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This is something that Terrex asked me to write a while back on my old account, just under a different name. It's basically a follow-up to his story about a girl called Anna, a little girl who's out to take over the world and there's a chance she very well might succeed.
Melantha was sat in her chair, resting her legs on the desk before her. A devilish smile played upon her lips. Before her was a coward of a man, his name Thurman Nestoruk. His hair was wispy and thinning atop his podgy head. His blue eyes were filled with terror and what he knew was inevitable. His lips trembled.
Melantha Thunders looked down at the bloodied man with a sadistic curiosity. His cheeks were decorated with cuts from her own fingernails. His blood dripped to the floor with an odd rhythm. Drip, drip, drip. His forearms were adorned with bite marks from her 'pets'. His left calf was missing, torn off at the knee by the same teeth that had torn the skin on his arms. Blood pooled on the floor, thickening slowly.
Thurman Nestoruk dared to glance up at his captor. She was merely looking down at him, with an interest like a cat watching a mouse. She had never spoken to him, and he'd never even seen her. He'd been chained against the wall of a cell somewhere else in the large building. He'd just been waiting for her next orders for his torture.
He hadn't even known she was a woman, he'd imagined some big burly man with cropped hair and scars all over his face. Instead he got a girl, about 16, 17 years of age. She had dyed red hair that fell down her back with the straightness of a ruler. Her eyes looked black, no matter the light. A long sword lay in front of her, a dagger in her hand. Thurman had nothing. His hand were cuffed behind his back and his left leg had been ripped off by the wolves they'd set on him. He shivered convulsively with the memory.
Melantha had been watching Thurman Nestoruk for just under an hour. But to him it had felt like a millennium. What does she want with me? was the only thing at the forefront of his mind. His wheezing was the only noise in the room. He looked at the girl looking at him. She was more than half his age, what did he have to be scared of?
He didn't know why he was scared of her. He didn't know that this girl, this mere teenager, had downed a thousand men, and would down a thousand more before she met her end. She'd laughed and reveled in the pain she had inflicted on every single one of them. Melantha Thunders was a sadist, one of the worst ever to walk the earth.
She'd struck her parents dead when she was young. Her strength was unlimited, and she never ran out of new ideas of causing pain in those she held captive. She could brandish any weapon and kill hundreds without even exerting herself. She'd been lying low for a few years, in an underground chamber built as a military hideout, but she'd come to the surface once again as news slowly trickled through the soil of a girl more than a match for Melantha.
She wanted to meet this girl, a girl of only 5 years. A girl that spoke as if she were an adult, a girl that had been evil even before her birth. Melantha Thunders brought her feet down off the table and sat forward in her chair.
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6407 Lilly Lane, Danbury, WI 00000
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Very nice and neat cedar sided cabin on Gull Lake on the Minerva Chain. Lakeside wrap around deck and greatroom. Lower level walkout with large family room, full bath with jet tub and 2nd bedroom. Quality construction and well maintained. Insulated garage with shop area and LP furnace. Great property for year around fun.
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Property Details for 6407 Lilly Lane, Danbury, WI 00000
Bedrooms: 2
Bathrooms: 2 Full
Lot Size: 1.02 Acres
Lot Dimensions: 103 x 416 x 104 x 358
Year Built: 1991
Garage Dimensions: 2 car
Garage: Detached Garage, Driveway - Gravel
Style: (SF) One Story
Water: Well, Sand Point
Sewer: Tank with Drainage Field
Square Feet: 1785
Above Ground Sq Ft: 983
Below Ground Sq Ft: 802 (approx)
Room Information for 6407 Lilly Lane, Danbury, WI 00000
Main Floor
Living Room: 19 x 17
Dining Room: 11 x 10
Kitchen: 12 x 10
Bedroom 1: 14 x 13
Laundry: 9'5 x 8'5
Deck: 11 x 37
Lower Floor
Family Room: 20 x 25
Bedroom 2: 13'4 x 12
Patio: 11 x 17
Dining Room Description: Informal Dining Room
Family Room Characteristics: Lower Level, Family Room
School Information for 6407 Lilly Lane, Danbury, WI 00000
School District: Webster
School District Phone: 715-866-4391
Interior Features for 6407 Lilly Lane, Danbury, WI 00000
Appliances: Range, Microwave, Exhaust Fan/Hood, Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Washer, Dryer
Air Cond: Central
Heating: Forced Air
Fireplaces: Yes
Basement: (802 sq Finished) Walkout, Finished (Livable)
Exterior Features for 6407 Lilly Lane, Danbury, WI 00000
Lot Dimensions: 103 x 416 x 104 x 358
Zoning: Shoreline
Additional Exterior/Lot Features: Wood
Financial Considerations for 6407 Lilly Lane, Danbury, WI 00000
Tax Amount: $3,054
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Tax Year: 2016
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Villa in Vale Formoso, Almancil, Central Algarve, Portugal - Peaceful Location, Close To All Amenities, 10 Minutes By Car To The Beach
Casa Rosana is a privately owned villa set in mature gardens with tropical fruit trees totalling 1800 sqm. It is a single storey building on an elevated plot with a private pool and pool side bar-b-que. The villa has a roof terrace with panoramic views of the Algarve. It also has a good selection of outdoor furniture.
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Quiet location
The villa had everything you would need and the use of beach towels was a bonus.
We hired a car which I would recommend if you want to explore the surrounding areas, although we did use the taxi service for nights out a few times.
I would highly recommend this villa if your looking for a peaceful/quiet location.
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Quiet location
We have just returned from an amazing stay at Casa Rosana. My party which consisted of 2 adults and 2 teenage boys had a wonderful time relaxing at this villa. It is very spacious and the pool area is excellent.
The villa had everything you would need and the use of beach towels was a bonus.
We hired a car which I would recommend if you want to explore the surrounding areas, although we did use the taxi service for nights out a few times.
I would highly recommend this villa if your looking for a peaceful/quiet location.
Our Visit to Casa Rosana
6 adults and 4 children visited for 1 week.
No complaints, only observations.
Description was accurate and we were all very pleased with what we found. Although grass was somewhat threadbare. Grass watering system was switched off.
Property was clean and maintained. Pool was clean and surrounding area was in good condition.
Games and videos were in plentiful supply for the children in the evening.
Yes we would definitely recommend the property to friends and relatives. Our third visit to the Algarve and this was on a par with the other villa's we have rented.
Aquapark was excellent. Amancil go-cart track was very poor, wouldn't go again. Beach where Issy's bar was full of pompous idiots and definitely a place to miss for normal people. The Lemon Tree in Amancil was a very good local restaurant. Don't be put off by the exterior. Lamb shank is to die for. Albafura is a great place to visit for nic nacs, Sardines and water sports.
Fabulous family holiday
We first stayed at casa rosana 21 years ago when we came to celebrate my mums 50th birthday, our party then consisted of my parents my sister and brother in law,my husband, myself and our twin sons who were six and on their first holiday abroad, we all had a great time and always intended on going back,so that's what we did this year only this time with our three sons,daughter in law and two granddaughters aged four and nine months,it was so lovely to go back.casa rosana is very family friendly,the layout of the villa is great as the pool is visible from most of the rooms making it easy to keep an eye on young children,our four year old granddaughter absolutely loved it,she was in the pool nearly the whole time and cried the morning we had to go home,the villa is extremely comfy with plenty of room and a good size garden,we would recommend a hire car although we did walk to the local shops in almancil most days it's about a fifteen minute walk and had a meal in local restaurant about five minute walk,we enjoyed this holiday so much that we have already booked again for next year.
