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This course (Physical Fitness: Measurement and Appraisal) is an applied science-based course offering the student a survey of the area of physical fitness, an important segment of sports related-field. The student will learn basic anatomical and physiological concepts relating to physical fitness and exercise. As part of the measurement procedure, the student will become acquainted with the various technical devices and tests commonly used to evaluate general as well as specific areas of fitness.
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A post on the Americans for Prosperity Wisconsin website today claims the partisan, conservative organization will pay for people's gas. The publicity stunt walks a fine campaign finance law line over a highly politicized topic – gas prices. From the AFP website:
When President Obama took office in January 2009, gas cost just $1.84 per gallon…To help relieve the pain at the pump and show Wisconsinites that there is a better way, AFP-Wisconsin will be paying the difference for you Tuesday, October 30th from 11am to 3pm at the Mount View Mobil Station (County Road NN exit on I-39) in Wausau.
AFP is directly linked to David and Charles Koch of Koch Industries, staunch supporters of Mitt Romney and ultra-conservative candidates nationwide. The Koch brothers started AFP, and continue to be the organizations' largest financial supporters. From a 2009 interview of David Koch (the Washington Independent):
"Five years ago my brother Charles and I provided the funds to start the Americans for Prosperity. And it's beyond my wildest dreams how the AFP has grown into this enormous organization."
Koch Industries has recently been criticized for mailing letters to 45,000 Georgia Pacific employeesthreatening financial and employment consequences if Mitt Romney is not elected president.
Charles Koch penned an op-ed criticizing President Obama that was included in the mailing sent to all 45,000 employees of Koch Industries' Georgia-Pacific subsidiary. The packet included a flyer with a list of candidates supported by Koch companies or its political action committee KOCHPAC. Mitt Romney tops the list. It also included an op-ed by Charles Koch slamming President Obama and one by David Koch praising Romney.
The AFP statement uses language that sounds strikingly familiar to Romney campaign ads:
President Obama's failing agenda has had a disastrous effect on the pocketbooks of Wisconsin families for almost four years. By reminding drivers how different things were just a few short years ago, we can continue to show folks that by embracing energy independence and economic freedom, we can get America back on track."
AFP hides behind its non-profit, "non-partisan" status to avoid prosecution for violation of campaign finance laws. It is claiming to merely be "educating" voters on issues.
On the contrary, this is an overt attempt to campaign for Mitt Romney at the pump – and pay for 300 votes at $1.84 a gallon…priceless propaganda.
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Luck's potential is cradled in the gambler's palm.
Archaeology at Jamestown confirms that the clatter of dice is a sound as old as America.
Interpreter Daniel Cross is unfazed by the hour, charged with the energy of risk and confidence.
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That which can be gained and that which can be lost mingles in the moment before a play.
Spirits rise high as glasses run low for Colonial Williamsburg interpreters at cards.
Interpreter John Hamant demonstrates what an early poker face may have looked like.
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After 12 years of planning, more than 2,800 donations, and two years of construction, the Athletics and Events Center opened its doors this fall. An opening ceremony and dedication on October 15 drew a crowd of more than 900.
"It's been a 20-year dream of Ithaca College," said President Thomas Rochon.
The state-of-the-art, $65.5 million center contains a fieldhouse, aquatics pavilion, outdoor stadium, and outdoor tennis facility. It is one of the largest indoor venues in Tompkins County and the largest construction project ever at the College.
The center will provide more opportunities for athletes, as well as enriched academic experiences and the potential to hold large-scale events put on by the College or the community.
The new facilities will make it easier for athletic teams to hold practices and competitions on campus. The multi-purpose Glazer Arena in the fieldhouse includes a track and field center that doubles as a practice space for lacrosse, field hockey, soccer, baseball, tennis, golf, softball, and football. With seating for 6,700 spectators, it also includes strength training and athletic training facilities, a press box, and locker rooms.
Women's track and field coach Jennifer Potter '92 ran track at Ithaca College and came back to coach seven years ago. During the winters, the team has had to train at Cornell University, from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m., or whenever they could be fit into the schedule. Now the team will be able to hold practices and home meets in the Glazer Arena.
"The first day I walked in here, I cried," Potter said of the new A&E Center. "It's just amazing; it's just a dream come true. And to watch our student athletes now, it's like Christmas. Their eyes just light up."
For the College's swimming and diving teams, the center provides a much-needed expansion in facilities.
"This pool gives us more opportunities to set up better training environments with more lane space," said Nick Stone, assistant coach for the men's swimming team.
The nine-lane Olympic-size swimming pool has a diving area and moveable bulkheads with a spectator area that seats 950 people. Now the men's and women's teams can practice together, and only three swimmers will share a lane, rather than eight.
"The pool just feels faster than the old one, so I think it will help people," said Cheffy Thomas '14. "When they feel faster, they'll want to go faster and try to push themselves harder, so we'll all drop time throughout the season."
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The center's impact won't only be felt by athletes; it will be used for a number of academic purposes as well.
Physical therapy and occupational therapy majors will take advantage of the movable pool floor to adjust the water depth and treat patients with aqua therapy. Students utilizing the pool for classes in outdoor adventure skills, water safety, scuba diving, and first aid will benefit from the adjacent wet classroom outfitted with special water-resistant finishes.
The Roy H. Park School of Communications plans to use the center's expanded facilities for public lectures and speakers, which could be broadcast by ICTV. There is currently a proposal to add a sports broadcasting major to the Park School that would likely involve broadcasting from the center. The space can also accommodate larger audiences for popular educational speakers such as the Dalai Lama, Maya Angelou, and Ken Burns, all of whom the College has hosted in recent years.
The College and the surrounding central New York community will be able to host large-scale events within the venue such as Convocation, conferences, trade shows and exhibitions, and concerts by big-name performers. There is already a major conference planned for this summer, for the New York State Association for College Admission Counseling.
"This is not only for the Ithaca College community, but also for the wider Ithaca community," said Shelley Semmler, vice president for institutional advancement.
"This will enable us to do things we have never been able to do. We wanted to do something that could truly serve as an events center so that we could have the kind of events that no other place in this county or 60 miles around can do."
For a video of the opening by the student newspaper, The Ithacan, click here.
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Did Golden Tate catch the ball, or didn't he? Even after viewing the high-definition, slow-motion, Zapruder-esque replay about 500 times, I honestly don't know. Like many people -- including, apparently, the guys on the field wearing striped shirts who failed to notice that Tate committed offensive pass interference by shoving Sam Shields in the back -- I'm neither trained nor qualified to be a professional football referee.
What I do know is this: The NFL's ongoing
substitute teacher … James Belushi-for-John in "Blues Brothers 2000" … replacement official mess never had to come to this point.
Following Monday night's Green Bay-Seattle end-of-game meltdown, Sports Illustrated's Peter King tweeted that the play would go down as one of the "great disgraces in NFL history." Not so. The league's ongoing fight against brain-damaged ex-players is a disgrace. Sloppy, bumbling officiating that leads the "Today Show" is a debacle. There's a difference. (Speaking of which, have you seen "Today's" ratings lately?) And the amazing thing about it, beyond Seahawks coach Pete Carroll actually winning forever, is that the damage to the NFL's image has been both self-inflicted and avoidable, the league's answer to George Lucas inexplicably deciding that Han Solo didn't shoot first.
