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Abstract Nouns in the Romance Languages
Philipp Burdy
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Please check back later for the full article.
Abstract words such as Fr. attention, It. diligenza, Sp. riqueza, Pt. cozedura, Ro. bunătate, belong to the word class nouns. They do not possess materiality and therefore lack sensory perceivability. Within the spectrum of nouns, abstracts are located on the opposite side of appellatives (e.g., Fr. chien, It. albero, Sp. casa); between them, there are collective nouns (e.g., Fr. montagne, It. fogliame, Sp. manada) and mass nouns (e.g., Fr. eau, It. cotone, Sp. leche). Abstract nouns are in part noncount and not able to be pluralized.
In terms of meaning, there is typically a threefold division in groups: (1) action/result nouns (e.g., Fr. lavage, traduction; It. caccia, giuramento; Sp. mordedura, cosecha; Pt. escolha, armação; Ro. arat, stricăciune); (2) status nouns (e.g., Fr. episcopat, It. cuginanza, Sp. almirantazgo, Pt. servidão, Ro. preoţie); and (3) quality nouns (e.g., Fr. dignité, It. cortezza, Sp. modestia, Pt. agrura, Ro. dulceaţă). However, these groups are not clearly delimitable. Action nouns generally tend to become concrete nouns due to metonymic change in meaning. This can be effected through the resultative meaning in fact since the Latin era: calceamentum "making of shoes" is derived from the verb calceare "to make shoes," which then assumed the collective meaning "footwear," which is the "result of the making." Correspondingly, there are numerous examples for collectives and concretes in Romance languages following the morphological pattern of abstracts, for example, Fr. couture "seam," venaison "venison," It. ossatura "bone frame," ornamento "decoration," Sp. pescado "fi," verdura "vegetable," Pt. vestimenta "clothing," moldura "frame," Ro. osăminte "bones," încinsătură "belt."
From a purely morphological standpoint, a classification of abstracts according to derivation basis appears suitable: (1) (primary) denominal abstracts (e.g., Fr. duché, It. linguaggio, Sp. añada, Pt. compadrio, Ro. pitărie); (2) (primary) deadjectival a. (e.g., Fr. folie, It. bellezza, Sp. cortesía, Pt. baixeza, Ro. greutate); and (3) (primary) deverbal a. (e.g., Fr. mouvement, It. uscita, Sp. nacencia, Pt. perdição, Ro. arătură). Beyond that, there are abstracts that are not derived within the Romance languages, for example, Fr. paix, It. gioia, Sp. edad, Pt. morte, Ro. somn (cf. lat. pax, gaudium, aetas, which are derivatives within Latin). Still other abstracts arise from conversion, in which a change in a word class occurs without the addition of affixes: Fr. le loisir, le froid; It. il bene, il bello; Sp. el parecer, lo dulce. Especially converted adjectives are mainly occasional formations that have not been lexicalized. In Romanian, the long form of the infinitive always has the function of a verbal abstract, for example, cântare "singing" vs. a cânta "to sing." Other examples for lexicalized conversions arise by means of ellipsis: lat. hibernum (tempus) → Fr. hiver, It. inverno, Sp. invierno, Pt. inverno, Ro. iarnă. The suffixless postverbal formation is of high significance in Romance languages, such as Fr. regret "regret" (← regretter), It. governo "government" (← governare), Sp. cambio "change" (← cambiar), Pt. perda "loss" (← perder), Ro. plac "pleasure" (← plăcea). Other abstract forming processes such as reduplication (Fr. cache cache "hide-and-seek," It. fuggi fuggi "escape") or conversion of finite verb forms (Fr. doit "amount") may be labeled marginal.
In light of this, the question of how far the formation of abstracts in Romance languages then follows Latin patterns (derivation with suffixes) or whether new processes emerge is of particular interest. In addition, the individual Romance languages display different preferences in choosing abstract forming morphological processes. To begin with, we find a larger number of abstract forming suffixes preserving their function in Romance languages, such as -ia (abundantia, sententia), -ía (astrología), -ura (scriptura), -ĭtia (pigritia), -mentum (ornamentum), -io (oratio). In addition, there is a group of Latin suffixes that have assumed the abstract forming function only in Romance. Among these are, for example, -aticu (Fr. péage, Sp. hallazgo), -aceu (Sp. cuchillazo), -aria (Sp. borrachera, It. vecchiaia), -oriu (Sd. albeskidordzu "daybreak"). Abstract forming suffixes of non-Latin origin are very rare, such as Germanic -eins (Old Fr. guerpine, plevine; Fr. haine). Suffixless processes of abstract formation are coming to full fruition only in Romance: The conversion of participles (Fr. vue, offerte; It. dormita, colorito; Sp. llegada, afeitado; Pt. chamada; sentido; Ro. făcut, mulţumită) is of special importance. The conversion of infinitives to nouns with abstract meaning is least common in Modern French (e.g., plaisir, devoir) and most widely spread in Romanian (iertare, stricare, etc., cf. above). Postverbal formation (Fr. amende, It. carica, Sp. Muestra, etc., cf. above), in contrast, is known to have a broad pan-Romance geographic spread. These innovative processes, too, can be traced back to the late Latin era. One problem lies in assigning grammatical gender in cases of suffixless formations: Nominalized participles and postverbal formations can be masculine or feminine while nominalized infinitives are mostly masculine; in Romanian, however, they are feminine.
Finally, the formation of abstracts as it is used in scientific and technical language follows the Neo-Latin and Greek word formation patterns (Fr. arthrite, tuberculose, athéisme; It. artrite, tubercolosi, ateismo; Sp. artritis, tuberculosis, ateísmo; Pt. artrite, tuberculose, ateísmo; Ro. artrită, tuberculoză, ateism) and therefore often only displays limited variation in the individual languages.
Accent in Japanese Phonology
Haruo Kubozono
The word accent system of Tokyo Japanese might look quite complex with a number of accent patterns and rules. However, recent research has shown that it is not as complex as has been assumed if one incorporates the notion of markedness into the analysis: nouns have only two productive accent patterns, the antepenultimate and the unaccented pattern, and different accent rules can be generalized if one focuses on these two productive accent patterns.
The word accent system raises some new interesting issues. One of them concerns the fact that a majority of nouns are 'unaccented,' that is, they are pronounced with a rather flat pitch pattern, apparently violating the principle of obligatoriness. A careful analysis of noun accentuation reveals that this strange accent pattern occurs in some linguistically predictable structures. In morphologically simplex nouns, it typically tends to emerge in four-mora nouns ending in a sequence of light syllables. In compound nouns, on the other hand, it emerges due to multiple factors, such as compound-final deaccenting morphemes, deaccenting pseudo-morphemes, and some types of prosodic configurations.
Japanese pitch accent exhibits an interesting aspect in its interactions with other phonological and linguistic structures. For example, the accent of compound nouns is closely related with rendaku, or sequential voicing; the choice between the accented and unaccented patterns in certain types of compound nouns correlates with the presence or absence of the sequential voicing. Moreover, whether the compound accent rule applies to a certain compound depends on its internal morphosyntactic configuration as well as its meaning; alternatively, the compound accent rule is blocked in certain types of morphosyntactic and semantic structures.
Finally, careful analysis of word accent sheds new light on the syllable structure of the language, notably on two interrelated questions about diphthong-hood and super-heavy syllables. It provides crucial insight into 'diphthongs,' or the question of which vowel sequence constitutes a diphthong, against a vowel sequence across a syllable boundary. It also presents new evidence against trimoraic syllables in the language.