Activity and Interests
The Algarge has some of the finest beaches in Portugal, the nearest beach to the villa is Vale do Lobo (4km), 15 minutes by car.
Faro airport is 20 minutes away by car.
Almancil is a peaceful yet convenient location with a selection of superb bars and restaurants.
The old market town of Loule is (3 km).
Faro town (15 km) has excellent shopping facilities.
Vilamoura (4 km) is a hugh marina berthing 600 craft, it has excellent restaurants, bars and clubs.
Monchique mountain (30 km) is the highest spot in the Algarve at an altitude of 902m.
Tavira (10 km) has beautiful architecture is known as the town of churches.
Lagos major port with fabulous beaches.
Further Details:
Almancil is a 15 minute walk and has several supermarkets traditional and modern, a superb selection of bars and restaurants, several banks, a post office, police station, doctors surgery, selection of boutiques and everyday shops.
Prices and Availability
Rental rates
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|Minimum Price
|Additional Nights
|Weekend Night
|Event Price
Mid Season
9 Apr 2017 - 30 Jun 2017
3 night minimum stay
for 3 nights
High season
1 Jul 2017 - 2 Sep 2017
Changeover Day: Saturday
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
Mid season
3 Sep 2017 - 31 Oct 2017
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
Additional pricing information
|No additional mandatory fees
Booking Notes:
A 25% deposit payable within 10 days is required to confirm booking, the remainder to be paid 8 weeks before departure.
Changeover Day:
To ensure smooth running of the villa it is requested that you arrive at the villa after 4 pm and vacate by 11 am on day of departure.
Owner's Cancellation Policy
- 100% refund for cancellations more than 60 days before check-in date.
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- Linens Provided
- Living Room ...
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- Bathroom 2 - Toilet, Bath (no shower), Shower Enclosure, Bidet
- Bathroom 3 - Toilet, Bath (no shower), Shower Enclosure, Bidet
- Bathroom 4 - Toilet, Bath (no shower), Shower Enclosure, Bidet
- Bathroom 5 - Toilet, Bath (no shower), Shower Enclosure, Bidet
- Bedroom 1 ensuite shower, wc, bidet, washbasin. Bedroom 2 ensuite bath, wc, bidet, washbasin. Bedroom 3 ensuite shower, wc, bidet, washbasin. Bedroom 4 ensuite bath, wc, bidet, washbasin. Bathroom with bath, wc, bidet, washbasin.
- 5 Bedrooms, Sleeps 8
- Bedroom 1
- Bedroom 2
- Bedroom 3
- Bedroom 4
- Bedroom 5
- Description of sleeping capacity: Sleeps 8 (5 Bedrooms) Notes on bedrooms: Bedroom 1 with double bed. Bedroom 2 with double bed. Bedroom 3 with twin beds. Bedroom 4 with twin beds. Bedroom 5 bunkbeds.
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House Rules
- Max. occupancy: 8
- smoking allowed
- pets considered
- children welcome
- Notes on accommodation: The villa is fully air conditioned which also provides heat when required. Outside: 1800 sqm mature gardens with tropical fruit trees, private pool with built in light for night use and pool side BBQ. Outdoor terrace and roof terrace. Selection of patio chairs, tables and sun loungers. Cleaning / Towels / Linen / Maid service: Maid service is provided. The villa provides towels and linen. An iron and ironing board available, beach towels provided. A small welcome pack is provided on arrival.


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I know much is said about finishes, but I've searched and not found specific reference to my question. I will be the first to admit, I may have missed it, because I'm cross-eyed from reading and will scream if I have to type "two-part polyurethane" one more time. So, indulge me when I ask:
Can Awlcraft 2000 acrylic urethane be rolled and tipped?
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Awlgrip 2000 cannot be rolled and tipped. It has to be sprayed.
Awlgrip original can be rolled and tipped.
How's that for simple?
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Call awlgrip not Interlux...even though they have the same parent company they do not support each others products
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High-Assurance Design: Architecting Secure and Reliable Enterprise Applications
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How to Design for Software Reliability, Security, and Maintainability Many enterprises unfortunately depend on software that is insecure, unreliable, and fragile. They compensate by investing heavily in workarounds and maintenance, and by employing hordes of "gurus" to manage their systems' flaws. This must change. And it can. In this book, respected software architect Clifford J. Berg shows how to design high-assurance applications--applications with proven, built-in reliability, security, manageability, and maintainability. High-Assurance Design presents basic design principles and patterns that can be used in any contemporary development environment and satisfy the business demand for agility, responsiveness, and low cost. Berg draws on real-world experience, focusing heavily on the activities and relationships associated with building superior software in a mainstream business environment.Practicing architects, lead designers, and technical managers will benefit from the coverage of the entire software lifecycle, showing how to: * Understand and avoid the problems that lead to unreliable, insecure software * Refocus design and development resources to improve software * Identify project risks and plan for assurable designs * Obtain the requirements needed to deliver high assurance * Design application systems that meet the identified requirements * Verify that the design satisfies these requirements * Plan and design tests for reliability and security * Integrate security design, reliability design, and application design into one coherent set of processes * Incorporate these concerns into any software development methodology A(c) Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Council voted unanimously during their regular meeting Tuesday evening to authorize more than $1.5 million in bonds for paying tax appeal refunds.
The move comes after the township has been inundated for the four years with tax appeals.
The ordinance authorizes the issuance of as much as $1.58 million in aggregate principal of tax-appeal refunding.
Councilman Jim McElwee said the number was staggering and frustrating.
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At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Chief Jon Welch read excerpts from the entry. Kane wrote: "Let me clear up some conclusions that you are probably jumping to. This is not a case of a kid being so tormented that he knows no other way to lash out and I'm not just someone looking to be famous. I could care less about all that. I'm killing just to kill, not for a cause, not because I was bullied, just to kill."
In another part, Kane indicated why he may have had plans to kill others. He wrote: "I'm not just another school shooter. The reason it's happening in a school is because my hatred has had time to grow towards all the people in that school."
Police say he did not specify any targets. They still do not know his exact plans or why he ended up changing course and only killing himself.
Surveillance tapes did show Kane bringing weapons in the school. Police say he brought in the sawed-off shotgun he used to kill himself through a side door. They believe the ammunition and molotav cocktails were brought in in a duffle bag through the main doors. Police say they also found lighters and accelerant in Kane's car, which was parked in the parking lot.
Police and school officials are working together to improve security at the school. They plan to increase monitors in the hallways as well as at the doors. In the long-term, Superintendent Donald Raw says they will be looking at using hand-held metal detectors and video surveillance more effectively.
School officials plan on holding two meetings in the coming weeks. One to talk to parents about suicide. It's scheduled for Wed., May 20, at the Middle School Auditorium The second will be to discuss the events of May 5, including school and police procedures. That meeting will be May 26 in the Academy Auditorium.


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By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY
SAN JOSE If it's the holiday season, it's crunch time for any self-respecting online merchant. But for some, the stakes are higher than others.
A few years ago, eBay (EBAY) was getting battered by the likes of Amazon.com and was dismissed as an auctions has-been. Its technology was long in the tooth. And it was losing its iconic CEO, Meg Whitman, whose political ambitions led to a run for California governor this year.
