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We spoke with the author about the evolution of her love for language, the inspiration behind writing English Grammar, and the differences between the latest and earlier editions of the book.
Discuss your career path and what led to your fascination with the English language.
In my last two years at school, I was fortunate in having an inspiring teacher of French. Both language and literature were brought to life within the context of the period we were studying. For Spanish, which I was then starting to learn, I was given a remarkable text book which featured authentic extracts of a story to illustrate the grammatical and idiomatic uses of the language in dialogue and narrative. A few years later, with an Honours degree in French and Spanish at Somerville College, Oxford, I set off for Spain.
Why did you decide to write English Grammar?
Once in Madrid, as a freelance teacher I learned a great deal from the daily contact with Spanish society and its contrasts with England and the English. At the same time, I was working on English, trying out new ways to teach young –and older – adults English for different purposes.
I also embarked on a five-year degree course in English and Linguistics at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Eventually, this was followed by a doctoral thesis. The functional models of linguistics that were becoming known in Spain at the time seemed likely to provide a sound basis and a useful framework for a students' grammar.
Although courses for beginners were becoming plentiful, I felt there was a gap to be filled, a textbook that would aim at the needs of university students and enable them to carry out analyses of all kinds, express themselves clearly and accurately, while keeping down to earth and in touch with both formal and everyday English. My former co-author, Philip Locke, and I felt that such guidance would provide a suitable competence in English for our students' future careers. The contents of each chapter were tested in the classroom. Our students responded well and provided useful feedback on many occasions. Many of them went on to do doctoral theses under my supervision.
How is this edition of English Grammar different form the second edition?
Each of the editions is in some way different from the previous ones. The first edition, which won First Prize in the Grammars and Dictionaries category of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, 1993, had more literary extracts as illustrations, while the subsequent editions make use of a wider variety of genres.
The third edition offers more comments on the use of American English where the two national varieties differ grammatically. The section on conditional clauses has been expanded, while others have been reduced in length or have been rewritten. The third edition also has a companion website with a complete set of new exercises, and answers, together with a sprinkling of brain teasers and a glossary.
What's a common misconception about this topic that you'd like to clear up?
One common conception that is perhaps still taken for granted is that grammar consists of a set of rules governing all forms of grammatical structures, with a concern that they be 'well-formed'. This book, however, while maintaining structures and their relations to one another, aims to show how meanings in present-day English are expressed in different forms according to speakers' and writers' communicative goals.
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Edited by Ee Ling Low, this new book series will provide a starting point for those wishing to know more about the aspects of the spread of English in the current globalized world.
Routledge are seeking book proposals in the following areas:
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Being one of the fastest developing areas of linguistic research, World Englishes has received increasing attention in the research scholarship. There have been published monographs and books series which focus on various aspects of the spread of English across the world. However, given the burgeoning development in the field and growing demand from researchers and educators for relevant resources, there is a need to update some of the existing research and, more importantly, there is an exigency to extend the research scholarship to areas that have not hitherto received due attention. These are also the research gaps this proposed book series hopes to fill, in particular, the need for rigorous features-based and empirically-driven studies on World Englishes.
This Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics‐Routledge book series will provide a starting point for those who wish to know more about the aspects of the spread of English in the current globalized world. Each volume can cover the following aspects of the study of World Englishes: issues and theoretical paradigms, feature-based studies (i.e. phonetics and phonology, syntax, lexis) and language in use (e.g. education, media, the law and other related disciplines). It will contain a comprehensive bibliography of works published on the particular areas at the end of the book. The aims of the series are:
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Alastair Pennycook also authored several other Routledge titles, including Language as a Local Practice (2010) and Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows (2006). Emi Otsuji co-edited Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan: From Internationalization to Globalization (2015) and is the Japanese editor for The Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multicultuarlism.
Find out more about the origin of 'metrolingualism,' how the book takes cultural differences into account when examining language use, and the story behind the choice to focus on metrolingualism in Sydney and Tokyo.
Where did the idea of metrolingualism come from?
The idea of metrolingualism was first adapted from the work of our colleague, John Maher, in Japan. He started talking about metroethnicity – a kind of street-cool play with ethnic identity. Emi's research had been looking at bilingual workplaces in Sydney where Japanese and English were used almost interchangeably. The idea of metrolingualism seemed to fit well as a way of describing what was going on as people chatted in a mixture of English and Japanese. We preferred the term metrolingualism to ideas such as 'bilingualism' because it avoided talking about 'two languages' or 'code-switching' and instead suggested this was all part of the same thing. As we developed our thinking on this, the idea of 'metro' – the city – became increasingly important, while we also downplayed the idea of cool playfulness or choice. What we wanted to get at was how multilingualism related to the city. Increasingly important for us was the idea of 'everyday multilingualism' – the ways in which people use all sorts of linguistic resources to get by in a complex, vibrant urban environment. And also important was the idea of the city, urban space, people moving about, workplaces and shops, streets, cafés and construction sites.
How does Metrolingualism explain language use differently?
There were a number of assumptions we tried to overcome in this research. We wanted to avoid the kind of mapping of minorities in percentage terms that survey data produces. This demographic approach doesn't tell us much about how people actually get along linguistically, or move about, or interact. What we wanted was ethnographic data of everyday life in big cities. We also wanted to overcome the idea that in order to communicate, everyone needs to speak the same language. In fact, people manage their communication in far more complex and integrated ways than this suggests. Another goal was to overcome typical ways of talking about multilingualism, with its suggestion of multiple languages in different boxes. And, particularly as the research progressed, we wanted to show how metrolingual interactions in workplaces were also tied up with the place, the people, the objects around them, the activities they were engaged in. Language and the city are bound up with each other in highly complex, interactive ways.
