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The iPad mini was only available to buy yesterday but it has already found its way into a car dashboard. The guys from Soundwaves in Tampa, Florida were really on the ball with this one by pre-fabricating the necessary dashboard mods all ready for the iPad mini's launch.
Once they got their hands on an iPad mini yesterday morning, it was all systems go. To make this project even more interesting, the guy's filmed the install and testing for your viewing pleasure. The iPad mini is fully removable too so no need to worry about leaving it behind when you leave your car.
The prospect of having an iPad mini as your in car entertainment system is certainly one that whets my appetite. It would probably be better to wait for the iPad mini with LTE to enable the GPS features as well as the possibility to access streaming services as well all as everything else an iPad mini can do. Looking at this set up, using an iPad mini as an in-car entertainment system seems like the perfect solution.
Would you fancy having an iPad mini as your in car entertainment system?
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From The Files Of January 20, 1994
Countians are once again digging out from under a major snowstorm which began early Monday morning and dumped 20-24 inches on the area before ending late Monday evening. Some say it brought back less than fond memories of last year's March storm. The storm caused all the usual cancellations and closings on both Monday and Tuesday.
Forbes Road Lady Cardinal star Kari Zittle set a new school scoring record in helping Forbes defeat Fannett-Metal 85-62 in a Sideling Hill League game played January 14. Zittle, a senior, broke Jamie House's school record of 1,577 points set from 1989 through 1992 with a patented rebound followup shot at the 3:47 mark of the second quarter. Zittle finished the game with 21 points, bringing her career total to 1,586 points.
Gerald R. Peck of McConnellsburg was named the Mc- Connellsburg Volunteer Fire Co.'s Fireman of the Year at the company's 32nd banquet held Saturday, January 15 at the firehall.
Johnnie Curfman of Three Springs was hard hit by the treacherous weather conditions on Monday around noon when a strong wind collapsed a roof of the barn of his dairy farm, causing damage to his harvester, two tractors, feed grinder, mixer wagon and the hay stored in the barn.
The wedding of Barbara Cromer to Edwin Dolan Jr. was held May 29. The bride is the daughter of R. Boyd and Freda Cromer of McConnellsburg. The groom is the son of Edwin and Shirley Dolan Sr. of Edgewater, Md.
Birth at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shoemaker of Waterfall.
Deaths: Johnny Johnson Sr., Harrisonville; Carl Bridenstine, Hollidaysburg; Orpha Free, Washington, Pa.; Bertha Laidig, McConnellsburg.
30 Years Ago
From The Files Of February 2, 1984
Although the warm temperatures late last week brought a welcome rest from the snow and ice cover that we had experienced for over a month, the respite was short-lived. The snow began again Sunday and by noon Monday the county was again blanketed.
A Wells Tannery woman and her son were left homeless when fire destroyed their two-story, wood-frame home early last Wednesday morning. Mrs. Ruby Souders and her 18-year-od son, Russell, of Wells Tannery, are temporarily residing in a trailer located adjacent to the site of the Souders home. The first alarm was turned into Breezewood Fire Co. just after midnight Wednesday morning. Hustontown's alarm sounded about 15 minutes later. There are two possible causes for the blaze, an electrical short or a cracked flue liner. No dollar estimate has been made on the damage.
When the 1984-85 school year begins, drastic changes will have taken place in the girls sports program in the county's three school districts. Girls basketball, which has always been played as a fall sport, will be moved to the winter season, coinciding with the boys basketball season. This move was mandated by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, and it presents several problems for the school districts. The PIAA also mandates that for every varsity sport offered to boys, a varsity sport must also be offered to girls.
Lindsay Quigg and Lex Mellott were married Friday, December 30, in Warfordsburg Presbyterian Church. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Margaret Riggs, McConnellsburg, and the late Dr. Robert Riggs. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Delmar A. Mellott, Warfordsburg.
Specials at the IGA: navel oranges, $1.39, 4-lb. bag; bananas, 27 cents lb.; Honeysuckle turkeys, 88 cents; Kraft macaroni and cheese, 3 for $1; chuck roast, $1.48 lb.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Ramsey of Orbisonia on January 20; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Atherton of Mercersburg on January 21; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Travis Sigel of Warfordsburg on January 24; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Appel of Warfordsburg on January 25; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Chester McCusker of Warfordsburg on January 24; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Schetrompf of Hancock on January 24; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wesmiller of Needmore on January 26.
Deaths: Besse Laidig, Hustontown; Jean McNew, Fayetteville; W. Scott Rinedollar, Everett.
40 Years Ago
From The Files Of January 31, 1974
Norman B. Strait, 57, Harrisonville, was severely burned over 50 percent of his body on Saturday as a result of a freak accident during butchering at his farm. His condition is reported as improving, but he remains a patient in the intensive care unit of Hagerstown Hospital. Mr. Strait, his two sons, Raymond and Ken, and friends Dave Welsh and Dick Ramsey spent the day at his farm. They had butchered two hogs and were in the proces of cleaning up. Norm was picking up rubbish and throwing it on the fire used to heat the kettles. He picked up what he thought was an empty plastic container and threw it on the fire. The container must have held gas or kerosene, for immediately there was a loud explosion and the next minute Norm was engulfed in flames. His right arm and right side were most severely burned.
Two well-known area men were honored before more than 150 of their business associates, friends and neighbors at the Fulton Chamber of Commerce awards banquet on Saturday night. Fred Mellott, a lifelong resident of Brush Creek Township, was presented with the Chamber's Man of the Year award and Harold Welsh received the Outstanding Citizen award to the standing ovation of those present for the annual presentation ceremonies
A reward is being offered by Cecil F. Fraker, owner of Fraker's Grocery Store, Fort Littleton, for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the burglars who broke into his store sometime last Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.
Marriage licenses: Albert J. Denison of Three Springs and Deborah Woodward of Rockhill Furnace; Roger Harold Seiders of McConnellsburg and Darlene Louise Carbaugh of McConnellsburg; Michael John Powell of Needmore and Evelyn Marie Blankley of Hancock.
The coffee clique at Johnnie's Diner on Friday morning enjoyed a friendly chat with nationally known football coach Joe Paterno of Penn State, who stopped there for breakfast en route home from a sports banquet in Waynesboro the night before.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Barton of Wells Tannery on January 19; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Dane Seiders of McConnellsburg on January 21; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Strait of Warfordsburg on January 22; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Swarey of Dry Run on January 24.
Specials at the IGA: ice cream, 65 cents, half gallon; daytime Pampers, $1.49, 30 count; Hills Bros. coffee, $2.29, 3- lb. can; meat or beef franks, 99 cents lb.
Army Pvt. Harold E. Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold N. Hall, Burnt Cabins, received a parachutist badge upon completion of the three-week airborne course at the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga.
Deaths: Blanche E. Sipes Kline, Harrisonville; Lewis N. Pine, Mercersburg; Lillie Nelson, Harrisonville; Vergie Shope, Huntingdon; John R. Sipes, Fort Littleton; Elvera K. Johnson, Chambersburg.
50 Years Ago
From The Files Of February 6, 1964
Letters of encouragement and goodwill from all over the state are being received by a McConnellsburg family – Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hunter and their daughter, Patricia Diane "Patty," who lies critically ill in Harrisburg General Hospital, suffering from Bright's disease. On Friday of last week, Mr. Hunter was admitted to the same hospital where his daughter is critically ill, so that he might undergo a series of tests that will decide whether or not he could be the donor in a kidney transplant operation, which could save his daughter's life.
Members of the Samuel Lee Strait family of Saluvia were aroused from sleep around midnight on Monday by the smell of smoke and awoke to find their home on fire. Firemen were called from McConnellsburg and Breezewood to the scene and worked over three hours to bring the blaze under control. Firemen were able to avert a more serious disaster by preventing the fire from spreading across the Lincoln Highway to the gasoline and fuel oil bulk plant owned by Deshong Oil and Gas Co.
Mrs. Mayme Helman has returned home from Chambersburg Hospital where she was a patient.
Wayne Taylor continues critically ill at Veterans Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Lawraence D. Golden, 29, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Golden of Warfordsburg, has been named assistant cashier at the main office of Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C.
Morris Peer of Lincoln Way East suffered lacerations in a head-on crash near Burnt Cabins on Saturday on the Allen's Valley Road.
It has been announced by Woodrow W. Strait, administrator of Fulton County Medical Center, that Dr. Gerald T. Lorentz of McConnellsburg has been elected to the Pennsylvania Radiological Society by Professional Board of Censors.
