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"The Discriminatory Nature of the Soup"
A fascinating story of the rise of the nationalist right in France. These rightists are threatening the Republic by serving soup. Soup with pork in it. The horror... the horror.
In 2003 Odile Bonnivard began serving soup to the homeless.
Leftists Against Soup. I can see the t-shirts now. First cartoons and now soup.
At first, she said, the group used pork because it was an inexpensive traditional ingredient for hearty French soup. But as the political significance of serving pork dawned on them and others, it quickly became the focus of their work. [...]
[T]he authorities initially left the pork soup kitchen alone, shutting it down only once to avoid an altercation with a group of indignant French leftists.
As winter closed in and other pork-soup kitchens run by similar-minded groups popped up in Strasbourg and Nice - as well as Brussels, Antwerp and Charleroi in Belgium - the authorities worried that they might be witnessing the start of a dangerous racist trend.A dangerous trend of racist soup? The charitable act of providing soup for the hungry homeless is deemed racist?! No one has to eat it. It's given away free but as the group's Website says, "The only condition required for dining with us: eat pork". Once again, Europe's vision of multiculturalism means criminalizing traditional European culture while allowing minority groups to serve their own communities.
Europe's Islamic charities serve halal food to disadvantaged Muslims and its Jewish charities operate kosher soup kitchens.
Halal and kosher are, well, kosher. But don't serve pork damn you woman! In December
several busloads of police officers arrived to stop her group from setting up at their usual spot near the Montparnasse train station, citing "the discriminatory nature of the soup."Busloads of police? The French police barely tried to stop the Muslim riots but the send busloads of cops to stop a secretary from serving traditional soup to the homeless. Bonnivard is made of strong stuff.
Not really. Remember, this is France. The Eurocrats know best, not the French people. The soup is even enjoyed by those who are not homeless but live on a tight budget in expensive France. Helene, 61, is more honest about the situation in France than all of Official France.
"Our freedom in France is being threatened," she said. "If we prefer European civilization and Christian culture, that's our choice."
"At least here there are people who are of the same mind as me. The French, and the Europeans in general, roll over for foreigners, and particularly Islam."Rock on Helene! Even as the grateful poor line up for the "Identity Soup" the absurdity of modern France knows no limits.
Not yet Odile. Not yet.
[F]our vans filled with riot police officers were waiting at the group's
designated meeting point outside a conservative Catholic church. Bonnivard and her confederates huddled in a nearby café, plotting ways to serve their soup before the police could stop them. "They're more afraid of us than any march by Islamists or Jews," Bonnivard's husband, Roger, later declared as people slurped soup around him.
Bruno Gollnisch, the silver-haired No.2 of the far-right National Front, mingled in the crowd, calling the "persecution" of the soup kitchen a "betrayal of the French identity."Other activists handed out slices of oily sausage as flags bearing the fleur de lis fluttered overhead.
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Dear Partners in the travel and tourism industry,
Dear Tour Guides,
The tourism marketing team warmly welcomes you to the information pages of Schloss Hof and Schloss Niederweiden, both locations of the Schloss Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H.
Should you be looking for options for your tourist or day-trip groups that combine culture, history, the countryside and pleasures of the palate, you have landed in just the right place in Schloss Hof and Schloss Niederweiden.
Read on and be inspired!
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Group Attractions
for groups of 20 persons and more
Here you can find all current group attractions including our catering and gastronomic options:
To the group attractions at Schloss Hof & Schloss Niederweiden
Special Exhibitions
Why do we eat the way we do?
During the next three years we will be inviting you to Schloss Hof and Schloss Niederweiden to take a look beyond the edge of the plate.
More informations for groups are following soon.
Our group guests receive 5 % off shop products with their admission tickets (excluding special offers). Souvenirs, postcards, books and food specialities from the region are available in the Greisslerei – the "corner shop" – in the Kontor/shop in the Meierhof (open daily 11 am – 6 pm) and also in the shop in the ticket office courtyard (open daily 10 am – 6 pm).
Information for bus drivers
There are 21 parking places for buses to choose from. Bus drivers are entitled to free admission and a non-alcoholic drink in the restaurant "Weisser Pfau".
Voucher agreements
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Tourist guide accreditation
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Meetings, conferences and parties
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This was quite a year for me - both very bad and very good. For fishing in New England, it was terrific. Fished the Farmington a few times in the spring and summer and did very well. The Swift River was an oasis in the desert this summer and fall. NH had a lot of rain in June, but then it pretty much dried up until late October. I did a bit of fishing on my own there, but got some of my FF students into nice stocker 'bows and wild brookies. Swift 2015 videos The Pemi in Lincoln/Woodstock was a major destination in July and August. Water temps held up well and there were always a few fish to be found. Pemigewasset videos When the Pemi wasn't producing, I could usually find a few wild brookies in other White Mountain streams and ponds. White Mountain videos My trips in September and June to the Androscoggin River in Errol were fun, as always. The June trip was tough due to high water. We couldn't fish the river for the entire two weeks in June, but fortunately the ponds and small streams fished well. June Errol videos In September the river was back to low/normal levels and the fishing was good, especially in the FFO area in Errol. In November, Jim and I took a trip to Sandy Creek near Rochester, NY. Our friend/client Matt helped make arrangements to get us on some private water, and although the river was very low, we were able to find a few big browns and even a nice Atlantic salmon, seen being held by our guide Jason Franz.
Jason's guide service is called Trout-n-about charters Jim and I have hired him three years in a row and he has always come through for us.
This is one of two nice browns that Jim picked up in the same riffle in a small feeder creek that shall remain nameless.
This big male brown trout must have gone close to 13 pounds. It was the biggest I caught on this trip.
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Hi Frank, Thanks for the response. I will try and express the point better... In a message dated 11/13/2002 5:38:14 AM US Mountain Standard Time, firstname.lastname@example.com writes: > I'm not sure I fully understand your point. At the moment, as you say, > the structure of the example is: > > <Staff Member> <address> <blank node> > <blank node> <street> "1501 Grant Avenue" > > whereas you're suggesting it should be > > <Staff Member> <livesAt> <Address> > <Address> <street> "1501 Grant Avenue" > > However, it seems to me that all you've done is changed the name of the > predicate. The changed name for the predicate may, to some people, > convey the semantics in English more accurately (it could also have been > "hasAddress"), but the semantics seem to me to be exactly the same: the > blank node represents an address, which has various properties itself > (street, and so on). In other words, it seems to me that the example > could just as easily have been written, using your predicate name: > The point I disagree with above is when you say, "the blank node represents an address" because no where do we connect it with the concept (or Class) "Address". As you say below, this could be resolved if we specify a type and then that clears up the semantic confusion. I would guess that a blank node then really just means "thing" (unless we type it). > <Staff Member> <livesAt> <blank node> > <blank node> <street> "1501 Grant Avenue" > > with the exact same semantics. > > The only difference between this and what you've suggested seems to be > that in your example, the object of the first statement is <Address>, > which I presume means it has a URI (and possibly that it has a type such > as "Address"). But the point of the example was an assumption that you > for some reason *didn't* want to assign the address a URI (you could > have given the blank node a type if you wanted). In other words, use of > a blank node here isn't as much a semantic issue as it is a matter of > URI management. If you want to assign everything a URI, that's cool, > but I don't think it changes the structure of the model. Perhaps I'm > not understanding your point? > My point was that an un-typed blank node is semantically ambiguous. I think the solution is to type the blank node. I still am not 100% clear on the best practices for modeling statements about instances versus statements about classes of things. I may need to work on some more examples ... if you know any good references that talk about this distinction please let me know. Just to close the loop, then to assign the type to the blank node I would use rdf:type with the resource being a previously defined <rdfs:Class rdf:about="#Address"> right? Thanks, - Mike ---------------------------------------------------- Michael C. Daconta Director, Web & Technology Services www.mcbrad.comReceived on Wednesday, 13 November 2002 11:16:32 UTC
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20 Years Ago
Well, I was probably playing with my best friend Erin tromping through the woods somewhere around our house. She and I loved to go exploring as we called it. We were attending college church and were meeting at IBC. There was a pature behind the church with a fence that had a sign on it. If we could have read the sign we would know it said beware of horse. We went in and tried to feed the horse and it went crazy. Some women came running through the field after us and she chased us all the way to our church and told our dads. We got a good talking to.
10 years ago
Wow! This is fun. Ten years ago Casey and I had dated in September and broke up sometime in October. I knew he was fixin to ask me back out. We got back together that January. He was my first love :) I had just passed my driving test, so I was probably driving all my younger friends around. Me and Amber were inseperable. She is still one of my very best friends. I had a gold honda accord, I loved that car. I thought I knew everything and I was sooooo much wiser than my parents of course. I am not looking foward to paying for my raising.
