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Argument Realization in Syntax
Malka Rappaport Hovav
Words are sensitive to syntactic context. Argument realization is the study of the relation between argument-taking words, the syntactic contexts they appear in and the interpretive properties that constrain the relation between them.
Connectionism in Linguistic Theory
Xiaowei Zhao
Connectionism is an important theoretical framework for the study of human cognition and behavior. Also known as Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) or Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), connectionism advocates that learning, representation, and processing of information in mind are parallel, distributed, and interactive in nature. It argues for the emergence of human cognition as the outcome of large networks of interactive processing units operating simultaneously. Inspired by findings from neural science and artificial intelligence, connectionism is a powerful computational tool, and it has had profound impact on many areas of research, including linguistics. Since the beginning of connectionism, many connectionist models have been developed to account for a wide range of important linguistic phenomena observed in monolingual research, such as speech perception, speech production, semantic representation, and early lexical development in children. Recently, the application of connectionism to bilingual research has also gathered momentum. Connectionist models are often precise in the specification of modeling parameters and flexible in the manipulation of relevant variables in the model to address relevant theoretical questions, therefore they can provide significant advantages in testing mechanisms underlying language processes.
Displacement in Syntax
Klaus Abels
Displacement is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural languages. Grammarians often speak of displacement in cases where the rules for the canonical word order of a language lead to the expectation of finding a word or phrase in a particular position in the sentence whereas it surfaces instead in a different position and the canonical position remains empty: 'Which book did you buy?' is an example of displacement because the noun phrase 'which book', which acts as the grammatical object in the question, does not occur in the canonical object position, which in English is after the verb. Instead, it surfaces at the beginning of the sentence and the object position remains empty. Displacement is often used as a diagnostic for constituent structure because it affects only (but not all) constituents. In the clear cases, displaced constituents show properties associated with two distinct linear and hierarchical positions. Typically, one of these two positions c-commands the other and the displaced element is pronounced in the c-commanding position. Displacement also shows strong interactions with the path between the empty canonical position and the position where the element is pronounced: one often encounters morphological changes along this path and evidence for structural placement of the displaced constituent, as well as constraints on displacement induced by the path.
The exact scope of displacement as an analytically unified phenomenon varies from theory to theory. If more then one type of syntactic displacement is recognized, the question of the interaction between movement types arises. Displacement phenomena are extensively studied by syntacticians. Their enduring interest derives from the fact that the complex interactions between displacement and other aspects of syntax offer a powerful probe into the inner workings and architecture of the human syntactic faculty.
Meanings of Constructions
Laura A. Michaelis
Meanings are assembled in various ways in a construction-based grammar, and this array can be represented as a continuum of idiomaticity, a gradient of lexical fixity. Constructional meanings are the meanings to be discovered at every point along the idiomaticity continuum. At the leftmost, or 'fixed,' extreme of this continuum are frozen idioms, like the salt of the earth and in the know. The set of frozen idioms includes those with idiosyncratic syntactic properties, like the fixed expression by and large (an exceptional pattern of coordination in which a preposition and adjective are conjoined). Other frozen idioms, like the unexceptionable modified noun red herring, feature syntax found elsewhere. At the rightmost, or 'open' end of this continuum are fully productive patterns, including the rule that licenses the string Kim blinked, known as the Subject-Predicate construction. Between these two poles are (a) lexically fixed idiomatic expressions, verb-headed and otherwise, with regular inflection, such as chew/chews/chewed the fat; (b) flexible expressions with invariant lexical fillers, including phrasal idioms like spill the beans and the Correlative Conditional, such as the more, the merrier; and (c) specialized syntactic patterns without lexical fillers, like the Conjunctive Conditional (e.g., One more remark like that and you're out of here). Construction Grammar represents this range of expressions in a uniform way: whether phrasal or lexical, all are modeled as feature structures that specify phonological and morphological structure, meaning, use conditions, and relevant syntactic information (including syntactic category and combinatoric potential).
Noun-Modifying Clause Construction in Japanese
Yoshiko Matsumoto
The noun-modifying clause construction (NMCC) in Japanese is a complex noun phrase in which a prenominal clause is dependent on the head noun. Naturally occurring instances of the construction demonstrate that a single structure, schematized as [[… predicate (finite/adnominal)] Noun], represents a wide range of semantic relations between the head noun and the dependent clause, encompassing some that would be expressed by structurally distinct constructions such as relative clauses, noun complement clauses, and other types of complex noun phrases in other languages, such as English. In that way, the Japanese NMCC demonstrates a clear case of the general noun-modifying construction (GNMCC), that is, an NMCC that has structural uniformity across interpretations that extend beyond the range of relative clauses.
One of the notable properties of the Japanese NMCC is that the modifying clause may consist only of the predicate, reflecting the fact that referential density is moderate in Japanese—arguments of a predicate are not required to be overtly expressed either in the main clause or in the modifying clause. Another property of the Japanese NMCC is that there is no explicit marking in the construction that indicates the grammatical or semantic relation between the head noun and the modifying clause. The two major constituents are simply juxtaposed to each other.
Successful construal of the intended interpretations of instances of such a construction, in the absence of explicit markings, likely relies on an aggregate of structural, semantic, and pragmatic factors, including the semantic content of the linguistic elements, verb valence information, and the interpreter's real-world knowledge, in addition to the basic structural information.
Researchers with different theoretical approaches have studied Japanese NMCCs or subsets thereof. Syntactic approaches, inspired by generative grammar, have focused mostly on relative clauses and aimed to identify universally recognized syntactic principles. Studies that take the descriptive approach have focused on detailed descriptions and the classification of a wide spectrum of naturally occurring instances of the construction in Japanese. The third and most recent group of studies has emphasized the importance of semantics and pragmatics in accounting for a wide variety of naturally occurring instances.
The examination of Japanese NMCCs provides information about the nature of clausal noun modification and affords insights into languages beyond Japanese, as similar phenomena have reportedly been observed crosslinguistically to varying degrees.
Polarity in the Semantics of Natural Language
Anastasia Giannakidou
This paper provides an overview of polarity phenomena in human languages. There are three prominent paradigms of polarity items: negative polarity items (NPIs), positive polarity items (PPIs), and free choice items (FCIs). What they all have in common is that they have limited distribution: they cannot occur just anywhere, but only inside the scope of licenser, which is negation and more broadly a nonveridical licenser, PPIs, conversely, must appear outside the scope of negation. The need to be in the scope of a licenser creates a semantic and syntactic dependency, as the polarity item must be c-commanded by the licenser at some syntactic level. Polarity, therefore, is a true interface phenomenon and raises the question of well-formedness that depends on both semantics and syntax.
Nonveridical polarity contexts can be negative, but also non-monotonic such as modal contexts, questions, other non-assertive contexts (imperatives, subjunctives), generic and habitual sentences, and disjunction. Some NPIs and FCIs appear freely in these contexts in many languages, and some NPIs prefer negative contexts. Within negative licensers, we make a distinction between classically and minimally negative contexts. There are no NPIs that appear only in minimally negative contexts.
The distributions of NPIs and FCIs crosslinguistically can be understood in terms of general patterns, and there are individual differences due largely to the lexical semantic content of the polarity item paradigms. Three general patterns can be identified as possible lexical sources of polarity. The first is the presence of a dependent variable in the polarity item—a property characterizing NPIs and FCIs in many languages, including Greek, Mandarin, and Korean. Secondly, the polarity item may be scalar: English any and FCIs can be scalar, but Greek, Korean, and Mandarin NPIs are not. Finally, it has been proposed that NPIs can be exhaustive, but exhaustivity is hard to precisely identify in a non-stipulative way, and does not characterize all NPIs. NPIs that are not exhaustive tend to be referentially vague, which means that the speaker uses them only if she is unable to identify a specific referent for them.
Agustín Vicente and Ingrid L. Falkum
Polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon whereby a single word form is associated with two or several related senses. It is distinguished from monosemy, where one word form is associated with a single meaning, and homonymy, where a single word form is associated with two or several unrelated meanings. Although the distinctions between polysemy, monosemy, and homonymy may seem clear at an intuitive level, they have proven difficult to draw in practice.
Polysemy proliferates in natural language: Virtually every word is polysemous to some extent. Still, the phenomenon has been largely ignored in the mainstream linguistics literature and in related disciplines such as philosophy of language. However, polysemy is a topic of relevance to linguistic and philosophical debates regarding lexical meaning representation, compositional semantics, and the semantics–pragmatics divide.
