text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Kaplan International Colleges / Al rowdah academy Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Kaplan International Colleges / Al rowdah academy Goto page Previous 1, 2 Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> United Arab Emirates View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message iggybJoined: 19 Aug 2012Posts: 36 Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:32 pm Post subject: Just got the primary contract. Noticed something interesting: Quote: IAT may, from time to time, issue, amend or re-issue benefits, policies and procedures pertaining to the better conduct of its busines. It is the duty of all staff to know, abide and be governed by these policies and procedures. Should there be a difference between this Employment Contract and the IAT's policies and procedures contained in the IAT's Human Resources Policies and Procedures Manual, the Manual will prevail. Is that standard in the UAE? It plainly says - your contract means nothing if we decide we want to change it because we need to. Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:08 pm Post subject: iggyb wrote: JIt plainly says - your contract means nothing if we decide we want to change it because we need to. That's how I read it... I normally worked for government institutions and thus was contract was ultimately with the Ministry... and I always assumed that meant that they could pretty much do as they want. It is up to you if you want to trust this gang... VS Back to top iggybJoined: 19 Aug 2012Posts: 36 Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:51 pm Post subject: Nothing I've seen has Kapland written on it. The recruiter was not Kapland and I've had no problems with them - and many of the problems I've read in this thread have to do with the recruiter. Of course, I am no in country yet trying to find housing on the fly... The contract is with Institute of Applied Technology and at Al Rowdah Academy in Ras Al Khaimah. And this website seems to say Kapland is Al Rowdah http://www.kic.org.uk/pathways/what-we-do/our-colleges/al-rowdah-academy But I don't see Ras Al Khaimah listed as a campus...Maybe the website hasn't been updated? It is easy to get lost in the alphabet soup...IAT, ADVETI, ACTVET... And from what someone wrote above, apparently the lines of communication don't clear up sometimes even when you get to the specific schoool. But, I survived Korea - where I might be pulled from a class and put in a new one without notice. Had that happen on the fly during class hours once - removed from one classroom and placed in another with no explanation and just told to teach... Anyway, earlier in the application process, I was told I'd be with ADVETI and teaching adults needing to improve their English to get into university. But, looking around here, it seems this Academy and IAT are for high school students. I teach high school in the US with low motivated students in general. I spent most of my career teaching in Korea - from pre-school to adults - including Korean teachers (and doctors are not always the best patients). So, no big deal with the change in students. I've been applying to jobs involving all ages. I understand the ministry is hiring to fill all its institutes. And in public schools in Korea, where I just returned from, they don't tell you what level of school you'll be teaching until the end of orientation week once you are in country... Basically, Korea has either made me - or proven that I am - flexible (can take a beating). In a perfect world, I'd love to teach at a school near the beach in the lush tropics with a clasroom packed with technology and rows of eager students with gum drop smiles who are never misbehaved and do exactly what I want them to do... ...but my degree and training says I accept teaching American teenagers......And I've taught just about everything in ESL except straight college courses... The only vital thing is that I get paid and not cheated. I didn't have the first one happen at one hakwon that was going bankrupt. Didn't have the 2nd at any of the hakwons I worked at (though the cheating was usually a nickle here - a dime there - and not enough to quit). Did prefer the public schools in Korea where such nonsense didn't take place... So, overall, despite some clear warning signs, I'll jump in with both feet here. Not head first - I at least see what could be coming. It is late in the hiring season. I want to get my foot in the door in a new region outside East Asia. I have money in the bank to handle a worst case/need to exit situation. And my wife really wants me to start pulling down a paycheck... Back to top lord dobbinJoined: 26 Nov 2009Posts: 11 Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:28 pm Post subject: So your contract is, essentially, to do whatever they decide, now and at any date in the future? Back to top iggybJoined: 19 Aug 2012Posts: 36 Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:52 pm Post subject: That is how I read it. It was pretty clear. And VS seems to say it is standard with the ministry... At least in bad hakwons in Korea, they pretended your contract meant something. And thankfully in Korea, over time, the Labor Board started behaving that the contracts (and country's labor laws) actually meant something - and started backing up employees. Again, if this were in Korea, I'd pass on the contract immediately, but even with all the things I've read about Kapland here, they don't say these institutes break the primary contract terms (even if the contract says they could if they felt like it)... Back to top lord dobbinJoined: 26 Nov 2009Posts: 11 Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 5:36 pm Post subject: well, best of luck whatever, and there's always an airport a taxi drive away. 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ECO:nomics: Clean-tech Funds Yielding Poor Returns
Joseph A. Dear, Chief Investment Officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System talks about the the performance of his clean-tech energy fund which has so far returned a loss and how that might affect future investments.
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7 Celebrity Weddings to Be Excited About
Jessica and Eric's wedding is over: Are George and Amal far behind?
-- intro: On Saturday night, Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson tied the knot after four years and two children. To Simpson, it was a long time coming: "We need to get married," she told "Good Morning America" in January. "I already feel like we're an old married couple!" Yes, the festivities may be over now, but don't worry: plenty of other stars will be walking down the aisle soon. Here's who else may be saying "I do" sooner rather than later!
quicklist: 1 title: George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin text: The impossible has happened: George Clooney is officially engaged, and his wedding, big or small, will make waves in Hollywood. As much as we'd love to see Amal Alamuddin in a gorgeous wedding gown, it's possible that this super-private couple will keep things low-key. One possibility: Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford will be on hand to help them celebrate, as they helped the couple toast their engagement. media: 23478086
quicklist: 2 title: Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade text: Both Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade had a blast at their engagement party in March, but surprisingly, it's the NBA star who's most excited about the details of their wedding. "This is, like, his princess moment," Union told Ellen DeGeneres. "He's waited for this for a long time. He's been hoarding bridal magazines. He's very ready." Union added that the few guests that they're inviting will enjoy a variety of musical selections, from the O'Jays to Ariana Grande, and yes, before they say "I do," both stars will be signing a prenuptial agreement. media: 21302797
quicklist: 3 title: Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy text: Jenny McCarthy made a huge deal of her engagement to "Blue Bloods" star Donnie Wahlberg (though with a ring like that, who wouldn't?!), but it seems their wedding will be pretty small. "A perfect wedding for me would be Jenny, myself, and our three boys," McCarthy told Us Weekly recently, adding that they might elope. media: 23346825
quicklist: 4 title: Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy text: Two of the Olsen girls are engaged, but Mary-Kate's nuptials to Olivier Sarkozy will be first, according to her sister, Elizabeth. This couple has been private about their relationship, but if they do have a wedding, not only is Olsen's twin sister, Ashley, likely to be on-hand, but also, her fiance's brother, former French president Nicholas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni. Here's hoping the bride's chooses a vintage designer dress to match her 1953 Cartier engagement ring. media: 22725689
quicklist: 5 title: Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher text: In February, the news broke that former "That '70s Show" co-stars Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher were engaged. Then, a few weeks later, it was revealed that the happy couple was expecting their first child together. This is definitely a couple that knows how to goof around and have a good time (remember their moment on the Kiss Cam?), so it's safe to assume that their wedding will have elements of fun. But will they wed before baby? media: 23033030
quicklist: 6 title: Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross text: Between the bride, her sister, and the groom's mother (Evan Ross's mother is singer Diana Ross), this promises to be this year's most musical wedding. It could also be one of the most lavish: The couple's March engagement bash had a white feather and fur theme, and was partially planned by the groom's mother. media: 21530426
quicklist: 7 title: Allison Williams and Ricky Van Veen text: Between Allison William's family (her dad is Brian Williams) and work (she's one of the stars of the HBO series, "Girls"), the guest list would be stacked enough. But add in her and College Humor creator Ricky Van Veen's friends John Mayer, Katy Perry, Seth Meyers and more, this could be one of the most starry weddings this year. media: 22696756


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알토대학 Lauri Malmi 교수 연구팀이 12월 11일 KAIST에서 아래 세미나를 진행합니다.