5 years ago
Casey and I had been back together for 2 months and we were disgustingly in love. My brother said we just made him sick. We spent every singe minute we could together. I was living in Athens and going to ultrasound school. All I did was spend time with Casey, study, sleep, and drive. It was a stressful, fun time.
1 year ago
I was eight months pregnant with the most woderful life change that I couldn't even understand yet. I never knew how much you could love someone until I saw his little face. I didn't know yet what he would look like or how sweet his little perfect smile would be. I didn't know how sweet it would feel to kiss the little feet that were kicking me all the time. I just knew that I was ready for him to be here, it is such a long time to wait.
Yesterday, I had my hopes up that Maggie, my cat would have a home. The woman that was supposed to come look at her didn't show up and didn't call until an hour later. I was angry. I played with Jack and we all went to bed early. He is doing the funnies thing. Every time he hears music, he flapps his arms in the air and starts clapping. It is just precious.
Well, today i am stressing over giving my cat, Maggie, away. We just don't have time for her. I wish I didn't have pets at all at this time in my life, but I can't give my dog away so the cat had to go. I have several people wanting her and a long list of people to call if the woman I am meeting tonight doesn't want her. I will be glad when it is over.
Tomorrow, hopefully I will be free of this cat drama and I can focus on getting ready for chrismas. I plan to get home from work and go to church. We'll see:)
I tag Melodie and Julie Young
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
1 comment:
- Melodie S. said...
Thanks for doing the tag Kayla. I love reading a mini-version of everyone's past.
- December 22, 2008 at 2:54 PM
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About me
A little about me....
I grew up in Plano, TX where my passion for photography began at a very young age. It wasn't until after graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas and backpacking around Europe for 5 months that I realized I wanted to pursue my dreams of a career in photography. Last year I packed up my bags and moved to Berlin, Germany to attend an International Photography program.
People often ask where the name "Augusta Leigh" came from. When I was in college my mom helped me open a small boutique inside an antique mall and I named it after my late grandmother who was Augusta Leigh Key. The name just stuck and that's where it all began.
My favorite part about photography is that you can always challenge yourself and there is never a reason to be bored. Whether I'm practicing food photography, or long exposure Milky Way shots, there is always something new to learn.
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Festival Review: CoS at Pitchfork 2012
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This weekend in Chicago!
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Album Review: A Lull – Confetti Reprise EP
Exactly what it says on the can.
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Listen: A Lull
You cant fake sincerity when so many want to join your pledge. Chicagos own A Lull deploy a serious serving of devout songs that beg for further examination. Theyre simply so textured with luminous consecration to sonic beauty its a wonder one wouldnt require numerous listens right out of the gate.
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New research finds leading telecoms providers' "one size fits all" strategy is failing consumers
Stockholm, Sweden: Research from leading omnichannel technology provider Now Interact has found that, despite customers demanding a personalized service online from their telecoms providers, the majority of brands are still adopting a 'one size fits all' strategy. The research analyzed the customer journey and contact channels offered to visitors on the websites of 54 leading telecoms companies across the US and Europe.
"Digital transformation is at the top of the agenda for the telecoms industry, but the reality is that the majority of brands say the right buzzwords but aren't in fact transforming their outward service offering to customers" said Magnus Astrom, CEO and founder of Now Interact. "Satisfaction with telcos is consistently low. Ignoring this essential area, primed for change, is standing in the way of the success of any digital transformation project".
The research uncovered three key areas where telcos are lagging behind customer expectation:
- Telcos drive web traffic to the call center. 39% of telcos analyzed display a phone number on their homepage; with a further 20% after one click. Instead of encouraging visitors to self-serve, or allowing customer data trackers to learn from the customer journey and change the site to better service each visitor, more than half of the telcos researched are displaying their number at such an early stage in the consumer lifecycle that they are just encouraging visitors to pick up the phone to complete their journey. This unnecessarily increases call center costs, and reduces the effectiveness of the webstore.
- Telcos are ignoring the data at their fingertips. Despite 56% of telcos analyzed displaying a phone number within the order flow, only 6% connect the visitor directly with a call center agent. Half of the telcos researched force visitors on a cross-channel journey to repeat steps already taken, rendering their online journey useless. Telcos aren't taking advantage of the wealth of data regarding the online journey provided by the 18 (average) customer data trackers running on their websites. Instead of using this knowledge to deliver a meaningful experience during a connected call, most telcos simply ignore the data in favor of a "cold" call.
- Telcos are failing to proactively engage with their online visitors. Budget for digital marketing technology has steadily been on the increase over the past few years for telcos. However, the value of these investments is limited if the tools aren't used in the correct way. The research found that 78% of all channels offered to website visitors were offered in a reactive way – visitors have to seek out a channel in order to use it. Even though telcos are investing in the latest and greatest technologies such as live chat, they are mainly only making them available in a static way. In some cases, our research uncovered brands which offer a channel that is permanently offline, leading to a disappointing experience to visitors that prefer this channel.
A mere 12% of channels were offered proactively. The telcos with proactive channels have successfully invested in technology that learns from the data collected and tailors the channel offering to visitors on site.
An infographic summarizing Now Interact's research is available here. The full research report "The illusion of digital success in the telecommunications industry" is available to download here.


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I toyed with using a much racier title for this post but I was afraid I might cross a moral line so I restrained myself and took the deity route. I'm a big believer in the concept of heaven and I'm willing to put a pretty hefty wager on the idea that these very pancakes will be served in the receiving area just past the pearly gates.
I usually like to wax poetic a little bit before I delve into the featured recipe, but really, this recipe needs no such introduction. It's simply "other-worldly". I took one bite and declared, for each and every resident in my house to hear, "These are hands-down the best pancakes I have ever placed in my mouth."
Need I say more?
Okay, actually, I do. These pancakes aren't Aunt Jemima, folks. You don't get this kind of beauty by dumping a cup of flour in a bowl and adding water. You will, I'm afraid, have to whip egg whites and (brace yourself) fold those egg whites into the batter. I know, I know. You've already decided to throw in the towel and wait for St. Peter to hand one to you in the afterlife. Really, that's up to you. But while you bemoan a little egg white folding for the next 50 years (let's hope you've actually got that long), the rest of us will be enjoying a small piece of heaven here on earth.
If you've decided you are up for this task but have no idea how to fold any type of food, let along egg whites, just check out this link. (Even if you do know how fold, you really should watch this video because the chef in it is a hoot.)
Alright, alright, now onto the recipe.
Pumpkin Pancakes aka Pancakes of the Gods
1 c. buttermilk
1 c. cooked and pureed pumpkin (I used fresh pumpkin here but feel free to use canned. Just a make sure it's pure pumpkin and not pumpkin pie mix. And if you are using canned pumpkin you may want to add a little extra buttermilk just to thin it out.)
4 large eggs, separated
¼ c. maple sugar (I guess these pancakes are starting to sound a little high maintenance now. I just happen to have a slight obsession with maple sugar at the moment and that's why I used it. Regular white sugar will work just fine here. Buuutttt…if you can get your hands on some maple sugar for this, you won't regret it.)
¼ c. melted butter
1 c. flour
1 ½ tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
Chopped walnuts and pure maple syrup for topping
Whisk buttermilk, pumpkin, egg yolks, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl to blend; whisk in melted butter. Whisk flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl to blend. Add dry ingredients to buttermilk mixture and whisk to combine.
Beat egg whites in medium bowl until soft peaks form. (I know the guy on the instructional video whips the egg whites by hand, but don't feel like you have to. No need to be a hero here. Do yourself a favor and just get out the trusty old hand mixer.) Fold whites into batter.
Pour batter by 1/3 cupfuls on hot griddle, cooking each side till golden brown, about 1 ½ minutes. Top with walnuts and syrup.
In the words of a famous country gospel song: "If that don't make you wanna go to heaven, I don't know what does."


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Some people wonder why I set In Front of God and Everybody in 1986. There are a few reasons, but today I'll mention only one.
The original concept for this series was a collection of books about the quirky and interesting people who live along an old dirt road in the Ozarks, Rough Creek Road. I wanted the stories to be rural in flavor and tone, and to show a life that many may remember but few of us will ever see again. In the mid-1980s, the farm crisis began to rear its ugly head. Farmers lost livelihood, land and homes that had been bought or built by great-grandparents or even longer ago. I had wanted my readers to honor the folks like my family and friends who faithfully had worked the land, raised the cattle, milked the cows and continued to find time to love each other and enjoy life until farming was no longer a viable way to earn a living.
My lead character in these stories is a child, and I wanted to tell the stories through her young eyes, watching with both humor and confusion as the old and familiar changed, not only around her but the world at large. I started the evolution simply, with new neighbors.
