The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' special envoy to Somalia is urging the Canadian government to provide more aid to countries in the Horn of Africa that are struggling under the burden of Somali refugees.
Somalia has been in the throes of civil war since 1991 after its leader, Siad Barre, was overthrown.
The conflict rages on, two decades later. The UN's most recent report says the situation across Somalia "remained volatile" throughout 2017, with the height of the violence in the country's capital city of Mogadishu. Last October, two explosions rocked the capital, killing an estimated 512 people and injuring 230 others. The UN called these bombings the "deadliest terrorist attack" in Somalia's history. The attack is credited to terror group al-Shabab, but the group has not formally claimed responsibility.
Somalia is one of the world's largest source countries for refugees. According to the UN, there were just under a million Somali refugees in the Horn of Africa in 2017, including roughly 300,000 living in Kenya, 255,000 in Yemen and 246,000 in Ethiopia. Two million Somalis are also internally displaced.
The country has a federal government, but many areas are controlled by rebel groups.
To curb the violence, Mohamed Abdi Affey, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' special envoy to Somalia, said Canada should be directly investing in Somalia to help a new government bring about peace and stability.
"Being part of the global community, it belongs to all of us to walk this painful path with the Somali people," he said.
In 2017, representatives from the eight African countries that make up the Intergovernmental Authority on Development signed the Nairobi Declaration, an agreement to create a "comprehensive regional approach" to assist Somali refugees. The signatory countries include Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.
Part of their commitment was to send in a military force to keep the peace in regions of Somalia that remain under control of the federal government. What this will do, Affey said, is allow the Somali government to prepare to govern the parts of the country still under its control.
"I am of the view that if we invest in institutional building in Somalia, we will be able to address the challenges that Somalis continue to face," he said.
But neighbouring countries are also struggling, Affey continued. Ethiopia and South Sudan, for instance, have their own internal problems, which in turn make the resettlement of refugees difficult.
Sharing the burden of Somali refugees, Affey said, would fit with Canada's international commitments. The country was one of the signatories to the UN's first Global Compact on Refugees earlier this summer, in which member states agreed to find equitable solutions to the global refugee crisis. The plan calls for the burden of refugee movements to be equitably distributed among the world's countries.
Canada should invest in specialized refugee streams that have helped young Somali refugees in the past, Affey said, referring to World University Service of Canada (WUSC)'s Student Refugee Program, which give refugees university scholarships so they can study a program of their choice at a partnering Canadian university. Every year, WUSC supports more than 130 refugee students at more than 80 campuses across the country.
Affey said the program has been "outstanding" for refugee youth, and he'd like to see more students take advantage of it.
"We have a limited number of opportunities here (in Canada) for young Somalis to come to Canada to train. … If we could increase the slots for (the Student Refugee Program), we could get many more of them out of limbo.


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/*globals define, _, $, WebGMEGlobal*/
/*jshint browser: true*/
// This panel is essentially it's own layout manager. It is
// given a static list of visualizers and tiles them allowing
// the user to view the current node in a number of different
// ways at once (w/o toggling between visualizers)
//
// For now, it is just split screen

define([
    'js/PanelBase/PanelBaseWithHeader',
    'js/Constants',
    'js/PanelManager/IActivePanel'
], function (
    PanelBaseWithHeader,
    CONSTANTS,
    IActivePanel
) {
    'use strict';

    var TilingVizPanel;

    TilingVizPanel = function (layoutManager, params) {
        var options = {};
        //set properties from options
        options[PanelBaseWithHeader.OPTIONS.LOGGER_INSTANCE_NAME] = 'TilingVizPanel';
        options[PanelBaseWithHeader.OPTIONS.FLOATING_TITLE] = true;

        //call parent's constructor
        PanelBaseWithHeader.apply(this, [options, layoutManager]);

        this._layoutManager = layoutManager;
        this._params = params;
        this._client = params.client;
        this._embedded = params.embedded;
        this._resizeArgs = null;

        //initialize UI
        this._initialize();

        this.logger.debug('ctor finished');
    };

    //inherit from PanelBaseWithHeader
    _.extend(TilingVizPanel.prototype, PanelBaseWithHeader.prototype);
    _.extend(TilingVizPanel.prototype, IActivePanel.prototype);

    TilingVizPanel.prototype.getPanels = function () {
        return [];
    };

    TilingVizPanel.prototype._initialize = function () {
        // Trigger active object
        if (!this._embedded) {
            WebGMEGlobal.State.on('change:' + CONSTANTS.STATE_ACTIVE_OBJECT,
                (model, nodeId) => this.selectedObjectChanged(nodeId)
            );
        }
        this.$el.css({padding: 0});
        this.updatePanels();
    };

    TilingVizPanel.prototype.updatePanels = function () {
        var panels = this.getPanels();

        this.logger.info(`updating panels (${panels.length})`);
        if (panels.length > 2) {
            this.logger.error(`Unsupported number of panels (${panels.length})`);
        }

        if (this._panels) {
            this._panels.forEach(panel => panel.destroy());
            this.$el.empty();
        }

        // Create the panels and containers
        this._panels = panels.map(Panel => new Panel(this._layoutManager, this._params));
        this._containers = this._panels.map((p, i) => $('<div>', {id: `panel ${i}`}));
        this._containers.forEach(c => this.$el.append(c));
        this._activePanel = this._panels[0];

        // Add each panel to the respective container and deactivate
        this._panels.forEach((panel, i) =>
            this._containers[i].append(panel.$el) && panel.onDeactivate()
        );

        this.control = this;
        this.onActivate();
        if (this._resizeArgs) {
            this.onResize.apply(this, this._resizeArgs);
        }
    };

    TilingVizPanel.prototype.selectedObjectChanged = function (nodeId) {
        this._currentNodeId = nodeId;
        this._panels.forEach(p => p.control.selectedObjectChanged(this._currentNodeId));
    };

    /* OVERRIDE FROM WIDGET-WITH-HEADER */
    /* METHOD CALLED WHEN THE WIDGET'S READ-ONLY PROPERTY CHANGES */
    TilingVizPanel.prototype.onReadOnlyChanged = function (isReadOnly) {
        //apply parent's onReadOnlyChanged
        PanelBaseWithHeader.prototype.onReadOnlyChanged.call(this, isReadOnly);
    };

    TilingVizPanel.prototype.onResize = function (width, height) {
        var pwidth = width/this.getPanels().length;

        this._containers.forEach((c, i) => c.css({
            width: pwidth,
            height: height,
            left: pwidth*i,
            position: 'absolute'
        }));
        // Call onResize for each of the tiles
        this.logger.debug('onResize --> width: ' + width + ', height: ' + height);
        this._panels.forEach(p => p.onResize(pwidth, height));
        this._resizeArgs = [width, height];
    };

    /* * * * * * * * Visualizer life cycle callbacks * * * * * * * */
    TilingVizPanel.prototype.destroy = function () {
        this._panels.forEach(p => p.destroy());
        PanelBaseWithHeader.prototype.destroy.call(this);
    };

    TilingVizPanel.prototype.onActivate = function () {
        // Activate the first panel by default
        this._activePanel = this._panels[0];
        //WebGMEGlobal.PanelManager.setActivePanel(this._activePanel);
        this._activePanel.onActivate();
    };

    TilingVizPanel.prototype.onDeactivate = function () {
        this._activePanel.onDeactivate();
    };

    return TilingVizPanel;
});

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The electoral district of South-West Coast is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created prior to the 2002 election in order to replace the abolished seats of Portland and Warrnambool.

The seat is dominated by the town of Warrnambool, but also includes Portland, Port Fairy, Koroit, Heywood and Macarthur.

South-West Coast is located in ancestrally Liberal territory, and was thus a natural choice for Portland's former member, Denis Napthine, to transfer for the 2002 election.  He barely held onto his seat in the Labor landslide of that year, seeing his margin reduced to only 0.7 percent.  However, it has reverted to its previous form as a safe Liberal seat. Napthine subsequently served as Premier of Victoria from 2013 to 2014. Following his government's election loss to Labor in November 2014, Napthine resigned from parliament on 3 September 2015. Roma Britnell retained the seat for the Liberals at the ensuing by-election on 31 October.