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Talk 1 by Professor Lauri Malmi
"Advancing programming education with educational software tools"
Talk 2 by Lassi Haaranen 연구원
"Using Interactive Online Programming Exercises with Acos"
시간: 12월 11일(화) 오후 4시 – 5시 30분
* 세미나 관련 문의처 : 변상명 연구원 (KAIST SW교육센터 운영팀, email@example.com, 042-350-6022)
Advancing programming education with educational software tools
Lauri Malmi, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland
Learning programming skills requires a lot of practical exercises and feedback on them. On the other hand, introductory programming courses are often large and labor intensive for teaching faculty. In Aalto University we have therefore developed many different software tools to provide automatic feedback for students on their programming and algorithmic exercises, and to support their learning process by using various interactive visualization tools. Such tools have been applied in our programming courses, each having annually many hundreds of students, since early 1990's.
In this talk I present an overview of our current online solutions to support programming education, as well as some wider perspective of this technological field. I will demonstrate some tools and environments, and discuss pedagogical principles how we apply them in large courses, based on our 25+ year experience. I will also discuss some of the empirical research which we have carried out when testing various solutions for automatic assessment, program and algorithm visualization and supporting gamified approaches in our large courses. In this research we have analyzed their impact on students' learning results, motivation and studying practices. Finally, I also consider teachers' perspective how using such tools affects their work.
Followed by this, PhD student Lassi Haaranen presents further demonstration of easily accessible interactive tasks.
Using Interactive Online Programming Exercises with Acos
Acos is an online service that offers small exercises focused on teaching programming. It enables teachers to add a variety of different programming exercises and other learning activities into their courses. In this talk, I introduce Acos and how it operates on a general level. Additionally, I showcase different types of online learning activities. I also discuss how to add learning activities offered by Acos to one's courses either by using them as standalone exercises or incorporating them into existing learning management systems. Finally, I demonstrate how to create new learning activities and implement new types of content into Acos.
Lauri Malmi is a professor of computer science at Aalto University since 2001. He is leading Learning + Technology research group (LeTech) whose main research area is computing education research. The foci of the group include development and evaluation of advanced learning environments and learning tools for programming education, especially tools for automatic assessment and feedback, program and algorithm simulation and visualization, and gamified approaches to learning programming. The group launched a MOOC in introductory Scala programming in 2014. Malmi's additional research interests include qualitative investigations of how students understand programming concepts and processes. Malmi has been leading the national Center of Excellence in Education at Helsinki University of Technology in 2001-2006. Currently he is the chair of Aalto Online Learning project (https://onlinelearning.aalto.fi/), a large strategic university level initiative (2016-2020) which develops novel learning resources, tools, pedagogical models and concepts for online and blended learning settings in the whole university. He is also the PI of a national level government spearhead project (Smart learning environments and their content production, 2018-2020) which seeks to disseminate learning tools and rich interactive content based on them in computer science, mathematics and physics.
Malmi has chaired several international conferences in computing education research (Koli Calling 2004, 2008 and International computing education research conference ICER 2017-2018). He is a member of the editorial board in IEEE Transactions of Learning Technologies, and a regular columnist in ACM Inroads. He has been the board member of SEFI Engineering Education Research working group since 2009. He has been leading several international doctoral consortia in computing education research and he has continuous interest in improving research training in computing and engineering education research.
Lassi Haaranen is currently finishing his Ph.D in Aalto University's department of computer science. He is interested in the use of computer games in computing education. His recent publications explore the relationship between gaming communities and exposure to computer science. Additionally, he has published articles related to technical issues that computing educators face when using different software solutions. He received Bachelor's degree in Media Technology from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, and Master's degree in Media Technology from Aalto University investigating gamification in computer science education.
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Welcome to Santarchy, the original resource for global Santacon events.
Each December Santas visit cities around the world, engaging in a bit of Santarchy as part of the annual Santacon events.
It all started back in 1994 when several dozen Cheap Suit Santas paid a visit to downtown San Francisco for a night of Kringle Kaos organized by the Cacophony Society. Things have reached Critical Xmas and Santarchy is now a global phenomenon.
Check out our Santarchy FAQ.
You'd better watch out! Santa's coming to town!
PLEASE NOTE: We are not associated with any commercial Santacon websites that are attempting to cash in on Santarchy. The Santacon events have always been advertising-free events without sponsorships.
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Former C.W. Post coach Tom Galeazzi dead at 75
Even as his winning percentage improved, Tom Galeazzi never had the desire to coach big-time college basketball. It was enough for him to ply his trade on the local level, compiling a record of 775-336 at three Long Island colleges en route to the New York State Basketball Hall of Fame. Along the way, he gained the admiration of those in his profession.
"I think he could have coached at any level if he wanted to,'' said George Mason coach Paul Hewitt, who started his career as an assistant under Galeazzi at C.W. Post (now called LIU Post) and coached Georgia Tech to the 2004 NCAA final.
"If I had to compare him to somebody, I'd compare him to Jim Boeheim,'' Hewitt said, referring to the longtime Syracuse coach.
Galeazzi, an East Moriches resident, died in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Saturday of a heart attack at 75. He would have appreciated the comparison. He grew up in Syracuse and played in college at Cortland, and those upstate roots remained important to him as his Division II team at Post played non-conference games against mighty Syracuse over the years.
But Galeazzi's heart -- and success -- remained on the local scene. "He was a local legend,'' said Joe Castiglie, who assisted Galeazzi at Post. Galeazzi spent 25 years at Post, and his teams made nine NCAA Tournament appearances, with one trip to the Elite Eight.
"A lot of people win games because they have more talent,'' said Joe Pellicane, who coached Dowling and had a rivalry with Galeazzi. "The real coaches take their talent to the highest level. I believe Tom always did that.''
