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Lloyd junior praises dad
GRAHAM Lloyd said he knew dad David would end up being the star of the show on Sunday.
HAVE A GO . . David Lloyd takes a sweep on Sunday
Despite Lloyd junior top scoring with 42 in their vital victory at Lowerhouse to clinch the championship on the final day, it was Lloyd senior who got the winning runs and grabbed the headlines.
"It was set up for him really. I was worried about his running between the wicket though - I knew we wouldn't get quick singles!" said Graham.
"But he has been keeping fit and, with all his experience ,I knew he could do it for us although it was nerve-racking.
"It was hard as the Haslingden score had come through and we knew if we won, we had won the league and, to be honest, it was touch and go that we would win at Lowerhouse.
"There were a couple of important fours and Paul Carroll's six was the key and we fought and battled and came out on top."
Just two weeks ago, Haslingden were 24 points clear but three defeats in their last three matches meant Graham Knowles' side threw it away.
"Two weeks ago no one would have given us a chance but it's hard to be at the top for so long because you are always looking behind you and the nerves can get to you, whoever you are," said Lloyd junior.
"We have had to put a good run together and I think we have won six or seven on the bounce. We have rode our luck at times but we have come out on top. It's a great team performance and it's great for the club and I am delighted.
"It is a pleasure to play for Accrington and I look forward to Saturdays and Sundays coming round. We all get on well together, we socialise together and we might not be the best team but we have got good players and we are hard to beat.
"Stuart Crabtree is one of the best young players in the league, Graeme Sneddon is a good young player and we have a balanced bowling team and good fielding and it makes us hard to beat.
"At the start of the season, I thought we would be in the top three and, if we had a bit of luck, we could win it. We have had that bit of luck."
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It's only invasive if you let it be. Either put your information on there or don't, it's up to you. No one is forcing you to do or reveal anything.
SETTINGS, people. I've been on facebook for five years and I've gotten ONE spam friend requests and NO random chat requests or anything. That's because I accessed the settings and made them as private as possible. I've got 500 some friends–all people I know–and it's a fun way to keep in touch with old friends and various relatives.
That said, these new features are kind of wearing me out. Just stop trying to change already, facebook. Leave it as it is.
I may delete my account soon. Privacy for me is a big issue.
you forgot one: facebook is selling your private personal data to third parties and so you will see your private profile info appearing on other sites. Yep, its all there in the new user agreement. No opt-out is available.
I don't mind Facebook....it helps when you now how to use it! I don't get many request at all from people I don't know, and if I get a request from someone I dislike I have no problem saying NO...lol. If your settings are set-up in way you prefer most of the problems I am reading can be avoided fairly easy.
I use facebook for the games only, I change my preferences not to follow me or allow things I don't want on it. I also don't use my real name and hae set up email just for facebook only where I don't get other email etc. when they asked for my email address password, I gave it then went to email and changed it again. I just don't allow the internet to be invasive, there are ways I can control it so I do. And no I didn't use my real name or email here either, you could say this site is invasive too!
Kim (above) in regards to be invisible. Click on the chat button, there is an option button, click on that, and then there is a button to push to go offline. You don't go offline, but you appear to NOT be onine. And to reappear? Just click on chat again. it keeps your setting too!
I would imagine that any of these features you don't like will give you the option of turning them on or off. It shouldn't be too much invasion of privacy if you can just say no to GPS tracking or whatever else you don't like.
Hola Amigos, Facebook mi mejor amigo!!!
No one under the age of 18 should be on facebook period. They don't have to charge someone to be on it but find a way to keep minors off of it for their own safety and others. There are some adults who have no business being on it either until they have been educated about the dangers of social networking.
What will they announce today?
They add a 250X200 pixel graphic change. Then they will announce they have changed the FaceBook layout. For which everyone knows the layout is crap. Even after the 250X200 pixel graphic change it's much to do about nothing.
While I understand Facebook's desire to remain "relevant" to its users, it is evident that it has been doing so without much thought put into creating an easier and more secure experience for its users.
Much like Google's premature launch of "Buzz", which has been getting all sorts of unwanted attention for poor privacy controls, Facebook has made its privacy settings obscure, difficult for most users to figure out, and worse...does a poor job of clearly educating customers about just how much of their personal information becomes available to the public via third party apps, etc.
New features are nice...however, if you're designing them to attract new users, beware that you risk alienating your existing user base in the process.
There is more drama on this comment page than on facebook. Idiots.
I do not like the fact that everyone can see my friends list. I am not okay with that.
I started using Facebook while in College in it's early years. This is when it was only available to College students. It was great at the time as it allowed me to keep in touch with High School friends, post a quick note to a friend in College, and even setup study groups through Facebook. It was out of the Myspace public realm and I still had a sense of privacy.
Now with everyone able to use Facebook and the Facebook pressure to accept friend request from every person you've ever said hello to it has become more of a liability, especially now that I'm a working professional. The privacy features still need work, for now I shut down half of my Facebook page keeping only my info up. It is too dangerous to do so otherwise, especially with the people you have on your friends who have not yet grown up and still post compromising pictures and dumb wall posts on your page.
Great. Another feature to post to for nobody to read. Whatever sells advertising, I suppose. Yawn.
I had to laugh at all of these comments as I quickly skimmed through them. It is truly amazing what people find to whine about.
Some whine about long lost people finding them that they don't want to be found by. It's a social networking site. Duh. That's what its for. Here's your sign.
Some whine about getting notified about all sorts of game related crap. There is a "Hide Application" button. Duh. Use it. Here's your sign.
Some whine about there being too much private information on the site accessable to all. Duh. Why did you put it up there then? Here's your sign.
Some whine about peoples lack of grammer, punctuation, spelling, etc. While I agree with you in principle (I absolutely hate Instant messaging "textspeak" as I call it – shorthand typing) getting all in a lather about it is silly. Duh. There is a "hide" button. Use it on the worst offenders and will be right in your grammatically correct world again. Here's your sign too.
Sure I hate some stuff about Facebook. Some parts I am indifferent to and others I like a lot. I used to whine a lot too until I got tired of giving myself "I am an idiot" signs and started tailoring my Facebook settings to what I wanted, not what Facebook wanted. I have yet to get a virus, unwanted contacts, blah blah blah... I therefore have plenty of signs left for anyone who would rather complain because it is easier than tweaking facebook settings or contacting facebook with suggested improvements.
Kim you can hide yourself from chat. Research it!
Again people need to take the time and set their preferences.
Really!!!??? Just use it for what it is intened and you will be fine. I don't play any of the games or enter any of the contests that you would have to put too much info out there. I just connect with friends and family. I also use it to keep in touch with my college kid. I guess alittle common sense goes a long ways on this one.
OMG, if you don't like it, DON'T USE IT. Simple right??? Geez go complain about something worth complaining about, the economy, the war, the jobless rate, the homeless, the weather. Don't waste your time on something you can simply choose to avoid. WOW, people need hobbies or something if all they have to do in a day is go online and complain about something they don't even like.
Facebook is just a tool...like any other tool. It's up to you how you use it. That's why you have preferences and privacy settings. No one is forcing you to open your profile to everyone in the world and tell them where you are located.
Depending on your needs, personality, etc. you allow games, people or other applications to appear in your FB page.
It seems to me that if I'm given a knive...I will use it to cut stuff... not to stab people, or if I'm given a match, I would most certainly light my candles and not burn houses. In other words.....The tool is there...is up to you how you use it.
Great – tell everyone where you are so that your stalker can stalk you even more and the person that has been eyeing your house can rob you.
While we're at it, let's continue to make FB easier so that people can continue to use it while driving; just like the kid who killed my friend's father was doing. Updating his FB status while driving while simultaneously hitting my friend's father who was minding his own business on the side of the road.
