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package org.asteriskjava.manager.event;
/**
 * Raised when a Channel Event Log is generated for a channel.
 * https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+13+ManagerEvent_CEL
 */
public class CelEvent extends ManagerEvent
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_CHAN_START = "CHAN_START";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_CHAN_END = "CHAN_END";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_ANSWER = "ANSWER";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_HANGUP = "HANGUP";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_BRIDGE_ENTER = "BRIDGE_ENTER";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_BRIDGE_EXIT = "BRIDGE_EXIT";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_APP_START = "APP_START";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_APP_END = "APP_END";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_PARK_START = "PARK_START";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_PARK_END = "PARK_END";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_BLINDTRANSFER = "BLINDTRANSFER";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_ATTENDEDTRANSFER = "ATTENDEDTRANSFER";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_PICKUP = "PICKUP";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_FORWARD = "FORWARD";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_LINKEDID_END = "LINKEDID_END";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_LOCAL_OPTIMIZE = "LOCAL_OPTIMIZE";
    public static final String CEL_EVENT_USER_DEFINED = "USER_DEFINED";

    private String eventName;
    private String accountCode;
    private String callerIDani;
    private String callerIDrdnis;
    private String callerIDdnid;
    private String application;
    private String appData;
    private String eventTime;
    private String amaFlags;
    private String uniqueID;
    private String linkedID;
    private String userField;
    private String peer;
    private String peerAccount;
    private String extra;
    private String channel;

    public CelEvent(Object source)
    {
        super(source);
    }

    public String getEventName()
    {
        return eventName;
    }

    public void setEventName(String eventName)
    {
        this.eventName = eventName;
    }

    public String getAccountCode()
    {
        return accountCode;
    }

    public void setAccountCode(String accountCode)
    {
        this.accountCode = accountCode;
    }

    public String getCallerIDani()
    {
        return callerIDani;
    }

    public void setCallerIDani(String callerIDani)
    {
        this.callerIDani = callerIDani;
    }

    public String getCallerIDrdnis()
    {
        return callerIDrdnis;
    }

    public void setCallerIDrdnis(String callerIDrdnis)
    {
        this.callerIDrdnis = callerIDrdnis;
    }

    public String getCallerIDdnid()
    {
        return callerIDdnid;
    }

    public void setCallerIDdnid(String callerIDdnid)
    {
        this.callerIDdnid = callerIDdnid;
    }

    public String getApplication()
    {
        return application;
    }

    public void setApplication(String application)
    {
        this.application = application;
    }

    public String getAppData()
    {
        return appData;
    }

    public void setAppData(String appData)
    {
        this.appData = appData;
    }

    public String getEventTime()
    {
        return eventTime;
    }

    public void setEventTime(String eventTime)
    {
        this.eventTime = eventTime;
    }

    public String getAmaFlags()
    {
        return amaFlags;
    }

    public void setAmaFlags(String amaFlags)
    {
        this.amaFlags = amaFlags;
    }

    public String getUniqueID()
    {
        return uniqueID;
    }

    public void setUniqueID(String uniqueID)
    {
        this.uniqueID = uniqueID;
    }

    public String getLinkedID()
    {
        return linkedID;
    }

    public void setLinkedID(String linkedID)
    {
        this.linkedID = linkedID;
    }

    public String getUserField()
    {
        return userField;
    }

    public void setUserField(String userField)
    {
        this.userField = userField;
    }

    public String getPeer()
    {
        return peer;
    }

    public void setPeer(String peer)
    {
        this.peer = peer;
    }

    public String getPeerAccount()
    {
        return peerAccount;
    }

    public void setPeerAccount(String peerAccount)
    {
        this.peerAccount = peerAccount;
    }

    public String getExtra()
    {
        return extra;
    }

    public void setExtra(String extra)
    {
        this.extra = extra;
    }

    public String getChannel()
    {
        return channel;
    }

    public void setChannel(String channel)
    {
        this.channel = channel;
    }
}

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Q: Determine if variable is the smallest out of a set of variables in PHP community!
I would like to ask if there is any easy way to determine if a variable is has the smallest value out of a set of different variables.
An example:
is_smallest($var, $foo, $bing, $bong, $bung);

Should return 'true' when $var is smaller than $foo and $bing and $bong and $bung, and false when it is bigger than one of these values.
Is there any builtin function in the PHP-Processor which makes this task easy or is it neccessary to create your own algorithm? If so, how to handle an undefined amound of parameters in PHP?
I'm looking forward to your answers :)
With kind regards,
Sebastian A.

A: Use the min function:
if($var == min($var, $foo, $bing, $bong, $bung))
{
  // do something
}

A: As Femaref answers, min already does most of the work needed, and with a better syntax too -- with a hypothetical is_smallest it's not at all clear which argument we are testing for smallestness.
Another option closer to the spirit of is_smallest you might like to consider is
function min_index() {
    $args = func_get_args();
    return array_search(min($args), $args);
}

if (min_index($a, $b, $c, $d) == 0) {
    // 0: $a is smallest, 1: $b is smallest, etc
}

