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A Place Called Home: A Memoir of Deprivation and Hope - David Ambroz and Brandon Nichols
There are millions of children in America today dealing with housing insecurity and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up unhoused in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care, offering a window into what so many kids living in poverty experience every day. When Ambroz and his siblings should be in elementary school, they are instead walking the streets seeking shelter while their mother is battling mental illness. They rest in train stations, 24-hour diners, anywhere that's warm and dry; they bathe in public restrooms and steal food to quell their hunger.
When Ambroz is placed in foster care, at first it feels like salvation but soon proves to be just as unsafe. He's moved from home to home and, in all but one placement, he's abused. His burgeoning homosexuality makes him an easy target for other's cruelty. He finds hope and opportunities in libraries, schools, and the occasional kind-hearted adult; he harnesses an inner grit to escape the all-too-familiar outcome for a kid like him. Through hard work and unwavering resolve, he receives a scholarship to Vassar College, his first significant step out of poverty.
Ambroz later graduated from UCLA School of Law, and currently serves as the Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon.
Ambroz will be in conversation with Brandon Nichols, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.
This event will be recorded and available later on the FAN website and our YouTube channel.
AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of "A Place Called Home" from FAN's partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Ambroz that will start immediately after the webinar. Copy and paste this link to purchase the book: https://bit.ly/AmbrozBook
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Jan 31, 2023 07:00 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)
David Ambroz
Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon and Author @https://www.davidambroz.com/
David Ambroz is a national poverty and child welfare expert and advocate and author of the 2022 memoir A Place Called Home. He was recognized by President Obama as an American Champion of Change. He currently serves as the Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon. Previously he led Corporate Social Responsibility for Walt Disney Television and served as the President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and as a member of the California Child Welfare Council. After growing up unhoused for years and then in foster care, he graduated from Vassar and later from UCLA School of Law (J.D.). He is a foster dad and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Brandon Nichols
Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services @https://dcfs.lacounty.gov/about/who-we-are/leadership/brandonnichols/
Brandon Nichols became Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) in April 2022. He is well respected throughout Los Angeles County and is an accomplished professional with more than 20 years of expertise in child welfare, foster care, adoptions, and mental health. Nichols previously served the DCFS as Chief Deputy Director and Acting Director. Prior to that, he served as an attorney for the Los Angeles County Counsel's Office where he represented and advised DCFS for a number of years. Most recently, Nichols played a significant role in efforts to provide mental health services to inmates throughout the Los Angeles County jails, and worked as the Executive Director of the County's Jail Closure Implementation Team that focused on decarcerating and closing the Men's Central Jail.
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Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Jan 31, 2023 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Topic: A Place Called Home: A Memoir of Deprivation and Hope - David Ambroz and Brandon Nichols Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gYAtx8GbRo2hFUBwo64aZA After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers David Ambroz (Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon and Author @https://www.davidambroz.com/) David Ambroz is a national poverty and child welfare expert and advocate and author of the 2022 memoir A Place Called Home. He was recognized by President Obama as an American Champion of Change. He currently serves as the Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon. Previously he led Corporate Social Responsibility for Walt Disney Television and served as the President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and as a member of the California Child Welfare Council. After growing up unhoused for years and then in foster care, he graduated from Vassar and later from UCLA School of Law (J.D.). He is a foster dad and lives in Los Angeles, CA. Brandon Nichols (Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services @https://dcfs.lacounty.gov/about/who-we-are/leadership/brandonnichols/) Brandon Nichols became Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) in April 2022. He is well respected throughout Los Angeles County and is an accomplished professional with more than 20 years of expertise in child welfare, foster care, adoptions, and mental health. Nichols previously served the DCFS as Chief Deputy Director and Acting Director. Prior to that, he served as an attorney for the Los Angeles County Counsel's Office where he represented and advised DCFS for a number of years. Most recently, Nichols played a significant role in efforts to provide mental health services to inmates throughout the Los Angeles County jails, and worked as the Executive Director of the County's Jail Closure Implementation Team that focused on decarcerating and closing the Men's Central Jail. Event Sponsors, A-L Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School, Catherine Cook School, Chicago Jewish Day School, Compass Health Center, Connections for the Homeless, Countryside Day School, Evanston Scholars, Evanston Township High School D202, Family Service Center, Family Service of Glencoe, Foundation 65, Francis W. Parker School, Glencoe D35, Gorton Community Center, Haven Youth and Family Services, Hyde Park Day School, Kenilworth D38, Lake Bluff D65, Lake Forest Academy, Lake Forest Country Day School, Lake Michigan Association of Independent Schools, Latin School of Chicago, Leo Catholic High School, Loyola Academy. Event Sponsors, M-Z Magnetar Capital, Mindful Psychology Associates, Morgan Park Academy, New Trier High School D203, New Trier Parents' Association, North Shore Country Day, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy, Pope John XXIII School, Rebel Human, Regina Dominican High School, Resurrection College Prep High School, Rogers Park Montessori School, Roycemore School, Santa Clara University School of Law, Science & Arts Academy, Stevenson High School D125, The Alliance for Early Childhood, The Avery Coonley School, The Cove School, The Family Institute at Northwestern University, The Frances Xavier Warde School, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, Winnetka D36, Winnetka-Northfield Public Library District, Wintrust Financial, Woodlands Academy, Youth & Opportunity United.


ATLANTA — The Georgia House has approved a midyear budget adjustment that increases funding for school safety and farmers hit by the devastation of Hurricane Michael in October.
England said, however, that it represented a conservative approach and plans ahead for "little bumps" the state could see in the coming year as revenues fluctuate because of state tax cuts passed in 2018.
The budget also includes funding for school safety put forth in Republican Gov. Brian Kemp's budget proposal. It allocates $30,000 for each public school in the state for increased security measures, like additional school resource officers, decided at the local level. The budget also includes over $8 million for mental health resources in Georgia high schools.
The amended budget, which runs through June 30, received bipartisan support. It passed the House by a vote of 166 to 8.
House Minority Leader Bob Trammell said that while he supported the budget, he wanted the legislature to consider a plan he put forward that would fully expand Medicaid at a cost to the state of about $150 million a year.
The budget that passed included $1 million in state money to fund a consultant to analyze options for a Medicaid waiver favored by Republicans and the governor.


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Excitement builds as scaffolding comes down at Congress Theatre
Scaffolding in the Congress Theatre auditorium has been dismantled as excitement grows for the London Philharmonic Orchestra re-opening concert less than six weeks away.
The steel structure had been in place for 18 months to carry out work on new lighting, ceiling decorations, and for new access to and construction of the lighting bridge.
Now all scaffolding has been taken down, the auditorium's cork flooring can be completed and the final seats will be installed, bringing the total number to around 1,600.
Councillor David Tutt, Leader of Eastbourne Borough Council, said: "March 24 will be a special day.
"It will be the culmination of two years' work to both return the Congress to its 1963 glory while making significant enhancements for theatre-goers and performers, ensuring this Grade II* listed building will be treasured for years to come. There could be no better way to celebrate the successful completion of this major project than with what promises to be an exceptional concert by the LPO."
The Congress is one of a limited number of post-war theatres in the country and its architectural merit puts it alongside the National Theatre, Royal Festival Hall, Nottingham Playhouse and Chichester Theatres.
-The junction of College Road with Carlisle Road and Wilmington Gardens in Eastbourne will be closed for road resurfacing during half term. Traffic diversions will be enforced while this takes place for the week beginning Monday, February 18.

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commodities in Europe and various Islamic countries.
of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
specially beef, chicken, meat of Pakistan.
In this connection, he pointed out that China is ready to establish business contacts with the Pakistani counterparts.
He said by establishing contacts the enterprises of both the countries would be able to share their experiences.
He said in China there are 20 million people who keep traditional eating habit of Halal Food.
The total population of Muslims throughout the world is about 1.5 billion, taking up of the world's total.
He pointed out that the annual trade value of Halal food in the world market is about US$ 150 billion.


