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Sarasota County, ever vigilant of our every tiniest need or desire, just like our federal government, wants to license and regulate tree-care workers.
That's in addition to already licensing and regulating tree-farm sales, tree services and tree surgeons.
Tree-care workers would be the fourth category of tree-related work requiring a license by the county.
Is there an epidemic of mangled trees that I've missed? Perhaps a bevy of injured tree-care workers?
Not really. What there is, apparently, is a lack of uniform standards in tree-trimming, and the Sarasota Tree Advisory Council wants to remedy that oversight.
"We want to raise the level and standard of care and make it more uniform throughout the county," said Demetra McBride, manager of Urban Forestry Operations. Licensing also allows the county to know who the people are doing this work.
McBride is an earnest and sincere advocate of the value of healthy trees in a community. No one argues with the idea that healthy trees are better than sick trees.
But is there no nook or cranny of life that government does not want to control and "improve"?
By my estimate, according to a drop-down menu of regulated industries and positions on the Sarasota County Tax Collector's site, there are more than 1,300 types of jobs that require a license. To put it another way, to list all of them like the few listed in the adjoining chart would require more than three, full, open pages in The Sarasota Observer.
Frankly, most anything that you can think to do in business requires you to pay the county for the right to do it. For many, you also need to be licensed by the state.
Some of us have been all worried that the government is going to end up getting involved with every aspect of our lives. Wrong-o. It already is involved with every aspect. The accompanying charts give just the slightest, tiniest, little glimpse into this reality.
It's groovy if you are a big-government type, the kind of person who wants the cradle-to-grave care that worked so well in the Soviet Union.
Now the dirty little secret about licenses is that many industries want to be licensed because it creates a barrier to entry for competitors. It is certainly an anti-competitive device, and that is just fine with an established enterprise.
But for a long time we have been ruled on the County Commission by 100% Republicans, supposedly the party of small government and more freedom. Doesn't really look like it.
Rod Thomson is executive editor of the Gulf Coast Business Review and can be reached at [email protected].
The following are some of the industries that Sarasota County licenses and regulates that range from absurd to just flat funny. They include:
Alterations — for protection from high hems?
Rubber stamp store — so the School Board won't run out when voting on superintendent proposals.
Authors — for protection from bad prose and mangled syntax?
Flag shops — there is such a thing?
Clock repair — for protection from poor timing?
Disc Jockeys — to protect the public from the misuse and abuse of the Bee Gees.
Gardeners — for protection from badly trimmed azaleas?
Wig, toupee and wiglet stores — naturally.
Spiritualists — surely this is a church and state issue for the ever watchful ACLU.
Lamp shades — words fail.
Perhaps this offers a clue as to why local government is so big. The following is a start on the list of businesses, individuals and industries that are licensed and regulated by Sarasota County:
A/C equipment and sales
A/C contractor
Acoustical contractor
Adult day care
Adult congregate living
Advertising agency
Advertising space sales
Advertising specialities
Aerobics classes
Agricultural consultant
Air compressor sales
Air purifier
Aircraft leasing and sales
Alarm contractor
Alarm system sales
Alcoholism counselor
Aluminum work (six licenses)
Ambulance service
Ammunition retail
Amusement recreation facility
Animal clinic
Animal husbandry
Antique auto dealer
Antique repair
Aquarium sales
Art sales
Arts and crafts
…This is just more than halfway through the As.
Source: Sarasota County Tax Collector's office


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Adi Shankar, who's produced films like "The Grey" and "Dredd 3D" apparently has plans for a new take on "The Expendables" using some of today's, or yesterday's, hottest action actresses. Dutch Southern has already been signed up to pen the script but no word yet on who would be in the film or when it would actually be happening. Two words. Kathleen Turner.
Ryan Lee, who you might remember from "Super 8", has been cast in the upcoming bully flick "White Rabbit". The film follows a young lad who starts to be haunted by a white rabbit, among other things, that he killed as a child. I had no idea you could bully animals. I thought they were just dumb beasts for our amusement and hunting pleasure. honestly I don't think a movie is going to change my mind on that now that I think about it.
No big surprise here but "Resident Evil: Retribution", the next chapter in the RE saga has been slapped with an R rating by the folks over at the MPAA. The big R has been handed down because of "sequences of strong violence throughout" so good news for fans of the series. I assume "mom hips" was also a big reason but you can't very well come out and say something like that can you.
And sad news today my friends. Tony Scott, brother of Ridley Scott and director of such classics as "Top Gun ", "True Romance" and "The Fan" has died after taking his own life this past Sunday.

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As Albania's capital since 1925, Tirana has been the stage for some of the most extreme experiments and dramatic developments in 20th-century Europe.
Enver Hoxha led Tirana and Albania through four decades of isolation under Stalinist communism in its most extreme form. Since the collapse of the socialist state in 1990, Tirana has been the nucleus of a country which has seen changing institutions, political and financial turmoil, mass emigration, violent demonstrations and one of the fastest economic transformations in recent history. In the 21st century, Edi Rama, Tirana's artist-cum-mayor, has brought change in its most vibrant and visible form to the city.
In 1614, local Ottoman ruler, Süleiman Pasha Mulleti, established a town, then known as Tehran, in an area that had been settled for thousands of years. Located at the crossing of two trade routes, it prospered for two centuries until the rule of the Toptani family, beginning in 1816, which heralded a period of decline. It was first names as the capital city in 1920. King Zog I was crowned in Tirana in 1928. His rule saw the modernisation of Tirana by architects from Italy.