Galeazzi started his career in 1966 at Suffolk Community College in Selden, then went to Farmingdale, a two-year institution at the time, in 1970.
Eugene Farry, a teammate at Cortland, replaced Galeazzi at Suffolk and coached against his Farmingdale teams. "He seemed to have a knack to have his teams at the three-quarter mark early in the season,'' Farry said. "He was an outstanding coach.''
Area coaches turned to Galeazzi for advice on their own programs and coaching ambitions.
"Tom Galeazzi was one of the most influential coaches in the New York area for a long time. He mentored a number of us,'' said former Hofstra coach Tom Pecora, now at Fordham. "He went out of his way to help young coaches. A lot of us wouldn't be where we are today if it wasn't for him.''
Garee Bryant was one of Galeazzi's best players at Post, holding the school's career record of 1,835 points for 10 years.
"Coming in as a skinny little freshman, the fact that I was able to play right away was a testament of how hard he pushed me,'' said Bryant, the director of basketball operations at Iona. "He taught me a lot. I think that's why I am a college coach today.''
Galeazzi was a successful area businessman, once owning an ice cream franchise, and had real estate interests. But, his son Richard, of Bohemia, said, "His passion was coaching and teaching.''
Galeazzi retired from Post in 2006 and spent much of the year in Florida playing tennis on a senior circuit. He recently was elected to Post's Hall of Fame and is to be inducted in June. Gale Butler, his fiancee, said he had been working on his acceptance speech.
"He said, 'What I'm most proud of is I got to do what I love for so long. I got to make peoples' lives better. My joy was seeing them succeed.' ''
Galeazzi also is survived by another son, Robert, of Tucson, Ariz., and four grandchildren. Galeazzi is to be cremated in Florida, with a memorial service on Long Island at a future date.


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(Editor's note: The following editorial was published in The Brunswick News on July 27.)
U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-1, says the failure of the IRS to monitor recipients of low income tax credits is costing the nation billions of dollars each year - about $4.2 billion, it has been estimated. That's the amount taxpayers are paying to illegal aliens in this country, according to the Inspector General of the U.S. Treasury Department.
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As if being held captive in the backyard of a convicted rapist for nearly 20 years wasn't enough for people to process, the story of Jaycee Dugard could soon be told on the big screen by an adult filmmaker.
The actor and movie maker behind films such as "It's My Turn Bitch!," "Warning!! Pedophile Released: A Love Story" and the series "Amateur Porn Star Killer," wants to add another to his list of disturbing titles: "Abducted: An American Sex Slave -- The Jaycee Dugard Story."
Shane Ryan heads Alter Ego Cinemas and told Sacramento TV station CBS13 that he wants to tell Jaycee's story because it's sad and interesting.
"We're trying to figure out a way to do it so that it's not exploitative," Ryan to the station by phone.
Not exploitative? Just how is a man who makes low-budget, underground racy adult films going to take on the story about a girl who was kidnapped at age 11 and held for 18 years by a convicted rapist and forced to bear his children and not make it exploitative? The mere fact that Ryan jumped on the case and started looking for a way market the story is exploitative in itself.
The station talked to a child psychologist who points out the obvious.
"This is a woman who has been through so much," Dr. Debra Moore said. "It's being framed as sexual; its being framed as titillating and it misses the entire point."
Ryan hopes to have his film out by spring 2010.
See full coverage of the case on our special page.
Update: Dugard family spokesperson Nancy Seltzer tells The Associated Press that the plan to make a movie about Dugard's life is "exploitative, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind."
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Ryan later sent the following statement:
Director Shane Ryan was attacked by the media a few weeks ago when he announced production on his new movie, and was accused of making a Jaycee Dugard horror porn film.
"I think even an 8 year old can clearly see it's not a porn movie," says Ryan, "nor are we making Jaycee Dugard?s actual story and I'm very sorry she heard about it that way." Lindsay Lohan announced days later that she would like to play Jaycee in a film, which Ryan says is a "much more frightening thought" given her promiscuous party lifestyle.
In March of 2009 (months before Jaycee's discovery) Ryan said that he would be making a sex trafficking film and admitted after hearing about Jaycee and her 18 years of living in captivity that he was merely inspired, like any story teller, filmmaker or media, would be. He wanted to tell a similar situation. Ryan often tackles disturbing sexual subject matters in his films because "it scares the hell of out me and I don't understand why it happens. Sex slavery being the creepiest thing yet."
In the statement, he included a list of links to trailers for his movies.


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Louis Vuitton Men's Spring/Summer 2013 Bag Collection – Neon Take-Over
The latest Louis Vuitton Men's Collection for Spring/Summer 2013 was presented tonight in Paris. We will show you the line tomorrow, but before we do, we just had to highlight the new bag range for next season.
Kim Jones definitely adds a modern appeal to the men's range and we like the direction. Classic LV Damier patterns are mixed with premium leathers, nylons and neon colors next season. Also the styles have nicely evolved, including hiking backpacks, technical messenger bags and of course also some more elegant styles. A more subtle woven range of bags will also be released. The 'highlight' is for sure the neon yellow range, which introduces classic Louis Vuitton bag silhouettes in the color.
Keep in mind that most of these styles are actually runway pieces, meaning that they will only enter LV boutiques around the globe in very limited quantities.
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Long known for showcasing work by artists living within 50 miles of its Chestnut Hill address, Woodmere Art Museum's annual juried exhibition takes a dramatic turn in 2013. "In Front of Strangers, I Sing: The 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition," which opens this Saturday, May 25, and runs through Sept. 1, features a wide array of work by a talented group of 52 (mostly) young artists chosen by jurors Dona Nelson and Rubens Ghenov. Fifty of the 52 live in the Philadelphia area.
According to Nelson, who has taught at Temple's Tyler School of Art for 23 years, the unusual exhibition includes "very little traditional portraiture, very little traditional landscape and very little traditional abstraction."
Nelson and Ghenov, both acclaimed Philadelphia artists, curated a cohesive survey of contemporary themes and ideas being explored in Philadelphia today; selected artists include Frank Bramblett, Stephanie Bursese, Anthony Campuzano, Virginia Fleming, Ryan Foley, Jennifer Packer, Dani Frid Rossi, Camille Schefter, Matthew Sepielli, Leslie Stahl and more.
"Some of the most interesting work in Philadelphia is being made in the artist collectives of places like Fishtown, and Dona and Rubens have captured that exciting, new energy," said William R. Valerio, the Patricia Van Burgh Allison Director and CEO of Woodmere. "This is totally different from anything Woodmere has shown before."
In conjunction with the juried exhibition, some of Nelson's and Ghenov's own work will be on view, and the artists will select thematically related objects from Woodmere's extensive collection for public display.
