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Microsoft tech writing noun pile blog post madness!
August 4, 2011 @ 9:28 pm · Filed by Ben Zimmer under Headlinese, Language and technology, Nerdview, Words words words
Fans of noun piles will enjoy the recent blog post by Mike Pope, a technical editor at Microsoft, "Fun (or not) with noun stacks." Mike shares a few of the lovely compound noun pileups he's encountered on the job:
data bound control table row action links
failed password security question answer attempts limit
reduced minimum OS partition space available requirement
Mike goes on to explain why he thinks these problematic constructions continue to crop up in technical writing, driven by imperatives of terseness and concision at the expense of comprehensibility. He also gives helpful advice for untangling technical noun piles into something more user-friendly. That's all well and good, but you have to wonder just how deeply enmeshed in nerdview a writer must be to produce a whopper like "failed password security question answer attempts limit."
Joshua T said,
August 4, 2011 @ 9:49 pm
I'm a programmer, and so rather biased, but the password attempts pile up isn't so bad if you see "password security question" as a single unit, just a specific type of question. Anyhow, I thought it was pretty comprehensible, whereas the first and third are much less clear.
kktkkr said,
The presence of noun stacks in programming probably comes from the conventions for variable names. Somewhere out there there must have been a "FailedPasswordSecurityQuestionAnswerAttemptsLimit" variable.
The horrors!
Deborah Lipp said,
Honestly, "failed password security question answer attempts limit" was the one I understood!
As a technical writer, I understand where these come from: If you can create a label for something, you can do a great deal of writing that refers back to that label.
Today I wrote about "the Create Writer screen." Indeed, it would be more accurate and more elegant to say "the screen where new accounts for writers are created," but I had to refer back to that screen twenty or more times. Three words was not a terrible nounstack and made the rest of the document flow more smoothly.
PeterJ said,
Not tech-related, but I thought you might enjoy this noun pile from the BBC News website:
Essex Tesco bin food raid woman gets conditional discharge
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-13863164
(screen shot)
Steve Kass said,
Not to start a programming style convention row, but while I think kktkkr is on the right track in terms of where these pileups come from, I wouldn't consider failedPasswordSecurityQuestionAnswerAttemptsLimit very horrific as the name of a property within some list of property-value pairs that need to be maintained for configuration purposes (assuming that phrase constitutes a correct description of the variable of property). I even encourage this sort of thing in my programming classes. If pressed, I suppose I might offer something with at least one preposition, like maxAllowedConsecutiveWrongAnswersToPasswordSecurityQuestion.
Within a program (and historic decisions have usually left no alternative to naming entities with unbroken, mostly alphanumeric strings), there's little to be gained by straying from consistent naming conventions or by reducing precision. Be glad we aren't limited to names like NWRONG these days.
One advantage of the pileup style is to get the answer to "what sort of information is this?" (a limit, an answer) in a consistent spot: securityQuestionAnswerAttemptsLimit, usersSecurityQuestionAnswer, etc. Other styles might be helpful in other contexts, such as to facilitate this kind of self-documenting code:
if (passwordSecurityQuestionWrongAnswers_SoFar >=
passwordSecurityQuestionWrongAnswers_ConfiguredLimit) then …
Trust me, within programs, at least, if some kind of naming conventions — and these aren't bad ones — aren't encouraged, someone will decide to call this thing "Lim5," or "Goofs," with, if you're lucky, a single comment at the point of declaration, but nowhere in the code that uses the thing, which might say (goof <= goofs) or (answer <= Lim5) and be hard to decipher or modify.
As far as the use of these phrases in technical writing, they make some sense when the writing is documentation for a program with the corresponding variable names. On the other hand, they make bad sense when they serve no such purpose and obscure the meaning.
All in all, I like what Mike Pope says in the article you linked, especially regarding the discussions that need to take place between writer and editor. I've been on both sides of that fence (and in and near the programmer's den as well). The technical folks at Microsoft are really outstanding at understanding and coping with these issues, and at maintaining perspective when the ultimate goal is to deliver software and documentation.
All that said, there's little question that finding, making some fun of, and bantering thoughtfully about extreme examples of this (or any) kind of thing is all well and good, because it gets people thinking about good stuff.
Mark Liberman said,
kktkkr and Steve Kass are right about modern programming practice, but the linguistic processes that lead to piled-up complex nominals have much older and deeper roots. A few years ago I noted a few of my favorites from other domains, like "main landing gear shock strut upper rod end replacement" from a 1960s-era U.S. Army helicopter maintenance manual, or "process control block base register value" from a manual for an old mini-computer that had no compiler for any language above assembler, or "Volume Feeding Management Success Formula Award" from the wall of a New Jersey steakhouse.
Randy Hudson said,
August 5, 2011 @ 12:13 am
Noun compounding isn't limited to technical writing. Jackendoff, in Foundations of Language, discusses the phenomenon:
"Thousands of [noun] compounds with partially idiosyncratic meanings are stored in long-term memory. But in addition, one constantly encounters novel examples such as health management cost containment services and two-axle diesel electric engine dump truck (examples from Boston Globe), whose meanings can be computed on the spot. Thus this is a productive concatenative system involving only words … an entirely different sort of combination than other forms of morphology."
His underlying point is that this is a "linguistic fossil" — a subsystem of grammar that just relies on concatenation and pragmatics to build up larger meaningful units.
By the by, I'm a software developer, and I don't find the compounds in the post particularly problematic — I recognize enough of the noun subsequences as meaningful units to be able to compose the intended overall meaning.
Bread & roses said,
August 5, 2011 @ 1:22 am
Isn't this why English has 300 different words for "thingy"?
Will said,
Mark Liberman said
a 1960s-era U.S. Army helicopter maintenance manual
Berna Bleeker said,
I am a translator, and I often have to translate those noun stacks. I hate them! I translate into Dutch, and I can't translate them literally, because I'd end up with one mile-long word. I have to 'uncompress' them, but they are often very unclear, especially the way I usually get to see them, in a long list of strings without a lot of context…
John F said,
In literary writing, we might create analogies and metaphors and similes. In technical writing, if you are defining a new concept, just keep adding words! Anyone would think English was related to German or something…
So do language families, other than Germanic, do noun-piles, too?
Jarek Weckwerth said,
@John F: So do language families, other than Germanic, do noun-piles, too?
I've done my share of technical translation from English into Polish, and noun piles of this sort tend to be the main pain in the ****. You end up with a much longer Byzantine noun phrase with inscrutable inflection (notably mutiply stacked genitives that I find difficult to process) and littered with prepositions and other stuff. For example, the "answer limit" thing could become at least limit liczby niepoprawnych odpowiedzi na podpowiedź do hasła. (BTW, this is a quick and dirty translation off the top of my head that loses some of the nuances of the original; but that's usually unavoidable. It doesn't help that I live my online life almost exclusively in English and I'm not sure what the usual translation of security question is. Go figure.)
As far as MS's ability to cope with these things goes, well, quite a lot gets lost/mangled/inflated in translation, too. Things have improved considerably in newer versions of Windows and Office; the terseness etc. is much more successful in English.
mgh said,
I will think of this the next time I see one of your articles in the New York Times Sunday Book Review!
[(myl) You mean "the New York Times Sunday Book Review ArtsBeat Blog". He is, after all, "New York Times Sunday Book Review ArtsBeat Blogger Ben Zimmer".]
Bruce L said,
Well done Will :)
Licia said,
@Jarek Weckwerth, I used to work as an Italian terminologist at Microsoft when they still had an in-house language department, and I remember giving plenty of feedback to developers and technical writers on noun stacks, indeed a real issue in localization.
For Romance languages there is the additional problem of number, which needs to be made explicit for each noun; adjectives can also add complexity.
One of my favourite examples, dated by now, was standard toolbar color, which could be translated as
1) colour of the standard toolbar
2) standard colour for the toolbar
3) colour of the standard toolbars
4) standard colour for the toolbars
Only 4) was correct – it referred to an option that let you change the colour for all toolbars, at a time when there was a standard toolbar in most products.
William Ockham said,
The key to noun pileups is the context of the phrase. You have to know the unspoken connectors between the nouns. The examples from Microsoft technical writing were as clear to me as the ones from the newspaper example, because I spend a good portion of my working day reading Microsoft technical manuals. In each case, the writer is assuming a shared experience with the potential reader will allow decoding of the meaning. I expect that every reader of this blog knows how to decode Ben Zimmer's title:
(((((New York) Times) (Sunday (Book Review) ))ArtsBeat) Blogger) Ben Zimmer
Likewise, I would expect that anyone who encountered the phrase:
((((failed password) (security question)) answer) attempts) limit
fairly easily. If you are writing for nerds, nerdview can be an appropriate POV.
Geoffrey K. Pullum said,
I hope it won't be seen as too pedantic (hey! I'm a professor!) if I point out that the examples aren't all noun stacks. Mike Pope wasn't very careful about this. Along with some ambiguous cases (bound can be either a noun or a verb) there are some clear cases of words that are never nouns. Failed is one; available is another; reduced is another. What's actually going on here is the construction of compounds in which a noun is the head (so the whole thing has the external syntax of a noun, i.e., it goes where a noun would go) and it is preceded by a stack of modifiers of the type that The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language calls a Nominal. A Nominal is like a noun phrase (NP) except that it lacks the Determiner part. Failed attempt is a Nominal. It won't work as an NP (you don't get *Failed attempt was embarrassing), but if you put that or our before it you do have an NP. The rule for the stacks Pope is talking about is that you can use a Nominal as the first part of a compound with a noun as the second part. The result functions like a noun, so you can repeat the process: limit is the head noun, and the modifier can be arbitrarily complex: [attempts] limit; [answer attempts] limit; [question answer attempts] limit; [security question answer attempts] limit; and so on. But not everything in the modifier has to be a noun, so a noun stack is not really a stack of nouns, its a stack of modifiers piled up on a noun making a constituent that acts like a noun. Just thought I'd point that out.
slobone said,
How about using hyphens, and the occasional non-technical word? Googling all the words in the first example, one of the hits I got was (from a Microsoft website):
Table-row action links for data-bound controls
But is this the same thing?
Rick Sprague said,
I suspect that it's characteristic of most stacked noun phrases that they descend a context hierarchy from the general to the specific. This is the opposite of phrases constructed with prepositions, which start with the topic and ascend through the hierarchy to wrap layers of context around it.
For instance, data bound control table row action links refers to links that select an action to be applied to the current row in a table associated with a data-bound control (which is a control [widget] that displays information from its bound [associated] data source onto a web page). Notice that the order of nouns is reversed, and that unless you understood the original phrasing you probably didn't know I was talking about a web application until the very end. Once you know that, you can go back through the prepositional phrases in reverse and get a good idea of what those links are doing—deleting, editing, validating, and saving the row data, or navigating to the previous/next row.
The left-recursive noun stack is like zooming into a Google map, or into a movie scene—your attention is guided step by step down to the topic, each noun refining the context. The right-recursive prepositional phrasing, conversely, focuses on the topic immediately, but without surrounding context it can leave you feeling lost until you've gotten to the end of the phrase, at which point you have to backtrack through the relationships between the nouns (embodied in the prepositions) before you get the whole picture. Cinematically, that's like starting at a closeup, backing up to a two-shot, then a wide shot, then an establishing shot (or a series of them) before returning to the closeup and cueing the dialog. Very awkward and unintuitive. It really surprises me that more languages haven't evolved stacked noun constructions.
Stacked nouns trade the clarity of explicit noun-noun relationships for conciseness. As long as the target audience can easily and accurately supply the implied relationships, stacked nouns optimize communication density—which is no doubt why they're so often found where space is limited (as in headlines) or where the context hierarchy is deep and densely detailed (as in programming and other technical fields).
anon said,
Berna Bleeker:
I am a translator, and I often have to translate those noun stacks. I hate them!
Whenever I ride the Boston subway, I've noticed a safety sign; the English is the fairly terse "Passenger emergency intercom unit at end of car". The (fairly mild) four-word noun pileup "Passenger emergency intercom unit" is then translated into Spanish as the rather verbose "Sistema de intercomunicación para pasajeros en caso de emergencia"; I've often wondered if the noun pileup or the prepositional-phrase pileup is worse….
(As for the original examples, the second and third are fairly clear to me, but I'm a techie so I may simply be suffering from nerdview. The first is a bit strange to read on its own; I can guess at it as it stands, but I suspect I'd be ok with it in context.)
@kktkkr, You're right, no doubt some of these stacks originated as variable names. But it's just lazy for a technical writer not to translate them from progammerese into real-people language. And the test shouldn't be how easily a native English speaker can parse a sentence, it's how comprehensible it would be to somebody with limited English trying to get an answer in the middle of the night. (I don't think Google Translate is much help with stuff like this.)
Rick Sprague said:
"Stacked nouns trade the clarity of explicit noun-noun relationships for conciseness. As long as the target audience can easily and accurately supply the implied relationships, stacked nouns optimize communication density—which is no doubt why they're so often found where space is limited (as in headlines) or where the context hierarchy is deep and densely detailed (as in programming and other technical fields)."
Trading clarity for conciseness or density is almost the exact opposite of what a technical writer should be doing. When I started out in that field, I soon learned that a lot of programmers don't understand this point. They objected vociferously whenever I replaced the elegantly concise techspeak in the specs they had written with something the average user might have a hope of understanding…
@ Licia: Yes, the number problem is there in Slavic languages as well. One difference would be that the word count might be lower than in Romance languages, since quite a bit of the structure (e.g. the cases) is compressed into inflection rather than overt (de etc.), and there are no articles.
I wonder what we'd be saying if e.g. Navajo was MS's home language…
@ anon: Whenever I ride the Boston subway… Sistema de intercomunicación para pasajeros… Wow. I had the exact same thought visting Boston just a couple of weeks ago.
@slobone. re: "Table-row action links for data-bound controls". That's almost certainly the post-edited version of the original as listed in the blog entry.
@Dr Pullum — you'll have to train a great many editors in the niceties of your analysis. How about if we consider any pileup of pre-position qualifiers + noun as a "noun stack" (or noun pile) and call it good? (Coz what else would you call these things? "Noun-with-various-flavors-of-single-word-qualifiers-stack (pile)" — ?)
As a general note w/r/t the comment of Rick Sprague et al., I'm sad now that I did not include the analysis that colleague David included when we were discussing the "reduced minimum OS partition space available requirement" example. He diagrammed the relationships of the parts — what modifies what — in a way that did clarify the meaning, but that also showed, basically, what a mess that phrase is.
FWIW, I don't necessarily agree that member names for the associated APIs are to blame for these things. In most cases, in fact, the member names are shorter. True, usually the context is implied (e.g., via namespaces and type names), which helps. But that's often not enough, hence the need for the documentation in the first place. :-) But even if the origin of phrases like these is a Pascal-cased collection of terms, it's not really much justification for coming up with the more extreme cases of these phrases. Even if some people can understand them, as various folks here note that they can, it's a parsing burden nonetheless, and a nightmare for localizers, as also noted several times.
Glenn Bingham said,
@Steve Kass
When I programmed back when two moons circled the earth, I would write for
"if (passwordSecurityQuestionWrongAnswers_SoFar >=
passwordSecurityQuestionWrongAnswers_ConfiguredLimit) then …"
IF x >= y, THEN…
Is this the cost of collaboration?
Jeff R. said,
Except "((((failed password) (security question)) answer) attempts) limit" isn't right. It's
(failed (((password (security question)) answer) attempts) limit.
Clearly.
Jens Fiederer said,
Those didn't even make me blink.
Yes, they look confusing to a non-programmer….but to a programmer the way the words bind is obvious.
As Joshua T points out, "password security question" is treated as a unit.
So are "data bound control", "table row", "action links", "OS partition space available requirement", and even arguably "answer attempts limit".
Note that while these are perfectly acceptable to programmers, they probably should NOT escape into the wild.
Coz what else would you call these things? "Noun-with-various-flavors-of-single-word-qualifiers-stack (pile)"
various single word qualifier flavors stack (pile) noun
[(myl) The standard linguistic term, used at least since Robert Lees, The Grammar of English Nominalizations, 1960, is "complex nominals".]
Dan M. said,
@Mike, gkp explained that not all the recursive steps use nouns, but that each uses a nominal. Surely, then these are just "nominal piles". (Will's good joke notwithstanding.)
Anyway, count me as another programmer who finds these transparent. Moreover, I think it would be a fairly grave error to fluff these phrases into something longer in documentation intended for programmers. (Documentation for end-users is quite a different matter.) In general, programmers are trying to pack as many concepts into their working memory as possible at one time; concision is critical. Though I suspect that these things are also more understandable to programmers because the profession selects for people with large working memories.
Daniel Barkalow said,
The thing I think is wrong with "failed password security question answer attempts limit" is not the terseness or the jargon, but the fact that such a thing has to be referred to out of context. Surely the comprehensible design would be to be able to refer to it as the "failed answer attempts limit", and have the rest of the information be given by the fact that this is in the "security question" section under account management. But I suspect that this is in a big unorganized list of configurable values.
@mike, actually no, it was from a purely technical Microsoft page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465348.aspx
Theo Vosse said,
Readability for laymen is not the most pressing issue in technical documentation. It would be nice, but as long as the target audience can understand the terminology without too much effort, I consider consistency to be more important.
If you haven't done so yet, you should take a look at some of the bigger doc sets, such as the Microsoft's MSDN Library, just for fun. You cannot find anything in there by navigating (unless you know the library's structure really well). That leaves searching. And for searching, the more consistent the terminology, the better. So, if a data bound control (and FYI, a table is a kind of control in .NET) is always called a data bound control, that will make searching easier. If a table row is always known as a table row, idem.
So it would seem to me that a fair amount of stacking is unavoidable.
Xmun said,
@Jarek Weckwerth and Anon: Nothing to do with noun stacks, but I remember being amused by the difference in rhetorical approach between English "do not lean out of the window" and Italian "è pericoloso sporgerse" (I am quoting from memory and don't know Italian) on the window sill of a train compartment.
eyesay said,
Deborah Lipp wrote, "Today I wrote about 'the Create Writer screen.' … Three words was not a terrible nounstack and made the rest of the document flow more smoothly." OK, but "Create Writer screen" is verb noun noun; a true noun stack would have been "writer creation screen." I imagine this could be stacked further along the lines of "writer creation screen validation section protocol" or "writer creation screen name entry field character limit" …
Paolo said,
[sorry, OT]
@Xmun, if you spoke Italian, I am sure you'd enjoy a well-known Italian comedian's take on the translation of è pericoloso sporgersi into English (do not lean out of the window), French (ne pas se pencher dehors) and German (nicht hinauslehen), and how each translation is very representative of the relevant culture.
It can be watched here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c3msiKVrMI
Ken Brown said,
@Paolo, the Italian railways seem to have cleaned up their act! When I was on holiday in northern Italy back in the mid-1970s the English said "please do not lean out of the window" but in German it was "verboten".
Also, in Italian it was "pericoloso" in most places but "pericolissimo" around Torino!
Matt McIrvin said,
In the early Eighties, everyone who programmed an Atari 400/800 in Atari BASIC with the tape cassette drive lived in terror of ERROR-143, described in the manual as "Serial bus data frame checksum error".
It didn't give any further details, but it soon became clear that in practical terms this meant "all your work is gone".
Brett Kail said,
@Glenn Bingham
As a software engineer, I would write the conditional as:
if (numWrongAnswers >= maxWrongAnswers)
If the names are too short, the reader wastes time deciphering the meaning. If the names are too long, the reader wastes time filtering out visual noise.
@Paolo, thank you. I didn't understand much of it, but got the gist well enough. I marvel how he manages to spin the joke out so that it goes on for 10 minutes and 3 seconds.
@slobobe — yeah, that's us. I'm the editor for the ASP.NET documentation team. :-)
Elisa said,
@Xmun, unsurprisingly, logorroico is a commonly used (and well understood) word in Italian!