During World War II, Tirana was occupied first by the Italians, and then after 1943 by the Germans. The Albanian communist party was formed during these years, and many of the partisans who fought in the National Liberation Army (NLA) were communists. Enver Hoxha, the NLA's supreme commander, became Prime Minister of a provisional government in October 1944. Under his rule, Tirana became the industrial centre of Communist Albania, specializing in the manufacture of machines and food. The regime also built a university, opera house, museums and a film studio in Tirana. Nevertheless, the four decades of Hoxha's rule were a time of extreme hardship, as Tirana, like the rest of the country, suffered the consequences of increasing political and economic isolation under a repressive dictator. Nonetheless, in 1962, James Cameron, one of the few foreign journalists who succeeded in visiting Albania under communism, described Tirana's charm amidst its backwardness:
"Down past New Albania Boulevard, down past Scanderbeg Square, where the vast statue of Stalin brooded over the […] banners demanding long life for the worker's state, Tirana petered out gently into a tangle of wayward little streets and lanes of unmistakable poverty and increasing charm […] there strolled the sort of Albanians one would not have thought ever to see outside a "fête folklorique". Half the people wore the drab serge of a normal urban proletariat, but the other half, without any kind of self-consciousness at all, swaggered around in […] the enormous baggy pantaloons of the Muslim highlander. Albania must be one of the few countries left where what is known as peasant costume is in fact worn by peasants. It gave the backstreets of Tirana a wonderfully rakish air."
Today's Tirana is a very different place. Between 1999 and 2004, the number of cars in the city leapt from 1,000 to 125,000. The population has more than doubled since 1990 and is now well over 700,000, fuelled by an influx of migrants from rural areas. At the same time, many have left Albania for other countries, particularly Italy and Greece. Despite this brain drain, and the crisis resulting from the collapse of the pyramid investment schemes in 1996 and 1997, the city's economy has been growing fast. The "bllok" district of the city with its array of new bars, cafés, restaurants and nightclubs is beginning to make frequent appearances in the travel pages of European newspapers.
Tirana's modernisation has gone beyond the economy. Edi Rama, Tirana's mayor since 2000, has transformed the city's image with a series of innovative projects. An artist himself, he initiated a scheme to brighten up the facades of many of Tirana's greying old buildings. As Rama told the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam:
"And when we painted the first building - purple, and orange - I received a call: there are hundreds of people on the street, it is a traffic chaos. And everybody started to talk about colors - it was the first time that people debated about something which was there, instead of debating what the quickest way out of the country is."
Rama, who was the winner of the World Mayor award in 2004, has also invested in street lighting, done away with many illegal kiosks and structures built on public land, and expanded Tirana's parks and green areas under the "Clean and Green project".
Tirana will need to continue to adapt if it is to cope with the strains caused by its rapid development. The fast-growing population is placing considerable strain on the city's aging infrastructure. The rising number of cars has contributed to a serious air pollution problem. However, freed from its stagnation under communism, there is now cause for hope that Tirana will be able to harness its newfound dynamism to combat these problems.
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Alexandre Vuillemin (1812-1880) was a cartographer and an book editor based in Paris, France. Despite a prolific cartographic career, much of Vuillemin's life is shrouded in mystery. What is known is that his studied under the prominent French Auguste Henri Dufour (1798-1865). Vuillemin's most important work his detailed, highly decorative large format Atlas Illustre de Geographie Commerciale et Industrielle.
Jean Denis Barbie du Bocage (1760 - 1825) and his son Jean-Guillaume Barbie du Bocage (1795 - 1848) were French cartographers and cosmographers active in Paris during late 18th and early 19th centuries. The elder Barbie du Bocage, Jean Denis, was trained as a cartographer and engraver in the workshops of mapmaking legend J. B. B. d'Anville. At some point Jean Denis held the post of Royal Librarian of France and it was through is associations with d'Anville that the d'Anville collection of nearly 9000 maps was acquired by French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The younger Barbie du Bocage, Jean-Guillaume, acquired a position shortly afterwards at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, in time, became its head, with the title of Geographe du Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres.


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Over in the forest Where the trees hide the sun Lived a big mommy monster And her little monster one. "Scare!" said the mommy; "I scare," said the one. So he scared and he scampered Where the trees hide the sun. From monsters to ghosties to goblins, everyone's favorite beasties haunt and howl and rattle their way through their forest home in this silly, spooky twist on the beloved nursery rhyme "Over in the Meadow." Author Pamela Jane and New York Times bestselling illustrator Jane Manning have created a delicious Halloween treat for readers to enjoy.
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Mr. Ellison you were instrumental in bringing this race to your own backyard, San Francisco. Please do not leave the residents of this city
holding the bill. Stand up, put your money where your mouth is, and
support the city and the race that you love so much.
As owner of America's Cup champion Team Oracle, and a critical supporter of bringing America's Cup to San Francisco, you know that the America's Cup Fundraising Committee is projected to fall between $10-$20 million short of the funds needed to put on the massive sailing event this August. If this fundraising goal is not met the city of San Francisco, and its taxpayers, are required to pay the difference. In these economic times the city of San Francisco cannot afford to redirect $10-$20 million from essential city funds to a sailboat race. We are calling on you, Larry Ellison, to pay the difference in the fundraising shortcomings.
Your net worth is $43 billion. Covering the America's Cup debt would be equivalent to a person who has $40,000 donating $13.95. Is that too much to ask?
Please don't make San Francisco use general funds to pay for a sailboat race. San Francisco has much more important needs for those funds.
Thank you
Aaron Peskin
This petition closed over 5 years ago
Why Larry Ellison?
Mr. Ellison is owner of the reigning America's Cup champion boat and worked relentlessly to bring the sailboat race to San Francisco. He lobbied, fundraised, interviewed, and...
Why Larry Ellison?
Mr. Ellison is owner of the reigning America's Cup champion boat and worked relentlessly to bring the sailboat race to San Francisco. He lobbied, fundraised, interviewed, and helped roll out a campaign to sell the idea of this race being held in San Francisco. This is his event, and we need him to ensure that the event helps the city more than it hurts the city. Mr. Ellison can do this by committing to fill the fundraising gap and not making the city pay for the Fundraising Committee's failure.
What's happening?
San Francisco is hosting the 34th America's Cup. The sailing competition has a history of being one of the largest sporting events in the world. During the America's Cup planning process the official Fundraising Committee set a goal to fundraise $32 million in private funds for the event. If that goal was not met than the city of San Francisco would be left holding the tab. Currently the Committee is falling very short on their goal and the city may have to pay $10-$20 million for the sailing event. San Francisco cannot afford to cut general funds that keep this city running for a sailboat race.
