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Thomas Tuchel challenges Chelsea to stop coasting after Zenit St Petersburg draw
Chelsea finished as Group H runners-up after conceding a stoppage-time equaliser in 3-3 draw at Zenit St Petersburg; Thomas Tuchel: "Our behaviour changes when we have a lead and this is something we never did and we should never do."
Thursday 9 December 2021 09:33, UK
Thomas Tuchel says his Chelsea side are changing their behaviour when in the lead, after a 3-3 draw against Zenit St Petersburg enabled Juventus to finish top of their Champions League group.
Thomas Tuchel has challenged Chelsea to stop fixating on the scoreboard and coasting when in the lead.
The Blues rounded off their Champions League Group H campaign with a galling 3-3 draw at Zenit St Petersburg, finishing second behind Juventus.
The Stamford Bridge side had already secured their slot in the last 16, but twice squandered control in Russia - to take their goals conceded tally to six in two matches.
A frustrated Tuchel insisted his players were still taking his messages on board, but have fallen into a bad habit of relaxing once ahead in matches.
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Image: Claudinho celebrates his equalising strike
Chelsea will jump straight from Russia to hosting Leeds in the Premier League on Saturday, where Tuchel will demand standards rise quickly, especially in light of last weekend's 3-2 defeat at West Ham.
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"I won't take it personally that you make a judgement here that my players are not listening to me, which I don't find so nice but I leave it with you and your opinion," said Tuchel.
"I think that we had a very good first 15 minutes and we stopped doing the things we did in the first 15 minutes.
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"We were forgetting why we were the better team, because of the investment, the level of concentration, the level of physical investment was high enough to be the better team.
It happened to us at West Ham and it happened again today. The reaction was good again, that shows me that it's not about what we can do, because we can do it.
Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel
"Once this drops, five, 10 per cent, and it does; once we start managing results and changing our behaviour from what the score is, we get punished at the moment.
"It happened to us at West Ham and it happened again today. The reaction was good again, that shows me that it's not about what we can do, because we can do it.
"Suddenly when we concede two goals we can step up, we can show a reaction. But once we have the lead we give it away again, like also today.
"The last six minutes again we started playing balls back, we started not attacking in the same aggression, the same hunger as before and we got immediately punished, now twice."
Image: Timo Werner gave Chelsea an early lead
Timo Werner bagged a brace and also teed up fit-again Romelu Lukaku for a tap-in, but the Blues leaked three frustrating goals on a chastening night on the road.
A host of enforced changes due to injuries and fatigue took their toll on Chelsea's usually-rigid tactics, but Tuchel remains unsatisfied with the current state of affairs in west London.
"My analysis is very clear: our behaviour changes when we have a lead and this is something we never did and we should never do," said Tuchel.
Image: Romelu Lukaku tapped home to make it 2-2
"We do the things that we want to do on the highest level and we push ourselves and it hurts and it has to hurt.
"You have to play through pain - physical pain - and you have to raise your level of concentration and you have to overcome adversity.
"If you change your behaviour because of the score, you allow the possibility to get punished. And it's very easy; we need a higher level of sprints, a higher level of runs, a higher level of intensity and concentration.
"It's as easy as the basics. The basics need to be pushed onto a higher level while we are in the lead."
Image: Magomed Ozdoev celebrates his 94th-minute screamer
When is the draw for the last 16?
The Champions League last-16 draw takes place in Nyon, Switzerland on Monday, December 13.
The last-16 ties will be split across different weeks, with the first legs taking place on February 15-16 and February 22-23. The second legs are then on March 8-9 and March 15-16.
Chelsea host Leeds at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League (kick-off 3pm); Zenit visit Dynamo Moscow at 11am on Sunday.


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A couple weeks ago we announced the opening of our gift shop on Wolfe Creek Preserve, and now we would like to share some pictures with you! As you can see in our image gallery, we've put a lot of hard work and effort into creating more than just a gift shop, but an immersive experience that fits the theme of Branson Zipline and Canopy Tours and will stay with you long after you've left the property.
We feature countless trinkets, decorations, snacks and more, and it would be near impossible to cover everything in one post, though there are a few select items we would like to highlight.
Certainly, we can't talk about the gift shop without mentioning our authentic Amish Feast snacks and spreads. Hand-crafted by the area Amish community, these make for great gifts, and we highly recommend everyone sample the Strawberry-Jalapeno spread.
Those interested in antiques will find a wide range of rustic decorations and popular toys and games from yesteryear. And of course, what better way to support Branson's favorite zip line and canopy adventure than with a Branson Zipline and Canopy t-shirt?
We highly encourage everyone to get out and visit Wolfe Creek Preserve to browse our latest addition to the property. You could even book one of our zip line and canopy tour options on our official site and turn your visit into a full day adventure.
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WOW! I just checked out the pictures of the gift shop in the image gallery and it looks amazing! I could spend hours in there!
Mentioning the Amish Feast snacks and spreads makes my mouth water!
What a way to twist things up! I bet that gift shop would be fun place and it does look pretty great.
My friend got some of the Strawberry-Jalapeno spread and it was amazing! I also recommend it.
I saw the jalepeno jelly, and it looked quite good – I'm sure if I set myself up with cream cheese and crackers along with it, I'd really enjoy it!
I will have to go back to get some of the Amish jams. I forgot last time I was there with the excitement of the zip lines and photos of our group on the zip lines.
I have tried some of the Amish Feast products – they are truly great!
My mouth is watering! Deliciousness galore!
I wasn't sure what to expect with the gift shop, and after looking at the pictures, I am amazed! It looks even more fantastic than I had imagined.
Oh my gosh, the gift shop looks even more amazing then it sounds! I cant wait to go visit it for my self and try some of the Strawberry-Jalapeno spread!
The pics look great! I can't wait until I get to make it down there!
I really should have gotten a water bottle when I went there. They looked really nice, and I've definitely needed one since then!
It likes a little town inside the gift shop! That's so cool and adds to the overall feel!
Wow the pics are amazing and the Strawberry-Jalapeno spread sounds great!
I wanna shop all day till I drop. And i would get to do the zipline too, that sounds awesome.
What a great addition, and gives you an extra way to remember your awesome experience.
I am willing to drive to Branson solely for strawberry-jalepeno spread.