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Tony Walsh jailed for earliest case of sexual abuse
by Declan Brennan
Former priest and serial abuser Tony Walsh has received a sentence of one year imprisonment for the sexual assault of a child in the early 1970s.
Walsh was a seminarian at the time of the offence, the earliest recorded case of child abuse by him. He became known as the 'Singing Priest' for his role in a travelling all-priest group before he was defrocked after his abuse of children emerged.
Walsh, aged 61, formerly of North Circular Rd, Dublin, was convicted in December of the indecent assault of a female at St Luke's, Kilbarron Park, Kilmore, Dublin between April 17, 1973, and September 9, 1976.
The victim was aged between seven and 10 at the time when Walsh locked her into a room and forced himself on her until he climaxed. After the assault, he told her it was only a game, stating: "We were only having fun, don't tell anyone."
Walsh is currently serving a 16-year sentence imposed in 2010 for rape and abuse of three schoolboys.
Det Garda Shay Woods told Garret Baker, prosecuting, the offence took place during a game of "hide and seek" instigated by Walsh in a parish hall run by the Sisters of Charity nuns.
The victim remembered Walsh was aroused and was banging his pelvic area into her. Other children were banging on the door at this point. The victim was screaming from inside the room and ran out after Walsh opened the door, the court heard.
In her victim impact report, the woman said she blamed herself for the assault and for bringing "this awful shame" on her family.
She said Walsh was doted over in the community and thought of as "God himself".
Judge Catherine Murphy said the abuse had "profound and damaging effects" on the victim, now aged 50.
She imposed the maximum sentence of two years and ordered it run consecutive to the termination of his current sentence in October 2020. She suspended the final year on condition he keep the peace.
Judge Murphy paid tribute to Det Garda Woods who the victim, in her impact report, described as "wonderful in every respect" and as the "light at the end of a tunnel" for her.