Members for South-West Coast

Election results

See also
 2015 South-West Coast state by-election

References

External links
 Electorate profile: South-West Coast, Victorian Electoral Commission

2002 establishments in Australia
Electoral districts of Victoria (Australia)
Shire of Corangamite
Warrnambool
Shire of Glenelg
Shire of Moyne
Barwon South West (region)

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#ifndef THIRD_PARTY_BLINK_RENDERER_CORE_FRAME_LOCATION_H_
#define THIRD_PARTY_BLINK_RENDERER_CORE_FRAME_LOCATION_H_

#include "third_party/blink/renderer/bindings/core/v8/script_value.h"
#include "third_party/blink/renderer/core/core_export.h"
#include "third_party/blink/renderer/core/dom/dom_string_list.h"
#include "third_party/blink/renderer/core/frame/dom_window.h"
#include "third_party/blink/renderer/core/frame/fragment_directive.h"
#include "third_party/blink/renderer/platform/bindings/script_wrappable.h"
#include "third_party/blink/renderer/platform/wtf/text/wtf_string.h"

namespace blink {

class Document;
class ExceptionState;
class KURL;
class LocalDOMWindow;

// This class corresponds to the Location interface. Location is the only
// interface besides Window that is accessible cross-origin and must handle
// remote frames.
//
// HTML standard: https://whatwg.org/C/browsers.html#the-location-interface
class CORE_EXPORT Location final : public ScriptWrappable {
  DEFINE_WRAPPERTYPEINFO();

 public:
  explicit Location(DOMWindow*);

  DOMWindow* DomWindow() const { return dom_window_.Get(); }

  void setHref(v8::Isolate*, const String&, ExceptionState&);
  String href() const;

  void assign(v8::Isolate*, const String&, ExceptionState&);
  void replace(v8::Isolate*, const String&, ExceptionState&);
  void reload();

  void setProtocol(v8::Isolate*, const String&, ExceptionState&);
  String protocol() const;
  void setHost(v8::Isolate*, const String&, ExceptionState&);
  String host() const;
  void setHostname(v8::Isolate*, const String&, ExceptionState&);
  String hostname() const;
  void setPort(v8::Isolate*, const String&, ExceptionState&);
  String port() const;
  void setPathname(v8::Isolate*, const String&, ExceptionState&);
  String pathname() const;
  void setSearch(v8::Isolate*, const String&, ExceptionState&);
  String search() const;
  void setHash(v8::Isolate*, const String&, ExceptionState&);
  String hash() const;
  String origin() const;

  DOMStringList* ancestorOrigins() const;

  FragmentDirective* fragmentDirective() const;

  // Just return the |this| object the way the normal valueOf function on the
  // Object prototype would.  The valueOf function is only added to make sure
  // that it cannot be overwritten on location objects, since that would provide
  // a hook to change the string conversion behavior of location objects.
  ScriptValue valueOf(const ScriptValue& this_object) { return this_object; }

  String toString() const;

  void Trace(Visitor*) override;

 private:
  // Note: it is only valid to call this if this is a Location object for a
  // LocalDOMWindow.
  Document* GetDocument() const;

  // Returns true if the associated Window is the active Window in the frame.
  bool IsAttached() const;

  // Note: SetLocation should be called synchronously from the DOM operation to
  // ensure we use the correct Javascript world for CSP checks.
  enum class SetLocationPolicy { kNormal, kReplaceThisFrame };
  void SetLocation(const String&,
                   LocalDOMWindow* current_window,
                   LocalDOMWindow* entered_window,
                   ExceptionState* = nullptr,
                   SetLocationPolicy = SetLocationPolicy::kNormal);

  const KURL& Url() const;

  const Member<DOMWindow> dom_window_;

  Member<FragmentDirective> fragment_directive_;
};

}  // namespace blink

#endif  // THIRD_PARTY_BLINK_RENDERER_CORE_FRAME_LOCATION_H_


For this assignment, you will choose one of the assigned hypertexts and write a hypertext analysis of approximately 1000 words, using at least five screens. Choose one aspect of the hypertext (or a tight constellation of related issues) for the analysis.
To begin an analysis of a hypertext, you may need to slow down your interactions. Make notes of what you see, what you chose, and why.
Take a sheet of paper, or a use a blank text or html document.
Jot down what you see on the first screen. What are your expectations?
What links do you notice? What did you click on? Why?
Where did that link lead? What is on this new screen?
Repeat until you are "finished"
Once "finished," reflect on the experience. What did this hypertext do? How did you interact with it. Look for a theme or topic you can develop.
Analyze the paths through the hypertext. What choices did you make? What were your expectations? Were they met, unmet, surpassed?
Analyze the interface. How are you invited to participate? What options present themselves to you?
Examine the relationships between text and image.
Identify and interpret a theme in the hypertext.
Discuss the use of language in the hypertext.
Discuss the choices you think the author made in constructing the hypertext.
Analyze your own experience of interacting with the hypertext.
This is an English course, so the analysis must have a thesis and provide support. Hypertext organization is looser than a printed text, but the analysis must have some organizational structure. Authors of print texts don't have much control over page breaks, which occur whenever a predetermined place is reached. Screens, however, are always created purposefully. HTML editors will never automatically create a "screen break." So you need to pay as much attention to your screens as you do to your paragraphs.
Grades will be based on the quality of the writing, strength of the thesis, support, organization, and use of the technology.
You can't highlight an online hypertext. You'll need to take notes and keep track of individual text blocks and screens.
You can cut and paste, but don't overdo this. It is easy to paste text into a new document; analysis requires commentary. Also, be sure you cite any direct quotes.
Look for ideas and techniques you may want use in your own work: "View Source" is a great tool.


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44 min ago 15 dead, 43 lakh people affected as Assam floods turns critical
1 hr ago ED summons TMC MP, five others in Saradha case
2 hrs ago BJP will form govt in 4-5 days in Karnataka: Yeddyurappa
Movies Happy Birthday Katrina Kaif: 5 Times The Diva Won Our Hearts With Her Take On Love & Relationships!
Who sowed seeds of dynastic politics in India? Nehru or Indira Gandhi
| Published: Monday, November 19, 2018, 10:32 [IST]
New Delhi, Nov 19: Today (November 19) is former prime minister Indira Gandhi's 101st birth anniversary. Indira Gandhi is the second longest serving prime minister of India after her father Jawaharlal Nehru. Indira Gandhi was an astute and shrewd politician who waded her way through the political corridors dominated by males through sheer grit and what some say as ruthlessness.
File photo of Indira Gandhi
From way she handled foreign policy to the role India played in the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971 under her rule, Indira Gandhi has left an indelible mark on the India's post-independence history.
Nation remembers Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary today
But, from where did Indira get her political lessons or who groomed her to enter politics? Was it Nehru or were it the circumstances? These questions would be debated for a long time to come. Some even say that Indira becoming the Prime Minister was the beginning of the dynastic politics in India because after Indira her son Rajiv Gandhi became PM and now Congress wants her grandson Rahul Gandhi to become PM. So where did it all start and did Nehru really want it to be this way.
Gandhi served as her father's personal assistant during his tenure as Prime Minister between 1947 and 1964. She was elected President of the Indian National Congress in 1959. Upon her father's death in 1964 she was appointed as a member of the Rajya Sabha (upper house) and became a member of Lal Bahadur Shastri's cabinet as Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
Dr Anil Rajvanshi writes in a blog that Nehru may not have wanted to groom Indira, but she was so much around him during important meetings and trips that she got politically involved.
"..it was Govind Ballabh Pant the Home Minister who persuaded Nehru to bring Indira Gandhi into active politics so she could help Nehru. He would constantly remind Nehru that she has learnt so many political lessons by observing her father and also being with Gandhi ji and so would be a natural choice to become a Congress Working Committee member. Though Nehru outwardly showed that it was unethical but was never forceful enough to oppose it and so he was the one who really started the dynastic process. Naturally Indira Gandhi took it to its logical conclusion and till today we are still suffering the Nehru-Gandhi family!," Dr Anil Rajvanshi wrote.
Indira death anniversary: Ramachandra Guha criticises Rahul Gandhi over his tweet
Many, however, argue that it was not Nehru but Indira who sowed the seeds of dynastic politics in India. Nehru in fact never wanted that Indira Gandhi become the Prime Minister. Indira Gandhi, on the other hand, groomed Sanjay Gandhi to be her political heir, while Rajiv Gandhi was kept out of it.
But, in the end it so turned out that Sanjay Gandhi got killed in a plane crash and Indira had to force Rajiv Gandhi to enter politics. Why did she force Rajiv Gandhi to quit his career as pilot and enter politics? A logical answer to this would be that she did not want her family to lose a grip on the Congress.
Nehru may not have envisioned Indira as the next prime minister, but he also did not object to her growing powerful within the Congress while he was alive. The grooming of Indira Gandhi was so perfect that she started talking and giving speeches just like her father.
In the book Six Thousand Days, Amiya Rao and B.G. Rao, write that six months after she was nominated to the Working Committee, Nehru resigned from the powerful Central Parliamentary Board and nominated Indira Gandhi. This was the committee which picked the candidates for elections and decided on the political fate of thousands of Congressmen and women.
The book 'Six thousand days : Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister' also argues that Nehru had moulded the party to accept Indira Gandhi as the Prime Minister.
"He skillfully removed all the strong contenders to the post like Jagjivan Ram and Morarji Desai by making statements that Congress does not encourage people getting addicted to power. He kept people like Gulzarilal Nanda, who would not be a strong contender, but would be a stop gap arrangement. All of Nehru's actions indicated that he was promoting the dynasty, but it is strange that modern historians have no recollection of all these events," the book says.
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While going out to vote, people will see Indira Gandhi in Priyanka: Shiv Sena
Indira Gandhi proved herself in her party without quota: Nitin Gadkari
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Environment think-tank CSE to get Indira Gandhi Prize for peace, disarmament and development 2018
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Story first published: Monday, November 19, 2018, 10:32 [IST]

