I have been doing bathroom remodeling in Dallas and the surrounding areas for over 15 years.
In that time, customers have asked me many questions regarding their projects. Most of these revolve around not knowing where to begin!
So I decided to put this little guide together in order to answer your most common queries. That way, you also see the process involved in remodeling your bathroom from start to finish. I've included a video afterwards so you can see everything come together.
OK, first step is the demolition process.
Depending on what you need done, whether it's just the shower or the whole area, demolition can range from tearing out walls to stripping the entire bathroom. All of the old flooring, walls, sheetrock, cabinets and even tubs and fixtures come out.
The goal at this stage is to just rip out what's not going to be needed for the future bathroom. It also gives us the opportunity to examine any damage behind your walls that you may not have been aware of. We often find damaged 2 x 4's and water damage to many parts of the walls once tear out is complete.
That way, you can actually see what the damage is before the repairs are done.
Shower valve roughed in. Pan completed. Ready for tile work.
Stage two of the process is to get your plumbing and electrical work squared away.
This usually involves roughing in your shower valve and any other required plumbing like sprayers and so forth.
Now the plumber will have to return later for some final finish out work. Their initial visit however, is to complete all plumbing that goes behind your walls. This includes running new lines or rerouting them in case any fixtures need to be moved such as commodes, vanities, etc.
The electrician at this stage can run their wires in case you want to install lighting such as cans and it also gives them the opportunity to examine your existing wiring.
I've lost count the number of times we uncovered faulty wires, poor workmanship and even outright hazards. One of the most common problems we ran across was previous contractors "backstabbing" wires into the back of switches instead of securely wrapping them around.
This is also a chance to have your GFI looked at, as every bathroom must have one according to code.
Anything relating to plumbing and electrical that goes behind your walls is done at this point.
So far, you can see how methodical the process is.
It allows you to check as you go in case something needs attention whether it's during the demolition, plumbing or electrical phase. That way, you will always know what is going on before the next stage.
This is when you start building the shower unit and/or tile the floor, depending on the installer.
Since this is when your shower starts coming together, it's important to let the installer know what sort of shower set up you would like.
For example, go over the dimensions to make sure it's exactly as you want it. Point out where you would like the soap niche/s (aka built in shampoo boxes), steps, bench and details of this nature.
Even the direction of the tile should be finalized. Do you like it straight, on a diagonal, offset or custom pattern?
Once this has been figured out, a competent installer will start building the shower pan ensuring to use the correct liner and run it high enough up the wall for future moisture protection. Most importantly though is they float the pan with concrete and get the angles right. If they use concrete as the base of your pan to float (hardly anyone uses acrylic/ cheap builder's grade materials anymore), it will need 12-24 hours to dry.
Then they will return to continue the rest of the work.
While this is drying, they have some time to take care of any other minor construction you need in your bathroom like a pony wall or frame for a drop in tub.
Once the shower pan dries they return to tile the walls and put in the shampoo niches as well as tiling the shower pan and ensuring the edges have the correct finishing with bullnose.
Something to keep in mind, is not all tile comes with coordinating bullnose pieces. If the installer is experienced however and knows what they are doing, they should be able to fashion bullnose pieces out of the existing tile providing it is either stone or porcelain.
Once the shower unit is completed tile wise, they should bring the shower glass contractor to measure for the unit as this takes between 7 to 10 days from the order date to install. That way, you have a headstart so can be installed right after everything else is done.
This of course, will depend on what you're looking to get done.
You may just need a fresh coat of paint or you may need all of the sheetrock replaced.
Now if you are getting your whole room's sheetrock replaced, make sure the insulation is to your satisfaction. In bathrooms were it can get colder than other rooms, good insulation is important for all types of weather. This is the stage to replace it.
Once the sheetrock goes in, the painter/s will then tape and bed it and complete all of their wall prep prior to painting. Be sure to specify what sort of texture (if any) you want on the walls prior to painting.
So up until this point we have all the demolition, electrical, plumbing and shower work done.
Now the rest of the bathroom really starts coming together!
*The next phase is a matter of taste because some people like to leave painting to dead last since they want behind the vanities, mirrors and anything else to be painted; others do not care so much.
If the countertops are separate from the vanities, then the dimensions of the vanity/ies must be measured by the contractor during the initial stages of the project. That way, they can go in as soon as the vanity/ies are installed. Yes, the vanities need to be installed first so the fabricator can measure for their precise cuts and edges.
You may need to bring out the plumber and electrician again to trim out your shower, install commodes, your vanity sinks and faucets as well as any required lighting trim.
Any final finish work like baseboards and caulking is usually done by the painter/s but it's a detail that's often overlooked during a larger sized project. Dont forget!
The shower glass portion is usually the very last thing that goes in.
As mentioned earlier, it takes between 7 to 10 days to get the unit ordered cut and installed. Yes, you can order pre-made ones but you better be sure your specifications are exact as the slightest variance can mean leakage.
Make sure you specify what color hardware you want on your unit for things like the handles, hinges and if required, the top frame.
95% of units we do are frameless and if you can do it, I would strongly recommend the same.
1. Don't spend too much on faucets.
Now that may seem counterproductive for someone who remodels bathrooms to tell you that, but in all honesty, they are artwork. You are better off shopping a well-known brand like Delta, Moen or Kohler rather than go for some hyper exotic brand imported from Germany.
The main reason why I say this is the feedback from plumbers over the years has always been the same – the more expensive it is, the harder it is to get parts for it if something goes wrong. I have had cases where we had to special order a gasket for a faucet that was leaking and we waited 2 1/2 weeks for it to arrive from Norway.
Stick with local, well-known brands.
The larger the tile, the less grout you have to worry about in terms of cleaning.
Now I understand some folks like the smaller, rectangular, subway type tile and that's fine too. I'm just saying if cleaning is an issue for you, then buy larger tile and install them both in the shower and the floor. It also makes the area look bigger.
If you're doing just a couple of vanities, you don't actually need to purchase an entire slab of stone like marble or granite.
Ask your contractor about any remnant pieces they may have at the shop as they often have them and for significantly cheaper than buying an entire new slab. Once you buy the whole slab, it's best to use it all. Otherwise, the fabricator will sell it off as a remnant so you may as well use it!
Q: How long does the process take from start to finish?
A: This is going to completely depend on a number of things like the contractor, scope of job, lead times for subcontractors and many other factors. If you are doing more than one bathroom it's always a good idea to do one at a time so you have one always working. It could take anywhere between a few days for a small powder room to a couple of weeks and beyond for larger jobs.
Q: When do I buy my fixtures and faucets?
A: You're going to make life a whole lot easier for everyone if you have everything at the house prior to the job starting. This is because the plumbing is one of the first things that needs to be done after the demolition. If you do not have your valve and other required plumbing parts, then the contractor will be unnecessarily delayed. You end up having a torn out bathroom sitting there and nothing gets done. Having everything there though sees you having your bathroom completed sooner.
Q: Where do I buy them from?
A: You can either buy them online from your local hardware store like Home Depot and then pick it up when you're ready.
Or even shop speciality stores and have them ship it to you.
The main advantage with speciality stores is the sheer selection you have compared to a Lowe's or Home Depot.
However if you're not fussed about fixtures and faucets then your local store works fine.
Keep in mind, if you're buying online; make sure you buy everything at once so you don't incur separate shipping charges. Most stores will waive the shipping charge if your purchase is large enough.
This is a general guide of what takes place in a typical bathroom remodel. I hope the pictures and video helped this overview to really clarify everything.
Of course there are variances between projects which may extend or shorten completion times. Replacing cabinetry for example, could take many weeks alone so be mindful of this prior to tearing everything out.
That aside, this is a fairly good estimate to give you a rough idea of the process involved.
Be sure to find someone experienced and competent at bathroom remodels and whatever you do, never just go for the cheapest price.
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Italy – a companion to Việt Nam during development: minister
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc receives Italy's Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Graziano Delrio in Hà Nội yesterday.— Photo VGP
HÀ NỘI – Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday met with Italy's Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Graziano Delrio in Hà Nội, who said Italy will be a companion to Việt Nam during its development.
He rejoiced at the progress in bilateral relations since they were lifted to a strategic partnership in January 2013, especially after the Việt Nam visits by Italian PM Matteo Renzi in June 2014 and President Sergio Mattarella in November 2015.
Italy remains a big trade partner of Việt Nam in the EU with bilateral trade hitting US$4.3 billion in 2015.
The PM believes that economic, trade and investment ties will be strengthened when Italy's Chamber of Deputies ratifies the Việt Nam-EU Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation, and when Việt Nam and the EU sign a bilateral free trade agreement.
The Vietnamese Government supports Italian firms in making long-term business plans and carrying out projects in Việt Nam, particularly in machinery manufacturing, textile and garment, footwear, wood processing and support industries, he noted.
He spoke highly of the talks between Minister Delrio and Việt Nam's Ministry of Transport Trương Quang Nghĩa, adding that though the ministries inked several co-operation agreements, their collaboration has been below potential.
He asked the two governments to continue facilitating partnerships between their countries' companies, particularly in transport.
Both ministries should increase information exchanges while creating favourable conditions for businesses to engage in transport infrastructure projects and seek co-operation opportunities in seaport management and operations, seaport infrastructure and services development, and logistics services, PM Phúc said.
He also asked Italy to urge the EU to sign and ratify the Việt Nam-EU Free Trade Agreement and recognise Việt Nam as a market economy, he said, will enhance co-operation between the Southeast Asian nation and the EU.
The Vietnamese leader also asked the visiting minister and the Italian Government to support navigation and aviation freedom and the promotion of trade in Southeast Asia and the world.
At the meeting in Hà Nội, Minister Delrio informed his host about the working session between the two transport ministries.
With its experience in infrastructure and transport building and management, Italy is ready to coo-perate with Vietnam in building seaports and airports.
The Italian Government is proud to be a major EU partner of Việt Nam and considers the country an important partner, he noted.
Echoing PM Phúc's view about co-operation potential, he said his country's Government is interested in maintaining navigation and aviation freedom and ensuring trade and global economic development. Italy wants to accelerate joint programmes and projects with Việt Nam, especially in aviation and railway. — VNS
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
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Event marks 71st anniversary of Viet Nam-China diplomatic ties (January, 19 2021)
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VN's steady leadership has reinforced ASEAN's pivotal role in the region
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Date for 13th National Party Congress announced
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Real McCoy is a German Eurodance and pop music project best known for hit singles "Another Night", "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)", "Run Away", "Love & Devotion", "Come and Get Your Love", "One More Time" and the multi-platinum album Another Night.