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Theory and Practice of Linguistic Landscape
Here you can read the visual abstracts of the papers presented as talks or posters during the conference.
Borbély, Anna
Research Centre for Multilingualism, RIL-HAS
Social, cultural and linguistic landscape in Kétegyháza in the beginning of the 21st century
In my paper I will present the social, cultural and linguistic landscape of a multilingual settlement of Hungary (Kétegyháza, Békés County). The photos I will present were taken with digital camera during the 3rd data collection of the longitudinal research Variability and change: Research on language shift in real and apparent time – 1990–2010 (OTKA K 81574 – RIL HAS). My aim is to describe the visual manifestations of a community where different social groups and diverse cultures and language communities live together, side by side. In addition to the inscriptions in various languages (place name, the inscriptions of institutions etc.) the visibility of ethnic groups, social classes and even the vitality of the community can be detected in this village. Finally, as a result of the social and political changes, I will show the legacy of the traditional past into a modern life and the influences of globalization, as well as how an old internationalist symbol can be transformed to a new local memorial.
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Csernicskó, István
Ferenc Rákóczi II. Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute
The Ephemeral History of Transcarpathia in the Linguistic Landscape
The area of today's Transcarpathia belonged to several countries in the last 100 years. The change of countries and power always meant change in language policy, as well. The historical transiency of the region, political and language changes can be traced on the linguistic landscape of the area. The presentation describes the linguistic landscape in a wider sense, particularly it deals with the photos and documents presenting transiency of political profile and state language during the 20th century.
The collection of photos and documents contains very interesting pieces, like the picture showing the building of the main administration in Uzhgorod/Ungvár. On the frontispiece of the governing hall the Czech (Slovak) and Rusyn/Ukrainian inscription is still there, but the Hungarian tricolour is being let down from the window of the first floor.
Based on similar photos the history/story of linguistic landscape of the region can be drawn in the last 100 years.
Ferenc, Viktória
Research Institute for Hungarian Communities Abroad
Linguistic landscape (LL) in a higher education establishment – case study of the visual language use of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute
Investigating the language-in-education practices of Hungarian education beyond the borders is a deservedly important topic among linguistic researches since the language of instruction has several functions. A language applied as a medium of education transmits knowledge: lectures regardless of their topic are always hold in a certain language, in the process of individual learning special literature is always available in a concrete language, during exams competences are tested in a selected language. Nevertheless the language use of the symbolic area is also being crucial part of the language-in-education practices.
Inscriptions in educational establishments play not only functional (communicative) roles, but also have symbolic significance. By the emplacement of inscriptions in the minority language, using bilingual blanks for documentation a Hungarian educational establishment signals the presence of Hungarian-speaking students and teachers. On the one hand, using Hungarian language alongside with the state language gives the possibility to speakers of using their own mother tongue, while on the other hand, the practice can encourage a consistent minority language use in other kind of official domains.
In my paper I will focus on the linguistic landscape of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute based on photos taken in and outside the building. Based on the gathered data it can be stated that Hungarian paired bilingualism is typical in the LL of the institute; however monolingual signs both in the minority language and in the state language are also part of the LL, and inscriptions in foreign languages are also observable. In my presentation elements of the LL will be catalogued according to definite aspects, and the question whether the elements of LL fits to a coherent institutional language policy is going to be answered.
Heltai, Borbála Éva
Linguistic landscape in a village with German, Finnish, Hungarian and Roma residents
In parallel with the functional decline of minorities' language varieties, new structures of linguistic and social diversity appear in contemporary Hungary. Since the change of the political system in 1989, an increasing number of foreigners have bought houses in small Hungarian villages and start to live there, triggering changes in the linguistic, cultural and economic life of these settlements. Geresdlak in Baranya county is such a village. Most of its inhabitants are members of German historical minority but there is also a smaller number of Hungarian and Roma residents. Furthermore, some Finnish and German citizens have recently bought houses here, and they spend several months in the community each year influencing – among other aspects of language use – the linguistic landscape of the village. In my present lecture, I will examine data from my fieldwork carried out in the village since 2009.
The complex system of public signs and texts in Hungarian and other languages on display in the village gives us a colourful picture of the special linguistic situation of the community. One part of the non-Hungarian texts is related to the traditions of the German minority (German inscriptions on statues), while another part refers to the institutional forms of the German minority's actual presence (inscriptions on the walls of the municipality and the school). The more recent German texts have practical functions (signposts and information material). The presence of texts in Finnish is a sign of the quality of interethnic relations (bilingual street plate, signs referring to the sister towns). At the same time, the appearance of Hungarian texts on the foreigners' houses gives a new function to the official language as well.
These randomly listed examples show that the public inscriptions and plates tell a lot about the differing status, functions and related values of language variations and about the interethnic relations of the village. Analysing the system of these texts, I will try to explain how the linguistic diversity of public spaces influences the speakers' linguistic consciousness and opinions, which – of course – closely relates to their every-day communication.
Ilić, Marija(1)–Sandra Buljanović(2)
(1) Institute for Balkan Studies Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Belgrade
(2) Department of Hungarian Language and Literature Philological Faculty, University of Belgrade
Hungarian in the linguistic landscape of Serbia: A comparison between Belgrade, Pančevo and Debeljača
In this paper we would like to present the visibility of the Hungarian language within the linguistic landscape of Serbia by comparing three settlements which are located in close proximity. Namely, we would like to compare the visibility of Hungarian in the Serbian capital Belgrade (0.15% of city's population claims to be of Hungarian origin), the city of Pančevo in the Banat region (comprising around 4.25% Hungarians, living mainly in Vojlovica – Magy. Hertelendyfalva – part of the city inhabited by Hungarians and Slovaks) and the village of Debeljača also in the Banat region (Magy. Torontálvásárhely; Hungarians make more than 53% of the population). The hypothesis we would like to prove is that in Belgrade the Hungarian language is invisible, in Pančevo it is only marginally represented, while on the other side, in settlements with the majority of Hungarian inhabitants it stands equally alongside Serbian. Our research is based mainly on the results obtained in situ by the method of visual anthropology and combined with participant observation and interviews with members of the local community, i.e. members of the Hungarian minority and/or the users of Hungarian language.
Laihonen, Petteri
University of Jyväskylä/Academy of Finland; Research Centre for Multilingualism, RIL-HAS (visiting researcher)
The Linguistic Landscape (LL) of villages in Southern Slovakia, Szeklerland (Romania) and Transcarpathia (Ukraine): An expansion of the sociolinguistic descriptions and an analysis of visual code-choice.
A general overview of the LLs of six villages and a comparison of the results with previous sociolinguistic descriptions is presented. An examination of one Hungarian dominant and one bilingual village in Southern Slovakia, Szeklerland and Transcarpathia is carried out.
The visual use of Hungarian is significantly less common in Southern Slovakia than in the other two regions. In the village with an overwhelming Hungarian majority, the majority of the signs have monolingual Slovak inscriptions, Hungarian is used as a peripheral code in bilingual signs. Occasional monolingual Hungarian signs can be found on the fences of private homes. The bilingual village in Slovakia is undergoing language shift, even private signs are typically in Slovak only.
In Szeklerland and Transcarpathia patterns and distribution of spoken language choice are broadly reflected in the LL. That is, where spoken communication is carried out in Hungarian, there Hungarian is dominant in the LL, too. In the case of bilingual villages, the LL indicates a stable bilingual community. This can be partly explained through the place of Hungarian in the repertoires of the village inhabitants and through its prominent situation in the hierarchies of languages in the bilingual communities in Szeklerland and Transcarpathia. A description of the LL should be included in the accounts of the general language situation of Hungarian paired minorities, since patterns of visual language use at times show systematic differences to patterns of spoken code choice.
Finally, some examples of emblematic sign genres are discussed. The genres represent typical monolingual state language inscriptions and autonomous Hungarian signs as well as bilingual signs in the examined villages.
A private monolingual Hungarian street name and house number made of wood, Mezőkaszony/ Koson. Hungarian dominant village in Transcarpathia (Ukraine).
Lastić, Pera(1)–Marija Ilić(2)
(1) Serbian Institute
(2) Institute for Balkan Studies Serbian Academy of Science and Arts
Serbian in the linguistic landscape of Hungary: roads, streets and civic spaces
The paper focuses upon the visibility of Serbian in the linguistic landscape of Hungary, and particularly with regard to roads, streets and civic spaces. For the purpose of the research we used several methods: survey, participant observation, visual anthropology. The survey is a questionnaire-based. Namely, we composed a questionnaire which consists of several sections: settlements in and around, schools, churches and graveyards, administrative language use, newspapers and media. The questionnaire was disseminated to officials in the Serbian local and regional self-governments as well as to local authorities. It aimed at collecting facts and personal attitudes to Serbian language use and its visibility. The survey results are supplemented by photographs and participant observation. In this paper, we attempt to create a relationship between facts, values, and attitudes regarding the visual (and factual) presence of Serbian in Hungary. We would like to emphasize that this research of Serbian in the linguistic landscape of Hungary is the first of its kind.
Lehocki-Samardžić, Anna
J. J. Strossmayer University
A Comparison of the Language Reflection in Osijek and Bilje
Osijek and Bilje, both situated in Osijek-Baranya County, are only 5 kilometres apart. The Hungarians are minorities in both settlements, which has had a great impact on the use of the Hungarian language. The use of the Hungarian language has been repressed and this has had strong influence on the language reflection. Every year, the Educational and Cultural Centre of Hungarians in Croatia and the Hungarian Language and Literature Department, which operate in Osijek, have fewer Hungarian-speaking pupils. Nevertheless, bilingual panels can be found at the school and department entrance. In the Croatian language teaching primary school in Bilje, where a Hungarian mother tongue nurturing programme exists, the majority of the pupils are Croatian-speaking children.
In both settlements, a lot of misspelling on the panels written in Hungarian language can be noticed. In many cases, the Hungarian names are written in Croatian (the name of a street found on a billboard in Osijek: Šandora Petefija), which is interesting because, according to one of the fundamental grammar rules of the Croatian language, proper names that originate from a foreign language are left in the original. This is the case because many Hungarians do not live their constitutional rights and fewer Hungarian families choose to enrol their children in Hungarian schools. The use of Croatian orthography for panels written in Hungarian could cause language shifting, which is evident in the street names of both settlements (Ulica Košuta Lajoša). The decline of the Hungarian language's rating and position as opposed to the Croatian language and other international languages, leads to the fact that fewer people write correctly in Hungarian today and their vocabulary has impoverished because of the selective language use. For instance, at the exit of a shopping centre in Osijek, the sign Viszont látásra can be found.
I would like to present the above-described situation concerning language used on panels found in Osijek and Bilje and analyse them through my presentation.
Lulić, Emil
The Linguistic Landscape of a promenade in Novi Sad
Novi Sad (Нови Сад), the second largest city in Serbia and the centre of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is a distinctly multicultural area, which may attribute its linguistic variety to not only its geographical setting, but also its rich history. During the past century it was consecutively incorporated into several countries, and became home to several ethnicities. All these factors have deeply impacted the demography, and the language of the city itself.
A captivating example of this diversity is the Danube Street (Дунавска улица), one of two promenades of the city centre. Stretching through the very heart of the city, it is strolled by thousands of people each day: schoolchildren, university students, businessmen, tourists, pensioners, beggars... While it may seem on the fly, that within the city only Serbian language is used, if you listen closely, you may hear an occasional English, German, or even a few Hungarian words. This diversity is not only apprehendable to the careful listener! Throughout the street, along with the majorly Serbian signs, you may find scattered some foreign ones, too.
Following the method conceived by Rodrigue Landry and Richard Bourhis, I set out one fine, spring day, to map all the signs readable throughout this most beautiful promenade of Novi Sad, trying to draw conclusions from them. I charted the Danube Street from its beginning at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Street, all to the Danube river, encompassing both the pedestrian promenade and also the part of the street adjacent to the Danube Park open to motor traffic, mapping all the visible signs.
An integral part of my research is comprised of mapping the positive legal instruments relevant to the usage of different languages in Novi Sad, and a brief summary of the most important stages of the city's history, all in favour of presenting a thoroughgoing picture of the linguistic customs of the area.
Misad, Katalin
Comenius University
The visual use of the Hungarian language in Dunaszerdahely