Dubai Refreshments on Tuesday announced the launch of a new solar power plant in Dubai Investment Park – 2.
Located at 45,000 square metres, the new plant's capacity will reach 3.7 megawatts, which will make it one of the biggest solar power plants in the UAE, according to a bourse statement.
The project's annual capacity is expected to hit 5.6 million kilowatts/hour and cut 4 million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions annually, the company added.
Dubai Refreshments posted a 53.8% year-on-year decline in net profit for the full year 2018, recording AED 42.3 million.


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Q: print sqlite3_exec error message cause segmentation fault in C I use sqlite3 in C with ubuntu 14.04.
In my process I update the db every 20 minutes.
Here is my function :
int update_alive_state(uint64_t ieee,bool isAlive)
{
    char *error_report = NULL;
    char sql[100];
    int result = -1;
    UpdateAliveStateSql(sql,ieee,isAlive);
    if(result = sqlite3_exec(db_event, sql, 0, 0, &error_report))
    {
        printf( "\t> CMD: %s , Error: %s\n" , sql , error_report );
        sqlite3_free(error_report);
    }

    return result;
}

When sqlite3_exec() return error and print error message, I get the segmentation fault message and the process terminated.
ERROR: signal 11 was trigerred:
  Fault address: 0xae703f1b
  Fault reason: address not mapped to object
Stack trace folows:
./main.bin(segmentation_fault_handler+0xd5)[0x419e9f]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x10330)[0x7fa386f20330]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x1d03)[0x7fa386257943]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_printf+0x99)[0x7fa3862603d9]
./main.bin(update_alive_state+0x15d)[0x43ca78]
./main.bin(EventScanThread+0x2af)[0x442c21]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x8184)[0x7fa386f18184]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7fa38630637d]
Executing original handler...

If I comment out printf and sqlite3_free, segmentation fault message would be disappeared.
Why can I not print the error message?
Please help me.

Edit:
I changed my code like this
if(result = sqlite3_exec(db, sql, 0, 0, &error_report))
{
    printf( "[ERR] : \t> CMD: %s , Error: %d\n" , sql , result );
    if ( error_report )
    {
        printf( "[ERR] : Error msg: %s\n", error_report );
        sqlite3_free(error_report);
    }
}

But I still get a segmentation fault message.
ERROR: signal 11 was trigerred:
  Fault address: 0x7f3dc490cf1b
  Fault reason: address not mapped to object
Stack trace folows (partial):
./main.bin(segmentation_fault_handler+0xd5)[0x419e9f]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x10330)[0x7fab749ac330]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x1d03)[0x7fab73ce3943]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_printf+0x99)[0x7fab73cec3d9]
./main.bin(update_last_receive_time+0x166)[0x43d60e]
./main.bin(attr_process_attribute_report_ind+0x97)[0x4222dc]
./main.bin(si_gateway_incoming_data_handler+0xa3)[0x41b6b1]
./main.bin(tcp_socket_event_handler+0x558)[0x41c316]
./main.bin(polling_process_activity+0xde)[0x41a4e1]
./main.bin(main+0x150)[0x41a0f4]
Executing original handler...

The error address points to the first printf function
printf( "[ERR] : \t> CMD: %s , Error: %d\n" , sql , result );

Why? Please help me. Thanks.

A: The documentation states:

If the 5th parameter to sqlite3_exec() is not NULL and no errors occur, then sqlite3_exec() sets the pointer in its 5th parameter to NULL before returning.

So it is possible that there is no error messsage at all and you should do:
if (result = sqlite3_exec(db_event, sql, NULL, NULL, &error_report))
{
   if (error_report)
   {
      printf( "\t> CMD: %s , Error: %s\n" , sql , error_report );
      sqlite3_free(error_report);
   }
}

to check if it was set to NULL.

I changed my code like this [...]
  But I still get segmentation fault message. [...]
  The error address points to the first printf function:
printf( "[ERR] : \t> CMD: %s , Error: %d\n" , sql , result );

If you print a character array with %s, printf needs a null terminated '\0' C-string. As you dont provide your UpdateAliveStateSql function I can't see if the sql string is null terminated. To ensure that by writing a '\0' at the end of the buffer you could do:
sql[sizeof(sql) - 1] = '\0';

after calling the UpdateAliveStateSql function.

