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A Hive of noisy activity
One of the great hopes for a new public library future may be in doubt as the flagship co-located public/university library "The Hive" is receiving a pile of complaints of students. It seems that academics need peace and quiet to study while public library users (such as children) are – shock – noisy. Other reports include some serious problem behaviour (inc. illicit sex) going on in one of the public areas. While the story may not be as bad as it seems (and the University is trying to dampen it, despite 200 "likes" on a Facebook comment saying it is a problem), it does raise the important issue about co-location.
The library user, you see, sometimes needs a different environment than the other person sharing the space. Another page on Public Libraries News links 24 different types of partner in the UK. While some, like the police, may solve the problem behaviour issue (assuming, of course, the library is not being used for cells), others may cause conflicts. One of the more obvious problems is which one of the tenants gets priority. Does the library user have to walk through a pile of other services (like the gauntlet run by many through the perfume counters in department store entrances) in order to get to the books? There's also the less obvious but very real problem that libraries become seen as just another council service and thus lose their value as neutral and welcoming spaces.
In reality, though, co-location may be the least of all available evils. Many of the new buildings and refurbishments currently under way are due to the need to move council services from different buildings to being under just one cost-saving roof. When faced with no library or a shared library, the answer is often a no-brainer. There are also advantages to the deal for the library beyond mere survival. Those other service users may join the library and use its services. Some traditionalists will disagree but a supermarket and a library may be a natural mix. After all, there's ample parking and customers automatically have a means of moving heavy books around. They also have to go once a week. The supermarket gains "locked in" customers who know they have to come back in order to return their books. The library gains access to pretty much the whole local population. This may or may be successful but one is for sure, co-location may be here to stay.
- 5,000 Bulgarians find a job thanks to public libraries – Focus. ""Around 5,000 people managed to find a job through the public library and consultations with librarians," said Trendafil Meretev, head of the Global Libraries – Bulgaria, in an interview with FOCUS News Agency.
"More than 130,000 individual consultations with citizens were made. In line with the educational elements, information and training in information and communications technologies, in addition many people started very actively looking for information about private business, education abroad, job searching and others," Meretev remarked. 960 libraries in Bulgaria are supplied with computers and have free internet for the visitors, while 2,500 libraries underwent different training courses under the Global Libraries programme."
- Giving digital preservation a backbone – Inside Higher Ed. "Libraries used to be the main stewards of the cultural and scientific record. But in the era of digital storage "cloud computing," the institutions best-positioned to manage vast quantities of data are often companies such as Google and Elsevier.That is a big problem, said James Hilton, the chief information officer at the University of Virginia, in a talk on Thursday here at Educause. For all their current stability and rhetorical commitments to preserving their records, Google and Elsevier cannot be trusted with the task of digital preservation in the long term, said Hilton."
- Nepal: Changing lives one library at a time – Consumer Traveller. "I recognized early on that the term "library" was a misnomer; "community resource center" is a much more accurate description. Yes, there are books — numbering from 900 in the smaller centers to 8000 and growing, in Nepalese, English and Hindi, in the larger ones — but the list of services offered, which vary according to the specific needs of the village, include literacy classes, computer training, early childhood education and day care, women's empowerment programs, micro-financing and credit services, health, nutrition and AIDS-awareness information and more."
- Newcastle: slashing your arts funding would be a shortcut to disaster – Guardian / Theatre Blog. "If there is one city in the UK that's benefited from a cultural renaissance, it is undoubtedly Newcastle. The Lonely Planet Guide now urges its readers to visit a city where the Baltic, Sage, Live theatre, Seven Stories, Dance City, Northern Stage and other arts organisations have transformed the landscape. " … "It's hard for arts organisations outside London, particularly those working directly with local communities, to attract the philanthropic support that culture secretary Maria Miller and the government so favour. As Nicholas Hytner points out, philanthropic money follows central and local government investment. "
- Should Michael Gove run libraries? – Independent / Boyd Tonkin. "Could the man (and woman) from Whitehall save our libraries? Jeanette Winterson, in a lecture for The Reading Agency, made headlines when she called for back-taxes levied on Google, Amazon et al to sustain the threatened service. We wish. Further from fiction was her idea that library funds could fall within the education budget. "Libraries and literacy cannot be separated. I don't see how this can be classed as 'leisure' nor… how we have a choice between getting our bins emptied and putting cash into libraries." In these Gove-ish days, such a transfer would probably mean a power-grab by the centre. Worse than today's municipal mess? As it happens, we now at last have a single named government adviser on library policy: Yinnon Ezra, former head of Hampshire libraries. By all accounts, Ezra's a firm localist. Still, desperate times can call forth desperate measures.
"One deft sleight of hand from Mrs Miller as with Mr Vaizey and her predecessor Mr Hunt is to say lots of brilliant things are going on in libraries. Well, absolutely, but that is almost invariably a legacy of the efforts of good librarians in the past, a legacy which is being undermined by the policies of this government. Take Newcastle where chief librarian Tony Durcan undoubtedly worked extremely hard to develop a service to be proud of, but now finds himself facing the loss of ten libraries. The DCMS can not take credit for a service whose future it is placing in jeopardy." Where libraries thrive – Alan Gibbons.
- Bury – £240k cut, 9.2 FTE jobs under threat mainly at Central.
- Cumbria – Ulverston, Grange and Kendal libraries to have hours cut previously restored due to flexible staff working and self-service machines.
- Lancashire – Get it Loud in Libraries series of music gigs in libraries end due to lack of funding.
- Northern Ireland – Mobile library services to be cut.
- Wolverhampton – Save Wolverhampton Libraries.
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- Brent – Campaigners launch bid to save Kensal Rise Library – Kilburn Times. Campaign group aims to have library listed so as to be given " the chance to buy the building and temporarily block any sale. "
- Bury – Ramsbottom libraries and civic halls go to cabinet – About My Area. "The cabinet will be asked to approve a two-phase restructure of the library service, following a consultation process which attracted nearly 4,000 responses. Under Phase 1, none of Bury's libraries will be closed under this proposal, which primarily affects Bury central library. The current opening hours at Bury Library will be maintained; the council information point will be retained, as will the computer room with public internet access. The proposals include developing the purchase and availability of eBooks, and introducing self-service for customers to check their books in and out. The proposals would save £240,000 in 2013-14, and put at risk 5.8 FTE (Full Time Equivalent) posts at Bury Library, plus a further 3.4 FTE posts across the service. Of those, 2 would be covered by not filling vacant posts, and 1.4 by accepting existing applications for voluntary early retirement."