(Editor's note: He totally, totally did.)
After all, the NFL's dispute with its regular referees reportedly boils down to money. An exceedingly small amount of money -- $16.5 million, to be exact, which is basically what the officials are asking for via pay raises and a continuation of their current pension plan, a minor duke's ransom the league adamantly refuses to fork over. Read that again: $16.5 million. That's less than half of Drew Brees' $37 million signing bonus. Less than the reported $20 million NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will soon make annually. Way less than the estimated $40 million Jerry Jones dropped on the Ozymandias-shaming HD Jumbotron at Cowboys Stadium. Nothing pro football, a $9.3 billion-a-year industry, can't write off as a rounding error. Or better yet, a tax break. (Trust me: The NFL's lawyers have figured out a way to make the league qualify as a non-profit organization. You don't think they can turn $16.5 million of referee pension payments into a deductible expense?)
In short, the league could have made this entire fiasco go away by giving up the equivalent of a found $20 bill in the laundry. Instead, the NFL has thus far dug in. No retreat. No surrender. Coaches are furious, fans are incredulous, players are near-mutinous. Pro football's true lifeblood -- gambling -- has been affected. Also, Matt Lauer is making fun of you. And still the league seems willfully oblivious. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Ronald Reagan once cut a deal with Iran's mullahs. Iran's mullahs cut a deal with the Great Satan. The NFL can't do the same with its own game officials. What gives?
I have a theory.
All negotiations -- all business relationships, really -- ultimately come down to leverage. And leverage, in turn, comes down to who can more easily walk away from a prospective deal. The side that wants and needs the other side less is usually the side that eventually gets what it wants. (Also see: every dysfunctional, why-doesn't-he/she-call-me? dating relationship ever.)
Now, for as long as I can remember, the NFL has enjoyed leverage. With just about everyone. With the networks falling over each other bidding up television rights fees. With the fans who complain about lockouts and blackouts and basically getting their wallets fracked for every last dollar -- Exhibit F-23: Washington owner Dan Snyder once charged admission to training camp -- but still shell out for PSLs. With the players who need game checks more than the billionaire owners who sign said checks need ticket and television revenue. (If the league misses a season due to a lockout, Paul Allen is not going hungry. That same might not be true of his Seahawks. Where else are they going to get paid? The UFL?) With the cities and municipalities that have forked over more than $4 billion in direct public stadium financing and tax subsidies over the last 25 years, an orgy of corporate welfare that puts pro football squarely in the 47 percent camp of Mitt Romney's makers-versus-takers worldview.
Why did EA Sports pay the NFL a reported $300 million for exclusive video game rights? Because otherwise, "Madden NFL" is just "Madden," a football game no one wants to buy, like "Mike Ditka Power Football."
Enter the league's regular officials. They are -- much to the NFL's unspoken chagrin -- part-time employees. They have outside jobs. They have outside lives. Most important, they have outside sources of income. They can take pro football, which admittedly pays them a pretty penny, an average salary of $150,000. But they also can leave it. Walk away. They can sit across a table from the league's negotiators and say the most powerful word in the English language, the same word that gave the Republican party a revived raison d'etre following its 2008 shellacking at the polls, the same word two-year-olds spend an inordinate time attempting to master.
Does the NFL realize this? Really and truly? Does the league understand that it isn't in a position to dictate to its striped-shirt workforce? Or is it so accustomed to calling the shots -- to forever holding the trump card of our insatiable collective appetite for pro football -- that it has forgotten how the world usually works, how the rest of us mostly live?
I'm afraid it's the latter.
Look, President Obama is probably the most powerful person on the planet. (Speaking of footballs, the nuclear suitcase is a pretty good trump card.) Nevertheless, he has to compromise. Regularly. More to the point, he often loses. For that matter, so does Carroll, no matter what his book says. You can't always get what you want. The NFL comes closer than most. And that, I think, is the heart of the problem. People say that Monday night's officiating farce will be the last straw -- that in its sheer, pro-football-as-presented-by-Monty-Python ridiculousness, it will force the league to capitulate. Me? I'm less optimistic.
Crummy officiating or not, fans are still watching. Players are still playing. Sponsors are still paying. I'm still writing about it. The regular refs can walk away; everyone else, not so much.
On second thought, maybe I'm misjudging the situation. Maybe the NFL has all the leverage it needs.


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I've just joined Archeologica and decided that I should pop in here to say hello before plunging into discussions.
I've been lurking for a couple months, reading up on my two favorite topics in anth/arch - the origins of people in the Americas and the question of what happened to Neanderthals. I've been enjoying the forum discussion comments as well as the news update page.
My educational background is liberal arts and language, but I considered a cultural anthropology major for a while so I took anthropology, geology, and biology courses with that in mind. They at least gave me a conceptual framework for following developments over the years since then.
Back in the mid 90's, I spent a week's vacation as a volunteer on a dig in northwestern PA. The site was a field experience for students of the Mercyhurst Archeological Institute, whose director is James Adovagio, excavator of Meadowcroft. The dig supervisor was one of his staff assistants. It was their first week, when students were setting up camp, so I didn't get to see or participate in much actual fieldwork. I saw Adovagio briefly when he dropped by the site to make sure things were underway ok, but didn't actually meet him. But, I did get to speak with some students, other volunteers (some of whom had been at Cahokia), and some staff assistants later, during a visit to Mercyhurst.
I've noticed the references to Clovis First adherents as "the club." In a History Channel interview, Adovagio once called them the "Clovis Mafia." I'm interested to see what he turns up now in Florida.


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McCarren Tennis, a group dedicated to the renovation of the courts at McCarren Park in Brooklyn, New York, staged its first Wimbleburg this past weekend. Our buddy Caitlin made it pretty deep into the draw, and she came away with a nice pair of Fred Perry sneakers. I'm sure it helped that she had a wonderful cheering section for her matches.
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Fertility During Chemotherapy
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Can a patient receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer get pregnant?
Carolyn Vachani RN, MSN, AOCN, OncoLink's Nurse Educator, responds:
A woman receiving treatment for breast cancer who was not menopausal (in other words, who is still premenopausal) before starting treatment can still get pregnant on therapy. This is possible even if the woman�s periods temporarily stop during therapy. For this reason, all patients should use an effective form of birth control while on therapy. Accidental pregnancy during cancer treatment can be difficult to cope with, as many cancer therapies would be harmful to the fetus. Some cancer therapies can be given later in the pregnancy, but to avoid this dilemma all together, we encourage our patients to use birth control.


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Cumballa Hill: This area near Kemps Corner is named because of the huge number of 'kamals', i.e. lotus groves that used to grow here. Today, Cumballa Hill does not have any lotuses growing but has many skyscrapers and some old buildings inhabited by Parsis.
