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Morphosyntax of Dravidian Languages
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Please check back later for the full article.
The Dravidian languages, spoken mainly in southern India and south Asia, were identified as a separate language family between 1816 and 1856. Four of the twenty-six Dravidian languages, namely Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, have long literary traditions, the earliest dating back to the 1st century ce. Currently, these four languages have between them over 200 million speakers. The languages exhibit prototypical OV (object-verb) properties but relatively free word order, and they are rich in nominal and verbal inflection; Malayalam alone lacks verb agreement.
A typical characteristic of Dravidian, which is also an areal characteristic of south Asian languages, is that experiencers and inalienable possessors are case-marked dative. Another is the serialization of verbs by the use of participles, and the use of light verbs to indicate aspectual meaning such as completion, (self- or non-self) benefaction, and reflexivization. Subjects, and arguments in general (e.g., direct and indirect objects), may be non-overt. So is the copula, except in Malayalam.
A number of properties of Dravidian are of interest from a universalist perspective, beginning with the observation that not all syntactic categories N, V, A, and P may be primitive. Dravidian postpositions are nominal or verbal in origin. A mere thirty proto-Dravidian roots have been identified as adjectival; these include numerals, quantifiers, and demonstratives in the proximate-distal-wh series. The adjectival function is performed by inflected verbs (participles) and nouns. The nominal encoding of experiences (as fear rather than afraid/afeared), and the absence of the verb have, arguably correlates with the appearance of dative case on experiencers. "Possessed" or genitive-marked N may fulfil the adjectival function, as also noticed for languages like Ulwa (a less exotic parallel may be adduced from the English of-possessive construction; cf. circles of light, cloth/rings of gold). More uniquely perhaps, Kannada instantiates dative-marked nouns as predicative adjectives. A recent argument that Malayalam verbs may originate as dative-marked nouns suggests that N is the only primitive syntactic category, and the seminal role of dative case.
Other important aspects of Dravidian morphosyntax that have received attention are anaphors and pronouns, in particular the long-distance anaphor taan and the verbal reflexive morpheme; question (wh-) words and the question/disjunction morphemes, which combine in a semantically transparent way to form quantifier words like someone; the use of reduplication to indicate distributive quantification; and the occurrence of "monstrous agreement" (first-person agreement in clauses embedded under a speech predicate, triggered by matrix third person antecedents).
Traditionally, agreement has been considered the marker of finiteness in Dravidian. The negative morpheme assumes finite and non-finite forms; the occurrence of matrix non-finite verb forms in finite negative clauses challenges the current equation of finiteness and tense.
The Dravidian languages are standardly considered to be wh- in situ languages, but wh- words, in fact, seem to move to a pre-verbal position in the unmarked word order; the consequent, apparently rightward, movement of some wh- arguments can be avoided by assuming a universal VO order, and wh-movement to a pre-verbal focus phrase.


