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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (WVEC-TV) -- Some people have a hang up when it comes to how much time children are spending on their mobile devices -- staring into the screen texting or gaming and losing focus on other important things in life like family time and school work.
The Principal at Princess Anne Middle School supports an effort there to get kids to be more responsible – and less dependent – on their mobile devices.
To him – it's a safety issue.
"Oh absolutely," said Alex Bergren, Princess Anne Middle School Principal. "In fact, I think that we think of threats when it comes to school safety as sort of the guns and things like that. But I think some of the most significant threats that we deal with on a daily basis are cell phones and the technology."
He cites the internet as a haven for things children should not be exposed to. One student's mother says so much screen exposure has caused her 12 year-old daughter to have vision problems.
That's why she stands behind the effort to increase exposure to what they're doing at Princess Anne Middle School. They want to increase awareness to help more parents talk to their kids, who may not think anything of this at all.
The principal and other staff members are trying to help video-addicted teenagers also known as "Screenagers".
That's the name of a documentary that opened a lot of eyes to this issue.
In it, kids show how they deceive their parents to keep playing their video games. For instance, one clip has a teenage boy saying this while sitting next to his mother: "Mom. It's easy to trick her -- no offense. Hey mom it's this crazy math thing!"
"Screenagers" also explores the number of hours kids are using their cell phones and when they're using them -- sometimes well into the overnight hours texting and surfing the web and gaming.
Bella, who's 12, believes too much exposure is harmful . She says some of her friends just can't put down their cell phones."It's like their life," Bella said.
They will show the "Screenagers" documentary to the public on Thursday night, October 20th from 7 to 9 p.m. at Princess Anne Middle School. After the screening, there will be an open forum so parents and others in the audience can talk about this issue and learn how to better deal with it at home. There is a fee. For more information, call Princess Anne Middle School at 757- 648-4950.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Christmas in Iraq
It was a Christmas far from home.
Rob Rhyne, of Millis, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who works in the Air Component Coordination Element in Baghdad, played the trumpet during the Christmas Eve celebration at the U.S. Embassy in the International Zone in that city.
Rhyne, 41, is stationed with the 21st Airlift Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, Calif, Stars and Stripes reported.
-- Erica Tochin
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If you run your logon script visible, you might want to display a previous logon message to your users, similar to:
Last logon was 03/01/2001 10:16 from computer name <Computer Name>.
To implement this display function:
1. Create a LastLogon$ share on your PDC.
2. Grant the Everyone full control on the share.
3. Set the NTFS permissions on the shared folder to:
Authenticated Users - Read + Add (write).
Creator Owner - Change.
Add the following to the end of your logon script:
@echo off call :lastLogon <\\PDCname> Goto end :LastLogon setlocal set PDCname=%1 if exist "%PDCname%\lastlogon$\%username%.lli" type "%PDCName%\lastlogon$\%username%.lli" if exist "%PDCname%\lastlogon$\%username%.lli" del /q "%PDCName%\lastlogon$\%username%.lli" For /f "Skip=19 Tokens=*" %%i in ('Net user "%username%" /domain') do call :llifind "%%i" endlocal goto end :llifind set line=%1 set line=%line:"=% if /i not "%line:~0,10%" EQU "Last logon" goto end set display=Last logon was %line:~29,20% from computer name %computername%. @echo %display%>"%PDCname%\lastlogon$\%username%.lli" :endNOTE: The first time a user logs on after you implement the script, nothing is displayed, but the the event is recored at %PDCname%\lastlogon$\%username%.lli.
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Re: Elizabeth Ann Pinkerton Jiles, d La 1923
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Crystal Jiles 4/25/09
It is nice to see that you are interested again in family research. We have not been in touch since 2004 when we exchanged photos. I have spent many hours researching, preparing and posting memorial pages with photos and bios on Find A Grave. You can find much of the Jiles family connections included in their memorial. Please drop into visit and leave flowers and/or messages for your loved ones.
If my records are correct, other half siblings of Elzie Loranza Jiles are Virginia "Jennie", Andrew Franklin, Willie Raymond, Starling, John, Mattie, Leon, Edgar Lee Woodrow Jiles and Thomas Iuria Fogger.
Notes for Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Causey) Fogger Jiles:
Elizabeth Causey was the 2nd. wife of Starling Jiles. She first married A.E. Fogger, 5/16/1897 (or date license issued) Lincoln Parish, LA, Bk D, Pg 180. He died 7/6/1906, Charity Hospital, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA
They had four or five children including twin girls who died at birth or as young children. Only one child, Thomas Iuria lived to adulthood.
She is buried in the Walnut Creek Cemetery, Simsboro, Lincoln Parish, LA. At one time, there was a fieldstone with a cross carved in it to mark her gravesite. This was told to me by her grandson, Rev. Glen Fogger in a 2007 phone interview.
Thomas J. Causey married Sarah Brown, 1/4/1866, Bienville Parish, LA (?S=Ancestry)
Although unproven, it is believed that Elizabeth "Lizzie", William A. and Rose Lee (Rosellee (sp?) 1880 census) are the children of Thomas J. Causey and Sarah Brown.
Lincoln Parish, LA Marriage Records, Book D, 1877-1885, Page 127, Thom. J. Causey married M.J. Till, 12/31/1879. 1880 Lincoln Parish census, Mary, age 23, listed as wife of Thom J. Causey.
Notes for William A. Causey:
William Causey married Frances Elizabeth "Fannie" Boyd. They had children Rosa (married Willie Raymond Jiles) Dora (married Starling Jiles, Jr.) Minnie, Myrtle, Albert, Earl, Ethel, Chester and Lottie (sp?) May.
It appears that two Jiles brothers, Raymond and Starling, married two Causey sisters, Rosa and Dora. Their father's sister, Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Causey) Fogger, married their husband's father, Starling Jiles, Sr. Their Aunt Rosa Lee Causey married Tim Higdon and their daughter Aurora married John Jiles, son of Starling, Sr. and his first wife Frances.
Recorded in the Walnut Creek Cemetery, Simsboro, Lincoln Parish, LA;
CAUSEY, Willie No Dates
CAUSEY, Fannie No Dates
Notes for Rose Lee Causey:
Rose Lee (William's sister, 1880 census) married Tim W. Higdon, 7/31/1890, Bk D, 1887-1894, Pg 227, Lincoln Parish, LA. Rose Lee Causey and Tim Higdon's daughter, Aurora, married John Jiles, 1917, Lincoln Parish, LA, Bk K, Pg 64. They had one known son, J.C. Jiles, born about 1918. Aurora and her son are enumerated in the household of her father in 1920, Jackson Parish, LA.
Recorded in the Walnut Creek Cemetery, Simsboro, Lincoln Parish, LA;
HIGDON, Rosa Lee l May 1865 23 May 1898
HIGDON, Timothy Wane 3 Jan 1867 17 Feb 1954
According to the records, Rose Lee died after the 1900 census and before the 1910 census.
I would appreciate any correction are additions.
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- Six out of ten people with Alzheimers and dementia will wander off at some point. That puts them at risk for injury or even death. And not all of those people are found quickly enough. That's why Governor Scott Walker recently signed a bill that will help find them quicker. The Wisconsin Silver Alert bill will create a program that works like an Amber Alert for missing children. An effective alert system is crucial to the Northwoods because of the growing aging population and severe winter weather. For advocacy groups like the Alzheimer's Association, the new bill is a huge victory."Family caregivers of people who have Alzheimers, or another type of dementia are worried and concerned about whether or not their loved one might wander away from home," said Julie St. Pierre, an outreach specialist for the Alzheimer's Association in Rhinelander. "It's very important that those caregivers out there know that there are important resources that can help keep their loved ones safe in the home. The Silver Alert is certainly now a part of that safety net that we have in place."The Alzheimer's Association was just one group that worked closely with the Wisconsin Crime Alert Network to get this bill passed. A coordinator for the network believes this system will save lives. "This bill really advances [us] one step forward in addressing the needs of an aging population. And that's extremely important in the Northwestern part of Wisconsin," said Joe Libowsky, coordinator for the Wisconsin Crime Alert Network. "In the Rhinelander area, where you have fairly severe weather, it makes the urgency of getting out the alert as quickly as possible even more important."The alert system will heavily involve all 500 law enforcement agencies in the state to respond to at-risk adults who are reported missing. Wisconsin joins 30 other states with a silver alert system.
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Fire damaged a wax storage tank at a cardboard plant in Orting late Thursday, firefighters reported.
The blaze broke out about 11:45 p.m. in the 10,000-gallon tank at Commencement Bay Corrugated, Orting Valley Fire & Rescue said. Workers at the plant use the wax to manufacture water-resistant cardboard.