Now eBay is betting its future on whipping its technology into shape as it navigates the limp recovery and red-hot competition from rival Amazon and hundreds of smaller, specialized retail sites.
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The biggest marketplace on the Web — eBay has 93million active users — is going all in on mobile shopping, a booming market that is projected to top $119 billion by 2015.
"I look through the eyes of the customer," says the affable CEO, John Donahoe, a commanding presence at 6-foot-5. "As a company, we needed to be more customer-driven and technology-driven."
The four-year eBay veteran, named to succeed Whitman as chief executive in early 2008, has been on a nearly three-year quest to infuse the Silicon Valley icon with new technology, including:
•Buffing up the site's e-commerce technology.
•Expanding eBay's mobile capability.
•Opening up PayPal, eBay's online payment service, to developers for new applications, which has helped continue its dominance.
•Orchestrating a series of acquisitions that reinvigorated the online auction pioneer.
He also audaciously moved to pick the brains of rivals on how to improve customer service — people such as Tony Hsieh, CEO of shoe and apparel e-tailer Zappos.com, and Ron Johnson, who oversees the Apple Store chain.
"EBay had enjoyed enormous success, but the environment around us was changing, and buyers and sellers have higher expectations," says Donahoe, an ardent eBay shopper who typically is first to sign up for beta tests of new eBay products and services.
Before taking the helm, Donahoe spent three years as president of eBay Marketplaces, which handles eBay's global e-commerce businesses.
Donahoe admits plenty of work remains to be done. "At the end of 2009, I said on a scale of one to 10, we moved from two to four for being customer-driven and innovative," Donahoe says. "In 2010, we went from four to six. We will never get to 10, but that is the goal."
Billions of dollars are at stake: Americans snapped up $23.8 billion in goods online from Nov. 1 to Dec. 13, up 12% from the period a year ago, according to market researcher ComScore.
But old technology put eBay at a competitive disadvantage when Amazon "stepped on eBay's turf with auctions and used products," says Karsten Weide, an analyst at market researcher IDC.
Some of the fruits of Donahoe's efforts were on display when eBay recently finished the third quarter with a 4% jump to 93 million active users who sold items.
Significantly, eBay drew mobile shoppers on Cyber Monday — the first Monday after Thanksgiving — with U.S. mobile commerce sales up 146% year over year. That strong holiday growth reflects the increasing consumer adoption of shopping via smartphones and tablets.
EBay expects to sell $1.5 billion in goods via mobile devices this year, compared with $600 million last year.
Mobile commerce is not just for small purchases. A survey of mobile shoppers in the U.S. conducted for eBay by SmithGeiger shows more than half of them comfortable spending more than $100 that way, and 14% are willing to spend more than $1,000. Earlier this year, an eBay shopper bought a Mercedes-Benz for $240,000 via a mobile phone.
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Even though eBay had made its name on innovation, the eBay that Donahoe took over as CEO in early 2008 had become creatively stagnant, and its top-heavy bureaucracy made it difficult to acquire small, hot start-ups, according to analysts such as Weide and tech executives such as Scot Wingo, CEO of ChannelAdvisor, a software company that retailers use to sell on marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon.com, and according to executives of start-ups who talked to eBay but spurned buyouts, and former eBay employees. The execs and employees asked not to be named because they still do business with eBay.
Technology, they say, was overlooked in the last few years of the Whitman era as she became more deeply involved in politics. She worked on John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, ran unsuccessfully for California governor this year and reportedly is weighing a U.S. Senate bid in 2012.
Whitman declined to comment for this story.
One of Donahoe's key moves was to bring onto the eBay board Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communications and a seminal figure in e-commerce history. Andreessen, board member Scott Cook, who is also co-founder of Intuit, and Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder and now chairman, are key technology advisers.
Donahoe also assigned Chief Technology Officer Mark Carges to help overhaul eBay's search, catalog and user experience, and to open the PayPal platform to developers.
Donahoe also has overseen an acquisition spree. Since June, he helped engineer purchases of Milo, a leading local-shopping engine offering consumers up-to-the-minute store inventories and pricing, and RedLaser, a bar-code-scanning application for the iPhone. Terms of those deals have not been disclosed.
"In doing our deal with John, we found eBay to be a streamlined, clear, efficient organization that understands start-ups," says Jon Callaghan, managing partner at venture-capital firm True Ventures, which invested $2 million in Milo. "They are very serious about mobile commerce."
The results of Donahoe's stewardship:
•PayPal expects to handle more than $700 million in mobile transactions this year — compared with just $30 million two years ago — though that still is less than 1% of the money processed through PayPal.
PayPal accounts for more than a third of eBay's global revenue, raking in $838 million in the third quarter, and at its current growth rate would pass parent eBay in revenue around 2014.
"We want to have the culture of the largest start-up on Earth," says PayPal President Scott Thompson.
•EBay has broadened its appeal beyond casual shoppers by reshaping its one-size-fits-all approach and focusing on niche apps such as fashion that emphasize browsing over buying.
"The bar is set so high for the online shopping experience, you have to do something extraordinary to have people talk about you," says Jon Fahrner, CEO of Moxsie, an e-commerce fashion site. "Being relevant is the key to survival."
•The company this month introduced Deal Finder, an online tool that lets shoppers compare eBay listings with the same products on Amazon.com, BestBuy.com and other sites. The tool lets shoppers scan more than 50,000 deals for savings on movies, video games, electronics, music and books.
"John's focus is the customer, and he's willing to take big bets," says Dane Glasgow, vice president of buyer experience at eBay. The search and data-mining company he co-founded, Positronic, was acquired by eBay in 2008.
Big eBay sellers such as Jack Sheng say they have benefited from the recent changes, especially in search and cataloging of products. Sheng is CEO of eForCity, which specializes in electronic accessories.
"I have seen more dramatic changes in the last three years at eBay than in the previous 10 years," says Sheng, who launched eForCity out of his garage 10 years ago and now employs nearly 200. Sheng was the first eBay seller to hit 1 million, then 2 million, in user feedback comments.
Is it enough, though?
Still, are eBay's changes enough to blunt the mobile commerce competition of Amazon and others?
"The search experience isn't where it needs to be," says Wingo. "Another is recommendations, particularly when compared to Amazon. It is (eBay's) Achilles' heel."
EBay has somewhat offset its shortcomings, he says, by opening the PayPal platform to developers. That has led to new applications such as Twitpay on Twitter and a recent upgrade that lets iPhone users deposit money in their PayPal accounts by photographing a personal check.
"To his credit, Donahoe has elevated technical folks within the company," Wingo says. "Before, you had to look at six levels of management before you came across techies."
BestBuy.com has polished its mobile offerings with a site, m.bestbuy.com, and iPhone/Android apps such as Shopkick and Tecca, says John Thompson, general manger of BestBuy.com.
Amazon.com declined to comment for this story.
In an era of social media and real-time customer service, eBay has done a "remarkable job" focusing on innovation and opening the PayPal platform, says former eBay executive Maynard Webb, now CEO of cloud-computing company LiveOps.
EBay "embraces change and drives innovations across e-commerce, the mobile space and now local commerce," adds Intuit's Cook.
When Donahoe was named CEO, Cook says, "He put a stake in the ground with his senior team that eBay would make the customer and speed of innovation two key priorities."