Determined efforts by fire marshals from Hollidaysburg have apparently resulted in the solution of the mysterious series of fires that have struck Saxton over the a period of a year. A 23-year-old Saxton man has admitted starting five fires in his community, including two $75,000 blazes during the month of January. He is being held without bond after waiving a hearing before Bedford Justice of the Peace H. Cyril Bingham.
Rev. David Hoover spent from Monday until Thursday in Allentown where he attended Pennsylvania Council of Churches, of which he is chairman of the Division of Missions.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brantner left Monday for a vacation in Florida.
Mrs. S. Loge Wink arrived safely in Florida on Friday where she will spend the winter months.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Shotts of near Hustontown celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Sunday, December 22.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Remsburg on the arrival of baby son born in the Medical Center last week. He has been named Brett Barton Remsburg.
Bobby McCoy of Fort Littleton had the misfortune to fall on the ice and break his nose in two places.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Powell of Needmore on the arrival of a son on Monday.
Births: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Deshong of Harrisonville on January 27; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rohm of Warfordsburg on January 28; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Allen Seville of McConnellsburg on January 28; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ray of McConnellsburg on January 28; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Worthing of Waterfall on January 29; a son to Mr. and Mrs. James Deshong of Mc- Connellsburg on January 30; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Powell of Needmore on February 1; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Everts of McConnellsburg on February 1; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Rex Parsons of Shade Gap on February 1.
Deaths: Laura Belle Peck; Harold V. Reese; Huston J. Richards of Big Cove Tannery; Mrs. Mildred B. Hoover of Three Springs; Miss Emma Ann Black of Orbisonia; Judson Wink and Gladys Wink of Sycamore, Ohio, formerly of Fulton County.
60 Years Ago
From The Files Of February 4, 1954
Pat Patterson and his orchestra will play for dancing at the local American Legion home on Saturday night.
Sgt. and Mrs. Ralph Hammond and two children left Sunday for Washington, D.C., where he is stationed with the U.S. Air Force.
Death: Mrs. Fred Strait of Huntingdon.
Dick and Paul Ott of Ott Bros. Farm Supply attended the International Harvester presentation of its 1954 line of freezers, refrigerators and air conditioners in Harrisburg on Tuesday.
H.E. Grissinger is a patient in Doctors' Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he was taken last Sunday for treatment.
Miss Martha Lodge returned home Tuesday after undergoing surgery in Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia.
A pubic meeting was called by McConnellsburg firemen on Tuesday evening to discuss the possibilities of a new firehall in the borough. The present headquarters of the company is no longer adequate and is badly in need of repairs. The present building is owned by the borough, which spends no money on its upkeep or repair, and the firemen are no longer satisfied on spending money on a building that is not theirs. After much discussion at the meeting, tentative plans were made to go ahead with the construction of a new building, with a tentative figure of $30,000 being set for its construction.
Following the public meeting, the firemen held their regular session, at which time a committee was named to make plans for the annual block party. This committee immediately ran into a snag because of the recent police action concerning alleged gambling at the local American Legion home, which resulted in the indictment of a steward. The firemen fear they may be parading on thin ice since their main source of income at the block party comes from bingo and other minor forms of gambling. Action on the block party was tabled until policy is established as to whether the firemen will be permitted to operate their stands as they have in the past.
Johnnie's Diner reopened on Friday after being closed for some time for extensive remodelling,which included new tile floors, new booths and tables, recovered counters, new kitchen equipment, rewiring and insulation and air conditioning.
An Ayr Township couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Tuesday. Walter Knable and Miss Alice Cooper were married on February 2, 1904. Mrs. Knable recalls that there were 22 inches of snow the day they were married 50 years ago.
A 38-year-old county native, Lex B. Golden of College Park, Md., died Monday as the result of nitric acid fumes he inhaled. Golden, a chemist at U.S. Bureau of Mines Laboratory at University of Maryland, inhaled the fumes while giving first aid to Walter Acherman, 8, who was partially blinded when a jar of nitric acid exploded
A group of local children under 12 years of age organized as a club and calling themselves the Bobwhites of Glen, marched into the place of Paul Ott last week and donated their entire treasury to the March of Dimes. Ott is chairman of the polio fund drive. Members of the Bobwhites of Glen are Billie Alexander, Anne Foster, Danny Grissinger, Marsha Helman, Cathleen Hunter, Alan Kies, Elizabeth Ann Lodge, David Lorentz and Jimmy Stenger. The club's treasury amounted to $2.50.
Alice, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gaily Paylor, Mercersburg, died of polio at Harrisburg Hospital on Monday. Stricken with the disease on October 27, she was one of three daughters in the same family who contracted the disease at the same time. Mary, 14, is a patient in the Industrial Home for Crippled Children in Pittsburgh and O'Neda, 15, is a patient in Harrisburg Hospital. Both of these children are improving.
Fourteen young county men reported to Pittsburgh on Wednesday for induction into the armed forces. They were: Fred Cromer, Knobsville; Homer E. Powell of Warfordsburg; Robert Lee Funk of Warfordsburg; William Cloyd Burkett of Needmore; John Richard Fore of Prairie du Sac, Wis.; Eldon P. Younker of Hancock; Malcolm Chalmer Peck of Needmore; Harper Chester Layton of Amaranth; Calvin Winters Peck of Needmore; Eugene Ross Clippinger of Wells Tannery; Thaddeus Glenn Winegardner of Fort Littleton; Harold Reed McQuade of McConnellsburg; Jack Dale Fields of McConnellsburg; and Walter Paul Burton Jr., Shade Gap.
Bill Kendall writes in this issue about his trip to West Africa where he is now at work at Firestone Plantations Co. of Harbel, Liberia.
Death: Peorus A. Neely of Kissimmee, Fla.
Clifford M. Wilt and Violet M. Miller were wed January 13.
Clifford E. House and Helen D. Souders were wed January 30.
Births: a son, Michael Keith, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Herman F. Garland of Needmore on February 7 at Chambersburg Hospital.
Deaths: Robert Edmund Barnhart of Warfordsburg; Thomas D. McCue of Hollidaysburg; John Samuel Carrico of Saluvia; Earl Denver Black of Three Springs; Milton Vernon Mellott; Emmaline Matilda Kline of Saluvia; Harry Faith of Hancock; Grover C. Myers of Warfordsburg.
70 Years Ago
From The Files Of February 3, 1944
Deaths: Edward Bradnick of Chambersburg; Conrad Glazier of McConnellsburg; Mrs. Nancy Jane
Berkstresser; Annie R. Douglas of Thompson Township; George Dawson Wagner of near Knobsville; Daniel M. Gearhart of Amaranth.
A party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brown of Fort Littleton on January 20 in honor of the 16th birthday of their son, Wayne.
Roy A. Souders and Bertha E. Rotz were wed January 22.
The Office of War Information reports American casualties now total 146,186, including 33,153 dead. The number of prisoners of war is listed at 29,898.
Local firemen were called to Needmore on Monday when an automobile burned near the home of David Hollenshead.
Miss Betty Grissinger has returned to Hood College after spending a vacation at her home here.
Fire from a defective chimney completely destroyed the home of Elmer Cutchall of Waterfall on Tuesday afternoon. Only a small amount of house furnishings from the first floor could be removed. Local firemen responded to the call, but the house was burned when they arrived.
The strong MHS basketball team suffered its first defeat on Tuesday evening when Mercersburg won by a score of 22-20
The Rev. and Mrs. H.R. Lequear visited their daughter, Rachelle, last week at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, where she is making slow but steady progress toward walking again, after two years of paralysis as the result of an automobile accident.
Pvt. George Grissinger Jr. of Indiantown Gap spent the weekend here with his wife, a patient in Everett Hospital.
Pvt. Tom Morton is now stationed at Camp Campbell, Ky.
The little daughter of Mrs. James Mills received an injured leg last week when she ran in front of a car near her home.
Pvt. Rudolph Snyder is now stationed at Camp Fannin, Texas.
Mrs. J.E. Heeter marked her 73rd birthday on January 23.
Marvin Crouse of Thompson Township underwent an operation at Hagerstown Hospital last week for the removal of a lump from his hip.
80 Years Ago
From The Files Of February 1, 1934
Deaths: Sara Jane
Watkins of Newville;
Levi Rolandus Cordell of Waynesboro; Mrs. Peter Kirk of Big Cove Tannery; Helen Fore Dickson of Buffalo, N.Y.; Ollen Gilbert Hess of Big Cove Tannery; John Sheets of McConnellsburg.