FB is a narcissistic means of communication. Like we care that you just had a grilled cheese sandwhich for lunch or that your kid just went potty for the first time. And you need to know that posting 600 pictures of your kid is a bit much – they're not as cute as you think they are. Really...is this what our society has become?
FB is not a means of "catching up with friends." Let's be honest, it's about finding out who wound up rich, poor, fat, skinny, bald, etc. – after High School.
I'd like a "Who Cares!" button for people's silly updates.
I say, if you do not like the changes with Facebook, then don't use it. It's a free service! If they charged, then I'd understand all the comotion. But come on people. It's free. So move on if u don't like it.
hey there john, did you want facebook to say they're closing or there closing?
wheres the dislike button anyways?
Besides the security implications of facebook collecting and selling where you've been, why would you want to broadcast where you are physically. That would be a good source for finding out who is not home. I think I will always tell all my "friends" that I'm home cleaning my guns no matter where I am or what I'm doing.
Ok, I admit it, A lot of my facebook "friends" are not really my friends. Oh sure I went to school with them, worked with them, or mabey I served in the military with them, but their information was private and becoming their friend was the only way to get that info. LOL. I was just nosy.
Watch out, JustWondering, you can find yourself blocked for good from CNN comments and you won't even know why!!
The same people complaining on here or the same ones that jump on and update their status with some narcissistic message hoping for replies. Our society is made up of sad cynics.
Heck! I was hoping they were going to announce they'd found a solution to non-related people hacking their way into people's facebook pages!
That's what we REALLY want. If we had some comfort that only our FRIENDS could get on our pages, that would be cool!
I've reported a spammer 73 times now, and he's still sending me messages on Facebook.
Every time Facebook changes their site, they make things worse. I still want to go back to the old design.
A "Dislike" button is too negative. Just write "dislike" in the comment field; it's funnier anyway.
And quit complaining. Facebook is free. Learn how to use it and filter what you don't want to see or be seen. Often the people who harp about privacy are really people who don't want it known they have few friends.
Facebook puts way too much responsibility in the hands of children who are not ready to face it. Its not about parents allowing their children acces or not, computers are available in most libraries and Facebook has no parental controls in place to restrict children registering and creating a profile. We have laws which prevent kids from buying tobacco, alcohol and other things. We need controls around facebook. Its responsible as a medium which has enabled mass orchestrated bullying events, character assassination and ultimately suicides. Wake up people.
I've been on facebook since 2004 and have been through all the changes, but now my grandma is on there and that's pretty sweet, because now she feels more connected to my life and I don't feel so bad about being too busy to write and call frequently.
FB searches your address book for friend suggestions based on the email address you provide to facebook. For example, if your primary email account is with Comcast and that account's address book contains all your contacts, then friend suggestions will be made for everyone in your address book. If you don't want all the people in your address book (relatives, associates & the like) to find you then list a yahoo or gmail email address on FB that does not have all your contacts in the address book. I have a yahoo email address just for facebook and I have no email addresses in the address book. Once I made this change I stopped getting friend suggestions I did not want.
Wow, why is everyone so gloomy today? Facebook v29.0? If you had a real life you wouldn't be complaining about it. Now someone is going to hit me back and tell me to shut it or something.I read these comments and the general consensus is everyone, at least most everyone likes to comment negatively. I don't really care about Facebook and I hate the dumb games everyone plays, It's a pretty good tool for catching up on what my friends and family are up to. Even if it is a rope and a lead pipe in mafia wars. God save Andy Rooney is all I can say. If he would leave a comment here, that would be something to read.
I posted pictures of a whitewater rafting trip and within one week all of the ads along the side were rafting related. I joined no clubs, fanned nothing in regards to rafting.
Big brother is most definitely watching...that said....I'm not signing off! I just don't put anything out there I wouldn't want all to see anyway!
@redhead: I find that pretty creepy too. But I don't even use fb all that often and that kind of thing you described (ads related to something you've posted or searches you've done) happens to me online all the time. You're not going to get rid of Big Brother that easily!
Why is so many people still whining about a stupid 'dislike' button.
A 'dislike' button is completely useless. Why do you need one? There's absolutely no reason to add one. If you don't like something, just move on to the next update and get over it.
For every friend request, you get one you don't want Then simply don't friend them. And you CAN adjust your privacy settings. My account is so private you can't see anything about me unless I friend you, and I'm not friending you unless I actually consider you a friend in REAL LIFE. It's that easy, folks.
It seems silly for facebook to remove fans on their pages. We used to use the fan site to make updates and announcements and get more community involvement. I'm wondering if people will remain as active if they're no longer fans and instead just people who like the site.
Always amusing to read comments about Facebook...ANY comments. I signed up in January....I was told I'd pretty much have to sign up there if I wanted to see photos or get updated about what's going on with certain family members. Yeah, I caught up with a few friends from high school – that was a plus, at first. But then I never really heard much from my family, and there wasn't much action on my wall from the old high school friends....so I figured it was cool to say "Hi, thought about you over the years", but that may have been all the more there was to say. The FB novelty died off and I discovered that some things were better left in the past.
I think it's sad that people have to resort to using a website just to stay in touch with family and friends. After not getting much interaction from the people on my friends list, I decided I just didn't "get it"....you know, the whole FB thing. So I deactivated my account a few weeks ago...waited the 14 days for my account to be permanently deleted...and you know what? Life goes on. I think it's sad that people have to resort to using a website just to stay in touch with family and friends. If you can take the time to surf Facebook and post comments on everyone's walls, then you can take the time to send me an email with some photos attached, or even send a card via snail mail. If you don't have the time to do that, or just don't feel like it, well guess what? I don't feel like taking the time to publicly expose my personal info on a website to make it easier for you. Facebook is a huge toy for many of the people I've seen on there.....they just want to play games and post cutesy messages on each other's walls. Sorry, but I have my substantial things I'd like to do with my time.
agreed. one time i google searched some info on muscle milk and all of a sudden all my ads in facebook pertained to fitness.
to all you people who think you private information is safe just b/c Facebook give you the option to click on a button are kidding yourselves. to all of you who say you have nothing to hide?....well, you just lead boring drama-free lives.
FB needs to stop making so many changes. They also need to make it user friendly. We should be able to search for friends in certain areas, not the whole world.
To the person who hates seeing the games and stuff people play and post, on that post, go to the right side and hit HIDE and then HIDE "GAME NAME" and you won't see them anymore.
Facebook is awesome! I visit facebook everyday. I dont think it is way to invasive. Maybe it might come abit invasive. But right now it is fine. As long as you know how to act on facebook and use it the right way it should be fine.
RACHEL: How do you remove/opt out yourself from Google searches?
I am personally against the GPS "Place" option, that is I hope it will be an option anyway. I travel for work, I'd rather people not know where I am 24/7. Facebook will most likely have an option to not show the "Place", at least one can only hope. I want to be found for family & real life friends, so hiding completely is not really an option.
I guess the jist of it is, if you don't like Facebook, then leave. I may do that if I feel my privacy is in any way, shape or form compromised.
"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the new tools will allow users to see personalized versions of other websites they visit. It'll be based on the things they have shared on their Facebook profiles, such as their friends, bands they like or news stories they have liked."
Am I the only person that puts false information into the internet? Or leave some stuff out?
I think geolocation sharing needs to be treated like a KING.. as in it has to know the difference between its PUBLIC face and a PRIVATE face... because when the spectacle of billboarding your location is over, really it comes down to SAFETY right?
You use EchoEcho (the only permission based location app) to share exact time and place with your family, the guy you're supposed to meet for a drink because your mom said he was new to town and is a friend of her cousin and he MIGHT be cute etc..