Home ownership is something that most people aspire to at a least at some point in their lives, and most will have to obtain some sort of financing for this major purchase. Getting the best interest rate possible on a mortgage is very important and can save you from wasting more money than necessary on interest. If you're looking to buy a new home consider some of the following ways you can get a better mortgage rate in order to save big money in the long run.
Before you being the home buying process with the hometown bank you've dealt with forever, look around at the mortgage rates offered by all the banks in your area and even some online-only mortgage lenders. It's possible that the bank you've worked with forever, while familiar, is not the best choice for a long-term loan like your mortgage. Lots of times local banks are not able to secure the lowest rates because of their small size and their (likely) higher percentage of overhead costs.
Knowing what your credit score is and how it affects your mortgage interest rate is important before you get too far into the home buying process. Generally speaking, it's possible to obtain a mortgage loan with a credit score as low as 620, but the best rates are given to those with scores in the mid-700s or better.
When we were obtaining financing for the purchase of our home, our lender explained that we should avoid having my credit score pulled during the months between our first discussion and the final closing of my mortgage loan. He explained that lots of people buying a house also try to obtain auto financing around the same time, which can make a big dent in your credit score. So to obtain the best credit score, and thus the best interest rate possible, you should avoid opening any new credit lines or financing any other purchases until after your home loan has closed.
If you've already locked yourself into a mortgage with a high interest rate you're stuck, right? Wrong! Refinancing may be an option to help you get a better interest rate on the remaining life of your mortgage. There are lots of reasons people refinance – to shorten the life of the loan, to lengthen the life of the loan (lowering the overall monthly payment), or to get a better interest rate. Unfortunately, refinancing can be a complicated process to qualify for so it's best to check with your lender if you are considering this route to savings.
While none of these tips will likely save you a lot percentage-wise on your mortgage interest rate, when it comes down to it even shaving off a fraction of a percent can save you thousands of dollars of interest over the life of your mortgage. Saving money on interest charges can be compounded if you put those savings toward extra principle payments to shorten your loan's amortization schedule, saving you even more interest. As you can see, following up on these tips is worth it and can result in some serious savings!