African Englishes From a Sociolinguistic Perspective
Rajend Mesthrie
Four types of English exist in Africa, identifiable in terms of history, functions, and linguistic characteristics. West African Pidgin English has a history going back to the 15th century, 400 years before formal colonization. Creole varieties of English have a history going back to repatriation of slaves from the Caribbean and the United States in the 19th century. Second language varieties, which are the most widespread on the continent, are prototypically associated with British colonization and its education systems. L1 (First language) English occurred mostly in Southern and East Africa, and is best represented in South Africa. The latter shows significant similarities with the other major Southern Hemisphere varieties of English in Australia and New Zealand. All four subgroups of English are growing in numbers.
Afroasiatic Languages
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Afroasiatic languages are the fourth largest linguistic phylum, spoken by some 350 million people in North, West, Central, and East Africa, in the Middle East, and in scattered communities in Europe, the United States, and the Caucasus. Some Afroasiatic languages, such as Arabic, Hausa, Amharic, Somali, and Oromo, are spoken by millions of people, while others are endangered with extinction. As of the early 21st century, the phylum is composed of six families: Egyptian (extinct), Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic, Berber, and Chadic. There are some typological features shared by all families, particularly in the domain of phonology. Languages are also typologically quite distinct with respect to syntax and functions encoded in the grammatical systems.
Some Afroasiatic languages, such as Egyptian, Akkadian, Phoenician, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ge'ez, have a longtime written tradition, but for many languages no writing system has yet been proposed or adopted. The Old Semitic writing system gave rise to the modern alphabets used in thousands of unrelated contemporary languages. Two Semitic languages, Hebrew (with some Aramaic) and Arabic, were used to write the Old Testament and the Koran, the holy books of Judaism and Islam.
Altaic Languages
George Starostin
"Altaic" is a common term applied by linguists to a number of language families, spread across Central Asia and the Far East and sharing a large, most likely non-coincidental, number of structural and morphemic similarities. At the onset of Altaic studies, these similarities were ascribed to the one-time existence of an ancestral language—"Proto-Altaic," from which all these families are descended; circumstantial evidence and glottochronological calculations tentatively date this language to some time around the 6th–7th millennium
The debate over the nature of the relationship between the various units that constitute "Altaic," sometimes referred to as "the Altaic controversy," has been one of the most hotly debated topics in 20th-century historical linguistics and a major focal point of studies dealing with the prehistory of Central and East Eurasia. Supporters of "Proto-Altaic," commonly known as "(pro-)Altaicists," claim that only divergence from an original common ancestor can account for the observed regular phonetic correspondences and other structural similarities, whereas "anti-Altaicists," without denying the existence of such similarities, insist that they do not belong to the "core" layers of the respective languages and are therefore better explained as results of lexical borrowing and other forms of areal linguistic contact.
As a rule, "pro-Altaicists" claim that "Proto-Altaic" is as reconstructible by means of the classic comparative method as any uncontroversial linguistic family; in support of this view, they have produced several attempts to assemble large bodies of etymological evidence for the hypothesis, backed by systems of regular phonetic correspondences between compared languages. All of these, however, have been heavily criticized by "anti-Altaicists" for lack of methodological rigor, implausibility of proposed phonetic and/or semantic changes, and confusion of recent borrowings with items allegedly inherited from a common ancestor. Despite the validity of many of these objections, it remains unclear whether they are sufficient to completely discredit the hypothesis of a genetic connection between the various branches of "Altaic," which continues to be actively supported by a small, but stable scholarly minority.
Anaphora in Dravidian
K. A. Jayaseelan
The Dravidian languages have a long-distance reflexive anaphor taa
The Dravidian languages also have reciprocal and distributive anaphors. These have bipartite structures. An example of a Malayalam reciprocal anaphor is oral … ma
A noteworthy fact about the pronominal system of Dravidian is that the third person pronouns come in proximal-distal pairs, the proximal pronoun being used to refer to something nearby and the distal pronoun being used elsewhere.
Argument Realization and Case in Japanese
Hideki Kishimoto
Japanese is a language where the grammatical status of arguments and adjuncts is marked exclusively by postnominal case markers, and various argument realization patterns can be assessed by their case marking. Since Japanese is categorized as a language of the nominative-accusative type typologically, the unmarked case-marking frame obtained for transitive predicates of the non-stative (or eventive) type is 'nominative-accusative'. Nevertheless, transitive predicates falling into the stative class often have other case-marking alignments, such as 'nominative-nominative' and 'dative-nominative'. Consequently, Japanese provides much more varying argument realization patterns than those expected from its typological character as a nominative-accusative language.
In point of fact, argument marking can actually be much more elastic and variable, the variations being motivated by several linguistic factors. Arguments often have the option of receiving either syntactic or semantic case, with no difference in the logical or cognitive meaning (as in plural agent and source agent alternations) or depending on the meanings their predicate carry (as in locative alternation). The type of case marking that is not normally available in main clauses can sometimes be obtained in embedded contexts (i.e., in exceptional case marking and small-clause constructions). In complex predicates, including causative and indirect passive predicates, arguments are case-marked differently from their base clauses by virtue of suffixation, and their case patterns follow the mono-clausal case array, despite the fact that they have multi-clausal structures.
Various case marking options are also made available for arguments by grammatical operations. Some processes instantiate a change on the grammatical relations and case marking of arguments with no affixation or embedding. Japanese has the grammatical process of subjectivization, creating extra (non-thematic) major subjects, many of which are identified as instances of 'possessor raising' (or argument ascension). There is another type of grammatical process, which reduces the number of arguments by virtue of incorporating a noun into the predicate, as found in the light verb constructions with suru 'do' and the complex adjective constructions formed on the negative adjective nai 'non-existent.'
Artificial Languages
Alan Reed Libert
Artificial languages—languages which have been consciously designed—have been created for more than 900 years, although the number of them has increased considerably in recent decades, and by the early 21st century the total figure probably was in the thousands. There have been several goals behind their creation; the traditional one (which applies to some of the best-known artificial languages, including Esperanto) is to make international communication easier. Some other well-known artificial languages, such as Klingon, have been designed in connection with works of fiction. Still others are simply personal projects.
A traditional way of classifying artificial languages involves the extent to which they make use of material from natural languages. Those artificial languages which are created mainly by taking material from one or more natural languages are called a posteriori languages (which again include well-known languages such as Esperanto), while those which do not use natural languages as sources are a priori languages (although many a posteriori languages have a limited amount of a priori material, and some a priori languages have a small number of a posteriori components). Between these two extremes are the mixed languages, which have large amounts of both a priori and a posteriori material. Artificial languages can also be classified typologically (as natural languages are) and by how and how much they have been used.
Many linguists seem to be biased against research on artificial languages, although some major linguists of the past have been interested in them.
Bare Nominals
Bert Le Bruyn, Henriëtte de Swart, and Joost Zwarts
Bare nominals (also called "bare nouns") are nominal structures without an overt article or other determiner. The distinction between a bare noun and a noun that is part of a larger nominal structure must be made in context: Milk is a bare nominal in I bought milk, but not in I bought the milk. Bare nouns have a limited distribution: In subject or object position, English allows bare mass nouns and bare plurals, but not bare singular count nouns (*I bought table). Bare singular count nouns only appear in special configurations, such as coordination (I bought table and chairs for £182).