It's praise Donahoe is willing to accept — to a point. "There is no silver bullet," he says. "It's about seeing the world outside-in, not inside-out."
He hastens to add, "I am proud of our progress, but that only makes me more hungry to get better. I will never be satisfied."
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New Delhi, May 17 (UNI) Reacting to growing criticism, Bangalore Royal Challengers owner Vijay Mallya has taken a u-turn from his earlier remarks about the team's sacked CEO Charu Sharma and captain Rahul Dravid.
''The Royal Challengers is my team and I have full confidence in them. Admittedly, there are issues on team composition and non-performance but I hope that I can enjoy the legitimate privacy of sorting out issues within my own squad,'' Mallya added.
Earlier, Mallya had said it was a mistake to keep himself away from team selection but now he has accused the media of blowing the whole issue out of proportion.
''I have read all the reports in the media over the last few days with considerable dismay. Matters are not only being blown extravagantly out of proportion but my initial comments in response to Charu Sharma have been twisted and turned in a bizarre manner,'' Mallya said.
However, the liquor baron has altogether taken a different stand saying his team would come out harder and tougher in the next editions of the tournament.
''I continue to believe that I made the right choice in acquiring an IPL franchise which will create great value going forwared. I like winning but losing round one does not mean that I have lost the fight. The Royal Challengers wil emerge winners going forward,'' Mallya added.
India's Test captain Anil Kumble had also urged to end such controveries said it was time the ''people who matter'' understood what sport was all about.


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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Music
Aubrey Peeples
Stefanie Scott
Aurora Perrineau
Jon M. Chu
Duration: 119 min
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Release: Oct 22, 2015
IMDb: 5.0
Some movies are just dumb. But I don't mean to say that the people making the movie are dumb.
Unfortunately, in spite of the best efforts of many smart, talented and hard-working people, "dumb" is the first word that comes to mind when thinking about a particular movie. Take "Jem and the Holograms" (PG, 1:58) for example. Just look at the title. The lead character is a singer who performs under the nickname that her father gave her? but "Jem" should be spelled with a "G"! And why call the band members "the Holograms" (something that isn't really there) when part of the point of the movie is that Jem's musicians are an indispensable part of the act? Now, before someone says that I don't know what I'm talking about, yes, I am aware that this movie is a live action version of a popular mid-late 1980s animated TV series of the same name (and the same spelling), but that doesn't mean that the adaptation (or the original) doesn't contain some dumb ideas. The TV series was only created to help sell toys! That may be good business, but it's kind of a dumb reason for people to start watching a new show, which basically amounts to a half-hour toy commercial. Still, having said all that (and with more "dumb" complaints to come), I admit that "dumb" is rarely an all-or-nothing proposition and even "dumb" movies can be mildly entertaining.
Jem, whose real name is Jerrica Benton (Aubrey Peeples), is a teen who lives with her younger sister, Kimber (Stefanie Scott) and their aunt Bailey (Molly Ringwald), who took the girls in after their father died. Also in the house are Bailey's two previously adopted daughters, Aja (Hayley Kiyoko) and Shana (Aurora Perrineau). The four teenage girls live as sisters and are all into music and fashion. Jerrica and Kimber write songs and all four girls play instruments. They also all comment on each other's clothing and hairstyle choices, sometimes even doing the "favor" of making changes in each other's styles.
One day when the girls all decide to entertain themselves by putting on fun make-up, wigs and clothes to make a "music video", the chronically private Jerrica is inspired to record one of her songs on video and in costume as "Jem". Kimber, who is the opposite of Jerrica and lives her entire life online, gets a hold of Jerrica's video clip and posts it on YouTube. "Jem" becomes, quite literally, an overnight sensation. The video goes viral and everyone is asking "Who is Jem?" One of those asking is Starlight Music CEO Erica Raymond (Juliette Lewis) who finds Jerrica and offers her money to perform three shows in L.A. Jerrica agrees ? on one firmly-held condition ? that her sisters come with her as her band.
Erica (the female version of television Jem's nemesis, Eric) isn't the magnanimous God-send she appears to be. Erica's the kind of person who casually insults people when she talks, insists on having her way, and isn't above manipulating people to get it. Even after meeting Erica, Aunt Bailey lets the four teenage girls go back with Erica to L.A. (pretty dumb, if you ask me) without any more supervision than Erica, her driver, Zipper (Nathan Moore), and Erica's son and employee, Rio Pacheco (Ryan Guzman). Erica has the girls stay in the "Rock Star Suite" in Starlight Mansion. Rio is right down the hall, but that still doesn't stop these very independent girls from getting into some serious mischief.
"That's when things start to get weird," says Jerrica's narration, referring to their first night in Starlight Mansion. (Taking out the word "weird" and substituting "dumb" and/or "dumber" would be more accurate.) A small robot which Jerrica and Kimber's dad invented (but could never get to work) and which Jerrica holds onto for inspiration, suddenly starts beeping and flashing. The robot, 51n3rg.y (pronounced "synergy"), leads the girls ? and the audience ? into a subplot which has Jerrica searching for clues to something that her father left for her to find when she became old enough to do so.
Back to the main story. The girls perform in L.A. and they're a hit, even though Jem ends up looking like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Sia somehow joined their DNA, had a child and worked together on her look. Jerrica's conflicted about the artifice of her on-stage persona, but at least she's happy thinking that she's going to make enough money to help Aunt Bailey out of some financial trouble, and then the other shoe drops. Erica kicks her manipulations into overdrive, reveals her true intentions and forces Jerrica into a very difficult choice that will have long-term implications for all involved (especially if a planned sequel is filmed, as foreshadowed in a mid-credits scene which features Ke$ha as a character from the TV show).
"Jem and the Holograms" has its charms, but it's still basically pretty dumb. Besides my earlier points, there's Jem's super-fast rise to stardom (ridiculously fast - even for the internet age), Erica's ridiculous statement that she can find another "Jem" and no one would notice (even in the internet age), that robot's capabilities and how they come about, and a major conflict's resolution that is sappy and rushed.
On the positive side, Ringwald gives an excellent performance and the band performs some well-written songs that have a good beat. The movie is family-friendly and gives us some good lessons in loyalty, integrity and being yourself, but the film is unlikely to hold much appeal for many people beyond die-hard fans of the original TV show or girls currently between the ages of 6 and 12. Unfortunately, there's only so much dumbness that some decent acting and a few good songs and positive messages can overcome in one film. Heck, maybe you think this review is dumb, but I'm still giving this movie a "C-".


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Feb 5, 2010 at 9:07 pm #1254911
Wondered if anyone is making plans to go to 2010 TrailDays?
I noticed fewer 2009 thru-hikers there last year- maybe because the date has been the same weekend for decades and the thru-hikers have gotten faster ( lighter!) and are well past here by then…
I'm not sure there were more than a few dozen hikers I saw in the vendor area that were interested in SUL/ UL gear vs reg or light gear.
About two weeks after last years TD's I was setting out a cooler of drinks for thru-hikers at the trail crossing the James River and a group of about 10 came through and I got to talk to them about TD's- all of them had been to TD's that year but only one remembered the MLD (or the GG, BPL, etc) booths set up in the park…)
I always have fun seeing friends and customers and just throwing open a conversation about TD's in recent years looking for any other perspectives.
