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- Ramesh , drinking Peet's since 2000 10/25/14
- N. Brunswick, NJ
I normally enjoy Peet's espresso blends, but this time I decided to try Cafe Domingo.
This bright, lightly fruity blend turned out best using my syphon brewer. This produced a very clean, beautiful extraction. I have tried other blends, but Cafe Domingo is perfect for this brewing method.
If you have not tried Cafe Domingo for drip or syphon brewing, you will not be disappointed.
- Karrl , drinking Peet's since 2009 12/26/12
I like medium roasts and Colombian Supreme has been my favorite for years. Nothing smells so good as the smell of fresh roasted coffee beans. This blend is just delicious/very tasty. One of a few coffees that taste just like the beans smell. Cafe Domingo is the best!
- Nortwoodst 5/28/12
I reside in rural northern Wisconsin and my son brought your medium roast coffee with him on his recent visit over Memorial Day. To my surprise they were fantastic!! I would highly recommend Pete''s coffee to all coffee lovers!!!!!
- Kevin , drinking Peet's since 2010 3/24/12
- Adrian, MI
Being somewhat of a newbie to Peet's, I have enjoyed sampling many of their delicious beans. Yes, while this blend isn't as bold as others, Cafe Domingo is a very smooth and well balanced coffee. It is one of my favorites and I think it would be a good introduction for people who aren't coffee drinkers.
- Rob Pick , drinking Peet's since 2000 3/4/12
- Wilmington, DE
To compare Caf
- pc&t luvr , drinking Peet's since 2000 3/2/12
- berkeley, CA
i am a die-hard peetnik and am willing to give anything a try with Peet's name on it - i am drinking cafe domingo this moment and felt that i had to write about it right away. toffee - yes, clean crisp finish - yes = but this is not a Peet's Coffee & Tea. if you are interested in medium roasts please do this under a different name. my favorite coffees now are from latin america and i will be picking up a pound of my blend 101 later today...thanks for reading...


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Escape to Winchester this Christmas season and experience the perfect English Christmas.
Enjoy the Christmas Market which will be running daily from Thursday 20 November or don your hat and gloves and head to the Christmas ice rink.
Find the perfect gift in one of Winchester's unusual boutiques, galleries or nationally-known stores.
For information on all things Christmassy take a look at the Christmas in Winchester guide or request a copy from the tourist information centre by emailing email@example.com.
More details and events will be published on this website in the coming months so keep coming back to find out more.
To see why so many people spend the festive season in Winchester have a look at our short Christmas in Winchester film
Join the conversation on Twitter - what's your #perfectxmas?
To find out more about Winchester and the surrounding district go to www.visitwinchester.co.uk, call our tourist information centre on 01962 840 500 or email.
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Cloe here, Bratzies, and I'm super excited today to see that, with the five women inaugurated into the United States Senate this month, there are now more women serving in the Senate than have ever served before in US History. What's even cooler is that 70% of those women are former Girl Scouts. That means these women were learning how to help their fellow man and be strong leaders when they were our age!
What I like the most about this is that it proves that it's never too soon to start being a leader, or to reach out and help your community. I plan to start helping out by volunteering with the Special Olympics this year, and put my love for sports to a good use by empowering the athletes I will work with. Maybe someday, it'll be ME getting sworn in to help make the United States a better place.
What have you done to help your school, community, or country? What would you like to do to help?
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It's no secret that fast-food chain Chick-Fil-A donates to anti-gay Christian charities — the chain has been getting flak from gay-rights groups for a while now on that. But this week, the company flunked crisis PR 101 and spawned a social-media firestorm with its inept handling of the issue. If there was a gay person — or supporter — left in the U.S.A. with a Facebook account who didn't know about the boycott of Chick-Fil-A, there isn't now.
The flames were re-ignited Tuesday when company president Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press he is "guilty as charged" of donating to anti-gay charities. Then the company tried to fix the problem with an announcement on Chick-Fil-A's Facebook page that sent the whole controversy massively viral. Here's the exact verbiage:
"The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect – regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender. We will continue this tradition in the over 1,600 Restaurants run by independent Owner/Operators. Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena.
