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RPD squad car, RFD EMT vehicle (I'm not sure of hte company), RFD truck, and an RFP pickup just parked across the street awhile . . . someone form the back side of the house across the street . . . when it was only the ambulance and fire truck, I took a walk down a ways to see what's up (for we all do, us humans). . . the well suited man and his gal pal of the original gray car of dirty laundry (the plate escapes me now and I;m not gonna go out again to verify) were on their side. . . CryHammer popped ouut onto the porch, he on the phone (LEFT EAR RINGING). . . The TV was on inside the house (on the Sox game). . . the four vehicles were parked hte second time I went out - saw the RPD vehicle . . . folks across the street were in the windows - hard not to view with the lights flashing and all . . .
Hmmm . ..
I was reminded of Heather in the spring of 2005 - and of the HUMF legion dosing their own . . . see previous entries.
The siren went on as soon as the ambulance hit hte end of the street; the picjup from across the street left, too, moments later, after all vehicles had cleared the street . . .
I do hope all are okay . . .
Basically they parked where the gathering of roller blading, skateboarding, and stroller pushing kids were a few hours ago . . .
Hmmm . ..
MaineCoast now notes that retail sales fell in July . . .
boston.com:
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Patrick appoints 5 to UMass Board of Trustees
By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff
Governor Deval Patrick today named five new members to the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees, including former chairman James Karam, in a broad shift that could realign the balance of power on the committee.
Karam had begun his third term as board chairman last September when he was ousted by Governor Mitt Romney in an effort to reshape the board and install Stephen Tocco as chairman. Karam had opposed Romney's attempts to oust former UMass president William Bulger and had supported a state law school despite Romney's opposition.
Another familiar name among Patrick's five appointees is Philip W. Johnston, who stepped down as chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party earlier this year. The other new board members are Kerri Osterhaus, Henry M. Thomas III, and Ed Collins.
The reconstituted board will meet Wednesday morning at UMass-Lowell and may vote to name its chairman, raising the prospect that Tocco, a veteran Republican operative, could be ousted. The 19-member committee governs UMass campuses in Amherst, Lowell, Dartmouth, Boston, and Worcester.
"To be a world leader in education, we have to continually strengthen our leadership," Patrick said in a statement. "The broad range of skills and depth of experience that these new trustees bring will help ensure that the University of Massachusetts flourishes."
Here are the biographies of the new appointees, as provided by the Patrick administration:
James Karam, president and founder of First Bristol Corporation – a development company in Fall River, is a former chairman of the UMass Board of Trustees and an alumnus of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Philip W. Johnston is a health and human services consultant, a former chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, and a former state legislator and cabinet member. He was also the New England director of the US Department of Health and Human Services under President Clinton from 1993 to 1996. Johnston also chairs the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation Board of Directors. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. Kerri Osterhaus, of Hudson, is an obstetrics and gynecology physician based at Women’s Health of Central Massachusetts. She received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed her medical residency at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester. Osterhaus will fill the seat designated to the Medical School.
Henry M. Thomas III, of Springfield, is president and CEO of the Urban League of Springfield. A visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from 1998 to 2001, Thomas was also a member of the State Board of Education from 2001 until August 2007.
Ed Collins, of Springfield, who has been named to the labor seat on the board, attended the University of Massachusetts and is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Westfield State College. Collins is a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers AFL-CIO & CLC.
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boston.com:
Note to O.J.: Call the Dream Team
By Stuart Green | September 18, 2007
LEAVE IT to O.J. Simpson. In the mid-1990s, his trial for the murder of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman provided millions of Americans with an eye-opening education in the workings of the American criminal justice system.
We learned about the crucial importance of choosing a jury in a racially charged case, about the probative value of DNA evidence, and about the phenomenon of jury nullification, where the jury acquits notwithstanding the strength of the government's case.