Trying to decide if it's worth setting up a booth this year…Maybe better to rent a house and have a big MLD invitation only party!Feb 6, 2010 at 12:44 pm #1570486
bump- or maybe the question has been answered!Feb 6, 2010 at 1:20 pm #1570498
I missed the first post! I've never been to one, but am thinking of going this year, so I hope you have a booth! I'd love to stop by and chat!Feb 6, 2010 at 2:40 pm #1570543
Jolly Green GiantBPL Member
@regultrLocale: www.jolly-green-giant.blogspot.com
Ron, I've met you a couple of times at TD. For me, it isn't a mandatory requirement to go even though I like the atmosphere. Personally, I go because I want to put my hands on gear put out by cottage manufacturers which otherwise I could only see online. Seeing your stuff at TD led me to purchase several items from you and also to declare quite loudly that I think your finishing features are the best on the market. Consequently, in recent years TD has been taken over by hammock vendors and many UL vendors haven't been making an appearance. Nothing against hammockers, but when GG and BPL don't show up, it leaves MLD sitting across from SMD which only allows a small window for loitering as I've seen everything else. BPL was on the list last year and apparently backed out at the last minute. GG said they'd probably go this year, but their plate is always full. Zpacks is now in FL and likely won't make it, so that pretty much leaves MLD, SMD, and Anti-Gravity Gear to fight off Appy Trails, the hammockers, MacCat, and AMK.
I haven't decided whether to go this year, but it's always a consideration. Knowing less and less UL vendors are willing to make an appearance ensures I won't come as often either. Last year it was also so hot and muggy that it made me think twice about going this year merely for a casual walk through.Feb 6, 2010 at 3:06 pm #1570558
Hmmmm. If most of the thru-hikers have passed through by then, perhaps the UL manufacturers should do their own "Trail Days" a bit earlier, and perhaps even a bit further south. Have the place to yourselves — get much more visibility…
Just a thought.Feb 8, 2010 at 2:53 pm #1571286
Patrick SMember
@xpatrickxadLocale: Upper East TN
I live pretty close so I may just go to check it out. On my thru-hike last year I wanted to be ahead by the time Trail Days hit just to stay ahead of the crowds, but I was a pretty early season hiker. And most people I hiked with had pretty bad experiences in Damascus as a whole, but I heard it is a totally different town during Trail Days.Feb 25, 2010 at 7:41 pm #1578754
Backpack JackBPL Member
@jumpbackjackLocale: Armpit of California
Never been I would like to check it out, where at and what time? JackFeb 25, 2010 at 7:50 pm #1578755
Juston TaulMember
@junctionLocale: Atlanta, GA
Date/Time/Location? Thanks!Feb 25, 2010 at 8:02 pm #1578767Mar 14, 2010 at 8:31 am #1586262
Tom ClarkBPL Member
@tomclarkLocale: East Coast
I also missed this post until now, but I do plan on going to Trail Days. I missed it last year for the first time in several years. I'm in PA now, so it's a longer trek than when I was in TN. I see that you are on the exhibitor list, which is great! I'll stop by to see what's new.
I'm going also post a note about TD on BPL's Trip Announcements so others see it.
TomMar 22, 2010 at 1:59 pm #1589528
Craig RobertsMember
@homerLocale: Midwest
Ron and Others,
I'm coming to Trail Days from Ohio, bringing my brother and a couple other guys. As you know from my posts, I'm new to UL but working hard on it. I should be a banner for Ron, sporting my (soon to be received)new Exodus, bug bivy, and tarp. Looking forward to it!
Craig Roberts
Mason, OhioMay 2, 2010 at 7:41 pm #1605105
tyler marlowMember
@like-sisyphusLocale: UTAH
I'll be there and i would love to see the SUL/UL cottage gear makers there and especially MLD!May 3, 2010 at 1:41 pm #1605405
We will be there on Fri afternoon and Sat all day.
Sat morning group Trail Run planned. 7am???
Thanks.May 3, 2010 at 1:53 pm #1605407
john TierSpectator
@peter_panLocale: Co-Owner Jacks 'R' Better, LLC, VA
To answer the original question…
Jacks 'R' Better, LLC will again be at Trail Days…
While we are focused on the quilt and hammock community there is plenty for the ultra light ground dwellers… we will have plenty of the New Sierra Sniveller quilts …We hope to have the trial run of the winter model, High Sierra Snivellers to debute… Normal assortment of flex air pillows, ti shepard hook stakes etc.
Those not able to attend will find the Trail Days Sale extended to the internet shoppers at http://WWW.jacksrbetter.com from today through the 18th of may.
Those who can actually attend will find some unannounced bonus sales as well.
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LOS ANGELES (September 16, 2013) – Today, Wonderful Pistachios kicks-off the fifth season of its iconic "Get Crackin'" campaign, celebrating the unique and unusual ways pop culture icons crack open a pistachio. This year's highly anticipated line-up includes five-time NBA champion, Basketball Hall of Famer, and peace advocate Dennis Rodman; Founder of the Prancercise fitness regimen-turned-viral-video Joanna Rohrback; a pistachio-loving elephant; legendary gorilla, Kong Kong; and the chilling shower scene from Pyscho.
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CINCINNATI --- Freshman Semaj Christon (Cincinnati, OhioWinton Woods HSBrewster Acad. N.H.) has earned Atlantic 10 Conference Rookie of the Week honors for the second straight week. Christon had a tremendous game on Saturday at Purdue in his first true road game as a Musketeer. Christon had a career-high 25 points on 8-of-12 from the field and 8-of-8 from the free throw line to go with four assists, four rebounds and three steals and was the only player on either team to play all 40 minutes. Christon leads Xavier, 6-1, in scoring at 16.0 ppg. and assists at 6.2 apg. Xavier hasnt had a freshman lead the team in scoring for an entire season since Stanley Burrell (12.7 ppg.) in the 2004-05 season. He is bidding to become the first freshman to lead Xavier in assists since Dedrick Finn at 4.3 apg. in the 2002-03 season.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Alan Jackson pulled in seven nominations, the most of the year, from the Country Music Association on Monday, including entertainer of the year and male vocalist.
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Jackson's nominations also include single of the year and song of the year for "Remember When," video of the year for "Remember When" and for his duet with Jimmy Buffett, "It's Five O'clock Somewhere," and musical event of the year for collaborating on a remake of the Hank Williams' tune "Hey, Good Lookin."'
Newcomer Gretchen Wilson garnered five high-profile nominations, including one for best album for her tribute to redneck pride, "Here for the Party."
Wilson's first single, the No. 1 hit "Redneck Woman," was nominated for three awards, single, song and music video of the year. She also was nominated for the Horizon award, which honors the top new act.
The other best album nominees were Brad Paisley for "Mud on the Tires," Brooks & Dunn for "Red Dirt Road," Toby Keith for "Shock'N Y'all" and Kenny Chesney for "When the Sun Goes Down."
Keith won a total of six nominations including single and video of the year for "I Love This Bar," musical event for "Hey, Good Lookin,"' male vocalist of the year and entertainer of the year.
Other artists with five nominations included Chesney and Alison Krauss.
Krauss was nominated for female vocalist of the year. Other nominees include Terri Clark, Sara Evans, Martina McBride and Reba McEntire.
CBS will broadcast the 38th annual CMA awards show, hosted by Brooks & Dunn, live from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House on Nov. 9.
Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who helped announce the nominations on CBS' "The Early Show," was selected for induction into the Country Hall of Fame.
"What a dirty trick," he said, obviously surprised to hear his name read.