Early accounts treated polysemy in terms of sense enumeration: each sense of a polysemous expression is represented individually in the lexicon, such that polysemy and homonymy were treated on a par. This approach has been strongly criticized on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Since at least the 1990s, most researchers converge on the hypothesis that the senses of at least many polysemous expressions derive from a single meaning representation, though the status of this representation is a matter of vivid debate: Are the lexical representations of polysemous expressions informationally poor and underspecified with respect to their different senses? Or do they have to be informationally rich in order to store and be able to generate all these polysemous senses?
Alternatively, senses might be computed from a literal, primary meaning via semantic or pragmatic mechanisms such as coercion, modulation or ad hoc concept construction (including metaphorical and metonymic extension), mechanisms that apparently play a role also in explaining how polysemy arises and is implicated in lexical semantic change.
Eva Hajičová
In the linguistic literature, the term theme has several interpretations, one of which relates to discourse analysis and two others to sentence structure. In a more general (or global) sense, one may speak about the theme or topic (or topics) of a text (or discourse), that is, to analyze relations going beyond the sentence boundary and try to identify some characteristic subject(s) for the text (discourse) as a whole. This analysis is mostly a matter of the domain of information retrieval and only partially takes into account linguistically based considerations. The main linguistically based usage of the term theme concerns relations within the sentence. Theme is understood to be one of the (syntactico-) semantic relations and is used as the label of one of the arguments of the verb; the whole network of these relations is called thematic relations or roles (or, in the terminology of Chomskyan generative theory, theta roles and theta grids). Alternatively, from the point of view of the communicative function of the language reflected in the information structure of the sentence, the theme (or topic) of a sentence is distinguished from the rest of it (rheme, or focus, as the case may be) and attention is paid to the semantic consequences of the dichotomy (especially in relation to presuppositions and negation) and its realization (morphological, syntactic, prosodic) in the surface shape of the sentence. In some approaches to morphosyntactic analysis the term theme is also used referring to the part of the word to which inflections are added, especially composed of the root and an added vowel.
Type Theory for Natural Language Semantics
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Robin Cooper
Type theory is a regime for classifying objects (including events) into categories called types. It was originally designed in order to overcome problems relating to the foundations of mathematics relating to Russell's paradox. It has made an immense contribution to the study of logic and computer science and has also played a central role in formal semantics for natural languages since the initial work of Richard Montague building on the typed λ-calculus. More recently, type theories following in the tradition created by Per Martin-Löf have presented an important alternative to Montague's type theory for semantic analysis. These more modern type theories yield a rich collection of types which take on a role of representing semantic content rather than simply structuring the universe in order to avoid paradoxes.


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PCMag notes that Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son revealed in an interview with the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, John Roos, that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was working on Apple's next big product up until the day before his passing.
"I visited Apple for the announcement of the iPhone 4S [at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California]. When I was having a meeting with Tim Cook, he said, 'Oh Masa, sorry I have to quit our meeting.' I said, 'Where are you going?' He said, 'My boss is calling me.' That was the day of the announcement of the iPhone 4S. He said that Steve is calling me because he wants to talk about their next product. And the next day, he died."
Really, could it have been otherwise?
Source: PCMag

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I don't currently own a Blazer but I am poised to jump at a decent late model 2 door, 2 wheel drive. In the mean time I do my best to keep my pickup on the road and make the payments on the hatchback.
2000 GMC Sierra 1500 4x4. Just clicked over 80K miles.
This is how it sits now. Lowered 2/5 to level it and painted the tire letters red. Nothing too fancy.
This is my goal on how I want it to look. I can't photoshop metal flake paint so image that, too.
Ridin' rails hauling pea gravel.
The "before" picture from when I got it.
I also have a '17 Subaru Impreza that my wife drives. We saved up so we could get one that is totally loaded. We special ordered it to get exactly what we wanted (every bell and whistle minus the add-on plastic pieces).
So what are you guys driving these days?


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Brunchbox Food Cart
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- Food Stands, Burgers, American (Traditional)
Tucked into the chaos of the food carts at SW 5th Avenue & Stark, you'll find Brunchbox, which is grilling up beef, turkey and veggie burgers and sandwiches that your eyes may not believe, but your mouth certainly will.Dining al fresco is always such a treat. You get to enjoy your food among the outdoors, the clear blue sky is your ceiling, the city-scapes are your walls. Thanks to the absolute explosion of food carts in Portland in the past few years, outside dining is always an option. Tucked into the chaos of the food carts at SW 5th Avenue & Stark, you'll find Brunchbox, grilling up burgers and sandwiches that your eyes may not believe, but your mouth certainly will.
Brunchbox's owner, Derek, gets to work in the little food cart, flipping and grilling and seasoning. In a matter of minutes, what emerges is one mouth-stretching, eye popping creation called YouCanHasCheeseburger. It's a hamburger patty with all the fixings between two Texas-toast grilled cheese sandwiches. Yes, you read that right. The buns are grilled cheese sandwiches. If that's not crazy enough for you, feast your eyes and mouth upon the Redonkadonk. It is indeed redonkulous — a hamburger patty topped with American cheese, fried egg, ham, Spam and bacon, packed between, you guessed it, two Texas-toast grilled cheeses. In addition to the regulars on the menu, there's a rotating weekly special featuring inventive burgers like The Burgermeister – two beef patties, two slices of American cheese, lettuce, grilled onion, pickles and Thousand Island on a three-piece bun.
It's called Brunchbox because breakfast and lunch are served all day, and if you need to ease in to being awake with something a little lighter than a burger/grilled cheese combo, turn to the Black & Bleu Breakfast Sandwich — a stack of fried egg, sausage, bacon, grilled onions, blackening spice and bleu cheese on Texas toast. And if you need to run and eat, that's fine, because everything at Brunchbox is made to go. Whether "going" is back to the office or to one of the nearby benches to munch on your meal as you watch the TriMet glide by, is up to you.
Menu Highlights:
Omelet Sandwich, $4
OMG Breakfast Sandwich, $6.50
Black & Bleu Breakfast Sandwich, $5.50
YouCanHasCheeseburger, $6
Redonkadonk, $10
Trial by Fire, $5.50
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It is a popular view among pundits that Flytrap has entered what they like to call its "endgame." But I think the scandal has moved into a very different phase: the Baroque.
Here's what I mean. Flytrap as a journalistic enterprise is in a holding pattern. Everyone is waiting–for leaks about Monica Lewinsky's testimony, for the DNA tests, for Clinton's grand jury day. There is a vacuum of genuinely new information.
Punditry abhors a vacuum. So, in the absence of news, journalists and analysts are concocting ever more ornate theories to explain what could be happening, sculpting the long available info into gaudy new patterns. Some of these theories are based on intelligent guesswork. Some belong to the "I have a friend who has a friend who talked to the president who said …" school. Some are malicious rumor. Some are wishful thinking. Some may even have a tenuous relationship to an actual fact. But, at bottom, all are founded on essentially the same knowledge base: none.
The result: spectacular theories, tales decorated with filigree and gilded rosettes and stucco clouds. Since these may be the final few days before real new facts about Flytrap emerge, let's take a last chance to revel in the Baroque. Having spent the past few days collecting theories from colleagues, sources, and other scandalholics, I offer you a few of the best (divided into appropriate categories).
The "She Still Loves Him" Theories
1) The main source of leaks about the dress, the answering machine messages, the talking points, and Monica's testimony is none other than Monica herself (through her lawyers). Why would she leak? Because she still adores him, and she wants to signal him about how he can protect himself when he testifies.
2) Monica is testifying only because she wants to force Clinton to admit their love affair to the world.
3) The dress is a sham. There are no stains. Monica gave it to Starr to discredit his investigation and save Clinton.
Other Theories About the Dress Not Contingent on Monica Loving Him
1) Monica, ever imaginative, bragged about the dress to Linda Tripp even though it was just an ordinary dress. When Starr negotiated with her, he asked about it. Monica then used the dress as a bargaining chip to guarantee her full immunity, even though she knew there was nothing on it. Since she has full immunity, it doesn't hurt her if it's bogus.
2) There is semen on the dress, but it's not Clinton's. Monica, in her usual mendacious way, lied to Tripp about it.
3) FBI agents leaked the existence of the dress as a favor to Secret Service agents. They wanted to signal the agents that there is plenty of damning evidence of an affair, so that the agents would know not to lie to protect Clinton.
Wag the Dog Theories
There are, believe it or not, four separate scenarios suggesting that Clinton may use a war abroad to distract attention from his war at home. Kosovo, Iraq (thanks to artfully timed obstinacy by Saddam Hussein), and India-Pakistan are subjects of the widest speculation. My favorite Wag the Dog target is St. Kitts, a Caribbean island where a local drug dealer (Charles "Little Nut" Miller) has threatened to murder American students at the island's veterinary school if the United States tries to extradite him. St. Kitts = Clinton's Grenada.
