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Syntax: Asst Prof, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
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Syntax: Asst Prof, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
University or Organization: Simon Fraser University
Department: Linguistics
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Job Rank: Assistant Professor
Specialty Areas: Morphology; Syntax
The Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University is accepting
applications for a Limited Term position to start September 1, 2007 and end
August 31, 2008. The appointment will be made at the Assistant Professor
rank. A primary specialization in syntax with expertise in morphology is
required for this position. The successful candidate will be assigned
teaching duties in syntax and morphology at all levels as well as courses
in general linguistics.
Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in linguistics and have demonstrated
research strength in the area of their specialization. Some experience in
teaching linguistic courses is expected.
This position is subject to final budget approval.
Closing date for receipt of applications is May 1, 2007.
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Trump takes charge as nation's 45th president
Varin holds off Friesen to win the modified main event at Fonda
FONDA – Danny Varin held off a late-race charge from Stewart Friesen to pick up his first feature win of the season in the 30-lap modified main event Saturday night at Fonda Speedway.
Joining Varin with feature wins Saturday were John McAuliffe (602 sportsman), Dennis Joslin (pro stock), Rob VanAernam (street stock) and Ken and Kerrie Hollenbeck won the dual and single cam cylinder main events.
Todd Morey held the early lead in the modified feature before Elmo Reckner slipped past on lap seven. Reckner's lead was short-lived as Jeff Trombley took the point on lap nine.
Varin was on the move and overtook Trombley with 11 laps to go. Friesen made a late race move, but could not catch Varin before the checkers fell over his hood.
Trombley finished third with Jimmy Davis fourth and Matt DeLorenzo fifth.
Chris Schaffer set the early pace in the 20-lap 602 sportsman main event before Farone found his way to the front on lap 16.
McAuliffe also found his way around Schaffer in the closing laps but had to settle for second. Schaffer was third with Ricky Quick fourth and Rocky Warner fifth.
McAuliffe was awarded the victory after Farone's car came up light on the scales in post-race tech.
Dennis Joslin picked up his first career pro stock feature win Saturday.
Kenny Gates overcame a first-lap wreck and charged back through the field but came up short at the finish. Ivan Joslin placed third with Pete Broderson fourth and Chuck Dumblewski fifth.
VanAernam hit the finish line first in the street stock feature, snapping Reuben Kennedy's three-race winning streak.
Racing returns to the speedway next Saturday with the ESS sprint cars joining the race card for the Memorial Day Weekend festivities.

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Topic: IDE for Beginners....or not?
A bit of guidance here, please. I've decided to learn how to develop a database based website. As a recent convert to Mac, I was searching around for a web development framework and came to understand that RoR ships with OSX. While I was waiting for RoR for Dummies to arrive, I did several tutorials in Python to teach myself how to program. I've now done several Ruby tutorials and want to go on to the next step. This is where I am stuck. I looked at a couple rails tutorials and I could not quite get my head around it. I then started looking for an IDE thinking that this might help me to learn rails -- starting with RadRails on Elipse (Aptana). Big Mistake (a "this is more complicated than we thought" moment if there ever was one.) I gave it another try with textmate, but that too is way above me. After a couple weeks of head scratching and getting nowhere, I went back and learned basic HTML and some CSS which got me looking at editors again. There's not much support for database integration in these low end editors/frameworks and I'm hesitant to get started with and IDE that in itself has a steeper learning curve than Ruby or Rails. Any suggestions?


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Topic: Doing things the Rails way
I have an order form where the user will input hundreds of text fields at once, which is generated by an inventory helper function (thanks again ryanb!). Since I do not want to list what I have in my inventory here, since this is for new orders, I am forcing the quantity to zero (or a saved amount in the case of a previously open order). This seems like kind of a silly way to do it since I am querying one table to generate the form, but the data entered will be saved to a different table.
for item in type.finished_items
...<table> ...
quantity = '0'
if x = find_by_finished_item_id_and_order_id(@item.id, @order.id
quantity = x.qty
table_str << text_field("item[]", "qty", :size => '4', :value => quantity)
... </table> ...
This creates params{item] which creates a hash, with many different hashes inside of of it, which each of those hashes pointing to one more hash, like this:
"item"=>{"6603"=>{"qty"=>"0"}, "6624"=>{"qty"=>"0"}, "6525"=>{"qty"=>"4"}, ...
Because I am not updating to the model that created this form, I want to manipulate the params hash myself so I can update to the correct model. I do have it sort of working but I am pretty sure I am not doing it the proper RoR way. What I have right now is:
@order = find_order
keys = Array.new(params[:item].keys)
#Removes the values from the params hash and dumps them into an array.
qtys = Array.new
params[:item].values.each {|x| qtys.push(x["qty"])}
#Go through each product key
params[:item].keys.each {|key|
#check if an entry already exists for this order and product
if x = FinishedLineItem.find_by_finished_item_id_and_order_id(key, @order.id)
#assign the new value to the old quantity
x.qty = qtys[keys.index(key)]
if x.qty > 0
#if the new value is zero simply destroy the entry
#if a previous entry does not exist, and the new value is not zero, add the entry to the DB.
elsif qtys[keys.index(key)] != "0"
FinishedLineItem.create(:finished_item_id => key, :qty =>qtys[keys.index(key)], :order_id => @order.id)
So to summarize, this code is looking at the params Hash and creating an array that is easier to work with. Then it looks to see if there is already a listed quantity for that particular order and product id. If yes, it updates the table with the new value. If the new value is zero it destroys the old row since I don't want to keep line items with a quantity of zero. If a row doesn't exist at all, it simply creates one. This seems to hit the database a little more than is needed as well.
Thanks for any advice anyone can provide!
Last edited by dahuk (2006-11-13 13:06:10)


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Spring Festival Volunteers Wanted! - April 12th and April 13th
Hello students!
We need volunteers to cook for the Spring Festival on Friday, April 12th and Saturday, April 13th.
We also need people for set-up, serving and taking down. We are also looking for performances for the program.
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Kicking Horse, Three Sisters, Medium, Whole Bean Coffee, 12.3 oz (350 g)
- You earn loyalty credit for every order you place at iHerb!
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In the summer of 1858, James Hector set out to discover the Kicking Horse Valley. His expedition took him through some of the most beautiful and rugged country in the West. During a river crossing, one of the pack horses kicked Hector so hard that other in the expedition mistook him for dead. As they began to bury poor old James, they noticed his eye twitch. The legend says it was a stiff cup of Kick Ass Coffee that brought him back to life!
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The Three Sisters blend from Kicking Horse made for a very pleasant, fresh, and full bodied cup of coffee. This is a good example of a coffee that can be a medium blend yet still have a full bodied taste.
very nice but not exactly "medium"
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very good but for me feel's more than "medium"
Tasty coffee
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Has lots of body and no acidity after taste. Good organic coffee beans brings forth a great cup of coffee. S A Little
Good coffee in a handy container
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I don't like my coffee too strong because I add chicory to it, so this is perfect, and makes a good cuppa by itself too.
good aroma
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It taste not too bitter, its good ..
One of the best!
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This product contains 3 different coffees (from Indonesia, Central and South America) to pay homage to the Three Sisters (that are a trio of Canadian mountains). Light, medium and dark roasts are blended together to achieve a "medium" coffee, which is aromatic and tasty (its taste is especially rich, slightly sweet and not too strong). In my opinion, it is the closest to a perfect coffee: satisfying for coffee lovers like me, as well as suitable for those who do not like bitter/strong coffee. Moreover, it follows Canadian, US and EU organic standards and is a sustainable choice. The beautiful can looks awesomely cute in the kitchen!


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Rustic Toy Box
- Overview
Built with a sturdy solid wood frame, this simple and practical design holds toys, books and more. Plus, it rolls on casters, so it can be easily moved to where it's needed.