What do we need?
We are asking Larry Ellison one of the lead organizers, sailing team owner, and 5th richest person on the planet to cover the fundraising difference for his sailboat race. Larry Ellison is worth $43 billion. The America's Cup Fundraising Committee is is projected to fall $10-$20 million short. If Mr. Ellison would commit to cover $15 million for the event it would be the equivalent to someone to someone who has $40,000 donating $13.95. Is that too much to ask?
Sign and share the petition!
Sign the petition and share it with your community! Ask Larry Ellison to do the right thing and pay for the event we brought to the city. Lets make sure America's Cup helps San Francisco more than it hurts.


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Educational planners in this country have realized the need for bold initiatives on industry and /or career-oriented education.
The Garware Institute of Career Education and Development (GICED) was founded by the University of Mumbai in 1984 to design and conduct educational programmes that could effectively prepare men and women for a career in all spheres of our burgeoning economy an initiative towards better use of human resources.
The GICED is an educational Institute that prepares students with this objective in mind. The Institute has maintained its commitment to provide innovative education for students who plan to develop their careers in various fields in industry. GICED enjoys the unique distinction of active collaboration of education with industry to meet its dynamic requirements.


text: Whether you find it offensive or amusing, the name Alabama Thunderpussy has a way of getting a person's attention. But more important than the band's over-the-top name is its music, a ferocious, dense style of alternative metal that can be infectious as well as bone-crushing. While some alternative metal bands of the 1990s could be angular, Alabama Thunderpussy tended to be groove-oriented and knew the value of a catchy hook. Contrary to what its name implies, the band isn't from Alabama, but was formed in Richmond, VA, in the 1990s. Alabama Thunderpussy signed with Man's Ruin in 1998, and its albums for the San Francisco-based label have included Rise Again (1998) and River City Revival, which was recorded in 1998 and released in 1999. That year, members of the band included singer Johnny Throckmorton, guitarist Asechiah "Cleetus LeRoque" Bogden, bassist Sam Krivanec, and drummer Bryan Cox; their third album, Constellation, followed in early 2000. Finding success with the growing popularity of country metal, they toured extensively and built up their fan base. The raging Staring at the Divine was released the following year. The 2004 release Fulton Hill found former Barbed Wire Dolls vocalist Johnny Weils replacing Throckmorton and a transition from the Man's Ruin label to Relapse. Weils only lasted an album before Kyle Thomas took over vocals for the 2007 release Open Fire. ~ Alex Henderson


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Ousting Nubians For Profit's Spoils
The Kabaka eventually rewarded Nubians with land in Bombo district for helping him fight his enemies.
[Africa News Update: Uganda Op-Ed]
There have been constant threats from a minority within the high echelon of the Uganda ruling system that the Nubians in Uganda must go.
Where they will go? This question is not bothering the State House fraternity.
They are referred to as foreigners despite the fact that the history of the Nubi in East Africa goes back to the late 1800s under the command of Emin Pasha, and then based in Wadelei before the country now called Uganda was mapped out by the British.
History tells us that it was these Nubians who were used by the first Kabaka Mutesa to save Buganda Kingdom and from this time onwards the Nubi showed loyalty to Kabaka Mutesa I, Mwanga, Daudi Chwa and Mutesa II.
In fact they are much more Ugandan than the interlopers from the West who are reported to be selling off the Buganda Kingdom and thereby destroying the real pearl of Africa.
This case of the Nubians is drawing the attention of many Africa watchers around the world who are dismayed to learn that the Uganda Parliament has spoken out about their fate. Yet, so far there has been no clarity by saying that they know 10,000 Nubians are about to suffer. Might not a situation close to that of the present Kenya be on the horizon? Politicians are not concerned.
The Uganda politicians say it was Lord Lugard who died in 1945 who was responsible for the mapping of Uganda and in doing so enveloped some thousands of Nubians, who had been left to starve when Emin Pasha died, and brought them into the Buganda kingdom. The Kabaka eventually rewarded Nubians with land in Bombo district for helping him fight his enemies.
Now, investors, Henley Property Developers Ltd. of London, are allegedly being encouraged by the Uganda government to build a five star hotel together with the latest in swimming pools and an ice rink within the Kampala area. But, in the manipulations involved, the resident area of the Nubians in Bombo has to go into the planning of the London property company for other works.
Of course I may not have the real facts. My correspondence is coming from extremely worried elders of the Nubian society, a race of supreme loyalty. In fact, past Uganda history has them recorded as the Gurkhas of Africa--aggressive in battle, and possessing qualities like courage, loyalty, self sufficiency, physical strength, resilience, orderliness, hard work, fighting tenacity and military strategy.
Let's hope that Henley Property Developers Limited of London look closely at what they are getting into. Such a well established London company would I am sure not like to bring suffering to the sons and daughters of Uganda. The country needs investors but not to be used as tools of something sinister.
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Saddleback College's ESL Department has many courses for non-native English speakers. Our classes are for students who plan to take college classes and also for those who want to improve their overall English ability. We offer classes at the beginning, intermediate, advanced, and college level. Our unique curriculum allows you to create a program that meets your needs. Classes are offered mornings, afternoons, evenings, and online.
Our Courses
Our "Core Courses" are our Multi-skills courses, which focus on all language skills (reading, writing, grammar pronunciation, vocabulary, speaking, and listening) at beginning, intermediate, advanced levels. Multi-skills courses meet six hours week.
Our "Elective Courses" help you improve specific language skills, and they meet three hours a week. We offer Writing, Conversation, Pronunciation, Grammar, Listening and Note-taking, American Literature, Writing for Work, Idioms and Expressions, and more. As a student, you can select your own courses to meet your specific needs. Please look at our ESL Course Sequence to get an overview of our courses.
Our full-semester ESL courses are 16.6 weeks long:
Summer 2019: June 17-August 11 (8-week session)
Fall 2019: August 19-December 18
Spring 2020: January 13-May 20
Click here for the ESL Class Schedule
(Scroll down to "ESL." The first listing is for "ESL Listening and Speaking" courses, and from that page, you can click "next" at the top left or bottom right of the page to go the the next ESL listing, "ESL MultiSkills." Click on "Details" to see what material is covered at each level.)