We also discovered that it is possible to be acquitted in a criminal case for murder and subsequently lose a civil verdict for wrongful death, owing to the lower burden of proof required in the latter. And, perhaps most of all, we came to understand the extraordinary advantage it is to have a high-priced "Dream Team" of criminal defense lawyers on one's side.
Now, O.J. is back, and his latest case may provide us with another lesson in criminal law.
Yesterday, in Las Vegas, Simpson was arrested and charged with six felony counts in connection with an alleged hotel room robbery.
Two sports memorabilia dealers told police that Simpson and five men burst into their room at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino, several of them brandishing guns, and seized various mementos, including many items autographed by Simpson.
Since the allegations surfaced at the end of last week, Simpson has repeatedly asserted his innocence. Simpson has maintained that no guns were used and that he had been conducting a "sting operation" to recover property that, he says, had been stolen from him years earlier by a former sports agent. According to Simpson, "[Y]ou've got to understand, this ain't somebody going to steal somebody's drugs or something like that. This is somebody going to get his private [belongings] back. That's it. That's not robbery."
Simpson may indeed have a good argument. Under well-settled law, one who takes the property of another in the honest, even if mistaken, belief that it is his own has a valid defense to charges of theft and robbery. In such a case, the defendant asserts that he was acting under a "claim of right." He argues that, because he believed that the property belonged to him, he lacked the intent necessary to steal. As to how the defendant can prove his claim that he had such a belief, one of the factors is the openness of the taking. The more overt the circumstances of the taking, the more likely the court will believe that it was done in good faith.
Thus, if the property Simpson sought to take from the Palace Station Hotel room really was property that belonged to him, or even if he merely believed that it was, he would have a valid defense to charges of theft.
Such an argument would be bolstered by the fact that the taking was apparently done in an overt manner.
Unfortunately for Simpson, this defense would not necessarily get him entirely out of hot water. Just because one has a right to recover from another property that he believes to be his own does not mean that he has a right to use force or violence to effect such recovery. In this case, it has been alleged that at least several of Simpson's companions were armed. While using a gun to recover property to which one has a rightful claim ordinarily does not constitute theft or robbery, it does constitute armed assault. That is, the law allows those who have property taken from them to use "self-help" to recover such property, but it does not allow violent means to effect such self help.
The fact that Simpson was not himself carrying a gun should not matter. If it could be proved that he was working in concert with others who he knew were carrying guns, their actions could be ascribed to him under principles of accomplice and conspiracy liability.
In short, it looks like O.J. is once again in serious legal jeopardy, though perhaps for a different crime than it may at first appear. He could surely use some top flight legal talent. O.J.'s lead lawyer in the murder trial, Johnnie Cochran, has since died. For O.J.'s sake, one can only hope that he still has the names of some of the other Dream Team lawyers on his speed dial.
Stuart Green is a professor of law at Louisiana State University and author of "Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime."
-------
(because of hte participants, I could not help myself here - dream team I mean. . . see previous etnries). . .
I've never felt violence to be the answer - not to the point of exercising it . . . I'm human, though, and I;d be lying if I did not think of it . . .
boston.com:
ALEX BEAM | GLOBE PREVIEW
Alex: Gone but not forgotten
Beam remembers that "other" Alex: The 31-year-old, "thinking" African grey laboratory parrot. (By Alex Beam)
--------------
I was 31 when a few months in 55 TRull and Dara . . . see previous entries . . .
washingtonpost.com:
Vanishing Languages Identified
Oklahoma Is Among Places Where Tongues Are Disappearing
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 19, 2007; A12
Oklahoma has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the five worst "language-loss hotspots" in the world -- places where native languages are going extinct the fastest -- according to an analysis released yesterday.
The Sooner State's inclusion in the global top five is a reminder, researchers said, that the United States has a long history of linguistic diversity and that the problem of language extinctions is not limited to distant lands.
Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken, about half are expected to disappear in this century, said K. David Harrison, a Swarthmore College linguist and co-director of the Enduring Voices project. That project, a collaboration between the National Geographic Society and the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages of Salem, Ore., assembled the latest statistics on global language loss.