These days, the vision for that series has changed to meet a different market, and perhaps for the better. Only time will tell. But, for those of you who were curious why I chose not to set my story in the 21st century . . . now you know at least one reason, and maybe it's the best reason of all.


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In an earlier post, I showed that, contrary to the established opinion among Indo-European linguists, PIE labiovelars split into dental, labial and velar reflexes (in various environments) already in PIE times, rather than in the subsequent history of the Greek branch alone. The additional known cases of the labialization of labiovelars in Germanic, Celtic and Italic can now be seen as systematic and interconnected. But, most importantly, a more nuanced etymological analysis has identified cognate sets that prove the presence of the phenomenon of the labialization and dentalization of labiovelars in the so-called "satem" languages (Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic and Armenian).
This re-analysis of PIE labiovelars suggests that the division of IE languages into centum and satem languages is likely to be just an artifact of comparativist methodology. This can now be confirmed by a few new etymologies that show that PIE palatovelars were palatalized into /s/ already in PIE times. This is established by showing that a) palatovelars that are clearly attested as such in "satem" languages are also assibillated in centum languages; b) plain velars across satem and centum dialects alternate with /s/ also across all IE languages. The latter implies that some of the reflexes of PIE palatovelars have been misclassified as "plain" velars by Indo-Europeanists because of the flawed belief in the reality of satem vs. centum languages.
Here is some revealing comparanda:
1. IE *k'erd– 'heart, core, root' (Hitt kard, Skrt hrd-, Avest zered-, Gk keer [<*keerd-], kardía, kradíee, Arm sirt, Goth hairto-, Lat cor, Gen. cordis, OIr cride [<*kerdyo-], Lith sirdis, Latv sirds 'heart, courage, anger', OPruss seyr [< *seerd-], Slav *srudice) ~ IE *wrH2d– 'root, branch' [EIEC 80] (Gk rhiza root' [< *sridya], rhadiks 'branch' (< *sreH2dikos), rhadamnos 'branch, shoot', Lat raadiix 'root', raamus 'branch', Goth waurts 'root', OEng wyrt 'herb, plant', OHG wurz 'plant', ONorse root 'root', OIr freen [< *wrdnio], Welsh gwraidd 'root', greddf 'instinct', Corn gwreydh 'root', Alb rrënjë 'root' < *wradnya). In the light of the anlaut of Gk rhiza, one has to reconstruct IE *s(w)reH2d-. The affixation of Lat raadix 'root' (< *raadi-c-s) is a perfect match for Slav *srudice 'heart', while the affixal morphology of Gk kardía, kradíee is built just like that of rhiza. Welsh greddf 'instinct' shows the same "psychological" extension of the primary organic, physiological meaning as Lith sirdis 'courage, anger'.
In view of w– in Germanic, Celtic and Albanian, it's possible that the isolated Gk phreen 'diaphragm; Sitz aller Seelentätigkeit, Sinn, Seele, Geist, Verstand, Herz' (Frisk, GEW, 1041-2) belongs here as well (if from *FreH2d-n– with an aspiration throwback), although the exact phonetic development is unclear.
2. IE *sro-bh– 'gulp, ingest noisily' [EIEC 175] (Hitt srap– 'gulp', Gk rhopheoo 'gulp down', Lat sorbeo 'sup, swallow, absorb', Arm arbi 'drank', Lith srebiu 'sup, spoon', Latv strebju 'slurp, spoon', SlavH1esnos *srubati 'drink noisily', Alb gjerb 'sip') ~ IE *kor–m– (Gk korennumi, koresko 'satiate', Lat cremor 'thick juice', Lith seriu, serti 'feed', pasaras 'fodder', OIr coirm 'beer', Slav *kormiti 'feed', kormu 'fodder').
3. IE *kreuH– 'blood' (Gk krea 'raw flesh', kreas 'piece of meat', Skrt kravis– 'raw flesh', Lat cruor 'thick blood, gore', MIr kruu– 'blood', Welsh crau 'blood', Lith kraujas 'blood', OPruss krawjan 'blood', Slav *kruvi 'blood') ~ IE *sreuH– 'stream, flow' (Gk rheoo 'stream, flow', rhoos 'stream', rheuma, rhuma [< *sreumn-], 'rheum, bodily fluid', Skrt sravati 'flow', Lith srauja 'stream', srava 'blood flow, menstruation', Latv strauja, Slav *struja 'stream'. The semantic overlap between the two sets is obvious, and the meaning of IE *sreuH– 'stream, flow' is consistent with the existing interpretation of IE *kreuH– 'blood' as specifically 'outside blood' (EIEC 71) or 'blood that left the body' in contradistinction from IE *H1esr 'blood' (see no. 5).
4. PIE *k'weH2– 'tasty, sweet, sour': IE *sweH2du– 'sweet' (Toch A swaar, Toch B swaare 'sweet', Skrt svaadhu– 'sweet', Gk heedus 'pleasing to the senses', Lat suaavis 'pleasing to the senses', OHG swuozi 'sweet, pleasing', Lith suudyti 'to salt') ~ IE *suHro– 'raw, sour, acid' (Slav *syru 'raw, cheese', *surovy 'raw, rough', Lith suuras 'salty', Latv suurs 'salty, bitter', OPrus suris 'cheese', ONorse surr 'sour, unpleasant', OHG suur 'sour') ~ IE *kveH2t-: Skrt kuthitas 'stinky', kvathati 'boils, brews', Lat caaseus 'cheese', Alb kos 'sour sheep milk', Goth hwasoo 'foam', Slav *kvasu 'sweet and sour drink', *kisly 'sour' (< *kuuts– or *kuuds-), Latv kusat 'boil', kuusuls 'spring'. The volatile semantics of this cognate superset is typical for this conceptual zone (comp., [Mallory & Adams, The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World, 20.5]). It likely stems from the ambiguous taste of ancient drinks. Strangely enough, IE *sweH2du– 'sweet' has never been compared with IE *suHro– 'raw, sour, acid' despite their obvious connection supported by the morphology of Toch swaare 'sweet' and the complementary geographic distribution of the two sets. The PIE base *kweH2– is enlarged with unrelated affixes –d-, –r– and ?? ??-s-, although the loss of –d– can be expected for Toch A swaar and Toch B swaare (< *sweH2dro-, Adams, 2013, 795]) and suspected for forms such as Slav *kvasu 'sweet and sour drink', *kisly 'sour' (< *kuuds-) if not for the whole *suHro– nest.
5. PIE *k'eH2u-/*k'euH2– 'forge': IE *keu– 'forge' (Toch B kaut 'split', Lat cuudo 'hit, strike', OIr cuad 'strike, fight', OHG houwan 'chop, strike', Lith kauti, Latv kaut 'forge, strike', Slav *kovati, *kujo 'forge') ~ IE *seH2ul– (Gen. sH2wens) 'sun' (Skrt svar-, Avest xvare (Gen. xveng), Gk heelios [< *saavel-], Lat sool, Goth sauil, sunno 'sun', Lith saule, Latv saule, OPruss saule 'sun', Slav *slunice 'sun', Alb hyll 'star'). The rationale behind the semantic link is a mythological one. Sun was originally a product of forging by a mythic hero (comp. the Indian celestial blacksmith Tvastar). Slav derivatives such as Ukr koval 'blacksmith' and Russ kuznica 'blacksmith shop' show the same root extensions as –l– in Gk heelios and –k– in Slav *slunice. The phonetic match, with a laryngeal and a diphthong in both cases, is perfect.
6. IE *H1esr– (Gen. H1esnos) 'blood' (Hitt eshar [Gen. eshnas], Toch A yasr, B yasar, Gk ear 'blood', Skrt asrk [Gen. asnas], OLat aser, assyr, Arm ariwn, Latv asins 'blood') ~ IE *ak'ru– 'tear' (Hitt ishahru– [influence of eshar is suggested in Tischler 377-8), Toch A aakar 'tear', Skrt asru-'tear', Avest asru-azan- 'Tränen vergiessend', Lith asara, Latv asara 'tear'. The TEAR set also includes forms with an initial *d– (Gk dacruma, Lat lacrima, OIr deer, Arm artaswr, OHG zahar, trahan, OEng teear, tehor) the origin of which remains unresolved. Notably, there is a semantic parallel between the blood-rheum connection in no. 3 and the blood-tear connection in no. 5, which indicates that ancient Indo-Europeans may have distinguished between different bodily fluids not on the basis of their respective sources of origin in the body but on the basis of their texture and other factors.