- 28" wide x 17" deep x 17.5" high
- Handcrafted of kiln-dried wood.
- Comes with casters for easy mobility.
- Our exclusive finishes are applied by hand for exceptional richness, durability and depth of color.
- Dimensions & Care
- Built from solid wood, wood veneers and MDF, an engineered wood that lends exceptional strength and ensures that the toybox will endure over time.
- All wood is kiln dried for added strength and lasting beauty.
- The use of veneers results in high-quality furniture with flawless surfaces and consistent color tones.
- Assembly required.
- Overall: 28" wide x 17" deep x 17.5" high
- Interior: 25.5" wide x 15" deep x 15.5" high
- Weight: 29.5 pounds
- Dust often using a soft, dry cloth.
- Protect from direct sunlight and extreme temperatures.
- Blot spills immediately with a clean, damp cloth.
- We do not recommend the use of chemical cleansers, abrasives, furniture polish or wax.
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Today I encountered this "ImportError: No module named CUBRIDdb" error when trying to install and use the Python driver for CUBRID 8.4.3 on CentOS 5.6 x64. To install the driver I followed Create a CUBRID Database VM with Vagrant and Chef Cookbook under 5 minutes tutorial.
After everything was successfully installed, I created a simple Python program which executes a SELECT query. When I ran the program, I have received the following error:
$ python cubrid_example.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "cubrid_example.py", line 1, in ? import CUBRIDdb ImportError: No module named CUBRIDdb
The problem happened to be due to these two facts:
For these reasons the Python cookbook installs Python 2.6 on CentOS 5.x and configures pip and virtualenv on top of Python 2.6, not Python 2.4. Thus:
So, when I ran
python cubrid_example.py it used the default Python 2.4, and of course, the CUBRID driver is not available there.
There are two solution to this problem:
$python26 cubrid_example.py
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firms named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: John Deere Gas Barbecue Grills
Units: About 3,100
Manufacturer: Onward Manufacturing, of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Importer: Mi-T-M Corporation, of Peosta, Iowa
Retailer: Deere & Company, of Moline, Ill.
Hazard: Operating the grill in windy conditions can blow the flame under the control panel, causing the grill to overheat or cause flashbacks. Flames could damage the hose that supplies gas to the burner, causing an uncontrolled flame. Also, the grill's control knobs could overheat, resulting in burns to hands.
Incidents/Injuries: Mi-T-M Corporation has received one report of a minor burn received when the user touched a grill's control knob that had overheated due to the flame blowing under the control panel.
Description: These are John Deere Gas Barbecue Grills with model numbers HR-BG6203 and HR-BG5202. The model number is on the CSA approval sticker on the back panel. The recalled grills have a John Deere symbol on the center of the hood and a John Deere decal plate below the control panel. These are 52,000 BTU grills with 460 sq. in. cooking surface. The Model HR-BG6203 includes stainless steel doors, stainless steel side shelves and a side burner rated at 10,000 BTU. The Model HR-BG5202 has stainless steel doors with black plastic side shelves.
Sold at: John Deere dealers from March 2006 through August 2006 for about $600 for the model number HR-BG6203 grill and about $500 for model number HR-BG5202 grill.
Manufactured in: Canada
Remedy: Consumers should stop using these grills and contact Mi-T-M Corp. or the John Deere dealer where the grill was purchased to receive a free repair kit.
Consumer Contact: Call Mi-T-M Corp. toll-free at (877) 535-5336 between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's Web site at www.mitm.com
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Bethel Baptist Announces Students Of The Quarter
Bethel Baptist Christian Academy officials recently released the school's Students of the Quarter. They are:
Rebekah Wilkins, kindergarten and daughter of Matthew and Sarah Wilkins of Jamestown. Her favorite subject is Bible because she gets to learn a lot of stories. Rebekah's favorite color is purple. Rebekah's favorite Bible story is Abraham because he believed in God.
Alex Guziec, first grade and the son of Justin and Amy Thorp of Jamestown. He loves art because it is fun and he can be creative and math because it is fun and he learns new things. Alex's favorite book is Indians & Cowboys, he loves the colors red and green, and his favorite Bible story is when Jesus was born.
Devyn Phillips, ninth grade and the daughter of Charles and Jennifer Phillips of Jamestown. Devyn's favorite subjects are history because it is interesting, English because it is her highest grade, science because of her teacher, Miss Beckstrom, and math because she has always liked it. Devyn's favorite Bible verse is Romans 1:20. Among hobbies, she says, "I try everything."
Laura Davis, 12th grade and the daughter of Ralph and Ella Davis of Jamestown. Her favorite subject is select choir because she loves singing and music, and because "the choir sounds pretty good." Her favorite book is "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold. Laura's favorite Bible verse is Proverbs 31:30 Her hobbies include guitar, piano, music, working at Bethany Camp, pinterest, bargain shopping, singing, spending time with friends, acting and volleyball.


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looking pretty good man. I don't know how dedicated you want to take this suit but in the future I would consider working on the jumpsuit to get a little more accuracy. Also, you have an ESB cape but the gauntlets are ROTJ style. I'd change the cape to green unless you're going for a Franken-Fett (nothing wrong with it unless you want things like they were in the movie).
I don't know how long you've been working on the suit but it's lookin really good man! Keep it up!
Thank a lot ! I have been working on for 4 month.
I admit I took the color I like from the two main style. And yes the jumpsuit need some pockets in the futur (it's an old mecanic suit I buy in a military shop)
Thanks again !
Judging from the fact that most parts are homemade I think you are looking quite good. But Boba without a gun looks kind of naked to me.
You`ll definately be an eyecather on your carnival!
The spruce green doesn't look bad Good luck with it at the carnival.


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Holy Is Not A Four Letter WordPosted Saturday, December 8, 2012, at 11:51 AM
Holiness is received not achieved.
Holiness is accepting a gift given not compensation for work done.
Holiness begins in the heart (seed), transforms the mind (seedling), and is evidenced by how a life is lived (tree).
Example of a holy life...
1) This man blasphemeth.
2) Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
3) Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
4) they laughed him to scorn.
5) He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
Above are excerpts from Matthew 9 directed toward Jesus. Jesus did not live up to the "holiness perception" of His day. Neither will you or I.
1) This man blasphemeth...from Matthew 9:1-7..."doctrine"
2) Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?...Matthew 9:8-13..."association"
3) Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? ...Matthew 9:14-17..."discipline"
4) they laughed him to scorn...Matthew 9:18-26..."unseen ministry of touch"
5) He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils...Matthew 9:27-34..."reputation"
Why such a discrepancy between the "holiness perception" and how holiness is lived?
6) he was moved with compassion...Matthew 9:35-38..."compassion not competition"
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
When we perceive, understand, experience intimately, personally, wholly, the love of GOD.....
Holy happens!!!
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"Holiness is received not achieved." That is exactly right. Holiness is imparted to us. "Jesus suffered without the gate to sancify His people with His own blood." It is more than an imparted work, it is also a life lived. Holiness is radical in that it changes a person's whole perspective, understanding, experience, and way of living. Notice the examples, Gordon gives! It is following Jesus 100%! Good theology, Gordon. But really, practical truth for today.
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Recently, I was working on promoting an organization to students at my alma mater (whoa, weird to say!) called Boston Content. The organization, run by my friend Jay Acunzo, provides education, and inspires creativity for content creators, strategists & marketers.
I'm a firm believer in content advertising and content marketing – I think it's the future of the web.
As more blogs switch from display advertising to more native advertising, good writing will become even more important – potentially, this could even mean journalists stealing a lot of the jobs marketing students will be going after.
However, when I promoted this organization on Facebook, I got a really interesting comment from a BU student majoring in Computer Science. Continue reading


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On the first Tuesday of every month Annalies and Carol hosts a coffee evening at 7pm for the parents at SNAP.