- Croydon – Public excluded from library privatisation – East London Lines. "The 'preferred bidder' was chosen in a secret meeting of the Corporate Services Committee, after councillors had been forced to reconvene elsewhere in the building. Some Croydon residents had refused to leave the initial meeting when the public session was finished, forcing officials to move to another room." … Elizabeth Ash says "It was truly shocking. This is far from democratic and Croydon have no mandate."
- Cumbria – Longer opening hours for Cumbria libraries – Northwest Evening Mail. "The council has announced an end to half day closures at Ulverston, Grange and Kendal libraries from January 2013. Through the use of new technology and staff working more flexibly it had been possible to improve access to services at no additional cost."
- Durham – Libraries saved by cut in opening hours – BBC. "The new hours will be introduced in January, saving the county council £1,457,000, it said. No branches will be lost and most will open for 20 or 36 hours a week." … "All 12 town centre libraries, excluding Clayport in Durham, will open for a core of 36 hours per week, with the council's 27 community libraries operating a core of 20 hours." Mobile library service also reduced. From 2 January.
- Kensington and Chelsea – Another way to privatise: flog your library building – Stop the privatisation of public libraries. Exclusive private school reported to have eyes on North Kensington Library site if it moves address.
- Lambeth – More red tape and fewer front-line staff – Lambeth Save Our Services. "Some" of Streatham Library being transferred to Gracefield Gardens.
- Lancaster – Get it Loud gigs silenced by cuts – Lancaster Guardian. "The hugely successful, award winning Get It Loud in Libraries series has had its funding cut by the county council. The project, which started in 2005 and has enabled internationally acclaimed musicians such as Adele, Jessie J, Ellie Goulding, Florence and the Machine, Frank Turner and Alt J to perform in Lancaster, lost its funding earlier this year as part of Lancashire County Council spending cuts. The last gigs took place in July."
- Lewisham – Blackheath village library is saved by city bankers – East London Lines. Age Exchange charity has taken over library and gained funding (£500k from city bankers, £200k from council, £30k from local fund). "Age Exchange's two-tier space at 11 Blackheath Village now houses 10,000 books alongside a café serving homemade cakes and speciality teas, a lounge, a computer suite, a performance space and a patio." Sir Ian Mills of Age Exchange [and myself – Ian] quoted as raising concern of postcode lottery. Library campaigner Gillian Gadsby rebuffs idea that this is the Big Society at work: ""I doubt there are any more examples [of volunteers] than there ever have been. Cameron is suggesting that all these organisations – the Scouts, youth clubs, Womens Institutes – are somehow a result of the Big Society, but they've always been run by volunteers and he seems to have forgotten that."
"I put together a list of people I knew who I felt had benefited from the bonus bonanza: the so-called 'filthy rich'. I said 'if I can raise the money, we will have a very exciting and forward-thinking project. I'm prepared to put in £50,000 if you match me." Sir Ian Mills
"it isn't the library building that the campaigners wanted to save but a … charity that seems to have found a large pool of money. There were about 30,000 books in the old library — 10,000 is about the size of a small branch of WHSmith" Tim Coates via email.
- Newcastle – Lee Hall letter about proposed library closures – Artsfunding. Excellent letter which pretty much sums up the whole issue.
- Northern Ireland – Time ticking cuts to city book buses – Londonderry Sentinel. "Dozens of mobile library stops in Londonderry UK City of Culture 2013 are under threat of being axed whilst Libraries NI also wants to eliminate internet provision from its books-on-wheels service altogether." … "The strategy is designed to result in an equitable service which provides value for money and there is no desire to reduce the number of stops significantly. "Nevertheless, there will be some adverse impacts on customers in areas where these criteria cannot be met and the impacts will be differential for young people, older people, women and disabled people simply because they make up a large percentage of existing customers.
- West Sussex – Celebrations at Petworth town library – Midhurst and Petworth Observer. 40th anniversary celebrated with coffee and cake.
- Wolverhampton – Show us you care Wolverhampton Council – Save Wolverhampton Libraries. "One thing that the recent hubs proposals have highlighted over anything else in Wolverhampton is that our city contains dedicated professional front line workers who care about providing the highest standards to all who use services. Whether it's library staff, volunteers in community centres or the highly skilled staff at Warstones Resource Centre, these 'front line' people are essential – they are the ones who make a difference to people's everyday lives. " Councillor spats over who-closed-what in the past described as "playground behaviour" that needs to stop.
- Worcestershire – Shhh! Worcester's Hive is too noisy for work, say students – Worcester News. "Complaints from University of Worcester students have flooded the Hive's Facebook page with demands for a dedicated student area accessed by ID cards. They claim that noise from children and people playing games and video clips on computers along with a shortage of study space was proving difficult." Pro Vice Chancellor says " a small number of second and third-year students had found it difficult to settle at the landmark library and the university was working to help them and address issues that had arisen"
"The critical point here is that university students and children want two very different things from a library and as we pay tuition fees for the "privilege" of using this space, we really ought to have a quiet place to work."
"The one thing that does rattle my cage is the basement of the hive. It is constant swearing, I have seen one fight, an underage couple where he had his hands in the underwear of his girlfriend of about 14 years old and another couple trying to hide themselves having intercourse on seating against very back wall while their friend is chatting to them from computer."
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My eyes popped to see what seems to be a conciliatory statement here about libraries' co-location in *supermarkets*. Look at what such a statement implies:
1. Local, accessible public libraries axed in favour of such a co-location. 2. The annihilation of quiet study space, access to computers, children's Story Time, homework clubs, reading groups, etc. 3. The inevitable loss of paid frontline staff. 4. Book stock and space squeezed by the store's promotions and commercial priorities. 5. A travesty of the spirit of the 1964 Public Libraries Act and local councils' statutory duties to provide a comprehensive and improving service.
Would people change supermarket allegiance for the sake of a library book – which is all that might be offered – or (as I would) stop being library-users altogether? Would they cross town for the privilege? Would teenagers, small children, the elderly, infirm and disadvantaged be flocking to a far-flung supermarket? I think not.
One goes (by car) or Dial-A-Ride or taxi to the nearest one with a sole purpose – to get the weekly 'shop', not to spend an hour browsing some book-stacks, or to make vain attempts to seek information and expertise – once available on my street corner – that, if such proposals became a reality, would be a thing of the past.
