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The next morning Shane grabbed his coffee and slid into the kitchen chair across the table from Scott. "How's your head? Doesn't look like you slept much at all."
"I'm okay. Just got a lot on my mind." He took another drink of his coffee, hoping the caffeine would help wake him up. If he hadn't spent the night wondering how he could have gotten so confused about Kayleigh, putting that aside, then wondering how the new roommate would affect their life, wondering if Kyle really could recover, going back to wondering why Kayleigh was so secretive, and how he could have mistaken friendship. You didn't pray 'with' your enemies, did you? But he'd overstepped, and she was just drawing a line. Nothing else.
"You've never been dumped before, have you?" Shane asked softly.
"I wasn't dumped. I just made an error in judgment."
Shane nodded. "Yeah. Error in judgment. I do that a lot, too." He took another sip of his coffee. "Never gets any easier."
"Shane, I wasn't…." But Shane was watching him with sympathy. Scott took a deep breath. "For the record I never talked to Kayleigh about dating…."
"Just marriage."
"No, I didn't tell her that. Just you. You and Sandy. Now just drop it." Scott took his cup to the sink and rinsed it. Then he started for the front door.
"I wasn't trying to harass you. Never mind. I know what it's like."
Scott turned and watched Shane who was now staring across the table at the wall. Shane did know what it was like. He knew it far too often because he wanted love so deeply. "Yeah, Shane. I was dumped. Thanks for caring." Scott left so he wouldn't be required to keep up the lie. What difference was there between reality and what he'd said anyway? They'd never get together like he'd predicted. So why couldn't he forget that certainty he'd felt that day?
Scott pulled to a stop in front of the apartment house Kayleigh lived in. He was ten minutes early. He debated about blowing the car horn, but then remembered the times he'd been awakened from a sound sleep by someone honking for his neighbors. He decided to go up. The stairs didn't look any safer this morning than they had the day before. Glancing at the mailboxes he saw the name "Edwards" on box four. He went up the steps, gripping the railing carefully so as not to get splinters in his hand.
The steps led to a landing in back which overlooked the yard, or rather the parking lot, as all the tenant's cars were lined up in the narrow lot. Scott knocked on the second door, and then studied the cars below.
"Yes?" asked a short, plump woman in a meek voice.
"Hi. I'm here for Kayleigh." He held out his hand. "I'm Scott Alexander."
She shook her head, ignoring his hand. "I… She… about what?" She shrunk away from him, and the door began to close.
"A ride to work. She's my secretary."
The door opened wider, and the woman placed a hand over her mouth. "Oh! Oh, my. Here? But…." She glanced into the room behind her. "Everything's such a mess." She looked up into Scott's face. "Her boss? But… but…." She glanced back again. "Kayleigh?"
Kayleigh appeared in the background. "Oh, Scott, I'll be right out."
"You know him? Your boss, Kayleigh? Bosses don't come…." The door shut.
Scott stared at the door in disbelief. Next time he'd wait downstairs.
Kayleigh opened the door and came out, shutting it behind her. "I'm sorry, Scott."
Scott turned and went downstairs. "Yeah. Whatever." He got into his Cherokee and glanced at Kayleigh as he started the engine. "Who'd she think I was?"
Kayleigh's lips quivered, and she stared at him, her eyes wide. But she didn't speak.
"I forgot. We only talk about my problems. Don't worry. I won't bore you with them anymore."
Kayleigh closed her eyes.
Scott concentrated on the road. When he glanced over again her eyes were still closed, and her face was wet. Scott turned off the main road onto a side street and pulled over. "Hey, what's wrong?" he whispered. "You can trust me." He unbuckled his seat belt.
Without much persuasion she leaned against him. She breathed deeply for a few minutes before she spoke. "Please don't help me fix the car. My brother will expect to use it. He did last night. I'll try to adjust to the bus schedule."
"He used your car last night?"
Kayleigh sat up. "Do you know anything about cars? Is there some way I can remove something so that it won't run at all? If he's caught driving my car, I'll get in trouble, too. I got a ticket last time he was caught."
"Why'd you get a ticket?"
"Letting an unlicensed driver operate a motor vehicle."
"No. He just took it."
"Then he stole it."
"I can't say that! He's my brother." She shook her head and looked out the window. "You don't understand."
Scott had a feeling he finally did understand. "Your brother is wanted for theft, and he's in your apartment."
She whirled around and stared. "He's not wanted. Yet. I don't think. How did you know that?"
"You and your mom can't act more suspicious. If he steals from his own sister, it's not hard to guess he'd do it to other people." Scott started the truck and headed back the way they'd come.
"Where are we going? Scott? Where…."
"Relax. We're going to take the battery out of your car. I promised you that you could trust me, but I think you know what you need to do."
"You expect me to turn him in? I can't believe you'd expect that."
"Well, it's not like he's sorry and trying to make things right."
"You haven't even met him!"
"Don't have to. Kayleigh, he took your car last night, and you can't even use it for fear he'll take it again. That doesn't sound like he has any intention of stopping his criminal behavior."
"I shouldn't have told you," she protested, as he pulled up in the alley behind her car. She got out, unlocked the door, and popped the hood. Scott removed the battery and set it in the back of his SUV. After closing up her car, she got back into the passenger seat. "Thanks. When he's gone, we can put it back in."
"When will he be gone?"
Kayleigh shrugged. "I'll take the bus…."
"No! I'll pick you up."
"But Scott…."
"But Kayleigh, I need you here, and you have school and homework."
"Just another two weeks… if I can make it through."
"Two weeks where I bet you need to study for exams. Can you study when he's there? What's his name anyway? When'd he come back? Is this the one from California?"
"No. But he's talking about going out there. I hope he does. He got out Monday."
"Got out?"
Kayleigh glanced at him. "Yeah. Washtenaw County jail. Wish I'd never told you, don't you?"
Scott glanced at her, and then refocused on the road. "Is this your way of saying we're friends now?"
"Your choice," she said evenly.
"What are you offering?" she asked in that too even voice that wavered at the edge.
Marriage. Scott laughed at his thought.
Kayleigh stared out the window.
Scott pulled into the parking garage and found a spot on the third floor. Kayleigh opened her door immediately. Scott grabbed her arm. "Whoa. Wait. Let's finish this before we go in front of gossip Elaine."
Kayleigh stopped half out of the truck, but did not face him.
"Kayleigh," he said softly. "Look at me."
Kayleigh turned and lifted her chin. Her cheeks were damp.
He rubbed the dampness with his finger. "Kayleigh, I'm interested in more than friendship, but we're not in a good position for that right now."
Her face changed. Wariness replaced the hurt.
He needed to clarify his statement. "I'm in no hurry. You trusted me; now I'm trusting you. I won't say anything about your brother, and you won't tell the powers that be that I'm falling in love with my secretary."
She backed away from the truck, shaking her head. "After today? You say that after you saw… after…."
Scott got out, locked up his truck, and followed her. "No. This started when I first met you."
"You'd been hurt!"
"Yeah. Sandy thinks I had my brain addled." He shrugged. "If it bothers you, I'll cease and desist. Just say the word. I know I'm putting you in an awkward position." He took her hands, stopping her before they entered the Taubman Center. "I promise I won't make things difficult for you if you don't return my feelings."
"Feelings? You've floored me. Scott, look at you." She shook her head. "You've got to be messing with me." She pulled away and grabbed the door. "I don't do anything before marriage. Not even kisses, so don't even try it."
Scott followed her into the building. It took thirty seconds to remember she'd been burned, and another thirty seconds to guess how deeply. He stopped her at the door to their office. "I'm in no hurry. Let's go into my office and pray first."
Kayleigh hesitated and then gave a slight nod before entering the department office.
Scott was careful not to mention his feelings to Kayleigh again, bringing their relationship back to comfortable ground — work and talk of Kyle's progress.
After Scott dropped Kayleigh off at Eastern Michigan University at two, he stopped by the church to drop off the rules Pastor Prescott had requested.
"Thanks," Joe Prescott said, looking over the paper. "I'm hoping Eli will return my call today. He stays away from that mad house of an apartment he's in now as much as possible."
"Eli?"
"Elijah White. He's been here about a year now. Almost black hair. Vivid blue-violet eyes."
Scott searched his memory of the people he saw Sunday morning. "Rides a beat up ten speed, even in the dead of winter?"
"That's him."
"You think he'd really watch out for Kyle's needs and not just come for the room?"
"If Eli decides to care for Kyle, he will. He's serious and hard working. His references are excellent."
"References? I didn't know you checked references for your parishioners."
