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New York fire truck used in television series to be on display
Mayor Don Wesely today announced the program for "Patriot Day Lincoln Remembers," a community memorial ceremony Wednesday, September 11 to observe the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. The program is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Pinewood Bowl in Pioneers Park.
"I want to thank the volunteer committee organizing "Patriot Day" for planning a very special event," said Mayor Wesely. "The program will be a very fitting and patriotic tribute to those who lost their lives that day and those who courageously responded." The first 3,000 people attending will receive small flags.
The complete program and other details are available on the City web site, www.lincoln.ne.gov. Highlights include:
On display outside the gates will be a Fire Department of New York pumper truck, now in the inventory of EDM Equipment of Lincoln. The truck was used in the first two seasons of the NBC television series "Third Watch." Several local organizations will also have informational booths outside the gates. Local charitable agencies have asked that no fund-raising efforts be conducted in connection with the event.
A designated seating area and an interpreter will be provided for those with hearing impairments. Pinewood Bowl is handicapped accessible. Families are welcome to bring lawn chairs and blankets. Candles are not allowed. Alcoholic beverages are not permitted, and coolers are subject to inspection. Non-alcoholic beverages will be available to purchase.
StarTran and Aging Services will provide free transportation to Pinewood Bowl. The StarTran shuttle to Pinewood Bowl will run from 5 to 9 p.m. and will pick up and drop off passengers about every 10 minutes at these bus stops:
Aging Services is offering free transportation for those 50 and older. Vans will pick up passengers and return them to their homes. Reservations can be made through noon September 11 by calling 441-7158.
In case of rain, the event will be moved to Pershing Center.
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BART strike mustn't happen
Getting around the Bay Area when you're disabled is tough enough. Getting around the Bay Area without BART is virtually impossible.
A simple elevator outage at BART can easily make a person in a wheelchair late to a doctor's appointment. Without BART, it means you are probably not going to make the appointment at all.
For those of us with disabilities, BART isn't just a transit service — it's a lifeline service. Many disabled live on limited incomes and are either incapable or cannot afford to drive. Other options, such as paratransit, are either scarce or too expensive.
BART remains the fastest, most efficient, most reliable and most affordable transportation option for most Bay Area residents.
As a member of several local transportation planning agencies and committees, I know how scarce transit dollars are and how hard it will be to invest back into the 40-year-old system and its employees.
However, it is important that BART management and its unions reach a fair settlement before the coming Aug. 4 deadline and avoid another strike. The disabled community, and the region as a whole, is depending on it.
Janet Abelson
El Cerrito
Abelson is a member of the El Cerrito City Council.
Lessons from Florida verdict
The verdict in the Trayvon Martin case teaches us three things:
We have learned nothing in the last 50 years.
Hugh Brown
There is no IRS 'scandal'
A recent forum contributor's letter harped on the Internal Revenue Service "scandal." He opined, "Targeting a group based on their beliefs has the ring of World War II Germany."
That claim is outrageously inappropriate, and he knows that stooping to such an obscene analogy is far worse than that. Coupling President Obama to Adolph Hitler is inexcusably despicable.
The IRS investigation is ongoing, but premature conclusions have been offered by numerous partisans. What is known thus far is that requests for tax-exempt status by most conservative groups were processed carelessly. The bungled handling is intolerable, but what is known hardly constitutes a scandal.
The IRS's long-standing rule granted tax-exempt status only to groups that were "exclusively" engaged in social welfare activity. Years ago, that standard was altered to require that such groups only be "primarily" engaged in such activity.
But the organizations in question aren't even superficially engaged in such charitable activity. The groups exist to prod the Republican Party further right, and they have no legal right to ask taxpayers to subsidize their partisan cause.
Ronald Entwistle
San Pablo
Public unions and strikes
In a recent editorial about costly public pension subsidies, the Times suggested the elected officials who continue to agree to the costly deals should be voted out of office.
It is extremely unlikely to have different results by replacing the elected officials. The reason is that there is little difference between the majority of the voting public and the public unions. As a consequence, the public unions are negotiating with their mirror image.
What is needed is a ban against public employees striking, or to privatize all public supported works.
Will this happen? Perhaps when the public unions kill the goose that laid the golden egg, but then it will be much too late.
Al Bruzzone
We should help Egypt with vote
Egypt's crisis is the result of an outdated election system, which is even worse than our own local elections were before Berkeley, Oakland, San Leandro and San Francisco passed reforms.
Egypt's problems can also be solved with the same improvements: District representation and Instant Runoff (Ranked Choice) Voting.
The "parliament" proportional election system itself motivates voters to vote along sectarian lines so that their ethnic/religious group will be represented. Only with district representation and ranked voting are politicians motivated to overcome sectarian divisions and promise to focus on improving their district's future instead.
To win, they cannot risk alienating any ethnic group because they will need all the second- and third-choice votes they can get. This is why Oakland and San Francisco now have the first big-city Asian mayors in the United States, along with nondivisive, policy-oriented political climates.
We should be sharing these benefits and helping Egypt get proper voting equipment before new elections are held. This is the ideal opportunity, while Egypt has no incumbent government to resist/prevent modernization.
Sennet Williams
Real progress in recycling
News that California's per-capita creation of wastes has decreased from 4.4 pounds per person per day to 4.3 pounds (June 30) in the last year masks that the population has increased by 300,000 people, so the volume of wasted materials may stay about the same.
State staff erroneously (in my opinion) switched to a per-capita system of measurement about six years ago that fails to show serious progress in waste reduction during a depressed economy.
What's more interesting is the behavior of some businesses and families that make ounces of waste a day through careful purchasing and careful management of their used materials.
Eight of the 10 largest cities in California have established zero waste goals, but the numbers don't show much progress.
Arthur R. Boone
Boone is the owner of Center for Recycling Research in Berkeley.
Engineering colleges at UC
Shankar Sastry, dean of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, announced his frustration at the ineffectiveness of Berkeley at fulfilling incoming students' first choice to be engineers. Bravo Sastry!
UC Berkeley's leaders misapply resources into dated programs while Sastry could instead double the number of engineering graduates.
Many qualified students and applicants don't even apply because of the intense competition for existing slots. Because of limited funding, it currently takes a 4.4 grade-point average to be admitted into Berkeley's vaunted engineering programs. Only valedictorians need apply.
Sastry could readily admit another 700 students per year just as qualified, doubling the output of amazing talent, if the chancellor would demonstrate executive discipline to reallocate his existing operating budget more wisely.