Nearly 20 firefighters from three departments responded to the fire and brought it under control about 16 minutes after arriving, the agency said.
Damage is estimated at $3,000. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.
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The Origins Of The English Language
( Originally Published 1912 )
AMONG the many living forms of human speech, and those countless others which have arisen and perished in the past, the English language, which has now spread over so large a portion of the world, is as humble and obscure in its origin as any other. It is, of course, in no sense native to England, but was brought thither by the German tribes who conquered the island in the Vth and Vlth Centuries; and its nearest relations are to be found among the humble dialects of a few barren islands on the German coast. When our Anglo-Saxon ancestors came first to ravage Britain, and finally to settle there, they found the island inhabited by a people weaker, indeed, but infinitely more civilized than themselves. For several centuries the Celts in England had enjoyed the benefits of Roman government, and shared in the civilization of the Roman Empire; they lived in walled cities, worshipped in Christian churches, and spoke to a certain extent, at least, the Latin language; and it is possible, if this Teutonic invasion had never happened, that the inhabitants of England would be now speaking a language descended from Latin, like French or Spanish or Italian. It is true that English has become almost a half-sister to these "Romance languages," as they are called, and a large part of its vocabulary is derived from Latin sources; but this is not in any way due to the Roman conquest of Britain, but to later causes. In whatever parts of Britain the Teutonic tribes settled, the Roman civilization and the Roman language perished; and we find at first a purely Germanic race, a group of related tribes, speaking dialects of what was substantially the same language–the language which is the parent of our present English speech. This Anglo-Saxon or (as it is now preferably called) "Old English" language belonged to the great Teutonic family of speech, which in its turn was separated into three main families—East Germanic, now. extinct; Scandinavian, or old Norse, from which Icelandic, Danish, and Swedish are descended; and West Germanic, from which are derived the two great branches of High and Low German. High German has become the modern literary German; while Low German has split up into a number of different languages—Frisian, Dutch, and Flemish. It is to the last of these groups that English belongs, and its nearest relatives are the Frisian dialect, Dutch, and Flemish.
But the Teutonic tongues themselves form one branch of another great family, the Aryan or Indo-European, which is spread from India in the East to Ireland in the West, and includes Sanskrit, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and several other languages. The grammatical structure of English 'and German, and a large element of their vocabularies, proves their relationship to these other tongues, though in the course of their wanderings from their primitive home, forms were changed or dropped, the pronunciation of some of the vowels and consonants shifted, many old words perished, and many new ones were acquired. The study of the relationships between these various languages forms the subject of the science of Comparative Philology, a science almost entirely based in its turn on what is called "Phonology," the study of changes in sound, and the elaborate laws by which they are governed. It is only, indeed, since the discovery of these laws that the science of language or "linguistics" has become possible, and it is on the careful and accurate study of sound-changes that is founded the modern historical conception of English, its relationship to other languages, and its development from the early speech of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors.
This early speech was, as we have seen, a Teutonic or German language. Although our modern English has been derived from it by a regular process of change, it was in its character more like modern Dutch or modern German. Its vocabulary was what is now called a "pure" one, containing few foreign words, and its grammar was even more complicated than that of modern German. It retained the elaborate system of genders; its nouns were masculine, feminine, or neuter; they had five cases and various declensions, and the adjectives, as in German, agreed with the nouns, and were declined with them, and in the conjugation of the verbs there were twice as many forms as in modern English. It was, therefore, like Latin and Greek and German, an inflected language; while in modern English inflections have almost disappeared, and other means of expressing grammatical relations have been devised.
As this loss of inflections is one of the main characteristics of modern English, and illustrates a tendency of language which has been carried further in English than in any other form of European speech, it will be well, perhaps, to say a few more words about it. To the older philologists, when the change of language, from the earliest tongues down to the present day, was at last unfolded before their eyes, the long and uninterrupted history of grammatical losses which they found, the perishing of one nice distinction after another, seemed to them an uninterrupted process of ruin and degeneration. But this view of the history of language—a continuous advance, namely, in richness and accuracy of expression, accompanied and produced by a continual process of decay—is too paradoxical to be maintained, and it is coming to be realized more and more that the disappearance of grammatical forms is not a loss, but a gain; and that they have been superseded by a means of expression which renders them more or less superfluous, and is itself vastly more expressive and convenient. This means of expression is called "analysis," and consists in stating the relations once expressed by verbal terminations by separate words of an abstract character; by prepositions for the cases of nouns, and by auxiliaries for the tenses of the verbs. If we look in a Latin grammar we shall find, for instance, that to translate one Latin word, fuissem, four words, "I should have been," are used in English; that is to say, the different notions combined by inflection in one Latin word are taken out from the conglomerate whole by analysis, and are expressed each of them by a separate word.
The development of analysis in language, the habit of using a separate word for the expression of each separate element in a complex notion, is one that we can trace throughout the whole history of language. In primitive forms of speech whole complexes of thought and feeling are expressed in single terms. "I said it to him" is one word, "I said it to her" another; "my head" is a single term, "his head" a different one. My head is, of course, to me an enormously different thing from his head, and it is an immense advance in the clearness of thought when I analyse the thought of "my head" into its different parts, one of which is peculiar to me, and named "mine," the other that of "head," which I share with other human beings. Simplicity of language is, in fact, like other kinds of simplicity, a product of high civilization, not a primitive condition; and the advance of analysis, the creation of words expressing abstract relations, is one of the most remarkable triumphs of the human intellect. This development of analysis had already, of course, reached a high point in languages like Greek, Latin, and Anglo Saxon; but it has been carried even further in modern forms of speech, and reaches in Europe, at least, its furthest limit in modern English. We see it, in the first place, in the greatly increased use of prepositions, of, and to, and for, and by, and still more in the use of the auxiliary verbs have, and do, and shall, and will, and be, by means of which we are now able to express almost every shade of thought which was formerly rendered by changes in the form of the verb.
Along with this creation of new grammatical machinery, modern English is remarkable for the way in which other superfluous forms and unnecessary terminations have been discarded. In the first place, we must note the loss in English of grammatical gender. The absence of this in English is more extraordinary than we always realize. For this irrational distinction, which corresponds to no distinction in thought, and capriciously attributes sex to sexless objects, and often the wrong gender to living beings, is yet found, as a survival of barbarism and a use-less burden to the memory, in all the other well-known languages of Europe. With the loss of gender we have also discarded the agreement of adjectives, of possessive pro-nouns and the article, with their nouns. An Englishman can say, for instance, "my wife and children"' while the Frenchman must repeat the possessive pronoun, as in ma femme et mes enfants. If we regard it as the triumph of culture to fit means perfectly to ends, and to do the most with the greatest economy of means, we must consider this discarding of the superfluous as a great gain in modern English.
Another great characteristic of modern English, as of other modern languages, is the use of word-order as a means of grammatical expression. If in an English sentence, such as "The wolf ate the lamb," we transpose the positions of the nouns, we entirely change the meaning of the sentence; the subject and object are not denoted by any terminations to the words, as they would be in Greek or Latin or in modern German, but by their position before or after the verb. This is one of the last developments of speech, a means of expression unknown to the rich and beautiful languages of antiquity. This tendency to a fixed word-order was more or less established in Early English, as it is in modern
German, in spite of the richness of inflections in these languages; and it is a debatable point whether the decay of inflections made it necessary, or its establishment made the inflections superfluous, and so brought about their decay. Probably each acted on the other; as the inflections faded, a fixed word order became more important, and the establishment of this order caused the inflections to be more and more forgotten.
How is it, then, that these amazing changes, this loss of genders, this extraordinary simplification, have happened in our English speech? For five hundred years after the invasion of England, the language of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors remained, as far as we can judge, practically unchanged. Then a transformation began, and in three or four centuries what is practically a new language somewhat suddenly appears. In the first place, as an answer to this question, is the fact that simplification is the law of development in all languages, and has influenced more or less all European forms of speech. At the time that English changed, the other languages of Europe were changing too. That this process was carried further, and proceeded faster in England than elsewhere is not, however, due to any special enlightenment or advance of civilization in the English nation. For, as a matter of fact, education, culture, and enlightenment, although they help progress in other ways, are intensely conservative in matters of speech; and while for their own purposes the educated classes have to connive at changes in vocabulary, any grammatical advance is opposed by them with all the powers they possess. We know how intensely repugnant to them are any proposals for the reform of our absurd and illogical system of spelling, and we can imagine the outcry that would arise, should any one dare to suggest the slightest and most advantageous simplification in English grammar. In our plurals these and those, for instance, we retain, as Dr. Sweet has pointed out, two quite useless and illogical survivals of the old concord of attribute-words with their nouns.