The Hillary Theories
1) Clinton wants to apologize but is afraid to because he never told Hillary about Monica. (She did not mind his Gennifer Flowers affair, because she knew about it.) Clinton fears she will hate/divorce/abandon/kill him if he admits the affair.
2) Very similar to "Hillary Theory 1": Hillary won't let him apologize because she has spent so much of her own credibility defending him ("vast right-wing conspiracy," etc.). She refuses to be made to look like a gullible fool.
The Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory
Lewinsky belonged to a devious, long-term Republican conspiracy with, as one advocate of the theory puts it, "instructions to orally seduce the president in order to assure positive transfer of his semen (positive proof of sexual acts) on an article of her clothing." Thus she kept the dress, knowing that her affair was going to be made public by her good friend Linda Tripp months later, and she would have a chance to produce the dress as evidence.
The Non-Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory
Last fall (months before her existence was revealed to the public), a Secret Service officer warned Bob Dole to avoid a neighbor in the Watergate named Monica Lewinsky. The officer told Dole that Lewinsky and Clinton had had an affair and that Dole should take special care not to be seen or photographed with her, because it would lend credence to theories that the affair is a right-wing conspiracy and that Monica was a bimbo plant.
The Mea Culpa Theories
1) The White House has already contacted the networks to reserve television time (on either Aug. 16 or Aug. 17) for a Clinton apology.
2) White House staffers, including Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, are contacting members of Congress to see how they would react to a mea culpa.
The Internal Dissent Theories
1) A corollary to "Mea Culpa 2" above. White House staffers are not contacting members of Congress about a mea culpa, but they are leaking the story that they are contacting members. They are doing this to pressure Clinton to apologize. They must use the media and rumor to communicate with the president, because they are not allowed to talk to him about Flytrap directly.
2) Bruce Lindsey is about to turn on Clinton to save himself. Or, more plausibly, Lindsey just had back surgery in order to delay his testimony. Now he won't testify till after Clinton, giving Lindsey a chance to mold his story to support the president.
Some of the conspiracies are so peculiar, so much the product of an alien genius that they can't be categorized. These come untouched from the inky void of Flytrap, both courtesy of Slate readers:
1) The Starr investigation is not focusing on Lewinsky and obstruction of justice. It is really concerned with White House drug use. Tripp testified for eight days, because she was providing evidence about narcotics.
2) Clinton is not planning either to apologize or to fight the Lewinsky allegations. In fact, having implemented his entire political agenda and revived the economy, he is preparing to resign.
Remember what comes after the Baroque era: the Enlightenment.
A final note on another subject. During her 20 second press briefing (that's a briefing!) last night, Lewinsky spokeswoman Judy Smith offered this absurd bit of one-upmanship. Monica, declared Smith, testified "truthfully, completely, and honestly."
Why is this significant? Clinton, you see, promised only to testify "completely and truthfully." What about "honestly," Mr. President?


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Harry Potter Among All-Time Coolest Pop Culture Heroes from Entertainment Weekly
Mar 27, 2009
UPDATE: You can see the cover of the EW magazine, which features a newer photo of Dan Radcliffe as Harry and an old photo of Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort here in our galleries.
Entertainment Weekly has released a new list which ranks their Twenty All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture. Among the list of Pop Culture Heroes is none other than The Boy Who Lived, Harry Potter, who is ranked in fourth place. The young wizard joins the ranks of such other heroes as Dirty Harry, Captain James T. Kirk, Spider-Man, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Indiana Jones, and James Bond. Entertainment Weekly writes the following of the character of Mr. Potter:
WHY HIM: Orphaned, cast out, and in the throes of adolescent hormonal revolt, J.K. Rowling's boy wizard (played by Daniel Radcliffe on screen) is the embodiment of the corny bumper sticker: Why be normal?
MOST HEROIC MOVE: Obliterating Voldemort by deploying his secret weapons: love, loyalty, and the good ol' Expelliarmus.
BIGGEST WEAKNESS: Misses his mommy and daddy.
You can view the complete list of Pop Culture Heroes via this link.
Update 2: Thanks to TLC reader Lara, we received word (and scan, available in our galleries) that the recently published issue of Entertainment Weekly featured another listing, ranking the Twenty Scariest Villains. Evil Lord Voldemort made the list at number eight, with EW saying the following of Tom Riddle:
WHY HIM: Cruel with no hope of redemption, Harry Potter's nemesis (Ralph Fiennes in the films) is an old-school unrepentant, power-hungry, control-freak. But his loathing for anyone who doesn't meet his definition of "normal" is utterly of the moment.
MOST EVIL MOVE: Killing Harry's parents.
BIGGEST WEAKNESS: Motherly love.
Thanks to Jodi for mailing!


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Rcarnegie necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 100 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
MAETL (Manitoba Association of Education Technology Leaders)
MAETL membership consists of educational technology leaders and technical coordinators employed by the various School Districts in the Province of Manitoba, Canada.
With a recent name change, a new logo is required to replace the dated logo from the association's past. The logo will be used to represent the association in both our private and public facing portal/website as well in correspondence with other provincial entities.
The logo will appear on the private and public facing association SharePoint portal as well as association correspondence. The target audience will consist of association member's as well as other government agencies related to technology and education.
We are looking for a logo to represent our provincial association, MAETL (Manitoba Association of Education Technology Leaders).
The logo must include the MAETL acronym as well as the full name of the association.
We would like to see a bold, futuristic or "techy" typeface for the MAETL acronym.
The association's full name, Manitoba Association of Education Technology Leaders, should also appear in a clear, easy to read, sans serif typeface as part of the logo.
The logo should be clean and simple, nothing too busy or elaborate.
Feel free to experiment with colors. We are not tied to any particular color scheme.
Other items to consider:
- The logo should express the idea of connectivity.
- The outline of our province should be incorporated into the design of the logo. For reference, our province looks like this: http://manitobawildlands.org/maps/M…s_2004.jpg
- Our previous logo looks like this: http://www.maetl.mb.ca/
- No cartoons or stock photography.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg
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March 25, 2011
Seniors David Birrer and Evan Rhinesmith both posted fast times in Friday morning's preliminary round of the 2011 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championship meet. Birrer posted the 12th-quickest time in the 200 butterfly, while Rhinesmith was the 11th fastest swimmer in the 100 breaststroke trials.
With both swimmers advancing to Friday evening's finals, they will become the first All-Americans for the Wabash program since Tony Caldwell and Adam Petro earned the honor at the 2007 meet.
Birrer completed the 200-yard butterfly in 1:50.93, well ahead of his initial qualifying time of 1:51.32. Patri Augustyn of Emory posted the fastest time of the morning session with a mark of 1:47.59.
Rhinesmith touched the wall in 56.77 in the 100-yard breaststroke prelims. Rory Buck from Whitworth had the fastest time in the event of 54.34.
Birrer and Rhinesmith are both competing for the second consecutive year at the NCAA national championship event.
Live results from the meet are available here. The Friday finals from the Allan Jones Aquatic Center in Knoxville, Tennessee begin at 6 p.m.


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Michael Wong needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Cohesive Minds / COHESIVE MINDS (open to either)
We are looking for an original, modern, fun logo that will be used on our new company blog and business cards (design open to winner).
We are a brand new digital apps start-up company specializing in creating online digital applications that offer a fantastic user experience for online users.
We are a small 3 person company with big dreams of creating digital apps that offer a fantastic user experience. We also like to have fun, and help those less fortunate than us.
The logo should appeal to active 18 to 49 year old, male and female (majority), online users who actively use the internet.
Our first product is a niche price comparison website to help 25-34 year old females (majority of users) save time and money. Having said that, don't just think 'time' or 'money' with the design concept. This is just the nature of our first product. We will probably branch out into other niches in future products.
Try Cohesive Minds and COHESIVE MINDS.
The logo will be used on our company blog, using this theme, possibly a lighter shade of gray. So, the logo must look good on a dark background, but also on a white background if we decide to change the design.
The logo will also be used on our business cards, so must also look clear and sharp in print.
The name came from the fact that the company is about connecting people.
To give you some direction, we are looking for an original, modern, contemporary look, so think 'young', 'fun', 'modern', and 'digital'.
We like clever yet simple logos, like these examples:
That doesn't mean the logo has to look like those examples. We are open to all original creative designs.
Feel free to experiment with bright and bold colors for a fun look.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .png and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art.
Avoid the dark, mysterious, grunge look; complex designs, colors like lime green, reflections, drop shadows, etc. Keep it clean and simple.