From a semantic perspective, it is noteworthy that bare nouns achieve reference without the support of a determiner. A full noun phrase like the cookies refers to the maximal sum of cookies in the context, because of the definite article the. English bare plurals have two main interpretations: In generic sentences they refer to the kind (Cookies are sweet), in episodic sentences they refer to some exemplars of the kind (Cookies are in the cabinet). Bare nouns typically take narrow scope with respect to other scope-bearing operators like negation.
The typology of bare nouns reveals substantial variation, and bare nouns in languages other than English may have different distributions and meanings. But genericity and narrow scope are recurring features in the cross-linguistic study of bare nominals.
Berber-Arabic Language Contact
Maarten Kossmann
Since the start of the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb in the 7th century
Linguistic influence is found on all levels: phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. In those cases where only innovative patterns are shared between the two language groups, it is often difficult to make out where the innovation started; thus the great similarities in syllable structure between Maghrebian Arabic and northern Berber are the result of innovations within both language families, and it is difficult to tell where it started. Morphological influence seems to be mediated exclusively by lexical borrowing. Especially in Berber, this has led to parallel systems in the morphology, where native words always have native morphology, while loans either have nativized morphology or retain Arabic-like patterns. In the lexicon, it is especially Berber that takes over scores of loanwords from Arabic, amounting in one case to over one-third of the basic lexicon as defined by 100-word lists.


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I can't remember any time I was more shocked and awed by a movie trailer than I was for Iron Sky's. Many of you may have seen it during the Super Bowl or later online and like me many of you probably thought it was some sort of joke. A joke it wasn't however, and this 7.5 million dollar creation of Finnish, German and Australian studios has recently been released across Europe in all of it's ridiculous glory. While it's American release date has not been set, look for it to come our way within the next several months or so.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Kobe Bryant is driving Jerry Buss to drink...and drive
By Basketbawful at 8:19 AM
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The latest installment of
is embarrassing for pretty much everybody in Lakerland, but especially for the team's septuagenarian* owner, Jerry Buss. Kobe hates Mitch Kupchak, Kobe wants Jerry West back, Kobe wants to be traded, Kobe
want to be traded, Kobe feels betrayed by the organization, Kobe deserves better, Kobe needs to shut up...
Kobe, Kobe, Kobe!!
*Latin for "wrinkly old dude."
Buss apparently was so sick and tired of the whole situation that he got liquored up and then went for a drive through streets of Carlsbad. Going the wrong way. Cops finally pulled him over -- Buss didn't immediately respond -- and he (surprise!!) failed a sobriety test.
Jeannana M. Flores, a 23-year-old
woman from New York City, was also in the car with Buss. I'm sure she's just a dear family friend and
some skanky chick Buss was going to
nail in the back seat
have intimate relations with. No, seriously.
In case you're worried about Jerry's mental state and the effect it'll have on his future driving safety, don't. "Although I was driving only a short distance, it was a bad decision and I was wrong to do it," Buss said in a
totally made-up statement
issued by the Lakers. "It was a mistake I will not make again."
just friends
, you perv.
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Evil Ted
Dear Basketbawful, I am totally in your corner on most issues, but if that's judgement of Buss's dating life I hear, me thinks thou hast gone too far. I, for one, only hope that I possess enough money and power to lure and/or pay for a hard body chiquita when I am a wrinkly old dude.
Hell, the only thing that old people can cling to nowadays is the hope that they will have accumulated enough status and greenbacks over their lifetime to afford the oral services of the young.
When I look at that photo, I don't think "Jerry Buss is a perv." I think "The children are our future, in various different and wonderful ways."
And for those of you "ready-to-be-offended-at-the-drop-of-a-hat" people, I only mean "children" of legal age...You're not gonna catch me that way; I've seen To Catch a Predator. DAMN YOU, CHRIS HANSEN!
His Impact on the team has been evident since Mr Buss 'retired' to fight for his health.
Thank you, Dr Buss, your 'jersey' needs to hang with the rest of the Great Lakers.
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Hi. I have a notebook interface and one tab contains an html page. There is a strange glitch on startup. It's related to the OpenURI function. Basically, what I do is load up my program. Then, click out of it (to change focus to the background or another program). Then, when I click back into it, it magically switches to the chat tab. Check out this video to illustrate:
Is there any way to stop this from happening? Another thing I noticed was that if you add the tab with the web page to the wxAuiNotebook, it switches to that tab even if you tell it to not switch to it.
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One way I can stop this is to click on something before clicking out of the application and clicking back in. Then, it appears to work ok.
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Can you put a breakpoint in the tab control's activate method to determine who is calling the activate function? That would really shed some light on why the tab is changing unexpectedly.
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Electronics do not work well (or for long) with Heavy Duty batteries.tattoogoddess wrote:... I have not dealed with LED's much so I don't know how fast they suck power out of batteries...
LEDs are electronic devices. Their wiring and/or the circuits driving them will be assuming you're using Alkaline. Hence the need for Alkaline or better. More expensive is Lithium or NiMH.
I've had several cameras, and when I was a pro I always got the extra battery holder that allowed me to use Alkalines, always loaded & available on a shoot in case the NiMH packs depleted, even with the F5. Of the many cameras I've had, only one old P&S camera had decreased life when using Alkalines. Others are fine. Whatever my current carry-around P&S favorite is, if it won't run on AAs I always have a P&S backup that runs on AAs, as I can get a spare set at any corner store.
My Sony P&S that only takes their NiMH pack was a pain trying to keep two packs charged on-playa. No one with solar or generator nearby; had to run the generator, which was a real waste as the chargers are consumer grade, not faster charging. I had two packs, now I got two more and a friend lends me his two - still a pain. Having sufficient AAs for an AA compatible camera makes you independent of needing to find a charge.
Some batteries may have, or appear to have, reduced usage life on-playa.
- Warning - Technical Stuff: Electronic devices will stop working once the voltage they get from their batteries drops below what the device needs to function (why electronic devices need Alkaline or better, not Heavy Duty which has a different voltage vs. capacity slope). Heat raises a battery's internal resistance when under load. In playa heat, this can happen sooner than usual, so the voltage the batteries present to the device under load is lower sooner, and the device stops working, even though the batteries still have usable capacity left. This is why if you pull the batteries and put a meter on them (a high resistance load), they show good voltage, yet won't drive the device. Some devices need more voltage than others or draw more current than others, so will be more sensitive to this.
So do bring extra batteries. Recommend carrying two spare sets for the camera on you when you're out and about so you don't miss anything.
Check under your camera's menu. It may have a power conservation setting(s), like turning off the display sooner, sounds effects off, etc.. There's usually a way to dim the display, but that can make it very difficult to see under the playa sun.
Don't leave batteries, or cameras, in the sun.
Batteries (and film, in the old days) stay cooler in a mylar foil wrapped camera bag (mine stayed cool enough all day in the desert, with temps ranging down to 2C at night up to 45C in the shade mid-afternoon).
A dollar-store micro-fibre cloth is a good thing to keep your camera wrapped in (scratches, dust). Some keep that or at least the camera, in a zip-lock bag or the fancy version from camera or outdoor stores.
P.S. as others have said, it's a participation event, not a photo op - although you'll grab snap shots of favorites, don't fall into photographing it instead of participating.
I left the DSLRs at home for that very reason, although it almost left me feeling naked.