To think that there is one mentality for location sharing is ignorant. FB is for gleeful careless and FUN postings but when you want to talk about REAL friends and family, you have to go to something like Echoecho.
Amen to SS's comments. I don't give a flying f- about those stupid games and it's like trying to kill a swarm of gnats with a flyswatter using the Ignore feature. For every one I kill, there are 3 more.
Who wants to use Facebook as it is owned by the Russians and Linkedin is owned by Chinese! It is all a matter of collecting information on us, where we are, what we are doing and who we know.
Hello, Everyone needs to get up with the times. If you dont like the new changes then.... dont use facebook. Facebook is an awesome tool within society today. I am a highschool student and all my friends facebook all day ( When we have service ) There are many things to see and do on Facebook.... How can you not like it ?
I hope Facebook doesn't go away. It is unfortunate that it seems to be drifting away from its intended purpose. I moved away from my friends and family in another state and we love to use it to stay in touch, view pictures, etc. I hope it doesn't become just another trend that dies, I'd hate to see it go because it is easy to use and really works for what we use it for. Sometimes our lives are busy and it is easy to get on FB and quick see what is happening in everyone's life that week, I may catch up with them better through calls or emails when I am less busy the next week. Aren't there other people out there that just use it as another tool to stay in touch? Why does there have to be all the 'fluff'?
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HomeBosniaElizabeth of Bosnia – A Queen in a tough situation (Part one)
Elizabeth of Bosnia – A Queen in a tough situation (Part one)
January 9, 2018 CaraBeth Bosnia, Elizabeth of Bosnia, Hungary, Jadwiga Queen of Poland, Mary Queen of Hungary, The Royal Women 1
Małgorzata Buczkowska as Queen Elisabeth of Bosnia in Korona królów (2018)(Screenshot/Fair Use)
With the formidable Elizabeth of Poland as her mother-in-law, Elizabeth of Bosnia was bound to pick up some of her traits as a powerful Queen Mother. But the younger Elizabeth's circumstances as a widowed queen were more difficult; when Elizabeth of Poland was widowed, her capable son was the new king. As for Elizabeth of Bosnia, she was left with two daughters, aged eleven and nine when her husband died, as well as two kingdoms. With an under-aged monarch ascending the throne, especially a girl, there were bound to be rebellions and opposition. Hungary and Poland never had a female ruler before, and Elizabeth had to be tough to defend her daughters' rights.
Elizabeth of Bosnia, also known as Elizabeth Kotromanic, was born between 1335 and 1340, to Stephen II Kotromanic, Ban of Bosnia, and Elizabeth of Kuyavia, who was from the Piasts, Poland's most powerful family at the time. In Elizabeth's time, Bosnia was under the rule of the Hungarian king, as was the neighbouring kingdom of Croatia. In 1350, the Serbian Emperor wanted Elizabeth to marry his son. Stephen, however, turned this down, and eventually sent her to the Hungarian court, at the request of the Queen Mother. The king of Hungary, Louis I, had lost his first wife, Margaret of Bohemia to the plague in 1349 before they could have any children. He was looking for a new wife, and Elizabeth seemed like a good choice, she came from one of the most powerful families in the Balkans, somewhere Louis had territorial interests, and just like Louis, her mother came from the Piast dynasty. Louis and Elizabeth were married on 20 June 1353. Her father died later that year, and his nephew, Tvrtko became the new ban of Bosnia.
Overshadowed Queen
Not much is known about Elizabeth's first decade as queen. She was overshadowed by her mother-in-law, Elizabeth of Poland, and appears to have been part of her court. We do not know if the younger Elizabeth was content with this or not. Meanwhile, Louis would often be in power struggles with her cousin Tvrtko, over Elizabeth's dowry. Tvrtko eventually agreed to give Hum in Bosnia to Louis and Elizabeth in 1357.
Elizabeth's biggest struggle during these years must have been the concern for providing heirs. She and Louis would remain childless for over a decade. Some historians suggest that Elizabeth had a daughter born in 1365 who died the next year. The existence of this daughter is disputed. It wasn't until around 1370 when Elizabeth had her first proven child, a daughter named Catherine. Two more daughters, Mary and Jadwiga followed soon afterwards. It was also in 1370, when Louis' uncle, King Casimir III of Poland died, making Louis the new king of Poland. This made Elizabeth the queen consort of Poland, but she never visited the country. Louis chose to remain in Hungary, and his mother went to govern her native country. With the older queen gone, Elizabeth was no longer living in her mother-in-law's shadow and slowly started to play a more prominent position at court. She seems to have been well-educated, and probably wanted the same for her daughters. Elizabeth is known to have written a book for her daughters' education, but unfortunately, no copies have survived.
By 1374, it was accepted that at least one of Elizabeth and Louis' daughters would rule in Hungary and Poland someday. This made the Hungarian princesses highly desirable brides for Europe's most powerful royal families. The Holy Roman Empire, which bordered Hungary was currently ruled by Emperor Charles IV, of the house of Luxembourg, who was also king of Bohemia. His second son Sigismund was betrothed to the second daughter Mary in 1373. Louis may have chosen the second daughter for this match because he did not want his kingdoms to fall under the influence of the powerful house of Luxembourg. In 1374, the eldest, Catherine, was betrothed to Louis de Touraine, the second son of King Charles V of France. Catherine and Louis were expected to one day rule both Hungary and Poland. In 1378, the youngest, Jadwiga, was betrothed to William, the eldest son Leopold III, Duke of Austria. He was from the house of Habsburg, a rival dynasty of the Luxembourgs.
It was common in the Middle Ages for queens to contribute to shrines of popular saints. Elizabeth herself ordered the commission of the Chest of St. Simeon in 1377. This chest survives to this day, and can still be seen in the Church of St. Simeon in Zadar, Croatia. Elizabeth appears on several scenes on the chest, and one of these scenes seems to depict a queen stealing a relic from St. Simeon's body. This has given rise to a legend that Elizabeth stole a finger of the saint, was divinely punished and donated the chest for penance. It is more likely that she donated the chest as a sign of her patronage, for Zadar was a town that she had strong ties with.
Tragedy struck Elizabeth's family near the end of 1378 when her eldest daughter Catherine died. We do not know what she died of, but it appears to have been unexpected. Louis now acknowledged Mary and Sigismund as his successors. It was decided that Mary would succeed him in Poland, but his succession in Hungary was less certain. Some historians think that Louis planned on having Jadwiga succeed him in Hungary, but it is more likely that he did not want to split up his empire, and have Mary inherit both Hungary and Poland.
The Hungarian Succession
King Louis died on 11 September 1382. Since Mary and Sigismund were only eleven and fourteen, respectively, Elizabeth was now regent of Hungary. She appears to have awaited this chance for some time, but she still did not have much political experience. Her most powerful and trusted adviser was Nicholas Garay, who held the title Palatine of Hungary. There were rumours that Garay was her lover, but it was common to slander a woman in power by having her take a lover around the time of her husband's death, so Elizabeth was likely a victim to this. Lover or not, Garay was the most powerful man in the kingdom during Elizabeth's regency.
A week after Louis' death, Mary was crowned "King of Hungary". Her title showed that she was a ruler in her own right, for "queen" was only for a consort. Sigismund was absent from Hungary at the coronation, and another reason for Mary's title could have been a way to prevent Sigismund from being crowned king. Elizabeth loathed Sigismund, and would later try to break his engagement to Mary. Even though she was crowned as "King", Mary was referred to as "Queen" in her charters.
Elizabeth's regency was troubled from the start. Many of the Hungarian and Croatian nobles were not accepting of female rule and found this situation a perfect chance to revolt. The first to revolt against Elizabeth and Mary was lead by John of Palizna, a Croatian noble, in 1383. He was supported by Elizabeth's cousin, Tvrtko, who had been King of Bosnia since 1377. Eventually, the queens' army was able to defeat them, but peace would not last for long.
The events of Elizabeth's regency are too complicated to explore in one article. Read part two here.
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I love reading and writing about the royals of medieval Europe- especially the women. My interest was first started by the Plantagenet dynasty, but I decided to dive deeper, and discovered that there were many more fascinating royal dynasties in medieval Europe. Other dynasties I like reading and writing about are; the Capets, and their Angevin branch in Naples and Hungary, the Luxembourgs, the early Hapsburgs, the Arpads, the Piasts, the Premyslids and many more!
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Love Elizabeth of Bosnia. Even after her husbands death and lots of opposition to females holding power she got not one but Two daughters to the throne. She didnt give up and powered through to the end. And her daughter Mary avenged her death by getting the one responsable for her murder put to death. And even though her daughters died before creating heirs her younger daughter Jadwiga before she died was champion for the poor weak and sick and built hospitals and universities and had scriptures translated to polish and much more.