History

1989–1990: Early success in Germany
The Real McCoy project (originally known in Europe as M.C. Sar & the Real McCoy) was the result of the successful collaboration between record producers Juergen Wind (J. Wind), and Frank Hassas (Quickmix), plus the rapper Olaf Jeglitza (O-Jay), under their music production company Freshline Records.  Wind and Hassas wrote and produced the project's main hits between 1990 and 1994 at Wind Studios B.C. in Spandau, Berlin.  Traditionally, Jeglitza was given additional producer credits alongside Wind and Hassas as J. Wind, Quickmix & O. Jeglitza for Freshline. In reality, Jeglitza only had a minor songwriting role on the team, and strictly provided rap vocals for the song productions. In 1993, he became the front man of the project.

The first single from the project was a cover version of the hit "Pump Up the Jam" by Technotronic featuring new rap verses from Jeglitza. The single was released in 1989 and distributed by ZYX Records in Germany where it reached No. 16 on the singles chart.  Following the unexpected success of the single, Wind took over the management of Freshline Records, and became the leading producer and composer behind the project. The follow-up releases were hip house style records.  "It's On You" debuted in 1990 and became a top hit in Germany and a success in other European territories. The single was particularly successful in France, where it had earned silver status for selling 200,000 units.  The growing success of the two singles motivated ZYX Records to request a live act, and a music video for "It's On You". A Frenchman of African descent named George Shampro Mario was hired to be M.C. Sar, and to act as the front man and rapper for the project. Unbeknownst to the public, he was really a lip-sync artist, who was miming the rap vocals of Jeglitza for the live performances and the music video. During this early stage of the project, Jeglitza remained completely anonymous. The American singer, Patricia Petersen (Patsy), sang the choruses on the single and fronted the project with Mario. Four more singles ("Don't Stop", "Make a Move", "Let's Talk About Love", and "No Showbo") and an album (On the Move!) were later released. Each of these follow-up releases failed commercially.  In 1992, Freshline ended their relationship with ZYX Records.

1993–1995: Mainstream success with "Another Night"
In late 1992, Freshline had formed a new partnership deal with Hansa Records (BMG Berlin) to release new music for the project.  After a deal was finalized, Wind immediately began planning out a success strategy for the project, with Hansa's A&R executive, David Brunner and BMG President Andy Selleneit. The three then made a creative decision to change the musical style of the project from hip house to eurodance and pop.  Wind and Hassas wrote and produced the new single "Another Night" while Jeglitza wrote his rap verses.  A producer duo known as the Berman Brothers (siblings Frank and Christian Berman) recommended to Wind their session singer, Karin Kasar, for the singing choruses.  After hearing a demo of her voice, Wind selected her for the role. In exchange for her participation in the project, the brothers made a deal with Wind to be listed as producers with Freshline as Freshline & The Berman Brothers. They also made a deal with Wind to make the remixes for the single. A mix created by the brothers was selected to be the official single version of the song. Petersen remained the front woman and mimed Kasar's vocals for live performances and the music video for the new single. Wind and Brunner then decided to remove Mario from the project. Jeglitza was then promoted into a front man role alongside Petersen thus making the project a duo act.  Brunner organized the marketing, promotion, distribution, sales strategies for the single and was credited as executive producer under the alias "D.N.B."

When released in the Summer of 1993, "Another Night" was only a minor hit in Europe reaching No.18 in Germany and barely making the Top 100 in several other countries.  Shortly after the release of the single, Wind and Hassas produced the Maxx hit "Get-A-Way" under the alias "The Movement".  Brunner distributed the single through Intercord.  When released in October 1993, the single became a major commercial success in Europe alongside the growing success of "Another Night".

By mid-1994, M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy had begun to achieve notable success on the charts alongside the massive success of the Maxx hits: "Get-A-Way" and No More (I Can't Stand It)".  Thanks to the promotional efforts of BMG Canada, "Another Night" had suddenly hit No.1 on the Canadian dance/urban chart in March 1994 and had remained on the chart for several weeks.  The follow-up singles "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" and "Run Away" and the album Space Invaders  were then released in Europe. After noticing how quickly "Another Night" had reached No. 1 on the Canadian dance/urban chart, Arista Records CEO Clive Davis became interested in bringing M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy to the U.S. market. Davis had previously had success making the Swedish pop group Ace of Base a hit the U.S., and sought to do the same with M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy.

After a deal was finalized between Arista and BMG, the project name was shortened to Real McCoy and "Another Night" was released in the U.S. in mid 1994. The single had peaked at No. 3 in the U.S. by November 1994, and had quickly reached platinum status. The follow-up single release of "Run Away" was also a successful hit in the U.S. reaching gold status.  Thanks to the success of the two hits, an all new U.S. release of the Space Invaders album was quickly planned for 1995.  The project was officially re-branded as a trio act featuring Jeglitza, Petersen and newcomer Vanessa Mason.  The Space Invaders album was re-titled Another Night.  The cover art, imagery and marketing for the album was completely changed to present a lighter romantic tone.  Several tracks from the album were removed for the new release. Davis commissioned a new team of producers to write and produce three new covers songs ("Come and Get Your Love", "Ooh Boy", "If You Should Ever Be Lonely (Deep in the Night)"), along with an original track (Sleeping with an Angel) for the album. The new production team included: Songwriters Billy Steinberg & Rick Noweles, Producer Shep Pettibone and the Lemon Productions team (Per Adebratt, Douglas Carr & Tony Ekman).

Thanks to the promotional efforts of Arista along with the popularity of "Another Night" and "Run Away", the album reached double platinum status and became a mainstream commercial success in 1995.  "Come and Get Your Love" was released as the third Real McCoy single and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart.  "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)" was also released late in 1995 as a fourth single but saw lesser success peaking at No. 52 on the chart.  The Space Invaders track "Love & Devotion" was released in Europe and Australia as a Real McCoy single. It earned gold status in Australia and peaked at No.11 in the United Kingdom.  While Real McCoy's success was at its peak in 1995, the Maxx project had quickly begun to decline in Europe due to the lack of new hits on the European charts. By the end of 1995, the project had permanently disbanded.