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Military sergeant charged in deaths of 2 Ft. Stewart soldiers
Authorities have arrested a military sergeant for the deaths of two Ft. Stewart soldiers reported Sunday.
Author: Adrianne Haney
Published: 11:15 PM EST March 9, 2017
Updated: 11:15 PM EST March 9, 2017
HINESVILLE, Ga. -- Authorities have arrested a military sergeant for the Sunday deaths of two Ft. Stewart soldiers.
According to officials with the City of Hinesville, Sgt. Shaquile D.Craig has been charged for the deaths of Specialist Marquez Brown and Private Malika Jackson.
PREVIOUS | Two Fort Stewart soldiers found dead in Hinesville townhome
According to investigators, the soldiers' bodies were found shot to death inside Brown's townhome around 8:30 p.m. Sunday. At the time, investigators said there didn't appear to be any signs of a struggle leading up to Brown and Jackson's deaths, however clues did indicate that there was a third person inside the home at the time of the soldiers' deaths. Leads later led them to arrest Craig with the murders.

Photo courtesy of Coastal News Service.

Right now, investigators indicate the motive was personal between Craig and Jackson. They said Brown "was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Craig, who had also been stationed at Ft. Stewart, was escorted to the Hinesville Police Department without incident. He's now facing two counts of murder, but city officials said more could be pending.
Craig is scheduled to make a first appearance Friday morning.
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Half Informed is a concept where we play a gaming title from a fresh save for a total of 30 minutes, once that timer sounds we put the controller down. Half Informed aims to provide you honest opinions during our experience while hoping to shape your decision on whether the game is worth purchasing.
On this episode of Half Informed Ben takes on the cartel in the first expansion to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands, known as Narco Road.


A special town meeting will take place in Wilton tonight to discuss a proposed $2.2 million bonded purchase by the town of a conservation easement on land at the corner of Seeley and Cannon Roads.
The meeting will be held at the Clune Center at Wilton High School at 7:30 p.m. Following the meeting, residents can vote on whether or not to approve the expenditure by the town. Residents will also have a second chance to vote on Saturday, November 23 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Clune Center.


KOCHI: The Kerala Government has moved the High Court seeking vacation of the stay on taking action against police personnel allegedly involved in the custodial death of Sreejiv.
The Police Complaint Authority, that probed the case, came to the conclusion that the youth had died due to physical assault by police.
It submitted a report in May 2016 and said that the police had made him consume poison in order to make the death look like a suicide. However, the cops challenged the findings and obtained a stay.
Sreejiv's elder brother Sreejith has been on a protest in front of the Secretariat for the last two years demanding CBI probe into his brother's death.
Sreejiv was taken into custody on May 19, 2014 by Parassala police – two days before the wedding of the girl whom he loved.
Police slapped a petty theft case against him.
However, the very next day Sreejiv was admitted to the Thiruvananthapuram Government Medical College Hospital for allegedly consuming poison in the police station. He died on May 21.


"Are you able to work tomorrow?' Terje asked, looking over his shoulder as he hauled my huge brown bag from the conveyer belt at Leknes Airport.
It was the first night of what would be my second summer working at the Lofotr Viking Museum in Borg, Northern Norway and no sooner had my bags touched the ground, did the excitement begin.
"Yes, of course!" I replied, assuming it had something to do with the Museum's replica Viking Longship. Terje Boe, who's height tends to strain the necks of those who share a similar 'Irish' frame with myself, takes care of the museum's medieval farm and is also skipper of the Museum's Viking longship. He handed me the lighter of my two bags and as as we left the airport he gestured to where his truck was parked outside.
"The ship" he continued as we walked, "She is in Ballstad. Jared is coming down with me tomorrow in the morning, we need to prepare her for the water".
"I've had my nose in books all year" I said, "I'm ready to get to work". How could I say no?
A backdrop of white mountains and green pinewood forests passed my window as we drove along the winding country road from Leknes to Borg; the light of a low hanging sun bouncing off the occasional islet dotted lake. While over a pockmarked road in the distance, the museum slowly crept into view.
The first thing that catches the eye, built on the top of a grassy earthen plateaux by the main road is the reconstructed Chieftain's longhouse. A long wooden structure, with a roof that brings to mind the bulging under belly of a ship. Tipped either end with dragon's heads and tiled with hand carved scale-like wooden slates, it stands out magnificently amid the boggy brown fields and jagged snow tipped mountain peaks; dominating the small red and blue Norwegian houses scattered around it.
Over eighty-three meters in length, the original longhouse excavated in the 1980's was the longest ever found from the early Viking Age. And now, only thirty meters away from the modern reconstruction, the outline of the original structure can still be seen; its walls now a mere oval of grassy bumps, a few postholes where the supporting beams once stood and a thick grassy shrub where the central hearth used to be. Though having spent every day last year working in the reconstructed building, I often still find it difficult to imagine what it was really like to sit around that fire where generations once past, overlapping like fresh firewood piled onto the embers of the last.
During my first summer here I built a bow maker's workshop in the back of the longhouse. Here, just as I did last year I will spend the next four months dressed as a Viking, making bows and arrows and talking to visitors form all over the world about archery, experimental archaeology and woodworking in the past.
It was always a concern in the back of my mind what I would do after my MA. But as September looms closer and with it the start of my PhD, I could not imagine a more perfect job while I wait. I get to chop and shoot at things all summer and everyday, sail and ride horses, talk to people about my job and what I love to do. And, with a staff of like minded people gifted in all imaginable areas of craft from wood carving, leather working and blacksmithing, I get to spend my time learning new skills as well as honing old ones in the heart of an ancient atmosphere by a warm and smouldering fire.
It will take a few days to assemble my materials, fix up my workshop and track down those tools that often tend to walk about when no-one is looking. But now that I have the lay of the land and a month's head start on last year, I can tell this summer may even better and more eventful than the last.
We eventually arrived at the white cabin by the foot of the museum's hill where I would be living for the summer.
"Okay!" Terje said, his lip curling behind a rough blonde beard, "See you tomorrow then, we leave from the office at 10:00 am".
The gravel crunched as his truck reversed out of the drive way. The moon now hung close behind a snowy peak, suspended on a background of crisp light blue. I went inside and rummaged through my bags for a camera. The colour of the sky told me it was about 6:30 in the afternoon, but the yawn that followed reminded me it was more likely closer to 2:00 am.
This far above the arctic circle, I guess I won't be needing the flashlight on my phone again until September.
Cover Photo by KJELL OVE STORK, with permission from the Lofotr Viking Museum.
I have been hanging around Borg and studying it for some years and I never came to learn about any Viking Age building larger than that. So why just ´Early Viking Age´ ?
By the Viking Age Borg I had been extended to around 83 meters. I hope that helps?
Ok, I did not realize that you took into consideration the Vendel-area building's size. It is much clearer now!
But, on a side note, if we consider that Borg is the largest Viking-Age building ever found, how does its Vendel counterpart compares with other contemporaries Scandinavian longhouses and buildings? Any resources you'd have about that?
If I find anything I will of course let you know…but unfortunately, people are so obsessed with ´Vikings´ (and they always were) that there is much less information on the probably just as cool Vendel Era.
In any cases, good luck fletching !
Yes there is that emphasis all right, and I feel that here they had very much the idea of opening this museum in mind while they were excavating.
Love the reconstruction of the Viking Long House. Wonderful post thanks. !


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Als Restaurationskomödien bezeichnet man die Komödien der englischen Restaurationszeit im späten 17. Jahrhundert. Sie entstanden ab 1660, nachdem nach 18 Jahren des Verbots wieder öffentliche Theateraufführungen erlaubt wurden. Die Wiedereröffnung der Theater ging einher mit einem Wandel der aufgeführten Stücke und der Aufführungspraxis. Die Restaurationskomödien waren sexuell sehr freizügig, was sowohl durch König Charles II. persönlich als auch durch die Freizügigkeit seines Hofes gefördert wurde. Die Blütezeit der Restaurationskomödie endete um 1700, als moralische Bedenken und ein gewandelter Publikumsgeschmack zu ihrem Niedergang führten.

Autoren
Zu den wichtigsten Autoren der Restaurationskomödie gehören Charles Sedley, John Dryden, William Wycherley, George Etherege, Aphra Behn (die erste professionelle britische Dramatikerin), Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Southerne und ab den 1690er Jahren William Congreve und John Vanbrugh.