Through this initiative we are providing a platform for parents to talk about their children, provide support and share new knowledge and developments in the field of autism.
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GRAMMYs And CBS Re-up Through 2026 For Record 54 YearsThe GRAMMY Awards telecast will air on CBS through 2026.
From GRAMMYs To Oscars, Sam Smith Is Reaching New HeightsThough Sam Smith has mingled with Hollywood's elite thanks to the success of "Writing's On The Wall" — the Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning James Bond theme song — he feels like the glitz is just a bonus.
Gwen Stefani Steals a GRAMMYs Commercial Break for 'Make Me Like You' VideoFrom the look of the complex moving set, it appears as though it was quite a feat.
David Bowie's Son Reacts To Lady Gaga's GRAMMYs Tribute"Overexcited or irrational, typically as a result of infatuation or excessive enthusiasm."
GRAMMY Wrap Up: Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar Win BigIf you combine actual GRAMMY trophies and social media buzz, hip-hop superstar Kendrick Lamar and country-turned-pop singer/songwriter Taylor Swift were the big winners of the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards.
GRAMMYs 2016 Winner ListCheck out the full GRAMMYs 2016 winners list
LL Cool J Talks GRAMMYs, Kendrick Lamar and Rock HallHe also says that he's put the "Greatest Of All Time 2" album on hold in favor of a different record.
LL Cool J Talks GRAMMYs, Kendrick Lamar And Rock HallWith just a few days to go before the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards, Radio.com got a few minutes with LL Cool J- hosting for the fifth straight year - to discuss this year's edition of Music's Biggest Night.
Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, More Announced as GRAMMY PresentersIce Cube, Stephen Colbert, and Sam Smith will also present.
Why Alabama Shakes Should Win The Album Of The Year GRAMMY For 'Sound & Color'In a day and age where singles are king, Sound & Color stands out with nary a track worth skipping and is the perfect album for a Sunday morning spin.
Chris Stapleton To Lead B.B. King Tribute At GRAMMYsCountry singer Chris Stapleton will join Gary Clark Jr. and Bonnie Raitt at the Grammy Awards later this month for a tribute to the late blues master B.B. King.
Singer Andra Day Rises As Soul SongstressA phone call from Stevie Wonder changed Andra Day's life. He called Day and asked if he could work with her.


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The lesson – Don't throw rocks
To the editor:
In response to an opinion piece by the Arizona Republic posted in Monday's Journal, I would like to point out a few issues that this biased position failed to mention.
It is apparent that the Arizona Republic welcomes the approach for those defending this nation, re: U. S. Border Patrol, to turn and run or use non-lethal force when confronted by potential deadly rock throwers on BOTH SIDES of our sovereign southern border.
Their biased position miserably fails to address the actions of those throwing the rocks; instead it attacks the actions of those on the front lines of our southern border; fails to address why Mexico, who claims to want friendly relations with the United States, does not take a pro-active stance against these assaults; it fails to acknowledge that these actions are utilized to advert/command attention of the Border Patrol to further assist with illegal entry of humans/drugs elsewhere on the border; and, of course nothing is said with regard to the physical harm that these brave men and women endure, day in and day out… no mention of gratitude for their service, just a biased concern with those acting out violently to begin with.
Common Sense – instead of a bias – would tell anyone… if you do not want the negative actions Border Patrol must take when terrorized by foreigners/illegal aliens throwing rocks -DON'T THROW ROCKS!
One must wonder what the actions would be of the Secret Service/Security at, let's say, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to rock throwers – wonder if they would just run and hide as well.
Ruthie Hendrycks
New Ulm


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A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad A. E. Housman
This entry represents criticism of Housman's A Shropshire Lad. For more information on Housman's life and career, see PC, Volume 2.
Housman's reputation as a poet rests primarily on A Shropshire Lad (1896), a collection of short lyrical ballads set in rural England and focused on the adolescent passions and loss of innocence of a young yeoman. Housman uses the pastoral setting of A Shropshire Lad to explore themes of death, lost love, and the passing of youth in a merciless universe devoid of divine grace or mercy.
Plot and Major Characters
A Shropshire Lad contains sixty-three poems, most of them a page or less in length. As few of the poems were titled by Housman, critics tend to refer to individual poems within the volume by number of the order in which they appear or by the first line, phrase, or word of any given poem. The central character of this verse collection is the Shropshire lad, Terence Hearsay, a young yeoman of Shropshire, England. A Shropshire Lad is pastoral, evoking a strong sense of place in the setting of rural England, peopled by farm laborers, artisans, and country lasses, as well as soldiers who come from such settings. Housman's poetry makes use of colloquial English diction in lyrical verse of traditional form, meter, and rhyme. He frequently uses the four-line ballad stanza, with an alternating rhyme scheme of abab. Also characteristic of Housman's verse are pithy one- to three-line epigrams, as well as dramatic monologues.
Major Themes
Many of the major themes of A Shropshire Lad have been characterized as essentially adolescent. Among Housman's central themes are youthful passions, the loss of innocence, and the passing of youth. Other major themes include the inevitability of death and the destructive nature of time. Time and the passage of time are treated by Housman as agents of loss and death. Time is thus the enemy of youth, friendship, and love. Throughout the volume, Housman expresses a preoccupation with life's transience. The theme of death is expressed through instances of suicide, premature death, and murder. His focus on mortality is presented pessimistically and as inevitable in a harsh, uncaring universe abandoned by God. John W. Stevenson observed that the Shropshire lad symbolizes "man's search for identity in a world he never made." Youth, though treated by Housman with a degree of sentimentality, is also represented as a bitter period of unrequited love, lost love, and passing beauty. Stevenson commented that the Shropshire lad further symbolizes "the precarious yet certain progress of man from youth to maturity in which always inheres the nostalgic yearning for the simplicity of the past." Housman's setting of rural Shropshire and his strong sense of place serve to characterize A Shropshire Lad as pastoral. While some critics regard Housman's pastoralism in the tradition of the Romantic poets, others suggest that it is not idealized but rather a setting in which the harsh realities of nature are played out. In light of such pessimism, Housman expresses a sense of urgency by which youth are encouraged to seize the day and experience what life has to offer before it ends.
Critical Reception
Housman is widely recognized as a minor English poet. His enduring literary reputation has been characterized by the contrast of continuing popularity with the reading public and general neglect by critics and scholars. Several critics have tried to account for this strong discrepancy between readers and critics in regard to Housman, which spurred the critic J. B. Priestley to describe A Shropshire Lad as a volume of verse that has been "courted in private and shunned in public." Critics generally agree that what makes Housman a minor poet is his limited range in tone, theme, and subject matter and his uninventive use of traditional verse forms. Many have observed that Housman's verse never developed beyond the adolescent sensibilities of his earliest work. A number of critics have commented that the poems of A Shropshire Lad are so simple and direct as to preclude the necessity for extensive analysis. B. J. Leggett observed in 1970 that, "No opinion was so predominant among Housman's early commentators as that which asserted that his verses are marked by an essential simplicity of form and thought, and this view is still in evidence today." Some critics, however, refer to Housman's verse as deceptively simple. Leggett, for example, argued that "Housman's poetry is more subtle and more complex than has been acknowledged by his commentators," adding, "But only rarely have critics looked beneath the smooth surface of his poems to glimpse the perplexities of his themes and structures." Others have contended that A Shropshire Lad is in fact transparently simple, with little hidden complexity beneath its surface level simplicity. Many critics agree that Housman, for all his limited range, demonstrates skilled craftsmanship in the creation of traditional verse ballads. However, others, such as A. R. Coulthard, argue that even in the realm of craftsmanship Housman is largely flawed. Coulthard asserted that A Shropshire Lad is rife with awkward diction, odd syntax, lapses in taste, and clichés. According to Coulthard, "Despite Housman's reputation as a craftsman, much of his poetry gives the impression of casual, formulaic composition."