Patrons of public libraries do not want to borrow books from a dumbed-down version of a library in Tescos, Debenhams or any another entirely inappropriate location. I maintain that proposals for such ugly, insulting and impractical co-locations should be vigorously opposed.
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Some 113,000 people attended events related to the Grand Prix — with about 89 percent of out-of-county attendees of the Grand Prix coming to Sarasota mainly because of the race rather than the July 4th holiday.
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O.C. Fashion Showcase Fashion Week: You can watch designer fashions hit the runway as musical performers entertain. Friday night is Action Sports and Surf with brands Element, Malachi and others; Saturday night showcases Plus-Size, Purple Diva,� Abia Blachije and FBF by Checka, among others; Sunday night� features Grayse by Marie and Kelly Gray, Hodges Collection, Brent Bryant, Gigi Hill and emerging designer Cybil Waite. Doors open Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Chuck Jones Center for Creativity, 3321 Hyland Ave., Costa Mesa. The 6:30 p.m. Saturday show and 6 p.m. Sunday show will be held at Westin South Coast Plaza Rooftop Pavilion, 686 Anton Blvd., Costa Mesa. Admission: $44.95-$144.95. Information: ocfashionshowcase.com
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Kara Townsend, a senior English major and journalism minor, has been working as a student employee for the Center for Teaching and Learning this year. Kara came to Shepherd from Lauryl, DE and will complete her time at Shepherd in June when she graduates. She has had extensive experience in various positions of leadership across campus, including serving this year as senior editor of Sans Merci and last year as assistant news editor for The Picket. She also currently holds the office of Vice President for the English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta. Kara has helped the CTL with a variety of efforts this fall including photographing FYEX Interest Group events, advertising Common Reading and Faculty Research Forum events, compiling evaluations and survey responses from various events, and other helpful tasks in the Center. A hearty thanks to Kara for her invaluable contributions and professional rapport!


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This script is hypnotic visualization that lets you leave old stuff behind, to let go of the past and move on with your life. It is especially useful for weight loss hypnotherapy.
The Photo Album Hypnosis Script allows the mind to go back and change memories, things that happened, things that were said and done and are still hurting now.
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Photo Album Metaphor Visualization
|and I wonder if you can imagine being outside a room somewhere... the kind of room that gets filled with stuff that people can't throw away, but don't have any use for...
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The March 5, 2003 meeting of the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee is a continuation of previous discussions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with various stakeholders regarding drug development for pathogens resistant to antimicrobial agents.
There is general agreement that the rate of in vitro resistance of many pathogens to current antimicrobial agents is increasing. The increasing concentrations of antimicrobials necessary to inhibit or kill microorganisms in the test tube in some cases are already translating into clinical failures of antimicrobial therapy. In other cases, in vitro resistance may not yet translate into clinical failures but may be a warning signal that the useful life of a drug or drug class as a therapeutic agent is in danger. In addition to antimicrobial resistance, the reemergence of infections such as tuberculosis, the emergence of new infectious diseases in the United States such as West Nile virus, the increasing prevalence of hospital acquired and opportunistic infections, and the imminent threat of bioterrorism all make drug development of new antimicrobial agents a matter of public health importance.
At previous advisory committee meetings, workshops and in publications, the pharmaceutical industry has reported shifting more resources toward research and development of agents to treat more common and chronic illnesses1. This shift has resulted in a reduction in research and development of new antimicrobials. While clinicians use many therapeutic agents to treat serious infectious diseases and thereby prevent mortality and decrease morbidity, they most often prescribe these drugs for relatively short periods of time. However, drugs that are used by large numbers of individuals for prolonged time periods are more profitable for development than those used for short-term illness. Fortunately in the United States many of these serious diseases are still relatively infrequent relative to more common chronic diseases, but in turn this makes these diseases more difficult to study in the context of a clinical trial.
The FDA began discussions on drug development for resistant pathogens at advisory committee meetings in the late 1990's and continued these discussions in February of 2002. At the February 2002 advisory committee meeting, representatives from the pharmaceutical industry presented several suggestions for streamlining the development process for resistant pathogens. The FDA will ask the committee to focus on two of these suggestions: 1) creating a list of pathogens considered of public health importance for the purposes of targeting drug development and 2) considering the degree to which a study performed in one indication could support safety and efficacy in another indication so that multiple studies would not be required in each indication in a multi-indication new drug application (NDA).
Listing Pathogens of Public Health Importance:
At a workshop in November 2002 co-sponsored by FDA, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the participants further explored the concept of a list of pathogens of public health importance for drug development. At that meeting, representatives of the FDA proposed an outline for the criteria for designating a pathogen of public health importance within a given disease for the purposes of drug development. Since the importance of various pathogens may change over time with the changing epidemiology of infectious diseases and the availability of alternative therapies, the criteria would be a way of ensuring consistency in the list over time. A resistant pathogen would not have to meet all these criteria to merit consideration for inclusion on the list. The criteria presented at the workshop are as follows:
Table 1. Criteria for pathogens of public health importance:
These criteria also raise several other considerations that merit discussion. The first is that this list would be to designate the pathogen as a threat to the health of a population. This is a different consideration than making treatment decisions for individual patients. Whether a drug gains regulatory approval and whether it garners a claim for resistant organisms are issues that may be considered separately.
The second consideration is the idea that a pathogen would be designated as important for diseases in which that pathogen is common. For instance, drug resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a common cause of urethritis but it is not a common cause of community -acquired pneumonia. On the other hand, some pathogens may be a common cause of a wide spectrum of diseases. For instance Escherichia coli is a common pathogen in a number of infections from complicated urinary tract and intra-abdominal infections to hospital-acquired pneumonias.
The second consideration is the natural history of the disease in question. If an organism is important in a disease with a high morbidity and mortality, such as acute bacterial meningitis, is it equally important in a disease with less mortality where the magnitude of the contribution of antimicrobials to decreasing morbidity is uncertain, such as acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis.
The last consideration is the idea that some pathogens have acquired resistance determinants that confer antimicrobial resistance to a wide spectrum of antimicrobial agents. If cross-resistance is high enough, should one consider a pathogen as "multi-drug resistant"? In this case, the pathogen would be given one designation on the list. For instance, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus are often resistant to quinolones as well. Should the designation of MRSA then by definition include quinolone resistant organisms or do methicillin-resistant and quinolone resistant S. aureus merit separate consideration?
On March 5, the committee will hear presentations discussing the nature of multi-drug resistant organisms, the perspective on the need for such a list from the pharmaceutical companies, and the FDA's ongoing efforts to obtain data on the resistance patterns of such organisms that would potentially populate such a list.