"Not usually." He didn't elaborate. Instead he looked over the papers Scott had given him.
"What's his major?"
"He hasn't decided yet. Right now he's getting his prerequisites out of the way." He looked up at Scott. "I'll call you as soon as I hear from him."
Scott left and went back to work until it was time to get Kayleigh.
Thursday Scott opened a special checking account with the money from Dr. Thorton. Then he went to his appointment with the lawyer. The suite of offices for Hammond and Hammond, attorneys at law, was located on the first floor of a three story office building. The petite, black secretary led him back to Leonard Hammond. Mr. Hammond introduced him to his paralegal Amber Greystrom. Amber's hair matched her name, and she wore it wrapped up on the back of her head and held with a pearled comb.
Mr. Hammond agreed to help Scott with the paperwork involved in dealing with the insurance company and hospital, and Amber would be available to answer questions when he was not. Scott paid the secretary by writing a check from his new account of Dr. Thorton's money.
That evening Scott and Shane met in Kyle's hospital room to read The Holiness of God. Sometimes Fran stayed and listened, but often she left. Today she stood by the door for the first five minutes, and then she slipped out. Shane kept reading, but also stood and walked to the door, glancing out. He stopped reading, and came back into the room, sitting near Kyle. "Okay, guys. We've got to rethink this roommate deal. As William pointed out, he can work less than nine hours a day at minimum wage, make his rent if he shares a room somewhere, and still have a bit of spending money to help with college. We have to offer some money."
"I don't need anyone," Kyle said with a scowl.
"What do you think is fair?" Scott asked, knowing Shane already had thought the problem through.
"He wants two hundred a week. I told him that was out, so he backed to one fifty. That's seventy five a piece."
Kyle shook his head, and then looked as if he were concentrating. Then he shook his head again. "Not seventy five… Three divided… Three… Know it's not seventy five."
"Kyle, you don't have a job," Shane said softly.
"Yeah, I do… can't fire…."
"Can't work yet, either."
"Maybe you can go back by the first of next year," Scott suggested quickly, when Kyle seemed to get upset.
Shane hesitated and glanced at Scott. Something worried him, but he wasn't going to say it in front of Kyle. "Don't worry about the money, Kyle." Shane said. "Just thought you'd want to know how things were going. Scott's insurance is getting it. They'll pay the guy."
Kyle looked at Scott to confirm Shane's words.
"I just talked to a lawyer today," Scott said. "He said there's a caregiver allowance. It'll work out. You better finish that chapter, Shane."
Shane opened the book and began reading again.
"No. I pay… somehow I'll pay my part or I leave."
Shane brought down the book against the edge of the bed with a wap. "Kyle, cut the pride trash, okay. You wouldn't ditch us out if we had a bit of a setback so don't go thinking we will do it to you. You leave now, and you know you won't get back into your internship, so stick it out here. We've got insurance and all kinds of ways to help you. Don't work against us." Shane picked up the book and with barely a pause began reading about Martin Luther's encounter with a severe thunderstorm.
Kyle closed his eyes. His head jerked in a slight, steady rhythm. Slowly he relaxed, until the jerking stopped. Then he opened his eyes and appeared to listen to the book.
Fran came back into the room at five minutes to seven. Shane stood and stretched. "See you tomorrow, Kyle."
"Jerry and Ian will be here tomorrow evening," Fran told him. "The doctors think he'll be released Monday. A whole month. It'll be good to be home, won't it, Kyle?"
Kyle looked at Shane. Then he glanced at Scott. "Back later?"
"Sure. I can stop back later," Scott agreed. "Right now I've got to see what Kayleigh's up to. See you later, Fran." He followed Shane from the room.
They walked in silence until they reached the cafeteria. "Coffee?" Shane asked.
Scott stopped at the pop machines in the entryway. He put in his quarters and got an orange soda pop. Shane bought a root beer instead of coffee. Then they bypassed the few people standing in line for a late meal and found a table in the far corner of the room. Shane cracked open his root beer and took a long drink before leaning forward with the can on the table between his hands. "He couldn't divide a hundred and fifty by three."
"What if he can't go back, Scott?"
"We have to try."
"It's not just the roommate. His student loans are due now. How's he going to pay them off? They're way more than mine. We can't do it."
"One thing at a time, Shane. Maybe we can apply for an extension or something."
"But if he'll never go back…."
"Just last week you were with me on this. If you don't want to help I'll do it myself."
"Right!" Shane shook his head and leaned back. "You and what bank."
"There is a caregiver allowance. Twenty dollars a day. And I have a… my parents offered to help, remember?"
Shane leaned forward again. "Twenty a day? That'll almost pay the kid."
"Yeah. But I'd do it even if they didn't have it. What chance does he have at home? Therapy's here."
Shane shook his head. "We'll keep him here. I just wish we knew for sure. His mom's right. He hides a lot from us."
"He's still recovering! It takes time. Attitude, Shane. He has to think it's possible."
"You sound like a positive thinking guru now. What'd they do? Send you to one of those seminars?"
"I'm serious. He may not try as hard if he doesn't think it's possible."
Shane still looked skeptical.
"Look, it happens all the time. Look at sports. What about the four minute mile. For years no one thought it could be done. One person does it; now it happens all the time, because they know it can be done." Scott leaned back. "It's not positive thinking magic. We don't know if he can return, so let's not doom and gloom him. That will make it harder. That's all." Scott drank the last of his pop.
"I'll tell William the insurance only allows for one forty a week."
"That won't kick in right away, you know. But… I have some in the savings, so I'll cover it to start."
"The whole thing? Scott…."
"I'll get reimbursed. Don't worry about it." He studied his pop can, twirling it around with his fingers. At the silence he glanced up at Shane.
Shane studied him. "It's guilt again, isn't it?"
"He's my friend. I want him to have every chance possible. I'd do the same for you."
Shane nodded and leaned back. "Yeah. Me, too. Let me throw in my half."
"If I need it."
"Scott…."
"No, seriously. The insurance and all… don't know how fast that will work."
"We should keep track," Shane insisted.
"We'll make up a spreadsheet tonight."
"I've got it under control."
Shane hesitated. "But accounting is easy for me…."
Scott wanted to give the whole mess to Shane to keep track of, but he'd promised Dr. Thorton. How could he do it without breaking the promise and losing the help?
"Hey, look, Scott. Fester in your little guilt trip, but he's my friend, too. Let me help."
"It's not that. Man, Shane, I need your help. I've got receipts and papers to keep track of, forms to fill out for insurance claims, but…." Scott looked around the cafeteria. No one was near them, but he leaned over the table close to Shane. "Someone gave me some money — anonymous, and I have to give receipts and stuff. We're getting help to keep him here," he whispered. "Someone here believes in him. That's all I can say."
Shane's eyes widened. Then he glanced around. "Who?"
"I don't know who they are. I've just talked to a spokesman. If they know I've told you, they may cut him off and help someone else." Scott reached into his suit jacket and pulled out the new checkbook, passing it to Shane. "He gave me some cash Tuesday."
Shane looked at the checkbook. "A thousand…."
"Ssssshhh." Scott looked around. "I don't know who's all in on it, but the rule was no one. Not even his parents."
"You know how good he was. Scholarships and fellowships. This is the same thing. They believe in him. Doctors!"
Shane studied the two entries in the checkbook register, and then shook his head. "But why you instead of his parents. That doesn't make sense. They have more control over the situation than you do."
Scott didn't have an answer. He wished he did. "Maybe they tried to approach them first, but he didn't get along with them as well."
"So they came to Mr. Charm. Nice try, but I don't believe it. I need some kind of paper, a written guarantee. What came with the money?"
"Nothing. A white envelope."
"No paper? No rules? No conditions?"
"I just pass on copies of receipts." He took the checkbook and replaced it in his suit pocket.
"It doesn't sound right."
"Well what do you suggest a group of people do when they want to help someone out? Throw it up for notice so every beggar in the state can knock on their door?" He tried to keep his voice low, but it began to rise. He took a deep breath. "I'll help Kyle whether they give any more money or not. I'm not placing all my hopes on this thing. I'm just letting you know we have money to start out. I should have kept my mouth shut." Scott stood and walked from the cafeteria, throwing his can in the recycling box on his way out.
Shane caught him in the hall. "Wait. Stop."
Scott stopped and faced him.
"Thanks. It's good to know someone believes in him. We'll set up the spreadsheet when you get home." He hesitated. "Be careful. Don't sign anything without showing it to your lawyer." Then Shane abruptly headed for the parking garage.