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ECB: Draghi's comments
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Fees: Scottish and EU students pay £1,820 per year while those from the rest of the UK pay £7,740 per year for full-time degree courses.
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June 18, 2007
The markets have gone global, and U.S. regulators ought to catch up if they want keep American exchanges competitive, allowing investors, particularly institutional, greater access, said participants during a roundtable discussion hosted by the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington last week.
"Regulation needs to find its way through and get ahead of this game, rather than follow it," said Meyer "Sandy" Frucher, chairman and chief executive of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
Addressing the trend of cross-border trading is inevitable, said SEC Chairman Christopher Cox. The question is how to best execute it.
Later this year, the SEC expects to introduce new rules reflecting such "mutual understanding" among regulators and exchanges at home and abroad, potentially making trading foreign securities simpler.
Global markets, Cox said, are "opportunities, not dangers."
In 2000, the amount that U.S. investors funneled into foreign securities was $1.6 trillion, and that swelled to $4.6 trillion last year, said Ethiopis Tafara, director of international affairs at the SEC. The majority of that sum comes from mutual funds, followed by American depository receipts and private placement agreements.
Twenty percent of the London Stock Exchange is held by U.S. investors. Again, the biggest investors are mutual funds, said Jonathan Howell, executive director and director of finance at the LSE.
Fund companies like Vanguard of Malvern, Pa., and American Funds investment advisor Capital Research and Management Company in Los Angeles already have direct access to foreign exchanges. In the case of Capital, which has been investing overseas for more than three decades, that means desks at exchanges in London, Tokyo and elsewhere. At Vanguard, which has been actively investing in non-U.S. exchanges for nearly seven years, these trades are sometimes executed electronically straight from desktops in Malvern, but at other times with traders abroad.
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More competition is always welcome, said Vanguard Principal Duane Kelly. Not only might trading costs go down, but exchanges that wished to attract more international investors might tighten their oversight of member companies and electronic access, while companies themselves may make efforts to be more transparent, Kelly said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton is hoping his Mercedes team will be even more dominant this season even if he also wants rivals to give him more of a challenge.
"I think 2014 was definitely one of the best, if not the best year of my career," the Briton told laureus.com on Wednesday.
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Seriously, every time I drop by her portfolio site, Taipei based artist/illustrator Hsiao-Ron Cheng has more fabulous pieces! Her portraits are my favorite… can you tell? Sigh. Elegant and dreamy.
Annnnnd, exhale. There is something very calming about this work. All of these pieces are by Portland based artist Braeden Cox, from her series titled "Other Worlds". Sigh. Yep, these all look like really nice other worlds to be in right this very minute. Here's to a quiet, peaceful weekend.
Storyboards for a beautiful, and slightly insane, movie? They very well could be! This series, titled "Jungle", is the surreal, vibrant, and beautifully composed work of LA based French artist Reine Paradis:
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Aha! I wondered how she got that lady in red to do all of those crazy things. Hm, I wonder what's going to happen in the sequel.
It's very rare for me to write about digital work, but boy oh boy, I do love the way this lady stretches a pixel! I wrote about American artist Frances Berry in 2013. I just discovered her most recent series, titled "Lines We Live By", and had to write a new post immediately! Everyday vintage scenes in candy colored goodness stretched with modern techniques. Loooooove.
Ah, dreamy. This series, titled "Transcriptions", is the work of American photographer Kyra Schmidt. I would love to be wandering through the forest, and turn a corner to find pink, nude, and lavender screens floating magically in the air. Ok, that will probably never happen, so I'll just breathe deeply and look at these pieces. Here are Kyra's words about this project:
"I collaborate with each environment using sun, rain, and other natural elements to produce views that are outside of our perception, only made visual through camera-less photographic recording processes. These prints are then superimposed with images of the landscapes within which they were created as a way to ground each piece within its origin. The digital "installations" of analogue processes serves as a way to explore how technology aids us in our navigation of the everyday and affects our physical and psychological perception of the world around us."
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American artist Chad Wys is known for dipping and defacing found landscapes/portraits {I wrote about him in 2010}, but I just came across his elegant series titled "Arrangement in Skintones"… perfect dots and soft portraits from days gone by. Yep, it's safe to say that the art history lover and the graphic designer in me are equally smitten ♥
I cannot even express how much I love this. I wrote about both of these artists during 2014… the first is the paper-sculpture work of San Francisco based artist Tiffanie Turner, and the second is the manipulated photographic work of UK based artist Simone Truong. Have a look:
Gorgeous, right? Well they thought so too! Tiffanie saw Simone's work when I wrote about it, and reached out to see if Simone would be up for doing a collaboration… she said YES! Amazing! Here's the result:
Gasp! Tiffanie's paper flowers melting like birthday cake icing in July! Here is their joint statement about this project:
"Although working in different mediums, different scales and even different countries, artists Simone Truong and Tiffanie Turner both have one element in common; their subject matter. Flora are at the center of both of their works, inevitably forging an exploration into the difference in scale and mediums. In this new work, Truong strays away from exploring the transitionary states that occur in natural phenomena to embrace the delicate and still beauty of Turner's giant, intricate paper flowers. By scaling these large, explosive blooms back down to a size manageable on the printed page, Truong captures their solitary beauty in a way their original capacity never would have granted. Truong and Turner worked together to find the tension and balance in these compositions, which were executed by Truong in her UK studio."
Love. You can find & buy these lovely pieces right here.
How would you spend a day with your childhood self? Baguettes in Paris? Hopping a train to Spain? Building slushy snowmen in Japan? Well, for Tokyo born, London based photographer Chino Otsuka the answer is "all of the above"! She has placed her grown-up self into old photographs with her little self… flawlessly {look at those shadows!}. The series is titled "Imagine Finding Me", and it is fantastic! Yeah, this gives #tbt a run for it's money.
{via Designbooom … and thank you to Beatrice for sending me the link!}
I can almost taste the pretty iced roses of my childhood birthday cakes… après finger-swipe 'n lick! This is the gorgeous work of UK based artist Simone Truong, and here are the thoughts behind it {which have absolutely nothing to do with icing}:
… [She] explores themes of flora and fauna in her work. A juxtaposition between the mundane and the beautiful coalesce to represent the transitionary states that occur in natural phenomena. By bleeding the present with the past and the inevitable future of the flora and fauna, a new, more permanent vision is realised and the temporariness is removed.
Lovely. And with that, I'll wish you a happy weekend! … ps. you can find some of this work in Simone's online shop.
Found paintings, a touch of neon, and perfectly cropped photographs from the personal collection of Madrid architect/designer Melissa Dupont. So fun, so bold, and a great way to end the week!