Juror Dona Nelson, who makes big paintings that echo the physicality of Abstract Expressionism, has created paintings that are included in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the M.I.T. Collection, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and Woodmere Art Museum.
In an interview with the Local, Nelson said, "This show does look different than it has in the past because the art works are not necessarily grounded in representational drawing and painting, although we do have a strong example of plein-air painting, a big oil painting of a cemetery here in Philadelphia, painted by Nate Zeidman, who grew up in Philadelphia and went to school at Tyler as an undergraduate and is going to UCLA for graduate school. He is 22 or 23 years old and is already a fine painter…
"To sum up, I would just say that our selections address some of the conceptual complexity of image-making in 2013, but our main desire as jurors was to make an exciting exhibition that is enjoyable to see and to think about…
"I invited everyone I could think of to apply for the show, and we had nearly 600 applications. Some intended to apply, but forgot about it or something, and missed the deadline … There are many young people in the show because it was open to graduate students, and sometimes more established artists don't want to apply for juried shows. They have their regular galleries and other means of getting work out."
The exhibition's other curator, Rubens Ghenov, is also an artist and professor. He currently teaches at Tyler School of Art but has also taught at University of the Arts, and next year he'll teach at both Tyler and La Salle University. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Ghenov immigrated to the U.S. in 1989.
He received a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, both in painting. In his own work, Ghenov employs various media including paint, found objects and sound. He has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions locally and nationally.
In an interview with the Local last week, Ghenov insisted that the new Woodmere exhibition "has a type of spirit, a system of voices that narrate this vertebrae we together concocted through our selection. It has not been a dry selection of the best of the best, necessarily…
"Secondly I find that the influx of artists in Philadelphia is constantly changing for a myriad of reasons. People come to study here and end up staying; others migrate to Philly from other regions for bigger and cheaper studios; some come seeking a different type of community, others to stay closer to New York but not live in it. Some fall in love with the experimental lure of making and showing art here … The list goes on and on. Philadelphia has a vast potential that still largely remains, I think, untapped, but some notice it and lunge for it. This influx coupled with our two distinct perspectives made for a pretty diversified grouping…"
When asked if he and Nelson deliberately sought out the work of young artists, Ghenov replied, "Not at all. We responded to the work through the jurying process. Though there were a number of strong artists and works that came up, we stuck to the things that interested and intrigued us which simultaneously were developing the thematic voice(s). I think there was an ampler pool of younger candidates making the selection accrue in this manner. Of that, though, I'm not sure. But when there's a mixture of older and younger artists, it made for a more compelling exhibit."
Woodmere Art Museum is housed in a 19th-century stone Victorian mansion on six acres at 9201 Germantown Ave. Woodmere opened its doors to the public in 1940. The property and nucleus of the permanent collection are the benefactions of Charles Knox Smith (1845-1916), who wished "to awaken the spirit of, the appreciation of, and the knowledge of art … in the City of Philadelphia and surrounding territory." Today, the permanent collection consists of more than 3,000 works of art, celebrating the art and artists of Philadelphia.
For more information, visit woodmereartmuseum.org or call 215-247-0476.


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The new shot, courtesy of 43 Rumors, gives us the largest view yet of the new OM-D series camera that's supposedly set for release this summer. Up until now we'd only seen a few detail shots. So far we've heard that the camera will have the fastest autofocus of any mirrorless shooter, and it supposedly carries the same 16-megapixel micro four thirds sensor as the excellent Panasonic GX1. [MLZ Photo via 43 Rumors via The Verge]


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An Open Letter to Kim Jong-Un
Dear President Kim Jong-Un
Supreme Leader of North Korea
We write this letter to you to raise a number of points that would demonstrate the depth of international concern about your country. In so doing, our wish is to help you improve your country's image, strengthen your leadership and help the people of North Korea.
2013 can be a time of opportunity for you to open a door that has long been shut without regard to the shifts in the world around. You can start off by reworking some policies and practices perpetuated since your father's time—for the wellbeing of your own people.
More than 200,000 men, women and children are still being held in prisons and gulag camps in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Most of them have been incarcerated for political reasons and are not guilty of any internationally recognised crimes. Prisoners have to endure conditions that resemble the worst forms of human rights abuse and many die of starvation.
The human rights of the people of North Korea are routinely violated, despite its ratification of numerous international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
People are living in constant fear and insecurity, knowing if they do not follow the government-scripted codes of conduct it could result in the loss of their freedom, basic human rights, and their lives. They are subject to enforced disappearance, "unfree labour", torture and execution.
The DPRK government stands guilty of crimes against humanity and flagrant violations of international laws. It is accused of arresting people on false premises and giving harsh penalties for small offences.
Millions of North Koreans are suffering from hunger, malnutrition and inadequate health care. According to our understanding, the DPRK government has the capacity and resources to offer a minimum level of care to people but apparently it is neglecting it.
Let's face it. People's fundamental rights to freedom of expression and opinion and freedom of religion are not acknowledged in your country. Access to and sharing of information is restricted. The voices of dissent are ruthlessly suppressed. Whatever we know and hear about North Korea—considered to be the most tightly closed-off region in the world—come through the filter of a state-controlled media.
Food Shortages and Famines
In March 2011, a joint UN survey estimated that over six million people in North Korea urgently required international food assistance to avoid famine. The World Food Programme called it the worst famine in a decade. Several NGOs and media outlets reported hunger-related deaths.
Some of the causes of the famine are harsh winters, destruction of harvests through floods, economic mismanagement, and the government's discriminating food policies that favour the military, government officials, and other loyal groups.
Since 1995 the United States has provided North Korea with over $1 billion in help, about 60 percent of which was given as food aid and 40 percent for energy, according to a Congressional Research Service report in 2008. The aid was suspended halfway through due to a lack of transparency in aid distribution and the escalating tensions caused by the North's nuclear missile tests and restrictions on international monitors.
More recently, reports surfaced about a 'hidden famine' in the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae, killing up to 10,000 people so far. People were so desperate to ward off starvation that incidents of cannibalism rose dramatically. Yes, it is hard to believe in this modern age but 'numerous testimonies' have confirmed the shocking findings.
The international community is always willing to provide assistance to a people in need. But it is ironic that when you ask for food aid, the first question that comes to their mind is: will it be really delivered to the people for whom it is given, or it will be manoeuvred like before? They fear the fund might be used for military purposes.
Torture and Abuse of Human Rights
Individuals arrested on criminal charges often face torture by officials aiming to enforce obedience and extract bribes and information. Common forms of torture include sleep deprivation, beatings with iron rods or sticks, kicking and slapping, and enforced sitting or standing for hours. Prisoners are subject to pigeon torture, in which they are forced to cross their arms behind their back, are handcuffed and hung in the air tied to a pole, and finally beaten with a club causing loss of circulation or limb-atrophy that often leads to death within weeks.