Scott watched him until he was out of sight. Shane was suspicious of everyone. There was nothing to be careful about. Nothing had even been asked of him. What possible danger could there be? He went back to his office and then took Kayleigh home.
He remembered his promise to Kyle and went back to the hospital. It was after visiting hours again, but he didn't think twice about it. He slipped into Kyle's dimly lit room.
Kyle grinned when he saw him and raised the head of his bed to sit. "Knew you'd come."
Scott pulled the chair close to the bed. "Something you wanted to talk about?"
Kyle's grin left. "I… I don't know… work."
Scott took his hand as it motioned and shook. "It takes time, Kyle. Wait six months to decide that, okay?"
"But… I… sometimes can't think."
"Six months. Please."
"Not your fault."
Scott closed his eyes and squeezed his hand. "Thanks, Kyle." He looked into Kyle's face. "Even Shane agrees though. Give it six months. I've talked to doctors. They think you can do it."
"No one comes, 'cept you, Shane, and Pastor. They're all here."
Scott squeezed his hand again because he had no words. Kyle had always enjoyed the company of his classmates and instructors.
"I know… know stuff though. I know all the veins and arteries. I can name them. And the valves of the heart – aortic, mitral, pulmonary, tricuspid. I still know it all."
"Yes, you do. See! You'll be able to go back. The rest just takes time. Work with your therapists, and we'll get you back."
"But… but what if…."
Scott shook his head. "No what if," he said softly. "Don't give up."
"But Scott! What if! Tell me, what if!" He shouted, and his jerking increased.
"Then I'll have my best friend with me for another six months before your parents force you home. Come on. Stay with us as long as possible."
Kyle relaxed, his nodding becoming more controlled, as if he were agreeing.
"Sir, visiting hours are over," a young nurse said from the doorway.
"Gotta go, Kyle."
"I'll stay."
"Good." Scott gave his hand one last squeeze before he released him and left the room.
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Mayland Heights is a residential neighbourhood in the northeast/southeast quadrant of Calgary, Alberta.  It is bounded by Barlow Trail to the east, Memorial Drive to the south, Deerfoot Trail to the west and Trans-Canada Highway to the north.

The neighbourhood of Radisson heights is to the south, Franklin/Marlborough to the east.

The land was annexed to the City of Calgary in 1910. Originally called Crossroads, the community was established in 1962.  It is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 3 councillor.

Demographics
In the City of Calgary's 2014 municipal census, Mayland Heights had a population of  living in  dwellings, a 9% increase from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

Residents in this community had a median household income of $61,339 in 2011, and there were 12% low income residents living in the neighbourhood. As of 2011, 17% of the residents were immigrants.  A proportion of 27% of the buildings were condominiums or apartments, and 49% of the housing was used for renting. The area can also be noted for its large Italian community.

See also
 List of neighbourhoods in Calgary

References

External links
 Crossroads (Mayland-Belfast-Vista Heights) Community Association

Neighbourhoods in Calgary

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Back To The Future - Educating Engineers for Practicing in Rapidly Changing Times (Part 2)
Addressing the issue of a bold new model for engineering education, a completely new engineering college is being constructed on a high-tech campus on a 70-acre site in Needham, Mass. Initially offering programs for electrical, computer, and mechanical engineers, the new Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering is independently funded institution; the first new engineering school in the US in 50 years. So that Olin can enroll the most talented students without regard to financial ability, every admitted student will receive a full, four-year foundation-funded scholarship covering tuition and room charges valued at approximately $165,000.
Olin College was founded in 1997 through a commitment of more than $300 million from the F. W. Olin Foundation of New York, which has a long-standing interest in improving science and engineering education. After years of generous building grants to existing institutions, the foundation decided the best way to jump-start engineering education reform was to create a new institution from scratch. "Our goal in creating Olin College is not to start just another engineering college, but a model for others," said Lawrence W. Milas, President of the Foundation and Chairman of Olin College's Board of Trustees.
As part of a far-reaching mandate to provide a new model for engineering education, the College announced "Invention 2000," an unprecedented two-year effort to fundamentally rethink the way engineers are taught and the way colleges function. Beginning this fall, the project will undertake an intensive examination of nearly every aspect of college life, including curriculum, student life, operations, admission, and governance. The goal is to identify innovative educational practices from around the globe and adapt them to the developing programs at Olin College, while adding new ideas for reform. What we seek to create is a singular institution that will always be at the cutting edge of engineering education and has a permanent culture of innovation. Invention 2000 is an indispensable step toward that goal.
According to William Wulf, President of the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, D.C., "There is an urgent need for fundamental reform of engineering education and Invention 2000 is unparalleled in terms of its scope and breadth. It is the sort of initiative that can create a new kind of engineering college capable of educating the next generation of technology leaders."
The effort will be guided by the reform recommendations made over the last decade by the National Science Foundation and the engineering community, which have called for radical changes in engineering education. Their recommendations include more emphasis on teamwork, project based learning and entrepreneurial thinking. These concepts will play a prominent role in Olin's curriculum, which will be updated regularly to keep pace with technological change and new discoveries. Graduates of Olin College will predict, create, and manage the technologies that will shape the future. Let's hope the educational discipline of civil engineering also benefits from this bold experiment. To learn more about Olin College visit their website.
- John P. Wier, P.E., R.P.L.S., Historical Chair, Fort Worth Branch ASCE, February 2001

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Henry Nowak takes the lead as director of the Wyoming Technology Transfer and Research Products Center.
At a time when many universities are cutting back on programs and services, the University of Wyoming's strong commitment to entrepreneurship and business development drew Henry Nowak's interest. He joined UW this October as the new director of the Wyoming Technology Transfer and Research Products Center.
"It's really nice to be in an environment that's enthusiastic and encouraging," Nowak says.
The center works to shepherd ideas with market potential into the business world. Nowak brings a wealth of experience, most recently serving as technology manager of Technology Transfer and Business Resources at North Dakota State University. He holds a J.D., an M.B.A. and an M.S. in biochemistry and is a registered patent attorney. Past appointments include assistant director for life sciences in the Office of Technology Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Business at Colorado State University, and director of the Technology Commercialization Office at Utah State University.
Nowak will lead the Wyoming Technology Transfer and Research Products Center's effort to provide faculty, staff, students and Wyoming entrepreneurs with guidance and resources to identify, promote and protect intellectual property with market potential. In addition to vetting ideas that can be licensed to industry, the center will serve as a gateway to the services of the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
"We'll be a resource for the state and the university," Nowak says.
With a land-grant university's three-fold mission of education, research and outreach, Nowak plans to address all three. He wants to involve students in the office's efforts and eventually to teach a class in the College of Business to expose business students to technology.
While universities are strong in research, they are often lacking in the development part of R&D.
"When you have technologies, you have to get them to their full utilization," Nowak says. For UW researchers, that may mean licensing the technology to an established company or helping the technology move closer to commercialization within the university or through a university startup.
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The White House Inn was built by George Bowne, a salvage expert from Key West, Florida, circa 1835. He was reputed to be the wealthiest individual in Florida at the time and built the Inn as a second home. In the mid-1800's, Cooperstown's leading merchant, JP Sill, bought the house. In 1856, Sill built the Landmark Inn and twelve years later he used the same plans to build the JP Sill House, located directly across the street from the Landmark Inn. Sill made his fortune growing and selling hops, the area's leading cash crop at the time. In the 1850's and and 60's, 7/8th of the nation's hops were harvested in New York, until a hop blight toward the end of the century eventually brought New York's booming hop industry to an end, though, today there is renewed interest in reviving the local hop growing tradition.
In the 1850's Cooperstown suffered a devastating fire which wiped out most of the wood structures in the village. The White House Inn, on the fringe of the fire, survived, but the town decided to take measures to prevent a similar disaster from happening again. They diverted a small stream, called Willow Creek, two blocks north of its original path to its present course. It currently flows along the edge of the Inn, then underneath Chestnut Street and the 1st base stands of Doubleday Field, further beneath Main Street and into Otsego Lake. In this way, the town is able to have water delivered to the center of itself in the event of an emergency.
Dr. Edward Whalen, a dentist, purchased the house in the 1950's and used it as his office and residence for nearly 40 years. The entrance room to his home served as the waiting room for his patients during that time and keeps the same name today. Ed and Marjorie Landers bought the home in 1995 and opened it as the White House Inn Bed & Breakfast that it is today.
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The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey isn't a "natural disaster", writes Colin Wilson. The misery of millions of people is down to capitalism in general and Trump in particular – all the more reason to fight back against both.
