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A lexical typology research project into the fascinating world of temperature terms in the world's languages.
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Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm, Principal Investigator
Susanne Vejdemo, Research Assistant
Main Research Questions
The proposal focuses on the conceptualisation of temperature in natural languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc). The project is envisaged as an integrated lexical-typological study of the temperature domain with the aim of describing and accounting for the cross-linguistic variation within it from three different angles:
- Lexicalization of temperature, e.g: What temperature concepts are encoded as words and what distinctions are made in the systems of temperature terms? Are there universal temperature concepts?
- Lexicon-grammar interaction, e.g.: How are temperature concepts lexicalized in terms of word classes? In what syntactic constructions are they used?;
- Semantic derivation and motivation, e.g.: What are the possible semantic extensions of the temperature meanings to other domains? Where from do the temperature terms come? How can the meaning of the temperature terms change within the temperature domain itself? What general metaphorical and metonymical models underlie the semantic evolution of these expressions?
The project aims at the following results:
- Description of the attested phenomena, of the cross-linguistic variation within them and of the parameters behind it.
- Generalizations about the attested cross-linguistic patterns and the limits to the cross-linguistic variation
- Explanations for the attested cross-linguistic patterns and for their distribution across languages.
On a more general level, the project is envisaged as a contribution to a wide range of theoretical discussions focusing on meaning, language vs. cognition vs. culture, linguistic categorization, interaction between lexicon and grammar, relations between synchrony and diachrony, polysemy, etc.
The project's other contributions embrace developing and testing a methodology for cross-linguistic data collection and analysis, including cross-linguistic word space analysis that does not require parallel data, and a reasonable meta-language for cross-linguistic semantic comparison.
Temperature in Language and Cognition: Workshop in Stockholm 2010
In March of 2010 a workshop on the linguistics of temperature was held at Stockholm University. For program and abstracts, please go here .
Benjamins Volume on the Linguistics of Temperature
We are working on assembling a volume for Benjamins on the Linguistics of Temperature. You can find a list of proposed chapters here: Benjamins' volume
Understanding the project
You can read an Abbreviated Project Proposal, a summary if you will, of the full project proposal here. You can can download the General Background for the project here (File:TammProposalCutOut.pdf).
Elicitation Toolkit
We are always interested in gathering data from more languages. Maria Tamm has developed an elicitation questionnaire, here available in an English version (File:Guidelines.pdf) and a Russian version (File:Temp guidelines Ru MD.doc). There is also a short list of suggested sentences for initial elicitation of temperature expressions in Russian (File:Russian sentences for translation 091123.doc) (an English version will follow later).
Introductory articles
We would recommend the following articles as a first introduction to the fascinating world of the linguistics of temperature:
- Sutrop, U. 1999. Temperature terms in the Baltic Area. Estonian: Typological studies, ed. by Mati Erelt, 185–203. Tartu: University of Tartu.
- Tamm, Maria. & Ekaterina Rakhilina. 2006 "Some like it hot": on semantics of temperature adjectives in Russian and Swedish. STUF (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung), a special issue on Lexicon in a Typological and Contrastive Perspective, ed. by Giannoulopoulou, G. & T. Leuschner, 59-2: 253 – 269.
Introduction to lexical typology
This PDF of a SALC 2010 powerpoint presentation will give you an introduction to lexical typology: it introduces some of the fundamental theoretical concepts upon which this project is based.
Introduction to the Word Space Model and Distributional Semantics
This page will give you further insight into the Word Space Model in corpus linguistics, which is used for a subproject.
Introduction to the humoral systems of the world
This page will give you a short introduction to the warm/cold Humoral Systems of Europe, India, Asia and South America.
Introduction to the physiological and neurolinguistic aspects of temperature
We offer a short introduction to some of the available literature on the Physiological and Neurolinguistic Aspects of Temperature
This bibliography is a work in progress - please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any suggested additions or corrections,
August 2010: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Several lectures within the course "Lexical typology" at the DGfS-CNRS Summer School on Linguistic Typology in Leipzig.