While previous analyses have focused on individual languages that have just one or a few surviving speakers, Harrison and his colleagues took a geographic approach, identifying where in the world languages are disappearing fastest. Oklahoma and nearby areas of the American Southwest, it turns out, have an extremely rich linguistic fabric because of the many Native American tribes that were corralled there in the 1800s.
Today those languages are disappearing by the month, and with them a treasure trove of ecological insights, culinary and medicinal secrets and complex cultural histories, including mythologies that can teach a lot about universal human fears and aspirations, Harrison said:
"It may seem frivolous, but mythological traditions are attempts to make sense of the universe, and the different ways that the human mind has tried to grapple with the unknown and the unknowable are of scientific interest."
Following in the footsteps of early colonialists, but carrying high-quality digital video and audio equipment instead of guns and trinkets, the Enduring Voices project has launched a number of expeditions to document dying languages, about half of which have no written form. Where there is interest in preserving those tongues, it has helped create teaching materials for use in local classrooms.
The venture's analysis, based in part on scholarly research and presented in a telephone news conference yesterday, took three factors into account in identifying the "hotspots": The diversity of languages spoken, the number of living speakers and how old they are, and the extent to which the languages have been documented.
Among those on the brink of extinction in Oklahoma is Yuchi, a language native to the same-named tribe from Tennessee and believed to be unrelated to any other in the world. It is spoken by just a handful of elders because youngsters in government boarding schools were punished if they veered from English. Yuchi tales tell of Earth's creation from water with the help of a crawfish and the emergence of the tribe's forebears from a drop of menstrual blood in the sky.
The other four hotspots are:
¿ Northern Australia, where project members recorded the last known speaker of Amurdag -- a man who remembers about 100 words that he last heard spoken by his now-deceased father.
¿ Central South America, where the Kallawaya of Bolivia have for at least 400 years maintained a secret language about medicinal plants.
¿ The Northwest Pacific Plateau, where there is but a single woman who can still speak Siletz Dee-ni, the last of 27 languages once spoken on Oregon's Siletz reservation.
¿ Eastern Siberia, where a high proportion of the 23 known tongues are unrelated to any other languages in the world.
Language can reveal a lot about how a culture organizes information. In the Paraguayan Lengua language, for example, the word "11" means literally "arrived at the foot, one," meaning "counted 10 fingers plus one toe." The word for "20" means "finished the feet."
In Siberia's Nivkh language, each number can be said 26 ways, depending on what is being counted.
About 80 percent of the world's people speak 83 languages, while about 3,500 languages are spoken by just 0.2 percent of the world's population. Attempts to commune with those minorities can turn unintentionally comedic, said Gregory Anderson, co-director of the Enduring Voices project.
Talking to a woman who is one of the 20 remaining Bardi speakers in Australia, Anderson once mispronounced an "r," which resulted in him asking, "What kangaroo are you from?" instead of "What country are you from?"
No translator was needed to understand the Bardi laughter that followed.
--------
got a here's your diploma, to pharmacy confirmations, and a viagra offer in bulk mail; and this form the inbox:
Subject: This is urgent from Thomas Mokeana
From: "THOMAS MOKEANA" <thomas_mokeana65@yahoo.co.uk> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:23:51 +0700
From :Thomas Mokeana
Email:thomas_mokeana67@yahoo.co.uk
Attn.,
This is to direct an urgent business proposal to you.I am Thomas
Mokeana. I am located in the north of London. I got your contact from an
email directory because I have not met with you before. I would be needing
your attention in making a business transaction that directly involves
you. Owing to the urgency of this transaction,i would appreciate an
immediate response from you to confirm the receipt of my mail. As soon as
i get this response from you,I will furnish you with details of the
transaction and the urgency at which i need to get it rounded up.
Kind regards,
Mokeana...
Yeah - two e-mail addresses, Thomas?
Oy . . .
