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As a mom of three daughters, I've spent many hours over the years hunting for copies of the Dear America series for birthdays and Christmas. This wonderful series of historic fiction is being re-launched and the Library of Congress will be providing online companion content.
If you're looking for a way to introduce the kids in your life to history, the Dear America series is a great place to start. Here are all the details from the Library of Congress:
Library of Congress Provides Online Content For Scholastic's Re-Launch of Dear America Series
The Library of Congress is providing historical content from its vast and unparalleled collections to enhance a new interactive website for Scholastic's Dear America historical fiction book series.
Scholastic, the children's publishing, education and media company, will re-launch the acclaimed and bestselling Dear America historical fiction series this fall with a combination of all-new publishing and re-issues of the classic Dear America titles plus the new website with content provided by the Library.
"The Library of Congress is excited about this opportunity to collaborate with Scholastic on the re-release of the classic Dear America series," said Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian of Strategic Initiatives. "Combining these compelling stories with the Library's extraordinary primary source collections will help make history more accessible and engaging for teachers and students alike."
Originally launched in 1996, the Dear America series for readers ages 8-14 was written by an array of award-winning band bestselling writers. The books are presented in diary format from the perspective of girls living at different times in American history. Publication of the series ended in 2004, but fans, booksellers, educators and parents have requested that the series be brought back into print. The series will re-launch in September 2010 with "The Fences Between us," an all-new story set in the Pacific Northwest during World War II by Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson. Also, two classics in the series will be reissued in the fall: "A Journey to the New World" and "The Winter of Red Snow."
In cooperation with the Library, Scholastic will further expand the series with two new dedicated "Dear America" websites: one for fans and one for educators, both launching in September 2010. The website for fans, www.scholastic.com/teachdearamerica, will be a fully interactive online community. The site will feature interactive scrapbooks for each Dear America character with online fashion galleries, crafts, recipes and fun downloads. In addition to games, quizzes, book excerpts and author interviews, there will be a moderated "living diary" blog and message board for fans.
Simultaneously, Scholastic and the Library of Congress will offer teachers and librarians a wealth of lesson plans, historical documents and archival photos and other teaching resources at the educator site, www.scholastic.com/teachdearamerica. The site also features timelines, author videos, discussion guides and more, bringing the history in each book to life.
"We are pleased to reintroduce this beloved book series with the added dimension of a rich online experience through our relationship with the Library of Congress," said Ellie Berger, president of the Trade Publishing division of Scholastic.
Scholastic is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books and a leader in educational technology and related services and children's media. Scholastic creates quality books, print and technology-based learning materials and programs, magazines, multi-media and other products that help children learn both at school and at home. The company distributes its products and services worldwide through a variety of channels, including school-based clubs and book fairs, retail stores, schools and libraries, on-air and online at www.scholastic.com.
The Library of Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world, holds nearly 145 million items in various languages, disciplines and formats. The Library serves the U.S. Congress and the nation both on-site in its reading rooms on Capitol Hill and through its award-winning website at www.loc.gov. Many of the Library's rich resources and treasures may also be accessed via interactive exhibitions on a personalized website at myLOC.gov.


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Performing a Normal (Soft) Reset on a Samsung Mini GT-S5570
A normal reset is sometimes referred to as a soft reset. A normal reset stops all running applications but does not erase any programs or saved data.
Caution be sure to save any unsaved data before performing a normal reset since a normal reset erases all unsaved data.
To perform a soft reset:
- If your device is frozen and unresponsive, press and hold for 8-10 seconds. The device will reboot automatically.
Performing a Hard (Full) Reset on a Samsung Mini GT-S5570
A full reset is sometimes referred to as a hard reset. Perform a full reset when you want to clear all settings, programs and data from RAM. A full reset deactivates the battery the power button does not function until the battery is reactivated.
Caution if you perform a full reset, your Samsung Mini GT-S5570 returns to its default settings and looses all information that is not recorded in ROM.
To perform a hard reset:
- In Idle mode, open the application list and select Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset > Reset phone > Erase everything.
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- Hold the Enter and Power buttons together.


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The Girl with a Pearl Earring is considered as one of Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece and as a major painting of the 17th century. Vermeer was not a prolific painter. Most of his works are devoted to genre subjects, which are scenes from everyday life and Dutch's indoor activities.
This painting displays a young wide-eyed girl with an exotic turban. It seems that she is going to tell something because she slightly opens her mouth. She is looking over her shoulder, as if viewers have interrupted her.
Due to Vermeer's excellent skill in using light reflection, the young girl looks alive and she is drawing viewers into this painting, interrogating us with her eyes, outlining the immediacy of her presence. The dark background reinforces the immediacy and the presence, which make this painting timeless, immune to time or space. The background also highlights her face, as if there is nowhere and nothing else to look at. The young girl is a timeless beauty because of the ovals of her face, her youth, the softness and delicacy of her skin and the innocent eyes.
When it comes to the use of light, the work on light in this painting is remarkable. We can easily find the subtle balance of light and shadow. For example, the turban is enlivened by small highlights, primarily on the yellow part crossing over her head and at the bottom of the turban, behind her shoulders. Her face is another example. Her eyes are watery. There are two white dots painted on them, echoing the two small white dots painted on each side of her mouth, stressing the softness and delicacy of her skin. The collar and the pearl form a perfect balance. The collar is white in the middle of the painting, breaking the darkness of the background. It also reflects its light onto the pearl which reflects onto the girl's jaw in turn.
The pearl earring in this painting is very conspicuous. It symbolizes innocence. There is a lot more to say about this painting. Nobody knows who she is and speculations have abounded, which makes this painting mysterious and fantastic.
The Girl with a Pearl Earring
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I like to make standard hydration sourdough and french-type breads. Here in Hawaii, the only bulk-type flour I can reasonably afford is the ConAgra Harvest Blend bread flour, sold by COSTCO. I can purchase 25 pounds for the price of 10 pounds of national brands. Does any one have an opinion about how much quality I would gain by paying about $7 for five pounds of King Arthur bread flour.
The ConAgra also contains Ascorbic Acid. Do I need to compensate for that in some way? Some days I think the problems are with the baker and some days I wonder about the ingredients! If I keep improving my skills (which I'd say are intermediate) can I work around a less than ideal flour?
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Is it possible for farmers to participate more directly in the ethanol boom — to derive additional income not just from high grain prices, but from the sale of ethanol itself? Is there an energy farm in your future?
