, Connector/Python, as well as some rudimentary support for Hibernate and Doctrine. As of November 2013, MySQL Fabric is still in an early alpha development stage.[54][55]
MySQL can also be run on cloud computing platforms such as Amazon EC2. Listed below are some common deployment models for MySQL on the cloud:
The MySQL server software itself and the client libraries use dual-licensing distribution. They are offered under GPL version 2,[60] beginning from 28 June 2000[61] (which in 2009 has been extended with a FLOSS License Exception)[62] or to use a proprietary license.[63] In 2013, the Linux man pages for MySQL switched to a proprietary license[64] temporarily due to a build system bug. The original GPL license has since been restored.[65]
Support can be obtained from the official manual.[66] Free support additionally is available in different IRC channels and forums. Oracle offers paid support via its MySQL Enterprise products. They differ in the scope of services and in price. Additionally, a number of third party organisations exist to provide support and services, including SkySQL Ab and Percona.
MySQL has received positive reviews, and reviewers noticed it "performs extremely well in the average case." and that the "developer interfaces are there, and the documentation (not to mention feedback in the real world via Web sites and the like) is very, very good".[67] It has also been tested to be a "fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded sql database server".[68]
MySQL was created by a Swedish company, MySQL AB, founded by David Axmark, Allan Larsson and Michael "Monty" Widenius. The first version of MySQL appeared on 23 May 1995. It was initially created for personal usage from mSQL based on the low-level language ISAM, which the creators considered too slow and inflexible. They created a new SQL interface, while keeping the same API as mSQL. By keeping the API consistent with the mSQL system, many developers were able to use MySQL instead of the (commercially licensed) mSQL antecedent.[citation needed][dubious ]
On 15 June 2001, NuSphere sued MySQL AB, TcX DataKonsult AB and its original authors Michael ("Monty") Widenius and David Axmark in U.S District Court in Boston for "breach of contract, tortious interference with third party contracts and relationships and unfair competition".[71][72]
In 2002, MySQL AB sued Progress NuSphere for copyright and trademark infringement in United States district court. NuSphere had allegedly violated MySQL's copyright by linking MySQL's GPL'ed code with NuSphere Gemini table without being in compliance with the license.[73] After a preliminary hearing before Judge Patti Saris on 27 February 2002, the parties entered settlement talks and eventually settled.[74] After the hearing, FSF commented that "Judge Saris made clear that she sees the GNU GPL to be an enforceable and binding license."[75]
In October 2005, Oracle Corporation acquired Innobase OY, the Finnish company that developed the third-party InnoDB storage engine that allows MySQL to provide such functionality as transactions and foreign keys. After the acquisition, an Oracle press release mentioned that the contracts that make the company's software available to MySQL AB would be due for renewal (and presumably renegotiation) some time in 2006.[76] During the MySQL Users Conference in April 2006, MySQL issued a press release that confirmed that MySQL and Innobase OY agreed to a "multi-year" extension of their licensing agreement.[77]
In February 2006, Oracle Corporation acquired Sleepycat Software,[78] makers of the Berkeley DB, a database engine providing the basis for another MySQL storage engine. This had little effect, as Berkeley DB was not widely used, and was dropped (due to lack of use) in MySQL 5.1.12, a pre-GA release of MySQL 5.1 released in October 2006.[79]
In January 2008, Sun Microsystems bought MySQL for $1 billion.[80]
In April 2009, Oracle Corporation entered into an agreement to purchase Sun Microsystems,[81] then owners of MySQL copyright and trademark. Sun's board of directors unanimously approved the deal, it was also approved by Sun's shareholders, and by the U.S. government on 20 August 2009.[82] On 14 December 2009, Oracle pledged to continue to enhance MySQL[83] as it had done for the previous four years.