Dharavi: Asia's largest slum located between Sion and Mahim gets its name as it was at the site at the doors to the island. (dar - door in Marathi)
Bhuleshwar: This very old area of South Bombay which also houses the flower market gets it name from the God-Shiva in the form of "Bhola" and thus Bhuleshwar.
Byculla: This name is supposed to be of early Hindu origin. This area used to have a lot of 'bhaya'-'cassia fistula' shrubs and this word was combined with 'khala' or level ground. Byculla is a very important train station on the Central Railway between Chinchpokli and Sandhurst Road.
Tardeo: This area near Bombay Central station derived its name from the trees of 'tad'or palms that were flourishing below the Cumballa Hill. A deity('dev') was also named and installed here and thus the name tad-dev.
Babulnath: There used to be a huge plantation of 'Babul' or acacia arabica in this area, which is at the foothills of Malabar Hill. The deity of the temple built later (Shiva) also took this name and is a well-visited place of worship and is located very close to Chowpatty.
Chowpatty: The name became generic for all the beaches in Bombay- Girgaum, Juhu and Dadar but it was meant for the Girgaum 'chaupatty' because of the probable existence of four channels of inlets of sea near Girgaum.
Wadala: This area located near Dadar T.T./Kings Circle was so named because of the banyan tree rows it that used to exist in this area. The name is a corruption of Wadali. Wad, which is the Marathi name for Banyan and Ali, which means row.
Mahim: Mahim was a desert island washed by the waters of the western sea and sparsely populated by families of Koli fishermen. According to the Bombay Gazette, King Bimbadev (A.D. 1300) the mystery King and indisputable founder of Bombay, had built a city called Mahikavati from where the name Mahi or Mahim has been derived.
Naigaum: This area (Nyaygrama) near Dadar (Central) was so named as King Bimbadev used to have a palace here where he used to have a 'court of justice' and a 'hall of audience'. Nyay means justice in Marathi.


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In the wake of numerous infiltrations of prominent Twitter accounts, the company has asked news organizations using the service to step up their security.
The company went so far as to suggest publications designate a single computer just for Twitter use. The company failed, however, to offer any new security tools of its own.
Recent episodes like the hacking of the Associated Press account have raised concerns about Twitter's ability to influence world events with faulty information. Notably, it lacks an increasingly standard security feature known as two-step authentication.
The memo the company sent Tuesday highlighted what Twitter users can otherwise do to strengthen their account security, most of which are standard industry procedures: Changing passwords and making them long and complicated; reducing the number of people with access to an account; and upping corporate email security to prevent an attack known as spear-phishing.
But suggesting setting aside a computer for the use of a single website is a fairly onerous request, and one that fails to recognize the way modern, distributed newsrooms typically function.
"This helps keep your Twitter password from being spread around," read the memo. "Don't use this computer to read email or surf the web, to reduce the chances of malware infection."
Yeah, or … Twitter could step up its own security measures. No doubt the company has dragged its feet on two-factor authentication because it's complicated to employ with many people using the same account.
But most news organizations couldn't financially justify having a single computer dedicated just to Twitter.
Setting aside one machine for Twitter also nullifies one of the key value propositions of the service: immediacy. If only a single computer is supposed to access the account, news organizations will have to hope that computer is nearby when news breaks.
That issue of immediacy is also what may hamper the implementation of other checks and balances. The company could employ an option that requires tweets to be approved by a second party attached to the account. Or it could hold the tweet in a timed review period before it hits the stream.
But that slows the 99.99% of the time the information is correct. And news organizations fight and claw to be first to a story.
Of course, whether the majority of users actually notice or care whether one organization tweets something 30 seconds before their competitor is the subject for another day.


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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Paris Lunettes
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haha and of course there's a picture of macarons! :))ReplyDelete
Love those lunettes with the frames that look a bit like film negatives or reels. The jagged ones look as if they were made for Freddy or whatever was his name, the one with the chainsaw. ;-)ReplyDelete
Are you sure that National Health insurance pays for more than pedestrian lunettes?
It's absolutely true MERISI!!!ReplyDelete
That's why there are so many delightful frame shops!!
Even sunglasses are covered with a tiny bit of schmoozing..
Pretty! Mine (I wear contacts usually though) are plain and black, but I love them anywaysReplyDelete
I love them, and collect 'em: well, reading glasses and sunglasses. I find them everywhere, but I like big specs, and I won't spend a lot on them. On the road, I wind up buying pairs of reading glasses in all the school bookstores, because I go crazy thinking I've lost them. Then, the minute I buy a new pair, I realize the "old" pair has been sitting right up on top of my head the whole time, where I forgot them.ReplyDelete
I thank heaven I need readers, not prescription glasses because I lose them everywhere. I'm sure I own at least 10 pairs...one for upstairs on a chain, one for downstairs on a chain, one by the bedside, one where I eat breakfast, one in my purse, one in my work bag (no longer needed!), one by the laundry (so I can tell if I can put stuff in the dryer!) one in my suitcase, and I STILL have a hard time finding a pair when I want it.ReplyDelete
I have lived in glasses since I was in kindergarden wearing my blue/pink tortoise shell glasses! I love the red cat eyes in the 3rd pic-lower left and the ones in the 5th!! If I had the money I would have them in every color!ReplyDelete
I love the photos in this post, Carol.ReplyDelete
There seems to be shades (no pun) of blue or lavender somewhere in each pic. Makes for a nice soothing effect :)
I like your glasses - but didn't know where you got them.
(In the US, Medicaid pays for a new pair of glasses every 2 years - but they have to be low-end frames. I don't about Medicare.)
This is funny reading this because while standing in the bank line today an older couple tapped me on the shoulder to ask me where there is an optical shop in town. Something one doesn't get asked about very often out of the blue. and here you are talking about optical shops. BTW I love you in your red glasses.ReplyDelete
you always have the cutest photos!ReplyDelete
I love the red cat-eye glasses - those would look so chic and smashing on you!ReplyDelete
I got glasses when I was 5 years old and contacts when I was 15 because I couldn't stand the feeling of glasses on my face. I still can't. I really only wear glasses to read in bed (which is a lot, but anyway...).
Which is unfortunate, considering how stylish glasses are these days. Maybe some PINK cat-eye frames would be worth the discomfort?
Oh, I love the colorful "out there" glasses and imagine that you would wear them well!ReplyDelete
Carol, when I saw the last photo of macarons in the window I wondered if we were standing there together taking that shot... when I looked at mine I realized that the sign was in a different position. Great minds think alike, my dear! You will be amazed...