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Russian Journal of Linguistics
Vestnik Rossiiskogo universiteta druzhby narodov. Seriya: Lingvistika
Vol 25, No 4 (2021): The Russian Language Maintenance and Language Contacts of Post-Soviet Immigrants in Europe and Beyond
Announcements 31.12.2021: Happy New Year!
17.12.2021: Conversations with readers and authors. Seminar 4
21.11.2021: RJL wins "The Best Practice In Journal Publishing" Award
15.07.2021: The Russian Journal of Linguistics has achieved Q1 ranking in Scopus!
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Keywords English Russian Russian language bilingualism concept culture discourse emotion emotions intercultural communication interpretation intertextuality mentality metaphor phraseology politeness political discourse pragmatics semantics speech act translation
URL: http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/issue/view/1389
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-2020-24-4
Online incivility in times of Covid-19: Social disunity and misperceptions of tourism industry in Poland
Kopytowska M., Krakowiak R.
Lockdowns and other counter-measures introduced by governments around the globe in the aftermath of the outbreak of coronavirus dealt a serious blow to tourism and the hospitality industry. Faced with bankruptcy and closure, tourism-related businesses raised the alarm and called for government support, which in turn triggered numerous comments from online audiences. Focusing on such online discourses and the incivility they abound with, the present article aims to address various aspects of the interface between the crisis, online communication and social polarization, as well as the constitutive and constituted nature of discourse. We bring under scrutiny the response of the online public to appeals from the tourism industry, working on the assumption that these Internet comments, in terms of content and form, have been considerably shaped by three factors, namely (1) public perception of the tourism industry, (2) culture-related emotionality patterns, as well as (3) techno-discursive design and the resulting dynamics of communication within cyberspace. Adopting the Media Proximization Approach (MPA), together with the CDA perspective on discourse and representation, and drawing on insights from studies on online communication we analyze and discuss the corpus of online comments (53,043 words) following 21 articles on the crisis within the tourism industry in Poland published between 6 March and 23 June 2020. Our findings show that the response of the online public, which is predominantly negative and at times hostile, reflects the socio-political polarization in Poland, enhanced by the sense of threat to life and health as well as the scarcity of resources. Cyberspace and its technological affordances considerably affect solidarity and disunity dynamics through representational and interpersonal proximization, enabling creation and perpetuation of stereotypes along with values and emotions. Acting as proximization triggers, nomination, predication and argumentation strategies both reflect and shape knowledge and axiological preferences, which constitute an integral part of the construction of social reality.
Russian Journal of Linguistics. 2020;24(4):743-773
Towards a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme
Padilla Cruz M.
This paper intends to lay the foundations for a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme. In many languages, this morpheme is attached to nouns, adjectives, adverbs or verbs. It frequently nuances their referents by providing information concerning the smallness, littleness or scarcity of the size, amount or degree of their referents. However, the semantics of this morpheme cannot always be connected with such notions. In Spanish, for example, it is often used in order to intensify, express approximation or pejoration, show affection or modesty, suggest intimacy or mitigate verbal actions. This variety of functions renders its semantics fairly elusive and rules out a conceptual analysis. Relying on the relevance-theoretic distinction between conceptual and procedural meaning, this paper argues that the diminutive might possess a procedural semantics amounting to procedures or processing instructions. It also considers the output(s) of such procedures in Spanish and shows that in several cases the diminutive would clearly contribute to the lexical pragmatic processes taking place during mutual parallel adjustment . These yield highly idiosyncratic conceptual representations. In other cases, the instructions encoded by the diminutive could be thought to trigger a representation of the speaker's psychological states or even contribute to what in relevance-theoretic pragmatics is known as the higher-level explicature of an utterance. Since this would involve admitting that the semantics of the diminutive could be poly-procedural , this paper concludes by wondering whether a unitary procedural approach would be preferable.
A comparative study of proximity in Iranian and American newspaper editorials
Alipour M., Jahanbin P.
The study is aimed at gaining further insight into the concept of proximity and its contribution to text development in general and newspaper editorials in particular. It also furthers our understanding of cross-linguistic differences in the use of metadiscourse. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate and compare proximity elements in Iranian and American newspaper editorials. Following Hyland's proximity model (2010a) which comprises five major elements, organization, argumentative structure, stance, engagement, and credibility , we focused on a detailed analysis of proximity features in two corpora, Iranian newspaper editorials and American newspaper editorials. To this aim, 240 newspaper editorials, including 120 editorials from each category, were collected. The outcomes revealed that there were significant differences in the use of proximity elements in the mentioned corpora. It was demonstrated that stance markers were considerably more recurrent in the American data than their Iranian counterpart. Unlike the American editorials, the Iranian ones contained a larger number of engagement markers. The key reasons behind such discrepancies are discussed in terms of differences in cultural, social, and political backgrounds. This study can be helpful for English for Specific/Academic Purposes (ES/AP) learners who study journalistic English to become familiar with proximity.
Literary words of foreign origin as social markers in Jeffrey Archer's novels
Ivushkina T.A.
The paper is aimed at studying the use of literary words of foreign origin in modern fiction from a sociolinguistic point of view, which presupposes establishing a correlation between this category of words in a speech portrayal or narrative and a social status of the speaker, and verifying that they serve as indices of socially privileged identity in British literature of the XX1st century. This research is the continuation of the diachronic sociolinguistic study of the upper-class speech portrayals which has traced the distinctive features in their speech and has revealed that literary words of foreign origin unambiguously testify to the social position of a character/speaker and serve as social indices. The question arises then whether it holds true for modern upper-class speakers/speech portrayals, given all the transformations a new millennium has brought about. To this end we have selected 60 contexts from two novels by Jeffrey Archer - Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (2004) and A Prisoner of Birth (2008) , and subjected them to a careful examination. A graduate from Oxford and representative of socially privileged classes, Archer gives a wide depiction of characters with different social backgrounds and statuses. The analysis of the novels based on the contextual and functional approaches to the study enabled us to categorize the selected words into four relevant groups. The first class represented by terms ( commodity, debenture, assets, luminescence, etc.) serves to unambiguously indicate education, occupation, and fields of knowledge or communicative situations in which a character is involved. The second class is formed of words used in conjunction with their Germanic counterparts ( perspiration - sweat, padre - priest, convivial - friendly ) to contrast the social position of the characters: literary words serving as social indices of upper class speakers, whereas their synonyms of Germanic origin characterize middle or lower class speech portrayals. The third class of words comprises socially marked words (verbs, nouns and adjectives), or U-words (the term first coined by Allan Ross and Nancy Mitford), the status acquired in the course of social history development (elegant, excellent, sophistication, authoritative, preposterous, etc .) . The fourth class includes words used in a humorous or ironic meaning to convey the narrator's attitude to the characters or the situation itself ( ministrations, histrionic, etc.). Words of this group are perceived as stylistic "aliens", as they create incongruity between style and subject matter. The social implication of the selected words is enhanced by French words and phrases often accompanying them.
Predictors of correct interpretation of English and Bulgarian idioms by Russian speakers
Lavrova N.A., Nikulina E.A.
During intercultural communication, it is crucial to interpret correctly and to use appropriately foreign idioms which are culturally marked and reflect linguistic and cultural identity of a speech community. Interlocutors should be aware of the cultural and historical precedents that gave rise to the primary image underlying idiomatic expressions and thus created their unique phraseological worldview. The aim of the research is to find out what is a better predictor of correct idiom interpretation - degree of proficiency in a foreign language or degree of genealogical kinship between the native and foreign languages. The topicality of the research is justified by the need for a deeper understanding of linguistic and cultural identity of native and foreign-language speakers, with a view to facilitate and enhance cross-cultural communication. The working hypothesis is that due to the close genealogical kinship between Russian and Bulgarian and the users' advanced level of English, the number of correctly interpreted idioms may vary within a statistically significant medium range. The total sample comprises 5000 idioms (2500 English and 2500 Bulgarian ones). The subsample used in the experiment comprises 60 idioms (30 English and 30 Bulgarian ones) selected from 'The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms' and 'Nov fraseologichen rechnik na bylgarskiya jezik' ('Нов фразеологичен речник на българския език') by means of stratified systematic sampling. The main methods used in the research include (1) comparative linguistic and cultural analyses, (2) scientific experimentation, (3) systematic and stratified sampling, and (4) a paired t-test. The experimental research and the paired t-test have proved our hypothesis and demonstrated that Russian participants correctly decode more Bulgarian than English idioms, with intergroup variation being statistically significant. Research findings have implications for cultural linguistics. Since translation loans (calques), isomorphic idioms, and idioms dating back to a common source are interpreted more quickly and more accurately than idioms which contain unique or culturally-loaded elements, such as old-fashioned words or proper names, access to cultural precedents that served as prototypes of set expressions contributes to a more seamless code-switching and enables communicants to penetrate deeper the mentality of a specific linguacultural community and thus become aware of the variability of cultural cognition and conceptualisation.
Four lessons from Zaliznyak
Miloslavsky I.G.
The article refers to four most important features of Academician Andrei Zaliznyak's (1935-2017) scholarly heritage, which include: 1) a clear statement of the activity goal and the understanding of its place in the scientific cognition of the world; 2) a logical sequence of work stages and their clear understanding; 3) comprehension of all the other obvious consequences arising from the work done.Within the framework of those requirements, the author of the article is trying, in particular, to evaluate such public initiatives relating to the Russian language as "the total dictation" and "the word of the year". The paper discusses the degree to which modern research of the Russian language is compliant with those requirements, and emphasizes the inconsistency of the prevailing aspectological concepts, as well as the variety of rules dealing with the composition of semantic components in a wordform, sentence, or uttering. The author is skeptical about the prospects of the research of modern Russian word formation prioritising the inventory of word-formation types which cannot act as basic units for any kind of speech activity. The critical reflection on the notion of "postfix" allows the author to conclude that units regarded in terms of their semantic characteristics and not their position in a word form are clearly distributed among suffixes and endings (according to A.A. Zaliznyak). He also emphasises the complete incoherence of tasks set during the morphological analysis at school. In conclusion, the author writes about the reduction of moral standards within the professional community and recalls the fourth lesson of A.A. Zaliznyak - not to hope that colleagues will quickly recognise the research results.
System of deictic coordinates and intertextual deixis in academic discourse
Korovina I.V.
Until recently the deictic procedure in most research papers by Russian and foreign linguists has been discussed on the material of fiction texts and oral communication, where we deal with situational deixis, functioning within the framework of spatial-temporal coordinates. The system of these coordinates is not applicable to contextual deixis, whereas the system of deictic coordinates for contextual deixis has not been designed yet. Such a well-designed system of deictic coordinates for contextual deixis would allow scholars to analyze the functions of lexical units in speech in order to find out if they perform a deictic function. In other words, this system would enable researchers to define the scope of deictic elements, which at the moment is rather vague for the time being. In order to develop the system of deictic coordinates functioning within contextual deixis we have selected academic texts, where contextual deixis is especially vivid there, whereas situational deixis is not presented at all. The research is aimed at defining the main elements of the system of deictic coordinates functioning in academic texts. The material under analysis includes 1450 pages of linguistic research papers in English. The main methods of the research are contextual analysis and the constructive method, applied for designing the system of deictic coordinates and describing intertextual deixis. The research is yielded a system of deictic coordinates for contextual deixis which, designed throughout the research, consists of three elements: the deictic centre, the deictic vector, and the antecedent / subsequent element(s). The fact that the research is conducted on the English language material does not mean that this developed system of deictic coordinates can be applied only to texts written in English: this part of the research results is applicable to contextual deixis functioning in any text, regardless of its style, genre and the language it is written in. The proposed system of deictic coordinates is used to describe the new type of contextual deixis - the intertextual one, which is a peculiar feature of academic texts and not described in other researchers' papers. Moreover, it provides the opportunity to define new deictic elements of intertextual deixis: intertextual references in brackets, and lexical units which, being full-fledged units of a local context, point at elements of vertical presupposition. Thus, the results of the research are relevant for defining the dimensions of the deictic procedure applied to contextual deixis.
Metaphor as the refection of culture determined cognition
Kozlova L.A.
The article belongs to the cognitive dimension of contemporary cognitive linguistics based on the idea that the processes of the world conceptualization take place in the context of a certain culture and language imparting culturally determined character to our cognition. The ethnocultural specificity of cognition has various forms of manifestation in language, the most explicit of which is metaphor because the very nature of our thinking is metaphorical and reflects the correspondence with experience which is also culture-specific. The study aims to investigate how culturally determined cognition finds its manifestation in metaphor. The main goal of the article is to point out and characterize the forms of manifestation of ethnocultural specificity of metaphor in the text. The analysis is based on a corpus of 860 metaphorical expressions obtained from 34 English-language fiction texts. The main methods of analysis are conceptual, comparative-culturological and contextual analyses. The introduction contains a short survey of theoretical works related to the interaction of language, cognition and culture and describes the way methods are applied. In the second part the author analyses the interrelations between three branches of linguistics: ethnolinguistics, linguoculturology, and cultural linguistics united on the basis of their interest in the study of language in the cultural aspect. The main body of the article presents the analysis of metaphor in the aspect of culture specific cognition which results in the identification of three forms of representing the culturally determined cognition in metaphor: 1) the degree of metaphorical density of the text and the manner of metaphorical representation from the perspective of explicitness/implicitness; 2) the specificity of conceptual spheres which serve as the source of metaphors; 3) the choice of objects of metaphorical description determined by the sociocultural conventions of a linguocultural society. By way of conclusion, the author outlines the prospects of metaphor studies in the aspect of culture specific cognition.
Cross-cultural communication - lost in translation: A corpus study (based on the material from the Russian-Polish corpus)
Kononenko I.V.
The article is devoted to cross-cultural communication and its implementation in Polish translations of Russian fiction. Nowadays, both the study of national specifics relating to the worldviews of speakers of different languages, and the analysis of the way those worldviews are reflected in translation, are becoming more relevant. This article aims to study the properties of cross-cultural dialogue, which is mirrored in parallel fictional texts. The research material came from the Russian-Polish corpus. The analysis indicates that nationally specific features can manifest themselves on different levels of the language system - in vocabulary, phraseology, word formation, morphology, and syntax. The translation of sentences which include units representative of the Russian linguistic worldview demonstrates both cross-cultural successes and failures (omission of elements symbolic of Russian culture, their inaccurate interpretation or replacement with items typical of the Polish worldview). The existing printed and electronic dictionaries, as well as online translators, do not fully meet current requirements, including those related to conveying Russian cultural and linguistic senses by means of the Polish language. The practice of translating literary works from Russian into Polish demonstrates the need for further investigation of the worldviews of both nations.
Difficulties in translating Russian classics: Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" in English and French
Remchukova E.N., Nedopekina E.M.
A translator of classical literature is faced with the task of identifying the goal and methods of conveying the national originality of a generally recognized literary masterpiece. The article considers this problem in the context of translations of the novel in verse Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin into English and French. At the same time, it raises the questions of the translators' attitude to their own work, the depth of interpretation of the original, the degree of adaptation of the original text for a foreign reader. In addition, a matter of great importance is the translators' assessment of the result of their own work, which is reflected in their comments and preface to the translated text. The goal of this research is to substantiate the importance of the linguistic and cultural function of comments and prefaces, which also made it possible to identify the features of the translations themselves and emphasize their continuity. When translating works of classical literature, translators do not limit their task to the translation itself. In this regard, the "preface-commentary" complex is viewed in the article as an important part of the translator's work. The research material includes about 40 English and over 10 French translations made in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and presented in chronological order. Mainly those that are accompanied by prefaces and comments were selected for the analysis. The research helps to present the translations of the novel not only in terms of continuity, but also in terms of their authors' critical attitude to each other, thus bringing these components of translation into the focus of a professional discussion. As a result of comparing various translations, it is possible to identify the difficulties of literary translation of the novel Eugene Onegin , which include the preservation of its poetic form, the panoramic nature of its composition, including scenes of life of the 19th century Russian nobility, and the national spirit associated with the translation of national and cultural vocabulary. The research confirms that the very fact of numerous translations of this novel, which is paradigmatic for the Russian culture, can be viewed as a form of its worldwide recognition, regardless of the professional and reader's assessment of these translations. This enables us to speak of the existence of a strong tradition that has developed in European translation studies around this particular work.
Gourmandise in the hierarchy of values: A case study of French and Belgian proverbs and sayings
Nelyubova N.U., Syomina P.S., Kazlauskiene V.
The paremiological stock of a language is an important source of axiological information that helps to identify the features of a culture, people's mentality, and their worldview. The paper is devoted to the study of gourmandise as a component of the French and Belgian worldviews reflected in the French language paremias. The aim of the research is to determine its place in the hierarchy of values of the native speakers of French and its Belgian variant. The research material includes 202 units obtained from "Dictionnaire de proverbes et dictons" (121 units) and from "Proverbes et dictons de Belgique francophonie" (81 units). The research methods include semantic, axiological, quantitative, and comparative analyses. The results of the study indicate that 5,9% of French and 6,6% of Belgian units of the total number presented in the dictionaries are devoted to food and gourmandize, which proves that they occupy an important place in the hierarchy of values in both cultures. More than half of the gastronomic proverbs and sayings have a positive connotation. Some types of food, such as bread, butter, and eggs, are symbolic for both ethnic groups. The analysis of gastronomic realities has revealed similar French and Belgian values (such as wealth, prosperity, happiness, health, pleasure, life) and antivalues (poverty, hunger, misery, disease, death, etc.). The obtained data contribute to the axiological studies of the worldview of the native speakers of various variants of the French language and can serve as a starting point for conducting similar research of other values, including those based on the material of other languages and cultures.
What makes a text interesting? Interest-evoking strategies in expository text from Russian school textbooks
Piotrovskaya L.A., Trushchelev P.N.
The article provides the linguistics approach to the study of text-based interest. The purpose of the article is to identify the means and strategies used in expository texts from Russian school textbooks for the creation of text emotiveness. This characteristic of "an interesting text" has been repeatedly pointed out in the psychological research (Schiefele 2009). The article uses the linguistics methods of communicative and functional analysis and, in particular, the method of semantic modeling of emotive situations (Filimonova 2007). The authors' intention "to evoke the reader's interest" is the basis for forming an emotional-evoking type of expository discourse. The implementation of this intention is carried out through special discourse strategies called interest-evoking rhetorical strategies. Some of these strategies are based on the transmission of emotions as a special type of information in verbal interaction. In a text, this type of information is represented by emotiveness, that is, a component of text content through which the emotional states of participants of communication or characters are manifested. The article provides a description of four primary ways to create expository text emotiveness: 1) the usage of emotive insertions - commentaries made by the participant of communication acting as the subject who feels emotions; 2) the verbalization of the emotional scenario of interest for its projection to the reader; 3) the description of the characters' emotional states; 4) the representation of "abnormal" situations (a disruption of normal and expected relations between components of a situation in the real world described in a text). The first two ways are related to the strategies of the text dialogization aimed at creating the dialogue form of an expository text, and the thematization of interest. The third way enhances the text vividness and the fourth increases its dynamics and unexpectedness for the reader.
Russian Journal of Linguistics. 2020;24(4):991-1016
Demonyms in the Pacific Alliance countries: morphological and semantic variation
Chesnokova O.S., Radović M.
The existing research on onomastics does not sufficiently reflect upon the relation between cultural codes and demonyms, having in mind that demonyms universally represent linguistic devices for expressing territorial and regional identity. The article focuses on the complex polyparadigmal analysis of the system of demonyms related to the macrotoponymy of the four founding countries of the Pacific Alliance: Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Each of the four founding countries of the Pacific Alliance is characterised by the uniqueness of its culture, historical development, the specifics of the national variant of Spanish that reflects the indigenous influence of substrates and the collective values of the society. The research tasks of the article consist in systemising the morphological devices and the cultural layers of demonyms connected with the administrative division of given countries, detecting the variation parameters, comparing them from the linguacultural point of view. The main material of the research have been 100 official demonyms of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, and 31 variative denominations. The materials for the research are based on the official websites of the administrative units of the four countries, dictionaries data, diverse types of texts and discourse, as well as the notes of the informants' speech. The research uses such methods as the continuous sampling method based on Internet sources, the analysis of dictionary definitions, the method of semantic interpretation, the morphological analysis, combined with interviews with informants whose interaction is made possible by the complex polyparadigmal analysis of the material. The authors have determined a series of lexemes that function as demonyms, analysed their form and content from the linguistic point of view. It has been revealed that the main tendency in the formation of suppletive demonyms for macrotoponyms are the terrain features and the assessment of ethnic background or mentality. The analysed demonyms manifest the relations of intralingual, intervariant homonymy, as well as hypo-hyperonymic relations. The complex analysis of the material has provided an opportunity to represent the demonym systems of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru as multidimensional and at the same time inherent to the unified functional continuum of entity in Spanish-speaking countries. The research results have led to the conclusion that demonyms act as independent notions and generators of new meanings and allusions. It is recommended to use transliteration when translating suppletive demonyms, while their decoding amplifies the linguacultural competence of Spanish-language students and harmonises the intercultural dialogue with the native speakers of Chilean, Colombian, Mexican and Peruvian national variants of Spanish in the areas of education and business.
Russian Journal of Linguistics. 2020;24(4):1017-1048
Review of Sadow, Lauren, Bert Peeters, and Kerry Mullan (eds.). 2020. Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication: Vol. 3. Minimal English (and beyond). Singapore: Springer. ISBN 978-981-329-978-8
Gladkova A.
Review of O.A. Leontovich, M.A. Gulyaeva, O.V. Lunyova, M.S. Sokolova. 2019. Positive communication. Moscow: Gnosis. 295 p. ISBN 978-5-94244-072-5
Karasik V.I.