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NYCEDC and 92nd Street Y today announced the inaugural class of NYC Fashion Fellows, and the start of a year-long fellowship program for these rising stars in fashion management. The 20 fellows will receive executive-level mentoring, networking and community-building opportunities, as well as continuing education workshops with industry professionals and their peers. The program will help fellows achieve the next stage of career growth, increase their value to their current employers, and strengthen New York City's community of fashion professionals as a whole.
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- Henry Roth, Designer and Managing Director, Michele Roth and Henry Roth Bridal
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- Michele Sodi, CEO, Versace USA
- Marty Staff, President and Founder, Marty Staff Associates LLC.
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- Bennett Winick, EVP Wholesale, Versace USA
- Rony Zeidan, Founder and Chief Creative Officer, RO New York
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"Summer time often becomes a test of endurance rather than a special time to enjoy children," says P. M. Saeed in her book, "Summer Survival: A Guide for Mothers". I am sure a lot of us, parents, would agree with her. We all look forward to the summer vacations so that we can enjoy some time with our children. But, as the days go by, it becomes increasingly difficult to deal with the "I'm bored" chants. Eventually, hot, tired and out of ideas, the poor parents concede defeat and allow their children to spend their summer glued to the idiot box!
Here are some ideas to keep your kids occupied this summer and for you to spend some quality time with them as well!
Craft Activities
Creative Salt
Add 5 to 6 drops of colour to a half cup of household salt. Stir well and cook in the microwave for 1-2 minutes or in a preheated oven for 10 minutes. Alternatively, you could spread the salt on brown paper and let it air dry. Store it in an airtight container. Use as glitter or to make coloured sand bottles.
Home-made Finger Paint
Mix 2 cups of flour with 2 tsp salt. Add 2 ½ cups of cold water. Stir until smooth. Gradually add this mixture to 2 cups of boiling water. Boil until smooth and thick. Add food colouring and stir until smooth – you'll have lots of fun finger painting! Remember to wear an apron and use newspapers to avoid any mess.
Paint Rollers
You can use an empty roll-on deodorant bottle and fill it up with paint to make a giant paint pen or use an empty shoe polish bottle to make an excellent sponge painting tool.
Green Man
Take an empty plastic bottle and cut it ten inches from the bottom. Place it in an old sheer pop sock and fill it with soil. Sprinkle rye or coriander seeds on top. Tie the top end of the sock in a knot. Make a face on the outside with old scraps of material. Water it and watch its hair grow through the sock. Remember to keep the Green Man moist.
Bowling Game
Spray paint 1½ litre plastic bottle and put a little sand or water in the bottle to weighh it down to make bowling pins. Use any ball you have at home and see who can get a strike!
Build an Ant Farm
Find a large jar and a small jar that fits inside the bigger one. Place moist dirt and ants in the narrow space between the jars. Cover tightly. Keep soil moist and feed the ants breadcrumbs, dead insects, small pieces of meat or vegetables. Watch them and learn to be industrious.
Rice Art
Draw a simple picture on cardboard. In shallow containers, use food colouring to dye rice to different colours. Dip a toothpick in German glue and then pick up one grain of rice. Dip it in glue again and place the rice grain on the picture. If this sounds too tedious to your child, rice can be stuck in patches by directly applying glue on the picture and sprinkling rice over it. When the picture is completely covered with rice, brush a coat of glue diluted with water over the entire surface.
Crayon Art
Peel broken or old crayons and put their shavings on a piece of paper. Fold the paper in half and place in between a folded newspaper. Now iron on top of the newspaper, keeping the iron setting low. Open the paper slowly to see a colourful surprise! You could also melt broken crayons in an old aluminum pan. Place in the oven for 10-20 minutes at 350 F degrees. Remove, cool and break into pieces to make new multi-coloured crayons.
Tie-and-Dye T-shirts (100% cotton is must)
Gather a small wad of the T-shirt in your hand and tightly wrap a rubber band around the gathered fabric. Repeat the procedure all over the shirt. Now dip the wads in different dyes (easily available from a dyeing shop.) Place in the sun to dry. Snap off the rubber bands and your tie-and-dye shirt is ready.
Family Activities
Summer time increases opportunities for family bonding. Involve fathers in these activities with the children:
Make a family tree. See how far you can trace back your ancestry!
Lay on a blanket in your garden (don't forget the mosquito repellant!) and watch the stars or guess the shapes the clouds make.
Have a smile contest. See who smiles the most in a week.
Every week, post a brain teaser, riddle or word puzzle in a central place. The first one to give the answer wins a prize.
Have a family car wash day. Take your buckets, sponges and cloths and give your faithful family car a good summer cleaning!
Fly kites together. Try not to get into a tangle!
Field Trips
Have your children write a letter to themselves with their resolutions or goals. Go to the post office and let your children post it to themselves. Talk to the postman and other people to learn how we get mail.
Get together with a few mothers and make a group to visit a factory.
Check newspapers for art exhibitions. This is a good way to develop your children's interest in different styles, mediums and techniques.
Drive around town or take a walk. See how many kinds of trees are in your area. Collect the leaves and identify them to make a scrapbook
Send the children on an outing with dad. Have them join up with other fathers and their children and go out for lunch.