- Anonymous3:04 PM
Hello I live in Paris and love this shop. Unfortunately, here in France, National health insurance doesn't pay for fancy glasses !! If you buy a pair of glasses for 300 €, they only give you about 10 € !! (if you want to buy expensive glasses, you need a very good PRIVATE insurance...)ReplyDelete
Love this post Carol....and yes I plead guilty...I am absolutely addicted to 'lunettes'.....bought a fab pair of 'horn coke bottle' ones in St Germain last year. Am crazy for cats eyes too. I'll check out this one in the Marais too....only a few weeks to go now! Merci beaucoup again!!!ReplyDelete


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Alternative formsEdit
- enPR: līt, IPA(key): /laɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): [ɫɐɪ̯ʔ]
- (Canada, regional US) IPA(key): /lʌɪt/
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- Rhymes: -aɪt
- Homophone: lite
- Hyphenation: light
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English light, liht, leoht, from Old English lēoht ("light, daylight; power of vision; luminary; world"), from Proto-Germanic *leuhtą ("light"), from Proto-Indo-European *lewktom, from the root *lewk- ("light"). Cognate with Scots licht ("light"), West Frisian ljocht ("light"), Dutch licht ("light"), Low German licht ("light"), German Licht ("light"). Related also to Swedish ljus ("light"), Icelandic ljós ("light"), Latin lūx ("light"), Russian луч (luč, "beam of light"), Armenian լույս (luys, "light"), Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, "white").
light (countable and uncountable, plural lights)
- (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light.
- As you can see, this spacious dining-room gets a lot of light in the mornings.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
- Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess[1]:
- Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
- 2013 July 20, "Out of the gloom", in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- When the studio light is on, I am recording my evening show.
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- When the studio light is on, I am recording my evening show.
- A source of illumination.
- Put that light out!
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
- Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- Can you throw any light on this problem?
- Shakespeare
- He shall never know / That I had any light of this from thee.
- (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:, Book I, New York 2001, page 166:
- Now these notions are twofold, actions or habits […], which are durable lights and notions, which we may use when we will.
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- Picasso was one of the leading lights of the cubist movement.
- Tennyson
- Joan of Arc, a light of ancient France
- (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- I'm really seeing you in a different light today.
- Magoon's governorship in Cuba was viewed in a negative light by many Cuban historians for years thereafter.
- South
- Frequent consideration of a thing […] shows it in its several lights and various ways of appearance.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- Hey, buddy, you got a light?
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
- a Bengal light
- A window, or space for a window in architecture.
- This facade has eight south-facing lights.
- The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- The average length of a light on a 15×15 grid is 7 or 8.
- (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- Shakespeare
- The duke yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would never bring them to light.
- Shakespeare
- The power of perception by vision.
- Bible, Psalms xxxviii. 10
- My strength faileth me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
- Bible, Psalms xxxviii. 10
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- Shakespeare
- He seemed to find his way without his eyes; / For out o'door he went without their helps, / And, to the last, bended their light on me.
- Shakespeare
- A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler who is receiving instructions.
- To get to our house, turn right at the third light.
- (electromagnetic wave perceived by the eye): visible light
- See also Thesaurus:light source
- (physics): electromagnetic radiation
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- lights, camera, action!
- bring to light
- come to light
- false light
- hide one's light under a bushel
- light at the end of the tunnel
- lightbox
- light box
- light bucket
- light bulb
- light buoy
- light globe
- light intensity
- light microscope
- Light of the World
- light source
- more heat than light
- punch someone's lights out
- see the light
- strike a light
- Sranan Tongo: leti
See light/translations § Noun.
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English lighten, lihten, from Old English līhtan, lȳhtan, lēohtan ("to lighten, illuminate, give light, shine; grow light, dawn; light, kindle"), from Proto-Germanic *liuhtijaną. Cognate with German leuchten ("to shine")
light (third-person singular simple present lights, present participle lighting, simple past and past participle lit or lighted)
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- Synonym: set
- Antonyms: extinguish, put out, quench
- We lit the fire to get some heat.
- (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning.
- Synonyms: ignite, kindle, conflagrate
- Antonyms: extinguish, put out, quench
- She lit her last match.
- Hakewill
- if a thousand candles be all lighted from one
- Addison
- Absence might cure it, or a second mistress / Light up another flame, and put out this.
- (transitive) To illuminate.
- Synonyms: illuminate, light up
- I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.
- F. Harrison
- One hundred years ago, to have lit this theatre as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds.
- Dryden
- The Sun has set, and Vesper, to supply / His absent beams, has lighted up the sky.
- (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
- Synonyms: catch fire, ignite, conflagrate
- This soggy match will not light.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- Landor
- His bishops lead him forth, and light him on.
- Landor
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Etymology 3Edit
From Middle English light, liht, leoht, from Old English lēoht ("luminous, bright, light, clear, resplendent, renowned, beautiful"), from Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz ("light"), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- ("light"). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ljoacht ("light"), Dutch licht, German licht.
light (comparative lighter, superlative lightest)
- Having light.
- The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.
- Pale in colour.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the Sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
- She had light skin.
- (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
- I like my coffee light.
- (having light): bright
- (pale in colour): pale
- (coffee: served with extra milk or cream): white, with milk, with cream
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Etymology 4Edit
From Old English lēoht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- ("light"). Cognate with Dutch licht, German leicht, Swedish lätt, Norwegian lett, Albanian lehtë, Latin levis, Lithuanian lengvas, Sanskrit लघु (laghu).
light (comparative lighter, superlative lightest)
- Of low weight; not heavy.
- My bag was much lighter once I had dropped off the books.
- Addison
- These weights did not exert their natural gravity […] insomuch that I could not guess which was light or heavy whilst I held them in my hand.
- Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
- We took a light aircraft down to the city.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- This artist clearly had a light, flowing touch.
- Easy to endure or perform.
- light duties around the house
- Dryden
- Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- This light beer still gets you drunk if you have enough of it.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
- I made some light comment, and we moved on.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached
- (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- Long after lay he musing at her mood, / Much grieu'd to thinke that gentle Dame so light, / For whose defence he was to shed his blood.
- Shakespeare
- So do not you; for you are a light girl.
- Shakespeare
- A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- light troops; a troop of light horse
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- Francis Bacon
- Unmarried men are best friends, best masters […] but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away.
- Francis Bacon
- (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
- a light, vain person; a light mind
- Tillotson
- There is no greater argument of a light and inconsiderate person than profanely to scoff at religion.
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Ogden Nash was a writer of light verse.
- Shakespeare
- Seneca can not be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.
- Hawthorne
- specimens of New England humour laboriously light and lamentably mirthful
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Shakespeare
- Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain?
- Shakespeare
- Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
- light coin
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- light sleep; light anesthesia
- (of low weight):
- (lightly-built): lightweight
- (having little force or momentum): delicate, gentle, soft
- (low in fat, calories, etc): lite, lo-cal (low in calories), low-alcohol (low in alcohol)
- (having little value or significance): inconsequential, trivial, unimportant
- (of low weight): heavy, weighty
- (lightly-built): cumbersome, heavyweight, massive
- (having little force or momentum): forceful, heavy, strong
- (low in fat, calories, etc): calorific (high in calories), fatty (high in fat), strong (high in alcohol)
- (having little value or significance): crucial, important, weighty
Derived termsEdit
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
light (comparative lighter, superlative lightest)
- Carrying little.
- I prefer to travel light.
light (plural lights)
light (third-person singular simple present lights, present participle lighting, simple past and past participle lighted)
- (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- Spenser
- His mailèd habergeon she did undight, / And from his head his heavy burgonet did light.