Bedeutende Restaurationskomödien (Auswahl)
 Aphra Behn, The Rover (1677)
 William Congreve, The Way of the World (1700)
 John Dryden, Marriage à la Mode (1672)
 George Etherege, She Would If She Could (1668) und The Man of Mode (1676)
 George Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)
 Edward Ravenscroft, The London Cuckolds (1681)
 Charles Sedley, The Mulberry-Garden (1668) und Bellamira: or, The Mistress (1687)
 Thomas Shadwell, The Sullen Lovers (1668) und The Virtuoso (1676)
 Thomas Southerne, The Wives' Excuse (1691)
 George Vanbrugh, The Provoked Wife (1697)
 William Wycherley, The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672) und The Country Wife (1675)

Aufführungspraxis

Die Aufführungen zogen ein großes Publikum aus allen sozialen Klassen an und zeichneten sich aus durch Bezüge auf das Zeitgeschehen, lebhafte Handlungen und die ersten professionellen Darstellerinnen. Bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt waren weibliche Rollen ausnahmslos durch Männer dargestellt worden.

Sogenannte Hosenrollen waren Bestandteil von fast einem Viertel der in der Restaurationszeit geschriebenen Komödien. In diesen Hosenrollen erschienen die Schauspielerinnen in männlicher Bekleidung auf der Bühne – sie trugen die enganliegenden, bis zum Knie reichenden Hosen, die die Standardbekleidung ihrer männlichen Zeitgenossen waren. Meist stellten sie schlagfertige Frauen dar, die sich aus irgendeinem Grund als Mann zu verkleiden hatten oder die Dinge tun wollten, die nur einem Mann offenstanden.

Zu den erfolgreichen Schauspielern und Schauspielerinnen dieser Zeit gehörten Nell Gwyn, die Geliebte von Charles II., Elizabeth Barry, Anne Bracegirdle, Thomas Betterton und Colley Cibber.

Kritik
Zu den wichtigsten Kritikern der Restaurationskomödie gehört Jeremy Collier, der sie in seiner Schrift A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage von 1698 heftig angriff. Als Beispiel für seinen Vorwurf der Unsittlichkeit und Gottlosigkeit bediente er sich vor allem der Komödien Congreves und Vanbrughs.

Allgemeine Ausgaben
 Four Restoration Marriage Plays. Ed. Michael Cordner. Oxford and New York, 1995.
 Restoration Comedy. Ed. A. Norman Jeffares. 4 vols. London, 1974.
 Restoration Comedies. Ed. Dennis Davison. London, Oxford, and New York, 1970.

Literatur
 Annette Pankratz, Werterepertoires der Englischen Restaurationskomödie. Essen, 1998.
 Derek Hughes, English Drama 1660-1700. Oxford, 1996.
 Warren Chernaik, Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature. Cambridge, 1995.
 J. L. Styan, Restoration Comedy in Performance. Cambridge, 1986.
 Robert D. Hume, The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth-Century. Oxford, 1976.

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Literatur (17. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (Englisch)


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Helicopter collision kills 13 French soldiers who were about to attack jihadists in Mali
The French military has just suffered perhaps one of its heaviest death tolls in decades with the loss of 13 soldiers when two helicopters crashed in Mali.
The helicopters apparently collided at low altitude while preparing to attack a group of jihadists, who were being tracked by French commandos, the French general staff said on Tuesday.
All those on board, including six officers and six non-commissioned officers, were killed in the crash, which took place at about 6:40 p.m (1840 GMT). The troops were part of Operation Barkhane, a 4,500-strong French force which backs up local military in the Sahel region against Islamist extremists.
"These thirteen heros had only one goal: to protect us," French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter. French troops have been posted in Mali since 2013, when they helped restore government control over the north of the country.
The region had fallen to al-Qaeda-associated militants in the aftermath of a local uprising and a military coup the previous year. Malian President Ibrahim Aboubacar Keita too paid tribute to the dead soldiers.
"They died for Mali, they died for the Sahel, they died for liberty and they died for the people," Keita said in a statement. The French are now also operating from bases in Niger and Chad against Islamist militant groups, who are currently active across the Sahel region.
Monday's operation took place in the Liptako area, in the troubled "tri-border region" where Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger meet. The French military said their commandos had been operating on the ground in the area for several days. Hours before the incident, they picked up the trail of a group of jihadists, who were in a pick-up truck and on motorbikes.
Helicopters and warplanes were called in to back up the mission. A Cougar helicopter, carrying six mountain commandos and a mission commander, joined the force to coordinate the action and to be prepared to "extract" a person from the ground, the general staff said. However, it crashed into a Tigre helicopter "while manoeuvring to prepare engagement of the enemy," and the two helicopters crashed to the ground a short distance apart, killing all on board.
As of Tuesday morning, large numbers of Operation Barkhane forces were in place for rescue operations and to secure the area, the military said. The incident comes weeks after 53 Malian soldiers and a civilian were killed in a suspected jihadist attack on a military post in the north of the country. According to newspaper Le Figaro, 23 French soldiers in total had died in Mali as of Nov. 10.
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Ex-teacher jailed for indecent assault on teenage boy
Ex-teacher sentenced for indecent assault at Shiplake College
By Indya Clayton Reporter
Ex-teacher sentenced for non-recent offences of sexual assault. Picture: Thames Valley Police
A MAN who used to teach at Shiplake College in Henley-on-Thames has been sentenced for non-recent offences of indecent assault.
Malcolm Woodcock, 76, of Milton Demeral, Holsworthy, Devon, pleaded not guilty to eight counts of indecent assault of a boy, but was convicted of all charges by unanimous verdict at Oxford Crown Court on April 17.
He was sentenced today to a three and a half year custodial sentence at Oxford Crown Court.
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The charges relate to offences that happened while Woodcock was a teacher at Shiplake College during the 1970s.
The victim, who was a teenage boy at the time, was indecently assaulted by Woodcock while he was a student at the college and the offences took place within the grounds and other locations.
Woodcock was charged on August, 18 2018.
Investigating officer, Detective Constable Karen Zoldan, of Cowley police station said: "Woodstock was a teacher in Shiplake College and in a position of trust which he abused by indecently assaulting his victim.
"The victim in this case bravely came forward to report the abuse he suffered more than 40 years ago. I would like to take this opportunity to thank him for his courage and support of this investigation."
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She added: "He had to endure giving evidence through the trial in court which caused extra distress.
"I now hope that the healing process can begin and this conviction will provide some form of closure for him.
"Thames Valley Police takes reports of this nature extremely seriously and will always thoroughly investigate no matter if the offences were recent or non-recent."
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Elon Musk arrives at the In America: An Anthology of Fashion themed Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, US, May 2, 2022. (File Photo: Reuters)
Why Elon Musk will win the Twitter wars
Jeremy Stern
Published: 10 December ,2022: 02:18 PM GST Updated: 10 December ,2022: 06:10 PM GST
"Better to think of him as some sort of pagan god…than as a savior or hero," the programmer known as Roon recently tweeted of Elon Musk. "Powerful, extraordinary, chaotic, capricious."
Indeed, Musk's nascent tenure as CEO of Twitter, Inc. might have made Zeus's head spin. After he signed a binding merger agreement to purchase Twitter for $44 billion, Musk changed his mind over the summer and told Twitter he was no longer interested, at which point Twitter predictably sued him. Musk unsurprisingly had to pay. In the days before the deal finally closed, Musk publicly accused Twitter of colossal fraud; in his first days as CEO, having lost a huge sum on the acquisition, he publicly warned of the company's impending bankruptcy. He then proceeded to threaten advertisers with a "thermonuclear name and shame" against any company that paused its ad spending; fired and then un-fired a number of employees; arbitrarily banned users for mocking him; introduced and then withdrew a new verification service; then tried to negotiate the terms of the verification service with the horror fiction writer Stephen King.
As of this week, Musk has promised to publish the "Twitter files on free speech suppression" in what he calls "a battle for the future of civilization," and to build a new smartphone if Apple and Google make good on threats to remove Twitter from their app stores. Musk has also declared war on Apple over its complicity in Chinese free speech suppression, among other crimes. After Musk sold 20 million shares of Tesla to finance his Twitter purchase in early November, Tesla's stock dropped by half.
Musk has also shared his plans for converting Twitter from an addictively unpleasant low-tech social media product into a supposedly less unpleasant but even more addictive higher-tech "everything app" which—in addition to giving journalists, academics, and epidemiologists the chance to reveal themselves as emotionally disturbed freaks—will also facilitate payments, end-to-end encryption for direct messages, more transparent content moderation, and less intrusive and ideologically slanted speech regulations. Perhaps the algorithm that generates "trending stories" will also improve by pushing fewer headlines like "Pete Davidson opened up about trauma therapy. Black Twitter is conflicted."
better to think of him as some sort of pagan god (powerful, extraordinary, chaotic, capricious) than as a savior or hero
— roon (impersonator) (@tszzl) November 27, 2022
As the Twittersphere turns, Musk will likely continue to get in fights with lesser celebrities, make fun of Bill Gates's physical appearance, and otherwise deliver one of the most bizarre and entertaining one-man shows on earth. But will he succeed as the human being at Twitter with ultimate fiduciary responsibility for having a sane business plan, reporting financials, and turning profits? Who knows!
The case for optimism seems to be that Twitter's existing proprietary technology is bad, and Musk has accomplished more difficult feats of business and engineering prowess before. A convincing case for pessimism, at least with regards to the speech wars, comes again from Roon, who warned in April that "the free speech compromises Twitter and [Facebook] have made are a delicate balance between users, employees, governments, and ad buyers. This is what they've had to do to run them. I think 'glorious leaders' can help on the margin but it's not the same as an engineering megaproject. These are mostly not technology problems."
The bottom line is that what makes the Twitter wars America's favorite reality show is that no one has any idea what the 21st century's most iconoclastic entrepreneur will or won't do with one of the most impactful communication platforms ever invented. The one thing we do know for sure is that we can safely ignore the confident predictions of Twitter's most miserably dependent junkies—the blue check-marked media, the college professors, the misinformation/disinformation set, and anyone else who identifies themselves as an "expert" in their bio. This group is sometimes referred to collectively as the "extremely online" (which overlaps in important ways with a related group, the "professional-managerial class") and has long hated Musk with an intensity normally reserved only for Donald Trump and people who refuse to wear surgical masks outdoors. As soon as Musk took over Twitter, the extremely online threatened to walk en masse to competitor platform Mastodon. (They didn't.) When the new CEO fired a number of "human rights" employees, the extremely online seemed genuinely convinced that Twitter's servers would go dark in a matter of hours (They didn't.) Now, their only hope for salvation seems to be the president of the United States, whose press secretary vowed menacingly on Tuesday that the White House is keeping a "close eye" on Musk's stewardship of Twitter.
Many—as in, billions—of non-Americans who seem to reflexively like and admire Elon Musk might be wondering why so many of his most visible and vocal peers so passionately despise him. There are some obvious reasons, including the petty resentment of millionaires for billionaires, Musk's interest in cool things like cars and rockets rather than "important" things like who gets to use which bathroom, and the fact that it reportedly took Musk less than 30 minutes to decide Sam Bankman-Fried was a criminal fraud while many of Musk's more credulous or cynical enemies were busy taking the disgraced Ponzi schemer's money.
A more under-explored reason, though, might have to do with their sense that Musk the Nerd God also has a conspicuous knack for forging strong and authentic connections to hundreds of millions of normal people. With large parts of the American cultural, intellectual, and political establishments dissolve into self-satire over issues like "gender-affirming care" while epidemics of crime and educational failure erode the foundations of America's social cohesion, it's clear to most ordinary people that the country's leadership class has lost the plot. For anyone who believes that "experts" clearly have no idea what they're doing, Musk often strikes a refreshing and inspiring figure—the irreverent, flawed, iron-willed, all-too-human super-genius who rolls over "respectable" people and institutions like a paving machine, cackling and shitposting and making billions of dollars and siring legions of children as he goes his merry way.
This makes Musk a hard target to hit. To accuse him of making too much money from building electric cars and reusable rocket ships doesn't hurt him with people who see the system as being rigged in favor of rent-seeking bankers, lobbyists, and politicians. To blame him for spreading "misinformation" doesn't hurt him with people who believe that the media and government are lying to them about everything all the time. To charge him with insanity doesn't hurt him with people who like to imagine that they'd have the balls to walk and talk like he does too, if only they were rich. Musk makes no attempt to hide his deep flaws as a public figure and as a human being—but it takes a certain kind of extremely online sociopath to see his lack of interest in hypocritical concealment and virtue-signaling as disabling rather than refreshing.
In an age in which many Americans feel that contemptuous elites are attempting to reeducate and reprogram them to have the "correct" opinions on everything from public health to racial relations, the new Chief Twit strikes most people as being a better custodian of public discourse than the experts. No one has to be taught to be in awe of Elon Musk—it's hating him that takes indoctrination.
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Sometimes I look around for something to write about and I think, for example, yes, I could write about those little bottles I collected and turned into oil diffusers. And then I go to take a photo, and I think, yes, I really haven't dusted for a while.
So, my point is that writing a blog can help you keep your house clean!
As to the bottles, I did have the AMAZING? idea of collecting interesting bottles and filling them with essential oils and reeds for our second had Christmas a couple of years ago.
It was after I had been to Camberwell market and seen the bottles at the bottle stall. I went back the next week full of enthusiasm but the bottle man wasn't there. He only has his stall once a month. Luckily for me someone else had a collection of bottles (with lids). For a dollar or two each. Perfect.
I then bought some carrier oil (almond or maybe safflower I think – it has to be a light oil), added quite a few drops of essential oils and a dash of vodka to help the oil soak into the reeds. Note you need to shake the oil and vodka and essential oils to mix them together.
Obviously then all I needed was the reeds. But I couldn't find them in large bundles (ie packet of 100 or so ) anywhere. And you can't use skewers (they don't soak up the oil).
It turns out that you can buy reeds from online candle supply shops. Who would have guessed ….
Anyway, they were a very successful present. And having a lid on the ones I gave away meant I didn't spill the oil all over the other presents. And making them with an oil base rather than a water base is worth it – they last for ages.
So, look out for some interesting bottles and you too could be thinking craft, dusting and blogging all in the same breath (of delightfully lavender, bergamot and orange oil scented air).
Yes, a great idea – i love the old bottles – their colours, textures and shapes.
Great idea – I'm copying!
Good one. I have found that the commercial diffusers are hit and miss – some brands last for ages, others evaporate in an instant.