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Title: To My Burden Of Years
Author: nilereina
Pairing: (implied) James/Lily, Vernon/Petunia, Harry/Ginny, Hermione/Ron, Hermione/Viktor, Ron/Lavender, Ginny/Dean
Rating: M
Archive: FFN, Unique Realities
Summary: There is one more year left to school at Hogwarts but Harry has decided not to attend, determined to uphold his promise to his mentor, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore...But as he waits for his seventeenth birthday, he decides to try his hand at unloading his burdens...Through a journal, he begins to record the last sixteen years of his life as he remembers them...With every entry created, he unloads his thoughts, questions, observations, fears, and memories...Things no one has ever known about Harry Potter or could possibly answer
Warnings/Disclaimers: HP characters belong to J.K. Rowling...Time line has been based on and credited to The Harry Potter Lexicon (as well as any information I possibly needed for clarification as well as Books 1-6)...M/F relationships according to Rowling...Spoilers for Books 1-6 and Movies 1-4...AU setting for Book 7...Situations of violence, bloodshed, torture, child neglect...Mostly Journal Format
Author Notes: AU setting takes place during summer break before Seventh Year (during the last week of July around Harry's seventeenth birthday)...Some direct quotes will be from Rowling's books (footnotes with the appropriate information are credited Rowling)...I won't always use the same details of the books; those details may possibly come from the movies (ex: Hagrid won't send Harry the Monster book...He'll receive it from Fudge when the Minister buys his books in POA)
Author Notes2: Titles of the books used in Harry's journal are credited to J.K. Rowling (just a summarized thought of Harry's year in his belief)...Some details will be glossed over or completely missed while others will go in depth (I did try containing the more important details...It's possible some that are glossed over or missed will appear in other chapters)...There are deliberate mistakes to give a reality of Harry writing a journal with ink (not everyone writes with a pencil and eraser...and it is very possible to make mistakes)...Some events will fall in random order while other events may be interrupted by chaotic thoughts, observations, and questions and still other events may be in sequence
Author Notes3: There may be a seventh year entry based on Book 7...Depending on the conclusion of the HP series and if anyone wishes, I may rewrite the summer Harry had before his seventeenth birthday...The rewrite of the this story may include Book 7 or Book 7's entry may be a complete different story (depending on what my reviewers would like to see)
Key Code:
Blah-- Harry's thoughts, Emphasis
//Blah//-- Journal entries
//"Blah"//-- Quotes
Blah-- Yelling/Screaming
Blah-- Mispellings/mistakes in Journal
Chapter One
Entrenched in dancing shadows from a single burning candle, sat a lone teen, staring out his barred bedroom window. He was bored. Bored and locked inside his bedroom. For the twelfth time, he glanced at the red numbers of a partially broken alarm clock. Four a.m. Only three more hours to breakfast. He sighed heavily, returning to his heavy thoughts. He had three more hours to spare, to entertain himself, before his aunt would unlock his door so he could prepare breakfast.
Breakfast. This was a very big meal, besides dinner, in his relatives' house. Each morning he rose early to have it ready by seven in the morning, before his uncle headed off to work and his cousin off to where-ever, sometimes even his aunt would take off. They all left him behind, having the neighbors watching the house or sending him off to a babysitter.
Besides, it took some time to prepare breakfast. He always made the same just with a few changes every other day. Sometimes it was fried eggs, others scrambled, and even omelets were created. Along with the eggs came crispy bacon, pancakes with fruit inside, buttered and jelly toast, fresh brewed coffee, freshly squeezed orange juice. That was just for his uncle. His aunt liked a slice of toast, a cup of juice, several cups of coffee, and freshly sliced fruit salad. His cousin was another story. Sure he liked having the same as his father but with extra. Seems they stop the dieting. Boy, will he be barely able to walk without waddling like a duck.
He snorted, trying to hold in his laughter, spit flying from the corners of his mouth. If he was correct, today his cousin would demand a side order of sausages and waffles with syrup, whip cream, and chocolate chips. I think fried potatoes are for tomorrow. He sighed heavily, wishing he had the list now but he wouldn't know breakfast's agenda until his door was unlocked.
For now, he suffered as sleep refused to arrive. Maybe now will be good. He glanced down at a small, tattered, blue journal. A single finger ran over the raised golden elaborate letters. L.E.'s Secrets. I can't believe I found her! Earlier that summer, he had been cleaning out the attic when he accidentally dropped a crumbling box. The contents spilled out, revealing photos of his mother and aunt. Buried beneath the scraps and loose photos was the journal. He had taken it, stuffing it beneath his oversized shirt, hoping to read it later.
He enjoyed learning of his mother's first years at home and then school. Made him feel closer to her as he learned more about his father from others. Swallowing, he reverently opened to the very last page she had written on, starting his own words upon the next empty page. Carefully he dipped his quill in to ink, not willing to lose a single drop, allowing his jumbled thoughts to flow free. Here goes nothing.
//July 25th 4:15 a.m.
My Past, Present, Future July 31, 1980-July 31, 1991 Birth to 11 yrs. old
Some say that writing makes everything better, helps ease tension when words cannot be used or understood. Another once told me to always write what I know. How does one write what they know when things are crossed and jumbled? Tied tightly in knots, nimble fingers working away. Well, perhaps it is time I work my way through and around the knots of my mind. Perhaps it is time to speak out. Perhaps it is time I release this burden.
My name is Harry James Potter. The only child of Lily Evans-Potter and James Potter. An orphan living with his only breathing relatives. More of that later.
I was born on July 31, 1980. And if I'm not mistaking, thats that's about six days away from now as I write. I shall turn seventeen, be of age in my world. And finally able to leave behind half of the history I know as a nightmare. There isn't much of my past from birth to barely over a year can be told. What I do know is what little I can remember in my dreams, barely even able to recall such things when I wake.
My parents died on October 31, 1981. Until I was eleven I didn't know the truth. According to my relatives, my parents died in a car crash. I was the only survivor, a scar upon my forehead the only testament to the fatal crash.
I don't remember much of my life with my relatives, the Dursleys. I blocked most of it out or remember only the bad. Petunia Evans-Dursley. My aunt from my mother's side. Vernon Dursley. My uncle through marriage. Dudley Dursley. Their precious baby boy, my cousin. They believed themselves the perfect family. The working husband. The doting wife. The obedient son.
I saw them as this: The verbally abusive uncle. The neglectful aunt. The bullying cousin. I was the one...in their minds...that ruined their perfect image. I was the unwanted nephew...cousin.
When my parents died, I came in to my aunt's care. How or why? That I hadn't understand either. At least not yet. They did but refused to let me in on that little secret. Petunia cared for me enough to keep me alive, barely. I spent ten and a half years beneath the stairs. A cramped little cupboard. My sanctuary. My punishment. My bedroom. But it was mine.
Never like me. They were always saying so. Never failed to let me know how they felt. Especially Dudley.
Dudley. The boy is F.A.T.!!!! Why can't they see that? They call him big-boned. A perfect gentleman. Just fine. Healthy. They don't seem to care that he is eating himself into a grave. An early grave. Every time I turn about, he's eating! Or bullying! You'd think with the so-called exercise of chasing children smaller than him, weaker, would slim him down. But it's like it helps make him fatter.
I swim in his clothes. Hanging off my thin form. All my clothes are hand-me-downs. All from Dudley. When he gains new, I get the old. Worn thin. Huge. Sometimes ragged and torn. I do my best to stitch the tears, knowing I need that clothing to last me. Been times they must last until two years later.
Bullies. Oh, how I hate them. Never knowing such blood lived within my own family. Bullies make life terrible. Dudley is one. He and his little gang. It is they who keep me isolated. No friends. No trust. No companionship. No life.