"I guess it means I'm old," he said of the nomination that will put his name in the hall with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. Kristofferson has written hits such as "Help Me Make it Through the Night," "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down," and his work has been recorded by more than 450 artists.
Nominees for 2004 CMA Awards
* Entertainer of the Year: Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw.
* Female Vocalist: Terri Clark, Sara Evans, Alison Krauss, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire.
* Male Vocalist: Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, George Strait, Keith Urban.
* Horizon Award: Dierks Bentley, Big & Rich, Julie Roberts, Josh Turner, Gretchen Wilson.
* Vocal Group: Alabama, Diamond Rio, Lonestar, Rascal Flatts, Trick Pony.
* Vocal Duo: Big & Rich, Blue County, Brooks & Dunn, Montgomery Gentry, The Warren Brothers.
* Musician of the Year: Matt Chamberlain, drums; Kenny Greenberg, electric guitar; Dann Huff, guitar; Larry Paxton, bass guitar; Brent Rowan, guitar.
* Album of the Year (awarded to artist and producer): "Here for the Party," Gretchen Wilson, produced by Mark Wright/Joe Scaife; "Mud on the Tires," Brad Paisley, produced by Frank Rogers; "Red Dirt Road," Brooks & Dunn, produced by Kix Brooks/Ronnie Dunn/Mark Wright; "Shock'N Y'All," Toby Keith, produced by Toby Keith/James Stroud; "When the Sun Goes Down," Kenny Chesney, produced by Buddy Cannon/Kenny Chesney.
* Song of the Year: "Live Like You Were Dying," Tim Nichols/Craig Wiseman; "Long Black Train," Josh Turner; "Redneck Woman," Gretchen Wilson/John Rich; "Remember When," Alan Jackson; "Whiskey Lullaby," Bill Anderson/Jon Randall.
* Single of the Year (awarded to artist and producer): "I Love This Bar," Toby Keith, produced by Toby Keith/James Stroud; "Live Like You Were Dying," Tim McGraw, produced by Byron Gallimore/Tim McGraw/Darran Smith; "Redneck Woman," Gretchen Wilson, produced by Mark Wright/Joe Scaife; "Remember When," Alan Jackson, produced by Keith Stegall; "Whiskey Lullaby," Brad Paisley featuring Alison Krauss, produced by Frank Rogers.
* Music Video of the Year (awarded to artist and director): "I Love This Bar," Toby Keith, directed by Michael Salomon; "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett, directed by Trey Fanjoy; "Redneck Woman," Gretchen Wilson, directed by David Hogan; "Remember When," Alan Jackson, directed by Trey Fanjoy; "Whiskey Lullaby," Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss, directed by Rick Schroder.
* Musical Event of the Year: Norah Jones with Dolly Parton, "Creepin' In"; Jimmy Buffett with Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith & George Strait, "Hey Good Lookin"'; James Taylor and Alison Krauss, "How's the World Treating You"; Kenny Chesney (duet with Uncle Kracker), "When the Sun Goes Down"; Brad Paisley featuring Alison Krauss, "Whiskey Lullaby."
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Argument Realization in Syntax
Malka Rappaport Hovav
Words are sensitive to syntactic context. Argument realization is the study of the relation between argument-taking words, the syntactic contexts they appear in and the interpretive properties that constrain the relation between them.
Franz Rainer
Blocking can be defined as the non-occurrence of some linguistic form, whose existence could be expected on general grounds, due to the existence of a rival form. *Oxes, for example, is blocked by oxen, *stealer by thief. Although blocking is closely associated with morphology, in reality the competing "forms" can not only be morphemes or words, but can also be syntactic units. In German, for example, the compound Rotwein 'red wine' blocks the phrasal unit *roter Wein (in the relevant sense), just as the phrasal unit rote Rübe 'beetroot; lit. red beet' blocks the compound *Rotrübe. In these examples, one crucial factor determining blocking is synonymy; speakers apparently have a deep-rooted presumption against synonyms. Whether homonymy can also lead to a similar avoidance strategy, is still controversial. But even if homonymy blocking exists, it certainly is much less systematic than synonymy blocking.
In all the examples mentioned above, it is a word stored in the mental lexicon that blocks a rival formation. However, besides such cases of lexical blocking, one can observe blocking among productive patterns. Dutch has three suffixes for deriving agent nouns from verbal bases, -er, -der, and -aar. Of these three suffixes, the first one is the default choice, while -der and -aar are chosen in very specific phonological environments: as Geert Booij describes in The Morphology of Dutch (2002), "the suffix -aar occurs after stems ending in a coronal sonorant consonant preceded by schwa, and -der occurs after stems ending in /r/" (p. 122). Contrary to lexical blocking, the effect of this kind of pattern blocking does not depend on words stored in the mental lexicon and their token frequency but on abstract features (in the case at hand, phonological features).
Blocking was first recognized by the Indian grammarian Pāṇini in the 5th or 4th century
Andrej L. Malchukov
Morphological case is conventionally defined as a system of marking of a dependent nominal for the type of relationship they bear to their heads. While most linguists would agree with this definition, in practice it is often a matter of controversy whether a certain marker X counts as case in language L, or how many case values language L features. First, the distinction between morphological cases and case particles/adpositions is fuzzy in a cross-linguistic perspective. Second, the distinctions between cases can be obscured by patterns of case syncretism, leading to different analyses of the underlying system. On the functional side, it is important to distinguish between syntactic (structural), semantic, and "pragmatic" cases, yet these distinctions are not clear-cut either, as syntactic cases historically arise from the two latter sources. Moreover, case paradigms of individual languages usually show a conflation between syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic cases (see the phenomenon of "focal ergativity," where ergative case is used when the A argument is in focus). The composition of case paradigms can be shown to follow a certain typological pattern, which is captured by case hierarchy, as proposed by Greenberg and Blake, among others. Case hierarchy constrains the way how case systems evolve (or are reduced) across languages and derives from relative markedness and, ultimately, from frequencies of individual cases. The (one-dimensional) case hierarchy is, however, incapable of capturing all recurrent polysemies of individual case markers; rather, such polysemies can be represented through a more complex two-dimensional hierarchy (semantic map), which can also be given a diachronic interpretation.
Clinical Linguistics
Louise Cummings
Clinical linguistics is the branch of linguistics that applies linguistic concepts and theories to the study of language disorders. As the name suggests, clinical linguistics is a dual-facing discipline. Although the conceptual roots of this field are in linguistics, its domain of application is the vast array of clinical disorders that may compromise the use and understanding of language. Both dimensions of clinical linguistics can be addressed through an examination of specific linguistic deficits in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, craniofacial anomalies, adult-onset neurological impairments, psychiatric disorders, and neurodegenerative disorders. Clinical linguists are interested in the full range of linguistic deficits in these conditions, including phonetic deficits of children with cleft lip and palate, morphosyntactic errors in children with specific language impairment, and pragmatic language impairments in adults with schizophrenia.