1997–1998: Group decline after One More Time album
In 1997, the follow-up album One More Time was released. Singer Lisa Cork was recruited as a replacement for Petersen and Kasar. Wind produced the album without Hassas or Brunner's involvement and instead worked with the Lemon Productions team (Adebratt, Carr & Ekman) and songwriter/producer Brent Argovitz. The Berman Brothers produced a Shania Twain cover for the album, while also making new remixes for the singles. For promotional reasons, Jeglitza was credited as an executive producer alongside Davis. The lead single from the album, (also called "One More Time"), reached No. 3 in Australia and achieved platinum status but saw lesser success in the U.S. peaking at No. 27 on the chart. The follow-up singles "I Wanna Come (with You)" and the Shania Twain cover "(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here!" failed to chart and were also commercial failures. The disappointing commercial sales of the album and the final singles lead to the quick demise of the lineup in 1997. In 1998, BMG re-released the original Space Invaders album, under the title Real McCoy – Love & Devotion in Germany.

1999–2015: Real McCoy continuation and hiatus
In 1999 and 2000, two new Real McCoy singles were released with an all new line-up. Rapper Jason Ammon and singers Gabriele Koopmans and Ginger Maria Kamphuis were marketed as the 'new' Real McCoy.  The first single released with the new line-up was a re-recorded version of "It's On You".  Koopmans and Kamphuis recorded new vocals for the song, while Jeglitza re-recorded his original rap verses. A music video was filmed for the single in Miami, Florida, starring Ammon, Koopmans and Kamphuis with a cameo from Jeglitza. Ammon mimed Jeglitza's rap vocals in the music video. A second single titled "Hey Now" was released in 2000, featuring rap from Ammon and singing from Koopmans and Kamphuis.  Both singles became commercial failures resulting in the demise of the new line-up.

After a long hiatus, Jeglitza (under the name Real McCoy) collaborated with the Polish band Ich Troje in 2006 to create the song "Follow My Heart".  Jeglitza and the band represented Poland at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. The song, however, failed to qualify for the grand final.  In early 2007, a new Real McCoy song titled "People Are Still Having Sex" was released in Germany. The single was a cover of the famous La Tour single of the same name.

In August 2009, Jeglitza performed as Real McCoy with singers Debbie Butts and Gemma Louise Sampson for DJ BoBo's "DJ BoBo and Friends" concert in Engelberg, Switzerland.  Jeglitza also recorded the track "Two Hearts" with Butts and Sampson, but the track was never released officially.

2016–2020: Return of Karin Kasar and Real McCoy revival
In 2016, Jeglitza returned again as Real McCoy with the original studio singer Karin Kasar. As a live duo act, Jeglitza and Kasar perform as Real McCoy at 1990s festivals worldwide.

2020-present: Kasar's departure and line up changes
In January 2020, Karin Kasar revealed on her instagram page that she was retiring from performing with the group. Real McCoy remained dormant for much of 2020 and 2021, with a handful of performances in the latter year with O-Jay as the sole member. In late 2021, Real McCoy announced that they would be returning for performances in 2022 with O-Jay, producer/hypeman K.I.S.T.E, and new vocalists Sara Mosquera and Mac.

Members
Olaf Jeglitza (O-Jay) – rapper (1989–present)
Sara Mosquera - singer, live performer (2022-present)
Mac - singer, live performer (2022-present)
K.I.S.T.E - producer, live performer (2022-present)
George Shampro Mario (M.C. Sar) – frontman only, lip-sync (1990–1992)
Patricia Petersen (Patsy) – singer, lip-sync (1990–1995)
Yvonne Parker (Sunday) – session singer (1990)
Karin Kasar – session singer, live performer (1993–1995, 2016–2020)
Vanessa Mason – singer, lip-sync (1994–1997)
Lisa Cork – singer (1996–1997)
Jason Ammon – rapper (1999)
Gabriele Koopmans – singer (1999)
Ginger Maria Kamphuis – singer (1999)
Debbie Butts – singer (2009)
Gemma Louise Sampson – singer (2009)

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

References

External links
 List of releases from the online music database Discogs

Musical groups established in 1989
Musical groups from Berlin
German Eurodance groups
Arista Records artists
Hansa Records artists
ZYX Music artists

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Adrián "Pirata" Czornomaz (ur. 30 kwietnia 1971 w Avellaneda Partido, w prowincji Buenos Aires) – argentyński piłkarz pochodzenia ukraińskiego, grający na pozycji napastnika.

Kariera piłkarska

Kariera klubowa
Wychowanek klubu Argentino de Quilmes, w którym rozpoczął karierę piłkarską. W latach 1986–2006 występował w argentyńskich klubach Independiente, San Lorenzo de Almagro, Banfield, Belgrano, Quilmes AC, All Boys, CA Los Andes, Atlético Tucumán, Gimnasia y Esgrima, CA Tigre, Independiente Rivadavia, Tristán Suárez, Defensa y Justicia i Talleres de Escalada. Oprócz tego w 1990–1991 grał w chilijskim Cobreloa, w 1992 w austriackim klubie Rapid Wiedeń, w 1996–1997 w peruwiańskich Universitario i Sporting Cristal oraz w 1997 w meksykańskim Tigres UANL. W swojej karierze strzelił 258 bramek, z nich 160 w Primera B Nacional, co jest rekordem ligi B.

Sukcesy i odznaczenia

Sukcesy klubowe
 mistrz Argentyny: 1988/89
 mistrz Primera B Nacional: 1992/93
 finalista Copa Libertadores: 1997

Sukcesy indywidualne
 rekordzista Primera B Nacional: 160 bramek
 król strzelców Primera B Nacional: 1995/96, 1998/99
 król strzelców Primera División de Chile: 1990
 król strzelców Primera División Peruana: 1996

Przypisy

Bibliografia
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Argentyńscy piłkarze
Piłkarze CA All Boys
Piłkarze CA Argentino de Quilmes
Piłkarze CA Banfield
Piłkarze CA Belgrano
Piłkarze CA Independiente
Piłkarze CA Tigre
Piłkarze Sportingu Cristal
Piłkarze CD Cobreloa
Piłkarze CA Los Andes
Piłkarze Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy
Piłkarze Quilmes AC
Piłkarze Rapidu Wiedeń
Piłkarze CA San Lorenzo de Almagro
Piłkarze Tigres UANL
Piłkarze Universitario de Deportes
Piłkarze pochodzenia ukraińskiego
Urodzeni w 1971


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Happy 40th Birthday, Lee Brice!
Lee Brice's Life
Lee Brice celebrates his 40th birthday today! Happy Birthday to our country music star.
Photo Credit: Lee Brice/ youtube.com by Screengrab
Lee Brice was raised in Sumter, South Carolina. His parents are Kenneth, Sr. and Carleen Brice. He usually plays the piano and guitar, sang in the church, and wrote songs at an early age. He also joined in a music contest held at their school, which he won.
Brice also played football but when he got injured, he then pursued entering into the country music industry.
In 2007, Brice started writing songs together with the other country artists. His writings made him popular. In fact, he is one of the writers who wrote the song "More Than A Memory." The song is one of the Garth Brooks' hit single in 2007. The single topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs.
Moreover, he signed his contract with Curb Records, to which he released his first single "She Ain't Right." The song entered the country chart which became number 29 on the hits.
He recorded numerous songs which became a hit for country fans. He was also given major awards, which made him more popular.
In 2013, he got married to Sara Reeveley. The couple was blessed with three children, namely Takoda Brice-Reeveley, Modley Brice and Trulee Brice.
His wife was featured on one of his songs.
"Woman Like You"
This song is one of the greatest hit singles recorded by Brice Lee. It was released in October 2011 on his first single from his album, Hard 2 Love. "Woman Like You" is about the narrator being questioned by his wife what will happen in his life if they did not marry one another.
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Asia's Got Talent contestant Gerphil G. Flores was nervous when she took the stage for her audition in 2015, but you'd never know it after hearing her incredible performance.
The 24-year-old singer from the Philippines wowed the judges with her stunning voice, and earned the Golden Buzzer from her favorite judge. Check out her amazing audition in the video below.
Gerphil G. Flores auditions for "Asia's Got Talent."
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Judge David Foster pointed out that Gerphil seemed nervous when she stepped onto the Asia's Got Talent stage. She acknowledged that she was "super nervous," explaining, "One of my favorite artists is here. In fact, he's one of the judges."
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She was talking about David himself, which is why it was so special when he hit the Golden Buzzer for her after she performed the song "Speak Softly, Love." Gerphil showed off a strong, classical voice that would be perfect for Broadway.
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Brian Kim Stefans' books of poetry include "Viva Miscegenation": New Writing (MakeNow Books, 2013), Kluge: A Meditation and other works (Roof Books, 2007), What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School, 2006), Angry Penguins (Harry Tankoos Books, 2000), Gulf (Object Editions, 1998), and Free Space Comix (Roof, 1998). Along with several chapbooks of poetry, his other books include Before Starting Over: Selected Interviews and Essays 1994-2005 (Salt Publishing, 2006) and Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics (Atelos, 2003), which includes experimental essays on the role of algorithm in poetry and culture. His poems and essays have been translated into Icelandic, Spanish, Norwegian, French and other languages. Stefans is also working on a documentary about the Los Angeles post-punk scene from 1975-1987 called Scavenged Luxury. He lives in Hollywood where he teaches poetry, new media, and screenplay studies in the UCLA English department.