Data from Studies in One Disease Supporting Studies in a Different Disease:
The second point the FDA is asking the committee to discuss is the request made in February 2002 by pharmaceutical industry representatives to allow one trial per disease instead of the requisite two studies per disease indication. The need for at least two trials is in part based on the inherent variability in clinical trials and the desire to ensure that drug efficacy and safety as demonstrated in a single trial is reproducible.
There is precedent, however, for accepting less than two trials for approval in a given disease indication. For instance, itraconazole was approved for empiric antifungal therapy in febrile neutropenic based on one trial in this indication but with supportive data from other treatment trials in fungal disease. Other examples include the treatment and prevention indications for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Mycobacterium avium.
One way of approaching the idea of supportive studies is to consider information from other clinical studies within the development program of that drug. Several questions arise in discussing the issue of supportive studies. The first is the quality of the data from each study. If one is going to only perform one study in a given disease, should that study provide the strongest possible information e.g. a comparative trial with both microbiologic and clinical endpoints as appropriate rather than an open label trial with only microbiologic or only clinical endpoints. For example, if one were to do only one trial in acute bacterial sinusitis, would the most appropriate design be a randomized, controlled trial with microbiologic data obtained by sinus puncture (or some other validated method) as opposed to an open-label, non-comparative study with only clinical endpoints?
To address the question of which studies might be used to support studies in other indications, some of the factors which merit discussion and which the FDA will ask the committee to consider include:
Table 2. Factors to consider in data from one indication supporting another
Example: A quinolone is indicated for Enterococcus faecalis in complicated skin infections but does that data give one confidence that it would be effective in enterococcal bacteremia?
Examples: Surgery in intra-abdominal, debridement in complicated skin infections, numerous factors (smoking cessation, beta-agonists, anticholinergics, and steroids) in AECB
Example: norfloxacin is indicated for UTI but not other infections.
pH effects - are aminoglycosides effective in intra-abdominal infections in a low pH environment?
Examples: complicated skin and intra-abdominal; debate on significance of enterococci when isolated in polymicrobial intra-abdominal infection
Example: hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and community acquired pneumonia (CAP)
Example: are different cure rates in HAP vs. CAP due to effects of organism or host?
Example: differences in organisms most commonly causing HAP vs. CAP
Based in part on these and other factors, the FDA will ask the committee to discuss which clinical trial data from which indications may be supportive of efficacy and safety in other indications. The committee will also be asked to discuss whether data from more serious diseases can support safety and efficacy in less serious disease and whether the converse is true as well. The strongest supportive evidence would consist of studies in which the drug is used for the same duration and at the same dose, but the FDA will also ask the committee to discuss situations where data using other durations or dosing may be supportive as well.
The presentations planned for March 5 will include an expert clinician discussing how practitioners make decisions about safety and efficacy in drugs and how they extrapolate efficacy and safety on one disease from one disease to another. A presentation by a FDA representative will outline the above factors in more detail for further discussion by the committee.


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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
Japanese Psycholinguistics
Mineharu Nakayama
The Japanese psycholinguistics research field is moving rapidly in many different directions as it includes various sub-linguistics fields (e.g., phonetics/phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse studies). Naturally, diverse studies have reported intriguing findings that shed light on our language mechanism. This article presents a brief overview of some of the notable early 21st century studies mainly from the language acquisition and processing perspectives. The topics are divided into various sections: the sound system, the script forms, reading and writing, morpho-syntactic studies, word and sentential meanings, and pragmatics and discourse studies sections. Studies on special populations are also mentioned.
Studies on the Japanese sound system have advanced our understanding of L1 and L2 (first and second language) acquisition and processing. For instance, more evidence is provided that infants form adult-like phonological grammar by 14 months in L1, and disassociation of prosody is reported from one's comprehension in L2. Various cognitive factors as well as L1 influence the L2 acquisition process. As the Japanese language users employ three script forms (hiragana, katakana, and kanji) in a single sentence, orthographic processing research reveal multiple pathways to process information and the influence of memory. Adult script decoding and lexical processing has been well studied and research data from special populations further helps us to understand our vision-to-language mapping mechanism. Morpho-syntactic and semantic studies include a long debate on the nativist (generative) and statistical learning approaches in L1 acquisition. In particular, inflectional morphology and quantificational scope interaction in L1 acquisition bring pros and cons of both approaches as a single approach. Investigating processing mechanisms means studying cognitive/perceptual devices. Relative clause processing has been well-discussed in Japanese because Japanese has a different word order (SOV) from English (SVO), allows unpronounced pronouns and pre-verbal word permutations, and has no relative clause marking at the verbal ending (i.e., morphologically the same as the matrix ending). Behavioral and neurolinguistic data increasingly support incremental processing like SVO languages and an expectancy-driven processor in our L1 brain. L2 processing, however, requires more study to uncover its mechanism, as the literature is scarce in both L2 English by Japanese speakers and L2 Japanese by non-Japanese speakers. Pragmatic and discourse processing is also an area that needs to be explored further. Despite the typological difference between English and Japanese, the studies cited here indicate that our acquisition and processing devices seem to adjust locally while maintaining the universal mechanism.
Second Language Processing and Linguistic Theory
John Archibald
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 distinction between representations and processes is central to most models of the cognitive science of language. Linguistic theory informs the types of representations assumed, and these representations are what are taken to be the targets of second language acquisition. Epistemologically, this is often taken to be knowledge, or knowledge-that. Techniques such as Grammaticality-Judgement tasks are paradigmatic as we seek to gain insight into what a learner's grammar looks like. Learners behave as if certain phonological, morphological, or syntactic strings (which may or may not be target-like) were well-formed. It is the task of the researcher to understand the nature of the knowledge that governs those well-formedness beliefs.
Traditional accounts of processing, on the other hand, look to the real-time use of language, either in production or perception, and invoke discussions of skill or knowledge-how. A range of experimental psycholinguistic techniques have been used to assess these skills: self-paced reading, eye-tracking, ERPs, priming, lexical decision, AXB discrimination, etc. Such online measures can show us how we do language when it comes to activities such as production or comprehension.
There has long been a connection between linguistic theory and theories of processing as evidenced by the work of Berwick (The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance). The task of the parser is to assign abstract structure to a phonological, morphological, or syntactic string; structure that does not come directly labelled in the acoustic input. Such processing studies as the Garden Path phenomenon have revealed that grammaticality and processability are distinct constructs.