"Chick-fil-A is a family-owned and family-led company serving the communities in which it operates. From the day Truett Cathy started the company, he began applying biblically-based principles to managing his business. For example, we believe that closing on Sundays, operating debt-free and devoting a percentage of our profits back to our communities are what make us a stronger company and Chick-fil-A family.
"Our mission is simple: to serve great food, provide genuine hospitality and have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A."
Translation: "We'd like to close our eyes now, count to ten, and you should forget all about our fervently avowed political views — which we won't be changing — and go back to eating our chicken a lot."
Which didn't work.
This non-response didn't answer the questions on many people's minds: Will the company stop donating to groups that are actively opposing gay-marriage laws, and controversial "gay-curing" groups such as Exodus International? Also, how are gay employees treated at the company given the corporate culture?
By essentially refusing to address the issues its founder raised, Chick-Fil-A just made a lot of people madder.
Also. by issuing its statement only on its Facebook page — no official company press release was issued — Chick-Fil-A attempted to hide the controversy in a corner instead of facing it square-on. Unfortunately, the social-media corner is exactly the wrong corner for trying to hide something like this.
Now, you can check the Twitter hashtag #ChickFilGay for copycat chicken recipes so you can make the company's sandwiches at home and avoid patronizing the chain. There's also news of boycott parties being organized, along with an endless stream of remarks such as Emily Testerman's @little__ghost: "farewell forever #chickfila, yer waffle fries and lil' nugs can't mask the bitter taste of your intolerance."
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Barbara B. Cain, 76, passed away at the Woodridge Nursing Home in Berlin on Friday evening, October 14, 2011. Born in Paterson, NJ, on February 11, 1935, she was the daughter of the late Henry H. and Marion P. Bastedo. On July 28, 1956, Barbara married Jerre M. Cain in Glen Rock, NJ. Jerre passed away on January 13, 2007.
Barbara was a 1953 graduate of Ridgewood (NJ) High School and continued her education at Wesley College in Dover, Delaware, where she received her associate's degree in 1955.
Barbara worked as a medical secretary for several years while living in New Jersey and in 1975, she and Jerre moved to Vermont. Settling in the Mad River Valley, Barbara worked as a dental assistant and later as a bookkeeper. An avid skier, she and Jerre where longtime members of the Mad River Glen Ski Patrol and Barbara also was a 25-year crewmember of the Mad River Valley Ambulance Service. An avid bicyclist as well, she also enjoyed creating art, painting and gardening.
Barbara is survived by her two sons, Scott A. Cain of Homestead, PA, and Glenn E. Cain of Alma, CO; two granddaughters, Emily and Abigail Cain; a sister, Laura M. Cosgrove of Rockaway, NJ; as well as nieces, nephews and extended family.
Memorial services will be held from the Mad River Glen Base Lodge on Saturday, October 22, 2011, from 4 to 6 p.m. Memorial gifts would be appreciated to the Mad River Valley Ambulance Service, P.O. Box 305, Waitsfield, VT 05673. To send online condolences please visit www.perkinsparker.com and Facebook. Assisting the family is the Perkins-Parker Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Waterbury.


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Were the Beatles the Catalyst for the Charles Manson Murders?
As the Beatles evolved as songwriters, some of their more impressionistic, abstract lyrics became open to interpretation. For an ex-con and violent racist named Charles Manson, the Nov.1968 release of 'The Beatles,' also known as the 'White Album' for its plain cover, would provide a treasure trove of new puzzles.
Manson heard secret messages in many of the two-disc set's 30 tracks, believing that the songs were a confirmation by the Beatles that a sweeping race war was looming. He thought that if a string of grisly murders that he hoped could be blamed on black activists, Armageddon would happen and he would rise to power in the void left behind.
In the summer of 1969, Manson lived on a ranch in California's Death Valley with a group of followers who would become known as the Family. Manson instructed his disciples to go to the Los Angeles home of director Roman Polanski and actress Sharon Tate on a deadly mission. Polanski was in Europe working on a film; the five people in the house, including the pregnant Tate, were killed after midnight on Aug. 9. "Pig" was written on the front door in Tate's blood.