For if we do not change our adjectives or possessive pronouns for the plural, and say his hat and his hats, why should we change this and that into these and those in the same positions? And yet the whole force of education and culture would furiously oppose the dropping of these superfluous words, if, in-deed, they could be brought to consider any such proposal. As a matter of fact, the progress in English is due not to the increase of education, but to its practical disappearance among those who used the national speech. It is the result, not of national prosperity, but of two national disasters—the Danish invasion and the Norman Conquest.
The first district of England to attain any high degree of civilization, according to the standards of that time, was the north, where Christianity and culture were introduced from Ireland, where literature and scholarship flourished, and where the local or Northumbrian dialect seemed likely to become the standard speech of England. It was, indeed, from the Angles settled here and their Anglian dialect, that our language acquired the name of "English," which it has ever since retained. This Northumbrian civilization, however, was almost utterly destroyed in the VIIIth and IXth Centuries by a new invasion of pagan tribes from across the German Ocean. The Danes, who now came like the Angles and Saxons, first to harry England and then to settle there, were near relatives of the inhabit-
ants they conquered, and came from a district not far from the original home of the earlier invaders. Their language was so like Anglo-Saxon that it could be understood with-out great difficulty; so when the two races were settled side by side, and when before long they became amalgamated, it was natural that mixed dialects should arise, mainly English in character, but with many Danish words, and with many differing grammatical forms confused and blurred. As there was no literature nor any literary class to preserve the old language, the rise of these mixed dialects would be unchecked, and we can safely attribute to this settlement of the Danes a great influence on the change in the English language. It is in the districts where the Danes were settled that the English language became first simplified, so that in the process of development their speech was at least two centuries ahead of that of the south of England. But this effect was only a local, and did not at first affect the language
as a whole. When the Northumbrian culture was destroyed, the kingdom of Wessex be-came the centre of English civilization; and under the scholarly influence of King Alfred, and the revival of learning he promoted, West-Saxon became the literary and classical form of English, and almost all the specimens of Early English that have been preserved are written in this dialect. Classical Anglo-Saxon, therefore, with its genders and its rich inflectional forms, was not affected by the Danish invasion; and had it suffered from no further disaster, English would probably have developed much as the other Low German forms have developed, and we should be now speaking a language not unlike modern Dutch.
But for the third time a foreign race invaded England, and the language of Wessex, like that of Northumbria, was in its turn almost destroyed. The effect, however, of the Nor-man Conquest, although quite as far-reaching, was more indirect than that of the Danish. The Normans did not, like the Danes, break up or confuse Anglo-Saxon by direct conflict; but their domination, by interrupting the tradition of the language, by destroying its literature and culture, by reducing to it the speech of uneducated peasants, simply re-moved the conservative influence of education, and allowed the forces which had been long at work to act unchecked; and English, being no longer spoken by the cultivated classes or taught in the schools, developed as a popular spoken language with great rapidity.
Each man wrote, as far as he wrote at all, in the dialect he spoke; phonetic changes that had appeared in speech were now recorded in writing; these changes, by levelling terminations, produced confusion, and that con-fusion led to instinctive search for new means of expression; word-order became more fixed; the use of prepositions and auxiliary verbs to express the meanings of lost inflections increased, and the greater unity of England under the Norman rule helped in the diffusion of the advanced and simplified forms of the north. We even find, what is a very rare thing in the history of grammar, that some foreign pronouns were actually adopted from another language—namely, the Danish words she, they, them, their, which had replaced the Anglo-Saxon forms in the north, and were gradually adopted into the common speech. From the north, too, spread the use of the genitive and plural in s for nearly all nouns, and not only for those of one declension.
Although the development of English was gradual, and there is at no period a definite break in its continuity, it may be said to present three main periods of development the Old, the Middle, and the Modern, which may be distinguished. by their grammatical characteristics. These have been defined by Dr. Sweet as first, the period of full inflections, which may be said to last down to A.D. 1200; the period of Middle English, of levelled inflections, from 1200 to 1500; and that of Modern English, or lost inflections, from 1500 to the present time.
Although the grammar of the language by the end of the Middle English period was fixed in its main outlines, there has, nevertheless, been some change and development since that time. Thus the northern are for be, spread southwards in the early part of the XVIth Century, and became current towards its end, where it appears in Shakespeare and the Authorized Version of the Bible, and it has now in modern times almost supplanted the southern be in the subjunctive mood. The use of auxiliary verbs to express various shades of meaning, although it had begun in the Old, and developed in the Middle English period, has been greatly extended in modern times. The distinction in meaning between I write and I am writing, between the habitual and the actual present, is a modern innovation; and another modern development which expresses a useful shade of meaning is that of the emphatic present with the auxiliary do, "I do think," "I do believe," as contrasted with the less emphatic "I think," "I believe." Both forms existed in Old English, but until the XVIIth Century no clear distinction was made between them, as we see in the biblical phrase "and they did eat and were all filled." The XVIIth Century saw also the adoption of the neuter possessive pronoun its, which is first found in 1598, but which is not used in the Bible of 1611, nor in any of Shakespeare's plays printed in his life-time. The use of nouns as adjectives, the "attributive noun," as it is called, as in "garden flowers," "railway train," etc., is a new and most useful innovation, which has come into use since the period of Old English, and has been greatly developed in modern times. There is nothing quite like it in any other language except Chinese, and it is a great step in advance towards that ideal language in which meaning is expressed, not by terminations, but by the simple method of word position. And following also this line of development we find a curious case in modern English when the termination used for inflection, the s of the English genitive, has become detached from its noun and used almost as a separate word. This is the group genitive, as in "the King of England's son," instead of "the King's son of England," and in colloquial speech we can even use a phrase such as "the man I saw yesterday's hat." Here the s of the genitive has become detached from its noun, and made into a sign with the abstract character of a mathematical symbol. One of the most modern developments of English grammar, which dates from the end of the XVIIIth Century, is a new imperfect passive, as in the phrase "the house is being built," for the older "the house is building," or "is a-building."
These modern instances will prove that the development of grammar is not a matter entirely depending, as has sometimes been thought, upon historical causes, or upon phonetic change. Historical accidents, and the decay of terminations, no doubt help in the creation of new forms, but are not them-selves the cause of their creation. Behind all the phenomena of changing form we are aware of the action of a purpose, an intelligence, incessantly modifying and making use of this decadence of sound, this wear and
tear of inflections, and patiently forging for itself, out of the débris of grammatical ruin, new instruments for a more subtle analysis of thought, and a more delicate expression of every shade of meaning. It is an intelligence which takes advantage of the smallest accidents to provide itself with new resources; and it is only when we analyse and study the history of some new grammatical contrivance that we become aware of the long and patient labour which has been required to embody in a new and convenient form a long train of reasoning. And yet we only know this force by its workings; it is not a conscious or deliberate, but a corporate will, an instinctive sense of what the people wish their language to be; and although we cannot predict its actions, yet, when we examine its results, we cannot but believe that thought and intelligent purpose have produced them. This corporate will is, indeed, like other human manifestations, often capricious in its working, and not all its results are worthy of approval. It sometimes blurs useful distinctions, preserves others that are unnecessary, allows admirable tools to drop from its hands; its methods are often illogical and childish, in some ways it is unduly and obstinately conservative, while it allows of harmful innovations in other directions. Yet, on the whole, its results are beyond all praise; it has provided an instrument for the expression, not only of thought, but of feeling and imagination, fitted for all the needs of man, and far beyond anything that could ever have been devised by the deliberation of the wisest and most learned experts.
When the early physicists became aware of forces they could not understand, they tried to escape their difficulty by personifying the laws of nature and inventing "spirits" that controlled material phenomena. The student of language, in the presence of the mysterious power which creates and changes language, has been compelled to adopt this medieval procedure, and has vaguely defined, by the name of "the Genius of the Language," the power that guides and controls its progress. If we ask ourselves who are the ministers of this power, and whence its decrees derive their binding force, we cannot find any definite answer to our question. It is not the grammarian's or philologists who form or carry out its decisions; for the philologists disclaim all responsibility, and the schoolmasters and grammarians generally oppose, and fight bitterly, but in vain, against the new developments. We can, perhaps, find its nearest analogy in what, among social insects, we call, for lack of a more scientific name, "the Spirit of the Hive." This "spirit," in societies of bees, is supposed to direct their labours on a fixed plan, with intelligent consideration of needs and opportunities; and although proceeding from no fixed authority, it is yet operative in each member of the community. And so in each one of us the Genius of the Language finds an instrument for the carrying out of its decrees. We each of us possess, in a greater or less degree, what the Germans call "speech-feeling," a sense of what is worthy of adoption and what should be avoided and condemned. This in almost all of us is an instinctive process; we feel the advantages or disadvantages of new forms and new distinctions, although we should be hard put to it to give a reason for our feeling. We know, for instance, that it is now wrong to say "much" rather than "many thanks," though Shakespeare used the phrase; that "much happier" is right, though the old "much happy" is wrong, and that very must in many cases take the place once occupied by much. We say a picture was hung, but a murderer was hanged, often, perhaps, without being conscious that we make the distinction; and we all of us, probably, observe the modern and subtle difference between borne and born, the two past participles of the verb to bear, as when we write "borne by a slave mother," but "born of a slave," although few of us realize the subtle distinction between actual bringing forth, and the more general notion of coming into existence, on which this difference is based.