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Our second goal is to assess analgesic adherence in the outpatient setting.
Patients scheduled for painful ambulatory surgery (knee arthroscopy, unilateral open or laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair) will be enrolled in an open randomized controlled trial (RCT) at our pre-assessment clinic.
Subjects will be enrolled by a study nurse and will be randomized into one of three study treatment groups using a computer-generated list. Patients in group 1 (PCM/NAPR) are assigned to postoperative analgesia using naproxen 500 mg orally twice a day for 48 hours postoperatively. Patients assigned to group 2 (PCM/Oxy1) receive CR oxycodone 10 mg orally twice a day for 24 hours. Patients in group 3 (PCM/Oxy2) are postoperatively treated witch CR oxycodone 10 mg orally twice a day for 48 hours. All patients also receive paracetamol 1000 mg orally four times a day for 48 hours postoperatively.
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HOME » JCL Monograph Series NO.13 专著系列 13 卷 – 1999
The biological bases of language
语言的生物基础
Edited by Ovid J. L. Tzeng 曾志朗 主编
Ovid J. L. Tzeng 曾志朗
Half a century ago, psychologists hardly discussed the issue of language study; instead, they talked about verbal learning and verbal behavior from the associative perspective. The cognitive revolution in the 60's had given birth to an exciting new interdisciplinary perspective, in which psychologists and linguists were brought together to ask the same questions regarding the nature of human mind. They had developed complementary and potentially synergistic methods of inquiry into the biological bases of language. Indeed, convincing evidence had also quickly accumulated to show that such an interdisciplinary endeavor resulted in fruitful conceptualization of the relationship between cerebral organization and various language functions.
In December of 1993, a group of researchers, consisting of cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, and speech scientists, participated in a symposium, which was held in the Grand Hotel of Taipei, to discuss the biological bases of language from the perspective of Chinese language. The Chinese language has what may be the simplest and most austere grammatical system in the world. While most of the world's languages offer a wealth of different markers on nouns, pronouns, adjectives and /or verbs, Chinese has essentially no verb conjugations and no noun declensions of any kind. Furthermore, although the Chinese grammar does provide for a set of standard word orders, it is also the case that word order can be varies in a number of ways if the speaker wants to emphasize one element more than another. These properties of Chinese grammar raise some fascinating questions concerning the interaction of language-specific features and language uses with respect to various cognitive functions.
In his well-articulated paper, Alvin Liberman set the path for the symposium participants to follow: Is there a linguistic mode (i.e., a specifically linguistic way of doing things) at the level of action and perception? He contrasts the horizontal theory of speech against the vertical theory, and he asks seven questions concerning the organized components of the larger specification for language. He carefully considers how each theory would answer these seven questions and concludes that only the vertical view is appropriate for linguistic processing from a biological point of view.
If one takes the position that speech is special in its linguistic operation, then how script is mapped onto it becomes critical because the view would require that uncovering the special speech code is critical for beginning readers in mastering reading skills. Indeed, in contemporary research on alphabetic reading acquisition, the notion of "phonological awareness" has been a cornerstone in the theoretical construction. In this respect, one should examine the acquisition process of children learning to read the Chinese writing system, which is logographic in nature and thus notorious for its opaque script/speech relationship. Bertelson, Chen, Tseng and Ko carried out a comparative study on this particular problem and they concluded that their results created strong difficulties for the current tendency to minimize differences between the process of word identification involved in Chinese vs. alphabetic reading. Using data from bilingual (Chinese/Dutch) studies, Beatrice de Gelder proposes several alternatives for the relation between phonological awareness and speech processing.
But what is the unit of Chinese word recognition? Characters are orthographic units, which are separated from other writing units by spaces at both sides. Words, on the other hand, are linguistic units, which are listed as an entry in the lexicon with its syntactic, semantic, and phonological information. There have been many contradictory reports in Chinese word recognition and the reason may lie in the inconsistency between Characters and words as unit of perception and reading. Using special experimental paradigms, Hung, Tzeng, and Ho were able to show words were more salient than characters in Chinese word recognition. Such a finding supports the hypothesis that word recognitions mediated by morpheme construction in Chinese. It is important to note that reading a logographic script, such as the one represented by the visually distinctive characters, taps the underlying speech segments and uncovering the effects of the script/speech mapping should give clues to the discussion of the biological foundation of language.
To find out how early childhood experience in acquiring a visually based language (i.e. sign language used among the deaf) modified learners' perceptual categorization ability in the relevant domains, three experiments were carried out by Klima, Tzeng, Fok, Bellugi, Corina and Bettger with special stimulus displays. That is, stimulus characters were presented one at a time as a continuous dynamic point-light display of movement. It was found that native deaf signers showed superior performance in the reconstruction of the original target. Such an enhanced ability suggests a greater neuronal plasticity in the human brain.
Contemporary discussion of the biological foundation of human language has to deal with the touchy issue of innateness under the theoretical conceptualization of Universal Grammar and modularity. As cogently pointed out in Tai's paper, "The issue at stake is whether there is a language-specific faculty in our brain/mind that is modularized and independent of other cognitive abilities of human beings. Or, can language faculty be derived from human's perceptual and general cognitive categories, memory capacity, processing strategies, and conversational structures between hearer and speaker? In other words, the issue centers around whether or to what extent Chomsky's 'innateness hypothesis' is necessary for explaining patterns of human language."
Tai's own position on the issue of innateness is quite clear. His careful examinations of the spatial and temporal expressions in the Chinese language let him to conclude that its grammar is, to a great extent, not arbitrary and not autonomous from human's conceptualization of the physical world. He is able to show that the three important cognitive bases (namely, space and time, categorization, and iconicity) play an important role in Chinese grammar. Kess and Miyamoto reach a similar conclusion based up results obtained from several different popular paradigms, namely, sentence processing in left-branching vs. right-branching language (i.e. English vs. Japanese. Respectively), the reaccessibility of empty categories, and syntactic comprehension impairments exhibited by Japanese aphasics. Indeed, the results suggest that the informative strategies in natural language processing are language-specific and such language-specific differences demand a processing model that would allow for variability rather than absolute uniformity.
The theme of language-specific property is picked up again in Lien and Wang's paper, in which the unique problem of shape classifiers in Mandarin and Taiwanese is critically examined from a psycholinguistic perspective. The point is clear: Specific language features are essential keys to the discussion of Universal Grammar and learnability.
Ogura's paper deals with a much profound aspect of the language change. Instead of the much-studied phonological change, she makes a courageous attempt to uncover the universal property of semantic change. It was certainly not an easy job because out understanding of word meaning is much obscure and little orderly knowledge, such as that observed in the case of phonological change, is available. Orgura examined how word frequency and environmental factors act together to determine the leaders and laggers in the metaphoric transfer of sensory terms in English, Japanese and Chinese, and in the development of speech act verbs in English and Japanese and modal auxiliaries in English.
These are all the papers included in the monograph. Together, they highlighted the importance of looking at biological bases of language from the Chinese language perspective. Authors of all these papers make great contributions for our scientific understanding of language processing. They deserve our applause. But for me personally, I thank their patience.
Seven Questions for a Theory of Speech
七问有关言语理论
Alvin M.Liberman
My aim is to ventilate a question about biology of langiage that has long preoccupied me; Is there a linguistic mode–that is, a specifically linguistic way of doing things –at the level of action and perception? In the time allotted to me, I mean to parse that question and invite your attention to its various aspects. To keep question and anther within the bounds of matters I am supposed to know something about, I will limit my discussion to speech in the narrow sense — restriction takes the limitation of my own knowledge properly into account, while nevertheless permitting me, I hope, to speak to the broader purposes of this symposium. It is surely relevant to such purposes that speech in the narrow sense underlies the phonological system that constitutes full half of the dual structure that characterizes all languages, the other half being syntax; and that some of the question I raise about the one half find counter parts in the other.
1. IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHONOLOGICAL COMMUNICATION, WHAT EVELVED?
2. HOW IS THE REQUIREMENT FOR PARITY MET?
3. HOW IS SPEECH RELATED TO OTHER NATURAL MODES OF COMMUNICATION?
4. WHAT ARE THE (SPECIAL) REQUIREMENTS OF PHONOLOGICAL COMMUNICATION, AND HOW ARE THEY MET?
5. COULD THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE STIMULUS INFORMATION TO PHONETIC CATEGORIES PLAUSIBLY BE AUDITORY?
6. JUST HOW 'SPECIAL' IS SPEECH PERCEPTION?
7. HOW DO SPEAKING AND LISTENING DIFFER FROM WRITING AND READING?
Phonological Awareness and Orthographic Experience in Chinese Readers
汉语读者的语义意识及书写经验
Paul Bertelson; Hsuan-Chih Chen; Chin-Hsing Tseng; Hwa-Wei Ko; Beatrice de Gelder
The notion that the capacity to segment speech into those phonological units that the orthography represents, often called "phonological awareness", is a critical component of early reading skill has been a cornerstone of contemporary research on alphabetic reading acquisition. We discuss its implications regarding the process of reading Chinese text. After describing the notion, we summarize its main empirical basis, giving special attention to the data from readers of non-alphabetic scripts. We argue that the latter evidence creates strong difficulties for the current tendency to minimize differences between the processes of word identification involved in Chinese vs. alphabetic reading. Finally, a new research project concerning explicit speech representation in Chinese readers is outlined.
Reading Acquisition: The Rough Road Meets the Silk Route
掌握阅读: 崎岖路的丝绸之路
Beatrice de Gelder
While reading acquisition in alphabetic writing systems has been studied extensively, studies of non-alphabetic reading and reading acquisition are much more recent. This paper is about the contribution of the study of reading in a morpho-syllabic writing system like the Chinese to understanding reading acquisition and its disorders. Part I summarizes studies of phonological awareness in morpho-syllabic vs. alphabetic reading and presents new data on onset segmentation ability in bi-lingual Chinese/Dutch speakers. Part II examines data from speech process studies. Part III reviews various alternatives for the relation between phonological awareness and speech processing and suggests aspect of an alternative framework.
Word Superiority Effect in the Visual Processing of Chinese
汉语视觉处理中字词优先效应
Daisy L.Hung 洪兰; Ovid J.L.Tzeng 曾志朗; Chia-yun Ho
There are many contradictory reports in Chinese word recognition research. One of the reasons may lie in the inconsistency between Chinese characters and words as unit of perception during reading. Characters are orthographic units, which are separated from other writing units by spaces at both sides. Words, on the other hand, are linguistic units, which are listed as an entry in the lexicon with its syntactic, semantic, and phonological information. It can not be interrupted by exterior elements, and must be moved as a unit. In most languages orthographic units and linguistic units are isomorphic; such is the case in classical Chinese. However, in modern Chinese, because of phonological changes and expansion of vocabulary, these two units are no longer congruent. A word may be composed of one, two, three, or even more characters. For example, "sky", "smallpox", and "ceiling". Although the vast majority of morphemes consist of one character, these are exceptions. For example, "grape" and "glass". The purpose of this research is to clarify what is the unit of Chinese word recognition, character or word? Because words are composed of morphemes, we like to know if the type of morpheme construction and number of morphemes will influence Chinese word recognition, and if they do, which is more influential? Most of the previous researches on this topic employed lexical decision experimental paradigm. Unfortunately, due to the confusing criterion of Chinese lexicon, those results are not consistent. The present study adopted Reicher (1969) and Wheeler (1970) word superiority effect paradigm in Chinese to investigate the saliency of characters and words in Chinese word recognition. Three experiments with different morpheme types and morpheme number conditions were carried out. The results showed that words were more salient than characters in Chinese word recognition, and within words of the same number of characters, the morpheme number influences word recognition more than the morpheme type. Words consisting of one morpheme were recognized more accurately than those consisting of two morphemes. In other words, mono-morphemic words were accessed faster than bi-morphemic words. Such a finding supports the hypothesis that word recognition is mediated by morpheme construction.
From Sign to Script: Effects of Linguistic Experience on Perceptual Categorization
从符号到文字:感知语言效应
Edward S.Klima; Ovid J.L.Tzeng 曾志朗; Y.Y.A.Fok; Ursula Bellugi; David Corina; Jeffrey G Bettger
Three experiments were carried out to explore modification inperceptual categorization resulting from early childhood experiencing acquiring a sign language as a primary native language. Subjects included two groups of Chinese children (deaf children whose language was Chinese Sign Language and hearing ones whose language was Chinese) and two groups of American adults (deaf signers of American Sign Language and hearing speakers of English). The stimuli were Chinese pseudo characters, each presented either as a sequence of static fragments or as dynamic point-light displays of the trace of the character form as it is written in the air. Under each condition, the subjects were to reconstruct and draw the pseudo character from the manipulated stimulus. In Experiment 1, Reconstruction from Static Fragments, the deaf signing children showed an enhanced ability to reconstruct the target form, when compared to the hearing children, but only at zero inter-stimulus intervals. In Experiment 2, Reconstruction from Dynamic Point-Light Displays, both groups of Chinese children were asked to reconstruct the target from a continuous dynamic display of movement; the deaf signing children showed superior performance across the board. The third experiment showed that even without any knowledge of Chinese characters, deaf signing Americans also exhibit an enhanced ability to analyze these complex displays of movement compared to hearing English speakers. Results of these experiments highlight some of the basic properties that may be critical for perceptual transfer from one domain to another.
Chinese Grammar and Bio-Cognitive Bases of Human Language
汉语语法与生物认知基础
James H-Y Tai 戴浩一
Human language is innate and biologically determined, insofar as chimpanzees and other primates cannot be taught to use human language (Wallman 1992). The issue at stake in contemporary linguistic and psychological theories is whether there is a language-specific faculty in our brain/mind that is modularized and independent of other cognitive abilities of human being. Or, can language faculty be derived from human's perceptual and general cognitive categories, memory capacity, processing strategies, and conversational structures between hearer and speaker? In other words, the issue centers around whether or to what extent Chomsky's 'innateness hypotheses' is necessary for explaining patterns of human language.
For natives, Chomsky's innateness hypothesis is necessary in order to explain language universal and learnability in child language acquisition. In Chomsky's theory of Universal Grammar (UG), both principles of universals (formal as well as substantive), which dictate forms of possible human language, and parameter, which permit variation intra-language or cross-linguistically, are genetically endowed by the language-specific faculty in the human brain/mind. Furthermore, the innateness of UG serves as a metatheory for child language acquisition, in explaining the remarkable rapidity with which the child acquires language despite impoverished input from the adult language. The input data for the child is impoverished because it contains only grammatical sentences of the adult language (the positive data), and little information about ungrammatical sentences (the negative data).
Alternative modes of explanations for language universals have been offered. These include semantic explanations, discourse-pragmatic explanations, processing explanations, and perceptual and cognitive explanations (cf. Hawkins 1988). The negative evidence problem in child language acquisition has been reexamined by Arbib and Hill (1988) and Bowerman (1988), and the results suggest that the complexity in child language acquisition cannot be solved merely by reference to innate UG. Hence, with respect to language universals and learnability, UG does not have as great explanatory value as nativists claim.
The innateness hypothesis also hinges upon the observation that grammatical patterns are not random, and that grammatical rules are structure-dependent. From the point of view of information science, the non-randomness of linguistic structure is a fundamentally important property of human language so that there are possible and impossible patterns of linguistic structures. Chomsky attributes the non-randomness and structure-dependence of human language to the innate language-specific faculty, and excludes the possibility of deriving linguistic patterns from human's conceptual structures of the physical world. The emphasis of the autonomy of grammar is to underscore the plausibility of the innateness hypothesis. The autonomy thesis maintains that linguistic structures are self-contained and cannot be shaped by human's experience and conceptualization of the physical world. This autonomy thesis, as pointed out in Tai (1993), has roots in the arbitrariness principle initiated by Saussure and passed on to American structuralists, from Bloomfield to Harris, and on to Chomsky.
In this paper, it will be observed that Chinese grammar is, to a great extent, not arbitrary, and not autonomous from human's conceptualization of the physical world. The paper focuses on three important role in Chinese grammar, namely: (1) space and time, (2) categorization, and (3) iconicity. They will be highlighted in the following sections.
Japanese Sentence Processing Strategies: Reconsidering Universality and Specificity
日语句子处理策略:普遍性及特性再论
Joseph Kess; Tadao Myyamoto
A number of far-reaching claims about the nature of Universal Grammar characterize the theoretical literature in linguistics over the past forty years, and they often carry the implicit expectation that language processing mechanisms must also be fundamentally the same. However, the psycholinguistics literature has often been equivocal about the universality of certain key tenets imported from linguistic theory to explanations of sentence processing. This paper examines psycholinguistic results from several revealing paradigms in the literature on English and Japanese, namely, sentence processing in left-branching vs. right-branching languages, the re-accessibility of empty categories, and syntactic comprehension impairments exhibited by Japanese aphasics. Collectively taken, these suggest that the informative strategies in natural language processing are language-specific. While there are a large number of undeniable similarities in the global strategies employed by the processing mechanism, the language-specific differences should make us reconsider our expectations that the processing mechanism manifests itself in one unique way. Theoretical claims about language structure are not always matched by the realities of processing, and our construction of a processing model should allow for variability rather than absolute uniformity. A cognitive science of the mind is more likely to find informative explanations in a limited range of generalized learning and processing principles, applied to language-specific processing strategies, than on a simple reductionist philosophy of science.
Shape Classifiers in Mandarin and Taiwanese – A Psycholinguistic Perspective
北方方言与台湾话中形状量词:心理观察
Chinfa Lien 连金发; Penying Wang 王本瑛
ABSTRACT This paper present a quantitative study of two sets of sortal shape classifiers carrying respectively the semantic feature of [spherical] and [long] in Mandarin and Taiwanese from a psycholinguistic perspective. The first set of shape classifiers consist of ke棵 and li粒 in Mandarin and liap粒 in Taiwanese, while the second set comprises zhi枝, tiau條 and gen根 in Mandarin and ki枝 and tiau條 in Taiwanese. A psycholinguistic experiment conducted on two groups of 20 subjects reveals in quantitative terms patterns of intersection of shape classifiers in each set. We also compare these two sets of classifiers in Mandarin and Taiwanese in terms of semantic features and try to bring the choice of classifiers to bear on the linguistic background of subjects.
Universals in Semantic Change: Lexical Diffusion and Biological Bases
语义变化的共性:词汇扩散与生物基础
Mieko Ogura
ABSTRACT A great deal of scholarship over the last two centuries has gone into phonological change. With respect to meaning, our understanding is much more obscure. There is not nearly the kind of orderly knowledge on semantic change as there is on phonological change.
The important line of cross-linguistic research that has opened up new perspectives is on how humans categorize the color continuum. Berlin & Kay (1991), Kay (1975), Kay & McDaniel (1978) and Kay, Berlin &Merrifield (1991) have examined the implication of the results for language variation and change. Investigations in this area have revealed some basic tendencies in the color vocabulary of a wide diversity of languages, drawn material from cultures that range from the very simple to the highly technological. Furthermore, the categorization data are directly related to neurophysiologic properties of the visual system. Research along this line, where attention is given to niversal tendencies as well as to their biological bases, offers the best clue toward understanding how semantic change actually takes place.
Williams (1976) pursues this line of research in the transfer of a lexeme from one sensory modality to another, one of the most common types of metaphoric transfer in all languages, drawing very similar evidence from English, Indo-European cognates and Japanese. Traugott (1986, 1987, 1989, 1995), Traugott & Dasher (1987), and Traugott & Ko_nig (1991) explore the general tendency toward greater subjectivity in presuppositional terms, modal auxiliaries and adverbs in Englsih, and speech act verbs in English and Japanese.
However, as Traugott (1987) states, semantic change very rarely applies to items of the same lexical field at the same time, and thus it is impossible to predict either when that will occur, or which lexical item in a given field will change and which will not. Our perspective on this area has been broadened by considering the question within a perspective of lexical diffusion, a process which is implemented in a manner that is lexically gradual, diffusing across the lexicon (Wang 1969, 1976, 1979, 1983a, b, 1987).
In all cases of lexical diffusion, we find leaders and laggers among the words, which raises the issue of what factors determine these changes. One such factor is word frequency. How the interaction between word frequency and environments determines the schedules has been demonstrated in phonological change, e.g., diatone formation in English (Philips 1983), shortening of EModE u# (Ogura 1987, Chapter 5), the early stages of the acquisition of the vowels and consonants in English and German by a bilingual child (Ogura 1990, Chapter 6.) and vowel merger in Shanghai (Shen 1990), in morphological change, e.g., the development of –s in the third person singular present indicative in English (Orgura & Wang 1996), and in syntactic change, e.g., the development of negation in English (Tottie 1991), grammaticalization processes in To'aba'ita (Lichtenberk 1991) and the development of periphrastic do in English (Ogura 1993).
In the present study, we will proceed with Williams' and Traugott's investigations, and examine how the interplay of word frequency and environments determines the leaders and laggers in the metaphoric transfer of sensory terms in English, Japanese and Chinese, and in the development of speech act verbs in English and Japanese and modal auxiliaries in English. Furthermore, we will explore the biological bases that underlie these changes.