How did you choose the particular sites in Sydney and Tokyo?
Why Sydney and Tokyo? Convenience partly – we both live and work in Sydney and have both lived and worked in Tokyo. And both are global cities that fitted our interests in everyday diversity and conviviality. We weren't trying to formally compare the two but we were interested by the many differences and connections. In part it was all the unexpected connections and relations that fascinated us – when we found a Vietnamese-owned 'Paris Bakery' in a Sydney suburb (excellent croissants that they had learned to make in Vietnam) and looked at the connections to the 'Petit Paris' bistro (or 'wine bazar') in Tokyo, with its couscous evenings (the owner is of Algerian background but that's only part of the story) or hotate no (scallop) carpaccio, or when we followed the scent of Japanese cucumbers from where they were sold to where they were grown, or went in search of where the 'foreign (non-Chinese) vegetables' were grown in market gardens in Sydney. We were trying to uncover this layering of the city, the ways in which people, migration, work and languages operated around the city. This is what we hope people can take away from this book – an idea of how languages and cities are mixed up together.
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In a new interview, the author discussed her reasons for writing Exploring Digital Communication, the future of instruction surrounding digital communication in universities, and more.
Why did you decide to write Exploring Digital Communication?
I wanted to write a book like this for a couple of reasons. In part, I was curious myself to explore the extent to which real concerns can be addressed through academic linguistics research. For example, there is a lot of research on identity online, but I was not sure how much it could be related to general concerns about anonymity, deception, egoism and so on. I think in most cases - as with the case of identity - the research shows us that the situation is always more complex than we tend to assume. So, assuming that we perform identities online, as we do in other contexts, we can see that people sometimes re-enact existing social roles (such as gender), but that they can also challenge these roles and at times foreground aspects of their identities in ways which might not be possible offline. Anonymity is rarely complete, deception not always intended negatively, and egoism is commonly rather an act of trying to belong. The research also shows us that in most cases digital communications are not radically different from other communications; we simply have different resources with which to do things and different kinds of spaces to do them in. So, it's a complex, muddled picture which doesn't always answer questions but I hope gets people thinking about their own experiences.
At the same time, I'm keen to experiment with different ways of presenting research and talking about ideas. The innovative format of this book appealed to me and it seemed to suit the topic matter. By this I mean the way that the book starts with the real world - with problems and practices - and then looks at the research and THEN at the theory. By starting with the real world I was then forced to identify literature that could be used to address the real-world problems and, in turn, the theories that explain or contextualise the relevant empirical studies. In each case, I was seeking to show the relevance of the research to the real world. Not all research is immediately relevant to what we do, and it's important to have 'blue-sky', innovative thinking carried out for the sake of furthering knowledge. At the same time, the point of 'applied linguistics' research is to understand better how people are using language and why, and through that to effect change, however gradual or small-scale that may be.
What's a common misconception about this topic that you'd like to clear up?
One common misconception related to language, and of particular relevance to a book on digital communications, is that of language decline. Oddly, we tend to see society as getting worse - educational standards are falling, the streets aren't as safe as they used to be, children get less exercise, communities are breaking down, and young people don't speak properly. With all of these issues, we tend to posit a Golden Age, which usually corresponds to our childhoods. Of course, in actual fact (and as we all know) in many ways our societies today are safer and our children better educated than they ever were; things go up and down but there's little evidence to suggest a decline. The same is true of language. People have been bemoaning the state of the English language for centuries. For example, in 1712, writer Jonathan Swift criticised the language used at the time and he placed the Golden Age of English at the start of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1550s). I think the belief in language decline allows us all too readily to see the latest change - that brought about by digital technology - as detrimental. For the moment, it may be better not to speak of language change in this case, but language diversity - for most people, going online involves learning new genres and new forms of communication, which they still use alongside older forms. This may change, of course! But language change is natural, inevitable and always ongoing. Scary, too, because we don't always feel in control, and I hope this book helps by making some sense of it.
What do you think is the future role of digital communication in linguistic instruction at a university level?
When I teach young students today, I find myself talking about the internet as if it were somewhat newer than it now is. I ask students to compare how they behave online and offline, and even to reflect on changes that have occurred to communication since the pre-internet age. This all implies that digital communications are somehow special and different, and that it makes sense to understand them in relation to other forms of communication - as slower than face-to-face conversations, as a written form of telephone conversation, as shorter and requiring of less effort than letters. What I forget with this approach is that the internet is increasingly normal. I think this has to be reflected in how digital communication is talked about and taught at university. So, for example, I would expect to see issues currently associated with the internet being included in general theories of communication, and I think you see this already with the use of concepts like 'mediated communication' and 'convergence'. I would also expect to see a diversification of the field of 'new media' into the many hundreds of issues, methods and sites that term covers. In short, what makes digital communications so interesting will gradually cease to be a matter of the digital (the novelty of the technology) and start to be a matter of communication (what people achieve and how through various technologies). Of course, an alternative answer would be - who knows? How we communicate digitally is changing so fast, it's probably impossible to know what will seem important in the future!
What's the one thing you hope readers take away from your book?
See my answer to the question on why I wrote this book! The one thing readers should take from my book is not a concrete idea or a fact - but the understanding that our journeys through life are incredibly diverse, intricate and unpredictable and that there is never one 'answer'. How we communicate online is no exception! Hopefully this book will enable readers to explore in an informed way their own answers to the questions that digital communications raises for them.
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In a new interview, Professor de Bot gives us a detailed look into the writing process, including where the idea for his book came from, his method of choosing which applied linguists to include, and how his definition of Applied Linguistics has evolved over time.
When did the idea for A History of Applied Linguistics come about?