October 7 2010: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Guest seminar "Hot and cold - universal or language-specific? Talking about temperature in different languages. Max-Planck Institute for psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
December 8 2010: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Guest seminar "Linguistics of temperature – in Turkic and elsewhere". Dept. of linguistics and philology, Uppsala universitet [File:MKT Temp Uppsala.pdf]
March 2 2011: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Guest seminar ""Varmt kaffe, ljummen öl, heta känslor och kalla fötter: Temperaturadjektiv i slaviska språk i ett typologiskt perspektiv". Dept. of Slavic languages, Stockholm University
April 27 2011: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Guest seminar "TEMPERATURE in a lexico-typological perspective", Tübingen University
September 15 2011: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Seminar "Hot and cold – universal or language specific?", Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm University
March 22 2012: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Guest seminar "Hot and cold – universal or language specific?". School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
Maj 4 2012: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Invited talk "Är kaffet lika varmt på alla språk?" Sveriges Facköversättarförening (SFÖ), Konferens 2012, Gävle.
October 10 2012: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Guest seminar "Temperature: lexical typology and cognition". Leiden University
November 7 2012: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Guest seminar "Lexical typology – a temperature view". Dept. of linguistics, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
April 18 2013: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Guest lecture "Lingvistika temperatury – leksičeskaja tipologija" [Linguistics of temperature – lexical typology]. The centre for cognitive studies, Moscow Lomonosov State University
Invited talk: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Typology, universals and the lexicon. Uralic Typology Days, November 26-27, 2009, Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn
Oral conference presentation. Vejdemo, Susanne and Hunter Lockwood. "There is no thermostat in the forest - the semantics and sociolinguistics of temperature in Ojibwe", Workshop on Temperature in Language and Cognition, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, 19-20 Mars 2010
Oral conference presentation. Vejdemo, Susanne and Hunter Lockwood. "There is no thermostat in the forest - the semantics and sociolinguistics of temperature in Ojibwe" 16th Annual Anishinaabemowin Teg. Language Conference. Sault St Marie, March 24-28, 2010. (Främst en icke-akademisk modersmåltalarkonferens med fokus på kultur och språkbevarande – samma titel som Conference Presentationen i Stockholm, men annat fokus på språkförändring snarare än typologi)
Oral conference presentation. Vejdemo, Susanne. To Database Meaning: Building the Typological Database of Temperature Terms. Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistic Society, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 23, 2010
Oral conference presentation. Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Hot, warm, chilly, cool and cold: On the place of standardized word lists in a lexical-typological study of the temperature domain. Workshop on using standardized word lists in linguistic data collection, University of Gothenburg, October 29 2010.
Peer-reviewed proceedings article: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. On lexical typology. Teoretičeskaja i prikladnaja lingvistika: puti razvitija [Theoretical and applied linguistics: paths of development]. Moscow Lomonosov University, November 2010, ISBN 978-5-211-05813-2.
Plenary talk: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria, Linguistics of temperature and lexical typology. 7th junior researchers conference on typology and grammar, St. Petersburg, November 2010.
Peer-reviewed proceedings article: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. On lexical typology. Teoretičeskaja i prikladnaja lingvistika: puti razvitija [Theoretical and applied linguistics: paths of development]. Moscow Lomonosov University, October 2010, ISBN 978-5-211-05813-2.
Oral conference presentation: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria & Magnus Sahlgren, "Temperature in the Word Space: sense exploration of temperature expressions using word-space modelling". Cross-linguistic and language-internal variation in text and speech: focus on the joint analysis of multiple characteristics, Febr. 9-11 2011, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/lang_and_lit/veranstaltungen/variation-lili
Oral conference presentation: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. "Kinds of temperature evaluation from a lexical-typological perspective". AFLiCo IV (4th International Conference of the French Cognitive Linguistics Association 'Cognitive linguistics and typology: Language diversity, variation and change' 24th-27th May 2011, Lyon, France, http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/colloques/AFLiCo_IV/index.asp?Action=Edit&Langue=EN&Page=
Plenary talk: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Leksičeskaja tipologija i konceptualizacija temperatury [Lexical typology and conceptualization of temperature.] Dulson readings XXVI. An international conference on linguistics, anthropology, ethnography and ethnic education. Tomsk State Pedagogical University (Russia), June 24–28, 2011. http://siblang.tspu.ru/DR26/
Oral conference presentation: Vejdemo, Susanne. Body Part Temperature Metaphors - Report from a Small Cross-linguistic Survey. The Body in Language: Lexicon, Metaphor, Grammar and Culture, University of Warsaw/University of Cologne, Venue: University of Warsaw, October 21 – 22, 2011
Oral conference presentation: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. "Semantic typology and change from a temperature perspective". Workshop on typology and diachrony. Sommerville College, Oxford University, March 24-25, 2012.