Did you catch one of Armen Kojoyian and Armen Meschian's latest listings in Jackson Heights on Curbed last week? The "big and bright" co-op was featured for its spacious rooms, completely renovated kitchen and bathroom and historic charm. Click below to see more of this turnkey Jackson Heights home!


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Q: Installing Ubuntu 18.04 while planning to install another OS alongside in the future I'd like to install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on a 512GB HDD. I'll definitely not need the whole space for one OS, and I plan to install other distros alongside Ubuntu  for short term projects, removing them afterwards.
I wonder what is the best option to achieve this.

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*Use 256 GB for Ubuntu and leave 256 GB of unallocated space as a placeholder for future OS installs.

*Install Ubuntu on whole disk capacity using LVM, and resize it in future to install another OS.

I think that option 2 is much better, but I could not find any tutorials that presents on how to resize LVM and install another OS in the space made available, so I'm not quite sure if this procedure is safe for my main OS, nor do I understand how difficult it would be.
Do you recommend either of these solutions? Is there another way?

A: The installation of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS does not need anywhere near 256 GB. The files created by a full Ubuntu install (before you add any more packages) is 5 GB, and the swap file (for swap partitions are passé) should be no more than your RAM size to start.
If you started with less (like, oh, say, 30 GB or 100 GB), you can always resize the default ext4 partitions of what you listed as your first option up or down if you need more space, with a LiveUSB, such as you will use to install Ubuntu.