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Working with Pookie has been, and will continue to be, an exercise in patience. Not only on my part as I homeschool him, but on his also as he learns to communicate with us. He learns differently than his sister. Yes, this is a common within all homeschooling families in that each child has their own learning style. When a child has special needs which affect their ability to learn, the differences can be more visible.
We were told early on after his diagnosis that he would likely always be behind in his schooling. Those with Classic Autism can have developmental delays that affect their schooling. Some may be physical limits that prevent them from writing, others may have cognitive delays. In fact, there are some cases of Classic Autism where the child also has a mild form of mental retardation. On the other side of it, you read of cases where the child with Classic Autism is very intelligent but has other issues that discount a Asperger's diagnosis. Like all levels of the spectrum, Classic Autism has a wide range of limits and abilities that gives each child a uniqueness. There are no "cookie cutter" autistic cases. Each is unique. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses.
When we first started homeschooling Pookie, I had purchased Preschool and Pre-K level workbooks at the discount store. I knew that he would require a lot of repetition and practice to learn. I found quite early on that the worksheets were beyond his ability at that time. I tucked the workbooks back onto a shelf and got busy working with him on tactile activities that would build up his fine motor skills. That is one of his largest challenge areas. As an infant, he had never developed the pincer movement. It is amazing how much that affected other areas! Holding a pencil has been tough. I have had to aid him in doing so. He still lacked the ability/understanding to press down to transfer the pencil marks onto paper. The hurdle needed to be crossed before he would be able to do the worksheets as they are intended.
At first, I placed a worksheet into a sheet protector and gave him a dry erase marker. This worked well due to the marker not requiring him to apply much pressure. I found that one problem with that option was that I did not have a page to put into a portfolio. I had nothing that I could use as a comparison to judge how much progress he was making.
Today, I got out a workbook and his Pen Again "Twist n Write" mechanical pencil. I helped him place his fingers properly on the pencil and gave him the worksheet. The worksheets were ones that required him to draw a line connecting 2 matching objects. Simple page, but for a child with Pookie's challenges, it required some extra effort on his part. I verbally guided him at first, then as he did the 2nd page, he was doing it on his own.
It has taken nearly 7 months of work to reach this point. He has far yet to go, but this step is a big one. Not only does it show that his fine motor abilities are growing, but it shows a cognitive progress also. It demonstrates that he is understanding visual discrimination.
We are enjoying a season of progress. It seems that with Pookie, his progress comes in spurts. He will progress in a few areas, then suddenly will stop progressing for a short time. During the low progress times, we simply end up maintaining what he has achieved and pray that he doesn't have a regression. As those familiar with autism already knows, it is a long term journey where you deal with a lot of the "2 steps forward, 1 step back" routine. It is as though they are chugging along and suddenly hit a wall. They have to regroup before moving forward again.
Through all of this, we know that the Lord is guiding us in working with Pookie. The Lord also is blessing Pookie daily. Rarely do I have a day with Pookie where I don't have an "I saw God today" moment. Those are some of the most precious times. Each day, we see examples of the Lord's grace in our kids. Whether it is Pookie making progress, Little Miss' compassion and love for her brother, or simply seeing the joy in the kids. It is all blessings.
The progress being made hasn't happened overnight or without work. It has taken patience and will continue to do so. There are days when things just don't connect, but those days are few. We learn to roll with it. The blessings are worth any time it is taking to achieve the progress. Each new step made is a gift and a cause of celebration. It is a time of thanking God for His generous blessing.
No doubt about it. A shopping trip is often a fun time with our kids, but there are some times when a fun trip can quickly turn into a dramatic event. Today was one of them.
Little Miss was watching a movie with our grandson at his home. I took the opportunity to take Pookie with me to the grocery store. At first, he did great. The store was quiet enough that he didn't have the sensory overloads that can occur at times. That was until another parent with 3 kids was in the same isle we were in. The oldest boy, who looked to be about 10-12 years of age, bumped their shopping cart into ours. When his Mom said nothing, he did it again….twice. After the 3rd bump, Pookie reacted. My quiet son suddenly cried out with a look of sheer unadulterated terror on his face. He reached for me and began trying to climb onto me to get out of the shopping cart seat. I tried to comfort and calm him, but he was beyond calming.
To cope with being in the stores, sometimes Pookie will go into "Pookie-Land" and withdraw enough to allow him to manage with all the stimuli around him. He isn't completely withdrawn, but just enough that he can process and cope with what is going on around him. When that child kept bumping their cart into ours (even though I tried to move away) he in effect jerked Pookie out of his coping zone. The result was that he was frightened to the point of pure terror.
I did all of the usual techniques that would normally calm and distract him. One is to have him help me push the shopping cart. He walked a couple of steps and his knees gave out. He was shaking so hard from the fright that he couldn't walk properly. I stood there in the store isle holding him in my arms with his head on my shoulder. As I gently spoke to him and rubbed his back (another calming technique) I could feel him shaking and his heart pounding in fear. I quickly finished getting the absolute essentials such as milk, bread, and eggs. The entire time, I had to carry my son. He was afraid to get back into the shopping cart yet would drop to the floor if I tried to have him walk.
The parent of the boy who caused such emotional distress in my son never said a word to her boy. In fact, when her young daughter saw how distressed Pookie was and remarked about it, their mom simply said that he was a "spoiled momma's boy" and went her merry way.
I would like to say that this kind of thing is rare. Sadly, it happens more often than you might think. Some parents choose to allow their "darlings" to act however they please in stores and other public places without any thought of teaching them proper behavior. When their child causes a problem for someone else, they don't reprimand their own child, but will ignore their child's actions and speak unkindly of the one who was upset or harmed.
Unless you have or know personally a child with Autism, you have no clue how difficult it is for them to be in public places. To have to cope with all the sensory stimuli that overwhelms them on a daily basis is one of the most courageous things I have ever witnessed. To watch my son face it, coping well, only to be completely terrorized by a naughty child breaks my heart every time. To watch the naughty child's parent ignore their child's behavior is difficult at best.
If my son is to grow up able to handle necessary tasks, such as going to a store or other public locations, I have to expose him to it. I try to take him to quieter locations whenever possible and gradually build him up to being able to handle a busy location. It is absolutely critical that he be able to manage it as he gets older.
It is quite ironic that I am having to train my Autistic son to cope with busy, public locations when many parents choose to ignore training their "typical" kids how to behave properly in those same places.
Our kids have been taking a holiday break for the past little while. I have my mixed feelings about this. I know that the time off is great for everyone, but I already am seeing that getting back into the routine can be a bit bumpy.
We are started back up doing a very light load yesterday with a bit heavier amount of schoolwork today. That has worked out great! Tomorrow morning, we have to drive Daddy back to the truck. Because of the distance we have to drive (160 miles round trip) we will have another light day tomorrow when we get home.
Pookie is letting me know that he is ready to get back to the homeschool routine. I see more and more just how much he needs the consistency of the routine we had set up. Days that are not going according to his schedule cause him to have more issues. He gets cranky and just seems "off" more than often than not. Luckily, once the routine is re-established, he gets back to normal rather quickly.
Little Miss is doing an increased curriculum now. We are adding more writing, which she doesn't always enjoy, but it is broken up into smaller assignments. That alone makes it much easier to manage. We have also added a totally new incentive to get her to write more. For Christmas, we found each of the kids a very inexpensive android tablet. Little Miss has her own email account (was needed for the kids' tablets to be set up) and will be emailing close family, our Pastor and his wife. The idea is that she has to handwrite the email message before typing it in. We use a prepay Internet WiFi device, which I will turn on after I have proofread her emails so that she can send them. Answering emails from others will give her further practice in spelling and sentence composition.
Pookie has Tap-To-Talk on his tablet. What a blessing this will be! The free starter app has the very basics that is giving him a start. The app is basically pictures, arranged by category, that when tapped will speak for him. Through this device, he will be able to communicate with others. I am looking for an app that will turn his tablet into a word processor also. If he has trouble writing, he can at least learn to write and spell using the word processor.
By the end of this week, the kids will be back to their routine of using workboxes and doing a full day's curriculum each day. I can't wait to get it back to where it should be. Gratefully, the kids are ready too.