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UFV president to retire
University will pay headhunting firm $54,000 to find suitable candidates to replace Mark Evered when he retires in 2017.
UFV president Mark Evered
The University of the Fraser Valley's president is retiring – but not right away.
Dr. Mark Evered, who has served in the university's top position since July 1, 2009, announced his intention to retire in 2017 earlier this year. UFV has already begun the search for his replacement and has hired a headhunting firm to find suitable candidates.
The university will pay Boydon Global Executive Search around $54,000 over 18 months plus expenses, according to university spokesperson Dave Pinton.
"We have to be sure we get the right leader with the right kind of experience," he said. "It's to ensure we select the most qualified candidate. It's a search that goes across Canada for candidates with excellent leadership ability and relevant experience."
Pinton said the next president will set the tone for the university's future for years to come and oversee an organization with 1,500 employees and 17,000 students.
A 13-member search committee has also been convened and has been soliciting input from UFV faculty, students and other community members.
The president is the top-earner at UFV. Last year, Evered's salary was $187,125, and his total compensation was $217,268 including benefits, pension, vacation and housing allowance.
Prior to coming to UFV, Evered – who was not available for an interview – was provost and vice-president academic at Thompson Rivers University. He also previously served as associate vice-president academic at the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to entering administration, Evered, who has a PhD in physiology, held research and academic positions at a range of prominent universities.
Evered is expected to retire at the end of June in 2017.
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//  NSTextView+ClickableLinks.m
//  Jabber
//
//  Created by David Chisnall on 24/05/2007.
//  Copyright 2007 __MyCompanyName__. All rights reserved.
//