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Taylor Swift's Reputation Fixates on Big Enemies and Budding Romance
By Craig Jenkins
Fame is a shell game, a precarious balance between real grit and the performance of decency. Successful stars are affable in public but protective of their lives in private. Part of why the last year of news has felt so cataclysmic is the worrying sensation of all pretense of goodness slowly being cast aside (or else ripped away). Powerful, popular men are being revealed as monsters. Genteel grandmas and grandpas are letting their bigotry fly. Taylor Swift played the fame game harder than most. In public, she was America's sweetheart, but on record, she could be withering, and in business, she was an ironclad capitalist, the daughter of a Pennsylvania banker who proved every bit as calculated with money as the pedigree suggests.
Taylor's not a messy public figure like, say, Katy Perry, who built her entire Witness promotional campaign around the singular weirdness of being Katy Perry. She moves more like Beyoncé in that she stays rather quiet most of the time, making it hard to tell what she's thinking. She weaves a narrative through carefully curated Instagram photos, talented Ken-doll beaux, and conspicuous paparazzi shots in all the right places with all the right people. It's a to-do when she pops up places, because of the sense that she's communicating something about her brand with every move.
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It's hard work being everything to everyone, though, as Swift learned in a devastating tiff with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, where she banked on the loudest rapper alive and the most well-documented reality television star of our time not keeping a record of their private dealings. Taylor Swift played Kanye West harder than she needed to, pretending to be blindsided by his crude lyric about her in The Life of Pablo's "Famous" and using her Album of the Year acceptance speech at the 2016 Grammys to drop a roundabout accusation that he'd been using his power to tear her down. What to get for the woman who has everything? The dignity of her nemeses.
Kim Kardashian producing audio of Taylor hearing and approving the "Famous" lyric was the Black Mirror crack a lot of us had been waiting for. Swift has long seemed like a grade-A villain playing it cool until the right time came to twist the knife, like pop music's own Scar from The Lion King. Her crusade to get Apple Music to pay artists during the service's inaugural three-month trial period made her look like an industry hero (until some hammy cross-promotion drew suspicion that the back-and-forth was a keen publicity stunt). After months of rumored beef with Katy Perry, Taylor released 1989 to streaming services the same night as Witness, forcing her rival to play second fiddle in new-release sections on her own launch night. Villainy that pure is rare. It should be appreciated, not painstakingly kept from view.
Reputation is Taylor Swift's long-awaited heel turn, the Dark Phoenix transformation hinted at in "Blank Space," the conniving mirror image of "Mean." The supervillain vibes are thick. "I Did Something Bad" goes full "Maneater": "I never trust a narcissist, but they love me / So I play 'em like a violin and I make it look oh-so-easy." "Don't Blame Me" draws from the same well of delighted wickedness as Ariana Grande's "Dangerous Woman." The talk of the set will probably be "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things," where Taylor finally lets Kanye have it: "It was so nice being friends again / There I was giving you a second chance / But then you stabbed my back while shaking my hand / And therein lies the issue / Friends don't try to trick you / Get you on the phone and mind-twist you." The killer dig comes a second later: "I'm not the only friend you lost lately / If only you weren't so shady." She's still dead wrong for what she did at the Grammys, but she knows real beef is won on how bad you make the other person look, not how good you look.
The irony of Taylor Swift using Reputation to lash out at a rapper is that the album doubles as her long-overdue embrace of hip-hop cadences and production values. From her Nashville days through 1989's synth-pop reinvention, Swift's music has felt like an artifact from a different universe where rap barely exists. Outside of the "Bad Blood" remix with Kendrick Lamar and the Zayn collaboration "I Don't Wanna Live Forever," Swift's music lacked a certain swing. Her melodies are feats of genius precision; her producer pal Max Martin once told Lorde that "Royals" was mathematically "incorrect songwriting."
"Look What You Made Me Do" overbearingly signaled a hip-hop reinvention that, in its quest to let everyone know that Taylor Swift had #BARS, actually showcased a stiffness, backfiring as badly as the b-boy dance moves in the "Shake It Off" video. Throughout Reputation, Max Martin, Shellback, and Jack Antonoff help serve up trap-influenced drum production that pushes the singer toward brasher cadences. Taylor shows that she can nail the bars and blue notes that make great rap and R&B because she is a skilled professional, but her delivery can be a little bloodless. She has a habit of over-enunciating words into gnarly forms — listen to the way she says "crime," "lie," and "time" on "Look What You Made Me Do" — and a too-clean singing style that, when applied to rap, gives a jarring sense of hip-hop being removed from its cultural and regional underpinnings. Future appears between Swift and Ed Sheeran vocals on "End Game" with a verse so effortless he makes both stars sound like robots. The difference between "Don't Blame Me" and "Dangerous Woman" is that Ariana's song feels like reveling in bad deeds, while Taylor's largely feels like reading a suspenseful magazine article about them, until she unleashes a torrent of impassioned vocal runs near the end.
Although the album fixates on big enemies and bad reputations, the buried lede is a quiet romance budding in spite of them. Swift shines brightest on these songs, building and developing her story out of economic but evocative turns of phrase. "Delicate" walks on eggshells around a new romantic prospect after some bad press: "My reputation's never been worse, so you must like me for me." "So It Goes …" and "King of My Heart" weigh the freedom of being single against the irresistible magnetism of a growing attraction. "Dancing With Our Hands Tied" and "Call It What You Want" find healing solace in surrender. ("All the liars are calling me one / Nobody's heard from me for months / I'm doing better than I ever was.")
Reputation races with a quiet sensuality that bookends 1989's jilted moments, and as the new album drifts further away from tabloids and anger into something more like grace, it spruces up the previous one's retro-pop gambit, pairing loud, bright, synthetic hooks with trap and tropical house accents to match steps with what's on the radio while looking back to the past. The keyboard melody that surfaces before the chorus of "King of My Heart" sounds beamed in the Cure's "Just Like Heaven"; "Look What You Made Me Do" literally interpolates Right Said Fred over drums on loan from a Peaches song. Barring the exasperating lead single, the new sound is an improvement; like Taylor herself, 1989 always came off a little too clinical to be believed.
As tempting as it is to crow for more love songs and reject the tabloid raps, the juxtaposition of the two gives Swift a dynamic depth. She's fighting for respect while trying to let her guard down, learning to trust again while working through feelings of betrayal. It would be dishonest to perch this album on just one mood. A whole album of vindictive Taylor raps would be hell, but ignoring the bad press that drove her to go to deeply funny means to avoid eye contact with paparazzi cameras is crawling back into a shell of artifice that's cracked for good. Taylor Swift might've bungled the Reputation rollout by leading with the worst song on the album, but at the end of the day, Reputation strikes the exact mix of necessary roughness and personal reckoning needed to shake off a calendar year of mounting turmoil. If we could get her to use her platform to denounce the big bads running 2017 off the rails and not just the people keeping her name hot on TMZ, the campaign would be a public-relations victory. Until then, baby steps …
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Thereafter, Miss Emily fell ill for a long time. When next seen by the townspeople, she had a girlish haircut and looked "tragic and serene." Around this time, a construction company, which the town authorities had contracted, arrived to pave the sidewalks in Jefferson, led by a big Yankee named Homer Barron, who came to know everybody in town. "Whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the square, Homer Barron would be in the center of the group." Soon, he and Miss Emily began to be seen together on Sunday afternoons driving in a horse-drawn yellow-wheeled buggy.
Miss Emily's haircut suggests that she has not gotten over her father's death, as her haircut indicates that she sees herself still as a girl. "Tragic and serene" might also describe how the South idealized its lost pre-Civil War post. In contrast, Homer is a herald of progress in the South, a rebuilder of what is decaying. He becomes popular in town, which indicates that the Southerners are perhaps prepared to rebuild relations with their Northern counterparts. Though her father would have no doubt disapproved, Miss Emily surprises us by taking control of her life in becoming involved with Homer.
The townspeople were at first glad that Miss Emily had a romantic interest, even though they thought she would never think seriously about marrying a laborer from the North. Some older people, however, thought that Emily might be serious about Homer out of financial need. "Poor Emily," they said, and they agreed that her kin should come to aid her in avoiding a marriage that was beneath her. But Emily's father had fallen out with what family the Griersons had in Alabama because of a disagreement about Emily's great-aunt Wyatt's estate. Even though the town was scandalized by her relationship with Homer, Miss Emily carried her head high as befitted the last Grierson.
The townspeople are rather fickle in their judgments, first pleased for Miss Emily, later scandalized. The first case seems more justified by the facts: a lonely woman has taken control of her life and found companionship. What is there to be displeased about? The older people's harsher judgment is based on an old, even irrelevant social hierarchy. However, much as they're willing to work with and fraternize with Northerners, the townspeople at large are at last not willing to sacrifice their traditions, and Miss Emily is one of their traditions.
A year after some townspeople began saying "poor Emily"—and while two female cousins visited her—Miss Emily went to the druggist to buy poison, arsenic. The druggist told her that the law required explanation of how the poison was to be used, but Miss Emily just stared at him till he got the arsenic and packaged it for her. A black delivery boy brought her the package, and the druggist didn't come back. At her house, Miss Emily opened the package to see the words "For rats" written on the box by the druggist.
The second narrative leap forward in time. The purchase of the arsenic, like the bad smell, generates suspense. Miss Emily's privileged status in the town makes it possible for her to circumvent the law in not giving an explanation to the druggist, a demonstration that aristocratic social relations make equality before the law a mere illusion. (Similar to Miss Emily's circumvention of her taxes.)