How Much Will Classes Cost?
Saddleback's ESL classes are different from classes at almost every college in the state because you can choose to take classes either for "credit" or for "non-credit" (0-units). If you take a class for non-credit, then your class will be completely free except for a Health Fee, required by the college, as well as books and materials that the course may require.
The "credit" sections require tuition of $46 a unit, and our ESL classes are either 3 units or 6 units. This means that "credit"courses are $138 for a 3-unit course, or $276 for a 6-unit course. Credit sections have an "A" after their "ticket number" in the class schedule. Many students choose credit sections because they want to get a grade, or they want a record of their work at the college. In addition, they may choose credit sections because they might need credit classes to get financial aid, get insurance, or to fulfill a prerequisite (a requirement for another course).
The "non-credit" sections have a "D" after their ticket number, and students do NOT have to pay the $46 per unit tuition, so the classes are free except for the Health Fee, books and materials, and parking (if needed). Students may enroll in non-credit sections if they don't need college credit or proof of their work at the college.
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Health Fee: $20
Parking: $80 a year (if you drive a car to school)
Textbooks and School Supplies: The cost of textbooks will depend on the courses you enroll in. Each teacher might select different textbooks, and the cost of the textbooks is determined by the publisher. In the Class Schedule, click on "Book info" for each course to find the exact texts (including prices) that are required for each class.
For more information about the costs at Saddleback College, please go to the Fees Page. If you are an international student on an F-1 or J-1 Visa, please contact the International Student Office for more information about requirements.
How Do I Sign Up for Classes?
Students who wish to enroll in ESL courses must first apply to Saddleback College. It does not cost anything to do this. Click here for more details: Getting Started: How Do I Sign Up for ESL Classes?
After you become a Saddleback student, you must take a placement test at Saddleback College; other college test results are not accepted. Click here for information about ESL testing and scheduling: ESL Assessment Schedule & Testing Information
If you are a New Student at Saddleback College, please click here for more information and instructions for applying to the school. On the right side of the page, you will see links for more information.
Saddleback College has Spanish and Farsi-speaking ESL Counselors to help you register for the right classes. You can call (949) 348-6186 or (949)582-4569 for more information, or email a counselor:
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We offer special activities for our ESL students to give them an opportunity to meet other students and teachers and to improve their English language skills.
Past events include a Community Connections day, a Fall Family Celebration, Cultural Events, and a Game Day for ESL students and their families.
Free Conversation Groups: Offered every week in the Tutoring Center to help ESL students practice their speaking skills. The Conversation Groups are small so that everyone has a chance to speak about interesting topics. The Tutoring Center also offers free TOEFL Preparation Workshops in LRC 240.
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In this issue:Where did Michael Jackson go? | Nothing Un-Kosher about Messianic Jews
Where did Michael Jackson go?
Monthly Report: August 2009Av - Elul 5769
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By Shira Sorko-Ram
I have never been a fan of Michael Jackson. I gave my heart fully to the Lord before I heard of him, and he simply never interested me. Elvis Presley was "the idol" in my teenage years. So when the terrible trial of alleged child molestation dominated the news in 2004-2005, it was hard for me to feel anything but disgust for Michael Jackson.
Watching his funeral on TV, I found myself trying to dissect from a spiritual standpoint what I was seeing.
First of all, it became clear Michael Jackson had done a lot of good things in his lifetime. According to news items, he gave large sums to charity, wrote outstanding music on the subject of world peace and helping children with AIDS, and was considered a true humanitarian.
His famous friends all report that he was a great friend, a gentle and kind man. What is certain, he was a musical and entertainment genius. God had endowed him with incredible talents and gifts which he used to write songs, create unusual dances and produce all kinds of creative media.
But, as so often happens with men and women possessing genius but no moral compass, he was unable to retain his equilibrium as to what was wise and right. He soon learned that the more bizarre and eerie his performances, the greater his acclaim as a brilliant entertainer.
In 1984, he produced a video clip called "Thriller" which launched Michael as a world-class entertainer. In this 15-minute video, he became a werewolf who joined many dead monstrosities who came out of their graves as ghosts and spooks. This was his all-time best selling video and put him on the map by breaking through the racial barrier on MTV. "Thriller" sold 50,000,000 copies.
Today I watched "Thriller" on Internet. I felt encrusted with filth after seeing it. The faces were faces of demons; the words of his songs were from the kingdom of darkness.
Thirteen months after making "Thriller," Jackson at the height of his career, had a freak accident when making a Pepsi advertisement. The special affects went wrong and caught Jackson's hair on fire causing second-degree burns on his scalp. Singer Liza Minneli's estranged husband who had been friends with Michael since he was 18, believes the accident changed his personality forever. "Michael," he said, "was in so much pain after that, he became unbalanced. Before then, he had a tight hold of his career. The trauma and the pills (painkillers) changed him."
Jackson was a very handsome entertainer. He had a nose job done and began to bleach his skin, stating that he had a skin disorder that destroyed the pigment of his skin.
And then, in the most extraordinary way, he began a series of plastic surgeries over a number of years, which like the horror films he produced, turned his face into a demonic disaster. It's as if he were possessed by an evil spirit that drove him to sculpture his face more and more like the spirit itself.
Though not a pious man, still Jackson was spiritually sensitive. He delved into a number of religions. Wiki.answers.com has this to say:
"Michael Jackson's parents were Jehovah's Witnesses. Michael was born a Jehovah's Witness, and practiced this religion for a short period of time up until his hit "Thriller" was released. In 1987, when the Jehovah's Witnesses criticized his album, Michael Jackson announced that he was no longer a member of this religious following.
"He briefly took interest in Islam when his brother Jermaine converted to that religion. There is speculation that Michael Jackson himself converted in November 2008. However, no official statement or confirmation of these rumors has ever been made, or been publicly released by him or his publicists. For a brief period of time he wore a red string on his left wrist, a symbol of Kabbalah," a mystical Jewish philosophy full of witchcraft.