P.S.S. points
- as others said, you're not alone (in the middle of a desert with no stars) - search eplaya to find out what works for reflectors on tents & guylines - no point cursing the neighbours because you can't sleep due to the lights, only to find out its your lights (that you bought, carried to playa, installed, maintained, and get to carry home)
- that said, a single solar-powered lawn light left to charge in the sun, placed in your tent before you go out at night ensures you're not returning to enter a dark tent with a surprise - before you enter, if it's not on, wonder why... the playa's a friendly place, but usual rules apply
- and search for tent pegs/stakes advice
- despite being a gear freak (I have a collection of flashlights, knives, compasses, fire-starters, fire-starting-compass-with-a-knife-and-LED, ...), I like the pair of $2 LED flashlights I got at HD


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Digital Resources: The Bracero History Archive
Sharon Leon
Between 1942 and 1964 millions of Mexicans came to the United States as guest workers, authorized by a set of bilateral agreements. Beginning in late 2005, a coalition of academic scholars and public historians from Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History (NMAH), and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University came together to launch an effort to gather the stories of those workers. This unprecedented project resulted in the collection of oral histories, documents, and images over the course of five years. It involved not only scholars but also a host of local community groups that enabled the partners to surface previously hidden materials that were unlikely to make it into traditional archival collections. The collection and dissemination process was facilitated by the creation of the , an open-access website that allowed the project partners to simultaneously build the collections from widely dispersed locations as they worked to document the lives and experiences of those workers.
The Bracero History Archive serves as the primary repository for the stories, documents, and artifacts associated with the migrant laborers from Mexico who came to the United States under the auspices of the more than 4.6 million contracts issued during the years of the Mexican Farm Labor Program. As such, it is an important complement to the established scholarship on the program. At the same time, the site serves as a model of how to undertake and complete a distributed collecting project that builds upon important community relationships. This combination of scholarly value and methodological innovation was essential to ensuring the funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access that made the project possible. In recent years, the project has proven important for contemporary work on the Mexican Farm Labor Program, and it has contributed to enhancing our understanding of migration, citizenship, nationalism, agriculture, labor practices, race relations, gender, sexuality, the family, visual culture, and the Cold War era.


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Yesterday we posted David Gelernter's response to Atlantic staff writer Conor Friedersdorf's critique of "Why is this failed president above water?" Friedersorf's critique of Professor Gelernter's Power Line post is based on Obama quotes supposedly showing biblical echoes in Obama's speeches and writings, contrary to a point Professor Gelernter makes in his post.
Friedersdorf sent us a link to his critique and suggested that a correction was in order. Before receiving Professor Gelernter's response to Friedersdorf's critique, I sent Friedersdorf this message, which I thought might be of interest to readers:
I don't find your Obama quotes meaningful or persuasive. Your piece seems to me like nitpicking. I don't think a correction is warranted. I think the question remains in the zone of opinion. Moreover, given the highly public nature of the Obama speeches you cite, I don't think that our readers would be led astray by Professor Gelernter into believing that Obama never cites "God" in his speeches or has failed to discover the political uses of Christianity. I may be wrong, but that's my take.
I'm curious though. I understand that you used to work for Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic. Sullivan's Atlantic site was a torrent of misinformation. Back in 2009, Sullivan posted an item about how Churchill fastidiously opposed the use of torture against captured German spies during World War II and called for the prosecution of Dick Cheney. At his 100-days press conference Obama relied on Sullivan's post for his understanding of the relevant history. Yet Sullivan's post was, as you would put it, demonstrably false.
I may have missed it, but I don't recall that the Atlantic ever corrected that post. Have you ever taken a look at whether the Atlantic should append a correction to it? It seems to me a rather more consequential and revealing error than the one you assert Gelernter has fallen prey to. Looking into it might even deepen your understanding of the effects of partisanship on the brain. I'd be interested in your thoughts.
Best regards,
Scott Johnson
My long commentary on Sullivan's 2009 "Churchill vs. Cheney" post (the Sullivan post to which I am referring in the message to Friedersdorf) is set forth in "Barack Obama veers into the Daily Ditch."


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CAREER: Became a member of the Major League staff in 1999...was appointed a crew chief for the 2013 season...has worked the Division Series (2002, 04, 07-08, 12, 14, 17), League Championship Series (2000, 03, 06, 09-11), the 2008 and 2012 World Series and the 2006 All-Star Game in Pittsburgh...was assigned to the 2008 National League Division Series between the Brewers and Phillies...was on the crew that officiated the 2006 N.L. Championship Series...worked the game when Cal Ripken Jr. recorded his 3,000th hit...previously umpired in the Gulf Coast League, South Atlantic League, Southern League, Pacific Coast League and International League.
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Advice: My daughter wants cash, not wedding gifts
Dearest Carolyn:
My daughter would like to request cash versus the usual wedding gifts.
How would you go about wording this request? We are trying not to sound too harsh. I thought I read about this idea in one of your previous columns.
Trying to soften me up?
Dearest T. The phrasing you seek is as follows: "The bride and groom don't want your stuff, they just want your money."
"Too harsh," right? That's the point: There's no polite way to bill guests for liking you, pat their pockets for loose change, or coerce them into paying your bills. So, please don't try. Thank you.
If you read about this in my column, then you read some version of this. My answer hasn't changed; I just repeat it occasionally since the question won't die.
When couples have a good reason not to want vases and candlesticks, then their proxies can say so when asked for registry info: "Heckle and Jeckle are combining two households/downsizing/relocating overseas, so your presence is present enough." Because it is, right?
Or, to your friends, good ones, when they ask: "Cash always fits."
Dear Carolyn:
Two cousins are engaged. One cousin has been planning a lavish wedding for over a year, and sent out "save the date" cards nine months in advance. Cousin 2 became engaged days ago. The grapevine buzz is that Cousin 2 plans to marry in haste (no, she's not pregnant), squeezing her affair in before Cousin 1's wedding. I'm offended; Cousin 2 will "steal the thunder" from Cousin 1.
Am I "acting old" by being offended? I'm stressing over what should be joyous family celebrations.
-- Acting Old?
You are acting old, but only by inserting the "no, she's not pregnant" parenthetical (and by putting two spaces after the periods in your letter, but I fixed that).
The rest is just fretting where there needn't be any, and that's ageless.
I suppose there's the slightest of slim chances Cousin 2 is actually trying to get under Cousin 1's skin. If she is, then, well, imagine what her marriage will be like; it will punish her for her childishness so effectively that any family censure will just be piling on.
But if Cousin 2 is not otherwise an attention-grabbing twit, then please assume Cousin 2 merely wants to get started on married life without delaying it for a wall calendar's worth of event-planning. As long as she's not forcing guests to choose one wedding over the other, call this a tale of two styles and raise an untroubled glass to them both.
Dear Carolyn:
My fiance and I are currently in the final stages of planning our dream wedding, which we have saved and paid for ourselves.
It just came to my attention that my mother has told my older sister and her children they will be in the wedding. My fiance and I prefer a small wedding party with no children.
I have already asked my younger sister to be my maid of honor, as we are close. My older sister and I barely speak, and when we do it's always my reaching out to her.
For the past week, my mother has been pressuring me to reach out to my older sister, who is feeling left out of the festivities. I have tried calling her on several occasions only to be hung up on. I've left messages without a response.
At what point do I tell my mom enough is enough, and she needs to clean up the mess she created by telling my sister and her family they all had a part in my wedding?
-- Over the Drama
That point came the moment you learned of your mother's meddling. Wow.
Fortunately, the moment hasn't passed. You still can, and must, say to your mother: "You have seriously overstepped, and put me in a terrible position. We are proceeding with our wedding as planned. I will not be blackmailed.