- Spenser
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 5Edit
light (third-person singular simple present lights, present participle lighting, simple past and past participle lit or lighted)
- To find by chance.
- I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's.
- To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
- Jack London, The Call of the Wild
- "Sacredam!" he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck.
- Jack London, The Call of the Wild
- (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.
- She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet.
- Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
- Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a few feet before settling down.
- (find by chance): chance upon, come upon, find, happen upon, hit upon
- (alight): alight, land
Derived termsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- lighte, lyght, lyghte, liȝt, liȝte, lyȝt, lyȝte, lijȝt, liȝht, lyȝht, lyȝhte, liȝth, lyȝth, ligt, lygtte, ligth, liht, lihte, lyht, lyhte, lith, lithe, lyth, lythe, litht, lite, lyte, lit, lytte, lichte, lict, licth, liste, leoht, leocht, loht
From Old English lēoht ("light, daylight; power of vision; luminary; world"), from Proto-Germanic *leuhtą ("light"), from Proto-Indo-European *lewktom, from the root *lewk- ("light").
light (plural lightes)
- The radiation which allows for vision by brightening objects and colours.
- Illumination in general, or any source thereof.
- The metaphorical clarity resulting from philosophical or religious ideals such as truth, wisdom, righteousness, etc.
- Mental or spiritual acuity; the presence of life in a living being.
- (chemistry) The property of lustre; how shiny a substance is.
- (religion) Heavenly radiance; glory
- (architecture) an opening in a wall allowing for the transmission of light; a window.
- The sense of sight.
- The state of being easily seen.
- "light (n.)" in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.
light (invariable, comparable)
- (of food) light (low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt or other undesirable substances)
light (plural light)
- light (low in fat, calories, salt, alcohol, etc.)
- (of cigarettes) light (low in tar, nicotine and other noxious chemicals)
- (by extension) Lacking substance or seriousness; lite.
Usage notesEdit
- As a foreign term with unassimilated spelling and pronunciation, light is usually rendered in italics in formal contexts or published writings.
- "light" in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.


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"I can still play football. I look at films day after day, week in and week out, and I know I can still play. I feel good throwing — there's not a pass in the book I can't throw. My arm is good no matter what people say and my legs are okay. I've had problems with my knees just once this year. But what can people expect when you get knocked down eight out of 10 times? What the hell do you do?"
That was 33-year-old Joe Namath on December 12, 1976, following a 42-3 Jets loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. Joe threw 15 passes that cold day at Shea. Four of them were completed. Four of them were intercepted.
"You know, my season has been a rollercoaster. A lot of ups and downs. Good days. Bad days. But I'm very positive about everything because I'm coming back from a major surgery, and I've been able to be out there every five games. […] Right now my shoulder is fine. I don't have any issues with it. It's just that it has been a long season for me."
That was 33-year-old Johan Santana on Friday night, following a 6-4 Mets loss to the Washington Nationals. Johan set down all nine batters he faced in his first three innings at Nationals Park, but proceeded to give up six earned runs and nine hits in the fourth and fifth, including a grand slam to Michael Morse and a two-run homer to Bryce Harper. He's allowed at least six earned runs in each of his past five starts, something no Met pitcher has ever done.
Namath, who led the Jets to their greatest glory before injuries overtook his brilliance, never played another game for New York after the debacle against Cincinnati. He was signed by the Rams in 1977, started four games for L.A. before being benched and retired at the end of his thirteenth professional season.
Santana, who is under contract to the Mets through next year (his thirteenth major league season), has crafted a career that can also be described as both brilliant and injury-riddled. While his significance to the Mets franchise is not nearly on a par with what Namath meant to the Jets, he has been, for reassuring stretches and incandescent moments, immensely important around here since 2008. It is his outsized presence that has made his periodic absences resonate so thoroughly. And as with Namath, it is the vivid memory of what Santana has done in a Mets uniform that leaves a Mets fan incredulous that he can look perfectly fine for a while and speak nonchalantly of how perfectly fine he feels afterwards, but somewhere in the middle of that rendition of reality is the starker version: another short outing, another ton of runs, another bushel of passes that wind up in the hands of the Bengal secondary.
When Namath was done as a Jet, his most glorious times were eight years in the past. There would be flashes after Super Bowl III, but it was never the same. The injuries wouldn't let it be. Johan's only been a Met for five seasons, and one of those was spent furiously recovering from surgery…as was the offseason that followed it. Really, there was no offseason when it came to rehabilitation.
"I've been throwing baseballs since December 15," Johan mentioned after losing to the Nats, maybe as a legitimate excuse for running on empty in the fourth and fifth innings, maybe as a stream of consciousness an all-time great emits as he tries to figure out why he's not only not pitching like an all-time great but isn't pitching remotely passably as of August 17. He says he feels good. Terry Collins says "his command was good" for three innings. Dan Warthen says, "It's just a matter of building that arm strength back up." Johan's been at it since December when everybody else has been throwing baseballs since February. Nobody among those who have a say came out and said Friday that it's time to call August October and give Johan a rest. But nobody in that group was ruling it out, either.
You never want to rule anything out with guys the ilk of a Namath or a Santana. You've seen them do too much to think they're no more than one pass or one pitch from getting it together and resuming their careers in uninterrupted fashion at the level to which you and they have become accustomed.
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I really don't like the new annoying message box (MERGE-RESOLVED, MERGE-ABORTED, ERROR) I get during merge if using /result. Pleeeeeeease provide an option to turn this dialog off (add a new setting for this dialog like you have for the other dialogs that can be turned on\off). I also miss a onn\off setting like this for the dialog I get when one of the files have changed and DiffMerge ask if it should reaload the file(s), at least for the case where I didn't edit anything (no pending changes) -> just reload without asking. Have reverted back to the previous version for now, hopefully the next version will be better.
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WRT the MERGE-RESOLVED... dialog. You should only see this if you
did not save the merge result. Either because you never saved the
window (so the result file hasn't been created) or because you did do
a save and then made more (unsaved) changes in the window (so the
result file that was created is now stale). In both of these cases, it is
important to ask what your intentions are so that the exit status can be
set correctly so that the invoking application does the right thing.
Some invoking applications pre-create the result file in a temp file and
expect the gui merge program to overwrite it with the actual merge result.
Some invoking applications do not pre-create the result file and expect
the gui merge program to create it.
Some invoking applications use the version of the file in the working
directory as the merge result and expect the gui merge program to
overwrite it. So if you close the window in a dirty or unsaved state,
it is not clear whether DiffMerge should do and it is not clear whether
DiffMerge should delete/restore the result file. In the case of intermediate
saves and unsaved work, do you want to keep the saved changes but not
the last few edits or do you want to abort the entire merge? These
things cannot be magically determined.
WRT the auto-reload question, yes I can log a feature request to just do
the reload without asking when the buffer is not dirty.
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Yes, but the way I use DiffMerge (with TortoiseSVN), it\I don't care about the return status and I manually resolve the file.