Like many applied disciplines in linguistics, clinical linguistics sits at the intersection of a number of areas. The relationship of clinical linguistics to the study of communication disorders and to speech-language pathology (speech and language therapy in the United Kingdom) are two particularly important points of intersection. Speech-language pathology is the area of clinical practice that assesses and treats children and adults with communication disorders. All language disorders restrict an individual's ability to communicate freely with others in a range of contexts and settings. So language disorders are first and foremost communication disorders. To understand language disorders, it is useful to think of them in terms of points of breakdown on a communication cycle that tracks the progress of a linguistic utterance from its conception in the mind of a speaker to its comprehension by a hearer. This cycle permits the introduction of a number of important distinctions in language pathology, such as the distinction between a receptive and an expressive language disorder, and between a developmental and an acquired language disorder. The cycle is also a useful model with which to conceptualize a range of communication disorders other than language disorders. These other disorders, which include hearing, voice, and fluency disorders, are also relevant to clinical linguistics.
Clinical linguistics draws on the conceptual resources of the full range of linguistic disciplines to describe and explain language disorders. These disciplines include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. Each of these linguistic disciplines contributes concepts and theories that can shed light on the nature of language disorder. A wide range of tools and approaches are used by clinical linguists and speech-language pathologists to assess, diagnose, and treat language disorders. They include the use of standardized and norm-referenced tests, communication checklists and profiles (some administered by clinicians, others by parents, teachers, and caregivers), and qualitative methods such as conversation analysis and discourse analysis. Finally, clinical linguists can contribute to debates about the nosology of language disorders. In order to do so, however, they must have an understanding of the place of language disorders in internationally recognized classification systems such as the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) of the American Psychiatric Association.
Compounding in Morphology
Pius ten Hacken
Compounding is a word formation process based on the combination of lexical elements (words or stems). In the theoretical literature, compounding is discussed controversially, and the disagreement also concerns basic issues. In the study of compounding, the questions guiding research can be grouped into four main areas, labeled here as delimitation, classification, formation, and interpretation. Depending on the perspective taken in the research, some of these may be highlighted or backgrounded.
In the delimitation of compounding, one question is how important it is to be able to determine for each expression unambiguously whether it is a compound or not. Compounding borders on syntax and on affixation. In some theoretical frameworks, it is not a problem to have more typical and less typical instances, without a precise boundary between them. However, if, for instance, word formation and syntax are strictly separated and compounding is in word formation, it is crucial to draw this borderline precisely. Another question is which types of criteria should be used to distinguish compounding from other phenomena. Criteria based on form, on syntactic properties, and on meaning have been used. In all cases, it is also controversial whether such criteria should be applied crosslinguistically.
In the classification of compounds, the question of how important the distinction between the classes is for the theory in which they are used poses itself in much the same way as the corresponding question for the delimitation. A common classification uses headedness as a basis. Other criteria are based on the forms of the elements that are combined (e.g., stem vs. word) or on the semantic relationship between the components. Again, whether these criteria can and should be applied crosslinguistically is controversial.
The issue of the formation rules for compounds is particularly prominent in frameworks that emphasize form-based properties of compounding. Rewrite rules for compounding have been proposed, generalizations over the selection of the input form (stem or word) and of linking elements, and rules for stress assignment. Compounds are generally thought of as consisting of two components, although these components may consist of more than one element themselves. For some types of compounds with three or more components, for example copulative compounds, a nonbinary structure has been proposed.
The question of interpretation can be approached from two opposite perspectives. In a semasiological perspective, the meaning of a compound emerges from the interpretation of a given form. In an onomasiological perspective, the meaning precedes the formation in the sense that a form is selected to name a particular concept. The central question in the interpretation of compounds is how to determine the relationship between the two components. The range of possible interpretations can be constrained by the rules of compounding, by the semantics of the components, and by the context of use. A much-debated question concerns the relative importance of these factors.
Construction Morphology
Geert Booij
Construction Morphology is a theory of word structure in which the complex words of a language are analyzed as constructions, that is, systematic pairings of form and meaning. These pairings are analyzed within a Tripartite Parallel Architecture conception of grammar. This presupposes a word-based approach to the analysis of morphological structure and a strong dependence on paradigmatic relations between words. The lexicon contains both words and the constructional schemas they are instantiations of. Words and schemas are organized in a hierarchical network, with intermediate layers of subschemas. These schemas have a motivating function with respect to existing complex words and specify how new complex words can be formed.
The consequence of this view of morphology is that there is no sharp boundary between lexicon and grammar. In addition, the use of morphological patterns may also depend on specific syntactic constructions (construction-dependent morphology).
This theory of lexical relatedness also provides insight into language change such as the use of obsolete case markers as markers of specific constructions, the change of words into affixes, and the debonding of word constituents into independent words. Studies of language acquisition and word processing confirm this view of the lexicon and the nature of lexical knowledge.
Construction Morphology is also well equipped for dealing with inflection and the relationships between the cells of inflectional paradigms, because it can express how morphological schemas are related paradigmatically.
Derivational Morphology
Rochelle Lieber
Derivational morphology is a type of word formation that creates new lexemes, either by changing syntactic category or by adding substantial new meaning (or both) to a free or bound base. Derivation may be contrasted with inflection on the one hand or with compounding on the other. The distinctions between derivation and inflection and between derivation and compounding, however, are not always clear-cut. New words may be derived by a variety of formal means including affixation, reduplication, internal modification of various sorts, subtraction, and conversion. Affixation is best attested cross-linguistically, especially prefixation and suffixation. Reduplication is also widely found, with various internal changes like ablaut and root and pattern derivation less common. Derived words may fit into a number of semantic categories. For nouns, event and result, personal and participant, collective and abstract noun are frequent. For verbs, causative and applicative categories are well-attested, as are relational and qualitative derivations for adjectives. Languages frequently also have ways of deriving negatives, relational words, and evaluatives. Most languages have derivation of some sort, although there are languages that rely more heavily on compounding than on derivation to build their lexical stock. A number of topics have dominated the theoretical literature on derivation, including productivity (the extent to which new words can be created with a given affix or morphological process), the principles that determine the ordering of affixes, and the place of derivational morphology with respect to other components of the grammar. The study of derivation has also been important in a number of psycholinguistic debates concerning the perception and production of language.
Evaluatives in Morphology
Nicola Grandi
Evaluative morphology is a field of linguistic studies that deals with the formation of diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives, and amelioratives. Actually, evaluative constructions cross the boundaries of morphology, and are sometimes realized by formal strategies that cannot be numbered among word formation processes. Nevertheless, morphology plays a dominant role in the formation of evaluatives. The first attempt to draw an exhaustive account of this set of complex forms is found in the 1984 work Generative Morphology, by Sergio Scalise, who made the hypothesis that evaluatives represent a separate block of rules between inflection and derivation. This hypothesis is based on the fact that evaluatives show some properties that are derivational, others that are inflectional, and some specific properties that are neither derivational nor inflectional. After Scalise's proposal, almost all scholars have tried to answer the question concerning the place of evaluative rules within the morphological component. What data reveal is that, in a cross-linguistic perspective, evaluatives display a uniform behavior from a semantic and functional point of view, but exhibit a wide range of formal properties. In other words, functional identity does not imply formal identity; consequently, we can expect that constructions performing the same function display different formal properties in different languages. So, if evaluatives are undoubtedly derivational in most Indo-European languages (even if they cannot be considered a typical example of derivation), they are certainly quite close to inflection in some Bantu languages. This means that the question about the place of evaluatives within the morphological component probably is not as crucial as scholars have thought, and that other issues, sometimes neglected in the literature, deserve the same attention. Among them, the role of pragmatics in the description of evaluatives is no doubt central. According to Dressler and Merlini Barbaresi, in their 1994 work, Morphopragmatics: Diminutives and Intensifiers in Italian, German and Other Languages, evaluative constructions are the more typical instantiation of morphopragmatics, which is "defined as the area of general pragmatic meanings of morphological rules, that is of the regular pragmatic effects produced when moving from the input to the output of a morphological rule." Evaluatives include "a pragmatic variable which cannot be suppressed in the description of [their] meaning." Another central issue in studies on evaluative morphology is the wide set of semantic nuances that usually accompany diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives, and amelioratives. For example, a diminutive form can occasionally assume a value that is attenuative, singulative, partitive, appreciative, affectionate, etc. This cluster of semantic values has often increased the idea that evaluatives are irregular in nature and that they irremediably avoid any generalization. Dan Jurafsky showed, in 1996, that these different meanings are often the outcome of regular and cross-linguistically recurrent semantic processes, both in a synchronic and in a diachronic perspective.