One of the most elaborate and wonderful achievements of the Genius of the Language in modern times is the differentiation of the uses of shall and will, a distinction not observed in Shakespeare and the Bible, and so complicated that it can hardly be mastered by those born in parts of the British Islands in which it has not yet been established.
Grammarians can help this corporate will by registering its decrees and extending its analogies; but they fight against it in vain. They were not able to banish the imperfect passive "the house is being built," which some of them declared was an outrage on the language; the phrase "different to" has been used by most good authors in spite of their protests; and if the Genius of the Language finds the split infinitive useful to express certain shades of thought, we can safely guess that all opposition to it will be futile.
Better guides are to be found hi our great writers, in whom this sense of language is highly developed; and it is in them, if in any one, that this power finds its most efficient ministers. But even they can only select popular forms, or at the most suggest new ones; but the adoption or rejection of these depends on the enactments of the popular will, whose decrees, carried in no legislature, and subject to no veto, are final and without appeal.


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Today when I started my car the speedometer and odometer stopped working. I noticed a major power loss in either my transmission or engine. I drove the car this morning and it was fine. The day got very hot and it got up to around 85 degrees. When I turned on my car and started to drive I noticed a sudden power loss and the speedometer stopped working. The engine did not seem to be overheating or anything and there were no noises. Or apparent problems. The speedometer and odometer just stopped working and I have had a loss in power is it because of the heat?
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For sale is a 2000 BMW 328i Sedan (4 doors)
Silver in colour
2.8L DOHC 200hp 200lb/ft torque; Manual Transmission
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Asking $5,900 without 18" wheels
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It was the first night of my period, and I wasn't feeling good, so my boyfriend invited me over. He wanted to take care of me for the night, so he had some chocolate and a movie already set up - what every girl would die for. He rubbed my belly for the most part while we were hanging out until I fell asleep.
The next morning, I woke up first because I had an early class, so I went back to my dorm to shower and go to my class. When I got back to my room, I noticed that my period went through, but I didn't think anything of it and just went on with my day. My boyfriend woke up later that afternoon and saw red stains of blood on his bed!! He texted me as soon as he saw it with a picture saying #imgoingtokillyou.
It was the most embarrassing thing I've ever been through. I felt so bad because he was just trying to be cute all night, and his sheets ended up like a battle field after I left. As you can see the picture of his sheets was pretty bad. I did buy him new sheets, and we moved on, but I'm sharing this story to say that it's okay. It happens to the best of us. If it has not happened to you yet, it will. Just own up to it. You're a girl, and there's nothing you can do about it except blame Mother Nature.


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Favourites tumble in German and Spanish leagues, Juve stretch lead in Italy
The formbook was turned upside down in top of the table clashes in Germany and Spain at the weekend with defeats for Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.
But there were no such upsets in Italy where Juventus stretched their lead to six points in Serie A after coming from two goals down to snatch an improbable draw against Bologna.
In France reigning champions Lyon hold a two-point lead over Monaco after defeating Bordeaux 1-0.
Bayern Munich, in the throes of a mushrooming injury crisis, suffered their first home defeat in almost two years after Werder Bremen shocked them 1-0 to put their 18th title celebrations on ice.
Coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, who had to make do without eight regulars, was annoyed to see the unbeaten home record go.
"That was an unnecessary loss. We played it too cautiously in the first half and left Bremen too much space," he said.
"Then we missed our chances so we deserved what we got."
The Bavarian superpower still enjoy a yawning 11 point cushion over nearest rivals Vfb Stuttgart, who routed Bayer Leverkusen 3-0.
Reigning champions Borussia Dortmund are 15 points adrift after a 1-1 draw at Hamburg.
One Bundesliga player with more than enough reason to celebrate was Danish international Ebbe Sand, who ended a 776-minute goalless run of play when scoring in Schalke 04's 3-0 defeat of Energie Cottbus.
Real Madrid's slip up at Real Sociedad threw the title race in Spain wide open.
The European champions' 4-2 loss cut their lead to three points from Deportivo La Coruna, who beat struggling Barcelona by the same margin.
Sociedad are level on points with Deportivo but are placed third with inferior goal difference.
Real coach Vicente Del Bosque unleashed the same team that had been the undoing of United at the Bernabeu but back on domestic duty some of the magic was missing.
Darko Kovacevic caught Real cold in the third minute, the Serb striker doubling up quarter of an hour later.
Then there followed five minutes of madness.
Turk Kahveci Nihat outfoxed Real's defence to put the home side further ahead in the 32nd minute, but instantly Ronaldo pulled one back, slotting the ball between the legs of keeper Sander Westerveld after a superb pass from Zinedine Zidane.
Sociedad's Xabi Alonso then produced a 25 metre piledriver to effectively wrap up the game, Javier Portillo's 80th minute goal for Real coming too late to save the day.
Lyon top the French table for the second week running after Sonny Anderson's 60th minute strike earned them maximum points at Bordeaux.
That put the reigning champions on 60 points, with Monaco keeping up the pressure two points behind after a stylish 4-2 victory in Ajaccio.
Midfielder Ludovic Guily opened the floodgates, followed by a quick brace from Croatian Dado Prso with the French league's top scorer Shabani Nonda bagging a 26th minute penalty.
Marseille failed to exploit a trip to bottom club Troyes, the goalless draw leaving the south coast club four points adrift.
Paris Saint Germain season has gone belly up, their 1-0 loss to Lens leaving them marooned in midtable with little hope of booking a ticket to Europe.
Italian league leaders Juventus displayed championship qualities when coming from two goals behind to snatch an unlikely 2-2 draw against Bologna.
Julio Cruz's fierce drive and Tomas Locatelli's delicate chip had given Bologna a comfortable lead, which looked safe until the closing stages when Juventus woke from their slumber.
Gianluca Zambrotta's deflected shot four minutes from time injected life into the 26-time champions, before the Italy international provided the cross for his international team-mate Mauro Camoranesi to head home in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
Juve have 61 points from 28 matches, six more than AC Milan, who beat Inter 1-0 to leapfrog their city rivals into second with six games left to play.
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Gov. David Paterson was on Squawkbox at 8 a.m. this morning, once again making his "I'm running in 2010" pitch by trying to bring media attention back to the state's budget and economic development plans.
He pretty much stuck to the script, touting the fact that he ushered two on-time budget, and once again attributed his flagging approval rating to the state's fiscal troubles. He also highlighted his administration's effort to spur an "innovation economy" with a focus on green jobs and IT which is, ironically, the message President Barack Obama intended to bring to New York when he visited Troy two weeks ago, until he stepped on own message in trying to dissuade Paterson from running in 2010.
Paterson took a shot at all of the "phantom people" who were reportedly eyeing a run for governor.
"When all these phantom people who say they are running for governor get into this race, they are going to have to answer the same questions I've been asked for months. And by the way, if they wanted to show that they were different and they were exciting, that they were going to make Albany a different place, why don't they answer those questions now?"
When asked whether he was talking about Republican Rudy Giuliani or Democrat Andrew Cuomo, Paterson replied:
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Some say that the private cloud is overrated. They contend that the public cloud is safer than most people think, and it offers "time to market" advantages. In this session we discuss fear, uncertainty and doubt, and why the incumbents are conflicted, as well as what the enterprise needs to keep public, and what it needs to keep private.
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Volunteers at a coastal rescue team hope members of the community will join in raising a glass to mark their 150th anniversary.
Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade (TVLB) has joined up with borough-based Mordue Brewery to produce a special anniversary ale 'Lifesaver 150'.
The ale, due to be available in the near future, is just one of a number of commemorative mementoes and gifts produced across the year.
Members of the TVLB, who were approached by Mordue managing director Garry Fawson with an offer to brew the ale, were recently taken on a tour of the brewery and given a chance to taste the ale.
l Elsewhere, the next '150th' event planned by the TVLB is a wine tasting eventing, jointly organised by the brigade and Port of Tyne harbour master Mike Nicholson. The event will be at the Watch House on Saturday, March 22, at 6.30pm.
Guests will be introduced to six wines – three white and three red – and will have to match the right description to the wine and decide how expensive it is. The guest with the most right answers at the end of the evening will receive a prize while all guests will get a commemorative glass. There will also be a wine-themed raffle.