#import "NSTextView+ClickableLinks.h"

#ifdef GNUSTEP
#define NSCursorAttributeName @"NSCursorAttributeName"
#endif

@implementation NSTextView (ClickableLinks)
- (void)makeLinksClickable
{
	NSTextStorage* textStorage = [self textStorage];
	NSString* string = [textStorage string];
	unsigned int length = [string length];
	NSRange searchRange = NSMakeRange(0, length);
	NSRange foundRange;
	NSCharacterSet * whitespace = [NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet];

	[textStorage beginEditing];
	do
	{
		/* Find the protocol://path separator. */
		foundRange=[string rangeOfString:@"://" options:0 range:searchRange];

		/* If there was a URL */
		if (foundRange.length > 0)
		{
			NSRange startOfURLRange, endOfURLRange;
			/* Search backwards to find the start of the URL */
			searchRange.location = 0;
			searchRange.length = foundRange.location;
			startOfURLRange = [string rangeOfCharacterFromSet:whitespace
													  options:NSBackwardsSearch
														range:searchRange];
			if(startOfURLRange.length == 0)
			{
				startOfURLRange.location = 0;
			}
			else
			{
				startOfURLRange.location++;
			}
			/* Assume the URL ends with whitespace */
			searchRange.location = foundRange.location + 3;
			searchRange.length = length - searchRange.location;

			endOfURLRange = [string rangeOfCharacterFromSet:whitespace
													options:0
													  range:searchRange];
			if (endOfURLRange.length == 0)
			{
				endOfURLRange.location = length;
			}

			/* Set foundRange to the URL range */
			foundRange.location = startOfURLRange.location;
			foundRange.length = endOfURLRange.location-foundRange.location;

			/* Range starting after the link */
			NSRange afterLink;
			afterLink.location = foundRange.location + foundRange.length;
			afterLink.length = 0;

			/* Don't do anything for tiny things that look like links. */
			if(foundRange.length > 4)
			{
				NSString * urlString = [string substringWithRange:foundRange];
				/* Trim brackets */
				if([urlString characterAtIndex:0] == '('
						&&
					[urlString characterAtIndex:[urlString length]-1] == ')')
				{
					urlString = [urlString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(1,[urlString length] -2)];
				}
				/* Make a URL from the link text */
				NSURL * url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];

				NSDictionary * linkAttributes= [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
					url, NSLinkAttributeName,
					[NSNumber numberWithInt:NSSingleUnderlineStyle], NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName,
					[NSCursor pointingHandCursor],NSCursorAttributeName,
					[NSColor blueColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName,
					nil];

				/* Clickify the link */
				[textStorage addAttributes:linkAttributes range:foundRange];

				/* Reset attributes for after the link */
				[textStorage removeAttribute:NSLinkAttributeName range:afterLink];
				[textStorage removeAttribute:NSCursorAttributeName range:afterLink];
				[textStorage removeAttribute:NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName range:afterLink];
				[textStorage removeAttribute:NSForegroundColorAttributeName range:afterLink];
			}

			/* Search after the end of the link */
			searchRange.location = afterLink.location;
			searchRange.length = length - searchRange.location;
		}

	} while (foundRange.length!=0); //repeat the do block until it no longer finds anything