7. PIE *menk'– 'skin and meat from any part of the body': IE *mems– (Gen. memsos) 'meat' (Toch B miisa 'meat', 'Gk meenigks 'skin, meninges', Skrt maas, maamsa 'meat', Arm mis 'meat', Goth mimz 'meat', Lith mesa 'meat', Latv miesa, OPruss mensa, Slav *menso 'meat'), *mems-ro– (Gk meeros 'meaty part of the leg, femur' [Frisk, GEW, 230-1], Lat membrum 'member', membraana 'membrane', OIr mirr 'bit' ([< 'bit of meat', EIEC 374-5], Slav *menzdra 'inner side of skin, hide' ~ IE *(s)mek'– 'chin, jaw, beard' (Hitt z(a)mankur- 'beard', Skrt smasru– 'beard, moustache', Arm mawruk' 'beard', Lat maala 'cheek, jaw' [< *smaksla], maaxilla 'jawbone, lower part of the face', OIr smech 'chin', OEng smaeras 'lips', Lith smakras, Latv smakrs 'chin', Alb mjeker 'chin, beard'. Semantically this superset is somewhat loose (although comp. the meaning of Gk meenigks 'meninges' referring to the head region if the body just like all the items in the CHIN set). It's possible that the original meaning of the root referred to the surface, meaty and skinny parts of the body that were removed from a human or an animal corpse. The superset does show strong morphological affinity. For example, the nasal in Hitt z(a)mankur, otherwise missing from its immediate cognates, is supported by the pervasive nasal in the MEAT set.
8. PIE *k'leu– 'lock': Gk kleeis 'key', kleioo 'I lock', Lat claavus 'nail', claavis 'key', OIr clo 'nail', Slav *kluci 'key' next to OHG sliozan 'lock', sluzzil 'key', OSax slutil 'key'. The Germanic forms are known to be related to the rest of the IE forms, and the shared protoform usually advanced to explain their onset is *skl-. The identity between PIE *k' and *s make the phonetic development more straightforward.
9. PIE *k'leu– 'listen, hear, obey, oblige': IE *k'leu– 'listen, hear, obey, oblige' (Toch klyos– 'hear', Skrt çrosati 'he listens', çrustis 'trust, agreeableness, obligingness', çrutas 'famous', çrutis 'ear, hearing faculty', Avest sruti– 'message', sruta– 'heard of', Gk kleoo 'I praise', klutos 'glorious', Lat cluere 'to be called', inclutus 'famous', OIr cloor 'I listen' [< *klusoor], clunim 'I hear', OHG hlosen 'listen, obey', hlut 'loud', Arm lu 'famous', lur 'news, message', Lith klausyti, klausau 'listen, obey', Latv sluvet 'be known for', sludinat 'announce', Slav *slusati 'listen, obey', *slysati 'hear') ~ IE *sleu-g– 'serve' (Lith slaugyti, slaugau 'support, help', paslauginti 'perform work for someone', slauga 'service, servant', paslauga 'help, service', OIr sluag 'military detachment', teg-lach 'housefolk' [< *tegoslougo-], Slav *sluziti 'serve', *sluga 'servant'. The LISTEN-HEAR-OBLIGE subset shows both k– and s– onsets in "satem" languages (Lith klausyti next to Skrt çrosati). The connection between *k'leu- and *sleu-g– was first proposed by V. Terras ("Slavische Etymologien." Zeitschrift fur Slavische Philologie 19 (1947): 123). Vasmer rejected it for the reason of the incompatibility of the *k'l- and *sl– onsets, a barrier that now can be overcome.
10. PIE *k'ei– 'lay down seed, procreate, be native to': IE *seHi– 'sow' (Hitt saai– 'throw, sow', Toch A, Toch B saary 'plant' (< *soHryo-), saarm 'seed, cause', Gk heetheoo 'sift through', Lat seroo 'sow', seemen 'seed, stock, offspring', Goth saian, OEng saawan, OHG saa(w)en 'sow', Lith seju 'sow', semens 'seed', Slav *sejo 'sow', *seme 'seed' ~ IE *k'ei– 'lie' (Skrt seva 'intimate, dear', siva 'kind, friendly, auspicious, dear', Gk koomee 'village' [< *kooimeH2], Arm seer 'devotion', sirem 'love', Lat ciivis 'citizen', Goth haims 'village, countryside', heiwa-frauja 'head of the household', OHG hiiun 'married couple, parents, family members', hii(w)o 'husband', hii(w)a 'wife', heim 'home', OEng hiiwen 'household', hiiwan 'members of the household', haam 'home', haeman 'have intercourse, cohabit, marry', OPruss seimiins 'household servants', kaymis 'village', Lith siema 'family', kaimas 'village, countryside', kiemas 'courtyard', Latv sieva 'wife', saime 'family', Slav *semija 'family, household servants'. While the resulting meaning of this superset is somewhat broad and abstract, the phonetic match and the shared morphology of the subsets justifies postulating a single protoform.
11. PIE *k'wen– 'sacred, holy, powerful': IE *k'wento– 'sacred, holy' (Avest spenta– 'holy', Goth hunsl 'sacrifice', OEng huus(e)l 'sacrifice, Eucharist', Lith sventas, OPruss swent– 'sacred, holy, Latv svinet 'sanctify, celebrate holiday', Slav *sventu 'holy') ~ IE *swent– 'strong, healthy' (Goth swinths 'strong, healthy', ONorse svinnr 'powerful, wise', OEng swiið 'strong', OHG gisunt 'healthy') ~ IE *swend-/*swent– 'disappear, wilt' (OHG swintan 'disappear', Slav *vendati, *venonti 'fade, wilt, wither', *onditi 'smoke, cure in smoke'). The meaning of IE *swend-/*swent– 'disappear, wilt' is the exact opposite of IE *swent– 'strong, healthy', which can be explained as the outcome of the inherent semantic ambivalence of the notion of 'power' in sacrificial contexts because a sacred entity is both other-worldly powerful and this-worldly challenged. Scholars (EIEC 493) also cite Avest suura 'strong' and Gk kuurios 'lord' in conjunction with IE *k'wento– 'sacred, holy' (all presumably derived from the verbal base *k'eu– 'swell').
Etymological evidence also warrants the postulation of a complex palatolabiovelar phoneme for PIE.
1. PIE * k'wek'wo– 'domesticated animals, wealth': IE *H1ek'wo– 'horse' (HierLuw asuwa, Toch A yuk, B yakwe, Skrt asva, Myc i-qo, Gk hippos [< *sekwo-], Lat equus 'horse', Goth aihws, OHG ehu– 'horse', Lith asva 'mare') ~ IE *pek'u– 'livestock' (Skrt pasu, Avest pasu 'cattle', Lat pecu 'cattle, livestock', OEng feoh, OHG fihu 'livestock, property, money', Goth faihu 'money, movable goods', OPruss peckus, Lith pekus, pekas 'cattle'. Old Indic pasu included horses, cattle, sheep and goats (EIEC 23), and this seems to be the oldest, undifferentiated meaning from which the meaning 'horse' associated with the *H1ek'wo- phonetic form is derived. For the HORSE words, Indo-Europeanists tend to reconstruct a cluster –k'w– instead of a single phoneme. But this leaves the labiovelar, which is clearly attested in Mycenaean, Greek and Latin, unexplained and some form of contamination needs to be postulated. A PIE palatolabiovelar requires no irregular processes. Arm asr 'wool, fleece' is typically associated with the *pek'u subset but its phonetic shape is a good match for the HORSE subset. Toch B yok 'hair, wool' is compared to Arm asr in [Adams 550] (both are a neuter u-stem) and the connection between yok and Toch A yuk and B yakwe 'horse' is straightforward.
2. PIE *skwek'w-/*k'wek'w– 'see, dream, have a vision': IE *swep-/*swop– 'sleep, dream' (Hitt supp– 'sleep', suppariya– 'dream', Toch A spam, B spane 'sleep, dream', Skrt svapna 'sleep', Avest xvafna 'sleep', Gk hypnos 'sleep', hypar 'true dream, vision, walking reverie', Lat somnus [< *swepno-] 'sleep', sopor 'overpowering sleep', OEng swefn, ONorse svefn 'sleep, dream', sofa 'sleep', OIr suan, Welsh hun 'sleep', Lith sapnas, Latv sapnis 'dream', Slav *supati 'sleep', *sunu 'sleep, dream', Arm k'un 'sleep', Alb gjume 'sleep' ~ IE *skep-/*spek'– 'see' (Gk skeptomai 'observe, look carefully, consider', skopos 'target, purpose, aim, spy', Lat specio 'I look, I see', Skrt pasyati 'look', spasa 'spy', Avest spasyeiti 'look', OHG spehoon 'regard, spy', spahi 'wise, skillful', ONorse spaar 'prediction, prophecy'. ONorse spaar and Gk hypar show the best formal and semantic alignment. Toch A spam, B spane 'sleep, dream' is shaped just like IE *spek'– forms. The original meaning of the etymon was less about the physical state of sleep (for which there was a different root *ses– EIEC, 527) as the subjective experience of being in a dream-like state. Dreams must have had a prophetic significance for early Indo-Europeans and used as a rationale for critical judgment in the waking state. The "metathesis" found in Gk skeptomai, skopos (see below on the similar Gk form (arto-)kopos as a reflex of PIE *k'wek'w- 'bake, cook, liver' likely indicates the ancient root with two (palato)labiovelars. Phonetically and morphologically Gk skeptomai, skopos agrees with Arm k'un. (Comp. different outcomes of the same IE *sw in Armenian in skesur 'wife's mother' and k'oyr 'sister'.) The velar in Arm k'un, therefore, represents not a late, narrow Armenian reflex of PIE *sw-, as it's presently believed, but an inherent property of the ancient IE root.