According to those familiar with small-scale ethanol production technology, much of the know-how currently exists for small-scale ethanol plants in which a farmer or group of farmers would not only produce ethanol on-farm from either sweet sorghum or sugarcane, but also grow the feedstock.
So-called energy farms could be the wave of the future, or not, but one thing is clear — it's one way for American farmers to benefit from the race to replace 15 percent of gasoline with biofuels over the next decade.
Currently, there are three technologies for producing ethanol. First is the current starch-based platform based on grain. This system is already impacting farmers with higher corn, wheat and grain sorghum prices. Today, the markets are being driven by the starch-based systems.
Cellulosic or switchgrass based systems could be the Holy Grail or they could be cold fusion, according to Tim Sharp, a former Oklahoma State University professor, now part of a venture selling small-scale ethanol production equipment to farmers, cooperatives and small companies. "We're not sure how to do cellulosic systems now and we're probably not going to be doing it for five years at best. It offers all kinds of potential and all the university research and grant money and science is focused on it."
The third technology for ethanol production is based on sugar and eliminates several steps needed to turn a feedstock into sugar, since the feedstock itself contains a high percentage of it. Brazil uses sugarcane as a feedstock for its ethanol. The United States, however, does not have a large dedicated acreage of the crop.
Part of Sharp's job at OSU was researching cellulosic ethanol, but he soon became interested in sugar-based systems. Recently, Sharp left OSU to become operations manager at FASTech.
The founder of the company, David McDowell, a former automobile repair shop owner, says ethanol technology he developed can run on corn, sugar beets, molasses and sugarcane, or anything that can be turned into a sugar product.
For Sharp, the feedstock that makes the most sense for the energy farm concept is sweet sorghum. It produces 18 percent to 20 percent sugar and yields between 400 gallons and 900 gallons of ethanol per acre.
Dani Bellmer, associate professor of biosystems engineering, Food and Agricultural Products Research Center, Oklahoma State University, says sweet sorghum "can be grown just about anywhere in the United States. It has very low irrigation needs compared to corn and sugarcane and fertilizer needs are low. It's also about the easiest way to produce ethanol there is. You press the stalks and get liquid sugar, to which you add yeast to make ethanol.
"The downside is that the sugar used to make ethanol is not storable for a long period of time. So you have to begin processing it almost immediately or the sugar in the juice will be degraded to other products."
That's where an on-farm ethanol plant comes into play, according to Bellmer. "You can do it for low capital costs right on the farm."
Bellmer adds that quality control is also an issue as the ethanol produced on-farm must be 99 percent pure, one reason why she supports a cooperative effort of farmers, i.e., groups of farmers going into business.
Assuming a harvester is developed for the sweet sorghum, an ideal energy farm would have 600 acres of land, including 300 acres for sorghum production and 300 acres for rotation. According to Sharp's calculations, such an operation would require $95,000 in total variable costs and $85,000 in fixed costs (including paying off equipment) for a total cost of $180,000. "If you produce 550 gallons per acre off 300 acres and you sell it for $2.30 a gallon, you would have $379,500 in sales, providing an annual net return of $180,000 to $200,000.
Sharp believes a government incentive, consisting of a floor price of $2.35 a gallon for the first 120,000 gallons of ethanol produced by a small-scale energy farm, would be enough to offset economic risk from falling gasoline prices. A second 120,000 gallons would have the same floor price if the feedstock (sweet sorghum or sugarcane) was grown in the United States.
OSU researchers are nearing completion of an economic study of energy farms, according to Bellmer. "If the harvest window is only three months, can you amortize that harvester over 12 months and make it worthwhile? I'm optimistic that we can at this point."
Because ethanol contains alcohol, the U.S. Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has expressed more than a passing interest in how a small-scale operation might be regulated, according to Sharp.
"This is where our senators and congressmen need to get involved," Sharp says. "All the regulations for ethanol production are based on producing spirits. This is an agricultural enterprise for producing motor fuel. It may have to be some type of local cooperative for it to work, where you have business entities, which ATF is happy dealing with."
Sharp figures that 650 farmers working 300 acres of sweet sorghum each can produce the same amount of ethanol as a 100-million-gallon, corn ethanol plant currently on-line. "But if you look at the economic impact of the small-scale plant, from a rural economy standpoint, this is where I think we need to be. Let the farmer make some of the money.
"You're not selling the corn guy your corn, you're selling the oil company your ethanol. So you're getting all the added value. Currently, a corn plant costs $2.10 a gallon for production capacity. Right now, you can put in molasses capacity for around 50 cents a gallon. So our costs are less than one-fourth of those of a corn plant."
Sharp adds that until a reliable harvester is designed for sweet sorghum, energy farms can truck in molasses for $135 to $150 per ton. Production costs for trucked-in molasses are between 97 cents and $1.14 a gallon. "If you're running on sweet sorghum, the costs are between 70 cents and 90 cents. This is a whole lot cheaper because we have really low energy costs."
A risk of using molasses as a feedstock could occur if production capacity is increased without ramping up molasses production. "We'd be in the same boat the corn guys are in, the price of sugar goes up big time. Then the cost of production goes up and there is less profit. On the other hand, if you're growing your own sorghum, you're not vulnerable to raw materials costs."
"To be independent of foreign oil, this country needs farmers and ranchers to get involved and produce their own fuel," McDowell said. "The corn ethanol plants need to be involved. The oil companies have to be involved on a bigger scale to build the 150-million gallon plants. It's all needed for us to become independent of foreign oil."
"Decentralization is a good thing, too," Bellmer said of the energy farm concept. "The more large-scale capital intensive plants we have, the more opportunities for sabotage and other things. So the more decentralized we are, the better it is for everyone."
Small-scale ethanol plants constructed by FASTech and being operated by farmers are running in Georgia, Indiana and Okemah, Okla. FASTech's ethanol plant costs around $400,000, which includes tanks, a cooker, separation columns and electronics.
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I'm very social person, I love pizza, pasta and hotdogs,my favorite music style is place, stone and techno. I wish i were higher and less mad :) I'm constantly looking for new activities and ventures!
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Totally agree with Oliver, there are several things that absolutely need moderation and prosecute.
Copyright is one of the main reasons I gave up on contibuting to wikipedia. It's just such a pain in the ass if you want to create an article and then you can't add images, because most of them have a Copyright and it's just to much work to get a license.