I was looking again at HU HR's last four postings (external view) today:
31555 F-T 057 Senior Equipment Engineer
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for Nanoscale Systems 09/18/2007
31553 F-T 060 Director of Instructional Computing
Faculty of Arts and Sciences FAS Computer Services 09/18/2007
31551 F-T 058 Senior Software Engineer
Faculty of Arts and Sciences FAS Computer Services 09/18/2007
31550 F-T 058 Associate Director of Leadership Gifts, Harvard College Fund
Alumni Affairs and Development Harvard College Fund/San Francisco 09/18/2007
--------
CA funded software instructional nanoscale operations. . . the EAR RINGING?
See previous entries. . .
Hre's the poem from the breast enhancement HUMF spam sent . . . the subtext reads that it is from Quezon City. . . the Phillipines. . . Ah - Rudy (undercover) P., dunkin donuts dozen on the disco cart, friend of Fred and Jon at HArvard Hall . . . see previous entries. . .
Oy . . .
Still white still far your do is would.
Write people has earth i an not did.
That do usually however into study soon different.
Soon when use city all in thought might know.
Where thing had against.
Some way kind never now came animals.
Long for earth paper days those.
That always for only same part.
Man his line enough kind earth think.
Say those side sea sentence three about first.
Today best father what.
Near because who take before give along of.
Only read same so city does before often hand.
This little far about that himself another same their thought.
Answer let can his water sentence take.
--------
Same games, different format . . .
Click on the remove from list option and the computer starts whirring . . .
Interesting thing though . . . the poem above was copied twice in an also diffreent format, and I recieved updates form the museum like that, too . . . See previous entries, for I believe I even commented upon it . . .
Hmmm . . .
Be well . . .
I wonder where the truck went . . . given the CryHammer B-House connection - down there just after the lights and sirens left the street? Recall still the house is up for sale, so it is easy to place actors and actresses therein . . . like the Carleton House further down the street . . .
Hmmm . ..
Be well . .. Goodnight Web
RPD squad car, RFD EMT vehicle (I'm not sure of hte company), RFD truck, and an RFP pickup just parked across the street awhile . . . someone form the back side of the house across the street . . . when it was only the ambulance and fire truck, I took a walk down a ways to see what's up (for we all do, us humans). . . the well suited man and his gal pal of the original gray car of dirty laundry (the plate escapes me now and I;m not gonna go out again to verify) were on their side. . . CryHammer popped ouut onto the porch, he on the phone (LEFT EAR RINGING). . . The TV was on inside the house (on the Sox game). . . the four vehicles were parked hte second time I went out - saw the RPD vehicle . . . folks across the street were in the windows - hard not to view with the lights flashing and all . . .
Hmmm . ..
I was reminded of Heather in the spring of 2005 - and of the HUMF legion dosing their own . . . see previous entries.
The siren went on as soon as the ambulance hit hte end of the street; the picjup from across the street left, too, moments later, after all vehicles had cleared the street . . .
I do hope all are okay . . .
Basically they parked where the gathering of roller blading, skateboarding, and stroller pushing kids were a few hours ago . . .
Hmmm . ..
MaineCoast now notes that retail sales fell in July . . .
boston.com:
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Patrick appoints 5 to UMass Board of Trustees
By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff
Governor Deval Patrick today named five new members to the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees, including former chairman James Karam, in a broad shift that could realign the balance of power on the committee.
Karam had begun his third term as board chairman last September when he was ousted by Governor Mitt Romney in an effort to reshape the board and install Stephen Tocco as chairman. Karam had opposed Romney's attempts to oust former UMass president William Bulger and had supported a state law school despite Romney's opposition.
Another familiar name among Patrick's five appointees is Philip W. Johnston, who stepped down as chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party earlier this year. The other new board members are Kerri Osterhaus, Henry M. Thomas III, and Ed Collins.