The popularity of A Shropshire Lad was slow in building. The first edition was published in only five hundred copies, at Housman's own expense. It took two years for this limited edition to sell out. With several subsequent editions, however, the volume gained a broader readership. In the first few years of the twentieth century the popularity of A Shropshire Lad increased dramatically, and the volume eventually became one of the all-time best-selling books of English verse. Early posthumous critical response to Housman was largely negative, as his simple, traditional, romantic themes were at odds with the modernist sensibilities of the 1930s and 1940s. More positive critical attention was often concerned with tracing the autobiographical elements of A Shropshire Lad, based on Housman's own personal experiences. Some critics were particularly interested in the expression of Housman's homosexuality through his verse. Leggett has commented that Housman "has suffered, like Byron, from the fact that his personality is of more interest to many readers than his poetry, and that for some scholars the poetry is valuable only as a key to the personality." Stevenson concurred, "The history of Housman criticism is almost wholly a history of finding the mystery of the man in his poetry as if it were a key to the private world of the creator of A Shropshire Lad." Critical discussion of A Shropshire Lad today tends to focus on the phenomenon of its enduring popularity, despite Housman's undisputed status as a minor poet. Various critics have tried to account for both Housman's continuing appeal to readers and persistent neglect by critics. Stevenson, writing in 1986, asserted that Housman's enduring popularity can be accounted for in part because "The Shropshire voice spoke to some far longing in the soul of modern man." Commentators continue to discuss the specific strengths and weaknesses of A Shropshire Lad, some maintaining that Housman is a more skilled poet than critics give him credit for, and others asserting that his verse is even more seriously flawed than his reputation suggests.
Principal Works
A Shropshire Lad 1896
Last Poems 1922
More Poems [edited by Laurence Housman] 1936
Additional Poems 1937
The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman [edited by John Carter] 1939
The Manuscript Poems of A. E. Housman [edited by Tom Burns Haber] 1955
The Complete Poems of A. E. Housman [Centennial Edition; edited by Tom Burns Haber] 1959
The Making of A Shropshire Lad: A Manuscript Varorium [edited by Tom Burns Haber] 1966
Poetry and Prose: A Selection [edited by F. C. Horwood] 1971
A. E. Housman: Collected poems and Selected Prose [edited by Christopher Ricks] 1988
The Poems of A. E. Housman [edited by Archie Burnett] 1997
The Name and Nature of Poetry (essays) 1933
Thirty Housman Letters to Witter Bynner [edited by Tom Burns Haber] (letters) 1957
A. E. Housman to Joseph Ishill: Five Unpublished Letters [edited by William White] (letters) 1959
A. E. Housman: Selected Prose [edited by John Carter] (prose) 1961
The Letters of A. E. Housman [edited by Henry Mass] (letters) 1970
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman. 3 vols. [edited by J. Diggle and F. R. D. Goodyear] (essays) 1972
Sir James G. Grazer and A. E. Housman: A Relationship through Letters (letters) 1974
Fifteen Letters to Walter Ashburner (letters) 1976
J. B. Priestley (essay date December 1922)
SOURCE: Priestley, J. B. "The Poetry of A. E. Housman." London Mercury 7, no. 38 (December 1922): 171-84.
[In the following essay, Priestley suggests some reasons why critics have tended to ignore Housman's poetry in discussions of serious literature. He praises both A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems for their unity of mood.]
Mr. A. E. Housman is easily our most surprising poet. His first surprise was A Shropshire Lad itself, one of the most astonishing volumes in a very astonishing literature. It came to us practically a full-grown masterpiece, and the production of what used to be regarded as a lyric poet's maturity. He gave us no interesting...
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John W. Stevenson (essay date October 1956)
SOURCE: Stevenson, John W. "The Pastoral Setting in the Poetry of A. E. Housman." South Atlantic Quarterly 55, no. 4 (October 1956): 487-500.
[In the following essay, Stevenson examines the element of pastoralism in A Shropshire Lad and concludes that Housman's brand of pastoral is realistic rather than artificial and idyllic.]
An obvious comment on Housman is that he wrote in a pastoral vein; it is more difficult to define the nature of his pastoralism and its contribution to the peculiar and singular achievement of his poetry. Critics have found it hard to explain the quality and texture of his verse, praising him rather for his classical smoothness and...
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John W. Stevenson (essay date winter 1958)
SOURCE: Stevenson, John W. "The Martyr as Innocent: Housman's Lonely Lad." South Atlantic Quarterly 57, no. 1 (winter 1958): 69-85.
[In the following essay, Stevenson discusses the function and meaning of the main character, as well as the narrative point of view, in A Shropshire Lad. He concludes that the Shropshire lad symbolizes the loss of innocence and man's search for identity.]
It is strange that no one has thought to define the nature and attitude of Housman's characters: his soldiers, his lovers, his rustics. Such people as Ned and Dick turn out to be merely names of the only character of the poems, the Shropshire lad. Unlike names that are usually...
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B. J. Leggett (essay date 1970)
SOURCE: Leggett, B. J. Introduction to Housman's Land of Lost Content: A Critical Study of "A Shropshire Lad," pp. 3-11. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1970.
[In the following excerpt, Leggett provides an overview of the critical reception—or lack of critical attention—of Housman's poetry.]
Any assessment of A. E. Housman's present stature as a poet must begin with the well-known but curious fact that his poetry, while it has become widely read and even highly regarded in some circles, has failed to give rise to a significant body of criticism. In an age of close reading and analysis, no systematic study of Housman's poetry has been attempted. The...
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Peter E. Firchow (essay date winter 1980)
SOURCE: Firchow, Peter E. "The Land of Lost Content: Housman's Shropshire." Mosaic 13, no. 2 (winter 1980): 103-21.
[In the following essay, Firchow discusses the significance of Housman's representations of nature in the pastoral setting of A Shropshire Lad.]
"In 1920, when I was about seventeen," George Orwell recalled in "Inside the Whale" (1940), "I probably knew the whole of the Shropshire Lad by heart. I wonder how much impression the Shropshire Lad makes at this moment on a boy of the same age and more or less the same cast of mind?" Very little, Orwell hastens to conclude, and goes on to puzzle out what it might have been that...
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Eddy Dow (essay date fall 1982)
SOURCE: Dow, Eddy. "Self-Validation in Housman's A Shropshire Lad LXII ('Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff')." Victorian Newsletter (fall 1982): 30-31.
[In the following essay, Dow discusses the style and thematic significance "Terence" (poem LXII) in A Shropshire Lad.]
The first speaker in this poem [A Shropshire Lad] begins his criticism of his friend Terence's poetry with these words:
"Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer."
(ll. 1-4)
Thirty-eight lines later, Terence defends his work in...
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Brian Rosebury (essay date autumn 1983)
SOURCE: Rosebury, Brian. "The Three Disciplines of A. E. Housman's Poetry." Victorian Poetry 21, no. 3 (autumn 1983): 217-28.
[In the following essay, Rosebury describes Housman as a poet of "heartfelt emotion" whose poetry is best when his craftsmanship is suited to its expression. He observes that Housman's poetry is most successful when he avoids argumentation or metaphysical content and instead maintains a consistently serious tone, with visual imagery suited to the mood of the poem.]
The last five years have seen the publication of two important books about A. E. Housman: a thorough and sympathetic biography by Richard Perceval Graves1 and a...
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Robert K. Martin (essay date fall 1984)
SOURCE: Martin, Robert K. "A. E. Housman's Two Strategies: A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems." Victorian Newsletter no. 66 (fall 1984): 14-17.
[In the following essay, Martin observes that Housman employs two different strategies in his poetry for "responding to the situation of the homosexual through the means of his art"; he maintains that Housman expresses a "strategy of survival" in his earlier poetry, and a "strategy of revolt" in his later poetry.]