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Detective Comics (vol. 1) #743 (Apr. 2000):
"Evolution: Part One: Whispers in the Dark"
by Greg Rucka, Shawn Martinbrough, Steve Mitchell
Detective Comics (vol. 1) #743
Title: "Evolution: Part One: Whispers in the Dark"
Feature: Batman (Bruce Wayne)
Medium: comic
Cover date: Apr. 2000
Written by: Greg Rucka
Art by: Shawn Martinbrough, Steve Mitchell
11 characters in this story:
Batman (Bruce Wayne)
(lead character)
Episcopalian / Catholic (lapsed); atheist
Batman family; Quinntets...
Super Friends; The Justice League; The Mystery Analysts of Gotham City; The Outsiders (leader)
[butler] 3,048
GCPD; The Mystery Analysts of Gotham City 2,797
Oracle (Barbara Gordon)
Batman family; Birds of Prey...
Seven Soldiers of Victory; The Justice League; The Network; The Suicide Squad
fundamentalist Environmentalist; alchemist
Secret Society of Super Villains; The League of Assassins (leader) 151
Harvey Bullock
Checkmate; Gotham Major Crimes Unit 259
Lucius Fox
[1st app: Batman (vol. 1) #307 (Jan. 1979)] 101
Hardback (Mackenzie Bock)
GCPD
[became chief of police after Jim Gordon retired] 33
Whisper A'Daire
Intergang; The League of Assassins 10
Kyle Abbot
Intergang; The League of Assassins
[Whisper a'Daire's 2nd-in-command] 12
Able Crown
(behind the scenes)
[Gotham City crime boss. Owned an orphanage.] 3
The process of listing characters who appeared in this source is not yet complete. This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. An alternative form of this story's title is: "Whispers in the Dark". Webpage for Detective Comics #743 (Apr. 2000) created 11 September 2012. Last modified 9 March 2014.

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Romney picks HE Conservative of the Year Paul Ryan as running mate
The ticket is set and the choice couldn't be clearer, as Romney makes a bold pick with Paul Ryan.
John Hayward
From the deck of the USS Wisconsin, in Norfolk, Virginia, Paul Ryan was formally welcomed as Mitt Romney???s running mate on Saturday morning.
???Governor Romney is the man for this moment,??? Ryan said. ???And he and I share one commitment: we will restore the dreams and greatness of this country.??? After discussing his late father???s imperative that ???every generation of Americans leaves their children better off,??? Ryan declared, ???It is our duty to save the American dream for our children, and theirs.???
???For the last 14 years, I have proudly represented Wisconsin in Congress,??? said Ryan. ???There, I have focused on solving the problems that confront our country, and turning ideas into action; and action into solutions. I am committed, in mind and heart, to putting that experience to work in a Romney administration. This is a crucial moment in the life of our nation; and it is absolutely vital that we select the right man to lead America back to prosperity and greatness. That man is standing next to me. His name is Mitt Romney. And he will be the next president of the United States.???
Ryan offered a strong critique of the incumbent president: ???No one disputes President Obama inherited a difficult situation. And, in his first 2 years, with his party in complete control of Washington, he passed nearly every item on his agenda. But that didn???t make things better.???
???In fact, we find ourselves in a nation facing debt, doubt and despair,??? Ryan continued. ???This is the worst economic recovery in 70 years. Unemployment has been above 8 percent for more than three years, the longest run since the Great Depression. Families are hurting. We have the largest deficits and the biggest federal government since WW II. Nearly 1 out of 6 Americans are in poverty–the worst rate in a generation. Moms and dads are struggling to make ends meet. Household incomes have dropped by more than $4,000 over the past four years. Whatever the explanations, whatever the excuses, this is a record of failure.???
Ryan believes things can get better. ???I hear some people say that this is just ???the new normal.??? High unemployment, declining incomes and crushing debt is not a new normal. It's the result of misguided policies. And next January, our economy will begin a comeback with the Romney Plan for a Stronger Middle Class that will lead to more jobs and more take home pay for working Americans??? We Americans look at one another's success with pride, not resentment – because we know, as more Americans work hard, take risks, and succeed, more people will prosper, our communities will benefit, and individual lives will be improved and uplifted.???
He has a very different campaign from the one Barack Obama has been running in mind. ???We won???t duck the tough issues??? we will lead!??? he promised. ???We won't blame others…we will take responsibility! We won't replace our founding principles…we will reapply them! We will honor you, our fellow citizens, by giving you the right and opportunity to make the choice: What kind of country do we want to have? What kind of people do we want to be? We can turn this thing around. Real solutions can be delivered. But, it will take leadership, and the courage to tell you the truth. Mitt Romney is this kind of leader. I'm excited for what lies ahead and I'm thrilled to be a part of America's Comeback Team. And together, we will unite America and get this done.???
Ryan brings a number of excellent qualities to the Romney ticket, including a crucial ability to make complex budgetary issues easily understandable to the layman. Here are his ???Path to Prosperity??? videos, in which he introduced the basic principles of his budget proposal:
Ryan???s conservative credentials include being named as HUMAN EVENTS??? Conservative of the Year 2011. On that occasion, Larry Kudlow praised Ryan???s intelligence and mastery of fiscal affairs: ???In a White House meeting this year, Ryan???s superior knowledge of healthcare baffled Obama and left him speechless. And the serious Ryan budget, which lowers spending by $6.2 trillion and reduces deficits by $4.4 trillion over 10 years, totally outflanked the White House. It embarrassingly exposed the Obama Administration???s flimsy and inconsequential 2012 budget, which even rejected the findings of Obama???s own Bowles-Simpson fiscal commission (Another Oval Office embarrassment).???
That might be what led President Obama to take the remarkable step of inviting Paul Ryan to sit in the front row of a ???budget speech??? that turned out to be nothing of the kind. Instead, it was a ridiculous fantasia that even liberal analysts refused to score, because as Congressional Budget Office chief Douglas Elmendorf explained, ???We don???t estimate speeches. We need much more specificity than was provided in that speech for us to do our analysis.??? Obama seems to have staged the speech largely to insult Paul Ryan.
And when Ryan dismantled Obama???s Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, during congressional hearings, a flustered Geithner coughed up one of the legendary sound bites of this failed presidency: ???We're not becoming before you to say we have a definitive solution to our long-term problem. What we do know is that we don't like yours.??? Ryan had just explained to Geithner that CBO models showed the entire United States economy shutting down in 2027, if Barack Obama???s path was followed.
That???s a powerful illustration of the difference between Obama, and what the Romney ticket wants to offer America: fearmongering, scare tactics, and gaseous non-plans from the Democrats, versus a serious effort to contend with America???s fiscal problems from the Republicans.
Here's Ryan taking Obama to school on health care reform in February 2010:
Ryan???s not just a budget expert, though. For example, he gave an impressive speech linking America???s economic strength to foreign policy at the Hamilton Society in June 2011:
We???ve had four years of reckless spending. Every single prediction Barack Obama made about the economy and his policies has been wildly incorrect. We have seemingly permanent unemployment that???s over two percent higher than what he claimed his stimulus would produce??? and even higher than what he said unemployment would be without his trillion-dollar spending plan. Paul Ryan will be a key element in a serious response to this incredibly expensive lunacy and corruption.
Paul Ryan???s selection electrifies GOP grassroots
Paul Ryan named 2011 Human Events Conservative of the Year
Written By John Hayward
John Hayward began his blogging career as a guest writer at Hot Air under the pen name "Doctor Zero," producing a collection of essays entitled Doctor Zero: Year One. He is a great admirer of free-market thinkers such as Arthur Laffer, Milton Friedman, and Thomas Sowell. He writes both political and cultural commentary, including book and movie reviews. An avid fan of horror and fantasy fiction, he has produced an e-book collection of short horror stories entitled Persistent Dread. John is a former staff writer for Human Events. He is a regular guest on the Rusty Humphries radio show, and has appeared on numerous other local and national radio programs, including G. Gordon Liddy, BattleLine, and Dennis Miller.