3. PIE *k'weid– 'to split, to shed (sweat, etc.)': IE *skeid– 'to split, to shed' (Skrt chinatti 'to cut off, chop, split, pierce', cheda– 'cut, section, portion', chidra– 'torn asunder, pierced; hole, slit, cleft', Gk skhidzoo 'I split, divide', Lat scindoo 'I split', Lith skiesti 'water down, separate', skaistas 'clear, shining', skaidrus 'clear', skystas 'liquid, thin', Latv skaidit 'water down', Goth skaidan 'separate', ONorse skita 'defecate', OHG scetan 'watery, thin', OEng sceadan 'divide, separate', Welsh chwyd 'break open', Slav *cediti 'sift water', *cistu 'clean' ~ IE *sweH2id(ro)– 'sweat' (Toch B syaa– 'to sweat', syelme 'sweat', Skrt svedate 'perspire', sveda 'sweat', Avest xvaeda 'sweat', Gk hidros 'sweat', Lat suudor 'sweat', OEng swaetan 'sweat', Welsh chwys 'sweat', Arm k'irtn 'sweat', Latv sviedri 'sweat', Alb djerse 'sweat'). The semantic connection between the two sets is very compelling. IE *skeid– offers a plausible source for one of the IE words for 'sweat' that likely replaced a more ancient form retained in Hitt allaniye– 'to sweat', OIr alias 'sweat'. Just like in no. 2 above the velar in Arm k'un matches the velar in Gk skeptomai, skopos, here the velar in Arm k'irtn matches the velar in Gk skhidzoo, Lith skaidrus, etc. Aspiration in Gk skhidzoo directly corresponds to aspiration in Arm k'irtn and to -w- in Skrt svedate, etc.
4. PIE *k'wleu– 'paired body part of ritual significance': IE *pleu– 'lung' (Skrt kloman– 'the right lung', Gk pleumoon 'lung', Lat pulmoo 'lung', Lith plauciai 'lungs', Latv plausas, plauksi 'lung', Slav *pljuute, *pluutje 'lungs') ~ IE *k'louni– 'buttocks' (Skrt sroni– 'buttock, hip, loin', Avest sraoni– 'buttock', Gk klonis 'coccyx', Lat cluunis 'buttock, haunch (of animals)', Welsh clun 'haunch', ONorse hlaun 'buttocks', Lith slaunis 'haunch, hip', Latv slauna 'haunch, rump'. The onset of Skrt kloman has never received an explanation based on the principle of the regularity of sound change. Instead, dissimilation pl > kl in the distant environment of labial –m– has been proposed, but this explanation is entirely ad hoc. The reconstruction of *kw– instead of *p– resolves this problem nicely. The origin of IE *pleu– 'lung' from the verb base 'to swim' (EIEC 359) (under the assumption that lungs looked like a floater to the administers of sacrifices) now seems doubtful as lungs and buttocks are semantically linked not because they 'float' but because they are similarly looking paired body parts. In a ritual context, they were similarly separated by a sacrificial knife. In this context, comp. Lat clunaculum 'culta sanguinarius quod ad clunes dependeat, vel quia clunes hostiarum dividat' (Waucquier, M. M., and J. Nicolaides. Novum dictionarium tetraglotton. Amsterdam, 1759, 122-3).
3. PIE *k'wek'w- 'bake, cook, liver': IE *pekw-/*kwekw– 'bake' (Skrt pacati 'cooks, bakes, roasts, boils', Gk pesso 'cook', peptos 'cooked', Toch A pak, Toch B pak 'cook, boil, ripen', papaksu 'cooked', Welsh poeth 'baked, roasted, hot', pobi 'bake' (p– < *kw-), Alb pjek 'I bake', Slav *peku, *pekti 'bake, roast, oven'), *pesteni 'liver', *pektera 'cave' ~ IE *yekwr(t)-/*yekwn(t)– 'liver' (Skrt yakrt, Gen. yaknas, Gk heepar, Gen. heepatos [< *sepr-, Gen. *sepn-], Lat iecur, Gen. iecinoris, OHG lebara, OEng lifer, ONorse lifr, Arm leard, Lith jeknos 'liver', Slav *(j)ikra 'calf (of leg), fish roe') ~ Gk hepso 'cook, boil' [< *septyo-). Usually reconstructed as *pekw-, the root COOK-BAKE manifests itself in such forms as Lat coquo 'cook', Lith kepu, kepti 'bake', kepenos 'liver' and Gk arto-kopos 'bread-baker', which point to a labiovelar in the anlaut and not a labial stop. Scholars tend to dismiss them as products of irregular metatheses and assimilations but this is a problematic and unverifiable approach. In the light of Balto-Slav *peken-/*kepen– 'liver', which is transparently derived from the root 'to bake', the otherwise obscure Gk hepso 'cook, boil' cannot be divorced from Gk heepar 'liver'. The second segment in Lith kepenos 'liver' and Slav *pecen– reveal an unmistakable connection to, respectively, Gk Gen. heepatos [< *sepn-] and Lat Gen. iecinoris (< *pecinoris or *kwecinoris), so the loss of kw-/p- has to be postulated to explain Lith jeknos 'liver', Slav *(j)ikra 'calf (of leg), fish roe'), Skrt yakrt, Lat iecur and Gk heepar. OHG lebara, OEng lifer, ONorse Arm leard remain problematic because of l– but their second consonant is now fully consistent with the reconstructed PIE *kw-.
4. PIE *k'wed– 'foot, walk, step': IE *ped-/*pod– 'foot' (Hitt pad 'foot', Toch A pe-, B paiyye 'foot', Skrt padam 'footprint, foot', padyate 'walks, falls', Avest paidyeiti 'comes, walks', pada– 'footprint', Arm het 'footprint', otn 'foot', Gk pous, Gen. podos 'foot', pedon 'ground', Lat pees, pedis 'foot', pessum 'on the ground, grounded', Lith peda 'foot, footprint', padas 'sole of foot', pescias 'on foot', Latv peds 'footprint', pads 'floor', Goth footus 'foot, step', OHG gefezzan 'fall', OEng fettan 'fall', Slav *pesiji 'on foot' [< *pedsyos], *padati 'fall', *podu 'under, bottom, ground') ~ IE *sed-/*sod– 'walk, sit' (Slav *sedeti 'sit', *xoditi 'walk', *sid 'went', Skrt sidati 'he sits', Avest hidaiti 'he sits', hecanim 'I sit, I ride', Gk hodos 'path', hodeuoo 'wander, roam', hoditees 'wanderer', hedzomai 'I sit', Lat sedeoo 'sit', Goth sitan 'sit', Lith sedeti, Latv sedet 'sit'. Phonetically Arm het, Slav *xoditi, Avest hidaiti and Gk hodeuoo show the same weakening of s to h/x. In Armenian, h frequently corresponds to both p and s in other IE languages.