Conference poster: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria, Susanne Vejdemo & Magnus Sahlgren. Hot or Cold, Universal or Language Specific. SLE 2012, August 29- September 1, 2012.
Invited talk: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Temperature: lexical typology and cognition. Workshop Température et cognition : latin, français, Université Paris - Sorbonne (IV), October 6, 2012.
Plenary talk: Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Lexical typology and universals: a temperature perspective. 37th Annual Conference of the Società Italiana di Glottologia, LEXICON in the theory and in the history of linguistics. Florence, October 25-27, 2012
Oral conference presentation. Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. The linguistics of temperature: a lexical-typological study of the temperature domain. The 10th biennual conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT X), Leipzig, August 16 – 20.
Oral conference presentation. Vejdemo, Susanne & Sigi Vandewinkel. The semantically extended uses of body temperature – report on a small cross-linguistic survey. The 2013 Metaphor Festival. August 28-31, 2013.
Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Linguistics of temperature and lexical typology. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana, v. 6/3. 2010. St Petersburg: "Nauka". ISBN 9785020256132
Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2011. It's boiling hot! On the structure of the linguistic temperature domain across languages. In Sarah Dessì Schmid, Ulrich Detges, Paul Gévaudan, Wiltrud Mihatsch and Richard Waltereit (eds.), Rahmen des Sprechens. Beiträge zur Valenztheorie, Varietätenlinguistik, Kognitiven und Historischen Semantik. Tübingen: Narr, 379–396. File:Boiling hot.doc
Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. New directions in lexical typology. "Linguistics", 2012, 50, 3: 373–394
Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria & Magnus Sahlgren, Temperature in the Word Space: sense exploration of temperature expressions using wordspace modeling. In Szmrecsanyi, B. & B. Wälchli (eds), Linguistic variation in text and speech, within and across languages (Series: Linguae et Litterae: Publications of the School of Language and Literature, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies). In print (Febr. 2014),Berlin: de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110317398
Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria(ed.). Submitted. "The linguistics of temperature" (30 chapters, most probably two volumes).
Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. Submitted. Semantic and lexical typology. In Dabrowska, E. & D. Divjak (eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Berlin – New York: de Gruyter Mouton
Vejdemo, Susanne & Sigi Vandewinkel. Submitted. Extended uses of temperature terms across languages. In Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria & Päivi Juvonen (eds), Lexicotypological approaches to semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Berlin – New York: de Gruyter Mouton
Vejdemo, Susanne. 2013. How to Database Meaning Building a Typological Database of Temperature Terms. MA Thesis, Eastern Michigan University.

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World Building 2Magic and YouBefore I begin, I should address a quick topic of concern from last time. Namely, the difference between immortality and invulnerability. The people and critters of my world are invulnerable, safe from injury, pain, illness, and aging. They are not, however, immortal. Each of the goddesses maintains an afterlife in the divine plane and those who pass on are sent to one of these afterlifes… or good or for ill. But, I'll cover that later. For now, just know that the sentient races pass on after about 100 years. Most magical creatures can and do live forever, but that is because their souls aren't in high demand.One more piece of book keeping. Instead of being the Goddess of Laughter and Pleasure, Tillalial is now the Goddess of Laughter and Mischief. So, let's talk magic. In my world, magic is a form of energy that is easily converted into force and matter. Thanks to Mavalorous, the
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Came across 3 SS walking down the middle of the road this morning. They were walking next to each other, and didn't have the common decency to move over so we could go around them. They did break into a trot, but that really didn't fix the problem.
Finally, one ran off the edge of the road, and the other 2 flew in different directions. Darn, turkeys, you'd think they would have better manners. No, really, they really were turkeys.
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--- Quote from: rain on March 23, 2013, 11:15:45 AM ---I had a special snowflake today - the parkingspothogges
at the rec center there was a mostly empty lot in front of the gym/weight lifting/pool wing - and a mostly packed lot in front of the soccer field wing
A guy in a little convertable parks in the soccer lot, notices that people start to park next to him then change directions - he gets out, discovers he's about 4-5" inches at an angle over the line (the rear of his car was over the line which prevented anyone from using that parking spot) - then he walks over to the gym wing
if he wanted empty spaces by his car there was plenty of room in the other lot - where he went; but taking 2 spaces in front of the soccer wing - when there aren't that many open spaces ... ::)
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I usually can fit my car into a space that someone has deliberately over-flowed into and I often do. It's worth it to watch them squeeze back into their badly parked car and inch out.