Instead, many disappointed Bears take what they can get, often studying for nonexistent or poorly paying careers, while the promise of a career in engineering that they desire is lost. Meanwhile, Provost George Breslauer advocates increasing tuition — the total yearly cost to attend approaches $35,000 — while denying capable students their career of choice.
It's time for wisdom at UC Berkeley.
Buzz Pedrotti
Discovery Bay
Pedrotti is a graduate of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley.

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In the fall of 1960, Howard Knaack began building steel KNAACK® jobsite storage tool boxes in a small, one-room shop in Crystal Lake, Illinois. Mr. Knaack's main outlet for these boxes was a tool supply distributor owned by his partners named Brock Tool Company. Knaack LLC was the first to offer national distribution of jobsite storage boxes in Chicago, Detroit, Hammond, Cleveland, Denver and Washington D.C. By 1968 Mr. Knaack moved the company to a 16,000 sq. ft. building also located in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Throughout the 1960's, Howard was looking to expand his product offerings to the contractor trade and recognized the need for a high-quality, truck tool box. In 1968, Knaack LLC purchased the rights to build WEATHER GUARD® Truck Equipment, a truck tool box line consisting of approximately 10 different models, from a sheet metal contractor in St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1981, the plant added a powder-coat system for WEATHER GUARD® Truck Equipment and became one of the first in its industry to offer the benefits of ARMOR-TUF® Powder Coat Paint. Also in the early1980s, gas pistons were added to WEATHER GUARD® Truck Equipment, making them easier to open/close and safer to use than previous versions or competitors' models. WEATHER GUARD® also introduced truck cab protectors and ladder racks, as well as organizational storage solutions, such as PACK RAT® Drawer Units.
In 1984, WEATHER GUARD® further expanded into Van Storage Equipment, offering a complete line of bulkheads, shelving, drawer units, van ladder racks and the BED RAT® Sliding Platform. To drive innovation and continue to lead the market, Knaack LLC has made significant investments in automation machinery and equipment, and increased capability of our human resources, improving plant safety, and making the plant more environmentally friendly. Knaack LLC strives to achieve lean manufacturing standards by utilizing such processes as Six Sigma, Kaizen Champions and Lean Kaizen Blitzes. Recently Knaack LLC made significant improvements in manufacturing automation by investing in upgraded fabrication machinery and a completely renovated paint line. These new machines and systems are capable of making accurate, quality parts in both long and short production runs, with the ability to switch between designs being manufactured at the push of a button, allowing Knaack LLC to be extremely flexible in our manufacturing processes. Our current production line is truly state-of-the-art to produce the finest jobsite and tool storage equipment available.
How does Knaack LLC support the environment? Knaack LLC switched 425 tons of paper printing to Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Certified paper, recycled over 850 tons of metal scrap, increased recycled content in corrugated packaging to 35%, reduced natural gas consumption 8%, reduced electricity consumption 15% by using light sensors and switching to high-efficiency florescent bulbs, improved the quality of discharge water by reducing chloride levels 30% and total dissolved solids 20%, and reduced air emissions 50% by switching to powder-coat paint process.
Over the past 50 years, Knaack LLC's facility has grown from its modest start in a 2,000 sq. ft. shop to itsfirst 16,000 foot facility at 420 E. Terra Cotta Ave., and now to its current 400,000 + sq. ft. plant. Knaack LLC has achieved strong growth and industry leadership, and has not stopped introducing new products, like the new WEATHER GUARD® Hi-Side Truck Boxes, the new WEATHER GUARD® Low-Profile Steel Boxes, the new WEATHER GUARD® Van Solutions for the Nissan NV and Ford Transit Connect.
The acquisition of Knaack LLC by Werner Co. and the integration of the KNAACK® and WEATHER GUARD® brands aligns with the commitment to customer safety, product durability, productivity, and is a natural fit with the company's mission to serve the professional end user.
As Werner Co. looks to the future, we envision continuous improvement in all areas of the business, as well as an aggressive schedule of new product introductions that are driven by end-user research to help contractors keep their tools safe, protect them from the weather and keep equipment organized for optimal productivity on the job.


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May 13, 2012
Kiyo's Garage.. Michael's 69
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Labels: Kiyo, michael schmidt, Shovelhead
6 comments:
- BUZZARDSALINAS said...
- Sunday, May 13, 2012
- jason webber said...
Kiyo's my hero
- Sunday, May 13, 2012
- matt machine said...
hes one of the best thats for sure...
- Monday, May 14, 2012
- B-Vocabulary said...
- Tuesday, May 15, 2012
- CRO said...
No ego, and his work reflects that.
- Thursday, May 17, 2012
- Jonathan Garza said...
I like the idea of never being done working on your bikes and being ok with the fact that an old bike may not be as smooth, fast, or stop on a dime like a new bike. I hope to be able to one day have some stories to tell like the ones you guys are creating every day.
Jonathan E. Garza
Hot Shot Auto Parts, LLC.
- Thursday, May 31, 2012
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Thursday, March 08, 2012
20 prayer flags
Twenty prayer flags hang in my backyard. This, number 20, is for Mary.
You can join me and others and make your own prayer flags, and if you'd like, be part of The Prayer Flag Project.
And I wrote an article for Cloth Paper Scissors on prayer flags.
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Thanks you so much for sharing!! This is a wonderful idea and so inspirational. A friend and I are looking for a project to make guerilla art to share around the community and light up darker spaces...I think this would be perfect!!! Can't wait to share!! hugs!! xoReplyDelete
They look so beautiful hanging all together! <3ReplyDelete
I am sooo inspired by your prayer flags. I want to make some... one of these days.ReplyDelete
Il est bon de retrouver vos oeuvres après plus de 6 semaines d'absence... Je rentre tout juste des Philippines...ReplyDelete
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Your flags look so wonderful awash in sun and shade!ReplyDelete
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Housing will be in both new and newly remodeled College residence halls. For All Colby sponsored programs and most non-sports or youth-related programs, accommodations include linens, pillows, blankets, towels, and maid service on weekdays. Typical accommodations include private rooms with shared bath with separate facilities for men and women on each floor. A limited number of three- to five-person suites with private baths are available on a first come first serve basis.