Dunaszerdahely is a town and administrative center in southern Slovakia with a majority population of Hungarians (who constitute the largest minority group of the country). Its linguistic landscape has been investigated in various studies in recent years: some of the research was aimed at studying where monolingual vs. bilingual signage appears, while other studied focused on the language contact phenomena occurring in the Hungarian part of signage.
This presentation discusses, on the basis of semiotic characteristics of signage, those factors of visual language use which indicate the proportions of the use of Slovak vs. Hungarian in signage, as well as point at the minority language status of Hungarian. The effective laws of Slovakia precisely regulate what order, form and space majority vs. minority language text can appear in signage. Further regulations shaping the linguistic landscape will also be discussed, as will the opinions of Dunaszerdahely residents regarding their language rights concerning visual language use.
Satinská, Lucia
Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Visibility of Hungarian in Today's Bratislava
How visible is Hungarian in Bratislava? The paper presents current visual representation of Hungarian in the capital of Slovakia, where 14 119 Hungarians live (according to the latest census 2011). Presumably, there are more Hungarians present in the daily life of Bratislava, as many people from Csallóköz commute to Bratislava to study or work. There are several uses of Hungarian in the linguistic landscape of Bratislava. Firstly, there are historically motivated memorial plaques, statue descriptions and other inscriptions on historical buildings etc. Secondly, (non)commercial signs aimed at Hungarians from Slovakia (political and cultural institutions, shops, services…) and thirdly signs in tourist area aimed predominantly at tourists from Hungary. The paper aims not only to map these signs but also to describe the communication strategies behind the signs used for different audiences.
Szabó, Tamás Péter
Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Aspects of Schoolscape Research in Hungary
The linguistic environment of formal education (ie. Schoolscape) is determined not only by laws and local regulations, but by the linguistic practices of the given institution as well. Inscriptions and cultural symbols placed on the façade and the walls of the school building are tools for orienting the choice between various cultural and linguistic values and ideologies – as Norris Brock Johnson, Elana Shohamy, Shoshi Waksman and Petteri Laihonen have already demonstrated.
In school buildings, a dynamic and object-mediated negotiation of norms, controled by the communities learning and teaching in the building, is detectable. Objects placed by the directorate of the institution (e. g. the coat of arms and the flag of Hungary, the text of the national anthem, etc.) and other elements such as notice boards and tableaux – bought, or made by teachers or students themselves – exhibit and offer a wide range of cultural and linguistic norms, while transgressive signs as graffities can be interpreted as a manifestation of contestation. Tableaux for pedagogical purposes such as visual summaries of grammar or natural science topics play a central role in the above mentioned norm negotiation, because they can be used for the regulation of classroom discourses, displaying and visualizing the most important scientific, political and religious ideologies disseminated by the given institution. As an illustration for this process, I show a tableau from the corridor of an elementary school which is used for the scheduling of group talks for children aged 6 to 11, targeting the most important values of life, moderated by a teacher. The title of the tableau is "Values to achieve", and such values are written to each petal of the flower. We can read keywords like 'friendliness', 'peace', 'telling the truth', 'tolerance', 'helping people', 'love', and others.
I started a pilot study in 2013 in schools in Hungary, collecting data with a so-called tourist guide technique. That is, during the photography of signs, I interviewed a teacher guiding me through the building. My teacher guide made explanations on the choice of language, quotes, and other symbols. That is, the fieldworker and the interviewee co-construct ideologies on the environment. This is a kind of co-exploration, because certain researcher perspectives can enlighten hidden and implicit policies and ideologies of the school communities for the insider, while the researcher can take new insights from an insider angle with theoretical or methodological relevance to his or her studies.
The collected interview materials can be used for the investigation of local, national and global identites, values and ideologies emerging during conversation. The analyis follows the methods and theoretical implications of Discursive Social Psychology, Language Ideology and Conversation Analysis studies. As an innovation, using simultaneous picture and CA analysis, my study places the language and cultural policies of the investigated institutions, and the reception of these policies, into a wider and a more complex research context.
Szabómihály, Gizella
Constantine the Philosopher University; Gramma Language Office
The linguistic landscape of Southern Slovakia: The actors shaping the linguistic landscape and the types of bilingual signage
The linguistic landscape of Southern Slovakia where the country's Hungarian minority population lives has been traditionally dominated by the Slovak language, however, the range of Hungarian language signage has been on the increase recently. The most important actors shaping the linguistic landscape are the state (administration), local governments, the business sphere, and the civil sphere. Of these actors, it is primarily local governments of towns and villages with a local majority Hungarian population which have made attempts to ensure that Hungarian language signage is used within the possibilities provided by legislation (and sometimes even beyond them). As a result of the activity of local governments, several types of new bilingual signage have appeared: e.g. signs about the location of various sights and institutions, the name of the given place (or street) at bus stops etc.
Shop signs (grocery, convenience store, hairdresser, flower shop etc.) put up by local businesses constitute another, very common type of signs. These often include a specific mixture of two languages: a shop name which is neutral as far as Slovak and Hungarian are concerned (e.g. a foreign name, or a name which is written in the same way in the two languages) and the designation (e.g. cake shop or grocery) given in both languages.
The state's influence on the linguistic landscape is manifested in defining the legal context – outside of this, institutions of state administration play a passive role: they provide signage in Hungarian (i.e. bilingual signage) only when they are bound by law to do so. As far as the civil sphere is concerned, a new phenomenon has occurred in recent years: the activization of Slovakia Hungarians, unseen in previous years. Activists have started to draw attention to the absence of the visual presence of Hungarian in a range of atypical ways.
In sum, the amount of Hungarian signage has visibly increased in Southern Slovakia in recent years – but, unfortunately, only in places where the Hungarian population constitutes the local majority.
Signpost in Bős (Gabčíkovo). Source: the database of Forum Minority Research Institute
Szoták, Szilvia
Imre Samu Linguistic Institute
Linguistic Landscape in Hungarian inhabited Burgenland region
Visual signs may represent the power and status of a language. They have an influence on linguistic behavior as well as on language use (Cenoz & Gorter 2006: 68). It is even more interesting to study the linguistic landscape in a multilingual context, ie. in a majority-minority situation. Linguistic landscape provides information on the sociolinguistic context, what is more, the usage of different languages on signs gives an opportunity to make a comparison between the official language politics of the given country and the actual practice observed through surveys and fieldwork. By studying the linguistic landscape we can examine the influence of official language politics along with language ideologies which have an impact on the individual as well as on the minority community itself. I performed my research on a settlement located in South Burgenland, called Alsóőr, in the Spring of 2013. On the one hand, I investigate sings in the context of the history and vitality of the Hungarian minority as well as the measures taken according to the language politics of the country, and on the other hand, following a recent trend, I explore the language choice of signage in the framework of Language Ideologies. In my presentation I describe my fieldwork experiences, too.
Cenoz, Jasone & Durk Gorter: Linguistic landscape and minority languages. In: Durk Gorter (ed.), Linguistic Landscape: A New Approach to Multilingualism. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, 2006. 67–80.
Takács, Izabella–Éva Vukov Raffai
University of Novi Sad
The research topics of linguistic landscape in Subotica
This presentation deals with the research of Hungarian linguistic landscape in Vojvodina. According to the 19th paragraph of the act regarding Serbia's official language and writing system on territories where the national minority languages are also in public use, all public signs should be written in those minority languages as well. The realization of this act is supervised by the Hungarian National Council's Language Use Committee.
Regarding the topic of linguistic landscape, the region of Vojvodina is in a unique position, since public signs are diverse from various aspects: they appear in more languages and in two writing systems. On various public places besides the Serbian signs appearing in Cyrillic and Latin writing systems the Croatian and Hungarian as well as occasionally English signs also appear. The analysis of the linguistic landscape provides the opportunity to investigate the relationship between the aim of the sign and their modes of codification, to narrow down the addressee visualized by the sender, to raise certain questions regarding the identity and viewpoint coded through the writing system and language choice.
Monolingual or multilingual public signs provide valuable information regarding the linguistic balance of communities in question, besides their use results various linguistic decisions and attitudes among others in their surface division. Bilingualism or, to be specific, asymmetrical bilingualism as well as focusing on phenomena of the 'two in one' type of monolingualism one of our goals is to analyze the narrow and wider parts of the Subotica's town center. In addition, we also investigate the public administration institutions which are concerned with language issues, including the analysis of private and state companies' public signs. The present research also pays attention to the proportion, role and spelling solutions of official and individual (informative) types of signs.
Tódor, Erika-Mária
Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
Schoolscape and bilingual life
The term schoolscape refers to the totality of visual phenomena, like notice boards, tableaux, displays, teaching materials, maps, building signs, marks, etc. that can be found within the space of a school. These reflect the life and communication needs of the social environment, as articulated in a certain period of time. In turn this 'schoolscape' also has an effect on the school community.
The school space is an interactive, dynamically changing system therefore the language use that visually appears is one of the representational forms of co-existence. The linguistic configuration of the educational scene is essentially part of the "hidden curriculum" of the given pedagogical space and at the same time it faithfully reflects the more or less conscious language ideology of the institution and its maintainer.
The schoolscape of minority schools is colourful and marked with diversity. One can easily identify what makes the institution choose one or another language as a medium for certain signs and messages, but the inner causes of this act are very much connected to history, culture, policy and politics at the same time.
In the present paper I would like to offer access to the basic findings of my research carried out earlier this year. The aim of the study was to analyse the schoolscape as the part of the life-world of a mainly monolingual minority community. The fieldwork was carried out in public schools in Csíkszentdomokos (Sândominic, Romania). In order to gain a deeper understanding of the schoolscape phenomenon, I applied focus group discussions, interviews and classroom observations. At the same time I created an inventory of the schoolscape's visual elements.
Based on the data gained during the fieldwork, I would like to focus on the main characteristics of the linguistic visual schoolscape, drawing a draft framework of role and effects of local and regional identities and self-esteem as reflected in the schoolscape. I will also discuss the use of different languages as practiced in the formal, educational and organisational space of the schools studied. In the second part of my presentation I intend to present and interpret the customs in language use in school administration illustrating how bilingual phenomena can be identified in a mainly monolingual context, how conscious these language situations are and how the speakers themselves evaluate them.
Tóth, Judit Gabriella
Representation of Vend landscape in Kétvölgy
Kétvölgy is a part of Szentgotthárd region populated by 122 inhabitants, of which approximately 90% declare Sloven identity and speak the local dialect called Vend. The settlement has existed since the union of Permise (Verica) and Ritkaháza (Ritakrovci) under the name of Vashegyalja in 1944, which was changed to its present name in 1951.
The Vend living in Kétvölgy belong to those minorities which have avoided assimilation through different strategies such as endogamy and cultural practices. The settlement is characterized by the use of Slovenian language which appears not only in verbal interaction but at all community levels of communication. Identity and langauge maintenance is guaranteed by Slovenian education of young generations and the presence of native language users in sacral communication as well as family socialization.
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Authorities in three states are looking for "Baby Girl Jackson," an infant born in February at University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
The baby's parents, Nicholios Nealy, 37, and Octavia Jackson, 33, are jailed in Kingman, Arizona, for failing to cooperate with agencies working to find the girl, whose real name is unknown.
Mohave County attorney's office investigator Steve Auld said Arizona Department of Child Services officials began a child abuse investigation 14 months ago that was focused on Nealy and Jackson, who claim to be married and the parents of 12- and 13-year-old girls and an 8-year-old boy.
Auld said Mohave County Superior Court Judge Richard Weiss ordered the three children be placed under the care of the state on April 29, 2016. He said during custody and placement hearings for the kids, it was learned that Jackson had given birth to another daughter at University Medical Center on Feb. 10.
Auld said Jackson denied being a new mother and was jailed for contempt of court on May 24 when she refused to say where her baby was.
Nealy was jailed on June 7 on a custodial interference charge for failing to turn the infant over to the Department of Child Services.
Auld said the couple lived in the San Diego, California, area before moving to Las Vegas. More recently, they were living in the western Arizona community of Fort Mohave. He said authorities are investigating the couple's ties to the Laughlin area and their involvement with a Black Hebrew Israelites Church in Las Vegas.
Authorities with multiple agencies in Arizona, Nevada and California are trying to find the child, Auld said. He urged anyone with knowledge of the child's whereabouts to drop her off at a fire station.