I agree, but getting two dialogs in a row is not very user friendly. I think it should have been solved by using a single dialog, but with one extra button: "Do you want to save changes?" "Yes" (RESOLVE-MERGE), "No" (ABORT-MERGE), "No, but resolve anyways" (RESOLVE-MERGE), "Cancel". In addition, with an extra setting (command line option!) it should be possibly to say I don't care about the RESOLVE-MERGE\ABORT-MERGE exit statuses (actually, this should have been an opt-in feature, so people could turn it on, not off!) and then it wouldn't show the "No, but resolve anyways" button. Everyone is happy.
Great. Lookin forward to it. DiffMerge rules.
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True, I could combine those 2 dialogs and streamline the process.
I'll log this too.
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1 - Hey hey, just when I foolishly thought he'd already mocked every meme out there, he comes out with another one.
2 - Hey hey, just when I foolishly thought he'd gotten sick of goddamn google search . Dude: It's just a search engine. Relax, ok? We don't all want unscientific studies in place of our comics.
3 - "Cups" should be "cup/cups." With the plural in there, "2 girls 1 cups" is both ungrammatical and inaccurate, as a google search for it brought up, as of this writing, only 2,750 hits. You'd think that maybe he'd make mistakes elsewhere in the chart, not in the key block.
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Lacrosse's Rodriguez named to second team, Deegan All-Sportsmanship
BOSTON, MA -- Five members of the Gators softball team, including first team selections Courtney Wallace and Patty Pabon, were named to the All-GNAC Team, the conference announced Friday. Lacrosse attack Elaine Rodriguez was named Second Team All-GNAC, and midfielder Beth Deegan was chosen for GNAC All-Sportsmanship honors.
Softball freshman Kayla Ferrara was named second team, and classmates Jackie Mannino and Kayla Nielsen were honored as third team selections, with Nielsen also garnering all-sportsmanship honors.
While Wallace again carried the offensive load for Pine Manor, which finished fourth in the GNAC with a 16-8 regular season conference record, Pabon set the table. Pabon's .430 average in GNAC play trailed only Wallace's .438 clip. Wallace led the team in overall batting average (.405), hits (46), runs (28), total bases (78), on-base percentage (.432), slugging (.656) and at-bats (113), boasting a .690 slugging percentage carried by five homers, four triples and nine doubles. The catcher tied for second on the team in RBI's, with 27.
Pabon led the team with 13 doubles in 112 at-bats, placing second with a .423 on-base percentage. She also finished season second on the Gators in hits (42), ranking among the team leaders in runs (28), slugging (.518) and walks (10). Perhaps most importantly, the senior almost flawlessly transitioned from the backstop to shortstop while finishing the regular season with a .966 fielding percentage.
Possibly the team's most consistent stick, Ferrara came on the scene and instantly became one of the league's most feared sluggers. The freshman outfielder led the team with eight homers and 31 RBI's, finishing second in slugging percentage (.633), runs (30) and total bases (81) and third in hitting (.328), on-base percentage (.377) and walks (9).
The versatility that found her at catcher, shortstop and third base earned Nielsen (below, right) third team utility player honors. In addition to her flexibility afield, she also enjoyed a stellar freshman campaign at the plate, hitting .313 while also finishing fourth on the club in hits (40), runs (23) on-base percentage (.350) and slugging percentage (.445).
Perhaps the team's streakiest hitter, Mannino exposed flashes of power to earn her third team designated player honors, a stroke that will keep her in the middle of Deusser's line-up for years to come. Mannino's 27 RBI's tied Wallace for second on the club, her eight walks tied Ferrara for third, and her three home runs tied Nielsen for third on the team.
For Jess Blair's Gators, Rodriguez led the team in scoring for a second season in a row, tallying 36 goals and three assists. The junior (below) has been instrumental in the rebuilding of the Pine Manor lacrosse program, which, at 4-8, won its first games since reacquiring NCAA status three seasons ago. She finished eighth in the conference in goals per game (3.09) and ninth in points per game (3.36), also leading the Gators with 56 shots.
Freshman Beth Deegan was named GNAC All-Sportsmanship Team. The Philadelphia native finished third on the Gators with 24 goals and 26 points, leading the team with 28 ground balls.
This marks the second year in a row Pine Manor's spring teams garnered a combined seven All-GNAC designees, with six softball and one lacrosse player being honored in 2008.
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NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- Lindsay Lohan addressed the infamous sex list in which she reportedly registered all the celebrities she had been intimate with, while visiting Watch What Happens Live on Thursday.
After talking about the way she's portrayed in her OWN docu-series Lindsay and dismissing rumors that she relapsed at Coachella, the 27-year-old actress and host Andy Cohen began playing "Plead the Fifth," a game in which contestants are asked three questions and are allowed to skip one of them.
Lohan was quick to answer the first question, confirming that former girlfriend Samantha Ronson had been the first women she'd dated, and skipped the second one, where she was asked to name one real-life "mean girl" actress that she had worked with. When asked if she could confirm at least two of the names on her leaked sex list, Lohan said she could "not confirm or deny it."
"You know what? I'm going to get serious for a second," she continued. "That was actually my fifth step in AA at Betty Ford [Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Center]. Someone, when I was moving during the OWN show, must have taken a photo of it. That's a really personal thing and it's really unfortunate."
"I talk about this on the last episode of the OWN show," she added. "To be continued …"
According to In Touch, the list was found in the garbage at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Jan. 30. The list features several famous names including Justin Timberlake, Colin Farrell, Zac Efron, Adam Levine, James Franco, Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix, and Wilmer Vaderrama.
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Warren E. Buffett may soon be almost $1 million poorer.
Well sort of. The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice announced a $896,000 proposed settlement Wednesday with Buffett's investment holding company Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
The two federal agencies filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia a proposed settlement, imposing the maximum civil penalty possible. The final judgment is subject to court approval.
The settlement with Berkshire Hathaway involves allegations that it violated pre-merger reporting laws in connection with its 2013 purchase of building products giant USG Corp.
"Although we may not seek penalties for every in inadvertent error, we will enforce the rules when the same party makes additional mistakes after promises of improved oversight," Deborah Feinstein, director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, said in a statement announcing the settlement.
The FTC alleged that Berkshire Hathaway failed to notify regulators when it changed convertible notes it owned in USG into 21.4 million voting securities, pushing the value of its USG holdings over a pre-merger reporting threshold.
The company subsequently made a corrective filing with regulators and acknowledged it should have reported the conversion into voting securities. Normally that might be forgiven, but it came six months after Berkshire Hathaway made a similar corrective filing tied to its 2013 purchase of $41 million worth of voting securities in Symetra Financial Corp.
"We made a mistake when we overlooked the filing requirement," Buffett said in a statement late Wednesday.
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Fordon, Poland, ancestral home of my Rosenbaum family. As the previous post mentions, I have been going through the early death certificates from the State of Utah. As I have researching this collection, I came across the death certificate for Samuel E. Levy, who died in Salt Lake City on 22 January 1941.