Elsabe peered through the screen door and saw Helen at the piano. She was always reminiscing about her days in musical theatre and had just finished singing, Climb Every Mountain. As Helen closed the piano, Elsabe heard David, "Thank you, darling, that was beautiful." Elsabe could smell biscuits; David baked every afternoon. They were very useful as neighbours. They kept Uhuru, her four year old, entertained when she was busy and that was nearly everyday. Helen fed him milk and biscuits and they played with the finger puppets that she made for her Grade 1's at the local primary school. Afterwards, David played football with him on the lawn and read him stories. They were like his grandparents.
Elsabe found him there every afternoon. She would have to do something about his habit of walking around the campus village knocking on doors looking for her. Sometimes he stopped at the Andersons where he played with their twins for a while. Sometimes he played with Mrs. Baloyi's children but Mrs. Baloyi did not like him because he made the children take off their underwear for his games. That woman didn't understand children's natural curiosity.
Suddenly, Uhuru spied her through the screen, jumped out of David's lap, ran to the door, unlatched it and leapt into her arms. He began crying loudly, "You left me. Why did you leave me? You said you were coming home. Why did you leave me?" This was his usual complaint. Elsabe tried to soothe him but he was too angry. She looked at David and Helen and shrugged. "I better take him home. He's very tired. We won't get any sense out of him while he's like this. Thanks for taking him in." She slipped out with Uhuru crying in her arms.
Elsabe lived just next door. As she was coming up the garden path with Uhuru, she could hear music and laughter issuing from her living room. Uhuru clung to his mother and cried bitterly. "Tell them to go away. I don't want them here. Tell them to go away." Elsabe sighed. It was tough being a single mother. It wasn't just her job; she was also a member of an underground cell. She walked in to find some of her students, stretched out on the bean bags and cushions, drinking beer, drawing on joints and talking about a comrade's narrow escape from the security police that day.
"Hey, Elsa, where you been, Comrade? Did Mr. Donkey stop you on the road?" Themba grinned at her over his beer. "That Mr. Donkey, he stands there in the road and he won't go." He called roadblocks Mr. Donkey.
Elsabe just smiled. She didn't have time for Mr. Donkey stories; she had to get Uhuru to bed. He was being extremely troublesome. He didn't want to stay in the bathtub by himself and each time she tried to join the others, he began screaming and crying. After she had bathed him and put him in his pyjamas, she had to lie down with him because he would not let her go. But, thank goodness, he was very tired and soon fell asleep. And she left him to join her companions in the living room.
"What's SO up to?" Elsabe enquired.
"Well, SO is organizing a nationwide school boycott. Workers and teachers must go on strike too. We will make the country ungovernable. You can forget about that assignment you set us, Elsa." Themba laughed as he opened another can of beer.
'Bloody sell-outs. We should show this homeland government what we think of it. We should burn down the Chief Minister's house." Themba was excited at the prospect.
"I don't think I could have survived that long in prison." Elsabe shivered as she thought of it. Some of the people she had worked with, before she came here, were in prison. She was lucky; she had always managed to escape the security police. She was convinced it was because she was Afrikaans. She believed that the security police, who were mostly Afrikaners, had an innate respect for all Afrikaner women. Besides she had broadcast it widely that her father was a member of the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement). She knew activists would be impressed that she had overcome her rabidly racist upbringing.
The telephone rang. It was Lars, a former boyfriend, a Swede who had long returned to his country taking with him their little son, Sven. Lars was not Uhuru's father. Uhuru's father, Martin Brown, had inducted her into the struggle. But he had left the city behind and was working in rural areas setting up cooperatives where poor Black rural women learned how to work together to develop viable businesses out of their indigenous crafts. Although they had separated some time ago, Elsabe had come to this remote part of the world so that Uhuru could be near his father. But Martin worked some distance away and had come to visit only once or twice and only at her request. Elsabe really wanted him to take responsibility for Uhuru in the way that Lars had taken Sven. She didn't have time to bring up a child. Elsabe was quite annoyed that he could not see that she was as much a freedom fighter as he and a child was complicating her life dreadfully.
"Who's Sven?" Themba took a swig from his can of beer.
"No, Vusi, Themba will drive my car." Vusi swallowed looking resentfully at Themba, who smiled back at him expansively. Elsabe knew that they were competing for her affections. Not just Themba and Vusi, but all of them. They came here practically every night to imbibe and wait for when she would pick one of them. It was all very amusing. But right now she had a problem. "What the hell am I going to do with the kid? He won't fit in here. And where am I going to get the money to entertain him. Lars is only paying his airfare." It was bad enough being responsible for one child and now to have this one on his way too. She was mad; she had thought he was out of her life. She had even forgotten about him. She would have to find people to dump him with. But who?
David streaked past her to the door. "Well, Elsa, it's too bad about Sven. Goodnight." But Helen motioned Elsabe to sit down. She knew David was frantically shaking his head and gesticulating to Helen behind her back. His wife ignored him and he stalked out of the room.
Helen made out a cheque for two thousand rand. Elsabe, full of love and tenderness for Helen, hugged her and then disappeared clutching the cheque and Uhuru.
Two days later, when David was coaching cricket, she tapped on Helen's door again. She hadn't come to get Uhuru; she had sent him off to Martin in his place in the mountains. He had to take some responsibility for his child. Why should she be the only one? Elsabe's face was distraught and unhappy as she looked at Helen through the screen door. "Oh, Elsabe, what's the matter? Please come in." Helen quickly made tea and served it with some of David's biscuits. Elsabe munching on a biscuit, perused Helen's face with large, mournful green eyes.
"I don't know how to tell you this. You will think I am trying to take advantage of you. No, I shouldn't ask you. Forget it." She took a sip from her cup and reached out for another biscuit.
She could see that Helen was concerned and felt sorry for her. So she began to tell her about the time that her father had gone crazy. "He tried to kill the whole family but we managed to escape. He walked all around looking for us, shouting and calling. When he couldn't find us, he...," she clenched her fists and swallowed, "he went out into the veld, put his shotgun into his mouth and blew his brains out." She shuddered from the effort of choking back her sobs.
Elsabe's green eyes widened with gratitude. She gave Helen a big hug and fervently vowed, "I will never forget this. I promise you, you will have your money back at the end of the month." Helen pulled out her chequebook again and Elsabe left clutching another two thousand rand in her hand. That night she threw a big party at her house and all her students came. They partied into the early hours of the morning, whooping and singing and laughing.
A week later, Elsabe and Bafana drove down to Johannesburg to pick up Sven. Elsabe had dropped Themba in favour of Bafana, a much more suitable companion and clearly going places. In the expensive new leather jacket that Elsabe had bought for him, Bafana looked very handsome. He was tall, well-built and dynamic; a charismatic activist leader in this rural area. He didn't sit around telling inane stories about Mr. Donkey. He was setting up civic structures and organising people at grassroots level all over the region. He lived a cloak-and-dagger life and the danger surrounding him was an aphrodisiac. Elsabe was hooked. She clung to Bafana for dear life. And she was aware that he was flattered to have a beautiful white woman at his side.
At the airport, they waited together for Sven, Bafana holding the sign with Sven's name that Elsabe had made. Eventually, a tall, blond boy approached them. When Elsabe saw him she could not believe her eyes. She threw her arms around him and held him close, so close. She had expected a child and here was this gorgeous boy, almost a man. She held him so tightly and so long that he began to squirm. She let him go and started to shower kisses on him. He looked embarrassed and even frightened. On their way back to the homeland, she sat close to him in the back of the car. It was a long drive home, more than four hours. They made one stop at one of those highway service centres and moved on. She knew Bafana had many pressing engagements the next day and had to be back with the comrades. As they neared the township, they encountered a roadblock.
Fortunately, it was the homeland police. They shone their torches in the car and looked around suspiciously. They asked Bafana to open the boot. They poked around and wanted Bafana to open Sven's bag. They were looking for arms. Bafana spoke to them in the vernacular and after they had exchanged words, the police told him to drive on.
"What did they want? What did you say to them?" Elsabe's voice was thick with excitement.
"They are looking for arms. They wanted to open Sven's bag. I told them I was your driver and that I had brought you and your son home from the airport. I showed them the airline tags and said there was nothing in there but clothes. I told them they could speak to the madam; she is the wife of Major Van Wyk of the security police. He would be very upset to know that his wife had been harassed by the homeland police." Elsabe laughed, then threw her arms around him and kissed him. "So I am Mrs. Van Wyk?" She laughed again. Then she turned to Sven and told him all about Bafana's work and what a hero he was. When they got home, she hastily settled Sven in his room. Then she and Bafana disappeared into her bedroom.
In the next few weeks, she was riding around to meetings at all hours of the day and night. She had to be by her man, striving alongside him, facing the hazards with equal courage. She left Sven to find his own way and was delighted when she learned that Uhuru had taken him to Helen and David and they had organized a tea at which he had met some of the teenagers on campus. Thank goodness for that. Now that Sven had many friends, he wouldn't be a burden on her.
"Well, you should have listened to your father." And then she was off. Kids were such a burden, especially now in these exciting times. Rumours were flying that Mandela was going to be released soon and the security police had gone mad. Elsabe needed to be with Bafana more than ever now. If they picked him up, she wanted to be there with him, to shock and anger the secret police.
Then it happened, Mandela was released from prison. Bafana told her to go into hiding; he warned all the activists. But like everyone else, she was euphoric and began to celebrate. She sent her students out into the township and in no time, they had pupils pouring out of schools, roaming the streets in droves, overturning cars and attacking anyone who looked like an impimpi. She went with them on defiance marches to the government offices and joined them at night, when they burned the houses of MP's. But her frenzy died down when the security police began rounding up scores of activists and Bafana and his comrades were picked up.
The day after they got him, army and police vehicles besieged the college. Nobody could enter or leave. Police were crawling all over the campus. And Elsabe knew they had come for her. She was waiting for them but when she opened the door and saw them in front of her, she froze.
"Are you Elsabe Viljoen?" She could only nod. They pushed past her into the house and began ransacking it looking for evidence of treason. She stood in the middle of the room, her eyes, large and expressionless, staring abstractly. Uhuru, who had just woken up, came running to her. She picked him up mechanically and clung to him like a drowning person. A policeman barged into Sven's room and when he stumbled out to see what was going on, Elsabe turned desperately to him. Policemen, rifling through her belongings, surrounded her. She felt Sven put his arms around her and she leaned against him, trembling violently. Then he was wrapping a blanket around her. What would they do to her? Oh God, what would they do? She had never been detained but she had heard the horror stories. Would she be tortured, raped, killed?
The policemen tore through her possessions and began bagging things. Couldn't they see that she was just a helpless woman, a mother with her two sons?