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Monthly Archive for January, 2011
Nicaragua and El Salvador…Again
This year, I decided to give myself an unusual Christmas present: a trip to Latin America…not to glitzy beaches and touristy mountain resorts, but to gritty cities and slums where I can take the pulse of the people and get up-to-date on complicated … …
Happy New Year from Mexico City
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"I have made the most memorable purchases on trips, as a transient," wrote Walter Benjamin in his 1931 essay, "Unpacking My Library." In this essay, Benjamin imagines the book collector as a spy on a literary reconnaissance mission. "Collectors are gifted with tactical instincts," he writes, "their experience teaches them that when they capture a foreign city, the smallest antique shop can be a fortress, the most remote stationary store a strategic position."[i] Benjamin's book collection condenses his nomadic life, traversing Riga, Naples, Munich, Danzig, Moscow, Florence, Basel, and Paris. "How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!" (396) the collector exclaims nostalgically, imagining how the books salvaged from antiquarian shops could patch together a life ravaged by wars. Gathered together on the shelves of a single collector, Benjamin believed that books stood for more than their contents: inscribed with their collector's mortality, they are marked by every way station through which the reader's life has passed.
Benjamin's Riga, Naples, Munich, Danzig, Moscow, Florence, Basel, and Paris are my Tbilisi, Dushanbe, Delhi, Hyderabad, Tehran, Damascus, Yerevan, and Grozny. In each of these cities, so far off the beaten path of the European metropolises that housed Benjamin's nomadic soul, I have acquired the books that have come to constitute my life. And now the time has come to part with my collections, too large and various for any library to house. Taken separately, these volumes—the Grimm Brothers in Chechen, full-color illustrations of Old Javanese Gold, the architecture of al-Andalus, the first feminist tract in Urdu—do not amount to much. But viewed collectively, these books are way stations for my soul. Although books with such diverse origins speak across their shelves as rarely as their subjects speak to each other, in my home these subjects abide together like their authors, siblings of one womb.
Will the act of saying farewell be one of selling, donating, or recycling? All that is known is that their days with me are numbered. After having passed a year longing for my books, their mother is moving across the world, possibly for the remainder of her life. When she returns home, it will only be for visits. And so she must relinquish her box of a house and that town called Yonkers on the edge of New York City. She must leave that used-to-be Irish town of Yonkers, a place so strange and quiet the authors who inhabit her shelves could not have conjured, let alone inhabited. If Heidegger is right to insist that our dwelling is in language, and that "language is at once the house of being and the home of human beings," her books are the sum total of her world.[ii] The early modern Indian poet Bidel of Delhi spoke of how we carry our houses on our shoulders like snails as we travel through the world, moving across deserts towards oases flashing in the darkness. Bidel (whose name symptomatically means "heartless") did not however detail how these mobile horizons stretch into eternity, on sands as shifting as our very selves.
Even when I have not enjoyed their physical proximity, my books have given me the stability that in former lifetimes was conferred by the concept of home. During my travels across Palestine, Iran, and India, remembering the locations of my books on their Yonkers shelves organized my life and gave it direction. Visual memory is the most lucid among the many ways of evoking the past. When I returned, I could still regard my abandoned home as a repository for my absent soul thanks to the order observed by my books. These books are soldiers of a bloodless war. I have inhabited the mental spaces their spines have etched on my memory for the better part of a decade, a decade that has seen me through my first job, my PhD, a failed marriage, and the manuscript that will soon apply for admission to their community of words. I have always been a stranger here, in Yonkers, crouched within my cramped apartment that awakens in the middle of the night to swells of speeding cars—teenagers are enjoying the weekend away from school—booming across the asphalt like ocean waves against the rocks. I rejoice in the anonymity my paper companions afford, as they shelter me from dissolution, and furnish a moveable home amidst internal homelessness.
Assembled together on the shelves of a Yonkers apartment, these books have witnessed more middle passages than any single human is fated to see. Notwithstanding their venerable age, I have not always revered their antiquity. Instead of holding them at a distance, as might the disengaged bookseller who views his merchandise with an eye to its market value, I have abused my books with too much love. I have suffocated them by reading intensively, by underlining, highlighting, annotating, by marking and bending covers backwards against the spine. Seeking to inscribe their words on my soul, I have branded my brain on their flesh. So many of my adolescent annotations are illegible today, and yet they stare at me from beyond the grave of my former selves. Are erased inscriptions legible?
A kindred lover of books once told me of how, after she submitted her PhD dissertation, she ripped to shreds her copy of Plato's Republic, hoping to purge herself of the Greek philosopher to whom she had dedicated the better part of her life in graduate school. When she awoke the next day from her nocturnal ragings, my friend immediately sought out a bookseller who agreed to mend her shredded Republic (for a hefty fee). She then resumed her life's work of interpreting the Republic, eventually publishing her first book on the very text she tried to destroy. After repenting of her initial rebellion, this fanatical book lover has not wavered from her dedication to the Greek philosopher.
To compensate for my violence, I bandage my children's broken limbs with tape, and hope that the paper will soon mend the gaps and paste over the open wounds. In this intimacy that alternates between tenderness and abuse, I have merged more fully with my books than with any other object that has passed through my life. I caress their brittle leaves with affection bordering on fanaticism. Childless as I am, the books I have owned have become lives I never lived. I am a mother who gives birth to texts, hoping to give her children opportunities she never had as they navigate imagined futures that someday may become real. I am an overprotective mother.
"Ownership is the most profound relation that one can have to objects," Benjamin declares (396). Benjamin's dictum might seem an uncharacteristic disavowal of the Marxist critique of consumption, were it not for the qualification of the possessor-possessed relation that concludes his thesis on ownership: "Not that they come to life in him; it is he who lives in them" (396, emphasis added). Referencing himself in the third person, as though he had already become a book by virtue of having loved and collected them, Benjamin addresses his reader: "I have erected one of his dwellings, with books as the building stones, before you, and now he is going to disappear inside" (396). This declaration merges Benjamin's essay into the book that would (in English) become Illuminations, the posthumous assemblage of essays collected by Hannah Arendt. In the years since Benjamin's death, this work has achieved a fame more prodigious that any that Benjamin could have envisioned for himself. Like the paper assemblages that have given my wandering soul a home, Benjamin's books could never have foretold their author's posthumous lives.
Benjamin defines writers as people who write books because they are "dissatisfied with the books they could buy but do not like" (390). Yet, critic though he was of everything that crossed his path, Benjamin's writing is better suited for the essay than the monograph. By the time he wrote "Unpacking My Library," Benjamin had in effect ceased to publish books. His turn to genres that could not be confined within the covers of a single book was one consequence of his aesthetic predilection for the fragment, as contrasted to the spurious whole. Neither of Benjamin's two published academic monographs—The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism (1920) and The Origins of German Tragic Drama (1928)—served their author well during his lifetime. Notoriously, The Origins of German Tragic Drama was rejected when Benjamin submitted it as the most important element in his application in 1925 for the position of Privatdozent in the German Department at the University of Frankfurt. "We cannot tenure Geist" (the philosophical principle that guided Benjamin and his predecessor, Hegel), said the professor who rejected this work, the immortality of which increases ever year. Like Benjamin, ideas like Geist may be untenurable, unable to penetrate the public sphere immediately, but they have longer shelf lives than their more fashionable counterparts.
The minutiae that captured the book collector's imagination constitute the peripatetic philosopher's saving grace. Enraptured by minute objects others have discarded, by the detritus of mechanical reproductions, by second, third, fourth, and fifth editions, water-soaked paperbacks, and dog-eared hardcovers, the book collector is modernity's arch antiquarian, bringing order to chaos and chaos to life. His "disreputable" existence is redeemed, not unlike civilization itself, when his collecting confers new futures on long-discarded pasts. Benjamin's specter of the collector's ramblings through besieged cities, be they Paris or Grozny, Sarajevo or Damascus, in search of the material artifacts of eras past suggests that a life sewn together from fragments may find an anchor for its restlessness in a world made of books.
[i] Walter Benjamin, "Ich packe meine Bibliothek aus," Gesammelte Schriften, Ed. Rolf Tiedemann and Hermann Schweppenhäuser (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1972), 4: 391. Future references are given parenthetically. Translations are my own. For an English version, see Walter Benjamin Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), 59-67.
[ii] Martin Heidegger, "Letter on Humanism," in Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell (London: Harper Perennial, 1993), 262.