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The affordable OmniView E Series 2-Port KVM Switch from Belkin allows you to control up to two computers from one keyboard, video monitor, and mouse console. The E Series supports high-resolution display quality when used with coaxial VGA cabling. Designed to work with your PS/2 platform, it reduces desktop clutter and provides a simple, reliable solution at a lower price.


text: Some may believe that challenging a district court's sentencing procedure on appeal is not likely to result in better outcomes because the court will just do a better job on remand addressing arguments and explaining its decision, but still impose the same sentence. But this is not so. When courts of appeals insist that the district courts fully address the evidence and arguments presented by the parties regarding the appropriate sentence, and then explain their decision to accept or reject those arguments, actual outcomes are different on remand, sometimes significantly so. In exercising the review power accorded to them in Booker and further elucidated in Rita, appellate courts can not only promote more fair and reasoned sentences in individual cases, but can also exercise a meaningful role in the evolution of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines envisioned by the Supreme Court. The narrow purpose of this article is to demonstrate that a properly framed appeal resulting in reve


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Argos release veteran kicker/punter Noel Prefontaine
Toronto Argonauts kicker Noel Prefontaine, left, talks with Calgary Stampeders kicker Rene Paredes after CFL action in Toronto on Saturday, July 7, 2012. (The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn)
The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:45AM EST
Last Updated Tuesday, December 18, 2012 5:43PM EST
TORONTO -- Noel Prefontaine isn't ready to call it a career just yet.
The Toronto Argonauts released the veteran kicker/punter Tuesday, and Prefontaine said wants to continue his CFL career. He has even hired an agent to beat the bushes for an opportunity with another team.
The move comes less than a month after Prefontaine helped the Argos defeat the Calgary Stampeders 35-22 in the 100th Grey Cup game at Rogers Centre.
"I definitely want to continue playing," Prefontaine said. "But at the same time if there is no interest and I decide playing is no longer in my future, what better way to end it than on top with the team I dearly love."
Prefontaine was limited to seven regular-season games this year after undergoing major hip surgery in July. The Argos looked to American Swayze Waters to handle kicking and punting duties for much of the season, but Prefontaine returned to the lineup late in the year when Waters suffered a hand injury that prevented him from handling third-down snaps.
Prefontaine, who will turn 39 on Sunday, helped Toronto win the Grey Cup last month, averaging 44.6 yards on seven punts in the championship game.
"My hip feels great, it's better, stronger," he said. "They told me it was going to be a four-to-six month recovery and to get back kicking a ball and playing 10 weeks after the surgery meant a lot to me.
"At the same time it (hip) was never 100 per cent. There was still some pain in there although it felt a lot better than it did before the surgery. But I knew the four-to-six months was right in terms of some of the stuff I was feeling."
Argos GM Jim Barker said economics played a role in the decision to let Prefontaine go. He he also wanted to give Prefontaine enough time to find a job with another team but didn't close the door on him returning to Toronto in 2013.
"This doesn't mean the Argonauts and Noel Prefontaine will never reunite," Barker said. "It just means under his current contract we needed to go a different way.
"The off-season is about business and we try to make decisions that work best for our overall club. Noel needed to be released now because it's best for him, it gives him some time to see what's out there and what he wants to do. I didn't want to wait until the very end, I wanted to do it as early as possible because that's the way you treat a player that's done all the things he has done for me personally and this organization."
It's a move Prefontaine saw coming.
"You wish you didn't have to deal with the business side of it, obviously, but it's going to happen," he said. "I think that's why I wasn't surprised.
"Being in the game long enough and understanding what goes on I kind of anticipated something like this happening."
Prefontaine began his CFL career with Toronto in 1998 and spent 10 seasons with the Argos -- with a stint in the XFL and NFL tryouts with Baltimore and Kansas City before being dealt to Edmonton prior to the 2008 season. The Eskimos traded Prefontaine back to the Argos in October 2010.
Prefontaine was born in California but was deemed a non-import in the CFL because he spent time growing up in Quebec.
The six-time league all-star and two-time Grey Cup champion has appeared in 235 career CFL regular-season games. Prefontaine boasts a career 45.8-yard punting average and has made 332-of-457 career field goal attempts (72.6 per cent).
Prefontaine, a married father of two young children, said he has no bitterness towards the Argos for releasing him.
"I'm so appreciative of the many things the organization did for me over the years," he said. "Coming back and being able to play and win the Grey Cup, it couldn't get any better than that.
"This is just a new chapter for me."


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Marie Sharp's Belizean Heat Hot Sauce
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casaswap needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 154 designs submitted by 51 freelance designers.
We need a new and fresh logo - we've been using our current one for around 4 years and need a new identity!
We need a new, fresh and crisp logo for our website company - must be easy to identify and "relate" to. We've thought about a kind of web 2.0-ish design fit to both online and offline marketing use (banners, print, etc).
CasaSwap.com, http://www.casaswap.com, an online marketplace where young people and student from all over the world can rent, sublet & swap rooms, apartments and housing. It's free to sign up and use the website.
Given our target group, we need a logo and design that's appealing to people between 18-35 years of age = not too conservative.
- Bright, fresh colors
- Easy to read, identify and recognise
- Web 2.0-ish feeling and approach
- Must be related to our website concept keywords: young people, students, finding a place to live, travelling abroad, housing, apartments, etc.
- Not too grey, brown or boring
- Not too conservative
- Nothing "borrowed" from other websites ;-)
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Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters to bring the blues
NEWTON — Legendary Blues guitarist Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters will perform at the Newton Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 11.
One of the finest blues guitarists to emerge during the '80s, Ronnie Earl often straddled the line between blues and jazz, with touches of soul and rock. The Broadcasters are an exceptional contemporary blues band.
Ronnie Earl is a two-time W.C. Handy Blues Award winner as Guitar Player of the Year. He has served as an Associate Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music, and has taught at the National Guitar summer workshop in Connecticut.
After picking up his first guitar at age 20, he learned the craft quickly and went on to stretch the boundaries of electric blues guitar, lifting hearts and souls a little higher as he did. He would eventually emerge into the New England blues scene as a budding young guitarist. He took a serious musical turn toward the blues after attending a Muddy Waters concert at the Jazz Workshop in Boston.