Samuel Levy was born the 24th day of November, 1873 in San Francisco, California and had been a resident of the local community for 36 years. The certificate (shown below) also provides the information for his parents. The information provided shows that both is father Solomon and mother Henrietta were born in Fordon. Of great interest to me is that Samuel, born of parents from Fordon came to Salt Lake City from San Francisco. My ancestor, Morris David Rosenbaum was born in Fordon, travelled throughout the United States, finally arriving in San Francisco. Once there he made his way to his final home in Brigham City, Utah. They followed much the same trail just 50 years apart.


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Community-based adaptation is about helping people cope with the impacts of climate change. At the recent 5th annual conference on "Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change" in Dhaka, Bangladesh, researchers, practitioners and policymakers gathered to share knowledge and experience in planning and practicing adaptation at different levels.
Presenting IUCN's work, Katharine Cross, Acting Water and Wetlands Coordinator for East and Southern Africa said that "adapting to climate change impacts needs to occur across various scales of governance, from national level policy to district development plans." In Tanzania, IUCN is mainstreaming climate change into existing and newly created water governance institutions. This mainstreaming has been in the form of awareness-raising on climate change impacts, application of vulnerability assessments, and implementation of adaptation actions from the community to the basin levels.
"Community-based adaptation takes a local approach, one that looks at the community and asks what we can do to support what they are already doing. It is the communities themselves that are at the front lines of dealing with climate change impacts. So how are they coping? How have they coped before? And how can we help them to cope better if these problems change or get worse?" said Hannah Reid, IIED Senior Researcher. The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is the main driver of the annual conference.
In East Africa, IUCN is now scaling up the community-based adaptation approach and using lessons from projects in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya to enable water governance institutions to practically implement climate change adaptation approaches. "This can be achieved through integrating outputs of climate change vulnerability assessments into catchment management plans and by identifying priority actions to be undertaken by different stakeholders," said Cross. Priority actions in the region include construction of cattle troughs or boreholes to provide alternative sources of water and reduce conflict between different users. The aim across all three countries is to ensure that adaptation to climate change impacts are integral parts of planning and development activities across all water governance scales.
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Fortress-like with its Romanesque-meets-Renaissance facade, the Osborne Building commands a special place in Manhattan's history. It was built in 1883, catty-corner from Car-negie Hall, as one of the city's first apartment buildings expressly designed for "luxury living." Musicians, writers, and artists seeking posh digs in the cultural heart of Manhattan have flocked there ever since. (The tight-security lobby alone is an allure with Tiffany glass, August Saint-Gaudens sculpture, John La Farge murals, and interior detailing by designer Jacob Adolphus Holzer.) One apartment owner, Alison Macheras, is the latest in her family's line of literati to call the Osborne home. She inherited the apartment from her art-collecting grandmother, Hallie Carr Fox, who moved there after marrying her second husband, Lorenzo Alvary, a basso who spent 30 years of his career with the Metropolitan Opera.
"After my grandfather died in 1958, my grandmother traveled to Europe, where she met Mr. Alvary. She brought him home to La Porte, Indiana, to perform concerts. In 1960, they married, and she moved to New York to live with Lorenzo in the Osborne. Over the years, after my father died, both of my sisters, my mother, and I lived at various times with them in this apartment," explains Alison. "I have an enormous attachment to this place."
Not only did she inherit the apartment, she also inherited its contents. Everything needed refreshing. She hired Zivkovic Connolly Architects and interior designer Marcy Masterson to bring spaces back to the full-throated resonance she remembers from her childhood, when Lorenzo would practice vocals in the paneled den and her grandmother would debate where to place a Picasso.
"It was a matter of paring down and then stripping and re-covering everything. I saw no reason to go messing with what wasn't broken," Alison says. Her designer agreed. "It was about refreshing this apartment to Old World splendor and making it a happy, sunny place," Masterson explains. "No one had lived here for years, and nothing had been changed. It was quite dark."
But like every apartment in the Osborne, it had dazzling potential. "The greatest architectural asset," asserts Masterson, "was the flooring. It was this magnificent marquetry, different in each room."
Restoring the floors was one of lead architect Brian Connolly's first projects. "The most spectacular floor is in the entry. It had been covered with a thickly padded carpet for so many years that even Alison had forgotten what was underneath," he says. Replicating each damaged piece of wood was like working a tedious jigsaw puzzle, but with such stunning results even the designer insisted on leaving it bare.
Ceilings, dark since the 1960s, "ruined the perception of the proportions of rooms, not to mention that they substantially darkened things," recalls Connolly. Painted white, "they once again soared," he says. All of the original plaster crown moldings were returned to their 1883 condition, repaired or replaced as necessary. "The only ceiling height to change was that in the hallways, where it was low. When we opened it up, we found the original moldings," the architect explains. He coffered the ceiling to hide ductwork.
"The change in the foyer is probably the most dramatic. It went from being dark and cryptic to warm and inviting," Connolly reflects.
Part of that warmth emanates from colors on the Venetian plaster walls. "In selecting paint, our first and foremost goal was to set off these magnificent floors," notes Masterson. "The entry's warm terra-cotta walls just glow with the marquetry of the gorgeous oak floor." Sunny yellow beckons from the living room and a warmer gold colors walls in the family room--Alison's favorite space. "This was where we lived growing up." New shelving increases livability. "It's the room that reaches out and puts its arms around you," says Alison.
Re-covering heirloom furniture wasn't always easy. "I wasn't sure how we would ever get the pair of 11-foot-long sofas out of the living room," illustrates Masterson, who subdued their scale with a subtle Claremont tone-on-tone weave. "Then I pulled orange from the paintings onto the beechwood bergères."
Those paintings with a splash of orange include a Matisse above the living room fireplace and a Bernard Doufour above the sofa, both bought by Alison's grandmother prior to her marriage to Mr. Alvary.
"After my grandfather died, the chauffeur drove my grandmother, who was born in 1900, from Indiana to the Art Institute in Chicago to take classes. She studied Chinese painting, among other things, and developed her eye for art," Alison says. A portrait of Lorenzo in opera regalia hangs prominently within a niche in new cabinetry created by Connolly for Alison to display her Chinese figurines.
Wanting to honor her grandmother, Alison insisted that the new living room draperies feature a valance identical to the old. "Given this incredibly grand space and its Italian furniture, it was only fitting to put Fortuny at the windows," says Masterson.
Architect: Brian Connolly, Zivkovic Connolly Architects, PC, 511 W. 25th St., New York, NY 10001; 212/807-8577, zivarch.com.
Interior design: Marcy Masterson, Marcy V. Masterson Inc. Interior Design, 140 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019; 212/541-6076, marcymasterson.com.
Photography: Bruce Buck
Framed within new built-in cabinets, former owner Lorenzo Alvary's portrait in operatic costume commands attention. "Lorenzo treated all of us like his grandchildren," says apartment owner Alison Macheras.
Wing chair; floor lamp: owner's collection.
Fabric ("Boussac Royal," discontinued): Pierre Frey, 866/707-1524, pierrefrey.com.
Round table (antique): Christie's, 212/636-2000, christies.com.