This essay addresses itself to what I have called Housman's two "strategies"—two ways of responding to the situation of the homosexual through the means of his art. I identify one of...
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John E. Gorecki (essay date May-June 1985)
SOURCE: Gorecki, John E. "An Echo of Herrick in Housman's A Shropshire Lad LXII." American Notes and Queries 23, nos. 9-10 (May-June 1985): 142-43.
[In the following essay, Gorecki points out that in the poem "Terence" in A Shropshire Lad, Housman makes reference to the poetry of Robert Herrick.]
A. E. Housman's open reference to Milton in A Shropshire Lad LXII, "Terence, this is stupid stuff," contains an unnoticed echo of "His farewell to Sack" by Robert Herrick. In reply to one critical of his verse, Housman's Terence says that if he wants to feel happy he should take up drinking and that opportunities for it are close at hand:...
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John W. Stevenson (essay date fall 1986)
SOURCE: Stevenson, John W. "The Durability of Housman's Poetry." Sewanee Review 94, no. 4 (fall 1986): 613-19.
[In the following essay, Stevenson observes that, while considered a minor poet, Housman has enjoyed a broad readership and steady reputation. He attributes the enduring appeal to Housman's poetry to his creation of a character (the Shropshire lad) who speaks to the longings of modern man.]
Establishing hierarchies for writers can be a shifting game, little different from establishing the canon to study literature. If, for example, you cite Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and Yeats as major writers, and then list Herrick, Marvell, Christina...
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Terence Allan Hoagwood (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: Hoagwood, Terence Allan. "Classical Skepticism in the Poetry of A. E. Housman." Housman Society Journal 14 (1988): 19-28.
[In the following essay, Hoagwood examines the influence of classical skepticism on the philosophical outlook of Housman's poetry.]
A. E. Housman's poems are so impressively anchored in the emotional and physical life, so colloquial in style and so evidently simple in subject, that a philosophical reading of these poems may at first glance seem paradoxical or impertinent. Beyond the evidence of the poems, Housman's remarks sometimes openly deprecate formal philosophy: 'Plato's doctrine of Forms or Universals is useless as a way of...
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A. R. Coulthard (essay date fall 1993)
SOURCE: Coulthard, A. R. "The Flawed Craft of A. E. Housman." Victorian Newsletter, no. 84 (fall 1993): 29-31.
[In the following essay, Coulthard asserts that while many critics have assessed Housman a superb craftsman, his poetry often demonstrates flawed craftsmanship. According to Coulthard, Housman's poetry is rife with awkward diction, odd syntax, lapses in taste, and clichés.]
Most textbooks acknowledge the limited tonal and thematic range of Housman's verse, a deficiency Housman defended in the prefatory piece to More Poems, published the year before his death:
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans...
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John W. Stevenson (essay date spring 1997)
SOURCE: Stevenson, John W. "The State of Letters: A Shropshire Lad Reappraised." Sewanee Review 105, no. 2 (spring 1997): 244-50.
[In the following essay, Stevenson assesses the enduring popularity of A Shropshire Lad, despite its general neglect by scholars. He observes that the appeal of Housman's poetry lies in his strong sense of place, original main character, and use of traditional rhyme and meter.]
The year 1896, not unlike our own late 1990s, was a time of looking ahead to a new century, as it was a time of looking backward. What was the promise of the coming twentieth century, and what of the nineteenth would be preserved? In England's...
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Alexander David Kurke (essay date spring 1998)
SOURCE: Kurke, Alexander David. "Immortality for a Textual Critic." Classical and Modern Literature 18, no. 3 (spring 1998): 189-202.
[In the following essay, Kurke offers an interpretation of poem LXIII of A Shropshire Lad, discussing the work in relation to Housman's career as a classics scholar.]
In recognition of Arthur Platt, his former colleague at University College, London, A. E. Housman observed:
A scholar who means to build himself a monument must spend much of his life in acquiring knowledge which for its own sake is not worth having and in reading books which do not in themselves deserve to be...
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Janice Lore (essay date spring 1998)
SOURCE: Lore, Janice. "Housman's 'Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff …'" Explicator 56, no. 3 (spring 1998): 140-42.
[In the following essay, Lore argues that the Terence in Housman's poem "Terence" of A Shropshire Lad may be a reference to the Roman playwright of that name.]
According to Grant Richards, A. E. Housman's publisher, and Laurence Housman, his brother, A. E. originally intended to call his first volume of verse The Poems of Terence Hearsay. A. W. Pollard, Housman's friend and roommate at Oxford, is credited with talking him out of it and suggesting A Shropshire Lad (L. Housman 71; Richards 13-14). This is the one explanation...
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Elsa Nettels (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Nettels, Elsa. "Youth and Age in the Old and New Worlds: Willa Cather and A. E. Housman." In Cather Studies, Vol. 4, edited by Robert Thacker and Michael A. Peterman, pp. 284-93. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
[In the following essay, Nettels discusses the influence of Housman's poetry on the novels of Willa Cather.]
Of all Willa Cather's characters, Godfrey St. Peter, the protagonist of The Professor's House, draws most often on literary sources to express his feelings and perceptions. Embedded in his mind are passages from plays and poems and fictional characters and scenes from novels and short stories brought to the surface of...
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Further Reading
Bernario, Herbert W. "Housman's Career." Housman Society Journal 13 (1987): 46-52.
Overview of Housman's career as a professor of Latin.
Kumin, Maxine. "Trochee Trimeter, and the MRI." In Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem, edited by Robert Pack and Lay Parini, pp. 116-22. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1996.
Discusses the structure and style of Housman's stanzas in poem XXVII.
Schaar, Claes. "A. E. Housman and Posterity." In Papers on Language and Literature, edited by Sven Bäckman and Göran Kjellmer, pp. 314-28. Göteborg, Sweden: ACTA...
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How do you prepare for a RAPID event ?
Tommorrow I will be playing in a team rapid tournament with G/30min NO INCREMENT and this worries me quite a bit cause even though Im not highest rated ill still be playing 1st board cause of some recent achievements my coach finds good enough for first board but the thing is in tournaments I always move very SLOW usually putting me in time trouble and these are usually 45min plus some
How about some G/20?
And tactics exams are always good.
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How about some G/20?
And tactics exams are always good.
thanks even the caffine intake sounds like good advice.
I have the same problem. I just tell myself before the game that this is a short time control and I'm going to have to trust my instinct many times without getting to fully analyze positions. Maintain the position with OK moves and save your time for those 1 or 2 critical positions.
As always pace yourself. 40 moves in 30 minutes, so I want at least 15 minutes left at move 20. Maybe tell yourself you want to make it to move 10 in 5-10 minutes.
If it's tomorrow it's a bit late...
So to prepare yourself :
-for the long term : ...by playing rapid games.
-for tomorrow : (1) standard stuff (that you can use in any time control) : use reasoning shortcuts to think on your opponent's time. For instance, if you calculate that all moves except one lead to a loss (eg for forced recaptures), play the remaining move and think to the continuation while your opponent uses his time. If it loses, you were lost anyways. When they are many lines, try to calculate the simplest ones first (of course it'a hard to guess the simplest ones before calculating !). Avoid at all costs re-calculating a line you already looked at.
(2) the time decision : when you think you are spending too much time on a move, play whatever you calculated as best so far - even if this is still unclear because you did not check everything etc. You will need practice of rapid play to know what 'spending too much time' means...
In any case, do not be afraid to spend 5, 10 or even 15 min on a move if it is critical, but not even 20 seconds on others. You should use 90% of your time on 10% of the moves (roughly - I am open to critic from other rapid players, but that's the way I do it).
EDIT : and do not fall in the other extreme of "machine-gun" moving to time-pressure the opponent (you are unlikely to do that if you are used to longer time controls, but still) : if by trying to spare time in the opening you end up in a bad position, and then trying to spare time in the middlegame you enter an endgame one piece down, your additional time will be useless. IF your opponent has already spent too much time for achieving an equal position AND you are sure that just 'playing reasonable moves' can hold your position, only then you can try to play the clock (ie playing suboptimal moves but fast) - but that's the only case you can do that.