The King of Pop somehow reminds me of King Manasseh, the son of the righteous King Hezekiah. Manasseh surely knew right from wrong but the book of Chronicles says he "practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery and consulted spiritists and mediums [provoking] God to anger until he brought calamity on Jerusalem... So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil." (II Chronicles 33:6,9)
Alas, there is nothing anywhere in Jackson's life that would testify of his having had any personal relationship with God or born again experience, giving him assurance of salvation.
As one blogger wrote, "Sadly, Jackson's often outlandish and frequently bizarre behavior gave zero appearance of the transforming power of Jesus Christ."
In 1993, a father accused Jackson of molesting his 13 year-old son, but settled out of court for $20,000,000.
In 2003, he was arrested and handcuffed on several counts of child molestation after publically stating that he had shared his bed with children. The jurors acquitted him on all charges.
By this time, by all accounts of close friends, Michael was addicted to a variety of powerful and dangerous drugs. And he looked absolutely ghastly, each plastic surgery increasing his grisly looks. Surely he had to be drug-influenced when giving instructions for his mutilation.
God gives gifts to men and to women. They can use them to glorify God or they can use them to glorify themselves, which always means selling out to the one who came to steal, to kill and to destroy. Such artists as Madonna have been given incredible gifts. But Madonna, like Jezebel, has chosen to seduce the world to all that is evil through her talents, even to blaspheming the Messiah.
Today, these electronic stars become idols and cast their spells over the young people throughout the world with the help of today's media. They become figures of worship. As one journalist quoted fans of Michael:
Indeed, Shmuley Boteach, a rabbi that tried to help Jackson for two years get free of drugs, said, "My criticism of Michael is his self-absorption - the whole celebrity thing where he needs to feel like he's worshipped." (shmuley.com)
With the world going down hill at the speed of a shooting star, we must take the word of God as our Light and Instruction, our Rock, no matter how we are mocked by the world.
The Apostle John said, "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." (I John 2:15)
Yet the funeral loudly proclaimed the love of God. Indeed, at first you might have mistaken it for an old fashioned camp meeting celebrating the death of one of God's saints. There were prayers and references to God and the love of Jesus from beginning to end.
Everybody there believed in God. There seemed to be no atheists or agnostics in all the crowd of 20,000 who cheered and shouted amen to every reference to God.
The casket was brought in to the music of the well-known Gospel song, "Soon and very soon we're going to see the King."
Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., declared, "At the end of the day, it is only God's love that will sustain you and move you to a higher ground, far above the noise of life..."
Eulogizing Jackson's achievements, Rev. Al Sharpton began his speech with "All over the world today people are gathered in love vigils to celebrate the life of a man that taught the world how to love." He credited Jackson with beating down the racial barriers and allowing personalities like Oprah and golfer Tiger Woods to rise to stardom. Perhaps. There is no question his talents were enormous.
Continuing the tributes to his good deeds, the Jackson family pastor Lucious Smith spoke about how "Michael did so much to try and heal our world."
As the final song, "We are the world" was sang by all the stars together, symbols of every kind of religion were projected on the screens: Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, Shintoism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Baha'i, Confucianism, Jainism, Germatic Paganism and more. The huge screens dazzled the audience with colorful symbols of crosses, the Star of David, Ying Yang, Wicca, Hamsa, the lotus, the peace symbol, etc.
So where did Michael lead the people who were so willing to follow him? To live for the one and only God? To love the sacrifice of Yeshua who so loved the world that He gave Himself for Michael Jackson's life? Or to live a life of freedom from all restraints. The Biblical word is "lawlessness."
The Israeli press, for the most part, did not take to him kindly, saying, "he led a life of hedonism and debauchery and died a sad, lonely man, addicted to a range of drugs." (Jerusalem Post, 3July09)
And here is what I found most amazing. In all the religious fervor at the funeral, there was nary a word about sin, about wrong doing, about breaking God's heart by turning our backs on Him and living for ourselves. They never mentioned that you can't serve two masters.
Instead Sharpton looked at Jackson's children and said, "I want his children to know: there wasn't nothing strange about your Daddy. It was strange what your Daddy had to deal with. But he dealt with it anyway."
Jermaine, Michael's brother who converted to Islam, wrapped up the ceremony by thanking the crowd.
On behalf of his family, Jermaine wished that Allah would be with Michael forever. Another brother Marlon added, "All his life Michaelwas unable to move without a crowd gathering. Maybe now, Michael, they will leave you alone... you have finished your work here on earth, and the Lord has called for you to come home with him."
I suddenly realized that America had created a new religion. It had the form of godliness but denied the life-changing power of God. It was not the real thing. It was a mixture of God the Father, Jesus, good works, and an acceptance ofall the religions of the world - a full-blown New Age Christianity. It was the ultimate in a warm fuzzy one world religion.
And since human nature is unchanged over the centuries, we see these same religious creations in Bible days. The books of Judges, Kings and Chronicles are full of such behavior.
The people of Israel "served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders whooutlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord which He had done for Israel."
And then the change came: "When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel." (See Judges 2)
In years past, black Americans suffered under incredible slavery and bigotry. But through all their affliction many had an especially deep revelation of the love of God. They knew the meaning of being a child of God because they obeyed His Word. They knew what salvation was. They knew what it meant to be a sinner saved by grace.
But today, for much if not most of this new generation, that knowledge is largely gone. Today, God and His moral standards, His gift of salvation through intimate living in Him and His Word is unknown. (True of most Americans)
The Bible explains how God sees it: The children of Israel "did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baals, and they forsook the Lord God of their fathers. . .and they provoked the Lord to anger." (Judges 2:11)
One of the best Biblical examples is the story in Judges 17. Micah, a young man had stolen a huge sum of money from his mother. Then he had a change of heart and admitted his theft and returned the money. His mother was jubilant. "May you be blessed by the Lord, my son."
Then as a joyful act of thanks to the Lord, she said, "I had wholly dedicated the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son, to make a carved image and a molded image." She took 200 silver shekels and gave it to the silversmith to make some household idols.