Cabinetry: Zivkovic Connolly Architects, 212/807-8577, zivarch.com.
Drapery and valance ("Caravaggio"/Ivory and Gold #5121): Fortuny Fabrics, 212/753-7153.
The living room before the renovation.
Four heirloom Florentine silver-gilded candlestick lamps were refreshed with more modern pyramid silk shades. Refinished floors sans rugs let the wood shine. Matisse's watercolor-and-ink "Odalisque" hangs above the fireplace.
Sofas: owner's collection.
Sofa fabric ("Toile Chenanceau"/Ecru, Beige, Ivory Texture): Claremont Furnishing Fabrics, 212/486-1252, claremontfurnishing.com.
Patterned pillows on sofa ("Soleil Brocatelle"/ Taupe, Flame, Gold and Ivory #007731T, silk damask): Quadrille Wallpapers & Fabrics, 212/753-2995, quadrillefabrics.com.
Orange pillows (#F0556/072): Pierre Frey, 866/707-1524.
Trim ("3/8-inch Venise Cord on Tape"/Mustard, Rust, Yellow #981-28664-617): Samuel & Sons, 212/704-8000, samuelandsons.com.
End tables; table lamps; coffee table; tables flanking sofa by window; mantel (Carrara marble); table to right of mantel; mirror over table; orange bergères flanking sofa; chair in front of mantel; upholstered tub chair; andirons: owner's collection.
Fabric on orange chairs ("Corsanico"/Rust-and-Gold Texture #IO265004): Pierre Frey, 866/707-1524.
Fabric on chair in front of mantel; fabric on tub chair ("Lido"/Wheat #34085-03): Clarence House, 800/803-2850, clarencehouse.com.
Paint (yellow strié): custom.
Heirloom Chinese figurines form a treasured collection.
Dramatic change occurred in the entry, which commands views of the famiy room through wide portals and the living room through a pair of standard-size doors. Flooring changes in each space.
Wall color: custom color, encaustic paint finish.
Flooring (oak): original.
Console: Sotheby's, 212/606-7000, sothebys.com.
Lamps (alabaster); horse statue; lyre-back chair; chair to right of console; urns under console: owner's collection.
Chair-seat fabric: Clarence House, 800/803-2850.
The entry prior to the renovation.
The family room.
Sofa (custom design): Marcy V. Masterson Inc. Interior Design, 212/541-6076.
Fabrication: Avery Boardman, 212/688-6611, averyboardman.com.
Sofa fabric ("Lido"/Wheat #34085-03): Clarence House, 800/803-2850.
English chintz draperies warm the space.
Mantel: original.
Green chair and ottoman (custom): Marcy V. Masterson Inc. Interior Design, 212/541-6076.
Fabric ("Guildhall Weave"/Olive #2005171, discontinued): Lee Jofa, 800/453-3563, leejofa.com.
Drapery; trim: discontinued.
Coffee table; area rug; end table; table lamp; wooden chair: owner's collection.
Chair-seat cushion ("Rigoletto"/Pomegranate #10826-03): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900.
In the dining room, new overscaled Fortuny draperies accompany a Picasso, a Klee, and a Fernard Lejer.
Owner's collection.
A damask from Scalamandré dresses the new custom headboard in the master bedroom.
Headboard, bed skirt, drapery fabric: discontinued.
Furnishings: owner's' collection.
The master bedroom prior to the renovation.
Alison Macheras remembers Lorenzo vocalizing in the study.
Furnishings: owner's collection.
The study prior to the renovation.
Apartment owner Alison Macheras.


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It was a big night for Carly Rae Jepsen and her mentor, Justin Bieber, at Sunday's 2012 MuchMusic Videos Awards in downtown Toronto.
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Jepsen took home the show's biggest haul with three awards (Video of the Year, UR Fave Video of the Year, and MuchMusic.com's Most Streamed Video of the Year), but it was Bieber who won the most ear-splitting shrieks from the crowd.
The 18-year-old whipped the audience into a frenzy when he arrived on the red carpet holding his baby brother, Jaxon. The screams for Bieber kept coming, from when he won the first award of the evening until the very end of the show, which closed with his performance of "All Around the World."
The show also featured performances from hosts LMFAO, Jepson, Marianas Trench, Flo Rida, Nelly Furtado, Kelly Clarkson and Ed Sheeran.
Marianas Trench and Katy Perry were both double winners, while Drake, The Sheepdogs, Down with Webster and Danny Fernandes also took home hardware.
Televised Winners:
Video of the Year: Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe"
Pop Video of the Year: Marianas Trench, "Haven't Had Enough"
MuchLOUD Rock Video of the Year: The Sheepdogs, "I Don't Know"
MuchVIBE Hip-Hop Video of the Year: Drake featuring Lil Wayne & Tyga, "The Motto"
MuchFACT Indie Video of the Year: City and Colour, "Fragile Bird"
International Video of the Year â Artist: Katy Perry, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"
International Video of the Year â Group: LMFAO, "Sexy And I Know It"
International Video of the Year by a Canadian: Justin Bieber, "Boyfriend"
MuchMusic.com Most Watched Video: Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe"
UR Fave Video of the Year: Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe"
UR Fave Artist or Group: Justin Bieber
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Farming video sensation Derek Klingenberg of Peabody has put his camera to good use again, this time creating a parody of Miley Cyrus' song "Party in the USA."
"Feeding Cattle in the USA" currently is up to 90,000 views since being uploaded Dec. 26.
The video features none of Cyrus' infamous "twerking" dance move, but cattle can be seen dancing in several scenes.
Klingenberg was originally going to publish this video before his "What Does the Farmer Say" video, which went viral and received more than 4 million views on YouTube.
"I felt like I should publish 'What Does the Farmer Say' because of the popularity of 'What Does the Fox Say' at the time," he said.
Klingenberg is always searching for his next video idea, but said he enjoys making the videos to express his creativity, rather than for the viral fame.
"Feeding Cattle in the USA" and other videos by Klingenberg are on his YouTube page, Farmer Derek Klingenberg.


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Bulldogs Head to Waltham to Close Fall Competition
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's fencing team will wrap up fall competition this weekend when it travels to Waltham, Mass., for the Dec. 4 Brandeis Invitational.
The Bulldogs will look to build on their performance at last year's performance, when they walked away with a 3-2 record – they beat out Boston College, Brandeis and Haverford, while falling to MIT and St. John's.
Still, the team comes into this weekend's tournament with some momentum from the Nov. 19-20 Garret Open, hosted by Penn State at University Park, Pa.
At that competition, junior captain Robyn Shaffer placed 16th in epee competition, advancing through three rounds to the first elimination bout. The tournament provided a good venue for freshman to make their debuts: Maryne Dijkstra finished 38th and Margaret Kandel ended in 44th in epee competition.
In the other weapons squad competitions, senior Jillian Liu finished 38th in foil and sophomore Lucy Partman placed 36th.
After the Brandeis Invitational, the Bulldogs are off until the New York University Invitational on Jan. 21.
Report filed by James Lu '14, Yale Sports Publicity.