Flooding in Houston is bringing misery to tens of thousands of people, and is set to get significantly worse this week before the rain stops. In some areas over 1m of rain has fallen – and forecasts suggest there is 50cm more to come. Millions of people are stranded in their homes and officials estimate that 30,000 will need shelter. By Monday night 7,000 people had arrived at the single largest shelter – a convention centre with an estimated capacity of only 5,000. 100,000 people have no electricity.
South east Texas has always experienced occasional very heavy rain, but the last few days have been exceptional. When Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Friday, for example, it was the most powerful hurricane in Texas for fifty years. More rain has fallen in the state in the last few days than in any tropical storm in the US since 1978.
Yet the flooding is not just a "natural disaster" that human beings are powerless to prevent. On the contrary, three factors have magnified the human suffering caused by Harvey far beyond what it need have been.
Houston is a boom town – since 2000, the population has increased by a third, rising from 4.7 to 6.5 million people. Those 1.8 million extra people are mostly housed in low-rise suburbs which now sprawl 30 miles from the city centre on what was previously farmland. Land which previously had some capacity to absorb rainwater has been concreted over. So the water travels downstream, into areas which, previously, were relatively safe from flooding.
Lack of public transport exacerbates these problems – Houston's population is two-thirds that of London, but the city's rail network covers only 24 miles, compared with 250 miles for the London tube. So most people travel by car, making necessary a motorway network that concretes over more grass-covered prairie with the ability to absorb flood water.
Trump is set to make the situation even worse. He issued an Executive Order earlier this month that abolished flood risk standards for federally-funded infrastructure projects. What is more, he wants to roll out across America the kind of lax building regulations which apply in Houston to structures in potential flood zones.
Hurricane Harvey was an exceptionally severe storm – yet "exceptional" weather events are becoming increasingly common. Flooding in 2015 reached levels which Houston's media described as "historic". Last year, three waterways in the city reached levels which, it had been calculated, could be expected only once every 500 years. Yet now, a year later, even worse floods are taking place. The cost of dealing with major natural disasters, such as floods and forest fires, has risen five-fold in America since the 1980s.
One reason for flooding across America is climate change – sea levels have increased by 15cm in the last few decades. American government statistics compare the number of flooding incidents in US cities now and in the 1950s – they show a four-fold increase in flooding incidents in Boston, a six-fold increase in Philadelphia and a ten-fold increase in Atlantic City in New Jersey.
A second factor which affects Gulf Coast cities like Houston is the increase in sea temperature. The last few decades have seen an increase of 0.5C. It may not sound like much, but even a small rise increases the energy available to hurricanes as they move across the ocean, and the amount of water vapour they can pick up and dump inland as rain.
With almost 40% of the US population living in high population-density coastal areas, the scale of the potential damage to America's society and economy is enormous – not in the decades to come, but now and in the next few years. Yet Trump has described global warming as "mythical" and he has pulled America out of the Paris accord.
The human cost of the Houston flooding was summarised for many people by a photo of the residents of the La Vita Bella assisted-living home in Dickinson, some 25 miles from central Houston. At least seven elderly people sat waist-deep in brownish water waiting to be rescued – as, finally, they were.
Many people from Houston left the city and drove north as the storm approached. But poorer and disabled residents may not have been able to do so – they might not own a car, or they might not be able to drive it. What's also clear from maps of Houston is that areas where many people are on low incomes are often areas with high migrant populations, or where lots of people don't speak English, so that the effects of poverty and racism overlap.
A further aspect of institutional racism in Houston was that the US Border Patrol stated they would continue roadside checks of the immigration status of people fleeing the city in cars. Around 1.4 million people living in Houston were born outside the US, and some 400,000 are undocumented. For these people, fleeing Houston involved the risk of deportation – so that at least some of them will have preferred to stay, despite the horrendous risks.
This contempt on the part of the authorities for the lives of black people, and of poor people, resembles all too closely the events of Hurricane Katrina, 350 miles east along the Gulf Coast in New Orleans. During Katrina, people who were both poor and black suffered disproportionately. Thus, while only 17% of poor whites lacked access to a car, nearly 60% of poor blacks did so, meaning it was mostly low-income black people who were unable to leave when the hurricane hit. But once they had left, typically because their homes were destroyed, they found it impossible to return. A year later, a remarkable 80% of former black residents were still living in other parts of the US with no way of getting back home.
You might assume that the devastation of Katrina would mean that the risk of flooding was now taken seriously as regards low-income housing, at least in New Orleans itself. But – remarkably, shamefully – it isn't. Almost 2,000 public housing buildings in New Orleans are in flood zones. Across the US, public housing is often built on flood-prone land, because such land is cheap – so that 1 in 20 public housing buildings is at risk from flooding.
Any number of short-term solutions would improve the situation in Houston and would have prevented at least some of the damage from occurring. Proper building standards need to be implemented. A major increase in public transport needs to be funded that will stop the endless building of roads. Cities like Houston must put evacuation plans in place that focus, in particular, on the needs of those who cannot leave on their own.
But there remains the wider problem, that of climate change. The Paris accord, though not in itself an effective response to global warming, at least signalled some recognition that it was a problem. So our response to Houston has to involve seeing Harvey as one more reason why Trump has to go, and why a radical movement has to be built that can force real action on climate.
And this brings us to the real root of the problem, which is that a capitalist society is incapable of creating cities which are liveable in the long term for most people, because those in charge are interested in short-term profitability, not sustainability. The alternative has to be planning – not planning in the limited, bureaucratic sense of British or American local government, but a kind of planning which involves the majority of people in informed, lively and democratic debate about to use the resources we have to build a society where human need is what matters, not profit. I'm talking, of course, about socialism. Creating such a society, starting from the currently small forces of the left, is an enormous task. But Houston is one more example of the need for us to do what we can to take that struggle forwards.


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A corporate inversion is a paper transaction in which an American corporation reincorporates in a foreign nation without moving any of its operations to that country. The principle reason that a corporation will invert is to save money on taxes, in some cases as much as $60 million annually. Politicians, believing these companies are reincorporating in a foreign country to evade taxes, have introduced numerous bills to try to stop these companies from moving overseas. Senator John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, stated that he plans to stop inversions within 500 days of his election to office. These corporations, however, have demonstrated that they will not give up these tax savings without a fight. Leucadia National Corp., a company that underwent an inversion in 2002, has hired a high-priced lobbying firm to block congressional efforts to stop inversions.
Members of Congress, believing that inverted corporations should be punished for renouncing their citizenship and their executives should be taxed for making this unpatriotic decision, have proposed complex legislation designed to close this tax loophole. Unfortunately, these solutions will not work. In reality, inversions are only a symptom of a much larger problem: American corporations are uncompetitive in foreign nations because of the corporate income tax. Today, the United States taxes corporate earnings at a rate of approximately 35%. Of sixty-nine countries surveyed as of January 2004, only Japan had higher corporate tax rates. These higher tax rates have yielded an inefficient result: some companies have committed transactions with the sole purpose of reducing their tax liabilities.
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Романишин Н.І. Контрастивна стилістика англійської та української мов:Конспект лекцій для студентів базового напрямку "Філологія" спеціальності "Прикладна лінгвістика" освітньо-кваліфікаційного рівня «Бакалавр». – Львів, Видавництво Національного університету «Львівська політехніка», 2010. - 144 с.
Висвітлено основні положення стилістики та контрастивної стилістики англійської та української мов. Розглянуто основні категорії та поняття стилістики, здійснено порівняльний аналіз стилістичних ресурсів англійської та української мов на фонетичному, морфологічному, лексичному та синтаксичному рівнях, розкрито суть основних стилістичних прийомів та тропів в обох аналізованих мовах.
Відповідальний за випуск: Карамишева І.Д.
The term "style" originated from the Greek "stylos" that meant a short stick used for writing on wax tablets. Now the word style is used in so many senses that it has become the breeding ground for ambiguity. The Oxford dictionary registered about thirty meanings of this word. The usage of this word by different sciences – aesthetics, linguistics, philosophy, art, history of culture only favours the development of its polysemy.
- style as a deviation from a recognized norm of the standard language.
- style as literary form.