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|2012-04-15, 20:14
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Basically, the reason each region keeps producing their content at the old NTSC/PAL framerates is so that it can be easily downscaled to SD for SDTV broadcast and DVD (and kept compatible with the old sets). If it weren't for that, it probably wouldn't matter since the HDTVs and Blu-Ray players are all essentially compatible (barring, I suppose, the odd cheap model that's messed up).
|2012-04-16, 07:30
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|2012-04-16, 08:05
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The reality is that few titles are selling respectable numbers in Western markets. So the rationale is if you jack up the price by at least six times and lower the sales to a third, you generate far more profit regardless. Aniplex's model is despicable - but the grim reality is that is one of the most viable. Marketing to 300-500 hardcores willing to be excessive in the name of loyalty works. Supposedly this is a swipe against piracy, but really, isn't that just going to ostracize the fanbase more? Hard fact of life is it's hard to afford to live these days and that luxuries are harder to afford.
I'm just hopeful the split of Siren staff leading to the formation of Hanabee won't lead to this happening in Australia, since Eric Cherry has said he values Aniplex's methods and content highly and wants to bring a similar scenario to Australia.
|2012-04-16, 19:48
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Hmm... maybe I should put a 'blu-ray only' policy for my purchases this year (barring special exceptions that I have not yet thought of; never say never after all).
I honestly don't know how else to combat this restriction, though I'm afraid its the licensors who would affected most by it, not Kadokawa. Instead of 1 grand of dvd sales per convention that I spend, it would essentially shrink it down to maybe 300 at the most. :shrug:
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So you can't own every anime you like. It makes life harder if you are a collector short on cash, but for everyone else, I think it improve things. It means more money for the anime companies, which means more budget to put out quality anime , or possibly enough budget to take more risks and put out series that aren't guaranteed to be popular (like most of the stuff the mainstream western fanbase likes, hard sci fi, and other niches).
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And, at least in North America, fansubs are fading quickly as a method for building demand for most new series in favor of streaming. For the large portion of the audience who only wants to watch the shows and doesn't care about owning them or watching dubs, optical discs are fading fast as a distribution medium. Disc purchases will become ever more concentrated among a small group of collectors and people who will only watch dubs. As the disc market shrinks it becomes inevitable that prices must rise.
It's not a matter of enjoying their creations "gratis," either. People like me pay my monthly fee to Crunchy, and people watching on services like Hulu generate advertising revenues. True, these sources of income aren't as lucrative as selling discs, but they are definitely an improvement over a situation where thousands of people were watching their creations and giving back nothing in return.
Overall, I see these trends as generally positive. Many more shows are available for legal viewing in R1 than ever before, so the audience as a whole has benefitted greatly. These developments won't please people whose commitment to the hobby is based on building collections of discs, but those people have always represented a small and declining portion of the total audience after fansubs became widely available via torrents. I'd say the biggest losers will be the dub-only audience as they'll have fewer and fewer options available, and the English voice actors who'll have less work as time goes on.
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|2012-04-17, 10:45
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It is worth noting the anime fandom isn't the only type of fandom experiencing exclusive prices. Plenty of sports and their teams are very costly to be able to see them live now. Pay-per-view oriented fandoms are ealso fairly exclusive and they survive. But it's also worth noting that in those cases, merchandising and marketing play a very big part too.
And in the end, if the BDs become unobtainable, is settling for the DVD version that bad in the end? At least you can still watch the show. I can tolerate the picture and sound not being as pristine if it means I can still watch the show.
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|2012-04-17, 13:39
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I think people need to think of buying discs not as a way to obtain anime to watch, but rather as a way to support people the making anime they like.
|2012-04-17, 13:59
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I am kind of confused about some of the comments in those articles. IIRC there is no difference between a region A or B release, except for the region coding, if the publisher decides to use it. The only issue that sometime happens is, if European pictures that were mastered or shot in 50Hz, for an US those shows have/had to be remastered, but not the other way around. Having said that the PS3 did had issues in the past with blu-ray playback, but those were really just specific PS3 issues.
If I read correctly it is mainly about imports, unlike with DVDs japan and the US have the same region code which makes it tempting for people to import the less expensive US version. But this view is really short sighted, otakus, their main costumers, will buy the limited edition version domestic release anyway, and in some cases they are likely to get all releases they could use/play. It is only the people who won't buy blurays and watch the shows on tv, who would be tempted to import the less expensive version.
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|2012-04-17, 15:15
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Japanese anime production committees actually buy time from the television networks to show their programs. They may be able to sell some availabilities to advertisers, but often the ads are for ancillary products like OST CDs associated with the anime themselves. Production committees rely almost entirely on sales of DVDs/BDs, the adapted manga and novels, and merchandise to make a profit.
Do an "advanced search" for threads with "industry" in them if you're interested.
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|2012-04-17, 15:21
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It works in Japan for mainstream products. Anime isn't mainstream. Anime is a niche product for a small group of dedicated fans. The mainstream method doesn't work for a niche product.
In a regular television series, the network buys the show to run so they can make money off of ads. In late night anime, the production committee buys a slot to run their show in so they can show off their product and hope people buy it. They might make some money off of ads if they are lucky, but its no where near what they need to even come close to breaking even.
Also, they afford it by having jobs that pay decently, spending little money on anything else, and sometimes have near free living expenses since Asian parents tend not to kick their kids out as quickly as American parents do. Be thankful for them, otherwise, we wouldn't exist.
|2012-04-17, 15:48
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|2012-04-17, 16:00
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Conversely, mainstream programming is paid by the station that airs it. Since the station pays for the show, they hope to recoup their expenses by selling ads at a high price. To get that high price, they have to have decent to high ratings.
It's all about who's producing the show to see how ratings matter to anime. Shows like Naruto, Conan, and other mainstream titles depend on these ratings to keep the stations paying for production. Late night anime like Moretsu Pirates and Fate/Zero don't depend on ratings since a production committee paid for the production of that show.
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|2012-04-17, 17:25
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Anime telecasts have more in common with the infomercials carried in the overnight slots on American cable networks. In many cases the anime telecast is an infomercial for the adapted material, the DVD/BD releases, and associated merchandise.
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Technical majors head the list of the highest-paid for the Class of 2013, according to a recent report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
In particular, NACE's April 2013 Salary Survey—the first look at starting salaries for this year's graduates—found that seven engineering majors are among the 10 top-paid.
"Engineering majors are consistently among the highest-paid because the demand for them is so great," said Marilyn Mackes, executive director of NACE.
Petroleum engineering majors received the top starting salaries by far, with an average of $93,500, nearly $22,000 more than the second highest-paid—computer engineering, at $71,700.
Other top-paid engineering majors are chemical ($67,600), aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical ($64,400), mechanical ($64,000), electrical/electronics and communications ($63,400), and engineering technology ($62,200).