5. PIE *k'wenkw– 'hand, five, ten, one hundred': IE *penkw– 'five' (Toch A pan, B pis, Skrt panca, Avest panca, Gk pente, Lat quiinque, Arm hing, OIr coic, Welsh pempe, Goth fimf, OHG fimf, Lith penki, Latv pieci, Slav *penti, Alb pese) ~ IE *k'mtom 'hundred' (Toch A kant, B kante, Skrt catam, Avest satem, Gk hekaton, Lat centum, OIr cet, Goth hund, Lith simtas, Slav *suto) ~ IE *de-k'mtm 'ten' (Toch A sak, B sak, Skrt daca, Avest dasa, Gk deka, Lat decem, Arm tasn, Goth taihun, OHG zehan, OIr deich, Lith desimtis, Slav *desenti, Alb dhjete). There's a general agreement between scholars that IE *k'mtom 'hundred' and *de-k'mtm 'ten' are related but the origin of the first segment in *de-k'mtm is subject to different interpretations. Similarly, scholars often link *de-k'mtm 'ten' and *penkw– 'five' semantically: five is 'first with clenched fingers', while ten is 'two hands' (Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 747, with further literature). Under the hypothesis of the PIE voiceless palatolabiovelar phoneme, *penkw– 'five', *k'mtom 'hundred' and the second segment of *de-k'mtm are formally identical. PIE *k'wenkw– shows that the labial, velar and dental phonemes seen in the affix to the underlying root *k'wen– are also likely reflexes of a PIE palatovelar phoneme. Initial h– in Arm hing alternates with -s- in tasn and, as in the case of het 'footprint' above, it represents not PIE *p but directly PIE *k'w. Correspondingly, the underlying forms meaning 'fist, hand, finger' (Goth figgrs 'finger' [< *fingra-], handus 'hand', OHG fust [< *funhsti-] 'fist', fingar 'finger', hant 'hand', OEng fyst [< *funhsti-] 'fist', finger 'finger', hand 'hand', Lith kumste 'fist', OPrus kuntis 'fist', Slav *pensti 'palm of the hand, first, hand') are also related. Persistent attempts to brush off Lith kumste 'fist', OPrus kuntis 'fist' as belonging to a different root (see Vasmer, III, 423-4) or to explain Lat quiinque, OIr coic, Welsh pempe, Goth fimf as products of irregular assimilation are superfluous and rooted in flawed PIE reconstructions. See also no. 7.
6. PIE *k'wer-/*kwerH2– 'first, frontal, upper, protruding': IE *k'erH2– 'head, horn' (Hitt karavar 'horn', harsar 'head', Skrt sira 'head, skull', srnga 'horn, tusk', Gk keras 'head, horn', kranion 'upper part of the head, skull', Arm sar 'tip, end, top, summit' mountain', Lat cerebrum 'brain, skull' [< *keresrom], cerviix 'neck', cornuu 'horn', OEng haern 'brain') ~ IE *per– 'first, frontal' (Skrt purvas 'first, frontal', prstham 'ridge, mountain top', Avest purva– 'first', parsta– 'back', Lat postis 'pole' [< *porstis], Alb pare 'first', Toch A parvat 'oldest', B parwesse 'first', OEng forwost 'first, head, leader', OHG first 'ridge of roof', Lith pirmas 'first', pirstas 'finger', OPrus pirmas 'first', pirsten 'finger', Latv pirmais 'first', pirksts 'finger', Slav *pervu 'first', *perstu 'finger'. This is a semantically and morphologically compelling connection (especially revealing is the isogloss linking Hitt harsar, Proto-Italic *keresrom and Balto-Slav *perst-) supported by distributional complementarity: Balto-Slavic does not have reflexes of IE *k'erH2- with the meaning 'head, horn' but it does have plenty of derivatives of IE *per- with the meanings 'first, finger'. Other derivatives from the IE root *k'erH2– 'head, horn' such as Slav *korwa 'cow', *sirna 'roe', Lith karve 'cow', Latv sirna 'roe', OPruss sirvis 'roe', Gk keraos 'horned', Lat cervus 'deer', etc. show alternation between IE *k and IE *k' (in the traditional reconstruction).
7. IE *k'wengwh– 'hand, foot, nail, fist': IE *H3nogwh– 'hand, foot, nail' (Hitt sankui– 'nail', Toch A maku, B mekwa 'nails', Skrt anghris 'foot', nakham 'nail, claw', Gk onuks, Gen. onukhos 'nail, claw', Lat unguis 'nail', ungulus 'hoof', OIr ingen 'nail', OHG nagal 'nail', Lith nagas 'nail', naga 'hoof', Latv nagas 'hands and feet', OPruss nage 'foot', Slav *noga 'foot, leg', *noguti 'nail') ~ IE *pngw– 'metacarpus, fist' (Gk pugme, Lat pugnus 'fist' (< *pngwn-, with a metathesis), OHG fuust [< *funhsti-), OEng fyst 'fist', Lith kumste, OPruss kuntis 'fist', Slav *pensti 'metacarpus, hand, fist'). Toch A maku, B mekwa are thought to derive from PToch *nekwa– but in light of Skrt musti, Avest musti, Toch B masce [ *< masteis] 'fist' (EIEC 255) instead of expected *pngwsti-), which belong here as well, the origin of m– may be more complex, namely from *pnkwa-. (On the unmotivated nature of the postulated *nekwa– > *mekwa– development, see Blazek, Vaclav. "Tocharian A muk ?yoke' and A maku, B mekwa pl. ?(finger)nails' – why m-?" Historische Sprachforschung 114, Bd. 1 (2001): 191-5.) Lith kumste is derived from *punkste (EIEC 255, 389), which may be redundant considering the original form had an initial velar anyhow. It's tempting to include here Lith pentis, OPruss pentis, Slav *penta 'heel' (if from *pengwt-) and OHG hant, OEng hand 'hand' (if from *kwengwt-) but there's no trace of a second velar in those forms. Hitt sankui– 'nail' proves that there was a palatalized consonant in front of Narrow European *H3nogwh-. Semantically, 'hand and foot' (potentially, in their active, aggressive function) seems to be the common denominator across all the forms, with meaning 'nail' (toenail and fingernail) emerging later on the basis of that primary meaning. The application of the protoform to both 'hand' and 'foot' is secure as in the *H3nogwh- subset 'nail' means 'toenail and fingernail' across all the dialects.


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Sep 12, 2010
It's been a really tough week for me and this show stinks of it! LOL After some off-topic discussion, we talk about some HITS that I've found on the interwebs (some of which I have included on my Steals Of The Week), a MISS that I would be concerned about gambling money on, and a RANT that I've harbored for way too long. I apologize in advance if you find that this 85th installment is too far off the mark - even for me!
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If I go to Brazil, I will be dead in 48 hours': What boss of failed £70m EcoHouse property investment scheme told investors
its been nearly a year and reports are still arriving at our office about Eco House and its scam.
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Our Charity Work and Projects
As a charity we feel it is important to support other charitable causes and give back to the profession. Throughout the year we embark on supporting various projects and are exceedingly proud of the volunteer work our therapists undertake.
In the past we have financed our therapists to bring relief to those affected by the Tsunami in Japan and funded Rest UK who gave on site massages to those at disasters such as Ground Zero. We have also supported hospices to integrate aromatherapy into their in-house-care-schemes, donated to the Santa Clara Foundation alongside Lady Sarah Ferguson, and given massages to children with HIV.
The IFA has donated essential oils to the Fountain Centre for our therapists to use when helping the symptoms of those suffering from cancer. Recently, a team visited the Meadow House Hospice and Crisis for the homeless giving massage treatments. This year we are sponsoring the Aromatouch course in Liverpool for parents to learn how to use essential oils and light massage on disabled children.
How do we choose who to help? We select one charity to support each year with a similar ethos to our own and who are actively trying to integrate aromatherapy into a caring environment and need the additional support to do so.
Our support comes in many shapes and forms: The monies we give are sometimes to improve the living conditions of victims of disaster or to reimburse therapists who go onsite to give massages. We support our therapists to educate the public about the healing properties of essential oils and aromatherapy and provide support to our fellow charities by promoting their causes through our various PR platforms, for example on our website and social networks. Some projects we have helped in the past:
How can you help? Donate to our charity and support us in our projects. When members agree to Gift Aid you are donating to the charity. You can also help by increasing awareness about aromatherapy through your social networks and increase our audience, bring more awareness to our charity work, spread a positive attitude amongst your viewers and spread the word about the credibility of aromatherapy and massage as a complementary health medium.


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Prison Education is one of the lesser known but growing programs in Distance Learning. The Prison Education program provides the same courses and education opportunities that on-campus students have. We work with students to develop an education plan that fits their particular situation. After connecting with inside and outside sponsors, students are able to begin pursuing a degree in Biblical Studies. We have recently been partnering with churches that are already involved in prison ministry and it has been a true blessing to see the fruit that has come from these connections. We continually receive letters of thanks and stories of how classes are blessing students and those who are involved in the lives of these students.
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We currently have an entire program designed for incarcerated students. What we need is contact with more students. If you are involved with a ministry that is currently working inside of prison please contact us and we will send you everything you need to help students start their application.
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Special Diets and Rheumatoid Arthritis
The new study comprised 366 people with RA from eight separate trials. Fasting followed by eating a vegetarian diet for 13 months or eating a Mediterranean style diet replete with fruits, vegetables, healthy fats, and legumes for 12 weeks may relieve pain, the study showed. These diets did not improve morning joint stiffness or physical function when compared to regular diets.