So what is linguistically relevant definition of style? The treatment of style by modern linguistics and literary studies is based on the assumption that style is an integral significance of any expression, its functional and semantic property. Style is a socially recognized and functionally determined unity of methods of choice, usage and arrangement of language means within a certain sphere of national language, the unity of methods which correlates with other similar ways of expression that serve for other purposes and perform other functions in language social practice of a certain nation. The very nature of style lies in the creative aspect of human verbal activity because it is hardly ever possible to produce an utterance devoid of any stylistic characteristics. On the one hand style is social and historic category. It is being created by native speakers in accordance with the aim of communication. On the other hand – style is a reflection of an individual verbal experience. Consequently the abstract tern "style" being complex and heterogeneous has been regarded depending on what particular aspect of style is dealt with.
Individual style is a unique combination of language units, expressive means and stylistic devices peculiar to a certain writer which makes that writer's works or even utterances easily recognizable. The term individual style is applied in that sphere of linguistics and literary studies that deals with the peculiarities of a writer's individual manner of using language means to achieve a desirable effect.
· colloquial style (розмовний стиль) – realized in all kinds of everyday communicative situations.
Each of the enumerated style is exercised in two forms – written and oral: an article and a lecture are examples of the two forms of the scientific style; news broadcast on the radio and TV or newspaper information materials – of the newspaper style; an essay or public speech – of the puiblicistic style.
It is only the first three styles that are invariably recognized in all stylistic treatises. As for the newspaper style, it is often regarded as a part of the publicistic domain and is not always treated individually. But the biggest controversy is flaming around the colloquial style. According to V.A.Kukharenko the latter is a special type – colloquial type of language, a separate language subsystem opposed to the literary type. Literary type of the language is characterized by the intentional approach of the speaker towards the choice of language means suitable for a particular communicative situation and the official, formal, preplanned nature of the latter. The colloquial type of the language, on the contrary, is characterized by the unofficiality, spontaneity, informality of the communicative situation. The colloquial speech is shaped by the immediacy, unpremeditativeness of expression. The both above mentioned tendencies to treat the colloquial speech as an individual language subsystem with its independent set of language units and rules of their connection and to regard it as a separate style coexist in modern linguistics.
Language norm includes all language elements and rules of their organization that have communicative value for native speakers irrespective of the functional style. Elements that are obsolete or non-understandable for a number of speakers exist outside the language norm.
Literary norm is the most correct, elaborated, cultivated variant of language norm that serves as an example of the written and oral communication. Literary norm takes socially high position that general language norm and is implemented into social usage though educational institutions, mess media and art. It has obligatory character and regulative function.
Norm of a style, compared with the language and literary norm is a narrower notion and is restricted to a certain functional style or to a written or oral form of communication. For example, such Ukrainian structures as порушити клопотання, порядок денний, це дає підстави вважати, відповідальний директор and привіт, бувай, лікарка, спортсменка are absolutely acceptable from the point of view of language norm but inappropriate from the point of view of a specific sphere of application: the usage of the word combinations of the first group is possible within the domain of official and scientific styles; the usage of the word combinations of the second group is restricted to colloquial style only.
Stylistic norm correlates with literary norm and exists within its boundaries.But it aims not only at the correctness of expression but also at its appropriateness in a certain communicative act and its perfection. The ability of a speaker to express his or her thoughts not only in accordance with the language or literary norm but in accordance with the stylistic norm is the highest stage in a good command of language and is a summit of linguistic culture. Stylistic norm incorporates those language means that possess certain expressive or emotional colouring and which traditionally belong to special types of speech: styles, substyles, genres or types of texts.
- means of figurative description of the character, event, action, condition, circumstances.
У нього очі наче волошки в житі. А над ними з-під драного картузика волосся – білявими житніми колосками. Це – Пилипко (А. Головко).
It was six o'clock on a winter's evening. Thin dingy rain spat and drizzled past the lighted street lamps. The pavement shone long and yellow. In squeaking galoshes, with mackintosh collars up and bowlers and trilbies weepingyoungish men from offices bundled home against the thistly wind (D. Thomas. The followers).
6. the lexical and grammatical means of expressing the image.
E.g. Something seemed to break in Winterborn's head. He felt he was going mad, and sprang to his feet. The line of bullets smashed across his chest like a savage steel whip.
The tenor is 'a burst of machine gun fire', the vehicle is "a smash of a steel whip', the ground is the similarity of two actions, both notions described are concrete nouns, the technique of comparison – the metaphor, lexico-syntactical way of expressing the image – syntactic structure '… like …'.
Each highly developed national language like English or Ukrainian has its system of elaborated imagery. This system is influenced by different social and historic factors, reflects the speaker's outlook, esthetic, philosophic, political concepts that reign in a certain epoch or in a certain social environment.
Images can be descriptive or symbolic. Symbol is a specific type of image. It embodies the most significant and abstract ideas and notions such as peace, eternity, fidelity, victory, life, death, etc.
E.g. And heaved and heaved still unrestingly heaved the black sea as if its vast tides were a conscience (G. Melwil).
В глибоку падь глухої мли.
Сірий вечір запорпав лапи в мох (В. Свідзинський).
Summing up everything that has been said about images and imagery it is important to bear in mind that these notions are the central ones both in stylistic analysis and within the domain of poetic language. Poetic language exists only owing to the existence of images; it is built up of images which are the potential ways of rendering the sense and the powerful means of perfecting the natural living language. To some extend this perfection can be viewed as a deviation from the norms of logic and nature. But these deviations always aim at finding a new, unpredictable mode of expression which in a long run becomes a new norm and favours an nontrivial view of the world. The function of image in this respect is to materialize feelings and experience that could not be verbalized in any other but figurative way.
This deviation creates so called semantic space which the reader should surmount by himself taking aesthetic delight on the way.
Pooh's found the North Pole, said Christopher Robin. Isn't that lovely… They stuck the pole in the ground and Christopher Robin tied a massage on to it: "North Pole discovered by Pooh"(A. Miln).
2. Typical: some utterances that may even violate the norms of the literary language can be meaningful only under certain conditions.
Linguistic context is a set of conditions in which the meaning of language unit is unambiguously realized: e.g. the hand of the clock, a piece for four hands, a farm hand. The main function of the linguistic context is to eliminate the polysemy of the word. Sometimes the linguistic context causes the phenomenon of desemantisation (take offence, take charge, take medicine, take notice).
However in certain contexts the reverse process can be observed – so called hypersemantisation, the enrichment of the language unit meaning, so that the word acquires alongside with its direct meaning a transferred one. The context that extends the meaning of the language unit is called stylistic context.
Once upon a time ago, about last Friday, Winnie the Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders. What does "under the name mean?" asked Christopher Robin. "It means he has the name over the door in gold letters and lived under it".
Stylistic mega context that coincides with the whole literary work. The usage of one and the same word or phrase in the text in various speech situations changes and enriches its meaning. Thus the word gains the status of image or symbol of a certain idea. For example the Ukrainian word земля is polysemantic and is used in all functional styles. But within the domain of stylistic contexts of a great number of works of Ukrainian writers and poets it is transformed into a system of complex images: земля – Батьківщина, Україна, рідний край, домівка, поле, нива, лан, грунт і саме життя.
E.g. Он і Матвій свій чорний лан розорав, - широта, довжінь! Лан! Чотирнадцять десятин. М'язи, нерви, кров. Ні. Його нічого не болить. Це лиш проходить хребтом ціна землі – своєї, лудяної сонцем, литої потом і болючої, як і той хребет...(У. Самчук. Волинь).
The notion of stylistic context is closely connected with the effect of unexpectedness and anticlimax. An unpredicted language unit appearing within the stylistic context against reader's expectations breaks the even flow of the text, attracts reader's attention and becomes foregrounded.
E.g. No sun – no moon!
No recognition of familiar people!
Ні свіжого листя не бачить.
Шепоче над нею розпашиста липа.
І край нього мала ліпнянка.
Як пахнуть акації білі! (В. Свідзинський).
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The stylistic approach to the utterance is not confined to its structure and sense. There is another thing to be taken into account which in a certain type of communication plays an important role. This is the way a word, a phrase or a sentence sounds. The sound of most words taken separately will have little or no aesthetic value. It is in combination with other words that a word may acquire a desired phonetic effect.
The theory of sound symbolism is based on the assumption that separate sounds due to their articulation and acoustic properties may awake certain ideas, perceptions, feelings, images, vague though they may be. According to the investigations conducted on the basis of the Russian language, native speakers tend to relate certain sounds with certain emotions, feelings, and perceptions and identify them as good, bad, quick, slow, beautiful, repelling, etc. E.g. «м» sound is soft and tender as in the words милый, мимоза, «г» - short and quick, «а» - good, strong, active, bright, «ф» - bad, dark, passive, weak. Proceeding from the scale of sound evaluations given by the speakers the computer program analyzed an acoustic form of a set of words irrespective of their meaning. In the result of this experiment the definite semantic characteristics were ascribed to them.