	[textStorage endEditing];
}
@end

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History of mankind is not a series of secular happenings without any shape or pattern; it is a meaningful process designed to restore balance in the otherwise chaotic world. And the history of India has for its landmarks not wars and emperors but saints and scriptures.
Nations have a history as well as geography. They grow not by the sun and stars, the wind and the rain but by the creative Spirits who by precept and practice work toward the establishment of universal brotherhood of man, overcoming the artificial barriers of caste, creed or color.
Today, we are living in the most crucial period of modern civilization when a reign of terror has been let loose by self-appointed and fundamentalist custodians of religion. One cannot blame those sane elements, who believe in and work for peace and harmony in the strife-torn world, if they begin to look upon religion as a curse.
It is at times like these that we turn to god-men like Shirdi Sai Baba whose life and teachings a hundred years ago seem to be more relevant now than ever. Even though he may be known "as much for the miracles he performed in the process of alleviating human suffering as for his eclectic philosophy", we cannot turn blind eye to the fact that Baba epitomized in himself the great mission of human brotherhood and harmony.
The veritable home of saints, seers and sages for centuries, nay millennia, India has been the temple of inspiration for the seekers of truth and spiritual knowledge. Illustrious god-men like Lalleshwari, Rupa Bhavani, Sheikh Nuruddin, Swami Kashkak, Bhagwan Gopinath, Kabir, Tulsi, Surdas, Sri Krishna Chaitanya, Tuka Ram, Eknath, Narsi Mehta, Tyagaraja, Dhyaneshwar, Tiruvalluvar, Namdev, Mirabai, Dayanand, Guru Nanak, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Vivekananda, Swami Ram Tirtha, Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi, Shri Narayana Guru, Shri Ramana Maharishi, Sri Aurobindo, Satya Sai Baba and Amritanandamayi Maa have had profound impact on enriching, elevating and refining our social and spiritual fabric.
All of them, and many more, have provided the healing touch to the lonely and the lost and helped the people at large in distress. The greatest service rendered by these saints to mankind has been to install a sense of unity and harmony among the followers of various faiths.
In the glittering spectrum of the great spiritual genii thrown up in the last two centuries, none is more fascinating and bizarre than Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi.
A flaming prophet, an apostle of love, a true faqir, a yogi par excellence, a saint of matchless purity, a phenomenon extraordinary and a mystic with tremendous healing power, Sai Baba was born a mortal in 1838 in village Pathri in Hyderabad, South India, but achieved immortality through sheer force of his character and the grace of the Unknown.
One of the finest flowers of India's rich spiritual traditions, Sai Baba discouraged questions on his parentage and, when asked, mostly gave mystifying answers. On one occasion, he said his father was Purusha (The Supreme Reality) and his mother Prakriti (Material Universe). When he was first seen in the remote, un-developed Maharashtrian village of Shirdi in solitude and under the now-famous morgosa tree called "Gode Neem", he would not talk to anyone but just roam about in agricultural fields, squat at the foot of any tree and evince no interest in worldly matters. He had no fixed residence. True faqirs usually have none. While some thought of him as nothing short of a mad man, most of the villagers endearingly called him "Baba", which means father.
Researchers and historians, however, have now established that he was born of poor Brahmin parents in Pathri village of erstwhile State of Hyderabad-a fact very strongly supported by Shri Satya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi.
During his daily rounds with a begging bowl, Baba routinely visited five houses for food and would also collect oil from the retail shop owners for the lamps to burn all night. Once, perhaps out of vulgar curiosity to know what he would do next, the shopkeepers of the village refused him the small concession of oil. Quite unperturbed, the sage returned to the mosque, followed by the inquisitive scoffers to see his reaction. But what they saw was, indeed, a sight for the very gods to see!
It seemed that the hour of disclosure of his Divinity had arrived.
With a tender smile playing on his lips, the calm and unruffled Sai poured a little water in his empty tumrel and drank the oily liquid. He then filled his earthen lamp containers with water.
Before the crowd, including the shopkeepers who had sought to play pranks with him, could relapse into a mood of ridicule at the antics of this so-called mad faqir, Sai Baba lighted the lamps. And lo and behold! Those who had come to scoff stayed on to pray, as the lights fed on pure aqua kept on burning throughout the night.
The story of the "water miracle" spread like wild fire. The unknown village of Shirdi was caught in the grip of inspired and unbridled enthusiasm, as more and more people learnt about earthen lamps in the mosque burning all night with water and not oil. People now recognized the "diamond on the dunghill", as some visiting Yogi had pronounced a year earlier, on seeing the young Baba clad in rags and living upon the doles of food collected during his daily rounds.
No easy saint to introduce. Baba had nothing conventional about him. He flaunted his miracles with the reckless exuberance of a child, not, by any chance, to impress anyone. In fact, Sai Baba employed the miracle as an instrument to rouse people from their spiritual slumber and apathy and to bring succor and peace to those afflicted. He wanted people to live a virtuous life, free from anger, hatred and prejudice.
Refused entry into a temple when he first landed in Shirdi with a marriage party from a neighboring village, he made a dilapidated mosque in an out-of-the-way corner of the village his home. In later years, he affectionately called it as his "Dwarkamaayee", mother Dwarka, traditionally the birthplace of Lord Krishna.
Though people worshipped him as God, he denounced this cult and said," I am not God". He would often say Allah Maalik (God is the Master).
Yet, there is no doubt that he was poor man's god and remains so even after 90 years of leaving his mortal coil.
Baba was not a man of letters by any standard (he had never been to a school or any other academic institution). He never wrote any book nor, perhaps, did he read one. Occasionally, he would instruct a devotee to read some religious works, though he was once heard saying that "people hope to find Brahman (God) in books, but it is bhram (confusion) that they find there." However, occasionally he would instruct a devotee or two to read some religious works. Once he made one of his closest devotees, Shyama, to read Vishnu Sahasranama.
And yet Baba's knowledge of the scriptures-the Puranas, the Gita, the Upanishad and the Quran was profound and phenomenal, to say the least. On one occasion, he even explained the literal and allegorical meaning of a verse from the Gita to a learned Pandit, much to the scholar's amazement and embarrassment.
Shirdi Baba preached that there is only one God, who is the master of all the human beings. "Sabka Malik Ek" (One God governs all), was his constant refrain. He never identified himself with any particular religion. During his lifetime, no one knew for certain what his religious identity was. Was he a Hindu or a Muslim? Nobody knew as to when and where he was born. Nothing was known about his human parentage. He called the dilapidated mosque he lived in as dwarakamayi. While he invoked the name of Allah, he was well versed in Hindu scriptures-the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Gita.
To Shirdi Baba, religion was a means to seek God within, to attain to a higher human plane, getting closer to the ideal of the perfect being. You can't be religious and vicious at the same time, he said.
At the height of communal tension at one time in Shirdi , he prevailed upon the Hindus and the Muslims to celebrate Ram Navami simultaneously with the Urs a major Muslim festival, with the respective processions starting from the same point.
The heart of a sage is a flame of love and his whole being thirsts for the uplift of suffering humanity. His heart overflowed with compassion. He practiced and preached humanism and universal brotherhood. He believed that the Self expands from micro individualism to a more universal macro state.
Those who knew him in flesh and blood and watched him day and night felt the power of his love. He always thirsted for the uplift of suffering humanity. An embodiment of divine love and compassion, his heart overflowed with kindness. He spoke to his devotees with total assurance, reminiscent of Krishna's exhortation in the Gita "to surrender to me" and of Christ's command in the Bible "Come to me".
In the words of Swami Shivananda of Rishikesh, Sai Baba's life was one of continuous Lokasangraha (work for the welfare of the masses), who drew unto himself countless souls caught up in Samsara (this mortal world), opened their eyes to the true meaning of life, infused viveka (discrimination) and vairagya (renunciation) and brought about their spiritual awakening.
The great apostle of love that he was, he always heeded the cries of the ordinary man to whom the eradication of worldly misfortunes is more important than the attainment of some remote spiritual light. But behind this concession to an average mortal's humbler needs was the deep underlying purpose of spiritual rejuvenation.
Shirdi Baba did not sermonize nor did he give any discourse on the concepts of Maya or Kundalini. He opened the way to all the winds that blew. His philosophy of life could be summed up in just two simple words: Shraddha (Faith) and Saburi (Patience).
Baba did not preach self-denial. He didn't say that repudiation of everyday chores of life was a precondition to spiritual quest. Inner peace and poise, he said, cannot be achieved by running away from the problems of life. It had to come from within, even in the midst of chaos.
His universal message of love, unity and equal respect for all religions and faiths could serve as the beacon light for the prevailing religious hatred, prejudices and strifes. He catered to the fundamental spiritual urge of the lowliest and the lost, the under-privileged and the downtrodden. He treated alike an ordinary worker, a high government official, a beggar, a leper, an affluent landlord, a business tycoon and a raja (ruler).
Shirdi Baba abhorred cultism and, therefore, never ever thought of establishing a monastery, an ashram, a muth or a peetha. Strange but true, he did not initiate any disciples to take over from him, though he had devotees galore.
Baba never wanted to perpetuate a cult.
The life of Sai Baba, as that of Sri Ramakrshna Paramahamsa, Shri Narayana Guru and Shri Ramana Maharishi, makes us realize that spirituality is something that lies in the depth of our very consciousness. Baba was of this earth, quite approachable. He was one of us, flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood.
As for himself, Baba had attained an inner poise, the state of equanimity. To borrow the well-known idiom from the Gita, Baba was a sthitaprajna (one steeped in steady divine wisdom). He would pour out unobtrusive, silent and steady healing vibrations into the troubled souls through a mysterious process.
As he had indicated a few years before passing into the beyond that he would cross the ocean of Samsara on the occasion of Dussehra, Baba did leave his physical body on the same auspicious day, corresponding to October 16, 1918.
As many as ninety years have passed since Sai's mortal remains were entombed in Shirdi, yet he moves, lives and blesses mankind even now. The sweet fragrance of love, unity and harmony emitted by this amazing, the most unusual holy man of India, during his earthly sojourn continues unabated till this day.
"If you cast your burden on me, I will bear it! If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you! There shall be no want in my devotee's house!"
A journalist by profession, a scholar by temperament and a writer by choice, Gopinath Raina was inclined to the study of religion from his very young age. It was Swami Vivekananda's dynamic exposition of Hindu thought that fired his imagination while he was still at school, and by the time he entered college, he had been drawn to the writings of Gandhi, Aurobindo, Narayana Guru, Radhakrishnan and Bertrand Russel.
He has been writing profusely on various aspects of Hindu thought. He enjoys writing, particularly on saints and sages, not only of Kashmir, but of the other parts of India as well. Presently he lives in Miami, and spends his time writing personal memoirs.
I have read many books and articles written on Shirdi Sai Baba but the way you have described the greatness of this saint is superb. Thanks for writing this very informative article on Shirdi Sai.
Shirdi Sai Baba is the very incarnation of Shraddha and Saburi. Shirdi Sai lived in Sattva Chetana--Pure Consciousness. Thanks for this nice write-up.
As i read your articles in Koushur Samachar, now lontime ago, this one filled the void gap. I simply loved the way you have woven this article and presented SAI BABA in today's context. Undoubtedly you have 'Sai Kripa'. "Jevii Tvam Shardha Shatam". And we have pleasure of more lucid creative writings from you. In fact thank's to Deepak Ganju who introduced and e-mailed me Shehjar to remain in touch with minuscule fragmented community.
An amazing article at a time when communal and fundamentalist tensions are rising all throughout the world. Teachings of Sai Baba would of great help in current time.