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Can anyone help with about 10 caterpillars as we are out of food for them.
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Q: 2 columns layout: how to make the 2 columns scrolling independently I bought a Bootstrap Theme a while ago and I need to customize it. I target only 1024px screen and above.
Here is the demo page: http://wbpreview.com/previews/WB05FN804/
Basically the theme is a 2-columns layout. Wherever your cursor is on the page you scroll up and down the right/main column. Therefore if your cursor is on the left columns, scrolling up and down scrolls the whole page.
I'd like to provide a 2 scrolling mechanism: a specific scroll for the left columns and a specific scroll for the main/right column.
I added overflow: scroll on <nav id="primary">. It is working; it you open all the folder menus in order to exceed the height, you can scroll up and down.
However when you reach the top or the bottom, it continues to scroll the right column.
This is what I want to fix.
How can I achieve it?
Thanks in advance

A: Now your page is leveraging browser scroll feature. One robust way to prevent right column to stop scrolling when you are in left navigation is to set Overflow:Hidden; to  the body and remove overflow inline css when you mouse out from primary nav..
Simple jQuery should help you?
$("#primary").hover(
    function(){$("body").css("overflow", "hidden")},
    function(){$("body").css("overflow", "")}
);

Hope this helps!

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Winslow -> Picadilly -> Westminster -> Commons Dr -> Westminster -> Allendale -> Bainbridge -> Laura -> Jamie -> Rhorer. Loop back. Jamie -> Laura -> Elliston -> Across Sherwood Oaks park -> East on Winslow. Stop at Allendale.
Pretty good. First time running without Run Double, with no indication of distance.
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Ozon opens its largest fulfillment hub in Siberia, invests RUB 3.5bn in the region
Ozon, Russia's leading multi-category e-commerce platform, has opened a new fulfillment center in Novosibirsk at the PNK Park Tolmachevo logistics complex. The fulfillment hub is the Company's largest logistics center in the Siberian Federal District and it makes it much easier for local sellers to access the Ozon marketplace.
The fulfilment center will have a floor area of 14,000 sqm with the possibility of expanding it to as much as 64,000 sqm in the future. At current capacity, the fulfillment center can store more than 4 million items and process more than 85,000 parcels per day.
Ozon invested RUB 600 million into the first construction phase of the fulfillment center and plans to invest a total of almost RUB 3.5 billion (approx. USD 47 million) into the facility within four years. The majority of the funds will be used to purchase high-tech equipment and create proprietary IT systems to automate operations.
With the opening of the fulfillment center, Ozon will create around 1,000 new jobs in the Novosibirsk region in the logistics hub alone. The marketplace will also attract new couriers and partners to Ozon's network of delivery pick-up points.
The arrival of a large logistics facility will spur the development of e-commerce in the region, which accounted for only 8.1% of the total retail market in 2020 (according to AKIT, The Association of Internet Trade Companies). First and foremost, the fulfillment center will allow local entrepreneurs to deliver goods to the marketplace more quickly and lower logistics expenses. Goods stored in Ozon's Novosibirsk hub are sold all over the country and abroad, giving local sellers an opportunity to establish national and even global sales.
Sergey Semka, Deputy Governor of the Novosibirsk Region, commented at the opening ceremony of the Ozon fulfillment center:
"The opening of this center means new opportunities for the region, including job creation and capital investment. For our local entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations, this is an opportunity to find new markets not only in the Siberian Federal District but throughout the entire country and even the world. In just one year, the number of entrepreneurs who partner with Ozon in our region has increased sixfold, which is an impressive rate of growth."
Mikhail Chebotnikov, Director of Ozon's logistics in the Siberian region, commented:
"Ozon's mission is to support entrepreneurs who want to develop their online sales. This support is particularly needed in the regions where small and medium-sized businesses dominate, and by support we mean comprehensive assistance. It starts with helping entrepreneurs register on the marketplace and goes through every aspect of the process, including creating a network of pick-up points where customers can collect the items they order from local entrepreneurs. Logistics hubs play a key role in this support network. They ensure that sellers no longer need to incur costs for transportation to central warehouses. At the same time, they enable goods to appear on the site much faster and be delivered with greater speed, making it easier and more profitable to sell online."
The opening of a fulfillment center just 30 km away from Novosibirsk will make it possible to offer next-day delivery of 4 million items that are already stored at the center to 1,500 locations in the region. To make deliveries more convenient, Ozon is developing a last-mile network in the Siberian region that already includes more than 1,000 Ozon-branded parcel lockers and in-person pick-up points.
Ozon is opening the fulfillment center in partnership with PNK Group, a Russian developer of industrial facilities, which carried out the project on built-to-lease terms at the PNK Park Tolmachevo industrial grounds. This format implies that the facility for lease is built in accordance with Ozon's technical specifications.
At the end of 2020, Ozon's turnover in the Siberian Federal District grew by 3.5 times year-on-year. Sellers from the region earned RUB 1.3 billion with the help of the Ozon marketplace. Currently more than 1,600 entrepreneurs from the region sell their goods on Ozon. The marketplace model contributes to the development of the accompanying ecosystem of service and training companies, logistics and courier services, which creates new jobs and has a positive effect on the regional economy overall. In addition, local entrepreneurs who open delivery pick-up points contribute to the development of e-commerce in the region.
Photographs of the new fulfillment center and other Ozon infrastructure are available at the following link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uSSQEwveh-QhokOhHLV1xx8XCbHomUy1?usp=sharing
2021-04-29 10:33 Logistics