Also avoid the side profile of a head (e.g. cognitivematch.com) because this design is very common. However, if you can come up with a new interesting twist on that concept, then we're open to it.
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The Official Student's Guide To The 0500 English IGCSE Examination
By Daniel Stavisky
Paper 2 question 1
• The passage will be literary and/or contain description of a person or place or both. You will have to be sensitive to atmosphere and show appreciation of the feelings of the characters in your response.
• This question is rewarded not only for identification of relevant material in the passage but also inference, development of the ideas and use of supporting detail. There are therefore four types of content required to show advanced comprehension for a top mark out of 15 for Reading.
• For full marks out of 5 for Writing you need to demonstrate structure, sequence, and 'awide range of original and appropriate language'.
• It will help you enormously to highlight the material you are going to use in the text, andthen write a quick plan in order to organise it into a logical structure before you startwriting your response. This will enable you to avoid repetition and to make sure you arefully answering the question.
• Use everything which is relevant, not just some of the material. On the other hand, theremay be some parts which you should ignore because they are not covered by thequestion.
• Do not drift away from the text; everything you write must have a direct connection with it and be supported by references to it.
• Before you start writing, decide how formal the task is and adopt an appropriate tone.
• Though you can use short quotations from the passage within your response, you should not copy big chunks of text (you may use ellipsis to show where one quotation starts and another ends) and you should use your own words when not actually giving details.
• If the question has several parts you can either integrate the two, e.g. advantages and
disadvantages, or deal with them separately. You can decide on your own structure foryour answer, but what matters is that there should be a structure of some kind, and onewhich the reader can discern.
• What is important is that your answer should be divided into paragraphs, as all
continuous prose should be.
• If you are given bullet points to remind you what should be included, use them to check you have covered what is required, and they can also help you to structure your answer.
The material from the passage should be put into the appropriate section and not
Paper 2 question 2
• The second half of this question will be more demanding than the first. You need to give equal attention to each part and provide at least half a page for each.
• You should aim for 5 relevant quotations in each part of the question. Give the quotation,in quotation marks, explain its meaning, and then explain its effect on the reader. You cannot get higher than 3 marks if you only identify quotations, or higher than 6 marks if you discuss only meanings.
• For 10 out of 10 you should give a full range of explained effects and link them into an overview which shows understanding of what the writer was trying to achieve in the passage as a whole.
• Do not select a quotation which you do not understand as you will not be able to explain either its meaning or its effect.
• When explaining a quotation do not repeat the words used in it. Do not repeat quotations; you cannot get credit more than once.
• Generalised and subjective comments such as 'The writer makes me feel as though I am there' and 'The passage is cleverly written' gain no marks and give the impression that you are failing to find things to say.
-If you do use technical terms, such as onomatopoeia, makesure they are correctly used and that you are able to justify its intended effect.
• Select brief quotations only, of between one and four words. Do not lift whole chunks oftext, or clump quotations together, or list them. Each one must be focused on specific use of language and explained separately.
• Introduce your choices of language with phrases such as 'gives the impression of','suggests that', 'makes me think that.' Do not say over and over again 'This has the effectthat...'
• Once you have arrived at an overview, do not contradict yourself, e.g. do not say that onequotation makes a character seem physically old and another one makes her seemphysically young. This suggests that either the author has 'got it wrong' or you have misread the piece, more likely the latter.
• Things to look for are: use of the five senses; use of contrast; use of colour; use of noise;links between subject and environment; surprising, or unusual words; words which create sound effects; unusual or dramatic punctuation; imagery (similes and metaphors)
Paper 2 question 3
• Though this question is called Summary it is not a summary in the sense of being a general description of a situation but instead it is a focused list of the specific ideas or details contained in the passage, after anything irrelevant to the two questions has been removed.
• Find all the points you can for each part of the question; do not stop when you get to 15 as these may not be the same ones the examiner has on their list. The only way to be sure of getting all 15 Reading marks is to use everything relevant.
• To get all 5 Writing marks you need to show evidence of clear and concise summary style throughout, precise focus and the use of your own words.
• Do not attempt to synthesise the two passages as this is not required, is not rewarded; itmakes your task more difficult to attempt to do so as they may not be directly comparable.
Treat the passages separately and focus on the exact wording of the question.
• Do not give your summary in the wrong form as this is penalised i.e. do not offer bullet points or a list, or write in the first person, or comment on the content ofthe passages, or present a narrative, or use quotation.
• The lengths of the summaries of each passage should be roughly equal.
• Though you must use your own words whenever possible, you do not have to find
synonyms for technical objects e.g. solar conductors.
• Both halves of the question are equally important and should be answered in the same way and given the same length of about half a page.
• Summaries much longer than half a page will be penalised in the Writing mark.
• To be concise enough for summary style and to get in all the points you should use complex sentences containing two or three points in each.
• Do not repeat points, or express them vaguely; (these will be given an R (repetition) or PNM (point not made) respectively in the margin, and discounted.
• There is no need to introduce or conclude a summary, and doing so wastes time and words. Start by using the wording of part of the question e.g. 'The features of the desert were...'
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We were away for the summer and, just reading all of the fan mail, I know you missed us. We moved about the globe and vacationed, (and you did it, too!) but we're back in the cyberslack and it's all true. You wrote it. i-Outlaw 2.7, as you can easily see from the title, features Sheila E. Murphy and her unique blend of poetry that will render you suitable for more, so check the score. We're not leaving without you.
If you're not in the loop, ripping from her Wikipedia entry, Sheila E. Murphy, born in Mishawaka, Indiana, is an American text and visual poet who has been writing and publishing actively since 1978.
Just there, I'll turn to the issue of disjunction, the ultimate expression of freedom in my writing, that is the beginning of discovery. It is almost as though something underneath all the activity pursued actively challenges me to put two things together and to find out how they match. Because, of course, they do. They fit together or at least work together in some way. I may not know how until they are there together. And when they are, and I learn how and maybe even why they fit or match or mutually enhance, then I've begun to learn something that ensures that I'll move forward in some way I do not know until I have.- from an interview on Tom Beckett's e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e-s, 2005.
i-Outlaw version 2.7 also features fine poetry, in order of appearance, by:
Luc Simonic
Jill Chan
CA Conrad
Lenore Weiss
Matina Stamatakis
Joe Green
Christine Hamm
Mathew Timmons
Paula Grenside
Carly Sachs
Spread the word far and wide. Don't forget to enter our contest to win a free book of poetry! I have books by Sheila E. Murphy, Jill Chan, Derek Motion, Jordan Stempleman, Eileen Tabios, Mark Young & Bill Allegrezza. Listen to i-Outlaw now and find out how...


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The RD for Waterval Boven was published in 2004 and I freaked out the other day when I saw my pile of guide books getting smaller and smaller! With well over 600 routes now, an update will be needed and I am slowly [thinking about ] working on it.Question, I have Gustav's Boven RD, although it is some years old. Is there an update or reprint?
For now, use the book together with regular updates on the WIKI (on top of this page next to HOME and FORUM, click on WIKI). We actually just changed the format and updated it (with another 15 or so routes still to be added!). Check it out!


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Arnold School researchers: Technology helps shed pounds
July 12, 2011
Anyone who has ever struggled to stick to a restricted diet knows that willpower alone is rarely a successful offense.
But reinforcements are on the way, in the form of technology.
A group of University of South Carolina researchers at the Arnold School of Public Health has found that incorporating armband technology into weight-loss interventions can help sedentary and overweight individuals shed those unwanted pounds.
The results were published in the online journal, "International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity."
"Changing behavior is one of the hardest things for a person to do," said Dr. Greg Hand, co-director of the Clinical Exercise Program and associate dean for research, and one of the researchers on the nine-month study. "People can stick to a diet, but they've got to change their behavior to keep the weight off."
Hand and colleague Dr. Steve Blair, an exercise science and epidemiology/biostatistics professor, said that technology is a powerful tool because it offers real-time feedback on caloric intake and activity.
"Real-time data can be a powerful motivator," Blair said. "It's hard to argue with the numbers."
Blair and Hand teamed up with five colleagues in the Arnold School's Department of Exercise Science to study 197 sedentary, overweight or obese men and women between the ages of 18 and 65. Sedentary was defined as exercising less than 150 minutes moderately each week.
Essentially, the team wanted to test the effectiveness of the armband technology, which featured a wrist watch with real-time display and access to a personalized web account designed to help manage their weight loss program. While wearing the armband, individuals got real-time feedback on the amount of energy they expended, and they could determine the calories they took in by entering their diet onto the website.
Participants were divided among four groups, each of which followed different weight-loss strategies: One group received a weight-loss manual; a second group received the same manual and participated in group counseling sessions to help them change their diet and physical activity habits; the third was given the manual and the armband; and the fourth received the manual, armband, and the group counseling sessions.