The top-paid nonengineering majors are computer science, with an average starting salary of $64,800, followed by management information systems/business ($63,100) and finance ($57,400).
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Educating healthcare professionals, healthcare students, students from nonhealthcare disciplines interested in exploring the ethical dimensions of healthcare, and members of the community at large is a core part of the Center for Healthcare Ethics' mission. Such education serves not only to raise awareness of crucial ethical issues and considerations associated with healthcare practices, healthcare delivery systems, and broader societal dynamics that can shape the values linked to how health, illness and patient care are understood, but more importantly, it helps promote and enable morally appropriate and sensitive patient care.
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This monthly session is open to all Cedars-Sinai staff and is an occasion for in-depth exploration of critical questions associated with healthcare ethics in an intimate, seminar-style classroom setting. Its focus is to foster critical reflection on the nature and meaning of core values and commitments entailed in healthcare practices.
- Neonatology Ethics Session
This regular monthly meeting is conducted by the Division of Neonatology. It is designed to address issues and considerations specific to patient care within the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This meeting is limited to the members of the NICU faculty and staff.
- SICU Residents Clinical Ethics Conference
This bimonthly meeting is part of an educational series for house staff and fellows during their Surgical Intensive Care Unit rotation. The meeting is limited to the members mentioned above.
- American Jewish University (AJU) Case Studies in Ethics
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Stuper Says: "Eric is a submariner who pounds the strike zone and has a very good breaking ball. He has a chance to be our closer. He has the makeup and stuff to assume that role. He throws strikes and is very competitive."
Getting to Know Eric
Parents' Names: Larry and Sally Shultz
Major: Mathematics
Best Athletic Moment: Throwing 10 scoreless innings in a record-setting 20 inning playoff game last year. It was my team's first playoff game in five years.
Favorite MLB Team: New York Mets
Favorite MLB Player: Jose Reyes
Biggest Inspiration: My grandfather
One word to describe yourself as a person: Dedicated
One word to describe yourself as a player: Focused
Why Yale?: Yale offers the best education in the world. It is a great, comfortable environment with a ton of resources at your disposal. The baseball program is awesome. The coaches and players are enthusiastic about the game and want to win. It's a very enjoyable environment.
Which of your Yale teammates would make the best baseball coach and why?: Our team captain, Stephan Schropp: he's a great team leader, motivates us to do give it our all, and knows his stuff. He's a great player and could be a great coach if he wanted to be.
Which of your Yale teammates do you admire most and why?: Rob Gruber: he's hilarious and seems to have a new incredible story every day. His slider is filthy as well.
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The Time Traveller
The Time Traveller was a science fiction fanzine.
Following in the wake of the first science fiction fanzine, The Comet, The Time Traveller was among the earliest fanzines published in the 1930s. It arose from the fan group The Scienceers, based in the Bronx, New York. It was at first produced using a mimeograph machine but the fanzine proved such a success that by the third issue it was being printed as a typeset magazine.
Contributors included Forrest J Ackerman, editor of Imagination!, Ralph Milne Farley, Henry Hasse, E.E. "Doc" Smith, and Jack Williamson.
One of the earliest subscribers was Jerome Seigel, who was inspired to create his own fanzine Science Fiction. Seigel later went on to create Superman with illustrator Joe Shuster.
The editors of The Time Traveller were Mort Weisinger and Julius Schwartz; both became prominent figures in the world of science fiction.


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Mr. John Barnes; Mr. Hugh Greene; Ms. Wanyonyi Kendrick; Mr. Oscar Munoz, Dr. Bruce Taylor, Mr. Kevin Twomey
Dr. Kathy Robinson
Ms. Joannie Newton
Chair Kendrick recognized a quorum and called the meeting to order.
Chair Kendrick asked for approval of minutes from December 1. The minutes were approved as presented.
Chair Kendrick offered opportunity for comments from the public. Upon receiving none, she continued with the meeting.
Chair Kendrick asked Vice President Shuman to present this item.
Vice President Shuman explained that the Finance and Audit Committee approved a $1.62 increase in the athletics, health and activity and service fees at their December 1, 2009 meeting. She added that since that meeting, students had pushed an initiative to expedite funding for a new health and wellness center which included an additional $3.00 increase to this fee.
Vice President Shuman clarified that the Student Fee Committee had reconvened to discuss the additional increase, stating that the center would enhance student life on campus. She stated that the fee committee did approve the additional $3.00 increase.
Trustee Barnes stated that, although some students may not be on campus long enough to see the center, they generally supported the $3.00 increase.
Chair Kendrick asked for a MOTION to approve a total increase in the athletics, health and activity and service fees of $4.62. The MOTION was made by Trustee Barnes and seconded by Trustee Munoz. The MOTION was carried as presented.
Chair Kendrick asked Vice President Shuman to speak about this item.
Vice President Shuman stated that the amendment to the regulation was technical and indicated that the Board of Trustees would review, prior to filing, all DSO Form 990's. Additionally, if the university created a new DSO, an additional form (Form 1023) would require that same process.
Chair Kendrick asked for a MOTION for approval for the Direct Service Organization regulation. The MOTION was offered by Trustee Greene and seconded by Trustee Munoz. The MOTION was carried as presented.
Vice President Shuman stated that this item resulted from a finding on the most recent operational audit. She clarified that the revision would allow the President to (a) approve change orders to use UNF's sales tax exemption to save costs associated with the purchase of materials used in the project, and (b) sign change orders that reduced the total cost of the project to recoup any unexpended funds at the end of the project.
Chair Kendrick asked for a MOTION to approve the Presidential Authority – Revision on Change Orders. The MOTION was offered by Trustee Munoz and seconded by Chair Taylor. The MOTION was carried.
Trustee Kendrick asked Vice President Shuman to present this item.
Vice President Shuman mentioned that the university had one finding regarding student financial assistance on this audit. She clarified that this finding was due to staff turnover and the Banner system.
Vice President Shuman reported that the single finding had been resolved and to avoid a repetitive finding, the appropriate staff members received formal training. Additionally, the job description was updated to ensure proper processing.
Vice President Shuman reported on the seven findings on the operational audit and trustees focused on Finding No. 2 – construction change orders. Trustees asked that the administration provide good communication to the Board regarding both change orders and insurance.
This item was for information only. No further action was required.
Chair Kendrick asked Vice President Shuman to report on this item.