On Manson's orders the next night, Family members killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their home. Police found "Rise" and "Death to Pigs" written on the living room walls and "Helter Skelter" misspelled in blood on the refrigerator. The inscriptions were gruesome references to songs from the 'White Album.'
At his 1970 trial, Manson testified for an hour outside the presence of the jury. He provided some insight about the connection Manson made between the Beatles' music and the brutal murders of seven innocent people. 'Helter Skelter,' it was said, had simply been Paul McCartney's attempt to write a very loud, raunchy rock 'n' roll record. But Manson had a more sinister interpretation of lines like "It's coming down fast."
"'Helter Skelter' is confusion," Manson testified at his trial. "Confusion is coming down fast. If you can't see the confusion coming down around you fast — you can call it what you wish. It is not my conspiracy. It is not my music. I hear what it relates. It says 'Rise.' It says 'Kill.' Why blame it on me? I didn't write the music."
"'Helter Skelter' was the motive for the murders," prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi told Time magazine. "In England, helter skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, 'Helter Skelter' meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of. When the album first came out … he got a copy, and he came racing back to the ranch all excited and said, 'The Beatles are telling it like it is! The s— is coming down!' It was this war that he felt he could ignite by killing white people and blaming black militants, this war called 'Helter Skelter.'"
"When the Beatles' 'White Album' came out, Charlie listened to it over and over and over and over again," recalled Family member Catherine Share in the documentary 'Manson.' "It wasn't that Charlie listened to the 'White Album' and started following what he thought the Beatles were saying. It was the other way around. He thought that the Beatles were talking about what he had been expounding for years. Every single song on the 'White Album,' he felt that they were singing about us."
'Revolution 9,' a disturbing montage of screams, explosions, grunting pigs and machine gun fire, also resonated with Manson. "Rise!" is shouted on the track; that word would be written in blood on the walls of the LaBianca home on the second night of the killing spree. The phrase "Number nine" is repeated throughout, which Manson interpreted as a reference to the ninth chapter of the Bible's Book of Revelation.
Manson made a connection between the verses of Revelation 9, the Beatles and himself. Some examples: "And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men." To Manson, the four angels were the Beatles, who would help him destroy the white race. "And their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women." Manson believed this referred to the Beatles' long hair. "And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit." Manson saw himself in the role of the fifth angel. The "bottomless pit" represented the desert hideout where the Family would wait out Helter Skelter.
"I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire… and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone." The "breastplates of fire" represented the Beatles' electric guitars; the "fire and smoke and brimstone" were the band's incendiary lyrics that would incite Helter Skelter.
When the Beatles released the hard-rocking 'Revolution' as the B-side to 'Hey Jude' in Aug.1968, it included the lyric, "But when you're talking 'bout destruction / Don't you know that you can count me out." But when a slower version was released on the 'White Album' three months later, the line became "Don't you know that you can count me out — in." Manson took this change as an indication that the Beatles now sanctioned his plan for a race war.
The image of pigs was used to portray greedy people in George Harrison's 'Piggies,' but Manson and his followers took the imagery many steps further. Family member Susan Atkins used a towel saturated in Tate's blood to write "Pig" on the front door of Tate's house. Leno LaBianca was found with a knife in his throat and a fork in his stomach, which was believed to be a reference to the song's last line, that the pigs were "clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon."
McCartney told KCRW radio how he came to write 'Blackbird' in 1968. "I was in Scotland just playing on my guitar, and I remembered this whole idea of 'you were only waiting for this moment to arise' was about, you know, the black people's struggle in the Southern states, and I was using the symbolism of a black bird. It's not really about a blackbird whose wings are broken, you know, it's a bit more symbolic." For Manson, the song was an emphatic statement that this was the time for black people to revolt against the white power structure.
The Beatles, of course, were horrified.
"Everybody was getting on the big Beatle bandwagon," Harrison said in 'Anthology.' "The police and the promoters and the Lord Mayors – and murderers too. The Beatles were topical and they were the main thing that was written about in the world, so everybody attached themselves to us, whether it was our fault or not. It was upsetting to be associated with something so sleazy as Charles Manson."