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Posts for category: Dental Procedures
Tags: celebrity smiles veneers
Between the final game of the World Series in late October and spring training in February, major league baseball players work on their skills preparing for the new season. Reporters on a Zoom call to the New York Yankees' training camp wanted to know what star outfielder Aaron Judge had been doing along those lines. But when he smiled, their interest turned elsewhere: What had Aaron Judge done to his teeth?
Already with 120 homers after only five seasons, Judge is a top player with the Yankees. His smile, however, has been less than spectacular. Besides a noticeable gap between his top front teeth (which were also more prominent than the rest of his teeth), Judge also had a chipped tooth injury on a batting helmet in 2017 during a home plate celebration for a fellow player's walk-off home run.
But now Judge's teeth look even, with no chip and no gap. So, what did the Yankee slugger have done?
He hasn't quite said, but it looks as though he received a "smile makeover" with porcelain veneers, one of the best ways to turn dental "ugly ducklings" into "beautiful swans." And what's even better is that veneers aren't limited to superstar athletes or performers—if you have teeth with a few moderate dental flaws, veneers could also change your smile.
As the name implies, veneers are thin shells of porcelain bonded to the front of teeth to mask chips, cracks, discolorations or slight gaps between teeth. They may even help even out disproportionately sized teeth. Veneers are custom-made by dental technicians based on a patient's particular tooth dimensions and color.
Like other cosmetic techniques, veneers are a blend of technology and artistry. They're made of a durable form of dental porcelain that can withstand biting forces (within reason, though—you'd want to avoid biting down on ice or a hard piece of food with veneered teeth). They're also carefully colored so that they blend seamlessly with your other teeth. With the right artistic touch, we can make them look as natural as possible.
Although porcelain veneers can accommodate a wide range of dental defects, they may not be suitable for more severe flaws. After examining your teeth, we'll let you know if you're a good candidate for veneers or if you should consider another restoration. Chances are, though, veneers could be your way to achieve what Aaron Judge did—a home run smile.
If you would like more information about porcelain veneers, please contact us or schedule a consultation. To learn more, read the Dear Doctor magazine article "Porcelain Veneers: Strength & Beauty As Never Before."
Getting dental implants is going to require surgery. But don't let that concern you—it's a relatively minor procedure.
Currently the "gold standard" for tooth replacement, an implant consists of a titanium post surgically imbedded in the jawbone. We can affix a life-like crown to a single implant or support a fixed bridge or removable denture using a series of them.
Because placement will determine the restoration's final appearance, we must carefully plan implant surgery beforehand. Our first priority is to verify that you have adequate jawbone available to support an implant.
Additionally, we want to identify any underlying structures like nerves or blood vessels that might obstruct placement. We may also develop a surgical guide, a retainer-like device placed in the mouth during surgery that identifies precisely where to create the holes or channels for the implants.
After numbing the area with local anesthesia, we begin the surgery by opening the gum tissue with a series of incisions to expose the underlying bone. If we've prepared a surgical guide, we'll place it in the mouth at this time.
We then create the channel for the insert through a series of drillings. We start with a small opening, then increase its size through subsequent drills until we've created a channel that fits the size of the intended implant.
After removing the implant from its sterile packaging, we'll directly insert it into the channel. Once in place, we may take an x-ray to verify that it's been properly placed, and adjust as needed. Unless we're attaching a temporary crown at the time of surgery (an alternate procedure called immediate loading), we suture the gums over the implant to protect it.
Similar to other dental procedures, discomfort after surgery is usually mild to moderate and manageable with pain relievers like acetaminophen or ibuprofen (if necessary, we can prescribe something stronger). We may also have you take antibiotics or use antibacterial mouthrinses for a while to prevent infection.
A few weeks later, after the bone has grown and adhered to the implant surface, you'll return to receive your new permanent crown or restoration. While the process can take a few months and a number of treatment visits, in the end you'll have new life-like teeth that could serve you well for decades.
If you would like more information on dental implants, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article "Dental Implant Surgery."
Tags: celebrity smiles chipped tooth
It's not unusual for serious actors to go above and beyond for their roles. They gain weight (or lose it, like Matthew McConaughey for True Detective). They grow hair—or they shave it off. But perhaps nothing tops what Brad Pitt did to assume the character of Tyler Durden in the movie Fight Club—he had his dentist chip his teeth.
While a testament to his dedication to the acting craft, Pitt's move definitely falls into the category of "Kids, don't do this at home." Fortunately, people deliberately chipping their teeth isn't a big problem. On the other hand, accidentally chipping a tooth is.
Chipping a tooth can happen in various ways, like a hard blow to the jaw or biting down on something too hard. Chipping won't necessarily endanger a tooth, but the missing dental structure can put a damper on your smile.
But here's the good news: you don't have to live with a chipped tooth. We have ways to cosmetically repair the damage and upgrade your smile.
One way is to fit a chipped or otherwise flawed tooth with a dental veneer, a thin wafer of dental porcelain bonded to the front of a tooth to mask chips, discolorations, gaps or other defects. They're custom-made by a dental lab to closely match an individual tooth's shape and color.
Gaining a new smile via dental veneers can take a few weeks, as well as two or more dental visits. But if you only have slight to moderate chipping, there's another way that might only take one session in the dentist's chair. Known as composite bonding, it utilizes plastic-based materials known as composite resins that are intermixed with a form of glass.
The initial mixture, color-matched for your tooth, has a putty-like consistency that can be easily applied to the tooth surface. We apply the composite resin to the tooth layer by layer, allowing a bonding agent in the mixture to cure each layer before beginning the next one. After sculpting the composite layers into a life-like appearance, the end result is a "perfect" tooth without visible flaws.
Unlike Brad Pitt, it's pretty unlikely you'll ever find yourself in a situation requiring you to purposely damage your teeth. But chips do happen—and if it happens to you, we have more than one way to make your teeth as good as new.
If you would like more information about repairing dental flaws with veneers or composite bonding, please contact us or schedule a consultation. To learn more, read the Dear Doctor magazine article "Artistic Repair of Front Teeth With Composite Resin."
Tags: celebrity smiles veneers crowns
Since his breakout role as Dr. Doug Ross in the 90's TV drama ER, George Clooney has enjoyed a blockbuster career as an award-winning actor, director and producer. He's still going strong, as seen in the recent film The Midnight Sky, which Clooney directed and starred in. This sci-fi drama set a record as the most-watched movie on Netflix for the first five days after its late December release. And although now well into middle age, Clooney still possesses a winsome charm epitomized by his devil-may-care smile.
But he didn't always have his enigmatic grin. Early on, his struggles pursuing his burgeoning acting career triggered a stressful habit of grinding his teeth. This took a toll, as his teeth began to look worn and yellowed, giving his smile—and him—a prematurely aged appearance.
Clooney's not alone. For many of us, our fast-paced lives have created undue stress that we struggle to manage. This pent-up stress has to go somewhere, and for a number of individuals it's expressed through involuntary grinding or gritting of the teeth. This may not only lead to serious dental problems, but it can also diminish an otherwise attractive smile.
There are ways to minimize teeth grinding, the most important of which is to address the underlying stress fueling the habit. It's possible to get a handle on stress through professional counseling, biofeedback therapy, meditation or other relaxation techniques. You can also reduce the habit's effects with a custom-made oral device that prevents the teeth from making solid contact during a grinding episode.
But what if teeth grinding has already taken a toll on your teeth making them look worn down? Do what Clooney did—put a new "face" on your teeth with dental veneers. These thin layers of porcelain are bonded to teeth to mask all sorts of blemishes, including chips, heavy staining and, yes, teeth that appear shortened due to accelerated wearing. And they're custom-designed and fashioned to blend seamlessly with other teeth to transform your smile. Although they're not indestructible, they're quite durable and can last for years.
Veneers can correct many mild to moderate dental defects, but if your teeth are in worse shape, porcelain crowns may be the answer. A crown, which bonds to a prepared tooth to completely cover it, allows you the advantage of keeping your natural tooth while still enhancing its appearance.
Although different in degree, both veneers and crowns require permanently altering the teeth, such that they will require a dental restoration from then on. But if you're looking for an effective way to transform your worn or otherwise distressed teeth into a beautiful smile, it's a sound investment.
Just like George Clooney, your smile is an important part of who you are. We can help you make it as appealing as possible with veneers or other dental enhancements. Call us today to get started on the path to a more attractive smile.
If you would like more information about dental veneers and other smile enhancements, please contact us or schedule a consultation. To learn more, read the Dear Doctor magazine article "Porcelain Veneers."
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Picture yourself with a beautiful smile…what do you see? Besides straight and uniform teeth framed by the gums, you should also see one other thing indicative of a great smile—your teeth an attractive shade of translucent white.
But as you age your teeth can begin to dull as the enamel loses its translucency and the underlying dentin thickens and yellows. You no longer have the bright smile you once had in younger days.
But if the discoloration is mainly on the outer enamel, teeth whitening could be your answer for regaining your youthful smile. This is a procedure in which we apply a solution containing a bleaching agent (usually hydrogen peroxide) to your teeth. Aided by heat or light to activate it, the solution can temporarily whiten the enamel.
Teeth whitening isn't an exclusive treatment provided by a dentist—there are a number of retail products that enable you to bleach your teeth at home. But there are distinct advantages to having your teeth professionally whitened.
For one, we can control the level of brightness by adjusting the strength of the bleaching solution. This allows you to achieve the kind of look you want—from a more natural and subtler shade to a more dazzling color often called "Hollywood White."
Any external teeth whitening application will fade with time, regardless of whether they're professional or DIY. But a dental office whitening may last longer due to our stronger solutions and curing techniques. And, by caring for your whitening (by avoiding tobacco and food items that stain teeth) and obtaining occasional touch-ups in our office, the shine could last for a few years.
Again, this particular whitening technique only works with outer staining and yellowing. If your discoloration originates from inside the teeth, you'll need a more invasive method. And your teeth should be reasonably healthy before undergoing whitening.
All in all, though, teeth whitening is an easy and affordable way to brighten your smile. It could help you take years off your appearance.
If you would like more information on teeth whitening, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article "Teeth Whitening: Brighter, Lighter, Whiter…."
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Integrated approaches to analyze big data in the perinatal/neonatal space
Rob Knight, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics and Computer Science and Engineering,
and founding Director of the Center for Microbiome
Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla,
Signaling Between Mother and Infant During Lactation: Evolutionary, Anthropological, Biological, and Practical Considerations
Mary Fewtrell, MD, BM BCh, FRCPCH
Human milk oligosaccharides at the interface of maternal-infant health
Lars Bode, PhD
Multidisciplinary studies on rotavirus – human milk oligosaccharide interactions
Sasirekha Ramani, PhD
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Dr. Rob Knight received his PhD from Princeton University and performed postdoctoral work at the University of Colorado–Boulder, where he became Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Computer Science at the BioFrontiers Institute. He is currently Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Computer Science and Engineering and founding Director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at the University of California San Diego. He is also co-founder of the Earth Microbiome Project, the American Gut Project, and the company Biota, Inc., which uses DNA from microbes in the earth's subsurface to guide oilfield decisions for industry.
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CUFE's 2015 Autumn Sports Games Successfully Held
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After two days of heavy raining, the sky in Beijing became extraordinarily clear and the temperature rebounded significantly. On the 23th of October, accompanied by the warm autumn morning sunshine, the faculty members and students gathered at the sports field on Shahe campus to participate in the annual school sports event--the Autumn Sport Games. The Games opening ceremony started in cheers at 8:30 a.m. The Deputy Secretary of the party in the university Professor Ni Haidong, Professor Chen Ming, The Vice President Professor Wangyao Qi, Professor Shi Jianping, the assistant President Professor Zhu Lingyun and Deans from different schools and institutes attended the opening ceremony. The Dean of School of the Sports Economics and Management presided over the opening ceremony.
The ceremony started first with the athletes entering the stadium, who were followed by the university's flag. 25 groups were successively reviewed by the university's leaders, faculty members and students.
Square of CUFE's Flag
Square of Red Flag