Vernon did the rest.
'Harry Hunting'...a game. Similar to tag or hide-n-seek. A way to torment me to their enjoyment. How I hate that Smelting stick. Hurts when struck.
Neglect and starvation. Petunia's specialty I guess. Or maybe it's just me. Is that normal? Does everyone treat their unwanted pests that way? If they didn't want someone living with them, couldn't another family member take them? Why force them to stay? Why keep something unwanted? Petunia had no problem throwing out broken toys, ruined food. She willingly tossed out unwanted items, selling them off or giving them away. So, why keep me?
Was there other family? I don't ever remember visiting a grandmother or grandfather. Or an aunt, an uncle, a cousin. No godmother, godfather. Was she an orphan too? Was my mother the only one left of their family? What about Vernon's? I only know Marge Dursley...my so-called aunt on his side. Don't like her either. And she refuses to like me, always having rude comments or desires to toss me out. I believe if she could, I'd be gone within the moment I arrived.
Chores and more chores. Seemed all I was good for. School wasn't much any more. I thought it to be a change of scenery, a chance to shine. But I would be locked away in my cupboard for being better than their perfect Dudley. I pulled back. Then again, my punishments consisted of scraps to eat or nothing and my cupboard for a day or so. Didn't pull back too often, if rarely.
Forgotten chores...perfect grades...weren't my only reasons of punishment. If I did anything freaky, at least according to Vernon, I was punished. Never did understand that whole line "any funny business, any at all"(1) but it didn't always matter. After all, I was usually blamed for such things: my hair growing back after being practically sheared off...climbing buildings when I found myself on the roof trying to hide behind trashcans from Dudley.
Ah, but now I could explain it. Then I couldn't. No more than I could about the glass vanishing. I swore it could have been magic and Vernon could barely speak through the rage. Once again, I was banned to my cupboard for a long time.
How I wanted friends. Maybe if I had them then I wouldn't be freaky. Perhaps I would be normal and they would accept me. But all they did was ruin me. They wanted their reputation clean and respectful. They allowed the neighborhood to believe I was brought in their home out of the kindness of their hearts. Giving me a cupboard to sleep, scraps to eat, over-sized clothing to wear.
St. Brutus' Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys. A mouthful. But supposedly my new school. For good reason. I vanished during nine months of the year only to return summer holidays.
The truth had come to haunt. Around my eleventh birthday. I remember waking and sitting at the kitchen table. Mail call. Among the letters was one for me:
"Mr. H. Potter
The Cupboard Under the Stairs
4 Privet Drive
Little Whinging
Surrey" (2)
How did this person know where I slept? How did they know of my exact place of residence? Who sent it? Why not leave an address label of the sender? All I saw was some weird stamp on the flap of envelope. A part of me excited, the other confused. Who knew me enough to send me a letter in hopes I would recognize it? Were there people watching me? Why did they contact me now? Why not come for me earlier?
And the Dursleys knew. One look at that weird stamp and they clammed up tighter than a snare drum. Vernon did everything to keep the letters away. He blocked the mail slot. They laid by the stoop. He burned them. But they still came down the chimney, when there was no fire.. Finally we fled...place to place. No good. Letters came...addressed to me. Each with the place I slept and where I was.
I was always curious of lighthouses. Tall buildings dedicated to aide the ships at sea. Lights revolving in hopes they would see to avoid collision with land. A tiny bedroom and small living room below the tower with the huge light bulb. Petunia and Vernon took the only bed. Dudley took the only couch. Me, the dirt covered floor.
I was eleven. Laying on the ground and drawing an outline of a cake with candles. Watching Dudley's wrist-watch for the time...midnight. How I wished for a grand party. Huge birthday cake...lots of presents...games...laughter...friends. My dream that may never come true. How is it that Dudley gets what he wants and I never could? What was so different about me? What was it that made them hate me? How does Dudley know who I am? Why won't they tell me?
My happy birthday. To me. And my surprise, the truth. Through the door it came. Or should I say he came?
"Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts." (3) A huge man bearing an even larger pink umbrella. A man carrying my letter. It was he who began the truth. He who showed me that my dreams were a reality.
My first friend the Dursleys couldn't keep away.
Stunned me speechless. I thought he was lying. He had to be, right? Vernon always said magic wasn't real. So, who was right? Turned out, Hagrid. His umbrella created fire that night. Right before my eyes. Magic was real. And I, I was a magical being called a wizard.
In one night my world shattered.
Why couldn't they tell me? Why hide it? But it was what they wanted. Car crash...drunks...unemployed...lazy. Words all my life describing my parents. That night it was: "I was the only one to see her as she was--a freak!" (4)
Freaks. What a word to describe magic. Unnatural...weird...abnormal. Words fed in to my own soul.
Truth. A madman murdered my family. A wizard bent on domination. Dursleys knew. Knew Mum married a wizard. Then was murdered.
A powerful Dark Lord. One I supposedly defeated, but not know how. How could a tiny infant defeat some thing that powerful? How is that even possible? Those in the Muggle world would be asking the same. Are the wizards and witches insane or what? Wouldn't be for a while I'd learn part of the truth...even then I was a bit skeptica.
The Boy Who Lived. What crock is that? So I survived. Everyday there are survivors from fatal disasters. Big deal. Something we see everyday on the television...on the news...on the radio...in the paper. At age eleven I find myself a symbol...a sign...a saint. Someone to chase the haunting shadows. A so-called paragon 9oof goodness.
I wonder. If I had declined my offer, would another school call on me? Then again who wouldn't want the fame of teaching Famous Harry Potter. What exactly is fame? What can it really get you? Friends you never knew? Offers who'd never come around if I wasn't rich or famous? Would anyone befriend me if I was Just Harry? Someone with a family, a true family? Someone not connected to fame or wanting to be connected? Would they want me if I was a nobody? Just a regular kid going to school to learn and going home to relatives? An orphan?
Then there's He Who Must Not Be Named...You Know Who...no, I don't know who. Who is that? Does he not have a name? Was he born nameless? How can they believe everyone knows who? I mean someone's bound not to know, right? Then I learn his name. Voldemort. Lord Voldemort. Dark Lord Voldemort. Everyone's bogeyman within the magical world. So-called scary man. Say his name and he comes calling.
Do they honestly believe that? It's like urban legends. Turn out the lights...say the name...and that person comes.
Ronald Weasley was like that. Feared saying a name. My second friend but first best friend. I had no Dudley bullying him, no Vernon saying I was a criminal. He preferred Ron. Over time I learned of his family. Bill, the oldest, works at Gringotts. A curse-breaker. Sounds interesting. Wonder what they do exactly? Perhaps I should ask the next time I see Bill. Charlie, the second oldest, works at Romania. A dragon keeper. Ah, him I met but in my Fourth Year. A dangerous career but all the well interesting as curse-breaker. Percy, the third oldest, works (now) at the Ministry. Was Head Boy in school, even Prefect. A stickler for rules and thorough research. On the outs with family. Fred and George, the identical twins, pranks galore. Loved a good joke and worshipped the Marauders. They made life entertaining, even used their gift as payback. They left Hogwarts by my Sixth Year, opening a joke shop. Ron, the youngest boy, my best friend. A Quidditch obsessed boy, hot-tempered, but reliable. Then there's Ginny, the youngest, the only girl of the family. Like her brothers; Ron, Fred, and George, she became my friend...I became her crush, her loving obsession...Soon I saw her the same way.
How I wanted a family. I think I would have given up everything just for a chance. I still remember the awe and astonishment of Ron, "Are you really Harry Potter?" (5)
Hermione Granger. A bit bossy, rule-abiding, studious. But she, too, became a friend. My second best friend. Never thought I'd have one friend, let alone three. She was the daughter of two Muggle dentists. Ron the son of a stay-at-home Mum and a Ministry worker father. Wish I knew what my Mum and Dad did. Maybe I can get someone to tell me what they did or wanted to do instead of telling me what they were like or acted.