Guards sometimes rape female detainees. One study done in 2010 found that 60 percent of refugee respondents who had been incarcerated saw a death due to beating or torture. Incidents of cannibalism were also reported in some prison camps as a result of confiscation of meat rations by prison officials.
North Korea's Criminal Code stipulates that death penalty could be applied only for a small set of crimes, but these include vaguely defined offences such as "crimes against the state" and "crimes against the people" that could be and are applied broadly. What is concerning is that your government exercises inhuman methods of torture and execution.
In 2001, a condemned inmate had got his body torn apart by guard dogs as executioners fired. Three bullets shattered his skull, splattering blood near other prisoners who were forced to watch.
According to statements of some defectors, forced abortions have also become a common practice, and if babies are born, many of them are killed, sometimes before their mothers' eyes.
Forced Labour Camps
Testimonies from escapees have established that persons accused of political offences are usually sent to forced labour camps, known as "gwalliso", operated by the National Security Agency.
The Kwan-li-so are gulags or concentration camps that, as of 2003, unlawfully detained about 200,000 North Koreans in a total of six to eight camps in remote valleys guarded by high mountains, in the country's northern provinces. The Kwan-li-so violates international laws on multiple grounds and are generally charged with various crimes against humanity such as forced internment, forced labour, torture, rape, forced abortion, starvation, and death without charge or trial.
It is unfortunate that your government still practices collective punishment, sending people to forced labour camps to work under a "guilt-by-association" system (yeon-jwa-je), where not only the offender but also his or her relatives such as parents, spouse, children, and even grandchildren have to work. Some defected guards have said that they were taught to treat prisoners as national traitors who must suffer condemnation up to three generations of their families.
These camps are notorious for their inhumane living conditions and gross human rights violations, including severe food shortages, little or no medical care, lack of proper housing and clothes, mistreatment and torture by guards, and executions.
Forced labour at the gwalliso often involves strenuous manual labour such as mining, logging, and agricultural work, all done with rudimentary tools in dangerous and harsh conditions. Death rates in these camps are reportedly extremely high.
Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Your government has criminalised leaving the country without state permission and those who leave face harsh punishment if caught, including interrogation, torture, and other penalties. Those suspected of religious or political activities, including contact with South Koreans, are given lengthier terms in horrendous detention facilities or forced labour camps with chronic food and medicine shortages, harsh working conditions, and mistreatment by guards.
Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have fled since the 1990s, and some have settled in China's Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Beijing categorically labels North Koreans in China "illegal" economic migrants and routinely repatriates them.
A number of North Korean women and girls have been trafficked into marriage or prostitution in China. Many children of such unrecognised marriages have been forced to live without a legal identity or access to elementary education, because their parents fear that if they register they would be identified by Chinese authorities and forcibly sent back home.
Government-Controlled Judiciary
Your country's judiciary system is not independent as all staff including judges, prosecutors, lawyers, court clerks and jury members are appointed and controlled by the Supreme People's Assembly. The judges remain highly vulnerable to threats from the government which can subject them to "criminal liability" for handing down "unjust judgments." The penal code, with definitions of offences and penalties often ambiguous and open to interpretation, is not also consistent with the principles of modern criminal law.
Anything done in opposition to the regime is treated as political crimes, leading to strict punishment and subjugation. When a person is arrested for political crimes, suspects are not even sent through a nominal judicial process; after interrogation they are either executed or sent to a forced labour camp, often with their entire families.
Your government uses fear by threats of forced labour and public executions to prevent dissent, and imposes harsh restrictions on freedom of information, association, assembly, and travel.
Your government periodically investigates the "political background" of the citizens to review their level of allegiance to the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WRK), and forces those who fail such assessments to leave the capital.
Military-First Policy
A strong leadership for a battered economy like yours is essential. But you seem to have chosen your father's military-first policy instead of a peaceful and diplomatic process. Your actions stand in direct contrast to your pronounced resolve to rebuild your country's moribund economic condition.
This was proven once again on Saturday (26 January) when you decided to take the path of "retaliation" in response to an American-led United Nations sanction on North Korea. You have reportedly ordered your party officials to take "substantial and high-profile state measures" to conduct a third nuclear test to show your ability to "target" the U.S. But the sanction, which was also a response to your government's December 12 rocket launching, was not uncalled-for. Carrying out such expensive and destructive experiments is not the way to boost an impoverished economy.
Last words
Dear President Kim Jong-Un, have you ever paused for a moment and considered how you really want to be remembered by your people? As a dictator? Or a people's leader? Perhaps you should. How you are remembered would be determined by how you act as a statesman.
The fact is, your treatment of your people resembles the way some former dictators used to treat their people, sending them to camps or execute them. Hitler organised the execution of the Holocaust, the systematic extermination of six million Jews and millions of other non-Aryans. Josef Stalin deliberately orchestrated the famine that claimed between 7 and 11 million lives in Ukraine and in parts of the Soviet Union. Pol Pot, through his hegemonic agrarian socialism, caused the deaths of approximately 26 percent of the total Cambodian population.
These dictators died a very disgraceful death. Not to mention, their people hated them for what they did and associated them with all that is evil and heinous. We urge you to take lesson from their fates and end all violations of human rights in your country.
We urge you to abandon the decades-long systematic pattern of human rights abuses committed by Pyongyang against its people and sincerely hope that you will create your own legacy. You can restore the North Koreans' trust in their rulers and gain their respect by upholding their human rights.
If you want to be remembered as the man who stood against the current and abandoned a brutal legacy, it is the time. Your people need democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion. We are in the 21st century and there is no room for dictatorship at the expense of precious lives and basic rights.
Your late father, Kim Jong-II, isolated your people from the modern world, so much so that those few North Koreans who managed to escape had to spend several months in special care schools to adjust themselves to the ways of the 21st century.
Whom are you trying to punish? The western world doesn't suffer from this, only your people do. Last year's rocket launch failure cost your government $850 million, enough to feed millions who are starving to death.
Women suffer the most in a famine situation; every 40 of 1000 women had died in the previous famines. They also suffer due to the gendered structure of North Korean society. Women face problems like anaemia, premature birth and haemorrhage because of vitamin deficiency.
Children also face high mortality rates. The main reason behind the deaths of infants under two is the lack of breastfeeding. A child may die because of various reasons such as prenatal, neonatal and postnatal complications. A child may die even long after it was born owing to reasons of malnutrition, infections and so on. So, a high-impact prevention policy is necessary to redress the mortality problems.
Another thing that you should look into is the violation of individual's right to privacy. Every home in your country is forced to set up a portrait of the "Great Leader" Kim II Sung and the "Dear Leader" Kim Jong II. Inspectors come on a surprise visit and hand out fines if the portraits are not well-kept. Every adult citizen must also wear a button of Kim II Sung!