"Meanwhile, I've tried to reach out to Sister 1, and she hangs up on me. I will keep trying to repair our relationship -- but because I want to, not because you're pressuring me to, and not with my wedding as a bargaining chip."
About that wedding. I realize having Sister 2 at your side is the way these milestone events are "supposed" to go. However, you have a fractured family, which means a public kumbaya statement to one sib is a full-face slap to the other.
I'm not suggesting you blow up your plans. I merely advise that you recognize the power of your favor and grant it with a more careful eye to family-wide cause and effect. If nothing else, there are children here who wound up on the wrong side of this mess. Take care not to let your frustration with Sister 1 and your mom seep into your tone with the kids.


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After I read the first part, I was going to reply that you should punch him in the face, but looks like you're already planning to. And you should. If you get in trouble, just tell the authorities what he said.Another one that I can't believe I haven't included yet: Gamer.
Another one that I can't believe I haven't included yet: Gamer.
Shit, when I saw that gamer was a link I just knew it was that video. I don't hate most people that use the word gamer, because it's so common now, but people like him and the way marketers use it is fucking terrible. That guy's video is like some copy of Extra Credits while trying to sound like Randall from Clerks.
I don't hate most people that use the word gamer, because it's so common now,
The biggest problem I have with the word is the way it's used, as if it's some kind of unique lifestyle. It's simply a medium. I've played games for nearly my whole life as well, but I certainly don't identify myself as someone who plays games, anymore than I would someone who reads books or watches movies. I'm not a booker, or a movier.
Definitly swag....
Gamer is not suposed to be a merit badge but when someone says "i'm a gamer" usually it tells me that that person takes games seriously,
Gamer is not suposed to be a merit badge but when someone says "i'm a gamer" usually it tells me that that person takes games seriously
I'd just think they're a fucking loser.
Even if gaming is a passion of theirs like after work hours or whatever? Sort of like surfing or skiing or climbing, etc.? Or it's the way they project themselves that's loser~ish?
But that doesn't mean you have to buy into them, much less endorse them.
Well, I'm not a "fucking loser" and I'm not in either of the groups you mention.
that person takes games seriously, appreciate the craftsmanship, regularly invests time reading about games, game design, publishers and developers and is usually involved in betas. It's the person who will think that a LAN party is a great way to spend your saturday night.
Very annoying to hear my colleagues (3 sisters) say 'conversate' or 'this hurted' a lot.
I thought it was a Brooklyn thing but I see it being used on some reality TV shows too! Bad English, totally.
I don't think there's anything inherently special about someone who plays games--certainly not enough to give them a separate moniker. Like I said before, it's not different from someone who enjoys movies or books. It's another medium, regardless of how into it you are.
you're a pretty good example of someone with an obviously well-informed and highly evolved passion for the medium, and don't want the stink of that other stuff all over you.
Yet I don't need a word to define who I am because of my interests.
Anyway, on the main topic, the word "supposably" when someone really means supposedly bugs me. I wouldn't say I hate it, but I notice.
shift away from some sort of misguided sense of idenity or subculture and more toward a purely clinical usage, which is largely how I've always seen the word ("one who plays games").


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Alumni Panel Discusses Religion's Role in Governmentby Jeremy Sexton '07 • February 17, 2006 Share:
With religion, government, and politics mixing more frequently in contemporary society, what is the proper role of religion in public life?
The Wabash Commentary sponsored a panel that discussed the proper role of and the relationship between religion and government Thursday February 16, 2006.
The panel featured Tom Fisher '91, Solicitor General of Indiana, Mark Rutherford '82, Chairman of the Indiana State Libertarian Party, and Dr. Stephen Webb, professor of Religion and Philosophy at Wabash College.
"Government and religion do not mix well," Rutherford said. "And because of this it creates gray areas. As libertarians, we feel that when the government becomes too involved they end up sticking their nose in places where it does not belong, such as religion."
Fisher alluded to previous court cases such as prayer in public schools and the Ten Commandments in front of governmental buildings to argue his point of the government's role in religious establishment.
"The majority of our country's religious freedoms depends upon the role of federalism and the limits of what Congress can and cannot do," Fisher said.
The government cannot discriminate against specific religions. However it is not required to accommodate although it is within its power. For example, moment(s) of silence can be held in public schools, but they cannot insinuate that they are specifically for prayer. No prayer may be offered at public high school graduations, but they can be at public university graduations. That is because college students are less impressionable than high school students.
"Whatever the government's decision is regarding religion is it establishing religion," Fisher asked. "The role of the courts is to resolve disputes."
Rutherford went on to offer more comment on the libertarian standpoint of government involvement concerning religion.
"The less the government gets involved, the fewer problems we are going to face regarding religion."
"I learned to think outside of the box here at Wabash," Rutherford said about his Wabash experience. "I had the freedom to think and engage, the right to be wrong or right. That's the kind of environment we as libertarians want to create."
Religion and Philosophy Professor Bill Placher was among those attending and thought the forum served an education purpose. "This is a good method to get the issues out in an interesting way," he said.
Sexton is a Wabash College junior and English major.
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Ocean County Teen's Zombie Video Goes Viral [AUDIO]
Say you're out holiday shopping when a zombie with no legs and one arm tries to get you. That's exactly what happened in Vine Video pranks from Bayville resident, 17-year-old Nick Santonastasso.
The high schooler was born with a genetic disorder that left him with disabilities but there is nothing he can't do.
We first had the pleasure of meeting Nick when he was 12 years old. He had won a statewide art contest that brought him to former Governor Jon Corzine's attention.
Ever since then, a lot has happened as he's been growing up. He's also become an internet celebrity of sorts helping others in need through discussion, videos and had a growing online fan base. In addition to being an artist, he's also a wrestler and can now add zombie to his resume.
In the two videos, Nick donned zombie makeup and chased after unsuspecting shoppers. The attention has led to a petition from fans trying to get him a bit part on AMC's 'The Walking Dead.'
"I wasn't expecting such a huge response, but I'm enjoying the results," Nick said. "A fan in South Carolina started the petition and now through Twitter and Vine, I'm trying to get it to the producers of the show."
So far, the petition has thousands of signatures and has led to big league interviews for Nick with national media outlets including the TV show TMZ. With all of that PR, there's a good chance the makers of the hit cable series will take notice.
"You never know and we won't stop trying. It is something that means a lot to me. Making these videos made people laugh and provided entertainment for people - even giving one person a smile is enough for me."
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Exploratory peace talks were scheduled to begin on Oct. 5 in Oslo, Norway, between the Colombian government and members of the F.A.R.C. guerrillas, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The rebel group has been fighting the Colombian government since 1964. Gerardina Cardozo is the program coordinator of the Vicariate Foundation for Social Ministry, a partner of the United Kingdom's Catholic Agency for Overseas Development in San Vicente del Caguán. She cautioned against being overly optimistic about the negotiations. "It's a beginning and not much more," she said. "It's not a ceasefire. There have been no concessions from one side to another. And the big issue is that these talks are not taking place at home. We don't even know the agenda or the methodology. As civil society, how are we going to participate?"
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steveparks brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 45 Designs von 22 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I write books for entrepreneurs, and run a website to support my readers at http://www.flyingstartups.com. I'm about to revamp the site, and would like to start with the logo to inspire the rest of the design.
I write books for entrepreneurs, and I run a website to support my readers at http://www.flyingstartups.com. I'm about to revamp the site, and would like to start with the logo to inspire the rest of the design.