In some models, however, the distinction between grammar and processing is less distinct. Phillips says that "parsing is grammar", while O'Grady builds an emergentist theory with no grammar, only processing. Bayesian models of acquisition, and indeed of knowledge, assume that the grammars we set up are governed by a principle of entropy, which governs other aspects of human behavior; knowledge and skill are combined. Exemplar models view the processing of the input as a storing of all phonetic detail that is in the environment, not storing abstract categories; the categories emerge via a process of comparing exemplars.
Linguistic theory helps us to understand the processing of input to acquire new L2 representations, and the access of those representations in real time.


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Reading is often seen as a solitary activity, but socialworkers, clients with mental health conditions and children in care, are amongthose reaping the benefits of read-aloud groups that get staff and patientsreading together.
The Reader Organisation, a charity and social enterprise, runs around 300 read-aloudgroups across the country (find your nearest one here). Groups take place in a range of settings fromdrop-in groups held in libraries, to projects run in secure mental health units,day centres, prisons and care homes.
Mary Weston, mental health project manager at The Reader, explainsthat shared reading groups are more than simply book clubs. For most mentalhealth projects, mental health trusts employ a full-time 'reader in residence'to lead each group and train staff so that they can takeover facilitating thegroups in time.
'We team up with staff and train them up at the same time,'Mary says. 'A lot of the time we work with occupational therapists andpsychotherapists. We have one or two social workers allied to the team and wehave projects with social work departments where we work with looked afterchildren.'
The groups bring patients together 'in quite a human way,rather than a patient-expert way,' Mary says. There is no pressure on anyone toread, and no weighty critiques or literary analysis expected. Instead the emphasis is on'enjoying a text together' and allowing people to benefit from it in their ownway.
'Everybody gets what they get out of it as an individual,' Marysays. 'But we do find different things tend to happen in different groups. In asecure setting, or groups where a lot of people have been diagnosed with apersonality disorder, the good outcomes that we're seeing are people learningto take turns in discussions, learning how to share the floor for example.'
'Where people are depressed and anxious, it's often thefriendship, meeting and getting together with other people to have meaningfuldiscussions rather than just small talk. You're talking about a text so it's notpersonal – it means people can go as far as they want in terms of sharing theirown experiences.'
Mary admits that building a group can take time and engagingstaff with the groups is crucial to winning over patients – some of whom are scepticalat first. She is in the early stages of running a group in a rehab setting with people whohave had enduring mental illnesses, and says that take-up is good after a difficult start.
'On the first day people came in, would see my face,and run out of the room. And my face isn't great but it isn't that bad either!', she laughs.
'We do depend on staff having good relations with people as word of mouth helps and wedo shamelessly use cake and things like that to entice people along! But oncepeople come they often like it. I remember one person telling me: "'It's notwhat you think it would be like…It's good!"'
It is a situation familiar to Megg Hewlett, a project workerfor The Reader Organisation who runs a series of read-aloud groups in London.
Megg says the growing interest in shared reading groups is encouraging – she is in the process of setting up groups in two London prisons, while The Reader Organisation is about to host its third national conference. But Megg says she is most pleased with the feedback from group members, compiled in interviews she conducted with people that have attended weekly read-aloud groups in libraries in west London.
In one interview a man who, in his words, had 'several breakdowns, self harm, anxiety and depression', said the following:
'Oneof my goals in coming to the group was to 'reinvent' myself, to find anidentity that I was comfortable with and to be defined by something other thanbeing a mental health service user. Iwanted to consolidate and integrate a lot of things that I have been working onand developing in myself over many years.
'Book Break has helped me do this. The positive feedback I have received from other group members hashelped my build self esteem. I amstarting to enjoy myself and even beginning to believe I, too, am an okperson. People find me interesting andlike my humour. The group has helped mechange the negative opinion of myself, an opinion I have had all my life.'


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Nokia 500 vs 700 are two of the new creations from the Nokia Company both releasing on the month of August 2011. Both these devices are sleek, light and have lots of exciting feature to them which would help definitely your personal and professional requirements. The Nokia 500 vs 700 both runs on smarter operating systems that of Symbian Anna and Symbian Belle with CPU's of 1GHz ARM 11 processor giving you all the necessary power you need to run all your tasks.
Nokia 500 vs 700: Display Screens and Capturing DifferencesThe Nokia 500 vs 700 do have different types of display, where the Nokia 700 excelling with a 3.2 inches AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with Nokia Clear Back display, Gorilla Glass display giving you no tension for scratches, Multi-touch input method, accelerometer sensor for auto rotate and proximity for auto-turn off. On the other hand the Nokia 500 has a 3.2 inches TFT capacitive touchscreen and has dimensions of 111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1 mm weighing 93 grams. The Nokia 700 is weighs 3 grams greater that of 96 grams and is thinner in measurements that of 110 x 50.7 x 9.7 mm.
Nokia 500 vs 700 both have a similar camera of 5 megapixel, 2592 x 1944 pixels with geo-tagging, but there is a difference in terms of quality of captures. The Nokia 700 has additional features of fixed focus and LED flash which is definitely a great advantage within itself along with video recording of 720 pixels at 30 frames per second to that of Nokia 500 VGA format at 15 frames per second. You can store all these captured images, downloaded content, music and many more on an internal 2GB storage that can be extended to 32GB through microSD support.
Nokia 500 vs 700: Processing Efficiency and Media Support
In comparison between the Nokia 500 vs 700, processing comes as a important aspect because the Nokia 700 comes with faster 1GB ROM and 512 MB RAM, giving amazing speeds in terms of running applications and games, to that of 256 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM. Playing games and graphical objects on the Nokia 700 would be of marvelous quality because of the presence of 2D/3D Graphics HW Accelerator with Open VG 1.1 and OpenGL ES 3.0 support.
In comparison to each other, the two handsets Nokia 500 vs 700 are host to variety of exciting multimedia features that of an organizer, photo editor, media playing of latest formats. Connectivity options between both these phones are almost similar, other than the Nokia 700 having faster Bluetooth connectivity that of v3.0 to v2.1 of the Nokia 500.
We have found out that there are lots of similarities between the Nokia 500 vs 700, but we also did explore differences in certain aspects where the Nokia 700 ruled over the Nokia 500 but not in a great margin. Both these devices are worth buying as they do have the ability to fulfill ones personal and professional needs.


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Neenah screamed as she fled across the terrace toward the drawbridge, where Selim stood as motionless as a statue.
Observing her look of wonder, Neenah vouchsafed a casual explanation.