The idea for this book emerged in 1994. I attended the AAAL Annual conference in Baltimore and afterwards drove to Barnegat Light, NJ to visit Richard D. (Dick) Lambert and his wife Sarah Moore. Dick is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at UPenn and the former director of the National Foreign Language Centre in Washington. There was a strong link both academically and socially between the NFLC and the Department of Applied Linguistics in Nijmegen I was part of at the time.
I visited the NFLC regularly and had inspiring discussions on the state of foreign language education with sharp minds like Dick's, but also Dick Brecht and the late Ron Walton. It was during the visit in 1994 that he suggested I write a book on the sociology of Applied Linguistics (AL) that would contribute to the establishment of AL as a discipline. Dick always stressed the importance of the socio-political imbedding of a discipline in the larger context.
That sounds like a very long process for a book that was published more than 20 years later, but at the time, it was just an interesting idea with no structure or content. In 2013, I started setting up an interview guide and selecting informants.
Tell us about the 'hairy problem' of the definition of Applied Linguistics.
I was brought up in Nijmegen with the definition of AL being 'the learning and teaching of modern language.' However, over time my own interests, which I always saw as core for the discipline, had moved more towards psycholinguistic issues, no doubt stimulated by the presence of so many excellent scholars at the near-by Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. So from the very beginning, my definition of AL was 'the development and use of multiple languages.' Topics related to this figured prominently at important conferences like AILA and AAAL, so I felt that what I did was essential AL.
Looking back, I can see I was wrong and that my take on this was basically a niche activity. Leading applied linguists like Henri Widdowson and Chris Candlin have always stressed the contribution to real world problems as essential for AL. I wanted to have none of that. And I didn't regret having taken that position until I had my first series of interviews in 2013. Informants politely agreed that my definition certainly covered a part of the field and that the hardcore psycholinguistics I was doing certainly helped to profile AL, but there was clearly something missing.
If I were to do this all over again, would I have defined the field differently? No doubt. Gathering the information through interviews and questionnaires was an iterative process in which new perspectives could come in. Unfortunately time and money prevented me from interviewing all the participants on my list (which was of course reflecting my own definition of the field!). Questionnaires are in a way static and there is no building up in terms of interaction, but they were of course less time-consuming than the interviews. Clearly, a more inclusive definition of AL and an accordingly inclusive selection of informants would have been better. At the same time, I tried to include informants from other backgrounds and academic interests. Language policy came up regularly, as did teacher training and the impact of tests, so I ultimately did not cling to a very narrow definition.
How were the informants selected?
I have a fairly large network in the AL community and I started with them, but always ended with a request for informants to name other ALs that I should contact. I checked the major journals and handbooks books for names. The problem was that I started out with my definition and therefore a restricted group, but that moved in various directions with the suggested names added. There is no list of all applied linguists in the world. I was making use of networks of my core group and it could be argued that it was basically a 'friends of friends' approach rather than a principled search strategy.
Is it more than a popularity contest?
I certainly think so. I asked my informants to name the individuals they saw as leaders in the field. Criteria given included academic weight, a broad perspective and openness to new developments, and involvement in professional organizations. I assume the people that were mentioned met these criteria. I am quite sure that ordering in terms of popularity would look different; leaders are not by definition popular.
Why is A History of Applied Linguistics important?
It could be argued that a discipline doesn't exist if its historical basis is not documented. The book is state-of-the-art and can as such serve as a point of reference for future developments. It is hard to say whether a discipline makes progress if there are no historical points of reference.
For the most important books and articles, the purpose was to see whether we as applied linguists agree on what every applied linguist should have read. The findings are disturbing in that sense; only a few publications are mentioned frequently and the rest are scattered with little overlap between informants. Individual applied linguists may think that for them, the publications listed are not relevant, but that is not the issue here.
Who should read it?
I have tried to make the text light and readable. You can finish the book in an evening if you are interested in the main findings. I don't think there are many courses taught on the history of AL, but parts of it could figure in courses on Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and AL more generally.
For younger researchers, this book should be an easy introduction to the discipline since most of the developments and disagreements are discussed, as are the trends for the near future. It can help put a given piece of research or topic in a broader historical perspective.
Has writing A History of Applied Linguistics changed you?
The idea of 'invisible colleges' appeals to me. There is a sense of coherence and mutual respect that goes beyond whatever the definition of the discipline is. AL is a house with many windows and many doors where people go in and out.
I feel very comfortable in the company of my AL colleagues. People generally treat each other with respect, even when they disagree on essential issues. In that sense, writing the book and connecting with so many people was a wonderful experience. I now know what AL is, but don't feel the need to define it anymore because then we may lose parts of it that I have learned to appreciate.
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The latest title in this series, Metonymy and Language, presents a new theory of language and communication in which the central focus is on the concept of metonymy, the recognition of partial matches and overlaps. Its author Charles Denroche spoke with Routledge last month about his reasons for writing this book, what sets it apart from other similar titles, the defintion of 'metonymy,' and more. Check out the interview here.
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In a new interview, he discussed his career path, what readers can expect from this latest work, its key takeway, and more.
Discuss your career path and what led you to specialize in Linguistics.
Given that my mother was a Scots speaker and my father came from a Gaelic language background, language issues have been a part of my life since a very early age. There has never been a time when I haven't thought about language and how it varies and changes. As an undergraduate I was happily ensconced at the philological end of the study of ancient languages; always tugging at me, however, was the question 'why?' Why and how does language change? For the last thirty years I have been trying to find an answer to this; Trask's Historical Linguistics forms part of this quest.
What can readers expect from the latest edition of Trask's Historical Linguistics?