James Potter. My father. A Pureblood wizard. Pureblood only meant that the magical line never went outside...never strayed. A bloodline that always remains within magical blood. Never marrying outside their status. Much like Muggles. Imagine my surprise to learn new words. Muggles are non-magical.
Non-magical. How is that possible? If Muggles are non-magical then how are Muggleborns created? They have magic just not the access. Then again, they do. Talent...superb luck...intuition...Muggle seers. Magic accessed to that point.
How do they not notice? So alike and they don't realize.
Purebloods. Rich Society. Both care about their money, their status, their nobility. They believed they were above everyone. Snobbish. Married only another of same status. Arranged marriages. Tracing backgrounds for the perfect match. Don't believe in fate or love. Only money and higher status. Family always of money and status...Purebloods always of magic and status. How ironic.
Half-bloods. Jocks and Cheerleaders. Have the status but not much else. Tolerable in high society. Possible leaders...high money earners. Try for higher positions with the rich...able to rub elbows with famous. Family with love of sports and sports alone. Wanting scholarships if money not enough. Desiring impressive schools and resumes. (half magical...half muggle... one parent from each side marrying)
Muggleborns. Intellectuals and Brainiacs. Barely tolerable but well-known for their services. Accountants...Book-keepers...Lawyers...Judges...and more. They are the ones keeping the world-go-round. But not desired for any marriageable match. Just needed for various reasons to keep themselves clean or to organize their lives.
Squibs. Magical blood but little ability. They were much like Muggles. A shameful secret in the family. The ones who hear and know everything. The ones who hide in the shadows. The servants...the peasants...the gold diggers rising high. They learn and remember. They struggle to be like others in society...struggle to survive period.
James Potter was a part of the Pureblood society. More like the black sheep within it. From what I learned, he wasn't much for tradition but love. Especially when it came to Lily Evans. He was the Heir to a powerful family, a prestigious Light family. Same family I will soon be the Head of as I am the only Potter left. I wonder. Have they truly looked for others or just assume? How do we know they aren't hiding some place? How do we know they are trying to protect themselves or their family or their children? What makes us think I'm the last if people assume or haven't thoroughly checked?
Light. Dark. What a magical way of saying Good and Evil. But don't they say you can't have one without the other. Maybe they haven't gotten the memo yet. It's a balance destined to be kept.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. A magical school to train witches and wizards. James Potter went from a no-good drunk to a high placed Pureblood. At age eleven, he received a letter to attend school. What exactly do Purebloods learn before they're eleven? Is it politics? Running the family business? Preparing for classes? Can they actually use magic at home when underage? Are there ways to work around Ministry wards and laws?
Seven years. At his side, three best friends. The four became a well-known group called the Marauders. Playing pranks on anyone and everyone they could. Laughs they could afford and enjoyed. Everyone seemed to praise them. But one man willingly took the stand. He refused to allow me to continue thinking...believing...that James Potter was an untouchable God. James Potter was also a bully. One student during his year was his constant target for pranks...humiliation abound. That student suffered beneath the hilarious touch of James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and Remus Lupin. Then again all I ever heard was James Potter and Sirius Black being the true bullies.
All schools have rivalries...Hogwarts was one. They pushed and pushed until it came to head. From what I learned, James regretted those moments. Besides the regrets and pranks there was one other thing that James pursued...Lily Evans. At first the two hated each other...disliked each other's attitude. James loved having fun. Lily was studious. But some time during their last year, love bloomed.
I have rivalries. Draco Malfoy...though he seems more as Ron's adversary than mine. They spend more time battling each other. Malfoy/Weasley feud. Explosive when either are near the other. One thinking he was better because of status and money...the other happy with what he has but would like money. Both hating based on bad blood.
Does the world realize what they learn and teach their children? Don't the parents know that it is their fault their child goes bad at times? They teach to hate what they hate. It happens in the Muggle world. Race, color, culture, status, sex, sexual orientation, appearance, background. Ironic, is it not? Magical world hates the same...but with big words: Creature...Bloodline...Affiliations.
Lily Evans. A Muggleborn. Talented and powerful. A sweet girl with a temper and the ability to back it up. She came from a small family. Mother...Father...Sister, Petunia. Lily forged ahead to prove herself as a witch among those who hate. Her family was lost to the war or at least that's what I was led to believe. Petunia hated everything to do with magic, wanting nothing to do with Lily and her world.
What do the Muggleborns say? At age eleven, an owl arrives with a letter of acceptance. All children start school by age five but those chose by eleven never return to middle school, let alone high school. How do their parents explain the absence? We do have truant officers and schools alert the authorities. Does anyone explain to the parents that the letter isn't a joke?
How does the Ministry deal with them? If they wish to return to the Muggle world, how is it possible? Can they regain their schooling? Get a degree with a rocky background? What if the letter is declined? Would another school offer? Can more than one offer come through? Can someone decline just to decline? Accidental magic mixed with emotions is difficult, possibly dangerous. How could one decline with that problem? Can it be blocked?
And maybe I'll kn never know.
What I do know is that some time after they graduated, Lily and James married. Shortly after, Lily was pregnant and years months later a baby boy was born. Around the same time, they had gone in to hiding. A Dark wizard was looking for them. Voldemort was hunting them. Or hunting those against him and his ideals.
On Octer October 31, 1981, they had been found. James Potter murdered first, believed to have been trying to protect his family or give them time run. Lily raced for her son, soon confronting Voldemort. She begged for mercy, murdered for her trouble. When the wand was pointed to baby Harry, something went wrong. Voldemort was banished and little Harry was the only survivor. Later placed with his only living relatives, the Dursleys.
Narrow-minded and stubborn. That's the magical world. Set upon a pedestal I was. Fell several times. I want to leave. Instead I think. Think of how the Dursleys would react if they learned of my fortune. It'll pay my way through school and classes. Anything else I wish.
How do Muggleborns pay their way? Do they even receive a vault? Does the Ministry pay? Or will the parents exchange Muggle money? What about Half-bloods? When does the magical spouse reveal their secret? Do they even reveal at all until the letter? How is the child affected? Are they taught anything or kept oblivious? Why can't we, the ignorant ones of a new world, be taught the basics? Why isn't there a class teaching us the ways of the magical world? I'm mean, they have a Muggle Studies! Why not Magical Studies? Big deal, they have a history class. That teaches us Muggleborns and Muggle raised nothing.
Ah, but daylight has broken above the horizon. Breakfast awaits shortly. One day I hope to fully know the answers.
Mum, Dad. Are you proud yet? I may not remember much but I have you in my heart.//
Harry sighed pleasurably as he stretched cramped muscles, unfolding from his chair. Yawning, he began to carefully pack away his items, blowing the last few words of ink dry. Reaching into the hole in his bedroom floor, he drew out the soft folds of his invisibility cloak. Quill, inkwell, and journal were wrapped in a loose section of the cloak. Then all were gently replaced before he stood. "Time to play the House elf, Harry. Breakfast and chores to be done."
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Seeing the baby's heartbeat on an ultrasound is a good sign and does put a pregnancy into a lower risk category for miscarriage.