The study found that the group that had access to group sessions and the armband lost the most weight (nearly 15 pounds) and logged improved levels of glucose, triglycerides and lower blood pressure.
The potential for individuals to change behavior via technology is very encouraging, Hand and Blair said.
"Overall, the technology-based intervention with an armband is an effective strategy," Hand said.
Blair and Hand say the real-time data takes the guessing out of caloric intake and physical activity; offers compelling evidence to support or encourage behavioral changes and can be used on mobile devices, offering the potential to shed pounds AND paper.
"Having the numbers in real time makes a huge difference," Blair said. "It can reinforce one's positive behavior immediately, or it can let them know that they need to change their caloric intake and physical activity. Moreover, it takes the guesswork out of dieting and exercise."
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• We publish our first Gay Pride issue, as well as an epic gonzo-style interview with Hunter S. Thompson after two staffers follow the man through six days of chaos. NuCity changes its name to Weekly Alibi on Aug. 9 thanks to threat of legal action by Chicago's New City newspaper, and we throw a party at the Sunshine Theater to celebrate. This includes a satirical "Miss Chicago" beauty contest and an "old-fashioned Chicago-style sausage toss." This proves to be one of our most controversial events, with many Chicagoans claiming there's no such thing as a "sausage toss." Lousy sausage-tossers! The following Monday, 600 "Why I Hate Chicago" postcards are mailed to the New City publisher.
Best Chicano Haiku:
Toltec spirits guard
over cholo street dramas
modern sacrifice
—Rudy Miera, 1995
• Alibi hosts its very first Short Film Fiesta at the Golden West Saloon. More than 100 people gather to watch the dozen or so films presented. Brad Wolfley's "Who is This Bearded Man in My Bed" wins first prize. Wolfley goes on to become a faculty member at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Encouraged by the response, we continue the tradition, moving to larger and larger venues over the next 10 years—including the Lobo Theater, KiMo Theatre and Madstone.
Best Place To Hear Poetry: Salt of the Earth Bookstore, the Dingo (tie)
Best Video Store: Hastings
Best New Restaurant: Yanni's Mediterranean Bar and Grill
Best Smoke-Filled Coffeehouse: Uncommon Grounds
• Pioneering punk/ska/new wave club Beyond Ordinary shuts its doors after five years in Downtown Albuquerque. A funeral procession is held along Central.
• Pixar Animation Studios release the first feature-length computer-animated film, Toy Story.
• The WB network premieres with "urban" sitcoms "The Wayans Brothers," "The Parent 'Hood" and "Sister, Sister." Less than a week later, rival UPN debuts. Its shows "Star Trek: Voyager," "Platypus Man" and "The Sentinal" fail to attract ratings, and Paramount loses more than $800 million by 2000. The WB eventually airs hits like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Dawson's Creek" and "Smallville." By September 2006, however, both networks will go off the air—recombining as The CW.
• Gov. Johnson signs tribal gaming pacts, initiating an era of Las Vegas-style casino gambling.
• The original home of the Internet, National Science Foundation Net, is switched off, thus rendering the information superhighway a commercial enterprise forevermore.
• Jeff Bezos incorporated his online bookstore Cadabra in July of 1994. By the time it goes live in 1995, it has been renamed Amazon.com. Today, selling DVDs, music, video games, electronics and more, the company has an annual revenue of more than $48 billion.
• A truck bomb planted by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols kills 168 people at a federal building in Oklahoma City.
• The city adopts a new slogan: "Good for You, Albuquerque!"


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BRYAN CO., OK -- A historic Texoma landmark is now just pile of charred rubble. A replicated military barracks building on Fort Washita burned to the ground Sunday morning.
"By the time we got here, it was already totally engulfed, there was nothing that we could actually salvage," Tom Atkinson with the Silo Fire Department, said.
Around 7:30am, nearly a dozen fire departments arrived to the Fort Washita historic site.
What was once a two story, replica of a military barracks, has now been reduced to ashes.
"It's just devastating, once people find out what's really happened here. So much history has been involved, in Fort Washita. It's really a sad event," Atkinson, said.
Fire departments were called in from across western Bryan County, after neighbors reported visible flames.
For 23 years, Park Superintendent, Larry Marcy, has worked to keep the site beautiful, as a popular tourist destination, and gathering place for special events.
When he arrived Sunday morning, it was a very different story.
"I was about 5 miles down the road and could see the smoke, and I knew what was going on. By the time I got here, the building was completely engulfed in flames. And part of it had then collapsed," Marcy, said.
The two story building was completed in 1972, and just this past July, received a $45,000 renovation, including new paint and the addition of 19 white pillars.
Staff at the site say, they were preparing to host a group of actors in the barracks for several weekends of military reenactments.
"I know a lot of people are going to be disappointed because this was kind of a landmark, for this part of the country," Marcy, said.
Marcy estimates that the value of the current building was somewhere around $2 million.
Site staff say no one was inside when the fire broke out.
The state fire marshal will continue an investigation a cause.
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Dark Souls 2 Screenshots Might Be The Only Thing You Can Survive From The Game
Dark Souls 2 is on its way and with it comes a bevy of screenshots from the new trailer. The original Dark Souls was a tough, sob-inducing test of will that left many a sadistic player weeping openly, and its sequel looks to do the same.
The game promises to be so tough that we feel weak even looking at these screenshots. Dragons, mysterious masked figures, and a torso full o' arrows seem to be on the menu, so steel thyselves, would-be warriors.
Dark Souls 2 will boast a new storyline, a new character, a new world for players to explore (if they can even get past the early stages of the game), and a new server-based multiplayer mode. From Software, the developers of the game, are hard at work on the game, but publisher Namco Bandai has yet to offer any concrete release dates.
But while you wait, you can watch the trailer below to whet your appetites for the bone-shatteringly difficult title. And check out the screens for a more detailed look at the harshly beautiful world they've created.


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Sharks May Get Black Third Jersey/
The San Jose Sharks held their "State of the Sharks" event on Tuesday night. It's essentially an informational session for fans. Sharks President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Jamison addressed the question of a third jersey for next season.
There is a good chance it will be black. It is still being decided on. I can tell you we get input from the fans, staff and the players. The players were very involved in the jerseys for this year. I think the third jersey will be very neat.
That's the same as the rumors that have been going around, so no big surprise. You can see the rest of the story right here.
Thanks to Ben in Sacramento for the tip.