The reconstituted board will meet Wednesday morning at UMass-Lowell and may vote to name its chairman, raising the prospect that Tocco, a veteran Republican operative, could be ousted. The 19-member committee governs UMass campuses in Amherst, Lowell, Dartmouth, Boston, and Worcester.
"To be a world leader in education, we have to continually strengthen our leadership," Patrick said in a statement. "The broad range of skills and depth of experience that these new trustees bring will help ensure that the University of Massachusetts flourishes."
Here are the biographies of the new appointees, as provided by the Patrick administration:
James Karam, president and founder of First Bristol Corporation – a development company in Fall River, is a former chairman of the UMass Board of Trustees and an alumnus of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Philip W. Johnston is a health and human services consultant, a former chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, and a former state legislator and cabinet member. He was also the New England director of the US Department of Health and Human Services under President Clinton from 1993 to 1996. Johnston also chairs the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation Board of Directors. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. Kerri Osterhaus, of Hudson, is an obstetrics and gynecology physician based at Women’s Health of Central Massachusetts. She received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed her medical residency at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester. Osterhaus will fill the seat designated to the Medical School.
Henry M. Thomas III, of Springfield, is president and CEO of the Urban League of Springfield. A visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from 1998 to 2001, Thomas was also a member of the State Board of Education from 2001 until August 2007.
Ed Collins, of Springfield, who has been named to the labor seat on the board, attended the University of Massachusetts and is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Westfield State College. Collins is a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers AFL-CIO & CLC.
-------
boston.com:
Note to O.J.: Call the Dream Team
By Stuart Green | September 18, 2007
LEAVE IT to O.J. Simpson. In the mid-1990s, his trial for the murder of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman provided millions of Americans with an eye-opening education in the workings of the American criminal justice system.
We learned about the crucial importance of choosing a jury in a racially charged case, about the probative value of DNA evidence, and about the phenomenon of jury nullification, where the jury acquits notwithstanding the strength of the government's case.
We also discovered that it is possible to be acquitted in a criminal case for murder and subsequently lose a civil verdict for wrongful death, owing to the lower burden of proof required in the latter. And, perhaps most of all, we came to understand the extraordinary advantage it is to have a high-priced "Dream Team" of criminal defense lawyers on one's side.
Now, O.J. is back, and his latest case may provide us with another lesson in criminal law.
Yesterday, in Las Vegas, Simpson was arrested and charged with six felony counts in connection with an alleged hotel room robbery.
Two sports memorabilia dealers told police that Simpson and five men burst into their room at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino, several of them brandishing guns, and seized various mementos, including many items autographed by Simpson.
Since the allegations surfaced at the end of last week, Simpson has repeatedly asserted his innocence. Simpson has maintained that no guns were used and that he had been conducting a "sting operation" to recover property that, he says, had been stolen from him years earlier by a former sports agent. According to Simpson, "[Y]ou've got to understand, this ain't somebody going to steal somebody's drugs or something like that. This is somebody going to get his private [belongings] back. That's it. That's not robbery."
Simpson may indeed have a good argument. Under well-settled law, one who takes the property of another in the honest, even if mistaken, belief that it is his own has a valid defense to charges of theft and robbery. In such a case, the defendant asserts that he was acting under a "claim of right." He argues that, because he believed that the property belonged to him, he lacked the intent necessary to steal. As to how the defendant can prove his claim that he had such a belief, one of the factors is the openness of the taking. The more overt the circumstances of the taking, the more likely the court will believe that it was done in good faith.
Thus, if the property Simpson sought to take from the Palace Station Hotel room really was property that belonged to him, or even if he merely believed that it was, he would have a valid defense to charges of theft.
Such an argument would be bolstered by the fact that the taking was apparently done in an overt manner.
Unfortunately for Simpson, this defense would not necessarily get him entirely out of hot water. Just because one has a right to recover from another property that he believes to be his own does not mean that he has a right to use force or violence to effect such recovery. In this case, it has been alleged that at least several of Simpson's companions were armed. While using a gun to recover property to which one has a rightful claim ordinarily does not constitute theft or robbery, it does constitute armed assault. That is, the law allows those who have property taken from them to use "self-help" to recover such property, but it does not allow violent means to effect such self help.