Stanley Stevens, a nephew of Frank Stevens of New Grenada, received a broken arm and crushed leg on Saturday when a load of lumber on a wagon fell on him after the team became frightened and started to run away.
Hon. Joseph F. Biddle of Huntingdon will be the guest speaker at the local Civic Club meeting in February .
What could have been a disaster was averted here early Monday morning. Nhyle Morton operates a milk route and his wife helps him by collecting milk from nearby farms in the family car. Both had left for their chores on Monday morning, but returned to their home because they had forgotten something. When they arrived home, they found the flue on fire and burning embers dropping about. Had they not forgotten something and returned home, a disaster could easily have followed. Their four young children were still asleep upstairs.
Leonard V. Bernhard and Hilda E. Truax were married January 20.
The corner stone of the new auditorium in Mc- Connellsburg will be placed during ceremonies on Thursday afternoon, February 8.
W. Roland McMonigal of Bradford and Ruby B. Leasure of Amaranth were granted a marriage license in Hagerstown on January 27.
Miss Inez Fields received word on Tuesday that she had passed the state board exam required of graduate nurses.
Hilda, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl King of Fairview, is suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia.
Mrs. Grace Warsing of Wells Tannery underwent n operation at Roaring Spring Hospital last week for the removal of a tumor.
90 Years Ago
From The Files Of January 31, 1924
Deaths: James
Youse of near Mc-
Connellsburg; Jacob Smith of Petersburg, W.Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Baltzer Cutchall of near McConnellsburg celebrated their silver wedding anniversary on Saturday, January 26.
A party was held last Friday evening in honor of the 16th birthday of David J. Lowe of this place.
Recent weddings: Earl T. Bard and Blanche Leona Sharpe on January 11; Joseph Ritchey and Pearl Craig on January 25; Gilbert T. Wagner and Ethel Ray on January 25; Harry King and Julie Miller on January 16; Orlan Mock and Winifred Troutman on January 12.
Smith Henry and B. Fleming, who are employed at Orbisonia, spent the weekend at their homes at Clear Ridge.
Miss Sara McGowan of Burnt Cabins was listening to the radio last week and was amazed when she tuned in on fine music from Chicago.
The stork visited Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lockard of Enid last Wednesday, leaving a little woodchopper.
A marriage license was issued here last Saturday to Roy Gordon and Lulu Pine, both of Mercersburg.
Walter J. Deneen, who was hunting at the Woodmont Club last week, captured nine owls, three hawks, five skunks and one lynx.

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Feb. 10: HIV, Health Care Reform, Prevention: How to Make It All Work!
January 25, 2011
The passage of the Affordable Care Act in March 2010 marked the beginning of a dramatic transformation of our nation's health system.
A lot of people are wondering: just what do these changes mean for HIV services and providers? What do they mean for HIV Prevention Justice?
If you are asking yourself these question, this webinar will help you get some answers!
Please join the Treatment Access Expansion Project (TAEP), in collaboration with the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA), and the Coalition for a National AIDS Strategy for this important webinar:
Ryan White and Health Care Reform: Future Paths for Integration, Expansion, and Innovation
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We will provide a broad overview of the changing landscape for the Ryan White Program, and the need for providers to start thinking about strategies to ensure that the coordinated and comprehensive services that are the hallmark of the Ryan White Program continue and thrive.
We will also discuss -- in broad terms -- some of the opportunities presented by health care reform, including:
Information will be provided about available resources for providers interested in learning more about the different options and paths discussed.
We will also leave ample time to address comments and questions from participants.
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Leedsol wrote:Agree - last winter was sooo cold in the east that I've gone for a 6mm this year.
I remember surfing with Danny1 in Northumbria in march and they're was still snow on the hills and a biting cold wind which when coupled with a 1/2 mile walk over a farmers field to a mysto left (which worked nice - good os research danny) was not pleasant.
I'm gonna have to follow u in wales sg (I know ur car now - same as mine) to some spots beyond the main 3 - I keep checking out two I have in mind but the swells haven't seemed to wrap in when I've been there (north of PO, by a golfcourse)
A weeks worth of snow late on, and we didn't have a decent ground frost all winter.
sorry to be pedantic but I deal in fact and don't bullshit
On the ANOMALY maps red contours mark areas that are above average and blue contours mark areas that are below average.
PapaWoolacombe wrote:Well I'll be doing what I always do... making the most of what ever presents it'self. If its better than average sweet! if not then at least i didn't get my hopes up too much.
Hokusai wrote:I'll go along with that. Last winter was the worst I can remember
Look at the temperature map on the previous page.
hughesy wrote:I was refering to the surf not the temperature. Who care how cold it is if the waves are good.
surfguru wrote:hughesy wrote:I was refering to the surf not the temperature. Who care how cold it is if the waves are good.
did you get in sat nice longboard waves at a certain spot at low tide.
hughesy wrote:Nah, had to do something else sat so went to hm this morning for 1st light. Was v small, 1-2 feet but lovely glassy little peelers so had a nice time in the sunshine. Not too many out early either. 3 carloads of what looked like students turned up as we were leaving bout 11am. Shame for em as it had gone pretty much flat by then
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The Associated Gas Recovery Project for the Komsomolskoye Oil Field, operated by "Rosneft-Purneftegaz" (RN-Purneftegaz), aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from oil production activities through the reduction of associated petroleum gas (APG) flaring. APG mostly consists of methane. During flaring of APG, carbon dioxide is formed (methane reacts with oxygen producing CO2 and water) and released, causing climate change.
The oil production at the Komsomolskoye oil field is expected to increase, causing an increase of APG volume and, consequently, flaring. To avoid this increase in flaring, Rosneft decided to implement a Joint Implementation project, which consists of the installation of an APG booster compression station that will allow to treat (dehydrate) and clean the associated petroleum gas, converting it into natural gas, and sell it to Gazprom via a new 5.5 km pipeline. Additionally, after treatment, a small part of APG components will be added to the oil products, increasing the oil production level.
Additionally, the project has a positive environmental impact by reducing, on average, the emissions of soot, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and nitrogen oxide by about 72% compared with the baseline. Furthermore, because the flare burns at an average temperature of 1700°C, the project reduces thermal, visual (light) and noise pollution to the local environment. It also creates jobs during the construction and operation of the APG booster compression station.


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1. Short for "point of view". Commonly referred too as a category of porn that specialized in first person point of view.
My favorite type of porn is POV, its so in your face and intense. I like when the male records himself receive oral POV sex.
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by John Colgan-Davis
Spring is finally here, and it is regularly being announced as I go about my daily life. My walk down to the train in the morning is now taking place in the light of a new dawn each day, and it is just lovely.
Often the moon is still visible in the Northwest sky, and depending on what phase it is in, it can be an amazing backdrop to my walk. There are only a few people out, so it can be a wonderfully eerie time as well. Everything, even the streets that I have walked on for more than 20 years, seems just a little bit different on a glorious spring morn.
But recently something else has been added to the walk; something I did not quite expect. There has been a new addition to my walk in the form of sounds…
I would not have noticed this without the many windy days we have had of late, but West Mt. Airy must have more wind chimes per block than any other section of Philadelphia. Walking down to the train these past weeks, I have had the feeling that I have my own soundtrack or backing band. The sounds of the returning birds I expected; the cardinals, robins, mockingbirds and crows are sounds I have heard and treasured year after year.
But the wind chimes are a new experience, and it has been glorious. I first became aware of these sound makers about two weeks ago when I was bundled up in my heavy-duty, hooded winter coat, the one I only wear on super cold days.
It was extremely windy as well as cold, and as I walked down to the train, every few steps I noticed the sounds of the chimes. It was as if the wind were a musician arranging a song. Some of the sounds were the deep, solid thunks of Eastern bamboo chimes. Others were the rich, resonant sounds of heavy brass chimes that rang and then echoed. Still others were delicate, high pitched sounds of thin, metal strips or cylinders.
And I as a got closer to the train, I could hear several of them blending together with the howling of the wind. And by the time I reached the train, I was barely aware of how cold it was.
So that has been my surprise of the year so far: the awareness and magic of the wind chimes. I look forward to it now, and it is a wonderful accompaniment to my day.
I recently wrote in these pages about the return of the red- tailed hawks to their nest on the side of the Franklin Institute. At that time they had not started building the nest, so the Franklin's Hawk Cam was not up and running. Well, I was informed by a reader of these missives that the hawks have started building the nest, and the Franklin has started the cam. During daylight hours you can view the hawks; the link to the web cam is: ustream.tv/channel/the-franklin-institute-haw-cam. Enjoy!