Balloon: Beautiful multicolored balloons flying into the arena, to show not only the muscles, as well as self-confidence and courage in "Come to CUFE if you want to learn finance".
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After the flag-raising ceremony, Professor Wang Yaoqi, Director of the university's sports committee and also vice president, delivered the opening speech. She expressed, on behalf of the university, her congratulations to everyone for the success of the organization of the Games, and she also addressed her greetings and gratitude to the athletes, referees and all the faculty members and staff. The Vice-president Wang Yaoqi said that sport is an important part of a good education system; the university has always been involved in the development of physical education, the promotion of bringing people together and competition as an important part of building high-level university education. In particular, in May this year, our university women's volleyball team won the 2014-2015 National University Volleyball League championship Final. This victory has created a new history, ignited the passion of the teachers and students, and has also built a healthy atmosphere of sport. She noted that the current Games are not only to review the work of the people in charge of sport in our university, but it is also to check the high morale of the people and their fighting spirit. She hoped that more teachers and students can get involved in sport activities, to harvest a happy mood, improve quality of life, and to continue to give their support to our school sport activities.
Following the 2014 autumn Games "most unusual national wind", this year, the faculty members presented a dance with a Tibetan style, "Large plateau". The dance began with a group composed of 10 women whom are at least 45 years old. They are all from the cleaning staff of CUFE Asset Management Company, which were dressed in beautiful Tibetan clothing, changing dancing formation from time to time, creating a beautiful scene. They were followed by the team of teachers from the school of Insurance, Law and Management Science and Engineering dressed in Tibetan clothing, or skirt. After them, the next group is a team of teachers dressed in uniforms, dancing in neat line with red silk and bamboo. This year a total of 380 faculty members participated in the Square Dance performances. The number has increased by 200 people compared to last year.
Teachers Square Dancing
Inspired by the passionate pace and win the dream of youth. The Art Troupe of the Youth League Committee students in neat rows, entered into the field with powerful drumbeats, bringing the atmosphere again to a climax. This group was composed by 40 students, all dressed in white uniform, with multi-tone drum, snare drum, bass drum and cymbals when marching forward into the field, playing the touching Marching percussion "QiCheng" during which along with its bright, vigorous rhythms, 16 flagmen were rotating and waving the blue flags in a flag dance, using this Majestic flag dance to amaze the audience. Leaders, teachers and students on the podium and the audience have come up with their phones to record their elegant appearance. The combination of the drumbeats performances with the flag dance is a new attempt of the students from the Art Troupe of our university. This beautiful performance showed vibrant and progressive spirit of our students, and it has been welcomed and applauded by the teachers and students.
Percussion Performance
At the end of the opening ceremony, the song, "future", sounded all over the stadium, the university's leaders followed by the representatives of teachers and students and the escort team opened the Games, and the different sport events also began. It is reported that there are two groups which were taking part in the current games, a group of teachers and a group of students, for a total of more than 800 students and more than 400 faculty members. They all competed in 33 various events, and we have also registered a record of the number of staff members. Meanwhile, two new events have been created this year, "Football Kick" and "Kangaroo jump". The purpose of that is to increase number of participants, teachers and students, and to stimulate the enthusiasm of everyone to participate in physical exercise.
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Wonderful Games Moments
At 4:00 p.m., the closing ceremony of the games, which lasted nearly two days, was held under the auspices of M. Gao Yan. These Games chief referee Wang Huan, from the school of sports economics and management, announced the competition results. With 267 points, the school of finance's team won the championship; the number two is the school of Accounting with 228 points. These two schools also won the current Games Sportsmanship Award. After the ceremony, Vice President Wang Yaoqi delivered the closing speech. She first, on behalf of the university and the Organizing Committee, congratulated not only the winners, but also all the athletes, referees and staff, and she expressed her gratitude and highest respect. Vice President Wang said that these Games were like a workout, an opportunity to unite the people; they are also an opportunity to show our abilities and highlight people characteristics. The scenes of the success of the brave athletes are still vivid in one's mind; they have showed the athleticism spirit, healthy and high-spirited mental state, which was also encouraged by everyone.
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Passion Puppets (deutsch etwa: Marionetten der Leidenschaft), auch The Passion Puppets, war eine kurzlebige britische Band des New Wave und Indie-Pop. Ihre einzige Langspielplatte Beyond the Pale wurde im Mai 1984 auf Stiff Records veröffentlicht.