The fact that Simpson was not himself carrying a gun should not matter. If it could be proved that he was working in concert with others who he knew were carrying guns, their actions could be ascribed to him under principles of accomplice and conspiracy liability.
In short, it looks like O.J. is once again in serious legal jeopardy, though perhaps for a different crime than it may at first appear. He could surely use some top flight legal talent. O.J.'s lead lawyer in the murder trial, Johnnie Cochran, has since died. For O.J.'s sake, one can only hope that he still has the names of some of the other Dream Team lawyers on his speed dial.
Stuart Green is a professor of law at Louisiana State University and author of "Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime."
-------
(because of hte participants, I could not help myself here - dream team I mean. . . see previous etnries). . .
I've never felt violence to be the answer - not to the point of exercising it . . . I'm human, though, and I;d be lying if I did not think of it . . .
boston.com:
ALEX BEAM | GLOBE PREVIEW
Alex: Gone but not forgotten
Beam remembers that "other" Alex: The 31-year-old, "thinking" African grey laboratory parrot. (By Alex Beam)
--------------
I was 31 when a few months in 55 TRull and Dara . . . see previous entries . . .
washingtonpost.com:
Vanishing Languages Identified
Oklahoma Is Among Places Where Tongues Are Disappearing
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 19, 2007; A12
Oklahoma has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the five worst "language-loss hotspots" in the world -- places where native languages are going extinct the fastest -- according to an analysis released yesterday.
The Sooner State's inclusion in the global top five is a reminder, researchers said, that the United States has a long history of linguistic diversity and that the problem of language extinctions is not limited to distant lands.
Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken, about half are expected to disappear in this century, said K. David Harrison, a Swarthmore College linguist and co-director of the Enduring Voices project. That project, a collaboration between the National Geographic Society and the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages of Salem, Ore., assembled the latest statistics on global language loss.
While previous analyses have focused on individual languages that have just one or a few surviving speakers, Harrison and his colleagues took a geographic approach, identifying where in the world languages are disappearing fastest. Oklahoma and nearby areas of the American Southwest, it turns out, have an extremely rich linguistic fabric because of the many Native American tribes that were corralled there in the 1800s.
Today those languages are disappearing by the month, and with them a treasure trove of ecological insights, culinary and medicinal secrets and complex cultural histories, including mythologies that can teach a lot about universal human fears and aspirations, Harrison said:
"It may seem frivolous, but mythological traditions are attempts to make sense of the universe, and the different ways that the human mind has tried to grapple with the unknown and the unknowable are of scientific interest."
Following in the footsteps of early colonialists, but carrying high-quality digital video and audio equipment instead of guns and trinkets, the Enduring Voices project has launched a number of expeditions to document dying languages, about half of which have no written form. Where there is interest in preserving those tongues, it has helped create teaching materials for use in local classrooms.
The venture's analysis, based in part on scholarly research and presented in a telephone news conference yesterday, took three factors into account in identifying the "hotspots": The diversity of languages spoken, the number of living speakers and how old they are, and the extent to which the languages have been documented.
Among those on the brink of extinction in Oklahoma is Yuchi, a language native to the same-named tribe from Tennessee and believed to be unrelated to any other in the world. It is spoken by just a handful of elders because youngsters in government boarding schools were punished if they veered from English. Yuchi tales tell of Earth's creation from water with the help of a crawfish and the emergence of the tribe's forebears from a drop of menstrual blood in the sky.
The other four hotspots are:
¿ Northern Australia, where project members recorded the last known speaker of Amurdag -- a man who remembers about 100 words that he last heard spoken by his now-deceased father.
¿ Central South America, where the Kallawaya of Bolivia have for at least 400 years maintained a secret language about medicinal plants.