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I've done that too. I did it so well at the Y over the summer that two of the staff took pictures and showed them off at a party later that evening.
I would like to nominate the snowflake who basically shut down a fastfood drive through this morning. The drive through lane is pretty narrow anyway due to the placement of a fence and the menu sign. And despite the fact that there are no parking spots anywhere next to the drive through lane, someone took it upon themselves to park perpendicular to the drive through lane, backing up until their tires hit the little concrete divider that separated the drive through lane from the rest of the lot. So about two feet of this car's trunk hung over into the drive through lane, making it impossible for anything bigger than a subcompact car to pull through past the menu sign to the window. This resulted in chaos as larger cars got stuck, unable to pull through, had to back out, setting off a chain reaction of backing out among subsequent customers.
The restaurant eventually shut down the drive through and posted an employee outside the restaurant (in freezing old temperatures) asking people to go inside and order. The poor staff apologized profusely and offered everyone free coffee or hot cocoa. They said they had no idea who the car belonged to, but suspected it was a guest at one of the adjacent motels. The staff had called a tow truck, but it was taking a while to get there.
Seriously, who does that?
ETA: Because of the placement of the window, the staff was not able to see who parked there or when they did it.
Oh, I do hope the tow truck driver got there before the owner of the car had a chance to retrieve it. I don't often wish ill events on people, but that person really deserved to have to pay an impound fee.
--- Quote from: mmswm on March 23, 2013, 02:40:20 PM ---Oh, yeah. EvilMe wanted to do exactly that, especially since I drive a tiny little civic and hadn't pulled all the way forward (but the back end of my car was still completely in the spot) and this woman was driving a full sized Cadillac. If I'd left my cart near where the front of my own car was, she'd have never been able to get her car completely in the spot without either having to get out and move the cart, or bumping into the cart and potentially causing damage to both her car and the other vehicles that were in the area.
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I have found that "little things" like fitting into the space properly doesn't stop people from parking there anyway. Every time I go out, I always find some vehicle with the back end overhanging the space. Usually it's a foot or two overhanging, but on my last trip to the grocery, I found the worst offender yet and practically 1/3-1/2 of the vehicle was not pulled into the space. The aisle was wide enough for two cars to pass each other, but with this vehicle sticking out so far, it was reduced to a one lane aisle. It was ridiculous.
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Occupy Wall Street? Sure. Occupy Denver? Been there, done that, doing it still–as in right now. Hundreds of people have been gathering on a daily basis downtown to spread the word that Wall Street is here as it is everywhere.
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Over 150 protestors, including several DU students, gathered at the Capitol building in downtown Denver last Saturday for the Occupy Denver rally. The rally protested the influence of large corporations and the concentration of wealth in the upper 1 percent of the population.
Occupy Denver is a part of the larger Occupy Wall Street movement currently sweeping the nation. Occupy Wall Street has been protesting in New York City for two weeks. The Denver protestors, made up of mostly college-aged students, rallied in front of the building for about an hour before taking to the streets, protesting in the downtown area and throughout the 16th Street Mall.
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Isn't this almost a half-way confirmation of the exsistence of some sort of Wizarding Criminology? Real life criminology IS all about understanding the criminal mind and behaviour, right? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Simen Johannes Fagerli (talk • contribs).
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Subject: ACTS 2:38 Concealed Carry
I love compassionate Christian Seniors..
A woman had just returned to her home from an evening of church services,
when she was startled by an intruder.
She caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables and
yelled: 'Stop! Acts 2:38!' (Repent and be Baptized, in the name of Jesus
Christ, so that your sins may be forgiven.)
The burglar stopped in his tracks. The woman calmly called the police and
explained what she had done.
As the officer cuffed the man to take him in, he asked the burglar:
'Why did you just stand there? All the old lady did was yell a scripture to
'scripture?' replied the burglar. 'She said she had an Ax and Two 38's!'
Yeah, I know it's old, but let's have a little levity.