Obviously it is easier to adapt to a time control the more games you have played at it. But it is too late to practice much.
Try to avoid falling too far behind on time, but don't make it about the clock and not the board, take time when you think you need to.
Just keep in mind that it is a quicker pace than you are used to, both players have the same time so don't worry about it too much. Have fun!
you could try allocating yourself something like 1 minute per move
average chess game goes for 25 moves or something, so you should be fine.
Spend less time on forced moves and use this time on the more complicated positions.
I like your idea of small time goals wafflemaster and yours as well Irontiger thanks guys.
#9Fear_ItseIf wrote:
you could try allocating yourself something like 1 minute per move
average chess game goes for 25 moves or something, so you should be fine.
Spend less time on forced moves and use this time on the more complicated positions.
I always play this way or try to do similar when I play quicker caseul time control games and sometimes its helpful I think it works less though cause like Irontiger said I end up in slighlty worse or bad opening or middlegame positions
The problem is not when you end up in slightly worse positions with equal clocks. The problem is when you end up in garbage positions with much more time, or in only marginally superior positions with much less time.
Trying to allocate 'XX sec/move' is a trap IMO, because you need fifty times more time for some moves than for some others, even the non-forced ones. And that is not an hyperbol, I really mean 50 times more time !
In 30 min/ player, the typical move is 30s for me, but once and then, you need to think much more. Of course it depends also about how well you are prepared in the opening, and how confident you are about winning some endgames !
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#13waffllemaster wrote:
As always pace yourself. 40 moves in 30 minutes, so I want at least 15 minutes left at move 20. Maybe tell yourself you want to make it to move 10 in 5-10 minutes.
But chessmaster says this is a g/30 event, a whole different animal from 40/30. But anyhow this "advice" only works from experience: in a g/whatever game, try to get ahead of your opponent on the clock: with no increment, you're pretty much doomed if you get behind.
This means lowering your expectations for your moves. For example, focus on blunderchecking. If you can get through a rapid game blunder-free, you'll probably do fine, no matter what the quality of your overall play
fair enough, i probably have it easier in rapid than other people, since i can blitz out my openings easily, theres only a couple of lines where ill need to analyse early on in the first mybe 12 moves.
so far I played 4 15min games and wht I've noticed is that when trying to put my opponent away I missed obvious stuff and if the position is closed I waste time just trying to come up with a plan. I used the suggest of reaching move 10 before using up 3-5min and playing normally when ahead equal or only 1 minute behind.
P.S. I also found out my internet connection sucks lol It went out a couple times during the games
Be happy, Do not be Frutracted!! Do your best in each move...And Do not forget that ALL SECRIFICE IS RIGHT IN SHORT TIME!!!


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85 sqr meters apartment: living room with kitchen, 2 double bedrooms, bathroom with shower.
Very quiet apartment in a quiet urban contest.
A short walk from the building leads you to Corso Buenos Aires, the main shopping street of the city.
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very nice and clean appartement, very friendly host, nice area
The apartment, that needs to be a little bit refreshed, is big enough for 4 persons and it's equipped with everything you need for a short stay. Bed linen and towels are provided and are in excellent conditions. Very convenient for Fiera Milano and San Siro stadium, with a short metro ride you are in the center of Milano. Filiberto and Marcello are very fair and helpful persons.
It was a pleasure to rent an apartment from Filiberto. He and his friend are a two nice guys.
The apartment doesn't look so great like on the pictures, but is clean, has a wifi, Milan maps, useful informations, clean towels, hair dryer, shower gels and many more what the tourist needs.
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Excellent and comfortable solution at 2 steps from the metro Conciliation. Very well equipped kitchen, good cleaning, friendly welcome and nice. Apartment well furnished, comfortable, discreet, elegant. Bathroom a little small but equipped with every comfort. Attention to every detail.
Ottima e confortevole soluzione a 2 passi dalla metro Conciliazione. Molto ben fornita la cucina, ottima pulizia, accoglienza cordiale e simpatica. Appartamento ben arredato, confortevole, discreto, elegante.
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Der Empfang war sehr nett. Das Studio-Appartement im 3. OG liegt nicht weit weg von Porta Venezia UBahn. Eigentlich war es eine nette Aufenthalt, es war angemessen ausgestattet aber ich habe den Eindruck, dass es kleiner als 30 m² ist. Ich finde persönlich dieViale Regina Giovanna sehr laut in der Nacht. Der große Kühlschrank hat mir gut gefallen. Milano war super!
The reception was very nice. The studio apartment located on the 3rd floor is not far away from Porta Venezia subway. Actually, it was a nice stay, it was adequately equipped but I have the impression that it is less than 30 m². I personally think that the Viale Regina Giovanna is very noisy at night. I liked the large fridge.Milan was incredible!
The location of the apartment is really convenient. It is a walking distance from Porta Venezia station, supermarket and the shopping boutiques. The apartment and its facilities were satisfactory & the staff were really helpful. Overall, my family is pleased with our stay! Will recommend to anyone especially with family who is looking for accommodation in Milan.
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Il est idéalement situé à proximité du tram et tt près du métro. 10 min du centre par transport en commun.
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China celebrates gold canoe doubles team
BEIXIAOYING TOWN, China (AP) Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun bobbed in the water, their upside down canoe floating nearby. They wiped their eyes, ran fingers through their hair and when they peered at the scoreboard, the Chinese pair saw they had done it again: gold.
Meng and Yang have all the Olympic gold in China, at least when it comes to canoe racing.
They won the men's 500-meter canoe double (C-2) on Saturday in 1 minute, 41.025 seconds - and their fellow countrymen roared along with every perfect paddle toward the finish. The pair successfully defended their Athens triumph and now have the country's only two gold medals in the sport.
"Last time in Athens, we only had a very slow start, and we won the Olympic title in Athens purely out of good luck," Yang said. "This time it has been a really tough race, because our opponents are stronger than last time."
On dry land, the pair showed their appreciation for the thousands of Chinese fans who waved flags and rushed the railing to snap pictures. Meng and Yang clutched a flag on the medal pontoon, faced the fans across the lake and took their golden bows.
Then Meng made the celebration a touch more personal. His wife, Xu Feng Yue, joined him on the medal stand and Meng held his 15-month-old son in his arms as the national anthem played.
"Before the race, I knew my son would come here," Meng said. "In that way, his arrival here would boost my confidence."
Meng and Yang weren't the only repeat winners from Athens.
The Hungarian pair of Katalin Kovacs and Natasa Janic won the gold medal in women's 500-meter kayak double (K-2) in 1:41.308. The two-time world champions hugged on the dock in a scene that has become familiar after this speed race.
The big upset of the final day of medal races at Shunyi Rowing-Canoeing Park came in the men's 500-meter K-2.
The German pair of Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskotter were the defending gold medalists and have been the world champions since 2001. This time, they sat in their kayaks stunned and with their heads down.
Saul Craviotto and Carlos Perez of Spain won in 1:28.736, pumping their fists and yelling in celebration as they crossed the line.
"We are frightfully disappointed and we never want to feel like this again," Wieskotter said.
Rauhe was a bit more diplomatic.
"It's been eight years at the top. It wasn't going to last forever," he said. "How can you not be happy with an Olympic silver? But not getting gold does hurt."
At least they made it to the medal stand in one piece. Other kayakers and canoeists continued to fall ill in the heat after the grueling races.
After the 500 C-1, bronze medalist Ukrainian Iurii Cheban lay on the dock as medical personnel poured water on him. When he tried to stand, he crumbled to the ground, and needed two people to help him get back up.
Silver medalist David Cal of Spain also felt dizzy after the race, but said that was not unusual considering the athletes try to work as hard as they can on the water.