¿ The Northwest Pacific Plateau, where there is but a single woman who can still speak Siletz Dee-ni, the last of 27 languages once spoken on Oregon's Siletz reservation.
¿ Eastern Siberia, where a high proportion of the 23 known tongues are unrelated to any other languages in the world.
Language can reveal a lot about how a culture organizes information. In the Paraguayan Lengua language, for example, the word "11" means literally "arrived at the foot, one," meaning "counted 10 fingers plus one toe." The word for "20" means "finished the feet."
In Siberia's Nivkh language, each number can be said 26 ways, depending on what is being counted.
About 80 percent of the world's people speak 83 languages, while about 3,500 languages are spoken by just 0.2 percent of the world's population. Attempts to commune with those minorities can turn unintentionally comedic, said Gregory Anderson, co-director of the Enduring Voices project.
Talking to a woman who is one of the 20 remaining Bardi speakers in Australia, Anderson once mispronounced an "r," which resulted in him asking, "What kangaroo are you from?" instead of "What country are you from?"
No translator was needed to understand the Bardi laughter that followed.
--------
got a here's your diploma, to pharmacy confirmations, and a viagra offer in bulk mail; and this form the inbox:
Subject: This is urgent from Thomas Mokeana
From: "THOMAS MOKEANA" <thomas_mokeana65@yahoo.co.uk> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:23:51 +0700
From :Thomas Mokeana
Email:thomas_mokeana67@yahoo.co.uk
Attn.,
This is to direct an urgent business proposal to you.I am Thomas
Mokeana. I am located in the north of London. I got your contact from an
email directory because I have not met with you before. I would be needing
your attention in making a business transaction that directly involves
you. Owing to the urgency of this transaction,i would appreciate an
immediate response from you to confirm the receipt of my mail. As soon as
i get this response from you,I will furnish you with details of the
transaction and the urgency at which i need to get it rounded up.
Kind regards,
Mokeana...
Yeah - two e-mail addresses, Thomas?
Oy . . .
I was looking again at HU HR's last four postings (external view) today:
31555 F-T 057 Senior Equipment Engineer
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for Nanoscale Systems 09/18/2007
31553 F-T 060 Director of Instructional Computing
Faculty of Arts and Sciences FAS Computer Services 09/18/2007
31551 F-T 058 Senior Software Engineer
Faculty of Arts and Sciences FAS Computer Services 09/18/2007
31550 F-T 058 Associate Director of Leadership Gifts, Harvard College Fund
Alumni Affairs and Development Harvard College Fund/San Francisco 09/18/2007
--------
CA funded software instructional nanoscale operations. . . the EAR RINGING?
See previous entries. . .
Hre's the poem from the breast enhancement HUMF spam sent . . . the subtext reads that it is from Quezon City. . . the Phillipines. . . Ah - Rudy (undercover) P., dunkin donuts dozen on the disco cart, friend of Fred and Jon at HArvard Hall . . . see previous entries. . .
Oy . . .
Still white still far your do is would.
Write people has earth i an not did.
That do usually however into study soon different.
Soon when use city all in thought might know.
Where thing had against.
Some way kind never now came animals.
Long for earth paper days those.
That always for only same part.
Man his line enough kind earth think.
Say those side sea sentence three about first.
Today best father what.
Near because who take before give along of.
Only read same so city does before often hand.
This little far about that himself another same their thought.
Answer let can his water sentence take.
--------
Same games, different format . . .
Click on the remove from list option and the computer starts whirring . . .
Interesting thing though . . . the poem above was copied twice in an also diffreent format, and I recieved updates form the museum like that, too . . . See previous entries, for I believe I even commented upon it . . .
Hmmm . . .
Be well . . .
I wonder where the truck went . . . given the CryHammer B-House connection - down there just after the lights and sirens left the street? Recall still the house is up for sale, so it is easy to place actors and actresses therein . . . like the Carleton House further down the street . . .
Hmmm . ..
Be well . .. Goodnight Web