It is quite ironic that since its establishment, the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea could never justify the purpose of its official name. When a country's name says it is democratic, it has a moral obligation to be so. Its leadership should work towards uplifting the democratic values and allow people to apply their choices to elect or change their own representatives. If North Korea is a democratic state, it is indeed the worst kind of it in the entire history of democracy. There can be no justification for Mao Tse-Tung—styled "people's democratic dictatorship," which is only an extended version of dictatorship sustaining repression and regimentation.
A democracy should serve its people's interests and work for their prosperity by empowering them with the power of their rights and freedom to choose their path of livelihood. The citizens of North Korea under your leadership are far from getting any such privileges. Over the years their lives have been made miserable and their rights deliberately denied.
We, on behalf of your people who have no means to express themselves, would like to pose a few questions which may provide some food for your thought:
Q.1. Being a young leader of this country, what are the ways you seek to bring the lives of the people at par with the lives of those on the other side of the DMZ?
Q.2. Do you and your regime still think you have the consent and mandate from common people to continue your job?
Q.3. In this world of globalisation, is this right to keep North Korea isolated and its people more like distant aliens away from the advancements of civilisation?
Q.4. Is it not your duty to respect the rights of your people who have obeyed your family's leadership for decades, albeit with little improvement in their living conditions?
Q.5. In what context does your leadership thinks that North Korea could be a role model for peace and humanity for the world?
Q.6. Are nuclear weapons more important than your people's prosperity? Should they remain hungry and half-fed to fuel your baseless ambitions?
Q.7. Does North Korea's age-old socialistic framework, which has no acceptance and practicability in this age of democracy, still holds the future for its people?
Mr. President, before you answer these questions, you must first think that even those whom your regime has followed as leadership models were washed over by the tides of time and their system had to be remodelled to suit the needs of a changing world.
You should analyse your position in light of that. The direction in which you and regime have being heading has outlived its relevance. You must change your direction now and democracy is all you have at the moment. You are standing at a crossroads in history and a bold decision can seal your place permanently in the heart of your people. Even with a functional democracy you can continue your lineage and continue to serve your people.
Our humble wish is that you would be able to rise to the occasion and do what must be done today or tomorrow.
On behalf of 'The Oslo Times'
Yours Sincerely,
Hatef Mokhtar
Editor in Chief
Oslo, Norway


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What Elba Esther Gordillo's Arrest Means for Mexico's Other Power Players
This Mexican union boss's arrest may mean more.
March 1, 2013 -- On Tuesday, Mexican authorities at Toluca International airport arrested Elba Esther Gordillo, the controversial president of Mexico's influential national teachers' union.
Gordillo, one of Mexico's most powerful and polarizing women, is accused by the Attorney General's Office (PGR) of allegedly embezzling nearly $200 million in funds from her union, the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE).
"The resources of unions belong to their members, not to their leaders," Mexico's president Enrique Peña Nieto said in a televised statement about the arrest the following day. "They must be used to benefit the workers."
According to the PGR, Gordillo, known in Mexico as "The Teacher" ("La Maestra"), misappropriated millions of dollars in union fees to pay for an extravagant lifestyle that included private jet flights to mansions in California, numerous plastic surgeries, and at least $3 million in luxury items from Neiman Marcus, a department store that is now notorious in Mexico thanks to the scandal.
The 68-year-old woman with a surgically puffed face and perfectly arched eyebrows supposedly received the money through three people, who, according to Jesús Murillo Karam, Mexico's Attorney General, redirected the funds to settle credit card debts and to savings accounts in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. (Gordillo, the granddaughter of a rich liquor producer from Chiapas, has said that her money is the product of a well-invested family fortune.)
"It's worth mentioning that Elba Esther Gordillo Morales declared earnings from 2009 to 2012 for 1,100,000 pesos ($88,000)," Karam said in a statement on Wednesday. "A number that is much lower than those operations and deposits cited for those same years."
Gordillo's excesses and alleged crimes have been detailed over the years by the Mexican press. She has furnished journalists, politicians, members of her constituency and union leaders with gifts that range from computers to Hummers. She's also been accused of ordering the death a dissident teacher. Yet, what surprises most political observers is that the government went after her at all.
Indeed, many commentators have voiced their doubts and concerns about the true motivations behind Gordillo's arrest.
"I hope [her arrest wasn't motivated] by merely political reasons, and that this wasn't just a stunt to seek legitimacy," Javier Tello, a political analyst said during an exchange with Leo Zuckerman in Foro TV on Tuesday.
Alberto Aziz, a professor and political researcher who writes for El Universal, shared a similar concern. "In effect, if the same criteria were applied elsewhere," he told Univision, "the government could find many other cases of politicians, union leaders, and businessmen who have committed similar crimes, so we'll have to wait and see what happens with this case."
In broad terms, the general suspicion surrounding Gordillo's detention is directly related to the troubled past of La Maestra and the PRI politcal party, and to the future of Peña Nieto's government.
For more than three decades Gordillo, a woman who was abused by her grandfather growing up and who had to start working as a teacher when she was merely 15 years old, has been a major player in Mexican politics.
The modest daughter of a traffic cop and a cleaning woman, Gordillo has led the SNTE, the largest syndicate in Latin America with more than one million members, since 1989. Back then, Carlos Salinas, Mexico's incoming president forced a regime change within the union that replaced Carlos Jonguitud, the union´s leader at the time, with La Maestra.
Gordillo, who had become a congresswoman under the protection of Jonguitud, accepted Salinas' appointment and started cultivating a relationship with PRI, largely based on questionable electoral favors (she has been referred to "Jimmy Hoffa in a dress") and on auspicious policies towards teachers. According to the OECD, 91.7 percent of Mexico's education budget is spent on teachers' salaries. In the past few years, several of these policies have been blamed for hampering Mexico's relatively poor education system.
"She was a leader that found a comfortable place in PRI's system first, and then an even better place with PAN's governments," Aziz told Univision. "PAN treated her like an ally, instead of treating her as part of a political machinery, and they gave her new privileges. When she had problems, she broke with them and created a new party [Partido Nueva Alianza], which allowed her to take advantage of the union's electoral force. This led her to win many allies among governors, senators, and representatives."
Gordillo's close ties to power contributed to her image as an "untouchable," one that Peña Nieto's administration has been quick to dismiss, according to Denise Dresser, a political analyst and professor the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
"Enrique Peña Nieto is worried to convey the image of a reformist PRI, of a different kind of PRI… and this is an extraordinary gesture," she said Tuesday on the television news show Es la hora de Opinar.
Yet, according to several commentators, the government's decision to arrest Gordillo doesn't seem to be motivated by purely democratic reasons. Particularly since on the day of her arrest she was set to attend the national meeting of the SNTE, where union leaders were going to discuss how to oppose a law that Peña Nieto signed on Monday. The law mandates a census of the nation's teachers and opens the way towards replacing those that fare poorly in standardized reviews.