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You are here: home Articles Archive Geophysics Strong-Motion Data from the Two Pingtung, Taiwan, Earthquakes of 26 December 2006
Strong-Motion Data from the Two Pingtung, Taiwan, Earthquakes of 26 December 2006
Author(s): Chien-Fu Wu, William H. K. Lee, and David M. Boore
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2008.19.6.595(PT)
Keywords: Accelerographs Attenuation of ground motions Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan Pseudo acceleration response spectra strong motion data
Citation: Wu, C. F., W. H. K. Lee, and D. M. Boore, 2008: Strong-motion data from the two Pingtung, Taiwan, earthquakes of 26 December 2006. Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 19, 595-639, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2008.19.6.595(PT)
1016 strong-motion records at 527 free-field stations and 131 records at 42 strong-motion arrays at buildings and bridges were obtained for the Pingtung earthquake doublet from the Taiwan Central Weather Bureau¡¦s dense, digital strong-motion network. We carried out standard processing of these strong-motion records at free-field stations. A data set, including the originally recorded files, processed data files, and supporting software and information, is archived online http://tecdc.earth.sinica.edu.tw/data/EQ2006Pingtung/. We have not yet completed the processing of the strong-motion array data at buildings and bridges. However, some preliminary results and the strong-motion array data recorded at the second nearest instrumented building to the Pingtung earthquake doublet are shown.
This paper is intended to document our data processing procedures and the online archived data files, so that researchers can efficiently use the data. We also include two preliminary analyses: (1) a comparison of ground motions recorded by multiple accelerographs at a common site, the TAP117 station in Taipei, and (2) attenuation of the horizontal ground motions (peak acceleration and response spectra at periods of 0.2, 1.0, and 3.0 s) with respect to distance.
Our comparison study of multiple recordings at TAP117 indicates that waveform coherence among 20- and 24-bit accelerograph records is much higher as compared to records from 16-bit or 12-bit accelerographs, suggesting that the former are of better quality. For the 20- and 24-bit accelerographs, waveform coherence is nearly 1 over the frequency range 1 to 8 Hz for all components, and is greater than about 0.9 from 8 to 20 Hz for the horizontal component, but only from 8 to 12 Hz for the vertical component. Plots of pseudo-acceleration response spectra (PSA) as a function of distance, however, show no clear indication for a difference related to the performance level of the accelerographs.
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For social change toward a better world, socialists believe the most important and indeed decisive social force is the struggle of the working class. Why the working class? Why do socialists believe there is a special connection between their own great goal of a new society and the interests of labor, this one segment of society?
Is it because we "idealize" workers as being better, or more clever, or more honest, or more courageous, or more humanitarian, than non-workers?
The American labor movement is different from the labor movement in any other country. One of the ways in which it differs most strikingly from most other national labor movements in the capitalist portion of the world is that it is non-socialist and even anti-socialist. How do American socialists account for this fact?
"There is no class struggle in America": This precept now belongs in the American catechism along with the little boy who chopped down the cherry tree but wouldn't lie.
And, as prescribed by the official Way of Life, unions obstinately refuse to "recognize" the class struggle and boast proudly that they remain aloof from it. But it "recognizes" the unions; in fact, it creates them. Despite the most sincere protestations of labor officials, unions practice the class struggle and a hundred times a day demonstrate its persistence.
The fate of the working class depends upon democracy, and the fate of democracy depends upon the working class. This simple truth illuminates all problems of modern politics. Where labor enjoys democracy, it will fight tenaciously to preserve it. Where it has lost democracy, its first goal becomes its restoration.
larger, new and far more complicated tasks are forced upon them.
The Enemy Within: The Stalinist threat to labor and the unions.
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"We live in a world where everybody is bound to take care of himself. Yet the English working class allows the landlord, capitalist, and retail trading classes, with their tail of lawyers, newspaper writers, etc., to take care of its interests. No wonder reforms in the interests of the workman come so slow and in such miserable dribbles.
The working people of England have but to will, and they are the masters to carry every reform, social and political, which their situation requires. Then why not make that effort?"