Readers can expect a continuation of the tradition started by Larry Trask over twenty years ago. In particular I have maintained his original use of examples from Basque. These give a freshness to the work. In line with the second edition, and as a continuation of its methodology, I have updated many of the findings, paying particular attention to the case-studies, which help give depth and breadth to the work, allowing students to place change in its context.
Is there anything you'd like to highlight about this topic or Trask's Historical Linguistics in particular?
Perhaps the single most important change in the third edition is the addition of a case-study concerned with new dialect formation; in particular, how American and New Zealand English came into being. This is a hot topic at the moment which has helped us understand in more depth how contact between two or more closely related varieties can cause the 'birth' of a new variety like others, but not the same as them.
What's a common misconception about this topic that you'd like to clear up?
Many people assume that Historical Linguistics is as dry as dust. Not so: it's actually a vibrant and controversial subject with considerable relevance for everyone's everyday experience.
What's the one thing you hope readers take away from your book?
A love for, and understanding of, language variation and change in all its diversity.
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The author discussed his powerful and innovative new book in an interview with Routledge. He talked about his reasons for writing this book, what sets it apart from other similar titles, the defintion of 'metonymy,' and more.
Why did you decide to write Metonymy and Language?
Writing Metonymy and Language came from a conviction that there is a common mental procedure underlying many of our daily activities and that this important phenomenon, though evident to me, hadn't yet been written about in this way. It seemed to me that there was one mental operation which recurs right across the whole range of procedures we perform on language, the ability to recognize part-whole relations between signs and parts of signs. In writing this book, I chose to analyse this skill in terms of 'metonymy' and to focus particularly on its manifestation in language.
Can you provide a basic definition of what 'metonymy' is and what led you to connect this concept with language and communication?
Most people, if they know the term 'metonymy' at all, know it from literature classes at school in the sense of a part referring to a whole, like the crown for 'the royal family'. I am using the term like this but in a much wider sense than these familiar textbook examples indicate. I am using 'metonymy' to refer to all situations where processing part-whole relations and recognizing approximations, partial matches, and overlaps play an important role. It is the mental process involved and the frequency it is used which interest me, rather than individual examples which have become fossilized in the language.
What's the one thing you hope readers take away from your book?
I would like readers to take away with them the idea of metonymy as central to thinking and behaving, and processing metonymy as a phenomenon which occurs at every level within language, making it an essential part of all communication. I argue that the ability to manipulate part-whole relations is key to understanding how a relatively fixed 'code' (the language system) is modified to afford the extraordinary subtleties of expression we expect, while involving a minimum of misunderstanding.
What do you think makes Metonymy and Language different from any other book on the topic?
No book to date has taken the notion of metonymy as far as I have in Metonymy and Language. No one has shown a commonality across such a wide range of linguistic and non-linguistic phenomena based on the ability to identify part-whole relations. Some might not like what I have done here but my approach is far more than just an exercise in renaming; it offers a powerful heuristic tool for understanding linguistic communication better, demonstrated in the book through the examination of a wide range of linguistic, social and cultural data.
Is there anything you'd like to highlight about this topic or your book in particular?
Identifying approximations, partial matches and overlaps in language is so common that carrying out these manipulations seems effortless and has almost gone unnoticed, but this belies their importance. Because in metonymy access to a concept as a whole is achieved through a part, the speaker is able to choose which part, and each choice they make brings about a slightly different emphasis or spin. An awareness of this powerful, but little recognized, aspect of communication, while interesting in itself, becomes particularly relevant when applied to the training of professionals who work with languages, such as editors, language teachers and translators/ interpreters.
What's a common misconception about this topic that you'd like to clear up?
Figurative language is crucial to the way we think and live. Metonymy, like metaphor, is now seen as being about thought rather than just about text, functional rather than decorative, and occurring universally across all fields of human endeavour, not just confined to literary texts. This has been the big shift in thinking in this field which cognitive linguistics has brought about. Metonymy has been misconceived as merely a device for referring but it actually has a far more important role in allowing the speaker to give shades of meaning, nuance and colour. The language system offers the basic buildings blocks; messages are arrived at through interpretation according to pragmatic principles; and between the two is metonymy which enables us to achieve the remarkably subtle gradations and nuances of meaning which we have learnt to expect from language.
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"Chem-trails are NOT a myth. I should know as I was an airline pilot for a major carrier before the recent rash of layoffs left me without a job or an income. Unlike many of my colleagues currently collecting unemployment, I have no desire to return to the airline industry and, therefore, am no longer committed to keeping the dark truth regarding chem-trails a secret.
As many other airline pilots, I started my flying career in the military. Here is where I first learned of the government's program to fill the sky with chem-trails for a number of sinister purposes. The operation was initially called "Dark Cloud" and later changed to "Silver Lining" (yes, the military is full of original thoughts, right?). Of course, like many other military pilots, I underwent an extensive background check in order to receive my "Top Secret" security clearance, the minimum level of clearance required to participate in Operation Silver Lining. By the way, this is one reason the airlines prefer hiring ex-military pilots, i.e., they already have the necessary clearance to continue the operation. Of course, civilian pilots are also hired, but there is a considerable expense in performing the necessary background checks on them in order to award them the prerequisite clearances.
The program functions generally as follows: The desired chemical agents (which I will cover in detail soon) are integrated into the jet fuel itself by the large oil companies at their refineries. This is why there are no separate delivery trucks or aircraft spraying systems to be found. The chemicals are dispersed directly by the engines into the atmosphere.
The military and "civilian" airline programs are very similar, so I will only cover the airline program in detail here.