In 1995 Ronnie released Ronnie Earl: Blues Guitar with Soul, an instructional VHS tape that was then rereleased in DVD format in 2005. Earl's discography includes albums on Stony Plain Records, Black Top, Bullseye Blues, Verve, and Telarc. His 1996 Bullseye Blues release, "Grateful Heart: Blues and Ballads," won Downbeat Magazine's Blues Album of the Year, and in 2004 Earl's "Hey Jose" won the Best Blues/R&B Song at the 3rd Annual Independent Music Awards. In 2008, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters celebrated 20 years as a band. In August 2010, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters released their album Spread the Love to wide critical acclaim. Their most current album, Just for Today, was released in 2013.
Ronnie Earl has played alongside such legends as Hubert Sumlin, Earl King, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Kim Wilson and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band and many others.
Tickets for Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters are $34 for premium seating, $29 for orchestra and $24 for balcony. Purchase tickets by visiting www.thenewtontheatre.com or contact the box office at 973-383-3700.
The historic Newton Theatre, located at 234 Spring Street in Newton.
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Language and Linguistics in Pre-Modern China and East Asia
Lei Zhu
Traditional Chinese linguistics grew out of two distinct interests in language: the philosophical reflection on things and their names, and the practical concern for literacy education and the correct understanding of classical works. The former is most typically found in the teachings of such pre-Qin masters as Confucius, Mozi, and Gongsun Long, who lived between the 6th and 3rd centuries
The picture just presented, in which Chinese philosophy and philology are combined to form a seemingly autonomous tradition, is complicated, however, by the fact that the Indic linguistic tradition started to influence the Chinese in the 2nd century
Chinese, with its linguistic tradition, had a profound impact in ancient East Asia. Not only did traditional studies of Japanese, Tangut, and other languages show significant Chinese influence, under which not the least achievement was the invention of the earliest writing systems for these languages, but many scholars from Japan and Korea actually took an active part in the study of Chinese as well, so that the Chinese linguistic tradition would itself be incomplete without the materials and findings these non-Chinese scholars have contributed. On the other hand, some of these scholars, most notably Motoori Norinaga and Fujitani Nariakira in Japan, were able to free themselves from the character-centered Chinese routine and develop rather original linguistic theories.
Ferdinand de Saussure
John E. Joseph
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), the founding figure of modern linguistics, made his mark on the field with a book he published a month after his 21st birthday, in which he proposed a radical rethinking of the original system of vowels in Proto-Indo-European. A year later, he submitted his doctoral thesis on a morpho-syntactic topic, the genitive absolute in Sanskrit, to the University of Leipzig. He went to Paris intending to do a second, French doctorate, but instead he was given responsibility for courses on Gothic and Old High Gerrman at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, and for managing the publications of the Société de Linguistique de Paris. He abandoned more than one large publication project of his own during the decade he spent in Paris. In 1891 he returned to his native Geneva, where the University created a chair in Sanskrit and the history and comparison of languages for him. He produced some significant work on Lithuanian during this period, connected to his early book on the Indo-European vowel system, and yielding Saussure's Law, concerning the placement of stress in Lithuanian. He undertook writing projects about the general nature of language, but again abandoned them. In 1907, 1908–1909, and 1910–1911, he gave three courses in general linguistics at the University of Geneva, in which he developed an approach to languages as systems of signs, each sign consisting of a signifier (sound pattern) and a signified (concept), both of them mental rather than physical in nature, and conjoined arbitrarily and inseparably. The socially shared language system, or langue, makes possible the production and comprehension of parole, utterances, by individual speakers and hearers. Each signifier and signified is a value generated by its difference from all the other signifiers or signifieds with which it coexists on an associative (or paradigmatic) axis, and affected as well by its syntagmatic axis. Shortly after Saussure's death at 55, two of his colleagues, Bally and Sechehaye, gathered together students' notes from the three courses, as well as manuscript notes by Saussure, and from them constructed the Cours de linguistique générale, published in 1916. Over the course of the next several decades, this book became the basis for the structuralist approach, initially within linguistics, and later adapted to other fields. Saussure left behind a large quantity of manuscript material that has gradually been published over the last few decades, and continues to be published, shedding new light on his thought.
Georg von der Gabelentz
James McElvenny
The German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) occupies an interesting place at the intersection of several streams of linguistic scholarship at the end of the 19th century. As Professor of East Asian languages at the University of Leipzig from 1878 to 1889 and then Professor for Sinology and General Linguistics at the University of Berlin from 1889 until his death, Gabelentz was present at some of the main centers of linguistics at the time. He was, however, generally critical of mainstream historical-comparative linguistics as propagated by the neogrammarians, and instead emphasized approaches to language inspired by a line of researchers including Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), H. Steinthal (1823–1899), and his own father, Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874).
Today Gabelentz is chiefly remembered for several theoretical and methodological innovations which continue to play a role in linguistics. Most significant among these are his contributions to cross-linguistic syntactic comparison and typology, grammar-writing, and grammaticalization. His earliest linguistic work emphasized the importance of syntax as a core part of grammar and sought to establish a framework for the cross-linguistic description of word order, as had already been attempted for morphology by other scholars. The importance he attached to syntax was motivated by his engagement with Classical Chinese, a language almost devoid of morphology and highly reliant on syntax. In describing this language in his 1881 Chinesische Grammatik, Gabelentz elaborated and implemented the complementary "analytic" and "synthetic" systems of grammar, an approach to grammar-writing that continues to serve as a point of reference up to the present day. In his summary of contemporary thought on the nature of grammatical change in language, he became one of the first linguists to formulate the principles of grammaticalization in essentially the form that this phenomenon is studied today, although he did not use the current term. One key term of modern linguistics that he did employ, however, is "typology," a term that he in fact coined. Gabelentz's typology was a development on various contemporary strands of thought, including his own comparative syntax, and is widely acknowledged as a direct precursor of the present-day field.
Gabelentz is a significant transitional figure from the 19th to the 20th century. On the one hand, his work seems very modern. Beyond his contributions to grammaticalization avant la lettre and his christening of typology, his conception of language prefigures the structuralist revolution of the early 20th century in important respects. On the other hand, he continues to entertain several preoccupations of the 19th century—in particular the judgment of the relative value of different languages—which were progressively banished from linguistics in the first decades of the 20th century.
William Labov
Matthew J. Gordon
William Labov (b. 1927) is an American linguist who pioneered the study of variationist sociolinguistics. Born and raised in northern New Jersey, Labov studied English and philosophy at Harvard University (BA, 1948) and worked as an industrial chemist for several years before entering graduate school in linguistics at Columbia University in 1961. He completed his PhD in 1964, under the direction of Uriel Weinreich. He worked at Columbia until 1971, when he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught until his retirement in 2014.