The next verse says, "In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes." Today, New Age Christianity among many in America means doing what is right in one's own eyes. No sense of right or wrong. Just succeed in what you want to do in life. If you succeed, God is pleased. Such behavior led Israel to disaster. What will it do to America? To all post-Christian countries?
I think of the four different ministers who spoke at that funeral. Have they wandered so far from God's word? The children of Israel thought they were still serving God. They did not think God paid attention to acts that were in defiance of His Word.
Eli the High Priest had two sons who were also priests dedicated to the Lord. But they were immoral. They slept with women coming to worship God and they mocked God's tabernacle, the place where He resided.
The religion that I saw at that funeral - which was seen around the world by 31 million people, second only to Princess Di's funeral, plus untold millions on Internet - is not the faith of the God of the Bible.
Since God is always the same, the future of those who serve God by doing what is right in their own sight will meet the same fate as that of the children of Israel. The Bible is our treasure. It gives us these examples, and they were written by Jewish saints who risked their lives for us. "These examples were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come." (I Corinthians 10:11)
Every soul that goes into eternity without the King, is a tragedy. For one soul is worth more than the whole world. Michael Jackson, with his gifts, was a jewel - that was robbed and destroyed by the lies of the evil one, a colossal waste of life and talent.
The king of pop, perhaps the greatest entertainer the world has seen, spent only 50 years on this planet. Outside of a last-minute cry to God, his New Age Christianity, or any other religion he was attracted to, will not help him. Now he has an eternity to think about what he did and didn't do.
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Maoz has cooperated with Attorney Calev Myers of The Jerusalem Institute of Justice, a Messianic Jewish law firm, in fighting for the rights of other believers under persecution in the land of Israel. Here he comments on the recent victory of Pnina and Israel Conforti, members of our Tiferet Yeshua Congregation in Tel Aviv. Editor
Pnina Conforti, a committed Messianic Jew, was shocked and hurt when the kosher license of her bakery in Ashdod was revoked by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel over three years ago. She was shocked because her bakery, "Pnina Pie" strictly abides by the kosher laws in Judaism. Since this decision of the Chief Rabbinate caused her business to lose about 70% of its clientele, she had no choice but to turn to the Israeli courts for relief. The only reason given for the denial of a kosher license? Pnina's faith that Yeshua is the Jewish Messiah.
In a detailed 12-page opinion, on June 29, 2009, the High Court of Justice presented the partieswith a benchmark decision forcing the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to grant "Pnina Pie" a kosher license.
The judges emphatically rejected the claims of the Chief Rabbinate's counsel, which received the support of the Attorney General of Israel, that it is impossible to trust Messianic Jews to uphold their commitments before the Rabbinate, since they are "apostate Jews". According to Justice Danziger, the Rabbinate's decision was "unreasonable, disproportionate" and "impossible to support".
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The Jerusalem Institute of Justice wants to applaud the Israeli High Court of Justice for upholding equality, democracy and justice in this case. We rejoice with Pnina in this victory and achievement which will undoubtedly positively affect the restaurants, bakeries, catering services and other food businesses owned by members of minority religious streams in Israel.
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The Rabbinical authorities in Israel have endless funding from the Israeli government to harass believers legally and illegally. They do so because they believe the Messianic Jews will not have the finances to challenge the infringements on their basic humans rights in a nation that loudly proclaims its democratic values.
Contributors of Maoz together with two other charitable organizations, made it possible for Pnina and Israel Conforti to contest this injustice and win! Thank you, Maoz contributors!!
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Dear Maoz Partner,
We have received a great victory from the hand of the Lord through the Pnina Pie court case. A victory that will benefit the Body of Messianic Jews throughout Israel. Most of the funding to fight this persecution for the last three and a half years was from you - our Maoz partners!
In spite of the elation we feel today, we are fully aware that the ultra-Orthodox's war against Israeli believers is just warming up.
It is very possible that the Chief Rabbinate will NOT give Pnina her kosher license, even though the highest court in our country has ordered it to do so. If she does not receive her license, then we will again have to help Pnina file a contempt of court charge against the rabbinical authorities.
Again, the Chief Rabbinate will assume that Pnina does not have the funds to retain a lawyer for another drawn-out court case. They will suppose that they can wreak havoc on the Messianic community throughout Israel, because we will not have the finances to stand up to them in court.
For the Chief Rabbinate, any Jew who believes in Yeshua as Messiah is anathema. Believers are automatically called "missionaries," a word that scares most Israelis because of continual brainwashing of the public by rabbinical authorities.
In their ultra-Orthodox "dictionary" the word "missionary" means a paid agent from some Christian organization that is attempting to spiritually destroy the Jewish nation by decreasing the number of Jews in the world through converting them to Christianity.
The ultra-Orthodox claim that missionaries are the successors of Hitler who attempted to physically destroy the Jewish race. This frightens most Israelis to such an extent that they are afraid to consider Yeshua as the Messiah of the Jewish people.
But the ultra-Orthodox are not satisfied with just propaganda. Their spirit of fanatical ultra-Orthodoxy is very similar to the fanatical Islamic Taliban spirit. Their goal is "ethnic cleansing" - to deport every single Messianic Jew in Israel - and they are determined to harass those who do not leave with tactics such as demonstrating in front of their homes with bullhorns, getting them fired from their jobs, or scaring them and their neighbors by plastering posters with their pictures all over their neighborhoods. Or much worth as in the bombing of 16 year-old Ami Ortiz.
However, our marching orders are to continue to share the Word of God, to continue to evangelize the people of Israel, to continue to build up the congregation and to continue to cooperate with other Israeli Messianic organizations in every way possible.
When enemies came to prevent the rebuilding of Jerusalem, Nehemiah instructed his people to use one hand to do the work and to hold a weapon with the other. Therefore, we too, will do all in our power to use the courts to protect the religious and civil rights of God's people here in the land.
So we invite you, our faithful partner, to help us build up the istandwithisrael.com fund, which will not only bless the poor among the believers, but will give us the ability to stand against the malicious attempts of the ultra-Orthodox to destroy the Messianic Jewish community in Israel.