I will also use the logo in new editions of my books, on my business cards, and on leaflets too.
The community is used mainly by startup entrepreneurs in the UK, but does have international users too. The site has a very large proportion of female users.
A key theme of the book designs is the blue skies, and of course thingsflying (kites, paper planes, etc) and I'd like the logo to eitherreflect that or be able to be placed on a blue sky background. The best selling book ( that most people coming to the site will know ) has a yellow band across it (you can see the book covers on amazon at the link below)
Further info:
View details of the books on Amazon
View the website
Don't feel constrained by the current site design, I would like to give the site a more modern, web 2.0 community feel, and make it a bit less amateur! It will be redesigned around the logo.
- A vector file format with versions on a white background as well as whichever colour background you opt for - plus a black and white version for use in the books.
- Details of colours used so i can also use these colours elsewhere on the site.
- A modern font (with details of what the font is please so I can use it elsewhere on the site)
- A light, airy, positive feel.
- traditional business imagery such as briefcases etc - this site is about entrepreneurship as a lifetsyle choice - so think of reaching for the sky, ambition, freedom etc rather than red tape.
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Hollie Jean (Fontaine) Coauette, 29, of Crookston, MN, died at her home Sunday, August 5, 2012. Hollie was born in Crookston on April 19, 1983, the daughter of James and Lori (Delude) Fontaine. She was raised in Crookston's Woods Addition, which automatically qualified her as one of the "Hoods in the Woods." Hollie was baptized and confirmed at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and attended Cathedral Elementary School. As a young girl she babysat for many neighborhood families and friends, and at the age of eleven got her first braces on her teeth. They came off in 1997, and what a very happy, very proud young lady she was. The first stop on the way home from the orthodontist's office was to show her grandma Betty, who was quite ill at the time. It cheered them both up!
Hollie graduated from Crookston Central High School in 2001. While in high school, she was employed part-time at the Villa St. Vincent. In June of 2003 Hollie and her fiance', Andrew Coauette, moved to Moorhead, where she worked providing care to the developmentally disabled. Later, she and a friend, Lona, decided to become hairstylists, and enrolled at the Academy of Hair Design in Moorhead. On March 3, 2004, Hollie and Andy were blessed by the arrival of their first child, a daughter, Jenna Jean. In May of 2004, Hollie, Andy, and Jenna moved back to their hometown of Crookston, making their first home on Sampson Street. Andy farmed with his family and Hollie returned to the Villa to work as a part-time Nursing Assistant. Hollie and Andy were united in marriage on July 16, 2005 in a ceremony at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Crookston officiated by The Rev. Bill Reck. Their family soon grew to include a son, Carter Anthony, who was born on March 15, 2006. While balancing her life as a busy wife and mom, Hollie continued her employment with the Villa. In 2008 she began working at Opticare in Crookston as an optometric technician. After enrolling in the LPN program at the Northland Community Colleges in Thief River Falls and East Grand Forks, Hollie returned to part-time employment at the Villa. She received her diploma as an LPN in June 2011, which meant taking on new responsibilities as a full-time employee at the nursing home. Hollie was adored by the Villa residents, many for whom she provided very compassionate end of life care.
"Everybody who knew Hollie loved her!" was a quote most often heard from her family and friends, and co-workers who shared in her professional life. Hollie's mission was to help those in need, and she always worried more about others than she did herself. She was presently on course to receive her degree as an RN next spring. She enjoyed playing in the adult women's volleyball league, and spending time at the lake. Hollie was dedicated to her children, Jenna and Carter. They were the passion in her life and her reason for wanting to excel. She will be missed beyond measure. May God bless the memory of Hollie Jean Coauette.
Left to mourn her passing are Hollie's children, Jenna Jean (8) and Carter Anthony (6), and their father, Andrew Coauette of Crookston, MN; her parents, James and Lori Fontaine of Crookston; two brothers, Cha Michael Delude of Crookston and his sons, Cole Michael and Dalton Michael, and Joshua James "Bones" Fontaine of Crookston and his children, Elizabeth Jean and Dylan Dean, and special friend, Angela Stroot. Hollie is also survived by many special aunts, uncles, cousins, other relatives, and friends. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Donald and Betty Fontaine, and Clarence and Audrey Delude; an aunt, Sherry King; and a cousin, Jeffrey Burke.
A Memorial Mass for Hollie Jean Fontaine Coauette will be held at 11:00 am, Saturday, August 11, 2012, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Crookston with Msgr. David Baumgartner, presiding. A remembrance of Hollie will be shared by The Rev. Bill Reck of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Visitation with the family will be at the Cathedral on Friday from 5-7:00 pm, with a 7:00 pm prayer service, and also at the church for one hour prior to the funeral. Memorials may be designated to Hollie's family. The Stenshoel-Houske Funeral Home is assisting with arrangements. Online registry at www.stenshoelhouske.com


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USS Sarda (SS488)
Source: USS Sarda entering Havana, Cuba Call Number: 818.os1.1
Staff Person: Ken Harbit
USS Sarda (SS-488), was a Tench-class submarine. Financed by bonds purchased by the residents of Lynn, Massachusetts, her keel was laid down on 12 April 1945 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched on 24 August 1945 sponsored by Mrs. Heffernan, the wife of James J. Heffernan, Congressman from New York.
Because World War II had ended a few weeks before the submarine's launch, a new decision whether to commission or scrap her had to be made. Sarda's prospective commanding officer grew frustrated with the debate over the fate of his boat. During the months of waiting, he received a small plaque from his father inscribed Illegitimi non Carborundum — "Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Up." After a a hard won fight by her prospective commanding officer, Sarda was commissioned on 19 April 1946 with Commander Chester W. Nimitz, Jr., son of the famous Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in command.
During the period between launching and commissioning, Sarda, was no longer needed for wartime service. Because of this, her conning tower was made bigger to permit installation of experimental equipment. After commissioning, she conducted her shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea, then returned north to commence experimental work out of New London, Connecticut. There, she joined Submarine Division (SubDiv) 22 of Submarine Squadron 2; and, for the next four years, she tested new equipment for the Underwater Sound Laboratory, Fort Trumbull, and evaluated new ship control procedures. In the fall of 1949, she was transferred to SubDiv 21, and her primary mission was shifted from test and evaluation work to training ship duties. She continued that work through the 1950s, interrupting it only for type training; mine planting exercises; ASW exercises; fleet exercises; occasional participation in NATO or joint United States-Canadian exercises off the coasts of the Atlantic Provinces and northern New England; and, from January to June 1957, operations in the Caribbean Sea and the Guiana and Brazilian basins for the Hydrographic Office. On her return, she resumed her primary function, training submarine school students.
In the early 1960s, she continued her training mission, but devoted more time to providing services to ASW units conducting exercises. During the winter of 1960, she provided services to 92 surface ships and 14 air squadrons participating in annual training exercises in the Caribbean. During the winter of 1962, she again returned to the Caribbean for an extended stay and, when not employed in servicing Atlantic Fleet air and surface ASW units, she tested and evaluated acoustical torpedoes. The following winter, 1963, she deployed to the Mediterranean Sea where she operated with the Sixth Fleet; and, on her return to New London in late May, she resumed school ship duties.
Eleven months later, Sarda was declared to be surplus to Navy needs. May 1964 was spent in port at New London preparing for inactivation; and, on 1 June, Sarda was decommissioned. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on the same day, and her hulk was sold for scrapping in March 1965.