Labov's influence on the field began with research he conducted in graduate school. His study of changing pronunciations on Martha's Vineyard, the subject of his master's thesis, introduced a method for observing sound change in progress and broke with tradition by exploring social motivations for linguistic innovations. For his PhD dissertation, Labov carried out a study of dialect patterns on the Lower East Side of New York City. Using a systematic, quantitative methodology, he demonstrated that linguistic variation is socially stratified, such that the use of pronunciation features (e.g., dropping of post-vocalic /r/) correlates with social class, ethnicity, etc. in regular patterns. Labov's early research was greatly influential and inspired many scholars to carry out similar projects in other communities. The paradigm came to be known as variationist sociolinguistics.
Much of Labov's scholarship seeks to advance our understanding of language change. Historical linguists traditionally study completed linguistic changes, often long after they occurred, but Labov developed a method for examining active changes through a quantitative comparison of speakers representing several generations. This approach produces a new perspective on the change process by revealing intermediate stages. Labov has brought insights from this research to bear on theoretical debates within historical linguistics and the field more broadly. His work in this area has also documented many active sound changes in American English. Among these changes are innovations underway in particular dialects, such as the vowel changes in Philadelphia, as well as broader regional patterns, such as the Northern Cities Shift heard in the Great Lakes states.
Throughout his career, social justice concerns have fueled Labov's research. He has sought to demonstrate that the speech of stigmatized groups is as systematic and rule-governed as any other. He led a pioneering study in Harlem in the late 1960s that shone new light on African American English, demonstrating, for example, that grammatical usages like the deletion of the copula (e.g., He fast) are subject to regular constraints. Labov has served as an expert witness in court and before the U.S. Congress to share insights from his study of African American English. He has also worked to promote literacy for speakers of non-standard dialects, carrying out research on reading and developing material for the teaching of reading to these populations.
Language and Linguistics in Medieval Europe
Deborah Hayden
During the period from the fall of the Roman empire in the late 5th century to the beginning of the European Renaissance in the 14th century, the development of linguistic thought in Europe was characterized by the enthusiastic study of grammatical works by Classical and Late Antique authors, as well as by the adaptation of these works to suit a Christian framework. The discipline of grammatica, viewed as the cornerstone of the ideal liberal arts education and as a key to the wider realm of textual culture, was understood to encompass both the systematic principles for speaking and writing correctly and the science of interpreting the poets and other writers. The writings of Donatus and Priscian were among the most popular and well-known works of the grammatical curriculum, and were the subject of numerous commentaries throughout the medieval period. Although Latin persisted as the predominant medium of grammatical discourse, there is also evidence from as early as the 8th century for the enthusiastic study of vernacular languages and for the composition of vernacular-medium grammars, including sources pertaining to Anglo-Saxon, Irish, Old Norse, and Welsh. The study of language in the later medieval period is marked by experimentation with the form and layout of grammatical texts, including the composition of textbooks in verse form. This period also saw a renewed interest in the application of philosophical ideas to grammar, inspired in part by the availability of a wider corpus of Greek sources than had previously been unknown to western European scholars, such as Aristotle's Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, and De Anime. A further consequence of the renewed interest in the logical and metaphysical works of Aristotle during the later Middle Ages is the composition of so-called 'speculative grammars' written by scholars commonly referred to as the 'Modistae', in which the grammatical description of Latin formulated by Priscian and Donatus was integrated with the system of scholastic philosophy that was at its height from the beginning of the 13th to the middle of the 14th century.
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Edwin L. Battistella
Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890–1938) was a Russian émigré scholar who settled in Austria in 1922, serving as Head of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Vienna and participating in the Prague Linguistics Circle. Trubetzkoy wrote nearly 150 works on phonology, prosody, comparative linguistics, linguistic geography, folklore, literature, history, and political theory. His posthumously published Grundzüge der Phonologie (Principles of Phonology) is regarded as one of the key works in the science of phonology. Here Trubetzkoy, influenced by Saussurean insights, elaborated on the linguistic function of speech sounds, the role of oppositions, and markedness. He was also concerned with developing universal laws of phonological patterning, and his work involves the discussion of a wide variety of languages. The Grundzüge became the classic statement of part of Prague School linguistics, which later influenced both European and American linguistics, notably in Chomsky and Halle's The Sound Pattern of English. Less well-known are Trubetzkoy's historical and political works on Eurasia and Eurasianism. In Europe and Mankind, Trubetzkoy argued that Russia was not culturally part of Europe but should evolve to form its own political systems based on its geography and common legacy with the peoples of Eurasia.
Franz Rainer
Blocking can be defined as the non-occurrence of some linguistic form, whose existence could be expected on general grounds, due to the existence of a rival form. *Oxes, for example, is blocked by oxen, *stealer by thief. Although blocking is closely associated with morphology, in reality the competing "forms" can not only be morphemes or words, but can also be syntactic units. In German, for example, the compound Rotwein 'red wine' blocks the phrasal unit *roter Wein (in the relevant sense), just as the phrasal unit rote Rübe 'beetroot; lit. red beet' blocks the compound *Rotrübe. In these examples, one crucial factor determining blocking is synonymy; speakers apparently have a deep-rooted presumption against synonyms. Whether homonymy can also lead to a similar avoidance strategy, is still controversial. But even if homonymy blocking exists, it certainly is much less systematic than synonymy blocking.
In all the examples mentioned above, it is a word stored in the mental lexicon that blocks a rival formation. However, besides such cases of lexical blocking, one can observe blocking among productive patterns. Dutch has three suffixes for deriving agent nouns from verbal bases, -er, -der, and -aar. Of these three suffixes, the first one is the default choice, while -der and -aar are chosen in very specific phonological environments: as Geert Booij describes in The Morphology of Dutch (2002), "the suffix -aar occurs after stems ending in a coronal sonorant consonant preceded by schwa, and -der occurs after stems ending in /r/" (p. 122). Contrary to lexical blocking, the effect of this kind of pattern blocking does not depend on words stored in the mental lexicon and their token frequency but on abstract features (in the case at hand, phonological features).