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Habitat For Humanity operating as normal during COVID-19 pandemic
By Jason Oliveira
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Despite seeing a huge drop in cash donations, Habitat for Humanity Greater Fresno Area continues to operate as normal.
The non-profit remains dedicated to the community, building homes for low-income families while maintaining its ReStores.
These stores, including the Clovis location, take in gently used household and construction items for resale.
"Folks that have to either drop off items while they're sheltering in, or folks that need to pick up some household essentials or home office supplies, they can still get right here," says Matthew Grundy.
Officials say if you can't donate, shopping at one of their stores for home improvement needs is a great way to get in some DIY-ing while supporting the non-profit at the same time.
Habitat for Humanity continues to offer essential services during the global health crisis.
"We sell hardware, everything from flooring to doors to electrical to plumbing," Grundy said. "All those things that can really help folks while they're sheltering in place."
Social distancing also remains a priority for Habitat as officials say they're building homes with only essential workers and no more volunteers
"We're still building homes because there are folks out there," Grundy said. "While we're all being asked to shelter in place, there are still many who lack safe and decent shelter."
Despite the pandemic, Habitat for Humanity is working to have homes like the ones in West Central Fresno move-in ready by the summer.
For more information on how to donate or for store location check out their website.
For more news coverage on the coronavirus and COVID-19 go to ABC30.com/coronavirus
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Home » Topics » Surgical treatments » Research » One Hundred and Counting: Dr. Dwight C. McGoon's Enduring Legacy.
Summary of "One Hundred and Counting: Dr. Dwight C. McGoon's Enduring Legacy."
Dr. Dwight C. McGoon, a prolific surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, achieved an amazing feat during the early days of cardiac surgery. In 1965, he reported a series of 100 consecutive aortic valve replacements with no in-hospital mortality. As a pioneer in adult and congenital cardiac surgery, his other contributions included novel uses of left ventricular and biventricular extracardiac conduits and describing repairs for mitral regurgitation due to ruptured chordae, transposition of the great arteries, truncus arteriosus, pulmonary stenosis, and pulmonary atresia. Over 50 years later, Dr. McGoon is still remembered for his technical prowess, innovation, mentorship, and humanism.
The Legacy for Children™ Randomized Control Trial: Effects on Cognition Through Third Grade for Young Children Experiencing Poverty.
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A Duke to Remember by Kelly Bowen – Release Day Blitz, Excerpt, Review, & Giveaway
Title: A Duke to Remember Author: Kelly Bowen On Sale: July 26, 2016 Series: A Season for Scandal, #2 Publisher: Forever Format: Mass Market Paperback Price: $5.99 USD Add to Goodreads
Love takes the stage . . .
Elise deVries is not what she seems. By night, the actress captivates London theatergoers with her chameleon-like ability to slip inside her characters. By day, she uses her mastery of disguise to work undercover for Chegarre & Associates, an elite agency known for its discreet handling of indelicate scandals. But when Elise is tasked with locating the missing Duke of Ashland, she finds herself center stage in a real-life drama.
Noah Ellery left the glamour of the London aristocracy to pursue a simpler life in the country. He's managed to avoid any complications or entanglements-that is, until he lays eyes on Elise and realizes there's more to this beautiful woman than meets the eye. But when Elise reveals her real identity-and her true feelings for him-the runaway duke must confront the past he left behind . . . to keep the woman he loves forever.
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But it was Kelly's infatuation with history and a weakness for a good love story that led her down the path of historical romance. When she is not writing, she seizes every opportunity to explore ruins and battlefields.
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"You're not going to die on me, are you?" The voice came from lower, almost directly in front of her this time, and Elise opened her eyes, staring up at a collection of clouds scudding across the blue sky.
"Not yet, I think." She struggled to sit, her tired muscles still refusing to obey.
A warm hand caught hers and pulled her forward, and Elise was suddenly presented with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen.
They were smoky green, the color of pine wreathed in mist, the color of still waters that hid great depths. They were ringed with blond lashes, set in a strong, rugged face that spoke of hours spent outdoors. Pale blond hair fell around his ears in careless waves, the ends damp where they brushed his bare shoulders. Incredible shoulders, wide and powerful, droplets of water sliding over the ridges of muscle to disappear down the front of his chest.
Her mouth went dry, and whatever breath she thought she had caught deserted her once again.
He was crouched before her, a look of concern tempered with a half-smile stamped across his striking features. "Hmmm. Well, if you die, can I have your horse?" he asked. "As fine an animal as I've seen in a long time."
"My horse?" she repeated. Good Lord. Her wits had completely scattered under that smoky gaze.
He glanced over her head up in the direction of the road. "One of the boys brought it off the bridge for you."
Elise struggled to draw a normal breath and formulate a thought. The man was trying to put her at ease. It wasn't his fault that he looked as he did. It wasn't his fault her body was threatening to make an utter fool of her because of it.
But clearly, it had been too long since she had invited a man to share her bed because she was shamelessly staring at the way his body moved as he shifted. Subtle shadows carved their way across his torso, created by lean muscle rippling under golden skin. A scattering of dark blond hair covered his chest and trailed down past his navel. Her eyes dropped further south, and she let her gaze wander over the sharp ridges of muscle that formed a V over his hips before disappearing into the front of his breeches. His free hand rested on a powerful thigh, long, capable-looking fingers spread out over the top of his knee. She imagined what those fingers would feel like against her bare skin. Because she already knew what his arms had felt like beneath her, the hard strength of his body against hers.
When he was pulling you from the water like a drowned river rat, you fool, not drawing you into a lover's embrace.
A terrible realization struck her with the completion of that thought. Without needing to check, she knew her cap was gone. Her braid had come unpinned, and she could feel the heavy weight of her sodden hair on her back. A glance at her water-logged clothes plastered to her body confirmed her worst suspicions. When she'd bound her breasts tightly beneath her loose, baggy shirt, they were unnoticeable, but there was nothing unnoticeable about them now. The bindings had come loose and slid down to bunch at her waist. Worse, the threadbare fabric of her worn shirt was almost transparent, and stuck to her skin as it was, she may as well have been wearing nothing. The curves of her breasts were clearly visible, as were the dark areolas of her peaked nipples.
The man's eyes were still on her face and not on her chest, which Elise was choosing to interpret as a testament to his chivalry, but no one in their right mind would mistake her for anything other than what she truly was. A woman dressed as a boy.
"No, you can't have my horse," she muttered, attempting to peel her shirt away from her breasts with her free hand. "I need it to flee a lot of awkward questions."
The man was watching her again. "They are going to want to know who you are," he said quietly, jerking his chin in the direction of the voices beyond them. The understanding she saw in those incredible eyes made her blink.
She managed a weak smile. "Do you suppose anyone will notice if I just swim back to where I came from?" She was trying to make her mind work, but like her muscles, it seemed lethargic, her usual ingenuity depleted. "You can tell them that I was a mermaid."
I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
As a child, Noah Ellery, son and heir to the Duke of Ashland, was ridiculed and abused by his cruel father. His fear was so strong that it affected his speech, causing him to jumble his words, and incensing his father even further. In self defense, Noah stopped speaking altogether. The Duke, enraged at his imperfect son, has him taken off to be committed to an asylum, where he is tortured for years, until he and a friend are able to escape. The two boys learn to live on the street, until Noah has an opportunity to start a new life, living quietly in the country as a farmer. He assumes a new name, and has no intention of ever going back to his family or claiming his heritage.
When the Duke of Ashland dies, most people assume his son and heir is dead, since no one has seen him for years. The heir-presumptive, Francis, Noah's cousin, is making his bid to claim the title. He has had Noah's mother committed to Bedlam, where she is kept drugged, to keep her from saying that her son is alive. Noah's sister Abigail is the only family member who ever showed Noah any love, and she knows that he is alive. She needs to find him so that he can have their mother released, and save the dukedom from the ruin Francis will bring if he takes the title. There is an agency that discreetly helps people with insurmountable problems – Chegarre & Associates – and Abigail enlists their services.
Elise de Vries is an agent for Chegarre, and she is given the assignment to find the long lost ducal heir, Noah. A lucky break allows her to find him almost immediately, and much to her surprise, she finds herself strongly drawn to this attractive man living a quiet, unassuming life. Despite the horrors he endured in his childhood, Noah has become a magnificent man. He is strong, compassionate, caring and kind. He, too, feels the instant pull of attraction to Elise, who is there to bring an end to his contented life. Elise is also a compassionate woman of great character. Her heart hurts, knowing that she will be causing Noah pain by forcing him to leave his peaceful life, and that he will be hurt that she initially met him under false pretenses. Basically honest, Elise tells Noah the truth, and refuses to leave until he agrees to return to claim his title.
I totally fell in love with both Noah and Elise right from the beginning. They have endured and seen some awful things, yet retained their humanity and their capacity for kindness and love. Their immediate attraction, while admittedly steamy, also just felt so right, as their emotions and feelings were involved. The story is so engrossing, that I had to read it all in one sitting. There is so much happening, the danger to Noah when he returns, the drastic changes in his life, and the huge difference in station between him and Elise. A DUKE TO REMEMBER is absolutely one of the best books I have read this year – it has it all – great story, fantastic hero and heroine, steamy heat, and a breathtaking romance, and I'm happy to give it my very highest recommendation. I guarantee that you will be left with a smile and a satisfied sigh.
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Q: Creating a style based on another which is using a data template I have a style for a ListBox using TextBoxes as defined below:
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        <Setter Property="Background" Value="LightGray"/>
        <Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="2"/>
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I use this style for a number of ListBox display readonly data.
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Found in bottomland hardwood forests, rocky hillsides, woodpiles, and abandoned fields. Feeds primarily on small mammals as well as insects, birds, snakes, and amphibians. Predators of the copperhead include the indigo snake, king snake, hawks, owls, the opossum, coyote, and bobcat.
Found in and near any wetlands or waterway in the state. Cottonmouths will eat almost any suitably sized animals, including fish, frogs, snakes, birds, and mammals. If the head is viewed from above, the eyes of cottonmouths (elliptical pupils) cannot be seen while the eyes of water snakes (round pupils) are visible. Enemies are humans, large wading birds, and some mammals.
Found in scrub oak/longleaf pine forest habitats or other wooded sites, around lakes and ponds, and along the borders of many freshwater marshes and swamps. This snake feeds on mice, lizards snakes, and frogs. Enemies are man, king snakes, eastern indigo snakes, red-tailed hawks, great horned owls, and many other species.
Found in hardwood forests with rock outcrops, pine flat woods, and cane thickets. Timber rattlers feed on rodents, rabbits, and squirrels, but birds and occasionally other snakes, lizards, and frogs may be eaten. Natural predators include humans, hawks, bobcats, coyotes, skunks, and snake-eating snakes like the cottonmouth, king snakes, and the indigo snake.