As they were gravely discussing the events of the night, Neenah came up to them from beyond the bridge.
Such conditions as Neenah presented were not unknown to her.
It was into Neenah channel that we came flying so gayly, before the wind.
It was not what Neenah meant—nor Deppingham, honest friend that he was.
Neenah had joined Selim at the door when the men re-entered the chamber.
Neenah found this dress for me—aren't these baggy trousers funny?
"Neenah's father sold her for a handful of gems," said he, with distinct meaning in his voice.
It may be well to add that the deal did not include the transfer of Neenah.


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Q. Who were the 22 Republican senators who voted against the condemnation of Joe McCarthy?
A. More than a dozen senators told McCarthy that they did not want to vote against him but had to because of the tremendous pressure being put on them by the White House and by leaders of both political parties. The 22 men who did put principle above politics were Senators Frank Barrett (Wyoming), Styles Bridges (New Hampshire), Ernest Brown (Nevada), John Marshall Butler (Maryland), Guy Cordon (Oregon), Everett Dirksen (Illinois), Henry Dworshak (Idaho), Barry Goldwater (Arizona), Bourke Hickenlooper (Iowa), Roman Hruska (Nebraska), William Jenner (Indiana), William Knowland (California), Thomas Kuchel (California), William Langer (North Dakota), George Malone (Nevada), Edward Martin (Pennsylvania), Eugene Millikin (Colorado), Karl Mundt (South Dakota), William Purtell (Connecticut), Andrew Schoeppel (Kansas), Herman Welker (Idaho), and Milton Young (North Dakota).
Q. Did Joseph McCarthy become a recluse in the 29 months between his condemnation and his death?
A. No, he did not. He worked hard at his senatorial duties. "To insist, as some have, that McCarthy was a shattered man after the censure is sheer nonsense," said Brent Bozell, one of his aides at the time. "His intellect was as sharp as ever. When he addressed himself to a problem, he was perfectly capable of dealing with it."
A member of the minority party in the Senate again, McCarthy had to rely on public speeches to alert the American people to the menace of communism. This he did in a number of important addresses during those two and a half years. He warned against attendance at summit conferences with the Reds, saying that "you cannot offer friendship to tyrants and murderers … without advancing the cause of tyranny and murder." He declared that "coexistence with communists is neither possible nor honorable nor desirable. Our longterm objective must be the eradication of communism from the face of the earth."
Senator McCarthy was virtually alone in warning that the Soviet Union was winning the missile race "because well-concealed communists in the United States government are putting the brakes on our own guided-missile program." He was prophetic in urging the Eisenhower Administration to let "the free Asiatic peoples" fight to free their countrymen from communist slavery in Red China, North Korea, and North Vietnam. "In justice to them, and in justice to the millions of American boys who will otherwise be called upon to sacrifice their lives in a total war against communism," said McCarthy, "we must permit our fighting allies, with our material and technical assistance, to carry the fight to the enemy." This was not permitted and, a decade later, more than half a million American servicemen were fighting in South Vietnam.
Q. Did Joe McCarthy drink himself to death?
A. His enemies would like to have you think that. If McCarthy drank as much as his foes allege, for as many years as they allege, he would have had to be carried from speech to speech and from hearing to hearing, and he would have been unable to string two coherent sentences together. Did McCarthy look or act like a drunk during the 36 days of televised Army-McCarthy Hearings? No alcoholic could have accomplished all that McCarthy did, especially in so few years. Yes, Joseph McCarthy drank, and he probably drank too much sometimes, but he did not drink during working hours, and any drinking he did do did not detract one iota from his fight against communism or from the accuracy of his charges.
In the last two years of his life, McCarthy was greatly disappointed over the terrible injustice his Senate colleagues had done to him, and he certainly had his times of depression. Who wouldn't after what he had been through? But he also had his times of elation, as when he and his wife adopted a baby girl in January 1957. The picture in Roy Cohn's book of a smiling Joe McCarthy holding his new daughter is not the picture of a man drowning in alcohol. William Rusher was counsel to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee during 1956 and 1957 and met McCarthy repeatedly on social occasions. "He had at one time been a heavy drinker," said Rusher of the senator, "but in his last years was cautiously moderate; he died of a severe attack of hepatitis. He kept right on with a senator's usual chores up almost until the end."
The end came on May 2, 1957 in Bethesda Naval Hospital. Thousands of people viewed the body in Washington, and McCarthy was the first senator in 17 years to have funeral services in the Senate chamber. More than 30,000 Wisconsinites filed through St. Mary's Church in the senator's hometown of Appleton to pay their last respects to him. Three senators - George Malone, William Jenner, and Herman Welker - had flown from Washington to Appleton on the plane carrying McCarthy's casket. "They had gone this far with Joe McCarthy," said William Rusher. "They would go the rest of the way."
Q. Did McCarthy conduct a "reign of terror" in the 1950s?
A. This is one of the big lies the left continues to spread about McCarthy. The average American did not fear McCarthy; in fact, the Gallup Poll reported in 1954 that the senator was fourth on its list of most admired men. The only people terrorized by McCarthy were those who had something subversive to hide in their past and were afraid that they might eventually be exposed.
Oh, there was a "reign of terror" in the early '50s, but it was conducted against Joe McCarthy, not by him. Those who denounced McCarthy week in and week out included the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Life, Walter Lippmann, the Alsop brothers, Drew Pearson, Jack Anderson, the cartoonist Herblock, Edward R. Murrow, Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, and liberals from all walks of life. Reign of terror? During one 18-month period, the University of Wisconsin invited Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Cousins, Owen Lattimore, and James Carey - all bitter anti-McCarthyites -to warn the students of McCarthy's reign of terror.
Q. Most of the books written about McCarthy say that he smeared thousands of innocent people. Is that true?
A. This is impossible since McCarthy never even mentioned thousands of people. At the most, he publicly exposed about 160 persons, all of whom had significant records of collaboration with or support for communists and/or communist causes. Detractors of McCarthy, said Roy Cohn, "have to fall back on picayune things about whether he drank and had a liver condition, usually with a total distortion of the facts. They talk about the innocent people he destroyed. I have yet to have them give me one name. I have a standard answer - 'name one.' They usually come up with someone who came before some other committee, or Hollywood, or something which was never a focus of a McCarthy investigation."