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d<eds and rarer ofthe bad ones and sing about the happy dry and not about i he sari one . we were not n_ad%to fret and sigh and when grief sleeps to wake it bright happiness is standing by — this life is what we make it let's find the sunny side of men or be believers in il a light there is in every soul that takes the pains to win it o there's the smmberinggood in all and we perchance may wake it our hands contain the magic wand — this lif is what we make it then here 7s to those whose loving hearts shed light and joy ab u them ! thanks be to them for countless srems we ne'er had known v ; hout them o thi should be a happy world to all who may partake it the fault's our own if it is not — this life is what we mai e it the ii & d k r company is be fore the inter-state commission on the chsirge of discriminating against dan ville the company denies the charge typhoid fever is so prevalent in al bany n y as to eall forth a proclama tion from the mayor warning the peo ple to boil the river water used which ii supposed to contain the seeds of the disease dry goods credit guaranty and indemnity co is the title of a new organization in new york with a capi tal of 1,000,000 the design of which is to protect merchants and manufac turers against loss from debts owed to them by customers it is said to 1 e the first organization of the kind in the world thorasis lmgley an innkeeper of dover england is said to be the heaviest 111:111 iu the world being 500 pounds in weight lie is a little over six feet in height and measures eighty inches around the waist he is unable to walk much and does not trust him self in a carriage for fear of breaking the springs he is very temperate in ating and drinking the raleigh xeics and obserrerl says : the acme manufacturing com panv of wilmington lias presented the office of the department of immigra tion with a pine-wool carpet of its own manufacture this carpeting is destin ed to become the most popular hall and office carpet in tlie world there j is nothing like it for neatness dur bility and safety the anarchists of new york with herr most at their head to make in cendiary speeches are likely to get themselves into serious dangers before they stop tlieir mad career new \ ork is an american city notwithstanding the ignorant hord of foreigners crowd ing her streets and lanes and there is i no reason to doubt the will and the ability of the city government to i restrain or kill the crazy anarchists the department of agriculture re ports the corn crop of the country at 1,453,000,000 bushels being an average yield of pj.o bushels per acre cultivat ed the potato yield is 134,000,000 bushels against 103,000,000 last year a very unfavorable report is made of | the tobacco crop and the cotton yield per acre is estimated at three or four per cent less than last year with n arly one per cent increase of area and a total crop estimate of g,3u0,0c0 how to rear a child rev dr talmage considers the sub ject at length from tho v y star there's a big mistake in the school system its all wrong said dr taj inage iu the course of his sermon yes terday morning while addressing a remarkably huge congregation in the brooklyn tabernacle every one of whom listened intenly for the sermon was ti forcible one about the training of : children the text was from 1 sam iv is he fell off from the seat backward by the side of the gate and his neck broke and he died for he was an old man and j heavy this is the story of the end of the old man's life judge eli the blind old man 08 years of age sat at the j gate waiting for news of his boys who were engaged in battle a messenger out of breath arrived and told the old man that the army was defeated and his sons were slain the father fell fainting from his seat and died on the spot it was the last act in a tragedy in which his sons whom he had neg lected were the principals oh what a mistake he had made ! with his children oh the thousands of mistakes that are made daily about the training of children this country is going to be conquered by an army before which all the people will have to jive way it's the great army of chil iren they are marching on day and night whether for good or bad shall be deciiledcd by the way they are brought up all parents and teachers liscuss the ways of training children and upon the right solution depends the fate of nations states and centu ries continuing dr talmage said no ohild ought to study more thun six lours that's enough for any child the other hours of daylight should be for recreation overstudy by this stuf fing machine called school is wrong i know a child that died under this sys tem while saying her multiplication able i wish i could uncover the des tiny of that child of yours there's a great error abroad between laxity and tyranny over a child what a dis gusting thing is a house full of disobe dience in all ages there has been a need for a society for the prevention of cruelty to children many homes have become like john o'groat's who had eight windows ei^ht rooms and eight sides to a table because his children quarreled so some one said to a child : i wonder why that tree is so croked the little child who was ill-treated at home said i suppose it was trod on when it was young children are echoes of their parents continued the preacher a trapper sometimes puts out fire on the plains with fire but vou can't put out fire in a child with fire of your own a surgeon is not cruel when with a firm hand he removes the gangrene childish rage uncheck ed will result in perdition the best way to spoil a child is to fill him up with confectionery god in the disposition of your child indicates how you are to govern him don't say '[ wish this child was like my neighbor's don't you know that some of the brightest men had a poor childhood john wesley's kiss of a child on the pulpit stairs turnel a man from a profligate to an evangelist how much would you give for a cargo in a leaky ship what's the use of a great brain in an exalted body owning all the thunderbolt of jupiter a child or man may be two weak to get out of an arm chair washington spelled bat hatt and ream rheam bat he spelled out the freedom of america and that's enough for any one man to do there's something uecaaaary bendea the dead languages education is either a great good or great evil with fire uncontrolled half a city becomes a charred city better a wicked dunce than a wicked philoso pher scorille haines mcculiough was an ideal boy he could run like a deer he was full of laughter romp and whistle a thorough boy but a christian don't put a straight jacket on a child those young shoulders are too young to carry a burden oh jo>l bless those young hearts l.'on't be grudge them their fun they'll have enough trouble by and bv vou might as well try to make a sky full of rob ins quiet or make a field full of lambs walk like old sheep jo out and help them trundle a hoop or tly a kite vou remember something you heard when 0 years old a boy sits still and lis f ens to your conversation vou think he doesn't understand but he does the first seven years decide what that child will be fill a bushel with good corn and there's no room for husks glorious alfred cookman was converted at 10 years of age he knelt by himself in a corner and said pre cious jesus you are saving others why not save me isaac watts the great christian poet was converted at ( j years of age oh for a generation of good men and women fathers and mothers you are deciding wh t her they shall come forth good or bad we can't deceive ourselves it's not so much what we teach them but what we are in the brocken in ger many tlie legend is that people see their own specter in the clouds the first thing to do is to get ourselves fit to be copied train up a child in the way he should go and when he's old he'll not depart from it new cotton factory the way it was secured from the raleigh news-observer the town of mooresville in iredell county is to have a cotton factory the citizens of that town have gone to work and with the assistance of state immigration agent j t patrick have secured it some time since mr pat rick originated and adopted a plan bv which any town or city in the state can easily secure any kind of a factory it may want and the real live towns art taking advantage of it the plan has been published before it is about as follows : mr patrick is in almost daily cor respondence with factory men and capi talists vl o desire to come to this state to make investments but the capital ists naturally want some encourage ment and evidence of good will mr patrick's jm is to determine by en juirv what kind of factory would be ' most profitable in a certian place if { he citizens want the factory and if so iow much they want it he has had nepared blank forms or this ptirp i?o which may be explained as follows : it has l>een determined that is a good location for a cotton factory the citizens of have declared they would like a factory in their town but they do not wish to invest large ! amounts in one as they know nothing i about the business but some are ivil-j liug to make donations in order that the factory may be established in the town the form sets forth that the citizens of such town will give one-half acre of land for the site of the factory ami will also give certain amounts in money each ranging from 10 to any amount they subscribe their names and write down the amounts they pro pose to give this list is returned to mr patrick who submits it to some company seeking investments and points out the inducements ottered by the town of . of course cottoii j factories would not be paying institu tions in every place but a different kind of factory might be badly needed in some town a canning factory in another a spoke and handle factory in another an iron foundry in another and so on for every industry of this and many other kinds competent men are seeking locations with the lists which mr patrick proposes to make up he can show anybody a desirable field for any manufacturing enterprise and show just what kind of a reception and how much encouragement will be given to the enterprise he is always in correspondence with parties who de sire such information and who will act on obtaining it one of these blanks was sent to the town of mooresville and the citizens at once agreed to invest about 20,000 in a cotton factory and that amount has been subscribed this list was sub mitted by mr patrick to messrs god fred & co of providence it i and they will at once put in all necessary machinery for a first-class cotton fac tory and commence operations similar measures for establih'ng various other kind of factories in the state are in progress all of which will probably result in the building of vari ous industrial enterprises general lee's bible carried to maike by a union soldier and recovea'ki 1jy advertising twenty-five years ago a regiment of maine soldiers were encamped on ar lington heights and the boys under standing that anything belonging to the rebels was common property and therefore might be comfiscated ran sacked the old l'.'e mansion prettv thoroughly they captured o!