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Just before midnight Saturday, Vacaville police say officers stopped a car in the area of Peabody and Marshall roads when they say passenger 24-year-old Justin Acuyong of Suisun City reached under his seat.
The driver, 29-year-old Kenny Losito of Fairfield, was also escorted from the vehicle.
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Millie Bobby Brown celebrates 'another year' with boyfriend Jake Bongiovi
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Millie Bobby Brown has celebrated the end of 2022 with a sweet message to her boyfriend, Jake Bongiovi.
The 18-year-old actor shared a recent post on Instagram that featured photos taken throughout the last year. Along with pictures of her friends and family, Brown also posted snaps with Bongiovi, including one of them kissing in a photobooth and another of them hugging in a car.
In the caption, she not only expressed her gratitude for her loved ones but also for her boyfriend, who she described as her "partner for life".
"Endlessly in love with the year I've had! grateful for my friends, family, donkey (bernard), my doggies, my puppies teeth, and my partner for life. here's to another year with you and the wonderful people and animals around us ," the Stranger Things star wrote. "let's do it again but better!"
Bongiovi responded to his girlfriend's post in the comments, writing: "Your year babe love you so much," along with a red heart emoji.
On Friday, Brown also shared a polaroid photo of her and her boyfriend in a pool on her Instagram Story. In the caption, she wrote: "appreciation post for my boy. I love you."
Bongiovi also celebrated the new year with his own Instagram post, which featured photos of himself and Brown. In the caption, he wrote: "Love is all you need. happy new year everyone."
The pair were first linked romantically in June 2021 after Bongiovi posted a photograph of them on Instagram with the caption: "Bff
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Phymaturus yachanana est une espèce de sauriens de la famille des Liolaemidae.

Répartition
Cette espèce est endémique de la province de Río Negro en Argentine.

Publication originale
 Avila, Fulvio Pérez, Minoli & Morando, 2014 : A new lizard of the Phymaturus genus (Squamata: Liolaemidae) from Sierra Grande, northeastern Patagonia, Argentina. Zootaxa, , .

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Methodist Hospitals gives back this holiday with Angel Tree Drive and free holiday meals - December 5, 2019
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With the holiday season in full gear, Methodist Hospitals set aside some time to give back to the community and their staff members with two memorable events.
All through the week, Methodist Hospitals invited their employees to enjoy a free holiday meal. Cooked by their dedicated chefs and served by staff managers, directors, and other team leaders, the free meal was Methodist's way of showing their employees some extra appreciation.
"It's a good way for us to say thank you for all of the hard work our staff members do throughout the year," said Amy Grzyb, Director of Food and Nutrition for Methodist Hospitals. "It's really rewarding for the employees to be served by the people they work for or report to within their departments. It's a nice change of pace to have some great volunteers that help us pull this off for the organization."
One volunteer was Rodney Morris, Director of Public Safety and Security for Methodist Hospitals. He took shifts both behind the dining counter and as a greeter.
"I think it's a great gift to the staff," he said. "We know money and time get tight during the holiday season, and we want to show appreciation for all the wonderful work our staff does. It also gives me a chance to meet with everybody, shake hands, and catch up with some people I haven't seen in a while."
The kitchen team went all out on the menu, which featured options like carved roast beef, roasted rosemary chicken quarter, pasta primavera, and a full assortment of desserts.
"It's extremely satisfying and gratifying to support all these people that play important roles in caring for the patients," said Steven Ellis, Operations Manager for Methodist's Food & Nutrition Services. "Sometimes you have to take care of the people that take care of the people. They deserve it tenfold, I wish we had more holidays to give even more."
While team members dined in the cafeteria, Methodist was helping the Salvation Army load trucks full of toys and other gifts as part of their second big event – the Methodist Hospitals' Angel Tree Drive. Employees from every department came together to sponsor 177 children in need for the Salvation Army's Angel Tree program.
"This is super exciting! We've had a partnership with Methodist for many years," said Amanda Keene, Captain at the Salvation Army of Gary-Merrillville. "They just continuously sponsor more Angels for us. They're very generous and we love the partnership we have with Methodist."
Angels that receive gifts are ages 12 or under, and in some cases, the gift they receive from sponsors like Methodist Hospitals might be the only one they get on Christmas morning.
"We're serving about 440 families and 1700 kids," Keene said. "It's huge. Kids want to get presents for Christmas but some families just don't have the resources. We're blessed to be able to provide those resources in partnership with other organizations like Methodist Hospitals."
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La Romana es un municipio de la Comunidad Valenciana, España. Está situado en el interior de la provincia de Alicante, en la comarca del Vinalopó Medio. Cuenta con 2.605 habitantes (INE 2021).