Well, we've all been told this before by our mothers as they struggled to get us into our pajamas, but a recent study by the UH Case Medical Center's Skin Study Center in Cleveland provides conclusive evidence to confirm that not getting enough sleep can cause your skin to age quicker.
The research studied 60 women and demonstrated that an inadequate amount of sleep can lead to reduced skin health while speeding up the aging process, as well. While many believed this link to exist before, this is the first time it has been proven. We're not just talking about bags under the eyes either! The research found that a lack of sleep can actually cause your skin to dry out and become more vulnerable to sun damage, essentially causing your skin to age much quicker. Dehydrated skin can also lead to eczema and a list of other skin conditions. The amount of sleep someone gets was also found to have an impact on pigmentation and laxity of the skin, as well as a higher self-confidence in those who got more sleep.
The moral of the story? Get more sleep to help preserve your youth! Now, in this crazy busy world that we live in today, sleep is often an after thought to work, family, and a never ending list of other responsibilities. However, it is important to adopt a regular sleep schedule to maintain good health and to look younger for longer.
It is not too late to get back your youthful appearance. Board-certified cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Beth Collins offers her patients a wide variety of ways to look younger, from facial treatments and dermal fillers to the innovative Dermapen. If you are ready to rejuvenate your look, give us a call and set up your consultation today.