<l pipes and wines and pictures and everything that was portable of course they did not need many of these things swell articles which hud belonged to general lee had a peculiar interest and were very desirable one soldier who arriv ed late after the desirable ariiles had been taken found the old family bible and sent it down east to his home in maine there were bibles in maine but none like this after the war was over this soldier returned home and found to his surprise that the bible contained all the usual ingredients including the ten commandments aid apocrypha but in addition to these between the old and new testaments was a complete fantily record giving the history of the lee family for the last 200 years the soldier was sorry that he had taken the book but too proud to ae aowledge the fault and so he held his peace in the meantime biographers were at work on the life of general lee and certain dates regarding the birth and marriage of his ancestors were wanting it an old family bible could be found it would afford the necessary information advertisements wcr in serted in all the papers and by and by came a letter from maine saving the bible was in the possession of a soldier's widow who would gladly restore it to the owner before the property could be recovered however the widow died and then came another long wait until the estate was settled but at last the book was fully identified and turned nver to a me.ssenger.who passed through boston recently carrying it back to its old place at arlington heights the foolish act of a boy soldier has hinder ed the completion of an important historical work for years but the bible is at hist restored to its owner and the biographer can now complete his task boston record the new french riflo the l"bel rifle the new arm with which the french infantry will e sup plied before next spring is smaller and lighter than the rifles now in use it will carry its bullet more than a mile and a half and with a more certain aim than has been possible with ordinary rihv the bore of the gun h very small and the ball which is of steel and sharply pointed at < 1 1 1 o end i ai<i to revolve at a speed of 1,000 revo u t ions a second in the tests made by the french government this bullet has penetrated a brick wall eight inches thick at a distance of 500 yards it will go through any kind of arn.or which can be worn by soldiers and at a dis tance of more than a mile will p«ss through a man as easily as at ten paces the lebel g:in is of course a repeater and the cartridges are so small that each soldier carries 220 rounds of ammuni tion as against 110 rounds formerly considered the maximum yric }'<>,■/;' eccning post words of wisdom trials wear us into a liking of what possibly in the iirst essay displeased us poorness of menu rv every one co - i plains of but nobody of the want of ; judgment he who thinks too much of himself will be in danger of being forgotten bv the rest of tiie world a man must be excessively stupid r.s well as uncharitable who believes there is no virtue but on his own side those that jilace their hope in an other world have in a great measure couquered dread of death and unrea sonable love of life life often seems like a long ship wreck of which the debris are friend 1 ship glory and love the shores of ex istence are strewn with them the heart is a small thing but de sireth great matters it is not suffi cient for a kite's dinner yet the whole world is not sufficient for it if doing what ought to be done be made tlie first business and success a secondary consideration is not this the way to exalt virtue no soul was ever lost because its fresh beginning broke down but thou sands of souls have been lost because they would not make fresh l^ginnings death does not destroy but catches crystalizes and makes permanent the character of a good map leaving it a priceless bequest to societv it seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thor oughly alive there are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger after them early rising not only gives 113 more life in the same number of our years but adds likewise to their number and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same measure of time but increases also the measure costly violins in an office building uptown victor fiecher has his quarters there he sells the finest and costliest old violins that are sold in america amateurs who collect old fiddles know him well and enormous juices are paid by them for the instruments he makes a specialty of buying and selling a man from the far west bought a stradivarus for 2,500 the other afternoon and in the course of his purchase played a snatch of a tune on it his playing was execrable i rtever heard worse from a street musician 1 remarked on this to the dealer and he replied smil ing : the costliest violins belong to the men who have least skill in playing them that is one of the curiosities of the trade those who collect violins are rarely master performers on them they buy for the sake of having men who can play the violin do not invest fortur.es in instruments they buy a good as they can afford for themselves and do their best with it this collection of fiddles is by the way a curious craze i knew a man in london who had it very badly he owned dozens of violins and had each put by in a special glass case on the wall of his study along with a little booh containing its history written by himself and the documents that authenticated it he also had a hue collection of bows he would start off at an hour's notice for russia or america to get hold of a prize violin and the only tune he could play through was - yankee doodle which is the easiest o e to learn on the violin mr joseph w . draxel owns i believe the finest collection of violins in new york which probably means america but he is far from a brilliant performer on them — neic york news better than a hero what a coward that major smith is s;iid jones to robinson whv tl.e v rv sight of gun-powder would mak him ill how did lie ever manage to become an officer in the army don't say anything against smith answered robinson u he oncesavrd my life saved your life ! nonsense impossible what do you mean i mean that i was in the first stages of consumption i was losing strength and vitality every day with the terrible disease when smith advised me to take dr pierce'sgi men medical disc-oven i had tried all kinds of medicines with out s'iccos ind my physician had given me no hope yet here i am as well as cv.-r a man was and i owe my life to smith and to the wonderful remedy he recommended <»^^^*- ■we count words as nothing vet eter nity depen != up n them the best medical writers claim that the successful remedy for nasal catarrh must be non-irritating ea^v of applica tion and one that will by its own ac tion reach all the remote sores and ulcerated surfaces tin histoiy of the effoits to treat catarrh luring the past few years obliges us to admit that ouly one remedy lias completely met these condition and that is ely's cr.ain balm this safe and pleasant remedy has mastered catarrh as nothing else has ever done and both physicians and patients freely concede this fact the more distressing symptoms queklj yield to it
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the carolina watchman 70l xix.-third series salisbury n c thursday november 24 1887 no 5 thoroughly cleanse tlio blond which •-; ho fountain of health by using dr plcree's gold en medical discovery m


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One of the best things about making a new quilt can be trying out a new technique. Whether it's applique, half square triangles, or wonky crosses, learning new ways to piece together fabric is always a thrill.
This week, we'll be looking at 7 quilts, each of which uses a different and specific piecing technique. In lieu of a Tutorials Roundup at the end of the week, I'll be linking to a related tutorial with each featured quilt, starting with my introduction.
The photos in this post are of my Mod Mosaic with Giant Bees quilt. You can find a tutorial for making blocks like these on my blog here. If you're interested in using Mod Mosaic or any other blocks to make a similar two-sided quilt with floating blocks, I have a tutorial for that here.
Welcome to the Week of Techniques!


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MikesterH avait besoin d'un nouveau design de logo et a lancé un concours sur 99designs.
Un gagnant a été sélectionné de 60 designs proposés par 28 designers freelance.
Waukegan Community Players, A 53 yr old community theater group in Waukegan, Illinois, needs a simple, yet modern logo that will reproduce well in various situations (eg: web, print ads, posters, business cards, letterhead..etc)
Waukegan Community Players
Desired Style:
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
The Waukegan Community Players have been around for 53 years, and although they've used a few different logos over the years (mostly clip art), they've never had one uniform logo that they've used universally. I'd like to change that - with your help.
The Color Scheme is up to you, but do keep in mind the need to convert to B&W, and grayscale.
I feel that "comedy/tragedy" masks have been way overused, but I dont have any ideas on what else would convey a theater group so clearly, if you use them, please make them clean & unique.
Some samples of whats being used right now are available at http://www.waukegancommunityplayers…o_samples/
... but please dont let those limit your creativity.
Desired logo will contain the verbage "Waukegan Community Players, no tagline or slogan, A logo that can be shortened to just "WCP" would be appreciated, since sometimes the need for a smaller logo arises. (like on ticket stubs, etc...)
Something that's clean and modern, "maybe" web2.0-ish, that also reminds of the groups heritage and longevity is desired.
I realize that my needs are vague and I may be asking alot for the prize offered, but this is coming out of my own pocket as charity for the group.
Savoir comment fonctionne un concours de design ou en savoir plus sur nos services de design de logo.


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From NPR and WNYC this is ASK ME ANOTHER. I'm Ophira Eisenberg and you might want to grab a snack because in this hour we're serving up some of our favorite games that have to do with food. It's like "The Hunger Games" except with fewer violent murders and more terrible puns. Joining me on this culinary puzzle adventure is the man who's always cooking with fire, our one-man house band, Jonathan Coulton.
JONATHAN COULTON: Yes. And, Ophira, I have to apologize for it being so hot in here. I don't know why I brought my grill.
EISENBERG: Is that - are you a barbecuer? Is that why you travel with your grill and guitar?
COULTON: Well, I'm always cooking with fire so I need to have my grill with me at all times. That's right.
EISENBERG: Do you have a favorite food, like something that one would make you on a special occasion that you dream of?
COULTON: Oh, yeah. Like my go-to special food?
EISENBERG: Yeah. Your go-to special food.
COULTON: Yeah, yeah. Cereal.
EISENBERG: Cereal. Oh, like are you a special cereal, like, handmade muesli with almond milk or something like that?
COULTON: No. No, just breakfast cereal out of a box. Any kind of box cereal is fine. It's delicious. Honestly, it's the perfect way to start a day.
EISENBERG: Oh, yeah. Just right out of the box. Breakfast of champions.
COULTON: That's right. And it's also the perfect way to start a show, which is why we have dug way back into our archives to bring you something from our raw pilot season.
EISENBERG: Ooh, raw.
COULTON: Raw. Puzzle guru Noah Tarnow leads us in a poetic game called Breakfast Cereal Haikus.
EISENBERG: We have Adam Hussein.
ADAM HUSSEIN: Hello.
EISENBERG: And Karla Devries.
KARLA DEVRIES: Hi.
EISENBERG: Hello. So Karla, I am told through my intense research department that you work at the Met Museum. That is my favorite job on the planet that I can imagine.
DEVRIES: I do, yes.
EISENBERG: That - so what do you do at the Met?
DEVRIES: I work on the jewelry that goes in the gift shop.
EISENBERG: Oh, nice.
DEVRIES: Yeah, fun.
EISENBERG: Everyone's like ooh, what's your discount? Yeah.
DEVRIES: Yeah, it's good.
EISENBERG: And what's your favorite thing about working at the Met? Any - do you get to go behind the scenes or...
DEVRIES: I do, lots of behind the scenes. I've gotten to touch real artwork, very exciting.
EISENBERG: I thought you're not supposed to do that.
DEVRIES: Yeah, you're not. But behind the scenes, everyone's touching things, yeah.
EISENBERG: You can do whatever you want. Everyone's like, licking?
DEVRIES: Yeah. Yeah.
EISENBERG: Have you ever licked Van Gogh's ear before? And Adam Hussein. Hello, Adam.
HUSSEIN: Hello.
EISENBERG: Now I'm really into this idea that you have a crazy hobby.
HUSSEIN: I do. I do aerial dance. There's a workout space in Bushwick, called House of Yes, where I go. And it's a three-stories-high ceiling, and we attach fabric to the ceiling and climb up. It's a great workout and occasionally, I get to fall from the top, rolling down and dancing up there.
EISENBERG: That sounds crazy. Do you have a special move; like, that's the Adam Hussein move?
HUSSEIN: Yes, the double-ankle drop.
EISENBERG: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm familiar.