Bandgeschichte
Ray Burmiston und Miki Screene aus Covent Garden widmeten sich schon seit der Grundschule ihrem Interesse, Musik zu machen. Beide besuchten zu der Zeit gemeinsam ein Konzert der nordenglischen Band Geordie. 1977 gründeten sie die fünfköpfige Band The Limit, die einen Plattenvertrag bei Private Stock erhielt und im Juli 1978 eine Single, ein Cover des Beatles-Klassikers Please Please Me, veröffentlichte. Produzent dieser Single war John Springate, Bassist und Sänger der Glitter Band. Burmiston und Screene beendeten danach die Schule; Burmiston ging aufs College, um Fotografie zu studieren, Screene arbeitete in einem Krankenhaus. 1981 trafen sich die beiden in London wieder. Beide schrieben einige Songs zusammen. Sie rekrutierten die beiden Gitarristen Andy P. und Dave Rollins, Burmiston war Sänger, Screen spielte den Bass. Zu Ostern 1982 kam Schlagzeuger Simon Langford Godfrey dazu. Anfang 1983 hörte Dave Robinson, Eigentümer von Stiff Records, eine Probe der Band und gab ihnen einen langfristigen Plattenvertrag. (Nach anderer Lesart ließ Springate im Gegenzug für Burmistons Hilfe beim Ausbau seines Tonstudios die Band dort Aufnahmen machen; eins dieser Demotapes soll einem Mitarbeiter von Stiff Records zu Ohren gekommen sein und die Passion Puppets erhielten daraufhin den Vertrag bei dem Label.) Ihren Musikstil bezeichneten sie selbst als Alternative Pop. Eleanor Levy vom Record Mirror bezeichnete ihren Gitarrensound als "Kreuzung aus Roy Rogers und den Shadows". Like Dust, ihre erste Single, in Großbritannien im Juli 1983 veröffentlicht, empfand Michael Sutton von AllMusic wie eine Hommage an Italowestern. Sie wurde ein Radiohit in Kanada, allerdings wurde sie in Nordamerika erst ein Jahr später im Juli 1984 veröffentlicht. Billboard befand den Song als "neu und bemerkenswert", die Debütsingle des britischen Quintetts sei "halb punkige Power, halb Rawhide-Gitarrenzitate". Das Video zum Song wurde ab dem 27. Juni 1984 auf MTV gesendet.