John Colgan-Davis, a long-time resident of Mt. Airy, is also a teacher and harmonica player for the awesome blues band, Dukes of Destiny.


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I do like hosting dinners and lunches. Thinking of a theme, planning the menu, deciding which of my three (grand total!) plate settings I will use, mapping out the logistics of getting everything done in between work and other duties. I use up tons of note paper drawing up lists (I love doing this…I never have less then 3 pads of paper at a time), using different colored pens (all metallic…yes, I need my "bling" sometimes too) to categorize different items and tasks.
Sometimes though, the heart and mind may be willing but the body weak. C and I are not always up to the task of planning and executing an 8-10 people sit-down dinner (10 is the absolute max I can squeeze in my place for sit-down…not exactly Ina Garten, I know), including the post-meal clean up (sans dishwasher). We do still love having people over. So what's the solution? The ubiquitous drinks party!
More relaxed and informal, having people over for drinks leaves you with less to prepare, as well as less to clean up afterwards. At the most you will be using small appetizer plates and forks, which are a snap to wash compared to dinner plates + soup bowl + maybe even salad plates + dessert plate + full-on cutlery. When it comes to food, you only have to think of a few well chosen finger foods and appetizers…easier to make and no less fun to plan and prepare.
This is something I love to cook when I have friends over for drinks because it can be eaten with a cocktail fork or even a toothpick, and you can make it in 5 minutes or less. I like to make this after my guests have just arrived (you want it served hot…and it's done so fast that your guests won't even notice you're gone) and they all have their first drink in hand. There are usually some other cocktail snacks on the table already to keep them busy.
Gambas al Ajillo
(adapted from Saveur magazine, November 2006 issue)
- 150 grams shrimp (weight after being peeled and deveined)
- 8 cloves garlic
- ¼ cup parsley leaves, loosely packed
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ teaspoon pimentón de la vera (dulce)
- Sea salt to taste
- Dried chili flakes, half a sili labuyo (bird's eye chili), or any chili you like
– Slice the garlic cloves. Pile the parsley leaves over the sliced garlic, then sprinkle the pile with salt. Chop everything together. (You can do this earlier on the same day and keep the mix covered in the fridge)
– Heat the oil in a skillet. When the oil is hot toss the garlic/parsley mix and the chilis in. Let it sizzle for about 10-20 seconds, until aroma wafts up and hits your nose.
– Add the shrimp and immediately sprinkle pimentón over everything. Stir and check for seasoning. Add salt if needed.
– Cook until shrimp is just done. This will happen really fast (about 2 minutes, sometimes less) so watch it!
– Take it off the heat and serve immediately.
– Serves 2-3 as a single appetizer or more if you have other appetizers besides it.
You can serve this on the skillet while it is still sizzling (great drama!) or transfer to a serving plate. This is traditionally cooked and served in earthenware cazuelas but if you don't have any, feel free to eschew tradition and serve them in retro neon-green bowls with kitschy plastic cocktail forks as I've done here. They are delicious on their own, but also great with bread for sopping up the juices (you will want to do this, trust me).
I looked over a lot of gambas recipes until I found one I liked. This one's procedure is largely taken from Saveur's November 2006 issue. The addition of pimentón is mine, as I really like the flavor it adds. I also feel that chopping the garlic and parsley together with the salt intensifies the flavor (this was the step taken from Saveur). I added a lot more garlic because: I love garlic, this is about shrimp cooked in garlic after all, and it keeps away vampires 🙂
Not just for cocktail parties, this makes a fabulous pasta sauce, simply as is, or with the addition of tomatoes. You can also dump the whole thing on a mound of steaming white rice and discover the delicious secret that most Filipinos have known about gambas for years! Cheers!


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Forget the iPhone 5. It's Charlie Hall 6.0.
Rhode Island's favorite funnyman, whom many in the Ocean State know as a successful stand-up comedian, comedy club owner and manager, TV courtroom artist, award-winning political cartoonist, caricaturist and producer of two long-running cabaret shows, Ocean State Follies and Mass Hysteria, is at it again.
On Friday, Oct. 12, Hall harkens back to his RISD roots and opens a new business that involves canvas, cocktails and, of course, some comedy.
Drink and Dabble, a traveling art party, debuts at the Italian-American Grille in North Providence and will continue on into Warwick and Bristol. It's part of a new paint and sip industry that seems to be taking over the country, filling up empty bars and function rooms on off-nights.
"It's a new trendy night out where groups, dates, housewives and teambuilding companies gather at some hip venue, sip on wine or cocktails, turn up the music a bit and create a painting," said Hall. "And it doesn't matter if you have no artistic ability, because there's an instructor there who'll show you just what to do. Me! It's fun and a great way of meeting new people."
Hall got the idea late one night while watching a reality show where two people were sent on a date to a paint and sip place in Los Angeles. He Googled the venue and found 10 pages of similar events all over the country. After taking in three paint and sips in Massachusetts, Hall was hooked.
"I can do this! Plus I'm funny!"
Patrons register online (drinkanddabble.com) paying $40 per session ("but there are half-price coupons everywhere," says Hall). They arrive at 6:30 p.m., when they get a cocktail, maybe order an appetizer, are given a smock, acrylic paint, brushes and a seat at a table with an easel and a canvas. Drink and Dabble supplies it all. Everyone paints the same painting. After two hours or so – with ample breaks, instruction and laughs – the would-be Picassos emerge with their own 16" x 20" masterpieces that they get to take home.
Hall has had to get it all together in about a month, despite spending a few days in the hospital a few weeks ago.
"I had a heart attack. A blockage right there in one of my most important arteries. It's my Italian genetics, I guess. I told the doctor to save some money on the stent and use a small piece of penne."
Besides the Italian-American Grille, Drink and Dabble will be traveling monthly to the Eleven Forty Nine Restaurant in Warwick and weekly to Redlefson's in Bristol. Other venues are welcome to join in. To reserve a spot and to check out the schedule, log onto www.drinkanddabble.com.


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Cooking With Potatoes Recipes
Lyonnaise Potatoes
Pommes de terre lyonnaises is a crisp, yet tender potato dish. The potatoes are parboiled for faster cooking before being sautéed in butter. Sliced caramelized onions and parsley are added to the dish for color and a mild contrast of flavor. These potatoes are the perfect accompaniment to meat. I recently served them with lamb chops.
Lyonnaise potatoes originated in the city of Lyon which is located in East-central France in the region called Rhône-Alpes. The region is famous for being one of the main centers of French gastronomy. It has produced several beloved French dishes, such as coq au vin and marrons glacés. I haven't made a lot of dishes from Lyon in the past, but that will soon change. Bon appétit, and stay tuned!
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Pommes Rissolees (French Browned Potatoes)
Pommes rissolées are a French classic. They are crisp, cube-shaped, pan-fried potatoes flavored with herbs.
I made one batch the traditional way by cooking it in duck fat, but for the vegetarians in our house, I made a similar version with a combination of oil and butter. I added ground saffron and a hint of cayenne pepper for color and flavor, which are non-traditional but really enhance the final result.
We had a huge bag of potatoes left from Thanksgiving grocery shopping and I couldn't think of a better way to finish them off. I hadn't made this French classic for the family since our last visit to Paris. It immediately took us all back in time to the open air markets, the Rodin Museum, and the picnic we had in the Jardin de Luxembourg. Food can be many things, and today it was a trip down memory lane. And what delicious memories they are!
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We were out in the street having so much fun playing with sparklers. I had to take several shots of the 2012 sparkler photo since cousin Rome was writing number 2 backwards and it read 2015 instead of 2012. lol! He was having a hard time so he was replaced by my other cousin.
Sis traced cousin Rome's body using a colorful light. We were supposed to use the lights for the 2012 sparkler photo but one of my nieces broke one and we were left with 3 lights.
Outside my sister's internet shop eagerly waiting for the clock to strike 12
While waiting for New year's eve, we nibbled on chips and dip, onion rings, roast chicken and pritong baga. I'm not translating what pritong baga means as I might gross out some foreign friends. lol!
Time to celebrate 2012! Sis and I only prepared a few finger food for our Media Noche.
I purchased some fresh fruits and made chocolate fondue for the kids.
Sis cooked these flavorful wonton wrapped shrimps.
She also prepared savory Wonton Pizza bites
I made some delectable canapes
... and heavenly Raspberry Mousse with fresh raspberries and diced brownies
I was contemplating what beverage to serve but settled with this delightful non Alcoholic White Sangria so the kids can enjoy them too.
Store bought Decadent Chocolate Cake.