What Are the Odds of Miscarriage After Seeing a Fetal Heartbeat on an Ultrasound?]\\

Physicians generally agree that the risk of miscarriage decreases once the pregnancy reaches a point that an ultrasound can detect a heartbeat. The exact amount that it decreases, however, seems to vary by group.

It's hard to say any exact numbers from the available research, but here are some statistics that certain studies have come up with.

For women with no vaginal bleeding, most estimates suggest that the odds or having a miscarriage after seeing a heartbeat are about 4%.

For women with vaginal bleeding but also a detected heartbeat on ultrasound, risk of miscarriage is about 13% according to one study.

One study found that about 17% of women with a history of recurrent miscarriages will miscarry after seeing a heartbeat on the ultrasound.

Mothers aged 35 and older also face significant miscarriage risk after ultrasound detects a heartbeat, even though the risk does drop after detecting the heartbeat. A 1996 study found that women over 36 have a 16% risk of miscarriage at this point, and women over 40 have a 20% risk.

Fetal Physiology Explained

Fetal heartbeat is an extremely important step in the development of a baby. After all, we need our hearts to pump blood and survive.

Here are some other notable things that happen around the first trimester of gestation. Please note that this overview is by no means complete. For more information, visit the NIH.

Week 5 of Pregnancy

This week begins the embryonic period. During the embryonic period, the baby's major systems and structures start to develop.

The baby's external features also begin to develop during week 5.

Week 5 is a rapid period of growth for the baby. During week 5, the baby is most sensitive to teratogens or things that may cause birth defects, such as illicit drugs, certain medications, and infections.

Weeks 6 and 7 of Pregnancy

During weeks 6 and 7 the baby's heart begins to grow and beat at a regular rhythm.

Here are some other things that happen during weeks 6 and 7:

eyes and ear buds form

spine begins to form

blood begins to circulate

Week 8 of Pregnancy

During week 8 of pregnancy, the arms start to grow longer. Additionally, the hands and feet look like paddles. Furthermore, the lungs start to form.

Week 9 of Pregnancy

During week 9, all the baby's organs have started to grow. Additionally, hair follicles begin to develop and the baby's toes develop.

Week 10 of Pregnancy

At end of the tenth week of pregnancy, the baby is no longer an embryo and is instead called a fetus. In other words, the baby has exited the embryonic stage. During this week of pregnancy, the eyelids begin to form, the outer ears form and the intestines rotate.

Weeks 11 to 14

During these weeks, the genitals begin to form and the face is well formed.

Weeks 15 to 18

The liver and pancreas form. The skin is transparent and the baby starts making sucking motions.

Sources:

Hill, L.M., D. Guzick, J. Fries, J. Hixson, "Fetal loss rate after ultrasonically documented cardiac activity between 6 and 14 weeks, menstrual age." Journal of Clinical Ultrasound May 1991. Accessed 11 Feb 2008.

Smith, K.E. and R.P. Buyalos, "The profound impact of patient age on pregnancy outcome after early detection of fetal cardiac activity." Fertility and Sterility Jan 1996. Accessed 11 Feb 2008.

Van Leeuwen, Ingeborg, D. Ware Branch, and James R. Scott, "First-Trimester Ultrasonography Findings in Women With a History of Recurrent Pregnancy Loss. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1993. Accessed 11 Feb 2008.