John Lennon, in Rolling Stone, added: "A lot of the things he says are true: he is a child of the state, made by us, and he took their children in when nobody else would. He's balmy, like any other Beatle-kind of fan who reads mysticism into it. … I don't know what 'Helter Skelter' has to do with knifing somebody."
McCartney focused on the distance between the Beatles' intent and Manson's: "It was terrible. You can't associate yourself with a thing like that. Some guy in the States had done it — I've no idea why. It was frightening, because you don't write songs for those reasons. Maybe some heavy metal groups do nowadays, but we certainly never did."
Meanwhile, two of the victims were acquaintances of Ringo Starr's. "It was upsetting," he said. "I mean, I knew Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate and, God, it was a rough time. It stopped everyone in their tracks, because suddenly all this violence came out in the midst of all this love and peace and psychedelia. It was pretty miserable, actually, and everyone got really insecure — not just us, not just the rockers, but everyone in L.A. felt: 'Oh God, it can happen to anybody.' Thank God they caught the bugger."
In 1971, Manson and four members of the Family — Charles "Tex" Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie van Houten and Susan Atkins — were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The following year, California abolished the death penalty. The sentences of Manson and the Family members were commuted to life in prison. Atkins died in prison in 2009. Manson and the others remain behind bars, where they have been repeatedly denied parole.


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Cross-lingual concept mapping based on the information receiver's prior-knowledgeGlückstad, Fumiko Kano (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A Japanese acquaintance who has been living in Denmark for more than 40 years formulated his difficult mission of undertaking translation tasks in the following way: "Once I deeply understood the two cultures [Denmark and Japan] and the cultural differences/nuances of conceptual meanings existing in the two countries, it became impossible for me to translate culturally-specific terms into the other language. Existing language resources [dictionaries etc.] are in this context useless". What he was frustratingly expressing is that it becomes virtually an impossible task to precisely translate or convey the meaning of a Culturally-Specific Concept (CSC) if no exact equivalent concept exists in the Target Language (TL) culture. Despite this inherent frustration, communicators or translators are still required to convey such CSCs into a TL in an optimal manner such that a TL reader can instantly infer the original meaning of a given Source Language (SL) concept. In short, the key issue is whether there can be found a way to solve this inherently frustrating situation which even skilled human translators cannot easily cope with ? The challenge of translating CSCs from an SL is not only caused by the absence of equivalent concepts in a TL culture, but also due to differences of the background knowledge possessed by the two parties involved in a cross-cultural communication scenario. Sperber & Wilson (1986) emphasize that, although all humans live in the physical world, mental representations are constructed differently due to differences in our close environment and our different cognitive abilities. Because people use different languages and have mastered different concepts, the way they construct representations and make inference is also dissimilar. Since an individual possesses a total cognitive environment that is the set of facts based on his/her perceptual ability, inferential ability, actual awareness of facts, knowledge he/she has acquired and so on, it is much easier to achieve a so-called "asymmetric" coordination between communicator and audience (Sperber & Wilson, 1986).... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8546
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Insights into Language Choice from a Case Study of Danish and Austrian Multinational Corporations (MNCs)Bellak, Nina (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: International businesses like multinational corporations (MNCs) operate across national, cultural and linguistic borders both internally and externally, and thus are under pressure to make language choices. Despite the increasing tendency towards 'English only', little is known about whether language can be managed. In addressing this research gap, the present thesis explores language choice in four MNCs. A deeper understanding of language choice in its social context enables us to learn more about the manageability of language in such international business contexts. The theoretical framework draws on primarily sociolinguistic theories, combined with concepts from applied linguistics, language policy and planning/management, linguistic anthropology, translation studies, social psychology, and international business and management. The analyses in this qualitative case study are based on different empirical data, though with a focus on interview data, collected from two Danish and two Austrian headquarters and selected subsidiaries. The findings suggest that language choice is a social, contextually-bound and multilingual phenomenon. More specifically, the MNCs operate as multilingual speech communities where headquarters and subsidiaries choose their own language and English as a lingua franca only if necessary. The notions of corporate language and language policy are partly negatively