Our simple New Year's Eve celebration ( Zorro inspired lol!)
Sharing a lovely lunch on New Year's day. ( No, we are not on a diet!)


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On Monday, former NFL receiver Chad Johnson was released from jail after serving seven days of a 30-day term.
On Tuesday, Johnson appeared on Good Morning America to discuss the incident, and his football future. Because appearing on a network morning show is always the best way to get the attention of a General Manager.
First, Johnson explained to Robin Roberts the butt-slap of lawyer Adam Swickle, a gesture that came after Judge Kathleen McHugh praised Swickle's work on Johnson's behalf.
"That's the way I've always interacted throughout life, just in general," Johnson said. "I know there's a certain thing called courtroom etiquette, which I've never really been part of the court system. It was a light tap. It wasn't in any way to disrespect the courtroom. And really I didn't think anyone would see it, because it was actually my third time doing so."
Johnson, who remains on probation through October, wisely praised the judge supervising the process for her decisions, including the one that put him behind bars.
"I supported her in her decision to give me the sentence that she did, basically after me not meeting the criteria and the guidelines that I was supposed to meet in a certain amount of time," Johnson said. "With them not being done within that time, I felt that it was right of her to sentence me to 30 days. She had given me a gift before and there was no reason to treat me any different than anyone else. Because if anyone else was in that situation, they would have had to do 30 days as well. . . .
"Judge McHugh was able to do something many people have tried to get me to do for a long time. Slow down. Just at life in general. Slow down, think about what you're gonna do. She was able to do that, maybe not in the best circumstances to those on the outside but I see being able to sit down and think about life and where I'm going from this point on being one of the best things that could happen to me right now."
An even better thing that could happen, in Johnson's view, would be to get back to the NFL.
"I think everyone deserves a second chance," Johnson said. "Many would say I might not deserve it. I would like to finish my career off the right way. I don't want the last thing to be remembered, you know, well Chad was cut from the Dolphins for an incident he had with his wife. I would love to grace the football field one more time and to help some team. I'm not injured, there's nothing wrong with me. I've learned my lesson, especially after those past seven days. And that's about it. If it doesn't happen, life goes on. There are many opportunities and doors that will continue to open."
He needs those doors to open. Or he needs to close his wallet. With a reported monthly deficit of $45,000, Johnson must generate more income or reduce dramatically his expenses before his football money evaporates for good.
It remains unlikely that he'll be earning more football money. Even before he was cut by the Dolphins last year, his performance on the field (as captured by NFL Films and HBO) seemed to be more like the guy who was forgotten during the 2011 season in New England and less like the player who once had the audacity to don a homemade Hall of Fame blazer after scoring a touchdown in a Monday night game.
Regardless, he shouldn't have been put in jail. Now that he's out, here's hoping he finds a way to be productive (and solvent) in his post-football life.


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Periodic Table on ShowActivity by Vicki Gardiner | added on Oct 08, 2010 | Australia
Sponsor(s): Royal Australian Chemical Institute
Australian artists will join with chemists to produce a unique interpretation of each element of the 2010 IUPAC Periodic Table. The artwork will be available for touring, photographed for posters, and become a web-resource listing information prepared by the chemist and the story behind the piece by the artists.
The objective of this project is to celebrate the International Year of Chemistry through expressing chemistry through art and develop a multidisciplinary educational tool. The aim of the project is to connect with the public and increas awareness of the positive contributions to everyday life made through the chemical sciences.
The project will bring together chemists and artists to build an artistic impression of the IUPAC approved 2010 Periodic Table. Chemists will prepare information on each element including its discovery, history and modern day uses. This information will be distributed to Australian artists who will prepare individual prints of each element interpreting this information. All prints will be brought together at the end of the project to form a full Periodic Table.
The project will result in a multi-disciplinary educational resource. Firstly, the Periodic Table will use art to describe the most fundamental and important document used by chemists. Secondly, the web resource will bring art, history and modern science together, all linked by the elements. This resource will be made available via the RACI website.
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I will be coming to Sydney to give a lecture at Sudney University at a Philosophy of Chemistry Workshop organized by Prof Alan Chalmers.
Will be there from Dec 9th - 25th, 2010.
I would love to be involved in your periodic table project. Am the author of what has been described as the definitive book on the periodic table. Perhaps another lecture can be arranged?
Eric Scerri, The Periodic Table Its Story and Its Significance. Oxford University press, 2007.
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Friday nights at 11:00pm
Chicago's premiere weekly burlesque cabaret! The entire bevy of Kiss Kiss Coquettes is ready to tease audiences with an eye-popping display of the striptease arts! The comedians have prepared up-to-the-minute comedy hijinks and the master of ceremonies, Max Flattery, is game to lead the audience in a number of slightly tipsy sing-alongs.
The delectable members of "The Kiss Kiss Cabaret Coquettes" collectively boast over 20 years of burlesque experience! These talented ladies have performed with some of Chicagos' best-known burlesque troupes, including the Belmont Burlesque Revue, Vaudezilla, the Girlie-Q Variety Hour, and Varietease Cabaret, and have been featured in the New York Burlesque Festival, the New Orleans Burlesque Festival and our own Windy City Burlesque Festival.
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St. Katherine's Monastery in the Sinai peninsula attracts a lot of visitors from around the world. Many people combine the visit with a hike up the holy Mount Sinai, also called Moses Mountain, which can be seen to the South-West. It is said that Moses received the 10 commandments on top of this mountain. The hike to the peak, more than 2200m high, takes 3 to 4 hours and is quite strenuous, so the local Bedouins provide camels for those who can not complete it on their own.
Egypt ; Arabic: مصر, Miṣr or Máṣr) is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about 1,010,000 square kilometers (390,000 sq mi), Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East. The great majority of its estimated 82 million live near the banks of the Nile River, in an area of about 40,000 square kilometers (15,000 sq mi), where the only arable agricultural land is found. The large areas of the Sahara Desert are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with the majority spread across the densely-populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments, including the Giza pyramid complex and its Great Sphinx. The southern city of Luxor contains numerous ancient artifacts, such as the Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings. Egypt is widely regarded as an important political and cultural nation of the Middle East.


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Artificial Languages
Alan Reed Libert
Artificial languages—languages which have been consciously designed—have been created for more than 900 years, although the number of them has increased considerably in recent decades, and by the early 21st century the total figure probably was in the thousands. There have been several goals behind their creation; the traditional one (which applies to some of the best-known artificial languages, including Esperanto) is to make international communication easier. Some other well-known artificial languages, such as Klingon, have been designed in connection with works of fiction. Still others are simply personal projects.
A traditional way of classifying artificial languages involves the extent to which they make use of material from natural languages. Those artificial languages which are created mainly by taking material from one or more natural languages are called a posteriori languages (which again include well-known languages such as Esperanto), while those which do not use natural languages as sources are a priori languages (although many a posteriori languages have a limited amount of a priori material, and some a priori languages have a small number of a posteriori components). Between these two extremes are the mixed languages, which have large amounts of both a priori and a posteriori material. Artificial languages can also be classified typologically (as natural languages are) and by how and how much they have been used.
Many linguists seem to be biased against research on artificial languages, although some major linguists of the past have been interested in them.
Franz Rainer
Blocking can be defined as the non-occurrence of some linguistic form, whose existence could be expected on general grounds, due to the existence of a rival form. *Oxes, for example, is blocked by oxen, *stealer by thief. Although blocking is closely associated with morphology, in reality the competing "forms" can not only be morphemes or words, but can also be syntactic units. In German, for example, the compound Rotwein 'red wine' blocks the phrasal unit *roter Wein (in the relevant sense), just as the phrasal unit rote Rübe 'beetroot; lit. red beet' blocks the compound *Rotrübe. In these examples, one crucial factor determining blocking is synonymy; speakers apparently have a deep-rooted presumption against synonyms. Whether homonymy can also lead to a similar avoidance strategy, is still controversial. But even if homonymy blocking exists, it certainly is much less systematic than synonymy blocking.
In all the examples mentioned above, it is a word stored in the mental lexicon that blocks a rival formation. However, besides such cases of lexical blocking, one can observe blocking among productive patterns. Dutch has three suffixes for deriving agent nouns from verbal bases, -er, -der, and -aar. Of these three suffixes, the first one is the default choice, while -der and -aar are chosen in very specific phonological environments: as Geert Booij describes in The Morphology of Dutch (2002), "the suffix -aar occurs after stems ending in a coronal sonorant consonant preceded by schwa, and -der occurs after stems ending in /r/" (p. 122). Contrary to lexical blocking, the effect of this kind of pattern blocking does not depend on words stored in the mental lexicon and their token frequency but on abstract features (in the case at hand, phonological features).