A movement against Oracle's acquisition of MySQL, to "Save MySQL"[84] from Oracle was started by one of the MySQL founders, Monty Widenius. The petition of 50,000+ developers and users called upon the European Commission to block approval of the acquisition. At the same time, several Free Software opinion leaders (including Eben Moglen, Pamela Jones of Groklaw, Jan Wildeboer and Carlo Piana, who also acted as co-counsel in the merger regulation procedure) advocated for the unconditional approval of the merger.[citation needed] As part of the negotiations with the European Commission, Oracle committed that MySQL server will continue until at least 2015 to use the dual-licensing strategy long used by MySQL AB, with commercial and GPL versions available. The antitrust of the EU had been "pressuring it to divest MySQL as a condition for approval of the merger". But, as revealed by Wikileaks, the US Department of Justice and Antitrust, at the request of Oracle, pressured the EU to unconditionally approve the merger.[85] The European Commission eventually unconditionally approved Oracle's acquisition of MySQL on 21 January 2010.[86]
In January 2009, prior to Oracle's acquisition of MySQL, Monty Widenius started a GPL-only fork, MariaDB. MariaDB is based on the same code base as MySQL server 5.1 and strives to maintain compatibility with Oracle-provided versions.[87]
In August 2012, TechCrunch's Alex Williams reported that Oracle was holding back MySQL Server test cases, a move that he concluded indicated that Oracle is attempting to kill the product.[88] Percona also reported that Oracle is no longer synchronizing their changes with the public source repositories.[89] Widenius called this a breach of the agreement that Oracle entered into with the EU as a condition of their acquisition of Sun.[90]
Since the final quarter of 2012, several Linux distributions and some important users (like Wikipedia[91] and Google[92]) started to replace MySQL with MariaDB.[93][94][95]
Notable milestones in MySQL development include:
MySQL Server 6.0.11-alpha was announced[106] on 22 May 2009 as the last release of the 6.0 line. Future MySQL Server development uses a New Release Model. Features developed for 6.0 are being incorporated into future releases.
MySQL 5.6, a development milestone release, was announced at the MySQL users conference 2011. New features include performance improvements to the query optimizer, higher transactional throughput in InnoDB, new NoSQL-style memcached APIs, improvements to partitioning for querying and managing very large tables, improvements to replication and better performance monitoring by expanding the data available through the PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA.[107] In July further previews with a BINLOG API, group commit, and InnoDB full text searching were released.
The following chart provides an overview of various MySQL versions and their current development statuses:[108][109][110][111][112][113][114]
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Does Goldman Sachs stand alone on the end of gold bull market?
Investment heavyweight Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) threw in the proverbial gold towel on Wednesday, cutting its 2013 gold outlook on mounting downside risks. The bank reduced its three-month gold forecast to $1,825 per ounce, its six-month to $1,805 per ounce and 12-month to $1,750 per ounce.
In the report, Jeffrey Currie, a Goldman analyst, commented, "[i]n the short term, the combination of more easing and weaker growth should prove supportive to gold. Medium term, however, the gold outlook is caught between the opposing forces of more Fed easing and a gradual increase in U.S. real rates on better US economic growth. Our expanded modeling suggests that the improving U.S. growth outlook will outweigh further Fed balance sheet expansion and that the cycle in gold prices will likely turn in 2013."
Gold analyst Ron Rosen, however, is not on board with Goldman's call for the gold bull market, calling the outlook "ridiculous.""In spite of all of the negative press gold is receiving today on CNBC because of Goldman Sachs' call for the end of the gold bull market, everything is right on schedule. The timing of this ridiculous proclamation by Goldman Sachs could not have come at a more perfect time," Rosen said on King World News. Rosen still expects a lot of upside potential for the gold market in the coming years. Morgan Stanley has named gold an outperformer for 2013. The financial firm explained that "[h]igher prices in recent years have brought both a supply and demand response, bringing many to call for the end [of the supercycle]. We view this as too simplistic. Commodities are cyclical but the elasticity of supply and demand, as well as the length of the cycle, vary significantly." The close Gold spot prices touched a high of $1,704.40 on Thursday and closed at an even $1,700.
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During this 7-week program students will enroll in two or three courses (depending on language level) during the first 5 weeks to complete between 108-126 hours of coursework. Following this, the final 2-weeks of the Portuguese Language: Oral & Written Comprehension and Expression consists an 18 hour conversation intensive. Two sections of the conversation intensive are available (Beginning & Low Intermediate, and High Intermediate & Advanced). Students' performance in the first 5 weeks of the language course will determine to which level of conversation they progress.
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This Program offers students international economics and cultural studies courses taught in English and Portuguese. Course topics include studies on ethnicity and society and international political economy. In addition, all beginning-level students must enroll in one Portuguese language course. Students with intermediate and advanced levels of Portuguese may also select a single-credit Brazilian Culture course.