Blocking was first recognized by the Indian grammarian Pāṇini in the 5th or 4th century
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Definitions of fry
v. t. - To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts. 2
v. i. - To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat. 2
v. i. - To simmer; to boil. 2
v. i. - To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat. 2
v. i. - To be agitated; to be greatly moved. 2
n. - The young of any fish. 2
n. - A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general. 2
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2014 mazda mazda6 Model Overview
Vehicle Overview
Now in its third generation, the 2014 Mazda6 includes the full suite of Skyactiv technologies first seen on the 2013 CX-5 crossover. The all-new sedan debuts with the larger, more powerful 2.5-liter I-4 gasoline engine, with 184 hp and 185 lb-ft of torque, while a 2.2-liter I-4 turbodiesel will arrive later in the year. That engine is expected to make around 170 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque. With the six-speed manual, the Mazda6 is EPA-rated 25/37 mpg city/highway, while the six-speed automatic bumps fuel economy to 26/38 mpg. Automatic cars with the available i-ELOOP system are rated 28/40 mpg.
In our first test, the automatic-equipped car bested the manual car to 60 mph, making the run in 7.4 seconds and 7.8 seconds, respectively. We summed up the automatic Mazda6 saying, "Overall, the Mazda6 is a compelling package for those who want to stand apart from the midsize norm. Of course, for those who want to emphasize driving involvement, there's always the six-speed manual option." Though, we wondered whether getting the six-speed manual transmission is worth the acceleration and mpg penalties, "but the $1615 saved by choosing it makes for a compelling argument." We were impressed with the diesel engine we sampled in a Euro-spec model: "The engine runs quietly in the mid-revs. Sure, there's still the characteristic low-frequency rumble, but play the stereo, heck, even turn the a/c fan beyond halfway up — and you'll hardly notice it."
The 2014 Mazda6 beat the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord in a three-way comparison: "The '6 proved the most comfortable and ergonomically sound, providing the preferred command center whether sitting still and fiddling with the controls or weaving aggressively through a twisty road. The Mazda fits you, not vice versa. … The back seat, too, was judged tops in comfort and support, though there's no denying it trails the Camry and Accord in overall roominess."
For 2014, the third-generation Mazda6 is essentially all-new and features Mazda's full suite of Skyactiv technologies as well as the new Kodo design language. With the 2014 6, Mazda introduces the capacitor-based i-ELOOP regenerative braking system that power the vehicle's entire electrical system. Available safety tech includes a Blind Spot Monitoring (BSM) system and Rear Cross Traffic Alert (RCTA), Smart City Brake Support (SCBS) system, an Adaptive Front-lighting System (AFS), Forward Obstruction Warning (FOW), Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS) and High Beam Control (HBC). While the 2014 Mazda6 hasn't been tested by the NHTSA, the midsize sedan is considered a Top Safety Pick+ by the IIHS for cars built after November 2012.
New for 2014
The redesigned 2014 Mazda6 features new styling inside and out as well as new powertrains. An available i-ELOOP regenerative braking system and a host of new safety technology are also new.
You'll Like
- I-ELOOP model offers best-in-class fuel efficiency
- Strong acceleration from I-4/auto combo
- Lots of available tech
You Won't Like
- Waiting for the 2.2-liter turbodiesel
- Manual is slower and less efficient than auto
- Small infotainment screen
Key Competitors
- Honda Accord
- Ford Fusion
- Toyota Camry
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Last week was solid for content on the PlayStation Store, but not every week can be quite as good. This week's offering is a little limp, with one particular exception. What's new on the PlayStation Store:
- PSP: Twisted Metal: Head On ($14.99): The original PSP title turned PS2 rerelease is a strong title if you're a fan of the series.
- PS3: Rock Band Tracks ($1.99 per song): The Clash's "Complete Control," the Police's "Truth Hits Everybody," and the Ramones' "Teenage Lobotomy" are now available for Rock Band.
- PS3: MLB 08: The Show demo
- PSP: MLB 08: The Show, Patapon demos
- PS3: MLB 08 Road to the Show tutorial, LittleBigPlanet "Create-A-Level" trailer, The Ruins trailer, and more.
- PSP: MLB 08: The Show Behind the Scenes trailers
Wallpapers and Themes
- PS3: Super Stardust HD theme
- PSP: Twisted Metal Head On wallpaper
I've been dying to get my hands on the Patapon demo. You can expect some impressions later today, and, of course, a review when the game hits stores later this month. Besides that, there's not much to see here unless you're a baseball fan. Hopefully next week's content is a little more interesting.


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The Red & Black defeated Carbondale Area Friday night by a score of 16-15.
HONESDALE — Despite a soggy, rain-soaked field and a ridiculous number of penalties, Honesdale still managed to hold off a scrappy Carbondale Area squad Friday night here in the Maple City.
The Hornets needed a goal-line stand late in the second half, then two dazzling plays by quarterback Kevin Miller to deliver a wild 16-15 victory over the visiting Chargers.
"This is a huge win for us," Miller told TWI Sports just moments after the final gun sounded. "Carbondale is a good team and they played hard, but we never gave up. It just feels really good to win one like this."
Coach Jim Ludwig echoed those sentiments.
"What a great win!" he exclaimed with rain falling and mud-covered Hornets celebrating all around him. "Let's hope this is some kind of turning point for the kids. Our defense came up huge when we needed them the most and that was the difference."
Honesdale's defense did indeed save the day.
The Hornets committed one foolish mistake after another, piling up more than 100 yards in penalties. However, the Red & Black stuffed the Chargers in the shadow of their own goal post on four straight plays to secure a razor-thin win.
Miller played the hero on offense, scrambling for a touchdown with 5:19 left in regulation. After a timeout, the junior quarterback struck again, diving in for the 2-point conversion that ultimately proved to be the gamewinner.
"I made some dumb mistakes earlier in the game, so I was really happy that I got a chance to make up for them," a smiling Miller said. "I just didn't want to let my teammates down."
Nick Maritato and Jonathan Gillow spearheaded the defense up front, while Ron Krempasky and Timmy Russell delivered with one clutch play after another in the secondary.
For full coverage of this electrifying Hornet win, please pick up a copy of Tuesday's edition of The Wayne Independent at your favorite newsstand.
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Bruce Springsteen and Famous Friends Sing 'This Land Is Your Land' at SxSW
As we reported, Bruce Springsteen delivered the keynote speech at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas yesterday (March 15) — and as intellectually-edifying as that may have been, it was the jam session afterward that really got people talking.
After playing a few songs of their own, Bruce and the E Street Band were joined by scores of other musicians for what's been described as a "face-melting" cover of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land.'