Blocking was first recognized by the Indian grammarian Pāṇini in the 5th or 4th century
Ferdinand de Saussure
John E. Joseph
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), the founding figure of modern linguistics, made his mark on the field with a book he published a month after his 21st birthday, in which he proposed a radical rethinking of the original system of vowels in Proto-Indo-European. A year later, he submitted his doctoral thesis on a morpho-syntactic topic, the genitive absolute in Sanskrit, to the University of Leipzig. He went to Paris intending to do a second, French doctorate, but instead he was given responsibility for courses on Gothic and Old High Gerrman at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, and for managing the publications of the Société de Linguistique de Paris. He abandoned more than one large publication project of his own during the decade he spent in Paris. In 1891 he returned to his native Geneva, where the University created a chair in Sanskrit and the history and comparison of languages for him. He produced some significant work on Lithuanian during this period, connected to his early book on the Indo-European vowel system, and yielding Saussure's Law, concerning the placement of stress in Lithuanian. He undertook writing projects about the general nature of language, but again abandoned them. In 1907, 1908–1909, and 1910–1911, he gave three courses in general linguistics at the University of Geneva, in which he developed an approach to languages as systems of signs, each sign consisting of a signifier (sound pattern) and a signified (concept), both of them mental rather than physical in nature, and conjoined arbitrarily and inseparably. The socially shared language system, or langue, makes possible the production and comprehension of parole, utterances, by individual speakers and hearers. Each signifier and signified is a value generated by its difference from all the other signifiers or signifieds with which it coexists on an associative (or paradigmatic) axis, and affected as well by its syntagmatic axis. Shortly after Saussure's death at 55, two of his colleagues, Bally and Sechehaye, gathered together students' notes from the three courses, as well as manuscript notes by Saussure, and from them constructed the Cours de linguistique générale, published in 1916. Over the course of the next several decades, this book became the basis for the structuralist approach, initially within linguistics, and later adapted to other fields. Saussure left behind a large quantity of manuscript material that has gradually been published over the last few decades, and continues to be published, shedding new light on his thought.
Georg von der Gabelentz
James McElvenny
The German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) occupies an interesting place at the intersection of several streams of linguistic scholarship at the end of the 19th century. As Professor of East Asian languages at the University of Leipzig from 1878 to 1889 and then Professor for Sinology and General Linguistics at the University of Berlin from 1889 until his death, Gabelentz was present at some of the main centers of linguistics at the time. He was, however, generally critical of mainstream historical-comparative linguistics as propagated by the neogrammarians, and instead emphasized approaches to language inspired by a line of researchers including Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), H. Steinthal (1823–1899), and his own father, Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874).
Today Gabelentz is chiefly remembered for several theoretical and methodological innovations which continue to play a role in linguistics. Most significant among these are his contributions to cross-linguistic syntactic comparison and typology, grammar-writing, and grammaticalization. His earliest linguistic work emphasized the importance of syntax as a core part of grammar and sought to establish a framework for the cross-linguistic description of word order, as had already been attempted for morphology by other scholars. The importance he attached to syntax was motivated by his engagement with Classical Chinese, a language almost devoid of morphology and highly reliant on syntax. In describing this language in his 1881 Chinesische Grammatik, Gabelentz elaborated and implemented the complementary "analytic" and "synthetic" systems of grammar, an approach to grammar-writing that continues to serve as a point of reference up to the present day. In his summary of contemporary thought on the nature of grammatical change in language, he became one of the first linguists to formulate the principles of grammaticalization in essentially the form that this phenomenon is studied today, although he did not use the current term. One key term of modern linguistics that he did employ, however, is "typology," a term that he in fact coined. Gabelentz's typology was a development on various contemporary strands of thought, including his own comparative syntax, and is widely acknowledged as a direct precursor of the present-day field.
Gabelentz is a significant transitional figure from the 19th to the 20th century. On the one hand, his work seems very modern. Beyond his contributions to grammaticalization avant la lettre and his christening of typology, his conception of language prefigures the structuralist revolution of the early 20th century in important respects. On the other hand, he continues to entertain several preoccupations of the 19th century—in particular the judgment of the relative value of different languages—which were progressively banished from linguistics in the first decades of the 20th century.
History of European Vernacular Grammar Writing
Gerda Haßler
The grammatization of European vernacular languages began in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance and continued up until the end of the 18th century. Through this process, grammars were written for the vernaculars and, as a result, the vernaculars were able to establish themselves in important areas of communication. Vernacular grammars largely followed the example of those written for Latin, using Latin descriptive categories without fully adapting them to the vernaculars. In accord with the Greco-Latin tradition, the grammars typically contain sections on orthography, prosody, morphology, and syntax, with the most space devoted to the treatment of word classes in the section on "etymology." The earliest grammars of vernaculars had two main goals: on the one hand, making the languages described accessible to non-native speakers, and on the other, supporting the learning of Latin grammar by teaching the grammar of speakers' native languages. Initially, it was considered unnecessary to engage with the grammar of native languages for their own sake, since they were thought to be acquired spontaneously. Only gradually did a need for normative grammars develop which sought to codify languages. This development relied on an awareness of the value of vernaculars that attributed a certain degree of perfection to them. Grammars of indigenous languages in colonized areas were based on those of European languages and today offer information about the early state of those languages, and are indeed sometimes the only sources for now extinct languages. Grammars of vernaculars came into being in the contrasting contexts of general grammar and the grammars of individual languages, between grammar as science and as art and between description and standardization. In the standardization of languages, the guiding principle could either be that of anomaly, which took a particular variety of a language as the basis of the description, or that of analogy, which permitted interventions into a language aimed at making it more uniform.
History of the English Language
Ans van Kemenade
The status of English in the early 21st century makes it hard to imagine that the language started out as an assortment of North Sea Germanic dialects spoken in parts of England only by immigrants from the continent. Itself soon under threat, first from the language(s) spoken by Viking invaders, then from French as spoken by the Norman conquerors, English continued to thrive as an essentially West-Germanic language that did, however, undergo some profound changes resulting from contact with Scandinavian and French. A further decisive period of change is the late Middle Ages, which started a tremendous societal scale-up that triggered pervasive multilingualism. These repeated layers of contact between different populations, first locally, then nationally, followed by standardization and 18th-century codification, metamorphosed English into a language closely related to, yet quite distinct from, its closest relatives Dutch and German in nearly all language domains, not least in word order, grammar, and pronunciation.
Irit Meir and Oksana Tkachman
Iconicity is a relationship of resemblance or similarity between the two aspects of a sign: its form and its meaning. An iconic sign is one whose form resembles its meaning in some way. The opposite of iconicity is arbitrariness. In an arbitrary sign, the association between form and meaning is based solely on convention; there is nothing in the form of the sign that resembles aspects of its meaning. The Hindu-Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 are arbitrary, because their current form does not correlate to any aspect of their meaning. In contrast, the Roman numerals I, II, III are iconic, because the number of occurrences of the sign I correlates with the quantity that the numerals represent. Because iconicity has to do with the properties of signs in general and not only those of linguistic signs, it plays an important role in the field of semiotics—the study of signs and signaling. However, language is the most pervasive symbolic communicative system used by humans, and the notion of iconicity plays an important role in characterizing the linguistic sign and linguistic systems. Iconicity is also central to the study of literary uses of language, such as prose and poetry.
There are various types of iconicity: the form of a sign may resemble aspects of its meaning in several ways: it may create a mental image of the concept (imagic iconicity), or its structure and the arrangement of its elements may resemble the structural relationship between components of the concept represented (diagrammatic iconicity). An example of the first type is the word cuckoo, whose sounds resemble the call of the bird, or a sign such as RABBIT in Israeli Sign Language, whose form—the hands representing the rabbit's long ears—resembles a visual property of that animal. An example of diagrammatic iconicity is vēnī, vīdī, vīcī, where the order of clauses in a discourse is understood as reflecting the sequence of events in the world.
Iconicity is found on all linguistic levels: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. It is found both in spoken languages and in sign languages. However, sign languages, because of the visual-gestural modality through which they are transmitted, are much richer in iconic devices, and therefore offer a rich array of topics and perspectives for investigating iconicity, and the interaction between iconicity and language structure.