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PUENTES is the most relevant and successful training programme for developing European-Latin American co-production as the track record of successful production shows: THE SHARKS (LOS TIBURONES), by Lucia Garibaldi & produced by Pancho Magnou (Montelona Cine, Uruguay) has premiered in Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition and has won the BEST DIRECTOR award.
Some other recent examples of films developed at PUENTES are for example I DREAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE, (SUEÑO EN OTRO IDIOMA), by Ernesto Contreras (Best Picture & Best Original Screenplay & Best Cinematography & Best Original Score & Best Sound & Best Actor at Mexico's 60th Ariel Awards 2018) THE HEIRESSES by Marcelo Martinessi (Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize & Silver Bear Best Actress & FIPRESCI Award & Teddy Readers' Award at the Berlinale 2018, Premio Netflix Ópera Prima, Best Director at Latin America Fénix Film Awards 2018. The film has been nominated to represent Paraguay at Foreign Language Academy Awards race 2019) UN TRADUCTOR by Sebastián & Rodrigo Barriuso (Golden Goblet for Best Director at Shangai Film Festival 2018), and many more.
The above mentioned projects had been selected for the PUENTES – Europe / Latin America Co-Production Workshop, where the projects were developed over one year by the attending producers under the guidance of top notch consultants, working on the script development, the financial, co-production, marketing and distribution strategies and where the producers extended their professional network meeting key players of the industry in Europe and Latin America.
PUENTES is targeted at Latin American & European producers focusing on project development, 10 of which will be selected for the workshop. We are also open to receive the applications of other European professionals interested in working with Latin America (sales agents, financiers, distributors, festival programmers, co-production market representatives) or European producers focusing on career development (not bringing a specific project) . 4-5 of them will be selected to be an active part of the group.
The 14-15 selected participants attend 2 workshops. The first one will be held in Lazio Region, Italy (June 10-14, 2019) in partnership with FVG Audiovisual Fund, with the support of MIBAC (Ministero dei Beni Ambientali e Culturali) and the collaboration of ROMA LAZIO FILM COMMISSION. Workshop 2 will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay (November 27 – December 1, 2019) in partnership with Mutante Cine, with the support of ICAU (Instituto de Cine y Audiovisual del Uruguay), Egeda, Montevideo Socio Audiovisual and Centro Cultural España.
Thanks to a special partnership, all participants are able to attend VENTANA SUR (December 2 – 7, 2019) in Buenos Aires after workshop 2.
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"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." – I think this is one of the worst things one Christian can say about another Christian.
@roybowen No doubt! Where is the love of God in that?
I think the statement "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" is not to be taken literally. As believers we only have one enemy and Jesus Christ defeated him. However, some Christians do act like enemies. We see those who lie about one another. We see jealousy and strife among believers. Whole churches (and denominations) are started just to oppose other churches.
I have personal experience with this in my own ministry. I have had people who tell lies about me and my wife behind my back. Its not just a suspicion, it was told to me both by the Holy Spirit and confirmed by those who rejected the lies. Some of these were people who were in the children's ministry that I oversaw.
Instead of expelling this people I put them closer to me so that they could see who I really was. I never chastised them, I only loved them. I forgave them immediately for anything they had said or would said. I "took no thought of a suffered wrong". Instead of treating them in a worse manner, I treated them even BETTER. I just "loved the hell" right out of them.
They stopped the negative talking and their attitude towards me and my wife changed. They looked at me as their enemy but really I was their biggest supporter in what they do to serve the Lord.They never repented or perhaps even realized that I knew what they had said. (If you're reading this right now, hello there.) It doesn't matter to me, what someone else does does not effect whether I believe God's Word is true or not.
Wow! What a great post. Thank you for giving us a great perspective on how we should treat others. I'm learning how to do this each and every day.