Though she never saw combat action she is just as much an asset to the Navy and America as any combat unit. She tested new equipment, brought about new and better combat techniques, new ways of fleet-wide communication and collaboration, and most importantly of all, she trained those who did go into harms way.


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Western Connecticut State University is a public university authorized under State of Connecticut statutes. In accordance with current statutes applicable to buildings owned and/or operated by the State of Connecticut and residence halls in public institutions of higher education, smoking is prohibited inside all buildings. In addition, the University has established the policy that smoking is prohibited within a fifteen (15) foot distance of all building entrances, exists and open windows in order to reduce the infiltration of second-hand smoke into occupied space.
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Two more lighthouses will be opened to tourists later this year, the Maritime and Port Bureau said yesterday.
The bureau, an agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, took over responsibility for the nation's lighthouses and navigation aids last month from the Customs Administration, which had been building and managing lighthouses since 1863, first in China and then in Taiwan.
Michael Liang (梁瑞聰), a division director at the bureau, said there are a total of 34 lighthouses, 44 light posts and 14 radar beacons nationwide, including those on Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu.
Only six are open to the public — the ones in Yuwongdao (漁翁島) in Penghu County, Dongjudao (東莒島) and Dongyin Island in Lienchiang County (Matsu), Greater Kaohsiung, Cape San Diego (三貂角) and Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻).
The bureau is planning to open the Baishachia (白沙岬) Lighthouse in Taoyuan County and Green Island (綠島) Lighthouse to visitors in September, Liang said.
The Baishachia Lighthouse, which has been in operation since 1898, has been designated a historic monument by the Taoyuan County Government, the bureau said, while the Green Island Lighthouse, which went into service in 1939, has been designated a historic building in Taitung County.
Although the functions of a lighthouse have largely been replaced by global positioning systems (GPS), the structures are part of the nation's cultural heritage and have long histories,such as the one in Yuwongdao (漁翁島), which has been in use since 1778, Liang said. Aside from seeing the old-fashioned lighthouse equipment, visitors to the Yuwongdao site would be able to visit an old graveyard for foreigners nearby, he said.
Nine of the 34 lighthouses have been designated historic buildings or monuments, either by the central government or a city or county government, and five of the nine are open to visitors.
The Wuciou (烏坵) Lighthouse in Kinmen County and Mudouyu (目斗嶼) Lighthouse in Penghu County, both listed historic buildings, are unlikely to be opened for tourists, he said.
"There is no regular boat service to Mudouyu and the Wuciou site is still guarded by the military," he said.
Earlier this week, Minister of Transportation and Communications Mao Chi-kuo (毛治國) said now that the ministry is responsible for the lighthouses, it would emphasize their tourism value.
The Tourism Bureau said that it would work with the Maritime and Port Bureau to boost the tourism potential of the lighthouses by making lighthouse tours a selling point at festivals and other events organized by its national scenic administrations and other government or non-government organizations.
Tourism Bureau officials cited a travel plan proposed by a participant in last year's Taiwan Cycling Festival, who visited the northernmost, southernmost, easternmost and westernmost lighthouses in Taiwan proper in just two days by using the railways, the MRT and bicycles.
According to Green Island Township Office, the lighthouse on the island was built after the USS President Hoover ran aground on a reef off the island's coast on Dec. 11, 1937, while sailing from Japan to the Philippines.
The American Red Cross funded the lighthouse as a thank-you to the islanders who had rescued the passengers and crew of the Hoover.
The lighthouse was destroyed during a World War II air strike and rebuilt by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government in 1948.


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The public meeting will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the McMillin Companies Event Center at Liberty Station, located at 2875 Dewey Road.
The proposed projects involved in the north-side redevelopment include:
• A rental-car center housing a number of rental-car companies in a single building, including national brands, as well as local, independent and small-business rental-car companies. The new center is expected to dramatically reduce the number of shuttle buses circulating around the airport.
• A new fixed-base operator complex to create a larger, more environmentally friendly facility to provide hangars, fueling and other services for general-aviation aircraft.
• Roadway improvements involving several projects that will improve traffic and access to the north side of the airport.
A receiving and distribution center, which is a 21,000-square-foot central delivery location for food, beverage, retail and other goods, was completed in November 2012. The center helps reduce traffic on surrounding roadways by centralizing all truck deliveries, reducing truck trips on Harbor Drive by 50 to 75 per day.
The SDCRAA was created in 2003 as an independent agency to manage the day-to-day operations of San Diego International Airport, as well as to plan for the future air transportation needs of the region.
The Airport Authority is governed by a nine-member appointed board representing all areas of San Diego County, including three ex-officio members. Three members serve as an Executive Committee.
The Airport Authority Board hosts public meetings the first Thursday of every month at 9 a.m. on the third floor of the Commuter Terminal of Lindbergh Field.
For more airport information, visit www.san.org. For more information on the proposed north-side redevelopment projects or to sign up to receive construction alerts, visit www.san.org/sdcraa/air-port_initiatives/north_side.
Additional Town Hall meetings are planned for nearby communities impacted by Lindbergh Field projects.
Other forums will take place involving Uptown planners on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the Joyce Beers Community Center and with the Mission Hills Business Improvement District on Thursday, Feb. 6 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Cinema Under the Stars.


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Cutting-edge trendspotter The New York Times today tackled the phenomenon of MMO-facilitated romance, noting that the subscriber base for World of Warcraft is six times that of Match.com.
To explain the phenomenon, the Times turned to Ramona Pringle, who studied MMO romance as a producer for the PBS news magazine Frontline. Pringle enlisted the animation director from James Cameron's Avatar to be her World of Warcraft guide and, remarkably, found herself getting a crush on him.
The two have never been romantically involved, yet when Mr. George told her that he would be her knight in shining armor, "I have to admit, my heart skipped a beat," she said, "even though we hadn't met in person."
Other chunks of the feature explain why so much love is in the air in Azeroth.
• It's convenient: "You can say 'I love you' and then run away," said one woman who found her husbandt through a Warcraft relationship. ""That moment - 'Should I tell somebody I love them?' - it's a big deal, right? So to be able to say it and then to disappear is pretty great."
• It's accessible - for the women. The Times notes that "more than 40 percent of online gamers are women, and adult women are among the industry's fastest growing demographics, representing 33 percent of the game-playing population." In other words: Welcome to Texas A&M.
• It satisfies a fairy-tale fantasy. "There's something magical about falling in love with someone just through writing and then waiting for a reply," said one player, Tamara Langman, "a busty gnome with three blond pigtails" in WoW, as the Times describes her. "It's evocative of ancient romances where pen-and-ink love letters were delivered on horseback. Just the kind of forgotten world that Warcraft seeks to recreate in digital space."
Or it could be the last resort for 4.8 million foreveralone.jpgs. Anyway, if you like to cry at weddings, read up.
It's Love at First Kill [The New York Times]


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DudeMan2766 wrote:Thats the first thing I thought. He'll be up all freakin night now during the playoffs.
maybe he was banking on a full season lockout
His wife has been with him since they were teenagers. She's accustomed to the hockey season and especially the 2nd season.
I'm sure they have it figured out so he gets sleep. Likely, one or both of their mums or other relatives are in Pgh. helping out, too.
I think new baby will be wind in Flower's sails. He must be so excited.


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Christie Mullins, a 14-year-old sophomore-to-be at Whetstone High School, wasn't supposed to be at Graceland Shopping Center when she met her death Aug. 23, 1975.