The growth of Maoz and all that we are doing is because we have faithful partners like you who believe as we do - that God will save all of Israel. Your gift every month demonstrates to us strongly that you want to be a part of God's plan to proclaim the Good News!
This month your gift will strengthen the cause of our work in the land and provide valuable assistance to those who are being persecuted because of their faith.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Attorneys for a high school football player facing rape accusations in Ohio are asking a judge to dismiss the case against him because they say the "unavailability of material witnesses" denies him his right to a fair trial.
A West Virginia judge last week rejected requests that three juveniles be called to testify at the eastern Ohio trial of two high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl. The girl is from West Virginia.
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Many of my works are based on the replication of a form-multiple times-often, with each form painted a different color The fact that the forms are all the same demonstrates that underneath the veneer we are really all the same. The different colors-all bright and attractive-help to highlight the unique and wonderful differences between us.
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Avni Institute of Fine Arts (Israel), studied individually with well-known artists in Israel such as Marcel Janko (Dada), Ernst Fuchs (from Vienna), Yosef Steimatzky, Chaim Kive, Zaritsky, and Streichmann.
Permanent Collections
Prime Minister of Israel; Bank Discount, Israel; Cedar Crest College, Pennsylvania; B'nai Brith House, Pennsylvania; Lehigh University, Pennsylvania; Temple University, Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania, Philip and Muriel Berman, Allentown, PA: Mr. & Mrs. S. A. Spencer; Key Biscayne, FL, as well as numerous other collections in England, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States
One Person Exhibitions
Two Person Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Bibliography (In English)
Valley Monthly, March, 1979 "The Style, the Cry, the Shouts,"; The Bulletin, "Christo and His Friends Show Off," 7/27/80; Health Affairs (University of Penn), "Sculptures for Three Health Schools," Spring, "83; New York Times, "Images Doubled in Sculpture Show", 1/19/86; A gGide to the Sculpture, Parks & Gardens of America, McCarthy & Epstein, 1996, pg 104; listed in Who"s Who in the East. 27th edition (1999-2000), Who's Who in the World. 2000-2001; New York Times, Sunday June 18, 2000 "Whale Leads Show in New London," Sculpture, Nov 2000, Vol 19, No.9, Sculpture 2000 International, pg 61-63.
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The Challenge:
1) Who is your MRUA – your Most Recent Unknown Ancestor? This is the person with the lowest number in your Pedigree Chart or Ahnentafel List that you have not identified a last name for, or a first name if you know a surname but not a first name.
2) Have you looked at your research files for this unknown person recently? Why don't you scan it again just to see if there's something you have missed?
3) What online or offline resources might you search that might help identify your MRUA?
4) Tell us about him or her, and your answers to 2) and 3) above, in a blog post, in a comment to this post, or a comment on Facebook or some other social networking site.
Joseph Rogers is my maternal 2nd great-grandfather and #28 on my Ahnentafel list… and that's almost all that I know about him!
The only "official" document that I have with the name Joseph Rogers on it belongs to his son, my great grandfather Charles Arthur Rogers. "Bubba" Rogers' SS-5, his Application For Social Security Card, lists his father as Joseph Rogers. As this information was presumably given by Charles Arthur Rogers, it presumably is correct. Presumably.
That's it, folks. No census entry, no cemetery headstone, no nothing.
Let me tell you a little about Joseph Rogers' son, Charles Arthur, then you will understand why I know so little about his dad.
Here is the story as my grandmother tells it:
Charles Arthur Rogers ran away from home as a "child" because if he didn't leave, he knew that he would one day kill his stepfather, who was abusive to his mother. He met a family who paid for his train fair to Texas in return for working for his keep, and eventually landed in Round Rock, Texas. When his bill was paid, he set out on his own and never looked back.
The earliest document I have for Charles is his 1900 census entry in Yoakum, Texas; he is well into manhood by now. His past was far behind him.
My grandmother thinks that Charles had 2 brothers, Tom and Henry, who ran away with Charles but eventually returned home.
That is basically all that I have on Joseph Rogers. After consulting my calculator, the "earliest" date that Joseph could have died would be approx Aug of 1869, since Charles was born April of 1870. Charles lists his home as Grassy Lick, near Mt Sterling in Montgomery County, Kentucky. I have browsed every page of the 1870 Federal Census for Montgomery County, Kentucky with no sign of Joseph, wife Susan Hannah Knox, or sons Tom, Henry or baby Charles. No family even comes close. I just don't see the family up and moving with a tiny infant in tow, as women in those days frequently were bedfast for some time after giving birth.
If Joseph did die about August 1869, would a widowed Susan have remarried before Charles was even born? Doesn't seem likely.
I have located a possible family for Charles' mother Susan Hannah Knox in the 1860 census for Montgomery County. A child, Sarah Knox, was listed as being 10 years old at this time, which would put her within child-bearing age in 1870. This is the only Knox family in 1860 Montgomery County.
Is she my Sarah (Susan)?
Or was Montgomery County even significant? Maybe the Rogers family was traveling when Charles was born, on their way to who-knows-where when Susan went into labor.
This all just circumstantial, of course…
How can I get some solid info on my missing 2GGF?
I'd love to be able to go to Mt Sterling, which is the county seat of Montgomery County, Kentucky and camp out at the courthouse until I find something… marriage record, cemetery, probate, maybe an archived newspaper clipping. That's not likely to happen anytime soon.
Plan B would involve writing a letter to the courthouse to see what they have, but I don't see that being very successful with the amount of details that I don't have. What I need is actual research, sitting at a large wooden table and going through some large and dusty volumes of records, page by page, line by line until I find something. If there is anything to find, that is. This is such a large window of time and place (9 months prior to Charles' birth in 1870 'till his appearance in the 1900 census and Mt Sterling, Kentucky to San Antonio, Texas) to investigate.