Vice President Shuman reported that this was the first time for the sales tax audit, which was done by the Department of Revenue. She clarified that all items listed were resolved.
Vice President Shuman reported that the university was now required to submit for review Form 990's for all direct service organizations. She reminded trustees that these forms were previously submitted for the UNF Financing Corporation and the Training and Service Institute. Vice President Shuman stated that these forms were now being submitted for MOCA Jacksonville and the UNF Foundation, Inc. She clarified that both of these forms were reviewed and approved by their respective boards.
This item was for information only. No additional action was required.
Chair Kendrick asked Vice President Shuman to talk about this item.
Vice President Shuman stated that under NCAA guidelines, the Intercollegiate Athletics Program must submit an independent accountant's report on applying agreed-upon procedures. She clarified that this report had one finding which was resolved prior to the review.
This item was for review and required no additional action.
Chair Kendrick stated that she did meet with Mr. Robert Berry, Director of the Office of Internal Auditing (OIA), and received updates on activities undertaken by the OIA. She asked Mr. Berry to provide an update to this committee.
Mr. Berry provided the committee with the standard audit update noting that of the seven audits planned, one was completed with a report issued and three audits were completed with reports pending. He concluded that the approved audit plan was on schedule.
Trustees discussed the whistleblower hotline and how the university received complaints. Consensus was that the hotline was not intended for customer service.
Chair Kendrick asked Vice President Shuman to provide the committee with the regular MOCA Jacksonville update.
Vice President Shuman stated that MOCA Jacksonville had a positive outlook and hoped to be within budget. She provided the committee with budget details and projections, noting that UNF had provided $320,000 of the $500,000 commitment. Trustees discussed the mission of the university and how MOCA integrated the academic program into its functions.
Trustees asked that a progress report covering what the university had done this year, as well as projections for the upcoming year be provided at the upcoming Board meeting.
This item was provided for information and required no further action.
Vice President Shuman stated that the educational and general budget was well within range, with no issues. She noted that there was no indication that there would be a reduction or call back at this time.
Vice President Shuman reported on auxiliaries, mentioning that most would come in within the right amounts. She spoke about the negatives which included the English Language Program and Continuing Education.
Vice President Shuman spoke about investments, mentioning that the university had entered into SPIA with the state. She clarified that there was more money invested than in cash.
This item was provided for information only. No additional action was required.
Chair Kendrick asked President Delaney to speak about this item.
President Delaney stated that the Legislature would finish in April or May with a subsequent tuition recommendation to the Board of Governors. He clarified that UNF would most likely be recommending a tuition and tuition differential at the full 15 percent.
Chair Kendrick adjourned the meeting.
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At the First Second Offices: A Day in the Editorial Life
Following Gina's excellent example, I thought it might be entertaining and instructive to document how this editor spends a typical day. (Hint: buried in paper.)
What follows is a mostly honest account of Monday, April 2, 2012.
8:00 - 8:10 - arrive at office. Heat up leftover oatmeal and write an email to building manager about broken microwave (oops!)
8:10 - 8:20 - take a preliminary look at email to make sure nothing has exploded. Respond to the most urgent-looking messages. Have doubtless missed several dire emergencies; will discover this later. A delightful anticipation of future calamity sets in.
8:20 - 9:00 - finish reading thumbnails of AWAGO BEACH BABIES, Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's new book, which :01 Editorial Director Mark Siegel is editing. I started reading it on the way down to work this morning.
9:00 - 9:05 - talk to Mark about the book (it's amazing!)
9:05 - 9:15 - read through some industry blogs. As always, enjoying the hell out of the Fantagraphics tumblr. We should do something like that. In all of our copious spare time.
9:15 - 10:15 - sift through final changes to Lucy Knisley's utterly splendid RELISH, which is about to go to the printer. This book is my top priority today. Check and double-check several emails, all the old and current passes of the interior, and a running checklist that I'm keeping on this book. Detail-herding. This sort of thing is a big part of my job.
10:15 - 10:20 - check in with :01 designer extraordinaire Colleen AF Venable about RELISH.
10:20 - 10:40 - meet with our spring semester intern to discuss some recent submissions. One of them looks promising - will have to actually read this one.
10:40 - 10:41 - call home to say good morning to my husband, who was asleep when I left home this morning. He is very understanding about the gross soup pot I left soaking in the sink. Sorry!
10:41 - 10:42 - Facebook!
10:42 - 10:50 - blogs, again. Loving Drawn as always.
10:50 - 11:20 - compile the quarterly report that I send out to my colleagues at First Second and our publisher, Simon Boughton, about current sales for our recently-published books. Winter 2012 has been a strong season so far!
11:20 - 11:25 - email! Write a few notes about JERUSALEM, our new Nick Bertozzi / Boaz Yakin project. It's crazy-good, this book. It's going to blow your mind in Fall 2012.
11:25 - 11:30 - get an author's on-delivery check ready to mail, and discover we have no UPS envelopes on this floor.
11:30 - 11:35 - quick look at some of the recipes from RELISH, which our managing editor, Jill, has just reviewed.
11:35 - 11:45 - run down to the mailroom for more UPS envelopes, mail that check. I love it when I get to pay people. It's much nicer to send good news than bad.
11:45 - 11:50 - eat an orange. Nom! Check Facebook while I nom. Everybody seems to be behaving themselves.
11:50 - 12:00 - emaaaaaail. Some back and forth with Chris Duffy, the editor of NURSERY RHYME COMICS, who is working up a follow-up volume for us. Hint: this one has FAIRY TALES.
12:00 - 1:00 - monthly First Second marketing meeting. Discuss: Ebook publishing, the recent Macmillan Sales Conference, our new website design, and distribution in Canada and the UK.
QUESTION: How am I going to heat up my lentil soup (whose dirty pot repines in my sink even now) if our floor's microwave is broken?
1:00 - 1:30 - email!
Coming to terms at this point in my day that there's no way I'm making it to yoga on my lunch break. Maybe tomorrow…
1:30 - 1:50 - microwave my lentil soup downstairs in the Accounts Payable kitchen. There's a line for their super-slow microwave. It's like a different world down here in AP. Everything has a neat label on it. Everything is tidy. Everything is quiet. Makes our relatively subdued environment on the 7th floor look positively chaotic in comparison. Lentil soup never makes it above "warmish" but I give up and come back upstairs to my office to eat it anyway.
1:50 - 2:00 - eat soup at desk while catching up on email, checking Facebook, and reading an article my husband chatted me a link to about how the Supreme Court is allowing law enforcement to strip search anyone arrested for any crime, no matter what.