There was not enough data to draw any conclusions about how vegan and/or elimination diets affect RA symptoms.
The positive changes seen with vegetarian and Mediterranean diets may be a result of simply adapting a healthier way of eating as opposed to any specific diet, the study researchers conclude.
People with RA who were put on special diets were more likely to drop out of the studies, suggesting that some people may have difficulty adhering to the eating plans.
Some special diets also resulted in weight loss which may not always be a good thing people with RA who are already at risk for nutritional shortfalls.
"There is a need for more and better research on dietary interventions for RA," conclude researchers led by Geir Smedslund, PhD, a senior researcher at the Centre for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology at the Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo, Norway.


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After the clinical brilliance of Germany's 4-2 win over Greece, defending European and world champions Spain will field a challenge from a revitalised French side, driven by Laurent Blanc and an urge to find a measure of salvation after disastrous days in recent international competitions.
The Spanish and the French will face off at the Donbass Arena in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Saturday evening and it promises to be an exciting affair between two countries unafraid to play attacking football and with the players to keep that promise.
The Build-Up:
Spain have been the dominant international force for a long time now, much as Barcelona have been top dog in European club football. The similarities in style of play, aided by the wealth of representatives from the Catalan club have merited enough column space to be a common fact by now. Furthermore, in Vicente del Bosque they have a coach who is a strong believer in tradition and a tactician who implicitly trusts his first team - a fact evident by the call up and deployment of Chelsea striker Fernando Torres, who endured a miserable league season in England, in favour of in-form Valencia striker Roberto Soldado. Whether that move has paid (or will pay) dividends, is open to debate. Certainly Torres's two goals against the Republic of Ireland would have been well received but the fact he faded away once again in the next game against Croatia would not have. Elsewhere, del Bosque will probably retain the same side that has performed reasonably, if not superbly, well so far this tournament.
The former Real Madrid manager has cautioned his side that France will not be an easy team to beat and, more particularly, they will not concentrate on defense to the exclusion of attack.
"I have a hard time believing they will just close the defence up. They have players who can start and build the play and I can't see them defending all of the time and waiting for us to do something. I just hope the match will turn out well. The French coach is a great coach and he has great players at his disposal and the match they lost against Sweden does not tell us anything. They had not lost for a long time before this and that is the thing we will have to think about," the sad-eyed Spaniard told Goal.com.
France, on the other hand, have been as the phoenix rising from the ashes of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. After the horror days of Raymond Domenech's era, Blanc's attacking philosophy seemed to have created a strong and dependable French national team, one that came into the tournament on the back of a 21 match unbeaten run. The extremely disappointing showing against Sweden, in their last group stage fixture, however, seems to have opened up some of the cracks papered over. An earlier IBTimes UK report quoted Chelsea winger Florent Malouda, Arsenal centre back Laurent Koscielny and Blanc as admitting tempers had flared in the dressing room after the game. However, they insisted it was a good thing because it highlighted the burning desire to win and the unwillingness to accept defeat. How true those sentiments are remain to be seen but we believe those statements might have carried more weight had they been expressed in terms of football, during the game, rather than afterwards in the dressing rooms. Nevertheless, Blanc is confident in his side's ability to upset the champions and, in a Goal.com report, hinted France would look to attack.
This morning I watched Croatia-Spain and Italy-Spain," the former Barcelona defender said, adding, "These two teams caused problems for the Spanish. They had opportunities and had the chance [to win] the game. Looking at the two games, there was one that preferred to defend and the other who preferred trying to play their own game; I hope that France will choose the latter."
The French will be buoyed by the fact they have never lost a competitive game to Spain; their most memorable result, perhaps, being the 1984 Euro final win, in which UEFA president Michel Platini scored to lead them to a 2-0 win.
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Spain - Vicente del Bosque will have the luxury of a full strength squad to chose from, although Alvaro Arbeloa, Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Jordi Alba (Valencia), Torres and Javi Martinez (Athletic Bilbao) are all one yellow card away from missing the semi final, should Spain go through. The big question is whether the manager will keep faith with the misfiring Torres or bring Fabregas back to play the "false nine" role. The latter option will emphasise mobility among the front three, with Andres Iniesta (Barcelona) and David Silva (Manchester City) all capable of rotating with the former Arsenal skipper. However, as was evident in the first game (against Italy), the presence of a striker, if only as a reference point for floating midfielders, is crucial. Spain performed much better, as a unit, once Torres was on the field against the Italians and that should give del Bosque something to think about. We believe del Bosque will retain Torres and Fabregas will start from the bench.
This means Alvaro Arbeloa, Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Gerard Pique (Barcelona) and Jordi Alba (Valencia) will start ahead of Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), with Xavi, Sergio Busquets (Barcelona) and Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid) providing ammunition for Torres, Andres Iniesta (Barcelona) and David Silva (Manchester City). Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona) will have to be content with a place on the bench again, despite a strong showing in the tournament so far.
France - Blanc does have a few concerns ahead of this game, principle among which is the absence of AC Milan centre back Philippe Mexes, who is suspended for this game. Koscielny will probably be drafted in as a replacement and given the somewhat erratic form he displayed for the Emirates club this term, he could be a weak link Spain exploit. Worse still for Blanc, there are also doubts over the fitness of key creative players Samir Nasri (Manchester City), Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich) and Yohan Cabaye (Newcastle United). This should allow Jeremy Menez (PSG) to return to the starting eleven.
We believe France will line up with Hugo Lloris (Olympique Lyon) in goal, covered by Mathieu Debuchy (Lille), Koscielny, Adil Rami (Valencia) and Gael Clichy (Manchester City). Cabaye and Yann M'Vila (Rennes) will patrol the midfield, allowing Menez, Nasri and Ribery freedom to move around behind Karim Benzema (Real Madrid). Should either one or all of Cabaye, Nasri and Ribery not play, Blaise Matuidi (PSG), Florent Malouda and Hatem Ben Arfa (Newcastle) will be ready to step up.
- Spain have not conceded a goal in the knock-out stages of a major tournament since former French international Zinedine Zidane's strike in the quarter final of the 2006 World Cup
- France are unbeaten against in Spain in six competitive encounters
- Xabi Alonso is set to win his 100th cap for Spain
- France are the only team still remaining in the tournament, whose strikers have yet to score a goal; Benzema has had 15 shots on goal to no avail
- Spain have completed more than double the number of passes of their last three opponents; they completed a record 810 to the Republic of Ireland's 198 in the last game
Where to Watch Live:
You can follow the match live on iTV 1 and iTV 1 HD from 7.15 pm (BST), as well as BBC Radio 5 live and the official UEFA Web site. The highlights will be on BBC One and the BBC Sport Web site.


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Shield Yourself From Psychic Intrusion
Shielding is an important aspect of being psychic, and one of the toughest skills to master for psychics who are just learning to use their abilities.
To be able to read people the psychic has to be open to the flow of spiritual energy. As we become more intuitive, and more aware, the need to block unwanted energy, or keep energy from becoming intrusive, grows stronger.
Some psychics are able to turn it on and off at will. Others, myself included, can have a difficult time protecting themselves from psychic intrusion, and must therefore prepare themselves by 'shielding'. There are several ways to shield yourself, and all of them are effective, but there are pros and cons to each of them. Continue reading
Promise Of The Stones
Those of us who find ourselves drawn to stones or minerals are called to be servants of the soul of the world.
Our teachers, showing us the way to do this, are the stones, and what they have to teach is far, far beyond anything we can possibly imagine.
The stones are spirit-beings, who through millions of years of development are embodied with wisdom.
The spiritual-metaphysical properties of stones are the promise, as spoken by the stones, of what could happen if we approach them as living beings. It is their promise and has to be heard and felt on their terms, not in the terms of our personality needs. Continue reading


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We recently marked the 40th anniversary of the Community Reinvestment Act, and as an economic equity advocate, I'd like to share some reflections on its ability to both provide and delay economic opportunity for communities of color. The law needs to be modernized on multiple fronts since it predates the internet and banking has changed a lot in 40 years. For now, I'll focus on why a colorblind Community Reinvestment Act can't completely overcome redlining.
But first, what is the CRA?
Following massive civil rights organizing by communities of color for social and economic justice, Congress enacted the Community Reinvestment Act in 1977 as a direct response to redlining — the public and private sector practice of denying mortgages and financial services to neighborhoods of color which were typically low-income. CRA requires banks to affirmatively meet the credit needs of the communities they serve, including low and moderate-income people. Although the CRA remains little-known, it requires regulators to rate a bank's performance in meeting those needs.