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I'm Alive, with so much life to live!
I was in a serious car accident a little more than a week ago. It was foggy, and very dark. My car started to slip, and I over corrected. I hit a tree, sliced the tree in half and rolled down a ravine. The tree followed me down the ravine and landed on my car.
I don't remember much after that until the first responders arrived, but there was a moment I remember thinking… "Okay, this is it." The next thing I knew first responders were yelling, "She's alive!" I bit my tongue, so there was a significant amount of blood coming from my mouth. They pulled me out of the car, and I knew at that moment…Yes! I am alive with so much life to live!!
After dozens of tests, X-rays and scans, we found out I fractured my pelvis in 6 places. I had surgery on my sacrum, which is the large part of the pelvis that fuses to the spine. There is a 6 inch screw through my sacrum, but it's only going to make my pelvis stronger! The doctor says there are no long term complications involved with this kind of surgery, and even if there is a complication with the screw, they could always remove it and I would still have a strong and stable pelvis. I suffered no brain injuries, no other broken bones, no internal injuries, no spinal, neck or back. I am truly blessed and God has a plan for me.
I will spend the next 3 months with Mr. Miyagi. I named the wheelchair that because it is short and will make me stronger. I have to be completely off my feet for 10-12 weeks to ensure proper healing of my pelvis. Life with Mr. Miyagi will be exciting and challenging. I'm looking forward to the days ahead. I thank God several times a day for the air in my lungs and the strength to get stronger.
Life is a gift. A gift I fully intend on cherishing for many, many years to come.
I've been enjoying your blog. Much in common. I used to be in news (print). I worked for an Army newspaper (was not in the Army) before having kids. Also, I was in a serious car accident-crushed left side of my face, broken scapula and head trauma. My youngest is 12 now. Loved the post about your dog "Unforgettable). We got a puppy last October. I started blogging at Real Moms Don't Judge. Stop by if you get a chance.


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Evidentials and Modals
Series: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, Volume: 39
Volume Editors: Chungmin Lee and Jinho Park
Evidentials and Modals offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements representing evidentiality in connection to modality, focusing on theoretical/formal perspectives by eminent pioneers in the field and on recently discovered phenomena in Korean evidential markers by native scholars in particular. Evidentiality became a hot topic in semantics and pragmatics, trying to see what kind of evidential justification is provided by evidentials to support or be related to the 'at-issue' prejacent propositions. This book aims to provide a deeper understanding of such evidentiality in discourse contexts in a broad range of languages such as American Indian, Korean and Japanese, Turkish and African languages over the world. In addition, an introduction to the concept of evidentiality and theoretical perspectives and recent issues is also provided.
Chapter 18 Breaking the Illusion of Modality: Reclassifying Japanese darou
Authors: Marisa Nagano and William McClure
This paper examines the Japanese word darou, which is often classified as a modal even though its quantificational force is difficult to determine (Johnson, 2003; Masuoka, 2007; Narrog, 2009). We argue that darou is best analyzed not as a modal, but as a manipulated form of an assertion marker (Fiengo, 2007) that operates on the pragmatic level in order to delay predication until the speaker receives feedback from the hearer. Since the speaker may have various reasons for delaying predication, which may or may not involve degree of certainty, darou eludes attempts to be assigned a quantificational force and eludes a modal analysis. Instead, darou creates a kind of speech act halfway between an assertion and a yes/no question.
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Chapter 19 Epistemic Modality in Southeastern Tepehuan
Author: Thomas Willett
Epistemic modality reflects the speaker's degree of commitment to the truth of what he or she is saying. This involves both the reliability and the source of his or her knowledge about the situation described. Unlike many languages, all epistemic contrasts in Southeastern Tepehuan are encoded in the verbal particles.
Four types of reliability are distinguised in Southeastern Tepehuan: multiple degrees of emphasis as well as affirmation, disclaimer, and doubt. Three types of sources are distinguished: that which is perceived by the speaker; that which is reported to the speaker; and that which causes the speaker to infer the situation. Reported evidence is further distinguished by whether or not the speaker assumes the hearer already is aware of the situation.
Chapter 4 Evidence Type, Evidence Location, Evidence Strength
Author: Lisa Matthewson
This paper investigates the question of whether 'direct' evidentials are amenable to an analysis as epistemic modals. Much recent literature advances modal analyses of evidentials, but direct evidentials pose prima facie problems for a modal analysis. In particular, typical epistemic modals differ from direct evidentials in that the former disallow direct witness, and convey reduced speaker certainty. In this paper I examine evidential elements in St'át'imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet; Salish), Gitksan (Tsimshianic), Nuu-chah-nulth (Wakashan), Cuzco and Wanka Quechua, English, Nivacle (Matacoan-Mataguayan), Cheyenne (Algonquian), Korean, and Tibetan. Based on the data presented, I propose that evidential contributions are more complex than is often assumed. Specifically, there are three different dimensions of meaning which evidentials may encode: (1) Evidence type (whether the evidence is visual, sensory, reported, etc.), (2) Evidence location (whether the speaker witnessed the event itself or merely some of its results), and (3) Evidence strength (the trustworthiness/reliability of the evidence). Each of the three dimensions has direct and indirect values, and particular evidential morphemes may be semantically complex, encoding information about one, two or all three of the dimensions. I then argue that contrary to what we might expect, evidentials which encode direct values on any of the three dimensions are compatible with modal semantics.
Chapter 14 Evidential and/or Mirative Components of Some Verbal Endings and Periphrastic Constructions in Korean
Author: Jinho Park
There are numerous verbal endings and periphrastic constructions in Korean which express modal meanings and contain evidential and/or mirative meaning components in addition. I present some representative cases of them, and discuss the status of these evidential and/or mirative meaning components in the semantic representation. In so doing, I want to show the usefulness of the concepts of evidentiality and mirativity in describing the differences among modal elements in Korean.
The first case to consider is the so-called exclamative endings -kwuna and -ney. These have mirativity as their core meaning components, but they differ in evidentiality. -kwuna does not constrain the source of information, whereas -ney cannot express information obtained through hearsay. Whether -ney can be used to express information obtained through inference is not so clear, as there is evidence for both positions. It is certain that ney- is more constrained than -kwuna in expressing inference. -kwuna brings the inferential process into relief, whereas -ney suggests an immediate response without so much thinking.
The second element to consider is the pre-final ending -te-. -te- expressed past imperfective in Middle Korean, but due to the emerging past element -ess-, -te- came to have more meaning components in addition to the tense meaning of past. -te- in the non-adnominal positions in Modern Korean expresses information obtained newly in the past. This meaning component can be described as mirativity in the past. In relation to evidentiality, -te- cannot express information obtained through hearsay, but can express information obtained through direct perceptual experience or speculation/introspection/reasoning.
The third case to consider is -keyss- and -ul kes-i-. Both of them can express future tense, intention or conjecture. Here I concentrate on the conjecture use. -keyss- expresses a conjecture from inference based on perceptual information, whereas -ul kes-i- expresses a conjecture from reasoning based on general knowledge/assumption. They differ in mirativity also. -keyss- tends to be used to express newly obtained information, whereas -ul kes-i- does not.
Various verbal endings and periphrastic constructions in addition to the above cases can be described using the concepts of evidentiality and mirativity.
Chapter 8 Evidential Markers as Interactional Resources in Korean Conversation
Author: Mary Shin Kim
Detailed examinations of moment-to-moment unfolding talk and actions in Korean conversations show that speakers shift and manipulate alternate evidential markers as interactional resources. Unlike languages with an obligatory evidentiality system, in Korean, speakers can choose to use an evidential marker to state their claims, and often shift their choice for the same proposition in the course of interaction. By shifting from zero evidential marking to overt evidential marking, Korean speakers objectify and distribute responsibility for their claims or negotiate their epistemic rights in reaction to the talk and actions of co-participants. The findings demonstrate that the ways speakers actually use evidential markers are not entirely determined by the source of information, but instead are shaped by the context and the actions of participants in moment-by-moment interaction.
Chapter 1 Evidentiality and Information Source
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Reference to information source may be accomplished with a variety of means, including verbs referring to reports, claims, or opinions, adverbs, parentheticals, prepositional phrases or particles. In about one quarter of the world's languages, marking information source is obligatory. These languages have a grammatical category of evidentiality. Other languages have evidential extensions of non-evidential categories—such as conditional in French. These 'evidentiality strategies' share the evidential meanings and often give rise to grammatical evidentials. The term 'evidential' primarily relates to information source as a closed grammatical system whose use is obligatory. The term 'information source' relates to the corresponding conceptual category. Expressions related to information source are heterogeneous and versatile, and may allow more detailed specification of various degrees of assumption, inference, opinion than do grammatical evidential systems, and often reliability, and speaker's evaluation of information. The paper focuses on various aspects of expressing information source across the world's languages.
Part 3 Evidentiality and Modality in Other Languages
Editors: Chungmin Lee and Jinho Park
Chapter 17 Evidentiality in African Languages
Author: Robert Botne
Evidentiality has been noted in only a few, disparate studies of African languages. This paper presents an overview of the kinds of evidential systems found in African languages, bringing together research done across a wide-spectrum of languages. The data suggest that evidential systems may very well be relatively rare in Africa.
Chapter 15 Evidentiality in Korean
Author: Jaemog Song
This paper investigates evidentiality in Korean. Korean has four grammatical markers of evidentiality: Past Sensory -te-, Present Sensory -ney, Inferred -keyss-, Reported -tay. While indicating the speaker has firsthand sensory evidence, Korean Sensory evidentials imply mirative extensions of unexpectedness and surprise. This paper also observes 'first person effect' in Korean evidentials. Korean evidential markers, which do not normally occur with first person, can be used with first person to imply lack of control or intention. Korean allows multiple marking of evidentiality in the same clause. This paper examines their combinations and restrictions.