2:00 - 2:01 - seethe with discontent at the discovery (via, yes, industry blogs) that a beautiful book is being published by someone other than First Second. Shake impotent fist at sky, and resolve to be a good sport about it, except in the silences of my own soul.
2:01 - 2:40 - :01 weekly update meeting with Mark, Gina, and Colleen. Discuss eighty billion things including Gene Luen Yang's new book, Paul Pope's new book, and possible candidates for "To Be Continued" treatment (aka web-serialization ahead of publication)
2:40 - 2:55 - Check in with Colleen about RELISH. This book makes me hungry.
2:55 - 3:00 - quick email to Lucy about RELISH. Still hungry!
3:00 - 3:25 - weekly senior editorial meeting for all of the Macmillan Children's Publishing Group (ie, FSG, RBP, :01, HH, FF, SF). So many acronyms, you guys!
3:25 - 3:45 - personal email and Facebook while I eat an apple.
3:45 - 3:50 - jot off a quick email about TEMPLAR, our follow-up to 2010's SOLOMON'S THIEVES, and then stare at inbox and to-do list and pile of stuff on desk in utter confusion. What to do next?
[I kid. That pile is something else entirely. But it is scary, isn't it?]
3:50 - 4:15 - avoid answering this question by dint of reading industry blogs instead. Still hungry, even after apple. Eat some raisins.
4:15 - 4:40 - read the submission I discussed earlier with the intern. Totally charmed by it! Not convinced we can find a spot for it on our list, but seriously considering making an offer. Hand it to Mark for a second opinion.
4:40 - 5:10 - process some of the random paperwork that's accumulated on my desk in the last few days, including a straggling invoice for MOON MOTH, and another one for ZITA THE SPACEGIRL.
5:10 - 5:17 - begin expense report for the month of March. I use an iPhone app to file my expense reports and always worry that it looks like I'm texting my peeps instead of working. I'm working! I SWEAR!
5:17 - 5:20 - Gina calls to discuss the First Second website.
5:20 - 6:30 - back to expense report. Not the single most urgent thing on my desk but I keep incurring late penalties so I'm trying to be better about it. BORING.
6:30 - 6:45 - abandon expense report (again) to begin compiling all the changes to Jane Yolen and Mike Cavallaro's CURSES! FOILED AGAIN that I've discussed with the author and artist.
6:45 - leave office to grab ramen at some new joint up in Morningside Heights. Ciao!
Addendum as I post this on Tuesday: the ramen was delicious. And I still haven't filed that expense report.


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Kutscher, EY. The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isaiah Scroll (I Q Isaa), Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 6. Leiden: Brill, 1974.
Among the original scrolls found at Qumran, the Isaiah scroll 1QIsaa may have been the most remarkable. This scroll, containing all 66 chapters of Isaiah (along with a fragmentary version 1QIsab) dates from the last few centuries before the Common Era, while the earliest known manuscripts of the Prophets were from 916 and 895 CE. Thus there was considerable enthusiasm that a text much earlier than the MT had been found. Kutscher, however, argues that a comprehensive linguistic analysis of the scroll shows that it is actually of a later text type than that reflected in the MT. Analyzing the linguistic anomalies in the scroll, Kutscher concludes that they reflect the Hebrew and Aramaic spoken in Palestine towards the end of the Second Commonwealth. From this he suggests that the Isaiah Scroll is actually a popularized text whose language has been emended for the semi-literate masses. Further, this language seems to reflect a situation of diglossia in the Hebrew of this time period, where a "standard" dialect used for liturgical reading coexisted with a "substandard" dialect reflecting more colloquial use.
The first clues that the text is of a later type than the MT come from the orthography. One indicator is the spelling of proper names. For example, Damascus is always spelled דרמשק in the scroll, in contrast to דמשק in the MT. External sources confirm that the MT spelling is the more ancient, while the scroll's spelling can date no earlier than the last few centuries BCE. A second indicator of a late date is the increase of plene spelling with ו and to a lesser extent י.
In this period knowledge of Hebrew seems to have been decreasing as Aramaic became the colloquial language in Palestine. Knowledge of Classical Hebrew had already begun to wane at the beginning of the Second Temple period as reflected in the language of the later biblical books and the complaint by Nehemiah (13:24) that "their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language…" In its place a new dialect was developing which by the 2nd century CE had become Mishnaic Hebrew.
Aramaic seems to have been the lingua franca of the Ancient Near East from an early point, however based on 2 Kg 18:26 (= Is 36:11) in the 8th century Aramaic was not yet understood by the average Judaean. Over time, Aramaic influence grew and ultimately it became the official language of the Persian Empire. In Syria and Palestine, Aramaic seems to have also become the language of the common people, displacing Hebrew and the other local dialects. This dialect is not Imperial Aramaic, however, but Middle Western Aramaic, which branched into Galilean Aramaic, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, and Samaritan Aramaic. Aramaic seems to have finally replaced Hebrew as the common tongue by the days of R. Judah the Prince (2nd century CE). Mishnaic Hebrew seems to continue as a spoken language during this period, but it had already become a "classical" language. The period of the Dead Sea Scrolls must reflect a time in which Hebrew and Aramaic were still competing for supremacy as the common tongue.
This situation seems to be reflected in the language of the scroll. Whether consciously or unconsciously, the scribe has updated the classical language to reflect the contemporary Hebrew dialect by replacing rare words and archaic forms. The plene spelling seems to be used to aid pronunciation, especially by differentiating Hebrew from Aramaic when confusion might arise. At the same time, heavy influence of Aramaic can still be detected. Thus the scroll seems to have been produced for an audience who still had some knowledge of Hebrew, but whose primary language was Aramaic.
The scribe seems to have often substituted more familiar roots for rare words. Kutscher acknowledges that in some cases the Scroll's reading may be superior to the MT, but in general the comparative evidence suggests that the MT is most often the earlier. For instance, in Is 13:10 he emends הלל to אור 'shine'. The root הלל is not known in either Aramaic or Mishnaic Hebrew with the meaning 'to shine'. In Is 33:7 and 42:2 the root צעק is amended to זעק. This is somewhat surprising since both appear in the Bible with relatively the same frequency, but their distribution is not equal. While in the Pentateuch צעק is used almost exclusively, in Chronicles, Nehemiah, and Esther, it is זעק which is much more common. Thus זעק seems to have been much more common during the Second Temple Period.