connotated and point towards non-management. Furthermore, participants' language choices are informed by (1) their language proficiency (first language and possible foreign languages), (2) their roles, role relationships within the employment domain, and politeness strategies, all shaped by relative status and power, (3) their attitudes to language and motivations, and (4) social forces external to the MNC community. At a more abstract level, social context is defined by (1) social-linguistic, (2) social-relational, (3) social-psychological and (4) social-regulatory contextual dimensions that inform or impose the choices of HQ languages, local/customer languages and English (as a lingua franca). The language choices can involve code-switching/-mixing, passive multilingualism, translation and interpretation, language learning and acquisition, human resource management (selective recruitment and staff relocation). Most of the choices are in fact made at both the individual and corporate levels, which are hard to separate from one another. The corporate level is fragmented into individual executives who make language choices in their own right which are far from harmonized. An additional level is external forces (e.g. authorities, laws) that impose the use of multiple languages on the MNCs. Finally, language choices vary across the MNCs' organizational units, internal and external communications and communicative situations. It can be concluded that language choice is a social, complex, context-dependent and multilingual phenomenon which makes it hard to control or regulate. In conclusion, my research indicates that language management in international business contexts undertaken by MNCs can hardly be centralized or monolingual. Under the influence of external forces, it is even beyond their control. This suggests that language management needs to be localized, multilingual and sensitive to social context. Ultimately, one could question whether language needs to be managed at all or should be better left to individual choice. This knowledge can contribute to both research and business practice. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8973
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An eye-tracking and key-logging studySjørup, Annette Camilla (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis, titled Cognitive effort in metaphor translation – an eye-tracking and key-logging study, is an empirical investigation of professional translators' cognitive effort during metaphor translation. Metaphors are defined as expressions in which one concept is used to characterise another concept, such as Peter is a wolf in which the characteristics of the wolf are used to define Peter. As a point of departure, the thesis adopts the direct access view of metaphors in which metaphors are regarded as unambiguous expressions which are interpreted as metaphors directly. Metaphors have primarily been researched in monolingual studies such as Glucksberg (2001) and Inhoff et al. (1984), who investigated how metaphors are processed and the cognitive effort required for this processing compared with literal expressions. The conclusion to their studies was that metaphors were not more cognitively effortful to process than literal expressions and that they were not necessarily more ambiguous either. Dagut (1987) and Newmark (1985, 1988) discussed metaphors from a translation perspective in which they regarded metaphors as a particular translation problem. Trim (2007) argued that the translatability of metaphors was related to their language-specific saliency. Neither Dagut, Newmark or Trim was empirical in his methodology, and the purpose of this thesis was to bridge the gap between the empirical methodology used in metaphor comprehension research and the more qualitative methodology used in metaphor translation research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8698
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Understanding searchAlfort, Esben (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis provides a framework for information retrieval based on a set of models which together illustrate how users of search engines come to express their needs in a particular way. With such insights, we may be able to improve systems' capabilities of understanding users' requests and through that eventually the ability to satisfy their needs. Developing the framework necessitates discussion of context, relevance, need development, and the cybernetics of search, all of which are controversial topics. Transaction log data from two enterprise search engines are analysed using a specially developed method which classifies queries according to what aspect of the need they refer to. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8720
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Abstract: Med udgangspunkt i det danske talesprogskorpus DanPASS undersøges tilbøjeligheden til fonetisk reduktion i dansk talesprog i forhold til en række intralingvistiske faktorer. I undersøgelsen udføres en kortlægning mellem 300.000 fonemer og foner. På baggrund af denne kortlægning er det muligt at danne et meget detaljeret billede af både hvor i sproget den fonetiske realisering afviger fra den fonologisk forudsagte form, og naturen af denne afvigelse. I afhandlingen fokuseres der på den type afvigelser der kan karakteriseres som reduktioner, dvs. svækkelse og bortfald af de enkelte lydsegmenter. De reducerede forekomster sammenlignes med de øvrige annoterede lag i korpusset, herunder grammatiske, informationsstrukturelle og prosodiske forhold. Det demonstreres at tilbøjeligheden til reduktion, såvel som reduktionernes fonetisk resultat, i høj grad er knyttet til lingvistisk faktorer, såsom ordklasse, grammatisk funktion, ny vs. kendt information, fokus, emfase mm. foruden en række fonologiske faktorer. Reduktioner bliver ofte betragtet som sprogligt ukrudt, men på baggrund af den systematiske sammenhæng med informationsbærende elementer i sproget, virker det rimeligt at betragte reduktioner som funktionelle elementer, der er understøttende for kommunikationen snarere end forstyrrende. I afhandlingen udforskes og dokumenteres en række tilbøjeligheder som ikke tidligere er undersøgt i dansk, og kun sparsomt i internationale sammenhænge. Herigennem opnås et dybere indblik i dansk lydstruktur og de mønstre som reduktioner generelt ser ud til at følge. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8676