So who was there? Members of Arcade Fire and the Low Anthem, Garland Jeffreys, Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine, and Austin music legends Alejandro Escovedo and Joe Ely.
The song pick wasn't entirely a surprise — Springsteen is a long-time fan of Guthrie's and even paid homage to the folk singer (who would've been 100 this year) in his keynote address, saying:
In Guthrie's work, he found a way forward: 'fatalism tempered by a practical idealism,' and a conviction that 'speaking truth to power wasn't futile.'
The Boss may have considered the raucous jam session a celebration of sorts — his new album 'Wrecking Ball' topped the charts in its debut week. And on March 26, he'll play a part in helping a sick little boy's fondest wish come true.
Watch Bruce Springsteen and Some Friends Jam on 'This Land Is Your Land'


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Make an 1859 antebellum Georgian mansion the site of your wedding day celebration. Lillian Gardens in Newnan, Georgia is a charming combination of old elegance and fresh style. Imagine a wedding ceremony held on the mansion lawn. You and your guests will enjoy an intimate ceremony surrounded by mani...
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Norcross, GA
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Carlyle House is a special events facility in historical downtown Norcross. The house was built in the 1800's and has been beautifully renovated with exquisite imported chandeliers in the large grand ballroom and all five of the more intimate sized rooms. The charming turn-of-the-century structure h...
The Barn At High Points Farms
Flintstone, GA
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Tucked along the Chattanooga Creek just south of Chattanooga, TN, The Barn At High Point Farm rises from the cozy community of High Point as a beautiful and natural setting to share your vows. Located near the natural borders of Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama, this venue features a restored barn an...
Georgia International Horse Park
Conyers, GA
Event Center, Outdoor
Starting from $2,787 to $5,999 for 50 guests
For equestrians, horse-lovers, and all who appreciate simple Southern elegance, the Georgia International Horse Park boasts several venues for a refined, fabulous affair. The Carriage Room can accommodate up to 250 guests and provides a view of the charming courtyard. It can double as a banquet room...
Tate House Marble Mansion
Tate, GA
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Just 45 minutes north of Atlanta is the elegant, pink marble mansion known as the Tate House. The classic southern fantasy is felt throughout the stately plantation like setting. The gardens invite you to stroll through the centuries old oaks and to host your garden wedding amongst the six flowing f...
North Grove Hall
Dahlonega, GA
Banquet Hall/Restaurant, Event Center, Vintage/Rustic
North Grove Hall is a charming cottage events venue established in May of 2013. We offer full service for all events but also give you the option to do-it-yourself. We can seat up to 50 guests for Receptions and Rehearsal Dinners but limit weddings to up to 30 guests. For your catering needs, we ...
Glen Mary Historic Home and Gardens
Sparta, GA
Historic/Landmark Building, Park/Garden, Plantation, Vintage/Rustic, Outdoor
Starting from $5,046 to $5,496 for 50 guests
Indulge your craving for Southern charm and elegance at the iconic Glen Mary estate. Situated on a hilltop overlooking the beautiful Georgia countryside, Glen Mary boasts a grand, historic manor, lush gardens, and an original barn to add a touch of rustic chic. Built around 1848, Glen Mary is regard...
The Manor Golf & Country Club
Alpharetta, GA
Golf Course, Ballrooms, Outdoor
Starting from $10,621 to $13,275 for 50 guests
The Manor Golf & Country Club offers a breathtaking venue for your upcoming wedding event that is certain to leave your guests speechless. Imagine walking down the aisle on the outdoor ceremony lawn, beautifully manicured with the perfect arrangement of white chairs for your guests. Take your vows w...
Toccoa Falls College
Toccoa Falls, GA
Historic/Landmark Building, Outdoor
Starting from $1,676 to $3,351 for 50 guests
Celebrate your nuptials amidst the quiet and serene natural beauty of the North Georgia Mountains. Located in the foothills of the northeast Georgia Mountains, Toccoa Falls College offers the beautiful setting of "The Falls" and the lovely Gate Cottage Restaurant for your wedding celebration. The be...
Gb Event Facility
Decatur, GA
Event Center
Starting from $1,995 to $5,670 for 50 guests
Whether you're looking for the ultimate reception hall or the perfect place to hold all the festivities for your special day, GB Event Facility may be the perfect venue for you. The beautiful, multifaceted facility boasts four elegantly-appointed rooms, each decorated with a unique theme. You are fr...
Inn at the Peachtrees, an Ascend Hotel C...
Atlanta, GA
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Starting from $1,451 to $4,677 for 50 guests
Inn at the Peachtrees is a hotel that is downtown Atlanta, Georgia's best kept secret. A proud member of the Ascend Hotel Collection, you can expect to receive the best service, hospitality, and amenities of Georgia! An oasis among the soaring skyscrapers, Inn at the Peachtrees makes a perfect place...
Shamrock Community Use Building
Jonesboro, GA
Event Center, Community Center, Outdoor
Starting from $1,629 to $6,107 for 50 guests
The Clayton County Water Authority's Shamrock Community Use Building (CUB) is nestled in the woods between Blalock Reservoir and Shamrock Lake. The beautifully-appointed facility features a finished basement and loft area that overlooks the great room, as well as a wrap-around deck with two covered ...


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It's that time of year. The time when hard working tax payers saunter out to their mail boxes, and find a tax bill rebate check waiting for them. If you're lucky, and you happen to find it before your significant other, you can start plotting and planning on sinking the money into your rig. Here is the Top Ten items that made our Tax Refund Wish List:
If you don't already own one, then buy it today. Only a tool goes off road without decent first aid and recovery gear kits.
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Invest in parts that will earn an extra return. Cold Air Intakes and Performance Filters increase horsepower and fuel economy, and put money back where it belongs: in your wallet.
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If you convert item/glyph from the ground right after using compression seal, it also converts compressed item.
Managed to piss off Taurog twice with this.
With using the compression seal and converting stuff from the ground i had no problems.
Do you have moved the seal or the item before using it / before the conversion?
I was just able reproduce the bug. I used compression seal on Burndayraz and then without doing anything else (no inventory manipulation, no exploration, no fighting), walked on top of Lemmisii and converted from ground. Both glyphs gone and both gave CP.
Edit: Drag: Cross setting was on, if that helps
I also encountered this. Something of a bummer. It does seem to be limited to if you convert something without doing anything else of significance. Fwiw, I generally don't use any of the newfangled controls.


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Who Were the Founders?