Stiff brachte in Großbritannien zwei weitere Singles und 1984 eine LP der Passion Puppets heraus. Die zweite Single Voices wurde im Record Mirror mit Zurückhaltung aufgenommen. Jim Reed konstatierte eine "[s]eltsame Mischung aus dunkler satanischer Mühlenstimmung und blitzsauberem Pop. Mit anderen Worten, eher wie eine Kreuzung von Danse Society und Kajagoogoo." Auf der B-Seite der 12"-Version von Voices coverten die Passion Puppets den David-Bowie-Song We Are the Dead vom Album Diamond Dogs. Zur LP Beyond the Pale, die alle drei Songs von den Single-A-Seiten enthielt, schrieb Paul Sexton in seiner Rezension: "Die übereifrigen Anstrengungen, modern zu klingen, resultieren in einem durch Gitarren ausgelösten Lärm, der zu viele Titel überlagert. […] nichtsdestotrotz gibt es hier einiges an lohnender Popmusik." Ein Großteil der von Bandmitgliedern komponierten und von Burmiston getexteten Songs wurde von Roger Béchirian produziert, andere von Pete Walsh. Trotz einer Tournee als Vorgruppe von Paul Young & the Royal Family im Jahr 1983 und einer weiteren als Vorband der Psychedelic Furs im Folgejahr verkauften sich Single und Album mäßig, ohne in die Nähe einer Chartnotierung zu kommen. Michael Robson schrieb im Fanzine Be Stiff: "Die Zukunft der Band liegt in eurer Hand – kauft ihre Platten und macht sie erfolgreich – oder ignoriert sie und lasst sie langsam, aber sicher verschwinden." Letzteres war der Fall: Die Band löste sich noch 1984 auf.

Burmiston machte später Karriere als Fotograf und tauchte im Jahr 2000 unter dem Namen Kicking the Moon mit einem Album wieder in der Musikszene auf.

Diskographie
Singles
 1983: Like Dust/House of Love (Stiff BUY 178)
 1983: Voices/Powder Monkeys (Stiff BUY 188, 12" + We Are the Dead)
 1984: Beyond the Pale/Overland (Stiff BUY 203, 12" + So Hard)

Album
 1984: Beyond the Pale (Stiff SEEZ 54)

Literatur
 Michael Robson, Passion Puppets. In: Be Stiff No. 4, September 1984

Weblinks
 Passion Puppets bei AllMusic (englisch)

Anmerkungen und Nachweise

Popband
Indie-Band
New-Wave-Band
Britische Band

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A Minister's pet scheme to employ 300 disabled people in Christchurch seems to be short on facts, says Labour's Disability Issues spokesperson Poto Williams.
"Nicky Wagner cannot provide solid evidence to show that her much vaunted Project 300 has actually helped disabled people into employment.
"In a Select Committee hearing this week the Minister repeatedly could not say how many of the 505 people employed on the project are actually disabled.
"Talking Project 300 up to the country and to the United Nations is no substitute for some hard facts.
"It's extraordinary that the Minister has already spent $374,000 on Project 300 but cannot make any distinction between the disabled and people who have a health condition. For all we know they did not help any disabled people.
"For employment to be meaningful and sustainable, disabled people need specialised, ongoing support," says Poto Williams.