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The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/2018/07/devotions-for-the-people-provide-intersection-points-for-pagans-polytheists.html)
"Devotions for the People" provide intersection points for Pagans, polytheists
By Terence P Ward | July 25, 2018
BAY AREA, Calif. –For nearly two years, members of Solar Cross Temple have offered monthly "Devotions for the People," a form of online Pagan ministry. While these devotionals stem from a variety of traditions, they more often than not are centered around some form of justice.
According to T. Thorn Coyle, "There is no real measure of success for these devotionals. Whether five people or 500 engage with the process doesn't matter . . . . What matters to us is that the devotions to gods, goddesses, and ancestors are flowing outward into the world, and are accessible to as many people as want to join us."
While it's impossible to know how many people actually participate in these events, there is at least an uptick in how many people declare some level of interest. Temple leaders prefer to publicize these devotions via Facebook and their newsletter, and the most recent one shows 65 attendees, more than double the interest shown for similar events in the past year. That could be indicative of the growing online presence of the temple, or it could be driven by the theme, which focuses on the issue of family separation at America's southern border.
Written by Sharon Knight and titled "Hekate Bear Witness," the July 15 devotion opens with questions: "What will it take to open the hearts of the compassionless? What will it take to bind those who cannot find their way to humanity?" The titular god is invoked as protector of children, and is asked to bind those who would rip those families apart.
Other devotionals similarly invoke deities — Lilith and Brigid, for example — but some are focused on ancestors or other spirits, and several are broadly worded to allow the participant to invoke or eschew whichever beings feel appropriate to the individual or group that are carrying them out. A few of the devotionals are purely magical in nature, such as one contributed to Ivo Dominguez, Jr. around "knowing and being."
Themes are selected either by temple leaders or the individual who agrees to write one for a given month, Coyle said. Board member Crystal Blanton solicits contributions. She has also written more than one herself, to bless the community and honor the suffering and injustice endured by many people of color in this country, past and present, among others.
"While some sociopolitical topics arise due to the events happening in the world," Blanton explained, "other times we seek devotionals that the authors feel called to write about. There is no exact science to what we are looking for besides a need to support community, nature, justice, and the gods/goddesses/ancestors."
Describing the scope, Blanton said, "We have had a wide range of topics from inner workings, social justice, and even community healing. Some of the devotionals are from well-known names in the greater Pagan and Polytheist communities, and others are not as known." The list of guest writers includes "Leni Hester, Lou Florez, Morpheus Ravenna, Anthony Rella, Sarah Clark, Jacki Chuculate and many others."
Coyle said that these devotionals were once organized as in-person events in the Bay Area, but were migrated to the internet in mid-2016 to expand their reach. While there are no meaningful metrics, she observed that "the format seems to be working just fine." Per the mission of the temple, "it is important to continue to link spirituality and practical work, and since one of our mandates is to work toward justice, the current form of Devotions for the People was born."
Blanton expanded on that transition, explaining that temple leaders "originally hosted monthly devotionals in the Bay Area and transitioned to providing monthly devotionals in our newsletters several years ago. The ongoing demands of life often made it hard for people to attend in person, in addition to the fact that not everyone lived in the local area. Providing options for people to participate in a devotional with other Solar Cross members allowed accessibility that may not have been there initially."
As the temple is effectively based in both California and Oregon, gathering together in one place would be challenging even if there wasn't a desire to include non-members.
These devotionals are one of the ways that Pagans and polytheists seek to utilize the internet to focus together in a single purpose, but it's not the only one. For example, there is a series of rituals called "practicing apart together" provided through the Hellenic organization Elaion. However, the Solar Cross devotionals, focused as they are on issues of justice, are positioned to pique the interest of practitioners of a wide variety of traditions. As Facebook algorithms are intended to provide the greatest exposure only to those advertising on the platform, it's likely that the true reach of this program will never be entirely known.
T. Thorn Coyle
About Terence P Ward
Terence P Ward is a moneyworker, journalist, Hellenic polytheist and convinced Friend who lives in the bucolic Hudson Valley with his wife, five cats, and multiple household shrines.
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Topicalization
Real Name: Ricardo Caputo
Location: São Paulo
Country: Brazil (Brasil)
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Postby bender » 2005-05-13, 22:42
How common is topicalization in colloquial English?
By listening to the Strokes, I think it's very common! Does it sound very colloquial or is it used as well by educated people?
To me, my life, it don't make sense
Those strange manners, I loved 'em so
These little problems they're not yours and mine
Promises, they break before they´re made
Tables, they turn sometimes
And now my fears, they come to me in threes
Things, they have changed in such a permanent way
LAST NITE
See, people they don´t understand
No, girlfriends, they can´t understand
Your Grandsons, they won´t understand
Please correct me whenever I make a mistake. / Corrigez-moi toujours quand je ne parle pas bien. / Me corrijan siempre cuando hable mal.
They sound too weird for me to hear or be said out of my mouth. I never saw such construction, perhaps only in poems so that the rhyming effect can be preserved.
I think it would be a little waste of time for us native speakers to repeat the subject twice when you don't have to.
Postby Geist » 2005-05-14, 1:59
Very rare. As Jack said, this is almost exclusively poetic.
Postby bender » 2005-05-15, 1:10
JackFrost wrote: I think it would be a little waste of time for us native speakers to repeat the subject twice when you don't have to.
Not necessarily a waste of time, since that's very common in French and in Brazilian Portuguese...
I thought it could be common in other languages, at least in colloquial speech...
Pittsboy
Real Name: Thiago do Nascimento
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Postby Pittsboy » 2005-05-15, 3:19
All Germanic languages with the exception of English are subject to the Verb-second-constraint (=V2), as is well known (e.g. Vikner 1995).
English lost V2 during the Middle English period. In other words: examples like (2a) are after a certain time ungrammatical and are replaced by examples like (2b), whereas sentences like (1) are unaffected.
(1)John likes beans.
a. Beans likes John.
b. Beans John likes.
At the same time another development takes place: The rate of topicalization, i.e. the fronting of any constituent other than the subject, declines also:
In the period 1150-1250, 11.7% (575of 4913) of sentences with direct object have the object fronted, in the period 1640-1710, only3.6% (128 of 3541). This latter development has not generally been noticed in the literature.
The question arises whether the loss of V2 and the decline of topicalization are related to each other. In my paper I argue that they indeed are related and that, given the loss of V2 inEnglish, the decline of topicalization is a consequence of a prosodic constraint common to at least all Germanic languages.
This constraint, which we might call 'Trochaic Requirement' (=TR), is a reflex of the Obligatory Contour Principle (Goldsmith 1976), which requires that adjacent units differ infeature content, in the domain of prosody: Between two phrasal accents a prosodically weakelement must intervene.
Topicalization involves fronting of a constituent which meets certain pragmatic requirements (see Prince 1999). The topicalized phrase is accented, as is another phrase inside the open proposition (i.e. the remainder of the sentence), viz. the variable of the open proposition. In principle, these two accents could wind up adjacent to one another, which would violate the Trochaic Requirement.
The sentences in (3) illustrate how discourse context determines accentuation.
(3) a. John doesn't like peas, but beans John likes.
b. John is eating peas today, but beans John ate yesterday.
Now consider example (4).
(4) Mary likes peas. Beans, John likes.
Here the variable of the open proposition is the subject, as is most often the case. Since sentences like the 2nd of (4) violate the TR, they are disfavoured. As long as V2 was still an option, the problem could be resolved by inverting the subject and the verb (= 2a). As V2 becomes impossible, topicalizing leads in many cases to a violation of the TR and isconsequently avoided too.
I came to these results by conducting a quantitative study using Corpus Search on all available parts of the Penn-Helsinki Corpora of Middle and Early Modern English (1150-1710). Only sentences with a full noun phrase subject and a non-auxiliary verb were taken into account (32749 sentences with direct object; 1780 thereof with topicalization, 585 thereof with full-NP-subject). The accent on the open proposition was assigned manually, using an algorithmexperimentally tested for modern English.
Goldsmith, John A. (1976) Autosegmental Phonology. Doctoral dissertation, MIT (published1979, New York/London: Garland).
Prince, Ellen (1999) "How Not to Mark Topics: 'Topicalization' in English and Yiddish," in:Texas Linguistics Forum. Ch. 8. Austin: University of Texas.
Vikner, Sten (1995) Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages,Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press.
Source: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/NWAVE/abs-pdf/speyer.pdf.
"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."
~~Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954)~~
Postby Stan » 2005-05-15, 15:10
I think Yoda talks like that.
Postby JackFrost » 2005-05-15, 18:03
Stancel wrote: I think Yoda talks like that.
Actually, he kind of.
"Leave, they must" for "They must leave."
bender wrote:
I meant for English.
JackFrost wrote:
Yes, I know. But why would it be a waste of time for English speakers and not for French or Brazilian ones? What I mean is that it's not a matter of wasting time. English does not have it as often as French or Brazilian Portuguese because the it works like this... Anyway, this is just an unworthy remark...
Because...because...I just feel like it, ok?
I do admit I do that sometimes in French.
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Real Name: LS
Location: El mundo de Nunca Jamás
Postby bluechiron » 2005-05-17, 3:29
You know, I do this a lot as a native English speaker. It could come from the fact that I use romance languages quite frequently (and have for a long time) or the fact that my family doesn't use anything close to standard English--we have our own form that uses different grammar and syntax. We speak kitten too.
Shukta shimi yuyankapak, kanpa ñawikunata wichkana ushankakunarakmi kanpa shungutawan uyankirakpish.
To know another language, first your eyes will have to be open, and you will have to listen with your heart.