Onomatopoeia is a combination of speech sounds which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature. Combination of speech sounds of this type will inevitably be associated with whatever produces the natural sound.
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before (E. A. Poe).
І згуби, і розгубленості (І. Драч).
Alliteration, like most phonetic expressive means, does not bear any lexical or other meaning unless we agree that a sound meaning exists as such. But even so we may not be able to specify clearly the character of this meaning, and the term will merely suggest that a certain amount of information is contained in the repetition of sounds, as is the case with the repetition of lexical units.
However, certain sounds, if repeated, may produce an effect that can be specified.
For example, the sound [m] is frequently used by Tennyson in the poem The Lotus Eaters to give a somnolent effect.
To muse and brood and live again in memory.
Виють собаки і віщують недолю, і небесні птиці літають над селом і віщують недолю. І реве худоба в ночі і віщує недолю (О. Довженко).
Therefore alliteration is generally regarded as a musical accompaniment of the author's idea, supporting it with some vague emotional atmosphere which each reader interprets for himself. Thus the repetition of the sound [d] in the lines quoted from Poe's poem "The Raven" prompts the feeling of anxiety, fear, horror, anguish or all these feelings simultaneously.
Alliteration is deeply rooted in the traditions of English and Ukrainian folklore. The laws of phonetic arrangement in Anglo-Saxon poetry differed greatly from those of present-day English poetry. In Old English poetry alliteration was one of the basic principles of verse and considered, alongside rhythm, to be its main characteristic. Each stressed meaningful word in a line had to begin with the same sound or combination of sounds.
or in the titles of books: Sense and Sensibility" (Jane Austin); "Pride and Prejudice" (Jane Austin); "The School for Scandal" (Sheridan); "A Book of Phrase and Fable" (Brewer).
Ukrainian alliteration, according to D.Chyzhevsky, has much in common with the Celtic one. The most frequent sounds that create the effect of alliteration in Ukrainian are sonorant and plosive consonants. Alliteration moulds the emotive and imagery pattern of most Ukrainian songs and proverbs and is greatly favoured by modern authors.
Rhyme is the repetition of identical or similar terminal sounds or combinations of words.
Rhyming words are generally placed at a regular distance from each other. In verse they are usually placed at the end of the corresponding lines.
Identity and particularly similarity of sound combinations may be relative. For instance, we distinguish between full rhymes and incomplete rhymes. The full rhyme presupposes identity of the vowel sound and the following consonant sounds in a stressed syllable, as in might, right; needless, heedless. When there is identity of the stressed syllable, including the initial consonant of the second syllable (in polysyllabic words), we have exact or identical rhymes.
Incomplete rhymes present a greater variety. They can be divided into two main groups: vowel rhymes and consonant rhymes. In vowel rhymes the vowels of the syllables in corresponding words are identical, but the consonants may be different, as in flesh– press. Consonant rhymes, on the contrary, show concordance in consonants and disparity in vowels, as in worth–forth; treble–trouble; flung–long.
Modifications in rhyming sometimes go so far as to make one word rhyme with a combination of words; or two or even three words rhyme with a corresponding two or three words, as in upon her honour–won her; bottom–forgot'em–shot him. Such rhymes are called compound or broken. The peculiarity of rhymes of this type is that the combination of words is made to sound like one word. This device inevitably gives a colloquial and sometimes a humorous touch to the utterance.
Compound rhyme may be set against what is called eye-rhyme, where the letters and not sounds are identical, as in love–prove, flood– brood, have–grave. It follows therefore that whereas compound rhyme is perceived in reading aloud, eye-rhyme can only be perceived in the written verse.
Many eye-rhymes are the result of historical changes in the vowel sounds in certain positions. The continuity of English verse manifests itself also in retention of some pairs of what once rhymed words. But on the analogy of these pairs, new eye-rhymes have been coined and the model now functions alongside ear-rhymes.
1. couplets-when the last words of two successive lines are rhymed. This is commonly marked aa.
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers (Shelley).
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary (Poe).
Internal rhyme breaks the line into two distinct parts, at the same time more strongly consolidating the ideas expressed in these two parts.
We are dying, Egypt dying.
For sunlight on the garden(L. Macniece).
Rhythm is a flow, movement, procedure, etc., characterized by basically regular recurrence of elements or features, as beat, or accent, in alternation with opposite or different elements or features. Rhythm has a great significance not only for the music and poetry but for prose as well. The rhythm of prose is based predominantly on the repetition of images or themes, repetition and specific arrangement of the large text elements, parallel constructions, and use of sentences with homogeneous members, etc.
Rhythm is not a mere addition to verse or emotive prose but has its meaning. Rhythm intensifies the emotions. It also specifies emotions. The rhythm can imitate motion or behaviours, it shapes the motion of the thought, it contributes to the general sense of the text.
5. established patterns of rhyming.
The term prosody refers to the study of versification. Most prosody begins with an analysis of metre. Metre (or meter) is derived from the Greek word for "measure." The metre is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse. While there may be some variation or substitution, the number of syllables, and the number of stressed/unstressed syllables remains relatively consistent from line to line.
pyrrhic - Another rare foot (some critics even deny this is a foot), the pyrrhic foot is composed of two unstressed syllables.
octameter - a rare eight footed line. The most common example is Poe's The Raven (see above).
Meter is usually described as either the dominant foot (which foot is used most often to the strongest effect in a work), or the dominant number of feet per line. Generally, though, critics combine the dominant foot and number of feet to describe meter. That is where common terms like iambic pentameter and trochaic tetrameter gain their critical meaning.
Classical verse is called syllabo-tonic – it is characterized by a set number of syllables and certain distribution of stresses. The shortest unit of each metre is called a foot. If we make a careful study of almost any poem, we will find what are called irregularities or modification of its natural metrical pattern, which are: a pyrrhic foot, rhythmical inversion, spondee. These modifications when they occur inevitably influence the semantic structure of a poem. Spondee is always used to add emphasis. Two successive syllables both under heavy stress produce a kind of clash; the juncture between syllables becomes wider making each of them conspicuous. A pyrrhic on the contrary smoothes and quickens the pace of rhythm.
Verse remains classical when it retains its metrical scheme. There are, however, types of verse which are not classical.
Free verse – a combination of various metrical feet in a line. It is characterized by the absence of equiliniarity, stanzas are of varying length, rhyme however is generally retained.
Accented verse – a verse where only a number of stresses is taken into consideration. The number of syllables is not constituent; the lines have neither pattern of metrical feet, nor fixed length. There is no notion of stanza and there is no thyme.
4) suffixes with the meaning of "great number" or hyperbolic meaning which denote the highest degree of a certain quality or impart negative emotional connotations to the word: злодюга, морозище, вітрисько, босовило, хижачся, мишва, татарва.
6 ) synonymic affixation: глибина – глибінь; висота – височінь where the second component of each pair is more expressive and poetic.
Expressiveness on the level of word building in English is not so developed as in Ukrainian. But the question of stylistic potential of English word building means cannot be disregarded. Thus English suffix – ish that means a little degree of a certain quality being added to a noun imparts to it negative evaluative connotations: childish, doggish, honey-moonish, Dickenisish, Mark Twainish. Whereas suffixes –ian, -esque on the contrary embody positive connotations: Shakespearian, Dantesque, etc.The usage of suffixes -ard, -ster, -eer and -monger is the most frequent way of creating negative effect: drunkard, coward, oldster, profiteer, black-marketeer, panic-monger. Suffixes such as -kin, -let, -ling, -y, -ic are used in order to diminish the value of something: lamkin, chicklet, starlet, weakling, daddy, lassie.
Compounding is another highly resourceful means of creating stylistic effect. The source of Ukrainian poetic compounds is folklore: жар-птиця, вовчик-братик, смуток-жаль, молити-просити, стежка-мережка, гуси-лебеді etc. Ukrainian words that are created by means of combining two word stems are considered more poetic and expressive than their one-stem loaned synonyms: пейзаж – краєвид, фонтан – водограй, біографія – життєпис, бібліотека – книгозбірня, космонавти – зореплавці.
In English the compounding aimed at stylistic effect is based on unnatural valency of the components: boy-friend-in-chief (on the analogy of "commander-in-chief"), on syntagmatic connection: Miss what's-her-name, a dog–in-the-monger, on rhyming: helter-skelter, chit-chat, riff-raff, on substantivation of phrasal verbs: a pin-up, a pick-up, etc.