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Hi Jasna, talk about weird weather, ralley all 4 seasons in one day.I love any animal print outfits, and I must say the leopard print suits you ralley well. The hat is cute, pink is always feminine, love it.I am surprised your site was not the winner, in my humble opinion you are the best fashion blog there is, why do you think I never entered, it is because I never had a chance against you hehe In all honesty, rest assured, you have a fabulous site and I think you cover a wide spectrum of fashion, specially considering your posting and link to Stylescoop. Anyway, not the end of the world, you know you have loads of loyal supporters and that is the most important.How is your adsense adds doing? Just asking, you dont have to reply to that, I am just curious.Have a lovely day.Colin.
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You need to start taking responsibility of your life, your decisions, and your faith now.
All of those things matter.
All of those are things where you have a lot of control now.
Yes, you have parents, you have teachers, you have other adults around you who are teaching you.
And they can tell you great things, and they can teach you great things.
And we as a church and can teach you great things.
But that is worthless if you don't do anything with it.
And it's up to you to put the lessons into action.
I say these things because I know it can be easy to put it off, it can be easy to feel like you're not responsible for your cohoices.
I know you can feel this way because I know adults who are a lot older than you guys are who still think that way. Who still haven't really grown up. Who still haven't taken responsibility.
There's no magical time when you should start.
Do you want to be a great person? Do you want to have a great life?
What are you doing today to make that possible?
Because if you go your whole childhood and think "Eh, I'm just a kid" and don't take responsibility and don't take ownership, you're going to make the life that you want harder.
Now is the time to work hard.
When your friends just want to play video games and watch TV, to make sure you've studied.
I'm not saying to stop having fun, to stop doing things you like.
And to show you care by putting in the work.
To make it a way of life.
For the things that are really hard or that you don't understand, where it might be tempting to say "I just don't get it" to get help. To ask a teacher, ask someone to help you.
We're almost never good at something we don't practice. We're almost never good at something we don't work at.
Don't focus on what you don't have. There are people who have it worse. There are people who have less. There are people in worse situations.
All of your life, there will always be setbacks, there will always be things that aren't perfect.
You have to work through imperfect situations. You have to deal with imperfect teachers. Guess what, you'll also have imperfect bosses. You'll also have imperfect spouses. If you have kids, you'll have imperfect kids.
Don't think that what you need to succeed is perfect circumstances, perfect health, a perfect group of people around you, perfect support from everyone, to already have the talent and the knowledge and then once you have all of those things, then you can succeed.
Don't fall into that way of thinking. Because it's wishful thinking for something that isn't reality.
Because the world is imperfect. People are imperfect.
And you have to find ways to work hard and succeed in spite of that.
Because no one does more to get in our way than us.
Do you ever tell yourself you're going to do something and you don't do it.
No one has broken more promises to you than you have.
No one has stopped you more han you have.
No one stops you from working hard, you do that.
No one stops you from learning, you decide it's too hard and decide not to.
No one stops you from practicing and getting better at something, you decide to spend that time doing something else.
And no one is going to hold your hand and make sure you succeed and work hard. You have to do that for yourself.
Not in the future, not when you grow up. Today.
Get into those habits today, make it a way of life today. Start pushing yourself today.
Do that, and you'll dominate.
Becuae most of your classmates aren't doing that.
And when you're working, most of your co-workers won't be doing that either. Most people are lazy, most people look for the easy way.
Think about people who are successful.
Then you have to work for it.
Nothing is handed to you.
Nothing that's truly worth having comes easy.
Are you doing things today that will put you in a position to succeed?
Work is a good thing. Hard work is a good thing.
So many of us try to avoid working hard. Try to always find the easy way, the path of least resistance.
But work is a good thing. We were created to work.
The Book of Genesis begins with God creating the heavens and the earth. God makes everything.
And God's creation is said to be "very good." Because God is good.
A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush.And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Did you see that at the end?
We were made for work.
If we were to keep reading in the book of Genesis, Adam and his wife Eve choose to disobey God, this is called sin.
But even before they sin, God tells Adam to work and keep the garden.
Work is a good thing that God introduced into his very good creation.
Now I realize that you aren't farming the land. But this verse is no less true for us.
That there is blessing in working hard.
That doesn't mean everything will be easy or perfect.
We have so much freedom and ease in 2019 that it's easy to do nothing. To just hang out, again, just watch TV, or video games, or YouTube, and not really accomplish anything.
I'm not saying never do that stuff.
But start with the work that you need to get done and then enjoy doing things that are relaxing.
Don't blow stuff off. Because if you do that, you'll make your life so much harder than it needs to be.
Laziness is a sin. Laziness goes against what God desires of us.
Because our lives themselves are meant to bring glory to God.
In no other area of life is this advice truer than our faith and our walk with God. That's on you. That's up to you. No matter how you're raised or who your parents are, you need to know God and pursue him.
No matter how often you go to church or youth group, you need to make that relationship with God your own. You need to take ownership of that.
No matter how well our parents or pastors are trying to lead us to faith, none of that matters if you don't take that step out on your own and believe in Jesus and the grace that he offers.
For more information on knowing Jesus, read here.


At a recent forum in Manchester, NH, Jeb Bush discussed the topic of advance care planning — with rather unexpected results.
The subject came up in response to a question about his involvement in the Terri Schiavo case back in 2005. During his tenure as governor of Florida, Bush signed a law (subsequently deemed unconstitutional) that allowed him to assist Schiavo's parents in their fight to keep her feeding tube in place.
The intellectual and policy shift that Bush's proposal represents can hardly be overstated. With this statement, Bush has gone even further than the original advance care planning provision in the Affordable Care Act. That provision called only for Medicare to reimburse physicians for having voluntary conversations with their patients about end of life wishes. As you probably also recall, that provision was infamously and erroneously branded as the "death panels" provision, otherwise known as "pulling the plug on grandma." The ensuing uproar not only killed the provision, but has also largely made advance care planning a proverbial third rail in our national politics ever since.
Let's be clear: Bush is not calling for every Medicare beneficiary to sign a DNR. An advance directive communicates a person's care wishes – whatever they are. This wish could be for hospitals to "do everything," or to provide "comfort care only," or for something in between.
That being said, Bush has opened a potentially exciting door here. He has broadened the debate about the appropriate role for our national government in advance care planning. It will be interesting to see whether his idea gets any traction in the primaries or in the general, as the presidential race picks up steam and the debate season draws ever closer.


Mendes was a central defender or defensive midfielder who joined Argyle following a trial period, which ended in him signing a contract during the 2005 pre-season tour of Sweden. He started his career in Portugal with Vitoria Guimaraes and represented Portugal at all age levels up to under-21. He also played for CD Aves, Felgueiras, CD Chaves, Strasbourg in France, Uniao Leiria, Sporting Braga, Moreirense and Santa Clara before joining Argyle.
Bobby Williamson signed him after a recommendation from Jose Mourinho, who had managed Mendes at Uniao Leiria. Just six months into his one-year contract he was released after playing only three games for Argyle. After leaving Home Park he had brief spells with New York Red Bulls and US Creteil-Lusitanos in France, before returning to Portugal and playing for Penafiel, CD Aves, Moreirense, Trofense and Gondomar.


Milestones 2000 is infinitely better than any other type of solitaire card game. Heck, if Microsoft had included this with Windows 3.1, I'd be a Wintel user now!
Maybe not. Anyway, the aim of Milestones is reach either 1500 or 2000 kilometres (interesting, wasn't Ken Franklin from the U.S?). You can only play against the computer, although at the time, that was a sensible decision given that networking wasn't quite so prevalent as it is today. This game could be remade to be played over the net with a chat feature.
But I digress. Again. Travelling to your destination is determined by the deck of cards. You need a 'GO' card before you can even start to move, and the distance you travel is determined by the card you use, which can be travelling a distance of 50, 100, 150, 200 or 400 kilometres in a turn. Other cards can be used on the computer, like giving it a flat tire, a smash, run out of fuel or a 100km/h speed limit. These cards can also be dished out by you and the computer has no mercy. There are also special cards, cards which can make you immune to the hazards your opponent throws at you.
The game is played with the mouse and is very easy to pick up the rules of the game as you play thanks to dialogue messages. If for instance you want to start moving and you have a 'GO' card simply drag it onto your blue car. If you want your opponent to meet with an accident, drag the flat tire card onto his car. The computer will let you know what illegal moves you try to make and why you can't make them.
The game was designed to run with System 5.02 and up, but also plays a treat with System 6.01.