Frequency Effects in Grammar
Holger Diessel and Martin Hilpert
Until recently, theoretical linguists have paid little attention to the frequency of linguistic elements in grammar and grammatical development. It is a standard assumption of (most) grammatical theories that the study of grammar (or competence) must be separated from the study of language use (or performance). However, this view of language has been called into question by various strands of research that have emphasized the importance of frequency for the analysis of linguistic structure. In this research, linguistic structure is often characterized as an emergent phenomenon shaped by general cognitive processes such as analogy, categorization, and automatization, which are crucially influenced by frequency of occurrence.
There are many different ways in which frequency affects the processing and development of linguistic structure. Historical linguists have shown that frequent strings of linguistic elements are prone to undergo phonetic reduction and coalescence, and that frequent expressions and constructions are more resistant to structure mapping and analogical leveling than infrequent ones. Cognitive linguists have argued that the organization of constituent structure and embedding is based on the language users' experience with linguistic sequences, and that the productivity of grammatical schemas or rules is determined by the combined effect of frequency and similarity. Child language researchers have demonstrated that frequency of occurrence plays an important role in the segmentation of the speech stream and the acquisition of syntactic categories, and that the statistical properties of the ambient language are much more regular than commonly assumed. And finally, psycholinguists have shown that structural ambiguities in sentence processing can often be resolved by lexical and structural frequencies, and that speakers' choices between alternative constructions in language production are related to their experience with particular linguistic forms and meanings. Taken together, this research suggests that our knowledge of grammar is grounded in experience.
Walter Bisang
Linguistic change not only affects the lexicon and the phonology of words, it also operates on the grammar of a language. In this context, grammaticalization is concerned with the development of lexical items into markers of grammatical categories or, more generally, with the development of markers used for procedural cueing of abstract relationships out of linguistic items with concrete referential meaning. A well-known example is the English verb go in its function of a future marker, as in She is going to visit her friend. Phenomena like these are very frequent across the world's languages and across many different domains of grammatical categories. In the last 50 years, research on grammaticalization has come up with a plethora of (a) generalizations, (b) models of how grammaticalization works, and (c) methodological refinements.
On (a): Processes of grammaticalization develop gradually, step by step, and the sequence of the individual stages follows certain clines as they have been generalized from cross-linguistic comparison (unidirectionality). Even though there are counterexamples that go against the directionality of various clines, their number seems smaller than assumed in the late 1990s.
On (b): Models or scenarios of grammaticalization integrate various factors. Depending on the theoretical background, grammaticalization and its results are motivated either by the competing motivations of economy vs. iconicity/explicitness in functional typology or by a change from movement to merger in the minimalist program. Pragmatic inference is of central importance for initiating processes of grammaticalization (and maybe also at later stages), and it activates mechanisms like reanalysis and analogy, whose status is controversial in the literature. Finally, grammaticalization does not only work within individual languages/varieties, it also operates across languages. In situations of contact, the existence of a certain grammatical category may induce grammaticalization in another language.
On (c): Even though it is hard to measure degrees of grammaticalization in terms of absolute and exact figures, it is possible to determine relative degrees of grammaticalization in terms of the autonomy of linguistic signs. Moreover, more recent research has come up with criteria for distinguishing grammaticalization and lexicalization (defined as the loss of productivity, transparency, and/or compositionality of former productive, transparent, and compositional structures).
In spite of these findings, there are still quite a number of questions that need further research. Two questions to be discussed address basic issues concerning the overall properties of grammaticalization. (1) What is the relation between constructions and grammaticalization? In the more traditional view, constructions are seen as the syntactic framework within which linguistic items are grammaticalized. In more recent approaches based on construction grammar, constructions are defined as combinations of form and meaning. Thus, grammaticalization can be seen in the light of constructionalization, i.e., the creation of new combinations of form and meaning. Even though constructionalization covers many apects of grammaticalization, it does not exhaustively cover the domain of grammaticalization. (2) Is grammaticalization cross-linguistically homogeneous, or is there a certain range of variation? There is evidence from East and mainland Southeast Asia that there is cross-linguistic variation to some extent.
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The Owls returned to winning ways with a 2-1 win over ten-man Notts County at Hillsborough on Saturday.And they had to come from behind to do so after Jeff Hughes gave County an early lead from the penalty spot.But goals from Julian Bennett and Gary Madine overturned the deficit and ensured victory following successive away defeats to Bournemouth and Bury.Wednesday were out of the traps apace and skipper Lewis Buxton - deputising for the injured Rob Jones - struck narrowly over the crossbar after good work down the left from debutant Ben Marshall.Marshall and Buxton were getting plenty of joy down the flanks but after dominating the early exchanges, the Owls fell behind against the run of play on ten minutes.A long ball into the box was inadvertently handled by Chris Lines and the referee pointed to the spot. Jeff Hughes did the honours from 12 yards.The game became a more balanced affair following that boost for the visitors and Karl Hawley sent in a piledriver from distance that flew wide just before the 20-minute mark.Wednesday responded with Clinton Morrison heading over the bar from Lines' feed but the County backline was proving tough to penetrate.Most of the play was in the middle of the park as half time approached as both goalkeepers pretty much took a watching brief.The Owls needed a swift boost after the break and got exactly that on 53 minutes.Morrison did well to win possession and scoop the ball across goal for Bennett, who thumped in an unstoppable volley from six yards.The home side had their tails up and duly went into the lead on 67 minutes.David Prutton slotted Buxton in down the right and the defender sent a teasing low cross into the heart of the danger zone, leaving Madine with a simple tap-in.Five minutes later, though, County could and should have been level. A loose ball in the area fell kindly to substitute Craig Westcarr, who had time and space to pick his spot but blazed high and wide.Then there was more misery for the Nottingham outfit when they lost Neal Bishop with 13 minutes to go.The County captain was late in a tackle on Jose Semedo and picked up a second yellow card that was promptly upgraded to red.There was no coming back from that blow for Martin Allen's side, who returned to the Midlands pointless, while Wednesday put their season firmly back on track.Owls: Weaver, Buxton, Batth, R Johnson, Bennett, Marshall, Prutton, Semedo, Lines (Sedgwick 71), Morrison, Madine (O'Connor 88)Unused substitutes: O'Donnell, Otsemobor, BeeversNotts County: Nelson, Kelly, Sheehan, Edwards (Stirling 88) Pearce, Bencherif (Westcarr 71), Hawley, L Hughes, Bishop, J Hughes, Judge (Montano 54)Unused substitutes: Burch, Allen


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