And in cases like that, I personally don't feel it's fair to FORCE change on them.
Sure, you can begin to incorporate healthy choices when you prepare meals for your family, but sometimes regaining your health is a very personal choice.
1. Simply ASK For Support – If you are newly starting out and your self-discipline is low, ask your family for support by way of keeping highly-tempting foods away from you, not eating certain things in your presence, etc. at least when you're first starting out, until those foods no longer phase you to the point of or beyond temptation.
2. Focus On What You Want & Why – Set your goals: your goal weight, how you want to feel, what meds you want to get off of, the size clothes you want to wear, how you want your body to look, etc., and WRITE THEM DOWN! Get pictures where applicable and post them in highly-visible areas.
Not only that, but also be real with WHY you want to reach these goals. Sometimes the reason why isn't big or important enough to cause you to stay focused… so dig DEEP and again, be real with yourself!
If the reason is pure vanity… so be it… OWN it! Hey, it's YOUR goal, YOUR reason, and YOUR business. And when times are a little rough, be sure to look at & focus on what you WANT to accomplish and not focus on negative feelings or actions.
3. Avoid Deprivation By Getting Creative – Find and recreate healthier versions of your favorite, not-so-healthy foods and snacks so you don't feel deprived. The feeling of deprivation is one of the many reasons people tend to fail at their attempts to live a healthier lifestyle or even to diet.
For example: If your family is having pizza night, you can either make it a "cheat meal" and indulge right along with them, or you can simply create a healthy version that you can ENJOY and feel GOOD about eating at the same time. Make it healthy, but also make it DELICIOUS!
4. Eat What You Love – One of the things I hate is when people make the depiction of healthy eating (mainly on television, but real life as well) to be oh so BORING with bland food such as plain steamed broccoli with NOTHING on it.
Please. Honey, eating healthy does NOT have to mean eating bland, flavorless foods! So stop believing that lie and learn the TRUTH!
What truth? For example: How about the truth that, fat is NOT bad! Don't believe me? Research it!
Then when you find out I was right, ditch the "low-fat crap", and instead of avoiding fat in various foods; watch out for SUGAR because it's sugar that causes your body to hold onto fat, not fat itself.
So this basically means that you can have REAL butter or FULL FAT cream/milk/yogurt (if you're not a dairy-less eater, that is) and you can season your food with salt, as long as it's unrefined, unbleached, REAL SEA SALT. You can spice up your foods with your favorite seasonings like garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder, paprika, etc.
Discover what healthy items you really LOVE, make them taste GOOD (staying as close to the healthy realm as possible) and keep plenty of those foods on hand. If you LOVE yams or sweet potatoes (like I do), keep them on hand. Love cashews? Keep them handy to snack on… things like that.
5. Prepare Your Food & Eat First – Sound selfish? Well, when your family is pigging out on your favorite unhealthy foods and you're fighting the urge because you're actually trying to do what's right for YOUR body, *scoffs* you'd darn well BETTER be selfish… you have a right to be in this case!
Unless you and your family sit down together at dinner time, you can prepare AND EAT your food ahead of time so that once their food is being prepared and/or is done, you're not hungry and won't be tempted. If you DO all sit down and eat together, then prior to cooking, have a healthy snack or take a healthy appetite suppressant first. Prepare the meal and have YOUR meal as they're eating theirs.
6. Plan Ahead – I cannot express enough how important it is to do meal prep. I find that, when my meals are prepared for the week and I have bought ALL the ingredients and snacks I need to have on hand, it is SOOOO much easier than being ill prepared and then not feeling like making my food and ultimately, eating things that don't line up with my goals.
Can meal prep day be a pain? It' IS work… but once you put in the work that ONE DAY, you're all set for the rest of the week! Even if you have to do TWO days of meal prep… on Sunday, prep for Mon-Wed and on Wed, prep for the rest of the week – that's better than nothing.
Here's another "pizza night" example for ya: If you know that weekends are typically pizza family time and you're avoiding pizzeria pizza – get the ingredients ahead of time, make and freeze your crust (if using one) and then on "pizza day", thaw and top with your favorite ingredients that are inline with your goals and enjoy YOUR pizza while family enjoys theirs.
The important thing to remember is that, people will often do what you DO and not so much what you say; so set the bar, be the example, and watch as your family members slowly, but surely, begin to follow suit in making small strides to healthier eating!
So, hopefully you have found these tips helpful and will take them to heart so that you're more successful at either dieting or eating healthy, when your family isn't!
And if you DID find this information helpful, please be sure to give me some social media love by liking, sharing, tweeting and all that other good stuff! 🙂 Thanks so much!


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We want Redcar to back proposed DV scheme
Posted on: April 23rd, 2020
As the lockdown continues, recent news has caused us to write to Redcar MP Jacob Young to back the national proposal raised by two key commissioners, urging the government to make hotel rooms available to domestic abuse victims when refuges are full.
In a letter to the government, Dame Vera Baird, the victims commissioner for England and Wales, and Nicola Jacobs, the domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales, highlighted that, although refuges are the most appropriate place for victims to go, the current lockdown is impacting their capacity. Making empty hotel rooms available for those unable to access a refuge would allow them to leave their home should they need to.
The proposal was originally raised by Southall Black Sisters and Compassion in Politics, which approached hotels directly at the end of March.
This call to action comes as research released by Counting Dead Women revealed that over the first three weeks of the coronavirus lockdown, nearly three times as many women were killed by men than during the same period in the past ten years.
The research identified 16 killings between 23 March and 12 April. During this timeframe in the past decade, this figure is approximately five.
Janet Ford, one of our senior solicitors who works closely with victims of domestic violence, said: "At Cygnet Law, we're fully backing Dame Vera Baird and Nicola Jacobs' urgent request to the government to make hotel rooms available to victims of domestic violence when refuges are full, and we're calling for Redcar to lead the charge and set an example for the rest of the country to follow.
"As we can see from the Counting Dead Women figures, there is an increase in people dying during the lockdown, which strongly suggests that instances of domestic abuse are increasing as these victims have no escape. We have also seen an increase in domestic violence cases and in police protection orders. This is an incredibly concerning, but sadly unsurprising, development.
"We agree with the commissioners that our local refuges are working hard to support as many people as they can and are the most appropriate place for victims to seek help in the first instance, but if these are unavailable due to increased demand, there must be an alternative to get those who need it to safety.
"As our colleagues at EVA Women's Aid have said in the past, coronavirus and lockdown do not make people abuse, it is the responsibility of the abuser that they have chosen to act in that way. However, the situation has reduced victims' capacity to escape, and the government must step in to help, before these shocking death figures increase even further."


I have searched and searched, but I cannot find where the term "such that" instead of "so that" came from. I hear people say it and just edited a manuscript that used it a lot. It feels terribly wrong and a bit pompous, but I can't find a rule anywhere that tells of its origins or its use.
He brought flowers so that he wouldn't get into trouble for being late.
He arranged things such that they lined up properly.
I don't buy it. Whenever I read or hear "such that," it seems that the speaker or writer is trying to impress or perhaps has a degree in a field that dealt more with figures than language. I would love to hear from anyone who might have an explanation as to the origin of this strange construction so that I can explain it to people.
In the meantime, please use "so that" exclusively so that people will read what you are writing instead of wondering about where you picked up that odd expression.


The number of cold homes in the UK amounts to a "national crisis", according to a fuel poverty campaign group, which has urged Prime Minister David Cameron to lead cross-party efforts to address the problem.
The call coincided with the launch of an awareness campaign by public health professionals urging people to keep their homes warm this winter.
It suggested living rooms should be kept heated to 21C (70F), and other parts of a home kept at 18C (64F).
A further campaign group, which includes Age UK and Barnardos, charities which do extensive work with the elderly, said there was a national problem of "leaky homes", and that levels of home insulation were well below those in many similar European countries, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.
Politicians "fall woefully short of a true solution to the energy bill crisis", despite recent attempts to grab headlines by promising to take action on the issue, Ed Matthew, campaign director for action group Energy Bill Revolution told the BBC.
"If the government is serious about solving this crisis they must make insulating homes the UK's number one infrastructure priority," he said.


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