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New York Woman Gives Birth to Other Couple's Babies After IVF Mixup: Lawsuit
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July 7, 2019– Mary Greeley News –A Queens couple that tried for years to get pregnant suffered the mother of all mix-ups once they finally succeeded — giving birth to someone else's babies, thanks to a bungling Los Angeles fertility clinic, a stunning new lawsuit claim.
Married in 2012, the Asian husband and wife — identified in court papers only as Y.Z. and A.P. — turned to CHA Fertility Center, when their countless attempts, both natural and with artificial insemination, failed.
Run by Dr. Joshua Berger and co-owner Simon Hong, the clinic boasts that it's a "mecca of reproductive medicine" that has "fulfilled the dreams of tens of thousands of aspiring parents from Southern California and beyond in over 22 countries."
With hope in mind, the Flushing couple made the trip West in January 2018 to meet with Berger and Hong, and eventually underwent a months-long regimen of medicines, vitamins, tests and procedures that yielded eight embryos.
In all, they spent $100,000 on facility, specialist and doctors' fees, medication, lab expenses and travel costs, the couple claimed.
In July 2018, A.P. attempted to have an embryo implanted at the Los Angeles facility, but it didn't work, the couple said in its Brooklyn federal court lawsuit.
A month later, they were ready to try again, and CHA thawed two of the couple's female embryos for another attempt.
By September, A.P. was pregnant.
The two "were ecstatic to learn that after years of trying to conceive, they had success and were pregnant with twins," according to court papers.
But subsequent sonograms showed something wasn't right.
Ultrasound technicians kept telling the couple that A.P. was carrying twin boys, prompting the "confused" pair to call CHA to find out why.
Berger and Hong dismissed the sonograms, pooh-poohing them as "not a definitive test," according to the suit.
Berger even regaled the prospective parents with a tale of his own wife's pregnancy, noting that they were originally told that his wife was carrying a boy, only to have her give birth to a girl.
The doctor and clinic owner "assured [A.P. and Y.Z.] that they were having girls and that nothing was wrong."
On March 30, 2019, A.P. went to a New York hospital. The next day, she gave birth via a cesarean section.
Both babies were boys — and neither shared Y.Z. and A.P.'s Asian ethnicity, the couple charges.
CHA personnel, including Hong, flew to New York to conduct genetic tests that confirmed the newborns weren't genetically related to Y.Z. and A.P.
"The testing also confirmed that the two male babies were not genetically related to each other," the couple alleges.
Y.Z. and A.P. were then forced to give custody of each infant to their respective biological parents, who were also clients of CHA.
Heartbroken and embarrassed, Y.Z. and A.P. haven't told most of their friends and relatives about the "unimaginable mishap."
The couple "could not find the courage and the way to tell others about their devastating loss," they claim.
Mistakes at fertility clinics are not unheard of. In April, a couple sued a Connecticut fertility clinic that allegedly implanted the wrong embryo, giving them a son of a different race than his parents.
The now-shuttered CT Fertility was supposed to use the husband's sperm and donor eggs. The family used CT Fertility successfully for their first born in 2016. But when they returned to use their frozen embryos for a second child, they wound up with a child who didn't look like his brother and had "much darker skin pigmentation than either the father, genetic mother or their first son," according to reports.
In 2009, an Ohio couple that had struggled with miscarriages was thrilled to learn they had become pregnant via in-vitro fertilization.
But days after Carolyn Savage found out that she had conceived, she and her husband, Sean, learned that a paperwork error had mixed up their records with those of another couple, and that the baby she was carrying wasn't theirs.
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The Savages gave birth to a boy and handed over the baby to his biological parents. Both couples wrote books about their experiences.
For A.P. and Y.Z., the experience of delivering the babies and then losing them has left the couple with "permanent emotional injuries from which they will not recover," they said in their legal claim.
They do not know what happened to the two female embryos that were supposed to have been implanted in A.P.'s uterus. They called them "irreplaceable."
The couple "may never know what happened to their embryos, as well as whether the currently cryopreserved embryos are genetically matched to them," they said in court papers seeking unspecified damages.
A lawyer for the couple declined comment. CHA did not return a request for comment.
Court papers don't detail the reactions of the parents whose babies A.P. carried to term as an unwitting surrogate.
The two families should be spared any genetic concerns, said Dr. Amber Samuel, a specialist with the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
But multiple factors, including whether the gestational carrier smokes or drinks or is of a certain age, can influence a pregnancy, she said.
"Most likely, the babies are going to be fine. The good thing about it is that she was a mom who super wanted children," Samuel said, noting that such patients "tend to be more disciplined."
If the pregnancy had been carried out by a typical surrogate, the biological parents would have overseen every step of the process and the surrogate would have been compensated, the doctor pointed out.
The case represents a shocking breakdown in protocol, Samuel said.
"There are all sorts of checks and balances for this not happening, so there's a real breakdown there," she said. "Someone was super asleep at the wheel."
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by Paul Constant and Megan Seling
A heck of a Reuben, plus tons of sweet treats. Kelly O
By Paul Constant
Now that the I Love New York Deli on Roosevelt is regrettably dark and empty, this is probably the best Reuben sandwich in the University District. Fat Ducks Deli & Bakery's Reuben ($8.95—on the menu it's called the Lucky Duck) isn't as thick as I Love New York's was. But the meat is of very high quality; Fat Ducks owner Jaclyn Roth corns the beef herself.
Corning your own beef seems difficult—not to mention thick with nasty euphemisms—but Roth insists that the process is "quite simple." She starts with a slab of beef, puts "spices and pickling spices on it," and then slow-cooks it for "about four and a half hours." Roth piles hot, thin slices of her fresh-corned beef onto toasted rye bread with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and a tangy Russian dressing. It's a barely manageable mess of a sandwich that packs each of the essential Reuben elements into every single bite.
For five dollars more, the Reuben comes with a soda, a choice of potato salad or coleslaw, a bag of bagel chips, and a chocolate chip cookie. This is a huge picnic of a lunch that you can cart down to Ravenna Park for a little splendor in the grass—although you should be advised that the bees in the park found my sandwich to be just as irresistible as I did, with three of the feisty little fuckers clinging to the corned beef at one time. Unwelcome apiary moochings aside, the lunch was incredible. The coleslaw was fresh, crisp, and not too mayonnaisey; the bagel chips—Roth thin-slices and bakes them herself from a selection of savory Blazing Bagels—were crunchy, garlicky, and more addictive than most potato chips; and the cookie was sweet and chewy and just big enough to cap off the meal without overwhelming everything that came before.
But soon enough, it'll be dismal outside again, and picnics, even bee-plagued picnics, will be a fond memory. That's okay; Fat Ducks is a charming dine-in experience, too. It's a modified house that was home to two or three less-exciting (and more hippie) coffee shops in the past. Now it's packed with just the right amount of quirky (be prepared to encounter a committed duck decor), with big windows and a comfy couch in the airy living room space and smaller cafe-style tables lining the front room. It's cozy, warm, and well lit, the kind of place you'll want to sit down in for hours with a coffee and a good book.
For those cerebral, introverted afternoons, when you're not feeling up to the extravagance of a Reuben, you should try a Daisy Duck ($6.95), a dilly tuna salad sandwich with a big red wheel of tomato and a spray of crisp lettuce on top. For maximum enjoyment, get your Daisy on a toasted bagel; the chewy, bready bagel will soak up the mayonnaise and add some heft to the sandwich. Your first (and understandable) impulse when you walk into Fat Ducks will be to dive into the sweets in the case at the front of the house—much more about those to the right—but in a world where any old convenience store can order an assortment of mediocre Boar's Head cold cuts and call itself a deli, the specialness of an honest deli with real intelligence and skill behind the crafting of its sandwiches is a rare treat.
By Megan Seling
When you walk into Fat Ducks Deli & Bakery, the petite blond woman behind the counter will almost immediately start pushing samples on you. There are always samples to eat. The glass case is packed with at least half a dozen different baked goods—extra-large chocolate cupcakes topped with a big heap of icing, peanut butter chocolate bars, gooey pecan bars, bright yellow lemon bars bigger than your fist. There are more treats in the case around the corner and on the counter—brownies, bar cookies sprinkled with coconut and chocolate chips, and mysteriously named cookies like the PCP and THC.
The woman is the deli's owner, Jaclyn Roth, and she's there about 12 hours a day—from 11 am until 11 pm—baking this gigantic pile of sweets, which rounds out her menu of sandwiches, bagels, and spreads (get the sun-dried-tomato cream cheese!). And she's been making many of these desserts since she was a teenager.
"I grew up on the East Coast," she says. "In the '50s, my father opened a drive-in with hamburgers and hot dogs. He expanded it into a gourmet bakery and deli in a high-end Jewish neighborhood in Jersey—it sat about 150 to 200 people."
Roth and her five siblings all helped at the family business. "We baked everything on-site. They always threw me on the rugelach—it is the most time-consuming process. I'd be there at four o'clock in the morning, rolling out the dough." She makes that same rugelach at Fat Ducks.
The pecan bar is huge. A thick layer of chopped and toasted pecans is coated in glistening caramel, and this slightly gooey mixture sits atop a tender, crumbly shortbread crust. You can taste the brown sugar and butter melting together on your tongue.
The PCP cookie is a soft, pale cookie with a sprinkling of sugar on top—it looks like an unassuming sugar cookie. But surprise! It's laced with little pieces of coconut and—the secret ingredient—ground-up potato chips that make for extra little tingles of salt.
The other drug-themed treat is the THC cookie, a "Tropical Hawaiian Concoction" that involves macadamia nuts, coconut, and chocolate chips.
Roth giggles when I ask about the drug names. When she first opened the shop, she was unfamiliar with the University District. "I've never seen so many people with tattoos and piercings," she says. "And all the medical dispensaries! I just thought it'd be cute." (She assured me there aren't any actual drugs involved.)
If you're a chocolate fanatic, you can't go wrong with Roth's brownies—they're so gooey and rich that you'll definitely want to have coffee or milk on standby. The peanut butter chocolate bar was delightfully intense, too—Oreo cookie crust and a peanut butter filling topped with a sugary chocolate icing. I'd have loved to see more raspberry filling in the raspberry bar, and taste more citrus and less sugar in the lemon bar, but both were still good.
Since you're heading to Fat Ducks to get a sandwich anyway, you'd be a fool to not grab a dessert (or three) while you're there.
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It's our prayer that these supplement, rather than replace, your presence in your own local church and your submission to the leaders that God has placed around you for your spiritual growth.
Drawing the four week series to a close, Joshua Butler reminds us that there is an 'organic unity to the human race', that we are not only created 'for one another but from one another'. When we pursue holiness, we invite the temple presence of God to return to humanity.
The information we acquire, the experiences we gain, the things we consume, the people we are surrounded by, all fill the vessel of our inner lives. Whatever we fill our hearts with will overflow from us.
Mark shares Joel 2's image of lives overflowing with new wine and grain, enough to satisfy, which is poured out when God's people consecrate their lives to Him and His purposes. As we approach the season of Lent, the invitation is to seek the Spirit as the primary input in our lives through a posture of 'serious prayer' and fasting.
Unpacking the current disconnect in Western society between the spiritual and physical, Mark reminds us of the message of 1 Peter 2 that we are 'living stones' being built into a 'spiritual house'. As the church and disciples of Jesus, we are invited to be living as a bridge between heaven and earth.
In looking ahead to what God has in store for 2019 – the encouragement is to focus only on God so we can experience a Church marked by followers of Jesus leading flourishing and meaningful lives.
Apprentice minister Ryan unpacks what biblical success looks like and how to posture ourselves for God's growth, in our lives, this year.
After reading from Luke 2, Mark explores why the birth of Jesus isn't the end of the story. The Christmas story, he suggests, reveals to us that God is a God of process and each of us, as followers of Christ, are participants in His work of construction.
Reflecting on St Iraneus quote 'The Glory of God is man fully alive,' Sarah takes us through the biblical concept of worship, idols and the glory of God.
Narrowing in on today's biggest idol she gives us Christ's keys to freedom and releases us to be his true image bearers.
This week Mark unpacks how our world is built on a myth of scarcity. Steven Covey says, "Most people are deeply scripted in what I call the Scarcity Mentality. They see life as having only so much, as though they were only one pie out there".
The Bible, however, says in 2 Corinthians 9 that God is able to bless us abundantly. Mark invites us to take a posture of generosity in all areas of our lives, as a response to the abundant riches we are gifted. These Kingdom riches are to be shared so that others can experience God's inexhaustible abundance.
This week Mark highlights that the contemporary culture directs us to avoid trails and tests in our lives. However as James 1: 2-4 teaches us we are to find joy through the perseverance of these trials as it builds and shapes our character to be more like Jesus.
This week Bjorn shows that we can be a few degrees off, and calls us to realign ourselves with Jesus. Camping out in the Gospel of John we see that Jesus clears the temple to show us that He is The Way, The Truth, and The Life.
In this message, Sarah unpacks Proverbs 3:5-8 and shows us how there are two ways to live; depending on God or depending on self. She invites us afresh to trust God, to cry out to Him and to run away from evil.
Donald G. Mostrom says "We are healthy in the deepest and widest sense of that word, only if we are in fellowship with our God. Like an intricate machine designed for a particular use, but used for something else, we break down in a variety of ways when not functioning with God." This week Mark speaks about renewing our purpose and promise through fellowship with God and through His presence in our lives.
The Prize of surrender is revelation. At our PM Service, Terry Walling speaks of how sometimes it's hard to be honest with ourselves. He speaks of how there are two ways of doing life and asks us whether we have the courage to join God in the work that He wants to do in each of us.
This week Sarah Deutscher gives us a diagnosis of how we've ended up as a generation with a worldview based on Individualism and Secular Humanism. How the two combined have shaped and formed us to think that we're on the throne, that we can flourish without God. Yet, there is a tremendous chaos within us and unprecedented levels of anxiety more than ever before. Sarah shares from Haggai 1: 2-6 and like the Israelites, we need a new vision, understanding and definition of who God is. That is is through sanctification, He wants to bring newness into your life, returning your trust to the Holy King.
We've hit a pivotal moment in our Mid-East PM Service, sensing the Lord asking us to push into a breakthrough moment – feeling that His love is coming like a powerful wave; to cleanse, heal and refine us. This week, Mark kicks-off this sermon series for our 5 PM Service about moving from a lost generation to a renewed generation.
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At our Mid-East AM Service, Trudi Sayers shares a story of two elderly women from a small island north of Scotland faithfully prayed for God's glory to be filled in their village and through their faithfulness, God spoke. As they gathered their minister and patrons, they committed to contending in prayer twice a week from 10:00 pm to 3:00 am. This resulted in one of the biggest revivals where people encountered the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit, to which people in across the Isle, in fields, fishing boats cried out to God to save them. Through this inspiring story, Trudi shares on what contending prayer looks like and encourages us to be contending for our church, city and nation.
At our Mid-East AM service, we are week 2 into our new sermon series: New Wine/ Contending for Renewal. If we are to contend for renewal, we are contending for transformation. Bjorn Irani speaks about when we contend and create a space for God to transform our hearts in all areas of our lives the head follows, enabling us to have a deeper knowledge of God's work in our lives.
John 15:5 says " I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing. At our Mid-East AM Service Mark kicks off a new sermon series: New Wine – Contending for Renewal. He calls us to move from consuming to contending and teaches us five ways to do this.
This week at our combined Mid-East and Outer East AM Service, we had the privilege of hearing from Terry Walling. Sharing from John 21:1, he asks "what do you need to go on with Jesus?". God wants to take you forward – the question is do you trust Him to take you to a place you've never been before?
How do we live a kingdom life when we aren't socially conditioned for kingdom living? This week, Bjorn recognises that we aren't meant to do this alone. He shares some disciplines highlighted in one of his favourite movies in the art of mentoring and discipleship.
This week, Brittany White speaks from Colossians 3:1-10 of how we are raised inChrist, not of earthly things. That when we put to death our earthly nature, we put on our new self, made in the image of the creator.
Pete Greig says "God sometimes identifies something in our history that He wants to release in your destiny". In week 2 of our new sermon series: Walking the Kingdom Life, Mark and Trudi Sayers speak about how God is at work in His Kingdom and how He is at work in your life. We hear some insights from how God has been doing this in Trudi's life in their recent travels to Ireland.
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Сендфорд Флеминг (; 7. јануар 1827 — 22. јул 1915), био је канадски инжењер и проналазач, шкотског порекла, који је предложио светски стандард временских зона. Флеминг је дизајнирао прву канадску поштанску марку, и за собом оставио велики број геодетских карата. Такође је заслужан за пројектовање већег дела међуколонијалне железнице и канадске пацифичке железнице. Један је од оснивача Краљевског канадског друштва и оснивач Краљевског канадског института, једне од научних организација, основана у Торонту.