"It's typical, normal," he said.
He said he did feel rushed to get to the medal ceremony.
"I was not feeling well," he said.
Cal accepted his silver medal on the podium, stepped off and threw up on the pontoon.
Germany's Thomasz Wylenzek felt well enough to receive his bronze medal in the 500 K-2, a day after he was treated for dehydration at a hospital. He missed Saturday's medal ceremony for 1,000 C-2.
In other races:
- In the men's 500 K-1, Ken Wallace of Australia won gold in 1:37.252. Canadian Adam van Koeverden of Canada took silver in 1:37.630. Britain's Tim Brabants has a bronze medal to go along with the gold he won in the 1,000-meter K-1 race a day earlier.
- In the men's 500 C-1, Russian Maxim Opalev won the gold medal in 1:47.140, giving him his third medal in the last three Olympics and first gold.
- In the women's 500 K-1, Inna Osypenko-Radomska of Ukraine won in 1:50.673. Josefa Idem of Italy was right behind with the silver medal in 1:50.677. Germany's Katrin Wagner-Augustin won bronze in 1:51.022.
- In the men's 500 K-2, Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu of Belarus took bronze in 1:30.005.
- In the men's 500 C-2, Sergey Ulegin and Alexander Kostoglod of Russia won silver in 1:41.282. Wylenzek and Christian Gille took bronze in 1:41.964.
- In the women's 500 K-2, Beata Mikolajczyk and Aneta Konieczna of Poland took silver in 1:42.092. The French tandem of Marie Delattre and Anne-Laure Viard were the bronze medalists in 1:42.128.
Associated Press Writer Melissa Trujillo contributed to this story.


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Debates of April 9th, 2008
House of Commons Hansard #75 of the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was amendment.
- Question Period
- Hockeyville 2008
- Vaisakhi
- Senegalese Women
- Public Safety
- National Wildlife Week
- Vimy Ridge
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Member for Bourassa
- Sudan
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Native Women's Association of Canada
- The Environment
- Hockeyville 2008
- Battle of Vimy Ridge
- Leader of the Liberal Party
- Citizenship and Immigration
- The Environment
- Committees of the House
- Olympic Games
- Afghanistan
- Manufacturing Sector
- Aerospace Industry
- The Economy
- Automotive Industry
- Tibet
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Airbus
- Canada-U.S. Relations
- Agriculture and Agri-Food
- Ethics
- Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
- Community Volunteer Income Tax Program
- Fisheries and Oceans
- Ethics
- Human Rights
- Government Response to Petitions
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Committees of the House
- Canadian Aerospace Technology Protection Act
- Committes of the House
- Petitions
- Committees of the House
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Motions for Papers
- Points of Order
- Budget Implementation Act, 2008
- Canada Marine Act
- Budget Implementation Act, 2008
- Criminal Code
- Points of Order
- Criminal Code
2:05 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
It being Wednesday, we will now have the singing of the national anthem led by the hon. member for York South—Weston.
[Members sang the national anthem]
Hockeyville 2008
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Denis Lebel Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean, QC
Mr. Speaker, the town of Roberval became the—
Hockeyville 2008
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
Order, please. The hon. member is not appropriately dressed. He must wear something else.
Now that is better. The hon. member for Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean.
Hockeyville 2008
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Denis Lebel Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean, QC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the town of Roberval became the first town in Quebec to claim the title of Hockeyville in Canada.
This contest, organized by Kraft and the CBC, recognizes the country's best hockey town every year.
I would first like to congratulate the four other finalists and their organizing committees. But I would especially like to commend the town of Roberval, the wonderful team involved in the town on ice, the promoter of the town's bid, and all the volunteers.
Thanks to these remarkable men and women, who were undaunted by any challenges and unstinting with their time, the town on ice was successful in creating a sense of belonging and pride in community.
This is also a victory for the people of the Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean riding—my riding—and the entire Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean area. Thank you to everyone who voted for the town on ice.
I am proud that Roberval is now part of Canadian hockey history.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Sukh Dhaliwal Newton—North Delta, BC
Mr. Speaker, last Saturday Kwantlen Park Secondary School held its annual Vaisakhi Mela and it was a pleasure to see all the families and friends, both young and old, who came out for this event.
This evening, the Surrey Board of Trade is holding its Catch the Spirit Vaisakhi event, which will also bring our community together for this special celebration.
Both lead to the biggest celebration of all, Surrey's Vaisakhi parade. More than 100,000 people are expected to line the streets of our community for the parade. They come to celebrate Canadian values: peace, tolerance, diversity, and respect for others.
I congratulate all the volunteers and community leaders. Year in and year out, they have made these celebrations the great success they are. It makes me proud to say that this is my community. Their dedication and their community spirit are truly an inspiration.
Senegalese Women
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Johanne Deschamps Laurentides—Labelle, QC
Mr. Speaker, as the foreign affairs critic for Africa and Latin America and the deputy critic for the status of women, I rise today in this House to speak about the day of action against impunity for perpetrators of violence against women.
This year, women's groups are paying particular attention to Senegal, a western African country where women continue to be victims of a system that trivializes physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuse.
In a society where more than one-third of little girls are excised even today, the work for gender equality is far from over.
On behalf of the Bloc Québécois, I would like to applaud the work of women's groups which, despite constant attacks by the Conservative government, continue in their vital work towards gender equality.
Public Safety
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Dennis Bevington Western Arctic, NT
Mr. Speaker, last night the RCMP in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, peacefully ended an armed standoff.
If this had happened in the community of Gameti, Northwest Territories, there would have been no police to respond.
The reason there are no police in Gameti, Colville Lake, Wrigley or Sachs Harbour is that Ottawa does not provide fair funding based on the real cost of government programs and services in the north.
The Conservatives are continuing this tradition. In the NWT, the so-called police officers recruitment fund covers about 75% of the cost of one constable, three-quarters of a crime fighter.
The NWT's solicitor general says, "We're actually kind of disappointed at the allocation because it's based on a per capita, with just a small top-up to the territories".
It should have been clear that more funding is needed after two officers were killed in the north. Just like the Liberals, the Conservatives talk a great line on the north but they will not walk the walk.
National Wildlife Week
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Mark Warawa Langley, BC
Mr. Speaker, this week is National Wildlife Week in Canada, a week to celebrate the diverse wildlife and beautiful landscapes in Canada from coast to coast to coast.
The Conservative government's dedication to the preservation and conservation of wildlife and protected areas is clear.
We have massively expanded the beautiful Nahanni National Park Reserve, created the Lake Superior national marine conservation area, and committed $30 million to protect the Great Bear rainforest, $3 million for the restoration of Stanley Park and $225 million for the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
This week, along with the Sahtu Dene First Nation, we announced a massive land withdrawal one and a half times the size of P.E.I., the Naats'ihch'oh National Park Reserve, at the headlands of the South Nahanni watershed.
Protecting and conserving our special places is a key cornerstone of the government's environmental policy. I encourage all Canadians to visit our magnificent spaces in the protected areas across our great nation.
Vimy Ridge
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Albina Guarnieri Mississauga East—Cooksville, ON
Mr. Speaker, it was a year ago that Canada paused to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the triumphant yet tragic battle of Vimy Ridge.
Canadian schoolchildren at the Vimy Memorial in France witnessed the scale of the magnificently restored tribute and felt the scale of the sacrifice it represents. Here at home, at memorials across the country, the memory of those who fought at Vimy continues to bring pride, tears and inspiration even after four generations.
The mission Canadians accomplished at Vimy was more than the capture of a key summit. It captivated the nation and captured the respect of the world. Those who rose from the trenches 91 years ago today will forever rise in the memory of a grateful nation.
Vimy Ridge
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Laurie Hawn Edmonton Centre, AB
Mr. Speaker, 91 years ago today more than 27,000 Canadians went over the top and did what armies from other nations had failed to do, and that was to take Vimy Ridge from a determined enemy.