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5 healthiest vegan cheese options for going plant-based | Well+Good
Eating Vegan
A Top Dietitian Ranks the 5 Best, Healthiest Vegan Cheeses on the Market
Allie Flinn・April 28, 2020
Food can be… confusing. Should you be avoiding gluten at all costs? Gobbling up avocados as fast as humanly possible? Well+Good's nutrition experts are setting the story straight when it comes to food, cutting through the hype and hand-wringing and getting you the most comprehensive information on what you should (and maybe shouldn't) put in that body of yours. See All
Curious about trying plant-based, vegan cheese? There are the best options at the grocery store, according to a top dietitian.
It's safe to say that people really, really love their cheese. In fact, the average American consumes 38.15 pounds of cheese (plus an additional seven pounds of processed cheese) every single year, according to USDA data. But as people's interest in going plant-based or dairy-free has risen in recent years, so have the number of vegan cheese alternatives designed to help people eat how they want without having major cheese FOMO.
However, there are so many out there on the market that we asked star dietitian Tracy Lockwood Beckerman, RD, to break down the healthiest vegan cheese options on the most recent episode of You Versus Food. "Alt-cheeses are cheeses made from dairy-free alternatives, such as almonds, cashews, and soy," Beckerman says. And unlike some of the OG fake cheeses of the '90s, she says that the most recent graduating class of alt-cheeses really do look, smell, and taste like the real thing.
However, just because they look like cheese doesn't mean they're all as nutritious as cheese itself. Beckerman cautions that some vegan cheeses are highly processed in order to mimic the taste and texture of actual cheese, and notes that you shouldn't expect alt-cheeses to have the same nutrients as regular cheese—especially protein, calcium, and vitamin D. However, there are a few healthy alt-cheeses that stand out.
However, there are some healthy vegan cheese options out there; one of Beckerman's favorites is Treeline Creamy Soft French-Style Treenut Cheese. It's a "100 percent dairy-free, environmentally-friendly cashew spread that's creamy, tangy, and honestly so good you won't know it's actually dairy-free," she says. Treeline cheeses are also gluten-free and paleo-friendly. "Depending on the flavor, these cheeses have three to five grams of protein per serving, which is great," she says. But what makes these cheeses extra special is that they contain live cultures, which makes them a good source of probiotics.
Watch the video to get more of her thoughts on the most popular alt-cheese options, plus find out which one is her absolute favorite.
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Spastic Cerebral Palsy
Ataxic Cerebral Palsy
Athetoid/Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy
Charity Patron
The Lincolnshire Cerebral Palsy Society are a members based organisation headed by a dedicated team of trustees. We have Annual General Meetings to elect officers and make decisions, all members are welcome to attend these meetings.
Please take a moment to learn a bit about our team:
Sue Lawson
Trustee and Chairperson
Sue's parents, Edna and Ken Coulbeck, were heavily involved in the Lincolnshire Cerebral Palsy Society after their son, Richard, was diagnosed aged two in 1959. As such Sue has grown up with the Society. Edna and Ken were both very active committee members, and over the years both held the position of Chair of the Society. After her mother passed away in 2017, Sue has been dedicated to keeping the charity running in memory of her family.
Carrie Jensen
Trustee, Treasurer & Secretary
Carrie Jensen is a chartered accountant at Forrester Boyd and specialises in the Charity and Academy sector. Carrie has worked professionally with many charities and is looking forward to bringing this experience to the Lincolnshire Cerebral Palsy Society.
Brenda Dickinson
Trustee and Deputy Chairperson
Brenda became involved with the Society in 1949 after her young son, Mark, was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. She remembers how little support there had been in those days when she and her husband would have to drive their son to Sheffield and back weekly as there was nowhere else to get physio in their area. She is proud of the Society's work to open a Child Development Centre in Grimsby, and would like to see more provision for older people with Cerebral Palsy in Lincolnshire.
Phillip Norton
Helen Jefferson
Trustee, PR & Comms Manager
Phillip Norton is an award winning journalist from Grimsby. Having started his career as a trainee at the Grimsby Telegraph, Phillip has worked as a video journalist and correspondent for BBC Look North and the national BBC News since 2005. He is a familiar face on television screens reporting news from across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, winning numerous accolades including O2, Prix Circom and the prestigious Royal Television Society awards in his career so far. His professional role brings many advantages to the charity, providing help and advice with publicity, media relations, print, video and editing skills. He was first introduced to the Lincolnshire Cerebral Palsy Society through supporters Bridge McFarland, and indeed his first role with the charity was to host its relaunch event in Cleethorpes in 2018. After learning about the incredible work the organisation carries out, Phillip was delighted to be asked to become a trustee and help the charity with its future success.
Helen first approached the Society with her son Callum who has spastic quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy. The Society provided assistance where the NHS could not, in acquiring a lycra suit which has helped Callum gain more core stability. Helen has around 15 years medical experience as a nurse and is also studying for a degree in education, putting her in the unique position of being able to provide advice and support from a mum's perspective on any number of challenges that you may face.
Our AGM took place on 24 July 2019 at 1pm in the Bridge McFarland Conference Room, 21-23 Wellowgate, Grimsby, DN32 0RA. Details of the next AGM will be published here in due course.