Here is one of literally dozens of examples of misinformation about McCarthy that could be cited: An article about Lillian Hellman in Newsweek for July 9, 1984 said that perhaps her most famous lines "were those she wrote in a statement to the House Committee on Un- American Activities in 1952. 'I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions,' she wrote, refusing to testify against her friends at the McCarthy hearings." Miss Hellman could hardly have testified "at the McCarthy hearings" because there were no McCarthy hearings in 1952 and because Joe McCarthy was a senator and was never involved in any House Committee hearings dealing with communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry.
Q. These same books insist that Senator McCarthy never uncovered "a single communist" in his five-year fight. Is that true?
A. Joe McCarthy was hated and denounced not because he smeared innocent people, but because he identified guilty people. Any list of identified communists uncovered by McCarthy would have to include Lauchlin Currie, Gustavo Duran, Theodore Geiger, Mary Jane Keeney, Edward Posniak, Haldore Hanson, John Carter Vincent, Owen Lattimore, Edward Rothschild, Irving Peress, and Annie Lee Moss. But that is not the whole story. McCarthy also exposed scores of others who may not have been identified as communists, but who certainly were causing harm to national security from their posts in the State Department, the Pentagon, the Army, key defense plants, and the Government Printing Office. At the latter facility, which handled 250,000 pieces of secret and classified printed matter annually, the McCarthy probe resulted in the removal or further investigation by the FBI of 77 employees and a complete revamping of the security system at the GPO.
Was it unreasonable of McCarthy to want government positions filled with persons who were loyal to America, instead of those with communist-tainted backgrounds? "A government job is a privilege, not a right," McCarthy said on more than one occasion. "There is no reason why men who chum with communists, who refuse to turn their backs on traitors, and who are consistently found at the time and place where disaster strikes America and success comes to international communism, should be given positions of power in government." The motivation of these people really doesn't matter. If the policies they advocate continually result in gains for communism and losses for the Free World, then they should be replaced by persons with a more realistic understanding of the evil conspiracy that has subjugated more than one-third of the world. That's not McCarthyism, that's common sense.
Q. Most of the books in the libraries seem to be anti-McCarthy. Are there any pro-McCarthy books?
A. There are indeed, but most of them are out of print or not usually available in libraries. Here is a list: McCarthy and His Enemies, by William Buckley and Brent Bozell; McCarthy, by Roy Cohn; The Assassination of Joe McCarthy, by Medford Evans; The Lattimore Story, by John Flynn; Who Promoted Peress?, by Lionel Lokos; three books by McCarthy himself - Major Speeches and Debates of Senator Joe McCarthy 1950-1951, McCarthyism: The Fight for America, and America's Retreat From Victory; and a collection of tributes to McCarthy entitled Memorial Addresses Delivered in Congress.
Q. How then would you define McCarthyism?
A. McCarthyism was a serious attempt to remove from positions of influence the advocates of communism, the willing and unwilling supporters of communism and communists, and persons who would prevent the removal of those who give aid and comfort to the enemies of America. Communist conspirators and their friends do not fear those who denounce communism in general terms. They do, however, greatly fear those who would expose their conspiratorial activities. That is why they hated and fought Joe McCarthy more than any other public figure in this century. That is why they have preserved his name as a club to hold over the head of anyone who dares to expose communism.
Joe McCarthy was a brave and honest man. There was nothing cynical or devious about him. He said and did things for only one reason - he thought they were the right things to say and do. He was not perfect; he sometimes made errors of fact or judgment. But his record of accuracy and truthfulness far outshines that of his detractors. His vindication in the eyes of all Americans cannot come soon enough. Medford Evans put it well when he said: "The restoration of McCarthy … is a necessary part of the restoration of America, for if we have not the national character to repent of the injustice we did him, nor in high places the intelligence to see that he was right, then it seems unlikely that we can or ought to survive."
* Evidence presented in the other six cases showed that two (Haldore Hanson and Gustavo Duran) had been identified as members of the Communist Party, that three (Dorothy Kenyon, Frederick Schuman, and Harlow Shapley) had extensive records of joining communist fronts and supporting communist causes, and that one (Esther Brunauer) had sufficient questionable associations to be dismissed from the State Department as a security risk in June 1952. For further details, see chapter seven of McCarthy and His Enemies, by William Buckley and Brent Bozell.


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Former assistant treasurer
Rod de Aboitiz, who had loaned $1 million to AWH, was called back to the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption on Wednesday to face cross-examination from Mr Sinodinos's lawyers. Last week, before Mr Sinodinos had assembled his own legal team, Mr de Aboitiz gave evidence that he warned Mr Sinodinos and AWH chief executive Nick Di Girolamo about AWH's excessive wages and donations to the Liberal Party.
The cross-examination by Mr Sinodinos's lawyer, Tony Bannon, SC, on Wednesday produced some heated exchanges. In an audible aside, Mr Bannon called Mr de Aboitiz a "smart arse", but then apologised for what he described himself as "disgraceful behaviour".
ICAC is investigating alleged corruption in AWH's contracts with state-owned Sydney Water. It has heard that AWH was running up large expenses including $96,000 of donations to the state Liberal Party. These costs were largely charged to Sydney Water under a contract supposedly for the construction of water infrastructure in north-west Sydney. AWH is also being investigated for its links to corrupt former NSW Labor MP
Mr de Aboitiz said he met Mr Sinodinos, who was deputy chairman of AWH and its only non-executive director, for 45 minutes on May 25, 2010, after Mr Di Girolamo had tried to "hit him up for a loan" beyond the $1 million he had already paid.
He said he was concerned that AWH might be trading while insolvent and directors could be in breach of their duties because they needed a loan and that they were failing to pay tax or super entitlements for employees.
'It's about priorities'
But Mr de Aboitiz complained to Mr Sinodinos that AWH was still paying huge salaries to executives, which included $200,000 a year to Mr Sinodinos, and also "soft costs".
Mr de Aboitiz last week told the inquiry the "soft costs" included a $20,000 donation to the Liberal Party, of which Mr Sinodonis was then state party treasurer, and payments to a company called EightbyFive.
The inquiry has heard this firm was operated by Tim Koelma, a Liberal staffer who has been linked to a false allegation of corruption made to ICAC about
Mr de Aboitiz said he told Mr Sinodinos about the conflict in AWH's behaviour. "To say that you still want to pay the soft costs when you are behind on your tax and to take that risk. . . for example, if I am overdue on a Liberal Party receipt, they won't invite you to a function. If I don't pay the ATO, you are going to get wound up. It's a big difference. It's about priorities."