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Ive had the worst week of knitting, One I hate this yarn i bought. Carons simply soft. It untwists and splitts easly. I thought the red heart was bad. I would rather go back to red heart and burn this crappy yarn. I have six projects going and none of them near completion. I need to knit something up fast so i can finnish something. The socks im working on i have been working on for a while. im still on the leg of the first sock. the kite string or yarn is so small and the needles so small they arnt knitting up as fast as what i was led to believe. How could anyone get satisfaction out of socks. you could spend months on just one pair. Sorry just needed to vent.
This reinforces my knitting
This reinforces my knitting philosophy to knit only the patterns you like, work with only the needles you enjoy using and fingering only the fibers you love. Using less than appreciated equipment and supplies can only lead to dissatisfaction, unhappiness and frustration.
I'm afraid I'm just way too anal-retentive to have more than one project going at the same time. I have to focus on just one pattern or else I get everything confused and mixed-up. I know there are many others who don't have this problem and my hat's off to them!
I've got knitting fever in the worsted way.
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on. ~Billy Connolly
Once you finish your first
Once you finish your first pair of socks and wear them, you will understand about sock knitting. Socks are also my favorite travel project, as they are easy to work on when traveling. I just make the other person drive if we are going by car.
The Second Sock Syndrome, as Lars is dealing with, can also be challenging. You have a finished item, but you are only 1/2 done because you have to make another. It reminds me a what a friend of mine says. He makes costume jewelry and often has said that he loves to make big, pushy earrings, but he hates to make two.
I multi-project to keep myself interested. But then I won't mention my number of WIPs.
Hi Bear. Six projects on
Hi Bear. Six projects on the go at once is an awful lot - daunting, I'd say. You say you need to knit something fast in order to get something finished. I don't think it's necessarily about the finishing, it's the starting. If you feel inspired at the start, the pattern and wool are exactly what you wanted then the enjoyment of a garment appearing in front of you will rapidly carry you through to the end. If you're suffering from 'knitting burn-out' and you genuinely won't complete these projects then give them to a charity shop. Keeping them hanging around is only a reminder of an awful lot of unsatisfying work to be finished off - drudgery is not good knitting psychology. As for the socks, just 'cos we love them doesn't mean you will, although I agree that once worn you will love them. They are almost sensual in their wearing! 'Second Sock Syndrome' will certainly be a problem if you've got several unfinished projects knocking around. Try some very small and very quick projects to fire the enthusiasm oncemore. Baby bootees are great and so are simple woolie hats (Coming from London I have NEVER come across the term 'London Beanie' but then no-one eats so-called English Muffins in the UK either!)
Hey Bear. Simon stated it
Hey Bear. Simon stated it very well indeed - remember, knitting is supposed to be relaxing. One suggestion I would add if you feel you have bad knitting mojo - smudge your knitting basket with sage, and knit a nice relaxing scarf. Good luck!
Hey all= This is my first
Hey all=
This is my first post,but I've been lurking (and enjoying) this site for a couple of months now.
I just started knitting socks in Jan.of this year, and already have one pair of socks actually completed, and 5(!!) different un-mated socks in progress right now.
I really enjoy the process (and the results) of sock-knitting, but in my desire to learn more and more patterns and techniques-found myself putting one half-done 2/2 rib pattern sock down, and starting a K3P1 rib...and so on.
It does get frustrating sometimes,having all sorts of unfinished things kicking around-maybe you need to just put EVERYTHING down for a bit,and look for a project that you think you'd be REALLY into making?
Perhaps, if you take a little "knitting time-out" for a few days, you'll go back to it with new passion?
Also, with the crappy Caron's yarn? Why don't you knit something fun and crazy (even experiment and just see what happens?) with it? Or.....take a deep breath,and donate it to a thrift shop OR ask knitting friends if they'd have any use for it?
(I went on a "I'm a new knitter Kee-razy metal needle buying spree" last year, and realised quickly that I hate the damned things. I'm much more comfortable w/bamboo so far.So,I donated the lot to a schoolteacher so she could teach some kids in her class.)
Try Sirdar's Snuggly for a
Try Sirdar's Snuggly for a change of pace. I made up a pair of socks in Snuggly that feels great and was so much fun to knit. The yarn is almost as much fun to work with as Debbie Bliss' Cashmerino or a good alpaca yarn. And the cost won't require a loan from the bank. The finished socks are almost sinfully luxurious and have excellent fit. Being a DK yarn, you can get away with a larger size of needle and fewer stitches.
Hey Bear...Sock for me are a
Hey Bear...Sock for me are a very portable project for me. I put a sock in my Basket(Longaberger Basket that is) and take it to work with me. Sock were ther first project that I learned on. My knitting guru told me why not start with socks, I started with them and got frustrated as you have and put them down, went to a dish cloth, then back to the socks. Got them done and then didn't do anymore for a year or more. I have a pair going on two sets of Bamboo DPN size 5, Iget one to the point where I need my guru by myside and then go to the other one and get it to the same point, get with my knitting guru and do the part I don't understand how to do on my own and go from there. It works for me, hope you can get thru this and get a pair done. I also have at least one other projdct going at the same time, a scarf or schall. Haven't tried a blanket yet. Good Luck.....
But seriously, isn't a bad
But seriously, isn't a bad week knitting still better than a good week at work? Unless, of course, you own a yarn store!


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What is it with installing programs these days? Just about any program you wish to install comes with some useless so called value added junk which does nothing but use up computer resources and slow it down. Being a technical person I can of course easily remove or disable those extras but I really feel sorry for those who don't know any better.
I am not just talking about windows programs either. Linux distributions are also in my sights of ire. Thankfully, it is not so bad with Linux after it has been installed. What do I mean by these value added extras?
Being of the Open Source persuasion they are not susceptible to value added bloat as much as windows programs are. It is still there though and there are many web sites and blog articles dedicated to removing that bloat. Even I have written an article or two about it.
By bloat in the Linux context I am talking about how the most popular distributions are installed out of the box so to speak. They come pre-configured with a set of programs and services designed to run and do everything up to and including the kitchen sink.
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First track day (in the 1LE) prep today.
After a meeting with a "shall remain unnamed" person at GM today (you know who you are...Thanks again!) I had a real meeting and then I ran down to Rodgers Chevrolet to get my car ready for the first day at the track at Grattan this coming Sunday.
Alignment: The car is 8 days old and has about 700 miles on it. Alignment was tweaked per recommendations.
LF/RF -1.3 and -1.4 degrees of camber, toe is within factory spec.
LR/RR -0.9 and -0.8 degrees of camber. toe is within factory spec.
EDIT: added my after sheet below.
Disclaimer: This setting is a compromise of street/track based on data/info I received..it may not be for everyone!
Oil change: Many schools of thought...but having built about a dozen motors in my life I wanted to remove the potential of any contaminants left over from assembly..(not saying there are any...but with my purchase my first oil change was free). I did not put in full synthetic as I also like to run 5w 30 Dexos oil for at least a couple thousand miles (both just personal preference)
Brake Fluid: Decided to give Motul 600 a try for the first time in my life.....Because this is the heaviest car (I have owned) that I will have tracked in my life by over 600lbs. Immediately noticed a stiffer pedal (less compression of fluid) after it was installed.
Big thank you to Rodgers for squeezing me in today!
If anyone in MI/OH/IN wants to come out to Grattan to watch, feel free.....I will have my 1LE there and I know there are two ZL1 that will be there as well as many other cars...
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Dear Bay Weekly:
The solution to Bill Burtons martini problem [Burton on the Bay: Vol. XI, No. 32: Aug. 7] is simple: Put an eyedropper and a shot glass next to the vermouth bottle. Pour a smidgeon of vermouth into the shot glass and use the eye dropper to add one drop of vermouth to the full glass of gin. Makes a fine martini.
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Talent Machine Says Thanks
Dear Bay Weekly:
Thank you for Theresa Troeschers articles on The Talent Machine Company. [Not Just for Kids, Vol. XI, Nos. 29: July 17 and 32: Aug. 7]. I appreciate the commitment of both time and space you have given us. The actors and directors feel a sense of accomplishment when their talent and hard work is recognized.
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Cigarettes Are Weapons of Mass Destruction
Dear Bay Weekly:
While attending the World Conference on Smoking and Health in Helsinki, Finland, on Aug. 6, 2003, I read the European Wall Street Journal. I was surprised to read that our U.S. troops had found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I was astonished to read that the Bush administration is spending U.S. taxpayers dollars to manufacture and distribute these WMDs to the rest of the world.
The WMDs to which I am referring are cigarettes. The U.S. government is paying the wages of the employees of the Iraq State Company for Tobacco and Cigarettes to continue their operations. The reason the administration gives is that these employees will be so happy about having a job they will not go off killing our troops.
Approximately 3,000 lives were lost to the terrorists on 9/11. The World Health Organization estimates that globally cigarettes will kill five million people this year. Approximately 500,000 of these victims will be Americans.