In 1787, twelve of the thirteen states sent delegates to a "Grand Convention" to discuss the weaknesses of the existing frame of government, the Articles of Confederation. Soon the delegates were framing a brand-new government. These 55 men planned out and wrote the Constitution, the document that governs the United States today. But who where these men who created the framework for our nation? In this lesson, students read biographies of selected attendees of the Constitutional Convention. The students will take turns impersonating the people from their bios and interviewing each other for the job of framing the Constitution. Then they discuss the qualifications and demographics of the men commonly called the founders.
In this lesson, students:
- Read biographies of the founders for key facts
- Analyze data to draw conclusions
- Imagine and defend how they would have chosen representatives for the Constitutional Convention
- Optional: Wig Directions
- Paper bags
- Cotton balls
- Scissors
- Glue
- Biographies of Founders
- Interview Questions
- "Fakebook" template for lesson extension
Download Lesson Materials (PDF)
- Ensure that students understand the purposes of the Constitutional Convention. The Convention was an assembly of leaders from twelve states (Rhode Island refused to send delegates) who gathered in 1787 to revise the national government, which wasn't operating smoothly under the Articles of Confederation. The delegates decided to create a new Constitution, and through much debate and compromise, they created the framework of government we still use today.
- Explain to students that they will pretend to be the founders. They will hold "job interviews" to be hired for the job of writing the Constitution. Half the students will be founders and half will be interviewers, and then they will switch.
- Optional: to get students better into the mindset of the founders, and to give them something to take home, have students make "powdered wigs" which they can wear while being interviewed.
- a. Give each student a copy of the Wig Directions and a paper bag.
b. Arrange students in groups of 4-6. Give each group scissors, glue, and a bag of cotton balls.
c. Walk students through the Wig Directions step by step.
- Divide the class in half. Give half the students the Interview Questions. Tell these students they will each interview one founder as a candidate for the job of framing the Constitution. Remind students that they are looking for education, previous experience, and commitment to the new nation. Tell these students to hold onto their wigs, because they will get a chance to wear them when they switch roles with the other half of the class.
- Give the other half of the class one biography per student. Tell these students they will be playing eighteenth-century gentlemen applying for the job of framing the Constitution. They should wear their wigs!
- Give students a few minutes to review their questions or biographies. Then give the class time to do the activity. Each interviewer should interview one founder.
- Have students switch roles. Now the interviewers have a chance to be founders and wear their wigs. Hand out interview questions and biographies to the appropriate students. Different interviewers and candidates should pair up for this part of the activity.
- Lead a class discussion about the activity. Ask students whom they would hire and why. Ask:
- a. Which founders had previous political experience? What kinds of activities or occupations did they do, and why was that important?
b. Which founders had been part of a militia?
c. Which founders were lawyers, or had a law education? Why might that be important?
- Reveal to students that the men in these biographies were 15 of the 55 founders who attended the Constitutional Convention. Tell students the delegates were not actually interviewed in this way, but were chosen by their states. (Note: for information about the education and political experience of the other founders, please see http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/delegates/experience.html).
- Ask students:
- a. How many of you were men?
b. How many were not enslaved?
c. How many were wealthy?
Lesson Extensions
Have students complete the "Which Founding Father Are You?" quiz on the Constitution Center website, either in class or at home. http://www.constitutioncenter.org/FoundersQuiz/
Have students make "Fakebook" pages for their founders using the provided template.
This lesson was written by Dee Besl, Cincinnati, OH, Sharon Sobierajski, Buffalo, NY, and contributing editor Claire Gould.


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Manaview needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 354 designs submitted by 101 freelance designers.
We just awarded the winner for Nub2Pro website design contest and now we need a logo that will go well with the design!
Above is the awarded design.
Nub2Pro is a new Gaming Website that will cover all the latest Gaming News and provide articles and guides for our visitors.
- I honestly don't know what I want exactly. Nub2Pro doesn't really give me a picture of a physical object in my mind. I just picture a nub, meaning a beginner, and a pro, meaning a professional. But I don't think that will make a good logo :P
- A Lot of other popular gaming websites create a symbol or a object that doesn't really have anything to do with their name and it seems to workout fine. I like http://www.curse.com/ .
- I may use this for banner advertisements. Or watermark it into videos. So it needs to be something good for Branding purposes.
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I've been making some progress.I've packaged the qt5 I've built with phonon as a deb and installed that.qOrbiter runs but I'll have to stub out the AudioVisual Plugin for the moment until I can get it compiled. There have been changes in how plugins do their exporting.-Coley.
Trying to resurrect this - phenigma how far has your builder progressed - or is it like me - been on hiatus?-Coley.
Not sure specifically what you mean by how far my builder has progressed? I had previously built all the packages for raspbian/armhf and they are up at dropbox for use in sources.list. It has been a few months since I've done a rebuild of those packages but they work just fine with a 1004 core. I have been puttering away the whole time.I have a full MD running on 512MB RPi, photo-screensaver and UI1 with USB-UIRT. Full MD with screensaver crashes on 256mb rpi. The only piece of the puzzle that is missing is an omxplayer (a la mplayer_player) to handle media playback on the pi.MD creation is essentially worked out, I have copious notes and have been working on updating scripts for proper MD functionality with as little alterations to current scripts as possible. I have been waiting for 1004 release and lifting of feature freeze so I can request svn access and update everything I have here into svn.Talking with golgo we decided that a UI1 based MD on rpi is the way to go until qorbiter matures more.So... if there is anything that people could/should try to work on it is an omxplayer for pi mds. With that we would have essentially complete MD functionality on the rpi.Jason.
Is there anything outstanding we need to get it integrated so thats pnp?
1. uboot network boot (preferred) - provides complete pnp - no user interaction with sdcard contents - dd card image once - sdcard contents unchanged - move the card to a new PI and a new MD will be created. - initial boot kernels and MD kernels fully managed by core2. standard pi boot (not preferred) - mostly pnp - dd card image - sdcard contents change after initial MD creation - move the card to a new PI, user must alter sdcard or re-dd image - kernels managed entirely on the sd card - initial dd images must be updated as kernels change
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7987&start=50I / we could more than likely implement this method pretty fast if we are willing to give up some features.Mainly it appears-seeking-timecodeOther than that, this would be pretty brain dead simple to implement. Maybe I should be less of a snob about this and accept that we cant have everything we want for v1 of a video player on the pi.
yeah, let's just get it working, first.
Yes, lets! (waiting for freeze lift...)J.
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