Language and Linguistics in Medieval Europe
Deborah Hayden
During the period from the fall of the Roman empire in the late 5th century to the beginning of the European Renaissance in the 14th century, the development of linguistic thought in Europe was characterized by the enthusiastic study of grammatical works by Classical and Late Antique authors, as well as by the adaptation of these works to suit a Christian framework. The discipline of grammatica, viewed as the cornerstone of the ideal liberal arts education and as a key to the wider realm of textual culture, was understood to encompass both the systematic principles for speaking and writing correctly and the science of interpreting the poets and other writers. The writings of Donatus and Priscian were among the most popular and well-known works of the grammatical curriculum, and were the subject of numerous commentaries throughout the medieval period. Although Latin persisted as the predominant medium of grammatical discourse, there is also evidence from as early as the 8th century for the enthusiastic study of vernacular languages and for the composition of vernacular-medium grammars, including sources pertaining to Anglo-Saxon, Irish, Old Norse, and Welsh. The study of language in the later medieval period is marked by experimentation with the form and layout of grammatical texts, including the composition of textbooks in verse form. This period also saw a renewed interest in the application of philosophical ideas to grammar, inspired in part by the availability of a wider corpus of Greek sources than had previously been unknown to western European scholars, such as Aristotle's Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, and De Anime. A further consequence of the renewed interest in the logical and metaphysical works of Aristotle during the later Middle Ages is the composition of so-called 'speculative grammars' written by scholars commonly referred to as the 'Modistae', in which the grammatical description of Latin formulated by Priscian and Donatus was integrated with the system of scholastic philosophy that was at its height from the beginning of the 13th to the middle of the 14th century.
Language and Linguistics in Pre-Modern China and East Asia
Lei Zhu
Traditional Chinese linguistics grew out of two distinct interests in language: the philosophical reflection on things and their names, and the practical concern for literacy education and the correct understanding of classical works. The former is most typically found in the teachings of such pre-Qin masters as Confucius, Mozi, and Gongsun Long, who lived between the 6th and 3rd centuries
The picture just presented, in which Chinese philosophy and philology are combined to form a seemingly autonomous tradition, is complicated, however, by the fact that the Indic linguistic tradition started to influence the Chinese in the 2nd century
Chinese, with its linguistic tradition, had a profound impact in ancient East Asia. Not only did traditional studies of Japanese, Tangut, and other languages show significant Chinese influence, under which not the least achievement was the invention of the earliest writing systems for these languages, but many scholars from Japan and Korea actually took an active part in the study of Chinese as well, so that the Chinese linguistic tradition would itself be incomplete without the materials and findings these non-Chinese scholars have contributed. On the other hand, some of these scholars, most notably Motoori Norinaga and Fujitani Nariakira in Japan, were able to free themselves from the character-centered Chinese routine and develop rather original linguistic theories.
Linguistics in Premodern India
Émilie Aussant
Indian linguistic thought begins around the 8th–6th centuries
The greater part of documented thought is related to Sanskrit (Ancient Indo-Aryan). Very early, the oral transmission of sacred texts—the Vedas, composed in Vedic Sanskrit—made it necessary to develop techniques based on a subtle analysis of language. The Vedas also—but presumably later—gave birth to bodies of knowledge dealing with language, which are traditionally called Vedāṅgas: phonetics (śikṣā), metrics (chandas), grammar (vyākaraṇa), and semantic explanation (nirvacana, nirukta). Later on, Vedic exegesis (mīmāṃsā), new dialectics (navya-nyāya), lexicography, and poetics (alaṃkāra) also contributed to linguistic thought.
Though languages other than Sanskrit were described in premodern India, the grammatical description of Sanskrit—given in Sanskrit—dominated and influenced them more or less strongly. Sanskrit grammar (vyākaraṇa) has a long history marked by several major steps (Padapāṭha versions of Vedic texts, Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini, Mahābhāṣya of Patañjali, Bhartṛhari's works, Siddhāntakaumudī of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita, Nāgeśa's works), and the main topics it addresses (minimal meaning-bearer units, classes of words, relation between word and meaning/referent, the primary meaning/referent of nouns) are still central issues for contemporary linguistics.
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This Day in History for June 1 – 'Sgt. Pepper' Released and More
Here's a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:
1967 – The Beatles release their landmark album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (More info)
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is first published (More info)
1980 – Cable News Network, better known as CNN, begins broadcasting (More info)
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production (More info)
2009 – General Motors files for bankruptcy, the fourth largest in US history (More info)


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Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia Joins Megadeth Onstage at Gigantour Kickoff
Gigantour, the mega-metal tour featuring Megadeth, Motorhead, Lacuna Coil and Volbeat, kicked off last night in Camden, N.J., and it certainly seemed to live up to its name.
One highlight of the evening was when Lacuna Coil's leading lady Cristina Scabbia joined Megadeth onstage to perform 'A Toute le Monde' live. 'A Toute le Monde' originally debuted on Megadeth's 1994 release 'Youthanasia,' but was reincarnated in 2007 with a re-arrangement called 'A Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)' featuring Scabbia.
At the time, Scabbia said she was both surprised and honored to get the invite from Megadeth because she was always a big fan of the song. She was also pleased with the results, saying the new version had a stronger attitude.
Megadeth played a 13 song set that included everything from the classics like 'Sweating Bullets' and 'Symphony of Destruction' to 'Public Enemy No. 1' from their new album 'TH1RT3EN.'
Lacuna Coil's latest release, 'Dark Adrenaline,' made its debut recently, read our review here.
Gigantour continues to ravish its way across the U.S. and Canada before it wraps up in Denver, Colo., on Feb. 28. Check out all the dates here.


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The Crown Prince of Belgium, HRH Prince Philippe, accompanied by the Belgian Defence Minister Pieter De Crem, will lead a business delegation to New Zealand from 27 to 29 November, Arts and Culture Minister Christopher Finlayson announced today.
In addition to engaging in trade promotion, Prince Philippe will meet the Prime Minister and be guest of honour at a dinner hosted by the Governor-General Lt Gen the Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae at Government House.
"A dominant feature of New Zealand's relationship with Belgium is the World War One experience we shared on Belgian soil," Mr Finlayson said. "With the centenary of that awful conflict approaching, this visit will be an opportunity to introduce to His Royal Highness and Mr De Crem our preparations for the commemoration of such a significant chapter of New Zealand's history."
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On a beautiful late summer day this month, students and faculty at LeMoyne-Owen College broke ground on a new residence hall that just five years ago would have held much of the school's total enrollment.
In the five years leading up to the groundbreaking, the city's only historically black college has doubled its size to 1,000 students from the 2006 low of 500.
When completed in the fall of 2013, the $13.5 million residence hall at Neptune Street and Saxon Avenue will have room for 336 students to live on campus. The presence enhances the new sense of life on the South Memphis campus that has always had porous to nonexistent borders with the surrounding community.
The college dates back to the camps and schools for freedmen that formed around Union Army encampments at the Civil War battle of Shiloh in 1862. It is one of only five historically black colleges and universities dating to the Civil War era that still exist.
"We certainly plan to highlight this year all that this college has to get as many people as possible on campus," said LeMoyne-Owen President Johnnie B. Watson.
The 150th anniversary began earlier in September as the Memphis Symphony Orchestra opened its season with a concert on campus and played to a large audience.
"This college not only belongs to the black community, but this college belongs to this community," Watson said. "We have probably more white students than we have had especially since I have been here. You will see faculty and staff on this campus of every color, every race, every creed, every denomination – as small as it is."
Watson returned to the campus in 2006 as an interim president, leaving a position as chairman of the Rhodes College education department, where he had worked for eight years after retiring as Memphis City Schools superintendent.
He is the 11th president of LeMoyne-Owen College and the first alumni to be president of the college.
–Johnnie B. Watson President, LeMoyne-Owen College
Watson defines historically black colleges and universities in terms of small class sizes and teachers and staff who know students by name, and vice versa. In that regard, Watson says LeMoyne-Owen is more diverse racially and religiously. But he said the school's mission hasn't changed that much since he was a student there in the 1950s.
"I think it's pretty much the same," Watson said. "Let's face it, when you say the word nurturing – that's for real on the campuses of historically black colleges. … In that regard, HBCU's haven't really changed."
Rashad Donaldson, a junior business major from Nashville who transferred from the University of Memphis, talked in a separate interview of much the same interaction on the campus as Watson talked about in the 1950s.
"They have different styles of teaching," Donaldson said. "The University of Memphis prepares you well. They have a lot of resources to help you – internships and practical work. But at LeMoyne-Owen College, the school teaches you business administration and also how to apply that in your community – how it applies to building a family up. The other day we had a lesson in accounting called family budgeting. I don't think I'll ever get a lesson in family budgeting at the University of Memphis."