It all starts with the flight plan. In addition to the aircraft weights, weather, route of flight, etc. are a couple of symbols. The first is an asterisk "*" and the second is a double asterisk "**". Tough stuff, eh? :-) Anyway, the asterisks will be found in the route of flight for the aircraft. For example, let's take a hypothetical flight from Los Angeles (LAX) to Denver (DEN). The flight plan will show a route of flight like this: LAX DAG* LAS BCE HBU** DEN. This is overly simplified, but it basically means the flight will fly from Los Angeles to Dagget to Las Vegas to Bryce Canyon to Blue Mesa then to Denver. Notice the asterisks? They mean chem-spraying is to begin over Dagget and end over Blue Mesa! Cool, huh?
Ok, so how do the pilots actually perform this spraying since, as many debunkers point out, there are no controls for the spraying in the cockpit? This just shows how little they know about the flight deck of an airliner! First of all, after the aircraft is filled with the chemically laced fuel, the fueler hands the pilots a sheet of paper with all the details of the fueling operation. In addition to the amount of fuel boarded are a couple of insidious little roman numerals located next to the fuel truck identification. These are usually I or II, but can be III or IV. These numbers signify the type of chemical agent found in the jet fuel. There is never more than one agent used at a time since it was discovered during trials at Edwards AFB in 1976 that they don't work well when mixed. This is what the numbers mean:
I - General purpose psychological control agent. Mild effect but covers wide areas.
II - Advanced psychological control agent. More powerful than type I but disperses and weakens quickly.
III - Large scale neutralizing agent. Nasty stuff! More details about this one below.
IV - Neural disruption agent. Kind of like a powerful airborne narcotic.
As you might guess, type I is used most frequently over wide sparsely populated areas. Type II is used whenever flights will be over densely populated areas like cites. Type III is basically a deadly nerve agent. Rarely used from airliners as you might imagine, but I did use this a few times in the Persian Gulf while flying over Iraq. We would wipe out a few small villages and naturally blame Saddam Hussein for the massacre. Type IV is usually used after significant political-social events like the Election 2000 debacle. In order to prevent mass riots or other civil disruptions, the population will be covered with Type IV agent to calm them down!
Getting back to the pilots, this is how the operation continues. After noting the type of agent from the fuel sheet, the pilots enter this data into the Flight Management Computer (FMC). For all you debunkers out there, the FMC is how the entire system is controlled, so of course you're note going to see anything extra on the flight deck! After telling the system what kind of agent is on board, the pilots enter the spraying start and stop points from the flight plan. Remember the asterisks? Well, the FMC doesn't have an asterisk key so the pilots use the following procedure. Once the route of flight is in the FMC, the pilots enter "CTB" (chem trail begin) with the keyboard and line select into the point with the single asterisk from the flight plan. Then they enter "CTS" (chem trail stop) and line select that into the point with the double asterisk. Now the aircraft knows where to begin and where to stop spraying!
How the system actually starts and stops the chem-trail is interesting also. After all, since the agent is in the fuel, how come the aircraft don't lay a trail on takeoff? The answer is in the molecular make up of the chemical agents. They are specifically engineered to be 10 times the size of the fuel molecules they accompany. There is a special fuel filter in the engines called a "spatial polarizing membrane". This membrane in its normal state is like a wood picket fence. It only allows the smaller fuel molecules to pass through and proceed to the engine's combustion chamber. However, when the FMC commands the engines to start chem-spraying, a signal is sent to the membrane and it reorients itself so the "slats" of the wood picket fence are edge on to the oncoming fuel. This basically opens up the filter to allow larger particles through, such as the chemical's molecules, and they proceed to the engine for dispersal.
Sometimes there are problems with the system. The most common malfunction is the finicky and temperamental polarizing membrane. After about 500 hours of use, it starts to degrade and the flow of chemical agent becomes sporadic. This can often times be seen in the irregular uneven nature of some chem-trails. Since the pilots cannot see the trail they are laying, they are not always aware that the membrane is screwing up. For this reason, air traffic control will often times put aircraft into holding patterns simply for the purpose of allowing the pilots to check their chem-trail for quality!
Finally, there is the HUGE issue of 9/11 and the government's BIG cover-up. Nothing new here, eh? It sure was convenient to blame the disaster of 9/11 on Islamic terrorists. After all, who really questioned it? The true perpetrators of the crime were none other than militant members of SAP (Society for Atmospheric Purity) that call themselves the "Purple Buttons". Apparently they identify themselves to each other by sewing a single purple button on their clothing. Although questionable in their methods, they are extremely knowledgeable about Operation Silver Lining and are working hard to defeat it. The purpose behind the 9/11 hijackings was the discovery of a new chemical agent, Type VII, that was ready for testing (Type V and VI are supposedly still under development). This new agent was supposed to attenuate the human desire for material objects and make people happy with their modest means. The application of this agent couldn't have come at a better time with the economy failing and unemployment increasing.
Well, the Purple Buttons learned about this new agent and the government's plan to debut the concoction on Sept. 11, 2001 using either 767's or 757's from United and American Airlines. Due to a well versed misinformation campaign, the Purple Buttons could not confirm exactly which flights would carry Type VII, but they narrowed it down to a few flight numbers. Naturally, they were transcontinental flights that would spread the agent from the east to west coast. The plan was to destroy the aircraft before they could spray Type VII across the entire country and while they were at it, they were going to demolish a few ground targets that were key to Operation Silver Lining.
The most prominent target was the World Trade Center twin towers. As you might recall, Tower One had a large antenna array on its roof. This antenna was a receiver for all the aircraft in the chem-trail operation. Basically, aircraft would transmit data regarding their operation such as agent used, altitude dispensed at, and atmospheric conditions to the receiver in Tower One. The computer that compiled and encrypted the data for transmission to central control was in Tower Two, so both buildings had to be taken out. Just where was this central control? It was either in the Pentagon or the North wing of the U.S. Capitol building. Those were the targets of the 757's in the operation.