Живот и дело
Сандфорд Флеминг је рођен у Керколди, покрајина Фиф, у Шкотској. Студије геодезије започео је у његовом родном граду у време када је прва пруга у свету управо изграђена у Британији у време огромног економском раста и развоја нових технологија, или индустријске револуције, од које је пре свега корист имала средња класа.

Како су у првој половини 19. века, на хиљаде британаца привлачили послова и огромно расположиво земљишта Северне Америке , Флеминг је одлучио да емигрира у Канаду, у великој мери пољопривредног колонију Британије у којој се све више развијала индустрија. Подстакнут изазовима везаним за лични напредак, Флеминг је, са само 17 година, кренуо у авантуру са ентузијазмом, креативношћу и надом, да би у овој земљи оставио свој траг посебно у железничкој индустрији.

На броду под називом "Бриљантно", допловио је у Квебек 1845. године, у огромну земљи као што је Канада, у којој је железнички систем био у сталном развоју. Као геометар и грађевински инжењер, Сандфорд Флеминг је прихватио посао на проширењу канадске железничке мреже, у пројекату за који је дубоко веровао да има велику комуникациону и транспортну важност за његову нову земљу. Тако је Флеминг у Канади почео прво да ради на железници, где је стекао велико искуство током 1850-их и 1860-их, као главни инжењер на различитих железничким пројектима у провинцијама Горња Канада и Нова Шкотска.

У раном периоду своје каријери, Флеминг је дизајнирао прву канадску поштанску марку, од три пенија, која је издата 1851. године.

У 1867. именован је за главног инжењера итерколонијалне железнице (Inter-Colonial Railway), која је требало да повеже Нову Шкотску са централном Канадом, у склопу новоосноване конфедерације, која је настала те године.

Године 1871, Сандфорд Флеминг је прихватио највећи изазов у каријери: постао је главни инжењер канадске пацифичке железница (Canadian Pacific Railway), и био задужен за праћење изградње железничке пруге која је требало да отвори пут ка канадским насељима на западу земље, и уједини Канаду од обале до обале брзим превозним средством, ефикасном, модерним и обезбеди проток робе и људи, олакша трговину и доприноси развоју градова уз пругу.

Путовања широм Канаде дала су Флеминг идеју да осмисли стандардни систем временских зона, које су стварале онфузије у мерењу времена у Северној Америци и Европи. Он је потребу за временским зонама препознао док се мучио са проблемом планирања међуградских возове. Овај систем временских зона који је предложио Флеминг, усвојен 1884. године, и дан данас се примењује у свету.

Повукао се из посла са железницом 1880. године када је Канадска влада почела де подешава изградњу пруге приватним интересима. Међутим он је наставио да допринеси раду железнице, као консултант, али највећи део свој безграничну енергију усмерио је у нове пројекте и модернизацију у многим областима друштва.

Тако је Флеминг покренуо пројект постављања телеграфског кабла од Канаде до Аустралије, 1879. године. После бројних проблема и отпора од бројних конфедералних структура, телеграфски кабл од Ванкувера до Новог Зеланда и Аустралије завршен 1902. године.

Умро је 22. јула 1915. године у кући његове ћерке у Халифаксу. Сахрањен је на гробљу у Отави. За собом је оставио три сина и две ћерке.

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Литература
 Creet, Mario (1998). "Fleming, Sir Stanford". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. XIV (1911–1920) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
 Regehr, T.D. (July 24, 2015) [February 21, 2008]. "Sir Sandford Fleming". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online ed.). Historica Canada.

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Suzanne Lenglen: the woman who revolutionized tennis
Jan 5, 2017 Goran Blazeski
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen was born on May 24th, 1899, in Paris, to Charles Lenglen and Anais Lenglen. As a child, Suzanne had various health problems including asthma. In order to improve his daughter's health, Charles thought that it would be useful if Suzanne played tennis and kept her strength up.
At the time there weren't many tennis instructors, so Suzanne's father decided to take the role of an instructor and teach her how to play tennis. He was a passionate tennis fan who often studied the tactics and the skillful movements of the players. In that way, he was able to teach Suzanne everything she needed to know about tennis.
French tennis player Suzanne Langlen
At first, Charles didn't think that Suzanne will show any special skills, but she proved him wrong. Instead of teaching her to play patiently and carefully like many of the female tennis players at the time, he taught her to play more aggressively with the strength and speed of a man, but with the grace of a woman.
In 1912, she became a member of the Nice Tennis Club. One year later she won the Nice Tennis Club championship. By the age of 15, she won the Italian Championship, played in the final of the French Championships, and won the World Hard Court Championship, becoming the youngest ever major tournament champion. She holds the record to this day. Suzanne became the most popular sports hero in France.
Lenglen with Bill Tilden
After this, her career was put on hold for the next five years due to the World War I. However, she continued to practice during this time and after the end of World War I, Suzanne was ready to compete at Wimbledon. She managed to reach the final of the tournament where she faced Lambert Chambers– seven-time Wimbledon champion. Suzanne upset Chambers, 10-8, 4-6, 9-7, in a victory that led to her immortality at Wimbledon.
She dominated at Wimbledon the following years, winning the tournament five times in the next six years. She won against Douglas in 1920, Elizabeth Ryan in 1921, Molla Mallory in 1922, Kathleen Godfree in 1933, and Joan Fry Lakeman in 1925.
Despite her flamboyant and sometimes controversial appearance on the court, Suzanne Lenglen was also known as a very graceful player
Besides being a tennis champion, Suzanne was also the first female tennis celebrity. She had bob style black hair on which she wore her trademark– a bandana. She wore scandalously short dresses with short sleeves, displaying bare arms.
She entered tennis courts wearing fur coats, full makeup and painted nails. She often brought a flask of brandy or cognac which she drank between sets. "Her movement, it looks like that of a fairy.
She walks like a ballerina on her toes. She moves so lightly. Just grace. Pure grace." – said Larry Engelmann, the author of a book about Suzanne. The French press called her 'the Goddess who revolutionized tennis'.
In 1926, Suzanne gave up her amateur status and became a professional player. During the final days of her life, she ran a tennis camp for children in Paris.
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During her career, Suzanne won a total of 241 titles. She died of pernicious anemia in 1938 at the age of 39.
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She will be remembered as the tennis player who revolutionized women's tennis. Today, the French Open venue's second show court is named after her.
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New York, NY (Jan. 23, 2018) — Charlotte, North Carolina-based fintech company, Passport, which recently raised $43 million from Bain Capital Ventures to help accelerate its growth, has secured 34 parking lots along the Metro North Rail line in New York. The free PassportParkingⓇ mobile app now enables drivers to conveniently pay for their parking at more than 15,000 parking spaces in lots managed by LAZ Parking along the rail line.
Passport's regional footprint extends between Buffalo, Albany and White Plains providing mobile payments for parking. The PassportParking app can be used to monitor and extend parking sessions remotely, receive alerts and notifications about parking sessions, view payment history and receive emailed receipts.
According to the New York Times, by the end of 2020, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to have its entire system updated with riders using contactless bank cards, smart cards or their own smartphones to pay for a subway or bus ride. Passport has already ushered in mobile technology in New York City, providing nearly 20,000 digital permits for the New York City Housing Authority to enable residents to conveniently purchase and manage their permits online through Passport's system, as well as the ParkWhitePlains mobile app in White Plains.
The PassportParking app can be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play, while permits can be purchased and managed at rrparking.com, which is home to all other Metro North Rail parking information. Customers who used the former provider will need to upgrade their parking experience to PassportParking to pay with a mobile option.