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A short list for replacing Comey
By Chrys Kefalas
For almost a year now we have heard leaders from both sides of the aisle express the need for a change of leadership at America's federal law enforcement agency. But we should not let the breathless speculation surrounding the circumstances of FBI Director James Comey's firing draw attention away from the importance of having the most qualified person leading the FBI.
Serious journalists and investigators will take their time to uncover the facts. In the meantime, careful consideration needs to be given to Mr. Comey's replacement. To keep a difficult situation from getting worse, to keep terrorists from harming Americans, to lock up those who prey on our fellow citizens and to hold elected officials accountable, the FBI needs the best leadership available.
There are at least three individuals President Donald Trump could nominate today who can not only do the job effectively but also end the hysteria, restore the reputation of the FBI and keep the agency hard-charging on truth and justice. Patrick Fitzgerald, Mythili Raman or John Carlin would each instantly bring the type of integrity, independence, experience and leadership the FBI and America need.
Mr. Fitzgerald, Chicago's longest serving U.S. attorney now in private practice there, is one of the few former prosecutors in the nation who would command the legal, law enforcement and public respect necessary to right the ship. Known as "Eliot Ness with a Harvard degree," he put two governors in jail, one from each political party. And he built his reputation adeptly handling other high-profile politically charged cases, such as the prosecution of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, as well as major terrorism and organized crime cases.
Ms. Raman, another longtime federal prosecutor, held a series of high-level Justice Department leadership positions during the Bush and Obama administrations. She capped an 18-year career at the Department of Justice as the assistant attorney general for the criminal division, overseeing the department's national and international criminal law enforcement initiatives. While lacking Mr. Fitzgerald's headline grabbing name, Ms. Raman has seen America's law enforcement from almost every angle, and would make history with more than her steady and innovative leadership as the first woman FBI director in the nation's history.
For his part, Mr. Carlin, the Boston Marathon bombing cases prosecutor, has served as a top-level justice official with both Republican and Democratic administrations as well. He would bring a strong background in national security, having served during the Obama Administration as the Justice Department's highest-ranking national security lawyer. He also knows the FBI, holding high-ranking roles, including chief of staff, for FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Mr. Fitzgerald, Ms. Raman or Mr. Carlin's leadership at the FBI would allow the nation to turn the page toward a better chapter at the FBI — and restore the public's faith in its work and its mission. They would calm the political firestorm. They would also likely sail to confirmation — if Democrats do not condition any vote on the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the administration's Russian ties.
And they shouldn't. As we've seen in Maryland, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has the independence to see any investigation through to its conclusion. Just on Wednesday, no less than Maryland's Democratic firebrand Rep. Elijah Cummings said he thinks "the world" of the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, who served eight years under President Barack Obama and four under President George W. Bush, who nominated him in 2005. And Mr. Rosenstein has previously received praise during his confirmation process from other Democratic leaders, such as former Senator Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat who hailed him as a "man of character" and "experienced leadership."
The American people do not need another spectacle getting in the way of progress for their lives and for our country. But we do need an FBI director of unimpeachable character and integrity. Mr. Fitzgerald, Ms. Raman and Mr. Carlin fit the bill.
Chrys Kefalas is a former Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, a speechwriter to Attorney General Eric Holder (a Democrat) and a counsel to Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.