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Swypit CEO Kevin Hodes highlights 3 reasons to accept mobile payments.
Frisco, TX – April 25, 2016 – Kevin Hodes, CEO of Swypit has published a new article entitled "What are You Waiting For? 3 Reasons to Accept Mobile Payments for Your Business." In the article, he discusses the growing popularity of mobile payment apps and why a company should accept this form of payment.


A polo shirt which measures physical activity and communicates with the wearer's smartphone has been introduced by fashion powerhouse Ralph Lauren. Making its premiere during this year's U.S Open, the new garment paves the way for widespread use of compression technology in sport.
Designed by Ralph Lauren using biometric technology from OMSignal, the Polo Tech smart shirt measures heart rate, energy output and physical activity and communicates this information via Bluetooth to a connected smartphone. The fabric used is conductive and reads electrical changes made through heart rate and the inbuilt tech works out a typical day's 'fuel' spent and helps the user work out which areas of their activity should change for optimum performance in their chosen sport.
The new technology is a talking point not just in the world of sports but also healthcare. Combining high fashion with wearable tech is a great way to get the message of compression to a wider audience. With millions tuning in to the U.S Open, the Polo Tech smart shirt will be seen by a huge audience of regular people as well as professional sportsmen. Although common compression hosiery is not quite as hi-tech as the smart shirt, it does pave the way for more research to be done into how best to use this tecnology to help people with medical ailments monitor and improve their health.
Compression has long been hailed as an excellent way for sportsmen to recover from tough challenges as well as a way to prevent muscle strain. However, you do not have to be a professional in order to reap the benefits from compression, as it can be easily implemented into your daily routine. Support hosiery can be used to treat and prevent a variety of conditions and this latest technological wonder from Ralph Lauren could help bring compression's benefits to an aching audience.