Donaldson is a student in what is by Watson's estimate the second largest subject area among students on campus. The largest academic area is in training teachers, including a large number of special education teachers.
The college also has business programs for students 25 years and older to complete their education or get more education while working.
"Students don't have to wait until the beginning or the ending of a semester," Watson said. "Whenever there are enough to start a new cohort then a new class is formed and started. It puts adults on a fast track. … I think our academic program is pretty much in place."
Watson's initial assignment was to right the school from a financial quagmire. Payroll wasn't being met and the faculty had taken "no confidence" votes in the school's leadership.
"Most historically black colleges at some point will run into trouble with finances and that's what happened at Lemoyne-Owen College," Watson said of the decision by an accreditation committee to put the school on probation. "The only problem was fiscal instability. That was the word our crediting agency used to say you don't have any money in the bank. They wouldn't tell you how much you needed to have in the bank."
The $1.5 million in local and state government funding that followed was coupled with $1 million from an anonymous donor and a grant from the United Church of Christ, what was once the American Missionary Association that founded LeMoyne-Owen College.
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Located in north-central Spain, to the southwest of Rioja, the high plain of Ribera del Duero is Tempranillo country, with nearly all of the best wines made entirely or almost all from this variety. As in Rioja, the spring comes late here; summer temperatures can be hot but the nighttime cools considerably at these altitudes, with the result that the wines from this region normally possess decent acidity and avoid overripe character.
As a region, Ribera del Duero came to prominence in the 1980s by offering more deeply colored, aggressively fruity, alcoholic, and tannic reds from its own more structured and sometimes higher-acid Tinta del país or Tinto fino (local names for Tempranillo), occasionally with a bit of Cabernet added. Compared to Rioja, most Ribera del Duero wines are aged for a shorter period of time in small oak barrels-a higher percentage of which are new-and are released earlier. The most powerful of these wines require extended time in bottle to refine their tannins, but there are plenty of lesser Ribra del Duero wines that offer early appeal.
Ribera del Duero has seen explosive growth in the past decade, and the quality of today's Ribera del Duero wines varies widely. The best examples are more suave than ever, as gentler handling of the fruit has enabled many producers to make wines of greater class without compromising structure or freshness. The lesser examples-and there are still too many of these-are dilute, rustic, or too dry. Some show signs of unclean barrels, while in other cases young vines are the explanation for a lack of intensity.
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UNITAR Fellowship for Afghanistan Programme recently held a workshop in Kabul from 17-19 June. The Fellowship, which has seen almost 450 Fellows graduate to date, is an annual programme which builds the capacity and enhances the leadership, management, and professional skills of a core group of senior government officials, academics, and practitioners from Afghanistan. Sharing Hiroshima's lessons in post-conflict reconstruction, the Fellowship discusses important themes such as Organizational Development and Change, Project Design and Management, and Human Resources Development and Management.
Four workshops are held during each Fellowship cycle – two in Kabul, as well as in Abu Dhabi and Hiroshima. These are augmented by several web seminars over the course of the Fellowship, connecting Hiroshima and Kabul with Singapore; Phoenix, Arizona; Santiago, Chile; Calgary, Canada; and Austin, Texas. In addition, for the duration of the Fellowship, Fellows are connected to international Mentors, from Canada, Chile, Singapore, and the United States, who work to provide international support, insight, and advice regarding the Programme's activities.
The 2013 Workshop, held at the Ministry of Finance of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, started with the opening comments from Dr. Sayed Mohammad Amin Fatimie, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Japan. This was followed by group practical exercises, video conferences, panel discussions, and presentations by Afghan Resource Persons and Coaches. The workshop ended with Alumni-led examinations regarding the impact of the Fellowship and how to take advantage of it fully. During the Workshop, groups also undertook their first video conferences with their international mentors. The next session for the Programme is a web conference examining Social Capital, taking place on 26 June.
UNITAR would like to express its gratitude to the Ministry of Finance, Minister of Finance, Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, and Mr. Musa Kamawi, Human Resources Director at the Ministry of Finance and UNITAR Honorary Faculty Member, for their commitment and support to the Fellowship through the making available of Ministry for this important event.


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G-Dragon Collaborates With vitaminwater [Photos]
Drink up! G-Dragon has partnered with vitaminwater to create his own flavor of the water beverage to help celebrate the brand's fourth anniversary.
G-Dragon was named director of the g-creator project and the result is a peach and mango-flavored blend of the drink, which not only sounds delish and refreshing, but it also is meant to capture Seoul's casual atmosphere and the Dragon's cool ideas and style.
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Yesterday, dotCommonweal had a nice post on last weekend's consistory, including a link to our earlier piece on Cardinal John Foley, which recounted the story when the young priest-editor took a photo of his boss, Cardinal John Krol, astride a camel in Egypt. It should have been no surprise that the first question the post generated was, "Does anybody have the picture?"
Rocco over at Whispers posted one version last night, but here's an even better version from the CNS files:
And here's the caption that ran with it:
HE'D WALK A MILE … — Who's that behind the sunglasses astride a mighty "ship of the desert?" Why it's John of Philadelphia… Pa., that is. He's better known as Cardinal John Krol, who has fun trying a native means of transportation during a break in his trip to the land of the pyramids and other places in the Mideast. (NC photo by Father John Foley) (8/8/75)
(For those of you too young to remember, we used to be known as National Catholic News Service, or NC News, until we changed the name to CNS in 1989.)


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The members of [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Bon Jovi[/lastfm] made a big splash when they arrived at the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid, Spain, on November 6, 2010, to receive the event's first-ever Global Icon award. In addition to closing the award show, they wound up performing a secret pre-party concert, and even brought out a surprise guest, [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Rihanna[/lastfm], for a duet of "Livin' on a Prayer."
Rihanna called the experience of joining Bon Jovi "my highlight of the year. I love those guys."
View photos from Bon Jovi's Madrid press conference.
For a Bon Jovi experience of your very own, be sure to catch the band's Live on Letterman performance this coming Tuesday, November 9 at 8pm Eastern (5pm Pacific) on CBS.com.


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Starring:Steve Austin, Walton Goggins, Laura Vandervoort Written by: Frank Hannah Directed by: Jeff King Turnbuckle rating: 2/4 (Austin's prominence and performance)
It can be a difficult thing to get an audience to cheer for a murderer, but Damage makes sure that everything is in place for us to consider Austin's character John Brickner, if not a hero, at least admirable.
We meet Brickner as he is receiving parole from prison four and a half years into a seven-year internment for second-degree manslaughter. He embarks on the process of building a life up for himself again, and indicates his desire to "get right with this situation" -- a desire that will dictate the course of events throughout the film. He gets on a bus headed for Seattle (which, except for an insert shot of the Space Needle, is actually Vancouver), and gets his feet on the ground with a construction job.
The film takes a leisurely pace to get started, being sure to plant those seeds of sympathy for Brickner early: his construction foreman is a jerk, and Brickner steps in to stop the harassment of a barmaid, Frankie (Vandervoort). Brickner takes on a second job as a sort of "peacemaker" at the bar when patrons get out of hand, and it's during one of his fight-management scuffles that Frankie's friend Reno sees the potential for Brickner to make some big money in the underground fight scene.
Although he is hesitant to sign up, Brickner is soon convinced that he must make a go of the fighting as penitence towards the widow of the man he killed. She has been left with a daughter in need of a heart transplant, and she has no means of paying for it. She had actually conveyed her approval of Brickner's early release to the prison, since she now demanded that he assist her in procuring the funds. Again, if you want to get behind a killer, it helps to give him a new cause -- and fighting to save this girl's life is what drives not only Brickner's fists but also the audience's support for the man.
While it's easy to presume that a film like this is built primarily around the past exploits of someone like Austin, the retired wrestler is more like the outsider as the film taps into the very real exploits of underground fighters. With fighters being brought in to play the parts instead of beefy actors, and the use of actual Vancouver-based underground fighting locations, Austin admitted (in the "Making Of" featurette) that he has to learn how to work differently for effect than he did with his old in-ring efforts.
Being filmed in Canada means that you'll see the usual Canadian contingent of actors: Vandervoort herself is from Toronto, as is William B. Davis (best known as "Cigarette Smoking Man" from The X-Files); and Winnipeg's Donnelly Rhodes (TV's Battlestar Galactica and Da Vinci's Inquest), who plays cantankerous as well as anybody, also lands a nice role a pseudo-spiritual advisor for Brickner, as well as being the adjudicator for the matches.


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