These facts clearly qualify tobacco as a WMD. The Bush administration is aware of these facts, yet it acts as if it is a fully owned subsidiary of the tobacco cartel. It appears to be hell-bent on rewarding the tobacco cartel for their massive political contributions.
Where is the national outrage to the administrations actions in the tobacco control area? Why is the media so silent on this issue?
John H. OHara, Bowie;
President: Maryland Group Against Smokers Pollution
Wheres the Beef?
Dear Bay Weekly:
Thank you for your article about clean cattle raisers in the Southern Maryland area [Wheres the Beef: Vol. XI, No. 29: July 17]. Its great to know that local farmers are doing their part to create a more environmentally friendly and healthy environment for us and our children.
I am interested in purchasing clean beef for my family (as well as supporting our local community) and would greatly appreciate contact information on some of the cattle farms that Jessie Heller mentioned in the article.
I look forward to future articles that will help Marylanders make informed decisions affecting our environment.
Crissy Godfrey, Sunderland
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Redesigns never are for the sake of trends; they must contain essential value for users. The actual convenience is the key factor that was considered by the redesign. It's the key for making successful apps; same goes for websites. A lot of new pages and articles were added to sum up everything that can come in handy for clients.
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- The German version of the website has been redesigned in the same way for the convenience of German-speaking visitors;
- The blog now offers the best conditions for readers to enjoy highly useful articles and news about all things mobile. New features include comments for reader feedback and five categories (Business & Marketing, Gadgets & Apps, Mobile Technologies, News & Events, and Client's Guide).
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MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University has nominated four students for 2009 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships: Frank Male, Eudora; Ryan Gallagher, Olathe; Heather Arnold, Topeka; and Erik Stalcup, Wellington.
The Goldwater scholarship competition is for outstanding science, math or engineering students who have a potential for and a commitment to a career in their field. The scholarship provides up to $7,500 annually for the scholar's final one or two years of undergraduate studies. Nominees complete four mini-essays and write a longer essay about a significant area of research in their field of study. The finalists will be announced in late March.
|Frank Male
Male is a senior in physics and political science. He plans to pursue a doctorate in physics and either work for a small high-technology firm or a national physics research lab. At K-State, he has worked under Bruce Law, professor of physics, in the Liquefied Surface Physics group. He also has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Germany. Male has researched liquid filaments in triangular grooves and the slip behavior of liquids, and he studied and wrote a program about fluid surfaces with air. At K-State, Male is a member of the Smith Scholarship House, where he has served as recruiting chair; the College of Arts and Sciences Council; College Republicans; and an opinion writer for the K-State Collegian. He also has judged elementary school science fairs for the Women in Engineering and Science Program. He has received a Putnam Scholarship, a James A. Branson Memorial Scholarship, a Basil and Mary Curnutte Scholarship and a Leo E. Hudiburg Scholarship. A 2005 graduate of Eudora High School, he is the son of Frank and Kallie Male, Eudora.
|Ryan Gallagher
Gallagher is a junior in microbiology and premedicine. He plans to attend medical school and earn a Ph.D. in immunology. He would like to have a career that balances teaching and patient responsibilities with continued involvement in research. He has worked under Stephen Chapes, K-State professor of biology, performing immunology research. He is studying the effects of protein CD81 in the survival rates of mice and CD81's role in cell development. He also has conducted research at an immunology lab at the KU Medical Center and has published an article on the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model, which is a model of multiple sclerosis. At K-State, Gallagher is a member of the Alpha Epsilon Delta premedicine honorary society; a University Experience peer mentor; is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Scholar; and has received a Most Promising Student award from K-State's Division of Biology.
Gallagher also has received the Henry J. Putnam Scholarship and funding from the Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence. A 2006 graduate of Olathe East High School, he is the son of Don and Linda Gallagher, Olathe.
Arnold is a senior in electrical engineering. She plans to earn a doctorate in materials science and engineering to pursue a research career in aerospace materials. At K-State, Arnold has worked under James Edgar, professor of chemical engineering, and Andrew Rys, professor of electrical and computer engineering, to characterize wide band-gap semiconducting materials. She also has served numerous co-op tours at the Johnson Space Center, where she has been involved with several research projects, including battery fault detection. In addition, she has completed an internship at Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. She is the secretary of K-State's Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the webmaster of K-State's Circle K Club. She also is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society; Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical engineering and computer engineering honor society; and Phi Kappa Phi, a national academic honor society. Her scholarships include the Henry and Florence Ruff Scholarship, the AT&T Scholarship for Employees Children, the Northrop Grumman Scholarship for Employees Children, Henry and Helen Greene Scholarship, the K-State Medallion Scholarship, the G.E. Johnson Engineering Scholarship, the National Association of Retired Federal Employees Scholarship and the Dillon Electrical Engineering Scholarship. She has received the Johnson Space Center Co-op Special Achievement Award for two years and is the recipient of a Girl Scout Gold Award. A 2004 graduate of Washburn Rural High School, she is the daughter of Tom and Ann Arnold, Topeka.
|Erik Stalcup
Stalcup is a junior in physics with a minor in music. He plans to earn a doctorate in physics and then conduct research at a national laboratory. While at K-State, he has worked under Bruce Law, professor of physics, and also has worked at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. Stalcup recently has researched the spreading properties of ionic liquids. He also has worked with the Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team and has studied gold nanoparticles. He is a member of the Smith Scholarship House, where he has served as scholarship chair and a member of the Mediation Board. He also has been a member of the K-State Marching Band, Pep Band, Latin Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Band. Stalcup received a Louis D. and Lillian Ellsworth Family Scholarship, a Boyer Educational Trust Scholarship, a Carl F. and Sarah Boell Muckenhoupt Scholarship, an Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence award, a James A. Branson Memorial Scholarship, a Gayle C. Kramer Scholarship, a Basil and Mary Curnutte Scholarship, a K-State Presidential Scholarship and a National Merit Scholarship. A 2006 graduate of Wellington High School, he is the son of John and Ood Stalcup, Wellington.


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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: Personal Peace (06/01/06)
TITLE: Unworldly Peace
By Al Boyce
Exist in daily life
The first speaks clearly to the flesh
To lust and appetite
Chaos rules, when in its thrall
We find our lives consumed
We find no peace, no resting place
Our spirits are entombed
The second state, invisible
Like gossamer it seems
To barely hold our consciousness
It tickles us in dreams
Yet only there may peace be found
Midst crashing waves of doubt
God's kingdom is embodied there
Still sleeping, in the boat.
As fear wins out, we take control
We strongly man the oars
And navigate, between the shoals
Of famine, hatred, wars
But peace, it still eludes our grasp
When we are at the helm
For peace has never made its home
Outside the Godly realm
King David learned this lesson well
When from his son he fled
Let Absolom take over all
His fortress, wealth and bed
"Thy will be done," he said to God
"May heart and mind abide
"In Kingdom matters rather than
"My worldly, foolish pride."
Surrendered then, King David found
His case was not so grave
Despite his exile far from home
His domicile a cave
Within those walls he wrote the words
Synonymous with calm
That ages hence would be seen as
The most beloved Psalm
By pastures green, by waters still
My shepherd always leads
In valleys dark, on evil paths
Jehovah intercedes
When Christ awakens on this boat
He steers us off the shoal
And in His kingdom, not in ours
The Lord restores my soul
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JUNEAU - Applications are being accepted for the 2009 Hilary Lindh Scholarship for school-aged children in Juneau.
Four local students (two girls and two boys), in grades K through 5 and 6 through 12, will be awarded a season pass to Eaglecrest Ski Area on Dec. 11 based on their scholastic achievement, competitive spirit and financial need.
To be considered for the scholarship, students must be a resident of Juneau, they must attend a school in the Juneau School District or equivalent, and have maintained a "C" average for the previous school year, according to the scholarship application.
The program was established in 1992 by the Eaglecrest Board of Directors in honor of local ski racer Hilary Lindh's silver medal in the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics and to acknowledge the hard work that goes into the sport of downhill ski racing. Lindh, now retired from racing, was inducted into the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame in 2006, and the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.
Applications are due Dec. 4 and may be submitted to Juneau schools, Foggy Mountain Shop, Nugget Alaska Outfitters, or at Eaglecrest Ski Area.
Winners will be announced Dec. 11. Each applicant who turns in a completed form will earn a single lift ticket and an all-day gear rental from the rental shop at the mountain.
Download an application at www.juneau.org/eaglecrest.
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Unseasonably cold weather grips the Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, precipitation has subsided across the upper Midwest, although windy weather continues to cause some blowing and drifting of snow. Snow showers persist, however, downwind of the Great Lakes. Cold, dry, breezy weather covers the remainder of the Midwest.