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BOSTON, Nov. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Block & Leviton LLP ( www.blockesq.com), a Boston-based law firm representing investors nationwide, has commenced an investigation into possible breaches of fiduciary duty by the Board of Directors of ViroPharma Inc. ("ViroPharma" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VPHM) concerning the proposed acquisition of the Company by U.K.-based company, Shire PLC ("Shire"), in a transaction valued at approximately $4.2 billion. Under the terms of the transaction, Shire will acquire each ViroPharma share for $50.00, representing a paltry premium of 27% to ViroPharma's closing share price on Friday, November 8, 2013.
The transaction was announced less than two weeks after ViroPharma announced highly positive third quarter 2013 financial results, which management described as an "extremely strong period of growth and positive momentum across our entire organization." At that time, the Company also raised its North American net sales guidance to between $395 and $405 million.
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Gram Bharati Samiti (GBS) means Society for Rural Development, has been working as a NGO for rural women's empowerment in Rajasthan for last 22 years. With this object we have been implementing many activities including raising awareness, providing with legal support, protecting their human rights, preventing domestic violence and other kinds of atrocities etc.
Our focus has mainly been on mobilizing these poor rural women to form Self Help Groups (SHGs) and motivating them to make small savings and depositing in the Bank accounts opened in the name of their groups and getting support from the banks as soft loans for their petty household needs. This way the poor women could be emancipated from exploitation of local money lenders.
During this period of 5 years 500 SHG have been formed involving over 5,000 rural women. The total saving of these SHG for last 3 years has reached INR 15 million (nearly $ 375,000) which is a record in the area. The campaign of forming SHGs is spreading extensively in the neighboring area and more and more women are joining the groups.
Many of these women are traditional entrepreneurs and have started producing beautiful handicraft articles after undergoing adequate training.
Now we are planning to organize trading for the 5,000 women entrepreneurs in order to enable them in becoming economically self reliant and upgrade their status in the family and society as well ultimately leading them towards a dignified life.
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Great to hear about your work? Do you sell products made by your group in the US? If not, I know of some importers who may be able to help you. You might Google EDI Imports, run by Liz Wald. The "Emancipation Network" also has a catalog dedicated to selling goods made by groups who are survivor's networks from trafficking, violence against women, etc. We have invited E.N. to become a member of PulseWire, and I'll see if they have signed on.
Lastly, www.Kiva.org is a site for loans to individual women. They work with local microcredit organizations in countries that they personally vet to assure they are good banks or lenders, that the credit terms are excellent, and they also can provide different support.
Finally, there is a site called GRAMEEN and Grameen Tech that includes How To's for people to learn more about the different programs for entrepreneurs and cooperatives seeking to get microcredit, or loans etc. Please do share this with others. Warm regards, Anne-christine d'Adesky, Director of Global Advocacy, PulseWire
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It's time to look ahead to wintertime in Philadelphia, folks. Sure, snow will be in the forecast, but so are sweet deals at more than a hundred Center City restaurants. Center City District Restaurant Week returns next month, running from January 18 to 23 and January 25 to 30. Once again, more than 100 restaurants […]Read more»
September 18, 2014
We hope you're hungry! Major foodie events fill the city this evening — from Street Fare in Mt. Airy and the Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll in University City to Feastival at Penn's Landing and Center City Restaurant Week all around town. First up, food trucks fill the streets of Mt. Airy for the annual Street […]Read more»
September 12, 2014
It's gorgeous today, and we can't wait until 5 p.m. when we can start taking advantage of the perfect weather. Late-summer weekends are truly an ideal time to get out and enjoy all of the outdoor (and indoor!) offerings in the city. This weekend promises everything from Center City Restaurant Week and the Fringe Festival […]Read more»
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The city is full of dinner deals tonight as Center City Restaurant Week and Center City Restaurant Week alternatives fill more than 100 eateries. Once again, more than 120 restaurants in Center City will offer three-course dinners for only $35 per person and three-course lunches for $20. Notable participating restaurants include newcomers like Abe Fisher, […]Read more»
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Starting this Sunday, September 7, sweet deals fill more than 100 restaurants throughout Rittenhouse, Midtown Village and Old City for the ever-popular Center City Restaurant Week. From September 7 through 12 and September 14 through 19, make plans (and reservations!) to dine on the cheap at some of the city's favorite restaurants. With the huge […]Read more»
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With summertime still in full swing in Philadelphia, it's tough to find a reason to look forward to fall. Thankfully, there are the sweet deals at more than a hundred Center City restaurants to ease the transition from season to season. That's right, Center City District Restaurant Week returns next month, running from September 7-12 […]Read more»
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT)- An early Sunday morning crash leaves one man dead.