The scribe also avoids archaic morphological forms. For instance in Is 22:2 the form הַחֹ֣מֹתַ֔יִם occurs with both a feminine and dual ending which the scribe emends to simply חומות. In Is 41:2 the nifal participle נִדָּ֖ף "driven away" is emended to נודף, the more common form in Mishnaic Hebrew for פ"נ verbs. The scribe often writes the hiphil infinitive without ה, as is common in Qumran Hebrew, such as לחיות for MT להחיות in Is 57:15. All the later dialects tend to substitute /o/ for /a/ in the imperfect forms of intransitive verbs, thus we have אפעולה for MT אֶפְעַ֖ל "I will work" (Is 43:13). This form also reflects the spread of the lengthened form of the imperfect from being strictly a cohortative to being used as a normal imperfect. This seems to have begun already in the later books such as Ezra, Daniel, and Nehemiah. Note, however, that this form did not continue into Mishnaic Hebrew.
The greatest difference between Mishnaic and Biblical Hebrew is the simplification of the verbal system. Mishnaic Hebrew no longer uses the infinitive absolute, and the infinitive construct is only used when preceded by ל. Accordingly, there is a marked tendency in the scroll to add ל to infinitives. Further, in Mishnaic Hebrew the preterite יקטל form as well as the wayyiqtol and weqatal forms have disappeared. Instead the יקטל form serves as modal and subjunctive, the קטל as the perfect, and the participle is used for the present and future. The language of Chronicles seems to already reflect this development. Note that literary Hebrew, however, preserved the waw-consecutive as late as the Maccabean Era.
Accordingly, in the scroll we often see the later verbal system. For instance, in Is 11:8 the MT וְשִֽׁעֲשַׁ֥ע יוֹנֵ֖ק is emended to וישעשע יונק, the weqatal being replaced by waw + imperfect. In Is 12:2 וַֽיְהִי־לִ֖י is emended to היהא לי, the wayyiqtol being replaced by the perfect. Sometimes the so-called prophetic perfect is emended with an imperfect as in Is 11:9 where כִּֽי־מָלְאָ֣ה הָאָ֗רֶץ is changed to כי תמלאה הארץ. Is 6:4 contains an imperfect to indicate continued concomitant action, but the first part of the verse establishes the time reference as past, וַיָּנֻ֙עוּ֙ אַמּ֣וֹת הַסִּפִּ֔ים מִקּ֖וֹל הַקּוֹרֵ֑א וְהַבַּ֖יִת יִמָּלֵ֥א עָשָֽׁן "Then the foundations of the threshold shook at the voice of the one calling, while the house filled with smoke". Here the scroll uses a nifal perfect והבית נמלא עשן.
While the language is updated, the scribe also seems to have attempted to avoid ambiguity between Hebrew and Aramaic features in order to aid the reader. For instance, we constantly find the spelling לוא rather than לא for the negative particle to emphasize the Hebrew /lō/ against Aramaic /lā/. Similarly is the spelling יואמר to indicate Hebrew /yōmar/ against Aramaic /yēmar/, etc. We also find cases where the scribe seems to have avoided genuinely Hebrew roots because of their similarity to Aramaic roots. For example, in Hebrew both הן and הנה are presentative particles, but in Aramaic הן = אם 'if'. Thus the scribe has consciously avoided the use of הן to limit confusion.
However, the influence of Aramaic on the language is impossible to avoid completely. Aramaic influence is particularly strong with nouns and pronouns. For example עלוהי for עליו "upon him", and Aramaic גופן /guwpnā/ for Hebrew גפן /gεfεn/ "vine". Influence is also seen in the verbs, for example מהסיר for Hebrew מסיר reflects Imperial Aramaic in which the ה of the hafel appeared in the participle.
Another example is the 2fs form קטלתי instead of קטלת. This form appears in the Bible as a Ketib and perhaps once in the Song of Deborah where it is usually taken as an archaism. Kutscher argues, however, that here the form is an Aramaism. In fact, it occurs primarily in Jeremiah and Ezekiel, two late books under Aramaic influence. This seems to be an interesting phenomenon that is somewhat regular, early forms that were common to Hebrew and Aramaic have fallen out of Hebrew, only to be reintroduced at a later stage from Aramaic, where they have been conserved. This seems to hold true for the 2fs pronominal suffix כי- as well.
Lastly, there are several features which suggest a situation of diglossia in the Hebrew of the time period. A higher "standard" dialect seems to have been maintained for the liturgical reading concurrent with a colloquial "substandard" dialect. For instance, the scroll has several cases of the imperfect pausal form when the position in the clause does not warrant it, such as אכרותה for וְאֶכְרֹת in Is 37:24, etc. Such "pausal" forms are also found in good Rabbinical manuscripts as well as the transliterations of Origen and Hieronymus, and Palestinian Christian Aramaic where it must be a result of Hebrew influence. This suggests that forms such as תקתולו were actually accented penultimately in the colloquial Hebrew of the Second Temple period. Thus, while the synagogue readings retained the ultimate accent, it was gradually replaced by penultimate in the colloquial speech.
Along these same lines are the form of the 2ms perfect and 2ms pronominal suffix. The transcriptions in Origen's Secunda reflect the Hebrew forms קָטַלְתְּ and דִּבָרָךְ in contrast to the MT forms קָטַלְתָּ and דִּבָרֶךָ. Kahle argued that the former are the original Palestinian forms, the latter the creation of the Tiberian Masoretes under Arabic influence. However, Bergsträsser pointed out that we must differentiate between Biblical Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew in this regard, as the suffix /-āk/ is only found in Mishnaic texts. Kutscher suggests that the two types of Hebrew existed side by side. The standard form was /-kā/ which was carefully preserved in the liturgy, while the colloquial form was /-āk/ (apparently influenced by Aramaic). Like Qumran Hebrew in general, the scroll shows many cases of the כה- personal suffix and תה- verbal ending, demonstrating its age. It would not be surprising, however, that the Jews who read for Origen's transcription did not use (and perhaps did not even know) the standard pronunciation.
A final example comes from the segholates, particularly the *qutl forms which become qitol in Tiberian Hebrew. The LXX transliterations reflect either qotel or qotol, which also seems to be the pronunciation in the scribe's dialect. In contrast, the Secunda (3rd century CE) reflects the form qotl exclusively without an epenthetic vowel, while Hieronymus (4th -5th century CE) reflects only a form qotel. The chain qutl > qotol > qotl > qotel hardly seems possible. In fact, the Secunda form qotl is barely different than the original *qutl. Thus Kutscher suggests that again we are dealing with different dialects. The form in the Secunda is more ancient than that in the LXX, even though it is chronologically later. It is hard to tell which was the standard form, but most likely it was the LXX – Hieronymus – TH form qotel > qitol.