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1.1 Four functions of phonotactics in constructed languages
1.1.1 Ergonomic phonotactics
1.1.2 Prophylactic phonotactics
1.1.3 Morphological phonotactics
1.2 Self-segregating morphology for logical languages: An overview
Four functions of phonotactics in constructed languages
A language's phonotactics is its restrictions on the patterning of sounds. English phonotactics, for example, prohibits words from starting with the th and n sounds back-to-back, so Dr. Seuss was breaking the rules when he coined the word thneed. Phonotactics often noticeably contributes to the character of a spoken language. Tolkien relied on phonotactics over phonemes to give the Black Speech its harsh and foreign feel. Take the famous couplet that appears inscribed on the One Ring in The Lord of the Rings:
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
Leaving aside that spooky diacritical mark, only the gh-sound is foreign to an English speaker; it's the preponderance of closed syllables and the final zg cluster that really achieve the effect. Such expressiveness alone makes phonotactics worthy of serious attention from any conlanger. But it can serve three quite important functions besides aesthetics.
Ergonomic phonotactics
Some sequences of sounds are easier to pronounce than others. A transition between a uvular consonant and a close front vowel is going to require more effort than a transition between a palatal consonant and the same. Most conlangs will try to avoid sequences of sounds that are hard to do right. Certain consonant clusters are tricky to produce for most people, although which ones cause the most trouble varies by linguistic background. Because of this, in addition to aesthetic reasons, nearly all constructed languages put limits on either the composition or the length of clusters. Phonotactics, needless to say, can make speaking and learning a language easier. It can even aid the perception of contrasts; certain sounds are more distinct when they occur in certain positions in a word. When phonotactics serves these purposes, it can be called ergonomic. Perhaps, where necessary, phonotactic rules of an ergonomic nature could collectively be called E-phonotactics (the E could also stand for "easiness" or "ease-enabling").
Prophylactic phonotactics
Most conlangers never exhaustively list the principles guiding the design of their language, even if it is an "engineered language." One goal that that type of language almost always has, but which seldom gets mentioned, is stability. A language of that type (think of Lojban or Esperanto) should be built so that it will not wear down too quickly with frequent use and lose its more important features. Sound changes are to be guarded against wherever possible, as they generally lead to one or more of three outcomes, all of which are bad. These are the loss of the orthography's predictability and its one-to-one relationship with pronunciation; the creation of new contrasts difficult for some learners to pick up; or — what is most likely — the loss of contrastiveness between segments, entailing homophony between words that were once distinct. These things are bad enough for any schematic conlang; they are fatal to a logical language.
It appears that sound changes can be limited, if never totally prevented, through good design. Naturally this involves phonotactics.
To illustrate: certain types of assimilation are very common across the world of languages and thus easy to foresee. For instance, nasal consonants, especially /n/, tend to assimilate to the place of articulation of following segments. A language that contrasted /an.ba/ with /am.ba/ would be likely to collapse the two words into the latter form. To prevent this, a language can do a bunch of things. It can have one phonemic nasal in coda position, unspecified for place. Or it can increase the functional load of the /nb/-/mb/ contrast — that is, have lots of words differentiated by said contrast — until assimilation would be too costly in information lost. Or it can take the most common approach, which uses phonotactics preventatively: make /nb/ illegal as a consonant cluster. No native morphemes shall have it; and if it arises as a result of compounding, it must be broken up with an epenthetic vowel. This is exactly what Xorban does. Lojban, as well as Xorban, also takes care to prevent voicing assimilation: the two languages do not allow a voiced obstruent and an unvoiced one to be adjacent. Both require the "buffer vowel" when this would happen in a compound word.
A third example, from Lojban, is the rule prohibiting the clusters /nts/, /ndz/, /ndʒ/ and /ntʃ/. This rule exists because it is very common for speakers to insert a stop between a nasal and a fricative at the same place of articulation. It is a notable rule because it bans the forms that would result from a sound change, as opposed to the forms likely to undergo one. The effect is the same as if /ns/, /nz/, etc., had been prohibited — though the orthography loses a bit of its accuracy as a result.
Rules like those above could be characterized as preventative, precautionary or prophylactic. It is useful to distinguish them as belonging to a specific module of the phonological grammar, which might be called P-phonotactics for short.
Certain rules are not classically phonotactical but may be grouped into this module for convenience. Consider rules like "Two words may not differ solely in the voicing of a single segment." (This rule is found in Lojban, too, where its scope is root content words.) Aside from adding redundancy that is useful for communication in noisy environments, they also serve to prevent accidental homophony.
Morphological phonotactics
A fourth kind of phonotactics features only in the least naturalistic of conlangs. It is most often called "morphology" in the logical-language community, which is not exactly wrong, but a nonstandard use of the term. What is meant by "morphology" here is restrictions on the phonological structure of morphemes that are necessary to ensure morphological self-segregation (that is, unambiguity about where morphemes begin and end in a stream of speech.)
Such rules are crucial to a logical language, since you can't have any kind of unambiguity without morphological unambiguity. They typically restrict word-initial phonemes, or syllables, to some set smaller than what the phonotactics would otherwise permit — or do the same thing word-finally. Then words can be identified as always starting, or ending, with a member of the set. Something similar is usually done for morphemes within larger words. However, there are a great number of possibilities for how self-segregation can be implemented, and more than one style of rule can be used at once.
This area of design might more properly be called morpho-phonology, but unfortunately that term is more closely associated with rules of phonological alternation in the surface forms of morphemes, such as vowel harmony, and the study of related phenomena. Most engineered languages do not have very much morpho-phonology by that definition, but they do have some; Lojban's affixes, or rafsi, may have several allomorphs that are used in different phonological contexts. In principle, nothing is stopping an engineered language from being rich in allomorphy. For this reason, I believe it is better to come up with a different name for the phonological constraints that function to bring about self-segregation; I propose morpheme-level phonotactics, or morpho-phonotactics, or M-phonotactics for short. In less technical discussion, using the traditional term "morphology" should be fine, too.
Are there kinds of phonotactics other than the four I have described (aesthetic or artistic, ergonomic or ease-enabling, prophylactic or precautionary, and morphological or morphemic)? Phonotactics can be used to serve most any of the goals of a language. It is key to designing for brevity, naturalism and its opposite, and auditory distinctness, among other things not given their own heading here. However, it seems to me that phonotactics has most often been consciously put to use for the four general reasons outlined above. Hopefully this analysis will help to clarify the motivations behind phonological choices, which can be hard to tease out, and may be obscure even to the designer.
Self-segregating morphology for logical languages: An overview
Unambiguous syntax is the sine qua non of a logical language. One way to understand this is that it is always clear where one part of a sentence ends and the next begins. Logical languages since Loglan have tried to implement this criterion at all structural levels, from the sentence down to the morpheme. (For our purposes, a morpheme is a string of phonemes that encodes meaning and cannot be further broken down into meaningful parts. Examples of morphemes in English include dog and the plural marker s in dogs.) It seems that this is somewhat easier to do in written language than in spoken language. Self-segregation in speech typically requires some rather unnatural rules governing the phonological patterns, or shapes, of morphemes.
Various conlangers have written about the ways in which self-segregation can be built into a language. Jim Henry, notably, put together the well-known "List of self-segregating morphology methods" found at Frathwiki and the Conlang Wikia. I have found this list to be invaluable as a starting point. However, it lacks in generality.
At the most basic level, self-segregation can be accomplished in only a few ways. It involves some basic unit and some kind of higher-level unit made up of basic units. I will call the basic units elements. In the schemes most often discussed, elements are either phonological segments (phonemes) or syllables; but they can also be morae, strings of segments of determinate length, or any other linguistic unit. Higher-level units may be morphemes or words (among other things); but for simplicity's sake, I will not distinguish between morphemes and words, and so refer only to words.
The easiest way to have words self-segregate is to fix their length at some number of elements, for all words. This inflexibility is not very attractive: Who wants a language where, for instance, every single word is two syllables long? Most existing languages use what might be termed an "A-B system." This involves classifying elements into two sets, which are loosely speaking word-initial and word-final: Set A and Set B. Words are then defined in terms of these classes, in one of three ways.
1. The left-breaking method: A word is defined phonologically as a string consisting of any element from A followed optionally by any number of elements from B. Words thus come in the patterns A, AB, ABB, ABBB, etc.
2. The right-breaking method: A word is defined as a string consisting of any element from B, preceded optionally by any number of elements from A. Words come in the patterns B, AB, AAB, AAAB, etc. (The prototypical method is found in Xorban, where a word consists of one or more consonants followed by a peripheral vowel.)
3. The bidirectional method: A word is defined as a string consisting of one or more A-elements followed obligatorily by one or more B-elements. Words end at the juncture where a final B-element meets an initial A-element, or at the end of an utterance. They come in the patterns AB, AAB, ABB, AABB, AABBB, etc.
It is worth noting the resemblance of these three possibilities to prefix, postfix and interfix notation, as well as to the head directionality parameter that features prominently in typology. (In fact, The World Atlas of Language Structures' classification of fixed-stress systems into left- and right-headed types inspired my analysis here.) The formal structure underlying such linear arrangements must have received attention from theoretical linguists and mathematicians; I have regrettably not dug into the literature yet.
This is, of course, a simplified picture. The nuances that can be worked in to a self-segregation system are multifarious. One common trick is a class of special joining elements. For illustration's sake, let us use the left-breaking method. We can define a class C whose members link the element to their left to that to their right. Morphemes can now look like ACA, ACAB, ABCAB, etc., in addition to the patterns shown earlier. Something similar is possible with right-breaking and bidirectional types.
Another twist is to have deferred, or long-distance, effects. For instance, we can define a class of joiners, D, that connect the following two elements to the previous element; and another class, E, that connect the following three. This is similar to what Jeff Prothero's "Plan B" language does by having morpheme-initial segments encode the length of the morphemes they belong to.
The resemblance is superficial, however. Plan B has a qualitatively different self-segregation system. There is no A and B class; every segment carries information about how many segments to the right are bound to it when it occurs word-initially. We can call this a length-encoding system. There are many other ways one can be implemented. It does not have to be the first element in a word that encodes the length. Although that is most practical, it is also possible to have a right-headed or retrogressive system in which the last element determines the number of preceding elements. Alternatively, elements might determine the length of a word to the right and to the left. With more complex variations, it is necessary to either determine levels of precedence for the different classes of element, or have all but one of the elements in a multi-element word belong to a null class, carrying no morphological information. Let me sketch an improbable but theoretically possible system like this:
Figure 1: A length-encoding morphology
* Class A: carries no morphological information.
* Class B: extends a word zero elements to the left and zero elements to the right.
* Class C: extends a word one element to the left and zero to the right.
* Class D: extends word zero elements to the left and one to the right.
* Class E: extends a word two zero elements to the left and two to the right.
* Class F: extends a word one element to the left and one to the right.
Example sentence: ACBDAAFABDA --> AC B DA AFA B DA.
Note that, although here, elements determine the length in elements of the same kind, that is not necessary. A leading consonant, vowel or tone can determine the length in syllables or in morae, and so on. Also worth noting is that the now-familiar threefold classification of directionality seems to apply to this type of system as well.
As demonstrated in Figure 1, it is entirely possible to have rules of differing directionality operating simultaneously. This may be done to permit a greater variety of word-forms, to implement self-segregation at multiple levels of the grammar, or for the sake of redundancy. Lojban exemplifies such a hybrid system. It has a deferred right-breaking rule in the form of fixed penultimate stress. On top of that, it has various joining elements, such as the vowel y and heterosyllabic consonant clusters like rp; and something like a left-breaking rule in its requirement that content words have a consonant cluster in the first five segments. More analysis is needed. Questions of interest include: Is Lojban's cluster requirement best understood as a rule concerning segments, segment sequences or syllables? Which rules, if any, are redundant? Which rules belong to each level of self-segregation?
Most existing logical languages draw a distinction between words and morphemes: they have words containing more than one morpheme. This necessitates two forms of self-segregation operating at once (at least — intermediate-level groupings of morphemes within a word are possible, and occur in Lojban). One elegant system, which allows discrimination between three types of morphemes within a word, is presented by Rick Morneau in his essay on morphology. It provides a good demonstration of how right-breaking rules can be stacked. Morneau's approach is to "[ensure] that each type of morpheme can always be identified by its shape, and . . . that each type can occupy only one position in a word." Three morpheme types are possible in his simplified model: prefix, root and suffix. Only suffixes are obligatory; prefixes and roots may appear zero or more times. Prefixes are of the form consonant-semivowel-vowel; roots, consonant-vowel-nasal; and suffixes, consonant-vowel. Altogether, this constitutes a right-breaking system at the word level, with CV syllables the B-elements; and at the morpheme level, with syllable rimes the B-elements. Morneau uses a similar but more elaborate scheme in his magnum opus.
I believe I have covered the most common and useful ways of implementing morphological self-segregation. Needless to say, there is still much more to investigate in this area. Many combinations of methods remain untested. Some may be impossible or practically useless; others may be quite fruitful. Greater complexity seems often to result in more agreeably naturalistic languages.
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Charlotte Mecklenburg School parents and students are writing letters to the school board to show their support of keeping special education at Randolph Middle School.
"Middle School is a tough time for kids as they are forming character traits that will carry with them into high school. The peer buddy program is a program of honor at Randolph. IB and Horizons students apply for this program to have the opportunity to support the SAC classrooms and students if accepted. Being a peer buddy at Randolph is a respected position. I work with some of the peer buddies weekly at the Lost & Found and I see these middle school students encouraging their SAC buddies to do a good job on their tasks, talk about their weekend fun, and talk about sports/birthdays/shopping/hairstyles. The peer buddies model good social relationships with the SAC students and it emanates outward in the middle school community. I see random middle schoolers in the cafetorium coming in for breakfast. These students stop by and say hi to their peer buddy friends and then show good interaction with great social acceptance to the SAC kids."
"Emma, who was born with Down syndrome, attended RMS in the SAC class during her middle school years. It was there where she gained so much self confidence and made great strides in her academic progress. She also overcame some behavioral challenges and learned positive social skills. All of this was because of the extraordinary special ed teachers there! These teachers really changed the trajectory of Emma's life and what she can accomplish. They were able to work with Emma with her specific challenges in such a way that really showed results. They also sought out opportunities for her to be a part of the regular population through the Peer Buddy Program which was extremely important. Everyone wins in this endeavor! It builds community, strength in character and reinforces the learning experience for all involved. It dissolves the myth that people with special needs weigh down the academic strides of the population. It proves that the reverse is true!"
"I get the privilege of interacting with these wonderful children daily and can't imagine my life without their influence. I'm also incredibly proud of one of my students who has a brother in the SAC program. Seeing the way he fights for his brother is equal parts heartwarming and humbling."
Thank you for sharing comments with this very proud Grandpa. . . dang, how did I get sand in my eye?