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A silver Pontiac Sunfire driven by Christopher M. Glandon, 38, of Rockford ran off the road and hit a utility pole.
There were two passengers in the car, Kenneth L. Klemt of Rockford died at the scene.
Glandon and another passenger, Clay Jumper, 53, were taken to UT Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
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Some of the greatest movies ever made will be shown at this year's Plaza Classic Film Festival. The event kicks off today and runs for the next 11 days. This year there's a new addition -- a chance for you to watch two movies on a 30-foot-screen outdoors, not to mention a lineup of movies that have made their mark.
"This is the year of the blockbuster," said El Paso Community Foundation Executive Vice President Eric Pearson.
More than 80 movies are showing on the big screen at this year's Plaza Classic Film Festival, including some all-time classics. "We have Raiders of the Lost Arc, which was a huge blockbuster hit in the 1980s when it came out. We've got three animated Disney classics, which are just amazing. 'Dumbo' and 'Fantasia' from the 1940s and 'Beauty and the Beast' from the 1990s," said Pearson.
This is the fourth year for the Plaza Classic Film Festival, which drew 37,000 people last year. The event is organized by the El Paso Community Foundation. Pearson says this is a unique opportunity to watch a film with 2000 other people. "It's a great family time. It's an opportunity not to have to spend an arm and a leg to come out and see some of the greatest movies ever made," said Pearson.
The festival also gives local film-makers and actors the chance to showcase their work.
"We have The Good, Bad and the Indy, which is dedicated to short, local films and we're showing about 15 hours of locally-produced entertainment films," said Pearson.
Another part of the Plaza Classic Film Festival is set to take place on top of the Mills parking garage tonight and next Thursday. That's when a 30-foot screen is going to be set up and you're welcome to bring your lawn chairs and enjoy a night out at the movies.
Pearson said tickets are selling fast because people realize what a unique opportunity the Plaza Classic Film Festival offers. "No matter how big your screen is, ours is bigger and we have people to share it with and that's really more important. It's really about sharing community and celebrating the history of movies," said Pearson.
The Plaza Classic Film Festival kicks off with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Marilyn Monroe. That's at Kendall Kid Performance Hall at 7:00 p.m. tonight.
You can catch Rock and Roll High School featuring the Ramones on the ninth floor of the Mills parking garage at 9:00 p.m.
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Under New Guidelines, Cheap Birth Control Pays Off for Working Women
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Washington's Old Boys' club still has its knickers in a wad over the deficit "compromise," but women across the country can breathe a slight sigh of relief this week. The White House just issued health reform guidelines that will mandate insurance plans to provide birth control to women at no extra cost. The measure is long overdue, part of an array of preventive services recommended by the Institute of Medicine for improving women's health. But the promise of broader contraceptive access coincides fittingly with the debate over the nation's budget woes, because birth control is an economic issue.
Consider how essential birth control is for working women. When women can control whether and how many children they bear, they can delay pregnancy until they feel they're ready, and in the meantime focus on career goals, finishing school, paying off that mortgage or signing divorce papers. The "choice" in reproductive choice refers not only to her ovaries—despite the right-wing scaremongering about unfettered female sexuality—it's about every choice in life affected by pregnancy and sex.
At the height of the economic crisis, the costs of family planning grew more severe, as did the consequences of having to forgo it. According to a 2009 study by the Guttmacher Institute:
Overall, 29% of surveyed women agree with the statement, "With the economy the way it is, I am more careful than I used to be about using contraception every time I have sex." Those who are financially worse off are more likely than others to agree with this statement (39% vs. 19%).
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Want a better understanding of how the Knicks 1973 Championship Game 5 was recorded? Take a trip back to the early 70s as this vintage Sears infomercial introduces the magic of modern electronics: The Cartridge Television Center!
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Hardaway Jr.: We Know What We Have To Do (2/1)
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