The linguistic structure of the scroll clearly points to the end of the Second Temple Period. The most telling characteristic is the use of ה in the hifil participle. Since this is a feature of Imperial Aramaic that has fallen out of use in all the later dialects the scroll seems to date no later than the 1st Century BCE. Since the main purpose of the plene spelling seems to be differentiating the Hebrew pronunciation and forms for an audience who primarily spoke Aramaic, and since this seems to be the overall character of the scroll, Kutscher suggests that this is a "popular" version of Isaiah meant for the semi-literate masses. As such, it must date from a time when Hebrew was still more or less understood by said masses, which best fits the period before the destruction of the Second Temple. Interestingly, the Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint also seem to be "popular" texts.
How then can the MT, a much later text, be superior to the LXX, Sam P, and Isaiah Scroll? Kutscher argues that the same distinction is found between the Greek papyrii found in Egypt and the Medieval manuscripts. The difference is between popular texts used for home study and the standard text carefully preserved in the Temple and centers of learning. The MT is a descendent of the standard text in contrast to these popularized versions.
6 Comments on "Kutscher, EY. The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isaiah Scroll (I Q Isaa), Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 6. Leiden: Brill, 1974."
February 13, 2009 at 1:51 am
I assume that when you say the 2ms form in -ti, you really mean the *feminine*, as the masculine ends consistently in -ta, often reflected in the orthography as well. The -ti in the feminine also shows up in the vocalization in Song of Songs 4:9 (presumably the vowel survived because it isn't at the end of the word).
It might be worth noting that the Samaritan pronunciation of these suffixes is also -ta for masculine and -ti for feminine, and also inconsistently shown in the orthography, though the vocalizations are carefully preserved. The ך suffix, however, is -ak (or -ek, e.g. in words like אליך) for both genders; I believe the Samaritan Pentateuch always has ך on those occasions where the Masoretic has כה.
You may be interested in looking at my arrangement of a Samaritan Pentateuch opposite the Masoretic Pentateuch with the differences highlighted; it can be useful in noticing some of these differences; links are on my website.
April 6, 2017 at 9:15 am
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- The version number should be a string. A floating point number will work with distutils, but most other tools will fail.
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- Jakub Wilk
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- Scott Colby
2.4 (2018-08-15)
- Get rid of the tests that rely on HTML scraping, it's too brittle.
- Update to use pypi.org instead of pypi.python.org [Andreas Lutro, Lennart Regebro]
- Added -n command line option to set the minimum rating needed for pyroma to return success, useful in scripts. [Scott Colby]
2.3.1 (2018-05-28)
- Fixed #12: Installation fails with a non-UTF8 locale under Python 3. [ericof, 4383, regebro]
2.3 (2017-11-28)
- Check that a classifier specifies the project license. [4383]
- Dropped support for Python 2.6, 3.3 and 3.4.
- Fixed a unicode issue [gotcha]
- Stopped recommending places to keep documentation.
2.2 (2016-10-26)
- Removed the TestSuite rating. I decided it was too close to looking at code quality. Pyroma no longer cares if you have tests or not.
- Fixed #36: PyPI now requires https.
2.1 (2016-10-18)
- #35: Support for PEP-440.
2.0.2 (2016-03-06)
- Faked the __name__ variable to allow you to have a "if __name__" construct in the setup.py.
2.0.1 (2016-03-06)
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2.0.0 (2016-02-28)
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2.0.0b2 (2015-11-09)
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2.0.0b1 (2015-11-08)
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1.8.3 (2015-11-08)
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1.8.2 (2015-06-14)
- Do not complain that the version number should be a string, when it is a basestring. [maurits]
1.8.1 (2015-04-27)
- This is what happens when you don't run the tests after merging.
1.8 (2015-04-27)
- More robust rating. [Jeff Quast]
- Closed #24.
1.7 (2014-10-19)
- Package name lookup is now case insensitive. [Dmitry Vakhrushev]
- Fixed yet another error in return value. [Dmitry Vakhrushev]
1.6 (2014-04-17)
- Fixed issue #17: Integration with zest.releaser stopped working.
- Fixed issue #18: Pyroma returns the rating as an exit code, this was a mistake. It now returns 0 on success, 1 on incorrect options and 2 if the rating is below 8.
- Fixed issue #19: Implementing a custom test class counts as having tests.
- 8: Philadelphia is now considered a "success" based on practical experience.
1.5 (2013-10-18)
- Fixed issue #13: Pyroma would fail if there was no description.
- Dropping support for Python 3.1. It still works, but it is unsupported.
- Added support for command line options, implementing #14 and #15.
1.4 (2013-05-29)
- Issue #13: Pyroma would fail when checking a package name if no source distribution could be found.
- Added a check that the package has a source distribution on PyPI.
1.3.1 (2013-05-29)
- Issue #11: pyroma would fail if long_description was a non-string.
- zest.releaser now only runs Pyroma on Python packages.
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1.3 (2013-03-15)
- Added a test to make sure the version number is a string.
- Made sure errors were printed also when a fatal error was encountered.
- Better log messages.
- The zest.releaser hook is now done before tagging, as it's more useful there. Especially in conjunction with check-manifest.
- Having no long_description no longer causes pyroma to fail.
1.2 (2013-03-06)
- Removed the running of tests. I always found it a bit iffy, and getting rid of it solved a lot of issues. Pyroma is now focused solely on packaging quality.
- A package on PyPI with several versions will no longer return an error.
- Now looks for documentation on pythonhosted.org or readthedocs.org.
- Adds a hook for zest.releaser, so it can be run after doing the checkout, before uploading to PyPI.
1.1 (2013-03-05)
- Better handling if there is no package data, for example if setup.py doesn't call setup() unless you run it as the "__main__" script.
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1.0 (2013-03-05)
- Support for Python 3.3
- Added test for PEP 386 compliance.
0.9.3 (2011-03-17)
- It's now using a ProxyStub for the PyPI xmlrpclib during tests.
- Removed the Dependency rating.
- Added a rating that runs tests, to see if they run. This will also take care of checking for dependencies.
0.9.2 (2011-03-13)
- Commented out the dependency test, it was too unreliable.
- Fixed the ReST.
- Python 3 support.
0.9.1 (2011-03-08)
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