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Day's 5 TD passes lead Northern Iowa's rout of South Dakota
VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) Theo Day threw five touchdown passes and ran for another score, leading Northern Iowa's 58-14 rout of South Dakota on Saturday.
The six total touchdowns - all in the first half - were Day's career high. He completed 21 of 30 passes for 280 yards. His touchdown passes were spread among five receivers. Sergio Morancy had four catches for 135 yards, including a 62-yard touchdown.
The Panthers (6-5, 5-3 Missouri Valley) had 593 yards of total offense.
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Davis, Dustman's FG help South Dakota St. beat Northern Iowa
Passing Yards: T. Day 3121
Passing TDs: T. Day 26
Rushing Yards: D. Williams 723
Rushing TDs: D. Williams 9
Receiving Yards: S. Schnee 764
Receiving TDs: S. Morancy 6
Interceptions: None
Date Opponent Result / Time
9/3 at Air Force L 17 - 48
9/10 at North Dakota L 27 - 29
9/17 vs. Sacramento State L 21 - 37
9/24 at Western Illinois W 52 - 17
10/1 vs. Indiana State W 20 - 14
10/8 vs. Illinois State L 21 - 23
10/15 vs. Utah Tech W 41 - 14
10/22 vs. Missouri State W 41 - 20
10/29 at Southern Illinois W 37 - 36
11/5 vs. South Dakota State L 28 - 31
11/19 at South Dakota W 58 - 14
1 South Dakota State 8-0 14-1
2 North Dakota State 7-1 12-3
20 North Dakota 5-3 7-5
Youngstown State 5-3 7-4
Northern Iowa 5-3 6-5
Southern Illinois 4-4 5-6
Illinois State 4-4 6-5
Missouri State 3-5 5-6
South Dakota 2-6 3-8
Indiana State 1-7 2-9
Western Illinois 0-8 0-11
Offense (FCS Rank)
Yards: 4894 (28)
Passing Yards: 3173 (14)
Rushing Yards: 1721 (55)
Points per game: 33.0 (24)
Yards per game: 444.9 (15)
Touchdowns: 44 (31)
Field Goals: 14 (19)
Defense (FCS Rank)
Field Goals: 15 (107)