Each sphere of communication is characterized by the employment of words created according to certain word-building patterns. For example the Ukrainian folk discourse is the domain of the prolific usage of most of the above-mentioned word-building patterns, which mirrors the slightest subtleties of human emotions. Due to its rich expressive potential word-building when applied in belle-letters style is an indispensable tool to impact the reader, to evoke his/her aesthetic associations, to amplify the imagery structure of the text. Emotional and expressive word-building patterns are widely used in every day speech and have become the characteristic feature of colloquial style.
Grammatical phenomenon, morphological category or part of speech as an element of language system has no stylistic marking but it possesses certain stylistic potential. Any language unit being placed in an unusual syntactic environment, which changes its standardized grammatical characteristics or the rules of its combinability, can acquire stylistic significance. Thus grammatical transposition is the central notion of morphological stylistics as well as the basic principle on which a stylistic device on the morphological level can be created.
In front of her were the instruments which she had been taught to read…there was a logarithmic amplifier, with faces like speedometers, which would give a measure – she had picked up some jargon – of the "neutron flu".
On the bench was pinned the sheet of graph paper and it was there that she was to plot the course of the experiment. As the heavy water was poured in, the neutron flux would rise: the point on the graph would lead down the spot where the pile had started to run where the chain reaction had begun… (Ch. Snow).
"What a fool Rawdon Crawley has been," Clump replied, "to go and marry a governess. There was something about the girl too."
"Green eyes, fair skin, pretty figure, famous frontal development" Squill remarked. (W. M. Thackeray).
The combination 'frontal development' is terminological in character (used sometimes in anatomy). But being preceded by the word 'famous' used in the sense indicated by the Shorter Oxford Dictionary as "a strong expression of approval (chiefly colloquial); excellent, capital" the whole expression assumes a specific stylistic function due to the fact that 'frontal development' is used both in its terminological aspect and in its logical meaning 'the breast of a woman'.
Квадратний корінь із мрій романтика.
There is an interesting process going on in the development of any language. With the increase of general education and the expansion of technique to satisfy the ever-growing needs and desires of mankind, many words that were once terms have gradually lost their quality as terms and have passed into the common literary or even neutral vocabulary. This process may be called "de-terminization". Such words as 'radio', 'television' and the like have long been in common use and their terminological character is no longer evident. It is also interesting to know that in the Ukrainian language in certain times of its development the following words as писовня (орфографія), мовниця (граматика), складання (синтаксис), голосівка (голосний звук), шелестівка (приголосний звук), речівник (іменник), злучник (сполучник), звучня (фонетика), письмівка (курсив), копальня (шахта), прогонич (болт), квас (кислота), кисняк (оксид), первень (елемент), мірило (масштаб), стіжок (конус) were terms.
Poetic words form a rather insignificant layer of the special literary vocabulary. They are mostly archaic or very rarely used highly literary words which aim at producing an elevated effect, like e.g. Ukrainian words уста, ланіти, перст, браття, возлюбити, недруг, супокій etc.
At the beginning of XIX-th century the classical canons of poetic diction were rejected by some poets-romanticists (G.G. Byron, P.B. Shelley, J. Keats) who strived to enrich the language of poetry using dialectal, archaic elements, new expressive means taken from ancient literature or built on the basis of live, colloquial forms of native language.
In modern English poetic words are not freely built in contrast to neutral, colloquial and common literary words, or terms. There is, however, one means of creating new poetic words still recognized as productive even in present-day English, viz. the use of a contracted form of a word instead of the full one, e. g. drear instead of dreary, scant – scanty. Sometimes the reverse process leads to the birth of a poeticism, e. g. vasty – vast. These two conventional devices are called forth by the requirements of the metre of the poem, to add or remove a syllable, and are generally avoided by modern English poets.
Alongside with the specific word-building models in modern English there are a certain number of words which have constant poetic connotations and are marked in the dictionaries by a special stylistic label – poet.
At verses she was not inept!
Her feet were neatly numbered.
She never slept, she slumbered.
Her tongue found sweetmeats sour.


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Saving lives with solar power in Democratic Republic of Congo
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In remote parts of countries like Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where patients often have to walk long distances to get to a hospital, many health centers struggle with a very basic issue—a lack of access to electricity. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have been coping with this logistical challenge for decades, usually relying on diesel generators. But in DRC´s South Kivu province, MSF teams are finding a cheaper, more effective, and sustainable solution through solar power.
In Kigulube, South Kivu, where villages are scattered across the hills, people get around by motorcycle when they can. Otherwise, they have to walk, often for hours. People in Kigulube also suffer from the fighting between armed groups in the area, making movement from one place to another even more difficult.
"Kigulube hospital is in the heart of a jungle, surrounded by bad roads and paths full of stones," says Miguel Balbastre, an energy specialist with MSF. "People have a hard time getting to any health care post." In a case of emergencies, it can be very difficult for them to reach the nearest city with a fully equipped hospital.
"The key areas for saving lives in a hospital are the operating room and the intensive care unit, and these require a continuous and reliable power supply," says MSF's medical coordinator in DRC, Chiara Domenichini.
Although generators are the most common option when it comes to providing electrical energy in remote areas, they pose a lot of challenges—one is the enormous difficulty of transporting fuel to places that are not always accessible by Land Cruisers or trucks. Transporting diesel by motorcycle or by air is extremely costly and has many logistical difficulties.
Although solar energy has been around for decades, until now, existing power systems and batteries made it unviable in terms of price, capacity, and lifespan for uses such as powering a remote hospital in the hills of South Kivu. Batteries that could have been transported and maintained in such a challenging environment did not have enough storage capacity to guarantee the operation of complex biomedical equipment over long periods.
The availability of new technologies has changed this. "We are using the latest generation lithium batteries that have not even been commercialized on a large scale," says Balbastre, who is part of the team providing Kigulube hospital with solar power.
Before installing a photovoltaic system in Kigulube hospital, MSF opened its first solar-powered hospital in South Kivu a year ago, in the Kusisa area in the mountainous Ziralo region.
The installation at each of the two hospitals consists of 100 solar panels and seven batteries capable of accumulating the necessary energy to run the facilities for two full days. Each of these storage units has a lifespan of at least five years, although it may be two or three times longer. This type of assembly also includes a unit capable of controlling both the charge and the release of energy from each of the batteries, which greatly extends their lifespan. In addition, this control unit is able to detect anomalies and can be operated remotely with an internet connection, so technicians can monitor the system from anywhere in the world. Everything is designed to guarantee a continuous and autonomous energy supply, but in the unlikely event of failure, there is a back-up diesel generator ready to take over and maintain the hospital's power supply at all times.
"This solar-powered facility makes a big difference to the treatment we can offer patients in Kigulube hospital," says Dr. Pacifique Kapimbu, director of the hospital. "Before, we sometimes had to operate in the dark because there was no lighting anywhere in the center. Now, all the rooms will have electricity to ensure adequate medical treatment for patients."
MSF teams transported all of this equipment from Europe to a remote corner of Africa on a journey that sounds like an adventure story. "The panels traveled by boat along the Suez Canal to Tanzania, where they were unloaded at the port of Dar es Salaam," says Balbastre. "From there, they crossed Tanzania and Rwanda by truck until they reached the border town of Goma, in DRC. They crossed Lake Kivu, again by boat, to the city of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province. And from there, they went by helicopter to the Mulungu area. And finally, around 50 porters carried them to the hospital."
The transport and installation of such a system requires a large initial investment. However, taking into account the enormous savings in fuel and in not having to transport fuel by motorcycle or helicopter, the investment is expected to be recouped in just two or three years. After that, the annual cost of running the system is 95 percent less than it would be with generators. Even when MSF may need to redirect its resources to other emergencies, the tens of thousands of inhabitants of Kusisa and Kigulube can continue to have functioning solar-powered hospitals. As the medical coordinator explains, "When MSF is gone, they will not need extra money and will not have the usual difficulties of getting the generators to work…. We will ensure that all the equipment we leave can continue to function and do the work that is needed."
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New Orleans – The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO), in consultation with the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH), has canceled the precautionary boil water advisory for residents and business in the Lower 9th Ward area and portions of the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans after bacteriological tests confirmed that water in the area was safe to drink and use.
Affected customers who have not used their tap water during this precautionary boil water advisory are advised to flush their plumbing by running their faucets for several minutes.
Water samples from across the Lower 9th Ward area and portions of the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans have tested negative for contamination. SWBNO is committed to providing safe drinking water, and this precautionary boil water advisory was issued out of an abundance of caution to ensure the public's safety. We thank the impacted residents and businesses for their patience and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We also commend the fast and professional work of SWBNO employees in addressing this situation and the excellent cooperation of LDH officials during this event.