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The fact is that at the MOST, 35% of your website traffic comes from Search Engines. To be sure, that is an important number, but most people put far too much importance on it. In fact many rely on it and that is just plain foolish. If you only look for SE traffic, you're doomed to failure. Period.
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The alt-comedy heavyweight shows us her dark side in I Smile Back. But don't worry: She's still hilarious—and honest—as hell.
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After half an hour behind closed doors, Sarah Silverman emerges from the makeup room of a photo studio and is greeted by a chorus of gasps. Her hair has been teased into an enormous cloud. "What?" she deadpans. "Too much?"
The comedy titan has made a career of that sort of thing, tackling just about every controversial topic under the sun with a sarcasm-soaked charm. But perhaps what's most shocking about Silverman these days is the 44-year-old's revelatory turn as a mother spiraling out of control because of addiction in the bleak indie I Smile Back. In the film, which costars The Good Wife's Josh Charles, Silverman embodies pain with the same strangely irresistible gusto she brings to her usual comedic gigs in a tour de force performance that generated buzz when it premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. We've seen Silverman take on addiction before in Sarah Polley's drama Take This Waltz. But for the first time, we're seeing the actor go really dark. And she nails it.
After the photographer decrees that the hair is indeed too much, Silverman is sent back to makeup. When she returns, she has a more workable 'do and gamely sits in a pile of glitter, clad in a Cookie Monster coat. "What the fuck am I doing?" she says with ersatz ennui, then notices the food that's been delivered. "Lunch is here," she says, rebounding into a mischievous grin—ready to openly chat about her own anxiety, happiness…anything. "Let's talk!"
Laney, your character in I Smile Back, is an addict. I have to ask, and I'm not implying anything, but do you still smoke pot?
Oh, yeah, I do. It's so funny that people think I'm this huge stoner, because I'm open about smoking pot, but I'll just take, like, one puff before bed, or if I'm at a party, I'll have a puff. I could never do it before going onstage or like during the daytime.
I quit 'cause it got super depressing. But beer's also depressing, so…
Well, I don't drink at all. I just don't like the taste. It makes me nauseous.
Do you ever get depressed when you smoke?
They always say sativa makes you giggly and indica is like really heavy. But sativa makes me edgy—I don't like smoking that. I like the indica. Sudafed makes me feel anxious and edgy.
That can make your skin crawl.
Yeah, I don't like anything speedy. I tried, you know…what's the drug that puts you to sleep?
Ambien?
Yeah, Ambien. And my sister and I are the same way—it puts us to sleep for like 10 minutes, and then we wake up and we're like edgy. I'm just not built that way—the way most people are, I guess.
Laney isn't built like other people either. And I have to say, I forgot I was watching Sarah Silverman. I got lost in the movie.
Thank you so much. A director once told me, "Well, nobody's gonna ever get lost in you, because you're a personality." It made me so sad, but…I completely understood, because I'm a fan of television and movies as well. When it's someone that you see in all the magazines or someone that you know their personality, it's hard to get lost in them. That's why so many people's first performance is the one that's most lauded, because they're the most mysterious.
Was it an immersive experience?
I hate saying that, because I always rolled my eyes when other actors were like, "You're just carrying this weight around." But I found it to be true, and much to my chagrin, I even kind of like lost my shit sometimes. You know, Why isn't there coffee?!? The crew should have coffee! I didn't know what to do with all those feelings, you know, and then I'd just go on an apology tour. I'd be like, "I'm sorry I was cunty."
Is it uncomfortable to be viewed as a serious actor?
The pendulum swings both ways. I don't want to make how I feel about myself defined by outside forces, because it's a very dangerous thing. I want to let myself feel this and let it feel nice. But when what I put out there is perceived as garbage, I want to still stand and breathe and be happy. You have to, like, take it with a grain of salt, you know?
You seem to readily open up about past embarrassments, like bedwetting. Does that sort of honesty prepare you for a role this dark?
Being a bedwetter was so humiliating. I mean my family all knew; I would bring my sheets down to the wash or whatever—but I had to go to sleepaway camps from a really young age, and that was consistently humiliating. So attempting stand-up when I was a teenager was not nearly as scary. You know, once you've been a bedwetter and have made your bed over pissed sheets where everyone can smell it…stand-up is not as daunting as it is to most people. And I think, it's given me bravery to do things I haven't done in a lot of different fields, because nothing will ever compare to that. I mean I thought it'd be my biggest, darkest, deepest, most shame-filled secret of my life, and it kind of became my superpower because it made nothing seem daunting.
How did the project come about?
I'm so flattered [Amy Koppelman, the book's writer] thought of me and that I'm the right fit for this. Oddly, in this creative world, people tend to only cast you in things that they've already seen you do, whether they realize it or not. So for [director of Take This Waltz] Polley before that, she just saw me on The Sarah Silverman Program, where I'm basically Bugs Bunny, and she was like, You should play this real character. With Koppelman, she heard me on the radio, and she felt so connected, so they asked me if I'd be interested. But it never occurred to me it'd get made. Most movies don't get made. So it was like, "Yeah, sure!"
Why weren't you confident it would get made?
Like, if they need my name to help them make this bleak drama, then this is probably not getting made. They would get a real hot-shit actress, you know what I mean? Years later, when I got an email that it was happening, I was like, Yay! And then I just went into a full panic attack of, I can't do this, I can't do this, this a mistake. I was just, What if, what if, what if. Then I realized that Laney exists in that anxiety stage of what if. So I was like, Maybe I can do this.
What's Laney's major struggle?
You know, they say that if you live in the past, it's depression, and if you live in the future, it's anxiety. And that's why you have to be in the moment in a perfect world. And I just think, Laney's past…there are more people with far more bleak pasts who, you know, persevere with aplomb. Um, that's a word, right? Plum. Yeah.
Yeah, it has a b on the end.
I'm Australian.
Oh, my God. That would've been, like, my sixth guess. I have a terrible ear. My sister-in-law is Australian, and I still would've been like, "Are you Scottish?"
Well, I've been here a long time. Do you think Laney's selfish?
It's complete self-obsession: "What if I'm a terrible mother, what if they're fucked up because of me?" People might perceive that as self-loathing or some kind of modesty, but it isn't. In my last stand-up special, I talk about how people who are self-deprecating think that's modesty. And it's just self-obsession—it's the opposite. There isn't room for anything else. Mother Teresa wasn't complaining about the cellulite on her thighs. She had other things to do. She had space in her life for other things, because she wasn't consumed with self.
Is Laney sympathetic at all?
You see a fucking asshole abandoning her children for drugs. It's not very sympathetic. But how you feel depends on your personal history. And I love that. I don't think you can place somebody without compassion. I have a great life, and I spiral into complete despair, so I understand that you can't write down your life on paper and decide if you can have feelings or not. You know? I mean, my stepsister is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and she goes to groups of…what's it called?
Survivor groups?
Yeah, because there's such a common thread with children of survivors of the Holocaust, which is that they're not allowed their feelings. Anything that comes up—regular high school stuff, hormones, teenager stuff, being hurt—is totally insignificant next to "I was in the Holocaust." But of course, they should be allowed their feelings. You know, it always hurts me when a kid is crying about something that, as adults, we find trivial and we laugh. "Oh, she's heartbroken over a crush, she's 13, ha ha ha." Those are fucking real feelings, just as real as your feelings. You know, Janis Joplin once said, "All you really have that really matters are feelings." And that's true. So I mean, I can see all sides of what you could take from Laney. I can see a very unsympathetic way of looking at her as well as a very sympathetic way of looking at her. But I tend to be sympathetic toward people, especially assholes. Mister Rogers once said, "There isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story."
This role was obviously a big shift for you. I'd like to ask about another potential shift. Would you ever host a late-night talk show? Why is that still such a boys' club?