"From that perspective, yes, it was a political act, and it resembles a quinazo [a Mexican political expression that refers to Carlos Salinas' arrest of the leader of Pemex's union in 1989 in what was an effort to cement his government's legitimacy]," Ricardo Raphael, an author and journalist who wrote a book about Gordillo called "Los socios de Elba Esther," told Radio Trece.
The arrest could also fulfill another job, according to various analysts. By striking a supposed "untouchable," Peña Nieto could be sending a message to other politicians and union leaders. At the very least, the actions taken against Gordillo could force powerful individuals like Carlos Romero Deschamps, the president of Pemex's union, to think twice before leading an overt opposition to coming reforms in their respective sectors.
Peña Nieto has avoided giving fodder to any of these analyses. In his statement on Wednesday, he reiterated his respect for the law and his intention to respect whatever decision the judicial branch reaches.
"Right now, there is a positive perception about the arrest," Aziz said. "Other interpretations say that this act strengthens Peña Nieto to embark on other reforms, concretely on Pemex's reform. We'll have to wait and see what happens."
Manuel Rueda contributed reporting from Mexico.


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Germany was the birthplace of psychology, and our new theme will be German "mental" words that English has adopted verbatim.
Let's face it: last week's theme was week. So rather than play it out to the 7th word, we'll cut it off early and start the new theme early. This decision displays our:
sprachgefühl (literally, "language-feeling")
- an intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate
- also, the character of a language
I thought it was water words?
Wordcrafter, you were so clever with your pun on weak!
Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary provides a word for another aspect of the "unconscious awareness" concept of yesterday's word:
Anshauung – intuition; sense awareness or perception
English rarely uses this term alone, but more often uses another term building upon it:
weltanshauung – a comprehensive view of the world and human life; the overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world
(literally, "world-view"; AHD gives "worldview" as the meaning of the term)
PS to Kalleh and arnie:
Pooh! I'll respond in kind tomorrow.
A delicious word:
schadenfreude – a malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others.
from Schaden, damage + Freude, joy. often capitalized, as it is in German.
quote:I know there was no Schadenfreude in the "week" comments.
quote:As if!
Only from Arnie!
A cheerful word:
gemütlich – warm and congenial; pleasant or friendly
(noun form gemütlichkeit – warm friendliness; amicability)
E.Y. ("Yip") Harburg, the lyricist of the movie Wizard of Oz and of many much-loved songs, including Over the Rainbow, put a twist on this word:
weltschmerz – sadness over the evils of the world; esp. as a romantic pessimism. more generally, sentimental pessimism.
literally "world pain". Often capitalized
Coined in German by the Romantic author Jean Paul (pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) in an 1827 novel, but not adopted into English until nearly 50 years later. "Weltschmerz" initially came into being as a by-product of the Romanticism movement in Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Romantic poets were a notably gloomy bunch and "Weltschmerz" aptly captures their melancholy and pessimism .
What a wonderful group of words this week. They make me want to study German!
Fahrvergnügen - driving pleasure. Used by Volkswagen in an advertising campaign
I've not checked whether OED has accepted Fahrvergnügen. And since I don't speak german, can anyone tell me what Sprachvergnugen would mean?
If it exists it would mean the pleasure of speaking. That said, it doesn't appear in my very good German Dictionary but while looking for it I came across another word that I'm sure we'll all appreciate.
Sprachverderber - a corrupter of language.
And a further one that I already knew (this board is a splendid example)
Sprachverein - a linguistic society.
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Sprachneuerer - a language reformer
Sprachregelung - prescribed phraseology
Sprachschnitzer - a grammatical blunder
Sprachshöpferisch - creative in the use of language
Isn't German wonderful ?
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I just noticed that statement in the original post. I think any Austrians who came across this board would take issue with it. Surely Vienna was where Freud and Jung practised at the turn of the last century?
Bob, I wholeheartedly agree, and I didn't even realize it until this thread. I am intrigued with words that Germans have where suitable words are not found in English. At least in America, I think we have neglected the German language. We push French or Spanish on our kids. Many schools don't even have German. What other German words are there??? I am definitely on a German word binge.
Arnie, I fear you may be right.
Well two of my favourites are Durchfall and Verstopfung, the German words for diarrhoea and constipation which translate literally as "through drop" and "blocking up".
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And you may call yourself a sprachwissenschaftler if you consider yourself a linguist. That is, if you can pronounce it.
For this word (which seems to have been much more common in the early 1900's), the etymology tells all.
katzenjammer - a hangover (also, a discordant clamor)
from Katzen = cats + Jammer = distress, wailing
Caterwaul sounded like it had similar origin, and my check says it comes from cater "tomcat" + waul "to yowl". AHD gives "1. cry or screech like a cat in heat. 2. make a shrill, discordant sound. 3. have a noisy argument."
In searching this I found a tibit on our word "chagrin", which comes to us from the french word of the same spelling. One theory is that the french got this by translating the elements of "katzenjammer" into french:
german: cats + distress = katzen + jammer
in french: cat + grimace = chat + grigner = "chagrin"
This type of borrowing, which translates the borrowed components into the their equivalent in the borrowing language, is called a loan translation.
Ending this theme with a worderful word:
torschlusspanik (literally "shut door panic") -
a sense of panic in middle age brought on by the feeling that life is passing you by
But the term has broad application. One finds it defined or applied as:
Wordcrafter, what a wonderful week of words it was!
Morgan is right; this has been an amazing week. And, you definitely saved the best for last!
I am enamored now with German words. I found one for which we have nothing similar in English: ohrwurm, translated "as a little animal (which is a symbol for a song) being in your ear and you aren't able to get rid of it". In other words, that song that you just can't get out of your head.
"Epicaricacy" - means getting pleasure from the misfortune of others. According to my source (Novobatzky & Shea) it has been around long before "schadenfreude" and has been defined in "esteemed" dictionaries. However, it has been replaced with "schadenfreude" for no apparent reason. It has Greek roots of epi (upon) + chara (joy) + kakon (evil).
"What a glorious day," shouted Tom
epicaricaciously while viewing re-runs on the Disaster Channel.
Okay, I am stumped. Why didn't this thread get locked after 60 days of not being used?
It seems that a new hit film, "Goodbye, Lenin!", has unexpectantly revived nostalgia about the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall. The article I read about this was that TV shows have tried to cash in on the ostalgie. The term (new?) is a play on the German words for "east", ost, and "nostalgia", or nostalgie.
I love Fuller's 1845 beer...and the Cubs!
quote:A follow-up, over two years later. While casting around for words for the "bookworm" thread, I found that earworm is now being used in English for the same concept. So says Word Spy.
Originally posted by Kalleh: "Epicaricacy" - According to my source (Novobatzky & Shea) it has been defined in "esteemed" dictionaries. Mr. Shea told us here: To the best of my knowledge the word first appeared in Nathaniel Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary. I think that the first edition was published in 1727 and it went through 20 or 22 subsequent editions.