Boil water advisories are issued out of an abundance of caution whenever water pressure drops below 20 psi. We agree with the recommendations of our regulatory partner, LDH, that it is prudent to issue these advisories. This precautionary boil water advisory was issued on Monday, February 4, 2019 when water pressure levels dropped below 20 psi due to SWBNO crews testing valves in connection to work on the federal Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Program (SELA) project on Florida Avenue.


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Peerless Sindhi poet Shaikh Ayaz comes back to life at week-long festival
Z Ali
HYDERABAD: For the generation that has known Shaikh Ayaz, the peerless 20th century Sindhi poet, through his work, a week-long event provided a meticulous and crispy short-course. Laced with musical and dance performances, the 'Ayaz Festival' at Cafe Khanabadosh drew thousands of Ayaz's fans.
The festival started with a photo exhibition and was followed by reading of Ayaz's poetry, meeting with family and friends, mushaira, documentary, dance by Suhaee Abro and a seminar on different days. The musical nights took place almost every day.
Some people termed it a revival of Ayaz and others felt to have acquainted themselves further with the poet. For others still, the fun and festivity of the musical nights remained bewitching. But they all relished the event, which was first of its kind to be organised for any literary figure in Hyderabad and that too in the settings of the Sindh Museum, its seemly park and an auditorium in its premises.
The recipient of Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Ayaz (1923-1997) has over 50 books including a few of Urdu poetry, with the predominant themes of revolution and romance in all, to his credit. He died on December 28, 1997, and was laid to rest near the shrine of Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, who is considered the only Sindhi poet to be ranked above Ayaz.
During the seminar, poet Fehmida Riaz called both Ayaz and Faiz Ahmed Faiz as geniuses. "Faiz's poetry related the feeling of love for political struggle and Ayaz's depicts desires of the people as well as the political movements," she observed.
She underlined the importance of translating his poetry in Urdu. "There is a political as well as literary need to do this," she said. "It will also give the Urdu readers an opportunity to read a top-notch poetry whose likes are difficult to find these days. I seem to descend in the state of ecstasy whenever I read his poetry."
Poets Adal Soomro, Shabnum Baloch, former Sindhi Language Authority chairperson Dr Fahmida Hussain, Moonis Ayaz, director Academy of letters Noor Ahmed Janjhi and columnist Arbab Naek Mohammad read papers on Ayaz.
A collection of Ayaz's photos, mostly taken by photographer Khuda Bux Abro, were put on display on the first day of the festival. His handshake with Ayub Khan in which the latter is bowing down while thanking Ayaz for translating Bhitai's poetry in Urdu drew the interest of many. The poet, in other pictures, is also seen with his contemporaries including Jeeji Zarina Baloch, Moulana Ghulam Muhammad Garami, Sobho Gianchandani and Jamal Rind, Pir Hassamuddin Shah Rashdi. Dr Ghulam Ali Allana and some Indian poets.
During the mushaira, poets Ali Zahid, Noor Chakrani, Gulbadan Javed, Imtiaz Danish, Naseem Baloch, Attiya Dawood, Taj Joyo, Bakshan Mehranvi, Wahid Kandhro, Rubina Abro, Mushtaq Phul, Aziz Solangi, Haseena Saand, Khalil Kunbhar and several others recited their own and Ayaz's poetry.
The event was conceived by Amar Sindhu, who teaches at Sindh University and owns Cafe Khanabadosh. "I have been planning for years to arrange such a festival for Ayaz but never got an opportunity," she said. The cafe, which is also known as the writer's cafe, opened in May this year, in a hall of a park in the premises of Sindh Museum.
Sindhu's team included Dr Arfana Mallah, Izhar Soomro, Ali Aakash and Haseen Musarat, among others. According to Mallah, commissioner Hyderabad Syed Asif Hyder Shah, the culture department, Radio Pakistan, Sindhi Language Authority and donations from some NGOs helped them pay for the arrangements.
As with many other people of his corps, Ayaz also had contradictions to his known personality. From conservatism at home to having been declared a traitor first by the state and then by the Sindhi nationalists, his troublesome second marriage also reflects some unwelcome aspects. But for his fans, his poetry is all that dominates their interest in Ayaz.
"Baba would not allow a male servant over the age of 12 to work at home [in Sukkur]," Yasmeen Muzaffar, a daughter from his first wife, recollected while responding to the moderator Dr Arfana Mallah's query. "The men not related to our family were also not allowed to interact with us."
Although most of her remembrance shed light on splendid dispositions in her father's character, this revelation startled many among the audience.
Moonis Ayaz, a famous poet himself and son of Ayaz's second but divorced wife Iqbal Begum, waxed eulogistic but he too was ensnared by the importunate questions, which made him revelatory. "We had a love-and-hate relationship after he divorced our mother," he disclosed. "His refusal to financially support my medical studies also hurt me because he paid for the MBBS of my step sister." However, he added, these feelings subsided when he returned after completing his studies from the US in 1990s. Ayaz had five children from first wife, with whom he lived till his death, and three from the second. According to Moonis, Ayaz expressed his guilt about divorce in person but did not mention that episode in his autobiography.
The poet's conservatism and following of traditional values prevalent in the upper Sindh region are manifest by the divorce. Adal Soomro, a friend of Ayaz, divulged that the frequent visits of Iqbal's male relatives became the reason for their separation.
Moonis also remembered being called a son of 'India's agent' during the 1965 war when Ayaz wrote a famous couplet that discouraged war. But over the next decade, perceptions began to change after Ayaz accepted Zulfiqar Bhutto's offer for the post of Sindh University vice-chancellor. As he continued in that post after Bhutto's hanging and during Ziaul Haq's regime, the Sindhi nationalists who once revered him as a hero turned into his critical opponents.
"In 1994, GM Syed [the iconic nationalist leader] was arrested. When Yousuf Shaheen [a journalist and a former senator] and I visited him in the jail hospital [in Karachi] he regretted that Ayaz and he haven't met for last 16 years," recalled Dastgir Bhatti, a journalist and colleague of Ayaz in Sindhi daily Barsat, which the poet had joined as the editor.
"The next day Shaheen took Ayaz for a meeting with Syed and the two spent one and a half hour alone. When the meeting ended, they appeared to have put the past behind."
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Home Breaking News UK inflation hits a 30-year high of 6.2% as Sunak readies response.
UK inflation hits a 30-year high of 6.2% as Sunak readies response.
ERIKA JOHNSON
LONDON UK: British inflation shot up faster than expected last month to hit a new 30-year high. Worsening a historic squeeze on household finances that finance minister Rishi Sunak is under pressure to ease in a budget update.
The Office for National Statistics said consumer prices rose by 6.2% in February after a 5.5% rise in January, its highest rate since March 1992.
The median forecast in a Reuters poll of economists had pointed to a reading of 5.9% and only three of the 39 respondents had expected such a strong reading.
The ONS highlighted household energy bills – up almost 25% on a year ago. And petrol as the biggest drivers of February's price jump.
In a blow to poorer households, the ONS said food prices were rising across the board. Unlike in normal times when some prices typically go up and others fall.
Sunak will aim to show that he is helping Britons through the worst cost-of-living squeeze in decades.
Yael Selfin, the chief economist at KPMG UK, said the figures added pressure on the Bank of England to keep on raising interest rates. But she said it was still likely that price growth would peak before long.
"Provided inflation expectations can be managed and global commodity prices stabilize by next year. We should see inflation returning to the Bank of England's 2% target by mid-2024," Selfin said.
"This may require fewer rate rises than markets currently anticipate."
The ONS said consumer prices rose by 0.8% in month-on-month terms, marking the biggest February rise since 2009.
Last week, the BoE raised its forecast for inflation to peak above 8% more than four times its target during the April-June period. Regulated household energy bills are due to jump by more than half next month.
Inflation pressure ahead continued to build as manufacturers increased their prices by 10.1%. The biggest annual rise since September 2008 although it was in line with the median Reuters poll forecast.
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Twitter revealed on Thursday that over the last six months it's suspended 235,000 accounts for promoting extremism and terror.
Earlier this year, the microblog announced the suspension of more than 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 for violating its longtime prohibition on violent threats and the promotion of terrorism and shared the steps it's taking as a company to combat this content.
This brings the overall number of suspensions to 360,000 since the middle of 2015.
Recently, Twitter suspended the account of the Niger Delta Avengers, a terrorist group operating in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.