Flat-screen maker LG Display (NYSE:LPL) will slash next year's capital spending by a quarter as booming sales of mobile devices from iPads to Android smartphones saps demand for TV panels, its main source of earnings.
Mired in excess capacity for more than a year, the outlook has worsened for the global liquid crystal display (LCD) flat-panel industry, battering Samsung Electronics and LG Display, which together account for half of the global market.
The reduction by LG Display, the first major technology company to announce a sharply reduced spending plan for 2012, will take the company's capital expenditure to the lowest in four years.
TV makers are struggling with sluggish demand, forcing Sony Corp to cut its exposure in the TV panel business with Samsung and Sharp, while Philips is hiving off its loss-making TV business.
"LCD makers will keep 2012 investment plan conservative and LG is also likely to cut spending again as visibility is very low due to weak demand especially from Europe and the United States," John Soh, an analyst at Shinhan Investment & Securities, said on Monday.
"LG is likely to report losses widening in the current quarter and the outlook for the next nine months or so is dreadful due to weak PC and TV demand."
Weak demand for PCs and TVs are a big concern for LCD panel makers as the two products account for nearly 90 percent of large-sized flat-screen panels.
LG Display's smaller rivals, Taiwan's AU Optronics and Chimei Innolux Corp have cut their capital spending for this year.
LG Display, a major panel supplier for iPads and iPhones, has steadily increased sales of tablet and e-book panels to try and make up for weak demand in TVs and computer screens.
This month, a media report said LG Electronics, the world's No.2 TV maker, had cut its TV sales target this year by 20 percent, joining Sony in bracing for weaker sales due to uncertain global economic prospects.
"We plan around 3 trillion won ($2.8 billion) of capital spending next year and have no plans to build a new factory," a LG Display spokesman said, confirming comments made by its chief executive to local media in an interview.
LG Display had already cut this year's capital expenditure by around 1 trillion won in July to slightly over 4 trillion won.
By 0350 GMT, shares in LG Display, which halved so far this year, rose 4.0 percent in a wider market up 2.8 percent.
"This is healthy for the industry. Demand for LCD panels is still there even though it may be weak in the coming few quarters," said KGI Securities analyst Eric Kao.
"But once it recovers and the supply has not increased because panel makers did not expend production, the industry can return to a healthy state."
LCD TVs saw record low global shipment growth of 6 percent in the second quarter and the industry is likely to show another disappointing growth in the second half as TV makers slash shipment targets and prices fall further.
Prices of 40-42 inch LCD TV panels have dropped more than 10 percent so far this year.
Panel makers have already lowered their production rates to meet decreased demand levels, but they are entering the second half with unusually weak seasonal demand outlook.
The reduced investment plan follows LG Display's decision in July to stop providing its business outlook for the first time and cut this year's investment plan as it reported a third consecutive quarterly loss.
Samsung, which is planning a total of 23 trillion won investment this year, also said in late July it was considering cutting LCD capex this year and allocate the change to semiconductors.
AU also cut this year's investment target to less than T$70 billion versus its previous forecast of around T$95 billion.