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Anyway, I have three containers of Nasoya organic tofu plus and just noticed they expired July 13th. I opened one, there is no smell or dark spots but there is a very slight yellowish color to the tofu and the fluid. I've never used the 'plus' and wasn't sure if it was normally this color.
I'm thinking if I have to ask; I shouldn't use it and probably won't eat it. But I'm really trying not to waste food.
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NYT's Miller to Jail; Time's Cooper Remains Free After Agreeing to Testify
New York Times reporter Judith Miller was sentenced to jail Wednesday after refusing to testify about her sources in the ongoing investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame's name.
Quoting a Reuters report, The Times reported on its website that Ms. Miller told the court: "If journalists cannot be trusted to keep confidences, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press."
Times executive editor Bill Keller called the sentencing "a chilling conclusion to an utterly confounding case." He said that Miller does not intend to put herself above the law, but is following an "individual conscience that has been part of this country's tradition since its founding."
In a prepared statement, Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger said: "There are times when the greater good of our democracy demands an act of conscience. Judy has chosen such an act in honoring her promise of confidentiality to her sources."
Contempt charges against Time's Matthew Cooper were dropped after he agreed to testify about his sources.
The AP reported:
Cooper took the podium in the court and told the judge, "Last night I hugged my son good-bye and told him it might be a long time before I see him again."
"I went to bed ready to accept the sanctions" for not testifying, Cooper said. But he told the judge that not long before his early afternoon appearance, he had received "in somewhat dramatic fashion" a direct personal communication from his source freeing him from his commitment to keep the source's identity secret.
Poynter's Bob Steele said this about the jailing of Miller: "I admire her fight on principle. I admire the spirit of journalistic independence. The result may be an additional traction point for the federal shield law cause. That said, this case is far from the ideal case for choosing jail time. From the missing pieces of the puzzle involving Robert Novak to the possibility that some of the confidential sources broke the law to the Supreme Court's unwillingness to address the constitutional issues, this case is rife with problems in terms of fighting on principle."
Steele said "Cooper's decision seems a logical one given the release of the confidentiality promise given to him by the source. I'm sure that Cooper was sincere in his willingness to fight the good fight on principle and even go to jail. But this development is one that depressurizes the dilemma for Cooper, at least. This was a case that journalists fought nobly but it wasn't the ideal case to argue the principle. In this case, once the journalists had lost their quest for Supreme Court review, the fight on principle lost some of its steam. Time editor Norman Pearlstine's argument that no one is above the law, even journalists, is compelling. Yes, the journalists could choose jail and an act of civil disobedience, but I'm not sure this is the case you would choose for civil disobedience."
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Secrets of Stress-free Living (4 of 5) by Stan Coffey
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Secrets of Stress-free Living
Stan Coffey
John 8:12
We have been in a series that I trust has been helpful. It is called "Help for Today and Hope for Tomorrow." And as we looked at several issues that we face in our life today, we have been encouraged by the Holy Spirit because God has so much to say to us about His help for today and the hope that we have for tomorrow in Jesus. And today we are going to look at "Secrets of Stress-free Living."
You know when you are walking in stress you are walking in darkness. Jesus wants to give us the light of life. Now all you have to do is listen to commercials to know that America is a stress-ridden and a stress-driven society. You know plop, plop, fizz, fizz – oh what a relief it is! How do you spell relief? Excedrin headache number 69 and all the rest of them, as a matter of fact, Americans are stressed out to the tune of about 500 million dollars a year that they spend on tranquilizers so that we can drop down into a lower emotional gear and deal with the stress that we have in our life everyday. You cannot eliminate stress because stress is a part of life, but you can neutralize stress. And what I want to do is look at the life of Jesus and I want us to see how Jesus dealt with stress. Because, if ever there was someone who ought to have stress, it was Jesus. You just think about the Lord and the people pressing in on Him. The people trying to see Him. People saying Jesus come over here and others saying come over here. Jesus do this and Jesus do that, heal my child. No Lord come over here and heal my mother. Lord, I have a need. And He was constantly being pulled in ninety different directions at one time. And at the same time the religious leaders of His day were criticizing Him. And they were putting Him down. They were saying all kinds of evil things that were not even true about Jesus. Jesus knew what it was to work long hours, to deal wit ...
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On Sep 27, 2005, at 23:07, Andreas L Delmelle wrote: > On Sep 27, 2005, at 22:27, Dirk Bromberg wrote: > >> i wants to test to switch my project from 20.5 to dev. >> >> Now i want to embedd my ttf fonts via the fop.xconf. > <snip /> >> but i always get the exception "D:\mypath_to_run\ArialUNI.xml >> FileNotFoundException" .... the Path is not relative to the xconf! it >> is relative to my running directory. > > Ouch! The user-configuration functionality is not fully ported yet, > especially the baseURL bit... Sorry. The entry is present in > fop.xconf, but currently serves no purpose. > > Since I do need to finish up a few things in that area of the code, > most likely I'll be able to squeeze it in during the weekend. FYI: Had some spare time, so just committed the change necessary for the baseURL and pixelToMillimeter entry to have effect when present in the config file. As an added feature, you can now set page-height/page-width in your FO documents to "auto", and define the default page-size to use via the config file. (defaults are 8.26in x 11in if the entries are not present) Cheers, Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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The Red Fairy Book is the second of Andrew Lang's twelve Fairy Books, which were published between 1889 and 1910. A collection of fairy and folk tales from around the world, The Red Fairy Book includes "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "Rapunzel," and a version of "Snow White" called "Snowdrop."
Assembling and translating for the first time many now-famous tales, Andrew Lang's Fairy Books have served as inspiration for many writers including J. R. R. Tolkien, and contributed to the growth in popularity of fairy tales as a literary genre.
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