Christie Mullins, a 14-year-old sophomore-to-be at Whetstone High School, wasn't supposed to be at Graceland Shopping Center when she met her death Aug. 23, 1975.
A murder trial worthy of Perry Mason more than two years later led to the acquittal of the only person ever charged in connection with the case.
To this day, her bludgeoning death remains unsolved.
John Oller would love to change that -- and he's hoping some contemporaries of Christie can help. An attorney who stepped down from active practice in 2011, the Manhattan resident has turned his hand to writing nonfiction, and a book about the Christie Mullins murder is his next project.
Oller, brother of Columbus Dispatch sports reporter Rob Oller, was a journalism student at Ohio State University at the time of the crime, which he believes ranks as the second-most sensational unsolved murder in the state, behind only the Sam Sheppard case.
"It was a huge thing," John Oller said in an interview last week. "Certainly, anyone who was a teenager or older in central Ohio or Columbus at the time will remember it."
"There's never been a book written about it, but it deserves one," he wrote in an email covering his reasons for taking up the challenge.
Mullins, whose family lived on Rosslyn Avenue, had been swimming with another 14-year-old, Carol Reeves, in a pool at the Broadmeadows Apartments the day of her death when Christie Reeves, Carol's 10-year-old sister, stopped by to say someone had called the Reeves home several times wanting to speak with Carol.
According to later testimony, the caller said he was a disc jockey and that there was to be a cheerleading contest behind the Woolco department store at Graceland Shopping Center. Tickets to the Ohio State Fair would be awarded the winner.
Carol Reeves met Mullins on the way to Graceland, but when no contest appeared to be taking place, Reeves went into the store to check on the time.
Mullins was gone when she got back.
In spite of two alleged eyewitnesses and a confession, the only man to be charged with using a length of board to fracture the girl's skull, Jack Carmen, had his guilty plea withdrawn, due to a new defense team; doubts cast on his guilt by many, including the parents of the murdered girl; and a major investigative piece written by Jim Yavorcik and Rick Kelly, colleagues of Oller's at The Lantern, Ohio State's student newspaper.
"I was working on The Lantern at the time the story broke, and the story was largely broken by a couple of Lantern reporters," Oller said. "They were kind of a Woodward and Bernstein investigative team, coming on the heels of Watergate. It made a huge splash on campus, even though the story itself really had very little to do with Ohio State, as such. I didn't personally work on the story ... but those two guys became almost celebrities overnight."
During a trial that began 28 months after Carmen was taken into custody, his lawyers sought to prove that the man with a development disability had an alibi, in that he was at the Volunteers of America facility on West Broad Street where he lived at the time of the murder.
They also argued he simply wasn't intelligent enough to have committed the crime, and that one of the two alleged eyewitnesses who said they saw him striking the girl with the board was actually the guilty party.
In an email, Oller wrote he is not necessarily hoping to solve the case.
"The story is powerful enough that it will make a good read, regardless of whether the case is 'cracked' after all these years," he wrote. "That said, it would be great if the book were to lead to a new focus on the case by law enforcement authorities, such as Columbus police cold-case unit, and greater yet if somehow it could be solved.
"There are new technologies, such as DNA testing, that weren't around in the late 1970s, and with changes in relationships between some of the key witnesses, and the deaths of others who can no longer instill fear into those who talk, who knows what might result from publication of a book on the subject?
"My guess is, as in any community, the teenagers know the real deal that's going on a lot better than the adults and their parents," Oller said in an interview. "I suspect that a lot of these people were never interviewed by the police back then, because the police quickly concluded that Carmen was the murderer."
Oller has been in touch with some adults who were students with Mullins at what was then Dominion Junior High School and Whetstone High School, but he said he wants to speak with more.
He's established an email address, firstname.lastname@example.com, for people who would be interested in communicating with him.


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L – Oilers 2, Canucks 6 – Game 2 – 2013-10-05 @ 8:00 PM MST – CBC
Whatever happened to the Battle of Alberta? Seems like Calgary dropped out, and Vancouver made it about the Battle of Western Canada. There is some bad blood between these teams. The last game these two played was in pre-season. In that game, Dale Weise took a run at Taylor Hall, seemingly trying to decapitate him with a hit to the head. Weise was suspended 3 pre-season games for the hit. The other incident was from Zack Kassian. It doesn't seem like a far fetched story that Kassian is still learning how to skate properly and keep his arms from flailing around like an infant… after all, he's only in the NHL. Kassian broke Sam Gagner's jaw when the brick-head missed a check... on the play he decided he'd swing his arm and stick as hard as he could towards Sam Gagner's head. This was accidentally on purpose. I'm not so sure he meant to hit Gagner in the face, but you'd have to be beyond useless of a hockey player to really swing your arm like that after missing a check. I'm not even sure that Doug Glatt would have done that. Kassian will miss this game, as he was suspended for the remainder of the pre-season plus 5 regular season games. I'm sure the Canucks will miss him so much compared to the Oilers and Gagner. That's the way it goes, I guess. Anyways, those stories set the mood for this one. Bad blood.
I don't entirely blame the Canucks. This is the type of game I want to see the Oilers play, minus the stupid stick swinging by Kassian. The Oilers are missing that edge in the game. I'm hoping that Luke Gazdic brings some of that edge. In his first game, he had a goal and a decisive fight win vs. Chris Thorburn (who is no slouch). He looks like he can play hockey, plus he's a very skilled fighter. As long as he can play hockey around a Mike Brown level (obviously better would be preferable) I'll be happy. I think this 4th line will need to play an important game tonight. Going into Rogers Arena, Eakins won't have last change, so it will be tough to get the right match-up for that line.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss chief finance diplomat Michael Ambuehl was given a verbal pledge from the U.S. Department of Justice to respect Swiss law when asking for bank client data of potential tax dodgers, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Switzerland is in negotiations with U.S. authorities to find a deal that would end tax probes into at least ten Swiss banks suspected of helping clients dodge taxes, including Credit Suisse and Julius Baer.
The Alpine country is trying to preserve what is left of its cherished banking secrecy that suffered a severe blow in 2009 when UBS, the first Swiss bank that came under scrutiny in the U.S., was required to disclose client data.
"(Ambuehl) obtained a verbal pledge from his negotiating partners at the DOJ to respect Swiss law when asking for client data," Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag said, citing sources close to Ambuehl.
"The agreement has not been put in writing yet and could be withdrawn at any moment but sources say the U.S. government's negotiators have made it clear they want to find a pragmatic solution to the long-lasting conflict," the newspaper said.
Finance ministry spokesman Roland Meier refused to comment on the report which did not give any details on when the verbal agreement was made.
Swiss banking secrecy laws prevent banks from disclosing any information on the financial affairs of clients to third parties, unless there are sufficient grounds to suspect a crime has been committed.
Unlike in other countries, tax evasion, as opposed to tax fraud, is not considered a crime in Switzerland, but to get off the OECD's list of uncooperative tax havens, the country agreed to disclose client data also in well-founded cases of suspected tax evasion.
Swiss private bank Wegelin & Co, the only Swiss bank indicted in the U.S. so far, said on Thursday it would shut its doors permanently after pleading guilty to the charge of helping Americans dodge taxes through secret accounts.
The Wegelin settlement that involved a $74 million fine could smoothe the way to cheaper and faster settlements for other Swiss banks in the probe and give fresh impetus to talks between Swiss and U.S. officials.
Reporting by Silke Koltrowitz; Editing by Mike Nesbit