But I'll keep looking and someday…


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Did Dell steal the concept of its new tilting, touchscreen monitor/tablet from Apple? That's a question asked by tech blog Patently Apple as it compares Dell's new 21.5-inch ST22OT multi-touch monitor, which basically serves as a massive tablet, to Apple's iMac Touch with flexible base patent. But Patently Apple goes a little further with:
Apple's patent was published on August 23, 2010. That just happened to be the very same day that Dell's Susan Beebe decided to sign up to Follow Patently Apple's Tweets. Is that a coincidence? That's for you to decide . . .
Because I follow Beebe, a "chief listener" for Dell, Inc. in Austin -- which means marketing and social media for Dell -- on Twitter, I tweeted her about the story which she apparently hadn't read. I asked her, "How does it feel when Patently Apple calls you a corporate spy?"
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" WHA???" she responded. "Seriously? Where'd u hear that? lol."
While I don't really know Beebe, I doubt she includes corporate espionage in the skills section of her resume.
While Patently Apple considers Dell a "copycat," one could argue that Apple may have gotten the idea for a flexible base from HTC's Evo 4G kickstand, which debuted a full five months before Apple's patent. Perhaps Ecclesiastes is correct and there is nothing new under the sun.


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Hi! I'm retired but trying to modify a Chess program to change the output and allow retrieving a previous chess piece move from what I understand id a stack of moves. The source program includes some strings such as "White Wins!", Black Wins!" and "Draw" but does not display them. I want the program to display the comments as appropriate. I am on MS XP Pro SVC 3, 1meg memory. I have downloaded JAVA 7 t C:\Java but have been unable to perform the "Hellow-World.java" compile and execute. All I get is a screen flash.
The file Hello-World.jave" is also in the same folder. The Chess program in a .txt version is available
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If you are like me, Spring Quarter is not just a time of sunshine and frolicking…it's also a time of brief bursts of panic (or long bursts depending on my mood, level of hunger, and/or the seriousness of the issue) as I realize that I'm moments away from missing one deadline or another. So to help spare you from some of the anxiety – or at least prepare you for it – here is a heads up on what is going down deadline-wise over the next few weeks:
Thursday, April 15: Deadline to file tax returns (you are most likely too late to mail it in, but e-filing is always an option)
Friday, April 16: Deadline to apply for disability housing for 2010-2011 Draw
Sunday, April 18 (11:59 pm): Deadline to apply first round for Overseas Study for Winter 2010-2011 or for Kyoto Program Spring 2010-2011
Thursday, April 22: Deadline to apply for pre-assignment for 2010-2011 Draw (that includes theme houses, focus houses, and Co-ops)
Sunday, May 9 (6:00 pm): Deadline to apply for regular housing Draw for 2010-2011
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Robert Schneider, 33,
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… has been working at Lufthansa Technik in Munich for 14 years
"I am measuring the electrical resistance of a static discharger, a small, but very important component on the trailing edge of the wings. The static discharger looks vaguely like an aerial, and its purpose is to discharge static electricity, which can be caused by friction, for example. You may remember the basic principle from physics classes: The classic experiment involves rubbing a balloon and holding it up to your hair, which then stands on end as if magnetically attracted by the balloon. The main cause of friction in aircraft is the air that rushes past it at high speed. The static charge this creates can disrupt communication and navigation instruments, and it has to be discharged into the environment. We routinely check the static dischargers – each aircraft has several. If their electrical resistance is too low, they will no longer function properly, and so we replace them. This is easily and quickly done with an Allen key."


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Friday, 1 April 2011
un pet de fromage
To simplify the sociolinguistic demographics somewhat, we can say that Conwy borough combines an English-speaking urban centre with Welsh-speaking outlying villages. There had been complaints about the number of English-only street signs and road names. The Welsh word preifat 'private' shows by its form that it is the English word ˈpraɪvət respelt in accordance with Welsh spelling conventions (f = v). In the sign, the initial consonant is correctly mutated to b-, to agree with the feminine noun ffordd fɔrð 'road'.
If this word had been borrowed into Welsh direct from Latin prīvātus 1800 years ago when the Romans were in Britain, as were such words as pont 'bridge', llafur 'labour' and ffenest 'window', I think it would probably have come out as something like prywod. (Compare parātus → parod 'ready'.) But obviously it wasn't. It came via English.
The person who created the road sign knew sufficient Welsh to do the correct mutation. But he or she was English enough to confuse the digraphs ei and ie and to produce a fine example of non-rhotic hypercorrection. As it stands, the sign regrettably suggests that the road is characterized by flatulent cheese-eaters.
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I think preifat reflects ˈprəɪvət rather than ˈpraɪvət.ReplyDelete
Selbstverständlich, Michael: as with all cases of English PRICE-vowel words borrowed into Welsh.ReplyDelete
I think I'll leave that Roquefort alone today.ReplyDelete
I think by "preifat reflects ˈprəɪvət rather than ˈpraɪvət" Michael E may have meant that əɪ was as far as the GVS had got when the word was adopted, or even that it still reflects a Welsh pronunciation of the English word, especially perhaps by some speakers of Welsh.ReplyDelete
Yes, and as I expect you know Welsh has two (or in some varieties more than two) diphthongs of this type, ei~əi and ai. So we have the nice minimal pair tei = English tie vs. tai 'houses', pl. of tŷ.ReplyDelete
Yes, but I don't know if any form of Welsh English has the Londonderry opposition between ei and aɪ eye~I, with no morphophonological reason for it like teid~taed tide~tied.ReplyDelete
Or... another possibility is that briefart was simply the product of a dyslexic Welshman. ;o)ReplyDelete
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I wanted to leave this comment to your blog entry "Un pet de fromage", but since anonymous commenting is turned off and I don't have an account at any of the places listed, I'll send it to you by e-mail instead:
Actually, Welsh does have a word it borrowed from Latin /pri-va-tus/, namely /priod/ 'one's own' (Middle Welsh /priawt/. Latin long i- became Welsh /i/, not /y/ (which came from Latin short i among other vowels), and /v/ [w] was deleted before Middle Welsh /aw/. (Source: Lewis & Pedersen's /Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar/, § 80 (1).)
I have been trying to stop myself suggesting that the sign should have been made more Caerphilly, but I have failed.ReplyDelete
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