Unbeknownst to the Purple Buttons, the receiver at the twin towers had been deactivated a month prior and moved to another location, believed to still be somewhere on the Eastern Seaboard as this is considered the geographic center of 85% of the world's airline activity. A further set back was the failure to take out central control which was confirmed to be at the Pentagon, but in another wedge. This too has thus been moved to an unknown location. Agent Type VII was subsequently tested again after 9/11 but found to be ineffective and is undergoing further refinement.
As for me, I am currently in negotiations to publish a book that exposes Operation Silver Lining. The book will be titled, "The High in the Sky" by Ex-Captain Jay. Wish me luck!"
link to www.chemtrailcentral.com
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I guess you missed all the comments after that...
The guy was obviously lying...never was a pilot..and was using the gullibility f his fellow chemtards (like u=you) to spread his nonsense.
Nope, he as much of a pilot as you are a shill.
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Mialo Tassi is one of the four Solar Grandmothers from the remote village of Agome Sevah in Togo. Photo: Lar Boland.
On their return to Agome Sevah, the Solar Grandmothers are greeted by the Chief of the village. Photo: Lar Boland.
Having returned to Agome Sevah after a six month training period at the Barefoot College, the Solar Grandmothers set about training others at their workshop. Photo: Lar Boland.
A group of Solar Grandmothers and helpers on their way to erecting solar panels at a small village home in Agame Sevah, Togo. Photo: Lar Boland.
Mialo Tassi, a Solar Grandmother, on her way to erecting solar panels at a small village home in Agome Sevah. Photo: Lar Boland.
Akouavi, a Solar Grandmother from Agome Sevah erecting solar panels at a small village home. Photo: Lar Boland.
Solar Grandmothers outside a newly built clinic which they are about to solar electrify. Photo: Lar Boland.
Solar Grandmothers install solar panels on the roof of the newly built clinic in Agome Sevah. Photo: Lar Boland.
A family from the rural village of Agome Sevah have their daily wash in the Mono river which seperates Togo from Benin. Photo: Lar Boland.
The much used Mono river which divides Togo and Benin. Photo: Lar Boland.
The river Mono between Togo and Benin is regularily crossed by traders. Photo: Lar Boland.
Children fishing in the Mono River. Photo: Lar Boland.
Petrol bought at a reduced price in Benin, and smuggled across the Mono river, is later sold on the streets of Togo, such as the capital Lome. Photo: Lar Boland.
Everyday life in Agome Sevah. Photo: Lar Boland.
A Togo war veteran with his grandaughter. Photo: Lar Boland.
A man builds a small dwelling in Agome Sevah. Photo: Lar Boland.
Children can now study in the evening with the help of solar power. In Togo, near the equator, it gets dark at around 5:30. Photo: Lar Boland.


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1 room, 2 adults
741 US HWY 250 East, Ashland, OH, 44805, United States of America, 855-239-9223
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"A stop on the way"
The hotel staff were very friendly. The room felt worn. The bed sagged on one side. The bathroom floor was sticky. Nice breakfast. Convenient location to highway and food.
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The beds and pillows were super comfy. Breakfast was good. Wish the curtains in the room blocked out more light.
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"Very comfortable"
On Business with Ashland University
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Pleasantly surprised to it was so nice. Newly renovated, flat screen, super clean bathroom, great breakfast, friendly staff.
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Response by Quality Inn
WOW what a nice compliment, thank you very much! It is a pleasant surprise I think because of the past reviews that are in the process of being eliminated since we are a completely different property than before. Hope that we continue to pleasantly surprise you when you visit Ashland for years to come with our great value and friendly service.
Poorly patched walls Toilet leaking around the base Felt cramped Just too worn out to move but the staff was willing to switch my room. I would not have thought it a$100 hotel but good for a $20 hotel. The staff was nice!
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Response by Quality Inn
Staff here are nice! Thank you for the compliment on them, they work hard to strive for excellent guest service. I do agree some rooms are on the small side and we are going through renovations hence the patches. I do want to apologize for the inconveniences you experienced during your stay with us. I hope you will stay with us again on your next trip to Ashland, give us a couple of months and I think you'll see much improvement and more value in our rooms at least worth $40!
The breakfast buffet was unbelievable. It was awesome. The staff was so friendly and helpful. We would not hesitate to stay there again and again. Thank you for a comfortable stay.
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Response by Quality Inn
Thank you for a wonderful review and the nice compliments. I appreciate you taking your time to give your great feedback, I will defiantly share your compliments with my staff! Hope to see you again soon!
"Close to Ashland Seminary"
We found the Quality Inn in Ashland to be a very comfortable hotel. The staff was very helpful and kind. The rooms, though a bit smallish, were very clean with comfortable beds. The breakfast had variety and was very well kept. I would definitely return when returning to Ashland and will definitely encourage others to stay here.
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Response by Quality Inn
Thank you for your wonderful compliment on our property. I am so happy that you had a great experience during your stay with us. We strive to have great guest service and provide clean and maintained rooms and I am happy that we were successful for your stay. I hope that you stay with us again and see the final product of our renovations!
Nice clean hotel
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Response by Quality Inn
Thank you for your review. If one word was to describe my property clean is what I would want that word to be. Hope you come back to see us again!
"Clean pool, decent room, friendly staff!"
A great stay for a very good price. Walk across the parking lot to Wendy's for supper. Swim in the very clean, saltwater pool. :)
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Response by Quality Inn
Isn't the saltwater pool the best ever no chemicals and makes your skin nice and smooth! I am pleased you found great value in our property during your stay. Thank you for the review and I hope to see you again!