On the Plains, warmth lingers across the southern half of Texas, where planting is well underway. Planting is ahead of the 5-year average pace in Texas for crops such as corn (42% planted by March 17), sorghum (26%), and rice (7%). Meanwhile, cold, mostly dry weather covers the remainder of the nation's mid-section. Tuesday morning's temperatures plunged below 0° in eastern North Dakota.
In the South, drier weather prevails, except for some lingering showers across the lower Southeast. In Georgia, corn planting was 5% complete by March 17, well behind the 5-year average of 13% due to soggy conditions. However, Georgia's pastures have markedly improved in recent months, from 53% very poor to poor and 18% good to excellent on November 25, to 6% very poor to poor and 50% good to excellent on March 17.
In the West, warm weather continues to promote fieldwork in California and the Desert Southwest. By March 17, cotton planting was underway (5% complete) in Arizona. Meanwhile, cooler-than-normal conditions prevail in the Rockies and much of the Northwest.
Cool weather will continue to dominate the U.S., except for a mid- to late-week surge of warmth across the West and the High Plains. By week's end, lingering warmth will be confined to the south-central U.S. and portions of the Southeast.
Meanwhile, precipitation will gradually diminish in the East, while a new storm system will begin to take shape across western Canada.
Late in the week, a low-pressure system will develop across the nation's mid-section.
Five-day precipitation totals could reach 1 to 3 inches in the Northwest and from central portions of the Rockies and Plains into the Southeast. In contrast, little or no precipitation will fall from southern California to the southern High Plains.
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for colder-than-normal conditions east of the Rockies and along the Pacific Coast, while near-normal temperatures will prevail in the West. Meanwhile, near- to below-normal precipitation across the majority of the U.S. will contrast with wetter-than-normal weather in the middle and southern Atlantic States.
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There's no denying the skill required to be a professional sheep shearer - just take a look at the world's fastest sheer below if you don't believe us - but sheep shearing... an Olympic sport? Really?
The New Zealand Farmers Federation thinks it should be, with the antipodean lobby group petitioning for the art of cutting a sheep's wool off to beome "a demonstration sport at the Commonwealth Games, if not the Olympics itself."
The rural campaigners' spokesperson, Jeanette Maxwell, had this to say about sheep shearing getting more international attention:
"Surely, the time has come to elevate shearing's sporting status to the ultimate world stage... I can testify to the physical effort shearing takes."
Her statement, now published online under the title of "Shear hard work makes shearing a sport" - not above a good pun, these guys - comes just a couple of months before the World Shearing Championships kick off in Masterton, New Zealand.
There you can expect teams of shearers from all over the world to join together in a massive celebration of wool, lanolin and clippers, fiercely battling it out to win categories like the eight-hour solo lamb title - currently held by Irishman Ivan Scott with 749 lambs.
See, Olympics federation? It's a cut-throat world, international sheep shearing. Not literally, mind - not if they're any good, anyway.


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FULTON — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Graham Lumber Co. in Fulton for two safety violations following the April death of a worker who got entangled in a conveyor belt. OSHA says in a news release the worker, employed at the company for less than two weeks, was cleaning up sawdust and bark around an unguarded conveyor ...Read More »
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Health officials identify yet another case of West Nile virus
HINDS COUNTY — The Mississippi Department of Health is confirming one new case of West Nile virus, bringing the state total to 44 this year with five deaths. The new case was reported in Hinds County. So far this year, human WNV cases have been reported in the following counties: Adams (3), Bolivar (1), Calhoun (1), Carroll (1), Coahoma (1), ...Read More »
Worker dies in oil rig accident in Southwest Mississippi
BROOKHAVEN — A Brookhaven man has died in a work-related accident on an oil rig in Lincoln County. County Coroner Clay McMorris says 22-year-old Chase D. Curtice was working on the rig Monday when he was struck by a pipe. The accident occurred about 9:30 p.m. about two miles northeast of Brookhaven. Curtice was taken by private vehicle to King's ...Read More »
State's 2014 total of West Nile virus cases hits 40
AROUND MISSISSIPPI — Health officials have confirmed three new cases of West Nile virus. That brings the state's total so far this year to 40 cases. The total includes five deaths previously reported. The new cases were reported in Lowndes, Neshoba, and Rankin counties. So far this year, human West Nile cases have been reported in Adams (3), Bolivar (1), ...Read More »
Ex-State Sen. John Ed Lee dies at 86
BRANDON — Former State Sen. John Ed Lee of Brandon, a businessman who served two terms in the state Senate including four years as chairman of the Highways Committee, has died at the age of 86. Officials at Ott and Lee Funeral Home in Brandon say Lee died Monday. Other details were not released. Services are at 2 p.m. tomorrow ...Read More »
State's 2014 death toll from West Nile grows to five
COAHOMA COUNTY and LEE COUNTY — State health officials are reporting two new deaths from the West Nile virus in Mississippi, bringing this year's total to five. The deaths occurred in Lee and Coahoma counties. Other deaths have been reported earlier in Forrest, Madison and Yazoo counties. Reported were 12 new West Nile virus cases, bringing Mississippi's total this year ...Read More »
Former state Sen. Scoper dies of cancer at 81
LAUREL — Former Mississippi state Sen. Vince Scoper of Laurel has died of esophageal cancer. He was 81. He died Sunday, and a funeral was held yesterday at First Baptist Church in Laurel. Scoper served the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1972 to 1980, and was among the first Republicans elected to that chamber since Reconstruction. He served in the ...Read More »
Former Alcorn administrator/interim president Waters dies at 82
LORMAN — Alcorn State University says former President Rudolph Waters has died. The university says Water, a longtime dean and vice president, died Sunday at River Region Medical Center in Vicksburg after an extended illness. Waters, 82, served as interim president of Alcorn in parts of 1994 and 1995. He worked at Alcorn for 48 years, starting as dean of ...Read More »
Health Department discovers another West Nile virus case
HINDS COUNTY — Mississippi health officials have confirmed one new case of West Nile virus, in Hinds County. That brings the state's total so far this year to 25 cases. The total includes three deaths previously reported. The Mississippi State Department of Health says Hinds County has had the most West Nile virus cases so far in 2014, with seven. ...Read More »
Chickasaw County circuit clerk dies of cancer
HOUSTON — Chickasaw County Circuit Clerk Sandra Willis has died Willis, first elected in 1992, died Sunday after suffering from cancer. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that Willis was a Houston school teacher before she was elected to the clerk's office. The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors plans to appoint an interim circuit clerk at its Sept. 16 meeting. ...Read More »


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Why Earn an M.A. in Philosophy?
Test the Waters
The M.A. in Philosophy provides students with an opportunity to test what an academic career in philosophy might be like as well as decide whether philosophy is the right academic path for them — before they invest a great deal of time and resources in a multi-year doctoral program.
Enhanced Credentials for Doctoral Program
The M.A. in Philosophy will enhance students' qualifications if they plan to pursue a full-time doctoral program in philosophy; this can be especially useful if they seek to enter graduate school without first having obtained an undergraduate major in philosophy.
Alternative Career Paths
An M.A. in Philosophy is also valuable for students seeking to pursue other careers paths. A demonstrated capacity for rigor in reasoning and analysis, as well as enhanced communication and writing skills will strengthen the applications of those pursuing careers in fields such as business, economics, law, medicine, publishing, and divinity.


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Augustus Road, Southfields SW19
£535,000 Asking price
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- Bedrooms: 2
- Reception rooms: 1
- Bathrooms: 2
Property features
Property description
An immaculate, modern 2 bedroom ground floor apartment in a sought after development in Southfields. Newly re-decorated including new carpets, with garden and parking space.
Roosevelt Court offers easy access to the amenities of Southfields Village including the District Line at Southfields Station. The green open space of Wimbledon Common and Wimbledon Park are also nearby.
Additional information
- Two double bedrooms
- Reception room
- Separate kitchen
- Two bathrooms
- Lift in building
- Allocated parking space
- Pretty communal gardens
- EPC rating : C
Local authority
Wandsworth Borough Council
Share of Freehold
- Southfields (0.4 miles)


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EclipseLink supports a profiling and monitoring API through its SessionProfiler interface. This interface gives events that allows a profiler or monitoring service to record performance or metrics on the EclipseLink application.
As of EclipseLink 2.2 a PerformanceMonitor is provided to collect performance an metric information. When enabled the PerformanceMonitor will log the monitoring information at set intervals, allowing an application's performance to be analyzed.
Previous to EclipseLink 2.2, a PerformanceProfiler was provided, but it did not make use of the complete SessionProfiler API, and was only useful for profiling a single use case, not a multi-user server. A QueryMonitor was also provided that provided simple monitoring information on queries, but no detailed information.
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