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A Corpus-Based Cross-Linguistic StudyGylling, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Effective communication requires texts to be organised into a coherent discourse structure. But languages vary considerably in how they do this, posing a challenge for effective intercultural communication. Instead of relying on our own preferred persuasion style to be the most effective, we need to take into consideration that people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds do not necessarily employ the same linguistic means in similar communication situations. This is of particular importance in a business context, and a profound understanding of cross-linguistic differences in the organisation of argumentative texts is needed. In order to address this challenge, this thesis presents a study of structural characteristics in argumentative texts across three different languages. The aim of the study is to examine some of the linguistic means that writers of different languages employ when creating persuasive discourses. The study is based on 150 Danish, English and Italian speeches held by Members of the European Parliament in their native language. The linguistic means under investigation are conceptualised as belonging to three different structural domains which account for different ways of linking discourse units in a text: a syntactically organised text structure, a rhetorically organised discourse structure and an information packaging organised information structure. The structural domains are defined from a cognitive-functional perspective and juxtaposed into a single analytical framework. The analyses show that writers across the three languages generally use the same rhetorical relations to build up persuasive discourses. But the analyses also reveal that the Danish, English and Italian writers textualise relations differently. The Danish writers use almost exclusively finite verb forms in coordinate and subordinate structures. The English writers tend to avoid explicating the rhetorical relations between discourse units, and the Italian writers tend to include more units inside the same sentence than the Danish and English writers. The analyses also suggest that the cross-linguistic differences in textualisation can be correlated with certain persuasive strategies. The Danish writers tend to persuade by analogy, making use of typical features from narratives. The English writers make use of presentational persuasion style, involving themselves in a more personal way than the Danish and Italian writers. And lastly, the Italian writers make use of typical features from quasilogical persuasion style, adopting a formal register and argumentation. This thesis formulates an analytical framework for a systematic investigation of the structure of discourse across languages, pairing theories and methods from the two parallel disciplines of linguistics and rhetoric in order to gain more insights into effective intercultural communication. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8794
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Hondurans went to the polls this Sunday to elect a new president. The Central American country has a whole host of problems to deal with, including the highest levels of violence in the world and increased drug cartel activity. Most pressing, though, the new leader will inherit a failing economy. Honduras is broke. It just borrowed, for the first time, $500 million on the international bond market, but that wasn't even enough to bail the country out of its devastating financial troubles.


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Meltzer releases rumored cast of TUF 18 - Mixed Martial Arts News
Dave Meltzer has published a list of 17 female fighters that are reportedly have reportedly made the cut for TUF 18, and will fight in the first episode to make it into the house. Meltzer noted that he cannot vouch for the authenticity of the list, but said it came from a good source. He added that he knew five names of fighters who had made it, and all are on the list.
The list numbers 17, and only 16 women are expected to make it. The discrepancy is possibly due to the inclusion of Tara LaRosa, 35, who Meltzer said he had heard did not make the cut due to age, but was never the less on the list.
TUF will also feature 16 male fighters who will also fight in a single elimination event to make it into the house.
The season, which features female coaches Ronda Rousey and Cat Zingano, starts filming in a few weeks.
Marcia Allen
Shayna Baszler
Revelina Berto
Jessamyn Duke
Ashlee Evans-Smith
Tonya Evinger
Gina Mazany
Peggy Morgan
Tara LaRosa
Valerie Letourneau
Lia Mataafa
Roxanne Modafferi
Julianna Pena
Raquel Pennington
Bethany Marshall
Katie Merrill
Colleen Schneider