I don't know. I will say that women pretty much run comedy. They don't run late-night, but wanting a late-night talk show, the set of things…I don't know. Comedians have a certain amount of fucked-up things that we all have in common and drove us to be comedians. And then, like, the more narrow things make you want to be a talk-show host or this or that. I love talk shows, I love doing talk shows, I love the hosts that are out there right now. I'm loving Colbert. I think he's so brilliant; his questions are so well thought-out. I just adore him. But I would say I love all the guys in different ways. But [as a host] you have to be comfortable asking for favors every single day. It's a constant.
It seems like a grudge match.
Right. Because it's all ego, and not just ego, but it's business. And you have to say, "You can't do anyone else first." There are all these rules.
Why do you think that'd be distasteful to women as a long-term venture?
I don't think it is. I'm just talking about me.
So the lack of women in late-night doesn't necessarily drive you crazy?
No, I don't want to say it's much ado about nothing, and I'm a big fighter of women's causes, obviously. But I do think that you have to pick your battles, and I think that there are several women who've been asked and even begged to do late-night shows and have chosen not to. I'm sure Chelsea Handler, if she wanted a late-night television show, she could have one. Same with Amy Poehler, Amy Schumer. So I don't know that it's everyone's cup of tea. But I could be wrong. It could be a big conspiracy against them, but I don't know. It seems like the kind of position where you have to be groomed for years, like getting to be top of your company. Craig Ferguson kind of popped out of nowhere. And the kid who took over The Daily Show? I don't think that was ever in people's minds. I don't mean to be a contrarian.
There's no right answer to this.
I mean, I understand, late night in the '80s and '90s absolutely was a boys' club, where people thought, much like the news, that people trust men with their news and their parody of news and their late-night shows. But I don't know that we live in that anymore. I think that there might just be less women dying to be talk show hosts.
Let's talk about feminism.
Boo.
What does it mean to be one now? Is the definition always evolving?
What feminist means to people is so varied. I can't imagine it's the same definition for people who are offended by it as [as it is for] people who are feminists.
Are things getting better?
That Always tampons campaign or whatever? They did, like, the throw-like-a-girl, run-like-a-girl campaign? It's brilliant. It's totally brilliant. I think there's a lot of really cool stuff. I mean, Lena Dunham existing. Everything she does. This Lenny Letter she started. Her nudity in Girls alone. The whole free-the-nipple campaign is great. I mean, it's absolutely atrocious that we are shamed. You can oil up my tits and smash them behind suspenders and have, like, a champagne bottle between them, like, exploding with, you know, obvious jizz metaphors, and that can be a billboard. It could be a poster in the mall. But you can't post a 70-year-old nude woman, you know, like, a piece of art, or like, a woman couldn't nurse her baby at that mall.
As a man, I can show my nipples, which is weird. They're useless.
Exactly, like, we should just have naked pictures of men and naked pictures of women and cut out the men's nipples and [swap them].
In Australia, you can be topless at the beach. And it's always been like that.
People say it's bizarre. Is it because of fear? They're like, "Guys and boys will be jerking off in the streets!" When it comes to just a human woman's nipple and areola, what are we protecting our children from? It's absolutely absurd. Look at Barbie dolls. Barbie dolls have big, fat shiny parts that guys jerk off to, and then who are we protecting by not having the nipple, the life-nourishing part on it?
And then there's what's going on with Planned Parenthood.
There've been about 600 laws over what women can do with their body in a single year and zero of men since the beginning of time. I just retweeted that. It's pretty crazy. I think that when women and what we can do with our own human bodies is starting to be legislated, it's beyond time to act. And people can call themselves whatever they want. If they don't like the word feminist, they can throw it out the window. But it's just about human rights, civil rights.
Does Twitter have any political power?
That's where people, like comedians, can change minds. You can help influence change, you know.
So then comedy can change people's minds?
I think if you can make it funny, humor can change people's minds more than anger. Anger doesn't do anything. I always try to think before I write something: How would I respond if that tone was taken at me? I try to just stick with what I think is funny. It's just not effective if you put people in a defensive mode. They don't think they're bad. They think they're good! They think you're bad.
And they think they're right.
And they think they're right. So unless you appeal to them, with a kiss and a hug and a laugh, you're not changing anyone. You can wail with lots of passion to the people who also agree with you, and that's nice. That's what a rally is for. But it doesn't really create change.
What can you tell us about The Book of Henry, Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow's new movie?
I mean, I just booked it. It's a beautiful script, a really fun part, and I'm looking forward to shooting in New York with Naomi [Watts] and these brilliant kids.
It's super top secret though, isn't it?
Oh, well, now you tell me! I have no idea. No, I haven't signed anything yet!
Well, it's in New York, so there you go. That's a spoiler.
Don't trick me. I don't know politics of things! That's how I get in trouble!
The director is going to take on Star Wars: Episode IX. Did he show you his cut yet?
Yes, it ends with a big explosion. Wait. Come on. No.
You were just talking about New York, where you've lived. What was your worst apartment?
Oh, my God. I lived at 129 Second Avenue, a fifth-floor walk-up. A lot of the apartments didn't have bathrooms; there was a padlocked bathroom in the hallway of each floor.
So you shared a bathroom with other people on your floor?
Well, we did have a bathroom. But there was a guy who had just gotten out of prison who was on our floor. I only talked to him once. My best friend, Beth, and I were walking down the stairs, and he was walking behind us with his friend, and they dropped a box of bullets. And bullets were just falling down at our feet, rolling down past our feet, and neither of us flinched—we just kept walking straight ahead and walking as if bullets were not raining down the stairs. We were so scared.
Damn. What were your favorite spots back then?
I love New York. My favorite place—I'm hoping it opened up again; I lived above it—was B&H Dairy. I still go there every time I'm back. It's a kosher dairy and I'm a vegetarian, so it's the only place where I can eat matzo ball soup, 'cause they make it without chicken stock. The soup there is so good. And the challah bread is this thick. It's just this tiny hole-in-the-wall, but it's so awesome, and it's been open since like 1930…. It was [run by], like, Russian Jews, and then all the Jews died off. I think then there were Puerto Rican [owners], so their T-shirts said CHALLAH! POR FAVOR. It's the best food in New York City. My favorite Italian restaurant is called Frank, and that's on Second Avenue.
You didn't leave the East Village, did you?
I mean, I love Central Park. My happiest memories of New York were on Mondays, when I would play softball in Central Park with the improv team. After we played our game, they'd let me give fielding practice because I can hit the ball anywhere—like, I can hit the ball exactly anywhere. And we'd get stoned. And then I'd go home a little bit out of the way by way of the zoo.
The Central Park Zoo?
Yeah. I loved the polar bears so much—they look like big dads swimming. And then I'd take the 6 [train] downtown, take a nap, do a little stand-up, and then at midnight, Eddie Brill would be done with his show at Carolines and host a poker game. He still does every Monday. And we'd play until, like, 7 in the morning and then all get breakfast. It was all summer long. I was just like, This is my joy.
Do you get nostalgic about New York when you visit from Los Angeles?
It's funny, because I always stay at the same hotel, 'cause I love the East Village. That's always where I lived. And [the Pretenders'] Chrissie Hynde….
Are you a Pretenders fan?
I'm a huge Pretenders fan. We bumped into each other in New York, and she said, "This is ridiculous. Let's go take a walk and have some tea." The first question I said was, "Where are you from?" And then as soon as those words left my mouth, I thought, "Ohio. Right. I knew that." And then I tried to get in cool with her, and I go, "Can you believe that CBGB is now a John Varvatos store?" And she goes, "Why do I give a fuck? I don't care. That's New York. It turns over." And I was like, [Gasps] "You're so cool." It's so true. You have to embrace the part of New York that's constantly changing, you know? Like when I lived there, Kim's Video turned into a Gap, and I was just like, This is so awful. But you know what? Then it changed from a Gap into something else and something else and something else. And that's what you have to love about New York. Not one place, 'cause it will be gone.
And not one time.
And not one time, 'cause it'll be gone.
Photographs by Robyn Von Swank
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