However, despite historic disinvestment in and suppression of wealth-building opportunities for people of color, CRA makes no mention of race. This means that while regulators evaluate banks in terms of their lending, services, and investments to low-and-moderate income areas, the law provides no tools to ensure that banks adequately and specifically serve the credit needs of people of color. In its current form, the CRA doesn't acknowledge that people of color tend to experience more denials, higher interest rates, and smaller loans than their White counterparts, nor does it attempt to disincentivize this.
CLICK TO TWEET: Redlining is discrimination based on race. But the law to fight it ignores race. ?
One way to measure success at attaining economic parity for communities of color is to ask whether a bank's lending in a state is proportional to the state's adult demographics. In small business lending, this means that if Latinxs are 17 percent of California's entrepreneurs, a bank's lending to Latinx entrepreneurs should hover close to 17% of total small business loans. This parity has never happened. Instead, bank lending to Whites dominates both small business and mortgage lending. Even the flagship 7A loan from the Small Business Administration, a federal loan insurer, is largely inaccessible to entrepreneurs of color: in 2017, one percent went to Native Americans, two percent went to Blacks, and six percent went to Latinx, while 53 percent went to Whites. So, as a stimulator of wealth creation in low wealth communities, the beneficiaries of CRA's affirmative obligation have been largely White.
Uneven lending happens for varied and complex reasons, but we must ask: What are banks doing to address this gap and address credit needs in communities of color? The Community Reinvestment Act doesn't ask this question. As long as banks' lending in low- and moderate-income areas is robust and free of blatant racism, the alarm doesn't go off. Greenlining exists to sound this alarm.
Moreover, a colorblind CRA is problematic because it does not recognize that redlining and predatory, wealth-stripping financial practices always hurt communities of color first and worst. Slavery, segregation, institutionalized racism, and more recently, lending discrimination led to today's uneven wealth holdings. In its current form, CRA fails to recognize that racism and redlining have and continue to drive the wealth gap, and thus cannot truly curb it.
The CRA's omission of race as a real factor in lending, and its implicit assumption that low and moderate wealth individuals are all the same, doesn't establish the expectation that people of color must be served equitably. Furthermore, it doesn't indicate that solutions must take note of the lag in our economic recovery after centuries of race-based economic exclusion. In today's capitalist society, you need wealth to create wealth. So, where does that leave communities of color?
CRA has successfully leveraged billions into low and moderate-income communities, but those investments will be more impactful and equitably distributed when CRA considers race. Otherwise, it's a blunt tool. A focus on race becomes more urgent as people of color become the new majority in the U.S. Anything less would be a deliberate silencing and denial of people of color's oppression and of their orchestrated exclusion from the financial mainstream since the country's inception.
Finally, race must be a focal point not only in modernizing the Community Reinvestment Act, but also in the movement around economic justice. Simply modernizing the law will not change the public discourse around race, even within our own movement. We must unapologetically put race at the center of our advocacy, and we must push for policies that address the experiences of people of color. As we call for unity, we must refrain from patching up our national history to make others comfortable as they are brought into the fold, and emphasize that economic prosperity is not a zero-sum game.
Without embedding race into the CRA and the larger movement for economic justice, we'll just feed into a long legacy of excluding people of color's experiences from progressive movements. In our inability to boldly face past and present racism, communities of color still fight for the same issues our advocate predecessors did: land, housing, employment, living wages, and the right to self-determination, among others. It's time that the U.S. considers these priorities, as well. It's the only way we can move this movement, and the U.S., forward.
Sharon Velasquez is Greenlining's Economic Equity Manager. Follow Sharon on Twitter.


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Monday, October 5th, 2009
My love for Sophomore first began when C40 editor Jill introduced me to the site, and it was love at first sight. I was immediately obsessed with the line that includes dresses, skirts, shorts, tanks and tees. Wanting to find out more, I became determined to interview Sophomore's creator Chrissie Miller. Sophomore, which started out as a T-shirt line, has developed into a sought-after collection worn by celebrities and hipsters alike. A New York '70s-inspired line, Sophomore has everything I love for fall–especially leather! After sitting down for a phone interview with Chrissie, it's easy to see how she has gone from a graphic T-shirt designer to an influential creative director of her own line in only a few years.
Q: How did you get the idea to start the Sophomore line?
A: I went to art school, and my boyfriend was a graphic designer so I learned how to use Photoshop and Illustrator and all that stuff. So I wanted to get a job in graphic design, but I couldn't find one so I just basically made T-shirts, and I learned how to silk screen. Even before we had the name Sophomore, I was selling them and selling the shirts we made at my friend Charlotte Ronson's store. And then we got all this attention from them and other buyers saw them and wanted them for their store so actually Bloomingdales was our first store. And we didn't even have a name of the brand yet.
Q: Really? Wow!
A: [laughs] Yeah I just called them Chrissie's T-shirts or something. So yeah I just did graphics for a long time.
Q: So how did you begin to expand into sportswear?
A: It took off really quickly and basically the way it worked was every time we sold stuff we had more and more money to do things we wanted to do. Like, ok now we have enough money to get an office or now we have enough money to hire someone. I'm not a trained designer so I found Madeleine von Froomer. So she's like super professional like the real deal, she went to school for it. And for me I'm more into jeans and T-shirts, she's more into dresses and that kind of thing. And she had been working at Proenza [Schouler] so she had this fancy background. So I asked her to leave Proenza to work for me, which took some convincing. But she's really happy, and it worked out great. So she's like the main designer, and I'm more like the creative director of the company.
Q: What was your inspiration for your Fall '09 line? I took a look at it, and I'm obsessed with the leather shorts and leather skirts!
A: Oh thank you! Well it was a weird thing because you know we weren't planning on doing leather stuff. But because Opening Ceremony is our showroom, they kind of cater to a more fancy, higher–end audience, so we wanted to offer something more higher end. It was actually the worst time to do it because of the recession, but it worked out okay! We just did leather in almost everything, and the leather shorts and skirts. We just kind of experimented with it. Every season what we're going to do is use a different material. For Fall '09 we did leather for Spring '10 we are doing oxford. We try to incorporate a new fabric every season.
Q: So do you show in any fashion shows? How do you market your clothes?
A: You know, no, it's funny we are more of a contemporary brand. People kind of think we are high end because of Madeleine or whatever, but I just kind of think for those contemporary lines it's not a good idea to show for fashion week, that's more meant for the high-end stuff. I'm sure you know, you're overwhelmed with all this new stuff like Alex Wang and Chanel, and I feel like we get lost in the shuffle. So what we do is a party in Paris during Fashion Week in Paris. We do a party at La Barone. And we are going to do something off-season so everyone can see what we're doing.
Q: How many stores carry the Sophomore line in the US?
A: I think we're up to 40, but it's not enough for me!
Q: Would you think about coming to the Midwest?
A: Well the thing is that the showroom is in charge of all that, like for a designer to do their own store stuff is kind of impossible. So they help us with that. But yeah I want it to be a wider distribution kind of thing. So we're working on it. Are you from there?
Q: Yeah we are based in St. Louis, but I checked online and the nearest store that carried Sophomore was in Ohio.
A: Oh really? Yeah we are definitely trying to get more stores. But we sell our stuff online too!
Q: So what's coming up next for Sophomore and Chrissie Miller?
A: Well we're working on doing a collaboration with Keds. We're going to do sneakers, which is really cool. We are doing a leather sneaker to go with the fall stuff. Then we're going to do another one for spring. And we just finished Spring '10 which is really cute, and we did a video lookbook this time. It's pretty elaborate-like a mini movie. And that will show in Paris for Fashion Week!
Images via refinery29.com, sophomoreynyc.com


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At Inhabitat, we love work that gives new use to discarded items, and as CDs become relics of the past, more artists are finding ways to reuse the material creatively. Art Professor Leticia Bajuyo is doing just that, repurposing thousands of the shiny discs into sparkling alien-like sculptures. The pieces are molded into 3-dimensional forms using cable ties and hula hoops, and then shaped according to a specific theme or to the space they are exhibited.
An Associate Professor of Art at Hanover College, Indiana, the artist has been collecting and reusing waste materials since 2009. So far, her CD installations have transformed discs into several meaningful exhibitions: Beginning with Entropy: a vortex of useless memory; and a piece focused on the investigation of audio called Rewind: the thinness of memory. In the latter, she explored interaction and participation as viewers gave their own sound to the CDs.
Her more recent exhibits look at the significance of the materials themselves. Event Horizon, an installation that took place last year, consisted of two curved vortex walls. Constructed from items that were formerly trendy and purchased widely, it symbolized the point of no return at the edge of a black hole. Another exhibit in 2012 was Dual Wielding, in which two horns extended from a Theremin.
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Images courtesy of Rino Pizzi and Leticia Bajuyo