"Not the worst but not the best hotel stay"
Not very impressed .... The desk clerk wasn't overly friendly when we arrived. The room was decent for the money, but there were cobwebs in the corner and some black mold-like material on the ceiling. The beds were pretty comfortable but room was kind of outdated. A college sports team arrived around 9pm. We were treated to a caucophony of yelling, banging on doors and slamming of doors until after 11pm. We tried to call the front desk but there was no answer. The noise started back up again at 530 am. The hotel was pretty empty when we arrived, so I'm not sure why we would be roomed next to a group of loud college students.
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"Good value!"
Pool wasn't in service but we would have gone swimming anyway. Staff was very friendly and helpful. Hotel was clean, everything was great.
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"Much improved"
Each stay I notice increased improvements
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"Much Much improved"
Since my last stay the hotel has made significant improvements!! New frigs, hotel is entirely nonsmoking I believe.
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"Front desk very friendly"
Front desk person very friendly, hotel convenient to my needs. The only dissatisfier was that although the room was nonsmoking, it smelled of smoke
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"Gross Gross Gross"
Can't stress how gross this place was. Said that it was "newly renovated" they did have a new bed cover but everything was so gross was greeted by desk staff in tshirts and casual clothes you would wear to clean your house. The next morning I was almost rundown by a hotel staff member running in hallway. The breakfast area was overrun w/ hotel staff eating was not welcoming environment. The hotel keeps side door unlocked at all hours this is a safety hazard. Terrible place
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Served my needs just fine.
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It was late when we arrived. I had reserved the room 4 months earlier and they staff is trying to tell me my card was denied. It took longer than it should have when I already had things paid for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"It is now Quality Inn and Suites"
They had changed the sign that morning...needless to say we missed it a few times but the lady at the desk was charming. the rooms were large and clean even though the style was a bit dated (but we were only there to sleep) The breakfast was sufficient-average for the type & star rating of the hotel. the only negative we experienced was that on the second floor we had limited wifi signal, it would come and go. but if you went to the lobby it was great.
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We arrived after check-in time to find out our room isn't ready. We go out & do what we needed to do & go back to the hotel hours later to find our room door standing wide open;the door was broken. We go down to the front desk to get another room. Go to Room 2 and it was dirty and smelt horrible. Go back down to front desk to get Room 3. Get to that room & the cigarette smell -in a non-smoking room, was awful, almost to the point you couldn't breathe and the air conditioner didn't work. Go back down to front desk for Room 4. Get to Room 4, there was hair in the shower, a huge stain in between the beds, cigarette burns in the carpet, beer caps on the floor, a hair in the sink, something sticky by the phone, the phone wouldn't work, and trash behind the TV stand and it reeked of smoke when it was to be non-smoking.We go back down to the front desk only to get told that they have no other clean rooms because their housekeepers didn't show up that day. So even though there were only to be 5 rooms booked in the whole hotel that night, 3/4 of them were still even more dirty than the ones that I went into that were to be clean. So, not only had this been Room 4, we had to go back upstairs and clean it ourselves. The girl at the front desk told us to come back in the morning and talk to the manager and was very apologetic, but at that point, we had already seen enough. We go back in the morning only to find out the manager isn't there yet even though he was to have been there over 2 hours before we got down to the front desk. We call back a couple of hours later to talk to the manager who wasn't very nice or apologetic. We get back to the hotel about 30 minutes after speaking to him on the phone to talk to him and the "owner" was also there. So we talk to this owner, who tells us there is nothing he can really do; we can check out and leave or we can deal with it. Not only is this absolutely ridiculous, it's horrible customer service. We should have had the prior night for
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"Hotel was under renovation at this time ."
Hotel was under renovation but we made the most of it, employees were very nice. While there we also went out and checked other hotels in the area for the future and if it matters ? your rate was much to high for the area. Will look around next time. Thank You Mr. Lee Reck
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TripAdvisor reviews for Quality Inn
Overall rating:TripAdvisor Traveller Rating: 2.5Based on 38 traveler reviews
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06/05/15 Lee F
Short notice stay (truck broke down), so it was difficult to find a room here in town. They were able to shuffle things around so we could stay again tonight, but not for the next couple of days. They did everything they could to find us a room, even calling the competition, all to no avail. In spite of their lack of success finding a room for us, they were very professional & polite.
05/31/15 kaysherm
After reading some of these reviews, I was a little skeptical of booking a room here. However, I was delightfully surprised by our stay. The hotel was very clean and the beds were comfortable. The staff was excellent and accommodating. Since this was our first time visiting Ashland, we had no idea what to do with our down time. The ladies at the front desk were helpful with recommendations on what to do. I would absolutely stay here again.
"Basketball tourney stay over"
04/17/15 mike8049 Warren, PA
Nice hotel with pool and jacuzzi. Breakfast was fine. Hotel has been undergoing facelift. Our tub area was obviously not yet re-done but it was fine for our purposes. The main point of my review though is to commend the front desk staff who were on duty last Saturday afternoon,evening and Sunday morning. What a friendly and helpful group!! We had a couple small requests that they were very willing to fulfill. It was five star friendliness and we were very impressed. The young lady working the 2nd shift on Saturday was top notch, though they all were very good. The hotel management should know that they have some great customer friendly staff. One note - First hotel I can recall being in, in a long time without an elevator. Only two floors but was still surprising though I rarely use them in smaller buildings just interesting to note.