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Do Central Bankers Know a Bubble When They See One?
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01/01/2017Peter Schmidt
Between 2000 and 2008, two of the largest financial bubbles in history — in technology stocks and housing, respectively — suffered spectacular collapses. Opinions vary, but some market commentators believe at the peak of the tech bubble, total stock market capitalization exceeded 180% of US GDP. To put this in perspective, the tech stock bubble was over twice the size of the 1920s stock bubble!1 As large as the bubble in tech stocks was, it was child's play compared to the housing bubble. When the US housing bubble collapsed, the credit losses were so large the entire worldwide banking system was considered to be in mortal danger.
One of the primary justifications behind the 1913 founding of the Fed was to prevent financial crises. Logic then dictates if a major motivation behind forming a central bank is the prevention of a financial crisis, then a financial crisis that breaks out under the nose of a central bank must be due — at least in part — to mistakes of that bank. The Fed's mistakes and its subsequent leading role in causing the housing bubble will be seen by reviewing speeches given by Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke that praised the housing bubble era Fed. In addition, a review of statements made in the wake of the tech bubble's collapse will reveal senior Fed officials taking positions diametrically opposed to positions Alan Greenspan claimed formed the basis for the Fed's policy toward bubbles, namely, allowing bubbles to burst and dealing with the consequences later.
From its March 2000 peak to its October 2002 bottom the NASDAQ declined 80%. Throughout the 1990s no one cheered on the "new economy" more than the "maestro," Alan Greenspan. After the bubble collapsed, Greenspan recognized a need to explain his and the Fed's actions while the tech bubble grew. In August 2002 Greenspan gave a speech at the Fed's conference in Jackson Hole. In this speech, which Jim Grant called "self-exculpating revisionism,"2 Greenspan offered this rationale for the Fed's actions during the late 1990s:
The struggle to understand developments in the economy and financial markets since the mid-1990s has been particularly challenging for monetary policymakers. … We at the Federal Reserve considered a number of issues related to asset bubbles — that is, surges in prices of assets to unsustainable levels. As events evolved, we recognized that, despite our suspicions, it was very difficult to definitively identify a bubble until after the fact — that is, when it's bursting confirmed its existence.
Less than two years later, in January 2004, Greenspan would congratulate himself on the apparent success of the Fed's strategy. In doing so he would expose the Fed's role in creating the far more ruinous housing bubble.
There appears to be enough evidence, at least tentatively, to conclude that our strategy of addressing the bubble's consequences rather than the bubble itself has been successful. … As I discuss later, much of the ability of the U.S. economy to absorb these sequences of shocks resulted from notably improved structural flexibility. But highly aggressive monetary ease was doubtless also a significant contributor to stability.3
The "monetary ease" — slashing interest rates — Greenspan was taking credit for here was not helping the economy heal. Instead it was fueling an enormous bubble in housing whose negative consequences can best be described as world-altering.
One month later, in February, Greenspan's partner in criminal economic ignorance, Ben Bernanke, gave a speech titled, "The Great Moderation." In this speech Bernanke would, unknowingly, provide further evidence of the Fed's enormous role in fueling the housing bubble. Bernanke claimed the Fed's monetary policy was a source of stability and helped to reduce variations in economic output. The irony in giving this speech at this time should not be lost. Bernanke's speech, like Greenspan's, betrays a total ignorance of the enormous housing bubble that was only a few weeks from peaking. (Homeownership peaked in April 2004!) With just these two speeches, the criminal incompetence of the Greenspan/Bernanke and the leading causal role the Fed played in the housing bubble are demonstrated.
The Fed's bubble befuddlement was not limited to a few speeches. For years on end Fed officials would take positions in contradiction to those established by Greenspan in his Jackson Hole, Wyoming, speech. For example, in July 2005 and in his capacity as head of the president's council of economic advisors, Ben Bernanke was asked on CNBC if there was a housing bubble. He does not answer by saying bubbles can't be seen until after they burst. Instead he says the following:
Well, I guess I don't buy your premise. It's a pretty unlikely possibility. We've never had a decline in housing prices on a nationwide basis, so what I think is more likely is house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don't think it will drive the economy from its full employment path.
Later in October 2005, other Fed officials would also contradict Greenspan's Jackson Hole speech. By then, homeownership had already peaked and the bubble had started to collapse. Amazingly, two Fed economists investigated if there was a housing bubble. They — erroneously, of course — concluded home prices are "high but not out of line."4 Obviously, if Fed officials were investigating to see if a housing bubble existed, then they believed it could be observed without first having to collapse.
Often, the most damning indictments of the bubble-era Fed come from other Fed officials. The most loquacious of these officials is current St. Louis Fed president James Bullard. Among the truths Bullard accidently exposed was the one concerning the obvious nature of the recent stock and housing bubbles. In a September 2013 interview Bullard said, "The bubbles we had in the past were gigantic and obvious."5 Later, in a November 2013 interview, he said the housing and tech bubbles were "blindingly obvious."6
Amazingly, Alan Greenspan would eventually completely contradict Greenspan! Here is "Mr. Chairman," as CNBC lovingly refers to him, discussing the Lehman Brothers failure in October 2013, "We missed the timing badly on September 15th, 2008 [the day Lehman Brothers went bankrupt]. All of us knew there was a bubble."7 So which is it Mr. Chairman? Can bubbles be "obvious" or something "everyone knew" to exist before they pop — as you indicate here — or do you have to wait until after they pop to confirm their existence as you said in Jackson Hole?
Our brief review here demonstrates both the leading role the Fed played in creating the housing bubble — the January and February 2004 speeches — and the many mutually exclusive positions the Fed took on bubbles. In spite of being exposed in what is either a self-exculpating lie (the claim that bubbles can only be seen after they burst) or a sign of gross incompetence (the failure to see two of the largest financial bubbles in history), no Fed official has ever been asked to explain or rationalize the Fed's contradictory positions on bubbles. Whether anyone from the Fed is ever forced to do so or not, it is obvious the Fed has much to answer for concerning all the economic hardships their bubble befuddlement has caused.
1. Marc Faber, "The Monetization of the American Economy," DailyReckoning.com, January 16, 2002 https://dailyreckoning.com/the-monetisation-of-the-american-economy/
2. Jim Grant, Mr. Market Miscalculates (Mt. Jackson, Va.: Axios Press, 2008), pp. 241.
3. "Risk and Uncertainty in Monetary Policy", Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan at the Meetings of the American Economic Association, San Diego, California, January 03, 2004.
4. Jonathan McCarthy and Richard W. Peach, "Is there a Bubble in the Housing Market Now?" Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2005.
5. Steven C. Johnson, "Fed Need Not Rush to Taper While Inflation is Low," September 20, 2013, CNBC, http://www.cnbc.com/id/101051526/
6. Matthew J. Belvedere, "Fed's Bullard: $1-trillion a year QE pace torrid," CNBC, http://www.cnbc.com/id/101166475
7. Matthew J. Belvedere, "Bubbles and leverage cause crisis: Alan Greenspan," October 23, 2013 CNBC, http://www.cnbc.com/id/101135835
Peter Schmidt has two degrees in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University and is a licensed professional mechanical engineer in California and the great state of Louisiana. He is writing a book on the financial crisis entitled, Elites in Name Only. This book documents the perfect storm of central planning, economic ignorance and hubris emanating from the Clinton Administration, Ivy League economic departments, Wall Street and, most importantly, the Federal Reserve that led to the crisis.
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Mal McAllan Celebrates 20 Years With National Storage
We sat down with our General Manager of Properties & Projects, Mal McAllan, as he reaches this significant career milestone.
After more than 20 years in black and yellow, Mal McAllan has become synonymous with storage. From a chance encounter with a young Andrew Catsoulis on a Gold Coast construction site, to now leading our ever-expanding Property team, Mal is the epitome of a true Aussie success story.
As National Storage has evolved, so has Mal's role and responsibilities. When asked what his biggest professional challenge was to date, aside from the many natural disasters he has personally had to combat, Mal mentioned the period immediately post-listing. But in his usual happy-go-lucky manner, he referred to it not as a challenge, but an opportunity.
"When we first listed on the ASX, it provided us with the opportunity to expand in a short period of time. We managed to adapt at speed and grow the business to become the industry leader we are today."
Mal McAllan (right) with his brother and colleague, Ross McAllan.
However, despite the many avenues for growth and change, the real reason Mal has opted to share his time and talents with us for more than two decades is, of course, our people, and our unwavering values.
"Despite the fact that we are an ASX 200 company, National Storage is still a family business at heart. I appreciate being able to work with my brother Ross – my son Tavis previously worked with us also."
Follow Mal's National Storage journey below.
1997: Mal assisted in building the first storage centre at Oxley.
1998: Mal and his wife Karen were asked to manage National Storage Aspley. Fun fact: Karen worked with National Storage for approximately 17 years.
2001: When the National Mini Storage portfolio was purchased, Mal was asked to take on the role of Property Maintenance Manager.
2002: Mal was asked to join the Head Office team.
2005: Mal became our Property Manager. This role has evolved as the team has grown to meet the demand posed by new centres.
2020: Mal is now our General Manager of Properties and Projects.
From opportunities for international travel, to the feeling of autonomy in his role, Mal can't help but sing the praises of the job he loves. Upon reflection, as humble as he is, he also takes great pride in his achievements.
"I really value being part of the team that has contributed to growing the company from a single storage centre at Oxley, to over 190 centres today."
Looking forward, Mal hopes to continue to train and educate his team so that he is able to foster talent, while also freeing up his time to focus more on project-based work – namely, adding the latest technology to our existing portfolio.
When posed the question "what would you say to someone considering joining our team?"
Mal simply smiled at his brother and said
"be good at your job."
And that right there, is Mal in a nutshell.
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