Den finska konstnären Silja Rantanen besöker Kungl. Konsthögskolan och ger öppna föreläsningar.
Tid: Den 4 mars, kl 16 och den 5 mars kl 14.
Silja Rantanen (b. 1955) is a Professor of Painting at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Rantanen graduated from the Finnish Art Academy School in 1980. She was an Acting Professor at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm from 1994 to 1995.
Rantanen was one of the first representatives of conceptual painting in Finland in the 1980s. She has held solo exhibitions in art museums in Germany, Russia, Sweden and Norway. She was the Finnish representative at the Venice Biennale in 1986 and was appointed the Artist of the Year of the Helsinki Festival in 1993. The Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere organised a retrospective exhibition of her works in 2011–2012.
Rantanen has been awarded several Nordic prizes, such as the Edstrand Foundation Art Prize in 1994, the Ars Fennica Award in 1996 and the second prize in the Carnegie Art Award Competition in 1999. She was granted the Pro Finlandia medal by the Finnish President in 2005 and the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland in 2012.
Currently, Rantanen participates in a show at Lunds konsthall curated by Gertrud Sandqvist under the titel I strömmen. The theme of the show is Hilma af Klint's art and the show also includes some hither unshown pieces by af Klint.


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In same skillet, melt margarine over medium heat. Add onions and cook 6 to 7 minutes or until tender and golden, stirring occasionally. Return beef to skillet with onions. Stir in ketchup and dried dill. Reduce heat to low; stir in parsley and sour cream.
Spoon ground-beef mixture into mashed-potato crust; garnish with dill sprigs to serve.


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At Resurrection, we seek to love some of the most vulnerable people in our community. This aim is evident in our ministry to those who have been trafficked, to refugees, and to children at risk. The motivation for this ministry is the basic premise of the dignity of the human person. And at its foundation, we believe that loving the helpless in our community starts with loving the most vulnerable of our society: unborn children.
40 is an inspirational movie that examines the effects of abortion on our nation over the last 40 years since Roe v. Wade. 40 gives voice to both sides fairly and lets women speak from experience on the reasons for their convictions about abortion. Visit the event webpage to reserve free tickets or learn more.
The goal of our Sanctity of Life ministry team at Resurrection is to be a voice for the voiceless in the local community. The major tenets of our ministry include regular prayer times on Sundays and at abortion clinics, partnering with CareNet to support women in crisis pregnancies, and supporting women who have had an abortion. Click here to get involved with the Sanctity of Life team.
Pro-life individuals and groups from all walks of life and all across the Midwest will march together in hope and love in downtown Chicago. Last year, 80 people from Church of the Resurrection joined thousands of others to defend and protect human life. We are going to the March again this year! A chartered bus will depart from the church at 12:30pm. For more information and to reserve a seat, visit the event page.
Anglicans for Life is inviting all Anglicans to attend the 2016 Summit: Mobilizing the Church for Life in Washington DC. The Summit will have great teaching, testimonies, and opportunities to network around both beginning and end-of-life issues. Mission Pastor Matt Woodley and I will both be there, and we would be delighted if anyone from Resurrection can join us. Please let Matt know if you are interested in attending by emailing him at matt@churchrez.org.
In recent years, the movement of life has been energized by a fresh wave of support. This January will be an exciting time to join together with people from across the nation to protect and defend a culture of life. I pray that all of us will respond to Jesus' call to love the helpless in this new year. May Christ, who first came to us as an infant, fill you with his joy and peace this season.


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Heating your home with wood is eco friendly, cheap (well it is in Bulgaria), and satisfying. You know the feeling of being by a warm fire on a cold day and it's something special. It can also be hard work and dangerous. Chainsaws, axes, red hot pokers and fire in every room! Sounds a bit like a horror film doesn't it….


On Navin Johnson's 18th birthday he discovers he was adopted. (Which should appear obvious since he's the only white person in an all black family.) Navin decides to move out and try to make it in the world. While on his adventure he works at a gas station. But because of an assassination attempt he runs off and joins a carnival where he meets Marie, the woman of his dreams. Later he becomes filthy rich. But things become bad when he goes from filthy rich, to just plain filthy.


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