"Nice stay "
03/24/15 Darren W Hammond
Front desk clerk very friendly upon check in rooms were clean bed was comfortable pillows were fluffy flat screen TV in room microwave an frig in room. I only have one negative need to cover up small holes were head board use to be looks tacky over nice stay
"Very nice"
12/27/14 edkingcortland Cortland, New York
The hotel is in the late stages of a remodel and looks nice. The pool area is pleasant , clean and appealing. The staff is very nice and helpful. The breakfast is good. The only objection I have is we were in Rm 128 ( non-smoking) and it is right next to the exit and stairwell to up stairs ,where smoking is allowed. So when smokers went in and out the smell carried back into our room. The location is right off the interstate and on the the straightaway to Main St Ashland, very convenient for us.
"Good Service, Clean Rooms"
11/28/14 tragaller2012 Sioux City, Iowa
Stayed over Thanksgiving weekend and was pleased with the clean rooms, nice staff and warm pool. Hot tub was out of order but that was OK. Laundry services were a plus as well. Front desk help was nice and helpful. Fast food right across the parking lot as well. Overall, good place.
"Very Disappointed"
11/22/14 LemCat Ohio
My daughter and I stayed at the Quality Inn as we were going to a horse show the next day. The location of the hotel was very convenient and close to the freeway and restaurants. The desk clerk was not very friendly upon out arrival. Our room was decent ... There were some cobwebs in the corner and some unidentifiable spots on one of the duvets but not really a big deal. Around 9pm a college athletic team arrived in a storm of yelling, banging on doors and repeated slamming of doors. This went on until about midnight. I called the front desk and no one answered. I went out into the hallway and asked the young men to please keep it down. Eventually they went to bed, only to get up at 6am and start all over again. While I understand that the hotel staff is not responsible for the young men's ignorance and lack of respect, I do think that common sense would dictate that you would have the team stay in one block of rooms AWAY from the rest of the other paying, quiet guests. The hotel was not full, so keeping them all to together would have been possible.
"Excellent Stay"
09/14/14 docswife88 Marietta, Ohio
Stayed two nights and it was great. Newly renovated. Amazingly clean, very comfortable beds and pillows, quiet. Great breakfast. Very friendly staff. Pool was great. We will definitely be staying here during future visits.
06/08/14 Larry H
Booked this room on priceline.com. according to the website the hotel had a indoor pool and free continental breakfast. Showed up to check in and the hotel was under a renovation. The pool was closed and so was the continental breakfast. The room was dirty. The staff at the front desk were helpful but I would of booked at a different hotel if I was assured I wouldn't be charged a cancellation fee. Never staying there again not worth the 75 dollars for the one night stay.
"The WORST hotel that I've ever been in!"
10/14/13 lkrebs25 Toledo, Ohio
I made a reservation at this hotel based on a friend's suggestion. I usually check the reviews before I make reservations but I didn't this time (big mistake!). I arrived and the lobby area was dingy and dirty, and the front desk staff did not look professional at all. I was told by the front desk staff that I overpaid for the room, meaning that since I paid through Expedia I paid $100, vs, going directly through them would have cost me $75. Great :( I went through the back exterior entrance to the building which had a key swipe device to be able to open the door, but it was covered with a plate, which meant anyone could enter the hotel through that entrance. he stairway to the 2nd floor was absolutely filthy, as was the hallway to the room. I got to my room and it was ajar. I knocked and then opened the door and turned on the light switch, which didn't work. I found no one in my room, but then when I tried to close the door it just kept popping open and wouldn't fully latch. I went back to the front desk and told them about my problem, and they moved me to a room across the hall. When I entered the room, it had this 'chemical smell' which was overwhelming. I turned on the AC to try to get rid of it. I checked the bed and the blanket on one of the beds had this huge hole in it. I finally decided that this was NOT the place for me and went back to the front desk to request my money back. They said they couldn't give it to me since I booked the room through Expedia, so I said I would work with Expedia to get my refund. I'm currently working on that now. I would NEVER stay in this place even if you paid me! I'm afraid of what may be lurking around the room at night. I did move to the Holiday Inn Express across the road and had a wonderful stay there (for only $20 more)! Do yourself a favor and stay away from this place!
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Somebody dumped a large window frame in the midtown parkette, where the broken glass presents a danger to kids and pets.
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The broken window theory should apply at the Redpath Avenue Parkette , and the sooner the better.
The theory is that if a broken window isn't cleaned up and fixed soon after the damage, more broken windows will occur in the neighbourhood, along with other bad stuff.
At the Redpath parkette, the bad stuff could well become the cause of serious injuries to kids and dogs who stumble into it.
A reader reported on SeeClickFix that a large window was dumped in the small park, at Erskine and Redpath Aves. , near Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Eglinton Ave., and was "smashed to pieces by vandals."
The broken glass is not far from a children's playground, said the reader, adding that the lawn surrounding the window pane was mowed last week, but nothing was done about the glass.
We went there and found a window frame filled with shards of glass in a corner of the parkette, behind a bench near Erskine, where it would be easy for someone to stumble over it.
Two people were tossing a baseball not far away, but one of them was not particularly adept at catching the ball and ended up repeatedly chasing it into the area where the glass is.
It wouldn't be hard for someone to wander into the broken glass and end up with a serious cut, especially at night.
STATUS: We sent an email to Bob Crump, the area parks director, asking if he can arrange to have the glass cleaned up. Cheryl San Juan, who deals with media for the parks department, emailed us Monday to say the glass is gone.
UPDATE: In our column last Wednesday about a sinkhole in an East York intersection, we also mentioned water gushing out of a utility cover at the corner of Broadview and Cosburn Aves. Ellen Leesti, who deals with media for Toronto Water, said a broken valve in the chamber below the cover was the cause of the leak. Leesti said it was scheduled to be fixed last Friday.
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