Geografía
El municipio de La Romana tiene una extensión de 43,3 km² y su clima es mediterráneo árido. Su núcleo urbano se encuentra a 420 metros de altura y su punto más alto es la Penya la Mina (1053 msnm).

El término limita con los municipios de Algueña y Pinoso (al oeste), Monóvar (al norte), Novelda (al este), y Aspe, Hondón de las Nieves y Orihuela (al sur).

Toponimia
El nombre del municipio provendría del árabe Al rumana ("Las granadas").

Historia
En 1449, al fundarse la baronía de Novelda, La Romana aparece como parte de la baronía. Parte del territorio debió de estar débilmente ocupado por moriscos, que serían expulsados en 1609.

En 1749 se fundó el marquesado de la Romana, perteneciente a la familia de los Maza de Lizana (descendientes de los barones de Novelda), lo que debió de originar el poblamiento del lugar. A finales del siglo XVIII el pueblo se componía de varios caseríos y cortijos.

En 1854 se contaba en el pueblo con 25 casas reunidas y unas cuantas más diseminadas, aparte de la hacienda del marqués y una iglesia.

La Romana se segregó jurídicamente de Novelda en 1929, constituyéndose desde entonces en municipio independiente.

Hasta 1930 el pueblo fue propiedad del marqués de La Romana, quien finalmente vendió a los colonos y arrendatarios los terrenos que cultivaban.

Demografía
La Romana cuenta con 2605 habitantes (INE 2019). Un 24% de la población censada es de nacionalidad extranjera, principalmente británica (422 censados).

Economía
El principal sector económico del municipio es el de la extracción y transformación del mármol, al igual que otros municipios de la comarca como Novelda, Algueña y Pinoso.

Destaca también el sector agrícola (producción y envasado de uvas, con denominación de origen Uva de mesa embolsada Vinalopó;, plantaciones de almendros y olivos). El sector servicios está aumentando en importancia en los últimos años, ayudado por el turismo residencial.

Durante los años de la burbuja inmobiliaria La Romana obtuvo una gran afluencia de nuevos habitantes de origen extranjero, y se plantearon planes urbanísticos que, con el fin de la burbuja, han quedado abandonados, dejando polígonos y calles fantasma en el núcleo urbano. El sector agrícola ha ido recobrando fuerza paulatinamente, a medida que muchos campos abandonados eran retomados para el cultivo de la uva por agricultores que habían abandonado la labor del campo. La otra gran industria, el mármol, no se resintió mucho del pinchazo de la burbuja inmobiliaria gracias al tirón de las exportaciones. Hoy en día sigue siendo una industria muy productiva.

Política

Deportes

Fútbol

En la actualidad existe una escuela de fútbol, fundada en 2011, que incorpora a niños desde los 4 a los 18 años. El nombre federativo que recibe es el de "Club de Fútbol Atlético La Romana". Cuenta con más de 50 participantes y compite en diversas categorías de la comarca del Vinalopó Medio. El presidente de dicho club es Rubén García Albert.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

  Ayuntamiento de La Romana
  EL Portal Romanero
 LA ROMANA DIGITAL
 Índice estadístico municipal de La Romana. Unidad de Documentación de la Diputación de Alicante
 La Romana en el Registro de Entidades Locales de la Generalidad Valenciana

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Seth Collins will return to the Red Raiders in 2020 after receiving a NCAA waiver for sixth year
LUBBOCK, Texas – Texas Tech senior wide receiver Seth Collins has been granted a NCAA waiver to extend his eligibility to a sixth season, Red Raider head coach Matt Wells announced Friday afternoon.
Collins was forced to miss the entire 2019 season following a devastating shoulder injury suffered towards the end of spring practices. He spent the fall rehabbing from that injury and will rejoin the Red Raiders on the field when spring practices begin.
"We're happy for Seth that he will get to continue his career and return to the field next season," Wells said. "He has worked diligently with our training staff to rehab from a significant injury. We look forward to him participating in our offseason strength and conditioning program and spring practices."
Collins caught 32 passes for 317 yards and a pair of touchdowns for the Red Raiders as a junior in 2018, his first season in Lubbock after transferring that summer from Oregon State. He was on the receiving end of at least one pass in all 12 games that season en route to finishing fourth on the team for receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns.
Collins previously recorded 48 receptions for 548 yards and two touchdowns during his two-plus seasons at Oregon State where he actually began his career as the Beavers' starting quarterback in 2015. Collins moved from quarterback to wide receiver for the final game of the 2015 season and remained there as a sophomore in 2016 where he led the Beavers with 36 catches, totaling 418 yards and a touchdown through the air.
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This research creates a linkage between Ecosystem Services (ES) and Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) in urban residential areas. The findings suggest that optimisation of ecosystem service goods and benefits, particularly cultural service and regulating service benefits, can be delivered through SUDS within urban greenspace settings. Previous studies have indicated that SUDS can help to manage water quality, water quantity and provide amenity. Additionally, the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (2011) has concluded that nature provides many ES benefits. Within this context, SUDS in urban greenspace areas have a high potential to provide opportunities to enhance urban ES provision beyond 'simply' water management. Within this thesis, an integrated methodology (consisting of physical and social science methods) is used to assess cultural and regulating services provided by SUDS. The results are collated to consolidate the data on different SUDS types and to develop and test a communication tool, to confirm the multiple benefits provided by SUDS. The work contributes to existing knowledge in this field of study, particularly as there is a very limited information available on delivery of cultural ecosystem services from SUDS.
Two case study sites, in Dundee and Dunfermline (both in Scotland, UK), with well-established SUDS features, were selected for the field assessment of ES and SUDS linkages. A third case study location, at Waterlooville (England, UK) was used to test the communication tool. The methodologies used in this research include visual inspection, public perception survey, Public Participatory Geographical Information Systems (PPGIS) and a pond and wetland survey. The results confirm that SUDS provide multiple ES benefits, particularly cultural and regulating services. Public perception results showed a statistical link between SUDS and ES provision in terms of biodiversity, aesthetics and educational benefits. The PPGIS results show the most favoured and least favoured places, based on participants opinion. Additionally, a willingness to pay assessment was conducted; this indicates that respondents value greenspace and SUDS near their homes.
The thesis concludes with the presentation of a communication tool which has been developed to assist in the identification of ES associated with SUDS. The three stages of the tool include preliminary stage, decision stage and final stage. The tool allows the communication of results based on physical science and social science and testing of the tool provided feedback on the reliability and usefulness of the tool. The outcome of this research will be of use to stakeholders such as landscape architects, engineers, planners, policy makers etc. An evidence base is created to assess the cultural and regulating services in the context of urban environments. The links between SUDS and ES are established, acknowledging the importance of non-monetary valuation of ES with respect to cultural services.


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