In 1963 Joseph T. Shipley, a respected linguist, published the same Bailey finding in his Dictionary of Early English (earlier ed. not checked):
I can't find the ick.
Would that be the ich?
Or maybe the ik?
Wow, we now see it cited in 5 dictionaries (I have to count the Wordcraft Dictionary!). Probably more. Jesse, it is time to bite the bullet on this word!
I am doing German words this week on Wordcraftjr, and I came across this word: "traumkeller", which apparently means "dream cellar/basement."
Has anyone heard it before? I don't understand how it would be used.
I wouldn't place any reliability on a word used by Iain M. Banks in Feersum Endjinn; that's a wonderful literary tour de force, but it uses very obscure words, and mis-spellings, for an almost poetic effect.
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i am german and i have never heard the word "traumkeller" before.
Welcome Peter!
Do you live in Germany? We have no Germans aboard and would love to have one!
As for "traumkeller," I guess it isn't a legitimate word then. Thanks!
z, I told you in today's chat that I'd finally located the photocopies of the further book in which I'd found epicaricacy. I promised to send you the details.
Well, it turns out that I'd already posted it, last February, in this very thread. I'd said this:
Mrs. Bryne lists this Shipley work among her sources. Perhaps that's where she found the word.
I was looking at the 1963 edition of Shipley's book, but it appears to have first been published in 1955. The publisher is Littlefield, Adams & Co., of Patterson, New Jersey.
[quote] Bailey's Dictionary (1751) spells it epicharikaky; the accent falls on the ick.
Oh. Okay.
Reviving my favorite thread...
Of all the themes, I believe this is still my favorite because of the deliciously rich German words. I am reading "Harvard Business Review on the Mind of the Leader," which has wonderful essays on leaders and leadership. In a conversation with Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (written by Diane Coutu) and entitled, Putting Leaders on the Couch, Kets de Vries talks about senior executives being frustrated because they might not be able to reach their dreams as their career ends, and he cites one of the words we talked about here: Torschlusspanik, the panic that strikes because of the closing down of possibilities. That has always been one of my favorite words.
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Google opens up VP8 with WebM Project
You kind of knew it was going to happen but the mighty Google has open-sourced On2's VP8 codec and set it free (in the form of a BSD-style license). Don't forget to read an intro to the WebM VP8 SDK and get the code (the files). Some of the companies backing it and the ideas behind WebM are posted on the first blog entry.
So what is WebM?
WebM includes:
Wonder what MSFT and Apple are going to do? In either case, interesting times ahead for video.
Oh hai, I almost forgot, from their FAQ, some interesting points – besides the Licensing bits.
If I have a video card that accelerates video playback, will it accelerate VP8?
The performance of VP8 is very good in software, and we're working closely with many video card and silicon vendors to add VP8 hardware acceleration to their chips.
Will WebM files play on my TV, set-top box, PVR, etc.?
Stay tuned! The WebM community is working with hardware manufacturers to bring WebM support to a wide range of devices.
When will other Google products support WebM and VP8?
WebM support in Android is expected in the Gingerbread release (currently planned for Q4, 2010). We expect many other Google products to adopt WebM and VP8 as they prioritize it with their other product requirements. Keep an eye on the WebM blog for announcements.
Man, Google rocks!


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I like tequila. That means I'm excitable according to one of America's best bartenders.
New York-based cocktail maker, Steve Schneider, says you can tell a lot about a woman by her preferred poison.
"A tequila girl, she's peppery, she's spicy. And if she likes shots then she wants to party," says the former military Marine.
Vodka drinkers tend to be calorie conscious and gin women like to explore and aren't afraid of flavour.
Schneider is one of a bevy of colourful cocktail makers flown in to Queenstown to compete in the 42 Below World Cocktail Championships.
When I was invited to check out the week-long event I wasn't sure what was in store. I expected a lot of booze and my colleague warned me that things could get weird, but it wasn't until I touched down in the snowy city that I really believed it.
Men dressed in animal masks and lab coats sip cocktails, dancing to dub step as a bunch of bartenders are thrown off the second-highest bungee jump in the world.
Helicopters take us to the top of mountains for cocktail-making comps involving ingredients like Persian fairy floss, quince nectar and air-dried bacon.
Everyone is a festive mood, all the time. (That could be tied to endless supply of vodka. Seriously, it's endless).
Good bartenders are charismatic. They shake and stir with a cheeky grin "luring the women in," as Schneider puts it.
Throw the best of the bunch from around the world in a room together and you've got the heaving five-day palooza that I get to be part of.
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Verizon also includes a "Pirates" games that tests knowledge of the famous attraction.
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Hello everyone,
I have recently installed Debian on a dual boot on a macbook pro. I am a beginner so I might have screwed up somewhere.
Anyway, I have left some space out of the partitionning thinking at the time that it could be interesting for another OS later on.
Now I am thinking that was a dumb idea and wish to give that unpartitionned space (80Go) back to me debian partition (I'm assuming that /home partition)
How can I do that?
Also, while I am at it, I allocated 8go for the swap, (8go RAM) on the mac, does that make any sense?
Thanks for your answers.


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If you're like me and already have too many hobbies, look away now.
Apart from inane eBay searches, charity shops and locked unit auctions there aren't too many places that you've consistently got a shot at a bargin with. A lot of the gun auction sites basically have people selling off their pride and joy, so they're pretty clear on the upper value of their guns and rifles. That leaves the physical auction houses which are amazing troves of treasure, the Purdy, Rigby and Rolex end of things is a bit crowded but the 'Pikey' and 'Ephemera' end is where the magic happens anyway.
How many great stories are in this lot? Estimate is: $150 - $200
A build-yer-own Rigby kit AKA a 7mm Mauser with tidy wood work and a knackerd barrel, is estimated at $100-$200 sounds a bit vague as an estimate to me, run $40 up the flag pole and see if anyone salutes it. Or thinking again what about "re-barrel it and start competing in Service Rifle!" Go on, you know you want to.
Pre-war Nazi Ammo? Est. at a measly $50-$80 the clips alone are worth that.
[He tells himself]
[He tells himself]
I was pretty taken with one of these for £200 the other day. If it opens at $30 (£19.36) in front of the wrong crowd it's not going to have too many takers. If I was in Florida I'd be all over it.
As the buyers at the gun auction are squabbling over the high-end stuff a lot of 'working guns' fall through the cracks, but wether you're in the market for a dinner-getter or an heirloom, searching for 'hunt'-ing ephemera is lots of fun and will occasionally throw up real bargain-of-a-lifetime finds like this stunning signed photo....
Look everyone, its the boring one out The Avengers and him off the coffee ads. Yours for £4!
What did I bid on? Not telling.
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