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text: Rand Paul: 'Fight for justice now' on unfair sentencingBy Paul Steinhauser, Ashley Killough and Greg Clary, CNNUpdated 12:41 PM ET, Fri July 25, 2014Just WatchedSen. Paul pushes felons' voting rightsreplayMore Videos ...Sen. Paul pushes felons' voting rights 01:33Story highlightsRand Paul wants to alter criminal sentencing rules that adversely affect minorities His National Urban League speech is part of his stepped-up outreach effort New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has sounded similar themesSen. Rand Paul is proposing legislation aimed at eliminating criminal sentencing rules that adversely impact minorities, saying that "we need some fresh ideas to combat old and festering problems."The Republican from Kentucky described the measure Friday in a speech to the National Urban League. It's part of his aggressive outreach effort to African-Americans and other voting groups who don't traditionally back Republicans. Paul is trying to expand the GOP base and lay the groundwork for a potential 2016 campaign for the White House.His address highlighted sentencing reform, expanded voting rights, and education reform. It came one day after two other possible Republican presidential hopefuls, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, also touted similar reforms.Just WatchedPerry Vs. Paul: America the Isolationist?replayMore Videos ...Perry Vs. Paul: America the Isolationist? 04:46PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedPaul works to help non-violent offendersreplayMore Videos ...Paul works to help non-violent offenders 02:58PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedSen. Paul: A civil war in Iraq replayMore Videos ...Sen. Paul: A civil war in Iraq 01:03PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedInside Politics: Rand RisingreplayMore Videos ...Inside Politics: Rand Rising 00:34PLAY VIDEOSentencing reform is one of Paul's signature issues. As he's done in previous speeches, he told the audience gathered in Cincinnati that the nation's criminal justice system is still stacked against minorities."Three out of four people in prison right now for non-violent crimes are black or brown. Our prisons are bursting with young men of color and our communities are full of broken families," Paul said.Rand Paul fights for felon voting rights"There is a cycle of poverty that often leads to drugs, to debt, and to prison. In prison, child support can accumulate into the thousands of dollars. Release from prison then finds that employers don't want to hire a convicted felon. "With few options of real work, the cycle begins again. I say enough's enough. I won't sit idly by and watch our criminal justice system continue to consume, confine and define our young men. I say we take a stand and fight for justice now," Paul said.He then pointed out that the current legal distinctions between crack and powder cocaine have led to longer jail terms for the possession of crack.While he said that progress has been made in reducing those distinctions, Paul added that he was introducing legislation on Friday that "eliminates any disparity between crack and powder cocaine."Paul also touted that he's working with Democrats, like Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, on a bill that would expunge records, under certain circumstances, of non-violent and youth related crimes.And, he's rubbing shoulders with Attorney General Eric Holder on sentencing reform as well as some Republican governors.Rand Paul and his Democratic buds Paul's other pitchesPaul also used his address in front of the National Urban League convention to make another pitch for expanding the voting rights of ex-cons."Nationwide, five million people are prevented from voting because of their criminal record. It's the biggest impediment to voting in our country. I want more people to vote, not less," Paul said.He described himself as "a Republican who wants to restore a federal role for the government in the Voting Rights Act."Paul twice quoted from Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech to the century-old civil rights organization. And Paul again mentioned King as he continued his crusade against the federal government's current surveillance activities."Dr. King's 'I Have a Dream' speech inspired the world but it also prompted the FBI to tap his phone illegally and spy on tens of thousands of Americans. Today, all Americans should be concerned that the government is collecting the records of Americans," he said. "Frankly I think what Americans do on their cell phone is none of the government's damn business."On education reform Paul attacked the status quo and proposed shifting the power away from government."Washington has no clue how to fix education. Washington doesn't know if whether you're a good teacher or a bad teacher. We should allow innovation to occur at the local level. I propose that we allow school charters, school choice, vouchers, competition. Competition breeds excellence," Paul said. 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Christie: 'You have to be pro-life when they get out of the womb'Christie said the justice system must stop stigmatizing the disease of drug addiction and focus more on rehabilitation."We don't give them any kind of significant treatment, long-range treatment, and then we release them. And then we wonder why they go back and commit more crimes to support their habit," Christie said. The potential 2016 presidential candidate also said giving drug addicts treatment instead of prison time would help the economy too.Earlier Thursday, Ryan, spelled out his plan to fight poverty, a pilot program that would combine 11 federal programs into one pool of money for participating states.Paul Ryan lays out new poverty planAccording to the plan, which the Wisconsin Republican detailed in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute, states would voluntarily submit their own anti-poverty proposals in order to get money."If everything passed muster, the federal government would give the green light," the House Budget Committee chairman said in a speech to the Washington-based think tank. "And the state would get more flexibility. It would get to combine into one funding stream 11 different programs, things like food stamps, housing assistance, child care, and cash welfare."The GOP, under the direction of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, last year released a report that acknowledged the party's problem in reaching out to younger and minority voters, who overwhelming went for President Barack Obama and the Democrats in the 2012 election. The report included hundreds of recommendations for the party.More from politicsCan conservatives come together?Rand Paul wins 2015 CPAC straw pollPowered by Livefyre


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I thought it was just an old eastern block military surplus pistol. I was right, and I was WRONG. This gun is truly a hoot to shoot. I have enjoyed that gun as much as any other I've owned. No it's not ccw type of gun, but I would have no worries if that was what I had in my hand if something were to go down. Everytime my Son and his friends come shooting with me, there is a large varity to choose from. The CZ~52 is the one gun everyone wants a turn with. At around 12 cents a shot, live it up. The 7.62x25 is a great little round. Most surplus ammo seems to be around 1500 fps. If I had a knock on it, it would be the mag release. But it is what it is, an old eastern block surplus military pistol. FUN TO SHOOT. Thanks Daddy.