Thirty-six hundred Canadians paid the ultimate price in the four day battle and four Victoria Crosses for valour in the face of the enemy were awarded, two of them posthumously. On that day, it is said, Canada as a nation was born. It was born through the courage and sacrifice of our men in uniform.
In 91 years, many things have changed. What has not changed is the quality of the Canadian soldier, man and woman.
Today, another nation is being reborn, and that is the nation of Afghanistan. It is being reborn through the courage and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. Let us all celebrate this significant date in Canada's proud history as a nation.
Whether on the muddy slopes of Vimy Ridge or in the searing dust of Kandahar, we and the world owe them so much. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Marc Lemay Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
Mr. Speaker, last night, the majority of the House adopted the motion of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women calling on the government to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on September 13, 2007. This declaration recognizes the right to self-determination of aboriginal peoples and their territorial rights to hunting and natural resources.
It was with the utmost respect for aboriginal peoples that my colleagues in the Bloc Québécois and I voted in favour of the motion. The only problem is that the Conservatives refuse to respect the will of the United Nations, thereby making Canada one of the only countries refusing to sign the declaration.
We are calling on the government to respect the will of the House and finally ratify the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Member for Bourassa
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Daniel Petit Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC
Mr. Speaker, one of the members of this House, the Liberal member for Bourassa, once claimed to have seen a UFO. Interviewed on Radio-Canada, the member for Bourassa said that he had no doubt that he had seen a UFO.
He said, "One evening, I was out observing and an object appeared, floating in the air. The object was moving, but all of a sudden, it stopped...When it stopped, it stopped right in front of me, then it sped off in another direction. That is when I realized that it was an unidentified object."
These days, every time a Quebecker sees a federal Liberal MP, they too think they have seen an unidentified object.
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Glen Pearson London North Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, this month I had the opportunity to travel across the country and meet with many Canadians to discuss the crisis in Sudan. I was touched by the incredible response that was shown and by the tremendous spirit of activism that exists in this country.
The Darfur conflict has changed radically in the past year, and not for the better. Violence is again increasing, access for humanitarian agencies is decreasing, international peacekeeping is not yet effective, and a political settlement remains far off.
By stepping up to the plate, my colleagues and friends from Halifax, Winnipeg, Whitehorse, Surrey and Vancouver were able to bring this issue forward and, with the incredible support of the university students' group STAND, were able to educate, motivate and inspire people to get angry and to get involved.
To all those who attended and lent their ears and voices, I humbly say thanks. I look forward to more successful forums on this in the near future.
Citizenship and Immigration
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
David Sweet Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, ON
Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition continues to fearmonger and play politics, this time on the issue of immigration.
Perhaps he should heed the words of his own deputy leader, who said, "...but I think I have to admit...that we did not get it done on immigration".
That member is correct, because when his party was in office, it allowed the immigration backlog to balloon from 50,000 to over 800,000.
This backlog is unacceptable. It is not fair to immigrants who want to come to our country, nor to their families waiting for loved ones to join them, nor to the employers who want to hire skilled workers.
The government has allocated $109 million over five years to help reduce the backlog.
Last year, Canada welcomed close to 430,000 newcomers, the highest number in our history and the largest number of immigrants since 1911.
No leadership, no results to stand on and pro-backlog, that is the Liberal position. Leadership, results and pro-immigration, that is the Conservative position.
Native Women's Association of Canada
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Peggy Nash Parkdale—High Park, ON
Mr. Speaker, yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting Beverley Jacobs, the head of the Native Women's Association of Canada.
Young indigenous women in Canada are five times more likely than all other women to die as the result of violence.
Racist and sexist stereotypes, poverty and the failure of police forces to understand and respect first nations communities have all contributed to the problem.
However, government studies recommending concrete measures to improve the lives of indigenous women gather dust on the shelves.
The Sisters in Spirit initiative is raising awareness and calling for measures to reduce violence against indigenous women.
Our government can act immediately to ensure that police thoroughly investigate all reports of missing women and girls and to provide adequate, stable funding to the front line organizations that provide services to help indigenous women and girls.
When will the government act to ensure the safety of indigenous women?


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USA Judo on Talent Hunt For Visually Impaired Athletes
Top Paralympic coaches are headed on a talent hunt this weekend for USA Judo, working to spread the sport among visually impaired athletes and military personnel. They'll also be hunting for the next Dartanyon Crockett and Myles Porter, who took medals at the Paralympic Games in London last summer.
USA Judo's 2012 Paralympic Coach at the Games in London, Scott Moore, is headed to Tennessee, where the Association of Blind Athletes is hosting an adaptive sports conference.
Longtime Paralympic coach Walter Dean, head sensei at San Diego Judo and Jujitsu, is headed for the 7th Annual Disability Sports Festival at California State University, San Bernardino, where more than a thousand athletes and military personnel are expected this weekend.
This is the first time that judo will be among the more than 25 sports at the San Bernardino event, presenting a huge opportunity for judo, said Dean, who'll be working with about a dozen Southern California coaches to show these men and women what they could be doing athletically.
"We'll be getting them onto the mat doing stuff, rather than us just demonstrating," Dean said.
"Hopefully, we'll get some athletes who want to go further, and we'll get them into dojos," Dean said. And, "if they really want to put their nose the stone, there is a future for them possibly in the Paralympics."
Both endeavors are part of the ongoing efforts by USA Judo to foster the sport among athletes with disabilities and find the next Paralympic medalists, like Crockett and Porter, who were discovered by coaches at events similar to these, said Eddie Liddie, USA Judo's Director of High Performance. Liddie will be among those joining Dean at the Sports Festival in San Bernardino.
"We want to expose as many visually impaired and blind to the sport as we can," said Moore, who will conduct three 45 minute demos at the conference in Tennessee. Moore, whose dojo is in Denver, CO, will be working at the conference with Brad Daniels of Portland, Indiana, USA Judo's team manager at the 2011 World Championships in Turkey for visually impaired judoka.


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Cash Cow? Protest Group Says Student Loan Fees Are Milking Them Dry
By John Sandman
NEW YORK (MainStreet)--With the clock running out on the congressional summer session, a group of education and student leaders asked the Senate to discard a short-term cap on interest rates in favor of long term reductions in cost that would make higher education more affordable.
In a joint letter, leaders of the six organizations told the Senate that "students should not be seen as a cash cow" in the continuing debate over student loan interest rates--rates that are seen as a significant source of revenue for the Department of Education. In March, the Congressional Budget Office found that the government will save $61 billion through the Direct Student Loan program, which has prevented banks from collecting fees from federal loans since 2010.
In the letter, addressed to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader McConnell (R-Ky.), the group - which includes the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, the Educational Trust, the U.S. PIRG and the United States Student Association - discusses why many long-term proposals being considered would leave students worse off than if Congress did nothing at all.
In addition, the letter, which can be found here , spells out how "budget-neutral" proposals lower interest rates for today's students by charging tomorrow's students significantly more, and claims that none of these proposals is based on the government's actual cost of borrowing and running the loan program. It concludes: "We need a deal that is based on research and evidence and is good for ALL students in the short and long term, not a deal for a deal's sake. Students deserve better."
Hyperbole aside, the group hit on a prevailing theme. "While the economy demands that more and more Americans get a post-secondary degree or credential, a college education has become less and less affordable. What the country needs now is leadership to reduce the actual costs of higher education, not make it more expensive." Spokespersons for senators Reid and McConnell could not be reached for comment.
The group has two essential questions. The first: how much does it cost to run the federal student loan program? The second: what is the government's cost of lending? Many students and student groups agree that a market-based rate is reasonable, but it must be tied to the government's cost of lending and it must have a meaningful cap to protect students from high interest rates. A Department of Education spokesperson could not be reached for comment.


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