Mr de Aboitiz said he had not mentioned "specific figures" to Mr Sinodinos, but based on his commercial experience, he expected a director such as Mr Sinodonis would seek a briefing from management on the "red flags" he had raised. He said Mr Sinodinos had said "it would be taken care of".
Asked if he thought Mr Sinodinos's $200,000 a year salary as chairman was justified given his ability to help raise capital, Mr de Aboitiz said Mr Sinodinos was not a "magical magnet for capital" and even though he had an Order of Australia, he had never done any long-term infrastructure deals "on his lonesome own-some".
Mr Bannon said any breaches of directors' duties at AWH were outside the scope of ICAC, but Commissioner Megan Latham said the evidence on which to base any findings was not all in. Geoffrey Watson, SC, counsel assisting the inquiry, said parts of the ICAC Act could be applied to Mr Sinodinos, depending on the facts.
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The actress underwent radical hysterectomy after being diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer.
Former "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star underwent radical hysterectomy surgery for early stage endometrial cancer on Friday, October 11. The 45-year-old celebrity, who was at an elevated risk for cancer due to genetic issues, is now recuperating from the operation and already on the road to a full recovery, according to her representative Howard Bragman.
"The surgery went well and she is expected to make a complete recovery following a significant recuperation period," Bragman said. "[She] has been diligent about regular checkups and monitoring, which explains the early detection and rapid treatment," he added.
Bragman also conveyed Grammer's gratitude to the health care professionals who handled her during her surgery. "She urges all women to be aware of genetic factors relating to women's cancers and get regular checkups," said her rep.
Endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the female reproductive system, affecting almost 50,000 women each year in the U.S. Gramme's procedure will definitely raise awareness and encourage other women to get tested early to detect the disease, especially if they have the risk factors such as hormone imbalance, high blood pressure and diabetes.
Grammer has two children via a surrogate with former husband, comedian and "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer with whom she was married to from 1997 until the finalization of their divorce in 2011. She has since dated her current partner Dimitri Charalambopoulos.


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Poonam Pandey Cleavage Show
October 11th, 2013
Kajol has been blessed with a sweet little baby boy to complete her family. Kajol and Ajay Devgan are a happy and a complete family now. They are proud parents once again. Kajol was admitted to Lilawati hospital at Bandra Mumbai where she gave birth to a baby boy on Monday morning.
The mum and baby are doing fine. Ajay is overwhelmed by the arrival of the new family member. It is almost seven years when their first child Nysa was born. Surely, Nysa would be too happy to have a cute younger brother.
The entire Bollywood is seen showering blessings for the couple. Congratulatory messages are continuously flowing in ever since the news of the delivery has been disclosed. Thanks to twitter and other blogging sites that have made sending across the messages so easy.
Shahrukh Khan congratulated Kajol and Ajay by writing, "Bringing life on earth is the most beautiful gift of God. Allah blesses Ajay and Kajol with happiness and health son of a Devgun. Wow! masha allah."
Another friend of Kajol and Ajay, the famous filmmaker Madhur Bhnadarkar twitted, "Congratulations Ajay and Kajol on the birth of your baby boy. Ganpati baapa moraya…"
Even Piggy chops congratulated the happy couple writing, "It's amazing when a new life comes into the world… Congrats Ajay and Kajol on the birth of your baby boy."
Riteish Deshmukh also sent his heartiest wishes to the couple. He wrote, "Congratulations AJAY & KAJOL – a Baby boy arrives."
Seven years back when Kajol gave birth to her first baby she took a short break from films and returned with a smashing hit 'Fanaa' with Aamir Khan. Will this time also she take a break and rejoin the film industry after a short interval?
This can be only answered by Kajol whose recent release 'We are Family' hadn't shown any wonders at the box office. Everyone was expecting much from the film but nothing concrete worked out in terms of box office collections.
Well, as for now, we congratulate Kajol and Ajay for being blessed with a baby boy. May the family get every happiness they seek for.
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Frisky Eats: 10 Awesome Apple Recipes For Fall
Pumpkin may be the fall flavor obsession of choice, but let's not forget to give apple some love. Whether paired with cinnamon, caramel, or Nutella, and served up for breakfast, dessert, drinks, or dinner (apple bacon pizza, anyone?), there are about a thousand delicious ways to use this season's second-favorite fruit. I narrowed the plethora of apple recipes down to 10 that instantly caused me to drool. Click on the gallery above to check 'em out.


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Greater Rochester Enterprise (GRE) is an economic development organization committed to attracting new capital investments and creating regional wealth and new jobs throughout the Greater Rochester, NY region.
The Greater Rochester, NY region has the advanced manufacturing capability, testing capability and intellectual horsepower. This region has a large, high-end manufacturing business base and a highly-skilled workforce to support almost any type of manufacturing business. We're strategically located within 500 miles of 1/3 of the U.S. and Canadian population. This puts us close to major markets without the major market costs of doing business.
Key Rochester, NY Manufacturing industry facts:
There are more than 1,500 manufacturers in the Greater Rochester, NY region, employing nearly 66,000 people. This sector represents 11% of the local workforce. Greater Rochester's manufacturing base is primarily in high tech precision sectors, with its largest employment sectors being machinery (12,495), computer & electronic products (9,392), and transportation equipment (1,827).
(source: Second Quarter 2013, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)
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1366 Technologies, a solar wafer manufacturer, recently announced plans to expand at the Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (STAMP) in Genesee County. Watch this video to learn more about this company and its plans to disrupt the solar energy market.
Learn more about manufacturing in Rochester, NY by looking at some case studies or call us today to grow your business.
Did You Know?
Between Lake Ontario, the Finger Lakes, and the Genesee River Watershed, the Greater Rochester region is home to more than 7% of the world's fresh water. Tell that to the dozens of states where fresh water is increasingly becoming an endangered resource. The abundance of H2O here -- without water rationing or water rights fees -- means that water is affordable, which factors into our low cost of doing business.


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Mixed-use Projects To Reshape Downtown Riverside, CA
A handful of plans currently in the works will reshape downtown Riverside and, for the first time in a long time, include serious mixed-use development with an emphasis toward residential. The projects, which include a balanced mix of condos, townhomes, lofts, commercial and arts uses are expected to begin taking shape in 2006. Each will greatly add to the vibrancy of Riverside's historic core -- one of the few genuinely historic downtowns in Southern California.
"The city is using just $10 million in Redevelopment Agency money to spur an estimated $300 million in projects, said Councilman Dom Betro, whose ward includes downtown.
"I would say that is extraordinary leveraging," he said.
Thanks to G Edward Freeman