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Had one- Like it- VERY depenable & accurate BUT DAM it was loud
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Yes, very load. I would sure like to find a carbine that shot the 7.62x25. I've read about conversions with alot of problems. I was reading the thread about the philipino 45s. Thank you sir for your service. Sorry it took so long for your generation to be apprecitated. At least the ones who served our country. Seems like the ones who stayed and protested are in power. And now their spawn are occuping wall street and such.
CZ has never been on my all time greatest manufactures list. Just personal preference they are great quality for the money. But I love that round. Very potent, accurate & interchangeable with a lot of surplus rifles on the market for reasonable money. A real win,win with little to no down side.
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Senior Obama administration officials describe quite a dramatic scene at Climate Change Conference.
Officials say President Obama was frustrated. The conference was in complete chaos.
At about 730 pm Denmark time – the president was supposed to have left an hour before — he learned that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, with whom he was supposed to meet, was meeting with the leaders of India, South Africa, and Brazil – the main players holding up any sort of political agreement.
The president heard about this and said he wanted to go to the meeting.
"Four against one," an official said to the president.
"No problem," he replied.
A senior administration official says the president "barged into the meeting," where he joined China's Wen, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma.
The reporters' pool note from that time said that President Obama walked into the room and called out from the door, "Mr. Premier, are you ready to see me? Are you ready?"
They talked for roughly 45 minutes and emerged with a non-binding political accord.
It is a modest achievement, officials concede, but they insist it is an achievement nonetheless.
"It is undeniably a step forward," said an official. "Is it two steps forward? I'm not making that case."
The president was unable to get the four leaders to commit to a deadline of 2010 for a legally binding international climate change treaty. South Africa and Brazil have an ensured capital flow under the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012, so they balked at giving that up until they knew what they'd be giving it up for.
What does the accord accomplish?
• All signatories will agree to slow global warming by allowing a temperature increase of no more than 2 degrees Celsius by 2050. How emission reductions will be achieved will be dictated by science – theoretically this could require greenhouse gas emission cuts of more than 50 percent.
• In terms of verification – what the Chinese in particular had been resisting – all countries will commit to publicly list the actions they will take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and they commit to a mechanism for some sort of public verification.
• Countries will consult with an international mechanism which will analyze their progress against a clear guideline as to whether they are abiding by their agreements.
Obviously the devil is in the details and we are still awaiting those details.


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I'm sure Kurita will find a way to win, but first things first he needs to stop acting like a wimp (yeah right, like that's ever going to happen, he'll at least get over his fear of Gaou though).
I personally don't find Gaou too much, I mean we needed someone who can outdo Kurita in order to give Kurita some competition. Up til now, Kurita was pretty much able to beat everyone through pure power, now it's his turn to experience battling someone with more power than him, but I have confidence he'll win somehow or another.


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Posted By John Briley On September 1, 2011 @ 9:00 am In Create the Good | Comments Disabled
With so much focus on the high-profile disasters and crises – Hurricane Irene damage, war in Libya, human rights violations in Syria and famine in Somalia – it's easy to lose sight of some very real ongoing needs in each of our communities.
One of those is ensuring that needy children have the school supplies they need to make the most of their educational opportunities – and that's where we need YOUR help! Through AARP's Equipped to Learn campaign, you can volunteer to:
Many of these volunteer opportunities take only a few minutes. You can also use the campaign to find other ways to volunteer with youth and share your stories about your volunteering experiences. It's a tough and often confounding world out there (see first paragraph of this post), and it's up to all of us to help give kids the tools they need to help shape the future.
Think about. Then do something about it. Today's children – i.e. tomorrow's leaders – will thank you.
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