HUSSEIN: You just - you wrap both your ankles together, and you just sort of let go, like you were on a bungee cord, but you're just sort of snapping back.
EISENBERG: Good, you guys are - you're risk takers, which makes you good quiz people, especially for this next quiz, because it is about haikus - or has to do with haikus.
NOAH TARNOW: Adam and Karla, I don't know if either of you have ever studied at a Shinto Buddhist temple in Japan.
COULTON: Who hasn't?
TARNOW: But if you have, it might come in handy, because this game is called Breakfast Cereal Haiku. If you know - or if you don't know, a haiku is a classic Japanese-style poem of three lines, exactly 17 syllables: five, seven and five.
Now, I am going to read to you some haiku about various breakfast cereals. For each one, all you have to do is name the cereal brand. For example, trio of spokes-imps, a most loquacious breakfast when you pour on milk. Ophira?
EISENBERG: Ding.
TARNOW: Yes?
EISENBERG: That would be Rice Krispies.
TARNOW: That would be Rice Krispies.
EISENBERG: Who doesn't know their spokes-imps?
TARNOW: Who doesn't know their spokes-imps?
EISENBERG: Snap, Crackle and Pop.
TARNOW: Who doesn't know what loquacious means? So, basically, that's it. Contestants ring in when, or if, you know the answer. Whoever gets more right moves onto our Ask Me One More final round. All right, here we go. A scoop of dried fruits, a second scoop of dried fruits, plus digestive flakes.
TARNOW: I believe it was Karla.
DEVRIES: Raisin Bran?
TARNOW: Raisin Bran is correct, well done.
TARNOW: All right, next one, yellow, pillow-shaped, spokesperson from the high seas, rubs the palate raw.
TARNOW: Yes, Karla again.
DEVRIES: Captain Crunch?
TARNOW: I'm going to give it to you. It's Cap'n Crunch.
DEVRIES: Oh, Cap'n.
TARNOW: But we will give you Captain Crunch.
DEVRIES: I was trying to enunciate.
TARNOW: He's not really a captain. The next one. Petite crunchy rings, flavored with insect products, plus edible seeds.
TARNOW: Was it Karla, Ophira?
EISENBERG: It was Adam.
TARNOW: It was Adam this time. Adam?
HUSSEIN: Honey Nut Cheerios.
Honey Nut Cheerios, yes. It's a honey of an o.
TARNOW: Not ordinary, and the symbol for thousand, hawked to dieters.
TARNOW: Yes, Adam?
HUSSEIN: Special K?
TARNOW: Special K, indeed.
TARNOW: Fiend in a black cape...
TARNOW: I want to see if Karla can get this.
DEVRIES: Count Chocula?
TARNOW: Count Chocula is right.
TARNOW: That one's not quite a haiku. It's a hai; just the first line. All right, based on candy bar...
TARNOW: Really?
EISENBERG: That was Adam.
TARNOW: Adam?
HUSSEIN: Reese's Peanut Butter Crunch?
TARNOW: It's not really what it's called, but we're going to give it to you.
EISENBERG: Yeah, yeah?
TARNOW: Yeah. Reese's Puffs, they are called. We will give it to you.
TARNOW: Based on candy bar, chocolate and jelly's pal.
EISENBERG: All right, I should mention right now that the score is tied.
TARNOW: It is tied.
EISENBERG: When it comes to cereals, we know what's going on.
TARNOW: Yes.
EISENBERG: That's right.
COULTON: We have a cereal situation here.
TARNOW: Scary neon hues. Green, and some weird shade of orange. What fruit looks like this?
TARNOW: Karla?
DEVRIES: Apple Jacks?
TARNOW: Apple Jacks is right.
TARNOW: That means, in a very close game, Karla wins.
EISENBERG: Karla. Yeah, Karla, congratulations.
TARNOW: Well done.
EISENBERG: And sticking with our theme, if I said Natalie Portmantoast, you might think that I'm ordering brunch at one of those celebrity themed restaurants because that dish, I believe, would be - it would be a small portion. But so adorable.
COULTON: Adorable toast, yes. And what you are actually referring to is a game that we've devised that has to do with a fancy French word portmanteau.
EISENBERG: Ooh.
COULTON: And what is a portmanteau, you ask? Well, it is of course a word sandwich.
EISENBERG: A word sandwich?
COULTON: A kind of a word sandwich, yeah.
EISENBERG: Mmm. We'll let our VIP comedian Lizz Winstead explain and she will provide some of her own homemade examples, along with our puzzle guru Will Hines.
EISENBERG: Let's say hello to our next two contestants: Dianne Nora and Jim Quinlan. Lizz, we know you are a huge word fan. In your essays, you like to make up portmanteaus, which is where you combine two words to make a new word, like smog, which combines smoke and fog.
LIZZ WINSTEAD: I did not make that up.
EISENBERG: No, your words are much funnier, like anticipointment.
WINSTEAD: Yes, anticipointment. That's a really good word. That is when - basically, it happens a lot on those entertainment shows that are on in the evening. Does Tom Cruise have an affair with John Travolta? And then they come from commercial, it's like, no, no, not at all.
WINSTEAD: Actually, it's not what's happening. And you're like, wow, that anticipointment of that was really intense.
EISENBERG: So, well, you've inspired us to make up our own kind of portmanteaus, and this game is called Natalie Portmantoast.
EISENBERG: Because we're asking you to combine a famous figure's name with a food item. Hooray. Puzzle guru Will Hines, can you please give us an example?
WILL HINES: I can. So, contestants, if I said, this star of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" greatly enjoys putting a vinegary condiment on his hot dogs, the answer would be Steve Carellish.
HINES: Which is Steve Carell plus relish.
EISENBERG: So, remember, it's the famous person's name first and then the last syllable of the person's name will blend into the food item. Quote the author of the poem "The Raven," make my traditional New Orleans' sandwich on French bread with fried shrimp and oysters.
EISENBERG: Dianne?
DIANNE NORA: Edgar Allen Poeboy.
EISENBERG: That is correct.
EISENBERG: It's a fried dream within a breaded dream.
WINSTEAD: Buried underneath your floorboards.
WINSTEAD: Though she may dress in raw meat, the flamboyant singer of "Poker Face" favors this cold tomato-based Spanish vegetable soup.
NORA: Lady Gagazpacho.
WINSTEAD: Why yes, it is. Well done, Jim.
EISENBERG: After this man wrote the musical "Phantom of the Opera," he celebrated with a tortilla wrap filled with meat, beans and rice.
EISENBERG: Jim?
NORA: Andrew Lloyd Webburitto.
EISENBERG: Yes, that is right. The music of the nachos is a side dish that goes with that.
WINSTEAD: All right, the number of times a day you can see this actor play Lenny Briscoe on reruns of "Law & Order" is about how many layers there are in this sweet Mediterranean pastry made from phyllo dough and honey.
EISENBERG: Dianne?
WINSTEAD: Jerry Orbaklava.
EISENBERG: Yes.
WINSTEAD: Yes.
EISENBERG: Nice. This Grammy winner might be the only person who adds black-eyed peas to this fruit salad, made from coconut, pineapple, mandarin oranges and mini marshmallows.
WINSTEAD: Did you have hippie parents, both of you?
NORA: I did not.
WINSTEAD: No.
That's a problem. Health conscious parents?
NORA: Yeah.
WINSTEAD: They enjoyed ambrosia.
They do?
NORA: They do enjoy ambrosia.
WINSTEAD: And then would they enjoy any of the song stylings...
COULTON: Oh, you just gave that away.
EISENBERG: You did it. You did it. Dianne?
NORA: Will.I.Ambrosia.
HINES: There's no I in team. There's no I in team.
EISENBERG: They just hugged.
WINSTEAD: This actor promised Optimus Prime he wouldn't let the decepticons get a hold of the recipe for this French stew made with braised beef in red wine.
NORA: Shia Labouillon.
WINSTEAD: Oh. Marginal.
EISENBERG: Dianne, no, that is incorrect.
NORA: Shia Laboufet.
WINSTEAD: Shia Labeoufbourguignon.
NORA: Oh. I don't eat meat.
WINSTEAD: Beoufbourguignon.
EISENBERG: Dianne doesn't eat meat, so she wants to be excused from the beef questions. Well, Will, how'd it work out?
HINES: It was very close, but our winner is Dianne.
EISENBERG: Dianne, congratulations.
EISENBERG: That was a tight game and a hard one. A huge round of applause for these two contestants.
EISENBERG: After the break we'll play you one of my favorite games where we use authentic Yelp reviews to quiz Bon Appetit's editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport on how the 99 percent eats. Plus, we'll make Jonathan Coulton's music-food dreams come true. So stick around for the dessert menu.
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